of the gym teachers asked him if he was visiting an older sibling.

When he replied that he was a student, the teacher told him that he could have passed for a ten year old. He anticipates being carded until his hair starts graying. * [[{{Tropers/Leradny}} This troper]] was born in 1990. Being 5'0" with a slim build, soft voice, and rounded face means that she generally passes for about twelve-ish without glasses, makeup, or title drops of books that most twelve-year-olds wouldn't even ''comprehend'', let alone talk about. * [[{{Tropers/Lullabee}} This troper]] is round-faced, [[{{Pettanko}} a bit boyish]], never wears makeup, and just, for some reason, looks significantly younger than her actual age of eighteen. She recently went door-to-door canvassing voters for the Obama campaign and wasn't too surprised to be asked whether she's even old enough to vote. But when she was asked if the 24-year-old woman she was working with was her mother, well... she was pretty much dumbstruck with embarrassment. Probably comes with a side of YoungerThanTheyLook on the other woman's part. * This troper, a teacher in high school, was shouted at on the first day of school for using the staff's entrance. Quite recently, she was also accused by another teacher of entering a classroom without waiting for the teacher. The straw that broke the camel's back, though, was when a student working in the school, i.e. younger than her, entered the class to hand out papers and asked this troper to "please sit down and where is your teacher anyway?" Needless to say this makes gaining respect from her pupils difficult. * This troper has a weird double-case of this. When people hear me speak, they think I'm in my thirties. When people see me (and I've shaved lately) I apparently look about fourteen. Will be turning twenty this May. * When this troper recently turned eighteen, his father thought it would be cool for his newly grown-up son to buy him a pack of cigarettes. I went to the store WITH MY I.D. which has one of those HOLOGRAMS designed to prevent fake I.D.'s and the clerk still refused to sell me cigarettes (she actually asserted that I was 15 or 16 and that I couldn't possibly be 18). I don't even smoke, they were for my father. I was so peeved. * This troper pretty much stop growing after she hit 14, so despite being 20, she still looks like she'd rather fit in high school. Granted, she's small in both height and weight, has a baby face, and has a really young voice. Oddly enough, back in high school, the troper managed to do the inverse when she went to buy lunch and was asked if she had a a business discount. That might be due to the fact she was wearing business-y clothes at that time. * This troper knew a guy in one of her classes at college whom she initially thought to be the pinnacle of Millenial nerd--he had a "geek beard," wore a kilt for the heck of it, loved anime and manga (along with comics in general), was snarky, net-savvy, and had a KimPossible ringtone on his cell phone. Then, one day, a [[SeinfeldianConversation a before-class conversation]] turned to the topic of SesameStreet. He said, fondly, "I'll always love that show -- I'm the same age as it." SesameStreet came out in 1969.

* [[Tropers/NeotheSaiyanangel This troper]], while graduating from high school, was told by her classmates that they were surprised that they let her drive and graduate considering how old she was. When she told them she was 18, they were shocked; they had all thought she was 13 or 14. She had to show them her driver's license to prove it. And she still has problems even years later. Luckily, all she has to do is [[MostCommonSuperPower wear a tight shirt]], though that only brings up the age to a well-endowed 16... * [[Tropers/QuantumToast This troper]] was once told "You look 16. In a good way." when he was about 21, and got carded a few times going into pubs when he was 22. (The drinking age here is 18.) * What gives away this troper's age is when she begins to talk about her assignments, which tend to be things like sociology. Until then, she gets mistaken for middle or high school. She is 20 years old, almost 21. * This troper's martial-arts class was once told do three sets of push-ups, counting up to our ages each time (this troper's: 16). When everyone was finished another student told her he had thought she was only 14. She's also so small that she's had quite a few experiences with YoungerThanTheyLook companions. * At age 20-something, [[{{Tropers/Orihime}} This Troper]] was asked by a cashier to show him her ID if she wanted to buy some wine. LOL. * This troper mistook his friend's sister for 16 or 17. She's twentyfour. * Some times when this troper who is in his early 20's buys r-rated movies or uses a credit card is asked for I.D. because I look more like I'm about 16 or 17. ** Also my younger cousin is currently 18 but she looks more like she's about 13 or 14. * [[Tropers/PikaHikariKT This troper]] gets this a lot -- 4'8" or so at 20 years -- and is convinced she sounds like a five year old half the time. At the time of writing, when she went to her old high school to speak to a class as a college Peer Leader, the secretary pretty much asked if I was here for a late slip. "I don't go to this school anymore...T_T" * This troper looks about four to five years younger than she really is. It happens repeatedly when I meet a new person. They think that I look like I shouldn't be nearly so [[DeadpanSnarker cynical and sarcastic]] for my age. Cue the BigReveal. * [[Tropers/InsanityInside This troper]] is 23. According to most people she looks "about 16". This is made even stranger by the fact that she also looked "about 16" [[YoungerThanTheyLook ten years ago]]. * Many little dogs would also be a real-life example of this trope. This troper has seen pictures of Pomeranians that are 10-plus years old and she thinks they still look like they would be younger dogs or puppies if their age wasn't known. Also, her own Pomeranian is 3 as of this posting (full-grown adult dog) and people often think the dog is a puppy. This troper has also been told that she looks younger than her real age, too, so she's a good pair with her Pom. * I'm a subversion - I have facial hair and really hairy arms. And I'm 15. But my brother is straight-up, people mistake him for 8.He's 12.

* My nana once tried to use her senior citizen discount at the movie theater. Even when they saw her driver's license, the ticket sellers were skeptical. She's in her 70s, and she looks to be a well-preserved 50. Apparently, this is genetic; my mom has honestly been mistaken for my older sister before. * [[{{Tropers/Spudsey}} I]] am constantly being mistaken for a high school student, despite being almost 26 at the time of this writing. * [[{{Tropers/PurplePantherGirl}} This Troper]] is frequently handed Kiddie meal menus (some which say on them for 3-10 year olds). One day she just snapped and told the waiter 'I am ''thirteen'' I do NOT want a kiddie meal menu and I do NOT want a packet of crayons and a colouring book! What I ''do'' want is a margherita pizza and a coke.' ** Was that at Pizza Hut? They did that to me too when I took my little sisters out >-< but I'm Younger Than I Look, soooo... *** No, it was at a nice Italian resturant when me and my family were on holiday in Manchester. Pizza Hut seem to acknowladge that I'm not ten, though they keep giving me balloons. * When this Troper's Grandmother (who is 4'10" and less than 100 pounds) went to the hospital to give birth to this Troper's mother, she was told that children aren't allowed. Apparently the nurse who said that hadn't noticed that she was extremely pregnant. She was about 25 or 26 at the time. * [[{{Tropers/LittleMai}} This Tropette]] goes from playing straight to aversion, depending on what she's wearing. She was once mistaken for a 12 years old kid, despite being 18 at that time. And mistaken for a 21 years old, too, in the same year. * [[{{Tropers/Nausicaa}} This troper]] is a five-foot tall {{Pettanko}} with a very small shoe size. Even though she acts pretty maturely, she still shocks people when she says she's eighteen and in her first year at university. * Tropers/DesertDragon here. My ex-boyfriend had a very boyish face (all attempts at growing facial hair failed badly) and a high-pitched voice, but was three years older than me. Since I myself am ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook younger]]'' than I look, when we started dating, people would look at me like ''I'' was the cradle robber even though I was 19 to his 22. * this troper (who is 29 now) regularly goes to anime conventions with her oldest niece, who is 12 years younger than her - and regularly gets people assuming we're sisters only 2 or 3 years apart. she's also had a cashier try to take her drivers license from her when buying alcohol, as they said it had to be fake. thankfully the cashier one register over remembered me from high school and informed them I actually was in my late 20's. ** this troper's dad and older brother also fit the trope. her dad is in his early 70's and regularly gets people assuming he's in his 50's still. her brother got regularly carded for cigarettes until about two years ago, and he's 11 years older than her. * I've got three cousins who look like college students (their very casual way of dressing doesn't help). They're all twelve years older then me, which puts them in their late thirties. My roommates and I were once asked if we were high school seniors at Six Flags Magic Mountain; we're all in our mid- to late-twenties. My paternal

grandmother (this is probably just my perception) looks like a very robust 70-year-old; she's going to be ninety-one this year. Likewise my late maternal great grandfather looked like a healthy 80-year-old when he passed away at 101. * [[{{Tropers/Scarab}} This Troper]] has a big problem with this guess estimations of her actual age have varied between thirteen at youngest and seventeen at oldest - and nobody's ''ever'' gotten it right. She's twenty two. The fact that several of her all age karate classes have many younger kids in them (all of whom always seem to make a big, astonished deal out of uncovering her real age) doesn't help and she has to go through a big production every time she gets asked her age, or tries to purchase craft knives and/or alcohol. * Back when I was about 11-12 years old, my family and I went to a fancy dinner. There was a woman who shared the table with us and asked me how old I was, guessing that I was ''7 or 8''. I literally had a [[JawDrop jawdrop]] moment before telling her I was actually 11-12. The woman became embarrassed before saying, "You'll look very nice when you're 16." Unfortunately, I look my age now. * This troper is 26 and has had people explicitly say that they thought I was (as low as) 18 until I told them otherwise. To this day, I have never failed to be carded for renting rated-R movies. And once, I was carded for renting a PG-13 movie! The idea of a 26-year-old being thought not old enough to check out something attainable by a seventh-grader [[HeroicBSOD temporarily blew my mind]]. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This 23-year-old troper]] gets confused for being eighteen years old or under. Also, his [[{{DragonLady}} Eurasian (now ex-) girlfriend]] was a [[{{ChristmasCake}} 31-year-old woman]], who also looked around about eighteen still got carded for buying cigarettes. Needless to say, it would have looked awkward. Also, this troper once got a photo from a 21-year-old young woman (a pen pal) in China. She looked...well, thankfully she was fully-clothed otherwise [[{{HeroicBSOD}} he would have a nervous breakdown]] - that woman was this trope, looking like a [[{{Lolicon}} fifteen-year-old girl]]. Also, [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]'s parents fit the bill, looking about their mid-late 30s when they're in their early 50s. * I'm in late high school, but the woman I babysit for always guesses my age as 13. Whenever I tell her my real age, she tells me that when I'm older, I'll be glad to be mistaken for a younger age. I'm not sure it works that way, but even if it does, I'm driving, I don't want a cop thinking I'm 13. Also, in a possible case of {{older than they look}} or {{younger than they look}}, people often think my sister (2.5 years younger than me) is my twin. * This troper works with people in their late teens/early twenties on a daily basis and is always, without question, spoken to as a peer. When the true age is found out--thirty-nine--she is met with screams of 'No way!' followed by 'Let me see your driver's license!' followed by 'Too cool. I thought you were MAYBE twenty-four.' Good genes for the win. * This troper has a friend in the yo-yo club who looks sixteen. He's twenty-nine. It does NOT help that EvenTheGuysWantHim. * This 16 year old troper (4'11") and her twin sister (5'1") went to a restaurant with their friend, who is the same age and 5'10". The

waiter looked at this troper and her sister and immediately asked if they wanted two children's menus. The same thing happened three days later at the same restaurant. No one asked their friend if she wanted a children's menu. * This troper's Learning Support teacher was talking about getting ready to retire. This shocked me, because she didn't look a day over thirty-five. * This troper (19) can easily pass for someone who's 15 or 16, but that's nothing compared to her aunt and grandma. Her aunt, who's 45, often gets mistaken for someone ten years younger, and her grandma, who's in her seventies, gets mistaken for someone who's 55 at most (mostly because she's very slender and barely has any grey hair). In fact, a common misconception is this troper and her aunt being sisters, and her grandma being their mother. * This troper and his work experience supervisor got mistaken for six-form students once. Inverted for this troper, as he's 15, and sixformers are from 17-18, but played straight for my supervisor, who was in her early twenties. * This troper's great-grandfather didn't start going gray until two years before he died. He lived to be 98. * Heh, my half-sister who is...27, 28? Nearly got given a kid's meal at a resturant recently. She was sitting at the same end of the table as my younger sisters and I so I guess she got grouped with the little ones...I didn't, though. Younger Than I Look - at 14 I was mistaken for a university student on holiday (about 19) and at 17, I have to produce my student card for everything. Stupid face -.* [[Tropers/TsundeRay This 20-year-old college-attending troper]] has been told by some friends that he could pass for a high school student. * This troper's mother was born in 1959. She looks about thirty-five. * I'm 25, but most people think I'm in my late teens. Oddly, I don't think it's just appearance, as I often don't get I.Ded for Alcohol and the like (most places ID anyone who looks under 25) yet it's more common with those who I've had closer contact with. On the other hand, most people who know me regard me as mentally much older than I am (unless they know me enough to have caught me in angsty teen mode). * [[Tropers/LeighSabio This Troper]] usually looks her age or older, but just recently told a hairdresser at Great Clips that she was 16 (Her real age), and got the response "No, really! I thought you were about thirteen." * In order not to be subject to this, I (a male) grew my hair out to halfway down my back after leaving school - which only resulted in numerous people * mistaking me for a girl* . * When this troper's grandmother had this problem. Said grandmother was in her twenties, working, and living on her own. She was picked up by truant officers almost every other week, asking why she wasn't in school. She got so fed up with explaining she was an adult when the officer asked for her parents' address she gave it to them. The officer would drive her to her mother's house. Where my grandmother did not live. Her mother would say something to the effect of, "She's got her own house." * My parents are in their mid-forties and they're often told they

look around 35; I'm 17 and I get everything from 13 to [[YoungerThanTheyLook 20]]. Even my dog is older than she looks she's 4 years old and people go all "d'awwww, puppy" when I'm walking her. * Troper {{Tropers/Brainpaint}} has many different tales relating to both herself and her family. Sometimes she still occasionally requires assistance when purchasing video games from one of her parents. When aged 18 and in her second college she was frequently mistaken for between 14 and 16 and upon telling her classmates her age there was a chorus of whoas. She is supposed to look so young that kids sometimes get confused about whether she's the same age as them but fatter. Interestingly she looked older when she was younger and was mistaken for a middle aged woman when she was 15 and was getting wolf whistles from men in their mid-20s while she was only just turned 12. ** The troper's parents are also victims to slow ageing. Both of them are around their early 50s and yet they are occasionally mistaken for being somewhere between 35 and 40... Although, when you compare them against people of the ages they are presumed to be, they look even younger than they do. The troper's father at the time of this entry still has his natural hair colour at age 49 and is only just starting to get the occasional grey. (Update) In September 09 the troper's dad collapsed during the showing of a 3D movie. To let the paramedics in they stopped the movie and turned on the lights and when quizzed over the intercom about his age, they STILL said "About 30.". Facepalms happened. It is unknown how many, but at least one was performed. *** (BP) That's funny. Because this troper's dad also has had only a few greys and he's 49. He confused his employer for a short while before the subject was laid to rest when he corrected him. He's pushing estimates of early 30s sometimes. Which is funny because his younger half-brother was already grey 10 years ago (The last time she saw him). The troper's older cousin is around the same age as him and she looks older than both her parents. * This troper is usually mistaken for someone about 18-19 years olda college freshman. He's actually a grad student, age 27. * DialgaX's ''entire'' family is like this. ** Aunt: mid 30s; looks to be between 18 and mid 20s ** Maternal grandparents: early 80s; looks to between early 70s ** DialgaX: 18; looks to be about 14-16. Got asked if he wanted a kid's menu at a Florida restaurant (can be assumed he was mistaken to be under 13). * This troper's girlfriend is exactly like [[{{lucky star}} Kanata]]. She's 20 years old, but due to some developmental issues (premature birth, hormonal deficiencies, numerous leg surgeries.) she doesn't look a day over 13 years old at oldest, and she usually looks about 11. She will most likely look like this well into her forties. I can only imagine the issues this will cause in public in a few years. In my twenties, they'd assume I'm a pedophile, in my thirties, they'd assume she's me daughter. * Inverted with and played straight for [[{{Tropers/AweetnessOnAHotCurciut}} This Troper]]. Im a senior in high school and 17 but most of my fellow students that don't know me think I'm a substitute teacher. It's hilarious. Even in freshman year,

at 15, students were surprised to yearn that i wasnt graduating that year. However, if i do my hair right and i dressed in jeans and a tee instead of my normal glam, I can get in movies with the child discount! * This troper is commonly mistaken for being some sort of 15 or 16year old prodigy. He's 19 at this time of writing. This makes it really freakin' inconvenient whenever he goes to have a chat with several of his old high-school teachers. Really freakin' inconvenient. No, the Fu Manchu look he's going for doesn't seem to register with some of the people he's met. He sees his upcoming stint as a student teacher to be extremely inconvenient. * Tropers/MaryLeathert is now 21, but about a month ago went swimming and still got the childrens' ticket (for under 17 year olds). And when in a mixed-age group (like my local anime club) gets a lot of "I didn't realize you were already a university student, I thought you're in high school". It's probably because I'm somewhat short, relatively flat and don't use any make-up. My clothes are also very generic (pants and t-shirts/colleges) mostly. * My 40-year-old mother often gets carded when ordering alcohol, and people have thought she was my sister before. A few years back she was having her 38th birthday at a restaurant, and an older guy asked how old she was turning. I told him, and he kept wondering if I was saying 28. * [[Tropers/AdamS This Troper]] [[HealingFactor heals quickly]], so his face shows little sign of aging. The only thing that can make him look all of his eighteen years is not shaving, and wearing his hair shaggy. When he doesn't do both of these, he is commonly mistaken for a twelve-year-old. (It doesn't help that my physical build isn't exactly uber-masculine.) In addition, a girl he knows (and sort of likes) is barely 4'11" and looks 13, but is actually less than a year younger than I am. Exact quote: ->me: I think (tinygirl) is one of the hottest girls I've ever seen. ->friend: I think that makes you a pedophile. * Sixteen year old girl. Regularly gets mistaken for eleven or twelve. Partially because she's short and genuinely quite young looking, but also because she wears clothes that are fairly young (bright, loose fitting, not very trendy) and little to no makeup due to the fact that she looks dreadful in it. She tried to buy Transformers (a 12 cert) the other day; she only just BARELY got sold it. Not that it annoys her, really; it's kind of funny after a while. * This (20-year-old) troper came across a couple girls (one of which he had a feeling he had seen before) who he suspected to be 16 or 17. On getting to meet them, they told him they were 2nd-year university students, making them at least 18 years old. ''Phew.'' * My sister substitute teaches, often in high schools. Naturally, it must be a tad awkward when the other teachers try to stop her from using the staff restroom, not knowing that she's not actually a student. ** Though I partially blame that on DawsonCasting. * Many people at this troper's school look like they're two-three grades younger than they really are. Of special note is a boy who looks like a kindergartner, but is in the fifth grade.

* This troper has been mistaken for both Older Than She Looks '''and''' Younger Than She Looks. When she was 16, a cute waiter in Seattle flirted with her, thinking she was in her 20s. Unfortunately, I had to correct him. Now she's 22 and hasn't grown much since her teen years (except for her waistline * grumble* ), and she gets mistaken for a teenager quite often. It probably doesn't help that her attitude towards life fluctuates between that of a [[WideEyedIdealist happy-go-lucky child]], an [[{{Wangst}} angsty teenager]], and (somehow) a world-weary middle-aged person. * Back when I was being a substitue teacher at a Junior High School, I was standing in the lunch lines. The lunch lines are both for students and teachers. While I was waiting in the line, a Junior High student asked me, "Are you new here?" I replied, "I hope so, I'm a substitute teacher." The other students jumped back and the student that asked me the question pointed to a nearby girl and said, "She made me ask." I was in my early twenties at the time. * Recently we met one of my brother's friend's roommates he appeared to be in his mid teens but he was actually 25. * This troper used to be mistaken for being under 16, right up until he was 20. Thankfully, growing what sort of passes for a beard (damn lack of facial hair) stopped that. * It is currently impossible for me (23 going on 24 as of writing this) to buy any sort of alcholic beverage, due to a combination of looking like a high school student and not actually having any sort of ID. * [[{{Tropers/Siofra}} This troper]], at 21, has been told she looks anywhere from 12-17, due to both her personality and dress. Her love of wearing pigtails probably doesn't help. ** Fun story: I bought a bottle of hard liquor, and got carded. I handed over my license, and the cashier called other employees, including a manager, over to verify that I hadn't faked the ID. * The scene: This troper is in line at the convenience store, at 11am on a Monday. Nosy busybody behind me asks: "Where are you going after this?" Me: "What do you mean?" NBB: "Where are you going?" Me: "What do you mean, where am I going?" NBB: "You're going to school, ''right?''" Me: "...I'm 29 years old; I've been out of high school for a while. But, hey, thanks." ** A few years later, this same troper was mistaken for a college student. It's the geeky lifestyle. I age well. * Not two weeks ago, this troper got carded for Moon. It's rated 15. I'm 21. FML. * This troper is 17. She isn't short, but she is flat-chested and has a young face. She's been mistaken for a freshmen twice in the first half of junior year alone by other freshmen and by ''kids that she knows''. Most people assume she's much younger than her twin sister, who could pass for a college student. * This troper's college roommate is 19 but barely reaches 5 feet in height. Just last month she went out to eat with her parents and was given a kid's menu. Needless to say this troper gives her a hard time about it. * This troper had an English teacher in high school that could easily pass as a student there.

* This editor is usually estimated to be around 18-19 years of age. He is in fact 23. On a somewhat related note when this editor's grandfather was hospitalized some time ago the doctors concluded that at the age of 70-something he had a body of a healthy 60-year-old. Nice one, that. * This troper joined the US Army right out of high school, retired after a 24-year career, and has been working for almost 3 years in a military support office. He frequently gets asked if he spent any time in the military because he looks like he's in his mid-30s. * This troper is currently 30 and has had it for about half of his life: ** When he was 15, an old woman in a gym asked him if he "already finished elementary school". ** When he was a senior in high school, another senior (different class) mistook him for a freshman. ** When he was 20, he had a quite weird conversation about school with a distant relative of his, who assumed he was 15. ** Two months after he turned 30, he went to a retrocomputing exhibition and started talking to an exhibitor, who was surprised by his knowledge of emulators and virtual reality peripherals. At the end of the conversation, this troper was asked his age and he replied truthfully. The exhibitor said "Oh, really? I thought you were 20!" [[http://www.fperale.com/Brusaporto%202009/album/slides/PA230037.JPG Here]] is a photograph from said exhibition, taken when this troper (longish hair, black shirt, mouse in his hand) was playing Quake 3 on a Mac Mini. ** Five months later, he was referred to as a "kid" by a group of kids he was playing SplinterCell Conviction with, at the local Gamestop. ** Three months later, same Gamestop. This troper was showing off his [[LeetLingo l33t sk1llz]] at PrinceOfPersia: The Forgotten Sands to some middle school kids. One of them starts a friendly conversation and finally asks: "How old are you?" This troper replies truthfully. Cue JawDrop from the kid. * This Troper was mistaken for being fifteen just a couple of months after turning twenty-one. * This Troper's best friend is 39 years old. Troper is [[YoungerThanTheyLook 16]] (both female.) There must be some law that always, every single time we're somewhere together, someone will ask how old we are... and guess we must be both around 20, 21. TheReveal often makes for a pretty nice MindScrew. * This Troper is almost 20, and was recently asked by a gate attendant at the airport if she was an unaccompanied minor on the flight- for those not in the know, that means you'd have to be under 16. Funnily enough, she used to fly as an UM all the time and almost said yes because of it. * This troper, age 32, can subvert or play this trope straight based entirely on the state of his facial hair and whether he's wearing a hat. Clean-shaven and with a cap on, he's frequently mistaken for 2223; just add goatee and remove hat to reveal the thinning (THINNING, not balding, can I make that clear?) hair you'd expect from a guy in his thirties and boom! Pegged for 35. Since the goatee makes me

[[GrowingTheBeard more awesome by default]], most folks split the difference if they see the hat and I get figured for about 27. * This troper, aged 16, is frequently mistaken for being 12 or 13, due to her short stature (5'0) and young face, as well as the fact that she never wears make-up and is usually dressed in baggy t-shirts. However, when she wears [[MostCommonSuperPower tight fitting shirts]] or band shirts (Iron Maiden, Tygers of Pan Tang, etc.) she often gets mistaken for a young-looking twenty year old. She understands how form-fitting shirts woudl lead people to assume her to be older, yet fails to understand how the band shirts maker her look any older. It seems to run in the family, too, with her mother having been carded multiple times when she was in her late fourties,and her almost 90 year old grandmother often being mistaken for being only 60 or so, helped by the fact that her grandmother's hair is jet black with only a few gray hairs despite not using any dye. * This troper, 21, STILL gets stopped every once in a blue moon by security guards, store employees, and overall concerned mothers who ask me what school I'm skipping. I graduated high school 3 years ago. It's not that I'm short, I'm just flat-chested and apparently have a baby face. It feels like I have to cake on Tammy Baker-esque proportions of makeup to look my age. I've had my ID rejected when trying to buy R-Rated movies and movie tickets. I know this lovely little trait will be handy when I'm much older, but it sucks being old enough to drink AND vote, and have no one take you seriously because you don't even look old enough to drive. * This Troper was one carded when her MOTHER was buying an R rated movie for her FATHER ** [[FlatWhat What?]] * My cousin, who is in her early thirties, forgot her driver's license in the car and no matter how much she tried to convince the bouncer to let her in, he thought she was underage. * [[Tropers/MonsterDog This Troper]], 32, is frequently mistaken for 25 or younger when he puts his [[NiceHat Red Sox cap]] on...and thinks anyone who cards him for alcohol or at the casino is the salt of the earth. Unfortunately, taking off the hat has the opposite effect, as his slight thinning hair (SLIGHT, I said! [[PatrickStewart SLIGHT!]]) makes him look closer to 40. * [[Tropers/VeggiePopper This Troper]], 23, is usually believed to be around 20 years, but his little sister's case is even more extreme: at 20 years old, she's forbidden access even in higschools because she looks younger than 15. * This 21 year old Troper has twice in the space of two months been mistaken for being 15 by seperate people over a hundered miles apart. At a church near home, he was mistaken for being much younger by an elderly woman. Back at college, he was mistaken by someone possibly younger than him on campus. * this troper is 16 but looks like a 12-13 yearold. * [[{{Tropers/Miso}} This Troper]] thought her guitar teacher was, at the oldest, in his early 30s. Nope, he's 45. The Troper almost wished she'd had a mouthful of soda or something so she could SpitTake when he let his age slip. And yet, she [[IntergenerationalFriendship still considers him one of her]] {{Nakama}}.

* This Troper's mother's side tend to look anywhere from ten to twenty years younger than we are, up until about our 70's. Then it's about five. Recently, she was asked when she was graduating from High School. She's 31. (I think it's the lack of any facial lines, including nasolabial folds.) * This troper is 19, and works at a school, where she was mistaken for an 11 year old. I dont think i look 11 though, most people think i am about 15. My friend is 22 and looks about 17, and is mistaken for being younger than he looks, cause he acts about 12. * It happens to ThisTroper all the time: when he grew a beard, people told his sister that they had seen her "older brother" walking around. At a book store, someone asked if I was already married (sadly, it wasn't [[ReadOrDie Yomiko]] [[PerverseSexualLust Readman]]). Once, at a job fair ThisTroper's mother went to, ThisTroper was confused for a teacher by another teacher (note that ThisTroper was sporting a kickass beard then). This lead into a conversation of just how young the troper was (18), and his college exploits (entered at 16). [[CrowningMomentofAwesome The teacher told this troper, "Tell your mother she's raisd a son to be proud of."]] * I tend to get asked what grade I'm in. I'm a university graduate and in my twenties. Therefore, anyone who looks my age and is attracted to me is a CakeEater. Anyone who actually is my age and is attracted to me is a LoliCon. [[SarcasmMode Yay]]. * I'm terrified that this trope could happen to me (even though it never has as of now), so I go out of my way to avert it by dressing and styling my hair like a lawyer. "In character," I go up to 30, but with jeans and a T-shirt, I go down to 14. Incidentally, I'm seventeen. * I am 18 (almost nineteen as of this edit) and I am constantly thought to be between the ages of 12 and 15. It gets old seeing the shocked look on people's faces when I reveal my age. ** I'm now 19 (at the time of this writing, and just the other day I was told that I look ''12''. Another person, when hearing I was 19, refused to believe me until I showed him my ID. * One day, two girls came to this troper's apartment. They were recruiting money for something and asked her to donate. Then they added kindly: "You can ask your mommy if you don't have money". Those girls looked about 15. This troper is 21, and that was HER apartment. * This troper, 18, has a baby face, stands at exactly 5 feet, and weighs 94 pounds. The movie theatre staff still refuses to let her into R-rated movies alone. Occasionally she's asked if she wants ''crayons'' with her ''kiddie menu''. * I'm 22 and nine months at the time of typing, but am frequently mistaken for an 11-12 year old - I am 5'1" and 86 lbs. One time my aunt and I were on an airplane and the flight attendant asked me if I wanted a '''coloring book'''. I just looked at her; my aunt had to speak up: "Ma'am, she's '''21''' years old!" My family actually uses this to their advantage and they have me pass as an 11-year-old whenever we go to the buffet. I just have to make sure my tattoo is covered up, hurhur. And whenever I fly by myself the flight attendants always give me triple snacks. Hehehehe. * This troper has a few friends and relatives who look younger then

they are (they're mostly Asian-American), but the prize goes to a male cousin who had RapunzelHair (it was usually tied in a big knot) and a beard who looked like a college student. He recently cut his hair and shaved his beard and now looks ''even younger'' (I almost had a flashback to TheEighties). The man is '''''[[spoiler: forty]]!''''' ** I'd also like to nominate myself; at Six Flags someone asked me and my friends what year were were in high school; at the time our group was two 26-year-olds and two-28-year olds (this troper is currently 27). * ThisTroper is always mistaken for about 4-5 years younger than she really is though she has been mistaken for a high schooler at times. She's [[spoiler: 25 years old]] and has been carded the few times she's bought alcohol. However, with the age guessing games at carnivals, she always wins big because they always get it wrong. It also doesn't help that she dresses like a boy, loves childish video games, and has endless energy in a lot of situations. This runs in her family too with the women. The best story was from a family gathering that my brother's friend happened to go to. He was taken with one of my cousins and afterwards was asking my brother "So, you think I have a chance with X?" and my brother started to laugh. This cousin of mine is [[spoiler: 43 years old, married, and with 3 kids! Her husband had the kids for the night while she went to this gathering (long story)]] * This troper's best friend fits this trope very well. He's one year older than the troper, and looks like he's one ot two years younger. This troper actually forgot the fact until her friend's birthday (yes, I did the math just to be sure). * [[{{Tropers/Kuzlalala}} This Troper]] is fourteen years old, but since she's 4'7", chubby, and immature mannerisms, her grandma thought that she was in 6th grade (12 years old), and a lot of people questions her age. A lot of her friends who are months younger than her look older than her as well (probably because their taller). This seems to take influence to her voice as well... Her 17-year-old sister experienced this as well, but well more expressed. * [[{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]] and her friend G-chan, both fourteenyear-old incoming high school juniors, subvert this trope nicely. Gchan is TheNapoleon of the class, thus her height is constantly joked about, but when people get serious about describing her, they say her face looks too mature for her to be mistaken as an elementary student. Meanwhile, Mira-chan is taller than G-chan, but her innocent and childlike face has led people to say she looks twelve. * This troper, a five-foot-one, seventeen-year-old high school junior, went to the freshman campus' library to check out a book. The librarian remembers everybody, and we began to chat. I say I still resemble a freshman, but she trumps me by saying I look like a middle schooler. Wow. Other than that incident, I've been mistaken for a freshman numerous times. ** A science teacher of this same troper was once stopped in the hallway for being mistaken as a student out during class. She trumped herself by telling us about a teacher who was also stopped for the same thing, but she didn't have her teacher ID to prove she was a teacher and was escorted all the way to the main office by a security guard. My current chemistry teacher can be lost among the sea of class

students if he's sitting or kneeling down beside a desk. * In my brother's band two members look a lot younger than their actual ages one is 23 but he looks 10 years younger than that and another is 26 but he looks 17. * This troper was refused service in a restaurant aged 20 because they didn't serve under thirteens without an adult. I was also training a group of adults last year (aged 25) when one of the group, after complimenting me on being very knowledgeable, asked if I was, 'what, Sixteen? Seventeen?' * Recently my best friend's auntie was refused service at a pub for appearing to be underage. Here, the legal drinking age is eighteen. She's fifty-two. * This troper has the worst of all. If he [[GrowingTheBeard grows the beard]] everybody assumes [[YoungerThanTheyLook he's like 35]] and calls him "sir". If he shaves, everybody [[OlderThanTheyLook assumes he's like 15]] and calls him "boy". The worst part of all is finding a woman that is in [[YouCantWin either of those things]]. * [[Tropers/{{Theologica}} This Troper]] has had this now and then, also. One time at astronomy club, one of her dad's friends was talking to her about the astronomy club's website, and went on to discuss the junior section, noting there'd be stuff for folks like her to do. Her Dad intervened at this point, and pointed out to the guy that this troper is, in fact, 23 years old, and not in her mid teens. Cue stunned, "you are ''not''!" and hilarity from all parties involved in the conversation. * This Troper is told that she looks about twelve...despite being seventeen. * At 19, I once tried to order a ''coffee'' and got a very surprised look from the woman in the espresso stand. "Are you old enough to drink coffee?" she asked. "How old do you think I am?" I asked back She thought I was twelve or thirteen. People were still staring holes in my ID when I was twenty-three, but going on hormones for a partial gender transition (long story, no, short story, no, nevermind) and adopting a lifestyle involving more sleep deprivation has induced large dark circles under my eyes that mean people will usually guess my age (26 at the time of this writing) accurately these days. It's a relief. At the age of twenty I ''actually got carded by the police'' for... making out with my partner in an airport. Since this was after 9/11, it was a rather humiliating way to nearly have a heart attack. * This troper just turned 18. Most people tend to guess 12 or 13 as my age; one person even guessed as young as 10!!. When I was in my sophomore year of high school, a cashier at a gas station laughed at me when I told him I was 16 years old. He did so because he truly didn't believe me. I still get kids' menus at restaurants. No, they don't ask if I want one. They just give them to me. Needless to say, hardly anyone can believe I'll be attending college this fall. * This troper is 19, going on 20 but she often gets mistaken for being 15 or 16. It doesn't help that she doesn't wear makeup very often and is short. The only reason she doesn't get mistaken for younger still is for a, well, obvious reason. * This troper has been mistaken for a fifth grader before- and that was back when she was a senior in high school. Granted, I ''was''

walking by an elementary school at the time while it was being let out (it was on the way to the bus station where I caught my bus), but ''still''. She also always dreads high school field trip day at a certain location in her city where there are shops and some exhibits, because she will often get mistaken for one of the students- ''even if they're in uniform''. * Happens to this troper ''alllll'' the time. When she was 12, someone asked if I was 9/8/''7''. After [[{{Understatement}} being a bit shocked]], I told her how old I really was. [[JawDrop With predictable results]]. ** Probably a more extreme example would be this same troper's brother, who is mistaken for being a sophomore in high school when actually he graduated from college recently. Doesn't help that he is a [[ShrinkingViolet bit quiet]] and [[CuteShotaroBoy childish]]. This troper started joking that her brother should intern at her school, just because he looks so much around the same age as her, and everyone would be fine with a "new student". * My mother is in her forties, but somehow looks like she's in her late twenties. This usually gets her confused as my older siblings' sister. * This troper is 21, and he has relatives who have guessed that he is only 18 or 19. A more extreme example is someone who thought he was ''sixteen'', and had to confirm with him several times if he was really 21. * I'm 31 and often get told I look like I just got my bachelor's degree (so about 22 - 23). My mom's even more impressive; at 64 she's been mistaken for anywhere from 51 - 53 years old. My grandmother (her mother) was much the same in that she looked like she was in her sixties when she was fighting Alzheimer's (so the last seven years of her life) and barely looked 70 when she passed away... at the age of 82. This troper's mom was assumed to have been a teen mom by one of this troper's middle school teachers. The teacher was 46. My mom was 47. * This troper's father went to the hospital, because he's a bit on the larger side and was having chest pain. The doctors decided to keep him a day or two, and the nurse announced his daughter had come to visit him. He was a little surprised when my mother walked in. By herself. They are both in their fifties, and he is only three years older than her. It's the Asian genes... * This troper and her siblings are all fairly short, so we're usually mistaken to be twelve or younger (though we're all teenagers). One of this troper's friends started jokingly referring to her as a freshman because of this. Unfortunately, one of her other friends thought she actually was a freshman due to this. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] * According to a friend of my mother's (who, admittedly, had just retired and her eyesight was perhaps less-than-spectacular) eighteenyear-old me is 12. I've always been kind of small and young-looking, but... * This Tropette is 14 years old. I am often mistaken for 10 or 12 by people who refuse to beleive I'm in high school. * I'm 27 next month, and a stranger asked me what year I will graduate

high school. * This troper is often misstaken for a middle school student(13-15), when she's accually in her second year of highschool.(17) Subverted when peaople calling her mother buiness, whitch she runs at home, and think that I work there. Her mom takes advantages of her young looks to get her a children discout. 15 is my limit, 13 is hers. * I'm 23, but I've been mistaken from anything from 15 to 18. Mostly I get 17. The worst was when I was in Sydney with my Dad and stepmum and a bus driver thought I was 13 and qualified for a child fare. I was 20 at the time! I have a 17 year old friend, and she looks older then I do - people have frequently mistook her for the older one and me for the younger, despite the five year age gap. An ex boyfriend thought I was 16 when we first met (I was 21 and the same age as him...) and in a bara guy also thought I was 16 (I just said "if I'm 16, how did I get into the bar?"). And in school, when I was in my seventh form year, another student mistook me for a third former - third formers are usually 13 or 14 years old. * I am currently 17. I'm 5'3", around 110ish pounds, no boobs, very long curly hair, and I have a tendency to wear baggy clothes. The result? Most people assume I'm anywhere from 12-14. My brother is 14 and we're automatically labeled "twins". I actually carry my driver's license around just to prove my age....the funniest incident involved security at my old middle school. They thought I was a student late to class (was there to see an old teacher) and they were about to haul me down to the office. I was a junior in high school >< * This troper encountered this while attempting to check out an Rrated movie at the library. The librarian looked at the movie, turned to my mother (who was with me) and asked if it was alright for me to check it out. My mother said yes but got understandably confused. I informed the librarian that I was 18. * This troper's friends began cackling at the sight of her ID, as it apparently made her look like a nine year old, despite being 14 when the picture was taken. She had to repeat several times 'no, seriously, only last september!' several times. * One day a junior high student knocked on this troper's door and asked for a donation for some charity organization. As I was looking for coins, the girl said gently: "Is your mom home, sweetie? Why don't you call her?" I asked her how old she was. She was 14. I was 21 at the time. It was both hilarious and offensive. * This troper (18) has a lot of trouble because, mainly, she has a baby face. Once, I was getting registered in a library with my aunt when the worker said something like "perharps the girl would prefer the kid's library instead". God, if punching people wasn't banned... * This troper is 18. It appears that she stopped aging the moment she turned 11. When she was 16, she mentioned her age to a younger girl and almost gave the poor thing a heart attack, followed by a flustered reaction of "My big sister is 2 years younger and looks way older than you do!" She's even been ID'd for (UK) ''12-rated'' movies a couple of times before! There is one advantage to being older than she looks though; she can always get away with buying children's tickets on trains and buses. (Ssh!) * [[Tropers/{{Burstkiller}} This Troper's]] family is a

'''''triumphant''''' example of "Black Don't Crack". With a shave, this 25-year-old troper could pass as teenager. So does his 34-yearold brother. And both his parents look a good 20 years younger than their actual ages (Mom, 59 and Dad, 63). * Had anybody developed a fetish of this yet? * This troper (age 23 and a 1/2~) is 'lucky' enough to inherit double dose of the family youthfulness and lack of height (doesn't even hit 5' when not slouching... xD), so she has been estimated to anywhere between 13-16, and has been for the last 5+ years. Oh, and she still got a childs pass for the MUNI/BART while she was on holiday despite the lady looking at her passport, I guess the jeans/tshirts and near perpetual slouch don't help, but damn..! x_x * [[Tropers/{{Frimaire}} This troper's]] cousin has been mistaken (twice) for being in her teens while actually being in her ''thirties''. ''Late'' thirties, no less. ** The first time, she was leaving a party at Chuck E. Cheese's and the host stopped her (thinking she was a teenager sneaking out), asking, "Do your parents know you're leaving?" She answered, "I'm ''thirty''! I don't need my parents' permission to leave!" ** The second time, she was at church and pregnant with her first child, and a woman told her (thinking it was a teenage pregnancy), "Oh, you're so young, I'll be praying for you!" * [[Tropers/{{FMPhoenixHawk}} This Troper]] was carded at a bar on his 25th birthday. Now in mid 30s, have had to occasionally break out the ID to prove it. Blame good genes, being a bit pudgy, or the 12 metric tons of armor plate. * This troper, at age 20,is still mistaken for being 14-16. It was even worse when he was younger. Being a short, slim, effeminate and Asian, he gets teased about being a [[CuteShotaroBoy cute shotaro boy.]] * This troper looked fairly young for his age, once asking his mother what age he looked (while 15)...and she admitted he'd pass for 13. A year later, he was able to pass for 15. Now, aged 17, he has never had any questions asked about his age (although he has had a problem trying to explain that his birthday is actually in May, so he is not actually able to order alcohol yet). Mind you, a friend of mine, who is 18-19 (he had to re-sit a year), went to school once wearing a sweater and, in the back of my mind, I thought to myself that he certainly didn't look his age: he looked closer to 15-16. I decided not to tell him, as I knew he wouldn't be amused. ** Also remembered something slightly funny: my voice didn't break until I was 15 1/2, so people didn't actually believe I was 15 for a few weeks (except the people in my year and even then, there were some people who didn't quite believe it). Now, I have a bass voice, which prevents these errors. * [[{{Nekoalexa}} This troper]] is always mistaken for about 11 to 14, when in fact she is ''19''. Made worse by the fact that she is only 5' 1". * I'm going to be twenty-one in nine months. The last time I went out to eat, the waitress asked if we (my parents and I) wanted cocktails, then took a second look at me and said, "Well, of course you don't!" Well, I don't, and, yes, I can't, but you shouldn't be that sure!

[[{{Pettanko}} Excuse me for being flat!]] And one of my friends is twenty-one and looks a little younger than I do. In her country, the drinking age is eighteen, so I guess that works out. I also know someone who's slightly younger than me but looks maybe fourteen, because of the way she dresses (frilly blouses, animal t-shirts, pants that look like she's grown a few inches since getting them) and the fact that [[ForgetsToEat when she's studying, she doesn't eat]], and so she weighs probably the same as a cat; so to speak, she makes me look well-rounded. * [[Tropers/{{Nika-senpai}} This Troper]] is 20 and a half, but regularly gets mistaken for a 16-year-old. When I went to a parent teacher night for my brother who's in gr. 9, my mom had trouble finding some of the classes. When we asked a teacher for directions, she looked at me incredulously. "You don't know what classes you have?" she asked me. It took all of my self control not to yell how I'm a second year at university and that's with a year's delay, no less. Likewise, I get IDed at the liquor store and when buying drinks in a pub, not to mention, the horrible, scrutinizing looks I get from bus drivers and border guards when I cross into the US to visit my husband. They always double check my date of birth, it seems, and the bus drivers like to ask: "Do you have permission and documentation from your parents to cross the border?" I've been doing this for two years now, I don't need permission, thanks! XD On the other hand, it was sometimes to my advantage on the city bus, because I was able to get away with using high school student tickets instead of adult tickets, which are way cheaper. * [[Tropers/{{volrath50}} This Troper]] is over 23 years old, but regularly gets mistaken for 16-18. Mostly due to youthful good looks, as opposed to being physically small (I'm 5'9"). Among the most amusing experiences was going to a bar with my little brother and his 19-20 year old friends (in Canada). Despite some of his friends being just a few months over 19, most of them walked into the bar without being ID'd, while the bouncer thought my first ID was fake, and needed a second. There's also been a few times I've been ID'd for something, while someone underage does not. * This troper's mother. She's fifty-two but passes for thirty at the oldest. She has a healthy diet, takes multivitamins, and uses [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBOT HBOT]], [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow something man was not meant to know.]] My dad is aging well for an [[{{Gonk}} ugly guy]] too. And then there's my little sister, who has autism, and looks and behaves like a six year old, despite being almost eleven. [[MoeMoe I still think she's the cutest thing in the world.]] We even make a MoeCouplet together. Basically, everyone in my family fits this trope except me, who could pass for a college student (and was mistaken for one when she was buying a printer) despite being 14, because I'm so tall and err...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean well-developed]], and I probably could seek into R-rated movies and make a [[{{Understatement}} little too convincing fake ID]] (Not that I would.) Although, you know, [[{{Moe}} I am babyfaced]], sometimes feel like an AdultChild and [[DawsonCasting I want to play teenagers in the somewhat distant future,]] so...

* Where do I begin? Being asked "What grade are you in?" when I was in my early 20s. Being asked over the phone, "Is your mom or dad there?" Going to the DMV to have my license changed to my married name, and the clerk saying, "Let me guess, it's permit time."(16 is the minimum age for learner's permits in NYS). I was almost '''31'''.. * This troper is saddened to say that even though she is the same age as almost everyone else in her grade (I'm 14), people STILL mistake her for a sixth grader. The fact that I'm short and act very hyper for someone my age probably doesn't help. * Nobody ever thinks this troper is older than about fifteen unless they've known her for a while or happen to be a teacher. This stopped being amusing a while ago. * This troper started off as an inversion of the trope, but as of late is beginning to show trends of following it straight. Given that her parents are both in their early 50s, but look at most in the early 30s, she's likely going to be following that step for a long long time...This may mean she'll have to put up with the "so how are you sisters doing" lines for a few more decades. (Not so happy on my part, but my mom relishes in such displays of "youth" from her part...) * Earlier this year this troper was shopping around in a clothing department that her aunt works at. One of her's aunt's co-workers mistakenly thought she was a middle-schooler. This troper was 18 and about to graduate at the time. * It runs InTheBlood in this troper's family.Her 34 year old aunt can pass for 18 any time she wants, her 42 year old father easily looks like a 28 year old, and This Troper herself is still constantly asked if she's a twelve-year old.She's sixteen.When she was truly twelve, they mistook her for a 6 year old.HilarityEnsues. * I had to go to the hospital with my father once because of a allergy of mine a few year ago(I was stung by a hornet), and there was a new doctor. She did just as normal doctors do: checking the stung area and asking questions when and how it happened. It was a few minutes before i got the medicine that she asked about my age, and acted out of suprise when i said i was 14. She said i looked like a 19 year old, and my father had to confirm the birth date. I believe the reason for this was my monotome voice and my new-come unshaved puberty moustache. * This troper finds it somewhat amusing that people often mistake him for someone in the 17-25 age bracket. Actual age: [[spoiler:36 as of October 2010]]. Part of it is I inhereted good genes, and part of it is I never really endulged in a lot of the bad habits many from my peer group did, outside of junkfood that is. * When this troper did her Drama G.C.S.E I was always picked for playing children or tweens because I am only 5ft and looked a lot younger than 15. * I'm 25, nearly 26, and have almost wanted to take up smoking or something to purposefully age my face-skin into looking something past, oh, 18. I won't as I rather value my health and ability to taste food and such, but man oh man would it be nice to not get the "in loco parentis" treatment from co-workers and almost everyone I know. * [[{{neoYTPism}} This troper]] looks younger than he actually is. It's fitting, since he [[AdultChild feels younger than he actually is]].

* [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct This troper]] is 14 and very glad to be in highschool... I despise it when I'm mistaken for a 7th or 8th grader, though it is kind of humourous. * I kind of like this, since I really feeel younger than I'm supposed to be, but here's the weird thing: I'm 24 (almost 25) and when I'm shaved, I look younger (People are surprised when they found out I'm not a minor) BUT when I grow my beard, even a little, I look so much older (when I'm with my mother, people confuse me with her husband O.o) * When this Troper first arrived in community college at age 18, she was sometimes mistaken for one of the 10th-graders in the early college program. Now I'm 22 and a fourth-year junior at a different university. People still guess my age to be anywhere between 17-19, and react with surprise when they realize I'm not a freshman and have been around the block a couple times. ** This same Troper was carded when she bought Oblivion and COD: Modern Warfare for the [=PS3=] (both M-rated games). Oddly enough, nobody ever asks for my license when I buy beer at the grocery store, or order a margarita at restaurants. * At the age of 17, [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} I]] was asked at the Wall Mart cash desk if that was really my credit card because I "looked like a little child". Ow. ** And it still happens. People mistake me for ~15, even tough I'm 21 now. Okay, until 14 years you get cheaper bus tickets, so... * This 156cm troper, at the time of writing, is 22. However, she's been carded while buying MA-rated (Australian film rating for ages 15 and over) movies in her 20s and bus drivers frequently assume she wants to buy a high school student ticket. Most recently, my boyfriend and I were walking through a mall just before Christmas when my boyfriend bumped into a guy he knew from work. A few days later when they were both on shift, the co-worker asked him if he had a photo of me, which he did. The co-worker looked at it carefully, before asking suspiciously "...How old is she?" * There was a rumor at this troper's school that my friend the {{Keet}} liked the resident {{Libby}}. When said Libby heard, she was disgusted and said to him "Eww! You're, like, 8!" Frustrated, the Keet exclaimed "I'm ''twelve''!" (The Libby was also twelve) * People judge age based on a mix of physical clues and contextual clues, such as language, clothes, body language. For some reason, this fascinates me. After consistently getting mistaken for 18 or 19 when I was 22, I decided to see how far I could push this. I've specifically been modifying my own speech, started using more {{BuffySpeak}}, and dressing a bit more like my younger brothers (nothing that would be ridiculous for a twenty-something, though), and I've managed to push the typical age I get assumed to be down to around 16-17, now when I'm 23. The bigger age gap between my assumed age, and my real one, has led to some amusing reactions after getting ID'd for stuff. And yes, it is strange that I've specifically been running experiments on stuff like this, but that's how I roll. * This Troper is 18 years old and a senior in high school, but has been mistaken for an underclassman by a number of people. One person even thought he was a middle school student. It probably comes from

his mother's side of the family... or maybe it's because he has [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} one foot firmly planted in Cloudcuckooland]]. * This Troper is twenty years old, and has been mistaken for a sixteen year old on many occasions. * HALF of my class is this. The other half is YoungerThanTheyLook. * This Troper going on 25 is often mistaken to be in the 15-18 range. Tried to pick my brother up from school and the Assistant Principal tried to write me up for detention. Ugh! Hopefully I stay looking young. * [[{{Danni-chan}} This Tropette]] is 15 and I get a kick out of asking adults my age. It's usually around 10-12. This apparently runs in my family because after looking at some of my baby pictures with all my relatives including my parents and grandparents, it appears after fifteen years none of them have aged a day. I've been told this will be good thing in 20 years or so. ** Played with this trope once at the movies. My friend who is about 5'10" (I'm about 5'1") and is the same age as me is often asked if she's my mother. We went to go see an R rated movie with her dad and bought two adult tickets and a childrens ticket for me. When the ticket guy asked for a tickets he turned to me and said I wasn't allowed in because "A 10 year old can't go see and R rated movie." I quickly said that the childrens ticket was for my friend and that I was 21. Of course before he could say anything I asked if he has never seen a short 21 year old and if he was predjudiced against short people. He let us in. * When I was 18, I went to a party and talked to a friendly girl once, but i didn't try anything as i thought she was 13 and so i was just being polite. Turns out she was 17 and just naturally really short. For the best though, as shes now a huge dyke. I also work with a 50 year old who is more active, toned and healthy than most 40 year olds i've met. * This troper's twin brother is 18 and looks about 15. Of course, the fact that we're both really short doesn't help. * This troper is 19, and will be 20 within the next two months. She can still pass for 12. She is thankful for being the GenerationXerox version of her mother, who, at 53, still can pass for mid-thirties (or when with her and her sisters, mistaken as a sister). She likes to think of it as a good thing that when she herself is in her thirties, she'll still be carded for her youthful appearance. On the other hand, her younger sisters at 18 (soon to be 19) and 15 both are YoungerThanTheyLook. For now, they laugh at me. Give or take a few decades, WhosLaughingNow * At this time of writing, one of [[{{ej92}} This Troper's]] friends looks like an 11-year old. ''He's 19.'' * This Troper is short for her age, and has sometimes been thought to be two-three years younger than she actually is. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This fifteen year-old Troper]] used to be pretty short for her age; she only just shot up to a normal height last year. She's also pretty flat-chested. I'm constantly mistaken for younger than I am, though nowadays thankfully less so than I used to be. Nothing would piss me off more than to be at a restaurant where the waiter/waitress would hand my eleven year-old little brother a

normal menu and me the kids menu... * This Troper has so many stories about mistake age identity: ** The man at the airport did not think she was old enough to have an ID, even though she was flying to go visit a college she was about to apply to. ** When she visited her mom at work to have lunch together, her mom's boss thought she was 13, even though she was 17 and obviously drove herself there. ** She bought a child's ticket for the midnight premiere of Toy Story 3, when she was 18 and about to enter college. ** The list goes on and on. * This troper met someone who was in her twenties, but looked twelve. * This troper worked on a film set briefly, and somehow it came out one day that it was her birthday. The grips were thrilled: "Oh, happy birthday, love! Can we take you for a drink yet or do we have to wait another year?" Drinking age in her province is 19. She had just turned 24. It put their tendency to flirt with her fairly aggressively into a disturbing new perspective. * I had a friend who is 21 this year. And she freakin' look like 18, or younger, never mind that she's quite short, around 1.5m tall. Her love of Hello Kitty merchandises and wearing frilly dresses does not help one bit. Maybe I should go for botox sometimes... * I have a friend who's 14, but she looks like a 5 or 6 year old. I'm younger than her, but I get confused for looking ''older''. My other friend has the exact same problem; she's 12, but she has the build of a 20 year old. I just look like a short highschooler. 14 year old friend is short, has loli features, and has a personality and naivety of a 6 year old. It doesn't help that she forgets stuff a lot. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] for pretty much his whole life has always looked young for his age. Currently he is 23 years old. Some people think he could pass for a high school student. * This troper had a friend who was celebrating there 22nd birthday this year they joked about how much older they were than everyone else. (average age begin 20) I said "I'm 24 you know..." The two looked at each other then said. "no... If anyone asks you again say your 18 or 19" has something to do with the fact that in that group I'm the [[{{Petite Pride}} Smallest]] and [[{{Teens are short}} smallest]] * One day, this troper was explaining to a pair of little boys about viruses, [[NightmareFetishist one of her favorite topics]]. Afterward, a lady asked her how she knew so much about biology, and the troper answered "Oh, I'm a microbiology major." The woman asked "Aren't 14 a bit young for that?" The troper: "I'm 20! T_T" Then, two years later, someone else tried to guess the troper's age and said 16. At least the age gap is consistent. * This troper's parents get this quite often. Until very recently, they were ''still'' asked for [=IDs=] when purchasing alcohol, despite being in their forties - in her country, shops ask for [=IDs=] if the customer looks like they are under 25. People always assume they are her siblings, especially because she is [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks.]] Her grandfather gets mistaken for her father, too. * [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] once went in for a haircut

and mentioned that I was in high school. "Oh, you're starting high school?" the lady cutting my hair asked. I was getting my haircut for my senior photo. Thankfully, I can't recall any other instances. * This Troper's mother is forty but that doesn't stop her from looking twenty years younger. I swear to you, teenagers hit on her while I'm there, thinking she's my older sister...But then again, she was a former model and let's just say good looks are genetic. * This troper can pass for a 11-13 y/o. I'm 15. I am blessed with youthful looks, but an unfortunate cases of acne, so most assume I am 12 or so. I look more mature now then I did, say, a year ago, because my childhood freckles faded, though people think I'm 12 because of my large eyes, thick eyebrows, and my lack of makeup, except for concealer. Even my peers and parents take advantage of me, by including me as a 'kid's ticket', whether we're going to the movies or the zoo. * This troper is almost 21 and still gets mistaken for being 5-7 years younger than she actually is. Pretty sure there will be an amusing story or two after the Vegas trip planned for the 21st birthday. It runs in the family, since my mother is in her early 50s and her coworkers didn't believe her when she told them, telling her she had to be in her late 30s or early 40s at the ''most.'' * This 16-year old Troper and her 22-year old sister were not only mistaken for elementary school kids, but for twins as well. * This troper is short and does not like to wear a lot of makeup despite being in college. A couple weeks ago I was with my mom at a Walmart/SAMS club store to get an antibiotic filled for an eye infection, and we ran into one of the people my mom knows from her work. A few days later, mom told me her work friend had thought I was 16. My first thought was "WTF"? My mom then told me about another coworker's daughter who had visited the other day, that had just graduated high school and looked like she was in her mid 20s because of all the makeup and high heels and the way she had her hair done. * Apparently runs in this troper's family. This troper is 20, but she has been mistaken from time to time for somebody around 16. Her mother is 45, but looks about 40 at the most and her father turns 54 this year, but can pass for somebody in his ''thirties''. Reversed with her brother: he's 19 [[YoungerThanTheyLook but has been mistaken for somebody in his twenties]] since he was ''16''. * This troper be 22 in September of 2011 and is told by everyone she looks much younger, like she should still be in high school. In fact, when she was in high school, she was told she looked like should still be in middle school. Apparently it's a whole life thing for this one. * This troper has been "about 16" for 12 years now. [[OlderThanTheyLook Since she was 13]]. It doesn't bother her that much that she's 25 and still gets asked for an ID ''all the time'', but people are starting to get suspicious and she's starting to worry that in about five years they won't believe the ID is real. * This troper, despite being 15, and acting like a 15 year old, still looks like a 9 year old. * This troper's mother perpetually looks about 10-15 years younger than she actually was. There'd been times when she's been mistaken for my older sister.

* I will be turning 30 next year. People who have seen my high school senior photos say haven't aged at all. * I, at 24, look younger than my little brother's 16 year old friends who in turn look college age instead. InTheBlood as one time when my mother picked me up from middle school early she was mistaken for a student. * This troper, now 18 years old, constantly is mistaken for 14 or even younger. Probabely becouse of childlike face and unfashionable, buggy clothes. At a concert, while buying tickets she was informed that "children under age 12 goes for free." During looking for a night tour around Prague, guide climed that "10 p.m. would be a little to late fo you". When informed of this troper's age he panicked a little. This used to be a BerserkButton, now she just completly enjoies half-price tickets and confused looks on people faces'. ---Are you ''sure'' you want to return to OlderThanTheyLook, squirt? It's for the ''big'' tropers. ---<<|TroperTales|>> <<|YouFailBiologyForever|>>

OldMaster ** This Troper's own sensei was an interesting subversion of the trope. He was drawing near to retirement and had been practicing karate since the age of 14, but was also more than six feet tall and built like a brick outhouse. An accidental tap high on the stomach felt like being hit with a ten pound sledge. *** How is that a subversion? ** This Troper's own master fits in this trope well. My instructor is in his mid 50's, and got badly burned with acid when he was in college which resulted in the loss of his left eye. Has a compressed vertebrae in his neck and has a bum elbow and bum knee. One day during the end of a class he stood in a front of one of the senior student in the class and said about stuff he could do to him and proceeded to do a series of jump kicks and other various techniques like nothing was wrong with him at all, while at the same time saying what exactly would happen if the said person would get hit with the technique. ** This troper's master was in his 70s (and fond of reminding us of that) with bad knees, smoked like a chimney, and could kick the ass of each and every one of us, even those of us in Provincial (Canada) or National tournaments. He had trained with one of the original Japanese masters of the style to boot, making him very fond of the WaxOnWaxOff method. ** This troper learned Tang Soo Do and was quick to learn that the 9th dan (who declared 10th dan to be impossible to obtain) who created the Art was a tiny old man named Hwang Kee in his 80's, still active in the Art. Ritual training included bowing to his picture every time. ** This troper studies kendo at a school where she regularly gets

smacked around like a pinata by a group of 7th and 8th dan retired gentlemen with grey and white hair... who also [[CurbStompBattle easily annihilate]] members of the national team in training for the world championship. * Completely subverted. This troper had two trainers, both of which were quite young and could've easily beaten the shit out of everyone in the room. * This troper's master is an aikido 2nd dan, 33 years old about 186cm tall, 95kg. Visiting a dojo in a neighbour town, I got to see him getting thrown around by his master, a 47 years old fifth dan. Then, I saw some videos of my master's master, among others fifth and sixth dan, flying around by the hands of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9bq4O3YRQg Tada Sensei]], 80 years old. ----<<|TroperTales|>>

OldShame * This troper went through some fiction she wrote in 6th grade, expecting to be overcome with waves of Old Shame. To her surprise, it was actually not bad. She'd always had a good vocabulary, and had worked pretty hard on getting rid of the cheesy parts. Anything she draws, however, is Old Shame as soon as it leaves the pen... * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] just dealt with his old shame. It's REALLY easy to delete a fic from Fanfiction.net. * [[Tropers/MaryTheZombie This Troper]] used to write dreadful SonicTheHedgehog love triangle fanfics when she was twelve. People still want her to update them. Also, she started writing an original story about a lizard at eleven, but it's much better than the fanfics, and can be salvaged with some tender loving care and [[DidNotDoTheResearch research about Egypt]]. * The earlier years of [[Tropers.ReikoKazama this troper]]'s imagination. If I had known about fanfiction back then and had put everything I came up with into words, I would've instantly been labeled a MarySue. But then again, I was only around 8 when I first got into gaming, so... yeah, definitely some OldShame there. Nowadays I know that sometimes it's best if what happens in my head stays there. * [[Tropers/JohnnyBGoode This troper]]'s ''{{Naruto}}'' fanfiction. I didn't even watch Naruto or anything, I just wrote fanfiction. (Ok, I read some of the manga from time to time.) I wrote my first fanfiction when I was 13. It's completely unoriginal PanderingToTheBase for [=NaruSaku=] shippers, almost no characters act in-character at all, the plot is basically non-existent, and I can barely read it anymore without getting sick. Unfortunately, since it's such a ship-supporting fic, people will still dig it up from time to time and tell me how good it is. And it's gotten far more views than most of my original fiction, which is at least slightly less bad. * This troper is lucky, so her amount of reviews increases with the quality. Her fist works, from when she was 11-13, are all Mary Sue

fics, and she can't delete them since the Israeli fanfiction site is actually a forum. Every drawing she did over a year ago is also this. * [[Tropers/DiscoGlacier This troper]]'s entry into the (now deleted) [[TroperTales/HypeBacklash Hype Backlash Troper Tales]] page. Since the page itself was deleted due to numerous [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike whiner entries]], and this troper's own entry was deleted just before the proposal to cut the page, he felt like he was part of the problem, which he's ashamed of. * [[SchmuckBait Do]] [[BerserkButton NOT]] go through the older parts of [[Tropers/RousseauIsMyBro314 this Tropette's]] DeviantART gallery. All her OC's were VillainSues, and all her poetry was vaguely-phrased and overwrought. Oh, and she acted like a total idiot back then. * [[Tropers/GameGuruGG This Troper]] of course runs his own [[http://www.smbhq.com/users/sss/frames.htm Super Smash Bros Fanfic]], but also worked on another SSB Fanfiction that he'd much rather forget about and that is only ever referenced by him AS the OldShame. Since it's on [[CriticalExistenceFailure Geocities]], [[XanatosGambit it should be purged within the year]], and this troper is not doing a damn thing to save it. He also had an original webcomic series that he is currently reworking into short stories. * though this troper would like to believe he did okay with his first four stories, looking back, they seem to be poorly handled. One is a toy story and azumanga daioh crossover which had an intresting premise but could go nowhere and is now on the verge of being dead. I wrote two hetalia things which were mediocre. One other long one has been going for awhile and had some bad early chapters that make me cringe when I see how much funnier the following chapters get. And being a sorta new author , It probably won't be the first old shame. * This troper once wrote a LegendOfZelda fan fic when he was 14 or 15 titled Sehnsucht, which was filled to the brim with ungodly amounts of {{Wangst}} and most of the main characters DrivenToSuicide, or close to it. Link went from a heroic warrior to a whining, self-pitying loser, and the plot was essentially a HurtComfortFic between him and Zelda. The only thing I can say in my defense was that this was the first piece of creative writing I had done outside of school, and that, from reading other fan fics, I honestly thought the angst-laden stories were what people wanted to read. Some time ago I actually posted my story on the Godawful Fanfiction forums and utterly ripped it to shreds. I deleted it off fanfiction.net, but I'm sure there are still copies of it floating around the internet somewhere. I once did a Google search for it and came across a review of it on LiveJournal, where the reviewer gave it 4/10, which I thought was entirely too generous. Old Shame indeed. ** My OldShame LegendOfZelda fanfic involved Zant stalking and masturbating to a 12 year-old Midna. I almost can't bring myself to type this, I'm so ashamed. *** At least you have the decency to be ashamed, unlike [[MyInnerLife other people]]. * This troper whilst 15 wrote a Tenchi Muyo fic called "Sing For Me My Friend" that was utter tripe after chapter one. It involved summoning Ryoko and Vegeta of DragonBallZ to the real world and it was a selfinsert. This fic was deleted but it did have one fan. Although

reasonably popular in comparison, Utena Forever is likewise Old Shame. * This troper started his writing with screenplays after downloading the program [=CeltX=]. The first ones? Not so great. Eventually they got better, but early works showed clear cut cases of DidNotDoTheResearch, had totally two dimensional characters, had partially plagerized dialogue and very unoriginal concepts. The worst part was I put my REAL NAME next to them, and Google. Never. Forgets. * About a year ago, this troper started a new Fanfiction.net account in an attempt to hide her previous one, which she'd started at the age of eleven. I really, sincerely hope that no one ever, ever, ever digs up my old account. To this day, I really don't know what ever possessed me to do a ''DannyPhantom'' / ''[[TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron Jimmy Neutron]]'' / ''SpongebobSquarepants'' / ''TheFairlyOddparents'' / ''TeenTitans'' crossover. (To be fair, I'm now 15 and write ''CodeLyoko'' fanfiction. I may be adding on to this article in a few years.) ** This same troper also finds it funny that while this was the first entry, others posted above her. Are they unashamed of their Old Shame? * This troper (who is not going to link to her contributor page for obvious reasons) has what could loosely be described as ''{{Neopets}}'' fanfiction (I never did figure out if it was properly fanfic or not, since it was set in that universe but the characters were mine) from when she was ''nine'', on the same approximate quality level as that produced by most preteens, i.e. [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]]. The stuff when she wrote when she was eleven was... still not ''good'' exactly, partly because of the tin ear she had for dialogue at the time (and needlessly convoluted plots, and a MarySue for a hero...), but at least semi-readable. However, she would greatly enjoy burning everything she wrote before the age of fourteen. * This troper's fanfiction, prior to the age of 13, is ALL old shame fic. The one portraying 12-year-old [[HarryPotter Draco and Hermione]] as tragic Romeo and Juliet style lovers, the one in which the main character is a badass MarySue spy opposite an {{Expy}} of Artemis Fowl... all the terribly thought out, horrifically depressing (and similarly poorly dialogued) InvaderZim Dib's-POV tween angst... * This troper never wrote fanfiction. Instead, he wrote [=MSTings=]. Using DBZ characters for some reason he can't recall anymore. His old writing style is so lousy he can't even look at it anymore. * [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] (who is brave enough to reveal her username), desperately wants to bash her head against her desk for the things she came up with when starting out as an anime fan. It really didn't help her first fandom was Beyblade. Luckily, most of the offending stories are deleted from Fanfiction.Net (the one that isn't is there to serve the purpose of reminding her to always strive for improvement), and so only the images on her deviantART account (which does not use the same username) are a hint to the shame. Despite giving up on Beyblade years ago, she's still trying to rework the [=OCs=] she created in those days to make them less MarySue. * This Troper would really like to forget his early Series/DoctorWho fan fiction simply because he introduced as a companion an

AuthorAvatar who was part robot and could essentially do ''[[DeusExMachina anything]]''. And then there was his attempt at a novel that not only included this character but was simply an attmempt to combine his then favourite companion (not saying who) with his favourite Doctor (the 7th) and inserted between the Crusades and the Space Museum. This novel was never finished. ** This troper's ''only'' Who fan fiction ever was much the same, only the GodModeSue was ''all'' robot. Luckily, it was being written on, of all things, a semi-computerised typewriter that his family no longer owns, and he never posted it to the Internet, so nobody will ever read it. * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] would really just rather delete half the crap on her fanfiction.net page. Interestingly enough, it's ''[[QualityByPopularVote popular]]'' [[QualityByPopularVote crap]]... ** Popular crap or a case of being far and away your own worst critic? That is not a rare thing. * [[Tropers/SergeantLuke I]] have created literally upwards of 100 original characters and stories since I was 4 (currently 15). The first of these was a superhero dragon (later dragon''fly'', because now that ArtEvolution has set in he doesn't look a damn thing like a dragon) named Max, who was renowned as a hero by his planet, along with his friends Lizzie, George, and Ralph (for those wondering, yes, it was originally a {{Rampage}} fanfic, but the only real similarities were the characters' names and species). Now, the OldShame isn't from the stories themselves; the really old ones (which were made up on the spot, as dictated to my Mom) are [[MindScrew hilarious insights into a hyperactive toddler's mind]], and the newer ones from about age 10 (when I revisited the character) are pretty well-written with decent illustrations, though they're nothing special. No, the thing that shames me is that even though the narrator [[ShillingTheWesley constantly sung the praises of the great hero Max]], he had ''absolutely no heroic or respectable traits about him at all''. He never thought before he acted, was a scrawny little wimp, never asked for help or really even told anyone where he was going, and [[PlotInducedStupidity whenever the villains attacked him, conveniently forgot that he could fly, blow fire, and see in the dark]]. And in every single story, without fail, Max would get incapacitated and [[TheSmartGuy Lizzie]], [[TheBigGuy George]], or [[TheChick Ralph]] would have to rescue him. To this day, I still wonder what 4-year-old me saw in the guy. Luckily, I've caught on to my own joke, and Max is now an obnoxious blowhard that [[DeadpanSnarker Lizzie]] is constantly head-aching over. * This troper, in a non-fanfiction example, is ashamed of how she was a whiny, antisocial, deluded brat in middle school. I'd like to go and apologize to all my former classmates, if that wouldn't be extremely awkward. ** Ditto. Although some of them ''deserved'' it. ** Same here. I'd love to retcon myself from age 11 to 15 out of existence. It gives me the shudders to think that all these people who are friending me on Facebook liked who I was then, not who I am now. I've vastly improved (I hope).

*** Relax, being someone's Facebook friend doesn't mean they ever liked you. *** Very much the case - this troper simply rubber-stamps anyone who makes an offer. ** [[Tropers/NeoCrimson This troper]] was like that too in his freshman year of high school because he thought people would find him more interesting is he was a self-loathing, abrasive, [[{{CardCarryingVillain}} Card Carrying]] NietzscheWannabe. He only truly stopped when he realized that he was alienating the very social cycle that a girl he liked was in. He's currently making amends... slowly. ** Though not Middle School, [[Tropers/ShadowStainedSky This troper]] would like to erase the ''elementary school'' years of his life. He was obnoxious, condescending towards all other students (though to be fair, they were a bit like sheep, as some kids are), and even thought of himself as a Greek God who was living since the Mesozoic Era. [[BlackHoleSue And acted as such]]. The "You were just a kid" excuse doesn't come close to making up for that... *** Oh man, [[Tropers/MrGuy This Troper]] knows exactly what you mean. I did get picked on quite a bit, but that doesn't mean I wasn't immature (even for my age) and kind of an asshole. Hell, [[SelfDeprecation I haven't gotten much better]]. *** God, [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] know what that's like. I ''still'' feel like a total prick over stuff I did as far back as elementary school. *** Crap. now I'm scared that i will hate my child self as an adult. ** This troper would dearly like to RetCon her middle school years from existence. Among other things, those were the years when she: was so [[CloudCuckooLander out of it]] that she ''didn't realize she was cheating on a test'' (the teacher passed tests back but she was too busy formulating bad ArtemisFowl fanfiction when he informed the class that some people still needed to finish and so proceeded to loudly discuss answers with the girl sitting next to her); was a total StalkerWithACrush, complete with elaborate and impractical "plans", on this guy that wasn't very nice and quite obviously didn't give a shit; and made up a personal narrative essay in which a guy gets shot by an arrow to the eye and [[YouFailBiologyForever ''spurts blood in my face'']], because she figured nothing from her actual life was worth writing about. As [[TheAtoner penance]], the next time she's assigned a personal narrative, she plans to write about writing that one. ** This troper would absolutely love to forget the majority of her childhood, so I can erase my memories of being a deluded, misogynistic, presumptuous, arrogant, fucked-up thieving whining little brat. And I'd love to get rid of most of my high school years (before last year) too. ** Urrrrrrg, a few years ago when [[Tropers/TacoNinja this one]] was 13-14, she refused to pluck her eyebrows, have her hair cut or wear nice clothes. Now looking back on her old passport photo she swears that she looked like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTC4QVGLg9o this poor lass]] (except I was actually pretty underneath). [[IGotBetter I got better]] (see picture on contributor page). I feel so bad about the whole experience that I just want to go back in time and slap the past-me and tell her to lose some weight and wear clothes other than

men's T-shirts and unflattering trousers. *** I also dabbled in fanfic but I didn't write any of it down. I was heavily into the [[TeenTitans Teen Titans]] cartoon, and I started making up a story in my head before I went to bed. It's been a while but 'll try to relay the story: It was about this extremely [[MartyStu human looking alien]] who was banished from his planet and crashed landed in... whatever city the Teen Titans live in, roughly ten years before they formed. He somehow managed to stay hidden until years later when the Teen Titans were in their 20s. They had broken up for a while (don't ask me why) but had decided to reform. There was this new threat in the form of this guy who made huge robots and was going to level the city for whatever reason. He was also calling out this alien guy so he decided to make himself known by completely one-upping the Teen Titans and destroying the massive robot with psychic powers AND super-strength. The [=TTs=] of course want to know WTF but he snubs them majorly. The same guy ends up crashing into the Titan's Tower after being attacked by little blood-sucking robots. The [=TTs=] look after him for a while until he snubs them again by escaping and going after the robot guy, which he beats down single handedly, oh and the TTs helped, a little. The [=TTs=] ask him to join the team of course, and Raven doesn't trust him. And there was some shit to do with Terra, Slade and a war on his home planet. It was basically full of ripoffs (from Halo, Far Cry, Mewtwo etc), violence, sex, cliches and of course, a Marty Stu. I look back at it fondly sometimes, I was trying hard to create the character's personality and backstory but I'm glad that I didn't write it down. * The first attempt at romance fic. That is all. Years later, am now on ''third'' FFN account, trying to start anew. ** [[{{Tropers/HG131}} Same here]]. Though, I was sane enough to not post it. After a bit more practice and a beta I've posted two fics ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and only two]]), both are femslash BuffyTheVampireSlayer romance fics (one's [=Buffy/Faith=] and one is [=Buffy/Willow=]. Neither are explicit (though the second one is rated M because it gets a bit more graphic), and both are a mix of angst and romance (both involve trauma to the other character and Buffy consoling them, but they are quite different). Plus, the second one has a little funny moment. * This troper recently turned up the draft of a novel she'd been writing at the age of fifteen, and was actually cheered by the fact that she's gotten ''so much'' better since then -- of course, it helps that she's one of exactly two people in the entire world who ever got to see it. * [[Tropers/{{Midna}} My]] first major internet-related work was a sprite comic for a Mario forum that he now visits infrequently (''The Great Tales'') ... and, to tell the truth, it's better off forgotten. The grammar was fine, the backgrounds (except one that was donated and a cheap edit of Starbeans Coffee from '' [[SuperMarioBros Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]] '') were fine, the sprites were fine, but holy heck, the script and "plot". It basically involved [[{{Kirby}} Dark Matter]] blobs (taking the body shape and opposite alignment of the main characters - they were solid black with red, white, or blue eyes, depending on their alignment) wandering around doing nothing in

particular, while the villains acted [[HarmlessVillain harmless]], the neutrals showed up like twice, and the heroes were [[IdiotHero all]] [[RalphWiggum idiots]]. And ''everyone'' had at least one line stolen from anything I admired at the time. Even ''if'' you were into the plot, the impenetrable word balloon order made it impossible to understand what was going on. Did I mention that, near the end, everyone was transported to the world of [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]] 1 for the Game Gear for the sole purpose of showing off that I had found tilesets of Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for the Game Gear? And that it used other peoples' characters ''[[WhatAnIdiot without their permission to do so]]''? I'd delete it from my hard drive, if I wasn't so nostalgic. Scratch that, the abomination has been gone for years now. ** After discovering the horrors of ''{{Sonichu}}'', I've noticed many uncanny connections between the two. They are/were both terrible webcomics that stole dialogue from everything ever created, stole ''characters'' from many other sources, had plots that made no sense at all, and were messy as all heck. The worst part of this? I had an overly large and bloated ego back then and would blow up if any negative criticism came my way (which it did, but not ''nearly'' as soon as it should have). Think about it. ''I [[WhatCouldHaveBeen almost became]] a younger version of [[PsychopathicManchild Christian Weston Chandler]]''. That right there is a ''monilith'' well of HighOctaneNightmareFuel. *** The first time This Troper ever heard of Sonichu, it immediately reminded him of a hybrid Bulbasaur/Pikachu he had called...Pikasaur. Yeah, that's one for the fires... * This troper honestly wishes that she could edit the entire part of her life involving her tween years out of existence. Behaviour at school, craptacular fanfiction... The latter still exists merely because she refuses to make a new ff.n account. * This troper wrote explicit real-person-slash fanfic at 14. And then showed the fic to the person it was about, and the other six teenage boys at that birthday party... Oh gods. * It's not a fanfic, but [[Tropers/AmadeusWindfall this troper]] finds his SonicTheHedgehog OriginalCharacter to be his OldShame, for the simple reason that he used the character's name as his own online name. * This troper draws comics for her college newspaper. After two semesters of making a conventional comedic comic strip, she decided to try something different and began a rather serious, dramatic serial comic about ''talking stray cats''. It only lasted four weeks before this troper realized that it was an absurd idea that wouldn't find an audience at a university. To this troper's horror, two weeks after replacing it with a more traditional college strip, another comic artist started a parody of her strip, claiming to be finishing the story (The main character ended up dying violently from tapeworms). It was actually more hilarious than mortifying however. * Many years ago, this troper wrote a story about a bullied girl who befriends a new student. Said student swoops in to solve all her problems, is extremely pale-skinned, and often mysteriously disappears. When this troper was 11 years old, she thought her story

was good. Now she shudders at the mere thought of it with its uberMarySue ([[HeroesWantRedHeads red-haired]], [[SympatheticSue abused by her sister with no one noticing]], [[ExtremeDoormat meek]] unless it would be "cool" for her to have a [[TsundereSue sudden fit of rage]]...), gaping {{Plot Hole}}s, and the ''[[OurGhostsAreDifferent painfully]]'' [[OurGhostsAreDifferent obvious]] [[TheReveal Reveal]] about the new student. She deleted all files of that story from her computer while averting her eyes from the screen so as to not accidentally read any of it. * [[Tropers/WhiteArchmage This Troper]] keeps all his sketchbooks from his first year of high school due to a somewhat recent "ritual" that whenever he buys a new one, he goes through his old ones to see the change in his style, the ones before the first year were not so lucky; likewise for some of his writings, he's actually glad he had to change computers a year ago. * This troper has a box -- the kind that hold reams of copier paper -literally filled with notebooks of self-insert wish-fulfillment MarySue fanfiction from when she was in middle school, sitting menacingly in her closet in her parents' house. She swears that one day she will either burn it or slip it all quietly into the recycling when her parents aren't likely to see it... although she does wish she could still crank out that much creative stuff that often. * [[Tropers/WildKnight This troper]] never had the good sense to create a new Fanfiction.net account, but after a three-year-or-so hiatus in which I left my "GoldenSun characters doing FinalFantasyVII's script" ScriptFic, my poorly-thought-out attempt to bridge the first two WildArms games, and my BreathOfFire III novelization completely abandoned, I started quietly posting new stories (starting with FinalFantasyIII) and added a note to my profile saying I'd leave the old fics up for anyone who was morbidly interested, but they were all discontinued and I had no interest in ever looking at them myself again. On a similar note, I'd completely swear off ever being in the GoldenSun fandom at ''all'' (having committed offenses related to [[DieForOurShip shipping]], {{Flame War}}s, and being a StopHavingFunGuy) if it wasn't where I met most, if not all, of my online friends... * This troper blithely wrote bloated [[ClicheStorm homages]] to her constantly-shifting fandom-obsessions, and now would earnestly like to forget them. Pages upon pages of hackneyed purple-prose, armies of [[MarySue Sues]], even lines blatantly copied from works she admired. Gag. * While this troper has no examples of his own to share, his sister has a few stories she'd rather not have brought up (specifically humor stories (where she now writes drama) about shows she doesn't watch anymore) This troper's attempt to complement one of her old stories (as he likes humor and still watches said shows) was met with pleads to stop reading them. * This troper was essentially one of those whiny, anime-obsessed, Disney Channel loving preteens maybe a year ago. She also had no sense of humor. It makes her sad. And she also wrote mild porn without knowing it was porn, and was planning to send it in to a publisher. And, oh God, anatomy? It's like she had never looked at a human body

based on her art... * This troper shamelessly spawned multiple MarySue and MartyStu characters inserted into whatever franchise that caught his fancy to [[CanonDefilement "fix them"]]. He looks back now and regrets his actions. ** This troper is extremely pleased that she never wrote down her Mary/Marty Sue fics. She just wrote them in her head, but happens to remember them in pretty good detail (she was able to keep track all the various fics all at the same time, after all). Thank GOD she never wrote them down, or worse, uploaded them. . . * Tropers/{{Yoshmaster}} (Revealing name, not the fanfic name anyhow) wrote a few different fan fictions - all somewhat ashamed of. Now, he probably will take them off, but now has an embarrassingly funny spelling error noticed by the reader, "I'm giving you testes (As opposed to tests) * This Troper (like I would reveal my name) once wrote an {{Angel}}/IronMan FanFic. Where Lorne and Tony sing karaoke and get drunk. Needless to say, this has been purged from... everywhere. ** But... that sounds awesome! *** Yeah, that does! I want to read that now. I don't mind when there's no real point to a fanfic besides to make a situation happen (hell, both my romance fics I've published are one-shots that were shipping and half mental workout). * [[Tropers/JohnZ This Troper]] confesses to the amassed multitudes, right now, that he is deeply sorry for the horrors he inflicted upon the internet while learning the craft of writing. Said violations of the natural order include but are not limited to the cast of FinalFantasy VI [[ScriptFic performing "A Christmas Carol"]], a halfaborted epic poem about FraggleRock, and my crowning shame, two {{Crossover}}s between Final Fantasy VII and SonicTheHedgehog -- which were particularly egregious given the MarySue SelfInsert character... yeah, I ''think'' I've removed them from the web, but you never know. Fortunately, my name's common enough to disavow them if asked. ** On behalf of the amassed multitudes, most of whom have inflicted similar horrors: We forgive you. * This troper's old shame comes from both fanfiction and original fiction. The original fiction consisted of a self-insert Mary Sue character who always saved the world from everything and lived in a pseudo-utopian childlike city. The fanfiction did not have Self Inserts, but did have a Mary Sue. The damage inflicted by the Mary Sue was minimal (she had a romance with an exceedingly minor character seen probably twice in the series). The damage inflicted by the horrific improbable shipping and the badly written battle scenes (it was a Digimon fic)? Extreme, especially considering the fic was finished in one year with 45 chapters. After 300 reviews (and this troper is still getting emails asking for copies of the fic mercifully taken down from fanfiction,net) it was euthanized. ** As an attempt to redeem herself, this troper now is the author of one of the stupidest, lamest characters in the {{Anti-Cliche and MarySue Elimination Society}} (it's probably easy to guess whom "this troper" is now) but still hasn't gotten better; the character while probably not a Sue is standing on a very shaky barrier into becoming

one, and even in the Society there's Old Shame (this troper's entrance fic into the Society was deleted)... * [[Tropers/MrW This troper]] was forced(yes, FORCED) to write a book for an annual [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "write and illustrate your own book contest"]]. Basically, we were given a title and they made us write it. Despite inexplicably getting at least an honorable mention(I believe that's because the entries that din't win were fanfiction), the whole thing is a TERRIBLE story. [[OffModel hideous "illustrations'']], [[UnfortunateImplications unintentional racism]], TotallyRadical dialogue, and just a cancerous heap of mediocrity. Next time I go to the library, I'm gonna get that book and [[KillItWithFire personally burn it]]. * This troper can't even use the "it was fanfic" excuse. She wrote original fiction. Novels. Five of them. That's how long it took her to realize she had no talent as a writer. She still writes some, but refuses to show it to anyone. With good reason. ** I did fan fiction and original fic, and both are painful to look at. Plus, I totally ripped off plots from movies/TV shows/books that I liked at the time. ** Don't feel bad. I've been in your situation, having written some truly terrible shit. And if my fiction was bad, the lyrics I wrote for my high school band (called "Doomed Space Marines") was even worse. I'm just glad my wife will never see any of it, or my original drafts of ''Starbreaker''. * [[Tropers/{{Marc3K}} This Troper]] is glad that his computer's hard disk drive ''burnt'' in 2008 taking with it his first fanfics, including a horrific ER[=/=]{{Halloween}} crossover that hopefully will never resurface in his mind. * This troper is horribly ashamed of her first fanfiction ever. Pokemon, and the main character was a horrible Sue with a Lugia and who was part Suicune and threw energy balls around. And saved the main characters. I've since reworked her somewhat, but I only use her for one roleplay, with someone who won't make fun of the character. * This troper doesn't write fanfiction, but cringes every time she reads any fiction story she wrote before age 15. * [[Tropers/AnthonyMercer This troper]] can't bear to watch [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFdF7jaxDw the first video he ever posted on YouTube]]. You have been warned. * This troper has been keeping journals since she was ''nine years old''. Rereading them sometimes makes me want to burn them, if only I wasn't so sentimental. * To make a long story short: ANYTHING BEFORE MY 16th BIRTHDAY. ** You're not alone. * This troper once wrote a story about ''{{Runescape}}''. ** I started a novel that I wouldn't admit was Runescape. But it was. You even wore a PDA that showed your leveling stats (handwaved with some stupid progression technology) and had a nickname coughcoughusername. I probably wrote no more than a couple hundred words before I abandoned that to write some horrible poetry. * Here we go tropers, it's time for Tropers/AvnasIshtaroth's Old Shame (haven't got a user page yet, but I'm working on it). I have had: [[http://www.freewebs.com/knuxandeliwood/ ONE bad sprite comic]], one

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2711839/1/Outcasts_of_Elibe outrageously abominable Fire Emblem fanfic]] complete with Gary Sues, messing with the canon timeline, etc etc. It also blatantly ripped off a littleknown book series, the Symphony of Ages, in terms of characterisation. I kept it up on FF.Net because I like the way I wrote it in terms of description, and some of the characterisation was good. SOME. I was so ashamed of it I added an explanatory foreword explaining why I hate it so much. I hate the explanatory foreword, it makes me come across as pretentious. * This troper's first fanfic was a retelling of one of her favorite novels set in modern Las Vegas. That's all the detail I'm willing to admit to. * This troper wrote a crappy ''MegamanBattleNetwork'' fanfic with self-insert characters, pointless and irritating references to memes, and a plot that was cobbled together from random ideas. He decided to purge it from Fanfiction.net within a few short months. * This troper wrote a {{DragonballZ}} fanfiction that tore apart the canon, included a 13-year-old MarySue who managed to defeat Frieza and rip not one but two plot elements from {{SailorMoon}}. * This troper started writing her first fics, multi-chapter DannyPhantom fics, when she was 13, and wrote almost nothing but that for one and a half years. This troper took all that fanfic, cluttered with horrible spelling, clich plots, and Mary Sues, offline; and the only remains of it are a well deserved sporking on an LJ sue watch community. She actually thought for a while that the biggest problem was her spelling. Yeah, this troper is glad she learned how to write. * This Troper pretty much wiped out all aspects of her main stories from when she was thirteen and before that. There was also a somewhatrecent incident involving a [[RelationshipSue Relationship Sue]] and a character I found attractive at the time... nevermind that said canon character should have NO ONE paired with them under any circumstances. Cue shuddering... * This one fanfic author Tropers/AcrossTheStars knows of inverts this trope in the most spectacular fashion possible. The author? Thanfiction. The fanfic? [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~thanfiction Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness]]. ** We're not worthy, we're not worthy! ** Of course, the sequels dive headlong into MindScrew territory. But intriguing MindScrew territory. * A somewhat aversion, my first novel I wrote is actually pretty good, everyone likes the idea and the story is relatively sound. The grammar and paragraphing needs work (a LOT of work) but if I would just rewrite, I'd be fine... Except the story needs a LOT of proofreading. Whole chapters need to be rewritten. I look at my spelling and cringe, quite frankly, and would rather it just burnt somewhere quietly... * All right, this troper (Tropers/{{Kayube}}) has wanted to add this to the list for a while, and here it is: His middle-school attempts at TenchiMuyo fanfiction are practically a living list of what not to do with a fan fiction. Inspired somewhat by an earlier dream, it involved the self-insert version of this troper performing a FixFic on the ending of Tenchi in Tokyo ripped straight from ReBoot (specifically, the episode that came on {{Toonami}} right before the Tenchi episode

that inspired the idea), becoming ruler of all Nintendo games, and traipsing about with the Tenchi cast through random video game worlds, while Sakuya became [[SailorMoon Sailor Jurai]] and fought evil alongside Tenchi. And just to top it off, this troper actually went to a fan fiction review site demanding they do a review of this stuff! It was fun to write while it lasted, and it lasted remarkably long, but... wow, it was bad. (Though this troper has been tempted to revisit the basic idea and do it properly this time...) * About twelve years ago, having recently gotten the internet, This Troper fell in love with TenchiMuyo. Despite only having seen the first movie, and despite the fact that the sum of his knowledge about the series consisted of what he had read online, he dared to write a fanfic about it...and poetry. Oh, the poetry. These days, This Troper thinks there ought to be a law preventing anyone under the age of sixteen from writing fanfic, and anyone under the age of thirty from writing poetry. * This troper cringes when she even ''thinks'' about some of the crap she produced, and stupid fanbabble she said, in the early years of her geekdom. * For [[Tropers/{{Cydrius}} This troper]], it's his first forum roleplay experiences based on Xmen. Oh god, the Marty Stus, ooooh god. If anyone from Academy X reads this, on behalf of he who once played Daniel Karnios, Gabriel Karnios, or any related character: I'm seriously sorry you had to endure me. There's also the yiff I've written, but let's not get into that. * Most of the things on [[Tropers/{{Alice2}} this troper's]] YouTube account is OldShame, but people still like it, so she'd feel bad removing it. Some of it has been blocked for copyrighted content, though. One day she logged on to find that a record company claimed the song on one of such videos (heck, they can ''keep it''), and at first she was thrilled to think someone would be blocking her video. Then they told her she could keep it up. * This troper forces himself to post his writing online daily just to make sure he keeps up with it. He already hates his writing, and just knows that if he ever gets anything published then that site is going to become a massive pile of OldShame. At least he can use the excuse that the site's for both first drafts and getting the crap out so he can someday get better. * This troper feels OldShame whenever she remembers her freshman year in highschool (two years ago). She was lazy, didn't turn work in, said stupid and embarassing things, and was a total dork. These days she is a lot better and has learned how to not act weirdly. An ImportantHaircut was also involved. ** Are you me? I did this... right down to the ImportantHaircut. Only it happened before my junior year. * [[Tropers/{{Orihime}} This Troper]] took almost ''all'' her fics from her first fandoms out. She was ''that'' embarrassed for their lack of quality, bad plots, OOC, offensive clichs, etc. She's also glad her old Literature teacher never laughed at her face for the horrendous {{Mary Sue}}s she used to write in highschool and showed her once. GAH! * Anything this troper wrote while in the Naruto fandom; much of her

older [[FullmetalAlchemist FMA]] fanfiction; an original fantasy story she once wrote. Actually, the plot and character ideas weren't bad, but the actual characters were so boring and the writing so bad she's just abandoned every single mention ever of it. Unfortunately, her best friend and sister liked it and still occasionally bug her to finish it. Also, any pixel dolling she did before she learned to use at least three shades whilst shading. -shudder- Messy lines... * [[{{Cliche}} This troper]] started off writing truly awful {{Anvilicious}} MartyStu fanfiction (hence my backlash against {{Anvilicious}}ness more recently) to the point he completely reformatted his Fanfiction.net profile with a new username. I now write comedy/satire, and personal satisfaction along with positive reviews rose as well. In addition, I, like many, started off contributing horribly generic boxes with roofs to the {{Spore}}pedia, but I didn't feel like taking them off as it demonstrates my CharacterDevelopment into making more creative works. Yes, there's an achievement for getting 50 of them on the server regardless of quality, but, er, [[BlatantLies that has nothing to do with anything!]] ** Also, [[{{Cliche}} this troper]] has come here to repent for his participation in TakeThat potholes, and he suspects he's not the only one. * Like many others, I am deeply ashamed of the horrendous, angsty Pokmon fic I once wrote to Fanfiction.Net. (Un)original story and characters, most of them Mary Sues, but the main character was a particularly bad offender. I wrote tons of it too, and drew equally horrendous illustrations to go with the chapters. I realized how much it sucked while I was in the middle of writing it after a while, just stopped, and never logged in with that account again. I feel kind of bad for the one guy who apparently liked the thing. * This troper wrote mass amounts of fanfiction (something like 560,000 words) that qualified quite nicely for FanficChopSuey. She can't bear to throw it out, and has in fact taken out some of the best ideas to try for a very private rewrite; but the original is truly gag-worthy. To give you some idea: She ran her old character through a popular mary-sue test for kicks. The scoring chart listed 50+ as "irredeemable"; her final score was 252. * This troper is horribly, horribly ashamed of her early fanfic. I eventually changed the name of the Fanfiction.net account which held the offending stories, and started a new account with my preferred penname. * [[Tropers/{{Mariko-chan}} This troper]] has an ancient computer in her room. It has the uncompleted final chapter of ''Kingdom Hearts'' when she first found it. It will never be allowed off the computer, because of the Mary Sue she made based off herself. Plus, it was kinda stupid... * This troper has an unfinished fanfic of Beast Boy of the Teen Titans that's still up on Fanfiction.net... ugh... Also this troper wrote an unfinished Ashton/Precis StarOcean2 fanfic years ago on an archaic typewriter his parents owned. Only his siblings ever saw said fic. * [[Tropers/{{Necro the Pirate}} This troper]] had brainstormed, outlined, and written a few chapters about a fanfiction "epic" that,

thinking back on it, was strikingly (and horrifically) similar to Sailor Moon: American Kitsune, minus the racism and homophobia. It involved every character he thought was cool at the time getting their powers siphoned into a God Mode Stu/Author Self Insertion by the enemies of said characters and said Stu running around his favorite shows of the time doing god knows how many stupid things. This troper is very, very sorry. * This troper is grateful to be old enough that her epic Duran Duran self-insert fic was written at a time when the Internet was inaccessible to your average tween and it never went further than her mom's typewriter. * When this troper (unlinked for general embarrassment) was eleven years old, she wrote Pokemon fanfics (and still does). One of her early stories was about a rather odd schoolyard Pokemon battle in which a twelve-year-old boy is using his Charizard and Salamence against another 12-year-old who owns ''two'' Master Balls. Inside those Master Balls? The Legendary gods of space and time, Palkia and Dialga. The Palkia and Dialga then proceed to zap the boy into another dimension where he wakes up as a Pokemon. Risen (his alias) recognizes a guy who passed by them as the boy he fought in that battle - the only problem? He looked older. Fifteen years older. The Chikorita then argues that his name was not Neos but that his name was, in fact, Saturn. Risen didn't enjoy the fact that he was also in the rather villainous group of loonies called Team Galactic, who were planning to [[spoiler: ''summon Dialga and Palkia to blow up the universe'']]. Never got past chapter two (she kept it around, just for kicks). ** Also, I had an inversion about a year later when my writing career took leaps and bounds: While most people are ashamed of their SelfInsert characters, she created one in the first story she cares to remember and has used it in ''almost every story since''. * Oh man, Shaya. My old OC when I was about 13... She had waist-length blue hair, and had a DRAGON. She was also the angsty, beautiful daughter of an equally angsty, beautiful elf. I thought she was AWESOME. Ugh. * Almost everything on this troper's old DeviantArt, as well as her old LiveJournal (which is now all gone -- thank God), her old Youtube, and basically everything she did before her fifteenth birthday [[SubvertedTrope with the exception of]] a fic where she had some of her original characters [[{{Deconstruction}} re-imagine]] ''HighSchoolMusical'' that had some pretty funny parts. Everything other than that one gem, was horrendous. * This troper's first attempt at writing a novel, featuring a rock band who do such rebellious things as smoking and dying their hair black. Nobody ever does anything rock-bandy, playing music or leaving the house for example, because this troper DidNotDoTheResearch and had no intention of doing it. No story whatsoever, save for a KillEmAll ending. It was this troper's pride and joy and she actually showed it to people. This troper cannot look those people in the eye anymore. * This troper(who's almost 18, by the way) would like to snap his fingers and erase almost ALL of his childhood and teenage years up until now out of existence. He has moderately improved since his earlier youth(at least he hopes so).

* I, Tropers/OmegaBlade, have written many things in my childhood that I would look back upon today with disdain. Thankfully I never kept track of it, and as a result it's all been lost to history where it belongs. * [[Tropers/SapphireFlame This troper]] has looked at some of his earlier writings and simply said "was I really that bad?", followed by "What if when I'm older, what I'm writing ''now'' will seem stupid?" "Highlights" of my early childhood up until I starting maturing: ** A hero with vaguely-defined powers I made in my early childhood. I didn't even ''try'' to hide the fact that he was my personal AuthorAvatar MartyStu. Practically 2 out of every 3 stories I wrote when I was a kid was about him, which is a shame since if I wasn't in such of a rut I might have actually done more with my childhood writing "talent". Did I mention that I drew a picture of him using the shape tools on MS Paint? ** A {{Megaman X}} fanfic where X and Zero were [[OvershadowedByAwesome completely overshadowed]] by a stupidly-named MartyStu "created to be the ultimate warrior" with an obscene amount of abilities, with the later addition of some stupidly-named friends of him that at least had merely above-average power. Fortunately, I quit after only a few chapters and never released my self-created horror on the rest of the internet. * My first attempt at my OC, Devon, was weak. His original name was Devlin, he was thin as crap and was some sort of EvilTwin to me. He's gotten better as time went by after two reboots in his origins. Also, if anyone wants, I can remake some of their OldShame fanfics on my DeviantArt account. * This troper was extremely immature on the internet when he was about 15 or 16 years old. One time, he joined a Yu-Gi-Oh! forum and became a ditzy spammer. Now he hangs his head in shame and tries to be TheAtoner towards the community, even though he lost interest in YuGi-Oh! He also once had a BiologicalMashup fursona and he's currently trying to make his old friends forget about it. * This troper, back in my early days, made some truely, truely atrocious mods, most of which were silly and random (Dada Mods?) Only ever released one, but now, I wish I hadn't. I've got better, or at least I hope I have. * This troper would love to retcon her diary from her sophomore year in high school out of existance. She also once trolled a Passions board. Sorry 'bout that guys. * This troper didn't start off writing fics, but [=RPing=] on the WoW forums, which was the same, in ways. One and a half years ago, he enjoyed putting pieces of his one character's background into the various RPs without explaining what they were in the background description. He then decided to write a story on the site about the life of the character, explaining some of these unknown ventures. It involved the main character being an orphan, being (decently) fluent in a language not normally studied by his race at age 17, trying to take on a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything mysterious, rebellious, blackraincoat-wearing organization]], having his arm radically transformed into a demon's, was able to become good friends with his demons without the reprisal of Fel Magic, and obtained the spellbook of a

previously-killed Big Bad, and was able to use it successfully. Oh, and did I mention that he was half-human? Luckily, his computer with the story files was destroyed by a virus, and mass-forum cleaning erased the story. * This troper's had a rather... sordid past in this sense. First, there was a horribly-written SonicTheHedgehog SpriteComic. It didn't last more than a dozen strips, but it was horrible nonetheless. His friend keeps these around just for the sake of embarrassing me with them. Then there was the Sonic ''fanfiction''. Better written, admittedly, and some parts I'll still admit were a great idea, but still something I'm grateful has been lost to the depths of Fanfiction.net. About a year after came the roleplaying. {{Mario}} roleplaying this time, though. The characters used there (two slighly insane, and quite sociopathic, Magikoopas) were actually a lot of fun, and still survive in writing to this day. To a lesser extent, the early days of his CityOfHeroes roleplaying is best left forgotten, but the main character has been salvaged from a serial-killer EvilGenius {{Cloudcuckoolander}} to a slightly odd inventor teetering deliberately on the line between WrenchWench and GadgeteerGenius. * [[Tropers/AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] once had a series of ''CodeLyoko'' fanfic wherein the self-inserts of himself and one of the twelve other people in school who liked the show relentlessly lampshaded their Sueness, exposed the regular cast to our world's Fanfiction.net, and planned to eventually press Franz Hopper for a decade of back alimony. The project was eventually dropped due to its overuse of secondhand ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' gags and the fact that every time I finished a new revision of a chapter, new episodes would pop up and force {{RetCon}}s (as a frame of reference, I started at the end of Season 2, put out three and a half chapters of the Mark I just before Season 3 started, aborted the Mark II three pages in when Season 3 ended, and junked the expository bits of the Mark III from my [=deviantART=] a fourth of the way into Season 4). Currently in DevelopmentHell is its replacement, a crossover with ''DeathNote'' wherein "[[AdultSwim Swimigami]]" Light Yagami recruits our heroes to compete against other Cartoon Network alumni for credibility and/or godhood - with a fated showdown against the worst of the [adult swim] comedy bunch and their creators, of course. * This troper has about ''a hundred and seventy'' (yes, I actually counted) pieces worthy of the title OldShame. All from different fandoms (GundamSEED, SonicTheHedgehog, KingdomHearts, DynastyWarriors, FinalFantasyVII). Three-page (horribly drawn) comics to twenty-sixchaptered FanFic with corny dialogue and [[GrammarNazi misused/misspelled words]], with terrible fanart and two MarySue characters on the side (most of the 170 was terrible fanart, actually). All attempts (read: ALMOST EVERY FANFIC) to [[GenderBender make a male character into a girl]] (so far) resulted in terribly OOC behavior (no one among them is an {{Uke}}, yet I had them [[LuminescentBlush blushing]] and all) and [[StrangledByTheRedString immediate pairing up]] with another guy, despite their canon selves. An example: [[GundamSEEDDestiny Shinn]]/[[GundamSEED Athrun]], both OOC, among others, and with Athrun wearing ''[[ZettaiRyouiki a ZAFT uniform identical to Lunamaria's]]''. Or try [[FinalFantasyVII

Cloud/Vincent]], the latter also [[GenderBender genderbent]], yet unnaturally hyper (read: Yuffie-level hyper). , and yes. [[BrainBleach It hurts so much]]. Thank goodness I never put any of these... ''things'' on the Internet, instead stuffing it all into a box below my desk (complete with [[SchmuckBait content warning]]). Only my cousin knows about it, and she looks like she'll take the same route... (sighs) * [[Tropers/{{Mysterynovelist}} This troper]] always seems to smash her head against the nearest wall when she recalls her first ever fanfiction, which was in the {{Naruto}} fandom. It was about his twin sister... who looked almost ''exactly'' like him. ''And was possessed by a demon''. Needless to say, the term MarySue was not in her vocabulary when she was writing this (she was only what? 10, 11, 12, perhaps?). -smashes head against wall- No matter how many times I do it, it never seems to make me feel better...Oh, and don't get me ''started'' with that KingdomHearts AU I set in the HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi universe; that was NightmareRetardant to the highest degree! ** Or the original story I tried to make in 7th grade using [[{{Expy}} expies]] of characters from ''DigimonFrontier''. This troper's dad says to save it in case I ever find 'inspiration', but man oh ''man'' do I wish I could delete that piece of shit! -smashes head against wall repeatedly -. And ''no'', I am not being [[TheFatalist too hard]] on myself...I can write ''way'' better crap than that now... * Tropers/{{This-guy}}. From 2005. [[http://doubleyou-teeeff.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse on deviantART]]. IGotBetter at about my "PRESS START TO PREVIEW!" phase. ** Note: Click browse, then start at whatever happens to be the last page. * This troper has many old shames from way back in junior high. One was an awful alternate-universe Tekken fanfic about Paul and Nina's teenage daughter (ugh!) who was best friends with Jin Kazama (UGH!) and was in love with Hworang. It then crossed over with Street Fighter and became a [[MarySue Mary Sue-fest]]. Thank god it got wiped from this troper's hard drive before she could put it on fanfiction.net. * This troper, at the age of ten or so, once wrote a fifteen chapter long [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] [[MartyStu marty stu]] original fic starring himself, his cousin and his [[TeamPet grandmother's dog]] as special forces commandos [[RecycledINSPACE in the future]]. * This troper would like to forget about his first attempts at online roleplaying because his characters were Marty Stus before he knew what a Marty Stu was. * [[RedSavant I]] enjoy reading through my old fiction... except for that one drawer in my cabinet filled with "stories" from more than five years ago. ** A subversion, maybe, in that my first online roleplay was an angsty piece of attention-whoring quasifantasy, but it was DAMN fun and I still enjoy reading it. * [[Tropers/{{Griffin}} This troper]] keeps all her old notebooks. She looks back on them and goes o_0 when she realizes how much she ripped off other books she read. She's also written some pretty insane original fiction. One story involved her and a friend ''killing off''

some of their classmates. And it also invovled a bunch of weird mystic stuff. She keeps it for the lulz. ** Additionally, she and a friend once wrote a "novel" that they were going to publish, despit it being pretty darn dumb in some bits and also horribly short. However, she feels it can be redeemed, and is trying to do so. * This troper has written countless drafts for different DeathNote oriented fanfictions all centered around Mello and Matt slash that are pretty freaking terrible, and she can't even bare to look at some of her artwork from last year because it ''literally makes her gag''. Probably due to fact that she showed it to so many people thinking it was good... * Back when this troper was still in high school this troper wrote a story about dinosaurs as back then I was really into dinosaurs, it was however a blatent ripoff of Jurassic Park and Dino Crisis, it really didn't have so much a plot as an excuse to have dinosaurs mauling soldeirs, The characters have no development whatsoever with the exception of the main chracter who was a self insert, and not to mention I got many facts about the Dinosaurs wrong, now this troper wishes to go back in time and beat his past self up for writing this stupid shit, easily the WORST thing I have ever writen. * Tropers/{{Dinru}} is a little ashamed to be talking about this, but... a long time ago, she sat down in front of a composition notebook and she began to write. She wrote about a kitten, named... Dinru (which is where I get my pseudonym, since the name was awesome), who was owned by [[TheLegendOfZelda Princess Ruto]]. Somehow, over the course of the story, [[GodModeSue she became the fourth Golden Goddess of Hyrule]] and created the world of TalesOfSymphonia with them. For some reason. Also, since I had no clue TalesOfPhantasia existed, I decided the [[spoiler:Original joint Tethe'alla and Sylvarant ''and'' the second World Tree]] were called Symphonia. Because titles are ''always'' relative to the video games they name, or so I thought at the time. I will not reveal my age at the time, because it was ashamedly old to not be GenreSavvy enough to realize just how messed up that was. Luckily, not long after was when I discovered the wonders of the Internet... * This troper thanks the heavens that her very first "Fanfic" was for a creative writing course and can never, ever be found again. It was a [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spuffy]] fic, to make the shame even more unbearable. * [[Tropers/{{Fenrir}} This troper]] is going to get it out of the way ''right now''. Everything he's worked on up to the January of 2008 is utter crap and the only reason he keeps it up on fanfiction.net is to remind him of how far he's come. * Ye Gods... [[Tropers/{{Spoony}} This troper]] has always been fairly technically proficient at writing (grammar and spelling were usually fine, even when she was very young), but the stuff she wrote... The first thing she remembers writing was an abysmal ''Pokemon'' fanfic with a blatant MarySue named Tahiri who somehow had a Mew and a magical bracelet that allowed her to transform into any pokemon she wanted... yeah. Luckily this never made it onto the internet, but the others weren't so lucky. There were masses of ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' one-shots

starring Kagami, a white-haired pretty girl who was slightly less of a Sue than Tahiri, but not by much. She was yet another holder of a mysterious "Eighth Millennium Item whooo" and did little more than suck up to Yami. Also during this time she wrote an "original story" that was pretty much a ripoff of ''Kingdom Hearts''. That became a DeadFic pretty fast. But most notable would have to be her long-dead ''HomestarRunner'' fanfic that was DarkerAndEdgier at it's ''worst''. It included such memorable scenes such as Strong Bad beating up Strong Sad with metal gloves, a sex scene that somehow managed to be IkeaErotica ''AND'' TastesLikeDiabetes, and a SongFic finale that involved attempted rape and Strong Sad killing everyone, then himself. In the universe of HOMESTAR EFFING RUNNER. I just hope Mike and Matt never read that one... And yes, the Strong Bad email about fanfiction makes this all the more hilarious. * This troper has one old shame. A not boko from when she was in a bad place in her head. Needless to say it was burned then thrown out. There are also some TheBigO fanfics floating around that aren't shameful in plot, but shameful from the poor writing. * This writer has some stories like that. While I'm trying to become a better writer, I look back and look at some of the stuff I did in the past and realize that it's a lot like the average fanfic. Granted, I have tried to improve them, especially my first, entitled ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3925151/1/Ash_Ketchum_Superman Ash Ketchum: Superman]]'', since the early chapters are not that great, but the later chapters are much more improved. I am not ashamed of the story, I'm just amazed that things are different. In that story, you can tell when things are getting better when the chapters start getting longer. I am ashamed of a story I wrote called "Free Bird", which flat out sucked, and a lame attempt at Space Opera. The Space Opera one had Marty Stu Elves and Gundam knock-offs, while "Free Bird" was a shitty songfic. I don't even consider them worth going back and improving. I am also ashamed at some other stories that I wrote, even my most popular one on FF.net! Primarily because it's too rushed, the characters are unbelievable (in a bad way) and it's not even trying. I even had a baseball story, but I took that down, especially since no one even read it. Of course, I have improved, mostly thanks to Tolkein and Asimov. And Bruce Lee. * This troper had the usual bad fanfiction (mostly script fics featuring bad attempts at humour and a lack of understanding of how to effectively exaggerate a character, not to mention some pretty much stolen ideas), plus a really, really bad comic entitled "Engage Spork Engines" (can you tell I went through a "LOL CHEESE RANDOM!!!1" phase?) that thankfully never saw the light of day and has since been destroyed. I don't even remember it that well, apart from the fact that it was extremely incoherent, really badly drawn (for some reason I tried to draw it as if it was a sprite comic, making the characters look like crappy little sprite things with circles for arms and legs, except when I would suddenly, pointlessly change art style for maybe three strips or so, then change back). Honestly, I sort of wish I didn't tear up all the pages, just so I could see how bad it was... * ... May I? Ugh! This Troper has SO MUCH! How do I begin? When I was around 9 or ten, I made Pokemon Mary Sues, oh so many of them! I made

comics. While it is entertaining to make fun of younger me, I was terrible. Around 11 or 12, I began with fanfiction. I had pretty good grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, but I was terrible at storytelling, had terrible crossover plots, terrible Mary Sues and Marty Stues, and erratic oneshots "for the lulz". I have since created another account which has some things I dislike, but at an acceptable level. I tried to write novels. One was a blatant werewolf rippoff of one book I'd read, one was a Wangst filled book of gay teenage love, the other was a somewhat okay book of lesbian teenage love, and ye gods did I love the Wangst! With both the fanfiction and novels, I attempted (and failed at) rewrites. I have kept all my sketchbooks and have attempted to redraw all my favorite pictures to show my growth... IGotBetter... Anyways, I have a good DA page, adn a bad one. I am now 16 and full of regret. * Oh lord, where to being. There's a reason [[{{Zero}} I]] don't write fanfiction anymore. When I was younger, about 13-14ish, I used to write fanfiction about any anime series I happened to be obsessed with at the time. The problem? Up until that point, I'd never really done any creative writing outside of school work, and for some reason, I had a fixation on writing in a script format. I abused it all, I did AuthorAvatar, MarySue / MartyStu, ugh... I don't even wish to remember. To top that off, when cleaning the pit of doom that is my closet a while back, I found a hellish remnant of a fic I had tried to write. It was a ''Trigun'' / ''DetectiveConan'' / ''InuYasha'' crossover fic, and, to top that hell off, I inserted myself ''as myself'' as the focal love interest, and as a MarySue. Head, meet desk. Time passes, and since ff.net has a policy against script fics, they've all gone the way of the dodo, except one, which wasn't that bad. I tried doing a WWE fic a few years back, but lost all interest when the tag team it focused on split. IGotBetter thought, when I found out I was better suited to doing original literature, and actively join in original character Roleplays, both online and offline. As I've generally stopped caring, you can find my ff.net account [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/442848/Degenerate_Storm here]]. I've since stopped caring. If you wanna see improvement, google my usernames. You're bound to find me near the top of the lists. * [[Tropers/{{Maniette}} This troper]] has an account on DeviantArt. Any of her art prior to 07, maybe 08, is incredibly embarrassing to her. Not the content, gods no, but the quality is epic fail. Especially since most of it was done in MS Paint/Paint.NET. She also holds some stories that are really badly written. Thankfully, both skills have improved massively. * This troper used to play with a friend like we were battling on the ruins of a city, I was bad and [[{{Akira}} always wore a red cape]]. We both shouted and yelled our battle cries, making pedestrians stare like we were young psychopaths. We were the unfortunate outcome of watching Akira at 10. Nowadays, my girlfriend, who just happened to have been an avid watcher, loves reminding me of it. Embarrasses the hell out of me, especially when she asks if I could use psychic powers to throw the governor out and save her job. And she tops it off by giggling the whole way through. I still love that red blanket I used as the cape

** Me and my friend did something similar. When we were about 11 or 12 we used to go to the park with toy lightsabers and play StarWars. I haven't seen that friend in 7 years, but he has always been more grown up than me so he'd probably kill me if I reminded him about that. *** Christ, people, there's NOTHING wrong with kids playing games outside! Why the hell would anyone, ever, be ashamed of it, especially considering that many adults used to do it too, and might even find it cute/amusing? You sound like you need a better self-esteem, to be honest. * If anyone has ever read a KingdomHearts/[[WarriorCats Warriors]] crossover titled "Dive Into The Wild"...Yeah, that was [[{{Quillpaw}} mine]], I apologize. The only reason I haven't taken it down is because my friend likes the references to our roleplay that only she would understand. I've also written a story centering on [[KingdomHearts Axel]] and [[FinalFantasyVII Reno]] swapping bodies that people seem to like despite its horrible writing... * When this troper was ten and waiting for the release of [[HarryPotter the fifth Harry Potter book]], she made up not one, but ''two'' Mary Sues in her head to keep her entertained. One had this troper's name and looked like me; the one thing that prevented her from being a blatant self-insert was the fact that she was a hell of a lot spunkier than I ever was at that age. Also, she knew more advanced magic than the trio combined and set out to make them look like a bunch of brats to defend "poor Draco and Lucius", and when Draco dies for her at one point, she brings him back to life "with love". Think that's bad? It gets worse. My first Mary Sue did not end up with Draco, but my second Sue... dear lord, her name was ''Aphrodite Walker'', she had long hair with one side red and one side blonde, and was in Ravenclaw. ''That'' was the girl Draco fell in love with -- on first sight. Sue A fixed Draco up with Sue B even though Sue B was a half-blood (Lucius was okay with it because, in my immature brain that did not comprehend the symbolism, she at least had one parent who was a wizard). I am sincerely thankful to God I never actually ''wrote'' such a story and post it up on-line. * [[Tropers/InsanityPrelude So I]] started out when I was 11 with a ReBoot fanfic... that was actually a continuation of someone else's. (With permission, at least, and the writer of the original seemed to enjoy it.) Shortly after that, two {{Creatures}} fics that somehow managed to have a Mary Sue in a series with ''only one canon character, who hadn't even been introduced yet''. I annoyed the hell out of the #reboot ops on IRC, ended up having to leave the forum I hung out on after pissing off a bunch of people with my inability to take constructive criticism, and a year later when I was making fun of ''myself'' on the marysues Livejournal community, one of said people came in to bitch at me. I've taken most of my old fic off fanfiction.net by now, and the internet is better off for it. * This guy, who wishes to be unnamed for obvious reasons, wrote a piece online. This piece was badly written, had horrid pacing and it was based around a really really big marty stu. Characters were called in and reinterpreted from their owners at a whim and mostly bastardized. Settings were illogical and so was the plot half the time. it was all based on an MMORPG that I won't name. In the end it

got continued for a bout the worth of 40 or so full pages of material... with a sequel afterwards that had decent planning, more character development and a definitive plot direction. I have never written another mary sue character again, the first one I wrote knocked it all right out of me... * [[Tropers/{{TMOH}} This troper]] is basically an OldShame treadmill. She thinks she's finally matured enough to avoid bad writing and shameless fanbratness, but before she came around to ([[AllGirlsWantBadBoys near]]) sanity, she was responsible for: ** Countless {{Redwall}} [[MarySue Sues]], which are still on ff.net ** Weird, [[{{Wangst}} unnecessarily angsty]] and [[FanGirl fangirlicious]] YuYuHakusho fanfics, under a second (she thinks) ff.net account ** Poorly-executed {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} CrackFic (for which she still has a soft spot) ** Indiscriminate [[{{Slash}} slashing]] of all kinds of {{Crack Pairing}}s from all kinds of fandoms, including the infamous [[{{Discworld}} Carcer/Teatime]] (which she still writes for requestmemes) *** In retrospect she can kind of see ''some'' evolution, and even the worst stuff was still in good English, but she's not going back anytime soon--quasi-OriginalFlavor {{Drabble}} is ''much'' more socially acceptable. * This Troper is known locally as being an excellent poet. However, a large portion of his material was written in his seventh grade english class, where he was required to make poems with very strict guidelines ("It has to be built around this phrase, it has to be exactly like this but with the blanks filled in, it has to be about your most embarrassing childhood memory, etc.), resulting in some poems that this troper absolutely hated, though it really didn't help that people apparently ''like'' some of those poems quite a bit. The worst one however was "The Surreal Sea," a poem this troper wrote because he was asked to write a "surreal" poem and couldn't come up with any ideas. It was a eight-line poem about two letters of the alphabet, one on a raft on a purple ocean, another floating on a cloud and looking down. Even this troper's ''mother'' agreed that it was total garbage... which was why this troper was ''mortified'' when his english teacher passed over quality work in order to send his ''worst poem'' to a local paper, where it was put on the back page. * [[Tropers/AllanAokage This troper]] would apply it to all his fanfiction, ever. He also rigidly applies it to anything that he wrote more then a year ago and quite a few things he's writing now. Or the things that he is doing now, or any acts done in the recent past. I've (probably) pre-empted myself by noting that my currently NietzscheWannabe behaviour as a future Old Shame. Made worse by the fact that his fellow students refuse to allow him to forget it... although I'd probably remind myself fairly quickly. * I experience this in spades. While most of my work probably isn't horrible, I often get dissatisfied with it and have little confidence in it. A "humor" (I use the term loosely) [[CommandAndConquer Red Alert 2]] fanfic I made when I was twelve? Backed out at the last minute, for which I'm forever thankful. My {{Anvilicious}} 1984 ripoff

novella with anti-religious flavor comparable to George Carlin? Mercifully killed by the destruction of the message board I put it on. My SoylentGreen ripoff about the evils of gun control, drug illegalization, and anything that restricts use of a product? Buried and forgotten. My "[[DarkerAndEdgier dark, gritty]]" Pokemon fanfic that poorly explores what happens when the creatures fight humans using conventional weapons? Deleted. Jet Force Gemini parody with subpar jokes? Wiped the day it was posted. StarFox/Robotech crossover? Forgotten, then deleted. The GIJoe-esque first video game I released online? Obliterated from everywhere but my hard drive. My okay-ish zombie survival game with a bad case of XenSyndrome? I rarely mention it and never link people to it. This leaves the one and only work I was ever satisfied with: A ShootEmUp which, tragically, got stuck in DevelopmentHell and never saw the light of day. * This [[Tropers/ShyriaDracnoir troper]] has some not so fond memories of her earliest work (which only got worse after discovering this site). The artwork was terrible, and the character backgrounds (especially for her OC) had a bad habit of falling under the more [[RunningGag egregious]] CommonMarySueTraits. To the point where the largest gallery on my DA page is the "Total Crap". I've sworn that, once I have a larger body of recent work completed, I'm going to delete them for good. * This troper's old shame has extended to roleplaying. My first time roleplaying was on a now-defunct MUD where I pretended to be a set of HalfIdenticalTwins. No, I didn't play them. I actually pretended to be two people, a plucky girl and a sassy, snarky boy. Later, I progressed up a level... to Neopets boards. My first forum RPG was playing a terribly tragic, DracoInLeatherPants [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Pegasus]]; my next forum, a private academy for filthy rich teenagers who look like models. Unfortunately, even if the usernames have changed, the basic email address hasn't. * This feline at heart troper looked at all of her stories of a Darigan Eyrie Girl being paired up with a Jughead Expy, and was disgusted by them. She did notice that her character [=ToRi=] is based off of the darigan eyrie girl. Not that I mind, [=ToRi's=] better then what she's based off of. (Darn links. >.<;) * This Troper Once wrote an AvatarTheLastAirbender fic that was Pretty much a rip off of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3464044/1/An_bAirWHAT_b This]]when she was just started writing fanfiction.The difference? She didn't realize it was a parody back then,and so her version as totally serious. Her current Project might end up being this as she spent [[DevelopmentHell 4 years]] working on it before actually posting it in an attempt to avert this trope. * Ugh... there are few memories that I have that aren't paired with regret. * It pains [[Tropers/AgentAlpha this troper]] to say that he wrote well over a thousand pages worth of ''StarWars'' fan fiction back in high school. To give you an idea, there were three ''novels'' and maybe ten or twelve short stories that followed it. They centered around his [[MarySue Marty Sue]] of a main character: ''Beren Teleriand'', a Jedi Knight from Naboo who could summon an army of

clones at will, outperform Luke Skywalker himself in debates on the weightier issues of the Force, was stronger than Yoda in Force potential, and found a way for any personal tragedy of his to be deeply felt by the main cast, who were basically a Greek chorus to Our Hero's innate awesomeness. Also, his LoveInterest was a blatant ripoff of Arwen from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' (who had the same name, it must be admitted), and storylines were more often than not cheap imitations of higher-quality scenes from movies and shows like ''TheLordOfTheRings'', ''{{Gladiator}}'', ''TheWestWing'', and ''{{Gettysburg}}''--only with ''Star Wars'' locales and technologies substituting the poorly disguised plots. It is a small modicum of comfort to this troper that he long ago deleted all those stories and finds his current original work to be a path to redemption. * This Troper's {{DeviantArt}} page, which she is still very much active on, was created six years ago. She ''really'' wishes she switched accounts a few years ago, as she cringes to remember it's the ''same'' account she once used to post self-insert [[TheMatrix Matrix]] Sues (with the original characters traced over on MSPaint. [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} Seriously]].), as well as whine on the forums about how some of the site's rules were not fair, the admins were "mean", and having subscription features is "greedy" of the site because everything should be free. To make matters worse, the screenname itself is the name of her [[SarcasmMode oh-so-original]] ''{{Invader Zim}}'' fancharacter. * This Troper's mother always asks why she's never allowed to read her writing. The reason? ''Shame''. This Troper, in third grade, did two unforgivable things. First, she wrote a ''65-page'' fanfic that essentially canon-raped ''{{Redwall}}'', and second, she wrote a 13page... ''thing'' that was a ''{{Pokemon}}''[=/=]''Yu-Gi-Oh'' crossover with a shapeshifting MarySue o'Doom. She turned both of these in. As for a more recent example, she wrote a Yu-Gi-Oh GX crackfic (on purpose) that ended up being mostly horrible with a few recognizable moments of brilliance. Thankfully, her recent writings are much better... with the lone exception of that one DeathNote fanfic that she hasn't deleted off her ff.net solely because she can't get up the guts to go anywhere near the thing. This troper has learned her lesson: she cannot write angstfic. It does not work. * This troper loves reading through her old fanfics, even if they are cringe-worthy at times. [[http://www.serebiiforums.com/showpost.php?p=10155090&postcount=11 Here, I'll even be brave enough to link a post from a thread about old shame with a Pokemon fic I wrote]]. * This troper wrote a terrible, terrible SonicTheHedgehog fanfic at the age of... 11 or 12 or somewhere around that. How bad was it? [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} Extremely bad]]. Thank goodness he never got around to releasing it online. ** To sum it up, Sonic just kind of bought himself a huge mansion. Because... well, why not? Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Shadow and an awful fan character all moved in with him, for some reason. Said fan character was Shadow's (yes, really) long lost brother. He looked exactly the same, except (here's a shocker) he had gold stripes instead of red ones. A potential MarySue, though he got barely any

screentime. So, basically, they have to go BeyondTheImpossible and defeat Eggman, who has teamed up with Ultimate, a really, really evil guy. Lots and lots of DeusExMachina ensues. ** Another of my Sonic fan fic crimes was a [[AuthorAvatar selfinsert]] story that could be summed up in six words: "Look at me. I am great." ** And that's going without mentioning an equally awful fanfic where Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow tour the world. The lesser said about that one, the better. * This troper is quite ashamed, in hindsight, of a TinyToonAdventures ripoff of the StarTrekTNG pilot he once wrote, regardless of how many people told him how great it was at the time. ** That actually sounds pretty amusing. * This troper would really like to erase everything about her life between the years 1999 and 2003 from her memory bank so she doesn't keep referring back to it. These years of my life were a fucking nightmare. Also, my early DBZ fanfictions. My first of such may not be all ''that'' bad, though. Basically, the [[SailorMoon Sailor Senshi]] and the [[DragonballZ Z Fighters]] teaming up... to kill [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. I was 12. * Pretty much anything [[Tropers/GalenDev This Troper]] wrote prior to graduating from High School has been tracked down and [[KillItWithFire systematically]] [[MoreDakka annihilated]]. * I am lucky, none of the 4 Fanfics I'm working on (I get writers block often and try to get a start on any good ideas I get before they fade away into my mind's trash bin) are horrible enough make me regret writing them (my worst would be a MetalGearSolid 3 fic that I ended up losing when I got a new computer, which was my first fic). I should note, however, that I'm kind of disappointed how my novel is turning out. It started off good, but, due to my attempts to avoid PurpleProse and running out of filler, ended up 20 (somewhat short) chapters long forcing me to practically improvise a 2nd part (I should be able to fix it though). * The worst thing I ever wrote? I didn't care a thing about characterization. I just gave generic lines to random characters who hadn't said anything in the chapter yet. The plot was horribly cobbled together. The crossover made no sense and just mashed random popular series together for no good reason (including making every reasonably athletic character -- and those who had never shown a sign of being athletic, [[UnfortunateImplications but looked kind of manly, and that was good enough for me]] -- suddenly play soccer so they would all be at the same game, and making teenagers, adults and little kids the same age, also for this purpose). The [[GratuitousJapanese fangirl Japanese]] was everywhere. I had no idea what to do with the plot and just asked my friends for suggestions as I went. The worst thing about it: you know when you get some random preteen fangirl review your story and she asks you to put her all-powerful MarySue in there? I actually obliged. * This troper is so dissatisfied with his writing that he frequently considers things he wrote mere days or weeks ago to be OldShame. Anything older than about a year should be put to the torch for the sake of everyone's sanity, and his dignity. Unfortunately, his daily

writing blog goes back about three years, now... (Slight) hyperbole aside, pretty much anything from before college is just horrible, and there's an old Elfwood account out there that needs to be scrubbed clean. * This troper flatly refuses to acknowledge most of what she wrote before the age of about sixteen, since it's some of the most overblown purple prose she's ever run across combined with Mary Sues and Deus Ex Machinas. *shiver* * [[Tropers/JewelyJ This Troper]] cringes at her old FanFiction for ''TheSecretOfNIMH''. Block writing, [=OOCness=] and pure stupidity abounds. and she's ashamed at how she butchered a perfectly good story plot with bad writing improbable characterization a potential SelfInsert among other writing no-nos (is rewriting it because she is in love with the plot but hated the way she did it. * Starting on a summer night eleven years ago, [[Tropers/CRBWildcat this troper]] wrote a set of Sailor Moon fanfics. The stories had placed the Scouts (before he knew where the Senshi originated) in his home state of Michigan, and had them fighting against he and a group of mutant cat people in various locations around the United States. After both sides reach an understanding, they fight against the [[CommandAndConquer Brotherhood of Nod]] and succeed in halting the spread of tiberium. Later in the series, since he didn't have any knowledge of the Outer Senshi, he ended up creating a different batch of characters for Sailor Saturn and beyond. These were the first fanfics he ever wrote, and while he won't delete them from his computer (yeah, he's sentimental) he is also much too ashamed of them to post them on the Internet, not even for {{MST}} bait. They show an utter disregard for the characters' respect and dignity (giving Sailors Jupiter and Venus different civilian names due to not understanding what they were, for instance), depicts a Self-Insert who is a borderline MartyStu, places the story in '''Michigan''', for crying out loud... I'm sorry, I can't go on. * Ah, the crappy old days when I first wrote fan fiction. Such gems as a retelling of the Star Wars Trilogy nearly verbatim with the only difference being Jar Jar in the background reflecting on how this relates to the past. A Pokemon story wherein Giovanni monologues about the nature of life, love, and death while characters commit suicide in the background. A Simpsons story, despite the fact that I'd never watched more than two episodes. A Kingdom Hearts story (you guessed it - never played the game either) which ends with a literal DeusExMachina when our heroes are saved when ''God shows up and kills Chernabog''. Sigh. Luckily, they were all purged years ago and I have actually improved as a writer somewhat. I even wrote a story that ended up in this site's fanfic recs (which one? Ah, but that would be telling) * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has quite a few stories that fell under Old Shame, especially from what he considers his "early years" of writing (2000-2003); The most notible example being a crossover between CardCaptorSakura and {{Rugrats}}, which had a paperthin plot, terrible spelling, poor narration, and plenty of wasted potential. Even though the cast of his more recent series of stories (Written from 2005-present) did have a {{Mary Sue}} or two, he still

considers it an improvement over his earlier work in the fact he better narrated what was going on. However, he still writes in a script format, mainly for legacy purposes. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] inverts this trope in quite a fashion. His first attempt at [=RP=]'ing was described as "amazing". His first fan fiction (''[[TroperWorks/TwilightValley Twilight Valley]]'') was ''very'' well received. His first writing for a college level creative writing class blew everyone away including the ''professor''. Of course, he does have some shitastic writing: ** A bizarre story that takes the concept of a DragonRider and transplants it to modern day [[TheBigAppleSauce New York City]]. It was in the format of a journal and chronicled the life of a [=NYPD=] dragon (who served as a mount for the mounted police). The Troper himself is literally the only person on earth to have ''ever'' seen it. ** A piece of writing that was demanded by the creative writing professor. It was all dialogue and it sucked big time. So bad that the Troper ''himself'' flat out ''refused'' to read it aloud. * Though it's already on the main page, the example about [[SurvivalOfTheFittest Liam Black]] might as well go here. It's amazing how much I screwed up in hindsight. * [[Tropers/ShadowAI This Troper's]] first attempt at {{FanFiction}} was a {{Self Insert}} {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}} that involved one of the main characters from square's obscure game {{Live A Live}} bringing together all of the Protagonists to fight in, of all things, a [[GGundam Gundam Fight]]. Not to mention the person who facilitates this is an {{Author Avatar}} who is a [[DragonballZ Sayian]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot who happens to have a]] [[{{Gundam}} gundam]] [[CombiningMecha that fuses with his]] [[{{Zoids}} Zoid]] of all things. The story is [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]] and the only reason it is permitted to exist is to remind us that just because you think something is a good idea, doesn't mean it necessarily is. * This troper once wrote a story. It was about a magical fairy girl named [[MarySue Eternia]] who was magically whisked away to New York City and sent to live with a non-magical ([[OrIsIt or is he?]]) boy named Joshua. They * instantly* fell in love. Did I mention that Eternia's eyes were, and I quote, "sparkling violet orbs"? * Headdesk. Headdesk. Headdesk* ** Can we hear more of that? *** ... Really? Are you sure? Okay, I guess... So. Eternia and Joshua were in their last year of high school (which I was several years away from, and thus knew nothing about), and Eternia was great at everything, including getting the lead role in the school play. Joshua was jealous of the guy she played the love interest for, and became more despondent that she didn't notice him. And after that point, after looking over the story again, I realized that it actually got... ''good''. Eternia's character changes to less of a Sue and more of a naive but headstrong girl who just tries to survive in a place she is unfamiliar with, since her home is basically a fairy-tale land. Joshua is revealed to be half-fairy ("fay" in context), and becomes less of a jealous teenage jerk and more of a DeadpanSnarker (both of these

changes were closer to the characters I had in mind when I first wrote the story). Then, Joshua's sister is revealed to be possessed by a demon, and Eternia, Joshua, and his little brother have to go back to Eternia's home to find a spellbook that can reverse the possession; they get back, Eternia casts the spell... and that's the point where I stopped writing. Said point was also when I realized that ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' was ''not'' the best thing since sliced bread, and that love stories about perfect girls were not my forte. One of the best decisions of my life, quite frankly. * [[Tropers/{{Arcadiarika}} This troper]] once wrote a crapload of fanfics, but they were in a couple of "series." The first series, "The Ultimate Warriors" (I think, and no, it has nothing to do with the guy who uses "destrucity" and "foked," in case you're wondering), was a {{Darker And Edgier}} way of writing a new ''{{Power Rangers}}'' series, and then it turned into a full-blown crossover. With a Power Ranger as a relative of several {{Marty Stu}} ones. And it had several real celebrities (game show people). The second was a ''Power Rangers'' "parody" called ''Power Rangers: World Saviors'', which was supposed to be the series' answer to ''Cho Ninja Tai Inazuma'', the ''{{Super Sentai}}'' parody. It fully invoked {{Comic Book Fantasy Casting}}, but this version of Damien was a bigger Marty Stu than his final Arcadian Legends form. And he was a coward. Both series ended up as [[DeadFic dead fics]], but some good came out of them--most of the characters from PR:WS were in ''The Arcadian Legends'' (with new character Charlie Anderson), and Miryuko was created in "The Ultimate Warriors," so I decided to bring him to the eventual series (giving him a new name: Dark Emperor Miryuko) and overhauled his entire appearance. And that's not getting into the other fanfics I wrote as a kid that were also crap... * This troper cringes when she remembers her early fanfics/attempts at original fiction (i.e., everything before early 2009). Highlights include (in rough chronological order): ** A HarryPotter fic involving a clumsily [[HandWave handwaved]] halfdragon RelationshipSue, whose only purpose was to seduce Harry in five minutes and promptly commit suicide over a misunderstanding. Moreover, she had green skin and hair and her name was Darcona. Which This Troper had taken from a ''typo'' made by her writing teacher. Thankfully, the site hosting this has now been purged. ** An original story involving a vampiric SympatheticSue, whose VictoriousChildhoodFriend had randomly chosen to murder her the night before the wedding. No, there was absolutely no hint that he would do this, and This Troper still has no idea why ''her character'' chose to do such a thing. Plot holes abounded, and the PurpleProse that the first-person narrator loved to engage in made the whole thing mostlyunreadable. To top it off, the title was ''So Fades The Lovely Betrayed Rose''. Note that This Troper, at the time, thought this was good. ** Another ''HarryPotter'' fic, written for the same class, inventively titled ''Harry Potter and the Final Battle''. Unbelievable coincidences, in-text author's notes, and heavy anime influence ran amok over what, in its essence, wasn't ''technically'' a terrible plot (albeit a generic one).

** A never-finished SailorMoon fic, in which a trio of {{Villain Sue}}s stole the spotlight, used GratuitousJapanese at every opportunity, and killed innocents. Suffered from confusing plotting, RonTheDeathEater (regarding the original Queen Serenity), and MoodWhiplash, not to mention YouKeepUsingThatWord in regards to the name of one of the new senshi. ** A confused mishmash of HarryPotter AU and original story, in which groups of fictional villains competed in a Big Brother-like reality show, hampered only slightly by the fact that This Troper had never seen a reality show. Highlights included a talking hamster, an extremely out-of-character [[HarryPotter Voldemort]], a BigLippedAlligatorMoment involving an evil microwave, and nuclear annihilation of the mansion. This one was, in comparison, not actually that bad, and some moments were pretty funny. In fact, it paled in comparison to the next and worst two. ** Yet ''another'' HarryPotter fic, in which a cliche plot was retreaded, [[AxCrazy Bellatrix Lestrange]] got the DracoInLeatherPants treatment, and Ginny inexplicably went crazy. ** A quickly abandoned pseudo-epic HarryPotter fic, this time featuring [[DracoInLeatherPants Bella In Leather Corsets]]. The existence of a plot was debatable, PurpleProse made the narration almost unreadable, and OCStandIn Rabastan Lestrange was rapidly elevated to SympatheticSue (and then BlackHoleSue) status by virtue of being, in this troper's imagination alone, a NietzscheWannabe ManipulativeBastard. Looking back, this was somewhat inexplicable and serves as a warning: when the main character, ''herself'' a dubious VillainSue reinterpretation of a canon character, is eclipsed by an even [[BeyondTheImpossible worse]] VillainSue, it's time to put down the keyboard. Strangely, this one (which is still posted on my Fanfiction.net account) is far more popular than my better current fanfic, which features most of the same characters but treats them satirically. Hmm... * This troper shudders when he looks back. His first ever fiction was poorly written. Handwritten. ON PLAIN PAPER. NO LINES. Also, my handwriting is absolutely terrible, so even I couldn't read it. But the plot itself was worse. Basically- Brains. Aliens that are brains with hands, feet and eyes invade earth for no reason, then I pull a switch which somehow gets rid of them all. Then there was my fanfiction, which all started out relatively light-hearted but usually turned dark before the second chapter. For example- Kirby Fanfic! Kirby defeats Metaknight, but gets caught in some kind of trap and teleported to another planet, covered in Kirbys, with each one having a power on all of the time! Kirby makes friends with Fire, Beam and Stone, and with their help defeats Whispy woods yet again and celebrates! and then finds out that Metaknight is the ruler of the planet, who orders that everyone on it kill Kirb- Wait what where did the happy go. * This Troper must be a NightmareFetishist. Every once in a while, I go back to my old writing (The stuff from middle school is the worst... anything after that still seems decent, and anything before it is kind of quaint) and read it all, remembering how I thought it was awesome. In an interesting way this trope works, for my current

(original) story I'm going to have to include a passable sex scene. So I've been practicing... the thing about sex scenes is that for me they IMMEDIATELY become OldShame. I recently wrote one I could go back and read without wincing. Go me! * This Troper's fanfiction prior to the age of 13. (Which included {{Pokemon}}, KingdomHearts, LegendofZelda, and HarryPotter) She's gotten much better since then, but she still considers anything she's currently not working on an OldShame. ** On a similar note, This Troper's old drawings. Upon discovering her old sketchbooks from seventh grade and looking through them, she felt the urge to [[KillItWithFire burn them all]]. At least it's easy to see how much I've [[ArtEvolution improved]] over three years. * Both played straight and averted by this troper. Most of the fanfiction I wrote was fairly decent, and I even go back to read it sometimes. On the other hand, I've also made a Flash rip-off of Quest for Camelot. The less said about it, the better. * '''Everything I have ever written from 2004 to 2007'''. Some recent stuff too: I've made a couple Windows Movie Maker humour videos that were filled with unfunny and predictable memes (Ooh, Rick Roll, so funny and exciting!) in 2008. * [[Tropers/{{flarp22}} This troper]] once tried doing a few let's plays (some you may find on viddler, and others in screenshot format I'm not linking to). The contents? A SMW Rom-hack, a blatant rip-off of a much better LP (MegaMan 2), various games I didn't finish due to suckitude/laziness, and very infrequent updates. I also have fanfiction NOT on fanfiction.net that I'm also not linking to due to the sheer crap in them. This trope also applies to most of my older youtube videos. * So very guilty. My first real attempt at FanFic was a terriblly written and horribly unfinished ''{{Inuyasha}}'' fic, followed soon by not one, but TWO Mary Sue self-insert Sailor Moon fics. Added to a few early chapters of a Gundam Wing fan fic that progressively got better, and you have my old shames in a nutshell. * This Troper, while just out of the tween years and still working on escaping middle school, is so glad that none of her fanfictions were ever halfway towards decently popular. (The, by now deleted, 'stories' would include a Mary-Sue, self insert, as well as blatanly ripping off another FanFic. * Tropers/ShayGuy: My lame ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' pseudo-self-insert is thankfully nowhere to be found and was never posted online, but some pretty cruddy/pointless stuff is still out there. I currently have a ''fear'' of this as part of my broader fear of Doing Things Wrong, which hasn't helped progress on any of my writing projects. (I've played with the idea of writing stuff I don't care about the quality of, but {{NaNoWriMo}} didn't help much.) Not to mention the fact that I apparently had no taste in ''others''' media for much of my life (and occasionally ''still'' have trouble spotting turds). * This troper has, in the past, partially written a bizarre {{Tenchu}} fanfiction, some god-awfully deriviative fantasy, and created a Sonic The Hedgehog OC who was just a Tails recolour with a tail lopped off who later developed into a full-blown {{Mary Sue}} with his own little [[MarySuetopia extra-dimensional empire]] ([[AuthorTract that was

rooted in liberalism]], [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny whilst also ]][[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans being ]][[WellIntentionedExtremist bizarrely ]][[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope totalarian]]). Looking back, I'm glad I grew out of that last phase. * This troper is physically incapable of making herself read some of her earlier works, despite the fact that they are, by all accounts, reasonably well-written and lacking errors. They're just so... so ''shallow'' and ''insipid'' and ''blatantly written by a girl who's never had a meaningful relationship and sat firmly on the light side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism''... * This troper never wrote much in his life; most of the stuff I imagine I simply keep for myself, specially nowadays (altough I do plan on putting some of them on paper, eventually). However, back when I was a young 11 years old boy and was in love with the Harry Potter books, I wrote something... something so vile and horrible that even at that age I had enough conscience to stop writting it before reaching the third chapter... it was a crossover... a crossover between Harry Potter... and Aliens. Yes. THOSE ''Film/{{Alien}}''''s''. ''Argh''. * I used to make games when I was 13/14. Well, I only ever actually finished two. They were supposed to be parodies of SonicTheHedgehog but in practice they really just a lame mash of platformers I liked with the story stolen from Sonic games topped with really juvenile humor. Occasionally I do a Google search for my old Freewebs site containing it just to make sure it's buried so far in the rankings that no one will find it. * This troper has two seriously old shames in the form of fanfiction. ** The first of these, is a now not on the internet Yu-gi-oh/Totally Spies/Power Rangers crossover with a Marty Sue self insert and Mary Sue self insert of my sister, who both had an extra Millenium item each. And thats before the Justice League rip off that comprised of Megaman.EXE characters... and others who I can't remember, and then there was a crossover with GX to add NINJA RANGERS (Given that an extra ranger had been added already along with both Green and White Rangers). Unless someone else has put it up, this thing only exists on my old virus ridden CPU now. ** My second fanfiction which is still up on my fanfiction.net account is Empower the Cybeasts, a crossover between MEgaman Battle Network 6 (Cybeasts only)... and Legend of the Dragon. There is a reason it hasn't been updated since 2008. If you want to take a look at it my username is Kamen Rider Leonite. ** I also used to RP on a borad, where my character ended up becoming a shapeshifter who could turn into digimon and had an amazoness girlfriend. In a fantasy setting where my guy was originally a werewolf. I'd like to apoligise to that board for the problems I caused. * This troper's first ever fanfiction was never published online and was written in a beat up old notebook over maybe a month or so. That notebook may still exist somewhere in the far reaches of this tropers's closet, but as long as she can help it, it will NEVER again see the light of day. My second and third fanfics also count, although they ARE online. Really, everything before 2008 that wasn't a oneshot

counts...actually yeah, the oneshots count too. Also if this troper had ever gotten around to writing that DeathNote / {{Labyrinth}} / OuranHighSchoolHostClub / AvatarTheLastAirbender / {{Bleach}} / {{Marvel}} / CodeGeass / {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} / SailorMoon / DragonBallZ / HouseMD crossover, it inevitably would've become this. * This troper used to have lots of Sonic recolors, all of which had no personality and all were huge Mary Sues. Even worse, I was inspired by the terrible sh*** called Bludshot the Hedgehog. * This troper has a laundry list of old shames full of poor writing, lack of plot, questionable characterizations. The only one that she actually liked was this one pretty AU Digimon fic w/ Sokeru...and yet that one was the only one of her fanfics that was deleted on FF.net. But anyways, the ONE fanfic that she calls her old shame above all else was the hastily poorly written IRL fanfic of her two completely straight best guy friends. Yes, this troper actually wrote a fanfic about her [[HoYay two best guy friends]] together like that...and featured the guy she liked and her as a BetaCouple. It was really just a running joke between three of my friends and I but another friend found out and decided to [[WithFriendsLikeThese tell everybody]] about it. Needless to say it caused a lot of strain on a few friendships but thankfully with a lot of apologies and a summer of separation, things got better. The better of my two friends (who was dating my sister at the time) did admit it was written pretty well after he stopped being mad about it. * In the depths of this troper's computer, there is a story written entirely in papyrus, and another in ''eye-searing red''. And yes, this is indicative of the quality. She also wrote a very lengthy Star Wars fanfic that completely butchered just about every character and some delightfully cliched romances. * As a subversion, [[Tropers/{{Ororo}} This troper]] isn't ashamed to admit that he's rather proud of the first story he ever posted on Fanfiction.net (however, he would like to eventually go back and do a rewrite of it). However, his earlier works, which are still lingering somewhere in the depths of Quizilla, are a completely different matter entirely. * [[Tropers/KKSlider This Troper]], in a [[PerverseSexualLust PSL]]induced craze (for Dark Magician Girl, for those morbidly curious), has written several writing assignments as SelfInsert MagicalGirlfriend fics starring me and her. I also kept a journal consisting of journal-style letters to Sasami in PrettySammy. He also has related cosplay old shame (as Dark Magician) that was photographed and PUT IN THE FREAKIN' YEARBOOK. Did I mention this all happened in the 4[[superscript:th]] GRADE? * I had quite a few Mary Sues when I was younger. Fortunately, I never posted them as fanfiction. * This troper used to start a few flamewars on newsgroups/forums. Fortunately, those are all gone as the ISP killed those services. * I have a bunch of notebooks containing an old, badly-written MarySue-centric fic, as well as some old [[FanVid AMVs]] with crappy editing. I was in fifth grade, okay? * [[{{Etheru}} This Troper]] looks back at the time he complained about the Autism joke on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses ItJustBugsMe page, as a

really, ''really'' stupid decision on my part. I really shouldn't have had any problem with the joke, although there is still some distaste to Doug's comment, I think I should have kept it to myself. * Back in 2006, I decided to write a Naruto/Fire Emblem Crossover fic. Not only was it in script format at first, but I wrote an Out of Character moment for Soren (Having him demolish a tree Naruto was in out of annoyance), and tried to unsuccessfully splice the Naruto characters in the game plot, despite the fact that you would have to majorly change aspects to make it fit properly. Plus I could not write action scenes to save my life. Now all this would have been bad enough... If I didn't post it on the GameFAQS Fire Emblem board and later the Naruto board. It got two chapters before I pulled the plug. My second attempt at a fic, A MegaCrossover based on Super Smash Bros Brawl's adventure mode is something I consider to be decent, but ultimately let down by my inability to cope with the sheer scope of the story. I still like my draft of the third preview chapter, even if the character writing is wonky. * Just hear this: [[IHaveThisFriend a certain person]] decided to write a fic about an anime that she never wanted to saw. What happened? [[YuYuHakusho Kuronue, a minor character]] gets a primary rol because [[AuthorAppeal the author has a crush on him]]. And that's not it! He gets a [[RelationshipSue dead sister and two little nieces who happen to be twins]]. And he has to take care of them by becoming a [[FlatCharacter flat dad]]!! Oh, but the twist is...the father of the girls is an invented major villiain who, also, has been helding prisoner...[[SeriousBusiness a third sister]]!! AAND...the plot was beetwen knowing that third sister existed, saving her, living a Sue life and making Kuronue (who is a crow in the canon)get over his now invented fear of flying while everything is happening!! And I have more bull like this, but those are other tales...[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Assuming I wrote that bull while I was 12 years old, was that stupid and my friends forced me to get in the fandom of the anime, wich I didn't!!]] * Wanna see one of the worst things I ever drew? [[http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/8859/karithecatandphoenix.jpg I can't even stand to look at it]]. It was a Sonic fancharacter I made as a kid. I still draw the character, but she has absolutely nothing to do with Sonic these days (as I despise the series and the whole idea of fancharacters), and I scrapped the chao. Not to mention I changed her color scheme to be not completely assy, made her look unrelated to anything Sonic, and gave her hair. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of that on my Imageshack. * This troper has a huge file of fanfiction in her computer which was thankfully never unleashed onto the internet. Her works include Mary Sues, character derailment, bad writing, and ungodly amounts of purple prose. Inverted with her first [=AMVs=] made however, while by no means anything that great or spectacular, she's still rather proud of what she created at the time with little to no experience. * I used to cry about a lot of things (I'm a guy, by the way) even into my early teens. Getting a shot? Cue the water works. Bad day? Boo hoo. Twist my ankle? Get me a tissue. Luckily I've gone to the polar opposite side of that now (it takes something huge to get me to shed a

tear), but the fact that things that barely cause me to swear once caused me to bawl is something I wish I could just erase. ** Christ, I was the same way. (Also a guy.) It's embarrassing as all hell. * The original draft of my 1st original story is like this. The main characters were all Mary Sues, the plot was cliched as hell and ran mostly on contrived coincidence, there was next to no introduction before the action began. To sum it up, it sucked. After looking through it a bit I changed the characters to be more flawed, the plot got less cliched (I left some in but lampshaded them), I worked the coincidences into the story so they actually make sense, and I added a decent intro. * This page is making this troper very, '''''very''''' grateful that none of her own early fanfic ideas ever came to fruition. * This troper once wrote AND finished a SailorMoon/ DragonBallZ/ {{Pokemon}}/{{Kirby}} Crossover comedy/horror fanfic set in a nondescript desert, living together in a house and avoiding a weird ghost. Yes, it's as bad as the description makes it to be. The fic is still out there somewhere on the internet, but I'd rather not even look for it. Also, I started a [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]] fic... around early 2005, way before the game came out. I never finished it. * This troper, to her eternal shame, wrote Harry Potter rip-offs in 2nd grade. And most of her work was terrible and incoherent up until 5th grade or so. Except for the Tsubasa fic she wrote in 7th grade that attempted to be a Tsubasa/+ Anima/Lord of the Rings crossover. Though lots of her old stuff was fairly decent. Oh, except for those Kingdom Hearts fanfics. Dear lord. * This troper went to the trouble of deleting everything she's ever written off fanfiction.net and changing the pen name, just so nobody will ever recognize her. * This troper once made a particularly painful Zelda OC who was a blatant GaryStu. Years later, he edited the forum post to [[LampshadeHanging link back]] [[SelfDeprecation to this very page]]. * [[Tropers/JirakuTheGratuitousAnimeName This Troper]] has a possible subversion. At 14, he was an roleplayer in a Sonic roleplay guild. He could not be decisive about anything. He made and deleted characters in a split second. He had a more lasting main cast that he constantly [[RetCon retconned]] (even through ways such as completely rewriting their backstories, changing their powers, and changing their species) in a rather futile attempt to create better Sonic fan characters (which probably just confused my fellow [=RPers=].) His characters, although not those incredibly humanoid anthros that people pass off as Sonic fan characters, did ''not'' fit into the Sonic universe well. However, despite being somewhat embarrassed by his old [=RPing=] when he looks back at it, this Troper does acknowledge it as fun at the time (albeit not very well written fun.) ** On a similar note, the same Troper is ashamed of how pathetic he thinks he was in his childhood. * When [[Tropers/CrystalGlacia I]] was in second or third grade, I recall having mental ideas for an alternate ''{{Pokemon}}''/''{{Yu-GiOh}}''/[[MegaCrossover whatever-else]] fanwork while watching the

Pokemon anime. Since this occured before I began to visit more than three sites on the internet in my leisure, [[JerkSue you might already see how this is going to go]]. * This troper has both fanfic and original stuff to be ashamed of. The original stuff goes back to when he was twelve, with his epic fantasy series that was sure to be the stuff of legends one day, except it had no real development or characterisation and really only feels more original than Eragon because I took from more source material than it did. The subsequent fanfic stuff was, in most cases, better written, but still bad, including legions of 500-word Digimon pornfics, an adaptation of a Teen Titans futanari comic, and all kinds of things that he never wants to update again, but which get well-recieved on Fanfiction.net to his utter amazement. He still writes original and fanfiction (and not particularly any less pornographic than the old shame stuff), but his writing is always improving, which always opens the door for just a little more to be ashamed of. * This troper had an idea for a fantasy series a few years ago, consisting of around twelve books (the number rapidly shrank). The first one was the one I concentrated the most on. It was a dragon/rider story, and it had LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, a little BreakingTheFourthWall, a shitload of {{Shout Out}}s, and a lot of PlotHoles and problems such as how the magic works, the exact sizes of the dragons, where they lived... if I'd had a clue what I was doing, it would have been quite a good story, and there were good bits, such as the originality and some of the humour. But now, I just wish I could forget about it. I have salvaged some of my favorite characters for other uses, though. * I'm embarrassed over the fact I used to run an RPG forum... and that I used to partake in it, and even more at what we actually came up with. * This troper stumbled across some of her very, very old fanficiton the other day, and was horrified that I ever thought I was a good writer back then. They were in ''script format'' for Pete's sake. * This troper is constantly being recognized for a poem which she wrote at the age of nine within twenty minutes, which was eventually set by an admiring teacher to a poetry contest, where it actually won, being recognized as one of the top ten poems in this troper's state. Sound good? [[BlessedWithSuck It isn't]]. Despite the fact that I have written multiple other poems and even large pieces of original fiction, that poem remains the one thing I am recognized for. That poem, with a cringe-worthy PainfulRhyme in the first stanza and a rather disturbing amount of depressing subtext (The main idea of the poem is that the narrator doesn't want to be idealized or given praise, but wants the world to see her as she is: a flawed, lonely person who doesn't want love. Remember that this troper was [[TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior ni]][[WiseBeyondTheirYears ne]] at the time). This troper is very, very displeased with the fact that that poem remains her most popular work. * This troper started a few interesting ideas, including one that stars an out-of-work superhero and his estranged daughter. Unfortunately, ItGotWorse. It, along with another 2007-era relic, were the only ones ever completed. Really, it's

[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain best we not talk about it]]. * Pretty much ANYTHING [[Tropers/{{Mole-chan}} This Troper]] wrote before 16. Where do I even begin? ** I started writing by making absolutely horrible {{Digimon}} selfinsert fluff. Then moved on to {{Yu-gi-oh}} and didn't get much better. I will never let myself live it down. Ever. Thankfully none of it was ever published. ** Then there was my first comic. Oh god. 30 Pages of it and none if those pages made any sense at all. Then at the end it conveniently remembered it had a plot to get to. Yes, I essentially wrote ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in comic form. With gay furries. I'M SO ASHAMED OH GOD. ** Amusingly, my second one was basically the same thing. But replace furries with a demon and self-insert sue. What's worse is that it WAS self-published at one point. :'D Thankfully, only two copies exist, and they are both mine. One of these days, I have every intention of burning them. * Almost everything this Troper wrote before hitting sixteen is a huge source of shame. My roleplaying on Gaiaonline before fifteen, however? Absolutely cringe-worthy and I need to apologize to the people who sat through it. * There is a reason this troper doesn't post any of his novels on the internet: he doesn't have a fanfiction.net account (helps that I don't write fan fiction: I prefer writing proper novels). However, there is one story I've written that will never see the light of day except for under pain of death. Subvertion: the first novel I've written is actually pretty good, although still a bit unfinished from starting it a year ago due to ADCD. * [[TheShadow This Troper]] would like to pretend his version of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars as acted out by Harry Potter characters never happened. * This troper makes [=AMVs=]. While she generally views her older ones with mild amusement and a dash of good-natured embarassment while still watching them once in a while because they're still enjoyable, there are two or three that just deserve to be stricken from existence. People like them though, so I've left all but the two most horrifying ones up. * MarkWaid was at a comic expo in my city. I asked him to sign my copy of The Kingdom because I actually liked that one. He looked at me like I had just run over his dog. * this troper made a bizzare youtube video ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_iLqOwvVs here]] for anyone who wants to see it) with a friend because it seemed like a good idea at the time. almost a year on, people still shout "DAS IST SPOON!" at us. (no, I won't say which one I am.) * This Troper tries not to acnowledge his OrphanedSeries, poor spriterecolours, plagiarizing and cliched attempt at a story, or his first blog. It is difficult. * This Troper once wrote Pokmon fanfiction which story focused on a crosseyed Pikachu who was madly in love with a female Pikachu that was married to a Diglett a long time ago. People from a forum she posted it on a long time ago still remember it and start telling how great it

was. It became somewhat of a meme, and she became known as "the author of the crosseyed pikachu fic" in many Brazilian Pokmon forums, much to her dislike. * This Troper (Tropers/CCharmanderK) absolutely despises his earlier fan fictions. ** My first fanfiction was an absolute mess. Intended to be a DarkFic of SonicSatAM, set in the future when Robotnik is defeated and Mobuis returns to normal, was supposed to be a war-based, T-rated fic, but I hadn't even plotted out the story in the slightest, and every bit of dialogue was overly wrought and cheesy, often delving directly into LargeHam territory. Understandably, I stopped it. ** Next was a DigimonTamers DarkFic. It was also to be war-based (I was obsessed with war-styled fiction at the time), but it was brought to an end by similar methods to the above. First off, I was putting in too much profanity; I was in my early teens, so I was understandably fascinated with swearing, and decided that the more I put in, the "edgier" it'd be. It got to an absolutely absurd level in the fic, and quickly became Narm. I also didn't plot out the story fully here, but this was better off than the above. At least I had some important events planned out: Terriermon's death and Jenrya's subsequent HeriocBSOD, Juri and Takato getting together and having sex, Ruki forcing herself onto Takato and the subsequent complications arisen from the aforementioned sex scene, etc. This was also dropped. * This troper's first ''{{Warrior Cats}}'' fanfic. It centred around a cat named [[GreenDay Brokendream]] and her quest to save all non-Clan cats from a psychotic purist cat named Rainstorm, who could hypnotise others. Among other names were [[GreenDay Stuart, Brainstew, and a mysterious anonymous female]]. As for my [[{{Narm}} writing style]] itself: -->"I couldn't let you go alone," the blue tabby replied. "If an innocent cat is going to have to face danger alone... I'll die with her." He spoke brave words. * Oh, my god. Now admittedly, I still have a soft spot for ''some'' of my old fanfics. However, when I think about it, it's just... gah! It had started out as a simple TenchiMuyo / SonicTheHedgehog crossover (because I got tired of the Tenchi / SailorMoon and Tenchi / Ranma fanfics) only to devolve into a MegaCrossover that got its plug pulled half way through a SuperRobotWars fanfic I had started. Where do I start? How about bashing Archie Sonic and TenchiInTokyo (in the worse way possible: blowing up Yugi's cave [side note here: I had actually fused the {{OVA}}s, Universe and Tokyo into one massive universe. Thank you Cartoon Network! As well, I backpedaled and decided to try to work on the obvious Sasami/Yugi pairing]), revived Shadow after his presumed death in SonicAdventure2, accidentally started the Mina the Mongoose/Shadow the Hedgehog pairing, turned Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow into Super Saiyan-like beings, my SelfInsert hedgehog with ''Gundam armor''. Let's not even get ''started'' on my 9/11 entry. Yes, ''this troper wrote a September 11th fanfic''. Two days after the event! And threw in Spider-Man months before Marvel did the same in Amazing Spider-Man! If that's not an OldShame, I don't know what ''is''! * This Troper has two flavours of this

** First, a terrible old Sonic fanfiction. Thankfully, it wasn't as awful and unoriginal and the average first fic. An original cat character called Ice was the main character, who lived in a forest with a race of flying blue fluffballs (Who somehow had superior technology to the rest of the world despite not even having thumbs), because he was orphaned by his Mother, who'd been killed by the BigBad (A corrupt, exiled blue fluffball). When Ice discovered this, he managed to find and/provoke him, causing him to wage war on the BLUE FLUFFBALLS, forcing them to live in a single building with an amazing energy shield all around it (I used energy shields a lot for some reason), until the leader used Wikipedia to find out about Sonic the Hedgehog and promptly sent Ice to go find him. That was about five chapters in though. The rest of the story was about teaming up with Sonic and Tails to find the Chaos Emeralds (and spend several scattered chapters competing in Extreme Gear tournaments. I really liked Sonic Riders at the time) because they were needed to power the weapon that the leader had built to stop the Big Bad. And after that, Evil Blue Fluffball went into space for no good reason, hacked their satellite (?) and used it to make himself huge (???), all so that Ice had a good reason to go into a Super form and fight him in space. I mean, what. At the very least, I realized how bad it was and rewrote the whole thing. My writing style actually started to improve towards the end of rewriting the sequel (which was even more horribly contrived than the first, but I won't go into that), but I hadn't done all that much to make the plot, characters or setting any better. Ice had generic ice powers (which he had because of some "organ", apparently (which never got referred to again)), a second OC was a flying squirrel who was psychic and a third was a music obsessed chameleon who could go through walls. Argh ** What's worse is that I ended up using the character as my online alias. To counter this, once I gave up with the fanfic (after realizing how bad it was), I kept using his design and used it to represent myself. For a while, anyways. I recently just went and redesigned him. [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/291/9/a/Fire_Vs__Ice_by_Ice_t he_frosty_cat.png This (the one on the left)]], was him before and [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/241/e/1/why_hello_there_by_ic e_the_frosty_cat-d2xkvve.png this]] is him now. No Anthropomorphism (I made him into a catboy rather than being entirely human, because changing my username everywhere would be a pain, not to mention I've been using it for years now. Although I've been using a shorter variation of it recently, though it's still cat related), no powers, no shitty universe. ** Anyways, enough about Ice. Second taste. MitadakeSaga. It's my current project. A webcomic about high school kids getting trapped in their school with a murderer. Fun stuff. Except, I started it long before I could remotely draw well. I've gone over the earlier pages several times, just to get them to look somewhat acceptable (and I've even failed in that regard...), some of the really early ones at least five times. It doesn't help that the site has a buffer of around fifty pages, meaning the pages I'm putting up now are horrible in my eyes now, even though I was really proud of them when I first drew them.

What's worse, is that now that I have a small following (enough to warrant a TVTropes page), there's not much I can do about it. I would love to go back and redraw the first 100 pages now, but I really can't because there's people waiting for updates. It would take far too long to do, not to mention I really want to get to the better parts of the story (I don't like the events of the first arc, -which I'm still on). Worst of all is, if I did redraw them, I'd only grow to hate the redrawn versions too. Agh * This troper never wrote fanfiction, but when it comes to...anything I ever write (Which is only when I have to, for school), it's not even old shame. I hate what I'm writing while I'm writing it, get irritated if anyone wants to read it, and cringe if they read it out loud. Apparently, my teachers disagree, as I usually get good grades. * Let's see... this Troper made a horrid Digimon fic at the age of twelve (he's 23 now), which Fanfiction.net deleted on it's own due to the script format. He made a few attempts at sprite comics... all of them failing. He DID, however, create and write a Beetleborgs story that he wrote in fourth grade (Years before discovering fanfiction), and is considering rewriting the whole idea as a CrackFic. He also keeps some old drawings of an anime parody concept around... somewhere. Whether they make it to the net or not depends on if he can ever save the money up for a scanner. * @/{{Korodzik}}'s old custom ''{{Doom}}'' levels, published under the nickname "Illdo" (and, unfortunately, his real name as well.) Paragons of suckiness. They do everything that ''Doom'' levels aren't supposed to do. ** He feels pretty bad about pretty much all of his ''{{Homestuck}}'' [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} fan-art]] and fan-fic. There's one story which looked like a daring psychological exploration when he wrote it, but now it looks like an utterly disgusting {{wangst}}fest. Conclusion: DON'T publish anything you wrote as a mood-swinging immature teenager. * This Troper once mentioned, off-hand, his xenophilia to someone other than a close friend. Cue retching and running away. * This Troper wrote some pretty awful Star Fox fanfics last summer, filled to the brim with OOC moments, overly long author notes, and Big Lipped Alligator Dialogue. He wrote two of them in less than a month, and another over the period of a month.He refuses to read them anymore, as they are just too shallow and horribly written to make it though two chapters. However, he is more than happy to look back at his recent fics. * [[Tropers/{{Betterthanstrawberry}} This troper]] has way too often looked at old message board posts and thought, "Did I really write this shit?" * This Troper, in another non-fanfiction example, experiences pangs of OldShame on a near-constant basis. Seemingly random instances of her doing something wrong or embarrassing herself tend to lodge themselves in her memory, replaying at the worst possible times and ''still'' managing to make her feel like an idiot, even when said things happened in second grade with the most sadistic teacher on the planet. * This troper, in a fit of horniness and boredom, wrote some ToyStory porn (sorry if I ruined your childhood) and posted it on a popular fic

site, only to delete it after several weeks. The funny thing was, it was ''extremely'' well recieved (to the point where several people got mad that she took them down), she was just really, really embarrassed by them. * This troper has a peculiar axiom: nearly anything he's '''''done''''' half a year ago ends up as {{Old Shame}}. As an example, half a year ago he's been thinking about some things, "Will they become {{Old Shame}} as well? [[TemptingFate I sure hope not]].". Half a year past, ''[[YouCantFightFate they have]]''. With that said, everything he's ever written is {{Old Shame}} for him. And he showed it to people. Gaaaagh. *claws eyes out in shame* * [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] have three, all Pokemon fanfics. Two were so bad I had them deleted within months, (one while it was still incomplete) but one I've allowed to live. It's an Ash/Jessie shipping oneshot called "Mother and Child." I wrote it when I was 16 years old and emotionally insecure, and boy, does it show. I've taken its status in stride thus far, as there's still an audience for it. Heck, even the Fanfiction.com version, which I edited the crap out of to avoid copyright law issues, they're much more strict about it than the forum I originally posted the work on, still get on people's subscription/favorite lists every now and then. * This troper, at one point, wrote and produced his own rap songs and defiled songs by artists much better than him. [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]] would [[BeyondTheImpossible not even begin]] to describe it. The sheer quantity of [[PainfulRhyme forced rhymes]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun awful puns]] and [[OneOfUs incessant geeky references]] caused him to shred every single page of his rhymebook a few months later in disgust. Part of the problem came from me thinking that I could flow like {{Nas}} when I was, at best, at the level of {{SouljaBoy}} and couldn't even stay on beat or freestyle to save my life. The production wasn't AS horrible, but it was the product of someone who couldn't use FL Studio that well. To top it all off, I attempted to record this shit on [[WithThisHerring outrageously ghetto equipment]](a CD player and an incredibly low grade mic built into an MP3 player). Unlike rapping, however, I still want to get back to production, and this time really get (and learn how to use) some real resources to make beats. ** It wasn't all bad, though, I did remix the entirety of Jay-Z's ''Black Album'' and made it sound half-decent, if very artificial. * This troper used to write ''[[YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfiction, and it was just about the most horrible thing you could imagine. It was a ThirtySuePileup with most of the cast being Expies of canon characters, and the plot was a completely incomprehensible XanatosRoulette. It was so terrible, I actually [[{{MST}} MSTed]] it once. To repeat: ''I MSTed my own fanfiction''. ** I also can't look at any of my [[ArtEvolution artwork]] from more than a few years ago without cringing. * Theres so many things from the past that Id rather remain in the past. Until the age of 14 I was a whiney little crybaby, who never did anything fun, and I feel I have wasted my childhood being like that. There was also the book me and my friend wrote at age 16 and tried to

get published. Looking back on it, its not that good, and I can see why nobody wanted to publish it. Then there was the fanfiction. At age 12 I started a diary, but my life was boring, so I decided to turn it into a self insert fanfiction about my favourite TV show, where they lived in my world, and went to school with me and stuff. It did occaisionally have true things that happened to me in it, but mostly when I couldnt think about what to write, I made up stuff from various TV shows I liked. The characterisation was nothing like the real versions of them, some things happened that I DidNotDoTheResearch on, and I was such a MarySue and it embarrasses me every time I look at it. Gradually over the years the characters I added faded out, as I began to do more things in real life, and made more friends. I still keep the diary going, but now it is about my every day life, with stuff I did at college, things me and my friends did together and all the normal things. The only reason I keep it, is that it contains some real life thoughts by me that I do want to keep hold of. It is hidden away in my room, so nobody can ever read it. * This troper's father had the misfortune of being assigned to write the infamous BaldursGate novelizations. He hates them as much as BaldursGate fans do and says the biggest mistake of his career was not publishing them under a pseudonym. * This troper once wrote a Transformers/Thomas the Tank Engine fanfic. Which was actually surprisingly popular, but he feels it's not his best work, nonetheless. * This troper had an extremely bad {{Youtube}} account, in addition to actling like a moron on other parts of the internet. * This Troper's very elaborate and SceneryPorn filled comic series that he draws for himself started out as a thinly veiled Simpsons knock off. Just, ugh. * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]] found a ''HarryPotter'' fanfic he wrote at age 14. It involved the title character and Hagrid being picked up at the Saginaw airport, and that was mercifully as far as I got. * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] averts this with all her old stories. They're still kinda good and most of it is still canon, even if they need some {{Ret Con}}s. But then there was Scourgelands. It crossed her storyverse with Warcraft (which would still work in the content), but managed to derail not only Arthas, but her own canon as well. OWOWOWOWOW! * This troper used to be a wannabe-emo. Yes, that's right, ''[[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} a wannabe-emo]]''. Ugh... * [[Tropers/{{Gambit508}} This troper]] considers his time spent on [[SurvivalOfTheFittest Survival Of The Fittest]], due to his rather [[UnderStatement terrible]] behavior. * [[Tropers/ARandomSerf This troper]] sat down and created [[http://www.enworld.org/forum/2873260-post1.html the Mortiverse]] one day out of boredom. Seeing it brought up nowadays stirs feelings that are partly pride ("I made something that people remember!"), but mostly OldShame. * [[Tropers/{{Ozimul}} This troper]] wrote a lot of god-awful {{Metroid}} fanfics that included several [[{{MarySue}} Mary Sue Space Pirates]] and were really just poorly executed. Thankfully, they

vanished from the internet along with the [[{{Nintendo}} NSider]] forums. She did, however, keep the villains from those stories and rework them. * [[Tropers/{{DrZulu2010}} This troper]] has made a playthrough of CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse (First video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qYghfHEAbI here]]) and while he is not ashamed of this video, he cannot say alot about the intro and ending. He even says to some guy on the internet that (by the time he made the comment) it was a shame of two years and he never repeats the same crap he has done since (except for the next video which was a list of support comment from Fire Emblem 8 in multi part only it was part 1) and that his comment was pointless. * [[Tropers/{{PumpkinMuffin}} This Troper]] discovered the computer and Internet in general when she was twelve. Before then, her onedimensional, Sue-ridden, implausible fanfiction had stayed safely in her mind; after, it all came spewing out. "Nightmare Before Christmas" took the brunt of this fail-storm, with fic after fic about various self-insert characters somehow meeting Sally and becoming her Best Friend Forever. Most of these were in script format, one involved an insert named "Sallaeovenia" (after a seriously mangled interpretation of Russian naming conventions), and one was titled- not making this up- "Attack of the Demon Barbies From Hell." The fail eventually spilled over into Inuyasha, R.L. Stine's "The Mask," and, for a while, Corpse Bride. Fortunately, she began to shape up around the time CB came out and so did not commit as many heinous literary crimes in its fandom. She would also like to erase her time on Gaia.com and early artistic endeavors. *shudder* * One of two main reasons I have never allowed anything I have ever written to appear in public is so I don't have [[OrwellianEditor to destroy it a few years later]] when I realize it's utter rubbish. The other is because I'd [[MinorInsultMeltdown react poorly]] to being told it was utter rubbish in the meantime. * I have several of these: ** I once wrote a [[{{Pokemon}}]] fanfic where the [[MarySue main character]]... 1st chapter: got a [[TalkingAnimal TALKING Sneasel]] for a starter, 2. caught the first Pokemon(a Poochyena) she saw very easily, and then got discovered by the leader of the region's evil team(who apparently stalked strangers from the bushes to look for new team members), went up to her and asked her to join their team. She followed him to the "evil team base", where she found out their real intentions, and she ran away, managing to steal the Absol of one of their team members[[DoubleStandard (apparently, stealing is fine if it's the good guys doing it)]] and in the 3rd chapter, defeated the first gym leader on the first try, very quickly. She was also supposed to get an Eevee quickly after that(which would evolve into an Umbreon) but luckily the story didn't continue beyond that. (Actually, the story was mostly supposed to be some [[DarkIsNotEvil]] thing, because... at the time I thought "dark" things were cool but at the same time, I always hated the bad guys and evilness(I think it was too much influence from my mom or something, luckily that has changed now, and now I think many bad guys are awesome) and I was sick of the bad guys always looking the coolest.)

** Even worse: A story called "Soul of Darkness" which went something like this(or, this was what it was going to be like, but it never got beyond 2 or 3 chapters, but the plot was all planned out in my head. I only wrote a few chapters because... well, I was lazy, and still am): The main character was born in the "Forest of Darkness". Everyone knew about this forest, which was a bit away from the city, but no one ever went in there, because it was dark and scary and mostly inhabited mostly with various evil creatures. Anyway, she was the only non-evil character there, and walked out of there as a 10-12 year old, she apparently "felt something calling for her on the outside". She later met some other girls who instantly befriended her, despite no one else liking her when they knew where she got out from. (And somehow, she instantly knew their language, proper behavior ect. even thouh she had been spending her whole life so far in a dark and hidden place where there were no other cats - oh, did I mention they were all [[FurryFandom anthro]] [[PettingZooPeople cats]]?) NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat, but that's pretty much the only thing that wasn't wrong with the story. Anyway, they introduced her to their other friends, and they suddenly found out they all had super powers(so they had never found that out before?). They were Blazey: fire power(yes, this was before a certain SonicTheHedgehog character), Wata: water power, Mitzy: no superpowers, but very strong, an angel cat with "light powers", and the main character whose name I can't remember: darkness powers. Then, they starting fighting evil and helping people for a while... yeah, pretty cheesy so far. And ItGetsWorse: main character suddenly gets a flashback where she as a baby got into the house of the story's [[{{Big Bad}}]](yeah, he had a big house in the forest, also, he was pretty much just a weird, black blobshadow thing with red eyes, who can grow arms at his will. Yeah.) where he notices her and makes her drink a weird, black liquid from a bottle. She gets told this is the "Soul of Darkness" and it's been inside her from that time. Then, they start going back to the forest and fighting the various evil creatures, before meeting the [[{{Big Bad}}]]. After a long fight, he is defeated, and... I think the forest get destroyed, but I don't remember. Anyway, the angel cat explains what really happened: The creatures living here were all born by a big, evil tree, injecting each one with a "soul of darkness", making them evil. The Big Bad designed these creatures, and one day he went up to the tree to get one of the souls of darkness because he though it would come in handy. Then, main character was born, but since the tree was missing a soul, she didn't get one. Upon finding this out, he gave it to her as a baby, but it only worked if they got it from since the moment they were created. She was also created to look like "normal" people/cats so she could later go into the city and spread evilness there. (He never thought of going himself, apparently, even though he's the strongest of everyone in the forest...) But that didn't happen, and everything was good. The end! ** Long before the story was even finished(which it never got), I also thought of a [[ItGotWorse sequel]]... and later, a [[BeyondTheImpossible third story]]. Luckily, these weren't all ''too bad'' compared to the first one. In the sequel, they met a [[SixthRanger new girl]] named Kuzie, which I think was some kind of

alien. (She was bald(while everyone else had human hair along with fur) with antennas, but strangely no one but the main characters noticed this or though this was weird.) At the end of the story, the group walked through several room with lots and lots of doors, which apparently was programmed in such a way that you have to go through the right door to get out, and if not, you just go into the same room over and over. (Though, some of the doors contained some surprised... like the room that was blocked by a huge cake, which they all just [[BigEater ate their way through]].) After a while, one of them came up with the clever idea of marking the doors they had tried, so they knew which ones were left. After a while, they got up to a big platform, where Eizuk(an [[EvilKnockoff evil mirror image]] of Kuzie, a Kuzie with inverted colors. And yes, her name is spelt similarly [[UnfortunateName to that]], although that was unintentional.) waited for them. The others found out they also have mirror images like these... which are only inverted-color clones of themselves like Eizuk, always named the characters names backwards. They defeat them, and everything is good. The end :D (Kuzie was later STRONGLY revised(regular person(cat), hair and no antennas, no powers) and put into another world later(actually, my current OC world), as a MUCH better character. The others were just scrapped.) ** For the third one, they found some kind of berries that would make them into a superpowered, "upgraded" version of themselves. There was one berry for each of them, and they could only eat the berry intended for them(Wata had a blue berry with a drop on it, ect.) or, in the worst case they could get sick, in the best case nothing would happen. I think Kuzir had left them by then, and I also had Blazey dying at the end for some reason. ...although these are horrible too, they are slightly more interesting than the start. Actually, a few of the ideas(like the room with the doors) could be cool to use in a crack story(no, not [[CrackPairing that kind of crack!]] Not the drug kind, either) with my current group of characters. (Here, I just make short [[SliceOfLife slice-of-life]]-ish comic strips, with "normal" people/[[PettingZooPeople anthros]] in a realistic setting. And, they actually look like decent stories and characters.) * [[{{@/Enthryn}} This troper]] has made quite a few original characters for various roleplaying with friends since middle school (both unstructured written roleplaying and D&D campaigns). Out of the maybe 20 or so characters I've made so far, there is only one character who I don't consider poorly thought out in hindsight. Most of my past characters have all been author avatars, flat side characters, generically insane maniacs, or simply lacking in any sort of depth. I've been trying to add more emotional and motivational depth to my most recent characters; however, having actually succeeded (I hope) in making one moderately interesting character, it's even more obvious how badly all of my past attempts turned out. * This troper tends to publically disavow all knowledge of his original (circa 1996-1998) webpage and its excessive quantities of cynicism and spelling errors. For that matter, I can't even stand to read any of the stuff on there anymore. Unfortunately, the Internet Wayback Machine has prevented it from reaching its well-deserved oblivion in the dustbin of history...

* [[{{@/Ventisia}} This troper]] would like to erase much of her years before middle school. My drawings were terrible (though I had a big spike of improvement in Eighth Grade). I tried to write a fanfic or two, and oh my gawds Mary Sue alerts abound (one was about Naruto's self-insert character of a daughter, who had a ten-tailed demon that was the daughter of the Kyuubi. The other was another self-insert Pokemon fanfic that didn't get very far. The final that I can remember was a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fic whose main character even used my name and followed the game plot to a T...), and old behavior. * This troper's first fanfic was an absolutely dreadful InvaderZim story called "Life Before Earth." It was nearly all exposition, and randomly paired Zim up with a disgusting Mary Sue named Tec (now a member of this troper's MSTing cast.) * @/{{Sen}} would love to retcon 99% of his adolescence out of existence. Asides from getting somewhat good at using Reason and gaining his library of nerdy credentials, I was a horrendously whiny, distant asshole throughout most of general school and high school. And, yeah, anything I wrote tended to blow massive chunks (onedimensional AuthorAvatar characters? Check. Bad plotting? Check. Boring prose? Yeah. General childishness? Oui!), so no wonder I deleted just about everything I made in the past. And growing up while using the Internet is so not fun - I want to punch young!me for all the pointless hostility and self-pitying he sprayed across forums every now and then, and then punch ''again'' for atrocious RP skills at play-by-post (I once managed to have an entire fleet organised and ready to fight in ''one day''. One guy corrected me so I edited it to something more reasonable, and then said fleet got murderized by my forgetting to bring ''submarines''). Hard to draw an exact line on when it started getting better - I'd say late, late high school, but it's been uphill since uni. * This troper makes [=AMVs=], and has done for about 4 years. Safe to say, her early [=AMVs=] are downright dreadful. Not to mention that as an overly-immature teenibopper weeaboo kid back in the day, some of her Youtube comments (including responses to those who replied to her own videos) were less than enjoyable to read looking back. Not that her recent [=AMVs=] are that good either, but much less cringeworthy to watch than those early videos. (And in a few years time, this troper is sure she'll find those very videos unbearable to watch too). * All of This Troper's stories from elementary school. For example, the "Three Brave Kittins" about 3 cats that wander into the "Misty Land of Getting Lost" and then get adopted and live happily ever after. In about 3rd grade, I attempted to write an epic fantasy story about talking animals. The main character is a pony named Razzledazzle who is bullied by popular talking animal girls at her school who won't let her join their "club" because she isn't a "purebred." Razzledazzle has a secret though: she turns into a beautiful winged unicorn under the moonlight. She is secretly from the "magic world" where she is the long-lost princess and... you know where this is going. Also, my taste in music at that age is quite an Old Shame. Hilary Duff was my favorite singer. * A few webcomics this troper made a while back I consider old shame. One was basically a ripoff of ''{{Foxtrot}}'' and the other was a

ripoff of ''StationV3''. Also I used to watch dubbed episodes of ''{{Bleach}}'' on YouTube, even though I could have rented the UNCUT [=DVDs=] on Netflix. *sigh* * This troper manages to pull off the most convoluted version of this that even she has to step back and ask "What the hell?" To date, all of my stories are [[OldShame Old Shames]] as soon as (and, in more than one case, ''before'') I finish them. I waver on posting but eventually psyche myself into it to see if I can get some advice, end up getting one or two reviews, and then forget about the work. The thing is, I never bothered to change my FF.net account, so I still get emails for my old stories, which prompt me to look back, reminisce, and wonder what in the world was wrong with me... and whether or not I ever grew out of it. * A certain Forum Game that this troper made wasn't exactly well thought-out and it was poorly received by Forum gamers. These days, he decides to avoid the Forum Game section of the Forum to forget all about it. * This troper generally finds everything he writes either poor or average, but his English Language teacher says he has a gift for writing. She even said this when he wrote a page worth of writing about his own past as well, something he had never done before in his past and regretted while writing it. * This troper wrote a story in late 2010 (it's currently March 2011), and even if it's not completely "old", she is ashamed of it. It was for a school writing assignment. The assignment was to write a scary story. It was supposed to give us a break from serious writing, but it just stressed this troper further. Her original idea was basically an unintentional Inception rip-off (she hasn't seen Inception, but now she knows what it's about and it's very similar). She scrapped the idea because it would have exceeded the 2 page limit. Then she wrote a horrible story about eating her brother and being eaten by her dad in a dream and then having it happen in real life. Luckily, when she writes now, her stories are nowhere near as bad as that. * [[{{osakachan12}} This troper's]] old art. It was terrible, and apparently I didn't know that people have cheekbones. I've gotten [[IGotBetter much better]], and have a couple of watchers on [[http://tugbug2.deviantart.com/ Deviant Art]]. I'm very happy that my people aren't [[NoodlePeople Noodle People]] anymore, either. * I feel like I may have posted here before, but I'm not sure so I'll elaborate now. ** First off, fanfiction! When I was in middle school, I wrote three fanfics. One was about ''TeenTitans''. One was about ''SpiritedAway''. One was about ''DigimonTamers''. They all SUCKED, oh dear god. Special mentions to the last two, for having shameless self-insert characters, who thankfully did not actually do enough stuff to count as Mary Sues but are still embarassing. This troper changed her FF.net pen-name, and deleted all the stories out of embarassment. ** Next, I've made a fair number of [=AMVs=] in my life. The older ones are somewhat awful. That said, I'm not really too ashamed of them, as I knew I'd improve with practice. ** As a final note, the most embarassing thing I have ever done was a NoodleIncident in 7th grade which I will not elaborate on here (or

anywhere). It involved ''CodeLyoko'' and Neopets. AND THAT IS ALL WE SHALL SAY ABOUT THAT. *headdesk* * [[Tropers/{{Archereon}} This troper's]] early involvement in [=RPs=]. My grammar was terrible, and I generally played extreme JerkSues, though that could be [[ThirtySuePileup said for just about everyone]] in those [=RPs=]; we were all noobs. Fortunately, IGotBetter at writing before playing with any competent writers in character [=RPs=], and favored [=NRPs=] otherwise. One memorable example was a nation RP that [[LensmanArmsRace escalated]] to a point where I could safely say it was more over the top than Warhammer40000. The basic soldiers in my army were giant biomechanical mecha that shot boulders of antimatter, and my "elite soldiers" were serpent gods implanted into mecha capable of destroying planets. Another guy has armies from a billion universes that occasionally created black holes from the sheer mass of soldiers passing through their portals into the galaxy. Yet another guy had space ships the size of solar systems which traveled by creating supermassive black holes. Then again, that isn't so much an old shame as it is hilarious. * This Troper is suddenly very relieved she is not alone in having written several utterly horrendous fanfics from the ages 7-10. Seriously. They were ''bad''. I used to email them to my grandma. Poor grandma. I'm still very, very deeply ridden with guilt for all of the pain I caused her for making her read them. [[GrandparentalObliviousness (I'm 99.99% sure she had no idea what show, or movie I was writing about in them, but she'd read them anyway.)]] I also posted a few on FFN... all have been deleted, of course. Some of them weren't even deleted by me, but by the site admins themselves for having such poor quality. So, considering the quality of a lot of fanfics on FFN, [[BeyondTheImpossible the quality of mine must have been... yeah, that's right]]. I (at least, hope that I) have ''vastly'' improved since those years. * This troper wrote an absolutely terrible reader review about Godzilla Unleashed. While he still loves the game, the review itself was god awful. This troper has formally requested that it be taken down, but still... * Tropers/PaniPoniDuh: I wrote a crossover between the CthulhuMythos and {{Arthur}}. As if the crappy concept wasn't bad enough, there was the execution. LovecraftLite, to say the least. * [[Tropers/StongRadd My]] only regret is making an original character... maybe complete originality was never my thing... My first good character was originally a fan character for ''HomestarRunner'' which probably proves this case... * My old shame is not only a fanfiction, but the site that hosted it. For a little while, I played along with their games and delusional belief. But, one day, the [[AwfulTruth truth]] hit me ''hard''. Now, I'm horrified by what I've done. Fortunately, though, I haven't revisted the place in several years. But like any old shame, I regret it all. Everything. ** And this site was...? ** It wouldn't be an OldShame if I told you! * [[SarcasmMode Big surprise here]]: every bit of fanfiction [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]]'ve ever written. Except maybe the

''BattleTanx'' stuff, if only because I only posted one chapter which inexplicably got a few positive comments. Everything else was a horrid mishmash of ''{{Pokemon}}, StarWars'' and ''UnrealTournament''. For that matter, I wish everything I did between late March to the start of December 2004 never happened. And you can probably snip out most of 2007, too. That year sucked. * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]] has plenty: ** I actually avert this with some silly four-page story I wrote when I was about 7. It had a couple random people conversing with each other, and giving me a bunch of cool stuff at the end, like old road maps and Wendy's coupons. It's bad, but I think it's hilariously bad. ** The early 2000s, however, were an OldShame period for me. I dabbled in the following: *** Some furry art, starting with a terrible llama/gryphon hybrid with a secret lair. Later on, there was an otter character whom I initially named @ (yes, his name was an at sign), plus a Pikachu/Jigglypuff named Nag, who was supposed to be an avatar of my sister. Between 2002 and 2005, I had a DeviantART page, but I kept losing focus and felt that I wasn't improving any, so I just closed it (although I still have most of the art). *** An attempt at a PowerpuffGirls parody I wanted to submit to ''{{Mad}}''. I even contacted Bob Staake about it, since I knew he worked on the show and had drawn some things for ''Mad''. All I remember is the girls attacking an oversized phone monster, and dialing 10-10-220 on its buttons. *** An unfinished ''HarryPotter'' fanfic I wrote when I was about 13. It had me picking up Harry and Hagrid at a Michigan airport, and even shoehorned in my complaint about a poorly-designed freeway exit near said airport. I gave up about three pages in because I didn't know what else to write about. *** An unfinished fantasy/horror story that stole an "otterpuss" (otter/octopus) from one of the ''Michigan Chillers'' books. *** A compilation of short one-page stories I wrote when I was 13. One was a horrible BetterThanABareBulb DreamWithinADream-within-a-dream about trying to turn on an old computer; one was a rant about grammar; one was a rant on people who pass gas in public; one was a rant about [=Y2K=]; one was an over-the-top parody of the "Ask Ashley" segments from ''AllThat'' replete with SymbolSwearing; one was an exaggeration of the condition of men's vs. women's bathrooms; and the last one was a poorly-scanning poem about BeanieBabies. I had intended to show these to a friend of my mother's who wrote stories, but he never saw them (mercifully). *** And on top of that, two narmy stories from my emo period. One was about wandering the remains of a grocery store that had been torn down (once my emo period ended, I tacked on an AllJustADream ending because I thought it was too much of a downer), and the other was an unfinished one about a girl who had been raped. *** A comic I drew when I was maybe 11, about a tie-dye-colored cat named Cool Cat, who freaked out after getting water splashed on him. I had intended a "b-side" comic about an ant and a mouse, but it amounted to the ant insulting the mouse. And I had 10 pages left, so I just wrote one word about the comic on each.

* Oh, what @/FarseerLolotea came up with in middle school. Let's just say that the fandom was ''ThePiratesOfDarkWater''. The MarySue was [[DarkSkinnedRedhead redheaded]], [[BoatLights heterochromic]], MultiarmedAndDangerous, and ''not'' introduced as anyone's love interest. And the fic (thankfully) never saw the light of day. * Tropers/BTIsaac's first attempts at writing fiction featured... sigh... an alien Darth Vader expy who single handedly ended World War 2... by THROWING A TANK AT STALIN, lead half the world against the other half in World War 3, completely redrew the political map of Earth, fought other aliens in space and founded his own country which was the size of a university campus. His second attempt was a still bad (but surprisingly better thought out) reimagining of {{Starcraft}}. The third attempt was a fantasy-scifi epic, which wasn't really dumped, but is currently on hold due to the original concept being basically a HarryPotter - LordOfTheRings mockup. ** That's not even mentioning my first online work which was a terribly drawn ELGoonishShive fancomic. And for even more recent examples, there's the fists two chapters of {{Webcomic/TheFAN}} which have really bad art and writing. ** He also had a craptastic diary filled with emotastic ramblings, which is hopefully incinerated or rotted away at the bottom of the city dump by now. Too bad though. The book itself was a pretty nice looking HarryPotter diary. It deserved a better fate - and a better owner. ** Continuing my long list of failures I'd rather not remember, I actually threw out two series of very badly drawn sketches I drew over the course of three years, That's a whole lot of paper wasted, but I needed the space. * I am writing a ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' fanfic called ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6757698/1/The_Book_of_Thunder The Book of Thunder]]''. Before you ask, that isn't the OldShame... not that ''version'', anyway. The story is actually a huge overhaul of a fic I thought up one night out of boredom. What were its flaws? Let's see...no character descriptions, American character with an generic Asian name, excessive AuthorAppeal, etc. I didn't even get past the second chapter before I decided to start over. This original version was never typed nor posted, nor will I ever do so. * [[Tropers/{{legoking831}} This troper]] used to make video game reviews on various [[LegoRacers Lego]] [[LegoIsland video]] [[RockRaiders games]] ([[LegoCrossoverGame No, not those!]]). The problem is they went completely unscripted and uncut, leading to some very bad slips and stutters. I was not getting much love from them at all, to the point where I deleted them. I still get people telling me to put them back up, but if anyone brings it up, I change subjects as quick as I can because I just don't want to remember them. * Several years ago, I used to RP a lot on TheCaveOfDragonflies forums. Now, even thinking about it (specifically, all the RP's that I drove OffTheRails for no real reason) makes me cringe. Thankfully, my writing skills and common sense have both improved a lot, but it still really bothers me for some reason. * [[{{@/Nakayama90}} This troper]] can't bring himself to think about '''any''' fanfiction written between 2001 and 2006, the latter year

being the one where I actually started getting my own ideas. From incredibly lame writing, to borrowing too heavily from fanfics which inspired me (even if I was considerably younger at the time, and not really aware of the fact that it'd be considered borderline if not direct {{plagiarism}}), I think...gah, I damn well hope I'm the only person who even remembers they ever existed. The things I'd give to be able to go back in time and retcon my life, so none of those were ever written... * Everything this troper does eventually becomes this. My first written fanfiction was a Super Smash Bros. High School AU, and was later so ashamed by it that I deleted every trace of it. Another example was this personal fic she and her mom had. It featured what ever I felt like inserting, had continuity problems, several Sues (Saya, a GodModeSue, Princess Zelda became a JerkSue, and her daughter Hitan followed suit), and overdone plots, but I loved it. Now, I get a headache just thinking about it. * [[{{@/PulpoOscuro}} This troper]] used to write ''horrible'' original fiction in third to seventh grade. The earlier stuff was a dreadfully failed attempt to write epic military sci-fi with "scientific correctness" (the results of a ten-year-old reading five college-level astrophysics books in a week and convincing himself he understood it perfectly); NonLethalWarfare was in full effect. The later stuff suffered from an odd case of GoshDarnItToHeck: I would only say "damn", "hell", "crap", etc... but characters used those swears ALL THE TIME. Dialogue and characterization was rotten as well, with a plot ''stuffed'' with {{Hand Wave}}s. Some of the worse transgressions are: ** "Virvra", third grade: a twenty-page SF story I wrote in third grade. Plot: Orphaned KidHero [[AssPull finds a bunch of stuff in a dumpster]] and uses ''[[YouFailPhysicsForever model rocket engines and plywood]]'' to build an '''intergalactic''' rocket. After flying [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale 50,000 light years]] in one day, using ''black powder'' propulsion in a non-pressurized craft, he lands on a planet called Virvra (bear in mind that his ship's made of ''wood''). There, he meets some random HumanAliens, who put him on a vehicle and fight a battle against some other HumanAliens. Then a random girl from the enemy side defects to the kid's side for no reason and everyone lives happily ever after. ** "The Xena Story", fourth grade (no relation to XenaWarriorPrincess): A GodModeSue "female" robot teams up with a weird "male" robot, a human, and some kind of fairy. They live on the dwarf planet Eris ([[YouFailPhysicsForever whose widely accepted temperature is somewhere in the -300 degrees Fahrenheit]]). They go on a quest to find the "Darkstone Elixir" which will cure an illexplained disease. [[ShaggyDogStory When they get back, the evil guy has already taken over the planet.]] Five years later, they fight a CurbStompBattle against him and win. The end. ** "Attack on Banksas" and "An Escape Is Made", sixth grade: Two poorly-written stories. An Escape Is Made starts off with three characters getting captured by TheEmpire and locked up in prison, whereupon they escape with ''another'' AssPull and fight an anticlimactic battle. In "Attack on Banksas", a Japanese girl in a

mercenary force tries to kill them, but undergoes yet another illexplained defection. Meanwhile, a random other viewpoint character who wasn't introduced until late and who makes very little sense in the first place meets his long-lost uncle in a supreme triumph of bad writing. ** Operation Tidus, seventh grade: Averts NonLethalWarfare finally and is set on Earth in 2368. So long and convoluted that it doesn't bear explanation, but it involves ridiculous SchizoTech (think guys fighting a battle with swords and plasma guns), flat characters, ''many'' a TakeThat against Britain and the United States (why, I don't even know...), a spectacular AssPull that still doesn't answer all the questions (seriously? all nuclear weapons everywhere were banned and uranium is impossible to get ahold of? in the middle of a global war?), and a random and completely non-funny sequence that was presumably intended for comedic effect. ** The first two only saw my parents and me, but the last three regrettably were shown to quite a few people before they were sequestered forever in computers/drawers. My current writing's a lot better, though. * This troper had a thing for a crack Naruto pairing long ago and went about making fanfiction of it. At first it was fun, but back then I couldn't form a plot to save my life and ended up creating plot holes within plot holes. I soon lost my drive for my projects and ended up moving to another fandom to try and ease my boredom with Naruto. Long story short, I discovered I had much more fun then I ever recalled having writing for the new fandom. Ideas were fresh and planned out, my style became more polished and I even learned to stop being a review-whore...somewhat. Sadly, all my interest in Naruto is gone and I have no desire to go back and finish anything. While I sometimes look fondly over my old work, there are many things about them I'm not proud of. Example: I wrote the most descriptive lemon I could. It was uncalled for and looking back, I realize I only did it for reviews. That being said, I dare not delete them because they still have their followers who have...shall we say questionable sanity? My greatest fear is if I were to delete them, said followers would hunt me down and expose what I used to write to my current fandom. The only reason I care is because I've made friends in the fandom and I shutter to think of what they would think. Thus, explains my OldShame. * This troper has trouble looking at anything from her past for this reason. Many of my original OCs were Mary-Sues (because I'm the ultimate perfectionist), the heads were much too big and too round in my original drawings, and things in original fiction made no sense. I can't even go through my blog anymore, because of how I used to write when I was younger, and what I used to talk about. * This Troper in middle school was obsessed with the Emo Subculture, cue 3 years of buying all black, watching horror movies, and acting like a brat, Now I am just going with anything girly girl, basket case, hipster, etc. * [[{{@/Zarola}} I recently]] found a few old notebooks from when I was 6-8. They're full of old shame, but the worst has to be a fanfiction involving characters from the SuperMarioBrothers series and, of all people, [[GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong]], whose name was

misspelled. It was about Peach running away with Luigi and the two of them forming a {{Nakama}} with Billie Joe Armstrong. Mario becomes a ButtMonkey, but eventually joins the {{Nakama}}... or something. I didn't really understand that part of the story. ---You can go back to OldShame... though I'd really rather you just set a torch to it. And never mention it again. ----

OldTimeyBathingSuit * My friend told me that her aunt finds any outfit that does not cover all cleavage and all of the thighs to be inappropriate. When I asked my friend what her aunt swims in, she said that she wears and old fashioned swimsuit. ---Click [[OldTimeyBathingSuit here]] to return to OldTimeyBathingSuit. ----

OminousLatinChanting * This troper abuses ''MagicalBattleArena'''s custom BGM feature. Suffice to say, having "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPYOcgde98 Lacrimosa]]" by ''Immediate Music'' playing in the background of a [[MeleeATrois Melee A Quatre]] between the game's nukers ([[Anime/StrikerS Nanoha Takamachi]], [[NanohaAs Hayate Yagami]], [[{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]], and [[BigBad Nowel Diastasis]]) is a most epic experience. ** You can do this with any game on the XBox360, though it works best in online play (it will replace any cinematic audio, as well as BGM). * This troper is taking a mandatory Greek class and has promised himself that he will use this knowledge to chant ominously. * This Troper used this to make a ghost story all the scarier. The translation of the chanting? "Peace to all on earth." * This troper here uses this in the background when he's pretending to be evil. ** Ditto here...sometimes minus the "pretending" part. EvilLaugh! * When [[{{Mariko-chan}} this troper]] watched [[{{MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail}} Monty Python and the Holy Grail]] for the first time, everytime the Latin chanting monks came on, she said they were trying to summon [[{{FinalFantasyVII}} Sephiroth]]. ** You have given this troper an execellent idea for a fanfic. * This troper loves plainsong/Gregorian Chant and C16-17 polyphonous church music, as well as the music of the Orthodox churches and the Orthodox synagogue. She finds these styles calming rather than scary but this doesn't stop her pointing out the existence of this trope whenever it pops up on screen! ** This Orthodox church-music enthusiast (yeah) thinks it's tricky to construe most of the Eastern repertoire as "scary." [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjiVam2HO4 Haunting at best.]] * [[{{Indigo}} This troper]] saw the Dear Friends concert for

FinalFantasy music. The older members of the chorus who weren't young or geeky enough to know the significance of Sephiroth's ThemeTune were looking like they expected something bad to happen because they were singing in OminousLatinChanting. ** Subverted, however, for the crowd. That song wasn't in the program, so when the encore came about, literally ''two notes'' into the song the entire audience ([[DrowLord this troper]] included) jumped up and started cheering like maniacs. DracoInLeatherPants, indeed... * This troper likes to use Ominous Chanting to amuse her friends. I speak three languages, so I can usually find one that no one present speaks. ** I tend to go recursive and chant, "Ominous... chanting" thanks to the truly wonderful resemblance of the word "Ominous" to ''every Latin word ever.'' *** Which would be because "ominous" comes from the Latin word ''ominosus'', and shares the same root as ''omen''. * This troper is performing a choral concert which includes a rather creepy Latin version of "Psalm 150". The translation is basically "Praise the Lord in all his power, etc." and goes on to describe the many ways of praising Him (with harp, drums, horn, and dance, among others). This is made doubly eerie in that we are a Catholic highschool choir, and we perform this song immediately after "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd". My personal favorite words are "cithara", meaning harp, "benesomnatibus", meaning a high-pitched sound, and "jubilationis", meaning joyful. (Apologies for the spelling if it's wrong) * This troper ''loves'' performing sacred music in choir, but apparently my attempts to memorise the lyrics to "De Profundis" (as in, "clamavi ad te, Domine") come across as distinctly creepy. JUST LEARN LATIN, ALREADY! It's perfectly innocent. Well, for a given value. (Also, ''TanzDerVampire'' is even cooler with a passing knowledge of Latin to go with your German.) * Ever since watching the sixth chronological episode of ''HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[AXavierB this troper]] often finds himself humming the opening to Mahler's Eighth Symphony, "Hymnus; Veni, Creator Spiritus". * [[NeoSilverThorn This Troper]] did it when playing Smash Bros. Translation of what I usually said was "Don't walk in front of any catapults." * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] occasionally chants ominously in latin. Sometimes he chants in demonic instead. Usually then chanting happens when he's playing Warhammer4000 (chanting "solvet mundi in favilla" while laying down orbital bombardments increases the mood). * This troper has managed to get himself and one of his friends hooked to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmut6FBx4xk Baba Yetu]]. Slightly subverted in that it's not Latin and it's not ominous, but all it takes is one of us to sing the first few words for passers-by to look strangely at the two nutjobs singing in Swahili. ** Thanks for directing me to that! Civ 4 won't run on my laptop (junk video card) and I'd completely forgotten about that song. Time to freak out the people at school with Swahili! [Ominous grin!] * Whenever my class played a close, exciting game in gym class, I

always used to loudly start chanting in Latin. It helped because I learned Latin in my previous school the year before. My friends were weirded out. * This troper once brought a copy of Mozart's Requiem to play on the stereo at his job. One of the... ''dimmer'' factory workers said, "Hey, this is that fuckin' ''satanic'' music!" * This troper once had "Oh Fortuna" come up on a mix CD during sex. Needless to say it was awesome. ** So say we all. Though in my case, I had a girl who preferred Dvorak's New World Symphony, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and Verdi's Requiem. Needless to say, my roommates were not amused. * At my Catholic high school, the sophomore Religion teacher invokes this: according to her, it takes a month on average for each new class to realize that, when they walk into her class and a CD of chants is playing, a pop quiz is in their very near future... * [[{{Agent Alpha}} This troper]] attended a special Saturday Mass at the LA Cathedral, where the procession began with the song "Laudate Dominum." Which was rendered very loudly with a multitude of voices singing , ''"Laudate Dominum! Laudate Dominum! Omnes! Gentes! Alleluia!"'' Needless to say, this troper had chills when he heard this music and felt like it was something that should be played for major events, like the Pope's arrival or Conclave... or maybe at [[{{The End Of The World As We Know It}} the end of the world]]. * This troper once sang "Lilium" in the middle of the night in the shower (It was in an army camp), and the guy showering in the cubicle next to his (A friend), was ABSOLUTELY FREAKED OUT. * This troper and her Final Fantasy VII obsessed friend would often wait for our buses while gleefully bouncing up and down on our toes and chanting the lyrics to One Winged Angel. * This troper can sound like this when talking in Chinese. Apparently it's really disconcerting for others to hear him speak really rapidly. * This Troper has written music featuring ominous Greek chanting. She has also studied Hebrew and Koine Greek, and is teaching herself Latin, and hopes to some day be able to write something featuring ominous Latin chanting. * This troper once walked into a train with Oh Fortuna playing on an I-Pod speaker she had in her bag. Fellow passengers were freaked. * One of this troper's favourite things to do when bored is go on Rise of Legends, create a game with a 30 minute cease fire, and create a massive army with infantry, armour, air support, and a mobile fortress. As soon as the cease fire ends, he alt-tabs to his iTunes, plays the playlist filled with such delightful songs like O Fortuna, Dies Irae, [[{{Code Geass}} The Master]] and [[{{Bayonetta}} You May Call Me Father]], goes back to the game, and utterly [[{{CurbStompBattle}} curb stomp]] the enemy AI to glorious music. It never gets old. * I tried to read the OminousLatinChanting article while listening to O Fortuna. I can't since I felt puny compared to the PureAwesomeness of that article. * This troper has a tendency to start humming or singing lyrics from One Winged Angel or O Fortuna when he passes classmates in the hall. This troper thinks he does this to creep them out.

---Veneratio diabolus quod lego hic ut reverto ut [[OminousLatinChanting exemplar article]]... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OmnicidalManiac * Urixo Raazgul, from one of [[Tropers.NickTheSwing this troper's]] stories. He gleefully slaughtered an entire dimension of people, all for exploiting the fact he had been gullible enough to have bought a "box of powerful magic" and that it was fake. He is planning to do this on a parallel earth. [[ForTheEvulz No reason is ever given.]] ** Now add Carosso Rusathi, except he is more Kill All Humans. A straighter example would be Andrew Redrain, an Expy of Legato Bluesummers, who really, really dislikes regular humans only a little more than the superpowered people. Have you ever wondered how a telekinetic could kill someone? [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Brr...]] * The BigBad of this troper's story is this. He represents the sin "Sloth", and plans to destroy all of reality with a single simple action that leads to a series of events that he plans will either destroy the universe or kill him (which, as he is immortal and invunerable, requires much more effort than you would think). Why? Because he ''can't be bothered to continue existing''. * The ultimate BigBad of mine is Nihilus (no relation to [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the sith lord]]), who is [[AnthropomorphicPersonification essentially every single selfdestructive force in existence merged into one, and given form]]. He wants to destroy [[ApocalypseHow all of reality itself]] because he sees [[NietzscheWannabe existence as pointless]]. [[UltimateEvil He will very rarely show himself, if at all]], but when he does... his [[UncannyValley human form]] may not be too bad, but his true self is [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel every single horror imaginable]] [[BiologicalMashup all meld into one]] [[EldritchAbomination ungodly phenomenal horror]]. He hates [[MarySue Mary Sues and Marty Stus]], [[GodModeSue especially the beyond-overpowered ones]], far more than ''everything else in existence'' because of their [[WhyWontYouDie stubborn refusal to stay dead]]. * Thank God, these are all fictional characters. I was scared when I saw a TroperTales link. Put down your Reality Bomb control switch and go back to OmnicidalManiac...

OmniDisciplinaryScientist * [[{{Pepinson}} This Troper]] is nonetheless trying his best to get as close to the modern equivalent of the old polymaths as a man can get without ''completely'' wasting his life. He's of the opinion that, in order to truly master a discipline (let's say History, technically ThisTroper's major), one needs to have a working grasp of every

related discipline (in this case, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, and even a bit of Engineering). And yes, people constantly ask ThisTroper what the hell he's doing in a community college. ** And, as per the Rule of Narrative Causality, he is now writing from a student lounge at UIC. ** ThisTroper, an English major, has a similar way of thinking-understanding literature requires dabbling in a lot of other fields, particularly religion, myth, philosophy, psychology, language and linguistics, various social sciences, and even the "hard" sciences. ** Bah. [[{{Tropers.Cosman246}} This troper]] says: Why not waste your life if for knowledge? That is not a waste of life. By the way, the troper who said this is trying to become a philosopher, study Economics, and then study as much of everything else that he possibly can 'till his dying day. * Since we've opened this thing up to personal examples...[[JChance This Troper]] is working on something like it too, although less in any systematic way than being an obsessive information-collector who sees everything as connected and requires a great deal of consistency of himself. And, just for the record, he took his Bachelor's in economics, with minors in finance, political science, and philosophy, while his strongest passion before college was for physics. * This troper also is interested in pretty much every science humans have invented. (Not just hard science.) The fact that TheOtherWiki exists nowadays has helped him. * [[{{Zemyla}} This Troper]] has a dual major in CS and Math, and a minor in Physics, and I am widely read enough (due to the fact that I will read pretty much anything set before me) that I can offer an opinion on pretty much any subject on earth. And yes, TheOtherWiki is a great boon for this. * [[{{Namta}} This troper]] is doing it with the humanities, being a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot literary critic-anthropologist-philosophermedia critic-novelist-poet-historian-cultural theorist-musicianplaywright-theologian-geographer]]. ** This troper attempted that too, being a musician-writer-historianphilosopher-political theorist-theologian-media critic. He then found one of the few careers in the world that values breadth of knowledge as much as--if not more than--depth: [[ScaryLibrarian librarian]]. * ThisTroper has taken at least the intro to nearly every social science course the university offers. Mostly because all the social science intro classes are the same stuff with different vocabulary to learn, but still. * This Troper is a video game development student who is of a similar inclination, on the grounds that to make any creative work, one must at least be functionally knowledgeable in the fields upon which it is based. Given various things such as role playing games, this has lead to the study of fencing and of weapon manufacture. * [[GamerFromJump This troper]] has [=AAS=] degrees in Criminal Justice and Information Systems (plus a certificate in Network Administration). I will be entering an undergrad program this fall...in physics, with [[strike:[[MemeticMutation A BOX OF]]]] high school educator licensure, plus an English minor. ''Yes'', it's going

to take a while. Further, that college will be offering a Comprehensive Science Licensure, which licenses one to teach high school level Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth Science (study of Earth systems, not just geology). * This troper is trying really, really hard to think of a way to convince the respective departments that an Art-Physics interdisciplinary undergrad would be GREAT, with the result that she's now trying to come up with a cool thesis as a freshman. Even if that doesn't work, she can still take a couple of junior-level Physics classes before she runs out of space in her schedule. * Subverted and also somewhat averted with a friend of mine who is a doctor in some field Radiology. At a baseball game someone nearby was clocked on the head by a errant ball, and (of course) someone screamed "is there a doctor anywhere!?!?!", and, of course, somebody asks my friend to go over there, leading to the response "I'm not a real doctor, I can't do that." Then I pointed out that he surely must of taken some sort of basic first-aid in Med School. He then got up, went over (the person was fine, just a really bad bruise), and then he came back. On the other hand, one time somebody fainted and he was unable to do anything whatsoever (the person did end up being fine, but that didn't stop people from ragging him about it). ** what did you expect him to do anyway? It's not like you learn how to cure people by laying your hands on them in medical school. You can't go much further than basic first aid without the means. * [[Tropers/{{Smerf}} Smerf]]: I asked one of my professors how many degrees he had. All he said was "Last time I counted, there were 54 letters after my name." * Counts to some degree for [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]], whose goal in life is to have a working knowledge of every single field of research covered by the IEEE: computer science, analog electronics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, telecommunications, digital signal processing, information theory, cryptography, mathematical logic, business IT, digital electronics, control theory... * This troper, being a classic geek, has a firm grounding in biology, chemistry, psychology, and physics, augmented with, well, spending too much time on certain parts of the internet. While hardly an expert, he knows enough (often more than they wanted to know) to cover casual inquiries into most "science" related issues. In university, he's pursuing duel degrees in Computer Science and Business, and pursues European History as a hobby. * Sounds a LOT like where I work. Electronics are put to such widely varied applications that anyone who works for a supply house really ''needs'' encyclopedic knowledge. One customer might be working on a car, another a computer, another on a machine tool, someone else might be looking to rebuild control boards for a sewage pumping station, another wants parts for an antique radio... the inventory here reads like NoodleImplements. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] is capable of holding an intelligent discussion about almost any science. * This troper is a shuttle pilot with PhDs in every single field of science you can think of and even those you can't. He likes to spend time on the internet because it makes him feel even more superior

about his intellect. * This troper, though getting her degrees in graphic design, English lit and studio art, dabbles in theoretical physics, general chemistry, electrical engineering, general history, theater (on and off-stage), fashion design, cooking/baking and film theory. * At this troper's university, Chemical Engineering was regarded as the kitchen sink engineering discipline. Over the course of her Chem E degree, she took courses in 10 out of 12 engineering disciplines, concentrated in biochemistry and polymer science and got an additional minor in Spanish. Other interests of hers include linguistics, politics, and philosophy and she is currently working toward an MBA specializing in marketing and international business. * [[{{Tropers/Qmwne235}} This troper]] is a zoology/anthropology double major and math minor who publishes articles in a college magazine on literature and media studies, and has done research in evolutionary biology, ecology, organic chemistry, and dynamical systems. I (first person now) also love music theory and music history. Of course, as a Quiz Bowler, I have a lot of breadth of knowledge even if I lack depth. I also want to look into applying these interdisciplinary perspectives into my research, which should be...interesting. ---Return to OmniDisciplinaryScientist here to complete your studies in economics, linguistics, geology, and the life cycle of sea slugs. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OncePerEpisode This troper thinks that pulling conversational things * off* main pages will dispense with roughly 60% percent of what makes TV Tropes fun, and declines to cooperate; this was my first edit, and my last. TV Tropes Is Not Wikipedia. * Okay, but what does this have to do with the "once per episode" trope? ** I dunno, but this troper found a way to go on a rant at least once per school day and got yelled at for it every time. * [[SarcasmMode I check the internet and play the Iphone at least once a day since High school started.]] * In my case, I used to have Daily Rants, wherein I would completely FREAKOUT, and at the end when I'd had calmed down, I'd say something like,"This has been my Daily Rant/Freakout! Tune in tomorrow for more Wacky Ramblings!", in a gameshow host-type voice. I was a weird teen. * it's not a day for me if I'm not trying to prove someone wrong or having a moral debate about something. I will daily get on the internet just to rant about how bad my generation is, and in a meta example this is today's rant... * This Troper seem to activate at least one fire alarm every session in a roleplaying game he's currently playing. * There's this little dangly...thing hanging from the track of my

garage door. It's like this little red plastic handle hanging on a string (which I suppose is used to manually move the garage door). Every single time I go through the garage, I MUST nudge that thing. It's become second nature by now. * This Troper knows a kid who quotes movies in everyday life. It's often used poorly and out of context. He also does it while doing commenting/narrating movies (which is annoying). His quotes include: ** "I've got a bad feeling about this." (StarWars) ** "That's ''nasty!''" ** "Spread out!" (TheThreeStooges) ** "''Why I oughtta...!''" (TheThreeStooges) ** "It's about time!" (who knows)

OneBookAuthor * Minor example: In a literature class, we had an assignment to write a unique sonnet. I wrote a Shakespearean sonnet...[[BlessedAreTheCheesemakers about cheese]]. My teacher loved it so much that she now uses it as an example for her classes. It's the only sonnet I've ever written (not for lack of trying, though). ---While trying to find your muse to help you write that second novel you're planning, why not sojourn to [[OneBookAuthor the main page]] for a bit.

OneDegreeOfSeparation * @/LooneyToons: It takes a little too much time to go into in detail here, but after [[@/LooneyToons I]] and my wife got married, we slowly discovered a complicated set of loopbacks and crosslinks between our social circles (we had met by accident via someone with minimal connections to my circle, and pretty much none to hers). Possibly the strangest of these connections was the gaming convention staff who had recruited me via a list of gamemasters maintained by my publisher in Texas; said staff turned out to be headed in part by one of my wife's college friends and her boyfriend. We once tried to map out the connections, and came to the conclusion that there was no way we ''wouldn't'' eventually have met. * This troper lives in the same small town as several of her husband's relatives (he grew up in a nearby city). She went to high school with one of his cousins; another cousin was her younger sister's occasional baby-sitter; and one of the husband's uncles, who was killed in a car accident at the age of twenty, was at the time of his death dating a friend of the troper's mother. Yet Troper and her husband did not meet until both were adults and working at the same office -- several miles away. * This happens quite a bit in Chinese American circles since we tend to belong to the same associations and go to the same churches; so many such circles emanate out from cities with large mobility (like college towns) that we kid that there's a Chinese Mafia, where everybody knows everybody and you CantGetAwayWithNuthin. * In [[@/CrazedNinja my]] first semester of college, I was in an

improvisational theatre class. It turned out that one of my classmates was also in my sister's screenwriting class. The next year, I was in a fencing class, and met ''his'' sister there. The biggest MindScrew though, was the year after that, when I took a voice class, and his ''fiancee'' was also in the exact same class. So, three years in a row, I had classmates with connections to each other in completely different classes. * [[@/SalFishFin This Troper]] has a prom story. He was originally going to share a limo with this guy, let's call him T, but declined because T lived too far away, and there was no promise that T's limo would bring me back home. T's mother was complaining to her co-worker about the fact that I had declined and now she would have to pay more for the limo. That co-worker? My prom date's mother. * So many examples from this troper that I could make a Hyperlink movie out of it. ** After discovering the Friend Wheel application on Facebook, I realised there was a link between one of my friends from Grade 1 (just before I moved interstate, and thus hadn't seen her in 11 years) and one of my friends from High School (who had been one of the School Captains in Year 12). After contacting them, I learned that they'd met at a conference in Canberra a couple of years earlier. ** A few weeks after moving into my residential unit at University, one of my housemates invites a friend over, who turns out to be one of my High School mates, and one who I hadn't known was at UB as well. ** One of my friends in my TAFE study group happened to mention that her boyfriend was moving into my Hall of Residence, and I mentioned that I'd look out from him. A week later, he moves into the one newly vacant room in my unit. ** In Grade 6 my class spent the day at one of the local high schools for a trial day. My sister had asked me to look out for a friend of a friend of hers. I ended up running into her on the bus on the way home, in spite of having never met her before and having no idea what she looked like. * Whenever I come back from college, I go to my friends who are still in high school to learn what's been going on with my brother. Either I was friends with them first and they met him through me, or he made friends with them and they ended up friends with me because I was already friends with their friends who are friends with him... and we were already one degree away just by being related! * Rhode Islanders tend to have this happen to them a lot. [[@/ROFLopadous This Rhode Islander]] has her fair share of stories as well. Her favorite is when she spent the night at a friend's house, they had to stop by a neighbor's to pick something up and the neighbor ended up being an old co-worker of her mother's from back when they were teenagers. * This Troper was talking to someone on a forum, only to find they lived nearby and were related to my sisters best friend. A friend of mine also found out that someone I know was actually her second cousin. * This troper found that of all his non-international friends on facebook, it took only two steps to get to someone who was at his (small, non-prestigious) school, not counting people thy knew through

me or my family, even when you count people from other states and people I know from university (most of whom have never heard of my school). ** It is said that it takes any person only two steps to get a one-onone meeting with anybody in this troper's mid-sized city, and usually two steps is enough to get you to to a party with them, if not actually run by them. It certainly seems true for everyone this troper has tried to meet. * I once went to China and Korea with 10 other people whom I had never met and who had never met oneanother (except two). Over the course of conversations, it became clear that a bunch of us had common friends. In addition, there were a few people who attended the same event, either on the same year or a year prior/after. In my case, someone in the group knew the organiser of a convention I attended, whom I may or may not have met in person. There is some justification as we were all academically inclined and studying similar fields (politics, IR, sociology, etc...) but the sheer number of "small world" moments turned from surprising to funny to mundane very quickly. * After dating a while, my girlfriend and I realized that we both had known most of each other's friends while attending the same Junior High and same High School but somehow we had never crossed paths until senior year. Later, I discovered my sister knew my girlfriend's stepmother because they used to work at the same day care. Also my best friend's younger brother was friends with my girlfriend's nephew. Also before I met my girlfriend, she had been friends with my younger brother (unknown to me) from when she was a teacher's aid at his junior high. After I had met my girlfriend (unknown to my brother), my brother asked me to look up a friend of his that went to my highschool; he was surprised to learn I had already met her while at the same time I was surprised to learn he had already met her. ** (>Here are some more from my life<) *** My first night at college, I met a girl (A) at a karaoke party. After we each sang a couple songs and talked a while we both met another girl (B) and hung out the rest of the evening. The next week the two girls were randomly assigned to be eachother's room mates. Also I learned that after the karaoke party girl (B) had randomly met my roommate and started going out with him. We all four became friends but had arguments about who met who first. *** On of my first summer jobs in high school was at a gas station. One night when sharing shifts with a coworker I had known for a month, we started talking. I told him I have an uncle who lives 400 miles away that has the same last name as him. He told me he has a cousin who lives in the same city as my uncle. We then realized that my uncle is his cousin and we were relatives. Until then I had been unaware of having any relatives in my home town. *** After graduating college I moved to a city about 400 miles from my hometown. After enrolling in the graduate college in this new city I was surprised to see a highschool friend from my home town was now working as administrative assistant in the department I had just enrolled in. * My parents knew a married couple, "Ann" and "Bob" a while back. They moved around a lot, and my Mom reconnected with "Ann" at my college's

orientation week. She had remarried, to "Carl", who was the admissions officer who admitted me to the college! * This (American) troper's mother knows a man from Australia. He was born in Scotland, grew up in Australia, and moved to the US as a teenager. When he arrived in the States, he and my mother attended the same youth group for a summer. ''Thirty years later,'' in a totally different city, he was hired by our church as a preacher. * This troper has a weird one. My 1st cousin's wife's either brother or cousin is the father of my cousin's cousin. * This troper's blood brother met this troper and this troper's boyfriend at the same week. Brother lives in Chicago, Boyfriend lives in Montreal, and Troper [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers lives in]] ... [[DyingTown Waterbury]]. Brother and Troper met over the internet. For totally unrelated reasons, Brother was one of two people in Chicago chosen to go to Montreal (by scouts hitting major North American cities) to model for a magazine. The photographer for that shoot was Boyfriend. (Speaking of that boyfriend, he grew up in British Columbia and now literally his entire extended family, all of his closest friends from high school, and basically everyone he's ever met also lives in Montreal now.) This troper's maternal and paternal great-grandmothers were also next-door neighbors in the USSR. * In school, this troper became friends with a number of people who's parents had been friends while they were going to the same school. That may not sound that strange but we live in a rather large city (Los Angeles) and this troper was born in New York, and had only recently moved back. * This troper's uncle once worked in a group of three people, all of whom met each other for the first time on their first day. Years later, a man with my grandmother's maiden name walked in to a bank where another uncle was working, got to talking, and passed on a family history - done by his niece, one of the two others who had worked with an uncle years before. After even more family searching, the third person had been descended from a first marriage, and our family from the second marriage. All three could get traced back to one guy three or four generations back, and hadn't known of each others' existance until they all got hired to work together. * This troper has a pair: ** Firstly, a friend of his met another friend's boyfriend's ex while he was home in India from college, and she was on holiday there from Ireland. The only reason we found out about this One Degree of Separation is because she stalked him when they got back here! ** Secondly, this troper is a bastard in the classical sense, being the product of an affair between his mother and a married man who already had four children. Just the other week, at the age of 23, he met his father for the first time, and promptly discovered that half his friends went to school with his half-siblings! * One of my grandfathers used to deliver packages to my other grandfather. My aunts on my dad's side went to school with my aunts on my mom's side. My parents also had some of the same teachers in school, as some of the nuns switched the schools they were teaching at. My dad had been part of the same Newman Club my mom joined a few years later. When my mom took my dad to the Newman Club to meet her

friends, it turned out that they were all his friends, too. One of the priests at the club, strangely enough, said, "I knew you two would be good for each other." We recently found out that my parents are also related through the same Irish clan. ** My dad learned sign language to talk to a girl in high school. That girl's sister later became my music teacher, after we had moved 100 miles away. ** The dad of a friend of mine from college used to swim against my dad back when they were high school. ** Another friend of mine from college is friends with a girl who went to school with my brother. ** A waitress who served me in a restaurant at my local mall turned out to be the sister of my sister's boss. * One of the people I talk to online is connected to me in two ways: ** I went to her friend's English teacher's child's christening ** She attempted to join an organization I am part of, but her school didn't let her. ---Hey! I know your brother from my math class and your sister from OneDegreeOfSeparation! ----

OneDimensionalThinking * This troper remembers reading about a zookeeper who was charged by an escaped hippopotamus, panicked, and ran away in a straight line but survived because he tripped by mistake, and then rolled to the side. The hippo kept running in the same direction and eventually tired itself out enough to be recaptured. ** He probably assumed that the hippo was running after him specifically, instead of just running in a straight line. In that case, turning would have made him an easy target. This tends to be the reason why prey animals do the same thing when tryng to run from cars. * As a child, my family had a long, rural driveway from the road to the house, in a heavily forested area swimming with rabbits. When coming home at night, rabbits and quail would be startled by the approaching engine, and '''leap out''' of the bushes to run away from the car down the convenient, obstacle-free and headlight-illuminated driveway. We called this the "bunny alertness test", and it lead to even more morbid hilarity in later life when we witnessed a Volkswagen Rabbit that merged into traffic and nearly failed to accelerate fast enough to not get rammed by the truck coming up behind it. * Slow-speed chase example here. I was at my local zoo, and I saw an ostrich standing directly in the path of the safari ride. I thought it was going to get run over (albeit at 5 mph), but then it decided to start moving... and stayed on the track, leading the ride for about 50 yards. Sort of funny seeing it back then. ---Go in a perfectly straight line back to [[OneDimensionalThinking the main page]].

OneGenderSchool * GracieLizzie: I went to one of these in secondary school, as Britain allows for state faith schools it was state funded and wasn't quite as fancy as an ElaborateUniversityHigh. However it did have a very good reputation and a somewhat more stand out school uniform than usual. No AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil, and most of the girls that went where rather boy crazy (one of her friends from secondary school days is bi but it's purely coincidental) so there wasn't exactly lesbian romances popping up everywhere - I think the nuns would have objected. * This troper went to an all boys secondary school which had its Distaff counterpart nearby but didn't intergrate the classes until sixth form. The school was rediculously reputable, but was full of insufferable dickheads. I theorise the lack of female presence was an absent controlling factor, in other words there were no women for blokes to try and impress, leading to rampant assholishness. Homosexuality wasn't present, though there were one or two who used camp-gay stereotypes as a trolling technique. It lead to me being socially stunted and having horrendous self esteem, fuck the lot of them. * This troper's school was similar to that, but also had a comprehensive in the same town. There was [[UnderStatement some homosexuality]] at my school though. Some [[BiTheWay bisexuality]] too, which included this troper (I was about the only one open about it though). * This Troper went to one that had it's female counterpart quite literally ''right'' next door. They shared a teacher's car park and the girl's school often borrowed one of our sports ovals when we weren't using it. They also collaborated every year on an open to the public musical production. The primary school section was mixed gender though. * This troper's grade school was an all-girls school, and a very sheltered one at that. Instead of being boy crazy, my fellow students were girl-crazy. * This troper's brothers went to an all-boy's Catholic high school (before it went co-ed). * If you'll believe it (and you won't, because, you know, it's Troper Tales), I and about twenty other boys attended a girl's school for two years due to it being the only school nearby that offered the IB program. No, [[UnwantedHarem that]] didn't happen, and neither did [[GenderBender that]]. * This troper has an...odd example, in that the school is only ''partially'' a one-gender school: it's a K-12 school, but it's an all-girls school for grades 7-12 only--thus separating the sexes right when their hormones should be kicking in. It's actually quite an ingenious setup, come to think of it... (Luckily, this was ''not'' the school I went to.) ** Not completely unusual. As I mentioned about (the one with the two sharing a parking lot) the all girls school next door had a co-ed primary (or elementary if you prefer) school division with the all boy's high school run by a separate group. The same town has developed an even odder example. My school and its sister school were religious ones, though run by separate groups, but the same town also has two

Grammar schools, both traditionally single gender. Both have recently expanded to contain primary schools (Prep-7) but while the all male one has remained all male throughout all grades the girl's school, explicitly named Girl's Grammar, not takes boys for Prep-4. * [[{{Tropers/Morgie}} This troper]] attends an all-girls school. If you'll believe some of the students (and all my classmates when I was a year 7 and about to graduate PS) it's chock full of lesbians. I'm bisexual and would like to know where this apparent lesbian infestation is, because everyone vehemetly denies they're one. * I attended a women's college, which really WAS full of lesbian and bisexual students (including me). Certainly not everyone, though. ---Go back to OneGenderSchool ----

OneHeadTaller * This troper and her girlfriend, with the typical "height rule" personalities being completely reversed. This troper is a [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[{{Uke}} submissive]], [[PorkyPigPronunciation st-st-stuttering]] HugeSchoolgirl, and her girlfriend is a [[GenkiGirl loud, outgoing, awesome]], [[NightmareFetishist gore-and-horror-loving]] [[{{Bokukko}} tomboyish]] LittleMissBadass[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold. * Here's a cool example: I am nearly 6 feet, my best friend is about 5'6". His girlfriend is nearly my height, her best friend is only 5 feet tall. This makes my best friend constantly joke that I should go out with his gf's best friend, so we while they'll be short-boy-tallgirl, we'll provide contrast in the form of short-girl-tall-boy. The rest of the school year seem to [[ShesNotMyGirlfriend think this as well]]. * This gay troper is 6'1" and is used to dating men who are 6'3" and above. The one exception is my current boyfriend, who reaches a whopping 5'5" when he stands up straight. The fact that he's a [[TheNapoleon tough guy]] and [[CuteBruiser something of a bruiser]] is undermined when I hug him from behind. * This troper has never met a woman taller than my 6'5" - I once met a girl who was exactly the same height as I am in a club. I suggested we should have sex for the novelty value. She declined, unfortunately. * This gay troper is 6'3", but is very [[{{Uke}} uke-ish]] and desperately wants a guy at least two inches taller than him. This seems very unlikely. He'll probably end up being one head taller instead. ** Agreed. I'm 6'2, and I lust ''hard'' after guys my height or taller. Sadly I can't be too picky for obvious reasons, but a boy can dream, can't he? * This troper stands at a whopping 4'10". The majority of guys she's dated have been 6'1" or taller, with the shortest standing at just under 5'11. * This troper is 5'3", and is married to a man who is 6'2". The biggest problem is not looking up to him, it's the fact that he has longer legs and naturally walks faster, meaning she has to jog to keep

up! * This troper's (6'3") first few girlfriends were, for some reason (it certainly wasn't a conscious choice!) significantly shorter than he is. The worst was probably the 4'10" half-japanese chick he dated for a while in college. We had trouble even getting into the same picture. * [[{{Tropers/Morgie}} This troper]] is currently 5'0", but was 4'10"/4'11" in the last year of primary school and about 4'9" in the year before that. Her best friend was somewhere around 5'5"/5'6". [[BeyondTheImpossible When she was 11/12/13, mind you.]] * This troper is 5'10" and usually goes after girls shorter than himself but lately has averted it after becoming fond of a girl who happens to be exactly his height and can look him right in the eye at all times. * In an inversion of the taller partner being dominant, this female troper prefers men who are both taller than she is - 6' or higher, as she's 5'8" - and submissive. There's just something about someone who could easily pick you up kneeling docilely at your feet instead. * This Troper once saw a production of ''OnceUponAMattress'' where the actor playing Sir Harry was 6'4", and the actress playing Lady Larken was 5'3". * This troper is a HugeSchoolgirl. She talks [[MotorMouth loudly and quickly.]] Unfortunately, she loves cute fluffy things. The immediate reaction from any male is one of [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon terror]], despite being perfectly feminine, being relatively pretty, and having a nice personality. Fuu. * This make troper is about six feet tall, so I'll probably end up with someone a head shorter than me. Which is actually ironic, because I'd like a girl taller than me, thanks to my fetish for strong women. * I am one head taller than the last four friends I have made, and my dad is one head taller than me. * Considering that I stand at five feet flat, I've been resigned to this happening for the rest of my life. The smallest height difference I've ever had with the guys I've gone for is seven inches. My photos with my mostly male college friends have me looking like a midget. * This Troper's friend is engaged to her boyfriend of several years. This friend is around 5'2" to 5'3". Her fiance has '''14 inches''' on her.

OneLetterName * This troper has two Thai friends who are known merely as M and I (not their actual names.) However, they opt for the much less cooler spellings of "Em" and "Eye". * [[GameGuruGG This Troper]] has an Uncle named "D" and the uncle's middle name is "J". We call him either D or DJ. Yes, it is his legal birthname. * This troper has a friend with a very complicated last name and who is known to almsot everyone as Dave J. Dave's actually been considering legally changing his last name to "J" or "Jay." * [=~Excel-2009~=] sometimes refers to himself as C. * {{Charlie Brown}} has a few friends that have these as proper ways to pronounce their foreign names. "Q" (Kyu, Korean name), "G" (Tri,

Vietnamese name), "2" (Thu, Vietnamese name). * This troper once had an RP character named M. Then it became an entire race that had {{One Letter Name}}s. Yeah, it was weird. * This troper's name is J. ** I am L *** [[DeathNote Just as planned.]] **** [[IncrediblyLamePun Using "Just as planned" all the time is 'ell too.]] **** I don't suppose you also have a fondness for [[MemeticMutation potato chips]]? ** This troper also has a teacher named J, though people often [[SpellMyNameWithAnS make it "Jay"]]. * This troper doesn't necessarily have a one letter name, but is routinely called K because her real name and internet handle share the same first letter. In a similar vein, she calls her friend C, for the same reason. * Typically, [[{{Evilpenguin556}} this troper's]] friends refer to his last name as Z. Which is short for Zacharuk, but nobody can pronounce it to save their lives (it's pronounced Za-ha-roo). * In this troper's high school, a couple of teachers had difficult-tosay-correctly last names so encouraged students to refer to them by the initial of their last name. Except that both names started with K. It could get confusing, but fortunately one taught Greek (taken by some students for the compulsory three years of LOTE with a seldomtaken option to continue through highschool) and the other taught Psychology (a [[strike: VCE]] um... subject taken in the final two years of school). * This Troper knows a rough-and-tumble fellow simply called 'T'. He usually spells it Tee, but my friends and I are trying to convince him to just spell it T, citing the fact that he shares spelling with golf tees. It's working. * Averted for [[{{randomfanboy}} me]]. Originally my mother was going to give me the middle name 'J', but her nurse [[strike: was a real bitch]] refused to let her give her son an odd name. My mum went with 'Jay', and I missed out on something cool. * This troper used to think that there were no good nicknames for her real name. Then her roommate started calling her M. * My grandpa was named JL. Everyone called him "Jake" (short for Jekyll, LongStory). * [[GamerFromJump This troper]] knew someone in the Army named Private A (pronounced "Ahh"), and later had a student with the surname Y ("Eee"). They were both Korean. ** This troper roleplays a Team Fortress 2 character named A. * This troper has a friend who's intials are VVV, I call her V. * The bus driver at my school was called H. * This troper is annoyed with this trope, as it makes searching for art/fanfiction about the character annoying. * This troper's best friend/other half has been known as T for almost his entire life. People only call him his full first name (Taylor) when they're mad at him. Additionally, his father's middle name is F.L. It doesn't stand for anything. Just F.L. * I met a girl who I know only as C, it was kinda funny cause my

friends brother met us both at the same time, and now calls me K (my first name is actually Kay though, or more specifically, Kayla) * [[{{ej92}} This troper's]] college friend has his last name as O. * This troper once stayed in a hotel room with a girl who had a boyfriend called only by "T". It was during that stay in the hotel room that I realized how annoying ONE LETTER could be. * This troper frequently goes by "G". [[SarcasmMode Likely because of all the other folks named "Graham".]] ---Go back to [[OneLetterName O]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OneNoteCook * T.T.'s sister is a definite single-note chef. Her single food is scrambled eggs--she can make 'em light and fluffy and just to her liking, but attempt to get her to cook anything else (even mac 'n' cheese) and she pales. It must be a family thing; our dad is a LethalChef at times... * ThisTroper bought a beginner's cookbook upon arriving in Japan and hasn't managed to get past the first recipe -- not because it's difficult, but because it's too convenient. The three main ingredients are cabbage, carrots, and sliced pork, and these things can be bought in the exact amounts to make the recipe twice, and one making of the recipe is two dinners, which means the other three days of the week are for pouch curry, cup noodles, and convenience store bento respectively... * I'm slowly learning how to make things that aren't just microwaveable schlock. At the moment, though, all I can make is pasta (and rather simplistic pasta at that - no homemade sauce for me), omelettes, and I can muddle my way through fajitas. * I'd like to know how to cook, but at the moment, the only things I can cook are as follows: brownies (from box mixes), over-easy eggs, deviled eggs, hardboiled eggs and hotdogs. * I can make rice easily, and get it damn near perfect most of the time (if the water/rice ratio is off, it ends up stuck to the bottom of the pot or a porridge). But if I try to make pasta (which should in all senses be easier to make) it all goes to Hell * ThisTroper has this with cooking vessels: She can only make things in frying pans. Letting her near a pot, oven, slow cooker, or any other device is a bad idea. * I'm more like a [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth 3 chords]] cook, but I look like this next to my 5-star chef friend. * This troper loves to cook, but is probably closer to this than 5star. My one true food is Macaroni Cheese. I can whip up a potful in literally 15 minutes. ---I'm sorry, but all I know how to make is OneNoteCook.

OneOfTheBoys * This Troper's desire to be One Of The Boys led to a brief period of believing herself to be {{transsexual}}. It only made her more miserable than she'd been before. * This Tropette didn't realize she's it until one of her male friends said that she's 'a great guy, who has been given boobs by God for some reason'. * This troper broke her best friend's nose when she met him, (age 5) because he said she couldn't play with him and his friends. I have been friends with them ever since. * On behalf of all males, I'd like to apologize for the dumbasses some of you have befriended. Why anyone would friend zone most of you as a question I think it's impossible to answer. I may be biased, as I most certainly would never date someone who wouldn't fit in here. Still, these morons don't know what they're missing. * This Troper is defintely one of the boys. Because I have been a life-long {{Tomboy}}, I am usually seen with my male, geeky friends at my school's video gaming and anime club meetings, I chat about punk rock with male friends in my gym class (since everyone else in the class is annoying, a douche, or [[{{The Libby}} a Libby]]), I absolutely hate preps, I loan video games and anime out to male friends, and I am seen as a {{Cool Big Sis}} to her male friends. But, I do have some female friends. * I was the go-to girl for guys involved with ''other'' girls. Because I was one of the guys, they could talk to me where they couldn't to ''regular'' girls. ** As a kid, this troper used to receive awkward, but well-intentioned compliments from guy friends such as "LOL but you're not a real girl, you're awesome!" Now her status as "not a real girl" has her firmly filed away in the Friend Zone in the minds of all of her childhood guy friends. ** Are we twins? If so, I have the sister I always dreamed of! ** More like triplets. ** Quadruplets now. I have more sisters! Wait... * When this troper was younger, she was friends with a pair of fraternal twins: a boy and a girl. Every year, when they would send out invitations to their shared birthday parties, boys would receive one invite and girls another. Just guess which one this troper got every year. ** Nowadays, while this troper gets a lot more respect from guys as a person than some of her "girlier" friends due to her tomboyish nature, she often finds it exceedingly hard to get a date because NoGuyWantsAnAmazon. * This Troper once had to dress like a stripper for a play she was in and the reaction from one of her guy friends who she's known since kindergarten and regularly refers to her as "bro" was: "oh my god you're hot... that's really weird." We ended up going to prom together because we decided we could make each other look good and have a shit ton of fun not dealing with the pressure of a romantic date. It was the best prom ever. * This might be the wrong position for it, but this guy frequently found himself in this position for female friends.

* This troper actually found this to be her advantage, since it got her a wonderful boyfriend and earned her several "little brothers". All of whom she loves to death. * You can pretty much always find me hanging with boys, and boys only. It gets to the point where if I'm forced to work in a group with girls (note the word 'forced'), I feel very, very weird and out of my comfort zone. * This troper's sister was like this she had more male friends than female friends this eventually landed her current boyfriend, she is also the loudest belcher in our family and can beat almost any guy in an arm wrestling match. * This troper hung out with boys and talked about videogames. If you told her to wear a dress, she would force you to eat it. If it weren't for her gender being female, my friends would never have had to yell out SheIsNotMyGirlfriend! * This (male)([[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat straight]]) troper seems to end up as one of the ''girls'' often enough. I've always taken it as a complement, though the time I ended up in the middle of a group discussion about the problems of wearing white clothing at certain times of the month was...interesting. * [[MayaTH This troper.]] Oh, so much. As a kid I only had male friends and even now, in my early 20s, I find it impossible to relate to girls who are neither nerds nor fellow tomboys. ** Exactly! Then again, I have been told by my sister that if I were any more like [[FinalFantasyVII Reno]], I'd grow a.... well, you know what I mean. * This troper like the one two entries up, has...for most his life, been just one of the girls. God, I hate the Friend Zone. * [[ROFLopadous This Troper]] sometimes thinks she's a deconstruction of this trope. Her friends are mostly guys or tomboys which is all well and good, but she freaking hates the shit out of it once there's feelings that tend to get in the way. Almost all the guys she ends up liking always see her as [[JustFriends just her]] and that thinking of her beyond that is just [[LikeBrotherAndSister wrong]]. She's at least now resigned to that fate and tries not to get her hopes too high with boys. ** That sounds so much like me it hurts. I never minded being one of the guys until I got old enough to be Boy Crazy, and then hated that the guys I liked never saw me as anything but a friend or sistersubstitute since I was "one of the guys". It wasn't until I finally fell in love with a ''girl'' for the first time that I finally found someone who would date me. (Which I'm definitely not ungrateful for, but still, sigh.) ** An inversion of the deconstruction here - several of my male friends have ended up falling in love with me (Because of my [[strike:inability to apply make-up]] UmkemptBeauty? Because they know me well enough to know that I'm not a BitchInSheepsClothing but simply a JerkAss? I have no idea.) which has proven to be a major problem since I'm [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]]. I'm becoming more and more afraid of getting new male friends if there's even the slightest possibility they might develop feelings for me, and I'm unable to feel comfortable around girls.

* [[{{Luna87}} This troper]] was especially this in high school. My grandma was shocked to see me looking in the men's section when we went shopping. I also had a lot of guy friends. Unfortunately, this was also how my crush saw me, much to my chagrin. * As a child I spent most of my time playing with boys. I put it down to having an older brother and so I got used to playing 'boy games'. Nowadays I do have more girl friends than guy friends, but the girls I'm friends with have a similar background. * This troper was this during grade school, mainly because the girls in her class were all TheLibby, or trying to be. (The fact that this troper got to hang out with the boys only made them jealous and even more libby-like.) After switching schools, and fitting in better with the girls, she could get along with both sexes...unless either were {{Jerkass}}es. Then this troper went to a [[PinkBishoujoGhetto women's college]] for their biology program, and, well, rarely sees any guys (unless they're professors or her friends' boyfriends/fiances.) She still gets along with those she does see, though. * I'm sort of a deconstruction. While I regularly hang out with guys and feel uncomfortable with other girls, I hate being referred to as a dude. OneOfTheBoys? Sure, fine. It's just that, in my opinion, girls can do boy stuff WITHOUT being called a dude/man/etc. To be honest, I hate tomboys. Especially the ones that will hit you for no reason. You CAN be OneOfTheBoys without being a tomboy. It JustBugsMe that people assume that you're a tomboy just because you do boy stuff and hang out with boys all the time . . . * Truth of the matter is, this troper was RaisedByDudes. Three older boy cousins, and an ''uncle'' who was ''fifteen'' when she was born, meaning that, even if she did dress like a girl, wore dresses, and acted like a lady, she would still throw on some jeans and go sit in her cousin's room with the lot of them and talk about "Guy Stuff". The good thing is it has not affected my love life, most guys I meet are actually overjoyed to find a girl who is not freaking out about how her hair looks, and my boyfriend and I are extremely happy,even if he's not the toughest guy out there, and I'm not the most delicate flower around. * This troper, not that it's a big deal most of the time. I didn't have any good friends who were girls until late elementary school, and even then they were more like the guys than the girls. I identify better with guys, though the girl friends I do have are also into traditionally "boy" things: comic books, video games, action movies, etc. My best friend generally considers it okay to talk about anything with me because, his words verbatim, "You're more like a guy than a girl." It helps that I'm bisexual, so I have similar views when it comes to girls. The only thing that kills me about being one of the guys is a common occurrence on this page: the "friend zone." Since I'm just one of the guys, I'm not even considered as girlfriend material. It especially sucks when you hear these guys complaining about how they can't find a geeky girl who doesn't get wrapped up in all that "crazy girl drama." * Inverted with me: Yes, I'm a male, yes, [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I'm straight]], but for some reason, most of my friends since I was in kindergarden have been

girls. There was a time when one of my friends actually said (after bitching about her ex boyfriend in a "all boys suck" way) "Oh no! Except you: you're fine, you're like one of the girls!"...A little odd but what the hell? They are my best friends in the world and I won't change that for anything. * I play with the inverse. I've always been decent with females, but now it's reached a point where I have more close female friends than male ones; I'm almost ThatOneGuy. I really don't know why. * Another inversion here. Male, straight, gets along with girls amazingly well, starts contemplating mass murder when left with other guys for longer than an hour. * Most of this troper's friends are geeky guys, and while she's more of a culture/debating person (good luck finding more than one of those when you're 14) than a gaming/internet person, she gets on pretty well with them and, unlike most of the girls she knows (who talk normally to gay/non-threatening guys), can actually talk to them (it works the opposite way round too: because I act more like a guy than is strictly normal they feel more comfortable around me and don't see me as a puzzle with convenient orifices). To the point where a gynophobic friend of mine isn't scared of me (because I don't count) and a slightly saner one thinks I look really weird in skirts and dresses (I'm not entirely comfortable in them either...). * This troper is one (and has been one since she was young) and loves hanging out with her guy friends. However, as much of a good thing this has been to her, this troper fears that being just 'one of the boys' will be the reason why her unrequited crush on her guy friend will always be... well, unrequited. Damn you Friend Zone. * When I (a male, straight troper, btw) was very young (around the 6-8 age group; memory is a little fuzzy but this story ''is'' confirmed by my parents), I was very good friends with one of these types, who played with me and my other two male friends at the time. What makes this tale interesting is that she must have ''really'' liked me because she gave me my first kiss and I was ''not'' expecting it to happen....and then she moved away the next day. Come to think of it, it might explain part of the reason I'm so attracted to tomboys, especially this type. * This troper grew up ''wishing'' to be one of the guys, because they got to do things like play football and other physical activities. Being the social misfit she was, she never fit in with the guys ''or'' the [[AvertedTrope girls.]] * The fun thing of being "one of the guys" is when I am grouped together with "the guys" by other people who do not necessarily know of my "guy" status. This has included being addressed as "sir" once by the costume manager when I was in theater, and being told that I should "be outside picking up chicks" on a nice summer day. The best was when a few other girls from my dorm were hanging out in the same lounge as me and my guy friends: the girls talked with us a bit, watched some tv, then left the room saying "Bye-bye, boys". After they left, there were a few seconds of silence as everyone else in the room stared at me, followed by everyone collectively saying "WTF?" while I laughed hysterically. * My female friends poke fun at me for having more guy friends than I

do them. And then they say I'm in love with all of them. They're such idiots. (still love em) * Ever since her teenage years, this troper always preferred hanging out with guys rather than with girls. I've always preferred playing ball, combat sports, video games and just plain talking with guys rather than being with the bunch of teenage girls talking about guys and fashion. Ever since, my regular female friends are mostly lesbians or like-minded women. And yes, I'm straight. * This troper, as well, and she never really grew out of it - in middle school, she could hardly sit near anything with a uterus, let alone make eye contact or conversation about the weather, and she was even mistaken as a boy by boys outside of the five man group. That's great for someone's ego, eh? **grumblegrumble** On another note, it IS handy to be able to talk to guys about guy things, and at least to this troper, girls talk about utterly incomprehensible and complex things she could never get her head around**coughdramacough**. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] was, and still largely is, a very big tomboy. Many of my friends are now girls, but I have very close guy friends too, and when I was younger, the guy-to-girl pal ratio was much, much higher on the guy side. * This troper has a hard time carrying a conversation with girls. I could care less who's going out with who and what you're wearing to the dance, I'd rather discuss the finer points of medieval weaponry designs for the Renny Faire with the only two people in my grade that I feel not-akward talking to. And there's no need to worry about the "Friend Zone" since I'm not sure of my sexuality. * This troper grew up with several boys, a dad who refused his only daughter dress up in "girly clothes" and several relatives who further encouraged her tomboyishness. I could still hang out with regular girls, just not as comfortably as with other guys, and I probably have more platonic relationships with the guys than most of the girls in our class. Heck, in our whole family, it's practically established that I'm one of the boys. * Inversion here, [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This straight male troper]] gets along better with girls. * Subversion: This troper had actually more male friends and prefared boy games like football, but mostly becouse they happended to be around more often. It's probabley more WildChild than OneOfTheBoys as troper simply doesn't care about social norms, which makes her more boyish than girly. * While jokingly texting one of my guy friends about how he verbally abuses me, he texted me back that Bros don't need to be nice to each other. So I'm a bro. Also, strike two for my best friend breaking up with his girlfriend was that she was hyper jealous of me. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} I]] was this in high school among my group of drama club friends, which might explain why none of them were willing to go to prom with me. [[SheCleansUpNicely Their loss, I guess]]. These days is more of the same; I still feel more comfortable with guys than women, which makes my job (at a fabric store, where the shoppers and employees are predominately female) all the more challenging for me. * This troper's [[PlatonicLifePartners best friend]] is one. She's

constantly hanging out with me and my HetrosexualLifePartner, she wears more boyish clothes than we do, is better at Football and videogames than we are, and knows how to dropkick two guys in the nuts (As we learnt when we gave her a wedgie that ripped her GoofyPrintUnderwear). All three of use constantly tease each other, wrestle, and other stuff. * This troper hung around with someone who was very much OneOfTheBoys for a while. [[{{Transsexual}} Turns out there was a reason for that]]. ---Go back playing with the guys at OneOfTheBoys. ---<<|TroperTales|>> )

OneSceneWonder * This troper done it twice in college works: once, his group recorded a fake radio commercial - it was tacky to the extreme, but the class only laughed when at the ending the troper said "Limited time offers!" Then, in a video, his appearance as a robber, in only two scenes, one being the memorable part (enters the frame, says "Let's get out, dammit!", and leaves) and other being just rendering someone hostage in the background. The class liked so much that the troper was the biggest response when the teacher asked "who was the best supporting actor?" out of all the delivered videos. * [[{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]], during a choral recitation contest more than halfway through the previous school year. She was really included all throughout the performance--but as a tribal sacrifice. I was playing dead from the beginning of the performance, but I heard a couple of praises here and there of how I played my role really well. * To this troper, this can apply to people who have a profound effect on your life, once; and then you never see them again. This troper had a Hasidic Jew strike up a conversation with him at random in which, in less than one hour, he extolled his wisdom on everything from dating, to faith in {{GOD}}, to the economy, to his favorite basketball team. This troper never saw the man again, but his words have stayed with him for all five years since their meeting. * This troper's older friend could be considered this, because, even though he attended the same high school she did, all he is remembered for was his CrowningMomentOfAwesome, in which he, being the chivalrous idiot he usually is, saw this one girl about to get hit by a much MUCH larger guy, and ''tackled him to the ground, faought him bare-handed and won''. all the underclassmen who didn't get to meet him then just refer to him as "That guy who beat the shit out of *Insert GirlBeater's name here*" * This troper is often remembered for doing small roles in plays than larger roles (I think my biggest role was as the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz). What can I say, if you can stand out while being in the chorus or a minor part, you have to be doing something right. ** A similar example was when I was doing a group activity where we had to record a 50's style radio show. I performed "Dream" in a very

high voice (ok, I had a alto voice at the time) while a friend (with a tenor voice) performed "Teenager in Love" at the same time. It was easily the best part of the show. * This troper is usually limited to these in School productions (except for Urinetown this past year), but it's obvious why- he steals the big laughs and the show on the spot. It's true- In 2008, we did Little Shop of Horrors. I was Bernstein and on every night, the audience laughed so loud after my line deliveries I couldn't even hear Seymour's dialogue- louder than any other scene in the show. A few months later I would go on to play Timon in a revue where we did Hakuna Matata. I remember plenty telling me I got the biggest laughs. So really, I guess it's a justified case of One Scene Wonder after all! * I do believe that I am more remembered for standing on a bench and being heard over about 20 people creating a hubbub in the wedding scene of FiddlerOnTheRoof without a microphone (I did in fact blow out my voice doing Fiddler because for some reason the director thought I didn't need a mic at all) rather than being one of 2 girls forced into cross-dressing and donning BEARDS because the amount testosterone was...[[IncrediblyLamePun practically emasculation.]] * This troper was recently part of a small play, just four people, ensemble cast and all that. The performances were SoOkayItsAverage, despite his best efforts to ham it up (the script was... eh...). But on the second to last line he turned the ham UpToEleven. The only reason anyone remembers the play now is because of that line and a previous one, wherein he's [[HoYay more worried about a guy]].

OneSteveLimit * in my school, there were two daniels: Big daniel and small daniel. * I still go by my nickname (used by parents and friends). Well, in third grade, there was somebody else that had that same nickname as their first name. I had to revert to using my real name. It confused me to no end, and I've used my real name in school from then on. * Neopie Has the name Jacob (Last name), well, i know a Noah (Same last name) and a Jacob. * Played straight by this Troper's lacrosse team. 30+ people, and there are no repeated names. * This Troper twice encountered amusing solutions to this. In elementary school, there were a proliferation of Chrises, and thus they would be referred to to by Chris and their last initial--Chris N. for instance. The trouble was, This Troper's best friend's last name was Propst, and he thus quickly became known as Crispy (Chris P.) Then, in high school, our class had two Kyles (who happened to largely hang out together, meaning you couldn't tell based on context which one was being discussed.) This was remedied by dubbing one of them Kiwi, after an embarrassing incident he apparently suffered with one in sixth grade... ** This troper had the same problem with Chrises (Chrisi? how do you pluralize 'Chris'?) in high school. Throught various classes, I knew about 10 people with the name Chris. Made worse by the fact that there was one group of three or four Chris's with whom this Troper was close

friends, and most of them had siblings that made use of last names slightly impractical. *** Scarily enough ** This Troper had four Chrises in his high school class. Only one was called by his name, the rest by their nicknames. *** This is actually a pretty good laugh when you thing about chrises being a homophone to crisi (crisises). A bad pun, yeah, but it's useful when you know a few. *** This is your resident GrammarNazi speaking. The plural of "Chris" is "Chrises", pronounced of course "Chris is". The plural of "crisis" is "crises", pronounced "cry-sees". [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Not a homophone]]. Only Latin words ending in -us take the -i plural. * This troper had four people named Alex in her middle school band. Luckily, each of us played a different instrument, so we were AlexTrumpet, Alex-Flute, Alex-Drums, and I don't remember what the last one played. It was quite amusing and very confusing. * This troper attended elementary school in the same year as two Brian Rs. He attended a small middle school in the same year as a Sam M, a Sam N, and a Sam O. He attended a small high school in the same year as an Eric, an Erik, and an Erick. He attended a summer conservatory with three Sara(h)s, although one of them went by her middle name to avoid confusion. He is a Peter L, and is now in a small college in the same year as another Peter L. * When this troper was the second grade, there was a Steven Orlando and a Stephen Key. One went by nickname ''and'' initial - Stevie O. The other, instead of an initial, became Stephen Key, as his last name was only one syllable anyway. This troper wonders if this is how Charlie Brown attained FullNameBasis - another Charlie B. in his class? * Both subverted and played straight with this troper. Both he and his father have the same first name, but different middle names due to the family tradition that a namesake is chosen from the genealogy. So he grew up answering to his middle name while his father answered to the first. However, in his sci-fi group the tradition has been that everybody gets a nickname after doing something noteworthy that tends to be highly unique except for the ROTC cadets, which all have variations of the same one. In this troper's case, it's a common houseplant except [[SpellMyNameWithAnS My Name Spelt With An S]]. * In high school, this troper's art teacher was Thomas IV with no middle name, and went by Tom. His son, Thomas V, was given the middle name of Clay specifically as a built-in nickname. * This troper thinks ''WaysideSchool'' had it easy: there were three Erics and an Erik in his fourth-grade class. * There were a LOT of Davids in this troper's school district. In first grade, there was David L, who was little, David B, who was big, and David M, who was medium. We used to use last initials, but by high school it became standard practice to refer to them by last name. This extended to some non-David individuals; for example, an Aaron was never once referred to by his first name. * This troper, besides being one of many Matthews in grade school (and one of three guys with the same first AND last name his freshman year at college, distinguished by Old, Big, and Little), currently has

THREE Ryans on his project team at work. * This troper shared his first (Michael) and last name and middle initial with another person from his high school graduating class. At college he'd occasionally get email for a professor with the same first and last name. At his current job? Yup, there's another person with the same first and last name in this building and around 20 scattered throughout the company. No matter where he goes, there's always another him. * This troper was in the same year as another Thomas A while in elementary, middle, and high school. We both decided to call him Tommy and me Thomas. * This troper used to think Megan was a relatively unique name... until, of course, I got to high school. There are ''three'' of them besides me, and one of them spells her name differently. * This troper deal with four different Matts on a daily basis in his last year of high school. Simple solution? Use their last names instead. A few of them were already known by this to begin with. ** This troper's engineering college class included an ungodly number of Matts. They each got a disambiguating nickname, some of which were: "Chris-Matt" (long story), "Drunk Matt", "Angry Matt", "Matt-away" (a ''portmanteau'' of his first and last names), and "The Other White Matt". (This troper's own name is fairly common, but one of the bonuses of being one of a handful of women in a male-dominated major is that first-name collisions are vanishingly rare.) * This troper has a friend named Danielle and a boss named Daniel only the boss is French, so they're both pronounced dan-YELL. For this reason, the boss is usually Dan. * This troper felt bad for one professor, teaching his very first term, having to deal with a Laura, Lauren, and Laurel all in the same class (and sitting in the same area). ** Hah. Meet this troper's elementary school class. Or rather, meet Lauren, Lauren, Laura, Leila and Lorna! * This troper knows at least seven Davids, including four sets of brothers named David and Benjamin, three of which went to the same church. Being named "Mary", this troper is more often than not referred to by her full name, but since her last name is "Lin" this just causes many to think that her first name is either Marilyn or Mary Lynn. * In this troper's class, there were two boys with the name Thomas, so the teacher decided the call them "S" and "K" (the initials of their respective last names). Unfortunately, there were also two boys who shared another first name, but their last names also ended in S and K... things became easier when one of them moved away. * @/{{Seanette}} recalls sitting near a classmate in high school chemistry named Jeannette (very likeable person), which caused our teacher some confusion. She also found herself in several different grade levels (small town) in a classroom that had two Tammy M's. * One of this troper's middle school classes had three girls named Jennifer. The teacher used the old last initials trick, but a substitute teacher taking roll call had to be asked "Which one?" when she got to the first Jennifer. * @/DarkInsanity13 encounters the aversion of this trope

''constantly''. She often complains of knowing "too many damn Kevins" (one of them being her best friend), but finds herself being in the same class as two (or more) Matts, Emmas, Chris', Megans, Davids, Dans, Erics, Victorias, Scotts, Amandas, Sams (female, not male, strangely), Kayla...there was the odd occasion when a couple of them had the same first initial for their last name, but none the less it drives this troper crazy when she can't refer to someone by just their first name. Thankfully, this troper has an uncommon first name and has only come across one or two people with the same name in her school (all of which were in different grades/courses). * Voodoo Master's middle school class has, currently, a Meghann and a Megan (I think that's how you [[HollywoodSpelling spell their names]]). There's some minor difficulty, since they're in the same classes. Throughout his entire school, however, there was once ''four'' Jakes at once, only one of which he was friends with. Now that two of them have left, it's gotten considerably easier. * This Troper's dad was in the pub one afternoon when someone walked in and said "Hello Dave". At which point seven Daves said "Hello" back. * This troper's wedding party (groomsmen, ushers, etc)? Three Stephens, two Johns, and a Jack. * This Troper had four guys called Joonas ('s' is part of the name, not a plural or something) on her class for six years. They all got nicknames based on their surnames. * Ah, the adventures of Tall John, Crack John, Big John, and Talented John! All great, unique, likable guys who hung out together. * @/{{Nomic}} hed two highschool teachers named Jouko. The other one was always called by his last name. Infact a lot of time this troper forgot it wasn't his first name. * In school @/{{ThatWackyGerman}} shared his name with 3 other guys. * My group of friends in school was like Catch-22: Two Pauls, two Rosses, two Paddys, two Bobs, Darragh/Darren (Darragh is pronounced "Darra" so it's easy to confuse the two). Also had two guys in primary school - they were unrelated but had identical first, middle and surnames; got nicknames based on hair colour. * In a bunk of around 20 people, the four campers named Josh got together and gave each other numbers - Josh 1, Josh 2, etc to which they stuck to for the rest of the summer. I was Josh 3. * This troper had no fewer than ''nine'' Ashleys and ''seven'' Amandas in her graduating class of just over 100 people. * This troper's name is Christie. There is a girl named Kristie in her tutor group at college (names pronounced the same). Borderline example: the same group also includes an Emma, an Emilie and an Emelia. * Throughout elementary/middle school, there were at least 2-3 Marys in my grade at a time, including myself. All of our last names began with S. On top of that, there were 3 Seans, 3-4 Nicks, two Megans and a Maegan, and a handful of Kates of all kinds. Oh, and there were two Marys in the school office- a Mary S., and a Mary R. Why yes I did go to a Catholic school. * This troper's younger brother's elementary school class originally was to contain two pairs of twins, both named "Amrit" and "Simrit."

This was averted after the kindergarten teacher learned of it and threatened to quit. * When this troper moved to a new town, the first thing out of his classmates' mouths when he introduced himself was "At least he's not a Jason". Turns out that class (which consisted of no more than 30 people) already has ''four'' Jasons. * This troper's name is Alex, which tends to be an uncommon name... For a girl. Her seventh grade math class had ''four'' other people named Alex, but they were all boys except her. This kind of thing happens in pretty much all of her classes to this day. It gets ''old''. * Had a Suzanna, Suziyana and Fuziana in the same class one year. Yeah, that got old fast. * This troper shared his name with another Nicholas in primary school. The bad thing was that both of us had the same initials, so there wasn't exactly any way to give us different nicknames. We didn't socialise much, him being a jerk and all, so the trouble was averted... ** ...until this year, when my Art teacher uses the same nickname to refer to both me and Nicola, meaning that, when both of us are in the same room, we have no idea who he's referring to. * This troper is from New Jersey and named Jeff. In his second year of college (near Philly) he met another guy named Jeff from Texas (not that that odd I know). Jeff #1 and Jeff #2 later discovered they have the same middle name as well! Then the Jeffs met a third Jeff from around Philly (and does not go to the same school as Jeff #1 and Jeff #2) who ALSO has the same middle name as Jeff #1 and Jeff #2!! Needless to say, no one ever really calls any of the three Jeffs "Jeff." The Universe loves to play tricks on us I suppose. Also this troper is kind of annoyed when people still call him by his last name even when the other two Jeffs are miles away. ** This troper is almost always the only Jeff anywhere he goes. The exceptions were when he used to work with a guy also named Jeff and the boss never used our last names when calling for us, and senior year of high school when somehow 5 Jeff's ended up in several classes together. * This troper, one of four James in his college class, was also one of four in high school. His dad is a James as well. There really needs to be some sort of cull. * @/{{Noir-Okami}} had various Katies and Taylors. * Averted and appearing straight in this troper's life: Back home, his family constantly got mail in Spanish meant for a Padilla family, and his mother worked in a hospital where there was a Dr. Padilla, but he personally went almost 20 years without meeting a single other person named ''Paul''. He's not from a small town, and went to at least 4 different schools before college. Paul doesn't seem like it'd be that uncommon a name, and yet... * This troper has four Jennifers in her class. Jen D, Jen D, Jen L, and Jen X. That's all the Jennifers in the grade. Yippee. * This troper's name is Daniel. When he was in high school, both assistant principals were named Daniel. One of his classmates for several years there was named Daniel. In college, he has a classmate

named Ryan and a roommate named Ryan. ** This troper knows four Daniels--all of whom speak Spanish and know each other. One is Daniel (pronounced in English as he is the only American), one is Daniel (pronounced in Spanish), one is Danny, and the other is Lemus (Also Spanish as it's his last name) * Every year for several years in a row, there was a different name in excess in this troper's circle of acquaintances. First it was the Matts, then the Bens, then the Petes, and later the Christophers. * This Troper currently has two Nicks, two Johns, two Jills, two Evans, and two Devins (one male, one female) all living in in my hall at college. One of those names is mine. I'll let you guess which. * Both of my coworkers in the same project are named Dima (Dmitry). The customer refers to them as "Dima 1" and "Dima 2" in the order in which they joined. * @/{{Regiment}} (Matt) has a friend (Matt) with a friend (Matt). We have a mutual friend (Mike) and ''his'' friend (Matt). Sometimes this gets confusing... but not as bad as when this troper worked for a Mat that sounded like him over the phone. He got at least one call from another employee, and it took about five minutes until he realized that the employee wanted Mat, not Matt. * In an online game, @/RedRajah's character refers to her brother (an NPC) as "Proper Pedro" as opposed to the fellow player who's running a character with the same name, AKA "Other Pedro". And yes, it's a homage to when ''Series/DoctorWho'' did it. * When this troper studied the Russian language in university (this happened in Norway, not too far from the Russian border), at one point there were two immigrant women from Russia attending classes, looking for easy credits by studying something already familiar to them. Both were named Ljudmila, and one of the professors took to calling them Ljudmila pervaja ("first") and Ljudmila vtoraja ("second") to differentiate between them. The funny thing is, one was a blonde ethnic Russian, the other was a "mongoloid" Nenets with black hair, yellow-brown skin and "almond eyes". Seemed more obvious to call them "svetlaja" (light) and "tjomnaja" (dark) instead. * Welcome to the group! Oh, what's that, your name's Chris? Uh-oh. Pick up a nickname at the door and say hi to Toph, Toast, Bitch and Scum. We also have three Jesses, but you'll have to learn to tell them apart by yourself. * When [[@/{{Scifantasy}} I]] started college, I joined a residential program--sort of like a geeky, school-run fraternity. They already had a Will Black (named that way for his tendency to wear black) and a Will White (named for his tendency to not be Will Black), so I was dubbed "Will Gray." My immediate reaction, of course, was "[[BabylonFive I stand between the candle and the star?]]" * Jonathan, Johnny, Jono, John and Jay. No confusion. * @/{{Zemyla}}'s sister knows too damn many people named Matt. We refer to them with nicknames, such as Bunny and Pineapple. Of course, this is partly because she seems to know [[ItsASmallWorldAfterAll every college-aged person in the city]]. * This troper had another student in his middle school classes that had nearly the same full name, except for a couple of letters that made no difference on the pronunciation. And of course, whenever our

names were called we'd both answer. * EVERY Asian girl this troper went to high school with was named Jen, Jenny or Jennifer or some variant thereof. * When this troper was at school there were three Victorias who were in the same group of friends and who answered to Vicky, Tor, and Tory respectively. Other name duplicates, eg the half a dozen Rachels, were refered to by their full names. ** Also, this troper's sister has two friends both named Bobby. Since they're different genders, they're generally referred to as Bobby-girl and Bobby-boy. * Taken to the extreme in my English class, where we had two people who had the same first and the same last name. And one other person who shared the same first name, just for confusion. There was also an amazing proliferation of Catherines, many of whom somehow ended up in alphabetical order. Some of them also had nicknames, but those aren't much help when Kate, Katie, and Kat are all sitting right next to each other... * This troper and his college roomie, both named Dave, visitted the house of three guys, two of which were named Dave. The one non-Dave answered the phone ... and it was for Dave. "Hey, Dave?" "What?" times four echoed forth, followed by four voices all exclaiming "Dont. Just. Say. Dave!" * Everyone, ''everyone'' in this troper's town is Ashley, Amanda, Caitlin (various spellings), Jennifer, Nicole, James, Anthony, Justin, Christopher, or Matthew. Scarily, they all look the same, dress the same, and act the same, too. She lives in a town of depraved clone people, and wonders if visitors are driven crazy with constant deja vu. * This Troper's previous workplace had 4 Tims. His current one has 4 Toms. * This troper had Ashley, Ashley, and Ashleigh in elementary and Ashley, Ashlie, and Ashley ( no repeats) in middle school as well as 2 Christinas, a Christian and a Kristen, and a number of Christophers and Jessicas. Not too mention many of this troper's relatives don't have an original thought in their brains when it comes to names. She doesn't even want to get into that. * This troper's third grade class had four boys named Chris, two of whom shared the same last initial. The teacher never even tried to be specific when she called on a Chris, and would be irritated when they all answered at once. * My class in preschool had 20 students, 9 of whom were male, 5 of whom, myself included, were named "Matthew". That's an even one quarter of the class, and ''over'' half the boys in the class. Nearly the entire first full-length day of class was spent trying to figure out what to call everybody. It didn't help that one of us (the Matthews) didn't have a middle name, and my own middle name (Alan) was already taken as the first name of one of the 4 non-Matthews in the male side of the class. * This troper has had 3 different instances of One Steve Limit during his lifetime: ** In second grade, he had 3 classmates named "Jose Martinez." No middle name or nickname to fall back on. So our teacher dubbed them

"Jose 1," "Jose 2," and "Freddy." The jury is still out as to why "Jose 3" couldn't be used, or where the heck "Freddy" came from. ** Fast forward to freshman year of college, Japanese class. In a class of less than thirty students, seven (5 male, 2 female) had the last name "Lee." It gets better: 5 had the same first initial "J," of which 4 had the same middle initial "H," of which 2 had the exact same full name (Joseph Hyun Lee). Needless to say, addressing any of the seven "Lee-sans" didn't work very well in that class... *** Although this troper was fortunate to not be one of the "Leesans," he couldn't escape the confusion of "Pham-san" and "Phan-san." ** At working adult age a few years ago, this troper had two supervisors in the same department with the name "Sharon." Sharon G. Sharon K. G. Oh dear... * My various experiences with multiple names: ** In second grade there were two Michael M's in our class. The teacher used that as justification for making us all write full first and last names on every assignment. ** At a summer camp, there were such various characters as Tall Dan, Counselor Dan, Tan Dan, and my personal favorite Oblivious Dan. The latter kept his nickname even when there no longer was an abundance of Dans. ** At present, the two females I'm attempting to get to know better are both Jennifers. And my favorite sister is too. So they're one-n Jen, two-n Jenn, and sister Jennifer. * In 7th grade, there were: John M, John 'ugly' M, John A. O.; Marina M and Marina C; Alex 'Rufi', Alex Garca O, Alex Garca L; Willy G and Willy M; George A, George B, George G; Christina M and Christina G; Claire B and Claire G; Nerea C and Nerea M; Rose O, Rose G and Rose L. THAT without getting into those who had their last names or middle names repeated. * This troper's freshman (college) class had so many Jessicas in it that why had to give them all descriptors so people could identify which specific one they were talking to or about. We had Little Jessica (she's 4'11"), Hypoglycemic Jessica, Jesika with a "K", Jessica with a Southern accent, Black Jessica, and a couple others I can no longer recall. * At this troper's old high school, there were a surprising number of boys named Ashley and girls named Rebecca. * This troper have had enough with meeting Daniels. She has an older brother, a crapload of classmates, and the most awkward: ''an exboyfriend'' by that name. * In one workgroup, we had seven Roberts. Out of 15 people. * Been there, had that problem myself. One place I worked, I was one of ''five'' Matts - eventually yelling that name meant that you just needed an extra pair of hands. I recently had a coworker named Mike; and it seemed like EVERYONE we had to call had someone named Mike working there. One distributor commented that "Every supply house needs a Mike, a Matt, and a Frank working there." When I was at college, the limited name pool got worse; one class included three Amys and ''four'' Steves. One of the RAs said she could just about round up her floor by yelling for "Amy, Tonya, Jennifer, and Sharon." * In high school, this troper went by her middle name, Ellen. There

was another Ellen * my next door neighbor, oddly enough* in the Spanish class we shared. We were Ellen A and Ellen B, due to last names. Fast forward to now. This troper's gone back to her first name, Travis... and one of the guys who works with me is also a Travis. We greet each other with "Hey, Travis, it's Travis!" ... We're easily amused. * This troper is the secretary at her church. Running the place (more or less) is the congregation council, which consists of twelve people. At present, four of them are named Debbie, and two are named Betty. ** In the same church's Vacation Bible School, three of the teenagers helping in one classroom were named Katelyn, and all went by the nickname Katie. * This troper and her best friend are both named Jessica. To the rest of our [[{{Nakama}} group]], troper is Peanut Butter (or PB) and friend is Chicken. There were also far too many Chris's (several sharing last initials, two of whom had homophonic last names!), Ashleys, Brittanys, and Bobby's in our high school for troper's comfort. In college, there are three other Jessicas on the same floor of my dorm, and five Travis's on my boyfriend's. * This troper is named Kate; one of her closest friends is named Kat. Apart from classes and the like, we are rarely found apart from each other; we often finish each others' sentences; we have vaguely similar appearances (same hair and eye color, and glasses); we have been declared twins separated at birth by most of our other friends. Everyone this troper knows, including herself, has gotten our names wrong at least once. [[HilarityEnsues Confusion has been known to occur]]. * This troper was - not being terribly original in the process - one of several Matts at his high school. It was usually pretty easy to distinguish between us, though - if we were in the same class, the teachers called us by our last names, except in cases where the teacher liked one of us over another (i.e., my English teacher called me plain "Matt" and the other by his full name; my history teacher just used last names with everyone). Even beyond that: I was one of like two Matts that ever got involved in the theater program. Every other Matt was a stereotypical JerkJock. After playing the second ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game in which [[spoiler:Matt Engarde turns out to be a CompleteMonster]], it got to the point where I was thoroughly surprised when I met other Matts who were genuinely nice guys. I'm kinda horrible myself. * As a Michael, this troper had to deal with this a lot (and is now going to dispense with the third person because otherwise things would end up kind of confusing): For one, my father is also a Michael, so in the family he was Mike and I was Mikey (which stuck to the point that most people who know me through my sister still think of me as Mikey because that's what she always called me). Then, however, a younger cousin who was ''also'' Mikey started visiting us often enough that there could be confusion, so we had Mike, Mikey, and Little Mikey. In college one of my two roommates was a Mike, so there was Crazy Mike and Normal Mike (I was the former, despite initially suggesting Evil Mike). Finally, I've worked with other Mikes and had to use initials, but oddly none of these other Mikes tend to be employed at the same

place (or at least in the same section of a store) as me for long. ** This troper calls himself Michael because, as you've so ably demonstrated, every other Michael takes a derivative nickname to avoid confusion, leaving my actual name free for me to claim. I was once in a student society with Big Mike, Small Mike, Makka, Michl and Mike The Machine. Nope, no Michaels yet, I'll take that. * @/{{Aela}}'s brother is Jake, as are both the kid she's tutoring and one of her friends. She also knows an obscene number of Johns, has nicknamed her brother's two best friends Proper Alex and Other Alex, and is rather stunned by the number of Megans, Matts, Caitlins, Mikes, Rachels, Erics, Nicoles, and Ashleys at her school. She's only violated the One Michaela Limit once, which was a shock to even her. That eventually worked itself out to "Michaela-with-a-C" and "Mikaelawith-a-K." ** And ''then'' there was the time that the above troper decided to go by [[GenderBlenderName "Mike"]], which lasted all of about two days because her father, an uncle, seemingly half of her classmates, and several friends [[OneSteveLimit were there first.]] * This Troper's grade 8 PE class had five people named Michael, including the teacher. Thankfully, two of the student-Michaels already went by nicknames, so we called them Michael, Mike, Jones, J-Roc and Mr. Kern. * This troper knows a John nicknamed Jack (since there are no Jacks), and a Robert nicknamed Atticus. * This troper's grandmother has an unusual first name (Phyllida) and a common middle name (Mary.) When she was evacuated during the war, it turned out there was already another evacuee child called Phyllida in the house, and everyone began to call her by her middle name despite it being a much more common name. She's now in her 80s and has gone by "Mary" ever since. * @/ManJusticeLeague, noting the irony with regard to the Trope Namer, knows about fifteen Stevens, five of whom have been known to congregate, and two of whom live within a block of each other and have ''matching sisters''. Yes, that's right. Steven and Karen are three years apart... in both families. And they always know which one you're talking to. * This Troper's family has a cat named Phoenix. Not too long after the family adopted him, she got into the AceAttorney series. While fangirling about Phoenix-the-lawyer meeting "an adorable eight year old who happens to be a powerful spirit medium" to a friend, said friend responded "for a minute there, I thought you were talking about your ''cat''". * @/RayAyanami's first name is Raymond. He tends to feel rivalries with other people named Raymond, even if he's never met them yet. Said other Rays being...quite different from him, to say the least, doesn't help. * This troper's current class has two guys with the (over here) normal name "Juho". Very distinct nicknames are used, expect by teachers, who just look at the one they ask a question. * Where this troper works at her college, there is a joke that we need to recruit incoming freshmen named Steven/Stephen to work for us, lest we have fewer Steve's than the same group at another university in the

state. * This troper was one of four Toms in the same class in highschool, three of us next to each other on the register. Luckily, we had pretty distinctive surnames: [=McGinley=], Roderick, Shackson, Streeter. * I know three people named Scott. [[SouthPark They are all dicks.]] * Hey, I'm named Scott! (Take that, datamining!) Possibly a subversion though (wait, no, it isn't), because I seem to end up ''collecting'' nicknames. I don't meet a lot of Scotts, unless they are ''Scots''. Other people apparently do though, which is just another reason I get new nicknames. Due to a bunch of [[NoodleIncident roleplaying game mishaps]] including as much as both a town and a planet named Steve and populated by the same name, I commonly end up using that as my name. Of course, all of this is willfully mocked in what I work on. [[HypocriticalHumour Scott is a ussually stupid name anyway... it's actually cuter as a girls name]]. ~Veritas * This troper has either gotten involved with or just crushed on many fellas named Joe for some reason, and has a friend who has dated two Chrises, and two Michaels. * If your name is Emily, those trope is averted ''hard''. It has been the most popular girls name for about a decade (only recently being unseated by Emma and Isabella), but even in her twenties this troper comes across Emilys her age on a regular basis. Her college dorm floor her freshman year had at least 4 Emilys on her floor. And every twentysomething Emily's parents insist that the name just wasn't popular when they named her, but they all somehow got the same idea. * This troper's first name is Charles. That's also the first name of my late grandfather, uncle and half brother. His grandfather went by Charles, his uncle goes by Bill, his half brother goes by Charlie and the troper goes by Eric. * This troper has never been in a class where she is the only Carolina. currently there are three or four so when attendance is taken it goes something like "did the teacher meant me?" and every name is answered by two or more people. My brother's high school class had about 5 Felipes. My two elder sisters both share their first name (Maria) so people call and ask for "Maria" (usually banks and stores and the likes) and one has to play 20 questions to figure out who they mean. same with my brother and father. both Luis.he went by felipe to avoid this. and my cousin is called Pedro,like his father. my uncle and grandfather are called Joel. and mine and my siblings names are so common one inevitably has friends by the same name. so they must be distinguished by either saying "my friend/sister/brother (name)" or using full names. Though I mostly call siblings by nicknames. * This troper's cousin Jennifer was once dating a guy named Justin, while her brother Justin was dating a girl named Jennifer. It was very confusing. * This troper's group of friends have all (bar one exception) dated or hooked up with someone called Dave/David (in honestly, often the same one). This troper has also been with two Chris's. To add to the confusion, he dated someone with his own name (Michael), and one of the Chris's he dated also has two other ex's called Michael. To finish off, the mother of one friend of this troper has been married three times, each time to a man called John.

* 'Sarah-Not-You' became a catchphrase in this troper's sixth grade class. * This Troper's name is Chynna. Try to find someone else in the state of Virginia with the same name. Go on. I dare you. * I know a lot of people of different ages named Ryan and Lauren. There's Ryan and Lauren & Ryan (siblings + boyfriend), Loren and ''Brian'' (older cousin/spouse), Ryan (younger cousin), Ryan (babysitter's son), Ryan (classmate), three Laurens in Girl scouts, probably two more at church, and another Lauren who was a friend's sister. Strangely, the ''parents'' of the siblings + boyfriend group and friend's-sister-Lauren have similar names: Sandy and Richard/Randy. There's also Kristen (cousin, AKA Krissy) and Kristen (roommate), plus Krissy's husband Chris(topher). * This Troper's drama club in high school contained three Taylors, two of them with the same surname. They became Big Taylor, Little Taylor, and Girl Taylor, or occasionally Taylor Senior, Taylor Junior, and Girl Taylor. * Played straight by @/NinjaSteve being the only Steve he knows. Also subverted, however, in that he knows several people named "Dustin" and many more (himself included) with the name "Robert" somewhere in their name. * @/AdamS went to a youth camp where literally a ''third'' of the girls were named Kate, Kat, Cate, K/Catherine, or some derivative thereof. (Which was lampshaded in a skit put on by the staff.) * In this tropers high school class there were four boys called Henrik. It didn't help that Henrik Henriksson and Henrik Hermansson were inseparable best buddies. * My fencing club has far too many people called Michael. On a slightly different note, starting with my maternal grandfather, all of my male-line ancestors as far back as I've traced were called John Mackay. My uncle broke the trend by being called Iain... which is the Gaelic form of John. * One of this troper's classes has six Rachels. * We had a Meghan overload in my school. Almost all of them went by their last names, though. * Not as large a group as some of the above stories, but my family includes two Sues (one generation apart), plus a close family friend is named Sue as well. When my cousin Sue was a preschooler, she tried to work this out -- OK, her name was "Sue", one of her aunts was "Sue" but she's "Aunt Sue", there's a third "Sue" ... but I (my cousin) only see her at parties, so she must be "Party Sue"! Gotta love toddler logic. And we still use the "Party Sue" term on occasion .... * I usually have it played straight with my own first name (Bryce), which is currently rare enough that people who call it usually are looking for me. However, I once had a high school Spanish class with a fellow Bryce, and I once worked at a ballpark with yet another Bryce, and both times it was quite jarring for ALL Bryces involved whenever the name was called. * I used to be in a gaming group where I was the third person to join named Chris. The first one had left by then, but the second was still known as Toc, short for 'the other Chris', and use of the nickname grew to the point where he had friends that had no involvement with

gaming calling him that. * This Troper's second period class has two boys named Aaron, who are both friends are both troublemakers, which has led to quite a few "Aarons! See me after class!" We also have Curly-hair Zach and Manbangs Zach as well as a Tasha, a Sasha, and a Dasha. * This Troper was one of 3 Joshes in elementary school, the ''only'' one in his small private middle/high school, and one of many at college. 3 months in and he's still getting used to it... * @/{{Kaizykat}} is one of the many "Kaitlin"s at her school. In her small group of friends (ten people) she's one of three that have the name. In her freshmen year, her and another Caitlin (Who is also one of her good friends) were in the same Spanish class. During that class, she was known as [[{{SpellMyNameWithAnS}} "Kaitlin with a K"]] and her friend, "Caitlin with a C". Half the time they both responded, and the other half neither of the responded. She'd use a nickname, but she was so used to being the only Kaitlin in her class that she wouldn't respond to anything but Kaitlin. Also, make sure you have the [[{{BerserkButton}} correct spelling.]] * I have a cat named Robin. The partner has a friend named Robin. I had a cat named Sam and (still have) a friend named Sam. So there's Boy-Robin and Cat-Robin. And Boy-Sam and Kitty-Sam. The partner's nickname is Kitti. I've actually said "Hey Sam. No, not you Kitty. No, not you, Kitti. Boy-Sam. Not Kitty-Sam. Not Kitty-boy." * In my private middle school, there were 4 Alexes. Most of them were addressed by their surname if there was any chance of confusion... except for Alex-as-in-Alexandra. By eighth grade, she had resigned herself to not looking up when somebody in the hallway called "Alex!" * This troper's old circle of friends (and himself) were known as... Dan, Other Dan, Simon and Other Simon. * This troper claims that people who have trouble with this around her have no one to blame but themselves. This troper ATTEMPTED to go by her full name, Alexandria, once she entered high school to finally end the confusion once and for all. However, everyone insists upon calling her Alex because a whole ten letters is just too much. (Neither can she can by her household nickname, Ali, because in her drama class there is another Ali and an Allie.) * Several years ago in middle school, this troper's class of twenty had two Nathans, three Megans, three Zacks, a Melissa and Marisa. * This troper was preparing her 2009 NaNoWriMo novel and decided to switch the name of one of the father characters from "Mark" to "Max", which she had named him in a previous project with his character. This was before she realized one of the other characters was also named Max... halfway through the month. ** She also had a friend who shared his first and last name with another person in her graduating class, the only difference being their middle initials. On Facebook, there were no initials to distinguish between them, and her friend got tagged in a video of the other James streaking in the high school parking lot. Needless to say, he had to clarify to many people the next day that he was NOT the James that went streaking... ** This troper had two Maxes in her NaNoWriMo too! They were both really minor characters though so I changed one of them to Ewan

without an issue. * This troper went through the first twenty-three years of his life without encountering another Carl. Now one or two Carls have begun to appear, throwing this one for a ''complete'' [[LogicBomb loop]]. How [[PlanetOfSteves Mike, Chris and Steve possibly keep things straight]] I'll never know... * This troper has seen a classroom, on a technical school, with four Jessicas. * Tropers.{{Igordebraga}} only twice had another "Igor" in his class (Kindergarten and High School). But while he was part of a swimming team, once it had three Igors, him, another guy and ''the coach''. In College, he's the only one in ''his'' class - there is one three periods above him, and another four above. And while in a class for a different major, there was an homonymous - and the teacher noted how rare it was to have two guys named Igor. * This troper's first semester 9th grade English class had four Daniels. FOUR. We called one Shif (a shortening of his last name), one Dan, one Danny, and one Daniel. * Averted hard at this troper's workplace. There's a Steve and a Steven, and their desks are right next to each other. * This troper hangs out with a bunch of people who are so used to talking either to a Chris or a James that it's now obligatory to greet anyone with "Hi Chris" and shout "Bye James" when someone leaves. So we all use nicknames. * I don't share my first name (Natasha) with anyone I know. However, I know someone with my last name (unrelated) at school. This normally doesn't pose much of a problem...except in our macroeconomics class, where everyone else (who all have unique last names) gets called by their first names, whereas we are both "Miss Lastname" instead of "Natasha" and "Kayla". * @/{{Katsuhagi}} has never met someone her age with the same first name, but her elementary school was full of this. Of most note where the three Hannahs, who included a nice red-haired girl, a HotAmazon who turned out to be my ClosetKey (she more or less always has a halo and heavenly choir in my mental imge of her) and a girl who was the personification of KidsAreCruel and whose face I've literally ''blocked out of my memory'' due to the unspeakable crap she put me through. * Once I ended up on a lunch with four people with the same relatively rare name, me being the only one with a different name. They went on to make jokes about it for the next two hours. * This troper being a Chris naturally went through school with at least one Chris in every class, and going through 3 Chris' as best friends. Since leaving school I have not worked with a single Chris and am no longer friends with any Chris' (discounting one who I have on facebook who I used to be at school with). I am currently back at college to get me the qualifications for University and there is not a single Chris in any of my classes. ** Actually, other than two Rebeccas, I can't think of any repeating names in any of my classes. Even the two Rebeccas, one goes by Becky, the other by Becca anyway, which is useful as they are in the same class. The same class also nearly had two Beth's, but now has none as

one went in the other group when the class split and the other was a bitch so got kicked out. * Highly unlikely to be averted by [[@/{{MiraShio}} me]], seeing as my first names--both of them--are rare. It's not impossible, of course, but chances are slim. * This Troper had the same first name AND last initial of a girl in her Kindergarten class. I kept getting worksheets the other girl had done that I know I didn't do. The girl was dumb as a post, so she had all the answers wrong. She frequently pretended to know how to read. (I knew how to read, so I could tell she was faking.) And she tore up my ducky. * This Troper did a story where two characters were both named Elizabeth. One went by Liz, one went by Beth and the two were as different as night and day. (But, DarkIsNotEvil!) * The fact that there were four other people with @/JET73L's middle name (not an EmbarrassingMiddleName, but it had [[MyNameIsNotDurwood embarassing history]], and it was the one the troper was stuck using thanks to the first being [[PlanetOfSteves a family name]]) and two others with the troper's first name ''in the same grade'' (in a school of only three or four hundred kids) was most of what finally got the troper's parents to start using a first-and-middle-initial nickname (at the troper's request). In a painfully straight example, the troper's parent's second cousin and their spouse named their kid ''exactly'' what the troper was supposed to be named a couple of months before the troper's birth. Cue scrambling for a new name. * Moved into a flat with 3 others, one of whom has the same first name as me. As such I was dubbed "Lenny", because another flatmate wanted to be able to legitimately use the phrase: [[TheSimpsons "Can Lenny have it?"]] * Enforced (not averted) in this troper's high-school MagicTheGathering group, which has developed a rule: Whenever someone joins the group who has the same first name as an existing member, he or she has to get a nickname. Currently, there are two instances of this: two Jons (one simply goes by Jonny) and two Ethans (the newer one was ultimately named Bob, which stands for "Brother Of Ben", after his older brother who introduced him to the group). * This troper's last name is Robinson. Her father had to sign an affidavit, on purchasing his first house, that he was not the man of the same first and last name who had defrauded the provincial government of Saskatchewan of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, every year in elementary school this troper had at least one classmate who shared her first name, and she knows at least ten people who have her brother's first name. If you want to friend either of them on Facebook you have to know exactly who you're looking for. In the crowning moment of aversion of this trope, she briefly roomed with a guy who had the same first name as her brother and was also named Robinson. * In this troper's first year of college, she roomed with two girls named Alyssa and Marissa, this troper's name is Melissa. In order to avoid confusion, we all quickly developed nicknames. * The editor of my college paper already had the same name as me, so I went by my last name. * In Tropers/{{Thnikkafan}}'s SpiritOfTheCentury game has

[[Tropers/{{Thnikkafan}} a character]] named Samson, [[SugarWiki/{{Matrix}} a character]] named Sarah, and [[Tropers/JinxedBlackcat a character]] named Sam. [[HilarityEnsues It's great fun]] for both [[Tropers/IronEye the GM]] and everyone else. * When this troper's father was in the army, his class at boot camp included two twin brothers, John Carter Smith and John * @/{{Mike}} is yet another Michael. As is typical with Michaels, he has run into confusion before, with a particularly notable instance being his eighth grade soccer team (nope, not the same Michael with the eighth grade PE class problem above), containing: Michael (nicknamed Hershey due to a similar-sounding last name), Michael ("Mike"), Michael ("Mikey"), Michael ("Other Mike"), and Coach Michael. Having someone run out with "A message for Michael" was always fun. * This troper once went to a party with FIVE Katie's in attendance. Since all of them went by the same name with no nicknames (yet different spellings) the party was a mess of Katie confusion. * This troper has a very common first name, an average of two kids with that name in each of her classes. I cannot name how many times I've gotton another person's grades instead of mine because of this. * Played somewhat for laughs in my family as each generation names their first son after their father so the two names alternate (the only difference is the middle name) since that side of the family is small; every male has the same name. * There was once a Nicholas and a Nicolas in my class. We tried the last initial thing, but eventually we ended up just pronouncing the 'h' in Nicholas. * This troper used to be known almost exclusively by my middle name. However, during some homeschooling years, I ended up in the same slot as another boy who had the same name AND surname. I started using my proper first name to stop the school from mixing up our assignments. Since graduating from said school, I have since starting using either/or in random instances of One Steve Limit (I go by middle name if there is someone with the same first name and vice versa). Of course, that doesn't stop me from accidently responding to BOTH names. * Currently on the Fora, there are two tropers named Ray. [[@/BetaRay One]] is radioactive. And i-it's not like [[@/TsundeRay the other]] hates him or anything! * @/{{Pikachukid}} works in a workplace that's divided into [[strike:four]] five areas, without walls in between (except for Cabinetmaking, but that's largely ignored). This workplace has a Chris in each area (plus a supervisor by that name), three Amandas, two Daniels, two Darrens, two Melissas, two Julies and a couple of Rays too (although one is actually the workplace manager). Despite the problems inherent with this, nobody seems to bother thinking about nicknames, although I personally get around it by calling my namesakes (the other Chrises) by their surnames (although the supervisor Chris is FirstNameBasis), and calling one Darren "DT", with the other almost universally called "Dazza". The only one with a consistent nickname used throughout the workplace is one of the Daniels, who is only ever known as "Yoshi".

* In this troper's video production class there was room for confusion with 3 classmates. Not because they shared a name, but rather because their names were all practically the same by a few letters (their names were Kevin, Jevin, and Trevan). It was fun when 2 of them anchored. I jokingly suggested adding a Devin or Evan to the class and my teacher said he wouldn't allow it out of sheer confusion. * This troper went to high school with two Annas, one Ana and two Mark Lesters. What happened was one Anna gained a nickname based on the size of her chin, the other Anna kept being called Anna (or we'd use their initials) and Ana insisted on being called by her initials. The Mark Lesters got called by their surnames, or nicknames derived from them. ** We also had two Angelas, but that was less confusing since one of them goes by Gela and the other one was called Angela only by teachers who didn't know she goes by Lara (reasons unknown, since you can't derive Lara from even her full name). * This troper knows three brothers whose names are all Paul [Something]. Their parents (and teachers who've handled more than one) call them by their second names, but they all go by Paul among their friends, who typically don't know about the Paul thing. It gets awkward when you call their house to speak to one of them. -->"Hello, may I speak to Paul please?" -->"Paul who?" -->"Uh... sorry, wrong number!" * Played straight with this troper, who has never met anyone with his first name (Norman), besides his father and his grandfather. He's the only Norman in his grade, and possibly his entire high school. * In this troper's 8th grade English class, there was a Zach, A Zack, 2 Kyles, three Kenzies, 2 Emilies and an Emilee. The Kenzies and Emilies were also in almost every other class I had that year. * Averted hard by @/AirshipCanon's hometown. When Blizzard's Real ID was to go into effect, I laughed- because there was a 50% chance to find me with both my first and last name, and 50% chance to find a Cop. * This troper went to school with a couple of guys named Jack who typically wound up in the same class. They were disambiguated by last initial: Jack C. and Jack E. This worked well until the arrival of a girl named Jackie... * This troper has an uncle whose wife is named Lynn-Karen and whose best friend is named Lynn. Then Lynn married a woman named Karen. Confusion ensued. * This troper's real name is Jacob. When he went to a camp for the first time, there was another kid in the same group named Jacob. Fortunately, the other Jacob decided to use the nickname Jacoby (probably after Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox). * This troper knows three Steves, and it's especially confusing as they're possibly the first, second and [[NoodleIncident fourth]] most important men in his life. His father, his mother's partner and his friend's [[{{Yandere}} boyfriend]]. * This troper's real full name (Douglas Richard Burgess) is the same as his father's, and his grandfather's. Family reunions are horrendously confusing; we usually go be Doug Senior, Doug Junior, and

I'm either Douglas or Doug 3. ** My grandfather on my mother's side is named Robert Miller. His second son is Robert Miller. ''His'' first son is Robert Miller. *** My mother's maiden name is Miller, making her full name prior to marriage Sandra Kay Miller. Now married, her name is Sandra Kay Burgess. Not so bad, until you realize that my father's sister's maiden name was Sandra Kay Burgess as well. ** I also know no less than four Zach/Zacks, and the friend of one's brother is also Douglas. His last name is Bowler and his middle name is Robert. Initials don't even work there. Incidentally, two of those Zachs are ex-boyfriends of mine. ** The names Tyler and Ryan are also shared by more than one person I know. And several Codys. And two Jeremy Haynes. * In this troper's elementary school there were five boys named Alexandr and a girl named Alexandra. They all went by diminutive 'Sasha' (common diminutive for this name in Russia). We prefered to call them by their last names. * This troper had two people with the same name at his school ( I was one of them ). At one point, we even had three. But thankfully, we cleared the mess up by calling the second one 'Bob' and the third 'Jack'. * A few years ago, this troper was at a college summer program where every other girl seemed to be named Lauren. At one point, someone shouted the name trying to get one girl's attention, and a dozen different girls responded. We resorted to nicknaming two friends of mine Big Lauren (who wasn't fat, just tall) and Little Lauren. And then the two started competing over one guy, sparking the War of the Laurens. Weirdly enough, the war was won by a third party... Naomi. * This troper's name is Taylor, and one of her best friends is named Taylor, too, so one of her friends remedied this by calling troper!Taylor Bojangles and nottroper!Taylor Sprinkles. Coindicentally, there's another Taylor in Bojangles' gym class. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] has suffered from the effects of this a lot, but the most egregious example was in his high school Calculus I class. He was one of four Alexes; coincidentally we also were all male, all sophomores, and all some type of Asian-American. Usually people call him by his last name, which is much more unique. * This troper has two good guy friends from college, both named Dave. To differentiate them, we nicknamed them Frodo and Sam. "Frodo" went back to being Dave, but "Sam" stuck, and we still call him that. Additionally, she attended Catholic school, which resulted in 80% of the boys being named Matt, Mike or John. * [[Tropers/{{Smerf}} This]] troper's group of friends has too many guy's whose names start with B. As such, the (admittedly absentminded) girls in the group kept calling us by the wrong name and finally decided to rename us with stereotypical upper-crust British names. The troper now gets called "Nigel." * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] always hated her name (Ashleigh) growing up, because it's just "Ashley" spelled differently, and Ashley was among the most popular girls' names in the '90s ([[GoneWithTheWind even though it's]] [[EvilDead actually a guys' name]]), so I was always "the other Ashleigh/Ashley" because for all of elementary

school, there was always more than one Ashleigh/Ashley in each of my classes. Thank God I'm in college now, because even though I'm sure my school has tons of Ashleys running around, I never have classes with another girl (or guy) with my name. * This troper has dated 3 and a half girls named Emily. To avoid confusion, I've given them all nicknames. * This troper's group of friends includes two girls named Malin. They also happen to be about the same height and weight, and were born during the same month. We have taken to calling one of them "Malin Jr.", simply because she's 20 days younger than the other. * This troper's brother is named after their father. My Dad goes by Jack while my brother goes by John--except for when we're with my Dad's family when they call my dad John and my brother Jack. * This troper's name is Kellie, her mother is Karen, has an aunt named Krissy, and has cousins named Karen, Katie, and Kayla. All of us except for Kristen share the same last name. In addition, all of us except for Krissy, share the same last name. AND my mother had always plan on naming her daughter Kaitlyn and the only reason she didn't name me that was because my cousin Katie was born 15 months before me and my mother decided to avoid confusion. ** The really strange part is that this is all coincidence. My mom and aunt (sisters) aren't even blood relatives to my cousins (who are on my father side). * This troper has two friends named Maggie V. Both have last names that are five letters long and very similar letters in it. * In this troper's high school we had around 10 Amanda's in the marching band. Many got nicknames like Fiffy (because her spot always started on the fifty yard line...ever year!), or Twich (she doesn't even need sugar to be a spaz), or by last name, insturment, status in band (e.g. Drum Major), or other important characteristics. ** Also, for some strange reason we've had many percussionists named Nick. It's just this really strange phenomenon. My friend's mother actually just had a baby that she named Nick and I keep telling her she has to make him a percussionist. * To solve the dilemma of having two girls named Emily in art class, this troper was referred to as Em^2 (pronounced Em-squared, of course) because she was born after the other Emily. Even after the other Emily left the class, the teacher and students still stuck with the Em^2 nickname for a while. * Very much averted. This troper has ''never'' been the only one with her first name in her class. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNIckname She's found a solution to that a long time ago.]] ** Also, in high school, this troper went to school with a pair of twins (who, obviously, had the same last name), one of whom shared a first name with two other guys in the class, another guy whose last name was similar enough to theirs to cause confusion and two girls who were not related but had the same last name. Some of the teachers had trouble remembering which two of them were related. * This Troper knows total of 9 steves on FB and 2 more in RL. Included in this are her and her bff's roommates. Also, two of them have last names 1 letter apart. * Last year, this troper's homeroom had two Ashley's, two Lindsay's,

and two Jessica's. Thankfully, a Jessica moved back to her home school, a Lindsay dropped out, and whenever we want to address one of the Ashley's, we use their last names. * This Troper's class has three Johns, two Dans and two Adams. Luckily with the Johns and Adams, everbody, teachers included are on a LastNameBasis, and one of the Dans has a nickname, so we get by. Unfortunately, one of the Johns has a brother, who we are also all on LastNameBasis, so we just call him mini-LastName * Edgy here. I used to be David but since I met my would-be wife, I have been known as Dave. This is because her mother's long-time boyfriend (because they will never get married) is named David. * This troper knows 5 people named Justin: her dead dad, Justin Wade; her brother, Justin Tyler(said dad's son); her aunt's husband, Justin Serra; her brother's son, Justin Foster (with a different father than Justin Wade); & her current boyfriend, Justin Jerome. I've had to nickname my boyfriend to avoid any confusion with my brother. Oh, & my former boyfriend shared the name 'Ben' with one of my uncles. I also know 2 Laurens, 2 Beckys (though one spells it Beccy), 2 Alyssas (though one spells it Alyessa), & at least 2 girls at my school with my name, Melissa. * I remember at one point, there were about three boys named Jacob Smith going to my school district, and two of them ended up in the same classroom in elementary school. As for my own writing, I enforce this rule really hard. I won't name two characters names that are even from the same family of names, no matter how dissimilar they sound. I won't have a Giovanni and an Ivan; I won't have a Matvei and a Matthias; and I won't have a Kir and a Cyrus. I do this so that two characters don't have the same moniker or nickname. * I remember having a geography class that had two Jessicas... This wouldn't be notable except for the fact that they had the same last name and were first cousins (I have no idea how the hell that worked out...) * I have a brother-in-law named Aaron and one of my best friends is a girl named Erin. The two names are pronouced the same. * I've had alot of trouble with this one. My first name is Rebekah, and for most of my life there has been at least one Rebecca in almost every class I was in. When I moved at the age of sixteen, I started going by my middle name, Liana and the first person I met after the move was named Leanne! Also, my cousin got married a few years ago to a woman named Debbie, which also happened to be the same name as his sister.

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OneTruePairingA-E Tropers' favorite ships. No flaming, please. This page includes alias starting with numbers through the letter E. '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order by [[ThisTroper Troper alias]].''' When two's not enough, try TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome. ---!'''#''' * Tropers/2wingo ** BigWolfOnCampus - Tommy Dawkins/Carole (the CatGirl from Season 1, Episode 4) * Tropers/1nijigirl2 ** ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' - [[MistakenForGay Tamaki/Haruhi]] ** ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'' - Ferris Wheel Shipping ([[FoeYay Hilda/N]]) ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'' - [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale Russia/Belarus]] ** ''{{Naruto}}'' - [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Any Sakura pairing]] that isn't yuri. !'''A''' * Tropers/AckSed ** I tend to support only the most frustratingly teasing,drawn-out or unrequited of ships. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Perhaps because I can sympathise]]. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Orihime. If Kubo Tite makes Ichi say he just wants to be friends, I will not be held responsible for my actions. ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Edward/Winry. Roy/Riza too, but [[BodyguardCrush that's]] [[{{UST}} a]] [[SubordinateExcuse given]]. ** ''{{Genshiken}}'': Sasahara/Ogiue. If she can get an otaku boyfriend ''and'' show her [[CovertPervert greatest secret]], there's hope for me yet. Then there's Madarame/Kasukabe. Why didn't this happen? Don't give up, Madarame, I'll support you!

** ''{{Megatokyo}}'': Largo/Erika. It's ManicPixieDreamGirl,inverted - his complete lack of awareness of boundaries helps him see through hers and recognise the girl inside. They're just so good for each other. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata,but only for Hinata's sake. Grow a spine and ask him out, my girl! 'Course, you'll need my help. Lessee, we'll need to lose the coat... Kimono? Too formal. Summer dress? Yes, now we're talking... * drifts off* *** [[spoiler:Oh my gods, she confessed. * cheers* And got [[WomenInRefrigerators stuffed in the fridge]] straight after. * boos* But it looks like she might live! Hurrah? And Sakura knows? [[LoveTriangle Uh-oh]].]] ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Setsuna/Konoka. There's subtext and chemistry there, oh yes. [[spoiler:Now reciprocated. WAII! Banzai Setsuna!]] *** Tropers/WillyFourEyes's Negi/Nodoka has my full support as well. ** ''TheWallflower'': Kyouhei/Sunako. Please,please hurry it up,Tomoyo-sensei! I know it's successful, but ''[[EndingFatigue end it already]]''. *** [[strike:Wonder of wonders,she ''is''. The last chapter of this current volume is called,"The Path to Becoming a Dark Lady"... ''Part 1''! That's a BookEnd - an ending Arc for sure! <jafar>YEEEESSSS, at last! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!<jafar>]] ''Still going''. Shite. ** ''{{XXXholic}}'': I'll take Het Option Watanuki/Himiwari for 500, please. * Tropers/AcrossTheStars ** ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'': Kirk/Spock ** ''[[Film/StarTrek Star Trek 2009]]'': Kirk/[=McCoy=], Spock/Uhura ** ''[[StarTrekVoyager Star Trek: Voyager]]'': *** Canon: Janeway/Chakotay, Paris/B'Elanna *** Fanon: Janeway/Paris ** ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Picard/Crusher ** ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': Kira/Odo, Jadzia/Lenara ** ''[[StarTrekEnterprise Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': Archer/Reed, Trip/T'Pol, Sato/Mayweather, Archer/Hernandez (het OTP) ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': Doctor/River, Amy/Rory ** ''TheWestWing'': CJ/Danny, Josh/Donna, Sam/Ainsley, Toby/Andi, Charlie/Zoey, Jed/Abbey ** ''[[XFiles The X-Files]]'': Mulder/Scully ** ''[[InspectorLynley The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'': Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers ** ''[[{{CSI}} CSI: Las Vegas]]'': Grissom/Sara ** ''[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'': Alex/Olivia *** ''[[LawAndOrderTrialByJury Law & Order: Trial By Jury]]'': Tracey/Kelly *** ''[[LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'': Goren/Eames ** ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'': Jack/Renee, Ethan Kanin/Allison Taylor

** ''{{Castle}}'': Castle/Beckett ** ''BattlestarGalactica'': Roslin/Adama ** ''HonorHarrington'': Helen Zilwicki/Paulo d'Arezzo (called it!) * Tropers/{{Aela}} ** {{Discworld}}: Carrot/Angua ** Oldschool Series/DoctorWho: Two/Jamie, Four/Romana ** HarryPotter: Neville/Luna * {{Tropers/Alexaxle}} ** Law and Order: SVU: Huang/Stabler ** Oz: Mukada/Alvarez ** TMNT: Donatello/Raphael ** Mega Man: Mega Man X/Zero * Tropers/AngrySaxon ** TheLegendOfZelda: Anything but Link/Malon, because she's a bore, and Link/Midna, because she's a whore. ** {{Portal}}: Chell/Companion Cube. It was just meant to be. ** LordOfTheRings: Faramir/Eowyn: No, Arwen is not some shrewish harpy seeking to gain the throne of Gondor by marrying Aragorn. * Tropers/AkatsukiDaybreak ** {{Bleach}}: I prefer the CrackPairing of Ichigo/Adult!Nel, but of the two which might actually happen in canon, I fully support Ichigo/Orihime. ** [[BloodPlus Blood+ ]]: [[RapeIsLove Diva/Riku]] (why yes, I realize I'm going to hell for that.) ** BuffyTheVampireSlayer: Buffy/Angel ** {{Dollhouse}}: Victor/Sierra, Topher/[=DeWitt=] ** FullmetalAlchemist: First anime: Ed/Rose, Manga: Ed/Winry ** HarryPotter: Harry/Luna, Ron/Hermione, Neville/Ginny ** {{Inuyasha}}: Sesshomaru/Kagura ** LawAndOrderSVU: Elliot/Olivia ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto/Hinata ** [[RosariotoVampire Rosario+ Vampire]]: Tsukune/Moka, Kurumu/Mizore, Yukari/Kokoa ** TalesOfSymphonia: Lloyd/Sheena ** TeenTitans: Beast Boy/Raven ** TheLegendOfZelda: Link/Midna ** TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya: Kyon/Haruhi ** TsubasaReservoirChronicle: Kurogane/Fai * Tropers/{{Ardnassela}} ** HetaliaAxisPowers: US/UK, Germany/Italy, France/Canada ** {{Kuragehime}}: Kuranosuke/Tsukimi ** OuranHighschoolHostClub: Tamaki/Haruhi ** StarDriver: Takuto/Mizuno * Tropers/{{Arilou}} ** AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko is pretty much my LittleBlackDress. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': [[IdiotHero Naruto]]/[[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]]

But, as mentioned, even I can see the Naruto/Sasuke HoYay... ** SpiderMan I have a soft spot for [=SpideyCat=] (both the 616 flavour with Felicia and Ultimate version with Kitty) and Firestar was adorable in SMLJ, but I tend to go for crack pairings (Peter Parkery/[[HalfHumanHybrid Carol Danvers!]] ** XMen: Thanks to ''Exiles'' I my OTP is Kurt/Wanda. Damn the consequences. WolverineAndTheXmen made me squee ''so much''. * Tropers/{{Arnoldmcguire335}} ** ''HannahMontana'': Miley and Oliver. ** ''ICarly'': Carly and Freddie. (AKA Creddie) ** ''LizzieMcGuire'': Lizzie and Gordo. ** ''MacrossFrontier'': Alto and Ranka. it's a bit similar to Creddie. ** ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'': Amy and Ricky. ** ''SonnyWithAChance'': Sonny and Chad. A bit like Alto and Sheryl, but we never go to see if they got back. ** ''{{Victorious}}'': Tori and Cat. It's like they're great for LesYay! * {{Tropers/Augustine}} ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Kagura/Sakaki, Tomo/Yomi. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Tatsuki, Orihime/Ishida, Rukia/Renji, Kiyone/Sentarou (yes that came out of nowhere). ** ''CowboyBebop'': Spike/Faye. ** FireEmblem: Hector/Lyn, Erk/Serra. ** ''HaruhiSuzumiya'': Kyon/Haruhi but also leaning towards Kyon/Tsuruya, considering the teasing in the light novels. ** ''LuckyStar'': Konata/Kagami. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata, Shikamaru/Temari, Tenten/Rock Lee. ** TalesOfSymphonia: Lloyd/Sheena or Zelos/Sheena, can't decide. ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Kamina/Yoko, Simon/Nia. ** ''{{Trigun}}'': Vash/Meryl. * {{Tropers/AutumnBerryBliss}} ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Zuko/Katara, Zuko/Jin (this one could've turned out to be very cute), (occasionally) Sokka/Toph ** {{Clannad}}: Tomoya/Nagisa ** CodeGeass: Rolo/Nunnally, C.C./Lelouch, Suzaku/Euphemia, Jeremiah/Sayoko ** DragonballZ: Bulma/Vegeta (this couple has some of the best fan art ever) ** FinalFantasyX: Tidus/Yuna, Wakka/Lulu ** GrandiaIII: Miranda/Alonso [[spoiler:(Why'd they have to leave so early in the game? T_T)]] ** {{Naruto}}: Shikamaru/Temari, Sai/Sakura ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: Shinji/Asuka, Rei/Kaworu ** OuranHighSchoolHostClub: Tamaki/Haruhi ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty (Come back, Misty!) ** StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime: Albel/Nel, Ruddle/Rumina (Yes, those two merchants most players probably never even saw during the game xD) * Tropers/AwesomeZombie22

** SonicTheHedgehog: Sonamy and Shadouge. ** SuperMarioBrothers: Luigi X Daisy. * Tropers/{{axelsonfire}} ** [[HackSign .hack//SIGN]] - Bear/Mimiru ** {{Akikan}} - Kakeru/Melon, Yell/Najimi, Gigolo/Yurika ** {{Alice In Wonderland}} (Only the Tim Burton one) - Hatter/Alice ** {{Bleach}} - Ichigo/Rukia, although I don't object to Renji/Rukia ** {{Bobobobo Bobobo}} - Bobobo/Beauty ** {{Bones}} - Booth/Brennan, Hodgins/Angela ** {{Chobits}} - Hideki/Chi ** [[{{CriminalMinds}} Criminal Minds]] - Morgan/[[{{NerdsAreSexy}} Garcia]], Reid/Emily, Hotch/JJ ** {{CSI}} - Warrick/Catherine, Grissom/Sara, Wendy/Hodges ** [[{{CSIMiami}} CSI:Miami]] - Horatio/Yelina, Eric/Calleigh ** [[{{CSINY}} CSI:NY]] - Mac/Stella, Danny/Lindsay, Flack/Angell ** {{Full Metal Alchemist}} - Roy/Hawkeye ** {{Glee}} - Will/Emma ** [[{{Lawandordersvu}} Law And Order:SVU]] - Elliot/Olivia ** {{Naruto}} - Kakashi/Sakura ** {{NCIS}} - Tony/Ziva, [[{{PerkyGoth}} Abby]]/[[{{TheSmartGuy}} McGee]], [[{{HeroesWantRedheads}} Gibbs/Jenny]] ** {{One Piece}} - Luffy/Vivi, Zolo/Nami ** [[{{Phineasandferb}} Phineas And Ferb]] - [[{{Cassandra Truth}} Candace]]/Jeremy ** [[RosarioToVampire Rosario+ Vampire]] - Tsukune/Moka ** {{Spirited Away}} - Haku/Chihiro !'''B''' * '''{{Tropers/Basch}}:''' I have so many ships, so to save your screen from stretching, I've put them in a folder. :P [[folder:Basch's fabulous ships!]] ** [[{{Ptitleikxjln2mifoc}} .hack]]: Aina/Bo, Albireo/Hokuto, B.T./Sora, Elk/Kite, Haseo/Saku. ** [[{{Ptitle1d5irnza}} 9]]: 1/2, 1/4, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 2/4, 2/5, 2/6, 2/7, 2/9, 3/6, 4/6, 4/9, 6/7, 6/9, 7/8, 8/9. ** {{Ar Tonelico}}: Aurica/Claire, Aurica/Donsuke, Aurica/Lyner, Claire/Lyner, Donsuke/Lyner, Flute/Jack, Hama/Lyner, Hama/Misha, Jack/Krusche, Jack/Lyra, Jack/Misha, Krusche/Misha, Lyner/Misha, Lyner/Radolf, Mir/Shurelia, Mir/Tastiella, Misha/Spica, Misha/Tastiella. ** {{Ar Tonelico 2}}: Amarie/Chester, Chester/Sonia, Cloche/Luca, Cocona/Croix, Croix/Jakuri, Croix/Leglius, Frelia/Shun, Jakuri/Spica. ** [[{{Ptitlemxi508a6}} Avatar: The Last Airbender]]: Aang/Toph, Katara/Zuko, Sokka/Yue. ** {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}: America/China, America/Japan, America/Romano, America/Russia, Austria/Germany, Austria/Switzerland, Belarus/Canada, Belarus/Liechtenstein, Belarus/Seychelles, Belarus/Russia, Belarus/Ukraine, Canada/France, China/Korea, England/France, England/Italy, England/Japan, Finland/Sweden,

Germany/Prussia, Germany/Romano, Greece/Turkey, Italy/Prussia, Italy/Romano, Liechtenstein/Seychelles, Liechtenstein/Taiwan, Lithuania/Poland, Taiwan/Vietnam. ** {{Azumanga Daioh}}: Chiyo/Osaka, Kagura/Sakaki, Nyamo/Yukari, Tomo/Yomi. ** {{Bleach}}: Ichigo/Orihime, Renjii/Rukia. ** {{Code Geass}}: Anya/Nunnally, C.C./Lelouch, Cecile/Lloyd, Euphemia/Suzaku. ** {{Cowboy Bebop}}: Faye/Spike. ** {{Death Note}}: L/Misa. ** {{Final Fantasy VII}}: Aerith/Cloud, Aerith/Tseng, Cid/Yuffie, Cloud/Jessie, Elena/Reno, Elena/Tseng, Reno/Rude, Rude/Tifa. ** {{Final Fantasy IX}}: Amarant/Freya, Beatrix/Freya, Beatrix/Steiner, Blank/Zidane, Eiko/Vivi, Garnet/Zidane. ** {{Final Fantasy X}}: Auron/Braska, Auron/Jecht, Braska/Jecht, Brother/Yuna, Lulu/Tidus, Lulu/Yuna, Rikku/Tidus. ** {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}: Edward/Lin, Edward/Winry, Riza/Roy. ** {{Happy Tree Friends}}: Cuddles/Giggles, Flaky/Flippy, Flippy/Handy, Flippy/Splendid, Giggles/Petunia, Handy/Mole, Handy/Petunia, Lumpy/Mole, Mime/Petunia. ** [[{{Film/HowToTrainYourDragon}} How To Train Your Dragon]]: Astrid/Snotlout, Hiccup/Ruffnut, Hiccup/Tuffnut. ** {{Grandia III}}: Alonso/Miranda. ** {{Harry Potter}}: Harry/Luna, Hermione/Ron, Ginny/Neville. ** {{Hotel Dusk}}: Grace/Kevin, Jeff/Kyle, Kyle/Louis, Kyle/Rachel, Louis/Mila. ** {{Invader Zim}}: Dib/Tak, Tenn/Zim. ** {{Left 4 Dead}}: Ellis/Nick, Hunter/Smoker, Witch/Zoey. ** {{The Legend of Zelda}}: Anju/Cremia, Anju/Kafei, Kafei/Link, Linebeck/Link, Link/Malon, Link/Medli, Link/Midna, Link/Saria, Link/Sheik, Link/Tatl, Vaati/Zelda. ** {{Lucky Star}}: Kagami/Konata. ** [[{{MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic}} My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]: Apple/Dash, Fluttershy/Macintosh, Pinkie/Twilight, Rarity/Twilight. ** {{Ouran Highschool Host Club}}: Haruhi/Hikaru, Haruhi/Kaoru, Honey/Mori, Kyouya/Tamaki. ** {{Sailor Moon}}: Ami/Mamoru, Ami/Kunzite, Ami/Nephrite, Ami/Rei, Ami/Usagi, Artemis/Luna, Chibiusa/Hotaru, Haruka/Michiru, Kunzite/Zoicite, Makoto/Rei, Mamoru/Motoki, Mamoru/Zoicite, Minako/Rei, Minako/Usagi, Naru/Umino, Seiya/Usagi, Taiki/Yamen, Umino/Usagi. ** {{Suikoden III}}: Ace/Joker, Aila/Jacques, Borus/Chris, Borus/Percival, Caesar/Hugo, Caesar/Thomas, Cecile/Thomas, Chris/Lilly, Chris/Nash, Chris/Yun, Emily/Juan, Fred/Rico, Geddoe/Queen, Hugo/Lilly, Hugo/Thomas, Yumi/Yuiri. ** {{Suikoden V}}: Euram/Frey, Euram/Gizel, Frey/Georg, Frey/Gizel, Frey/Kyle, Frey/Luserina, Frey/Miakis, Frey/Roy, Lun/Subala, Lyon/Roy, Nakula/Sagiri ** {{Suikoden Tierkreis}}: Asad/Chrodechild, Erin/Sieg, Eunice/Zahra, Hotupa/Moana, Roberto/Sieg. ** {{Tales of Legendia}}: Amelia/Will, Chloe/Elsa, Chloe/Jay,

Chloe/Moses ,Chloe/Norma, Chloe/Senel, Chloe/Stella, Chloe/Walter, Csaba/Moses, Curtis/Isabella, Fenimore/Shirley, Grune/Norma, Jay/Moses, Jay/Solon, Norma/Senel, Norma/Sven, Norma/Will, Senel/Stella, Shirley/Walter. ** {{Team Fortress 2}}: Engineer/Medic, Engineer/Spy, Medic/Scout, Medic/Spy, Scout/Spy. ** {{Teen Titans}}: Beast Boy/Gizmo, Beast Boy/Raven, Beast Boy/Robin, Beast Boy/Terra, Bumblebee/Cyborg, Cyborg/Gizmo, Cyborg/Jinx, Jinx/Kid Flash, Raven/Robin, Raven/Starfire, Robin/Slade, Robin/Starfire. ** {{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}}: Kamina/Yoko, Nia/Simon, Nia/Yoko, Simon/Yoko. ** {{That Guy With The Glasses}}: Critic/Snob, Linkara/Spoony. ** {{Trigun}}: Meryl/Vash, Milly/Nicholas. ** {{Uglies}}: Peris/Tally, Shay/Tally.[[/folder]] * Tropers/{{BDK}} ** {{Bleach}}: Rangiku/[[LovableTraitor Gin]] ** CodeGeass: Lelouch/Kallen, Lloyd/Cecile, [[RuleOfCool Jeremiah/Sayako]], and [[{{Lolicon}} Anya/Nunnally]]. I know I'm going to hell for the last one, you don't need to remind me. XD ** FireEmblem: Hector/Lyn, Ephraim/L'Arachel, Heath/Priscilla, Joshua/Natasha ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Yoko/Kamina forever! ** "TheLegendOfZelda": Link/Midna ** SoulSeries: [[FoeYay Tira/Sophitia]]. * Tropers/{{Belle-Mage}} ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Yoko/Kamina, [[OfficialCouple Simon/Nia]], Kamina/Simon ** TeamFortress2: Medic/Heavy (Screw the [[ShipSinking torpedoes]]. It makes sense.), Sniper/Medic, Sniper/Spy, Spy/Scout, Engineer/Soldier, Sniper/Saxton Hale. Team affiliations not necessary. ** CuantaVida: Bleu/BLU Scout, Red/BLU Sniper ** {{xxxHolic}}: Watanuki/Doumeki ** {{Mario}}: Mario/Peach, [[VideoGame/PaperMario Bobbery/Scarlette]] ** SuperSmashBros: Pit/Ike, Link/Snake, Snake/Samus, Ness/Lucas ** TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya: Kyon/Haruhi ** FinalFantasyVII: Cloud/Aerith, [[FoeYay Cloud/Sephiroth]] ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Kairi (Can we give them their happy ending already?), Sora/Riku, Roxas/Xion, Axel/Roxas, [[CrackPairing Zexion/Demyx]] ** TheWorldEndsWithYou: Neku/Joshua, Minamimoto/Mr. H, Kariya/Uzuki, Minamimoto/Kariya, [[CrackPairing Minamimoto/Math]] ** {{Loveless}}: Soubi/Ritsuka ** PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Phoenix/Edgeworth, Apollo/Klavier, Gumeshoe/Maggey, Mia/Godot ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty, May/Brendan, Wes/Rui, Eldes/Michael, Red/Yellow, Dawn/Lucas, Ash/Gary ** DannyPhantom: Danny/Vlad (Screw age gaps.) ** DeathNote: Light/L ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto/Hinata, Naruto/Sasuke ** {{Hellsing}}: Alucard/Integra

* B gal ** HomestarRunner *** [[HollywoodNerd So-and-so]]/[[ButtMonkey What's her face]], [[OnlySaneMan StrongSad]]/[[GranolaGirl Marzipan]], [[EpilepticTrees Strong Glad]]/[[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Debra]], [[LesYay Marzipan/Champeen]], [[OfficialCouple Marzi]][[SlapSlapKiss pan]]/[[TheDitz Homestar]], [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Scrandina/]][[TedBaxter Strong Bad]], and [[FanNickname Zi]][[NoNameGiven Chan]]/[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Stinko-man]] ** SailorMoon *** [[HugeSchoolgirl Makoto]]/[[TheFool Usagi]], [[TomBoy Makoto]]/[[BunnyEarsLawyer Minako]], [[DesignatedVictim Naru]]/[[ManipulativeBastard Nephrite]], [[PlayingWithFire Rei]]/[[BadassBookworm Ami]],[[OfficialCouple Haruka/Michiru]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Chibi-Usa]]/[[VictimOfTheWeek Miharu]], [[EnsembleDarkhorse Thetis]]/[[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Neko]][[CrackPairing Neru]], [[FanPreferredCouple Beryl/Endymion]], [[WholesomeCrossdresser Fish-eye]]/[[MysteriousProtector Mamoru]], [[RuleOfThree Makoto]]/[[ShyBlueHairedGirl Ami]], and [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Lead Crow]]/[[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Aluminum Seiren]] ** Wall-E *** [[AmbiguousGender M-O]]/[[ActionGirl Eve]]. Don't worry, I also liked [[OfficialCouple Weve]] too. ** TokyoMewMew *** [[LipstickLesbian Minto]]/[[CatGirl Ichigo]]- They did have there fair share of LesYay in both the anime and the manga with one another, and Ichigo sort of has a crush on a [[HeyItsThatVoice Lesbian]] [[SailorMoon Sailor Senshi]], so it could work. ** Wicked *** [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Elphie]]/[[MagicalGirl Galinda]] ** Invader Zim *** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tak]]/[[HeroicSociopath Gaz]]- This is the only ship I support in Invader Zim, as I don't want to taint the [[NoHuggingNoKissing One-of-the-only-few-shows-that-doesn't-revovledaround-at-least-one-couple]][[BuffySpeak -Ness]] of the original show, [[HypocrisyNod Completely]]. ** {{Super Smash Brothers}}Brawl *** [[DistressedDamsel Peach]]/[[AmbiguousGender Sheik]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Peach/Zelda]], [[BadAss Samus]]/[[CharacterTitle Zelda]], and [[InterspeciesRomance Samus/Pikachu]] ** DisneyPrincess *** [[CrossoverShip Cinderella/Auroura, Snow White/Alice, Jasmine/Belle,]], [[OfficialCouple Cinderella/Charming, Naveen/Tiana, Belle/Beast, Jasmine/Aladdin,]] [[BetaCouple Ray/Evangeline, Mama Odie/Juju,]] [[HoYay Ray/Lewis, Charlotte/Tiana, Fauna/Marriweather, Erica/Kilala, Cogsworth/Lumire,]] and [[CrackPairing Sora/Ariel,]] ** PhineasAndFerb *** [[OfficialCouple Candace/Jeremy]], [[ButtMonkey Candace]]/[[CloserToEarth Stacy]], [[ObliviousToLove

Phineas/Isabella]], [[LesYay Isabella/Adyson, Isabellla/Gretchen, Isabella/Katie,]] [[CrackPairing Isabella/Ferb]], [[MayDecemberRomance Vanessa/Older!Ferb,]] [[MsFanService Vanessa]]/[[GirlOfTheWeek Johnny]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Vanessa/Older!Gretchen]], [[CrackPairing Vanessa/Human!Perry]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Older!Ferb/Johnny, Ferb/Katie,]] [[LesYay Gretchen/Ginger,]] [[FoeYay Dr. Doofenshmitz/Human!Perry,]] [[CardCarryingVillain Dr. Doofenshmitz]]/[[NoNameGiven Evil Girl]], [[LesYay Stacy/Jenny,]] [[ShipTease Stacy/Coltrane,]] [[LesYay Katie/Holly, Fireside girl # 1/fireside girl # 2,]] [[CrackPairing Candroid/]][[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Norm]], [[LesYay Adyson/Kaite,]] [[CrackPairing High!Candace/Human!Perry, Perry/Peter, Perry/Pinky,]] [[ToyShip Ginger/Baljeet, and Burford/Baljeet]] ** FairlyOddParents *** [[OfficialCouple Cosmo/Wanda,]] [[HoYay Tootie/Trixie, Trixie/Veronica, Trixie/Timantha, AJ/Chester, Timmy/Chester,]] [[CrossoverShip Buttercup/Trixie, Timmy/Cindy,]] [[FanPreferredCouple Trixie/Timmy, Timantha/AJ, and Veronica/Timmy]] * {{Tropers/Blossom Morphine}} ** ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': [[EvillyAffable Sylar]]/[[HotScientist Mohinder]] [[GeniusBruiser Suresh]] ** StarTrekDeepSpaceNine: [[RetiredCompleteMonster Elim]] [[MagnificentBastard Garak]]/[[NaiveNewcomer Julian]] [[InsufferableGenius Bashir]] ** StarTrekTheNextGeneration: [[TheSmartGuy Data]]/[[ActionGirl Yar]] ** {{District 9}}: [[PunchClockVillain Wikus]]/[[MessianicArchetype Christopher]] (don't judge [[SecretOrganizationCravingIntelligentEnigmaticTropersYonder !]]) ** Film/{{Transformers}}: [[BodyGuardCrush Bumblebee]]/[[ActionSurvivor Sam]] (okay, I'll admit, this is new, even for me) ** HarryPotter: [[IJustWantToBeNormal Harry]]/[[CloudCuckooLander Luna]] ** TeamFortress2: [[DrJerk Medic]]/[[ColdSniper Sniper]] * blueeyesforlife ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko/Mai, followed closely by Aang/Katara ** ''CardcaptorSakura'': Sakura/Syaoran ** ''DigimonAdventure'': Tai/Sora ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud/Tifa, and a little Zack/Aerith ** ''FruitsBasket'': Kyo/Tohru, just barely above Yuki/Machi ** ''HarryPotter'': Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny ** ''{{Life}}'': Charlie/Dani just happens to be this troper's OTP Of The Universe ** ''TeenTitans'': Beast Boy/Raven, and Robin/Starfire ** ''XiaolinShowdown'': Raimundo/Kimiko (yeah, I said it!) * Tropers/{{Bufuman}} ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata. I've never seen Naruto and Sakura as more than JustFriends (aside from Naruto's early crush on her, but he

seems to have moved past that). ** ''{{Toradora}}'': Ryuuji/Minori. Mostly because I've never been as much of a fan of the {{Tsundere}} character type, prefering the GenkiGirl type instead. * Tropers/{{BrutticusForce}} ** Um, well, this may seem out of place, but here goes. One of my friends has an UnluckyChildhoodFriend. They grew up together, sort in like, and when they became old enough to face those feelings, he went off into the marines. They still try to remain friends, and they both have unresolved feelings. When ever she looks at other guys, i crack a joke about how Tracey and Ian are my OPT. ** On another, more orthodox note, when Logan and [[VeronicaMars Veronica]] broke up, she screamed at the TV [[BigNo NOOOOOO!]] Veronica and Logan are supposed to be together!" * {{Tropers/Bwburke94}} ** ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon anime]]'': Ash/Misty. I wasn't a Pokmon fan during the original series, oddly enough. !'''C''' * Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} ** {{Narbonic}}: Dave/Lovelace, Helen/Madblood. Helped along somewhat (I don't generally ship characters who ''don't'' express an interest in each other canonically) by the fact that both ships were ''once'' canon, although they were superseded by Dave/Helen. (And, yes, I'm the one who added this under FanPreferredCouple on its main trope page.) * Cannonier. All canon, all the time. ** CodeLyoko: Jeremie and Aelita. ** {{WALL-E}}: WALL-E and EVE. ** TeenTitans: Robin and Starfire. ** EnchantedForestChronicles: Daystar and Shiara. ** ReBoot: Matrix and [=AndrAIa=]. ** {{Shrek}}: Shrek and Fiona. ** ElGoonishShive: Tedd and Grace. * Tropers/{{CanzetTheCoyote}} ** BlinkyBill: [[ShrinkingViolet Shifty]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Dingo]] X [[TheChick Nutsy.]] [[ToyShip That is all.]] * '''{{Tropers/Carla}}:''' I ship way too much, so this is more like [=MTP=] (multiple true pairings). If you notice a pattern, let me know. 'Cause I have no clue. (This list is still a [=WiP=], which has gotten so damn long that it actually needs a folder). [[folder:Carla's folder o' ships!]] ** ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'': Bo/Shirley, of course. ** ''[[Series/{{Alice}} Alice]]'': Hatter/Alice. ** ''ArtemisFowl'': Artemis/Holly. Yes, I have no defense for [[{{Squick}} this]] other than "but they're so cute!"

** ''[[{{Ptitlemxi508a6}} Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Zutara is the biggest, but also Aang/Toph & Sokka/Suki. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': [=IshiHime=], mainly. I like Rukia with Ichigo or with Renji-- both have their moments. And [=HitsuHina=] sometimes. ** ''[[BloodPlus Blood+ ]]'': [[BodyguardCrush Haji/Saya]], Kai/Mao. I also like others like Okamura/Mao, Kai/Irne, Karman/Irne, David/Julia, Solomon/Saya. ** ''{{Bones}}'': Booth/Brennan. ** ''[[CardCaptorSakura CCS]]'' and ''[[TsubasaReservoirChronicle TRC]]'': [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Eriol/Tomoyo]] FTW. Also Syaoran/Sakura, Touya/Yukito & Yamazaki/Chiharu. I like Kuro/Fai, but don't actively ship it. ** ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': [[PromotedToLoveInterest Caspian/Susan]]. ** ''ColdCase'': Scotty/Lilly. ** ''CowboyBebop'': Spike/Faye. ** ''CSINewYork'': Danny/Lindsay. Secondary {{OTP}}s are Mac/Stella and Flack/Angell. Also Flack/Stella just for shits and giggles. ** ''DeathNote'': Kinda-sorta-''maybe'' Light/Misa. Think [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward/Bella]], in the sense that they're so annoying, they deserve each other. ** ''DigimonAdventure'' (and ''[[DigimonAdventure02 02]]''): Yamasora, though I was surprised by the canonization. Also Jyoumi, Takari, Kenyako & Kouyako. ** ''DigimonFrontier'': Kouzumi. Kouji/Izumi, that is. ** ''{{Everwood}}'': Ephram/Amy, Bright/Hannah. ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud/Tifa, Zack/Aerith. ** ''FinalFantasyVIII'': Seifer/Quistis. I also ship Squall/Rinoa and Irvine/Selphie on the side. ** ''FullMetalAlchemist'': Edowin, Royai, Lingfan. Havoc/Schiezka is probably my biggest CrackPairing ever. ** ''GundamWing'': 2xH. Peripherally 6x9, 3x4 & 5xS. And 1xR, mostly because they both annoy me, so that means they're meant to be. ** ''HannahMontana'': Oliver/Lilly, Jake/Miley. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Hermione. Also Ron/Luna, Ron/Hermione, Draco/Ginny and Remus/Tonks. ** ''[[{{ICarly}} iCarly]]'': Freddie/Sam. ** ''{{Inuyasha}}'': Miroku & Sango are my main. Also Inuyasha/Kagome, Kouga/Ayame, Kohaku/Rin & Sesshoumaru/Kagura by default. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Link/Zelda. ** ''{{Lost}}'': My biggest is Charlie/Claire. Also Jin/Sun. Sometimes Jack/Kate, Sawyer/Kate or Sawyer/Juliet. ** ''[[MagicKnightRayearth MKRE]]'': I absolutely adore Ascot/Umi. And I also like Ferio/Fuu and Clef/Presea. ** ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' (yes, [[PeripheryDemographic seriously]]): Carlos/DA, Ralphie/Phoebe. ** ''TheMentalist'': I adore Rigsby/Van Pelt. I also like Jane/Lisbon and all their [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]]. ** ''{{Series/Merlin}}'': Arthur/Morgana. Somewhat behind are Lancelot/Gwen, and about 785 other random ships. *** For the record, my Arthurian myth OTP is Lancelot/Guinevere, despite my general disgust toward adultery.

** ''{{Naruto}}'': Sasusaku, Shikaino, Naruhina & Nejiten. ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji/Asuka. Peripherally I also ship Kaji/Misato and Touji/Hikari. ** ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Percy/Annabeth, Luke/Thalia. Beckendorf/Silena and Percy/Rachel are cool, too. *** ''TheHeroesOfOlympus'': (So far) Jason/Piper. ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Ash/Misty, of course. And James/Jessie by default. ** ''{{Primeval}}'': Connor/Abby. ** ''{{Psych}}'': Shawn/Juliet. ** ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'': Jonny/Jessie. ** ''RurouniKenshin'': Sano/Megumi are the biggest, but I side-ship K&K, Aoshi/Misao, Yahiko/Tsubame. ** ''SailorMoon'': Yuuichirou/Rei, Ryo/Ami, Shinozaki/Makoto, Haruka/Michiru, Usagi/Mamoru, Helios/Chibiusa & Artemis/Luna. ** ''SaintSeiya'': Hyoga/Freya (from the Asgard Saga), Shun/June, Shiryu/Shunrei, Seiya/Shaina. ** ''SamuraiChamploo'': Jin/Fuu. ** ''ShamanKing'': Yoh/Anna. Horo/Tamao and Ren/Pirika to [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds clean up romantic loose ends]], but I have no problem with their canon endings. ** ''SkyHigh'': Warren/Layla. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All girls love]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold the jerk with a heart of gold]]. ** ''{{That 70s Show}}'': Hyde/Jackie. Also Eric/Donna by default. ** ''[[{{Comicbook/X-Men}} X-Men]]'' (and [[{{Series/X-Men}} most]] [[XMenEvolution of its]] [[WolverineAndTheXMen incarnations]]): Kurt/Kitty, Remy/Rogue. Scott/Jean, though sometimes I just hate them, LOL. [[/folder]] * Tropers/{{Cartoonatic55}} ** BatmanTheAnimatedSeries: Oswald "The Penguin" Chesterfield Cobblepot/Veronica Vreeland. I'm not the first to ship it, but I seem to be the most vocal about it. ** {{Futurama}}: Dr. Zoidberg/Amy Wong. I know it's not canon, but I think it's cute. ** {{Rango}}: [[TheDragon Rattlesnake Jake]]/[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Angelique]]. [[{{Crackpairing}} Yeah, it's one of those things...]] ** SpongeBobSquarePants: Spongebob/Sandy. Don't mistake me for one of those idiotic homophobic ones, though. ** {{Tommy}}: [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Pinball Wizard/Acid Queen.]] The sad part is that I find it makes more sense than Tommy/Sally (which isn't canon either but they at least met). Especially after finding that there's a back-to-back record with one of their songs on one side with the other's song on the opposite side as well as knowing that the people who played them in the movie that came out in the seventies later sang together. * Tropers/{{CCIB}} ** Mahou Sensei Negima: Negi/Nodoka, Natsumi/Kotaro, Nagi/Arika, Konoka/Setsuna, Tosaka/Ako, Jack/Chisame (It's given a montage and everything!) ** Avatar The Last Airbender: Zuko/Katara, Sokka/Toph, Mai/Ty Lee

** Fullmetal Alchemist: Ed/Winry, Al/Mei, Roy/Riza, and Greed/Lanfan/Ling. ** Homestuck: Jade/Feferi, Equius/Nepeta, Sollux/Aradia, Dave/Aradia, Tavros/Jade, Dave/Jade, Rose[[FoeYay <3<]]Eridan, John[[MoralityPet <>]]Vriska, Rose/Kanaya, Terezi<3<Vriska * {{Tropers/Cganale}} ** FalloutNewVegas: M!Courier/Cass, Benny/Rule 37, The Legion/Rule 37 ** LoveHina: Keitaro/Naru, Haruka/Seta ** MahouSenseiNegima: Konoka/Setsuna, Negi/Nodoka ** StarWars: [[BountyHunter Jango Fett]]/[[VoluntaryShapeshifting Zam Wesell]] * Charlie Brown ** {{Peanuts}} (naturally): Charlie Brown x Marcie. CB needs to stop fantasizing over [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen TLRHG]] already. ** {{Naruto}}: [[FanPreferredCouple Naruto x Hinata]]. ** {{Mahou Sensei Negima}}: Konoka x Setsuna [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/252/17/ for WIN.]] Negi x Nodoka x Yue [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/165/07/ for LOLZ]]. Kotaro x Natsumi [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/262/17/ for AWWWWZ]]. ** {{Full Metal Panic}}: Sousuke x Kaname. ** {{The Big O}}: Roger x [[RobotGirl Dorothy]]. So what if she's an android? It hasn't stopped shipping in other anime... ** {{Harry Potter}}: Harry x Luna is just a lifetime's worth of entertainment to imagine. ** {{Batman Beyond}}: Terry x Dana is okay, but Terry x Max seems healthier for all parties involved. Also, I don't really "ship" Bruce x Barbara, but of all of Batman's flings, it's the only one I give my blessing to (yup, I won't even bless [[JusticeLeagueUnlimited Bruce x Diana]]). ** {{Teen Titans}}: Robin x Starfire as the happy ending, with Robin x Raven at least getting some dates together. ** Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers: Dale x Gadget. I think the {{GadgeteerGenius}} would have much more fun with the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. ** {{Megatokyo}}: [[CrazyAwesome Largo x Erika]], Yutaka x Yuki, and ''::dramatic pause::'' [[{{UST}} Piro x Miho]]. ** {{Half-Life}}: Gordon x Alyx. ** {{Final Fantasy VII}}: Aeris x Cloud x Tifa *** If crossed over with {{Final Fantasy XIII}}: Lightning x Cloud ** {{Final Fantasy Tactics}}: Thanks ''entirely'' to a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3250660/1/Heart_of_Gold very good fanfiction]], Ramza x Agrias. Too bad there was no romantic subtext in the game. ** {{Dissidia Final Fantasy}}: OK, Terra! <--- [[PortmanteauCoupleName PCN]] ** [[TwentyFour 24]]: '''Anti''' Jack x Renee. [[spoiler: [[{{UST}} NO!]] [[CoitusEnsues NO!!!]] [[DeathBySex Wait...]] [[TooGoodToLast YES!]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Oh wait--]] [[ShootTheDog NO!!!!]]]]

* Cherruyue ** ''AceAttorney'': [[BelligerentSexualTension Klavier/Ema]] This is the only Ace Attorney pairing I actually care about. I love it to death and ship it so very hard. <3 *** '''Anti''' Klavier and Ema paired with anybody else other than each other. :] ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Rukia. I'm not a Bleach fan but I really like this pairing. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko/Katara. Your canon is my AU. ** ''HarryPotter'': Draco/Hermione. I love them hate ships. ** ''{{Clannad}}'': Tomoya/Nagisa. This is the best Tomoya pairing. <3 ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Simon/Nia. D'awwww. ** ''PrincessTutu'': Fakir/Ahiru. Your ordinary fairy tale romance...except not. ** ''CodeGeass'': Lelouch/C.C. The most perfect couple ever created. ** ''RomeoxJuliet'': Romeo/Juliet. Yeah. ** ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Tamaki/Haruhi. It's nice to have the flighty optimist paired off with the humble realist. ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'': Everyone/Everyone. ** ''CrossoverShip'': Gandalf/Dumbledore. YOU KNOW IT'S AWESOME. * chocolatewolf2000 ** ''Bleach'': I'm all Ichigo/Rukia! ^w^, Urahara/Yourichi, and Orihime/Ulquiorra ** ''Final Fantasy VII'': Cloud/Aerith and Yuffie/Vincent ** ''Final Fantasy VIII'': Squall/Rinoa ** ''Final Fantasy X'': Tidus/Yuna ** ''Final Fantasy X-2'': Rikku/Gippal ** ''Final Fantasy XIII'': Lightning/Hope ** ''Full Metal Alchemist'': Roy/Riza, May/Al, and Ed/Winry ** ''Kingdom Hearts'': Sora/Kairi, Roxas/Namine ** ''The Legend of Zelda'': Link/Zelda ** ''Maximum Ride'': Max/Fang ** ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'': Percy/Annabeth <3 ** ''Vampire Knight'': Yuuki/Zero * Tropers/{{Chuint}} - Is currently hugely into TeamFortress2, and has many a OTP thanks to this. ** {{Team Fortress 2}}: Spy/Pyro, Heavy/Medic, Sniper/Scout, Engineer/Soldier *** Demoman can have whoever he wants. * Tropers/{{Clae}} - Normal pairing? Check. HoYay? Check. ToyShip? Check. This will take a while... ** ''[[DotHackGUGames .hack//G.U.]]'': Haseo x Atoli, Bo x Aina. ** ''AtelierSeries'': *** ''ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy'': Yun x Raze, Enna x Puniyo. *** ''AtelierRorona'' and ''Atelier Totori'': Sterk x Rorona, Gino x Totori. ** ''AvalonCode'': Ur x Tia, Heath x Tia. ** ''{{Castle}}'': Castle x Beckett ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed x Winry

** ''GoldenSun'': Felix x Sheba, Piers x Felix, Matthew x Sveta. ** ''InfiniteSpace'': Dietrich Schneizer x Yuri (or the reverse), Yuri x Nia, Yuri x Glorinda, Bastian Schneizer x Nia, Lord Roth x Nele. ** ''LuxPain'': Akira x Atsuki, Atsuki x Yayoi. ** ''{{Sherlock}}'': Sherlock x John ** ''{{Suikoden}}'': *** ''SuikodenII'': Camus x Miklotov *** ''SuikodenIII'': Thomas x Cecile, Jacques x Aila. *** ''SuikodenIV'': Sigurd x Hervey (or the reverse), Hero x Millay. *** ''SuikodenV'': Hero x Lyon, Toma x Lym. *** ''SuikodenTierkreis'': Jale x Hero, Asad x Chrodechild, Buchse x Minen. ** ''TalesSeries'': *** ''TalesOfTheAbyss'': Guy x Luke *** ''TalesOfEternia'': Reid x Farah, Keele x Meredy. *** ''TalesOfGraces'': Asbel x Sophie *** ''TalesOfInnocence'': Spada x Luca ** ''ValkyriaChronicles'': Welkin x Alicia, Karl x Lynn, Homer x Edy. * Cobrabrandy22 ** Neon Genesis Evangelion Rei/Shinji ** Kannon Yuichi/Ayu ** Fruits Basket Tohru/Kyo * Tropers/{{Comartemis}} ** MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: Nanoha/Fate. Nothing personal Yuuno, but my [[YuriFanboy Yuri Goggles]] are permanently cemented to my face. ** CardCaptorSakura: Sakura/Tomoyo. Again, nothing against the token male. ** GundamSeed: Kira/Cagalli or Kira/Lacus. Just not Kira/Flay. ** Crossover Ships: [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]]/[[SailorMoon Hotaru]] for the effing WIN. * '''Tropers/CountDorku''' ** [[{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown/Peppermint Patty]]. ** [[GirlGenius Agatha/Gil.]] ** For ''TeenTitans'', it has to be the official pairing Robin/Starfire. [[PerverseSexualLust Raven's MINE, dammit!]] ** Other than this, he doesn't usually mind. * Tropers/{{Cryolemon}} ** I'm mostly a LesYay / yuri fanboy (albeit a bisexual one, hence the occasional men) I also have an odd taste in TV shows / games. ** Final Fantasy VII: Tifa / Yuffie ** Final Fantasy X-2: Paine / Rikku. I think Paine is gay (Or bi, but prefers girls) and Rikku is bi. Also FoeYay with Yuna / Leblanc. ** Buffy / Faith. Obvious, hell I know a (nominally) straight girl who ships this. ** Harry Potter: Harry / Ron. Probably because I have a thing for Daniel Radcliffe. Also, Hermione / Luna. ** Spooks: Ros / Jo [[spoiler: the look in (usually stone cold) Ros's eyes as she watches Jo die :(, that's literally the only time I've

been even close to bawling at a TV show]] Although, I get the feeling Ros is a collosal pervert. ** Dr. Who: Donna / Rose. Martha / Jenny. River / Amy. ** Discworld: Adora / Saccharissa (or however it's spelled). Adora definitely comes across as bi to me. Sally / Angua, except for the obvious problems. ** NCIS: Abby / Ziva. Ziva comes across as a "do anything to anything" type, and Abby seems like she'd be willing to try anything once. ** Real Life: Fearne Cotton / Holly Willoughby (obvious). Avril Lavigne / Tom Brady (Solely because they're both hot, I wrote a real person fic about them...) !'''D''' * Tropers/DaisyChain ** DesperateHousewives: [[TheDitz Susan]]/Mike - One of the few times I actually cared about a WillTheyOrWontThey situation. ** Series/DoctorWho: [[TheHero The Doctor]]/[[DefrostingIceQueen Romana]]. ** {{Friends}}: [[ControlFreak Monica]]/[[DeadpanSnarker Chandler]]. ** KazeToKiNoUta: [[HeartwarmingOrphan Serge]]/[[JerkassWoobie Gilbert]], [[BlueBlood Aslan]]/[[HighClassCallGirl Paiva]] [[TearJerker So ridiculously sad that it hurts]] but I'm completely addicted to it. ** LifeOnMars: Sam/Annie - I'm sorry [[HoYay Sam/Gene]] fans but she makes him smile, and when John Simm smiles the world becomes a better place. ** MoulinRouge: [[WideEyedIdealist Christian]]/[[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Sat]][[IllGirl ine]] - Because apparently angsty 19th century French people are like crack to me. ** SexAndTheCity: [[WideEyedIdealist Charlotte]]/[[UglyGuyHotWife Harry]], [[DeadpanSnarker Miranda]]/Steve - Both unbelievably sweet in their own way and considerably more likeable than the main couple. ** TowardTheTerra: [[HeroicAlbino Blue]]/[[BlindSeer Physis]], [[KnightTemplar Keith]]/[[MoralityPet Matsuka]]. * Tropers/DancingMouse ** {{Hetalia}}: Germany/Italy, Russia/America, England/America, Prussia/Hungary, Austria/Hungary, Austria/Prussia, China/Russia, France/England, Germany/Prussia. ** {{Transformers}}: Sunstreaker/Sideswipe, Megatron/Starscream, Prowl/Jazz, Thundercracker/Skywarp, Soundwave/Megatron, Red Alert/Inferno, Elita One/Optimus Prime, Ratchet/Wheeljack, Mirage/Hound, Springer/Arcee, Springer/Hot Rod, Megatron/Optimus Prime, Soundwave/Blaster. ** {{Metal Gear}}: Snake/Otacon, Big Boss/Ocelot, Boss/Sorrow, Big Boss/Snake, Drebin/Snake, EVA/Boss, Volgin/Raikov, Solidus/Raiden, Huey/Big Boss, Kaz/Big Boss, Strangelove/Boss, Ocelot/Snake, Grey Fox/Snake, Ocelot/Solidus, Vamp/Raiden., Strangelove/Paz, Strangelove/Huey. ** {{Avatar The Last Airbender}}: Zuko/Sokka, Azula/Ty Lee/Mai (Any combination), Zuko/Mai, Appa/Momo.

** {{Black Jack}}: Black Jack/Kiriko. ** {{Star Trek Deep Space Nine}}: Garak/Bashir, Jadzia/Worf, Ishka/Zek, Dukat/Damar. ** {{Star Wars}}: Leia/Han, Luke/Han, Boba/Han, Dengar/Boba, Jango/Zam, Obi-Wan/Anikin, Padme/Sabe. ** {{Knights of the Old Republic}}: Canderous/Reven, Bastila/Carth, Atton/Mical, Reven/Juhani. ** {{Sherlock Holmes}}: Sherlock/Watson, Sherlock/Irene, Watson/Mary, Sherlock/Moriarty, Moriarty/Mycroft, Sherlock/Lestrade. ** {{Harry Potter}}: Draco/Harry, Sirius/Remus, Harry/Ron, Hermione/Luna, Hermione/Harry, Tonks/Remus, Snape/Lily, Snape/Voldemort. ** {{Discworld}}: Vimes/Vetinari, Vimes/Carrot, Carrot/Angua, Nobby/Colon, Vimes/Sybil, Angua/Sally. * Tropers/DarkAlice ** TheBartimaeusTrilogy: Nathaniel/Kitty ** DigimonAdventure02: Hikari/Takeru ** FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers: Belle/Layle ** FruitsBasket: Hiro/Kisa ** FullMetalAlchemist: Ed/Winry ** HarryPotter: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Kairi, Roxas/Namine ** TheLegendofZelda: Link/Zelda ** SoulEater: Soul/Maka ** Vocaloid: Rin/Len, Piko/Gumi, Leon/Sonika * Tropers/DarkInsanity13 (where to start...?) ** AxisPowersHetalia: [[NiceGuy Canada]] x [[FragileFlower Ukraine]]. It's historically accurate, dammit. Also, [[ChivalrousPervert Prussia]] x [[YouFailBiologyForever Hungary]] is a close second. ** {{Bleach}}: [[BadassLongcoat Ichigo]] x [[BarrierMaiden Orihime]], because at least half of it is confirmed, unlike anything else romantic in the damn series. ** FairyTail: [[ChasteHero Natsu]] x [[CantCatchUp Lucy]]. It's adorable how Natsu it completely oblivious to anything that isn't appropriate, and that Lucy typically lets him off as just being an idiot. ** FullMetalAlchemist: [[BrattyHalfPint Ed]] x [[GadgeteerGenius Winry]]. Winry [[strike: is]] would be totally turned on by Ed's automail if they ever got that far. ** HaruhiSuzumiya: [[DeadpanSnarker Kyon]] x [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Haruhi]]. No questions asked. (Inevitably, someone's going to ask something.) ** KingdomHearts: [[KidHero Sora]] x [[HeroesWantRedheads Kairi]] ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto x Hinata, but definately seeing the latent Naruto x Sasuke HoYay even if I don't like it. ** TheWorldEndsWithYou: [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation Neku]] x [[GenderBlenderName Shiki]]. ** SoulEater: [[EmpathicWeapon Soul]] x [[BadassBookworm Maka]]; obviously, their relationship is far beyond just being professional, and many moments have you question if they're beyond being friends

too. And despite Soul technically not being human (or so he says), [[HalfHumanHybrid Maka's existence]] is proof that it still works. * '''Darkloid_Blues''' ** MegaManBattleNetwork: Hoo boy. In the games, Lan/Chaud. In the anime, [=ProtoMan=]/Chaud. In the manga, Chaud/Mayl. Not fussed on most other pairs, although Lan/[[MysteriousWaif Iris]] is cute in the anime. The three sources are actually fairly different, in both scenario as well as character reactions. ** StarTrekVoyager: Paris/Seven. I know, there's nothin' out there. What can I say? Season 5's Night really made me love it. ** DigimonAdventure02: Takeru/Hikari. Note: no rabid shipping here or anything, just really preferred. ** StargateAtlantis: Sheppard/[=McKay=]. Oddly enough, no preferences in SG-1. ** MegaManStarForce: Geo/Sonia. Highly prefer Sonia to Luna, in fact, to a rather...strong...degree. ** MegaMan: [[AloofBigBrother Blues]]/[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Forte]]. * eyebrow raise* ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty. One of the ones who hasn't really watched the show since Misty left actively, although recently [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Dawn/Zoey]] looks cute. ** HarryPotter: Sirius/Remus, though I ''will'' make fun of nutty Puppyshippers. I'm rather fond of Neville/Luna as well, and putting either Harry or Hermione in there as an OT3 is a-ok with me. ** ZombieLoan: Chika/Shito. Yeah, the two main male characters, I'm completely unoriginal and okay with that. ** BlackCat: Train/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Xiao Li]]. Yeah, probably pretty cracky. ** GundamSEED: Athrun/Kira. I have a knack for the doomed ones, yeah? * Tropers/{{Danger}} ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed and Winry, Roy and Riza. On the somewhat crackier but still plausible side, Maria x Denny and Falman x Becky. ** ''FireEmblem'': Joshua and Natasha, Janaff and Lucia, Lyn and Rath ** ''FinalFantasyVII'' Cloud and Tifa, and then Zack and Aerith for Cutest Dead couple. -shot** ''HarryPotter'' Luna/Neville (Aw come on, it's crack enough to work.) ** [[{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]x[[TwoThousandOne HAL]] [[{{xkcd}} OTP.]] * {{Tropers/DivineRose125}} Obviously a work in progress... ** ''CardCaptorSakura'': Sakura x Syaoran ** ''{{Clannad}}'': Tomoya x Nagisa ** ''DengekiDaisy'': Teru x Kurosaki ** ''TheFlintstones'': Fred x Wilma, Betty x Barney, Pebbles x BammBamm ** ''FruitsBasket'': Tohru x Kyo ** ''FutureGPXCyberFormula'': Hayato x Asuka, Shinjyo x Miki ** ''GundamSEED'': Kira x Lacus ** ''HanaYoriDango'': Tsukushi x Tsukasa ** ''KimiNiTodoke'': Sawako x Kazehaya

** ** ** **

''LovelyComplex'': Risa x Ohtani ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Link x Princess Zelda ''SailorMoon'': Usagi x Mamoru, Haruka x Michiru ''SuperMarioBros'': Mario x Peach, Luigi x Daisy

* '''Tropers/DeepC''' ** ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Finn X Marceline, Jake X Lady Rainicorn ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang X Katara, Sokka X Toph, Zuko X Mai ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto X Hinata, Shikamaru X Temari, Neji X Tenten ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Ash X Misty, Jesse X James, Sabrina X Morty, Lyra X [[DracoInLeatherPants Silver]] ** ''YouTubePoop'': [[AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Robotnik X Scratch]], [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames King Harkinian X Ganon]] ([[RuleOfFunny They're funny]]) * '''Tropers/DesignatedNPC''' ** ''+ C: Sword and Cornett'': Belca x Orcelito (or the other way around, if you know what I mean). With some Orcelito x Kiliko, 'cuz... Damn, Orcelito is the best [[WellIntentionedExtremist semi-evil]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes "victim"]] ''ever''. ** ''AceAttorney'': I'm not the ''only'' one who thinks Edgeworth x Franziska would be cute, right? ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'': Russia x America, not necessarily in that order. Mm-mmm, Cold War delicious! Also, Prussia x Hungary. ** ''di[e]ce'': Haruki x Kazuki, 'natch. And some Haruki x Black Bishop, 'cuz it'd be hot and I'm a sucker for the King/Liege dynamic. ** ''Chess'': Freddie x Anatoly all the way! Not that there's much of a fandom, but... ** ''Fate/Stay Night'': [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Archer]] x [[DoggedNiceGuy Shirou]]! ScrewYourself in the ''best'' possible of ways. <3 Too bad there's ''absolutely nothing for it''. ORZ ** ''ForgottenRealms'': [[CareerKillers Artemis]] [[TheDrifter Entreri]] x [[LovableRogue Jarlaxle]] [[DefectorFromDecadence Baenre]] FTW! There is [[{{Mangst}} ANGST!]], there is [[WalkingTheEarth ADVENTURE!]], there is [[WittyBanter WITTY BANTER!]], and [[OneTruePairing I love the pairing so]]. There should be more fanwork! I mean it! [[EmphasizeEverything Look at these exclamation points!!!!]] ** ''GameXRush'': Memori x Yuuki. Well, they're practically canon anyway, but... ** ''GundamSEED'': Athrun and Lacus, dammit! ** ''{{Hellsing}}'': I used to be a diehard Alucard x Integra shipper, then for some reason segued to Maxwell x Integra, and now... postVampire!Walter x Integra. I'm sorry. ** ''KimPossible'': Drakken x Shego, although she'll definitely be the boss in that relationship. She practically is ''now''. ** ''LoonaticsUnleashed'': Tech x Rev. '''Because I can.''' ** ''The MarvelUniverse'': Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. I have the right to remain silent! *** If {{Twincest}} isn't for you, how about Wanda Maximoff and Victor Von Doom?

** ''MegaMan'': [[FragileSpeedster Quick Man]] x Metal Man, as well as Quick Man x [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Shadow Man]] and some onesided [[StalkerWithACrush Crash Man]] x Quick Man. I blame the Japanese fanart. ** ''{{Megatokyo}}'': Largo x Erika, but I ship (if this counts) onesided crushing from Junko to Largo. *** Can I list not-necessarily-sexual ones too? Some kind of Dom Largo - Ed Trio Of Doom would be awesome, even if/especially Largo's still a Paladin and the other two... aren't. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Neji x Hinata. Yes, I ''know''... ** ''Phule's Company'': ... .... ..... [[spoiler: Sushi x Do Wop]] ''OH GOD I'M SORRY''. It's just because they remind me of RP characters, I swear! Almost exactly! I feel terrible about this sorry, Mister Asprin! - even though I know people are shipping Aahz x Skeeve and that's so much more worse, but-** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Platinum, specifically: [[FanNickname Ignitionshipping]] all the way! <3 [[HotBlooded Flint]] x [[GrumpyBear Volkner]] is my OTP of ''all Pokemon time''. HeterosexualLifePartners, at ''least!'' ** ''{{Psychonauts}}'': The kids are a bit young for me to ship, but Sasha x Milla all the way! ** ''Replica'': Manji x Karu, though odd and... semi-platonic! ** ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Ruka Tsuchiya x Juri Arisugawa. ''AND NOTHING YOU CAN SAY WILL CHANGE MY MIND.'' *** (... Well, maybe a little Ruka + Touga shipping. But Juri's still Ruka's One True Love!) ** ''RivalSchools'': Kurow x Brainwashed!Yurika. I can't wrap my head around it in a sexual sense, but it seems like Kurow'd be fine with just having his sister stand at his side like a good girl... and [[TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]] help me, somehow I find that [[FetishFuel incredibly hot]]. ** ''Rust Blaster'': Although I like [[ActionGirl Kodachi]], I * heart* Al x Kei! Which I have just now dubbed [[FanNickname Scabbardshipping]]. Hey, apparently Al's reappearance gives a wastingaway Kei the power to ''walk again'', so... ** ''{{Sinfest}}'': Li'l Evil x Seymour, in a cute, non-sexual, ToyShip way! ** ''Soul Rescue'': Renji x Kaito! They're HeterosexualLifePartners, and ''[[WordOfGod God Himself]]'' specifically says the two are meant to be together. And they bicker adorably. And RedOniBlueOni. ** ''SpongebobSquarepants'': Plankton x Krabs, one-sided. Isn't Plankton a textbook StalkerWithACrush? ** ''[=~Star Ocean: The Second Story~=]'': Dias x Rena! ** ''[[TalesofSymphonia Tales of Symphonia]]'': Mithos x Martel. STOP LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY! ** ''The Jungle'': No, not [[NamesTheSame that one]]. Chief of Security Brainard and Director Wilding. It's a one-shot paperback probably no-one's heard of, but that doesn't change '''HOW HARD I SHIP IT.''' ** ''TokimekiMemorial'': Only Love: Inukai-sempai and Riku! If it were a game, Inukai would be the ''best GayOption ever''. By the end of the series, they have more chemistry together than Riku does with any of

the three girls he's supposed to be falling for. ** ''{{Transformers}}'': Although it depends on the series, I ship Megatron x Soundwave in ''G1'', Megatron x Shockwave in ''Animated'', Dinobot x Megatron in ''Beast Wars'' (... it was a messy breakup, okay?), and one-sided Starscream x Megatron in all, with Screamer as the ClingyJealousGirl, 'cept in the [=BW=] example. ** ''Other'': YHOO x GOOG. Yes, those letters stand for what you think they stand for. Read [[http://sesame-seed.livejournal.com/49159.html# cutid2 this]] (there's some stuff, just scroll down), and despair (because I can't find the other fic, dammit)! * Dipindott ** I like most canon pairings, but if I like their dynamic or feel like they have a lot of ShipTease, I'll go for it. This is definitely a work in progress. ** ''{{Avatar The Last Airbender}}'': [[OppositesAttract Zuko]][[BetaCouple /]][[BirdsOfAFeather Mai.]] One of my biggest/favorite ships. I also like the rest of the canon pairings, and although I don't ship them, I find [[LittleMissBadass Toph's]] crush on [[TheSmartGuy Sokka]] ''adorable.'' ** ''{{BigTimeRush}}'': [[OneTrueThreesome James/Logan/Camille,]] due to not being able to decide between [[JustFriends Camille/Logan]] and [[HoYay James/Logan.]] ** ''{{Generator Rex}}'': [[DatingCatwoman Rex]]/[[DeconstructedTrope Circe.]] I'm not sure which canon paring is [[FanDumb more hated:]] this one or Zuko/Mai. Either way, I still find their relationship cute. ** ''{{PhineasAndFerb}}'': [[FriendlyEnemy Buford/Baljeet.]] Also [[ObliviousToLove Phineas/Isabella,]] [[PrecociousCrush Vannessa/Ferb]], and [[OfficialCouple Candace/Jeremy]]. ** ''RedvsBlue'': [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Grif/]][[FanPreferredCouple Simmons]], though more as [[HeterosexualLifePartners friends]] than lovers. ** ''{{Teen Titans}}'': [[TheNotLoveInterest Raven]]/[[PluckyComicRelief BeastBoy.]] Also, [[WillTheyOrWontThey Starfire/Robin.]] ** ''{{Victorious}}'': [[OddFriendship Jade/Cat.]] Also some Tori/Andre. * Tropers/{{Dragara}} ** {{Dot hack GU Games}}: Haseo x Atoli ** {{Inuyasha}}: Inuyasha x Kagome ** {{Teen Titans}}: Beast Boy x Dragara (Fan character) ** {{Fairy Tail}}: Natsu x Lucy ** {{Spirited Away}}: Haku x Chihiro ** {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}: Yugi x Tea ** {{AvatarTheLastAirbender}}: Aang x Katara ** {{The Legend of Spyro}}: Spyro x Cynder ** {{Disney}}: Pretty much every canon Disney movie couple (with the exceptions of the few movies that I hate *COUGHHIGHSCHOOLMUSICALCOUGH*) ** Other: I generally tend to support the main pairing (as you should

be able to tell), so that should cover most of my other fandoms (I have a lot) * {{Tropers/DragonKazooie89}} ** {{EarthBound}}: Ness/Paula ** FireEmblem: Marth/Caeda, Hector/Lyn ** MonkeyIsland: Guybrush/Elaine ** {{Mother3}}: Flint/Hinawa, Duster/Kumatora ** SailorMoon: Mamoru/Usagi ** SuperMarioBros: Mario/Peach, Luigi/Daisy

* Tropers/DrZulu2010 ** AvatarTheLastAirBender: [[OfficialCouple Aang/Katara]], [[BetaCouple Zuko/Mai]]. ** DragonQuestV: [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Hero/Bianca]]. ** FireEmblem: Eliwood/Ninian, Franz/Amelia, Joshua/Natasha, Ephraim/Tana, Eirika/Seth. ** GGundam: Domon/Rain. ** NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater: [[DefrostingIceQueen Nadia]]/[[TeenGenius Jean]] ** {{Naruto}}: [[FanPreferredCouple Naruto/Hinata]] ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: [[ButtMonkey Shinji]]/[[EmotionlessGirl Rei]] ** PhoenixWright: Phoenix/Maya, [[ButtMonkey Gumshoe/Maggey]]. !'''E''' * Tropers/{{emeriin}}: ** {{Batman The Animated Series}}: Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy. As much I love The Joker, these two are just so much more awesomely brilliant together. ** {{Buffy}}: Angelus/Spike. They both have to be evil, though, I will not tolerate any [[Literature/{{Twilight}} woobification of vampires]]. ** [[CrossoverShip House/Blackadder]]. I'm thinking of Blackadder III the most. The amount of snark would end the world, the sex would be awesome and although he's arguably crueler than House (after all, House does have more about him to mock), {{House}} could still use the cane to his advantage. ** {{House}}/Wilson/Cuddy: I know that it's fucked up and pretty abusive on all sides but that's why I love it so much. ** [[CrossoverShip Nostalgia Critic/Angry Video Game Nerd]]. I would actually sell my soul for decent fic of these two. Damn them for having such quality FoeYay. ** [[ScrewYourself Nostalgia Critic/Ask That Guy]]. I... I have no justification for this one. I'm so sorry. ** LifeOnMars: Sam/Gene. I hate Ashes to Ashes for trying to repeat their chemistry by putting a woman in Sam's place. ** {{MASH}}: Hawkeye/BJ. I'm always surprised at how much HoYay they got into a seventies show. ** {{Supernatural}}: Sam/Dean. Obsessive, pretty incest for the win.

** {{Withnail and I}}: Withnail/Marwood. Oh, come ''on''. It's practically canon. ** The couple from the BT adverts. It might be a strange choice but they're just so adorable that I can't help it. * Tropers/{{emmens}} ** I ship crack :D ** {{invader zim}} [[{{NoHuggingNoKissing}} Yeah, yeah, yeah I know]]but it's so damn hard when alot of the fanfics are that good: *** [[{{EnsembleDarkhorse}} Tak]]/Dib; it makes sense..sorta, **** Sorry, I've got to say this, but human/xeno relationships are heresy. Say what you will, but biochemical barriers always ruin it. *** Gaz/Zim (but only with character development, it's really the only way the pairings work) ** {{naruto}} *** Gaara/Hinata...It's...just...cute...[[{{squee}} heheee]] *** Deidara/Hinata it's not popular so therefore all the fics are fairly better than most *** Shikamaru/Temari [[{{fanpreferredpairing}} not really crack]] but it makes so much sense that I will never once get why anyone ships Shikamaru/Ino *** [[{{ocstandin}} Tenten]]/[[{{ocstandin}} Kankuro]] the lack of any character development in the manga or anime just seem to make it work even more ** {{left4dead}} *** Hunter/witch....once again, it just seems to work ** [[{{Ptitle1d5irnza}} 9]] *** 6/3 *** 5/7 both this and the above just for the sheer cuteness involved * [[Tropers/{{Enunciability}} Enunciability]] ** I hate shippers, but I'm fiercely loyal to the few ships that I do...[[{{Hypocrite}} ship]]. ** BattleRoyale: Shinji/Yutaka. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Rukia. ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Roy/Riza. ** ''NabariNoOu'': Raikou/Gau > ''everything else on my list combined''. AmbiguouslyGay [[{{Bishounen}} sparkly]] BadAss {{Samurai}} + [[{{Adorkable}} adorably]] [[{{Understatement}} devoted]] {{Keet}} MoralityPet + canon '''SADOMASOCHISM'''? MMMM. * Tropers/EpicOswald88 ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Aang x Katara, Zuko x Mai. ** EpicMickey: Oswald x Ortensia. Though I can't argue with Oswald x Fanny from the original {{Disney}} shorts either. ** StarTrek: Scotty x Uhura. And of course, Spock x Kirk. * Tropers/EponymousKid ** ''DragonBall'': Goku x Bulma. Look, it's ''cute'', alright? They're just so damn ''cute'' together. ** ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'': [[FragileSpeedster Sena]] x [[MamaBear Mamori]].

** ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'': [[KidHero Luso]] x [[{{Tsundere}} the Witch of the Fens]]. Look, ''something'' is going on there, okay? *** This troper saw it too. {{Shotacon}}? ''Shotacon''. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Actually pretty much all of the non-yaoi ships, but an especial favorite is Link x Maple, the witch from the Oracle games. ** ''GashBell'': Kiyomaro x Suzume. Look, throw the dog a bone for once, she freaking needs it. * Eurovisionista: Real Life OTP: Alexander Rybak x Didrik SolliTangan. It helps that they perform My Heart Is Yours together. * Tropers/TheEvilOboist ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Zuko/Mai.]] The show's most hated canon ship, but really, it's my absolute favorite of any pairing in any media, ever. *** I also like [[OfficialCouple Aang/Katara]], [[BetaCouple Sokka/Suki,]] [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Hakoda/Ursa,]] [[HoYay Zuko/Sokka,]] [[HasTwoDaddies Hakoda/Bato,]] [[LesYay Ty Lee/Azula,]] and [[DecemberDecemberRomance Iroh/Aunt Wu.]] ** [[IronMan Pepperony]]. Just... Pepperony. ** I shipped [[HarryPotter Ron/Hermione]] before it was canon. Also, [[TogetherInDeath Tonks/Lupin.]] ** StarTrekXI: Spock/Uhura. ** [[{{Mulan}} Mulan/Shang]] ** [[{{Firefly}} Mal/Inara]] ** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy/Angel]] ** From the TortallUniverse: Kel/Dom, but Kel/Neal and Kel/Merric will always have special places in my heart. ** {{Claymore}}: Clare/Jeanne ----

OneTruePairingF-M Tropers' favorite ships. No flaming, please. This page includes alias starting with the letter F through the letter M. '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order by [[ThisTroper Troper alias]].''' When two's not enough, try TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome. ---!'''F''' * Tropers/{{Falconfly}} ** Not a millitant shipper (being male and [[BiTheWay whatever]]), but still I have that stupid romantic and hopeless side. ** HunterXHunter: Gon x Killua, because there's frankly [[HoYay too much evidence]] ** {{Balto}}: Kodi x Kirby, Ralph x Dusty and Stella x Boris. This is the only fandom that actually can lead me to vicious defending of pairs, because WordOfGod confirmed the Ralph x Dusty thing and Kodi x

Dusty fans try to impose themselves too much ** FriendlyHostility: Anne x Demon, Collin x Fox (I still haven't overcome the whole seperation thing, and thats why I'm reluctant to read the sequel comic) ** HisDarkMaterials: Balthamos x Baruch, Will x Lyra ** Ben10AlienForce: Ben x Kevin, Gwen x Morningstar ** {{Berserk}}: Guts x Casca, maybe Griffith x Serpico (I know, its a crack pairing, but its awesome!) ** AxisPowersHetalia: Italy x Germany ** Supernatural: Dean x Castiel ** ImMoreThanMuscles (its an internet BoysLove porn series): Ian x Bonny ** FullmetalAlchemist: Al x Scar (yes, I'm that sick). Ed x Roy as well, but I'm not opposed to pair either of those with Winry * Tropers/FantiSci: ** ''FriendlyHostility'' - Fox and Collin. Like {{Falconfly}} (points upwards) I didn't like theCerebusSyndrome slide, even though it was well-written. In my mind, ''OtherPeoplesBusiness'' is either a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian AU]], a world of MindScrew, or a [[AllJustADream fever dream]] that Fox is having after his allergy medication kicks in. In fact, I tend to breeze over comics that come after the "Pirates!" story: I like to think Fox, Collin and possibly [[BabiesEverAfter assorted sprogs]] are happily ruling Venezuala while their AU counterparts do the dark 'n' angsty thing. I can read OPB, (it's well written and interesting even though I ''despise'' Leon), but not without wincing at all the Fox-And-Collin-Are-No-More-In-ThisWorld bits. And I refuse to get attached to the characters, because that's bound to be the kiss of death. ** ''BeastWars''/''Beast Machines'': Silverbolt and Blackarachnia. Yes it was cheesy. Yes, Silverbolt was a LargeHam KnightInShiningArmor. Yes, ''Beast Machines'' was exceptionally cruel. But dammit, it was cute, romantic, funny as hell and often touching. *** It may have been a bit StrangledByTheRedString, but Rattrap and Botanica were pretty funny too. ** ''PrincessTutu'': Fakir/Duck. Mytho had all the personality of a cardboard box, and Fakir's [[PetTheDog Pet The Duck]] moments were funny and touching. HATED the end of the story so much...a perfect BittersweetEnding, but come ''on'', didn't the two [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds romantic loose ends]] deserve ''some'' happiness after all they went through? ** ''Story Of Saiunkoku'': Shurei and Ryuki. The guy's daft, but a sweetheart, and he's a romantic who adores Shurei. Just stuff the rules of inheritance, Ryuki - go marry a governor! One of the few cases where I back the LoveableRogue against the more sensible nice guy (Seiran). ** ''FruitsBasket''; Speaking of which...Yuki and Tohru. I loved Kyo, but the relationship with Tohru was all too familiar AllGirlsWantBadBoys and TroubledButCute, mixed with GenerationXerox. I thought a relationship with the sweeter-natured Yuki would have been more interesting to read, especially since I never really took to Machi.

** ''PetShopOfHorrors'': Leon and D. Come on, that relationship would be hilarious to watch! Fights over vegetarianism versus burgers, whose turn is it to pick up Chris from school, why was one of the tigers sleeping on Leon's side of the bed...I loved the Leon/D chemistry. Wu Fei is really a [[ReplacementScrappy poor substitute]]. ** ''KyouKaraMaou'': Yuri and Wolfram. Yuri and Conrad seems vaguely incestuous, and again, entertainment value is the deciding factor. Crazy blond in a pink nightgown vs. Mr. Boringly Perfect = no contest. * {{Tropers/Feinoha}} ** ''ArTonelico3'': [[{{CuteClumsyGirl}} Finnel]]/[[{{TheStoic}} Akane]] ** ''HyperDimensionGameNeptune'': [[{{GenkiGirl}} Neptune]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Noire]], [[{{Kuudere}} IF]]/[[{{GagBoobs}} Vert]], [[WaterWorks Compa]]/[[ButchLesbian Blanc]], [[{{ScrewYourself}} Neptune/Purple Heart]] ** ''LyricalNanoha'': Nanoha/Fate, Hayate/Vita, Einhart/Vivio, Caro/Lutecia ** ''ArTonelico2'': Cloche/Luca ** ''{{Xenosaga}}'': KOS-MOS/Shion Uzuki ** ''PhantomBrave'': Marona/[[{{IllGirl}} Castille]] ** ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' [[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} Seraphim]]/[[{{MagicalGirl}} Haruna]], [[{{FoeYay}} Seraphim/Maelstrom]], [[{{MagicalGirl}} Haruna]]/[[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} Maelstrom]], [[{{UnequalPairing}} Sarasvati/Seraphim]] ** ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' Homura Akemi/Madoka Kaname, Kyouko Sakura/Sayaka Miki * Tropers/{{Fiwen9430}} ** ''HunchbackOfNotreDame'': Frollo/Esmeralda. Yes, I know it wouldn't happen, but I just want the poor man to be happy. And on a humorous note, Gringoire/Djali. ** ''LesMiserables'': Marius/Cosette. Awww. ** ''LordOfTheRings'': Faramir/Eowyn ** ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Will/Elizabeth ** ''StarWars'': Luke/Mara, Han/Leia * Tropers/FreezairForALimitedTime ** ''{{Psychonauts}}:'' [[TheStoic Sasha]] x [[DiscoDan Milla]] forever. Hey, it's borderline {{canon}}! If nothing else, a Milla -> Sasha {{Starboarding}} is at least canon. *** Also, after reading it elsewhere on the Wiki: [[ConspiracyTheorist Boyd]] x [[WhiteDwarfStarlet Gloria]]. Mentioned ''as'' crack, but I can't help seeing it in my head as adorable. ** ''AceAttorney'': [[BunnyEarsLawyer Phoenix]] x [[TheRival Edgeworth]]. [[GuiltyPleasures My secret shame]]. I hate to be such a YaoiFangirl, but... It's both [[RuleOfFunny funny]] and [[DistractedByTheSexy hot]]. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda:'' [[HeroicMime Link]] x Anyone that's not Zelda. He always has better chemistry with all the OTHER girls. My particular favorite is Link x [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Saria]]--uh, well, you know, with a little [[HandWave Handwaving]] to prevent the

[[{{Lolicon}} obvious]] {{squick}}. Link x [[{{Tsundere}} Midna]] ain't bad, though, and Link x Malon is pretty cute. Don't you just love how I jump all over the timeline? ** ''HarvestMoon:'' [[TheWoobie Griffin]] x [[ChristmasCake Muffy]]. So it's {{canon}} if you don't marry either one--so what? That doesn't stop it from being adorable. The scene in ''HM DS'' where they prepare a new kind of drink to "celebrate their love" is an epic combination of [[CrowningMomentOfFunny LOL]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming awwwww]]. ** ''CodeLyoko:'' [[TheSmartGuy Jeremy]] x [[ActionGirl Aelita]]. Also canon, but 1) I am contractually obliged, as [[MostTropersAreYoungNerds one of them]], to support Nerd Love, and 2) the first-season episode where they touched for a brief moment across the void was so blasted ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming beautiful]]'' I can't NOT root for them. ** ''AnimalCrossing:'' [[CoolOldGuy Kapp'n]] x [[TheWoobie Sable]]. Yes, you read that right. Kapp'n is obviously an old romantic, and I feel like he deserves ''somebody.'' And I'm not cracked enough to make him a RelationshipSue. Sable always struck me as being a bit lonely, too. It ''sounds'' like [[CrackPairing crack]], but in my mind, it works pretty awesomely. ** ''ZatchBell[=/=]GashBell:'' [[WarriorMonk Wonrei]] x [[ChineseGirl Li-en]]. ''Another'' canon (I tend to fall for canon 'ships) but Wonrei's dedication is just too adorable. She will ''never'' forgive the anime for [[KissingDiscretionShot cutting out before we got to see them kiss that first time]]. [[BigNo Nooooooo!]] ** ''BeyondGoodAndEvil:'' [[IntrepidReporter Jade]] x [[TheBigGuy Double H]], because it's [[BlasphemousBoast cuter than]] [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens a basket of kittens]]. Double H is [[GentleGiant such a sweetie]]. [[http://jameson9101322.deviantart.com/art/Thanks-for-Being-my-Escort114927214 This fanart]] doesn't help ''at all.'' ** {{WALL-E}}: ''Everyone.'' [[TheWoobie WALL-E]] and [[{{Tsundere}} EVE]] and [[BetaCouple John and Mary]]. Every inch of it is ''perfect.'' Robots holding hands and dancing in space, sheltered humans meeting for the first time... ''All. Of. It.'' WALL-E may well be the most romantic movie ever, and it's not even a ''conventional'' romance. It is the ''embodiment'' of the CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. ** CrossoverShip: [[WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Carmen Sandiego]] x Waldo (as in "Where's?") This troper has heard it mentioned as a joke many times, but finds it so amusing she actually boarded the 'ship. And that fan mix didn't help. * Tropers/{{Frisko}} ** AngelBeats: Hinata/Yui ** AngelicLayer: Misaki/Hatoko ** CardcaptorSakura: Eriol/Kaho ** FreshPrettyCure: Love/Setsuna ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: Natsumi/Akira ** MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: [[{{Selfcest}} Pinkie Pie/Pinkamena Diane Pie]] ** UminekoNoNakuKoroNi:

*** BATTLER/Beato *** Battler/Maria *** MARIA/Sakutarou *** Ange/Mammon *** Virgilia/Ronove *** Asmodeus/Amakusa *** Beelzebub/Gohda *** Shannon/George *** Kanon/Jessica ** SamuraiSentaiShinkenger *** Kotoha/Genta *** Kaoru/Takeru ** [[OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Ore no Imouto]]: Kyosuke/Manami ** SonoHanabiraNiKuchizukeWo: Runa/Takako ** TheWonderfulWizardOfOz: Ozma/Dorothy ** CrossoverShip: [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]]/[[HeartcatchPrettyCure Infinite Pretty Cure.]] * Tropers/FullmetalSonicfan: ** {{Pokemon}}: Ikarishipping (Dawn x Paul), Ferriswheelshipping (N x Touko/White/Hilda) ** {{SonictheHedgehog}}: I have SO MANY. A few being crack pairings. Sonic x Sally, Silver x Blaze, and Shadow x Tikal. (Yes. You read that last one right.) ** {{FullmetalAlchemist}}: EdWin and Royai mostly. * Tropers/FurikoMaru: ** {{Nora}}: [[HotBlooded Nora]]/[[ManipulativeBastard Kazuma]] ** {{Naruto}}: Gaara/Lee ** Goethe's {{Faust}}/Marlowe's {{Faust}} ** DeathNote: L/Light (of course) ** [[{{Firefly}} River Tam]]/[[{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] *** But also Cable/Deadpool. That's just how I roll. *** Likewise, the ''real'' [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]]/ River ** Napoleon/Robespierre ** OscarWilde/Kit Marlowe ** Voltaire (no, no, the ''[[NamesTheSame original]]'')/Blake ** HenryV /{{Hamlet}}, also known as The Kenneth Branagh DoubleFeature ** [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Juri Arisugawa]]/[[TheMightyThor Thor]] ** [[GundamWing grown-up!Duo Maxwell]]/[[IronMan Tony Stark]] ** [[{{Hellsing}} Walter]]/[[CaptainAmerica Bucky]] ** [[GreenLantern Guy Gardner]]/[[TheSlayers Lina Inverse]] ** OT3: [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena/Anthy]]/[[GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] ** Tropers/FurikoMaru/Gender-Flipped Self/ FutureBadass EyepatchOfPower LoveableRogue Self. [[ScrewYourself Ourloveissoselfabsorbed!]] ** SoulEater: Soul/Maka. Hail to the shounen het done ''right.'' ** X/1999: Sorata/Arashi ** BlazingSaddles: Bart/Jim

** MyFavoriteYear: Duffy/Steinburg ** [[{{Hinduism}} Krish]][[ClassicalMythology nysus]] ** [[MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok Thor/Yamino]] ** And, of course, the OTP to which all others are subservient: LupinIII/Heist !'''G''' * Tropers/{{Galadrieal}} - In alphabetical order (With unneeded commentary explaining myself. ** AceAttorney *** Phoenix Wright/Iris Hawthorne (I don't care what you say, THEY WERE MEANT FOR EACH OTHER.) *** Miles Edgeworth/Maya Fey (I honestly have no idea why about this one, but it just works for me.) *** Mia Fey/Diego Armando (The one pairing I think the entire fandom accepted) *** Franziska Von Karma/Adrian Andrews (This just works for me. I believe it.) ** AvatarTheLastAirbender *** Katara/Aang (Zutara wouldn't have worked anyway. I love the pairing name though.) *** Sokka/Suki (Though Tokka is rather close to my heart as well, I like these guys more.) *** Zuko/Mai (One of the few canon pairing I accepted without question.) *** Hakoda/Ursula (After reading Guide Me Home.) ** {{Disgaea}} *** Laharl/Flonne (Add Etna in for a {{One True Threesome}}.) *** Gwen/Krachievskoy *** Gordon/Jennifer ** {{Firefly}} *** Mal/Inara *** Zoe/Wash (NO. EXCEPTIONS.) *** River/Jayne (Thanks to a certain excellently written Firefly fanfic.) *** Simon/Kaylee ** {{Left 4 Dead}} *** Zoey/Ellis *** Rochelle/Nick ** [[{{Ptitleswfyluia}} Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]] *** Junpei/Akane *** Seven/Lotus ** {{Professor Layton}} *** Professor Layton/Claire *** Clive/Flora ** {{The World Ends With You}} *** Neku/Shiki (Like HELL they didn't end up together in the end!) *** Minamimoto/Joshua (Call me weird, but those two were so gay for each other, it wasn't funny.) * Tropers/{{Gancena}} -- In chronological of fandom discoveries: ** SuperSmashBrothers: Falcon/Samus

** FireEmblem 7: Hector/Lyn ** FireEmblem 9/10: Ike/Soren -- This one's unique in that I actually got into FanDumb territory. When my friend dabbled in contradictory pairings, I ''flipped.'' ** MortalKombat: Scorpion/Sub-Zero (especially with a GenderBender on the latter) ** TeamFortress2: Spy/Scout. Sniper/Spy. Heavy/Medic. Any team combination. Because it should be illegal for anyone to ''have'' choose just one. ** CuantaVida (notice how I separate the fanwork from the source): Bleu/BLU Scout, Red/Sniper. See above. * Tropers/{{Gaston1991}} ** BlackJack: Pinoko/Black Jack ** CardCaptorSakura: Sakura/Shaolan ** Chobits: Tchii/Hideki ** ElHazard: Ifurita/Makoto, Ifurina/Makoto, Alielle/Fatora, Jinnai/Ifurina ** Inuyasha: Kikyo/Inuyasha, Kanna/Kohaku, Kikyo/Konaku, Konaku/Sango ** LoveHina: Kanako/Keitaro ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: Misato/Shinji ** PrettySammy: Misao/Rumiya, Pixy Misa/Rumiya ** Ranma1/2: Kogane/Gosunkugi, Konatsu/Ukyo ** Rosario+Vampire: Moka/Tsukune ** TenchiMuyo: Aeka/Sasami ** UruseiYatsura: Ataru/Lum, Shinobu/Inaba, Ryuunosuke/Nagisa * The G Dude: ** Fatal Frame: [[TwinCest Mio/Mayu]] ** Ace Attorney: [[YuriFan Franziska/Adrian]] *** ...You can tell I'm a bit of a [[YuriFan Yuri]]/{{Twincest}} fan here. * Tropers/{{Gecko}} ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Zack and Aerith are just seem to click. ** ''LordOfTheRings'': Ditto for Faramir and Eowyn. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': I accept that it didn't happen, but Zutara will always have a special place in my heart. ** ''YuYuHakusho'': Yusuke and Keiko bring [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yccl7XAnpUM your daily dose of "Awwwww!"]] * Geekhyena ** ''GirlGenius'': Maxim and Zeetha. Their personalities just click so well! ** ''LordOfTheRings'': Grima and Eowyn. I know it was always unrequited, but can't the snarky guy who never got any love get a chance with the warrior princess of his dreams? He had a good reason for going over to the dark side. LoveMakesYouEvil indeed, but also RedemptionEqualsDeath. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zutara just worked for me on so many more levels than Kataang.

** ''Beetlejuice'': BJ and Lydia. Yes, it's slightly creepy, but it was my first 'ship, and one of my favorites. * Ghost of Gene Rayburn ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth/Anyone. He's my LauncherOfAThousandShips, though I have a preference for het, he has to be in character and it has to be at least ''somewhat'' plausible. ** ''{{NCIS}}'': Ziva/Tony ** ''TrueBlood'': Sookie/Alcide, Lafayette/Jesus ** ''KingdomHearts'': Sephiroth/Larxene (no one said ships had to make ''sense''), Axel/Larxene * Giggles ** ''BabylonFive'': Sheridan/Delenn ** Trek ships: Odo/Kira, Picard/Crusher, Bashir/Garak, and for a while Janeway/Chakotay until I couldn't stand Voyager any longer ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': Ten/Rose, Ten II/Rose, Ten/Master (that phone call did it for me) ** ''TheWestWing'': Josh/Donna ** ''TheXFiles'': Mulder/Scullly ** ''NewsRadio'': Dave/Lisa, man do I hate Johnny Johnson ** ''BattlestarGalactica'': Adama/Roslin ** ''{{Coupling}}'': Patrick/Sally * Girl in Glasses: Not really a militant shipper being...you know...[[AffectionateParody sane and all]] but I have my faves. ** {{Daria}}: Daria/herself. (Though I actually LIKE both Tom and Trent...and [[LesYay Jane]].) ** {{Glee}}: Kurt/Blaine, Santana/Brittany, [[CargoShip Sue/TrackSuit]] ** {{Harry Potter}}: Snape/Lily ** {{Skins}}: Cassie/Sid, Chris/Jal,Naomi/Emily, Mini/Franky, Grace/Rich ** {{Star Trek}}: Kirk/Spock (in both the original and the reboot) ** {{ReservoirDogs}}: Orange/White (no...seriously, even Tarantino admits its there!)

* Grangan ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Luna * Tropers/{{Griffin}} ** ''OnePiece'': Zoro/Robin, I just like it, don't ask why. ** ''KevinAndKell'': [[ToyShip Coney/Nigel]]. D'awwwwwww. * Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe ** ''TheLordOfTheRings'': Aragorn/Arwen, though occasionally Faramir/Eowyn beats it by a tiny bit. ** ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Will/Elizabeth, especially by the third movie. ** ''{{Comicbook/X-Men}}'': Gambit/Rogue. Best SlapSlapKiss couple ''ever''.

** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang/Katara. ''[[ThePowerOfLove Her love brought him back from the dead]]''. ** ''XMenEvolution'': Kurt/Kitty, because I'm a huge sucker for "buddyships". And Kurt. ** ''TeenTitans'': Robin/Starfire; again with the "buddyship", plus watching them fight together is just really awesome. ** ''SpiderMan'': Peter/MJ. [[DisContinuity And they're still married, by the way]]. ** ''{{WALL-E}}'': WALL-E/EVE, because I've never seen anything more romantic than space dancing. !'''H''' * hakojo ** ShamanKing: Keiko/Mikihisa, Yoh/Anna ** FullMetalAlchemist: Roy/Riza (In an odd subversion of the type, I don't ship Ed/Winry - they annoy the crap out of me.) ** Appleseed: Deunan/Briareos (I have a thing for action couples.) ** GalaxyAngel: Forte/Ranpha ** GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex: The Major/Prime Minister Kayabuki (thanks to the HoYay page. Now I can't unsee it and I'm absolutely loving it.) * Tropers/HamburgerTime ** [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji/Rei]]: In what was initially just an effort to be different, I'd had these two paired up in my head since they were just names and pictures to me. The reason? Back when I had first heard of Eva, Rei looked at my first glance through the series to be less important than Asuka, which, combined with a great character design, means she gets the protagonist in my head. Then I actually go and watch the series, and it's just the sweetest thing, at least from his perspective. She's the one he always goes the extra mile for. He's the one she entrusts with the apoca-freaking-lypse. And yes, I was spoiled for The Reveal. That still doesn't change the fact that she's the one he gives his all for, and apparently it looks like it's going to be canon in the new continuity. Fingers crossed. ** [[HarryPotter Harry/Luna]]: This one may be a result of the movies, which practically force it down your throat, but I find their relationship incredibly sweet. Would it work out in the long run? I don't know, she might annoy him too much down the line. But it's good for a mutually comforting 'ship, I'd say. I get why it's not canon, though. Waiting over half the series to introduce the love interest would be somewhat questionable-quality writing, and poor Luna would have probably been plastered with the RelationshipSue label, even moreso than Ginny actually did. ** [[SkyHigh Will/Gwen]]: Yes, I'm aware that she was [[UsingYouAllAlong Using Him All Along]]. That still doesn't change the fact that this was the better-written of the hero's two romantic encounters in this movie. I have to wonder if there were future plans for this pairing, as WordOfGod has it that, had the film become a series as originally planned, Layla would've left Will for Warren. ** [[ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland Fred/Lena]]: Yes, I'm aware that she was

[[UsingYouAllAlong Using Him All Along]]. This was still the most adorable thing about my personal favorite childhood HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Being turned to dust was a tad bit harsh, I think. ** [[SpyKids Juni/Demetra]]: Yes, I'm aware that she was [[UsingYouAllAlong Usi-]] okay, I think I need help. Their relationship was still the best thing about the [[{{Sequelitis}} infuriating third movie]]. I find shipping ''everywhere''. Her "death" was both oddly touching and strangely infuriating, and given that Juni's relationship with his sister is sort of presented as the "healthy" counterpoint to his relationship with Demetra, possibly Family Unfriendly Aesop-inducing. ** [[Film/BridgeToTerabithia Jess/Leslie]]: With a side order of wanting to club him upside the head for pursuing ZooeyDeschanel rather than noticing what's right in front of him which ultimately gets her killed. ** [[LesMiserables Marius/Cosette... AND Marius/Eponine]]: Not at the same time, mind you. What I mean is that I get the appeal of both pairings. Marius/Cosette is my "that makes so much sense" 'ship; the one everything builds up to and which is wrapped up in a nice little bow at the end. Marius/Eponine, by contrast, is my "that's so satisfying" 'ship; it's the one the cheesy pre-recorded sitcom "whoooooooooo!" would play over. I will say this, though. The plot is basically sodomized with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole if Marius gets anyone other than Cosette. ** But you never forget your first. Before I even knew what shipping was, my dad read ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' to me, and I was pulling for Caspian and the Star's Daughter to hook up. When they ''did'', I recall my little heart fluttering. * Tropers/HarpieSiren: ** {{Disney}}/SquareEnix, the true ''KingdomHearts'' OTP * Tropers/HienFan List incomplete ** {{Bomberman}}: [[CrackPairing ShiroXMach]], [[HoYay ShiroXKuro]], [[FanPreferredCouple GoldXCute Pink]], [[BetaCouple ShiroXAqua]], [[HoYay MidoriXAo]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Cute PinkXAqua, AkaXShout]], [[ShipTease KiroXAka]] ** DannyPhantom: [[HoYay TuckerXDanny]], [[CrackPairing TuckerXSam]] ** FairlyOddParents: [[LesYay TrixieXVeronica]], [[HoYay TimmyXChester]], [[CrackPairing AJXTootie]], [[FoeYay TimmyXVicky]] ** KatamariDamacy: [[KissingCousins PrinceXKuro, JuneXFoomin]], [[OfficialCouple KingXQueen]] ** The KingOfFighters: [[OfficialCouple YashiroXShermie, KyoXYuki]], [[ShipTease LeonaXRalf]] ** KingdomHearts: [[ShipTease Sokai]], [[HoYay Akuzeku]], [[FanPreferredCouple TerraXAqua]] ** SouthPark: [[HoYay Stenny, Style, Cutters, Cryde]], [[FoeYay CartmanXWendy]] ** {{Strider}}: [[ShipTease KainXSheena]], [[CrackPairing KainXSheena]], [[HeterosexualLifePartner KainXHiryu]] ** NamcoXCapcom: [[CrackPairing TaiyoXTron]], [[ShipTease

BravomanXWonderMomo]] * Tropers/HighFive: ** ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': [[{{Minionshipping}} Scratch/Grounder]]. There are far too many ShipTease moments for me not to. ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Kaorin/Sakaki. ** ''CornerGas'': Brent/Lacey. ** ''Mates, Dates series'': [[WillTheyOrWontThey Lucy/Tony]], Izzie/Ben, [[OfficialCouple Nesta/William]], [[FanPreferredCouple TJ/Steve]] ** ''SpongebobSquarepants'': I've always had a soft spot for [[HeterosexualLifePartners Spongebob/Patrick]], along with ShipMates [[FoeYay Squidward/Squilliam]]. ** ''SuperMarioBros'': [[OT3 Daisy/Luigi/Peasley]]. {{Crack Pairing}}s for the win. * Holliepop: ** {{Inception}}: [[SlashFic Arthur/Eames]]. I am a militant shipper of this one and do tend to try and convert Arthur/Ariadne shippers, sorry. ** {{Torchwood}}: Jack/Ianto ** ''HarryPotter'': Draco/Hermione, Harry/Draco ** ''UglyBetty'': Betty/Amanda, Justin/Austin ** ''ScottPilgrim'': Wallace/EVERYONE!, Scott/Ramona ** ''SherlockHolmes'': Holmes/Watson ** ''VeronicaMars'': Veronica/Logan ** ''BridesheadRevisited'': Charles/Sebastian. Studying this in English Lit, and was surprised that my classmates said their relationship was subtle. As an avid Slasher, I noticed it almost immedietely. ** ''WhatISawAndHowILied'': Evie/Peter ** {{Degrassi}}: Riley/Zane ** {{Skins}} Sid/Cassie, Jal/Chris ** {{WALL-E}}: WALL-E/EVE - because it's incredibly adorable. :3 ** ''AsTheWorldTurns'': Luke/Noah ** {{Dollhouse}}: Sierra/Victor (Priya/Anthony), Topher/Dr Saunders (Whiskey) ** {{Glee}}: Brittany/Santana, Kurt/Blaine, Tina/Mike (ASIAN!FUSION) ** {{Community}}: Troy/Abed, Jeff/Britta, Annie/Abed ** ''Firefly'': Zoe/Wash, Simon/Jayne, Inara/Kaylee * [[Tropers/HoshiKami HoshiKami]]: ** AceAttorney: Phoenix/Edgeworth, Klavier/Apollo and Apollo/Ema. ** HunterXHunter: Killua/Gon and (I'm going to get bashed now) Kurapika/Killua.First OVA is at fault here. ** Disgaea: Adell/Etna, Adell/Yukimaru, [[PortmanteauCoupleName Axdell (Axel/Adell)]] Etna/Laharl,Axel/Asagi, Mao/Almaz and a bit of Mao/Raspberyl.Adell is my personal LauncherOfAThousandShips, you'll see him later. ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: Keiichi/Mion,Keiichi/Satoshi (ShipTease in their ImageSong album is more than enough),Keiichi/Rika,Rika/Hanyuu.

** {{Pokemon}} (games/[[PokemonSpecial Special]],neutral about the anime): Barry/Lucas (Clingyshipping),to the same extent Pearl/Dia (Comedianshipping), Pearl/Platina (Haughtyshipping),Emerald/Crystal(does this one have a name?),Green/Red (Originalshipping/Palletshipping),Silver/Gold AKA Ethan (Hunter/Preciousmetalshipping), Silver/Blue (Chosenshipping). ** ChzoMythos / [[BenCroshaw Yahtzee's works]]: *** Trilby/Theo: They are the most fucked up characters on ChzoMythos.At least some Hurt/Comfort. *** Trilby/Chris Quinn: The Chris and Trilby comics. The soul mate thing. And Chris' ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial very]]'' [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday specific]] [[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/christrilby/0088.gif denial]] .Quoting [[LetsPlay Quovak on the 6DaS LP]]: "Yahtzee: Writing his own series' SlashFiction so you don't have to". ** YumeNikki and its fanmade sequels: *** Sort of a CrossoverShip, but Kazenori(Solitude)/Urotsuki(Yume 2kki) is her new OTP.And the [[GenderBender Boy effect]] Urotsuki has gives away BOTH BoysLove and {{Het}} ''at the same time''! ** {{Crossover Ship}}s: *** [[HunterXHunter Kurapika]]/[[{{Disgaea2}} Adell]] OTP FOREVER.Their minds are alike, but their personalities are totally different.Damn that crossover fic I was doing,it made me see [[ShipTease what I normally wouldn't]] between those two. *** Adell/[[{{Umineko}} Beatrice]], because ''[[{{Expy}} Expiness cannot be overlooked]]''. !'''I''' * {{Tropers/Ikanna}} ** [[HigurashinoNakuKoroni Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]: Keiichi/Rena, Satoshi/Shion, Takano/Tomitake ** [[UminekonoNakuKoroni Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]: Battler/Beatrice, Eva/Hideyoshi, Bernkastel/Lambdadelta ** [[ElfenLied Elfen Lied]]: Kouta/Lucy, Nana/Mayu ** Pokemon: Yellow/Gold, Ruby/Courtney, Glaceon/Umbreon, Bisharp/Lilligant ** [[YuGiOhGX Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]: Jun/Asuka, Judai/Yubel, Sho/Dark Magician Girl, Rei/Martin * Tropers/IkuMasamune ** One Piece: [=SanjixRobin=], Jewelry [=BonneyxTrafalgar=] Law, [=LuffyxNami=], [=SanjixZoro=], and [=AcexVivi=] ** D. Gray-man: [=AllenxLenalee=], [=LavixKanda=], [=KroryxMiranda=], and Tyki [=MikkxLulubell=] ** Jyu-Oh-Sei: [=ThorxTiz=] ** Soul Eater: Death the [=KidxTsubaki=] ** Sgt. Frog: [=KururuxDororo=] ** Hetalia: [=SwedenxFinland=] ** Naruto: [=SasorixDeidara=] ** Katekyo Hitman Reborn: [=GokuderaxYamamoto=] ** My [=OCs=]: [=HeathcliffexAki=] and [=KazumaxYuki-Rin=] (The last

one is nakamashipping) * Ink the Shiny One ** I am fond of het, yaoi, yuri, canon, and crack-ships of all kinds, and tend to do whatever the heck I want with my ships regardless of the canon. :'D ** {{ptitle1d5irnza}}: 1/2, 1/7, 2/4, 2/5, 2/6, 2/7, 2/9, 3/6, 3/7, 4/6, 4/9, 5/7, 6/9, 7/8, 7/9, Fab!1/Seamstress!2, etc. ** AxisPowersHetalia: Russia/America, Canada/Belarus, Poland/Lithuania, Korea/China, Germany/Italy, Liechtenstein/Seychelles, Spain/Belgium, Prussia/Hungary, Estonia/Ukraine. ** {{Homestuck}}: Nepeta/Terezi, Rose/Kanaya, Rose/Dave, Dave/Terezi, John/Jade, John/Karkat, Eridan/Karkat, Gamzee/Karkat, Terezi/Karkat, Nepeta/Karkat, Sollux/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Karkat]], Sollux/Aradia, Equius/Aradia, Vriska/Tavros, Gamzee/Tavros, Gamzee/Feferi. ** MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Applejack/Rainbow Dash, Rarity/Twilight Sparkle. ** InvaderZim: Tenn/Zim, Dib/Tak. ** {{Uglies}}: Peris/Tally, Shay/Tally. * invisible-chan ** I tend to have a generally prefer {{Canon}} ships with very few exceptions and generally only like {{Canon}} slash. For everyone unmentioned, I either a) don't ship them, b) crackship them or c) no preference (yet?). ** {{Pokemon}}(the games): Silver/Kris, Green(Blue)/Blue(Leaf), Jun/Hikari, Red/Misty... generally heroine and rival ships that are also my [[ShipMates ship mates]]. Gold/Kotone, only if she isn't portrayed as Kris. In the manga you can add Gold/Yellow, Lance/Yellow, Bill/Daisy. Kotone and Red are my [[LittleBlackDress little black dresses]]. [[OT3 Red/Blue/Green]] James/Jessie are the only anime ship, besides Misty/Ash, that I actually somewhat like. Please take notice of the order I write their names. =D ** RanmaOneHalf: [[BelligerentSexualTension Ranma/Akane]], Ryoga/Akari, Konatsu/Ukyo, Mu Tzu/Xian Pu, Tofu/Kasumi. ** TalesOfSymphonia: [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Lloyd/Colette]], Zelos/Sheena, Genis/Presea, and all those other spoilerifc canon ones. ** {{Jubei-chan}}: Kita Furo/Jiyu ** ChronoTrigger: Chrono/Marle ** TheWorldEndsWithYou: Neku/Shiki, Minamimoto/math/me ** RurouniKenshin: [[MayDecemberRomance Aoshi/Misao]], Kenshin/Kaoru, Sano/Megumi, Yakiho/Tsubame ** {{Trigun}}: Wolfwood/Millie, Knives/Legato (yes, even in the manga for both couples) ** {{Wicked}}: Fiyero/Elphaba; My PortmanteauCoupleName for them is Faeyero, because it's easier to say than Fiyerbala or whatever. ** TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya: Kyon/Yuki ** FireEmblem 7: Eliwood/Ninian, Erk/Serra, Wil/Rebecca, Rath/Lyn ** {{Inuyasha}}: Sesshoumaru/''older''Rin, Suikotsu/Kikyou, Bankotsu/Jakotsu, Kohaku/Kanna just because, Miroku/Sango.

* [[Tropers/IsaChan IsaChan]] is particularly fond of large age differences. (No, not [[{{Shotacon}} that]] [[{{Lolicon}} large]]! Okay, maybe a little bit.) ** {{Vocaloid}}: [[BottleFairy Meiko]]/[[TheDitz Kaito]]. Such a classic pair, but not nearly as popular as [[TheDitz Kaito]]/[[SpotlightStealingSquad Miku]]. ** {{Gorillaz}}: [[TheDitz 2D]]/[[CuteBruiser Noodle]]. ** PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians: Percabeth, obviously, but also [[GentleGiant Tyson]]/[[{{Tomboy}} Clarisse]] and [[OfficialCouple Grover/Juniper]]. ** TheWorldEndsWithYou: [[IneffectualLoner Neku]]/[[StepfordSmiler Shiki]], as well as [[CrackPairing Minamimoto/Rhyme]]. Don't ask me why. Please. ** {{Coraline}}: [[StrangeGirl Coraline]]/[[BlackAndNerdy Wybie]] ** 9: [[MayDecemberRomance 2/5]]. [[ShipTease 7/9]] and [[BodyguardCrush 1/8]] as well. ** Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant: [[DemBones Skulduggery]]/[[JumpedAtTheCall Valkyrie]]. ** {{Kickassia}} (Not ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, just {{Kickassia}}.): [[TheCaligula Nostalgia Critic]]/[[{{Keet}} Film Brain]], [[TheWoobie Spoony]]/[[OnlySaneMan Linkara]], [[SophisticatedAsHell Cinema Snob]]/[[BeleagueredAssistant Phelous]]. ** HannaIsNotABoysName: [[TheHero Hanna]]/[[TheUndead {...}]], [[DrJerk Worth]]/[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Conrad]]. ** TheOutsiders: [[CloudCuckooLander Ponyboy]]/[[TheWoobie Johnny]] (they were going to run away together even before [[spoiler:Johnny killed Bob]]), [[TroubledButCute Dally]]/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Johnny]] (the story reads like a gay version of RomeoAndJuliet if you notice the HoYay between them), [[TheBigGuy Two-Bit]]/[[{{Bishonen}} Sodapop]] (...[[ShipsThatPassInTheNight you got me]].) !'''J''' * Tropers/{{JackOCrow}}: ** AlphaAndOmega: [[CrazyAwesome Humphrey]] / [[OnlySaneMan Kate]] (it's canon, and [[{{WAFF}} adorable =3]]) [[RealMenWearPink Garth]] / [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Lilly]] (canon, and incredibly cute) * Tropes/{{JackALope044}}: ** GGundam: Domon and Allenby. Rain can go with Schwarz or Chibodee, for all I care. Argo and Natascha, of course. ** K-On: Yui and Nodoka. Osananajimi-fandom? Of course not. Also Satoshi and either Mio or Mugi depending on my mood, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. Also, Azusa and the guy from the convenience store. ** StarDriver: Takuto and Keito. Let Sugata have Wako, for all you should care. ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Viral and Simon, post-series end. It could very well be canon, for all we know. ** WanderingSon: Anna and Shuu. Chiba-fags and Takatsuki-fags don't know what they're talking about.

* Tropers/{{Jabroniville}}: ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: All the Canon Ships, none of the Fanon ones. ** JusticeSocietyOfAmerica: Atom Smasher and Stargirl, ''so much''. So annoyed that it doesn't seem to be happening. * Tropers/{{JackelFox}}: ** [[PandoraHearts Pandora Hearts]] Gil/Oz It's cute. [[YaoiFangirl I mean, come on, it's Ozbert]]. ** [[PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson]] Grover/Pan [[YaoiFangirl Hey, don't look at me like that!]] ** [[WarriorCats Warrior Cats]] Ashfur/Squirrelflight, [[ShipSinking Jayfeather/Stick]] , [[OfficialCouple Whitewing/Birchfall]], [[YaoiFangirl Firestar/Graystripe]], [[YaoiFangirl Brambleclaw/Hawkfrost]], Sharpclaw/Leafstar, Leafstar/Billystorm, and a lot more. ** [[FruitsBasket Fruits Basket]] Yuki/Tohru. WHY DOES [[OfficialCouple KYO/TOHRU HAVE TO BE... -grunts- ]] ** [[HarvestMoon Harvest Moon Animal Parade]] Toby/You, Wizard/You, etc. ** [[TalesOfSymphonia Tales of Symphonia]] [[YaoiFangirl Genis/Mithos]], [[YaoiFangirl Genis/Lloyd]], [[OfficialCouple Colette/Lloyd]], [[YaoiFangirl Kratos/Yuan...]] * Tropers/JamesDoyle dislikes [[PortManteauCoupleName Portmanteau Couple Names]] ("Lackson" sounds like something you take for constipation.) ** {{Andromeda}}: [[HandsomeLech Harper]]/[[RobotGirl Rommie]] ** {{Babylon 5}}: Lochley/Corwin; How could the "Love Bat" be anything other than a horribly-misguided love gift? ** ChipAndDaleRescueRangers: Monty/[[WrenchWench Gadget]]; I'm all for cross-cultural relationships, but I think being members of the same ''species'' helps. ** {{Deep Space Nine}}: Bashir/Jadzia Dax ** {{Enterprise}}: Travis/Hoshi ** {{Firefly}}: Mal/Kaylee ** {{Hannah Montana}}: Jackson/Lilly. ** {{JAG}}: Harm/Mac; one of the rare instances in which I root for the {{Official Couple}}. ** {{Kim Possible}}: Drakken/Shego, of course ** LifeWithDerek: Derek/Emily; Speak not to me of [[BrotherSisterIncest step-sibling romance]]. ** {{NCIS}}: [[HollywoodNerd McGee]]/[[PerkyGoth Abby]] ** ShesAllThat: Jesse/Mac; the {{Beta Couple}} that should've been. ** {{Star Trek Voyager}}: Neelix/Wildman. I dreamed up some rather disturbing ways to [[DieForOurShip dispose of her husband]]. ** {{Stargate Atlantis}}: Sheppard/Weir ** StargateUniverse: [[strike: Eli/Chloe]] Eli/Vanessa ** {{The Suite Life of Zack and Cody}}: Cody/London ** {{Talespin}}: Baloo/Rebecca; Not sure if they could be considered

an {{Official Couple}}, but definitely enouth {{UST}} in the air to warrant a call to the EPA. ** WizardsOfWaverlyPlace: [[HollywoodNerd Justin]]/[[BunnyEarsLawyer Harper]] ** {{Wonderfalls}}: Aaron/Mahandra * Tropers/JapaneseTeeth: ** MahouSenseiNegima: Negi/Nodoka ([[TenchiSolution + Yue]]). It just fits too perfectly. Also [[SchoolgirlLesbians Konoka/Setsuna]], the perfect combo of LesYay and {{Moe}}, and [[CrackPairing Chamo/Chachazero]]. Just because. ** MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: Nanoha/Fate. * Tropers/JillBug: ** ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Momo/Kaidoh. Also love "Pillar Pair" (Echizen/Tezuka.) Sakuno who? Fuji who? ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Orihime ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': Fourth Doctor/Romana II. ** ''{{Series/Merlin}}'': Merlin/Arthur. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Hermione. No, I don't write [[DieForOurShip Weasley deathfics]] ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Sakura. I can't stand Hinata or Sasuke, sorry. ** ''Blood+ '': Diva/Kai. Yeah. * @/JoieDeCombat: ** ''{{Baccano}}!'': [[NobleDemon Luck]]/[[TheIngenue Eve]] ** ''FinalFantasyVIII'': [[DefrostingIceQueen Squall]]/[[RebelliousPrincess Rinoa]]. I know, it wasn't all that well-developed in the game, but with a bit of reading between the lines they dovetail so beautifully. ** ''FinalFantasyXII'': [[TheWisePrince Larsa]]/[[GirlNextDoor Penelo]] ** ''FullMetalPanic!'': [[TheStoic Sousuke]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Kaname]] of course, but also [[CoolBigSis Mao]]/[[LovableSexManiac Kurz]]. ** ''{{Inuyasha}}'': [[HandsomeLech Miroku]]/[[LadyOfWar Sango]] ** ''Mobile Suit GundamSEED'': [[AcePilot Mu]]/[[TheCaptain Murrue]] ** ''{{NCIS}}'': [[HandsomeLech Tony]]/[[ActionGirl Ziva]] ** ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': [[TeamDad Kurogane]]/[[StepfordSmiler Fai]] ** ''{{X-Men}}'': [[LovableRogue Gambit]]/[[TheRunaway Rogue]] !'''K''' * Tropers/KaiserinKai ** ''AceAttorney'': Phoenix/Edgeworth, Klavier/Apollo ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ikkaku/Yumichika ** ''DeathNote'': L/Light ** ''DigimonAdventure02'': Daisuke/Ken, Takeru/Hikari, Koushiro/Miyako ** ''DigimonFrontier'': Takuya/Kouji, Junpei/Izumi ** ''DigimonXrosWars'': Kiriha/Taiki ** ''HikaruNoGo'': Hikaru/Akira

** ''HunterXHunter'': Gon/Killua ** ''KingdomHearts'': Axel/Roxas, Sora/Riku ** ''{{Persona 3}}'': Shinjiro/Female MC ** ''{{Persona 4}}'': MC/Yosuke ** ''[[PokemonAnime Pokmon]]'' Shinji/Satoshi, Shigeru/Satoshi, Shuu/Haruka ** ''[[PokemonRedAndBlue Pokmon [=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]]]'': Green/Leaf ** ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokmon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'': Silver/Kotone ** ''[[PokemonBlackAndWhite Pokmon Black and White]]'': N/Touko ** ''[[MegaManNTWarrior Rockman.EXE]]'': Netto/Enzan, Netto/Laika, Rockman/Blues ** ''TalesOfSymphonia'': Zelos/Lloyd ** ''TalesOfVesperia'': Yuri/Estelle, Yuri/Flynn ** ''TokyoMewMew'': Ryou/Ichigo ** ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Joshua/Neku ** ''[[YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Kaiba/Jounouchi, Jounouchi/Mai ** ''[[YuGiOhGX Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Juudai/Yubel, Juudai/Edo, Juudai/Johan, Edo/Hell Kaiser, Juudai/Asuka ** ''[[YuGiOh5Ds Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'': Jack/Carly * Tropers/{{Kalle}}: ** ''{{Gintama}}'': [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Gintoki]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Otae]]. FOREVER. ** ''{{Touhou}}'': [[PhysicalGod Kanako]]/[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Utsuho]], because ''come on.'' Am I the only one that sees the implications in this?! Also, to a lesser extent, [[BlackMagicianGirl Marisa]]/[[TheCollector Alice]], because it's cute. ** ''ScottPilgrim'': [[IdiotHero Scott]]/[[ManicPixieDreamGirl Ramona]], of course! Though thanks to the end of volume four, I've been getting some serious Stephen/Knives vibes... and I ''like it.'' * Tropers/KaminoNeko ** ''RODTheTV''/Read or Dream: Anita/Hisami - Neko's OTP above all [=OTPs=]. Also? {{Canon}}, or close enough. *** Maggie/Nenene is also pleasant. ** AceAttorney: Phoenix/Mia... [[spoiler:The obvious complication of Mia being dead results in it becoming an OT3 involving Maya]]. Neko may be a little strange. *** Also, Klavier/Ema...and Neko doesn't even like hate-'ships! ** DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ - Miyako/Kaoru... Neko has no comment on this one, they're just cute. ** And! thanks to the 2011 Comic Relief mini-episodes, Neko's Series/DoctorWho OTP is Amy/Amy. * Tropers/KatanaCat ** SonicTheHedgehog: [[FoeYay Knuckles the Echidna/Rouge the Bat]] FTW! Also, Tails gets some pretty mixed shipping. In the games he's with either [[TastesLikeDiabetes Cream the Rabbit]] or Marine the Raccoon (both aren't ''quite'' canon, and they're just so cute

together!), and in SonicX he's with [[PlantAliens Cosmo the Seedrian]]. Sorta. Usually in a fanfic where he didn't ultimately end up having to [[ShootTheDog shoot]] [[TheWoobie her]] to save the universe... either that or it's merely a passing refferance in a romance fanfic with a different character that takes place well after the end of the series. ** Chalkzone: I'm embarrassed that I used to watch that show and still read FanFic about it occasionally. But Rudy/Penny because it's painfully obvious. ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Ehem, Katara/Aang, because it's ''also'' painfully obvious. * Tropers/{{Kathadrion}} ** {{CSI}}: Nick/Greg ** {{Glee}}: I'm torn between Kurt/Puck and Kurt/Finn ** {{Merlin}}: Merlin/Arthur ** {{NCIS}}: Gibbs/Tony ** {{Psych}}: Shawn/Lassie ** Even though HarryPotter is my biggest obsession in life, I don't acually have a [[OneTruePairing OTP]]. Favourites, however, include Harry/Draco, Harry/Severus, Scorpius/Al (I absolutely ''refuse'' to call him [[EmbarrassingFirstName Albus Severus]]) and [[{{Twincest}} Fred/George]]. * katzsoa ** Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland: Hatter/Mallymkun * Tropers/{{Keishi}} ** ''AceAttorney'' - Ema/Trucy. Why? ''Because it will never, ever happen.'' And pairings like that are fun. ** ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' - Kurogane/Fai. Because how can you ''not'' pair them? ** ''{{Loveless}}'' - Soubi/Ritsuka. ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'' - Italy/Germany, Russia/Lithuania (because pairing countries together is fun) ** ''{{Glee}}'' - Tina/Artie! Also, Rachel/Finn, Quinn/Puck. I'd like to pair Kurt/Finn, but Finn's too goddamn straight. ** ''{{NCIS}}'' - Ziva/Tony. Because they're so cute together. ** ''{{Scrubs}}'' - Elliot/JD. Aww, come on. Why not? Also, Turk/JD, just because it's ''funny''. * {{Tropers/Keltena}} (listed alphabetically by fandom) ** ''AceAttorney'' - Phoenix/Miles is a classic. ** ''{{Bleach}}'' - Byakuya/Hisana is lovely and sad. ** ''CodeGeass'' - Lelouch/Euphemia and Lelouch/Shirley are about tied. ** ''{{Disgaea}}'' - Laharl/Flonne is just plain adorable. ** ''ExitFate'' - Ayara/Jasper is my favorite pairing, ever. ** ''{{Homestuck}}'' - Jade/Karkat is hilarious and adorable. ** ''{{Persona 3}}'' - Yukari/Mitsuru makes so much sense. ** ''{{Pokemon}}'' - Red/Green; to name others would take too long. ** ''PokemonSpecial'' - Blue/Silver and Wallace/Winona are two

favorites. ** ''TalesOfSymphonia'' - Zelos/Colette, among ''many'' others. ** ''TalesOfTheAbyss'' - Cecille/Frings is underrated and amazing. ** ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' - Neku/Shiki and Neku/Joshua are both loved. * [[Tropers/{{KennyMan666}} [=KennyMan666=]]] - If I support a canon OfficialCouple, it won't be listed. Unless it's official in an adaptation I have not seen/read. ** AzumangaDaioh - Sakaki/Kaorin, Yomi/Tomo, Yukari/Nyamo ** {{Bleach}} - Yoruichi/Soifon ** DragonBall - Trunks/Goten ** FinalFantasyVI - Celes/Terra ** FullMetalAlchemist - Ed/Winry ** {{Inuyasha}} - Sesshomaru/Kagura, Shippo/Souten. ** KeroroGunsou - Fuyuki/Momoka, Natsumi/Koyuki ** {{Kodomo no Jikan}} - Aoki/Houin, Rin/Kuro. Hell, [[OT3 throw in Mimi too]]. ** {{Maria-sama ga Miteru}} - Yumi/Touko ** MegaManX - Zero/Layer. Never liked Iris. ** MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Rainbow Dash/Pinkie Pie. If I weren't already obviously heading there, I'd be going to hell for even including it on the list. ** {{NANA}} - Nana/Nana ** {{Naruto}} - Naruto/Hinata, as well as Sakura/Ino. ** NeonGenesisEvangelion - Asuka/Rei. Don't ask. ** OnePiece - Nami/Robin, but Nami/Vivi and Nami/Sanji are fine too. ** [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] - Ash/Misty ** {{Touhou}} - FAR TOO MANY. Alice/Marisa, Reimu/Sanae, Kaguya/Mokou, Kanako/Suwako, Renko/Maribel, Sakuya/Meiling. All of them and more to be featured in the fanfic I'll never finish or post anywhere. ** TwoAndAHalfMen - Charlie/Rose, damnit. I like her. * [[{{Tropers/Kenzberry}} Kenzberry]] ** DragonAge - Fem!Warden/Alistair, Warden (any gender)/Leiliana, Male!Cousland/Anora ** {{Fable}} - Fem!Sparrow/Walter, Princess/Ben Finn, Prince/Elise ** MassEffect - Fem!Shep/Garrus, Shepard (any gender)/Tali, Jacob/Miranda ** WarriorCats - Feathertail/Crowfeather, Jayfeather/Cinderheart, Bluestar/Oakheart * krispykrayzee ** [[BeastWars Transformers: Beast Wars]]: [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Dinobot]][[VitriolicBestBuds /]][[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rattrap]], [[TheStarscream Terrorsaur]]/[[ChewToy Waspinator]], Tigatron/Airazor, Silverbolt/Blackarachnia ** [[{{TransformersGeneration1}} Transformers G1]]: Megatron/Starscream ** [[TalesOfSymphonia Tales of Symphonia]]: [[IdiotHero Lloyd]]/[[HandsomeLech Zelos]], [[IdiotHero Lloyd]]/[[LoveFreak Colette]], Regal/Alicia, Mithos/Genis

** [[TeenTitans Teen Titans]]: [[ToyShip Beast Boy/Terra]], Raven/Starfire, Cyborg/Beast Boy, Robin/Starfire ** [[{{Sukisho}} Sukisho!]]: Sora/Sunao, Yoru/Ran, Shin'ichiro/Nanami ** [[TwilightPrincess The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]: Zelda/Midna, Link/Shad, Link/Ilia ** [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaofTime The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]/[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]/[[PhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]/[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]/[[TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]: Link/Zelda ** [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]: [[FoeYay Zuko]]/[[HoYay Aang]], [[TeamMom Katara]]/[[TheMessiah Aang]], Sokka/Suki, Sokka/Yue, one-sided Toph/Sokka, Zuko/Mai, Appa/Momo ** {{Naruto}}: Sasuke/Naruto, Naruto/Sakura, Zabuza/Haku, Ino/Sakura ** [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion]]: Asuka/Shinji, Kaworu/Shinji, Ritsuko/Maya ** [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]: Peasley/Luigi ** [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]: Munch/Fin, Alex/Olivia ** {{Pokemon}}: Jessie/James, Ash/Misty, Ash/Gary, Drew/May, Harley/James, Zoey/Dawn, James/Ash ** [[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts]]: Sora/Kairi, one-sided Riku/Sora, Axel/Roxas, Roxas/Xion ** [[HisDarkMaterials His Dark Materials]]: Will/Lyra, Lyra/Roger, Balthamos/Baruch ** [[MuramasaTheDemonBlade Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]: Jinkuro/Momohime, Kisuke/Torahime ** [[HarryPotter Harry Potter]]: Ron/Hermione, Snape/Harry ** [[{{Persona}} Persona 3]]: Natsuki/Fuuka, Mitsuru/Yukari, Minato/Aigis, Minato/Yuko, Shinjiro/Akihiko ** [[{{Persona}} Persona 4]]: Chie/Yukiko, Souji/Yosuke, Souji/Yukiko, Souji/Rise, Kanji/Naoto, Kanji/Yosuke ** [[HarvestMoon Harvest Moon]]: Griffin/Muffy, Gustafa/Nami, Carter/Flora, Vaughn/Sabrina, Pierre/Natalie, Elliot/Julia, Charlie/Eliza, Julius/Candace, Jin/Anissa, Chase/Maya, Luke/Selena, Harvest Goddess/Witch Princess, Gray/Mary, Rick/Karen, Kurt/Dia, Trent/Elli ** {{House}}: House/Wilson, Chase/Foreman ** [[{{ptitle1d5irnza}} 9]]: 2/5, 1/8, 1/9 ** [[SailorMoon Sailor Moon]]: Haruka/Michiru, Hotaru/Chibiusa, Mamoru/Usagi, Rei/Usagi, Rei/Minako ** [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Revolutionary Girl Utena]]: Utena/Anthy, Juri/Shiori, Touga/Saionji, Touga/Utena, [[CrackPairing Kozue/Nanami]] !'''L''' * Tropers/LadyNorbert ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'' -- In general, Link/Zelda (it's been my OTP for twenty years); also, specific to ''TwilightPrincess'', Shad/Ashei in the Resistance Group ** ''HarryPotter''- [[OfficialCouple Ron/Hermione]]

** ''{{NCIS}}'' -- Tim [=McGee=]/Abby Schiutto ** ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- Bobby Goren/Alex Eames ** ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'' -- Solid Snake/Samus Aran ** TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' -- The Mad Hatter/The White Queen ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'' -- Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye ** Also, does this count? I have a friend who says that my husband and I are ''her'' OTP. * Tropers/LadyOfTermina ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': [[OfficialCouple Kataang]], [[NewOldFlame Maiko]], and [[ToyShip The Doph]]. ** ''Inuyasha'': [[OfficialCouple Inuyasha/Kagome]] and [[BetaCouple Miroku/Sango]]. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Link/Zelda, Link/Malon, Link/anyone, really. ** ''TheSeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Violet/Quigley. ** ''RurouniKenshin'': [[OfficialCouple Kaoru/Kenshin]]. ** ''Two Flowers for the Dragon''. Lucien/Shakuya. (no idea if this is canon yet, still waiting for the last volume to be translated...) * Lapsedtreker ** TotalDramaIsland/Action (WorldTour Isn't out in uk yet so I don't know what happend in that one more action episode left in season then I will download WorldTour): DuncanxGwen: personality's mesh well together and Duncan seems to like her as a freind at least HaroldxLashawna:Work to well together ** PhineasAndFerb: ** PhineasxStacy (Note I hate PhinnaBella as much as I hate KingOfTheHill and I really hate KingOfTheHill): seem friendly and are both nice optimists ** ThatGuyWithTheGlasses: LupaxCinemaSnob: worked well in croossover's ** ToddInTheShadowsxPushingUpRoses:Both extremly friendly and Todd seems to like her as much as he likes Lupa (see grenade reveiw) ** Crossover ** Chris From TotalDramaIslandxAskThatGuy: Both AmbiguslyGay,and sadist murderers * Latte ** AceAttorney: Gumshoe/Maggey ** ''Transformers'': Ratchet/Ironhide, Red Alert/Inferno for G1. For Animated, it's Optimus Prime/Blackarachinia(because dammit, she needs a hero to show her that she's only a monster if she makes herself one!). * Tropers/LeeEyeLa ** {{Naruto}}: Shikamaru/Temari, Naruto/Hinata ** {{The Office}}: Michael/Holly ** {{Ouran High School Host Club}}: Tamaki/Haruhi ** {{Pokemon}}: Pikachu/Ketchup... and Ash/Misty ** {{Princess Tutu}}: Fakir/Duck ** {{Spirited Away}}: Haku/Chihiro

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{{Teen Titans}}: Beast Boy/Terra (MY FIRST SHIP) {{Toradora}}: Ryuuji/Minori Crossover Pairing: [[{{Naruto}} Rock Lee]]/[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Lee]]

* Tropers/LeighSabio ** ''HarryPotter''- [[OfficialCouple Ron/Hermione]] ** ''StarTrekTOS''- Kirk/Spock, with Spock/[=McCoy=] (Who This Troper will admit have a pretty Ron/Hermione vibe) a close second. [[OfficialCouple Sarek/Amanda]] * Tropers/LEXicon712 ** ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' - [[EnsembleDarkhorse Taniguchi/Tsuruya]], proud supporter. Because if not, ME x Tsuruya. * Tropers/LilyNadesico - This might take a while... ** BrainPowerd - Yuu x Hime (best [[YoshiyukiTomino Tomino]] pairing ever!) ** {{Digimon}} *** DigimonAdventure / 02: Tai x Sora ([[DisContinuity Screw you, 02 finale!]]), Joe x Mimi, Davis x Kari *** DigimonTamers: Takato x Rika (I think Takato and Jeri are StrangledByTheRedString) ** {{Gundam}} *** Universal Century: [[ZetaGundam Katz x Sarah]], [[ZetaGundam Jerid x Mauer]], [[GundamZZ Judou x Roux]], [[CharsCounterattack Amuro x Chein]], [[CharsCounterattack Gyunei x Quess]], [[GundamF91 Seabook x Cecily]] *** GundamSeed: Kira x Fllay, Mwu x Murrue, Shinn x Stellar (I don't like Lunamaria) ** MaiHime / MaiOtome: Mai x Tate, Takumi x Akira, Natsuki x Takeda ([[AmericansHateTingle I hate Shizuru]]), Arika x Erstin, Nina x Manshiro (manga) ** MegamanBattleNetwork - Lan x Maylu, Megaman x Roll, Tori x Shuko, Chaud x Yai ** {{Naruto}} - Naruto x Hinata, Shikamaru x Ino, Rock Lee x Sakura ** TalesOfSymphonia - Lloyd x Colette, Zelos x Sheena, Emil x Marta ** TalesOfDestiny - Stahn x Rutee, Kyle x Reala, Loni x Nanaly ** TalesOfGraces - Asbel x Sophie (So sue me, [[StrangledByTheRedString I don't like the canon pairing]].) ** ValkyriaChronicles - Welkin x Alicia, Edy x Homer * Tropers/{{LoganLocksley}} In no particular order... ** ((StarTrekEnterprise)) - Trip Tucker/Hoshi Sato ** ((StargateAtlantis)) - Rodney McKay/Laura Cadman, John Sheppard/Jennifer Keller ** ((StargateSG-1)) - Daniel Jackson/Sam Carter ** ((BatmanBeyond)) - Terry McGinnis/Maxine Gibson ** ((Farscape)) - Crichton/Chiana and Crichton/Aeryn equally...Crichton was duplicated, so both are possible! So there. * Tropers/LSSJ2Gohan:

** DragonBallZ: [[ToyShip GohanxLime]], [[CakeEater Gohan]]x[[ChristmasCake Bulma]], [[IdiotHero Goku]]x[[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Bulma]]. ** ElfenLied: [[UnluckyEverydude Kouta]]x[[InnocentFanserviceGirl Nyuu]]/ [[WoobieOfMassDestruction Lucy]][[spoiler:(a.k.a Kaede)]] and [=NanaxMayu=] (Sorry but the final manga pairings were ''terrible'') ** FullMetalAlchemist: [=EdwardxWinry=] ** Hellsing: [[{{Badass}} Alucard]]xSeras, [[BattleCouple PipxSeras]] ** {{Naruto}}: Narutox[[ShyBlueHairedGirl Hinata]], Narutox[[TsunDere Sakura]], [=NarutoxIno=], etc. ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: [[MasochismTango AsukaxShinji]], [[IncestIsRelative ReixShinji]], [[{{Shotacon}} MisatoxShinji]], [[RelationshipSue ManaxShinji]], [=MarixShinji=], [[HoYay KaworuxShinji]], [=KensukexMari=], [=ToujixHikari=], [=KensukexMayumi=], [=KajixMisato=]. (Notice how [[ButtMonkey Shinji]] is on bottom...) ** Rosario+Vampire: [[UnluckyEverydude Tsukune]]xMoka(Mostly [[RoseHairedGirl Outer!Moka]] though) ** SoulEater: [=SoulxMaka=] ** CrossOverShip: [[DragonBallZ Gohan]]/[[ElfenLied Nana (Or Mayu]], [[OT3 or both...)]] (CAN NOT RESIST THE MOE!!!) * Tropers/{{Luceia}} ** ''Series/DoctorWho'' - [[Main/FoeYay Doctor/Master]] * Tropers/{{Lycoris}} ** ''[[{{Metal Gear}} Metal Gear]]'': Snake/Otacon. It's my ultimate OTP and the only pairing to date that has ever made me cry. Damn you, Kojima. ** ''[[{{Bleach}} Bleach]]'': Ishida/Orihime. Why? Heck if I know. ** ''[[{{Lost}} Lost]]'': Desmond/Penny and Sawyer/Kate. Screw Jack, I could care less. ** ''[[{{Elfen Lied}} Elfen Lied]]'': Kouta/[[spoiler: Kaede]] ** ''[[{{Yu Yu Hakusho}} Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Yusuke/Keiko. Favorite ship on my favorite series. ** ''[[{{House}} House]]'': House/Wilson. I admit it, I love it. ** ''[[{{That 70s Show}} That 70s Show]]'': Hyde/Donna and Fez/Jackie. ** ''[[{{Ace Attorney}} Ace Attorney]]'': Apollo/Vera and Valant/Thalassa. !'''M''' * Tropers/{{Mack}} ** ''[[{{Eureka}} Eureka]]'': Zoey/Fargo ** ''{{iCarly}}'': Carly/Freddie ** ''[[{{Stargate SG-1}} Stargate SG-1]]'': Daniel/Janet ** ''[[{{Stargate Atlantis}} Stargate Atlantis]]'': Sparky (Shepard/Weir) ** ''[[{{Black Books}} Black Books]]'': Fran/Bernard ** ''[[{{Coupling}} Coupling]]'': Jeff/Jane ** ''[[{{Futurama}} Futurama]]'': Fry/Leela ** ''[[{{Gossip Girl}} Gossip Girl]]'': Eric/Jenny

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''{{House}}'': Huddy (House/Cuddy) ''[[{{Hannah Montana}} Hannah Montana]]'': Hannah/Lily ''[[{{Kim Possible}} Kim Possible]]'': KiBo (Kim/Bonnie) ''MassEffect'': Talimance (Tali/Shepard) ''{{NCIS}}'': Mc Gee/Ziva ''[[{{Sonny with a Chance}} Sonny with a Chance]]'': Tawni/Sonny ''[[{{Veronica Mars}} Veronica Mars]]'': Veronica/Mac

* Tropers/{{Malph}} ** [[{{TalesOfSymphonia}} Tales of Symphonia (both)]]: Lloyd/Sheena, Regal/Presea (there are hints of both in the sequel). Emil/Marta (the best ending is canon). ** ''[[{{TheLegendOfZelda}} The Legend of Zelda]]'': Link/Zelda (most cases), Link/Malon (Ocarina of Time), Link/Ilia (Twilight Princess). ** ''[[{{AnimalCrossing}} Animal Crossing]]'': Male Character/Cookie (she's awesome), Male Character/Female Character (I had to do it). ** ''Shortpacked!'': Ethan x That Guy (from June 12, 2007's strip) (That guy's name is Thad, in case you were wondering). * Tropers/{{Mapi-chan}} ** ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': Kyon/Yuki. Second place: [[ShipManteau HaruKyon]]. ** ''{{Clannad}}'': Nagisa/Tomoya, Kyou/Sunohara. Runner-up: Tomoya/Kotomi. ** ''FateStayNight'': Shirou/Rin, Archer/Saber, Lancer/Bazette. Runner-up: Shirou/Sakura. ** ''{{Shuffle}}'': Rin/Asa. Second place: Rin/Kaede. ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Keiichi/Mion, Satoshi/Shion ** ''HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate/Maria, Wataru/Saki. Second placers: Hayate/Hinagiku, Wataru/Isumi. ** ''ToHeart'': Akari/Hiroyuki, Kotone/Masashi. ** ''ToHeart2'': Takaaki/Manaka. Second place: Takaaki/Tamaki. ** ''CodeGeass'': [[ShipManteau LuluKallen]]. ** ''{{Kanon}}'': Yuuich/Shiori. Second place: Yuuichi/Makoto. ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Chiyo/Osaka, [[ShipManteau SakaKaorin]], Tomo/Yomi, Yukari/Nyamo. * Tropers/{{Mariko-chan}} ** ''[[{{KingdomHearts}} Kingdom Hearts]]'': [=XaldinLuxord=], [=XigbarZexionDemyx=], [=AxelNamine=], [=SoraKairi=] ** ''[[{{RanmaOneHalf}} Ranma 1/2]]'': [=RanmaAkane=], [=RyougaAkari=], [=UkyouKonatsu=], [=ShampooMousse=] ** ''{{Crossover}} [[{{Shipping}} Ship]]'': [=DemyxSakura=], [=VexenGreen=] - Demyx and Vexen from KingdomHearts, Sakura from {{Naruto}}, and Green from [=Green Angel=]. * Tropers/{{Marionetta}} ** These are the only two I've cared enough about that it pains me to see them with anyone else. Anyone else from any of these or other fandoms I'm in could whore themselves out and I wouldn't care. Apparently both of them involve war, immortals, and hidden feelings. ** ''FireEmblem'' series - [[LastMinuteHookup Ike and Soren]]

** ''AxisPowersHetalia'' - [[BelligerentSexualTension America and England]] also called "Joker" * Tropers/MarleeCross ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko/Katara, Aang/Toph, Sokka/Suki. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo/Rukia, Ulquiorra/Orihime, Gin/Rangiku, Byakuya/Hisana, Kenpachi/Unohana. ** ''CodeGeass'': Lelouch/Shirley, Suzaku/Euphy, Jeremiah/Sayoko. ** ''DannyPhantom'': Danny/Ember. ** ''DeathNote'': L/Misa, Mello/Sayu. ** ''DetectiveConan'': Shinchi/Ran, Takagi/Watou, Heiji/Kazuha. ** ''FairlyOddParents'': Timmy/Trixie, Cosmo/Wanda. ** ''FullMetalAlchemist'': Ed/Winry, Al/Mei, Ling/Ran Fan, Roy/Riza. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Hermione, Severus/Lily, Remus/Tonks. ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Keiichi/Mion, Satoshi/Shion, Akira/Natsumi. ** ''HouseMD'': House/Cameron. ** ''KimPossible'': Kim/Shego. ** ''{{Labyrinth}}'': Jareth/Sarah. ** ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Tamaki/Haruhi. ** ''PhineasAndFerb'': Ferb/Vanessa, Jeremy/Candace, Phineas/Isabella. ** ''{{Rugrats}}'': Tommy/Kimi (My first ship). ** ''SailorMoon'': Rei/Usagi, Seiya/Usagi, Haruka/Michiru. ** ''{{Superjail}}'': Warden/Mistress. ** ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'': Seto/Anzu, Jonouchi/Mai. *** ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': Marik/Bakura (the ONLY yaoi pairing I will ever support). * Tropers/{{Medinoc}} ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Negi/Nodoka, full stop. * Tropers/{{Melesmelda}} ** ''CodeGeass'': Lelouch/C.C., Suzaku/Kallen, Ougi/Viletta ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji/Asuka ** ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Lyanna/Rhaegar, Jaime/Brienne ** ''HarryPotter'': Neville/Luna, Ron/Hermione ** ''AceAttorney'': Phoenix/Maya ** ''SamuraiChamploo'': Mugen/Fuu * Tropers/{{Melonhead}} loves [[FinalFantasyVII Aerith/Cloud!]] &#9829;(&#65439;&#12526;&#65439; ) Also quite fond of... ** ''MetalGear'': Big Boss/Ocelot ** ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Maria/Sakutarou ** ''CodeGeass'': Tianzi/Xingke and Suzaku/Euphie ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji/Kaworu and Shinji/Asuka ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Simon/Nia ** ''FragileDreams'': Crow/Seto ** ''YumeNikki'': Madotsuki/Masada * Tropers/{{Meshakhad}}: ** ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy/Angel ** ''HalfLife'': Gordon/Alyx

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

''StargateUniverse'': Eli/Ginn ''MassEffect'': Shepard/Liara ''StargateSG1'': Daniel/Sha're ''Series/DoctorWho'': Ten/Rose ''DragonAge'': Warden/Leliana, Alistair/Morrigan ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Claire/Gretchen

* Tropers/MichaelJJ ** ''TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy/Trixie (Trixie just struck me as a more interesting character, especially with ''The Boy Who Would be Queen.'') ** ''DannyPhantom'': Danny/Sam (Obviously) ** ''TotalDramaIsland'': Gwen/Cody (Though, considering her actions in ''World Tour'', I'm starting to lose faith) followed by Cody/Bridgette. ** ''KidsNextDoor'': Kuki/Wally (My first ship ever!) ** ''TeenTitans'': Beast Boy/Raven (WordOfGod says no, but I don't care.) ** ''KimPossible'': Kim/Ron ** ''PhineasAndFerb'': Phineas/Isabella ** ''CloneHigh'': Joan/Abe ** ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'': Jimmy/Heloise (She's so twisted, but you just know there's some good in there somewhere.) ** ''DarkChronicle'': Max/Monica ** ''KingdomHearts'': Sora/Kairi ** ''ToyStory'': Woody/Jessie (non-canon, so sue me) ** ''{{Bolt}}'': Bolt/Mittens ** ''KingdomKeepers'': Finn/Amanda * Tropers/{{Midna}}: ** ''PokemonBlackAndWhite:'' Hilbert/Bianca, Hilda/Cheren * Tropers/{{MikoGalatea}}: ** ''{{Gundam 00}}'': Neil!Lockon/Tieria, one of my absolute favourites even though it tends to make me bawl. ** ''GundamSeed'': Kira/Lacus (although I also like Kira/Athrun), Shinn/Stellar. ** ''MaiHime'': Akira/Takumi, Haruka/Yukino, Shizuru/Natsuki. ** ''NaruTaru'': Bungo/Satomi. ** ''[=~Star Ocean: Till the End of Time~=]'': Nel/Clair, quite possibly my ''all-time'' favourite pairing. * Tropers/MiuMiuChuu ** AceAttorney: Phoenix/Miles, [[JonasBrothers Nick]] [[NamesTheSame and]] [[HannahMontana Miley]] [[UnfortunateImplications indeed]]. ** ArakawaUnderTheBridge: Sister/Maria ** [[AvatarTheLastAirBender Avatar]]: [[BelligerentSexualTension Jet/Zuko]] (Yes, somebody please kill this troper. She's delusional.) ** AxisPowersHetalia: Denmark/Norway, Sweden/Finland, Germany/N.Italy, [[BrotherSisterIncest Netherlands/Belgium]]...[[BreadEggsMilkSquick yes]]. ** {{Bones}} Booth/Brennan

** CaptainTsubasa: Kojiro/Ken, Wakabayashi/Misaki, Kojiro/Maki ** {{CSINY}}: Flack/Angell, Mac/Stella ** DinoCrisis: Dylan/Regina ** FinalFantasyIX: Steiner/Beatrix ** LuckyStar: Minoru/Akira ** MaxSteel: Even it's not gonna happen, troper insists [[MentorShip Max/Rachel]] ** {{NCIS}}: Tony/Ziva ** {{Persona3}}: MC (girl or boy)/Ryoji ** {{Persona4}}: [[spoiler:Adachi/Izanami]] [[NightmareFetishist So]], [[EvilIsSexy so much]], Kanji/Naoto, MC/Yosuke ** ResidentEvil: Billy/Rebecca ** ShadowHearts Ben Hyuga/[[strike:Anne Hyuga]][[spoiler:Karin Koenig]]. ** SilentHill: [[NightmareFetishist Pyramid Head]]/[[EvilIsSexy Bubble Head Nurse]], yet again... ** {{Vocaloid}}: Luka/Miku, Gakupo/Kaito, Kaito/Meiko ** TheZetaProject: Zee/Ro, duh * Tropers/{{Miyukimae123}} - This will take a while. ** {{Atelier Series}} *** ''AtelierIris2'' - Felt/Viese, Felt/Max, Felt/Chaos *** ''AtelierIris3'' - Edge/Iris ** {{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}} - All27, 8059, XS ** {{ShinMegamiTensei}} *** ''Persona3'' - MC/Yukari, FeMC/Shinjiro, MC(Male or female)/Ryoji *** ''Persona4'' - MC/Yosuke, Chie/Yukiko, Kanji/Naoto, Teddie/Rise ** {{Pokemon}} *** {{Anime}} - Gary/Ash, Drew/May, Paul/Dawn *** {{Games}} - N/Hilda, N/Hilbert, Cheren/Bianca *** {{Manga}} - Red/Green, Ruby/Sapphire ** {{Seiken Densetsu 3}} - Hawk/Angela/Duran, my first OT3. ** {{Shaman King}} - Yoh/Anna, Faust/Eliza, Yoh/Ren, Hao/Yoh, Horo/Ren, ** {{Star Ocean}} - Albel/Fayt ** {{Tales Series}} *** ''TalesOfPhantasia'' - Cless/Mint, Chester/Arche, Klarth/Milard *** ''TalesOfDestiny'' - Stahn/Leon, Kyle/Reala *** ''TalesOfEternia'' - Reid/Farah, *** ''TalesOfSymphonia'' - Lloyd/Zelos, Ritcher/Emil *** ''TalesOfRebirth'' - Veigue/Claire *** ''TalesOfLegendia'' - Senel/Chloe, Moses/Norma, Moses/Jay, Norma/Grune, Sven/Norma, Curtis/Isabella *** ''TalesOfTheAbyss'' - Guy/Luke, Asch/Luke, Jade/Dist *** ''TalesOfInnocence'' - Spada/Ruca *** ''TalesOfVesperia'' - Flynn/Yuri, Raven/Yuri, Zagi/Yuri, Duke/Elucifer *** ''TalesOfHearts'' - Shing/Kohak *** ''TalesOfGraces'' - Richard/Asbel ** {{Vocaloid}} - Kaito/Meiko, screw you [[MarySue Miku]]. * Tropers/{{MoonlightBomber}}:

** The following four pairings are considered very sacred... and this troper envisions a PlotWithPorn VisualNovel featuring them. *** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud x Aerith *** ''SuikodenV'': Prince Freyjadour x Lyon *** ''TalesOfTheWorld'': Descender x Kanonno (applies to all 3 ''Radiant Mythology'' games) *** ''ManaKhemia'': Vayne x Jess ** He also supports other pairings such as: *** ''MegaManLegends'': Mega Man x Roll *** ''Lunar2EternalBlue'': Hiro x Lucia *** ''[[{{GrandiaIII}} Grandia 3]]'': Yuki x Alfina *** ''TalesOfSymphonia'': Lloyd x Colette, Zelos x Sheena, Genis x Presea, Kratos x [[spoiler:Anna]], Emil x Marta (note that he didn't play both games) *** ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'': Exdeath x Cloud of Darkness. Probably the only CrackPairing I support due to MemeticMutation. *** ''FinalFantasyTactics'': [[BrotherSisterIncest Ramza x Alma]] * Tropers/{{M0therBrain}}: ** ''KeroroGunso'': Keroro/Tamama, Natsumi/Giroro (I also like Natsumi/Koyuki though) ** {{Legend of Zelda}}: Link/Midna, Colin/Ilia ** {{Metroid}}: Samus/Gandrayda (LesYay ftw.) ** {{Pokemon}}: [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Skitty]]/Wailord, Ruby/Sapphire, May/Drew, Brock/Nurse Joy ** {{Portal}}: Companion Cube/Chell, and Chell/GLaDOS (Mmm, gotta love dat ''CargoShipping''.) ** ''SuperSmashBros'': Snakus (Snake/Samus), Peach/Zelda ** ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'': Jameron (John/Cameron) * Tropers/{{Motichu}} ** ''HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate x Hinagiku ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Nanoha x Fate ** ''{{Megatokyo}}'': Piro x Kimiko. To a lesser extent, Largo x Erika as well. ** ''{{Persona 4}}'': Chie x Yukiko ** ''{{ptitle2gli7wce}}'': Elesa x Skyla ** ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Kyoko X Sayaka, Homura x Madoka ** ''{{Toradora}}'': Ryuuji x Minori * Tropers/MrInitialMan: ** {{Tekken}}: King II/Armor King. Yes, I went there. * Mr. Me ** Naruto: Naruto X Hinata, all the way! *** And Lee X Sakura. *** Also Kakashi X Anko... ** Bleach: Ichigo X Orihime, seriously, Rukia is just a friend,[[{{Word Of God}} Kubo Himself]] confirmed it! ** One Piece: Luffy X Nami, yes, these types of fans DO exist. *** "Do exist"? Duuude, we're in the majority! Just google plain "Luffy" - those are the only shippy pics you'll find! --

Tropers/{{Nashimi}} ** Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward X Winry, just, Edward X Winry. ** Sonic: Sonic x Blaze, I dunno why, okay? ** MegaMan: Roll X Bass, supported in the Manga. ** Super Smash Bros.: Pit X Samus, in my world, they are the One True Pairing. * Tropers/{{Mysterynovelist}} ** AxisPowersHetalia: [[DrillSergeantNasty Germany]] x [[{{Keet}} Italy]]. Second Place: [[{{Bishonen}} Japan]] x [[{{Oranyan}} England]]. The {{Yonkoma}} about the Anglo-Japanese Alliance makes it canon! I just know it! ** {{Baccano}}!: [[{{Tsundere}} Firo]] x [[NotSoStoic Ennis]] ** DigimonFrontier: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Koji]] x [[ActionGirl Izumi]]. ** DigimonSavers: [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Masaru]] x [[TeenGenius Tohma]]. Second place: [[TheChick Yoshino]] x [[HotBlooded Masaru]] ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: Keiichi x [[GenkiGirl Mion]]. Second Place: [[{{Yandere}} Shion]] x [[PosthumousCharacter Satoshi]]. ** UminekoNoNakuKoroNi: [[CuteBruiser Jessica]] x [[TheWoobie Kanon]]. Second Place: ''Maybe'' [[EvilIsStylish Beatrice]] x [[{{Badass}} Battler]] (if she could just stop killing him in every arc...). ** {{Vocaloid}}: [[CloudCuckooLander Kaito]] x [[PluckyGirl Miku]]. Second Place: [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Kamui Gakupo]] x [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Luka]]. Third: Kamui x [[TheWoobie Haku]] ----

OneTruePairingN-R Tropers' favorite ships. No flaming, please. This page includes alias starting with the letter N through the letter R. '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order by [[ThisTroper Troper alias]].''' When two's not enough, try TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome. ---!'''N''' * Tropers/{{Nashimi}} ** WesternAnimation/AdventureTime: [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Finn]]/[[{{Yangire}} Princess Bubblegum]]. Aww, BodyguardCrush and NerdsAreSexy (even lampshaded once!) combined! ** DannyPhantom: Danny/Sam. ** FinalFantasyXII: [[GentlemanThief Balthier]]/[[TheStoic Fran]]. Fascinates me so much basically because a) I imagine few women have not succumbed to Balthier's [[EstrogenBrigadeBait undeniable charm]], thus winning over the heart of a Viera much older and experienced than him would pose quite a challenge, b) what was it that drew Fran to becoming the [[strike: Bunny]] Bonnie to Balthier's Clyde. *** [[IdiotHero Vaan]]/[[GirlNextDoor Penelo]]. They're cute. [[ChasteHero When Vaan notices her]].

*** [[FailureKnight Basch]]/[[DeterminedWidow Ashe]]. Might as well PairTheSpares while we're at it. ** FullMetalAlchemist: Ed/Winry, just goin' with the canon here. ** GeneratorRex: [[HotScientist Dr. Holiday]]/[[HotBlooded Rex]] is my preference for now... I'm not really feeling the other, more canon and more popular pairings. ** {{Gorillaz}}: [[TheDitz 2D]]/[[CuteBruiser Noodle]]. Obviously, in the Plastic Beach era ([[MST3KMantra I don't care they weren't even shown meeting yet!]]), though I enjoy the portrayal of 14-year-old Noodle with a PrecociousCrush on 2D once in a while! ** InglouriousBasterds: *** [[BrokenBird Shoshanna]]/[[DoggedNiceGuy Fredrick]], due to being a believer of the theory he was a DoggedNiceGuy all along. And their last scene was just ''beautiful''. *** [[FemmeFatale Bridget]]/[[MagnificentBastard Landa]]. Uhh... yes, I am psychically sane. *** Bridget/[[SociopathicSoldier Aldo]]. More plausible than the one above (though not by much) yet shipped less. Sometimes I think I'm the ''only'' shipper. ** JimmyTwoShoes: Don't care about any of the pairs with the exception of [[BigFun Beezy]]/[[CloudCuckoolander Saffi]] for now. ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: To be fair, I only watched the TV series and didn't understand much of it (much like most people I'm sure)... But I always thought Rei/Shinji was cute. ** OnePiece: [[IdiotHero Luffy]]/[[FieryRedhead Nami]]. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm misinterpreting ThePowerOfFriendship or some shit, I don't care. ** PhineasAndFerb: Phineas/Isabella ** TeenTitans: *** [[OfficialCouple Obviously]], [[InnocentAliens Starfire]]/[[{{Determinator}} Robin]] *** [[TricksterArchetype Beast Boy]]/[[{{Kuudere}} Raven]] ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: *** Simon/Nia *** Kamina/Yoko *** Adiane/Viral * Tropers/{{Nenja}} ** HarryPotter: [[TragicHero Sirius]] [[UndyingLoyalty Bla]][[WhiteSheep ck]]/[[TheProfessor Remu]][[BiTheWay s]] [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting Lu]][[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent pin]], - My very first OTP of any kind. I still ship them. ** [[AntiHero Se]][[SadistTeacher ve]][[DeadpanSnarker rus]] [[UndyingLoyalty S]][[GoodIsNotNice na]][[UnluckyChildhoodFriend pe]]/[[HeroesWantRedHeads Li]][[GreenEyes ly]] [[MoralityChain Evans]] Canon (at least onesided) ** Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley - Canon. And just so heartwarming, adorable and funny. ** ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Sy]][[EvillyAffable lar]]/[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Mohinder]] [[HotScientist Suresh]] May not be canon, but damn, I love it. ** ''{{House}}'': [[DrJerk Greg]][[BunnyEarsLawyer ory]]

[[TallDarkAndSnarky Hou]][[JerkassWoobie se]]/[[NiceGuy James]] [[OddFriendship Wil]][[LastNameBasis son]] Huge amounts of Ho Yay. ** KingdomHearts: [[AnIcePerson Vex]][[MadScientist en]]/[[ManipulativeBastard Marlu]][[RealMenWearPink xia]] Not canon AT ALL, but who cares? ** TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck: [[BadAss Scr]][[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules ooge]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Mc]][[GoldFever Du]][[DidNotGetTheGirl ck]]/[[DefrostingIceQueen Glittering]] [[LoveHurts Goldie]] [[SlapSlapKiss O]][[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Gilt]] Canon. And so sad. These two are just Why did you not read the damn letter, Scrooge!?! ** ''{{Naruto}}'': [[ImmortalityImmorality Aka]][[OlderThanTheyLook suna]] [[MarionetteMaster no]] [[MadArtist Sas]][[EvilRedhead ori]]/[[MadBomber De]][[BlondGuysAreEvil i]][[MadArtist da]][[DudeLooksLikeALady r]][[ForTheEvulz a]] First ship from a manga. ** TokyoBabylon: [[DissonantSerenity Sei]][[SelfMadeOrphan shiro]] [[CherryBlossoms Saku]][[StraightGay ra]][[MagnificentBastard zuka]]/[[EyeScream Subaru]] [[AngstySurvivingTwin Sume]][[TheWoobie ragi]] Canon. I've always been drawn towards the tragic and cruel in fiction (and an a huge interest in real life serial killers, hm, maybe that was off topic), as well as evil, cruel people ... hence this is my all time favourite ship out of all of these wonderful ships (I put them in alphabetical order) and Seishirou is my all time favourite manga-character. <3 ** TsubasaReservoirChronicle: [[BadAss Ku]][[HighlyVisibleNinja ro]][[LifeOrLimbDecision ga]][[TallDarkAndHandsome ne]]/[[AngstySurvivingTwin Fai]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld D]]. [[StepfordSmiler Flu]][[AmbiguouslyGay or]][[IHateYouVampireDad ite]] Canon. At least thats my belief. And I will go down with this ship! ** TheVampireChronicles: [[UnreliableNarrator Lestat]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent de]] [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Lion]][[GoodNightSweetPrince court]]/[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Louis]] [[VegetarianVampire de]] [[SupernaturalAngst Pointe]] [[TearsOfBlood du]] [[IHateYouVampireDad Lac]] Second OTP to ever ship. Ah, years of being a vampyric family with their little daughter. * Tropers/NeoChaos ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata. Hinata's nerve reminds me of my dealings with the fairer sex, so I'm pulling for her out of sympathy. ** ''RivalSchools'': [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Yurika/Akira]]. The Seijyun High ending in ''Project Justice'' left quite the impression on me. ** ''SkiesOfArcadia'': Vyse/Fina. Fina's my favorite character, and though Aika's a fine character, the "Say nothing and put your arm around her" option when speaking with Fina the night before the last part of the game suckered me in like nothing else. * @/{{NeoYi}}: ** ''[[AngelTheSeries Angel]]'': Angel/Cordelia (yes, I know, leave me alone) ** ''DannyPhantom'': [[MayDecemberRomance Vlad/Danny]]. Never mind the

age gap, Danny's gonna grow up eventually! I just think they have a lot of similarities that brings them close--lest of all, being the only two half ghosts ([[DisContinuity What clone?]]) while having enough differences to keep their love life interesting. ** ''FinalFantasyVI'': Setzer/Terra. ** ''{{Gankutsuou}}'': The Count/Albert ** ''JakAndDaxter''+ ''CrashBandicoot'': [[InterspeciesRomance Jak/Coco]]. Yes, I know. Bear with me, this pairing was originally meant to be a joke, but somehow it just ''grew''. It's my only {{Crossover}} pairing. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Link/Malon ** ''SonicTheHedgehog'': Knuckles/Amy Rose * @/{{Nettik}}: ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Smellerbee/Longshot. She didn't really care about Aang/Katara or Zuko/Mai or any of those. Smellerbee and Longshot was '''canon''' and the most ignored ship in the show. ** ''FruitsBasket'': Kyo/Tohru and Yuki/Haru. ** ''HeyArnold'': Helga/Arnold. * @/NotJMKeynes: ** ''{{Medabots}}'': Ikki/Kari ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Rei/Kaworu (actually, it would be if Eva made sense) ** ''{{Pokmon}}'': Ash/Misty ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Simon/Nia, Rossiu/Kinon ** ''TotalDramaIsland'': Cody/Sierra, Heather/Harold, Gwen/Trent !'''O''' * @/{{okelay}} ** Series/DoctorWho: Doctor/Rose. Particularly Ten/Rose but I accept other incarnations ** ''TheXFiles'': Mulder/Scully ** ''VeronicaMars'':Veronica/Logan ** ''StargateAtlantis'': John/Elizabeth ** ''HarryPotter'':Harry/Hermione ** ''TheWestWing'':Josh/Donna,Sam/Ainsley,Jed/Abbey, ** ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'':Sam/Jack ** {{Primeval}}:Abby/Connor, Nick/Claudia/Jenny ** {{Torchwood}}:Owen/Tosh ** ''LifeOnMars'':Sam/Annie ** ''AshestoAShes'':Gene/Alex ** ''BattlestarGalactica'':Starbuck/Apollo,Roslin/Adama ** ''TheBigBangTheory'':Sheldon/Penny ** ''HowIMetYourMother'':Barney/Robin ** {{Life}}:Crews/Reese ** ''GilmoreGirls'':Jess/Rory * Tropers/OnTheHill ** KingdomHearts: Axel/Roxas. My OTP in every sense of the word, as in the favorite out of any other fandom. Because...damn it, there's just

something about being hopelessly love when the entire world insists you physically can't. ** AxisPowersHetalia: England/Japan, Germany/Italy, Russia/China. ** BloodPlus: Karl/Diva. ** {{Inuyasha}}: Inuyasha/Kikyo, Bankotsu/Jakotsu ** TalesOfTheAbyss: Luke/Ion ** TalesOfLegendia: Senel/Stella, Grune/Norma ** {{Vocaloid}}: Gakupo/Kaito, Luka/Miku, Luki/Mikuo ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Kamina/Simon. ** {{Kekkaishi}}: Gen/Yoshimori ** BatmanTheAnimatedSeries: Joker/Harley ** LegendOfZelda: OOT!Link/Sheik, TP!Link/Midna ** FruitsBasket: Shigure/Ayame. ** SoulEater: Soul/Maka, Crona/Maka, Stein/Kid, Black*Star/Patti, Mifune/Tsubaki, Hiro/Crona. * Tropers/{{Orihime}}. I tend to be more lax in regards to this, but if I REALLY had to choose... ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Mai/Zuko, Katara/Aang. ** AxisPowersHetalia: America/England, Austria/Hungary, Taiwan/Hong Kong, Greece/Japan, Germany/North Italy, China/South Korea, France/Canada, Belarus/Russia, Prussia/Friederich II ("Old Fritz"), Liechtenstein/Switzerland, Australia/New Zealand, Belgium/Netherlands. ** {{Bleach}}: Soifon/Yoruichi, Ichigo/Orihime, Rukia/Renji, Momo/Hitsugaya, Nanao/Shunsui, Rangiku/Gin. ** CaptainTsubasa: Sanae/Tsubasa, Wakabayashi/Schneider, Matsuyama/Yoshiko. ** CardCaptorSakura: Sakura/Syaoran, Tomoyo/Meiling, Yukito/Touya, Fujitaka/Nadeshiko, Chiharu/Yamazaki. ** CodeGeass: Lelouch/Shirley, Xingke/grown!Tianzi, Kanon/Schneizel, Nunnally/Alice (''NightmareOfNunnally''). ** DetectiveConan: Ran/Shinichi, Heiji/Kazuha, Takagi/Sato. ** FireEmblem 4 & 5: Sigurd/Diadora, Lex/Tiltyu, Holyn/Ayra, Azel/Aideen; Lakche/Shanan, Nanna/Leaf, Arthur/Phee, Patty/Corple, Faval/Lana. ** FireEmblem 6: Roy/Lilina, Chad/Lugh, Astol/Igrene, Ray/Sophia; ** FireEmblem 7: Rebecca/Lowen, Eliwood/Ninian, Oswin/Serra, Erk/Priscilla, Raven/Lucius, Lyndis/Kent. ** FireEmblem 8: Eirika/Saleh, Tana/Cormag, Ross/Amelia, Forde/Vanessa, Kyle/Syrene, Artur/Lute, Ephraim/Lyon, Innes/L'Arachel. ** FruitsBasket: Akito/Shigure, Tohru/Kyo, Haru/Rin, Yuki/Machi. ** GGundam: Domon/Rain, Maria/George, Natasha/Argo. ** GundamSEED / GundamSEEDDestiny: Athrun/Meyrin, Shinn/Rey, Murrue/Fllaga, Kira/Lacus. ** {{Gundam 00}}: Neil!Lockon/Tieria, Setsuna/Marina, Lichty/Christina, [[spoiler: Lyle!Lockon/Anew]], Saji/Louise. ** FushigiYuugi: Miaka/Tamahome, Suzuno/Tatara, Tasuki/Nuriko. ** HajimeNoIppo: Ippo/Volg, Aiko/Eiji, Tomiko/Aoki. ** MacrossFrontier: Ranka/Sheryl, Michel/Klan. ** MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: Nanoha/Fate, Subaru/Teana. ** MahouSenseiNegima: Negi/Nodoka, Konoka/Setsuna, Natsumi/Kotaro, Yue/Emily.

** MaiHime: Mai/Mikoto, Akane/Kazuya, Akira/Takumi, Haruka/Yukino. ** MaiOtome: Arika/Mashiro. ** MarmaladeBoy: Meiko/Namura, Ginta/Arimi, Anju/Bill. ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto/Hinata, Zabuza/Haku. ** {{Pokemon}}: May/Drew, Ash/Anabel, Tracey/Misty. ** ThePrinceOfTennis: An/Kamio, Inui/Renji, Eiji/Oishi, Tezuka/Fuji, Sanada/Yukimura, Momoshiro/Kaidou, Ryoma/Sakuno. ** PuellaMagiMadokaMagica: Homura/Madoka, Sayaka/Kyouko. ** RurouniKenshin: Past!Kenshin/Tomoe, Kenshin/Kaoru, Sanosuke/Magdaria, Shishio/Yumi, Tsubame/Yahiko. ** SailorMoon: Haruka/Michiru, Seiya/Kakyuu, Mamoru/Usagi (more in the manga, tho). ** SoulSeries: Kilik/Xianghua, Yungsung/Talim, Mina/Hwang. ** TheTwelveKingdoms: Youko/Rakushun, Enki/Shoryuu, Shoukei/Kantai, adult!Taiki/Gyousou. ** {{X 1999}}: Kotori/Kamui, Seishirou/Subaru, Arashi/Sorata, Yuzuriha/Kusanagi. * {{Osakachan12}} ** AxisPowersHetalia : England x Japan, Giripan, USUK, FRUK, Prussia x Canada, Spamano, HK x Taiwan, HRE x Italy, Hungary x Liechtenstein (because of a [[AllHeEverWanted fanfic]] I read xD) Russia x China, and Iceland x EVERYONE ** {{Touhou}}: Marisa x Alice, Wriggle x Yuuka, and Cirno x Letty ** ToraDora: Taiga x Ryuuji, Yuusaku x Ami ** KingdomHearts : Sora x Kairi, Axel x Roxas * Tropers/{{Ouroboros}}: ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Major Armstrong x Maria Ross. Manga version mostly, where both are better fleshed-out characters. ** FireEmblem 7: Oswin x Serra. They're cute together, and Oswin doesn't degrade her like her other love interests do. ** FireEmblem 8: Seth x Eirika. Tame, I know, but I like {{bodyguard crush}}es. ** ASongOfIceAndFire: Brienne x Jaime. ** WheelOfTime: Lan x Nynaeve. ** Bleach: Soifon x Yoruichi. ** SamuraiChamploo: Jin x Fuu. * @/{{Oyashenron}}: ** {{Lost}}: Jack x Juliet. (They're both super-motivated and witty, and she's pretty much the solution to all of his psychological issues.) Sawyer x Kate (Great banter and shared tragic pasts make these outlaws a great couple.) Ben x Illana (Two people who've based their lives around Jacob come together... Not like that.) ** Series/{{Heroes}}: Zach x Claire. (I'm only on Season 2, but West is a douche and Zach was such a nice guy.) Ando x Niki. (Weird I know, but I thought their little scene in Season 1 was cute and he's really caring.) ** PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Jack x Elizabeth. (Because Will is boring.) Davy Jones x Calypso. (Saddest romance ever.) ** UminekoNoNakuKoroNi: Eva-Beatrice x Ange-Beatrice. (Really! It's

crack-y, but they've both suffered the same torment and may be the only people who'll ever truly understand that. Also I don't think it counts as incest... sort of...) ** {{Avatar}}: Norm x Trudy. (Meek little guy and badass warrior? It'd be cute.) !'''P''' * Tropers/PanBoleyn ** {{Inception}}: Arthur/Eames, Ariadne/Yusuf (when not [=OT3ing=] A/A/E anyway) ** StargateSG1: Sam/Jack, Daniel/Vala ** StargateAtlantis: [=McKay=]/Keller ** BurnNotice: Michael/Fiona ** {{NCIS}}: Jenny/Gibbs ** {{Charmed}}: Cole/Phoebe * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} Pastylover2]] ships: ** Series/DoctorWho: Amy/Rory, Doctor/River with slight [[RoboShip Doctor/Sexy]] ** HarryPotter: Hermione/Ron, Harry/Ginny, Lupin/Tonks * Patrick - all about the GirlsLove. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' - Aang/Katara. ** ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - Buffy/Willow. ** ''FinalFantasyVII'' - Cloud/Aerith. ** ''{{Firefly}}'' - River/Kaylee. ** ''KimPossible'' - Kim/Shego. ** ''MassEffect'' - Shepard/Liara. ** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' - Bella/Alice. Quick disclaimer - I firmly consider this series SoBadItsGood. Except for ''[[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} Breaking Dawn]].'' * @/PersonOfNote ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: *** Katara/Aang: It's really sweet, and Aang deserves the world to cut him some slack, and allow him some time with his love interest. *** Zuko/Mai: Same reason. *** Azula/Tai Lee: Azula the DarkActionGirl {{Dominatrix}}, and her EnergeticFemaleMinion. Kinky. ** {{Bleach}}: *** Szayel/Uryuu. I call it [[FanNickname "Nerdshipping.]] Tentacle rape, anyone? *** [[BelligerentSexualTension Grimmjow/Ulquiorra]], but with Ulquibat topping, 'cuz he is technically the stronger one, kukuku.. *** [[FoeYay Grimmjow/Ichigo:]] If Bleach was a yaoi, this would probably be one of the most canon pairings.. *** [[EmpathicWeapon Kaze]][[AxCrazy shini]]/[[MartialPacifist Shuuhei,]] Mostly because I have this vision in my head of Kazeshini jumping on him suddenly, screaming "This is for repressing me all these years, ya bastard!" and then proceeding to rip his clothing off, and.. Yeah.. :P

*** [[SchoolgirlLesbians Chizuru/Orihime.]] Chizuru topping, [[{{Yandere}} obviously.]] ** DeathNote: L/Light. Don't pretend that it's not totally canon! [[spoiler: (It's not.)]] ** TheHungerGames: Katniss/Peeta. It's sweet, and [[spoiler: it's canon! Well, it was one sided canon from the get-go, but now is totally completely canon!]] ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto/Sasuke. The only non-yaoi show I've seen with a canon ''kiss'' from the two male leads within the first five episodes. Actually, the only non-yaoi show I've seen with a canon kiss between two boys, period. *** [[BodyguardCrush Orochimaru/Kabuto:]] [[{{Squee}} Sado-masochistic kink-sex, anyone?]] ** YuGiOh: [[BelligerentSexualTension Yami no Bakura]]/[[HoYay Marik.]] Mostly because of TheAbridgedSeries, but having watched the actual show, I concluded there's plenty of canon material to fuel the ship too. (Although, if there wasn't, it wouldn't discourage me.) ** {{X-Men First Class}}- [[HoYay Charles/Erik,]] and you know it's bad when [[ObliviousToLove I]] can see it. ** {{Kuroshitsuji}}: Sebastian/Grell. It is so. [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking.]] CUTE! :D ** [[YaoiFangirl Notice]] [[GuyOnGuyIsHot anything?]]

* @/PennyAnna ** ''{{Firefly}}'' - Mal/Inara, Wash/Zoe ** ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - Buffy/Spike ** ''StarWars'' - Luke/Mara ** ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' - Merlin/Arthur, Merlin/Nimueh, Arthur/Gwen and Nimueh/Igraine (wtf?/)... I can't choose just one. * @/PhoenixdaughterAM (Het only but alot of these are weird. Cuteness Proximity I guess) ** ''KingdomHearts'' - Sora/Kairi, Roxas/Xion, Ven/Aqua ** ''LegendOfZelda'' - Link/Zelda (varies from game to game though), Anju/Kafei ** ''{{Persona 3}}'' - Minako/Ken, Minato/Mitsuru, Junpei/Chidori ** ''ProfessorLayton'' - Layton/Claire ** ''{{Pokemon}}'' - Gardevoir/Swellow, Swampert/Ninetales, May/Wally *** ''PokemonMysteryDungeon''- Hero/Partner ** ''SonicTheHedgehog'' - Sonic/Elise, Tails/Cosmo, Knuckles/Julie-Su, Shadow/Maria, [[CrackPairing Amy/Mephiles]] Sally/Khan * @/{{Pheonee}} (vaguely in chronological order) ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': [[CuteBruiser Toph]]/[[TheSmartGuy Sokka]]. Then follows: [[ActionGirl Katara]]/[[KidHero Aang]], [[DefrostingIceQueen M]][[DeadpanSnarker a]][[EmotionlessGirl i]]/[[ArrogantKungFuGuy Zuko]], and Appa/Nyla. ** ''ClassOfTheTitans'': Jay/Theresa. No matter how schmaltzy. ** ''HarryPotter'': [[PluckyComicRelief Ron]]/[[BadassBookworm Hermione]]. (All other canon ships also apply, as well as the noncanon [[GreenThumb Neville]]/[[CloudCuckooLander Luna]].)

** ''SoulEater'': Unusually enough, [[ChewingTheScenery Black* Star]]/[[YamatoNadeshiko Tsubaki]], and no I don't care about the overwhelming oediphal vibe--they are adorable. I suppose it's more of a One True Friendship, but still. My OT3 is completely and utterly [[GunsAkimbo Kid]]/[[EmpathicWeapon Liz]]/[[TheDitz Patti]]. (Also [[RuleOfCool Soul]]/[[BadassBookworm Maka]] and [[MadScientist Stein]]/[[ChristmasCake Marie]]...wow, I absolutely stink at choosing just one.) ** ''PrincessTutu'': [[CuteClumsyGirl Ahiru]]/[[TallDarkAndSnarky Fa]][[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ki]][[KnightInSourArmour r]] LIKE WHOA. It's like...every time I think they couldn't possibly make it any more OTP without basically giving us a [[GRatedSex sex scene]], THEY DO. HOLY CRAP. [[PortmanteauCoupleName Fakiru]] is probably my ultimate OTP for life. [[GushingAboutShowsYouLike Guh]]. ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Uncommonly, again, [[EyesAlwaysShut Ling]]/[[BodyguardCrush Lan Fan]]. Also Edwin and Royai, but honestly, [[OfficialCouple those]] [[FanPreferredCouple are]] [[NoLovesIntersect given]]. And on that, I have a soft spot for Al/Mei, too. ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Once again, I've sided with the uncommon: [[EvilChancellor Rossiu]]/[[{{Meganekko}} Kinon]]. Apparently, I have a [[PrincessTutu thing for]] [[FullmetalAlchemist couples that involve]] [[SlipknotPonytail ponytails]]. * Tropers/{{PhiSat}} ** ''DeathNote'': [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Near/Linda]], [[PairTheSpares Matsuda/Sayu]], [[UnholyMatrimony Light/Takada]] (Though she dislikes Takada in general) [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl L/Misa]], [[PairTheSpares Halle/Gevanni]], and most importantly [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Fem!Mello/Matt]]. Or noraml Mello/Matt. Either or. ** ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'': [[DragonWithAnAgenda Kunzite]]/[[MoreThanMindControl Mer]][[BrainwashedAndCrazy cury]], and she quite likes Nephrite/Ami as well. Also, Motoki/Jupiter is cute as well, along with [[WellDoneSonGuy Jade]][[IneffectualSympatheticVillain ite]][[UnholyMatrimony /]][[BigBad Beryl]] ** ''SonicTheHedgehog'': [[FieryRedhead Kunck]][[ButtMonkey les]]/[[TheVamp Rouge]], [[AntiHero Shadow]]/[[Tsundere Amy]], and [[ToyShip Tails/Marine]]. ** ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'': [[TheQuietOne Female Protagonist (White I guess)]][[FoeYay /]][[TroubledButCute N]] ** ''Portal2'': Chell/Wheatley, Space/Curiosity. * @/{{PictureFrame}} (finally gave up trying not to ship): ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph/Sokka (allowing a secondary, Longshot/Smellerbee) ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Roy/Riza ** ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': Goren/Eames ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Shikamaru/Temari ** ''{{Psych}}'': Shawn/Juliet ** ''{{Talespin}}'': Rebecca/Baloo

* Tropers/PirateLordRidley ** SoulSeries: Nightmare/Tira, Siegfried/Hilde ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: [[MasochismTango Shinji/Asuka]] ** MortalKombat: Reptile/Mileena ** SilentHill: Valtiel/Heather ** {{Metroid}}: [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Ridley]]/[[FoeYay Samus Aran]] ** {{Tekken}}: [[FoeYay Yoshimitsu/Kunimitsu]] ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: [[OfficialCouple Simon/Nia]], [[BetaCouple Kamina/Yoko]], [[MasochismTango Viral/Adiane]] ** {{Hellsing}}: Alucard/Seras, Captain Hans/Lt.Rip Van Winkle ** CodeGeass: Why is it so hard to choose between Lelouch/Kallen and Lelouch/C.C.?... ** SoulEater: [[FoeYay Stein/Medusa]] ** Crossovers: [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]]/[[{{FEAR}} Adult Alma]] (RapeIsLove [[FetishFuel sounds]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel just]] [[{{Rule34}} right...]]) * @/ProgenyExMachina ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: [[GirlNextDoor Jin/Zuko]], [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest Sokka/Yue]], [[ReformedButRejected Katara/Jet]], [[ThemePairing Aang/Ty Lee]], [[PetTheDog Azula/Ty Lee]] [[hottip:*:I can't decide between my #1 Aang ship and my #1 Azula ship!]], Mai/Koh (yes, really), [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Iroh/Tea]], [[HoYay Roku/Sozin]], [[LadyKillerInLove Kuruk/Ummi]], Longshot/Smellerbee, [[CrackShip Kuei/Bosco]], Joo Dee/Long Feng, [[CargoShip Cabbage Merchant/Cabbages]] ** DannyPhantom: [[DatingCatwoman Danny/Valerie]], [[HappilyMarried Jack/Maddie]], Johnny/Kitty ** TheFairlyOddparents: [[HiddenDepths Timmy/Trixie]], Crocker/Waxelplax, [[InterspeciesRomance Mark/Vicky]], [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Cosmo/Wanda]] ** GaiaOnline: Ian/Sasha, [[BelligerentSexualTension Sentinel/Overseer]], [[MayDecemberRomance Edmund/Vanessa]], [[LadyKillerInLove Liam/Sam]], Moira/Louie ** HarryPotter: Harry/Cho, Hermione/Krum, Lily/Snape, Tonks/Lupin, Dumbledore/Grindelwald, a bunch of pairings that were official near the beginning but apparently broke up by the end (e.g., Percy/Penelope, Draco/Pansy) ** {{iCarly}}: [[SlapSlapKiss Sam/Freddie]] ** JimmyNeutron: [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Jimmy/April]], Jimmy/Betty, Sheen/Libby ** KimPossible: Kim/Josh (am I seriously the ''only'' one who ships them?), Bonnie/Junior, Ron/Yori, Ron/Tara ** TheLegendOfZelda: *** MajorasMask: Deku princess/Deku butler's son, Lulu/Mikau, Kafei/Anju *** OcarinaOfTime: [[GirlNextDoor Link/Malon]], [[{{Twincest}} Link/Zelda]], [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Mido/Saria]] *** PhantomHourglass: Linebeck/Ciela (yes, really) *** TwilightPrincess: [[FireForgedFriends Link/Midna]], [[ToyShip Talo/Beth]], [[OnlyFriend Colin/Luda]], [[RescueRomance Ilia/Ralis]],

Telma/Renado *** WindWaker: Link/Tetra, Medli/Komali ** MobyDick: Ahab/Starbuck, [[HoYay Ishmael/Queequeg]] ** MyImmortal: [[RealPersonShipping Tara/Raven]], [[OneTrueThreesome Enoby/Draco/Vampire]] ** {{Neopets}}: Isca/Garin, Caylis/Jacques, Hanso/Brynn, Hanso/Xandra, Brynn/Xandra, [more to come once I finish rereading all the plots] ** PrettyLittleLiars: [[TeacherStudentRomance Aria/Ezra]], Spencer/Wren, [[SchoolgirlLesbians Emily/Maya]] ** [[EdgarAllanPoe The Raven]]: Narrator/Raven [[RunningGag (yes, really)]] ** ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents: Violet/Quigley, Klaus/Fiona * Prophet15, the master of pairings. ** 9: 1x7, 4x5, 4x6, 4x8, 4x9, 5x6, 5x7, 6x7, 9x5 ** Homestuck: Karkat/Terezi, Aradia/Sollux, Tavros/Vriska, Eridan/Feferi, John/Jade, Rose/Dave, Karkat/Gamzee, Nepeta/Equius, Aradia/Equius, John/Vriska, Tavros/Sollux, Nepeta/Sollux, Equius/Gamzee, Nepeta/Gamzee, Tavros/Jade, Rose/Equius ** Soul Eater: Maka/Crona ** Young Justice: Superboy/Miss Martian * @/{{PurePurity}} ** Main/{{Final Fantasy ** Main/{{Final Fantasy ** Main/{{Final Fantasy ** Main/{{Final Fantasy !'''Q''' * @/{{Qicetrini}} ** TheCritic: Jay/Alice ** Series/DoctorWho: Doctor/River, 10.5/Rose, Rory/Amy ** FruitsBasket: Kyou/Tooru, Yuki/Machi ** SonicTheHedgehog: Sonic/Sally, Antoine/Bunnie, Knuckles/Rouge * @/{{Qzie}} ** {{Chuck}}: Captain Awesome/Ellie; Chuck/Sarah ** Series/DoctorWho: Ten/Rose; Eleven/TARDIS; Amy/Rory ** HarryPotter: Neville/Luna; Ron/Hermione; Draco/Myrtle (think about it for a second.) ** TheHungerGames: Katniss/Peeta ** KeepingUpAppearances: Richard/Elizabeth. I like to imagine that Elizabeth's husband and Hyacinth both eventually [[DieForOurShip die]], and after an appropriate period of mourning (because that's the type of people Richard and Elizabeth are), they'll get together. But until then... Richard/Hyacinth is AOK, too. ** TheOffice: Michael/Holly; Jim/Pam; Andy/Erin ** ParksandRecreation: Andy/April; Leslie/Ron ** Pokemon: Brock/Misty ** PrincessTutu: Fakir/Duck (or Ahiru)

VII}}: Cloud and Aerith VIII}}: Squall and Rinoa IX}}: Zidane and Garnet X}}: Tidus and Yuna

!'''R''' * @/{{Rampulus}} ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Rukia/Orihime (I find Rukia to be perhaps the only character who regularly pays attention to Orihime and shows appreciation for her abilities), Yoruichi/Soifon (Yoruichi is possibly the only person Soifon is willing to confide in, and Yoruichi clearly shows more affection to Soifon than to most of her subordinates) ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Nanoha/Fate ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata (Hinata has grown considerably stronger as a result of Naruto's influence, and is one of the few people who not only has always understood and respected him, but [[spoiler:would give her life to protect him]]), Shikamaru/Temari (Temari can force Shikamaru to get his act together if his resolve falters). * @/{{Redtutel}} ** {{Kingdom Hearts}} *** Sora/Kairi *** Roxas/Xion ** {{Phineas and Ferb}} *** Ferb/Vanessa ** {{Pokemon}} *** Squirtle/Corsola *** Chessshipping *** Gallade/Gardevoir * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko Kazama]] ** {{Black Cat}} - Train/Saya. [[spoiler: It's really too bad about [[KilledOffForReal what happens to Saya...]] damn you, Creed...]] *** {{Digimon Adventure}} - [[ToyShip TK/Kari]], [[OfficialCouple Matt/Sora]][[spoiler: , Tai/Mimi]] **** {{Digimon Adventure 02}} - TK/Kari (I still stand by my theory of it coming true in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, even if they're not shown to be together, dammit!), [[OfficialCouple Matt/Sora, Ken/Yolei]] (I don't give a [[SailorMoonAbridged *honk*]] if people say it's a StrangledByTheRedString couple, I like it and I'm standing by it O_O)[[spoiler: , Tai/Mimi (forgot to put this little footnote in: I don't care if there's barely any evidence, I ship it just because)]] ***** {{Digimon Tamers}} Um... Takato/Jeri... I guess. ******* {{Digimon Frontier}} - Koji/Zoe. It's cute, dammit! As for Koichi, well... let's just say I have an OC that fills in the gap. ******** {{Fullmetal Alchemist}} - [[OfficialCouple Ed/Winry]], Roy/Riza ********* {{Inuyasha}} - Inuyasha/Kagome, Miroku/Sango ********** [[DotHackSign .hack//SIGN]] - Subaru/Tsukasa (I just realised that this is pretty much same-sex because Tsukasa turns out to be a girl "IRL". I r dumb, hurr :P) *********** {{Mega Man X}} - Zero/Iris. Never liked Layer that much. As for the other two main characters, well... let's just say I have some [=OCs=] that fill in the gaps, because to be honest, Palette is

kind of annoying, and I ''really'' don't like [[StopHelpingMe Alia]]. ************ {{Naruto}} - Naruto/Hinata. I also used to like Sasuke/Sakura, and hoped that the two of them would get a happy ending together, but now... well... after [[spoiler: Sasuke's {{Face Heel Turn}}]], I really don't know what to think any more. ************* [=~Pokmon~=] - Ash/Misty. Always have stood by it, always will. May is... alright, I guess, and Dawn I haven't really seen much of, so... yeah, basically. ************** {{Sailor Moon}} - Usagi/Mamoru, or rather, Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask. Also Haruka/Michiru or Sailor Uranus/Sailor Neptune. Same deal. Either way, Uranus/Neptune is one of the only two same-sex couples in any media that I support because dammit, it's canon, and I don't like slash or femslash unless it's canon! Thank you, good night, watch the [[SailorMoonAbridged *honk*]] out for Scizors, and I just randomly quoted someone on YouTube, but I don't care. *************** {{Sonic The Hedgehog}} - Sonic/Amy (what? It's gonna happen!), Shadow/Rouge (again, it's gonna happen), Knuckles/Tikal (oh come on! [[WildMassGuessing It explains why he's so freakin' protective of the Master Emerald: after all, she did seal herself inside it... along with Chaos, but that part's irrelevant since]] [[BlahBlahBlah *rambles on and on and on and ends up getting weird looks from the surrounding tropers*]]), [[ToyShip Tails]]/[[SonicX Cosmo]] [[spoiler: (too bad she dies at the end [[TearJerker ;_;]])]], Silver/Blaze (so what if everyone hates Sonic 06, I still think Silver and Blaze make a great couple!) **************** {{Tekken}} - Jin/Julia (*notices the surrounding tropers giving her weird looks again*), Anna/Lee, Kuma/Panda (XD), [[{{Lolicon}} Lili/Miguel]], Asuka/Hwoarang, Lars/Alisa, Eddy/Christie, and I'm not even about to go into some of the weirder couples I've come up with and ''[[UnusualEuphemism holy guacamole]]'', [[LongList this list is]] '''''[[LongList LONG]]'''''. ***************** Oh... and in case that wasn't enough... here's some more. *[[SlasherSmile evil grin]]* This is sure to make your eyes hurt. [[LampshadeHanging God, I'm such a]] ''[[LampshadeHanging bitch!]]'' ****************** {{Final Fantasy}} - Cecil/Rosa ([[FinalFantasyIV 4]]), Locke/Celes ([[FinalFantasyVI 6]]), Cloud/Tifa, [[TogetherInDeath Zack/Aerith]], Vincent/Yuffie a little ([[FinalFantasyVII 7]]), Squall/Rinoa, Zell/Selphie (no reason) ([[FinalFantasyVIII 8]]), Zidane/Garnet ([[FinalFantasyIX 9]]), Tidus/Yuna, Wakka/Lulu ([[FinalFantasyX 10]] and [[FinalFantasyX2 102]]), Balthier/Ashe, Vaan/Penelo (or was it the other way around? Don't know much about [[FinalFantasyXII 12]]) ******************* {{Fruits Basket}} - Kyo/Tohru. Kagura is too much of a StalkerWithACrush, and besides... ******************** {{Mortal Kombat}} - Liu Kang/Kitana (how can I ''not'' ship them? There's just SO much evidence in the movies [yes, I said ''movies'' - just because the sequel was a piece of [[SailorMoonAbridged *honk*]], doesn't mean I can't take hints from there] and now in the games ['twas carried over from teh moviez] that I just... [[{{Squee}} AAAAAA!]]), Sonya/Jax (*gets weird looks from the surrounding tropers ''[[RuleOfThree again]]''), Sub-Zero (the

current one, mind you)/Sareena, Baraka/Mileena (for NO REASON!) ********************* {{Kingdom Hearts}} - Sora/Kairi, Axel/Larxene (don't ask), Roxas/Namine. As for Riku, well... let's just say I have an OC that fills in the gap. ********************** {{Soul Series}} - Yunsung (or Yun-seong, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS as they're spelling it now]])/Talim, Kilik/Xianghua (again, how can I ''not''? They're just... so '''''cute''''' together... and Xianghua's ending in IV is just [[{{Glurge}} ridiculously]] [[SugarWiki.HeartwarmingMoments sweet]] and [[{{Squee}} EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]]), Nightmare/Tira (because I won't tell anyone '''at all''' if or why I do), and an OC of mine (that I created in IV) with [[spoiler: did you really think I was going to tell you?]] *********************** {{Teen Titans}} - Robin/Starfire, Beast Boy/Raven * @/{{Rogue 7}}: ** {{Naruto}}: Shikamaru x Temari. My favorite character and the hot chick he works best with. What's not to like? *** I have to agree. - @/AckSed *** After ch. 437 I'm going to have to go ahead and say Naruto x Hinata as well. ** [=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]: Sokka x Suki - see above. * @/{{Ronnie}}: ** DannyPhantom : Danny x Sam, Danielle x Tucker. The latter of which I was the first person to come up with. Lucky me. ** KimPossible : Kim x Ron, Drakken x Shego. ** SpiderMan : Pete x MJ. [[OneMoreDay Go]] to [[IncrediblyLamePun hell]], JoeQuesada. ** Batman: Harley x Joker. Never gonna happen, but I can't help love it. ** Series/DoctorWho: The 9th Doctor/10th Doctor/ [=NthDoctor=] x Rose. * @/{{RoobilknightRE}} ** OnePiece : ''Luffy x Nami'' - While I like One Piece without pairings, Oda sort of dug himself into a hole with this... Usopp's a bad influence my ass... ** {{Naruto}} : ''Naruto x Sakura'' - Both due to being against the FanPreferredPairing and because it actually seems more well written and more believable. ** HayateTheCombatButler : ''Hayate x Maria'' - Against the FanPreferredPairing(s) and well... Hayate clearly shows interest in her and she seems to be falling for him as well, despite denying it. Not to mention I read somewhere where WordOfGod says Maria (and Hinagiku) are in Hayate's "Strike Zone" (It may not be true, but I'm hopeful.) ** PokemonAdventures : ''Gold X Crystal'' - The personalities, simply that. * @/RySenkari ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Kataang, Sukka (Sokka/Suki)

** ''KimPossible'': Ron/Kim, Drakken/Shego, Junior/Bonnie. Note that this is one fandom where I'm willing to tolerate shipping Kim with Shego (and sometimes Bonnie) as long as the author establishes that it's only for sexual liaisons and that Kim and Ron are still officially together. ** ''TeenTitans'': Robin/Starfire, Beast Boy/Raven, Red X/Terra ** ''SailorMoon'': Ami/Shingo ** ''{{WITCH}}'': Will/Matt, Irma/Martin, Taranee/Nigel, Cornelia/Caleb, Hay Lin/Eric ** ''CodeLyoko'': Ulrich/Yumi, Jeremy/Aelita, Odd/Sissi ** ''DannyPhantom'': Danny/Sam ** ''[[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'': Jonesy/Nikki ** ''{{Stoked}}'': Reef/Fin (I was tempted to ship Emma/Broseph, but Emma/Ty seems really cute too) ** ''PhineasAndFerb'': Candace/Jeremy, Phineas/Isabella, Ferb/Vanessa * @/{{ryttu3k}} ** Normally a multishipper, but some I like more than others. ** ''[[TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'': Depends on the game, but Link/male!Sheik and male!Sheik/Zelda (yes, really!) for Ocarina of Time (Sheik is basically the only one I ship Link with, but I ship Sheik with Link, Zelda, Dark Link, Dark Sheik, Twilight Princess Link, Brawl!fem!Sheik... okay, so I'm [[LittleBlackDress fuzzy on the concept of ONE true pairing]]). For Twilight Princess!Link, a better question to ask would be [[LittleBlackDress who don't I ship him with]] (and that's everything from Midna to Coro to Rusl to Telma to Ganondorf). Also, Midna/Zelda. And as of Spirit Tracks, that version of [[ToyShip Zelda/Link]]. ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[FoeYay Doctor/Master]], Doctor/Jack, any combination of [[{{OT3}} Donna/Martha/Rose]]. ** ''{{Torchwood}}'': Jack/Ianto. Despite fandom. ** ''[[StarWars Star Wars]]'': Han/Luke ** ''[[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros]]'': For Brawl, Ike/Link, for Melee, Marth/Link. Hey, why not just have Ike/Marth/Link? (Yes, this is solely for the pretty.) ** ''[[HarryPotter Harry Potter]]'': [[{{OT3}} Hermione/Ginny/Luna]] ** ''{{MASH}}'': Hawkeye/BJ ** ''[[GoodOmens Good Omens]]'': Crowley/Aziraphale. Practically canon! ** ''[[GundamWing Gundam Wing]]'': Treize/Zechs. This troper's first OTP! ----

OneTruePairingS-T Tropers' favorite ships. No flaming, please. This page includes alias starting with the letter S through the letter T. '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order by [[ThisTroper Troper alias]].''' When two's not enough, try TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome.

---!'''S''' * Sadistic Sitarist of Wonderland ** ''[[{{ptitle1d5irnza}} 9]]'': 5/7, 6/4 ** ''[[AcrossTheUniverse Across The Universe]]'': Jude/Lucy, Jojo/Sadie ** ''{{CATS}}'': Too many to mention; most prominent are Mungojerrie/Rumpleteazer and Pouncival/Jemima ** ''[[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts]]'': Demyx/Larxene, Roxas/Namine, Sora/Kairi, Axel/Aerith, Mickey/Minne ** ''[[MoulinRouge Moulin Rouge!]]'': Christian/Satine ** ''{{Neopets}}'': Too many to mention ** ''{{Vocaloid}}'': Kaito/Meiko, Gakupo/Luka ** ''[[TheBeatles The Beatles]]'': [=Paul McCartney=]/[=Linda EastmanMcCartney=] * '''{{Tropers/SailorJackie}}''' I have a lot of ships, and I know you lovely people don't wanna have to scroll through them all, so I put them in a folder. [[folder: SJ's Ships!]] ** [[{{Ptitleikxjln2mifoc}} .hack]]: Blackrose/Kite, Endrance/Haseo. ** [[{{Series/Alice}} Alice]]: Alice/Hatter. ** [[{{Ptitlemxi508a6}} Avatar: The Last Airbender]]: Aang/Toph, Azula/Ty Lee, Mai/Zuko, Sokka/Suki. ** {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}: America/China, Austria/Switzerland, England/Spain, Germany/Romano, Greece/Turkey, Italy/Prussia, Lithuania/Poland. ** {{Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon}}: Minako/Rei. ** {{Bones}}: Angela/Hodgins. ** {{Boy Meets World}}: Cory/Shawn, Eric/Jack. ** [[{{Buffyverse}} Buffy Verse]]: Angel/Darla, Buffy/Xander, Fred/Spike, Tara/Willow. ** {{Code Geass}}: Lelouch/Shirley, Lloyd/Suzaku. ** [[{{CodenameKidsNextDoor}} Codename: Kids Next Door]]: Nigel/Wally. ** {{Dead Like Me}}: George/Rube. ** {{Death Note}}: L/Misa. ** {{Disgaea}}: Adell/Rozalin, Etna/Vyers, Flonne/Laharl. ** [[{{DrakeAndJosh}} Drake & Josh]]: Craig/Eric, Drake/Josh. ** {{Final Fantasy}}: Aerith/Sephiroth, Balthier/Fran, Baralai/Yuna, Cloud/Yuffie, Nooj/Paine, Rikku/Tidus. ** {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}: Al/Mei, Edward/Ling, Riza/Roy. ** {{Glee}}: Brittany/Santana, Finn/Will. ** {{Harry Potter}}: Harry/Luna. ** {{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}}: Keiichi/Rika. ** {{Life With Derek}}: Casey/Derek. ** {{NCIS}}: Gibbs/Tony. ** {{Ouran High School Host Club}}: Kyouya/Tamaki. ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty. ** {{Psych}}: Carlton/Jules, Gus/Shawn. ** {{Resident Evil}}: Claire/Leon.

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{{The Road to El Dorado}}: Miguel/Tulio. [[{{RomeoAndJuliet}} Romeo & Juliet]]: Mercutio/Romeo. {{Scrubs}}: Cox/JD. {{Sherlock Holmes}}: Holmes/Watson. {{South Park}}: Kyle/Stan. {{Star Ocean}}: Cliff/Mirage, Fayt/Nel. {{Teen Titans}}: Robin/Starfire. [[{{ptitle0oz11ebp3lfe}} Yotsuba&!]]: Fuuka/Koiwai.[[/folder]]

* Tropers/SalvyMic ** I tend to support {{canon}} pairings, but there have been exceptions on my part. ** ''TheXFiles'': Mulder/Scully. It was glaringly obvious even as a little kid, and now that I'm going through the whole series again years later, the UST is smoldering. ** '' ExtremeGhostbusters'': Eduardo/Kylie. Big fan of BelligerentSexualTension, plus it was a pairing and a situation I could relate to. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Hermione, in one of the few ships I deviated from canon, despite the fact I enjoyed Ron/Hermione - Harry/Ginny. Probably just felt they connected more. I pretty much conceded after GOF. ** ''DannyPhantom'': Danny/Sam, another ship I related to, and one that should have had a better, more climactic, possibly earlier resolution. We've all been there, where you just CannotSpitItOut. ** ''PrydainChronicles'': Taran/Eilonwy, a prime example of WellExcuseMePrincess and BST between an IdiotHero and a {{Tsundere}}, particularly as they came of age together. Very well done, and one that had a conclusion that very well drove this straight male troper to damn tears. ** ''CastleInTheSky'': Pazu/Sheeta, admittedly, because the scenario is a personal fantasy of mine. Yup, cheered for this one hard. ** ''ResidentEvil'': Leon/Claire, another deviation from canon, and one I'm sure won't happen. I just felt she was a better match for him, a couple of forthright, protective, badass, zombie-killing, [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snarkers]]. ** ''XMen'': Gambit/Rogue in all incarnations, a very frustrating USTridden BirdsOfAFeather match. That they were together, yet couldn't ever ''be'' together was a very intriguing, captivating storyline, and no matter what came between them, they always ended up finding each other all over again. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata, if my man Naruto wakes up and makes the [[ShrinkingViolet Shrinking Violet's]] dreams come true. It's hard to find someonr with such unshakeable faith in you. With that said, getting Sakura instead wouldn't bother me at all, as I enjoy that ship too. * Tropers/{{SAMAS}} ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Ash/Misty and Ash/Angie. *** Occasionally Ash/Misty/Casey and Ash/Misty/May/Dawn ** ''FinalFantasyTactics'': Rafa/Ramza, possibly one-sided. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata, although I completely understand

Naruto/Sakura, too. ** ''RatchetAndClank'': Ratchet/Angela. ** ''{{Negima}}'' Negi/Nodoka/Yue, and sometimes Kotaro/Natsumi/Chizuru. ** ''GaoGaiGar'': Gai/Mikoto and Mamoru/Hana. *** ''SuperRobotWars W'': Mamoru/Hana/Mihiro or Kaidou/Mihiro (I blame the line about Hana getting jealous of her) ** ''SuperRobotWars'': Ryusei/Latooni (and sometimes Mai, too) ** ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' (2003 series): Man-AtArms/Sorceress ** ''Out Kast'': Me/You/Yo' Mama/Yo' Cousin, too ^_^ * {{Tropers/SanyuMiyazaki}} ** {{Deadpool}}/[[{{Darkstalkers}} Morr]][[HornyDevils igan]] - Hey, if the guy can't get Death, Morrigan's the next best thing for the guy! * Saphruikan ** [[PrincessMononoke San/Ashitaka, duh]]. ** [[FullmetalAlchemist Roy/Riza, Ling/Lan Fan. I hate Winry]]. ** [[WolfsRain Blue/Hige]]. ** From ''Silverwing,'' Shade/Marina, Griffin/Luna, Dusk/Chimera. ** [[TheXFiles Scully/Mulder]]. * Tropers/SaraJaye ** FireEmblem series: If I must pick just one for each... *** ''Mystery of the Emblem'': [[FragileSpeedster Julian]] x [[StaffChick Rena]] *** ''Gaiden'': [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Saber x Jenny]] *** ''Genealogy of the Holy War'': [[AnAxeToGrind Lex]] x [[ActionGirl Ayra]] (first half), [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Rana x Yuria]] (second half) *** ''The Sealed Sword'': [[TheArcher Sue x Wolt]] *** ''The Blazing Blade'': [[TheArcher Rebecca]] x [[BigEater Lowen]] *** ''The Sacred Stones'': [[LordErrorProne L'Arachel]] x [[LadyOfWar Eirika]] ** {{Pokemon}}: [[KidHero Ash]] x [[{{Shorttank}} Misty]], [[HoYay Ash x Gary]] and [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Dawn x Zoey]]. *** Gameverse: DawnxBarry, EthanxLyra, HilbertxN, HildaxBianca, IrisxBianca, CandicexMaylene, AlderxCheren ** SuperMarioBros: [[TheMario Mario]] x [[SpoiledSweet Peach]]. I might ship them with others for the fun of it, but they're a classic. I was rooting for them before I even knew what shipping WAS. ** ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman: ...I can't decide between [[AcePilot Ken]] x [[{{Tsundere}} Jun]] for the old-fashioned classic "hero and the girl who adores him" or Jun x [[DumbMuscle Ryu]] for "let the big guy have some!". ** RoseOfVersailles: Again, I can't decide-[[{{Bifauxnen}} Oscar]] x [[BreakTheCutie Rosalie]] for the femslashy goodness or [[StarCrossedLovers Oscar x Andre]] for his sheer devotion to her? ** BoyMeetsWorld: [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Cory x Topanga]], not taking into account the awesome HoYay. See Mario x Peach explanation.

** {{Everwood}}: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Bright]] x [[ShrinkingViolet Hannah]]. So damn cute. ** ASeparatePeace: [[HoYay Gene x Finny]]. Goodfic helps. ** FamilyGuy: [[ButtMonkey Meg]] x [[BrotherChuck Kevin]]. Because he really liked her and she deserves some happiness, dammit. ** SailorMoon: [[HugeSchoolgirl Makoto]] x [[TeenGenius Ami]], [[IncestIsRelative Ann x Eil]] and [[YaoiGuys Kunzite x Zoisite]]. Ann and Eil were just epic and I wish they got more love in the fandom, while the other two were, respectively, my first yuri and yaoi ships ever. Good fanart helps! ** KazeToKiNoUta: [[HeartwarmingOrphan Serge]] x [[ClosetKey Gilbert]]. You could cut through the angst with a knife, but ''damn'' I love it. ** {{Kanon}}: [[EmotionlessGirl Mai]] x [[YamatoNadeshiko Sayuri]]. From the moment they appeared onscreen together I got vibes from them, and their scene in the last Mai-oriented ep is [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming so goddamn sweet]]. ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: All three canon ships plus [[HoYay Zuko x Aang]], [[TheDragon Azula]] x [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee]] and [[ToyShip Appa x Momo]]. ** {{Roseanne}}: [[DeadpanSnarker Darlene]] x [[TheWoobie David]], no matter what the "true" ending says. ** TheSimpsons: [[HighSchoolSweethearts Homer x Marge]]. So classic. ** HeyArnold: [[{{Tsundere}} Helga]] x [[TheMessiah Arnold]]. Too awesome for words. ** {{Doug}}: [[TheEveryman Doug]] x [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Patti]]. Just recently watched their "date" episode and nearly died of awkward cuteness. ** SouthPark: [[OnlySaneMan Stan]] x [[ActionGirl Wendy]] and [[HoYay Stan x Kyle]]. He just works so well with them both. ** FushigiYuugi: [[OfficialCouple Miaka x Tamahome]] and [[CuteBruiser Nuriko]] x [[TheWisePrince Hotohori]]. You never forget your first OTP of a fandom! And the OfficialCouple grew on me very fast. ** FruitsBasket: [[YamatoNadeshiko Tohru]] x [[PrinceCharming Yuki]]. No offense, canon, but this one hooked me from the beginning. Their dynamic is just too cute. ** ScoobyDoo: [[LoveableCoward Shaggy]] x [[NerdsAreSexy Velma]]. Been shipping it since I was sixteen.

* Tropers/{{Sarahsuke}} ** ''GanbareGoemon'': [[IdiotHero Goemon]]/[[YamatoNadeshiko Omitsu]], [[ActionGirl Yae]]/[[CatGirl Suzaku]], [[MysteriousProtector Hazuki]], etc. (I just think she works best paired with other girls, that's all.) * Saviala ** I tend to only like one or two pairings per fandom, but the ones I do like I ship hard. ** AceAttorney: Klavier x Ema(HNNNNNGOTPFOREVER) ** {{Persona3}}: Mitsuru x MC ** {{Persona4}}: Chie x MC, Kanji x Naoto.

** TalesOfVesperia: Yuri x Judith(awesome chemistry), Rita x Estelle. ** TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld: Richter x Aqua, Emil x Marta, Alice x Decus. ** SoulEater: Soul x Maka. ** ArTonelico: Cloche x Croix, Finnel x Aoto ** XXXHolic: Watanuki x Yuuko. ** PrincessTutu: Ahiru x Fakir. ** UglyBetty: Betty x Daniel. ** Bleach: I only managed 50 episodes and a little of the manga before I got bored, but from what I've seen/read, Rukia x Ichigo is the shit. * Scherzo09 ** {{PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt}}:[[NobleDemons Scanty]]x[[{{Twincest}} Kneesocks]]. I don't care if they're sisters, they're just too goddamned ([[IncrediblyLamePun Literally]]) cute. ;~; * Tropers/SeanTucker ** {{Tsukihime}}: [[{{Badass}} Shiki]] x [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Arcueid]]. Arcueid's true ending... [[TearJerker BAWWWWWW]]. Her good ending, on the other hand... [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming AWWWWWW]]. *** Just replayed that route. Completely forgot that I added this. Completely agree with what I wrote at least a year ago. ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: [[ButtMonkey Shinji]] x [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka]]. I dunno, I just like the pairing. * Tropers/{{Sepherest}} ** AxisPowersHetalia - China x Russia. Communist love for the win. ** {{Baccano}} - Tick x Maria ** DigitalDevilSaga - Sera x Serph ** GuiltyGear - Anji x Baiken ** KazeToKiNoUta - Gilbert x Serge. ** MagicKnightRayearth - Umi x Ascot. I eleven-year-old raged when they changed it in the second season of the anime. ** TokyoBabylon - Subaru x Seshiero * Sephirose ** {{Saw}} - John(Jigsaw)/Amanda (my very first OTP; their relationship was tragic and beautiful. Their kid would've been brilliant) ** {{RevolutionaryGirlUtena}} - Utena/Anthy (these two will have their fairy-tale ending. I just know it) ** {{Transformers}} - Megatron/Starscream (because nothing screams 'fuck me like you hate me' like these two. My personal favorite incarnations are Transformers: Animated and the 07/09 Transformers movies ** {{Halo}} - Prophet of Truth/Prophet of Regret and Master Chief/Arbiter ** {{RatchetAndClank}} - Dr. Nefarious/Courtney Gears. I know I'm not the only one. * Sety ** {{Clover}}: Gingetsu/Ran

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[[FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem 7]]: Oswin/Serra [[FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem 9/10]]: Ike/Soren GoodOmens: Crowley/Aziraphale {{Kobato}}: Fujimoto/Kobato TalesOfHearts: Shing/Kohak TalesOfInnocence: Ange/Hermana TalesOfLegendia: Fenimore/Shirley {{X1999}}/{{Tokyo Babylon}}: Seishiro/Subaru

* Tropers/{{Sharysa}} ** FullmetalAlchemist: Ed/Roy (despite the FanDumb ruining it for me, I still can't help their awesome interaction), Royai, Al/Winry. ** FinalFantasyX: Tidus/Yuna, Auron/Jecht/Braska. ** FinalFantasyVIII: Squall/Rinoa, Selphie/Irvine ** TeenTitans: Robin/Raven, Starfire/Beastboy, Cyborg/Bumblebee, Robin/Starfire/Raven if done well. ** FireEmblem 7: Legault/Heath, Hector/Florina, Eliwood/Ninian, Lyn/Rath, Matthew/Guy, Matthew/Leila. ** FireEmblem 8: Eirika/Seth, Joshua/Natasha, Vanessa/Innes, Tana/Cormag, Gerik/Saleh. ** KingdomHearts: Riku/Sora/Kairi, Axel/Roxas, Namine/Demyx. ** Firefly: Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoe/Wash ** Anything with Batman in it: Batman/Wonder Woman, Batman/Talia, Batman/Andrea[[spoiler:Phantasm]]. ...Yeah, Batman is my [[IncrediblyLamePun Dark Knight-dress]]. * Tropers/{{Shiralee}} ** Bleach: Chad/Cirucci (so what if they never met, Kubo wastes characters, we breathe new life into them!), Hiyori/Gin (I find their personalities similar, if they could get over the whole soul reaper/vizard betrayal thing), Ichigo/Yoruichi (but only for teasing), SoiFon/Yoruichi, Yamamoto/Apache, Patros/Menoly, Yachiru/Ikkaku ([[StalkerWithACrush onesided yeah but...]]), Orihime/Ichigo/Chizuru ** Lunar: Lunalthena/Ghaleon (Alex was so generic!), Kyle/Jessica, Nash/Royce, Xenobia/[[NiceHat Ghaleon's Spiffy Helmet]], [[TwinCest Leo/Mauri]], Jean/Everybody (she works THAT well!), [[CrackPairing Zophar/Borgan]] (evil laughter unite!) ** Witchblade anime: Masane/Tozawa, Maria/Masane (as mom and daughter), Hiroki Segawa/Rie Nishida (what a retarded and forced death. :\) ** Eve of Extinction: Raven/Vera, Josh Calloway/Vixen * Tropers/SiriusLoveGirl ** I'm usually a multishipper, but I have my favorites. ** CardcaptorSakura - Sakura/Syaoran (my very first), Touya/Yukito ** MetalGearSolid - Snake/Otacon (this is my OTP to end all [=OTPs=]) ** {{Supernatural}} - Dean/Castiel ** JusticeLeague - Batman/Flash, Dinah/Oliver, Question/Huntress ** Series/DoctorWho - Nine/Rose, Doctor/Master (any of them), Ten/Donna (as super best friends), Two/Jamie. ** {{Torchwood}} - Jack/Ianto (I do tend to avoid the fandom, though) and Gwen/Rhys

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GoodOmens - Crowley/Aziraphale (practically canon, etc.) Marvel Comics - Cap/Tony, Cable/Deadpool, Spidey/MJ DC Comics - Booster/Ted, Bats/Supes and Bats/Gordon, BostonLegal - Alan/Denny AceAttorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth House MD - House/Wilson TheProducers - Max/Leo YoungWizards - Tom/Carl PrincessTutu - Duck/Fakir (They are just. too. cute.) {{Lost}} - Desmond/Penny (Ditto) StarTrek - Kirk/Spock {{Watchmen}} - Dan/Rorschach

* Tropers/{{Sisperini}} ** [[{{CrossoverShip}} Hellsing/TrinityBlood]]: Top three ships are Alucard/Abel, Major/Cain, and Rip van Winkle/Noelle. * Tropers/{{Slade}} ** {{Harry Potter}}: *** Lily Evans * Severus Snape - I KNEW it was canon before it was canon (slapped by conscience] okay, ''thought''... but it was true. *** Harry Potter * Ginny Weasley - YES! I love it. ** {{Fairly Oddparents}}: *** Cosmo * Wanda-Opposites attract *** [=AntiCosmo=]* [=AntiWanda=] - Same as above ** {{Danny Phantom}} *** Danny * Sam *** Tucker * Valerie ** [=I'm alsoquitefondofcrossoverpairings=] *** [[DannyPhantom Danielle]]* [[{{Digimon}} Motomiya Daisuki]]. *** Slade * [[FairlyOddparents AntiCosmo]] ** FullmetalAlchemist *** Roy/Riza (Fullmetal Alchemist) is This Troper's OTP for life. * @/{{Smilingsoprano}} - this is going to be a long list with some canon pairings, some slash, and a bit of uncertainty. ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': *** Nine/Jack (and maybe grudgingly Rose, but I don't really like her) *** Ten/Master *** Rory/Amy *** Eleven/River *** Theta/Koschei ** ''{{Torchwood}}'': Jack/Ianto ** ''LifeOnMars'': Sam/Annie ** ''{{Series/Merlin}}'': Arthur/Merlin ** ''WhiteCollar'': *** Peter/Neal *** Peter/Elizabeth *** . . . [[TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome You can see where this is going]]. ** ''{{Glee}}'': Will/Emma ** ''{{Sherlock}}'': Sherlock/John

** ''{{Dexter}}'': Dexter/Rita . . . *sob* ** ''StarTrek'': Kirk/Spock ** LordOfTheRings: Faramir/Eowyn ** Batman, in whatever form: Batman/Catwoman ** {{Shakespeare}}: *** ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'': Benedick/Beatrice, my favorite Shakespearean couple of all time. *** ''{{Hamlet}}'': Hamlet/Horatio *** ''TheTamingOfTheShrew'': Petruchio/Kate *** ''TheMerchantOfVenice'': Antonio/Bassanio *** ''[[AMidsummerNightsDream A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'': Oberon/Titania ** TheBartimaeusTrilogy: Nathaniel/Kitty *** Maybe some Bartimaeus/Ptolemy for good measure. ** FarsalaTrilogy: Kavi/Soraya ** [[KushielsLegacy Kushiel's Legacy]]: *** Phedre/Joscelin *** Imriel/Sidonie *** Imriel/Lucius (Yes, I know this is supposed to be OTP, singular, but come on. It's Terre D'Ange.) *** Ysandre/Drustan ** HarryPotter: [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Draco/Anyone]] ** TamoraPierce: *** The canon couples, especially Alanna/George, Daine/Numair, Jonathan/Thayet, Ali/Nawat, and Buri/Raoul. *** Kel/Dom *** Beka/Rosto *** Rosethorn/Crane (past) and Rosethorn/Lark (present) *** Briar/Anyone (except Berenene) ** GoodOmens: Aziraphale/Crowley ** ''LieToMe'': Eli/Ria ** And I support the canon couples in tons of other books, movies, and TV shows. Those are just the standout ones at the moment. * [[{{Tropers.Sneebs}} Sneebs]]: ** CodeGeass: Lelouch X C.C. A BrokenBird and ByronicHero find one another, intend to use one another, come to [[{{IntimateHealing}} heal one another]]. D'awwww! Magnificent bastard and manipulative bitch find love, repent their wicked ways, and ride a hay wagon off into the sunset. (Screw Word Of God. DeathOfTheAuthor, eh wot?). ** Lost: Juliet X Sawyer - At last, couple on this show that doesn't fill me with rage. Two snarkers with a HiddenDepths who develop likeable personalities as the series goes on? Hell yes! Far more interesting that Sawyer and Kate' petty highschool games and '''far''' less creepy than Ben's feelings towards Juliet. ** RahXephon: [[spoiler: If you've seen this series, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't: ]] Watch this series now! ** RevolutionaryGirlUtena: Anthy x Utena- '''Something eternal, something which shines, the power of miracles, the power to revolutionize the world!''' Utena is so amazingly noble and Anthy is so terribly wise. The Prince and the Witch, in a complete subversion of the fairy tale archetype. Go go Deconstructive Shipping!

* [[{{Tropers.Snowsky}} Snowsky]]: ** ''{{Total Drama Island}}:'' Duncan/Gwen. No matter how many people [[{{Ironclad}} hate this couple]], I will continue supporting it to the end, whenever that may be. ** ''{{Neopets}}:'' Hoban/Linae. ** ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]]'': Nando/Zoey. I have a thing for crack pairings. * [[{{Tropers.Solandra}} Solandra]]: I almost always support canon ships because it's just more fun to like a pairing if you know that the characters really ''are'' into each other in canon. (Okay, except for ''some'' of the [[YaoiFangirl slashy]] ones.) ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Aang/Katara, Zuko/Mai, Sokka/Suki. I might actually like Zuko/Mai slightly better than Aang/Katara, but all three are great canon couples. ** AxisPowersHetalia: America/England, which is like a package of everything that appeals to me pairing-wise ({{Tsundere}}s? Check. BelligerentSexualTension / SlapSlapKiss dynamic? Check. "[[SheIsAllGrownUp I don't see you as a brother/friend/son/child anymore]]" [[LoveEpiphany discovery]]? Check. Equal potential for [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther fluff]], [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend humor]], ''and'' [[HurtComfortFic angst]]? ''Triple'' check). Also Greece/Japan, which somehow manages to make me {{squee}} to a degree that I rarely ever do over HappilyMarried pairings (apparently "they ''look'' like an OppositesAttract duo" + "but they [[BirdsOfAFeather click together]] from the get-go!" + "and they have undeniable chemistry in spite of a complete lack of FoeYay, SlapSlapKiss, or {{Tsundere}} factors that seem to apply to every other pairing in the series!" + "and they're so sweetly adorable together ''because'' of these lacks!" = "[[CutenessProximity So CUTE!]] [[MoeCouplet They're perfect for each other!]]" in my book). Runner-up [=OTPs=] are Germany/Italy, Spain/Romano, Sweden/Finland, Austria/Hungary, Russia/China, and Poland/Lithuania. ** FruitsBasket: Kyo/Tohru. He's a guy who's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rough around the edges]], she's a sweet girl who shows him ThePowerOfLove. And yet the pairing never comes across as a stock AllGirlsWantBadBoys situation, and TastesLikeDiabetes in a ''good'' way. ** FutureLovers: Kento/Akira. A BoysLove pairing that ''isn't'' based on RapeIsLove, StockholmSyndrome, CastFullOfGay, or [[StrangledByTheRedString They're Hot And Fangirls Want To See Them Make Out, No Further Development Needed]]? And has a really nice OppositesAttract dynamic, CharacterDevelopment, and a HappilyMarried future? ''Sold!'' ** GoodOmens: Crowley/Aziraphale. Hey, it's [[HeterosexualLifePartners all but canon]], and they've known each other for six thousand years. ** {{Gravitation}}: Yuki/Shuichi. They do a great job of [[OppositesAttract balancing each other's quirks out]] when their personalities aren't massively [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]]. Also Tatsuha/Ryuichi and Hiro/Ayaka as {{Beta Couple}}s. ** HarryPotter: Ron/Hermione. I'm okay with Harry/Ginny (if not

passionate about it), but I saw the Ron/Hermione hookup coming ever since the third book. ** {{Inuyasha}}: Inuyasha/Kagome, Miroku/Sango, and Sesshomaru/Rin (with the latter at legal age, please). ** LovelyComplex: Otani/Koizumi. [[BelligerentSexualTension Dysfunctional]] yet so ''[[BirdsOfAFeather right]]'' coupling at its finest. ** MahouSenseiNegima: Konoka/Setsuna. Yes, I can like GirlsLove too if it's as cute and sweet as this pair is! Also Kotaro/Natsumi because it's pretty much canon now. I'm leaning toward Negi/Nodoka, but not enough for it to qualify as an OTP. Yet. * Tropers/{{SonicGTR}} ** {{K-ON}}: [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/481222/2girlsamamiya_minato-animal_ears-bare_shoulders-b Yui/Azunyan]] ** TouhouProject: [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/555244/2girlsabsurdres-aoi_-ene-comic-confession-highres Yuukarin/Wriggle]], [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/572812/2girls-blonde_hair-blushhighres-kirisame_marisa-l Marisa/Patchouli]], and [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/417480/comic-fujiwara_no_mokougrill-highres-mitsumoto-my Mokou/Mystia]] * [[{{Tropers.SonicPanther}} [=SonicPanther=]]]: I have a thing for slash and HeterosexualLifePartners. ** {{Futurama}}: Fry/Leela ** DeathNote: Mello/Matt, [[LauncherOfAThousandShips but I tend to ship Mello with everyone]]. ** {{Pokemon}}: Lyra/Silver, Ethan/Silver, Ethan/Lyra ** WarriorCats: Firestar/Graystripe, Cinderpelt/Firestar (one-sided), [[FoeYay Ashfur/Brambleclaw]] ** SouthPark: Stan/Kyle (don't judge me) ** TotalDrama: Cody/Sierra * Tropers/{{Sparkysharps}} ** ''{{Claymore}}'': Helen / Deneve, because their whole BattleCouple angle is just two cute for words. ** ''{{Baccano}}!'': [[BonnieAndClyde Isaac / Miria]]. One hilarious soul in two bodies. How can they ''not'' be together? ** ''{{Batman}}'': Harley / Ivy ** ''{{Zelda}}'': Link / Nabooru. Too amusing to pass up ** ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'': [[DeadpanSnarker Biff]] / [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Raziel]], because I like by holy scriptures to be gay and blasphemous. * Tropers/{{Squidney101}} ** ''{{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}}'': Rena/Keiichi, Shion/Satoshi, Rika/Satoko, Takano/Tomitake ** ''{{Lucky Star}}'': Konata/Kagami, Yutaka/Minami, Misao/Ayano ** ''{{Ouran High School Host Club}}'': Tamaki/Haruhi ** ''{{Fruits Basket}}'': Kyo/Tohru, Shigure/Akito, Haru/Rin...heck pretty much all Canon couples. ** ''{{Moon Phase}}'':Kouhei/Hazuki

** ''{{Kodocha}}'': Sana/Akito ** ''{{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya}}'': The S.O.S Brigade...WITH EACHOTHER. ** ''{{Cowboy Bebop}}'': Faye/Spike ** ''{{Digimon}}'' : T.K./Kari, Ken/Davis, Tai/Sora, Wizardmon/Gatomon ** ''{{Princess Tutu}}'': Duck/Fakir, Mytho/Rue ** ''{{Toradora}}'': Kitamura/Sumire, Taiga/Ryuuji, Ami/Minori ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Ash/Misty, Meowth/Skitty ** ''{{Soul Eater}}'': Stein/Medusa, Maka/Soul, Liz/Kid/Patty - my ''{{OT3}}'' ** ''{{Revolutionary Girl Utena}}'': Utena/Anthy ** ''{{Fooly Cooly}}'': Haruko/Naota, Canti/Mamimi ** ''{{Spirited Away}}'': Sen(Chihiro)/Haku ** ''{{Sailor Moon}}'' Mamarou/Usagi, Michiru/Haruka ** ''{{Azumanga Daioh}}'': Osaka/Chiyo, Sakaki/Kaorin, Nyamo/Yukari ** ''{{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}'': Misato/Kaji, Rei/Shinji, Ritsuko/Maya ** ''{{Umineko No Naku Koro Ni}}'': Lambdadelta/Bernkastel, Beatrice/Battler ** ''{{He Is My Master}}'': Izumi/Yoshitaka ** ''{{Axis Powers Hetalia}}'': N.Italy/Germany, Hungary/Austria, Switzerland/Liechtenstein ** ''{{Touhou}}'': Alice/Marisa, Letty/Cirno, Reimu/Suika, Remilia/Sakuya, Flandre/Hong Meiling, Kaguya/Eirin, Mokou/Keine, Yukari/Ran, Reisen/Tewi * Tropers/{{Starscream}} ** ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Luke/Mara. This is an exception to my normal stance on shipping; I'm usually indifferent or simply ''cannot stand it''. *** This is partially why I see Mara mostly as the ''very'' [[MamaBear protective]] [[ActionMom wife-mother type]] she is [[NewJediOrder later on]], rather than the cold-hearted ActionGirl of the TheThrawnTrilogy. The others? I started reading the EU very late compared to others (2005), I enjoy the irony, and I'm a Ben Skywalker fangirl. *** No, I do ''not'' ship Ben/Vestara, thanks for asking. Not yet, anyway. * Tropers/StillFlying ** BuffyTheVampireSlayer: Willow/Oz. ** {{CSI}}: Grissom/Sara ** DisneyAnimatedCanon: Belle/Beast - best Disney couple EVER. New runner up: Flynn/Rapunzel from {{Tangled}}. ** {{Dollhouse}}: Victor/Sierra ** {{Firefly}}: Wash/Zoe ** HarryPotter: Ron/Hermione, Lupin/Tonks ** PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Philip/Syrena ** {{Shrek}}: Shrek/Fiona ** StarTrekDeepSpaceNine: Odo/Kira (my first OTP ever - I shipped them before I even knew what shipping was) ** StarTrekVoyager: Janeway/Chakotay - damn you, writers!

** ToyStory: Buzz/Jessie * Stong Radd ** All of my {{OneTruePairing}}s are [[CargoShip cargo]]. [[HilarityEnsues Expect]] [[ItAmusedMe lulz]]. * [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct Suki Self-Destruct]] ** Series/DoctorWho: Doctor/Master, Amy/Rory, Rose/10.5 ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Kairi, Roxas/Axel, Demyx/Zexion, Xemnas/Saix, Vexen/Marluxia ** Other: [[TheSlenderManMythos Slendy]]/[[BenDrowned BEN]] * Super Troper ** LawAndOrderSVU: Elliot/Olivia and John/Casey. ** TheXFiles: Mulder/Scully ** Theatre/{{Chess}}: Florence/Anatoly ** Casualty1906: Ethel/Millais and Saul/Laura ** ''Truly, Madly, Deeply,'': Nina/Jamie ** OuranHighSchoolHostClub: Haruhi/Tamaki ** UglyBetty: Daniel/Betty * Tropers/{{superinsane95}} ** Series/DoctorWho: 10th Doctor/Simm!Master and 2nd Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon ** {{Torchwood}}: Jack/Ianto ** {{Stephen King}}'s {{IT}}: Richie/Stan ** {{Newsies}}: Spot/Racetrack ** {{Fight Club}}: Tyler/Narrator (Don't judge me too harshly) ** SyFy's Alice: Hatter/Mad March (Actually, this pairing could apply to any version of Alice in Wonderland, but this one specifically) ** {{Being Human}}: George/Mitchell !'''T''' * Tropers/TeamKarasu [Holy crap guys I have way too many [[OTP shippings]] that I've supported in my so-far short lifetime. ;u; I'll just list the ones that I'm derping over right now/just remembered that I should be derping over them because I love them so]]. ** [[{{Ptitle1d5irnza}} 9]] (OH THIS MOVIE. Man it was some good times.) - [[TheOjou 1]] [[BodyguardCrush x]] [[DoggedNiceGuy 8]], [[CoolOldGuy 2]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners x]] [[TheWoobie 5]], [[MadOracle 6]] [[OT3 x]] [[SingleMindedTwins 3/4]], and of course the interpreted-as-canon [[WhatTheHellHero 9]] x [[ActionGirl 7]]. I consider both of the twins to be male via Russian WordOfGod. ** Creepypasta (YEAH I SHIP CREEPYPASTAS :D AHAHAHA I'M SUCH A LOSER HAHA OH GOD MAKE IT STOP -cringesob-) - [[AffablyEvil Slenderman]] [[NightmareRetardant x]] [[EldritchAbomination ZALGO]], [[OnlySaneMan Janice]] [[CandleCove x]] [[CowardlyLion Pirate Percy]], and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel The Skintaker]] [[CandleCove x]] [[MinionShipping Horace Horrible]] ** GakuenAlice (I used to like this series in 8th grade, but now I dislike it due to how typical I've noticed that it's becoming/has

been. But this isn't a [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike complaining forum]], SO...) - [[ButtMonkey Mikan]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship x]] [[{{Kuudere}} Hotaru]], [[JerkassWoobie Natsume]] [[HoYay x]] [[{{Tsundere}} Luka]] and the very crack-filled [[AmbiguouslyGay Narumi]] [[CrackPairing x]] [[SadistTeacher Jinno]]. ** Series/{{Heroes}} (OH SHIT GUYS IT'S MOHINDER THE IGUANA.) [[WideEyedIdealist Peter]] [[IncestSubtext x]] [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Nathan]], [[CompleteMonster Sylar]] [[MagnificentBastard x]] [[IJustWantToBeNormal Claire]], [[BadassNormal HRG]] [[BeingPersonalIsntProfessional x]] [[StepfordSmiler Ang]][[TheCassandra ela]], [[TimeMaster Hiro]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners x]] [[DeadpanSnarker Ando]], [[LIsForDyslexia Matt]] [[{{Subtext}} x]] [[GeniusBruiser Mohinder]] (COME ON 8C MOLLY HAD TWO DADDIES) and [[CreepyMonotone Sylar]] [[DatingCatwoman x]] [[BaldOfEvil Danko]]. [[ShippingGoggles staresdownherEmeraldversion- WHY ARE THEY LEAVING TOGETHER WHAT 8|]] Also, the derpshipping of my starter Sceptile, [[StraightMan /82/]] and my newly captured (assumed male) Kyogre, [[TheOjou Ansatsusha]] because of all the HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday silliness I imagine on /82/'s end. But of course, me being me, he's not. < u > ** TeamFortress2 (There... Th-there is no way that the HoYay and FoeYay in this game is unintentional. 8u;; ) - [[HuskyRusskie Heavy]] [[BattleCouple x]] [[MadDoctor Medic]] and [[SatisfiedStreetRat Scout]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim x]] [[WickedCultured Spy]] ** TowerOfHeaven (Yes, not even this [[BreakTheCutie sweet, innocent]] little 8-Bit game isn't safe. ;c) - [[BadassNormal Eid]] [[GuiltyPleasures x]] [[GodIsEvil Towergod]]. ** {{Vocaloid}} (AHEM I LIKE TASTELESS MUSIC :C) - [[ButtMonkey KAITO]] x [[{{Tsundere}} MEIKO]], [[{{Manzai}} Gakupo x Luka]], [[MinionShipping Neru x Haku]], and tons of others. :c I'm very opposed to [[TheDitz KAITO]] [[{{Fandumb}} x]] [[SpotlightStealingSquad Miku]], sorry. * Tropers/{{Thanas Rey}} ** {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}: Austria/Hungary, America/England, America/Japan, Germany/N.Italy, Fem!Canada/Latvia ** {{EarthBound}}: Ness/Paula, Jeff/Paula ** {{Fire Emblem}}: Ike/Elincia, Gatrie/Lyre, Rolf/Mist, Eliwood/Ninian, Lyn/Hector, Nino/Jaffar. ** {{Suzumiya Haruhi}}: Kyon/Haruhi, Kyon/Itsuki, Itsuki/Yuki ** {{Ouran High School Host Club}}: Haruhi/Tamaki, Haruhi/Hikaru ** {{Persona 3}}: MC/Aigis ** {{Persona 4}}: MC/Yukiko, Chie/Yosuke, Kanji/Naoto, Teddie/Rise, MC/Yosuke, Yosuke/Shadow!Yosuke * Tropers/TheDerangedOne ** FinalFantasyVI: Celes X Locke. Possibly Terra X Leo, if not for the guy's death. I also kinda like the idea of Terra X Shadow... ** FinalFantasyVII: Cloud X Aerith. Not that I dislike Tifa, but really, come on. It's so obvious. Also, Sephiroth X Cloud's sword. ** MagnaCarta: Calintz X Reith in spades. ** RadiataStories: Jack X Ridley. Obvious, I know, but needs to be

stressed. ** ShadowHearts: Yuri X Karin, much as I like Alice. ** ValkyrieProfile: Lenneth X Lucian, Suo X Shiho. Oh, and screw Lezard. ** {{Firefly}}: Mal X Inara. Jayne X River is interesting... ** {{Persona 3}}: Minato X Yukari. And, on a parallel universe, Minato X Mitsuru. And on another... well, you got the idea, I want them ALL to be happy^^ But Yukari and Mitsuru first^^ * Thefter ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph/Anyone ** ''SuperSmashBros'': Zero Suit Samus/Pikachu ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Marin (Link's Awakening)/Link ** [[{{ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokemon]]: [[{{HotSkittyOnWailordAction}} Skitty/Wailord]] ** ''RealLife'': Portia de Rossi/Ellen Degeneres * The Gadgeteer ** ''SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic/Amy, Sonic/Sally, Knuckles/Rouge, Knuckles/Julie-Su - Yeah, I'm cool with both the games and the comics. Each of these couples works perfectly in their respective mediums, and I can't really imagine them any other way. ** ''KingdomHearts'': Sora/Kairi (and, by extention, Roxas/Namin) Kairi is pretty much Sora's entire motivation. Let's not forget his HeroicSacrifice. Besides, they're pretty much [[OfficialCouple canon]] by this point, and there isn't really anyone else they could be with. ** ''[[SpyroTheDragon The Legend of Spyro]]'': Spyro/Cynder - If I have to go into detail about why this is such a great couple, I'd spoil the entire series for those who haven't played it. You just have to watch the entire thing to get it. What else can I say? These two just have a great interaction and a really interesting relationship. ** ''{{Spliced}}'': Mr. Smarty Smarts/Octocat - He's already admitted he's nothing without her, and she even pulled a HeelFaceTurn just to make him jealous. They even had a [[FallingInLoveMontage montage]] [[OfficialCouple during the episode]], and it was both [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]]. *** Also, probably my only non-canon one: Peri/Patricia - I had to write two fics and make a music video, and I guess the idea of them as a couple just grew on me in the process. Plus, when you listen to her talking about what a modern girl's looking for, he's pretty close to a perfect match. It's especially funny when you realize that it's pretty much just the result of ShippingGoggles, and nothing else. * Tropers/TheNinth ** ''House MD'': House/Wilson ** ''Torchwood'': Jack/Ianto and Gwen/Rhys, but also Ianto/Tosh ** ''Dr Who'': 4th Doctor/Romana II ** ''NCIS'': Abby/[=McGee=] ** ''Stargate Atlantis'': Sheppard/[=McKay=] ** ''Trainspotting'': Renton/Sickboy ** ''Withnail & I'': Withnail/Marwood

* TheWildwest666 ** DigimonAdventure (and 02): Taiora, Sorato, Taikari, Jyoumi, Takari, Daikari, Kenyako, Daiyako, AguPiyo, GabuPiyo, PalGoma, PataTail, VTail ** DigimonTamers: Ruklee ** DigimonFrontier: Takumi ** DigimonSavers: Yoshsuru, Toushino, Chikuto * Thren ** Darkstalkers: Anita x Cecil, Hsien-Ko x Raptor [I've completed a 50-chapter fanfic * /nerd* ], Morrigan x Dimitri, Felicia x Talbain. Also Marionette and Shadow... ** Okami: Torn between Oki and Waka, but leans more towards Waka. Other part of ship? Ammy, obviously. I also support Susano x Kushi. ** FFTA2: Luso x Adelle, though that one was obvious. ** ShadowHearts: Yuri x Alice, Kurando x Anastasia. Also obvious. ** Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro: If Yako x Neuro doesn't happen, then Yako x Higuchi. DEMONS/NERDS FTW! ** Odin Sphere: Gwendolyn x Oswald, Velvet x Cornelius [after he turns back, obviously], and Ingway x Mercedes. Though I liked the idea of Griselda x Onyx. ** XXXholic: Watanuki x Himawari. * Tinroof ** ''{{Series/Batman}}'': Harley/Joker. The most adorable abusive relationship in the history of children's television. ** ''{{Hellboy}}'' (movies): [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Kroenen]]/[[DarkMistress Ilsa]]. You know it's true. * Trickymander(As Those chareters have sir names I just give the male sir name to the female) ** Persona3:Yukari Arisato/Chadori Iroi/Mitsuru Sanada/Minako Argaki ** Persona4: Saki Hanmura/Chie Ichijo/Naoto Tatsumi ** Tales of Synphoina: Colette Irving-Aurion/ Anna Aurion/Shenna Wilder/Persea Sage/Raine Bryant/Martel Kai-Fai/Seles Yggdrasill * {{Tropers/Trininity}}: ** AceAttorney: Phoenix/Edgeworth, Klavier/Apollo, Trucy/Machi, Gumshoe/Maggey, Kristoph/Daryan... Okay, maybe I don't exactly have ''one'' true pairing. But yeah. ** HotelDusk: Bradley/Kyle. It makes me quite sad that I couldn't find any other Hotel Dusk related pairings on these pages. * trkzsoup ** ''PowerRangers'': Tommy/Kim, Jason/Trini, Bridge/Z, Doctor K/Ziggy. The first two because they were probably my first ships ever (I was four or five when the show was popular) and the last two because they're dorkishly adorable. And I have a soft spot for Green Rangers. ** ''{{Supernatural}}'': Dean/Castiel. There's just no way all that personal space invasion and endless staring is meaningless. C'mon, Cas saved Dean from Hell. And the other popular ship (Dean/Sam) kind of weirds me out. I don't ship Sam much, but when I do, I prefer

Sam/Gabriel. ** ''{{Psych}}'': Shawn/Lassiter. Dysfunctional or not, they totally balance each other out, never mind the insane sexual tension subtext. I'm not against the canon Shawn/Juliet either, but I prefer Shassie. ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': Nine/Rose. Ten and Rose are good, too, but Nine/Rose is much sweeter and less forced, at least in my opinion. ** ''{{Lost}}'': Sawyer/Juliet, Desmond/Penny and Faraday/Charlotte. Only Desmond and Penny got the screen time they deserved, in my opinion, never mind that Juliet, Desmond and Faraday are my favorite characters on the show. * Tropers/TromboneChild ** I'm a multishipper, but I still have some favorites. ** ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Peter Petrelli]] x [[CynicalMentor Claude Rains]]. Because they're an entertaining odd couple with all sorts of subtext. ** ''{{Supernatural}}'': [[BreakTheCutie Dean Winchester]] x [[CoolCar 1967 Chevy Impala]]/[[FanNickname The Metallicar]]. This is practially ''{{Canon}}''. ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[TheNthDoctor The Ninth Doctor]] x [[RelationshipSue Rose Tyler]]. Those two went together so easily, whereas the Ten/Rose chemistry seemed more forced, but that's just my opinion. Also [[{{Casanova}} Captain Jack Harkness]] x '''[[AnythingThatMoves EVERYBODY!!!]]''' ** ''{{Torchwood}}'': [[OfficerAndAGentleman Captain Jack Harkness]] x [[EvilCounterpart Captain John Hart]]. I like other pairings in this fandom, but this one is just...''cool''. It's sexy, angsty, and mysterious, and I can't stop wondering how they first met. * Tropers/{{truteal}}: ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naru/Hina. She deserves him more than Sakura but I believe there is a very little chance of it becoming canon. ** TotalDramaIsland: Harold/Heather (I like Harold/[=LeShawna=] too, but Harold/Heather has a much more interesting dynamic in my view) Cody/Sierra, but I also support Cody/Beth (It's boring but cute, just like Gwen/Trent!) Cody/Eva (Maybe she can beat the [[SingleTargetSexuality GwenSexualness]] right outta him), Cody/Sadie (I blame this [[http://n5d25d90.deviantart.com/ guy]] ) and Cody/Katie. Noah/Eva (It's more believable than hooking her up with Homeschool) and Owen/Izzy. * {{Tropers/TsundeRay}}: ** ''KatekyoHitmanReborn!'': Tsuna / Gokudera ** ''MiraiNikki'': [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]] / Yukki. ** ''{{Persona 4}}'': Main Character / Rise, Main Character / [[NightNurse Sayoko]] ** ''{{Touhou}}'': Yuuka / Elly, Yuuka / Wriggle, Sakuya / Alice ** {{Vocaloid}}: [[CuteShotaroBoy Len]] / [[{{Shotacon}} Luka]] ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Len]][[JustForPun Ka]]; lol [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGIlyk8yzpA Perfect Crime]]), [[ScrewYourself Len / Len]] (...[[GuiltyPleasures what?]]), Len / Miku (currently, he, a Len cosplayer, goes out with a Miku cosplayer, who

happens to ship the same pairing). * {{Tropers/Turtleducks}}: ** BigBangTheory: *** [[HeterosexualLifePartners Howard/]][[HoYay Raj]], NONSTOP. Their UST is ''way'' more intense than anyone else's in the show. *** Leonard/Penny, because they're just ''adorable'' together. ** PhineasAndFerb: *** Phineas/Isabella. Holy crap, they can be ''so'' cute, especially when you keep to Phineas's ObliviousToLove characterization, or, when they're teenagers, have him just be suddenly hit by puberty and notice her. *** [[NotBloodSiblings Phineas/Ferb]], [[ThreeWaySex which isn't completely exclusive from the above pairing]]. I revel in the {{squick}} inherent in their coupling, however, because this pairing would ''seriously'' damage everyone involved. *** [[ThoseTwoGuys Baljeet/Buford]], because I mean, it's [[BlatantLies practically canon]]. Well, at the very least, their attimes friendly, at-times bully/nerd dynamic is cute to me. *** Baljeet/Isabella, which just combines the adorableness into one large {{Moe}} glob. *** Bobbi Fabulous/Sherman (Swampy). I mean, even though they're onetime characters, they ''so'' dated during the '80s. And then they get back together after their reunion concert. * Tropers/TwoGunAngel ** I tend to be a multishipper when it comes to my fandoms of choice, but my favorite ships include: ** ''{{Berserk}}'': Guts/Casca -- after all the shit that both of them have been through, they deserve some kind of happiness together. Too bad the universe is bound and determined to fuck things up for them in every conceivable kind of way. ** ''BlackLagoon'': Revy/Rock -- so much chemistry between these two, it isn't even funny. ** ''CowboyBebop'': Spike/Faye is my ship of choice for this fandom, though Spike/Julia also appeals. ** ''DevilMayCry'': Dante can take either Lady or Trish, as both of them have their good points. But for Nero, Kyrie all the way. Those two are just so cute together. ** ''DragonBallZ'': Goku/Chi-Chi and Vegeta/Bulma ** ''{{Firefly}}'': Hoo boy... Mal/Inara ([[BelligerentSexualTension if they can ever get their heads out of their pigus]] and [[CanNotSpitItOut admit that they love each other, dammit!]]), Simon/Kaylee (they're just so cute together!), Wash/Zoe (one of my favorites -- [[NonActionGuy funny man]] married to [[HotAmazon absolute badass Amazon]]; what's not to love?), and Jayne/River ([[FoeYay moments with the two of them are never boring]], and River does have a way of [[MindGameShip getting under the big guy's skin]] - and they'd make a hell of a HugeGuyTinyGirl BattleCouple, though I also like depictions of them as non-romantic friends as well). I'll take almost any het pairing between the crew in this fandom, and not a few LesYay pairings as well as long as they're written well -- one of

my favorite {{Fanfic}} series written by Jane0904 has Mal paired up with a very well-written OC -- though I'm not into [[BrotherSisterIncest brother/sister stuff]], so Simon/River is OUT. ** ''GundamWing'': Heero/Relena (when Relena's not being a rutting twit), Duo/Hilde, Quatre/Dorothy, Wufei/Sally, Zechs/Noin. Trowa/Catherine has a kind of brother/sister vibe to them, so I'm angling for TheNotLoveInterest for them. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': I'm nominally a Link/Zelda shipper, but other pairings across the Zelda fandom do have their appeal. When I first played Ocarina of Time, I was into Link/Saria for a while because of the childhood friend thing, and the moment when Link found out that Saria didn't grow up along with him...it was a bit sad, to be honest with you. I'm not a fan of pairing the adult Link up with her for [[{{Lolicon}} obvious]] [[{{Squick}} reasons]]. ** ''LordOfTheRings'': Aragorn/Arwen and Faramir/Eowyn, though Aragorn/Eowyn also appeals. For friendshippy stuff, Sam and Frodo all the way. ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Nanoha/Fate, another case of the two being so cute together. ** ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Madoka/Homura -- even though they're not exactly a romantic pairing, the level of devotion that Homura has for our adorable title character has to count for something, dammit! ** ''SuperMarioBros'': Mario/Peach. No question about it. ** ''SweeneyTodd'': Benjamin/Lucy -- I was mainly into the movie for the revenge plot, and though Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett do get some cute scenes together (such as "By the Sea"), Judge Turpin should never have fucking messed with the Barkers to start with. End Of Story. ** ''{{Touhou}}'': Reimu can take Marisa, Yukari, or Sanae. For Marisa, Reimu, Alice or Patchy. I'm mainly partial to Sakuya/Meiling, but Sakuya/Youmu is starting to appeal more to me (and then there's Sakuya's attraction to her darling little mistresses to deal with as well!). Yuyuko can take Yukari or Youmu, and I'm quite fond of the adorable mother/daughter relationship between Ran and Chen, as well as the big sister/little sister relationship between Letty and Cirno. Kaguya/Eirin and Keine/Mokou are my favorites among Imperishable Night's cast. And I haven't even covered half the cast of the whole damned series yet. ** {{Crossover Ship}}s: *** [[{{Touhou}} Meiling]]/[[KingOfFighters Krizalid]] -- I mainly blame Esaka and Danbooru for introducing me to this ship. A lot of the stuff for it is cuter than hell, but given the fact that both of them are utter {{Badass}}es when they want to be (Krizalid being an SNKBoss and Meiling having that reserve of untapped power as depicted in several "Ex-Meiling" pics on Danbooru), I can see them being an awesome BattleCouple. *** [[DevilMayCry Dante]]/{{Bayonetta}} -- Because you just know those two would be so awesome together. *** [[DevilMayCry Dante]]/[[{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]] -- The main competition to the above. I don't really see Dante as a picky guy when it comes to babes. ----

OneTruePairingU-Z Tropers' favorite ships. No flaming, please. This page includes alias starting with the letter U through the letter Z. '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order by [[ThisTroper Troper alias]].''' When two's not enough, try TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome. ---!'''U''' * Tropers/{{UltraVioletDragoness}} ** [[ZeldaManga Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Plus]]: Shadow/Vio (What? They're adorable!) * {{@/UltimateChimera}} ** ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' - [[SlapSlapKiss Kyouko x Sayaka]], [[RescueRomance Homura x Madoka]] ** ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' - [[BelligerentSexualTension Kyon x Haruhi]] ** ''PokemonSpecial'' - [[RedStringOfFate SpecialShipping]], [=OldRivalShipping=], [[UptightLovesWild FranticShipping]] !'''V''' * {{@/Vilui}} ** ''SailorMoon'': Mostly the canon pairings, Naru/Nephrite, Usagi/Mamoru, Rei/Yuuichirou, [[PrettyGuardianSailorMoon Makoto/Motoki]] -- though I confess to a [[GuiltyPleasures secret liking]] for Rei/Ami ** ''{{Mai-HiME}}'': Mai/Yuuichi, Natsuki/Shizuru, Mikoto/Yukino *** Fan fiction pairing: Dan/Erica from ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/MaiHime/index.html MaiHiME: Future]]'' ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Keiichi/Rena, Shion/Satoshi ** ''{{Megatokyo}}'': Piro/Kimiko, Yuki/Yutaka, Largo/Junko ** ''{{Iji}}'': Vateilika/Yukabacera * Tropers/{{VilaNeedsAHug}} ** BlakesSeven: Avon/Vila. Why not? They're already VitriolicBestBuds! ** {{Merlin}}: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Merthur]]. ** {{Sherlock}}: Sherlock/John. ** AshesToAshes: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Galex]]. OF COURSE. ** ThatGuyWithTheGlasses: Spoony/Linkara. ** StarTrek: Kirk/ [=McCoy=]. [[DieForOurShip And please DON'T mention Kirk/Spock or Spock/McCoy in front of me]]. ** Series/DoctorWho: Jamie/Doctor. !'''W''' * Waffleworld ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/[[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]],

Harry/[[CloudCuckooLander Luna]] ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Vincent/Reeve (pretty much OTP), Vincent/[[{{Lolicon}} Shelke]], Zack/Cloud ** ''FinalFantasyVIII'': Seifer/Zell, Squall/Zell ** ''FinalFantasyXII'': Larsa/Penelo, Balthier/Vaan, Basch/Penelo, Basch/Vaan, Fran/Ashe (lolwut). ** ''AceAttorney'': Edgeworth/Phoenix (OH SNAP), Larry/Maya, Franzy/Gumshoe ** ^Its descendant, Apollo Justice: [=Klavier/A3A=] * Tropers/{{whitetigah}}: ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry x Hermione. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko x Katara. ** ''AceAttorney'': Maya x Edgeworth. ** ''MobileSuitGundam'': Amuro x Sayla. ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'': Riza x Winry (Don't ask, I have no idea where this came from either). ** ''[[EarthseaTrilogy Earthsea]]'': Ged x Tenar. ** ''MacrossFrontier'': Sheryl x Ranka. Alto can go [[UnusualEuphemism love the sky]]. ** ''{{Naruto}}'': I'm joining the Naruto x Hinata masses here. ** ''AirGear'': [[TheLancer Kazu]] x [[CuteBruiser Emily]] x [[MakingASplash Om]] x [[AxCrazy Gabishi]]. Admit it, it would be the hottest thing ever. ** ''Eyeshield21'': [[TeamMom Mamori]] x [[RecurringCharacter Koharu]]. You know, Ojo's manager. (Based entirely on the bottom panel of [[http://www.onemanga.com/Eyeshield_21/50/03/ this page]], by the way. Don't ask.) ** ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' and ''ToAruKagakuNoRailgun'': [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto]] x [[AntiMagic Touma]]. * @/WillyFourEyes: ** ''AceAttorney'': [[ButtMonkey Gumshoe]] x [[TheWoobie Maggey]]. Theirloveissounlucky! *** Thanks to [[spoiler:the ending of]] [[ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s game, I'm now behind him x [[IllGirl Vera Misham]]. ** ''ArcanaHeart'': [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Saki]] x [[{{Meido}} Fiona]]. ** ''AtelierAnnie'': [[LethalChef Gillian]] x [[IdiotHero Kilbert]]. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': [[TheHero Aang]] x [[TeamMom Katara]], [[TheStoic Mai]] x [[AntiVillain Zuko]], and all combinations thereof. ** ''DarkCloud'': [[GadgeteerGenius Max]] x [[BadassPrincess Monica]], TemporalParadox be damned (more towards the [[FriendshipMoment friendshippy]] than the romantic, though). ** ''{{Disgaea 3}}'': [[BadassBookworm Mao]] x [[AntiAntiChrist Raspberyl]], [[TheMasochismTango because he would hate it so, SO much]]. ** ''FinalFantasy'' (general): [[GadgeteerGenius Rikku]] x [[{{Ninja}} Yuffie]], [[ThePaladin Cecil]] x [[TheArcher Rosa]], [[MagicKnight Terra]] x [[HandsomeLech Edgar]]. ** ''{{Futurama}}'': [[ChineseGirl Amy]] [[InterspeciesRomance x]] [[HypercompetentSidekick Kif]].

** ''HarvestMoon'' (Island of Happiness): Mark x [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Natalie]], partially because ''HarvestMoonFranticFarming'' seemed to be leading toward that, so why disrupt [[GaidenGame not-quite-canon?]] ** ''HayateTheCombatButler'': [[TheChewToy Hayate]] x [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Isumi]]. ** ''{{Mai-HiME}}'': [[RedHeadedHero Mai]] x [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Natsuki]]. They'd make a great [[LovelyAngels buddy cop pair]] (Natsuki already has the guns for it...) ** ''{{Mai-Otome}}'': [[CountryMouse Arika]] x [[RebelliousPrincess Mashiro]]. *** Also, [[ChivalrousPervert Shizuru]] x [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Natsuki]], and [[SempaiKohai Mai x Sara]]. ** ''{{Maria-sama Ga Miteru}}'': [[IllGirl Yoshino]] x [[{{Bifauxnen}} Rei]]. In my eyes, they work together almost ''too'' well...not that I'm complaining. ** ''[[MahouSenseiNegima Negima!]]'': [[CuteShotaroBoy Negi]] x [[ShrinkingViolet Nodoka]]. She ''is'' the first one to say she loves him, so why not? ** ''{{Persona 4}}'': Yosuke x [[{{Tomboy}} Chie]]. ** ''{{Pokemon}}'' (mix-and-match of anime and video games): [[{{Tomboy}} Misty]] x [[TheHero Ash]], and [[PluckyGirl Dawn]] x [[{{Tsundere}} May]]. ** ''StreetFighter'': [[HeroWorshipper Sakura]] x [[RichBitch Karin]]. [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl What, too easy?]] ** ''SuikodenI'': [[ActionGirlfriend Tengaar]] x [[NonActionGuy Hix]]. ** ''SuperSmashBros'': {{Kirby}} x [[{{Pokemon}} Jigglypuff]]. [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=79 Aww...]] ** ''{{Touhou}}'': [[{{Miko}} Reimu]] x [[BrilliantButLazy Yukari]]. Longest-lasting main character + [[SuperpowerLottery most powerful being in Gensokyo]] = [[DefeatMeansFriendship Defeat Means]] [[HoYay LOVE]]! ** ''ValkyriaChronicles'': [[DoesNotLikeMen Dallas]] x [[IdolSinger Edy]]. Poor, poor Dallas...she needs some lovin', and since [[TheLancer Alicia's]], uh, [[OfficialCouple preoccupied]]... *** Other than [[BattleCouple the two "main" main characters]], I also like to go with [[FriendlySniper Catherine]] x [[ActualPacifist Susie]] ([[CrackPairing may contain illicit substances]]) and [[HandsomeLech Salinas]] x [[TheTease Freesia]]. ** ''WarioWare'': [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Penny]] [[ToyShip x]] [[{{Otaku}} 9-Volt]]. * Tropers/{{Wolfgirl44}}: I like [[CrackPairing crack pairings]]. ** ''GhostHunt'': John x Masako. ** ''DigimonAdventure'': Myotismon x Kari. ** ''TeenTitans'': Beast Boy x Raven. ** ''9'': 6 x 7 ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: Keiichi x Satoko. ** ''XMenEvolution'': Kurt/Wanda, Professor X/Storm, Gambit/Pyro, Amara/Bobby. ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': I make an exception to the 'crack pairings only' rule in favor of Ash/Misty and Jessie/James simply because they are

the first things I ever shipped. Ever. I also quite like Dawn/Paul and Lugia/Ash's mom. And Volkner/Flint. * Tropers/{{Wynter}} ** ''{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo/Kida (you may shoot me. actually on second thought, please don't), Mikado/Anri, Shizuo/Izaya(to a degree, at least), Shinra/Celty, Walker/Erika ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Neville/Luna, Scorpius/Rose (yes), Sirius/Remus (ironically, I actually ''hated'' the pairing before), James/Lily ** ''MassEffect'': Shepard/Tali ** ''NatsumeYuujinchou'': Natori/Natsume, Tanuma/Taki ** ''{{Persona3}}'': Shinjiro/Akihiko ** ''{{Persona4}}'': [[FanNickname Souji]]/Naoto, but also fond of [[HoYay Souji/Yousuke]]. ** ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Haha, oh boy. Choutarou/Shishido, Yuushi/Atobe, Chitose/Shiraishi, Sanada/Yukimura, Kenya/Hikaru, Yagyuu/Niou, Tezuka/Fuji, Inui/Kaidou, Oishi/Eiji, Niou/Bunta, Kamio/An, Renji/Akaya, Momoshiro/Ryoma and Kintarou/Ryoma, Akazawa/Mizuki !'''X''' * Tropers/{{X2X}} ** For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a fan of (or at the ''very least'', tolerant of) most {{Official Couple}}s (which is why I'm not listing them in most cases). I have my exceptions (''especially'' if wallbangers are involved), but CanonDefilement tends to be taken to [[FanDumb ludicrous extremes]]. Just saying. Oh, and welcome to "Overboard Central". ** ''{{Bleach}}'' *** [[{{Determinator}} Ichigo]]/[[HealingHands Orihime]] - Join the club. Besides, she's a DistressedDamsel that's been [[BreakTheCutie broken]]... ''hard''. The two even have [[{{Expy}} expies]] in the form of [[DevilMayCry Nero/Kyrie]], for crying out loud! *** [[HotBlooded Renji]]/[[LadyOfWar Rukia]] - What can I say? I'm a sucker for [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friends hooking up]]. Besides, didn't [[TiteKubo Kubo]] [[WordOfGod say]] that Rukia and Ichigo are LikeBrotherAndSister[=/=]PlatonicLifePartners? *** [[GuileHero Urahara]]/[[SexyMentor Yoruichi]] - My God, the ''ShipTease''. It doesn't help that they [[ChildhoodFriendRomance grew up together]] and are both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s. Sorry [[ClingyJealousGirl Soi Fon]]. ** ''{{Castlevania}}'' *** [[SwordAndSorcerer Jonathan/Charlotte]] - They are so ''not'' LikeBrotherAndSister. [[ShesNotMyGirlfriend Not your girlfriend, huh Jonathan?]] Tch. Yeah right. They're already BashBrothers, so why not make the [[RelationshipUpgrade upgrade]] to BattleCouple already? There are so many subtle hints (especially from Charlotte's side) that them hooking up would work out for the best. Plua, their child would be the new age ''[[MagicKnight Juste]]''. Imagine that. ** ''DissidiaFinalFantasy''

*** [[TheStoic Cloud]]/[[TheHeart Terra]] - Of the {{Nakama}} that is the heroes of ''Dissidia'', [[FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] only really seems to open up to (in ascending order) [[FinalFantasyX Tidus]], [[FinalFantasyIV Cecil]], [[FinalFantasyII Firion]], and [[FinalFantasyVI Terra]]. The last two are special as Firion and Terra are (respectively) [[YouRemindMeOfX his Zack and Aerith in the game]]. He specifically shares his dreams with the two, and rallies Terra to summon up the strength to fight [[MonsterClown Kefka]]. Also, this pairing defies the {{Fandom}} in-joke that Cloud [[DeadFantasy and]] [[FinalFantasyX Yuna]] gave birth to [[FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]. Last time I checked, 7 plus 10 doesn't equal 13, [[FauxSymbolism 6 plus 7 does]]. Also, that would make Lightning (who was created to be a [[DistaffCounterpart female Cloud]]) a [[SuperSerum Mako-infused]] [[HalfHumanHybrid quarter-Esper]]. ''[[RuleOfCool A Mako-infused quarter-Esper]]''. *** [[TheChessmaster Emperor Mateus]]/[[TheVamp Ultimecia]] ''[[UnholyMatrimony Something]]''' ''[[MinionShipping has]]'' to be going on between the two of them. There are just ''too'' many scenes where those two appear at each other's side, seemingly plotting together, and the fact that Ulty is one of ''two'' people (the other being [[KillerRabbit Shantotto]]) that Mateus isn't a pompous dick towards implies that there's some sort of sexual WorthyOpponent relationship going on between them. *** [[WhenTreesAttack Exdeath]] [[HumanoidAbomination Cloud of Darkness]]: [[PowerOfTheVoid You]] [[BrokenRecord know]] ''[[CargoShip exactly]]'' [[BirdsOfAFeather why]]. ** ''FinalFantasyVII'' *** [[TroubledButCute Cloud]]/[[TeamMom Tifa]] - Besides the obvious mention of FirstGirlWins[=/=][[ChildhoodFriendRomance Victorious Childhood Friend]], I'm not going to bring up how Cloud can't love Aerith because [[DieForOurShip she's]] [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse deader]] [[TheGwenStacy than]] [[KillTheCutie dead]]; it's obvious that Cloud loves them both (and I ''do'' like Cloud/Aerith; it's just not my OTP). Likewise, her death coupled with his Sephiroth-induced MindRape dealt Cloud [[HeroicBSOD a heavy blow]] to the point that it took ''Advent Children'' to snap him out of being TheAtoner. But you have to remember how close Cloud and Tifa have been from the start, especially that [[ThePromise sweet promise]] they made before Cloud left to try to join SOLDIER. At first, Aerith was drawn to Cloud because he was "Zack Jr." but she fell ''back'' into love with the "real" Cloud. Sadly, by that time, Cloud was already rekindling his relationship with Tifa (i.e. that heartwarming scene under the Highwind; WordOfGod confirms that, yes, [[PreClimaxClimax they had sex that night]]). You can still tell that Cloud loves Aerith, but he's decided to stop dwelling about the past and move on in his life with the ''other'' person he loves. I mean, they pretty much have started a family together. Plus, even if Aerith was still alive, that would just make the current FanDumb[=/=]ShipToShipCombat situation ''worse'' and I'm not sure that Cloud would turn to a TenchiSolution... *** [[TheAce Zack]]/[[InnocentFlowerGirl Aerith]] - They were a couple chronologically before any of this [[LoveTriangle Aerith/Cloud/Tifa]] crap among the {{Fandom}} even should have begun. They click better

than Cloud/Aerith and both suffered [[TearJerker extremely tragic deaths]]. Plus, Zack never did have a chance to go on that last date with her, so wouldn't it be heartwarming for [[TogetherInDeath the two lovers to reunite]] in TheLifestream? They even appear together (even if you [[YourMileageMayVary can argue]] that there was no romantic {{subtext}} in that scene) at the end of ''Advent Children''. I rest my case. ** ''FireEmblem'' *** [[RedheadedHero Roy]]/[[TheMessiah Lilina]] - They go well together. ChildhoodFriendRomance. Plus, she needs comfort as she deals with the [[TearJerker death of dear 'ol daddy]]. Hector's [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dreams]] in his supports with Eliwood in ''Rekka no Ken'' even hint at this pairing. *** [[RedheadedHero Eliwood]]/[[MysteriousWaif Ninian]] - Their [[RescueRomance dynamic]] is the foundation of multiple {{Heartwarming Moment}}s ''and'' {{Tear Jerker}}s. I don't think that Eliwood would have that kind of relationship with [[{{Tsundere}} Lyn]] and I'm definitely ''not'' for the HoYay with [[HeterosexualLifePartners Hector]]. Also, it'd mean that Roy would be a quarter-dragon. ''[[RuleOfCool A quarter-dragon]]''. *** [[ActionGirl Lyn]]/[[TheArcher Rath]] - Lyn ''is'' good friends with Eliwood and Hector, but she feels like an [[NoSocialSkills outsider when it comes to royalty]] (her grandfather, one of the few nobles who doesn't ostracize her, dies before ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'') and she has [[DoomedHometown no real home to back to]]... unless she find familiarity from a fellow Sacaen. It just ''feels right''. Also, I'm not a (big) fan of the RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with [[ShrinkingViolet Florina]]. *** Kent/Fiora - BirdsOfAFeather. 'Nuff said. *** Wil/Rebecca - [[ChildhoodFriendRomance If you've been paying attention to 80% of these pairings...]] Besides, Wolt (Rebecca's son in ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'') even ''looks'' like Wil (well, moreso than Lowen). *** Seth/Eirika - He took a ''huge'', crippling blow for her during their escape from Renais, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation (even it doesn't really affect him)]]. KnightInShiningArmor, anyone? *** Ephraim/Tana - They're just cute like that. She even pulls him out of a HeroicBSOD in his story route. *** Innes/L'Arachel - SlapSlapKiss... and ''it works oh so well''. *** Forde/Vannessa & Kyle/Syrene - Despite the UnfortunateImplications of his "Would you like to feel my energy, too?" line, Forde's interaction with Vanessa is heartwarming. Kyle and Syrene have been friends for ten years. [[ChildhoodFriendRomance You should see where this one's going...]] Bonus points: [[ThoseTwoGuys Forde and Kyle]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners are good buddies]] and Syrene is Vanessa's literal CoolBigSis, further connecting the {{Nakama}} that is the characters of every stinkin' ''Fire Emblem''. *** [[LovableRogue Colm]]/[[{{Moe}} Neimi]] - [[SarcasmMode Oh! What do you know?]] It's another case of [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Victorious Childhood Friend]]. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold And he really]] ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold does]]'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold care for her]].

*** [[KingIncognito Joshua]]/[[StaffChick Natasha]] - [[TheGambler Joshua gambled and won]]. It was obvious from the start. Besides, Natasha is definitely the kind of person he needs as a partner, especially [[spoiler:as he rebuilds his kingdom and [[TearJerker copes with the death of his mother]]]]. *** [[AFatherToHisMen Ike]]/[[LadyOfWar Elincia]] - Did ''not'' see that [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Geoffrey]]/Elincia ending coming. For the love of Ashunera, she was totally [[BodyguardCrush crushing on Ike]] in ''Radiance'' with all of her talk and praise for Ike instilling them with hope! She even calls him "My Lord Ike". Could her infatuation be any more ''blatant''? And then there's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsRexecuU-c epilogue]]. Do you see ''Geoffrey'' there? If you said "no", then you are correct. This would have been a perfect TakeThat to how nobility and commoners can't be together and it would have been a great [[AnAesop Aesop]] of how even paupers can win over the princess if they try hard enough. And then, on top of that, Ike has ''two'' [[GayOption endings with men]] in ''Radiant Dawn''. It's like if ''Dawn'' [[CanonDiscontinuity ignored its own prequel]]. ** ''{{Gundam 00}}'' *** [[ChildSoldiers Setsuna]]/[[YamatoNadeshiko Marina]] [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend They both deny it]], but they're kindred souls fighting for the same goals, albeit at different levels. [[BirdsOfAFeather What's not to like?]] Plus, I feel that she understands him more than [[TheWoobie Feldt]] and definitely more than ''[[PsychopathicManchild Nena]]'' (who quite frankly, was just trying to get into his pants). ** ''KingdomHearts'' *** [[TheHero Sora]]/[[TheChick Kairi]] (and by proxy, [[LiteralSplitPersonality Roxas/Namine]]) - It's become so obvious, there isn't even {{Subtext}} anymore. They're the closest thing this series has to an OfficialCouple. Seriously, they even draw a picture of themselves sharing a Paopu fruit! That's a sign of two lovers eternally linked throughout eternity! Here's waiting for a HappilyEverAfter. ** ''{{The King of Fighters}}'' (includes all {{SNK}} {{Crossover}}s as well) *** [[BadassAngster Rock]]/[[PirateGirl Bonne Jennet]] - Besides the numerous {{Ship Tease}}s that many wish would come to fruition (e.g. [[BoisterousBruister Terry]]/[[ActionGirl Blue Mary]], [[{{Shotoclone}} Ryo]]/[[SweetPollyOliver King]], [[CelibateHero Andy]]/[[SingleTargetSexuality Mai]], [[MinionShipping Yashiro/Shermie]], etc.) or that have already happened in [[AlternateContinuity alternate timelines]] (e.g. [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Robert]]/[[GenkiGirl Yuri]] in ''{{Art of Fighting}} 3''), there's this little number. She flirts with him in ''Maximum Impact 2'', but because [[RaisedByDudes he lived solely with men as he matured]], [[{{Adorkable}} he's shy around women]]. She's also FunPersonified, so maybe she could get Rock to loosen up and stop angsting about his BigScrewedUpFamily problems with [[ParentalAbandonment Geese]] (who's ''dead'' in two of the three timelines Rock appears in).

** ''MegaManX'' *** [[HeartbrokenBadass Zero]]/[[ILetGwenStacyDie Iris]] [[TearJerker Bless her soul.]] [[HeroicBSOD His too.]] *** [[CelibateHero Zero]]/[[HopelessSuitor Layer]] - If only because she cares ''so'' much for him. Iris' death may have shook him tremendously, but it's nearly as heartbreaking seeing how hard she tries to make him happy because [[ChasteHero he's completely oblivious]]. And, as the game can attest, Layer ''can'' [[LadyOfWar hold her own in battle]], so Zero doesn't need to fear Layer [[DisposableWoman following Iris' fate]]. ** ''MegaManZero'' *** [[SealedBadassInACan Zero]]/[[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Ciel]] - As much FoeYay as the very {{Yandere}}-ish [[WorthyOpponent Leviathan]] had with Zero (and it lived on with [[LegacyCharacter Model Z and Model L]] in ''[[MegaManZX ZX]]''), you can tell that Zero and Ciel come to care for each other ([[BodyguardCrush her first]], then him ''by the GrandFinale of the series''). Which made this all the more a TearJerker when she says IWillWaitForYou and he says [[FamousLastWords "Wait for me, Ciel!"]]. Zero then proceeds to [[HeroicSacrifice die]] after giving a WorldOfCardboardSpeech[=/=]ShutUpHannibal[=/=]FinalSpeech to [[BigBad Weil]] and then ''kicking Weil's [[CompleteMonster long-overdue]] ass'' (which culminates into the quintessal CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the ''entire franchise'' and finally gives Zero the answer to [[TearJerker what he was fighting for]] [[hottip:*:see Zero/Iris above if you don't get it]]). It probably wouldn't have worked in the physical sense ([[RoboShip he's a prototype for the design that'd become Reploids, she's a human]]; the human and Reploid races wouldn't merge into one nearly-indistinguishable race 'til ''ZX''), but they did love one another. Of course, YourMileageMayVary. ** ''{{Naruto}}'' *** [[IdiotHero Naruto]]/[[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]] - They complement each other so well. While the Naruto/[[{{Tsundere}} Sakura]] pairing ''is'' workable (and I definitely wouldn't mind it happening), this one is just so much better. *** [[ObfuscatingStupidity Shikamaru]]/[[DefrostingIceQueen Temari]] The FoeYay and their tendency to be paired up made it noticeable. Then came their appearance together in Part II... And they do work together quite well. He can say "SheIsNotMyGirlfriend!" and she can say "It's NotADate!" 'til their faces turn blue for all I care. Even ''[[ShipperOnDeck Naruto]]'' can see it! ** ''RogueGalaxy'' *** Jaster/Kisala - This one's obvious. Look at every potentially sad moment in the game and see who's there to comfort the other. Seriously, their [[ThePowerOfLove love-powered]] CombinationAttack is probably second in power ''only'' to the EarthShatteringKaboom they can create with [[LovableTraitor Zegram]] during [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Supernova]]. In fact, he loves her so much that he goes [[spoiler:to her newly-inherited kingdom in Mariglenn]] just to ''steal her back''. Also, it would make their child [[spoiler:a descendant of the Star King, the grandchild of [[BadassNormal Desert Claw]], ''and'' the heir to the Mariglenn

throne]]. Yes, outlining how [[RuleOfCool awesome]] a particular pair's children will be is becoming a OverlyLongGag. ** ''{{Saiyuki}}'' *** [[StepfordSmiler Hakkai]]/[[CombatMedic Yaone]] - Yes, there's the fact that Yaone is implied to love Kougaiji and Hakkai might not pursue a relationship because of their opposition and (more importantly) [[IdenticalStranger her resemblance to]] his dead lover (and [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]), but the ShipTease early on in the series makes me think otherwise. My word, the ''ShipTease''. Plus, she's TheMedic[=/=]StaffChick, a [[BirdsOfAFeather fellow demon]], and his [[SubvertedTrope non-evil]] [[ThePsychoRangers counterpart in the Kougaiji-ikkou]] (who he's frequently paired with). Literal HealingHands for Hakkai's [[DarkAndTroubledPast torn heart]], anyone? And I must combat the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s and their love of HoYay between Hakkai and his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best bud]] [[HandsomeLech Goyjo]]. ** ''{{Sonic the Hedgehog}}'' *** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Knuckles]]/[[MsFanservice Rouge]] ''[[SonicAdventureSeries Sonic Adventure 2]]'' played up the SlapSlapKiss element ([[AlmostKiss minus the kiss, of course]]) so much, that I'm under the impression that later games are toning down their relationship (and even their general number of interactions) as a fail-safe to prevent it from getting it out of hand. Of course, given that she's a [[ClassyCatBurglar jewel thief]] and he's the [[AncientTradition guardian]] of the [[PowerCrystal Master]] [[MacGuffin Emerald]] and they're of ''[[InterspeciesRomance different species]]'', it'd be interesting to see a romance play out. ** ''SoulSeries'' *** [[WarriorMonk Kilik]]/[[{{Moe}} Xianghua]] - Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqbYwAKRI48 exchange]] in ''Soulcalibur II'' hinted at more than just [[LikeBrotherAndSister platonic feelings]]. Kilik's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYGVOOpZ-o 2nd]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAMlva4dTg 3rd endings]] in ''III'' and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6lh8IhuHPE Xianghua's]] in ''IV'' essentially drove it home. It's pretty darned close to {{Canon}}, they're a well-received couple, and (depending on the storyline), it ''could'' have happened. *** [[BadassAngster Siegfried]]/[[BadassPrincess Hilde]] - He's TheAtoner. She offers him {{forgiveness}} (keep in mind that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PZ_wie68k Hilde's ending]] is the ''only'' Siegfried-related ending that doesn't involve him [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying]]). She even ''smiles'' at him. Let the healing of Siegfried's tattered heart begin. Plus, she's quite classy, and one of the most modest females in the series (especially in terms of ''[[TokenWholesome clothes]]''). [[FanPreferredCouple Even the fans agree!]] ** ''StreetFighter'' *** [[SpiritedCompetitor Ryu]]/[[CelibateHero NO ONE!]] - Seriously, the guy ''lives'', ''eats'', and ''breathes'' fighting to the point that ''it'' might be the focus for his SingleTargetSexuality. I'm not saying he's {{asexual|ity}}, but Ryu lives to better himself through battle, so even if he ''did'' recognize someone's affections, he

wouldn't be able to return them. Thus, no pairing with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ken]] (who's already ''[[HappilyMarried married with children]]''), [[ActionGirl Chun-Li]] (who's likewise too caught up in her own work for a relationship and [[StreetFighterIII eventually]] [[HotMom adopts]]), [[HeroWorshipper Sakura]], etc. *** [[{{Ninja}} Guy]]/[[TallDarkAndBishoujo Rose]] - I blame ''Super StreetFighterIV'' with all of its ShipTease and UnresolvedSexualTension. I'm the one who wrote the section under RelationshipWritingFumble about [[{{Nakama}} these two]], and I ''still'' ship them. (Note that I don't subject Guy's canonical wife, [[YamatoNadeshiko Rena]] to DieForOurShip.) ** ''{{Tekken}}'' *** [[TragicHero Jin]]/[[GenkiGirl Xiaoyu]] - I dunno why, but there's just something admirable about this one. She desperately wants to save him from the [[HeWhoFightsMonsters hellhole he's dug himself into]]. EarnYourHappyEnding! ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'' *** [[HeroicMime Link]]/[[BarrierMaiden Zelda]] - In most ''Zeldas''. By this point, it's a given. Even [[ShigeruMiyamoto Shiggy]] [[LampshadeHanging jokes about it]]. *** [[HeroicMime Link]]/[[MysteriousWaif Marin]] - In ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]''. 1. The lack of Zelda in this game. 2. HeroesWantRedheads. *** [[ChasteHero Link]]/[[HeroesWantRedheads Malon]] - In ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The Ocarina of Time]]''. While Link and Zelda ''do'' have several romantic moments (and a good deal of the main females have the hots for [[ChickMagnet Link]]), the ending causes what {{Fanon}} believes to be the beginning of the split in the series' timeline, possibly negating said romance. That, and Link and Malon are very close from the get-go (much like Saria, who ends up as the [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]]). Keep in mind that this OTP still ''ties'' with the standard Link/Zelda pairing in ''Ocarina''. You know what? Just see [[TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome here]]. *** [[TheChosenOne Link]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Midna]] - In ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]''. Link had little meaningful interaction with Zelda this time around, with BigBadassWolf Link instead being partnered up with Midna. Over time, it becomes more and more clear that Midna is accompanying Link for reasons ''other'' than the fact that he can help her fulfill her goals. Her final words before her ButNowIMustGo TearJerker only serves to reinforce my support of this pairing. ** ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' *** [[AerithAndBob Joey]] ([[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jonouchi]])/[[CoolBigSis Mai]] - LittleKuriboh [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} said it best]]: This is the closest thing the show has to a normal relationship. You can tell that they care about each other. Three words: Waking. The. Dragons. Need I say more? Fine. She was [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by a ''[[DesignatedVictim colossal]]'' {{Face Heel|Turn}} MindScrew and he ''still'' went after her. I blame RelationshipWritingFumble. JustFriends, my ass. ** [[CrossoverShipping Cross-Media]]

*** [[DevilMayCry Dante]]/[[{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]] [[TroperTales/CrossoverShip To quote myself]]: "Dante, CharacterDevelopment or no, said that he liked a fast woman. And Morrigan, CharacterDevelopment or no, [[HornyDevils is about as fast as they get.]] The moment these two appeared together in ''[[{{ptitle2dt8gjfc}} Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', [[{{Squee}} I died a bit on the inside]]. *** [[DevilMayCry Dante]]/{{Bayonetta}} - Stylish CrazyAwesome {{badass}}es who [[DistaffCounterpart are very similar in demeanor]] and (with the sum total of their adventures} have hunted ''both'' sides of the celestial chain. BattleCouple? Yeah, I think so. * Tropers/{{Xacebans}} ** {{Bleach}}- Renji/Rukia ** {{Dragon Ball}}- Bulma/Vegeta and Trunks/Goten. ** {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}- May/Alphonse, Ling/Lanfan, Ed/Winry ** {{Harry Potter}}- Ron/Hermione ** {{InuYasha}}- Sesshomaru/Kagura ** {{Ranma One Half}}- Ranma/Akane ** {{Rurouni Kenshin}}- Sanosuke/Megumi ** {{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}}- Kamina/Yoko, Simon/Nia!'''Y''' * Tropers/{{xVanitas}} ** {{Code Geass}} - Lelouch / Shirley, Suzaku / Euphemia, Jeremiah / Sayoko. ** {{Kingdom Hearts}} - Sora / Kairi, Roxas / Namine, Terra / Aqua. ** {{iCarly}} - Sam / Freddie. ** {{Wizards Of Waverly Place}} - Alex / Justin. ** {{Futurama}} - Fry / Leela. ** {{The World Ends With You}} - Neku / Shiki. ** {{Sonic The Hedgehog}} - Sonic / Amy, Shadow / Rouge. !'''Z''' * Tropers/{{ZeldaTheSwordsman}}: ** {{Sonic the Hedgehog}} *** Sonic and Amy. I have chosen to handle this as them dating for now, and then marrying when they're both adults. *** Knuckles and Rouge. The way they talk about each other, their reactions when accused of having romantic feelings for each other classic signs. *** Shadow and Maria. This requires a {{back from the dead}}, but what the hey. And having Maria back eases Shadow's heartache in my fics. ** {{Lupin III}} *** Lupin and Clarice from Castle of Cagliostro. After somebody finally turns over a new leaf as he decides he wants to settle down. And yes, having him get married is possible. After all, he is Arsene Lupin the ''Third'', meaning that both his grandfather and his father were capable of putting their careers as master theives aside in favour of stable relationships. ** {{Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha}} *** Nanoha and Fate. They really, truly work as a couple. They're honestly

* @/ZeniTheWonder ** {{Pokemon}}: N/Hilda: I love these two together! The player character (girl in my case) and N just have so much chemistry throughout the story, and the fan art is adorable. ** {{Mother 3}}: Lucas/Nana: They're both "outcasts" in one way or another, they can be shipped without adding a RomanticPlotTumor to the family-centric plot, and they're just too adorable. (Nana is the NPC, by the way, [[NamesTheSame not the Ice Climber girl]]) ** AxisPowersHetalia: Austria/Hungary: I like too many APH pairings to name, but this one is my favorite. Admittedly, it's mainly the fan art. * Tropers/{{ZetsUboa}} - WARNING! What you are about to see may shock and disturb you...or at least get in the way of your OTP. ** ''{{Axis Powers Hetalia}}''- It was rather hard to decide, but I say England/America. Also Russia/Lithuania. Yes, [=RoChu=] and [=LithPol=] are fan preferred, but I really like the Mind Game Shipness of this pairing. Also, because of the strip where Liet falls asleep on Russia's shoulder...it was just so [[{{Squee}} cute!]] ** ''{{Azumanga Daioh}}''- Sakaki/Kaorin. ** ''{{Bleach}}''- [[{{Hot Blooded}} Renji]]/[[{{Tsundere}} Rukia]], followed by [[{{The Smart Guy}} Ishida]]/[[{{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}} Orihime]]. All right, FINE, I like [[{{The Hero}} Ichigo]]/[[{{Moe Moe}} Orihime]] too. Are you happy now? Oh, also Ikkaku/Yumichika, Unohana/Isane, and Izuru/Momo. ** ''{{Clone High}}''- Joan/Abe ** ''{{Fruits Basket}}'' - Tohru/Yuki. Umm. Yeah. ** ''{{Fullmetal Alchemist}}''- Ling x Lanfan/Lan Fan/Ranfan/Tamtam/Whatever her name is supposed to be. Also Edwin (duh). ** ''{{Gorillaz}}''- 2D/Noodle. Please stop looking at me like that. ** ''{{Hellsing}}''- Pip/Seras, although I am very fond of Alucard/Seras. Also, Rip van/Jan. ** ''{{Higurashi no Naku Koro ni}}''- Keiichi/Rena. I'm also partial to K1/Mion, K1/Satoko, K1/Rika, K1/everyone, and Tomitakano. ** ''{{Kim Possible}}''- Drakken/Shego. ** ''{{Metal Gear}}''- Solid Snake/Otacon. ** ''{{Mirai Nikki}}''- Yuno/Yukiteru, as well as Hinata/Mao and Minene/Nishijima. And Akise/Tsubaki. What? It's not crack, haven't you read Paradox?! Oh, and Akise/Yukiteru, [[{{Yaoi Fangirl}} of course~]] ** ''{{Naruto}}'' - Naruto/Sakura. IMO, these two have a lot in common, know each other better, and just have a well written relationship. Also, Kakuzu/Hidan, Shikamaru/Ino, Pain/Konan, and [[{{Screw Yourself}} 2nd Animal (Female) Pain/Human (Long-haired) Pain]]. ** ''{{Psychonauts}}''- Sasha/Milla. Because I said so. ** ''{{One Piece}}''- Franky/Robin. ** ''{{Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei}}''- Nozomu/Kafuka. ** ''{{School Rumble}}''- Yakumo/Harima ** ''{{Soul Eater}}''- Soul/Maka. Oh, and Eruka/Free. Can't decide between Medusa/Stein or Marie/Stein, tho. ** ''{{Suzumiya Haruhi}}''- Kyon/Haruhi. Also, TANIGUCHI/TSURUYA WILL

RULE THE WORLD. Oh, and I'm fond of [[{{Pair the Spares}} Itsuki/Mikuru]] and Kimidori/Kunikida, as well as [[{{Foe Yay}} Asakura/Yuki]]. Then again, I also support Yuki/Kyon, Itsuki/Kyon, Asakura/Taniguchi and Itsuki/Yuki, so yeah. ** ''{{Teen Titans}}''- Beast Boy/Terra. ** ''{{That Guy With the Glasses}}''- Nostalgia Critic/Nostalgia Chick. Obviously, as you can see from the above, I don't pay attention to [[{{Ship Sinking}} sinkings]]. * ziraulo ** "{{Axis Powers Hetalia}}" - HRE/Germany x Italy, America x England are the most common ones for me. GerIta is one of the things that can get me out of a funk easily with all the sugary goodness, while Ameringland gives me the excitement that can only be gained by UST. ** "{{Detective Conan}}" - So many on this one, but the ones I really go squee about are Shinichi x Ran, Heiji x Kazuha, Eri x Kogoro and Sato x Takagi. Especially ShinRan. The Desperate Revival Arc and the London Arc = <3 ** "{{Fire Emblem}}" - Mostly Eliwood x Ninian. I cried so much when she died and poor Eli didn't know that she was the dragon... * Tropers/{{Zylo}} ** Doom: Doomguy/BFG ** Jak and Daxter: Jak/Keira, Dark Jak/Light Jak, Torn/Jak ** Kingdom Hearts: Zexion/Demyx, Zexion/Axel, Zexion/One of his clones, Sora/Kairi ** Lucky Star: Patty/Hiyori, Konata/Kagami ** Pokemon: Archie/Maxie, Cyrus/Saturn, Wes/Rui, Gold/Silver ** Sailor Moon: Jadeite/Zoicite, Kunzite/Zoicite, Ail/Fiore ** Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic/Sally, Sonic/Amy, Sonic/Shadow, Miles/Mina, Antoine/Bunnie, Knuckles/Julie-su, Locke/Lara-le, Ash/Mina, Fleetway Evil!Super Sonic/Any Sonic or Super Sonic from the other parts of the franchise ** Spyro the Dragon: Hunter/Bianca, Spyro/Elora, Original!Spyro/TLOS!Spyro - Original meaning from Spyro the Dragon to Enter the Dragonfly. ** TGWTG.com: Critic/Linkara ** Yu-Gi-Oh: Ryou/Bakura, Ryou/Miho, "Season Zero" counterparts/Duel Monsters counterparts * @/{{Zyxzy}} ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Rei/Shinji My favorite characters, my favorite ship. ** ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'': Princess November/Red ** TheBigO: Roger/Dorothy ** ''MiraiNikki'': Yuno/Yukiteru ** ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Mami/Madoka Oh the admiration, that YouAreNotAlone speech...so romantic! ** ''Persona3Portable'': Aigis/[=FeMC=] ----

OneTrueThreesome Tropers' favorite threesome ships. No [[ShipToShipCombat flaming]], ''please''. For this trope minus one, see [[TroperTales/OneTruePairing Troper Tales/One True Pairing]]. ---'''Please add all entries in alphabetical order by troper alias.''' * the Tropers/AceOfScarabs: ** {{Touhou}}: Marisa/Alice/Patchouli - they can share their book collections too! * Tropers/AckSed ** ''{{Empowered}}'': Thugboy/Empowered/Ninjette. Just realise it already! ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Nodoka/Negi/Yue, as mentioned below. Hey, Nodoka suggested it first - I'll be happy to support her! * Tropers/AcrossTheStars ** ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Kirk/Spock/[=McCoy=] ** ''[[Film/StarTrek Star Trek 2009]]'': Pike/Kirk/[=McCoy=] ** ''StarTrekEnterprise'': Archer/Tucker/Reed ** ''BostonLegal'': Alan/Shirley/Denny * Tropers/{{Aerodactylus}} ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Suki/Sokka/Toph ** ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Percy/Annabeth/Nico ** ''KingdomHearts'': Roxas/Axel/Demyx * Tropers/AliceHartless(I..er..do this a lot.) ** {{Touhou}}: *** Cirno/Flandre/Utsuho/Nue *** Sakuya/Captain Minamitsu Murasa/Yuugi/Hong Meiling ** {{Pokemon}}: *** Touya/N/Touko *** Touya/N/Cheren *** Bell/Touko/Caitlin *** Touya/N/Giima *** Touya/Bell/Cheren ** {{Persona4}}: *** Souji/Yosuke/Naoto *** Souji/Yosuke/Chie *** Chie/Yukiko/Naoto/Rise *** Souji/Yosuke/Naoki *** Souji/Nanako/Ryoutarou *** Kanji/Rise/Teddie *** Souji/Yosuke/Adachi *** Souji/Shadow!Yosuke/Yosuke ** {{Persona3}}: *** Minato/Aigis/Elizabeth/Mitsuru *** Shinji/Akihiko/Ken,

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Minato/Ryoji/Aigis {{Yume Nikki}}: Madotsuki/Uboa/Masada Madotsuki/Shitai/Masada {{Black Lagoon}}: Revy/Balalaika/Rock Revy/Dutch/Rock Revy/Roberta/Eda Hansel/Gretel/Garcia {{Blaz Blue}}: Jin/Hazama/Ragna Hazama/Jin/Ragna Hakumen/Arakune/Ragna Jin/Hakumen/Ragna Jin/Hazama/Rachel Jin/Arakune/Carl Makoto/Carl/Litchi/Noel/Tsubaki Bang/Litchi/Hakumen Jin/Iron Tager/Kokonoe Relius/Jin/Hazama {{The World Ends With You}}: Joshua/Sho/Neku Neku/Beat/Rhyme Konishi/Sho/Neku Konishi/Uzuki/Shiki Joshua/Kitaniji/Sho/Neku {{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}}: Keiichi/Rena/Mion Keiichi/Satoshi/Satoko Takano/Keiichi/Irie {{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}: Kaworu/Asuka/Shinji Gendo/Rei/Shinji Kaji/Asuka/Shinji {{Kingdom Hearts}} Axel/Larxene/Roxas Axel/Zexion/Roxas Axel/Roxas/Xion {{No More Heroes}} Travis/Sylvia/Shinobu Henry/Travis/Shinobu Henry/Travis/Jeane/Shinobu {{Castlevania}}: Alucard/Soma/Mina {{Final Fantasy XIII}}: Snow/Hope/Serah {{Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei}} Nozomu/Chiri/Kiri Nozomu/Chiri/Harumi Nozomu/Mikoto/Majiru Chiri/Harumi/Jun Chiri/Harumi/Meru

*** Chiri/Abiru/Maria ** {{Death Note}} *** Light/Takada/Misa *** Light/Mikami/Takada/Misa *** Light/Mello/Matt ** {{K ON}} *** Ritsu/Yui/Mugi ** {{Resident Evil}} *** Chris/Leon/Wesker/Jill ** {{Lucky Star}} *** Akira/Kagami/Minoru ** {{Final Fantasy VIII}} *** Squall/Quistis/Rinoa ** {{Final Fantasy VII}} *** Cloud/Tifa/Rufus/Reno ** {{Disgaea}} *** Mao/Adell/Laharl *** Rozalin/Etna/Sapphire *** Mao/Almaz/Axel/Adell ** {{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}} *** Kamina/Yoko/Viral/Simon ** {{Suikoden V}} *** Frey/Roy/Richard/Shigure ** {{Code Geass}} *** Lelouch/Suzaku/C.C./Kallen **** do they take turns on eachother or what? **** OP here:Yes. Ahem. *** Cornelia/Nina/Euphemia * {{Tropers/Allronix}} ** {{Tron}}: Flynn/Lora/Alan (Flynn would likely be up for it. Lora's geeky enough to probably be a CovertPervert. Alan's the hard part...) ** KnightsOfTheOldRepublic: I saw a very smutty, very nice piece of Atton/Exile/Mical FanArt called "Why Fight When You Can Share?" Also beta-read a Carth/Canderous/F!Revan...IllBeInMyBunk. ** DCNation: Actually helped with writing a Raven/Beast Boy/Fauna (Fauna is an OriginalCharacter for Nation-verse) scene... the bloke playing Beast Boy was ''delighted.'' * Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} ** AxisPowersHetalia: Japan/America/England, though I will admit that America is my [[LauncherOfAThousandShips bicycle]]. ** UminekoNoNakuKoroNi: [[KissingCousins Jessica/Battler]]/Kanon. ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: [=OT8=] (Rena/Mion/Satoko/Keiichi/Rika/Hanyuu/Satoshi/Shion). For extra lulz, I throw in Chie, Irie, Tomitake, Takano, Akasaka, Ooishi, Kumagai, Okonogi, and Kasai. ** SuzumiyaHaruhi: SOS Brigade [=OT5=] (Haruhi/Mikuru/Kyon/Itsuki/Yuki). [[ThoseTwoGuys Taniguchi, Kunikida]], and Tsuruya-san can come, too! =D ** BattleRoyale: Noriko/Shuya/Kawada, Mimura/Shuya/Sugimura... I also ship the [=OT42=] for the lulz.

* {{Bleach}} - Rukia/Ichigo/Orihime/Renji/Chad/Ishida. * Anonymice: ** Victoria/Victor/Emily (CorpseBride) * Tropers/{{Arnoldmcguire335}}: ** ICarly: Carly/Sam/Freddie. ** MacrossFrontier: Alto/Ranka/Sheryl. ** TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager: Amy/Ricky/Ashley. ** {{Victorious}}: Tori/Cat/Trina. Yeah, I had to go LesYay on it. XD *** Or Tori/Cat/Beck. NO JADE FOR THIS SHIP! * Charlie Brown: ** {{Mahou Sensei Negima}}: Nodoka/Negi/Yue ** {{Final Fantasy VII}}: Tifa/Cloud/Aeris (please don't change the "s") ** {{Megatokyo}}: (Pre-MT) Piro/(MT) Miho/(FMPCW) Kimiko * Tropers/{{Belle-Mage}} ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Riku/Kairi, Terra/Ven/Aqua, Xion/Roxas/Axel, Xion/Sora/Roxas (Possibly the ultimate in ScrewYourself) ** {{Final Fantasy VII}}: Tifa/Cloud/Aerith, Zack/Cloud/Sephiroth ** TeamFortress2: Sniper/Medic/Spy ** TheWorldEndsWithYou: Joshua/Neku/[[AlternateUniverse AD!Joshua]] ** {{Pokemon}}: Gary/Ash/Ritchie, Misty/Ash/Gary ** {{Hellsing}}: Integra/Alucard/Seras ** {{House}}: Cuddy/House/Wilson ** TheLegendofZelda: Zelda/Link/Midna ** FruitsBasket: Kyo/Tohru/Yuki ** TengenToppaGurrenLagann: Simon/Kamina/Yoko, Simon/Kamina/Kittan (Note: Does not matter if Simon is [[{{Badass}} Post-]] or [[CuteShotaroBoy Pre-]] TimeSkip) ** SuperSmashBros: Lucas/Ness/Pokemon Trainer, Pit/Ike/Marth * {{Tropers/Blossom Morphine}} ** Series/DoctorWho: Amy/Rory/Eleven, with Amy in charge. ** StarTrekTheNextGeneration: Worf/Troi/Riker, with Troi being in charge[[SecretOrganizationCravingIntelligentEnigmaticTropersYonder]]. * Tropers/{{BrightBlueInk}}: ** ChronoCrusade: Aion/Chrono/Mary and Fiore/Joshua/Shader. ** {{Pretear}}: Hayate/Himeno/Sasame * Tropers/{{ChungXing}} ** TeenTitans: Rose/Eddie/Megan * Tropers/{{Clopine}} ** ToyStory: Woody/Bo/Jessie/Buzz. All the HoYay, none of the ShippingWars! * Tropers/{{coyotesoul}} ** RealLife: AndrewGarfield /CareyMulligan /JesseEisenberg.

** {{Torchwood}}: Jack/Ianto/John Hart * Tropers/{{DarkInsanity13}} ** AxisPowersHetalia: Prussia/Canada/Ukraine. I think it's cracky enough to work, plus I don't have to choose between my two favourite pairings. * Tropers/{{Dipindott}} ** ''BigTimeRush'': [[HoYay James/Log]][[JustFriends an/Camille.]] They all have plenty of ShipTease and it consists of my three favorite pairings, so why not? ** ''SonnyWithAChance'': [[FoeYay Chad/Sonny/Tawni.]] * Tropers/{{Dragonicia}} ** ''{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard/Integra/Walter for maximum hotness ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Naruto/Hinata/Gaara. [[ShipTease Shipteasing]] between Naruto/Hinata and Naruto/Gaara plus complimentary personalities equals a stable relationship~ * Tropers/{{Duneflower}} ** {{Bleach}} *** Ichigo/Rukia/Orihime '''or''' *** Ichigo/Orihime/Neriel *** Rangiku/Toushiro/Gin (assuming he ever gets over the whole "villain" thing) *** '''Anime Only:''' Uuryuu/Nemu/Yoshino (yes, I know she's dead. don't care) *** Kyouraku/Lisa/Nanao (no-brainer, and he's totally mack enough) *** Yoruichi/Soi Fong/Kuukaku and optionally Kisuke for an OT4 *** '''For the Lulz!''' Orihime/Chizuru/Tatsuki *** Toushiro/Karin/Rangiku would be all kinds of fun, but not gonna happen *** Harribel/Mila-rose/Neriel if the Ichigo thing doesn't work out ;) ** LoveHina *** Keitaro/Naru/Mutsumi (duh) *** Motoko/Suu/Kanako * Tropers/{{Eaver}}: ** BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy/Spike/Angel ** FullmetalAlchemist Ed/Ling/Lanfan * Elihu ** DCU: Tim/Cass/Steph. *** I would do horrible, degrading things for this to be canon. Despicable, irredeemable, unspeakable things. * Tropers/{{ElvenBookwyrm}} ** {{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}: Anya/Xander/Spike, with a side of Bangel... and W/T and Giles/Ethan. It's the only way everything makes sense! (And they can all have orgies...) ** {{Sherlock Holmes}}: Holmes/Mary/Watson. ** {{Harry Potter}}: Harry/Ginny/Draco.

** [=~Ferris Bueller's Day Off~=]: Cameron/Ferris/Sloane. Don't tell me you can't see it. * Tropers/{{Emasaur}} ** {{Pokemon}}: ** ''Manga:'' Red/Blue/Green, Red/Blue/Yellow, Red/Blue/Yellow/Green, Green/Blue/Crystal, Gold/Crystal/Eusine Gold/Silver/Crystal, Diamond/Pearl/Platinum ** ''Games:'' Brendan/May/Steven, Barry/Dawn/Lucas, Cynthia/Dawn/Barry, Lyra/Ethan/Silver. Proton/Lyra/Petrel ** ''Anime:'' Misty/May/Dawn, Ash/Misty/May/Dawn, Ash/Gary/Misty, *** I should just stop; I ship ''everyone'' in Pokemon. ** {{Fairy Tale}}: Natsu/Lucy/Gray/Erza (and any variations of the four, really), Gray/Lucy/Juvia ** {{Stardust Wink}}: Sou/Anna/Hinata ** {{Haruhi Suzumiya}}: Haruhi/Kyon/Yuki/Mikuru/Itsuki (and, again, any variations of the group.) ** {{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}}: Simon/Yoko/Kamina, Simon/Nia/Yoko * Tropers/{{emeriin}}: ** ThatGuyWithTheGlasses: Nostalgia Chick/Nostalgia Critic/Ask That Guy and MarzGurl/Linkara/Dr. Insano. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! * pouts* ** {{House}}: Cuddy/House/Wilson. *** Oh GOD, yes. ** {{Supernatural}}: Sam/Dean/Ruby. * Tropers/EvilMidnightLurker: ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Sokka/Suki/Toph, with a side order of Ty Lee and Yue. Zuko/Mai/Jin. ** RanmaOneHalf: Ranma/Akane/Ukyou. ** FullmetalAlchemist: Ed/Winry/Rose. ** InspectorGadget: Penny/Brain/Atsuko. Don't judge me! ** RevolutionaryGirlUtena: Utena/Anthy/Wakaba. ** MahouSenseiNegima: Negi/Nodoka/Yue/Asuna/Setsuna/Konoka/Chisame/Ku/Evangeline/Chachamaru/ Anya/etc... ** {{Pathfinder}}: Valeros/Seoni/Merisiel/Kyra. ** SuperDimensionFortressMacross: Hikaru/Misa/Minmay. ** MacrossFrontier: Alto/Ranka/Sheryl, which has the advantage of being practically canon. :) ** UltimateSpiderMan: Peter/MJ/Gwen/Kitty. ** TheDresdenFiles: Harry/Elaine/Molly. ** {{Tarzan}}: Tarzan/Jane/La. ** FinalFantasyX / X-2: Tidus/Yuna/Rikku. ** Peanuts: Charlie Brown/Peppermint Patty/Marcie. ** ArchieComics: Archie/Betty/Veronica. ** {{Superboy}}: The Kid/Roxy/Tana. (I'm ''old'' school. :) ) ** CardcaptorSakura: Sakura/Tomoyo/Syaoran ** {{Narbonic}}: Dave/Helen/Lovelace. ** ChronoTrigger: Crono/Lucca/Marle. ** ChronoCross: Serge/Kid/both Leenas.

** HaruhiSuzumiya: Kyon/Haruhi/Yuki/Mikuru. ** FinalFantasyVII: Aeris/Yuffie/Nanaki. ** UruseiYatsura: Ataru/Shinobu/Lum. ** HarryPotter: Harry/Ginny/Luna. ** PeterPanAndThePirates: Peter/Wendy/The Girl who Lives in the Moon. ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty/May/Dawn. ** TenchiMuyo: Tenchi/Aeka/Ryoko/Mihoshi/Washuu/Sasami. You know, the usual. ** SailorMoon: Usagi/Mamoru/Rei; Ami/Makoto/Ryo. ** DirtyPair: Kei/Yuri/Mughi. ** NeonGenesisEvangelion: Shinji/Asuka/Rei. {{Tropers/Feinoha}} * KoreWaZombieDesuKa: ** [[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} Seraphim]]/[[{{MagicalGirl}} Haruna]]/[[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} Maelstrom]] ** [[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} Seraphim]]/[[{{EmotionlessGirl}} Eucli]][[{{CuteMute}} wood]] [[{{Necromancer}} Hellscythe]]/[[{{RuleSixtyThree}} Female]] [[{{TheUndead}} Ayumu Aikawa]] (With Eucliwood being the "top") ** Seraphim/Maelstrom/Sarasvati * Frisko ** CardcaptorSakura: *** Tomoyo/Sakura/Syaoran/Meiling *** Mirror/Touya/Yukito ** DeathNote: Light/L/Misa (but only when Light doesn't have his memories) ** Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor/Amy/Rory ** {{Fractale}}: Nessa/Clain/Phryne ** HaruhiSuzumiya: *** Yuki/Kyon/Ryoko *** Literature Club Members/SOS Brigade Members/Calligraphy Club Members ** HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi: *** Satoko/Rika/Hanyuu *** Shion/Mion/Keiichi *** Mion/Keiichi/Rena *** Satoko/Shion/Satoshi *** Takano/Rena/Tomitake *** Hanyuu/Rika/Satoko/Rena/Mion/Shion/Satoshi/Keiichi/Natsumi/Akira ** KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl: Tomari/Hazumu/Yasuna ** K-on!: Ui/Yui/Azu-nyan/Mio/Ritsu/Mugi ** MagicKnightRayearth: Lantis/Hikaru/Eagle ** MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: *** Fate/Nanoha/Yunno *** Fate/Nanoha/Hayate *** Hayate/Signum/Reinforce/Rein/Vita/Shamal/Zafira/Agito *** Touma/Isis/Lily *** Ginga/Nove/Wendi *** Lutecia/Caro/Erio ** MahouSenseiNegima: Nodoka/Negi/Yue

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UminekoNoNakuKoroNi: Battler/Mammon/Ange/Amakusa Maria/Battler/Beato George/Shakanon/Jessica (assuming Shannon and Kanon are in fact person) Rosa/Battler/Maria SailorMoon: Seiya/Usagi/Rei/Mamoru TheWorldEndsWithYou: Joshua/Neku/Shiki/Eri ThisUglyYetBeautifulWorld: Hikari/Takeru/Mari & Akari/Ryo/Kimi (with a six way on weekends). Kuon/Jennifer/Neo

* Tropers/{{Heleentje}} ** {{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}: Yubel/Judai/Johan * Tropers/{{Gaston1991}} ** AhMyGoddess: Belldandy/Keichi/Urd/Skuld (allright this is a foursome) ** ElHazard: Alielle/Fatora/TV Ifurita, OVA Ifurita/Makoto/TV Ifurita ** HarryPotter: Hermione/Harry/Luna ** Inuyasha: Kagura/Kikyo/Kohaku/Kanna/Sango/Rin (yes, a harem for Kohaku) ** PrettySammy: Misao Amano/Rumiya/Pixy Misa/Ramia ** Rosario+Vampire: Moka/Tsukune/Yukari ** TenchiMuyo: Aeka/Tenchi/Sasami and Mihoshi/Tenchi/Washu * Tropers/GirlInGlasses: ** {{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}}: Angel/Buffy/Spike, Angelus/evil!Spike/Drusilla ** {{Daria}}: Daria/Jane/Tom, [[CrackPairing Ms Gall/Mr. O'Neil/Mrs. Li]] (Okay, yes, I have problems.) ** {{Skins}}: Tony/Sid/Michelle, Maxxie/Tony/Michelle, and Cook/Freddie/Effy. ** {{Hamlet}}: Hamlet/Horatio/Ophelia ** {{StarTrek2009}}: Kirk/Spock/Uhura or Kirk/Spock/[=McCoy=] ** {{StarTrekTheOriginalSeries}}: Sulu/Chekhov/Uhura, or Kirk/Spock/[=McCoy=] ** RevengeOfTheSith: Anakin/Obi-Wan/Padme ** {{Watchmen}}: Rorshach/Dan/Laurie * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} HG131]]: ** BuffyTheVampireSlayer and {{Angel}} *** Willow/Tara/Buffy *** Willow/Buffy/Dawn *** Buffy/Dawn/Faith *** Willow/Faith/Buffy *** Willow/Faith/Dawn *** Willow/Tara/Buffy *** Willow/Tara/Dawn *** Willow/Tara/Dawn/Buffy *** Willow/Tara/Buffy/Dawn/Faith *** Willow/Fred/Buffy

*** Willow/Fred/Dawn *** Willow/Fred/Dawn/Buffy *** Willow/Fred/Faith *** Willow/Fred/Buffy/Dawn/Faith *** Buffy/Dawn/Joyce *** Buffy/Dawn/Willow/Faith *** Fred/Willow/Tara ** Series/DoctorWho *** 9th Doctor/Jack/Rose *** 10th Doctor/Jack/Rose *** Jack/9th Doctor/Rose/Ianto *** Jack/10th Doctor/Rose/Ianto * Tropers/{{Iambic}} ** {{Discworld}}: William/Sacharissa/Otto (I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE THAT SEES IT!) ** TheRoadToElDorado: Miguel/Tulio/Chel ** [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]: Titania/Oberon/Puck, Hamlet/Rosencrantz/Guildenstern (Horatio can come too, natch), Mercutio/Benvolio/Romeo, and I'm ''sure'' I have more that I'm not thinking of right now. * Tropers/{{Icarael}} ** To [[Tropers/{{Icarael}} me]], this is the best solution to the problems DieForOurShip and ShipToShipCombat cause. ** AxisPowersHetalia: Denmark/Norway/Iceland, Prussia/Austria/Hungary ([[YaoiFangirl Hungary would be very happy with this arrangement.]]) ** BlazBlue: Jin/Tsubaki/Hakumen ** DGrayMan: Lavi/Kanda/Allen/Lenalee (Okay, so it's an [=OT4=], but whatever!) ** FateStayNight: Shiro/Saber/Rin ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Riku/Kairi ** MagicTheGathering: Jin-Gitaxias/Elesh Norn/Sheoldred (Yes, that's a CrackPairing.) ** StarDriver: Wako/Sugata/Takuto ([[YaoiFangirl Wako would approve.]]) * Tropers/{{Iku Masamune}} ** [[{{Baccano}} Ennis]] + [[{{One Piece}} Trafalgar Law]] + [[{{Eureka Seven}} Holland]] = CrackFic device? * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine Kamui Valentine]] ** AxisPowersHetalia: Germany/Italy/Japan, Belarus/Ukraine/Hungary, Denmark/Prussia/America ** KingdomHearts: Riku/Sora/Kairi, Xigbar/Axel/Demyx, Kairi/Namina/Xion (this has to be somewhere out there!) ** FinalFantasyVII: Sephiroth/Angeal/Genesis, Tseng/Rufus/Reno * Tropers/KoopaCooper ** Did someone say OT3? I freely ship many OT3's, even contradicting each other. Mmm...get ready for a pretty long list... (warning: list contains large quantities of slash and femmeslash, and liberal

quantities of incest) ** Series/DoctorWho *** Ian/Barbara/Susan *** Ian/Barbara/Vicki *** Vicki/Steven/Dodo *** Ben/Polly/Dodo *** Jamie/Victoria/Zoe *** 4th Doctor/Romana/Romana 2 *** 4th Doctor/Romana 2/Nyssa *** 5th Doctor/Nyssa/Tegan *** Nyssa/Tegan/Peri *** 6th Doctor/Peri/Mel *** Peri/Mel/Ace *** Zoe/Jo/Nyssa ** Torchwood *** Gwen/Toshiko/Rhys *** Gwen/Toshiko/Captain Jack *** Gwen/Toshiko/The Pteradactyl ** HarryPotter *** Hermione/Ginny/Luna *** Harry/Hermione/Ginny *** Harry/Ginny/Luna *** Harry/Hermione/Luna *** Hermione/Padma/Parvati *** Ron/Hermione/Ginny *** Hermione/Ginny/Draco ** PowerpuffGirls *** (Any 3 from) Blossom/Bubbles/Buttercup/Robyn ** BuffyTheVampireSlayer *** Buffy/Dawn/Willow *** Buffy/Willow/Tara *** Willow/Tara/Dawn *** Buffy/Faith/Dawn *** Buffy/Willow/Kennedy *** Willow/Kennedy/Dawn *** Buffy/Dawn/Buffybot *** Buffy/Willow/Buffybot *** Willow/Tara/Buffybot ** PeterPan *** Wendy/Tiger Lily/Tinker Bell ** TheSimpsons *** Bart/Lisa/Grown!Maggie *** Bart/Sherri/Terri *** Lisa/Sherri/Terri *** Lisa/Allison/Alex *** Bart/Lisa/Allison *** Bart/Lisa/Alex *** Bart/Lisa/Jessica *** Lisa/Jessica/Allison *** Lisa/Jessica/Greta *** Lisa/Greta/Allison *** Lisa/Greta/Alex

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Bart/Lisa/Young!Marge Futurama Fry/Amy/Leela TheChroniclesOfNarnia Peter/Susan/Lucy Aslan/Susan/Lucy Zoey101 Zoey/Nicole/Quinn Zoey/Chase/Nicole Zoey/Lola/Quinn Zoey/Lola/Chase Zoey/Nicole/Dustin 7thHeaven Lucy/Simon/Ruthie FullHouse DJ/Steph/Michelle Cross-fandom PeterPan + Fox's PeterPanAndThePirates Wendy/Wendy/Tiger Lily (either one)! Tiger Lily/Tiger Lily/Wendy (either one)!

* krispykrayzee ** [[BeastWars Transformers: Beast Wars]]: Rattrap/Dinobot/Rhinox (type 7)/ Botanica/Rattrap/Dinobot (type 10) ** [[TeenTitans Teen Titans]]: Raven/Terra/Starfire (type 8), Raven/Starfire/Robin (type 4 or 7) ** [[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts]]: Riku/Sora/Kairi, Axel/Roxas/Xion (both type 4) ** [[TwilightPrincess The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]: Midna/Link/Zelda (type 7) ** {{House}}: House/Wilson/Cuddy (type 7), Wilson/House/Chase (type 10) ** {{Naruto}}: Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura (type 8), Sasuke/Ino/Sakura (type 9) * Tropers/LokiLaughs ** Doctor Who: *** Nine/Jack/Rose *** Simm!Master/Jack/Ten *** Rose/Ten/10.5 *** Ten/Master/10.5 *** Master/Ten/Master(Lets face it, the 2009 Christmas special left some of us with some interesting thoughts) *** Mickey/Rickey/Jack *** Mickey/Rickey/Ten *** Mickey/Rickey/Rose ** Torchwood *** Jack/Tosh/Ianto *** Jack/Ianto/Owen *** Jack/Ianto/John *** Gwen/Tosh/Owen *** Tosh/The butterfly alien thing/Owen *** Tosh/Tommy/Owen

** Numb3rs *** David/Colby/Ian Edgerton ** Stargate Atlantis *** Shepard/Weir/Major Lorne *** Shepard/Teyla/Major Lorne *** Ronan/[[strike:Kaylee]]Dr. Keller/Rodney *** Rodney/Carson/Ronan ** Buffy: The Vampire Slayer *** Xander/Spike/Graham *** Willow/Xander/Tara *** Willow/Xander/Faith *** Willow/Xander/Buffy *** Angel/Xander/Spike *** Dawn/Connor/Kit *** Dawn/Connor/Cassie * Tropers/{{Loracarol}} ** {{DCAU}): Shining Knight/Vixin/Vigilante [[hottop:*:No, I don't know where this came from. -_-;]] * Tropers/{{Mapi-chan}} ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Rika/Satoko/Hanyuu, Keiichi/Rena/Mion. ** ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': Haruhi/Mikuru/Yuki ** ''FateStayNight'': Shirou/Saber/Rin, Sakura/Ayako/Rider. ** ''HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate/Hinagiku/Ayumu, Wataru/Isumi/Saki. ** ''NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'': Yuuto/Haruka/Mika. Second place: Haruka/Nanami/Mika. ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Osaka/Kagura/Tomo. * Tropers/{{Mariko-chan}} ** KingdomHearts: Xigbar/Vexen/Zexion, Riku/Sora/Kairi * Tropers/MarleeCross: ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko/Katara/Jet, Zuko/Katara/Azula. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Ulquiorra/Orihime/Grimmjow, Ichigo/Rukia/Orihime. ** ''CodeGeass'': Lelouch/Shirley/Suzaku, Lelouch/Kallen/Shirley. ** ''DeathNote'': L/Light/Misa, Mello/Sayu/Near. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Hermione/Luna, Harry/Draco/Hermione. ** ''HouseMD'': House/Cuddy/Cameron. ** ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Tamaki/Haruhi/Kyouya. ** ''YuGiOh'': Seto/Anzu/Yami * Tropers/MiuMiuChuu ** {{CSINY}}: Aiden/Flack/Angell ** [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]: Hilde/Siegfried/Cassandra ** {{Tekken}}: Hwoarang/Jin/Xiaoyu/Asuka/Lili... Okay. It's an OT5. * Tropers/{{Mystery Otaku}}: ** {{Kuroshitsuji}}: Bard/Mey-Rin/Finni and Sebastian/Ciel/Elizabeth. ** {{Soul Eater}}: Liz/Kid/Patti ** {{Naruto}}: Sasuke/Sakura/Naruto, even to this day.

** {{One Piece}}: formerly, Tashigi/Zoro/Robin, though now I have drifted to Robin/Franky ** {{Tenchi Muyo}}: ....okay, okay, I am an avid shipper of Ryoko/Tenchi, but I ALWAYS wondered what it'd be like to throw Ayeka in the mix. ** {{Code Geass}}: Shirley/Lelouch/Suzaku ** Holly Lisle's Secret Texts: Jaim/Ry/Yanth. Because Kait would love it. ** Blood Royale (an epic hentai): The Captain and the princesses. It's just a tearjerker when the Captain [[spoiler: offers to be killed instead of selling them]]. * Tropers/{{Nausicaa}} ** Authors: Ezra Pound/TS Eliot/James Joyce * Tropers/{{Neep}} ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Konoka/Setsuna/Asuna, Negi/Nodoka/Yue. ** ''LyricalNanoha: Nanoha/Fate/Hayate, Schach/Sein/Carim. * Tropers/{{Orihime}} - GODDAMMIT, WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY!? ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Mai/Zuko/Aang, Katara/Aang/Zuko, Suki/Sokka/Toph, Mai/Ty Lee/Azula, Teo/Aang/Toph, Teo/Aang/Katara. ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'' (note that some are more based on history than the original manga/anime and others are ''pure'' crack): Hong Kong/Taiwan/South Korea, Vietnam/Taiwan/Hong Kong, Denmark/Sweden/Finland, Iceland/Norway/Denmark, Sweden/Finland/Estonia, America/Japan/England, Greece/Egypt/Turkey, England/Japan/Greece, Austria/Hungary/Prussia, Prussia/Austria/Switzerland, Switzerland/Austria/Hungary, Liechtenstein/Switzerland/Belgium, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Thailand, England/France/Canada, Canada/France/Seychelles, Belgium/Spain/Romano, Spain/France/Prussia, Ukraine/Russia/Belarus, America/South Korea/China, France/Seychelles/England, Taiwan/Vietnam/Thailand, America/England/China, Taiwan/America/South Korea, America/Russia/Belarus, Belarus/Lithuania/Poland, Poland/Hungary/Austria, Hungary/Poland/Lithuania, Greece/Japan/Netherlands, Spain/Belgium/Netherlands, England/America/Australia, America/South Korea/Australia, Portugal/England/America. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': Orihime/Ichigo/Chad, Rukia/Renji/Ishida, Renji/Ishida/Nemu, Rangiku/Hitsugaya/Momo, Ichigo/Orihime/Rangiku, Renji/Kira/Momo, Tatsuki/Orihime/Chizuru, Soifon/Yoruichi/Urahara, Rangiku/Shuihei/Kira, [[spoiler: Kensei]]/Shuihei/Kira, [[spoiler: Mashiro]]/[[spoiler: Kensei]]/Shuihei, Nanao/Shunsui/Ukitake, [[spoiler: Lisa]]/Nanao/Shunsui, Ichigo/Orihime/Tatsuki, Hyourinmaru/Tobiume/Haineko. ** ''CandyCandy'': The only was I can ship Candy/Terry is having them in a threesome with either Albert or Susanna. ** ''CaptainTsubasa'': Schneider/Wakabayashi/Kaltz, Kumi/Ishizaki/Yukari, Wakabayashi/Tsubasa/Sanae, Takeshi/Hyuga/Maki. ** ''CardCaptorSakura'': Tomoyo/Sakura/Shaoran, Nakuru/Touya/Yukito, Youko/Touya/Yukito, Kaho/Touya/Yukito.

** ''CodeGeass'': Suzaku/Lelouch/Shirley, C.C/Lelouch/Suzaku, Kallen/Lelouch/C.C, Milly/Shirley/Lelouch, Nina/Milly/Rivalz, Gino/Suzaku/Anya, Nina/Cecile/Lloyd, Rakshata/Lloyd/Cecile, [[spoiler: young!Charles]]/C.C/Marianne, Suzaku/Cecile/Lloyd. ** ''{{D Gray Man}}'': Allen/Lenalee/Miranda, Allen/Lenalee/Lavi, Lavi/Lenalee/Kanda. ** ''DetectiveConan'': Kazuha/Heiji/Shinichi/Ran, Shiratori/Sato/Takagi, Sato/Takagi/Yumi. ** ''DigimonAdventure'' ''and'' ''Digimon 02'': Taichi/Sora/Yamato, Miyako/Ken/Daisuke, Daisuke/Hikari/Miyako, Daisuke/Hikari/Takeru, Takeru/Catherine/Taichi, Sora/Mimi/Jyou, Mimi/Jyou/Koushiro, Mimi/Michael/Daisuke, Mimi/Miyako/Hikari. ** ''DigimonFrontier'': Kouichi/Kouji/Takuya, Takuya/Izumi/Junpei. ** ''DeathNote'': Ray/Naomi/L, L/Light/Misa, Misa/grown!Sayu/Matsuda, Near/Matt/Mello. ** ''FateStayNight'': Shiro/Saber/Rin, Sakura/Shiro/Rider. ** ''FireEmblem'': *** ''Seisen no Keifu'': Finn/Lachesis/Beowulf, Sylvia/Levin/Fury, Azel/Tiltyu/Lex; Yuria/Celice/Lana, Oifaye/Phee/Arthur, Patty/Shannan/Lakche, Shannan/Lakche/Johalva. *** ''Thracia 776''': Mareeta/Nanna/Leaf, Nanna/Leaf/Miranda, Glade/Selphina/Fin *** ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'': Roy/Lilina/Cecilia, Elphin/Lalam/Echidna, Lilina/Roy/Guinevere, Ray/Chad/Lugh. *** ''Rekka no Ken'': Eliwood/Lyn/Hector, Hector/Florina/Lyn, Sain/Priscilla/Erk, Priscilla/Erk/Serra, Lyn/Ninian/Eliwood, Raven/Lucius/Serra. *** ''Seima no Kouseki'': Innes/Eirika/Ephraim, Eirika/Ephraim/Tana, L'Arachel/Eirika/Ephraim, Innes/L'Arachel/Ephraim, Vanessa/Forde/Kyle, Kyle/Lute/Vanessa, Artur/Joshua/Natasha, Colm/Neimi/Amelia, Amelia/Ross/Ewan, Kyle/Syrene/Gilliam, Marisa/Gerik/Tethys, Innes/Gerik/Tethys. *** ''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn''': Micaiah/Sothe/Ike. ** ''FullMetalAlchemist'': May/Al/Ed/Winry, Winry/Ed/Roy, Ed/Roy/Riza, Scheska/Winry/Ed (first anime), Lan Fan/Ling/Greed, Noah/Ed/Alfons (TheMovie). ** ''FullMetalPanic'': Kurz/Sousuke/Kaname, Tessa/Mao/Kurz. ** ''FruitsBasket'': Kyo/Tohru/Yuki, Yuki/Haru/Rin, Tohru/Kyo/Kagura, Kyo/Tohru/Momiji, Saki/Tohru/Kyo, Saki/Arisa/[[spoiler: Kureno]]. ** ''GundamSEED'' ''and'' ''GundamSEEDDestiny'': Kira/Lacus/Athrun, Nicol/Athrun/Yzak, Fllaga/Murrue/Natarle, Shinn/Lunamaria/Rey, Cagalli/Athrun/Meyrin, [[spoiler: post-Neo!Fllaga]]/Murrue/Andy, Milly/Dearka/Yzak, Dearka/Yzak/Shiho. ** ''GundamWing'': Duo/Quatre/Trowa, Heero/Relena/Dorothy, Heero/Trowa/Quatre, Quatre/Heero/Relena, Heero/Relena/Hilde, Sally/Noin/Zechs. ** ''{{Gundam 00}}'': Setsuna/Saji/Louise, Setsuna/[[spoiler: Neil!]]Lockon/Tieria, Feldt/Setsuna/Marina, Marina/Shirin/Klaus, Graham/Billy/Sumeragi. ** ''HarryPotter'': Harry/Ron/Hermione, Ginny/Harry/Hermione, Harry/Ginny/Neville/Hannah, Ginny/Neville/Hannah, Harry/Ginny/Luna/[[spoiler: Rolf]], Fred/Angelina/George (before

[[spoiler: Fred bites it]], of course), Hannah/Neville/Luna/Rolf, Penelope/Percy/[[spoiler: Audrey]]. ** KaleidoStar: Ken/Sora/Layla, Ken/Sora/Rosetta, Andy/Sarah/Kalos, Yuri/Layla/Sora, May/Layla/Sora, May/Sora/Leon, Leon/Sora/[[spoiler: Yuri]]. ** ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'': Sebastian/Ciel/Elizabeth, Maylene/Sebastian/Ciel. ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Yuuno/Nanoha/Fate, Fate/Nanoha/Hayate/Vita, Lutecia/Caro/Erio. ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Konoka/Setsuna/Asuna, Yue/Negi/Nodoka, Negi/Konoka/Setsuna, Negi/Koutarou/Natsumi, Chizuru/Koutarou/Natsumi, Negi/Akira/Ako, Nodoka/Negi/[[spoiler: Shiori]], Asuna/Negi/[[spoiler: Shiori]], Eva/Negi/Chachamaru. ** ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' (anime): Yuuichi/Mai/Mikoto, Mai/Shizuru/Natsuki, Reito/Mai/Yuuichi, Mai/Akane/Kazuya, Mai/Midori/Youko. ** ''MarmaladeBoy'': Anju/Bill/Jinny, Yuu/Anju/Bill, Yuu/Anju/Miki, Akira/Ryoko/Namura/Meiko, Yuu/Miki/Kei (anime only), Yuu/Miki/Meiko, Satoshi/Yuu/Miki, Ginta/Arimi/Tsutomu/Yayoi. ** ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': Mikuru/Haruhi/Kyon, Haruhi/Kyon/Itsuki, Tsuruya/Mikuru/Kyon, Haruhi/Kyon/Sasaki, SOS-Dan [=OT5=] (Haruhi/Mikuru/Kyon/Yuki/Itsuki) ** ''{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke/Naruto/Sakura, Sakura/Naruto/Hinata, Naruto/Hinata/Kiba, Temari/Shikamaru/Ino/Chouji, Shikamaru/Ino/Chouji, Lee/Sakura/Naruto, Lee/Neji/Tenten, Sakura/Naruto/Sai, Naruto/Hinata/Neji. ** OnePiece: Nami/Sanji/Zoro, Sanji/Nami/Vivi, Zoro/Luffy/Nami. ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': May/Ash/Anabel, Tracey/Misty/Sakura-chan, May/Drew/Soledad, Brock/Ash/Misty ** ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Sakuno/Ryoma/Tomoka, Kintarou/Sakuno/Ryoma, Yanagi/Inui/Kaidoh, Kamio/An/Momo, Shinji/Kamio/Tachibana, Chitose/Tachibana/Kamio, Atobe/Tezuka/Fuji, Shishido/Atobe/Oshitari, Yanagi/Yukimura/Sanada, Inui/Yanagi/Kirihara, Shishido/Ohtori/Hiyoshi, Atobe/Sanada/Yukimura, Kaidoh/Momo/An, Eiji/Oishi/Tezuka, Eiji/Fuji/Tezuka, Fuji/Eiji/Oishi, Saeki/Fuji/Tezuka, Saeki/Aoi/Itsuki, Tezuka/Fuji/Kawamura, Oshitari/Shishido/Ohtori, Oshitari/Gakuto/Hiyoshi, Tezuka/Kite/Rin, Dan/Ryoma/Sakuno, Kevin/Ryoma/Sakuno, Stephanie/Billy/Kevin, Gin/Kawamura/Akutsu, Sengoku/Kamio/Shinji, Sengoku/Akutsu/Kawamura, Shiraishi/Chitose/Tachibana. ** ''SlamDunk'': Rukawa/Sakuragi/Haruko, Sakuragi/Haruko/Youhei, Ayako/Kogure/Mitsui, Miyagi/Ayako/Akagi, Katsumi/Mitsui/Kogure, Sakuragi/Youko/Oda, Hanagata/Fujima/Maki, Maki/Kiyota/Jin, Kiyota/Sakuragi/Rukawa, Okita/Ayako/Miyagi, Sendoh/Sakuragi/Rukawa. ** ''SoulEater'': Soul/Maka/Crona, Kid/Black Star/Tsubaki, Patti/Kid/Liz, Soul/Maka/Kid. ** ''TanteiGakuenQ'': Megu/Kyuu/Ryu, Megu/Kuniko/Yukihira, Kyuu/Ryu/Kuniko, Kinta/Kyuu/Ryu. ** ''TigerAndBunny'': Karina/Kotetsu/Barnaby. ** ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'': Jessica/Kanon/Shannon/George ([[spoiler: or better said: Jessica/Shakanon/George]], Beatrice/Battler/Ange, Ronove/Battler/Beatrice, Battler/Jessica/Kanon [[spoiler: again, Shakanon included]].

** ''XMenEvolution'': Scott/Lance/Kitty, Rogue/Scott/Jean, Lance/Kitty/Kurt, Kitty/Kurt/Amanda, Kurt/Scott/Jean, Tabitha/Kurt/Amanda. ** ''YamiNoMatsuei'': Hisoka/Tsuzuki/Tatsumi, Hisoka/Tsuzuki/Hijiri. ** ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'': Atem/Yugi/Anzu, Jounouchi/Yugi/Anzu, Anzu/Yugi/Kaiba, Mai/Jounouchi/Anzu, Honda/Shizuka/Otogi, Varon/Mai/Jounouchi, Mahaado/Atem/Mana. ** ''YuYuHakusho'': Kuwabara/Yusuke/Keiko, Kurama/Yusuke/Keiko, [[spoiler: Mukuro]]/Hiei/Kurama, Itsuki/Sensui/Hagiri. * Tropers/OverMaster?! ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': *** Negi/Chisame/Rakan. *** Yue/Nodoka/Haruna. *** Asuna/Setsuna/Konoka. ** ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': *** Itoshiki/Ai/Harumi. *** Kafuka/Chiri/Mayo. *** Nami/Jun/Abiru. ** ''{{Batman}}'': *** The Joker/Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy. ** ''HighschoolOfTheDead'': *** Hirano/Saya/Saeko. ** ''RebuildOfEvangelion'': *** Shinji/Asuka/Mari. ** ''ToLoveRu'': *** Rito/Yami/Yui. ** ''QueensBlade'': *** Melona/Airi/Menace. *** Leina/Elina/Nanael. ** ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': *** Kyon/Haruhi/Tsuruya. ** ''MaiHime'': *** Mai/Tate/Shiho. *** Haruka/Yukino/Mikoto. ** ''DarkwingDuck'': *** Liquidator/Bushroot/Quackerjack. ** ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'': *** Chip/Dale/Gadget. ** ''TheSlayers'': *** Amelia/Zelgadiss/Martina. *** Lina/Gourry/Naga. ** ''KamenNoMaidGuy'': *** Naeka/Kogarashi/Fubuki. ** ''FullMetalPanic'': *** Sousuke/Kaname/Kyoko. ** ''{{Bleach}}'': *** Ichigo/Shinji/Hiyori. *** Orihime/Ishida/Chad. ** ''FateStayNight'': *** Shirou/Saber/Rin.

* Tropers/PanBoleyn ** {{Inception}}: Ariadne/Arthur/Eames ** {{Torchwood}}: Jack/Gwen/Ianto * @/PersonOfNote ** {{Bleach}}: Grimmjow/Ulquiorra/Ichigo. The reason they both were staking Ichigo and trying to kill him? [[StalkerWithACrush They just really, REALLY wanted to get into his pants.. Err, hakama..]] * ''Pichu-kun'' ** ''BluesClues'': Green./Blue/Magenta, Magenta/Blue/Periwinkle. ** ''HarvestMoon'': Claire/Popuri/Grey, Leia/Jill/Marlin, Leia/Claire/Popuri, Ann/Claire/Popuri, Mary/Karen/Claire, Celia/Mark/Lumina, Celia/Mark/Muffy, Chase/Akira/Luke, WP/Jill/Leia, Leia/Jill/Keria, Pete/Ann/Mary, Kai/Karen/Ann. ** ''EdEddNEddy'': Eddy/Edd/May. ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Satoko/Rika/Hanyuu. ** ''Oswald'': Henry/Oswald/Daisy ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Red/Leaf/Blue, Leaf/Red/Misty, Red/Lyra/Blue, Erika/Leaf/Sabrina, Leaf/Red/Pikachu, Pikachu/Red/Blue. Silver/Lyra/Ethan, Dawn/Lyra/Silver, Erika/Sabrina/Lyra. Brendan/May/Wally, Steven/May/Wallace, Brendan/May/Steven. Lucas/Dawn/Damion, Riley/Dawn/Cynthia, Cynthia/Dawn/Damion, Cynthia/Dawn/Candice. Cheren/Hilda/Bianca, Hilbert/Hilda/Bianca. Pikachu/Ash/Misty, Hareta/Mitsumi/Jun, Red/Blue/Green/Yellow, Gold/Black/Chris, Erika/Kaede/Jasmine, Lance/Lyra/Clair, Satoshi/Misty/Sabrina. ** ''{{Rugrats}}'': Tommy/Chuckie/Kimi. ** ''SouthPark'': Wendy/Butters/Bebe. ** ''SummonNight'': Lynn/Aera/Dinah, Pratty/Sugar/Razzy. ** ''TheBackyardigans'': Everyone/Each-Other, Pablo/Uniqua/Tasha, Pablo/Tyrone/Austin, Austin/Unique/Tasha. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'': Zelda/NES!Link/Sleeping-Zelda, Marin/Link/Zelda, OOT!Fado/Link/Saria, Navi/Link/Zelda, Navi/Link/Saria ** ''ToyStory'': Buzz/Woody/Jessie ** ''WonderPets'': Linny/Tuck/Ming-Ming ** ''WanderingSon'': Anna/Nitori/Chiba ** [[{{Tropers/Pokenatic}} Poknatic]] ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Ash/May/Dawn. * Tropers/{{Queen of Dorkness}} ** ''FriendlyHostility'' Padma/Nefertari/Rafi * [[{{Tropers/Ramidel}} Ramidel]] ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud/Aerith/Tifa ** ''MacrossFrontier'': Alto/Sheryl/Ranka ** ''HaruhiSuzumiya'': Just pile the SOS-dan in bed together already. ** If you can't tell, [[TenchiSolution this is usually my preferred solution]] to a LoveTriangle.

* Tropers/{{Ripsaw}} ** On second thought, this'll stay in my perverted little head. *** [[BigNo NUUUUUUUUU!!!]] Please tell us! * Tropers/{{Rlkitterman}} ** ''Series/DoctorWho'' brings several to mind. Ian/Barbara/Susan, 2/Jamie/Zoe, 9/Rose/Jack, and 11/Amy/Rory. ** From the new ''BattlestarGalactica'' comes Apollo/Starbuck/Anders. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Sokka/Suki/Toph (Suki and Toph seemed to like that kiss in "The Serpent's Pass), Azula/Mai/Ty Lee. * Tropers/{{Rogue 7}} ** GaRei: Yomi, Kagura, and Kensuke. Everyone gets to be happy. * Tropers/{{Rushi}} (Be warned though, the presence of any of the threesomes in the following list do not mean that I have ever written, or even seen them. I just ship them, and would like to see more fic about them. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Katara/Aang/Zuko, Katara/Zuko/Mai, Mai/Azula/Ty Lee, Toph/Zuko/Mai, Suki/Sokka/Ty Lee, Katara/Aang/Toph, Zuko/Katara/Jet, Aang/Toph/Teo, Toph/Sokka/Suki. ** ''BattleRoyale'': Shinji/Keita/Yutaka (movie version), Satomi/Yukie/Haruka, Mitsuko/Hirono/Yoshimi, Hirono/Shinji/Yutaka. *** ''BattleRoyale II'': Kenji/Shintaro/Asuka, Naoki/Ryo/Jun, Naoki/Ryo/Tetsuya, Haruya/Masami/Shugo, Shugo/Nao/Takuma, Nao/Takuma/Shintaro, Honami/Risa/Mayu, Kyoko/Osamu/Kenji, Takuma/Haruka/Tetsuya...it's easy to ship when there's absolutely no canon for or against anything. ** ''{{Beyblade}}'': Tala/Kai/Tyson, Bryan/Ray/Mariah, Mariah/Ray/Salima, Ray/Salima/Kane, Mystel/Max/Mariam (Miriam?), Brooklyn/Kai/Tala. ** ''DeathNote'': Matsuda/Raito/L, Matsuda/Aizawa/Ide, Mello/L/Near, Ray/Naomi/L. *** Ray/Naomi/L. Wow. I thought I was the only one! :D ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': Tegan/Doctor/Turlough, Mel/Doctor/Ace, Ben/Polly/Jamie, Ben/Polly/Dodo, Dodo/Steven/Doctor, Doctor/Jamie/Zoe, Brigadier/Doctor/Liz, Valeyard/Master/Doctor. *** ''{{Torchwood}}'': Andy/Owen/Toshiko, Rhys/Gwen/Andy, Rhys/Gwen/Owen, Toshiko/Owen/Gwen, Owen/Martha/Tom. ** ''FinalFantasyVIII'': Quistis/Squall/Rinoa. ** ''FinalFantasyXII'': Vaan/Penelo/Larsa, Vaan/Balthier/Fran, Kytes/Vaan/Penelo, Penelo/Basch/Ashe. ** ''HarryPotter'': Luna/Neville/Ginny, Terry/Michael/Anthony, Luna/Neville/Hannah, Fred/Angelina/George, Harry/Ginny/Luna. ** ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Beat/Kariya/Uzuki, Shiki/Neku/Joshua, Eri/Shiki/Neku, Ai/Makoto/Mina. ** ''XMenEvolution'': Scott/Lance/Kitty, Rogue/Scott/Jean, Tabitha/Kurt/Amanda, Sam/Rahne/Jamie, Ray/Tabitha/Roberto. ** ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'': Varon/Mai/Katsuya, Otogi/Shizuka/Honda, Raphael/Amelda/Varon, Amelda/Seto/Katsuya, Honda/Katsuya/Varon. * Tropers/{{ryttu3k}}

** [[TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]: *** Link/Sheik/Zelda (yes, seriously, and yes, with Sheik in the middle) *** Dark Link/Link/Sheik *** Zelda/Midna/Link *** Girl!Sheik/Cowboy!TP!Link/guy!Sheik (don't ask, back away slowly, and blame [[LivejournalRoleplay LJ RPing]]) ** [[HarryPotter Harry Potter]]: *** Hermione/Ginny/Luna *** Harry/Ron/Hermione ** Series/DoctorWho: *** Eleven/Amy/Rory **** Not to be outdone by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Eleven/Amy/Vincent van Gogh]] *** Simm!Master/Tenth Doctor/Jack *** Donna/Martha/Rose *** Ten/Jack/Martha *** Jack/Ten/Hand!Doctor/Donna *** Ten/Jack/Ianto *** Nine/Jack/Rose *** Eight/Fitz/Anji *** Tegan/Nyssa/Turlough *** Two/Jamie/Zoe *** Doctor/Master/Rani *** Doctor/TARDIS/Sonic Screwdriver/angst ** [[{{Torchwood}} Torchwood]]: *** Jack/Ianto/Gwen ** [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros]]: *** Ike/Marth/Link *** Samus/Zelda/Peach * Tropers/{{Sakano}} ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'': *** Germany/Italy/Japan *** Russia/Lithuiana/Latvia * Tropers/{{SAMAS}} ** ''{{Negima}}'': *** Negi/Nodoka/Yue *** Negi/Konoka/Setsuna *** Negi/Chachamaru/Chisame *** Chizuru/Kotaro/Natsumi ** [[{{Naruto}} Naruto/Sakura/Hinata]] (hey, I like 'em both!) ** [[GaoGaiGar Mamoru/Hana]][=/=]][[SuperRobotWarsW Mihiro]] ** [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha/Fate/Yuuno and Erio/Caro/Luticia]] ** [[MacrossFrontier Alto/Ranka/Sheryl]] * {{Tropers/SaraJaye}} ** FireEmblem: *** Monshou no Nazo: Linda/Maric/Elice, Marth/Sheeda/Oguma, Rena/Julian/Ricardo, Est/Abel/Paola

*** Geneaology of the Holy War: Azel/Lex/Tiltyu, Finn/Lachesis/Beowulf, Celice/Rana/Yuria, Johalva/Lakche/Johan, Fury/Levin/Sylvia *** Fuuin no Tsurugi: Roy/Lilina/Wolt, Sue/Roy/Wolt, Ray/Lugh/Chad, Guinevere/Miledy/Ellen *** Rekka no Ken: Hector/Farina/Florina, Kent/Sain/Fiora, Kent/Lyn/Fiora, Lyn/Hector/Florina, Raven/Lucius/Priscilla, Sain/Serra/Priscilla, Erk/Serra/Priscilla, Rath/Wil/Lyn, Lowen/Rebecca/Wil, Eliwood/Ninian/Lyn *** Seima no Kouseki: Tethys/Gerik/Marisa, Ross/Amelia/Ewan ** TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan: Alan/Anne/Tom ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: Toph/Sokka/Suki, Azula/Mai/Ty Lee, Zuko/Aang/Katara, Azula/Haru/Ty Lee, Roku/Sozin/Ta Min ** ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman: Ken/Joe/Jun ** TheSecretGarden: Colin/Mary/Dickon ** FamilyMatters: Steve/Laura/Myra ** BoyMeetsWorld: Jack/Rachel/Eric, Cory/Topanga/Shawn (early years only) ** SorcererHunters: Carrot/Tira/Chocolat ** SouthPark: Stan/Wendy/Kyle ** {{Kanon}}: Ayu/Yuuichi/Nayuki ** {{Bleach}}: Ichigo/Rukia/Orihime, Ichigo/Orihime/Tatsuki ** {{Pokemon}}: Ash/Misty/May, Ash/Misty/Brock, Dawn/Barry/Lucas, Dawn/Zoey/May, Ethan/Lyra/Silver, Hilda/N/Hilbert ** FruitsBasket: Tohru/Kyo/Yuki, Tohru/Hana/Uo, Shigure/Ayame/Hatori * Tropers/{{Sarahsuke}} ** ''GanbareGoemon'': Goemon/Omitsu/Yae. Works best in the manga since the girls are shown as romantic rivals, and perverted ol' Goemon would likely come up with this as a solution. * {{Tropers/Seanette}} ** It occurred to me when re-reading GoneWithTheWind recently that life might have been simpler for quite a few characters if they had lived in a culture that would have accepted an OT3 Ashley/Melanie/Scarlett. * Sety ** [[FireEmblemTheSacredStones Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones]]: Ephraim/L'Arachel/Eirika ** TalesOfGraces: Richard/Asbel/Sophie * {{Tropers/ShakaRaka}} has never been interested in polyamorous pairings until being seduced by: ** [[{{Megamind}} Roxanne/Megamind/Metro (or Music) Man]] * Tropers/ShotgunNinja ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Osaka/Tomo/Kagura ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Negi/Nodoka/Yue, Negi/Asuna/Konoka/Setsuna (you heard me!) ** ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': Mikuru/Kyon/Yuki, Tsuruya/Kyon/Mikuru, Haruhi/Kyon/Yuki, Haruhi/Mikuru/Yuki, Kyon/Yuki/Asakura (...)

* Tropers/SiriusLoveGirl ** MetalGearSolid: Eva/Big Boss/Ocelot ** KingdomHearts: Sora/Riku/Kairi, Axel/Roxas/Namine, Axel/Roxas/Xion ** Series/DoctorWho: Nine/Rose/Jack, Two/Jamie/Zoe ** Batman: Bats/Harvey/Joker (when I'm feeling particularly sadistic) ** AxisPowersHetalia: America/England/France, Germany/Italy/Japan, Norway/Denmark/Iceland, Spain/France/Prussia, Prussia/Austria/Hungary ** StarTrek: Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] (Old school or new cast, either way) * Tropers/{{Sneebs}} ** StandAloneComplex: The Major Makoto Kusanagi x The Laughing Man X Batou. Makoto and Batou have a definite sexual tension, and the Laughing Man is the Major's intellectual equal. Batou x The Laughing Man have almost no screen time together, but what they hell, [[{{CrackPairing}} it's shipping]]. It's not like it's important. ([[{{SeriousBusiness}} Do NOT answer that]])) ** Also from StandAloneComplex" The Major x Batou x [[spoiler: Kuze]]. ace it - the [[spoiler: Major and Kuze have been isolated since childhood]] in cyborg bodies, so they might as well join with someone they have in common. Batou would enter the mix, because he's smitten with the Major and [[spoiler: I'm sure FoeYay could arise between Kuze and himself]]. Give the man a chance to develop intellectually amidst the two BrokenBirds * Tropers/{{Taelor}} ** ''AngelBeats'': Otonashi/Yuri/Angel. ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph/Aang/Katara (it's Toph's harem). ** ''CodeGeass'':Kallen/Lelouch/C.C. (Kallen's harem). ** ''{{Empowered}}'': Emp/Ninjette/Thugboy. ** ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': Kyon/Mikuru/Yuki. ** ''HomeStuck'': Karkat/Terezi/Vriska (Karkat/Terezi = redrom, Terezi/Vriska = [[FoeYay blackrom]]) * Tropers/{{Tambov333}} ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph/Zuko/Mai. ** ''AxisPowersHetalia'': Russia/Prussia/Hungary.[--AU, Luxemburg won in 1918--] ** ''{{Freefall}}'': Florence/(Winston+Savage Chicken+Sawtooth) ** ''HarryPotter'': Severus/Lily/James. ** ''{{Housepets}}'': Miles/Lucretia/Daryl, Max/Grape/Peanut/Tarot. ** ''LionKing'':Banzai/Shenzi/Ed (taking turns, not both at once). ** ''RealLife'':Nadezhda Krupskaya/Vladimir Ulyanov/Rose Luxemburg/Karl Liebknecht, Kurt Strasser/Ernst Rhm/Georg Strasser. ** ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Beckett/Damsel/Pisha. ** ''WolfsRain'':Hige/Blue/Kiba, Hige/Blue/Tsume, Kiba/Blue/Toboe, Tsume/Blue/Toboe,...[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Blue]]/[[TenchiSolution Rest of the pack OT5]]. * Tropers/{{Thanas Rey}} ** {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}: America/England/Japan,

Belarus/Russia/Lithuania ** {{Persona 3}}: Akihiko/MC/Junpei ** {{Persona 4}}: Yosuke/MC/Shadow!Yosuke, Kanji/Naoto/Rise * Tropers/TromboneChild: ** TheNostalgiaCritic/[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]/{{Linkara}} ** [[{{Torchwood}} Captain Jack Harkness]]/[[EvilCounterpart Captain John Hart]]/{{Deadpool}} ** [[Series/{{Heroes}} Claude]]/{{Batman}}/[[{{Torchwood}} Captain John Hart]] ** [[Series/DoctorWho Nine/Rose/Jack]] * Tropers/{{TsundeRay}} ** ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': Rena/Keiichi/Mion. Or Keiichi/[[TwinThreesomeFantasy Shmion]], that's fine too. I'm not very serious about my ships, unless it's ''MiraiNikki'' shipping. * @/WillyFourEyes (expanding on my entries in the TroperTales/OneTruePairing entry): ** ''FairyTail'': Natsu/Lucy/Erza. ** ''FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud/Tifa/Aerith. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Note Tifa's placement in the triangle. ;)]] ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Konoka/Setsuna/Asuna. *** I LOVE the way you think, fellow Konoka/Setsuna/Asuna shipper. :) ** ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' (both versions) and ''{{Mai-Otome}}'' (anime): Shizuru/Natsuki/Mai. I largely suspect that the ''Otome'' anime was [[ShipTease teasing]] something like this at several points indicating this sort of relationship between the trio in the past, but decided to drop it to avoid a RomanticPlotTumor. ** ''MegaManStarForce'': Luna/Geo/Sonia. ** ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Haruhi/Tamaki/Kyouya. ** ''SkiesOfArcadia'': Vyse/Aika/Fina: the [=OT3=] to which all of my other [=OT3s=] pay tribute. ** ''{{Slayers}}'': Gourry/Lina/Amelia. * Tropers/{{Lurkerbunny}} (I'm really into {{Yuri}} or [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual]] stuff, apparently) ** ''MorkAndMindy'': Exidor/Mork/Mindy. Please look below for BrainBleach. ** ''AzumangaDaioh'': Kagura/Tomo/Osaka (Bonkuras forever!) ** ''{{Pokemon}}'': Kasumi/Haruka/Hikari (or for dubbies: Misty/May/Dawn). *** Also, Harley/Kojiro/Musashi (or for dubbies: Harley/James/Jessie). ** ''SpongebobSquarepants'': Patrick/Spongebob/Sandy. Please look above for BrainBleach. ** ''CardCaptorSakura'': Sakura/Tomoyo/Meilin * We're doing it by user, then? Dune (and you will notice I am a fan of the TenchiSolution): ** HarryPotter: *** Draco/Ginny/Harry

*** Draco/Harry/Ron *** Ginny/Harry/Hermione/Ron *** Ginny/Harry/Hermione/Ron with overlap into Draco/Ginny/Harry *** Ginny/Harry/Hermione/Ron with overlap into Draco/Ginny/Harry and Hannah/Luna/Neville/Rolf *** Ginny/Hermione/Luna *** Hannah/Luna/Neville/Rolf *** Harry/Hermione/Ron *** James/Lily/Severus *** Remus/Sirius/Tonks *** So basically, any of the main generation with any of the others with no incest ** SailorMoon *** All four Asteroids when not counted as siblings *** All four Inners *** All four Outers *** All three Amazon Trio *** Ami/Setsuna/Taiki *** Artemis/Luna/Minako *** [=ChibiUsa=]/Diana/Helios/Perle/Sentient Luna-P/Sometimes Hotaru *** Diamond/Emerald/Mamoru/Usagi *** Diamond/Mamoru/Usagi *** Kakyuu/Mamoru/Seiya/Usagi *** Makoto/Minako/Motoki/Reika *** Mamoru/Rei/Usagi *** Mamoru/Seiya/Usagi (and this is pretty much the ''only'' way I ship Seiya/Usagi) *** Minako/Seiya/Yaten *** Seiya/Taiki/Yaten *** You know what? I just like all of them together as long as there's no incest going on. * Tropers/VoodooChild (this is gonna take a while. I like my OT3s.) ** {{Alias}}: Jack/Irina/Katya, Jack/Irina/Sloane (usually preseries), Syd/Vaughn/Weiss. ** AshesToAshes: Gene/Alex/Keats, Chris/Shaz/Ray. Also Gene/Sam/Alex, for the ''LifeOnMars'' wibbledy-wobbledy [[TimeyWimeyBall timeywimey]] crossover. ** BloodTies: Henry/Vicki/Mike, Henry/Vicki/Tony. ** BurnNotice: Michael/Sam/Fiona ** CriminalMinds: Hotch/Rossi/Prentiss (look, at this point, I think the director's shipping them, after their John Woo-inspired PowerWalk); Morgan/Garcia/Prentiss. ** Series/DoctorWho: Doctor/Master/Rani, Three/Liz/Brig, Four/Romana/Adric, Five/Tegan/Nyssa, Five/Tegan/Turlough, Nine/Rose/Jack, Ten/Rose/Jack, Ten/Jack/Martha, Jack/Martha/Mickey, Ten/Donna/Martha, Eleven/Amy/Rory. ** {{Firefly}}/{{Serenity}}: Zoe/Mal/Wash, Mal/Zoe/Inara, Simon/River/Kaylee, Simon/Inara/Kaylee. ** HarryPotter: Harry/Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny/Hermione, Hermione/Fred/George, Remus/Sirius/Tonks, James/Remus/Sirius, Severus/Sirius/Remus.

** {{House}}: House/Cuddy/Wilson, House/Wilson/Amber, Cameron/Chase/Foreman. ** HowIMetYourMother: Barney/Robin/Lily, Barney/Robin/Ted, Marshall/Lily/Barney. ** LAConfidential: Bud/Ed/Lynn. ** LifeOnMars: Gene/Sam/Annie. ** PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Jack/Elizabeth/Norrington, Jack/Elizabeth/Will, Jack/Elizabeth/Anamaria, Jack/Anamaria/Norrington. ** StarTrek Reboot: Kirk/Spock/[=McCoy=], Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Uhura/Gaila/[=McCoy=], Uhura/Gaila/Kirk, Sulu/Chekhov/Uhura. ** StarWars: Han/Luke/Leia. ** TheMiddleman: Middleman/Wendy/Lacey. ** {{Torchwood}}: Gwen/Jack/Ianto, Jack/Ianto/Tosh, Jack/Tosh/Owen. * Tropers/{{X2X}} ** I'm not really into this kind of stuff, [[TroperTales/OneTruePairing but some situations]] are better left [[NiceGuy having everyone win]]. Also, too much darned ShipTease! It's too hard to decide! ** ''DevilMayCry'' *** Trish/Dante/Lady. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xJv_qTKFU So]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDiFmDLpLo much]] UnresolvedSexualTension. ''So much''. Besides, it'd make their BadassCrew [[BeyondTheImpossible all the more]] {{badass}}. ** ''FireEmblem: The Sacred Stones'' *** Tethys/Gerik/Marisa. A LoveTriangle between ThreeAmigos. Each has their own merits. Prevents [[GayOption pairing him up with Saleh or Joshua]]. ** ''MegaManStarForce'' *** Sonia/Geo/Luna. LoveTriangle. Both can have tender alone moments with Geo in the third game. Both pine for him. He likes them both. TakeAThirdOption, man! ** ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' *** Zelda/Link/Malon. The strongest two possible LoveInterests for Link in that game. UnresolvedSexualTension. Do the math. ** [[CrossoverShip Cross-Media]] *** [[{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]]/[[DevilMayCry Dante]]/{{Bayonetta}} (or [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Bayonetta/Dante/Morrigan]]) - What happens when you add RuleOfCool to RuleOfSexy and throw some CrazyAwesome into the mix? You get ''this'' mind-numbingly sexy threesome. None of them would probably be prudish in picking a partner (Dante would ''definitely'' be accepting of an opportunity like this, and both women have ''heavy'' implications of {{bi|TheWay}}sexual tendencies), so I don't think they'd mind having an open relationship. * Tropers/{{Ye Mighty Despair}} ** {{X-Men}}: Nightcrawler/Colossus/Wolverine. They just complement eachother so damn well. * Tropers/{{Yue Ryong}} ** ''{{Ben 10}}'' - Kevin/Ben/Gwen. I find the mix of

[[IncestisRelative Cousinshipping]] and {{Ho Yay}}... intruiging. ** ''{{Harry Potter}}'' - Harry/Ron/Hermione. I'm a recent convert to this one, having been a longtime Harry/Hermione supporter, but it just goes to show what a good (if [[strike:rather]] '''very''' NSFW) [[http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600024165 fanfic]] can do... ** ''{{Kingdom Hearts}}'' - Sora/Riku/Kairi. What can I say? I'm a sucker for the childhood playmates dynamic. * Tropers/{{Zaranthan}} ** ''{{Final Fantasy VIII}}'' - [[LesYay Rinoa/Quistis/Selphie]] * Tropers/{{ZetsUboa}} ** ''{{Avatar the Last Airbender}}''- Aang/Katara/Zuko and Suki/Sokka/Toph. ** ''{{Bleach}}''- Multiple. Soifon/Yoruichi/Urahara, Also, Renji/Rukia/Ichigo/Orihime/Ishida/Chad. And sometimes Grimmjow and Ulquiorra. Oh, and an [[{{OT3}} OT4]] of Unohana/Kenpachi/Ukitake/Isane. ** ''{{Death Note}}''- Mikami/Takada/Light, Light/Misa/L, Takada/Light/Misa, Matsuda/Aizawa/Ide, Ray/Naomi/L, Matsuda/Sayu/Mikami... ** ''{{FLCL}}''- Haruko/Canti/Mamimi. Because Naota's a killjoy, and wouldn't allow an OT3 involving him. And also because everyone is mecha for Canti. ** ''{{Fruits Basket}}''- Kyo/Tohru/Yuki, Kyo/Tohru/Kagura, Hanajima/Tohru/Uo, Yuki/Tohru/Akito, and for some odd reason, Shigure/Tohru/Akito. ** ''{{Hellsing}}''- Basically, Alucard/Integra/Anderson/Seras/Vampire!Walter. ** ''{{Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni}}''- Rena/Keiichi/Mion. Also, Mion/Keiichi/Shion and Rika/K1/Satoko. ** ''{{Invader Zim}}''- Zim/Tak/Dib. Except they all hate each other. 8D ** ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''- Bard/Finnian/Maylene. Daw. ** ''{{Naruto}}''- Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke, Shikamaru/Ino/Choji, Suigetsu/Karin/Sasuke, Naruto/Sakura/Sai, Naruto/Ino/Sasuke, and a [[spoiler: Madara]]/Itachi/Sasori/Deidara OT4. ** ''{{Soul Eater}}''- Maka/Crona/Kid, Liz/Kid/Patti, Marie/Stein/Medusa. ** ''{{That Guy With the Glasses}}''- Nostalgia Critic/Nostlagia Chick/Linkara. No, I have no good reason for this. ** And probably a lot of others that I just didn't care enough about to post on the first try. * Bgal ** SailorMoon *** Usagi/Makoto/Minako, Seyia/Usagi/Mamoru, Nephrite/Naru/Umino, Makoto/Ami/Rei, Ryou/Ami/Rei, Makoto/Nephrite/Naru, and Hotaru/Chibiusa/Miharu ** HomestarRunner *** Pom-Pom/Cherry/The hurricane ** SuperSmashBrothers

*** Meta-knight/Jiggly Puff/Kirby ** The Mario series *** Luigi/Daisy/Peach ** PhineasAndFerb *** Phineas/Isabella/Ferb, Stacy/Candace/Jeremy, Isabella/Ferb/Vanessa, Jenny/Stacy/Candace, Adyson/Katie/Isabella, Vanessa/Ferb/Gretchen, Johnny/Vanessa/Ferb, Pinky/Perry/Peter, Peter/Doofenshmitz/Perry, Evil girl/Doofenshmitz/Perry, Wendy/Baljeet/Mishti, Ginger/Baljeet/Buford, [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle The Beak/Isabella/Phineas]], and Swampy/Missy/Crash ** EdEddNEddy *** Rolf/Kevin/Nazz, Nazz/Kevin/Bike, Eddy/Edd/May, Ed/May/Edd, Jimmy/Johnny/Plank, Eddy/Edd/Marie ** CyberSix *** Lucas/Cybersix/Lori * Tropers/MakiP - To her surprise: ** Series/DoctorWho: *** Amy/Rory/Doctor **** They make it so easy, don't they? *** Master/Doctor/Rani ** ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace *** Arthur/Guenevere/Lancelot ** StarTrek Reboot *** Kirk/Spock/Uhura * Trickymander ** {{Persona 4}}: Yukiko/Souji/Rise ** {{Naruto}}:Sakura/Naruto/Hinata(Questionable why those sakuNaru and those hinanaru fans just do this) * Tropers/{{ClinicallyChaotic}} ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': *** Jet/Zuko/Toph ** ''StaticShock'' *** Ebon/Shiv/Talon *** Virgil/Richie/Francis ** ''XMenEvolution'' *** Lance/Pietro/Wanda * Tropers/{{CCIB}} ** Bleach *** Ukitake/Kyouraku/Nanao, Nanao/Kyouraku/Lisa, Soifon/Yoruichi/Urahara, Shinji/Hiyori/Urahara, Kaien/Miyako/Rukia, Orihime/Tatsuki/Chizuru, Love/Lisa/Rose ** MahouSenseiNegima *** Nodoka/Negi/Yue ** FullmetalAlchemist *** Greedling/Lanfan/Ling * Candelabra ** CodeGeass

*** Suzaku/Lelouch/CC, Suzaku/Euphy/Lelouch, Kallen/Lelouch/CC, Kallen/Kaguya/CC, Charles/CC/Marianne, Kaguya/Nunnally/Tianzi... etc... ** {{Naruto}} *** Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke, Naruto/Sai/Sakura, Naruto/Hinata/Sakura, Gaara/Naruto/Sakura, Sai/Sasuke/Naruto... Naruto is a pimp, y/y? ** {{Inuyasha}} *** Kagura/Sesshoumaru/Kikyou ** YuYuHakusho *** Hiei/Kurama/Mukuro ** VampireKnight *** Yuuki/Kaname/Zero, Yuuki/Kaname/Aidou ** AvatarTheLastAirbender *** Jet/Zuko/Katara, Azula/Mai/Ty Lee, Jet/Zuko/Sokka, Ozai/Azula/Zuko (YEAH WHAT), Azula/Mai/Zuko, Jet/Zuko/Jin, Katara/Aang/Zuko... Zuko is everybody's whore, okay ** Crossover! *** Azula/Lelouch/Light (lol), Kikyou/CC/Kurama * {{Tropers/Turtleducks}} ** PhineasAndFerb: *** Phineas/Ferb/Isabella *** [[FakeBand Love Handel]] ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: *** Azula/Mai/Ty Lee * Tropers/{{Kinzemory}} ** {{Avatar The Last Airbender}} *** Toph/Sokka/Suki *** Azula/Mai/Ty Lee ** {{Scott Pilgrim}} *** Scott/Ramona/Kim (It's practically canon) *** Scott/Kim/Lisa (Before the comics, when the three of them are in high school) ** {{Harry Potter}} *** Harry/Ron/Hermione ** I also do this on {{The Sims}} 2 sometimes, using a no-jealousy mod and a polygamy mod. * Radom Chaos ** Ranma Akine Shampoo ** Toph Azula Ty Lee * @/{{Tropers/SanaMae}} ** WickedLovely: *** Donia/Keenan/Sionach *** Irial/Leslie/Niall ** HarryPotter *** Remus/[[KissingCousins Tonks/Sirius]] ** ThatGuyWithTheGlasses *** Insano/Linkara/Spoony (Ignoring the whole 'but aren't Insano and Spoony the same person?' thing, that is.)

* @/{{Smilingsoprano}} ** ''Series/DoctorWho'': *** Nine/Jack/Rose (but only when I'm feeling like being nice to Rose) *** Eleven/Amy/Vincent *** Eleven/Amy/Rory ** ''WhiteCollar'': Peter/Neal/Elizabeth * @/{{Sparkysharps}} ** ''{{Baccano}}!'' *** Firo/Ennis/Isaac/Miria ** Durarara *** Masaomi/Mikado/Anri *** Shinra/Celty/Shizuo ** LegendOfZelda *** Zelda/Link/Midna ** [[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]] *** Saber/Rin/Archer (Well, it's ''sorta'' canon...) ** UminekoNoNakuKoroNi *** Beatrice/Battler/Ronove ** ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' *** John/Shayera/Wally * {{Tropers/Zylo}} ** Pokemon: *** Anime!Morty/HGSS!Morty/GSC!Morty *** Anime!Morty/HGSS!Morty/HGSS!Falkner (Thank you Pixiv...) *** Anime!Morty/HGSS!Morty/HGSS!Eusine (Pixiv again) *** Gold/Silver/Kris ** Yu-Gi-Oh: *** Thief Bakura/Yami Bakura/Ryou Bakura * {{Tropers/Loki Lie-Smith}} ** Doctor Who: *** Eight/Fitz/TARDIS *** Six/Ainley!Master/Rani, and Academy!Theta/Koschei/Ushas *** Nine/Jabe/Jack ** Gallifrey: *** Romana/Leela/Narvin ** AvatarTheLastAirbender: ** Toph/Sokka/Suki * {{Tropers/FreeRadical}} ** To be honest, I'm not really into this stuff, but if I "ship" them, it's usually becuause I thought it was funny. However, I just really like [[SoulEater Soul/Maka/Chrona]] OT3 becuase, well, I kind of liked Chrona/Maka, but I wasn't going to [[DieForOurShip hate on Soul because of it]], since ''he'' pairs up with Maka pretty nicely too. So then came [[TakeAThirdOption both!]] ([[FridgeLogic Although presumably ''any'' shipping]] that Chrona's in would end up as an {{OT3}} if you count Ragnarok). There's also deciding to ship [[EdEddandEddy Edd/Eddy/Nazz, Sarah/Jimmy/Edd, May/Marie/Edd, and of

course Ed/Edd/Eddy!]] * {Tropers/TippyToeZombie}} ** My cousin and I both support Pinkie Pie/Rainbow Dash/Fluttershy in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. * FlameFeathers: ** [[Harry Potter Sirius/Harry/Remus]] ** [[DeathNote Matt/Mello/Near]] ** My sister and her two boyfriends. ---[[HomePage This very wiki]]/your mouse cursor[=/=][[OneTrueThreesome this link]] = OneTrueThreesome <3 ----

OnionTears * This troper is hypersensitive when it comes to onions. It's not uncommon for him to tear up worse than the person actually cutting the onions, even if he's several meters away. Actually cutting them himself is close to impossible unless he holds them submerged in water. Fortunately, eating them isn't a problem. * I had to slice 13 large onions all by myself. I forgot how many times I had to get away from the kitchen to wash and rest my eyes. * [[{{LoneCentrist}} This troper]] was an assistant for an independent film, which required one of the actors to get very emotional and cry, so he and the other assistants on the set had to cut up onions and get them in the actors face to get him in character. It worked quite well actually, considering he was practically rubbing the juice onto his eye lids. * This troper has a tendency to stare at people blankly to get them to leave. One time someone put onion halves right into my eyes in attempt to stop me. I didn't even blink. Cue immense pain as he exits. * [[NekomataTheFailcat This troper]] is hypersensitive to onions too, so she tries to avoid cutting them. But one time, on home economics class she had to cut some onions. Needless to say, her eyes got really painful and itchy, so she accidentally rubbed them with her fingers ''which still had some pepper on them''. Owwwww... * [[{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]] finds that cutting onions with goggles on prevents the waterworks * This troper has never had any problems with burning eyes while cutting onions, but, numerous times, I've thought my eyes were going to fall right out of my orbits while cutting up shallots. * This troper considers onion fumes her personal Kryptonite. She's had to stop and ''get out of the kitchen for a while'' because her eyes were so teary she couldn't see, and that's never a good thing when holding a knife. To add insult to injury, [[{{Meganekko}} she wears glasses]], and can't even properly blot away the onion-induced streams. * Been trying to cook my own meals more often recently, since I was sick of living off of frozen food. I HATE cutting onions for this reason. Although I remember when I was a kid, when I'd help my parents

prepare food I would always while pealing the onions (You know, those cheap plastic swimming pool goggles.) As of now, I'm considering trying that again...ah, good ol' silly kid logic. * this troper is usually better than average when it comes to coping with onion cutting. I do plenty of cooking so am well acclimatised to them. The exception was my practical cookery exam where I encountered an onion so potent The teacher thought I was genuinely crying, and asked if I whad hurt myself. * This one is apparently immune to this trope - not only do onion fumes not bother her eyes, she thinks onions actually smell rather nice, so she usually ends up sniffing them if there's cut onions lying around. On the other hand, if they're freshly cut enough, they might irritate her nose. * [[Tropers/ElegantVamp This troper]] is very sensitive to onions. They irritate her nose, and she can't be within 10 feet of the kitchen when someone is cutting onions, or her eyes and nose will burn/sting '''LIKE HELL'''. * This Troper is dangerously sensitive to onion fumes as well. Not only do my eyes burn and water, but my sinuses burn, my nose runs, and it becomes so hard to breathe that I'm afraid I'm having an asthma attack. I have had to lie down on the sofa to recover from these fumes in the past. So I can't even try to cut white, yellow, or red onions unless they're submerged in water. It's actually not difficult if you keep a cutting board in the bottom of the sink, and a colander on hand to skim the slices from the water's surface. Luckily for me, I use green onions far more often than any other, and they don't make me cry. * This Troper was once in a culinary arts summer program and had to chop about twelve yellow onions for a dish. After about the second onion, her eyes were burning so badly and so full of tears that she couldn't even see what she was doing. However, her partner had cut the onions the day before, and she was determined to do it herself. She then proceeded to chop the remaining onions practically blind. * This Troper compares cutting onions to applying napalm directly to my eyes. * I cannot cut onions at all, I can never see what I'm doing and can barely even keep my eyes open due to the pain/tears. ----Go back to OnionTears. Just remember to cover your eyes. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Sometimes, real people aren't called by their real names. ---* I call a friend of mine Cat because his nickname is Billy. Which is cat in Hindi. I'm fairly sure (not quite) it annoys him. Excellent; I'll keep dooing it then. * This Troper's name is for some reason difficult for people to remember - it's nothing unusual, but she was told that it 'doesn't fit her'. Last year she was on a trip with new people, who had particular trouble with it, so she was simply referred to as 'the girl in the

{{Epica}} shirt'. People she's met there still don't know her real name and just call her 'Epica'. * This troper knows several. First, the boys: Rafiki, Narnia, Jewboy (self-given), Bonky. The girls: Riku, Mewmew, Carrie (real name Jacqueline) * This Troper's best friend's...little sister. She has been known widely as "Fleecey" for so long it appears instead of her real name on more than a few school performance pamphlets. * One of my closest friends gave me the nickname Blossom. Her current boyfriend knows me only by that name. * My five man band and I invented nicknames for one another that eventually became so well known that hardly anyone refers to us as our real names. Me:Captain(apparently cause I'm the hero of the group), GF/chick: Samus(she looks like frickin' Samus! Much to my delight. Plus her real name is Erin), Lancer/best bud: Tenor(not sure how this started but he's in the choir so that might have something to do with it), Big Guy/Cute bruiser: Li'l dynamo(seriously what else do you call an Asian girl that can flip a boy two feet taller and sixty lbs heavier than her?), Smart Guy: Gandhi because he's Indian, a big pacifist, and wants to be a lawyer, and finally our sixth ranger is called Angel because he's a devout Christian and his real name is Michael. * I have gone by my nickname for so long, that I introduce myself as the nickname. I actually have a hard time wondering what it feels like to go by your own name everyday. It makes me think of feeling "naked" having your own name out in the open like that. But then again, I'm just weird like that. ** On another note (still same person as above), when somebody says my real name when they're calling somebody else, I look around as if I was just called. But if they're actually addressing me, good luck trying to get my attention. * My sister now exclusively introduces herself as Stormy. I don't know where she came up with the name or how, but hey, it works. My roommate attempted to get everyone to start calling me "Fedora" but it didn't stick. * it is common in many larping communities in italy (where i live) to be known to others by your character's name. Even when, later, you change character, you at times remain stuck with that nickname. * [[Tropers/AnthonyMercer This troper]] has friends known only as Jones and Clayman, even though those are nothing like their real names. * It took this troper until the senior year of high school to find out the real name of her DDR-god game-group buddy..... she'd spent the prior two-and-a-half years calling him Cheese. (If you're reading this, sorry Keith!) * One of this troper's best friends has a real name, but you'd never know it - I've been calling her by her nickname "Yume" for so long I have trouble thinking of her by anything else. ** Yume? That sounds familiar to this troper....he has a friend who always call herself Yume, even when a foreign english teacher asks her name, and would sometimes proceed to explain what it means. Apparently, he always call one of her friend Erie (or something like

that....) * This troper had a High School classmate nicknamed "Porno" because his mom found his Porn Stash in a very embarrassing way. ''Every student who knew him'' used this nickname for most of his 4 years in High School. It wasn't until a teacher (who was very offended by the name) threatened us with detentions did the name start to fade away (and for most students, this troper included, this was when we finally learned his real name). * Only my family and teachers call this troper by his real name. To everyone else I am "Podgy" even though I am the exact opposite. * This troper eventually trained a friend in early high school to answer to "Frodo." * This troper had a friend in high school who was simply called "Pozar", and I was one of only two people who ever called him by his real name. * I met a friend of mine when his arm was broken and I asked if I could call him Cripple. The cast come off in three weeks and I still call him cripple. I also have a slightly hard time remembering his real name. * This troper is known to teachers, parents and students alike as "Token," to the point where the one time I had sex, that was what she yelled out. ** Yeah. That one wins. * [[Tropers/{{randomfanboy}} I]] find it very difficult not to call my friend Dodgey sometimes. What's weird is that I ''gave'' him that nickname, and now he uses it as a username in everything, ever. * This Troper is a techie, and everybody has nicknames. We have two shauns, neither of whom I have ever called shaun, and several teachers are now calling me [=McLovin=]. * [[Tropers/{{Night}} This Troper]] is Jim to everyone he knows personally, Night or NGT to his online friends, and Mark to nearly every other character in his Rifts game. The respective names are James, [=NGTM1R=], and Marcus. * When this troper was at summer college, there was a guy who everyone called Nemo, due to his real name being something Bulgarian and hard to pronounce, with Nemo being the usual approximation. Well, that's what I heard anyway. I never even found out what his real name was. * I was friends with Mormon in high school. It was nearly a year until his real name came out (Bryan). Even now, within my circle of friends, asking about how "Bryan" is doing gets weird looks...he's just Mormon. * [[Tropers/InsanityInside This Troper]] got her nickname at the age of about seven and, since my first name is pretty common, it always just made more sense to use the nickname. A couple of years ago one of my friends was shocked to find out I actually had a name. * This Troper is known in his school only as "A.P." by both the students and most of the teachers/faculty. Many people are unaware of his actual first name. The worst part? Those aren't even his real initials. * When this troper went to high school there were two girls that rode my bus that no one ever referred to by name one girl was referred to as "Rabbit Girl" for her long buck teeth and another girl who everyone seemed to hate was called "Lice Bucket" because apparently she had

lice at some point. * There was a boy at [[Tropers/ManJusticeLeague this troper]]'s summer camp who found a pair of chopsticks on the ground while everyone was still trying to learn names and became Chopsticks. For years. * My grandmother referred by her nickname by almost every person. After my grandfather had been dating her for over a year, he was asked the real name of his girlfriend and he didn't remember it. After that, for over sixty years of marriage, he refused to use the nickname ever again and always called her by her two names. * [[Tropers/{{Grimalkin}} This troper]] knew a guy at summer camp who was known only as "Georgia", the state he was from. This troper herself was referred to by a nickname or description for most of the summer camp. * [[Tropers/{{Ptitle8nohh2z9fxco}} This troper]] had a (female) classmate last year whom ''everyone,'' including her own father, calls "Bob". Her real name is [[spoiler:Jessica]]. ** More recently, there's this one guy who transferred to my school this year, and, because his hair looks uncannily like that of most common depictions of a certain religious figure, it was several weeks before even the ''principle'' figured out that his real name was [[spoiler:Alec]], since everyone just called him "Jesus" (pronounced "JEE-zus", not "HAY-sous", by the by) from day one. *** [[Tropers/{{Nola}} This troper]] also knows someone who goes by Jesus, but she's a girl who looks nothing like the religious figure. Her real name is June, by the way, not that anybody really calls her that. ** There's also Vulture. His real name is [[spoiler:irrelevant]], but it's not like he answers to it anyway. *** That's pretty freaky, because this troper also knows a girl named [[spoiler:Jessica]] whose nickname was Bob. * This troper had an online friend start going to a college in her town, said friend preferred to call me by my nickname I used on IRC. since Weazul is a pretty unusual nickname for a gal her friend's crowd started calling me that because it was more memorable than my real name (which is a VERY common name). this troper has also been told by that crowd that even if one of their parents knows every one of their friends by their first name all their parents know her as Weazul. * To everyone I'm known as Dano, and to some of my friends Danomite, which is used as an excuse to sing AC/DC's TNT with the word dynamite replaced. Dano is a combination of the first three letters of my first name with the first letter of my last name. * The camp I am going to be a junior counselor in has all the staff going by nicknames. You must bribe the staff to find out their real name. * For most of the people this troper knows from school, and for many people that he doen't know or recognize at all, he is simply "Padre." * [[Tropers/MutantRancor This troper]]'s great-grandmother was known as "Nanny" to everyone (even her own children, apparently), to the extent that he doesn't even know what her real name was. * During a RS class at this troper's school the teacher said something along the lines of "Anyone in this room could be the returned Jesus" to which someone else replied "It's you isn't it

[tropers name]". For the next 1.5 years I was almost universally known as Jesus, to the point where one of the teachers marked me absent from class because I forgot to respond to my real name during roll-call. The person who started it became known as Buddha (and still is). Also, this troper is more likely to answer to his on-line name or Bombadil than his real first name (as there are 7 people with the same first name in his year group). * I'm very often called Shippo by a friend at school, she does know my real name, but likes to call her friends by names from InuYasha * Okay, my name is Christine right? But everyone, even family, calls me CJ. I once tried to get everyone to call me by my true name because there was another CJ in the school, in my classes no less, that I was friends will and we kept answering calls for the other. His name is Christopher. He tried to get people to call him by his true name. End result: Nobody could remember to use our real names. After awhile we just gave up. * When this troper goes to college, she plans to not tell anybody her real name, and try to go by the name of Howler. She'll bribe the staff to call her that in roll call if she has to. Why? Because it'll be fun. She's always wanted a nickname. And Howler is cooler than her real name anyway. * This Troper knows a couple who just had their first kid. His first name is Lawrence, for his father, but they're gonna call him Micah. ** Why not just name the kid Micah? Or Lawrence Micah? * There is a kid at this troper's school who only goes by the nickname "Hooter". Boy, that name is way off his real one. * One boy at [[Tropers/{{Chitoryu12}} this troper's]] school goes by Alex, but his real name is John. According to his on/off girlfriend (long story short, he's pretty much manic-depressive and emotionally abusive), he'll get extremely angry if you call him John. Meh. ** Also, at this troper's school the Japanese Entertainment Club likes to give nicknames to their more popular members, such as Mongoose, and sometimes there are people who know them only by these nicknames. The JEC is generally considered the more "insane" club, and not in a good way. * This troper went to school with someone that everybody called "Oobie." This troper thinks it came from some badly-pronounced backwards-day word when he was little, but anyways, that's what everyone called him. Nobody knew his real name, because it was cut off on the class attendance because his last name was so long- this resulted in the {{UnReveal}} when someone had the bright idea to look it up. (It MAY have been Elliot. MAYBE.) * Everyone on my dad's side of the family has always called my cousin Krissy (it's even written on her door), so I was rather confused when her husband (then-boyfriend) and their friends kept referring to someone named "Kristen". On the flipside (both in terms of the trope and my family), my cousin Kikuo is only called that by family; his friends call him Key, from his hip-hop moniker [[XtremeKoolLetterZ "Key Kool"]]. ** This extends to my maternal uncles Kats and Tak, short for Katsuhisa and Takahisa. There's also Teruhisa, who goes by [[OddNameOut Teddy]].

* Taken to the extreme, my dear friend is known pretty much solely as "Ogre" by everyone. Most don't know his real name. The part that nails it is when i was talking to his mother about him once. For a moment, she blanked on his name before finally just sighing and referring to him as Ogre. * Almost inverted by someone this troper knows - we all called him 'Clark.' His real name is [[spoiler:Moody]]. It almost seems like these should be the other way around. * This troper's nicknames are "God" and "Dude". First is by my friends, second is by my parents. Also, one of this troper's friends is named Jon, but everyone calls him Bob. ** This troper is also somewhat known as "God." * This Troper is known as 'Graf' to a majority of his friends, mostly because the one time he decided to tell someone his real name (which he hardly every went by '''before''' since he goes by his middle name usually), they misheard it. He pronounced it as Geoff, and somehow they heard that as 'Graf'. After hearing it and thinking it was pretty cool, he kept it. It was only after about a year of having said nickname that he found out it basically meant 'count' in German. * This Troper's former art teacher was named Desire Annabella. How she was known by faculty, students and parents? Daisy. * [[Tropers/{{Xaris}} This Troper]] has a friend who was introduced as Midget. It took him 4 months before figuring out what this friend's real name is. * I knew a guy who's called Cheese(real name Miguel) long story short it took me four months to find out his real name and no one else even mentions it. * [[Tropers/ShadicTheHedgehog This troper's]] best friend for years has another friend who shares first names. So this troper is known as "Drac" or "Dracula" because of his liking for black and red clothes, constantly popping his collar up (resembling the stereotypical cape of Dracula), and hating sunlight to the point of wish every day was dark and cloudy. * A strange case--a friend of this troper's father legally changed his name to Head Bubba. )-) * A guy named Mike is known as "Trevor" to everyone who was in AP US History last year at my school. And this year a guy named Zach in my french class is called Jerry. * This troper found out only yesterday that her friend "Conner"'s real name is Ryan. The confusion came from one of her teachers, who calls all of his students by their lasts names, but she just couldn't put two and two and two together. * This troper has a peer that they can't address with a straight face. Why? Said peer's last name is "Smiggles", and you can imagine no one cares about his first name after learning that. * I didn't realise until after I quit my first job that the waterfront director probably wasn't really named Swiffer. * This troper enjoys [[AvertedTrope averting]] the trope as much as possible, calling most of his friends by first name. In more than one case, this [[EmbarrassingFirstName ticks them off]]. * This Troper is a member of two social circles, one of which calls him Arron (his real name being Arronald) and the other that calls him

Sasquatch Jack... * This Troper is known at school primarily by diminutives of her own name...and, in the third grade, an {{incredibly lame pun}} concerning [[KimPossible a certain cheerleader who can do anything]]. However, one person has managed to get her to respond to the nickname of [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] due to my walking speed (I'm walking past people with a 35-pound backpack on my back), my running speed without said backpack (one end of the school to the other in 30 seconds), and being somewhat knowledgeable about the games. ** She also knew a senior in her freshman year who went solely by the nickname of "Jesus" (like the Jesus example above). She can never remember his real name, only that he was known as Jesus and could easily be picked out of a crowd due to a rather distinguishable [[BadassLongcoat white trenchcoat]] and long hair. * This troper was known, from the first day of freshman year to the end of high school, only as Tito, to the point where people thought that was his real name. His closest friends in college from high school still call him that. * This troper's friend is known as Toby by all. This is not his name. I have personally asked him his name no fewer then three times and I STILL can't remember what it was. I think it may have begun with a J * This troper is abnormally tall (I was six feet by the time I was thirteen) and when I went to a new high school a kid gave me the nickname of Gigantor. I never minded, but it was pretty funny when my friends realized that they had no idea what my name was. ** Sounds like that guy was a fan of Night at the Museum. * This troper had a running joke with his friend where we called each other by random names. I then realized I didn't know his actual name. At first he wouldn't tell me, and told me his name was Awesome Bigd*** , but after a couple of days he relented and told me his name (which begins with a D). I now refer to him as ABD * This troper's friend, a dairy major who always wears a [[NiceHat very cool cowboy hat]], is known by everyone as Tex. He has lived in the north all his life and has never been to Texas. * Let's just say that on no known planet is Tracy anywhere close to my real name. * There is a chap in this troper's RPG group who is always referred to as Green, which isn't a surname in our language. He uses it at ''all'' occasions and has never told us his real name. He always wears mainly green clothes. * My friend's name is Ivonne. We all call her Eevee. She insists that the Pokemon was named after her. * This troper was shocked when after knowing a friend for almost a year to find out Luke was actually his middle name/nickname and his real name was Steve. * This Troper has an African-American friend at school who is only known by his nickname. His nickname is "Token Blackguy". I am ''not'' making this up. * I go to school with a guy known only as "Tiny". Nobody, even teachers call him by his actual name and when it is needed people usually have to ask him what it is. He isn't the shortest guy in the grade, either. I sometimes wonder if it will cause problems down the

track, with his mental health. * This troper is called Kiri on the internet. Although he's not a girl. ** [[{{Audition}} kiri kiri kiri...]] * My dad is known solely by "B". Calling him by his real name prompts looks of confusion and giggles from everyone. Also, my friend is known only by Lulu (and her real name is completely different). * This troper's cousin once had a classmate nicknamed "Gerbil". Most of the students at their school wound up forgetting or never learning her real name (Anna). Likewise, this troper is known among some circles as simply "Dutch" (how the heck I picked up that name I'll never know). * [[@/TitoMosquito This troper]] is called Tito by his family and friends. His uncle was the one who first called him that after a Mexican radio personality named "Tito in the Morning". At least that's what he's told. * This troper has a friend named Shelby. Everyone called him Mike Jones for a while. I thought that was his name until I looked in the church phone guide. * This troper has earned the nickname 'Macleop' after a rather humorous typo on his '08-'09 school ID card. For some context, his real last name has the 'p' doing a 180 degree turn into a 'd'. ** Same troper, different example: After proclaiming, at the tender age of four, that Baby bop was this troper's favorite character on Barney the purple dinosaur, this troper's cousin called him 'Bopper'. How this name has spread to his current group of friends, despite the cousin in question now living in Toronto and it being 14 years since it was first used is beyond [[{{Rule of three}} this troper]]. * Happened when I took up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching Geocaching.]] First time I went to a meeting of geocachers, turns out most of them are like this. I ''did'' manage to learn a few real names at several gatherings, though most will answer to their "handle". * Even teachers call him Crank-Diesel. * This troper is known by many different names at many different places. To one forum on the internet, she is MJ. So much so that many people thought it was her real name ("Mary Jane"). Her real name is Jessica; MJ comes from a person she is often nicknamed for in real life: Michael Jackson. To the point that an entire church knows her as Jacky. * This troper met a few. Three involve the name Eduardo: one which was also called at home by his middle name, so got lost at kindergarten when they requested him by the first, and nowadays is basically known for the nickname (the name of an African nation); one which still puts Edu/Du in his username in some places; and one which is called Dudu... when his name is Henrique (apparently he would be called Eduardo, but after not receiving this name, his family still called him Dudu). * ThisTroper was skipped into High School in the middle of the year. On the first day of showing up, he decided to visit the library, and found a small group of teenagers playing {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}. Now, ThisTroper lives in Puerto Rico--keep that in mind. One of them summoned the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguin Soldier]] card, except he pronounced it "Penguin '''SOLDER'''. I corrected him--in English,

since they were all speaking Spanish, and he replied (in English), "Oh, well, see, I say "solder" because I'm not an American." But, the guys seemingly liked me, and I kept hanging with them. Eventually, they came to know me as "The American", because I was always speaking English. Even in college, I was always "The American". This all came to a head when one of my friends said my name, and another one of my friends asked, "Who's that?". When I popped up, I managed to explain things. What's more, this troper's name is "Jean-Karlo". People who don't call him "The American" usually just call him "Jan" (not even "Jean"...). Yeah, feels bad, man, but they're my friends. ^_^ * One of the former managers of [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 this troper's]] local Gamestop rarely went by his real name; preferring people to call him "Yankee" (Although, I knew his real name before I learned the nickname, because his real name was printed on his nametag). * This Troper didn't find out until she signed as witness on her best friend's marriage certificate that his real name isn't Angel. * A girl this troper knows is so this trope that on official pamphlets for band performances list her by her nickname "Fleecey" even though they have ''her real name on file.'' * This troper's class is filled with this, to the point that all teachers are forced to learn our version of the name list. We have an Ocean's fan nicknamed Rusty, a guy nicknamed CNY, and this troper is nicknamed Bowser after his favorite bag that looks awfully like Bowser's shell. * This troper is known by most of her school's younger students simply as Schumacher thanks to her habit of walking around the school yard. Thanks to her all encompassing clothing, most do not know her gender either. * On the bus I rode to middle school (grades 6-8), there was a sixth grader who always wore extremely baggy pants and had his hat turned sideways. Someone stole his lunchbox once, and, much to everyone's amusement, he began yelling, "Give me back my lunch box! I'm on a special diet!" From then on everyone in my (8th) grade, even the ones who don't ride our bus, called him "Diet Kid". I was also referred to by 6th and 7th graders as "Ninja Star", and by most 8th graders as "John". ** I got the nickname "Ninja Star" because I brought a paper origami folding star to school as an art project. When some kid on my bus stole it that morning, I kept yelling at him "Give me back my Ninja star!" Thankfully I got it back, but now that name lives in infamy. ** "John" is much less interesting. My friend [[DudeLooksLikeALady Qu]][[ViewerGenderConfusion inn]] accidentally called me "John" once, and I told him it was annoying. Since then he insisted on calling me John, and it kinda caught on. So from then on I have always introduced my (very androgynous) friend as a female, though usually behind his back. Also, I convinced a male student that Quinn was a girl, and since then that student has continually hit on him. Ha ha. * Ever since discovering people who played Pokemon in my school, most of the local nerds only call me Crispee, my name in the internet, and on games. * This troper hates being given a nickname, to the extent anyone shortening my name tends result in getting ignored. This hasn't

stopped my former Citizenship teacher calling me Will, which I don't mind anymore: in fact, it is my nickname amongst my friends now. My real name, as you may have guessed, is [[spoiler:William]]. Also, this troper recently learnt that his dad was known as killer when he was at school, somewhat ironic considering he was the son of two teachers at his school (also appropriate, considering he had been the army). * A guy this troper works with is only known as "Skrybl", even the boss calls him that and this troper has absolutely no idea what is his real name. * This troper is called Phys by many of the first years in his department, which is short for a nickname I aquired in /my/ first year(and loathed at the time. Since some of my fellows are known only as Bob, Box (most people don't know their real names at all), moot, sensei, and sleazy, he considers this perfectly normal practice. ** I was also at school with a bloke called bill, which had nothing to do with his real name either. * This troper somehow got the nicknames Rasiel and Dibbers. Though only her friends refer to her with the names and it is cool to be a [[KatekyoHitmanReborn king]] or a [[InvaderZim savior of humanity]], reality kicks in when a good number of these friends tell her they have no clue what her real name is. * This troper is usually referred to by "Izzi" or some form of that, but when she wrote her full name on her report instead of her nickname, her teacher got up and asked "Who's Isabel?" She facepalmed and said that it was her. Her teacher? "Oh, but you're Izzi, OH." ** Same troper as above, but because of being a Katekyo Hitman Reborn fan, they call her "Mukuro." So one day, she and her friend "Hibari" were on the swings, and all of a sudden her other friend yelled out "6918~." [[spoiler:They're all girls]] * This troper goes by one of two nicknames. What name you know her by depends on how you meet her. Anyone who knows her through any sort of online comm or art circle knows her as a pen name. Anyone who knows her from anywhere else knows her by a legitimate shortening of her name. She has friends who have known her for years and don't know her real name. * For his final two years of highschool, this troper was known only as "Thor", a name given to me by a person who thumbed through my book of {{NorseMythology}} while I was out of the room. Similarly, my roommate and I refer to each other by our online code names, his being MasterWabbit and mine being ''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]]'' Shadow. * At [[LoneCentrist This Troper's]] college radio station, this trope was there for some of the on air djs, a couple of whom were an older gentleman who went by "Mr. Boogie" and a girl who went by "Irish Bob" * Since my best friend from the internet moved into a house just up the street from me, I no longer even think of myself as my real name, which only my family call me by. In my head and when introducing myself to people I go by my username on the forum we met on, so a lot of people I know do not know my real name. * Kind of averted for this Troper, since all of my friends know my real name, but ever since my friends and I saw the movie 9, only one of them has been calling me 'Seven.' This was inspired when said friend decided that we should dress like the stitchpunks. To this day,

I'm still called Seven, sometimes even Mama 7. * This troper had a schoolbus driver known only as "Turtle". * [[Tropers/DrMcP This troper]] met her best friend's younger brother on the bus in middle school; he introduced himself as "Cheese" (for a heretofore unknown reason). This troper didn't know his real name until two years later upon befriending his older sister. And once he got to high school, she had most of her friends calling him "Cheese" again. This troper and another friend also exclusively refer to him by his nickname. * This troper has an adorable Chinese friend (actually born and raised until she was six in Surinam) whose real name is Xiaomei. However, since like most Chinese names it is impossible for Westerners to correctly pronounce, her name in the school system and in general is Xiomara (why her parents thought that would be easier, this troper has no idea.) When this troper finally found out her real name, she and her friends started calling Xiaomei "Meimei," as a pun on "little sister." Thus, it's extremely confusing to everyone around us when we try to talk about her. Also, this troper's full name is Meredith, but has gone by Merry literally since she was a baby. She often gets letters written to "Mary" (even from her own ''grandmother'') and hardly anybody knows that her legal name is Meredith. * This troper is known almost exclusively as Nemo to a small group, to the point where a few of them may not know my actual name. Another example: My sister's friend is pregnant, and they plan on telling the baby that my sister's name is Pancakes. Not her nickname, her actual name. I hope the child will be around 15 before she realizes that there's no way that's real. * This troper knows several: One of my friends only goes by the name [[{{Naruto}} Tobi]] and [[ThirdPersonPerson constantly refers to herself by that name.]] It took me half the school year to learn her real name, and most of my friends ''still'' don't know what it is. Another friend's actual name is Ailey, but goes by the name "Fishy". (She was a freshman when we first meet her.) Ever since then, I call all the freshman I know "Fish #n", in order from how much I like them to how much I dislike them. I also knew this guy named Alvin. I can't remember his real name, but it was Vietnamese and sounded a bit like the french phrase [[GratuitousFrench "J'ai t'aime"]]. There are actually more, but I'm not going to list them all because I'm pretty sure everyone I know has at least one nickname. [[OddNameOut Except me.]] * I have had a few friends I only knew by their nickname for a long time-in fact, I started off not knowing the names of my three best friends. We all have our own nicknames for eachother-mine is Jellybean, cause I love jellybeans, and mentioned them in conversation when I met a new friend, and it stuck. * I go by a nickname. Always have. People only call me by this nickname. Unfortunately, [[TheNotSecret evrybody knows what my real name is.]] * Every one of my friends knows my real name, but just about everyone calls me Toki. The only people who refer to me by my real name on a regular basis are adults and my girlfriend, and even she uses my nickname when around my friends. Most of my friends usually call me

Toki, but a few of them either don't know that I'm called that or aren't used to the idea, so instead of addressing me by name, they simply find new ways to avoid using it. "Hey, man. What's up * During his military technical training this Tropers instructors were very impressed with his impressive intellect in a career field that is not known for attracting the brightest in the Air Force. On the very first day they nicknamed him Google, the human search engine... it got to the point that over a year later he ran into people from training on a deployment... and none of them refereed to him by anything other then Google. A guy In my 7th grade grade class known only as junebug or junior I Don't think anyone but the teachers ever knew is name. And maybe not even them. * One of my youngest cousins is named Eugene Randall II but everyone calls him Randy which is derived from his middle name. * This Troper has troubles remembering names, while is perfectly fine remembering nicknames. It helps that all of his friends have nicknames, although it does lead to some funny moments. Once, in a bar, he and some of his friends were tasked to bring beer to their friends at the table, so while counting how many they actually have to bring, they started to say nicknames of people they have been sitting with. That included: a bird, 3 animals, 2 mythical creatures, 1 diary product, 1 piece of furniture. All while referring to each other as a type of bread, an animal and a norse goddess of death (And it happened in Norwegian Metalheads Bar). Bar-woman was forced to take a break, because she couldn't stop laughing. * I've obtained a weekly nickname cycle, and people generally know me as 'Lozenge' or 'Lozzie', only referred to by real name by adults. Some have adopted calling me 'Mungo Mc Mooham'(spelling unknown, closest to pronouciaton) on Wednesday; I find this embarrasing as 'Mungo' just isn't a girls nickname!

OnlySaneEmployee * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This troper]] has commonly been mistaken for being 5 or more years older than he is and goes on the Bungie.net forums. You do the math. * This Troper works in a small store with eight members of staff only one seems completely normal, as everyone else is slightly unstable, including myself. * This trope is the life of this troper during hid freshmen year. it all ended however when I and 2 out 9 passed while the rest failed since even i couldn'y help them all * This troper has a friend who decided to dress as [[PeterPan Wendy]] for a costume party because she fit the role of the only sane woman watching after a bunch of boys who refused to grow up (i.e., this troper and his friends). * This troper's future sister-in-law often had to play the voice of reason when hanging out with her college friends. ("There's not enough room in the car." "I call trunk!" "Nobody's riding in the trunk!" "Yes ma'am.") ** This is the only reason I insist on tagging along when my brother

and his friends drive somewhere. I always have to try to keep them from doing stuff that'll land them in the hospital, jail, or the ground (they've been compared to Beavis and Butthead by nearly everyone who knows them). * This troper unfortunately had one when the girls in her dorm room turn out to be complete, lazy slobs, and suddenly inexplicably became afraid of sleeping in the room after being [[BedSheetGhost convinced it was]] Haunted * [[TromboneChild This Troper]] played this role in her high school marching band trombone section. One other girl and twelve immature teenage boys. I nearly lost my position as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]. ** My gosh, you poor child. My friend is this, but with trumpets, since girls so rarely play trumpet... but she's also TheDitz at points. * This is the best term for describing this troper's job as a lab monitor. * Wow, twins. Most of my friends are sweet and well intentioned, but, well... * This troper unfortunately took on this role when she was badgered into becoming the equivalent of assistant class president. * AckSed plays this role for his family. Most of it is merely listening to "why X is a horrible person and only I do anything for the family",but there's also the function of picking up on my mother's "I have to do [task]",then reminding her of them when she asks me five minutes later. Or ringing up anyone she wants to contact. Or trying to convince her that it's not a good idea to leave the window open for the cats in the dead of winter. Oy... * Atticus does this sometimes, because his best friend is the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] for several things, so he serves as the sane man when she risks losing her sanity. * Though not actually a job, I feel this way regarding my group of crazy associates. Some are worse then others, but I am the most central figure of sanity in this crazy social network. This is more terrifying if you know how questionable MY sanity is. * [[{{Indefatigable}} This troper]] was always the one trying to keep others from puking on themselves after a night at the dance club, and on a camping trip was the one who stopped a couple of drunk students ''who were older than herself'' from going out on the lake in the canoe after dark with no lifejackets. And people wonder why she's an introvert. People are exhausting. * When This Troper [=DMs=] for his group, he turns into one. * This troper never thought of herself as the kind of person who takes charge until she found herself trying to create a project in concert with three other writers. (If there are writers out there who plan things out well in advance, do not procrastinate and are good at keeping a cool head under pressure, she has yet to meet them - and she knows a lot of writers). Suddenly she was the one organising timetables and directing every session. * This troper, usually when she's being a DeadpanSnarker. * [[OtherJoey This troper]] worked as a delivery driver for a chain Italian restaurant. However, in addition to being a delivery boy, he

ended up doing nearly ALL the kitchen prep work not done by the cooks, because most of his fellow drivers would slack off during their shifts and leave him to get all their sidework done. For which he was paid a measly ''$3.50 per hour'', because he didn't get tips when wasn't on deliveries. On top of that, he also had to serve as a fill-in as both busser and line cook when people didn't show up (or on one occasion, got arrested outside the restaurant), and usually worked upwards of fifty hours a week. Eventually, he had to quit to finish college. Within a year, the restaurant was out of business. * For me, this trope is played straight and ''literally'', I actually ''do'' have a friend named Liz, who is a Mangaholic, A girl named Julian who prefers to be called "Kitty", I'm not that normal myself, but, I'm pretty much the buttmonkey, the only one who really has that much logic would be James, my sister will be coming to my school next year, so, the chaos is probably going to get even ''worse''. * This is me when I go anywhere with my sister and friend. She has the sense of direction of a dazed kitten and he is worse. We go to London, Cardiff, Swansea. Bristol or even somewhere very local and they have no clue where they are going/what they are doing, lose track of time and forget to answer phones. * While I'm not exactly the most serious person out there, my friends quite literally force me into this position every time we do anything. To summarize: I have to deal with a childish unicycle-rider with an affinity for [[ClusterFBomb profanity]], an apathetic {{Jerkass}}, a head-in-the-clouds writer who never takes anything seriously, a strange one who flits repeatedly between depressed and [[ThePollyanna cheerful]] with serious [[OedipusComplex daddy issues]], a textbook EmoTeen with a [[FreudianExcuse traumatic past]], and the girlfriend of the aforementioned unicyclist, who's bossy, controlling, and kind of a bitch. * This troper makes no claim to sanity, but often ends up as the only competent/willing employee due to a wide range of proficiencies, being very literate (in the regular and computer sense) and being a fast learner. In his previous job, he started out doing something he'd never even heard of, but within a week ended up better at it than some regular employees. He then ended up being sent through every department except management either for training or odd jobs, and at one point ended up rewriting the stocks spreadsheet due to being the only one in the company able to do conditional formatting. Being incredibly useful did not, however, prevent him being laid off when the bottom fell out of the defense industry due to a large cut in funding. * This troper is the only '''sober''' employee. Still pretty incompetent and lazy, though. I mean, I'm writing this entry at work right now! * This troper's mother runs a professional theater troupe for people with disabilities. And writes most of the plays. And directs many of them. And has starred in some of them. And plays and writes the music for them. And does much of the paperwork. She's a busy woman. * Deconsructed for this troper. I used to try to support everyone in my class, as they were largely incompetent or lazy, but in the end, I just ended up wasting my time. So I decided to just try to stay away

from the group, as I hate all of them anyway. * Though not one in Real Life, This Troper (now in first person) appears to play this role in my Dungeons & Dragons group. However, my sanity seems to be slipping ever so slowly. Case in point, I play as a dwarf and had two large gems. One was just a gem. The other had the soul of a dragon lich in it that would make the dragon lich we just killed come back to life. My immediate response? "Find out which one's heavier and SMASH IT" Luckily, my friends decided to have me investigate them. * In my [=DnD=] group of all males, I take this role since the others talk about other things (Things not to do with the game such as literally doing a push-up contest or talking about immature things) . I don't mind, but if it gets too off subject for long, I make start talking about the game, and if they don't listen, I use my own measures to get them on track. Especially if the GM, of all people, is distracted. * This is basically what being in charge of any sort of moderator group on a large forum is about, as this troper can sorely attest to. The irritating thing comes when they ask you why you haven't been doing anything, when you've been preventing everyone from killing each other too much to get anything else done. * [[Tropers/AnimeAddictAA This Troper]] had a more uncommon experience. He had some people over to his house to fix stuff around the house. Out of the three there, one was ranting about where he was and what he was reduced to working at, and was even willing to cut short the work while basically shouting it out to everyone in the room, ''[[WhatAnIdiot including his boss and us, his contractors]]''. There were three of them, and the other guy seemed to succumb to the latter idiot. After a few ''hours'' of DeadpanSnarker from this guy, the boss told him [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Did anyone swear you today yet?"]] Might have been the only normal from 5, not 3, since the other 2 that we contracted to renovate earlier were of origin Hungarians, and one didn't even knew Romanian, while the other was translating. * I'm not the only sane employee where I work. I am the only one that's both sane and competent. There is usually at least one day every week where I end up doing nothing other than running around and sorting out the problems that other people have created. * I suspect that's the way any troper would feel in a class taught by a Freudian-loving sexologist. I'm the only person to call into question the insanity of explaining erectile dysfunction through "symbolically incestuous relationship with the mother" or the fact that humans aren't the descendants of Pygmy Chimpanzees. * This troper is the squad leader for herself and two other flutists. The Freshman is the OnlySaneMan, while the two Seniors act like ADD three year olds on crack. Slowly, he is crumbling into the weirdness that are the other band members. * My roommate ''thinks'' that because he's a NeatFreak that automatically makes him this. He's actually pretty loopy himself, as seen whenever he manages to actually take command--things get very weird very quickly... * This Troper's family has quirky tendencies which can explode into

insanity. My mother tends to act as the OnlySaneEmployee for my father and sister as well her everyone on her side of the extended family. On my father's side of the family my cousin has to manage her husband, kids and in-laws as well as my uncle, her father who has really gone off the deep end. * By sheer virtue of life experience, this troper's mother ended up thrust into this role when the [[FamilyBusiness privately-owned]] pharmacy she worked for was bought up by [[MegaCorp one of the big chains]]. Many of her coworkers are around my age or younger and even the ones that aren't were likely just children when she first started working in retail, while her boss is constantly making excuses to not come into work and has problems with payroll due to the cost of having to pay whoever covers her shifts, and most of the higher-ups at corporate [[ThePeterPrinciple have long since forgotten what it's actually like to interact with customers.]] Among the highlights have been being forced to answer the phones, "Hello, this is [name of company], can I schedule you for a flu shot today?" during flu season (note--seeing as how she doesn't work in the pharmacy section, she actually ''can't'') and an ongoing battle with confusingly-worded ads that promise savings beyond what is actually given (their system gives you coupons for your ''next'' purchase when you make certain purchases, but all of their ads give the impression that said discount will be applied to the purchase itself). * My dad swears this is his job in every single job he ever has. At his old job, he had to help at least two of his subordinates with their family problems when he found them crying at work over it. Right now, his boss objects to adding 8 MB of storage to the server to make it stop crashing all the time, enjoys calling meetings just to tell someone off in front of all the other employees, and doesn't understand computers but insists on having every single thing explained to her before you can so much as do the equivalent of wiping the computer's nose. His subordinates in his current job are justified in being a RagtagBunchOfMisfits because their position would be paid over $100,000 at a real corporation, but they're working for the government, which doesn't have that kind of budget and had to take the people no one else would hire. * This troper often feels like this. Working in a kennel will do that to you, I suppose. * I'm actually the craziest employee where I work--but at least I know how to do the job well (as opposed to the new people we get every season...but that's to be expected really.) So, I'm a subversion, I guess? ---Go back to OnlySaneEmployee. Make sure nobody in your {{Nakama}} gets left behind on this page- don't forget to check the bathrooms and count heads once you get in the car. ----

OnlySaneMan * This Troper has been dubbed the straight (wo)man out of all the (otherwise male) members one of my favorite forums.

* [[{{BladeSatoshiX}} This Troper]] is usually the insane one of any group he hangs out with. But in one group, he's the sanest. For one, he doesn't randomly burst into Series/DoctorWho roleplay middiscussion. ** I need to join that group, whatever it is. * This troper is a double subversion. Most of the time I am much more practical/pragmatic than everyone else, and there are other times my various mental disorders overwhelm me. I'm a sane insane man. ** Similarly, [[Tropers/KatanaCat this Troper]] is a bit of a CloudCuckooLander... well, a serious CloudCuckooLander, what with acting like a freaking cat up to and including [[NoodleIncident playing with yarn (long story) and (accidentally) killing a mouse]] and all. but still has a point. [[FridgeLogic Why]] is it that the [[SonicAdventure Egg Carrier]] was [[SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]]'s only fortress that actually [[NobodyPoops had a bathroom]], and why were there so many toilets in said bathroom if he's supposed to be the only living, sentient being there? Is he being GenreSavvy, and if so, is it because of expecting that anything he makes will eventually break, and making a large number of backup toilets, or because he's expecting one of his prisoners to escape (and apparently use the loo instead of just running for it and figuring out where they're going to pee and how they're going to get down off his flying fortress later)? And why are there robot monkeys throwing bombs on some of those toilets, and item capsules floating above others? ''[[FridgeLogic WHY??]]'' * I often fell like the Only Sane Man when it comes to my classmates. * This Troper once had to convince three of his coworkers that reindeer, were, in fact, real... * I am not only the Only Sane Man in my group of friends, I've also been designated "The Kindergarten Teacher" for the group. As in, I'm the one who has to tell them to play nice, share, not hit, and not shout obscenities at the top of their lungs. It's a tough job, but honestly, I think I'm one of the few reasons none of us has been suspended from school yet. * In my group of friends, there are 4 nutters, only 1 of which I could call a friend. Whenever I am stuck with these four, I instantly become this. * This troper feels like this in most of her classes, though its more of a variation--less OnlySaneMan and more Only-One-Who-Knows-WhatListen-Up-Means(many of her classmates can't seem to shut up when told, and yes, some of them do have shades of CloudCuckooLander). It doesn't help that most of said classes are taught by teachers who have some qualities of AbsentMindedProfessor. I'm hoping next semester's classes will be better. * Both played straight and averted with [[Tropers.SixTimesNine me]]. I'm the resident CloudCuckooLander, and at the same time I'm the only one who [[DudeNotFunny won't laugh at a disturbing/offensive]]/{{egregious}}ly [[MindScrew nonsensical joke]], [[ElephantsChild question anything odd when everyone else ignores it]] (such as a [[TheDitz normally airheaded friend]] learning [[{{UsefulNotes.Poland}} Polish]] seemingly overnight), [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[GrammarNazi obsessively correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation on]] {{Facebook}}.

* Being TheCynic makes me feel like this trope. * I'm almost always the Only Sane Man in almost every situation I'm in. Though in some cases, it's an inversion, in which I'm the Only Insane Man. * This Troper likes to invert it. If the way humanity generally acts is called sanity, then I'll quite happily be utterly insane, thank you. * Being a person with at least half a brain, it's not hard to understand why Tropers/BTIsaac feels like this on DeviantArt. That place is crowded with the most moronic rabble the internet has to offer. Well, not everyone can be as intelligent and rational as myself. * Despite being a CloudCuckooLander, I seem to be the OnlySaneMan in my school, because I don't actually spread the craziness to others. I just hold it in with myself, and try to calm down the more hysterical people. * Edgy is this to everyone (mostly women) in his life. I seriously need more guy friends who aren't douche bags. * I would just like to point out to all of you that naming YOURSELF the Only Sane Man just makes you sound like an arrogant dick. * I was actually called this by a few of my teachers (they used those words, too). I didn't think it was a very accurate description, though, since I could have my immature/crazy moments, like the other kids. * Everyone at her school thinks [[{{Tropers/Catstorm}} this tropette]] is one of these. Except she's not. She's probably the most insane of them all, but just with major self-control. But sometimes, you gotta be insane to be sane... * This troper, who is a cloud-cuckoo lander with depression (actually, that sounds like [[Series/DoctorWho Ten]]), often ends up saying some variant of "You people ''do'' realize that ''I'm'' the sane one right now, right?". His crazy is known (The CloudCuckooLander aspect much moreso than the depression), so this usually results in a recalculation by the guilty party. * This troper finds that whenever ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is mentioned, he's the only sane person. ---Go back to OnlySaneMan before you get pulled into a game of croquet inside the BigBad's throne room. ----

OnlySmartPeopleMayPass * This troper once included a puzzle in a ''D&D'' dungeon that required knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.) in order to complete it efficiently. His players, instead, managed a lucky guess. Fortunately for the plot, though, all that lay beyond was a boss battle that would get them one of the BigBad's six {{SoulJar}}s -- ultimately, this was an optional yet profoundly helpful task. Fortunately for the Dungeon Master, TheMole chose this moment to reveal himself and take off with it once recovered, making

the lucky guess ultimately worthless. * [[Tropers.AnnaTheCrow My]] friends' obsession are "cipher-games", where the team has to get to the goal by solving puzzles that usually involve morse code, flag code, binary, higher math and other insanities. As I am rather [[TheWatson average thinker]] who leans on intuition, I get very frustrated from time to time - but then, sometimes it's the FridgeLogic and intuitive thinking what can solve the riddle... * The second user account on this troper's computer is password protected, and the password hint is "password." If you're too dumb to figure out what the password is, I don't want you anywhere near my computer. (Hint: the password is "password.") ** I've always told people that the best password in the world is 1234567'''9''' ---Go back to OnlySmartPeopleMayPass. ----

OnMyHonor * During elementary school, the other class put on a play of ''Literature/OnMyHonor'' and between the lack of a plot and the horrific acting, it was enough to bore everyone else to tears.

OOCIsSeriousBusiness * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} I'm]] usually extremely energetic, a CloudCuckoolander, DeadpanSnarker (think of it like this, I'm quiet until I start talking, then I go on 7 different, increasingly random, tangents at once unless I'm just making snarky jokes). I also have a huge temper [[SirSwearsAlot that tends to have more]] [[ClusterFBomb Cluster Fuck Bombs]] [[BeyondTheImpossible in a minute than]] [[DistrictNine District 9]] and {{Dexter}} (total) combined. So when I'm depressed, it's easy to see. It's pretty much like you sucked all of what makes me me out of me. * [[@/{{Seiryu}} This troper]] has a few friends in my major, and one (no real names, but for the sake of clarity I'll call him Allen) posted a politically-related blog on his Facebook. One guy from our major (Bob) and a third guy (Chris) got into a heated debate over the blog, with Allen carefully staying out of it. After Bob came up to Allen in class and started complaining about Chris, Allen snapped and delivered a two minute rant about what a jackass Bob is, how good of a friend Chris is, culminating with the line "and you're not worthy to lick the mud off his goddamn shoes!" and walked out. This was big for a few reasons. #1) I've known Allen for four years. In all that time, he was a good-natured, humorous DeadpanSnarker, and had never lost his temper. #2) He's a devout Christian, and gently requests people around him to not use God's name in vain. Him using the word "goddamn" is like Gandhi going AxCrazy; the thought does not compute. ** Humorously, Bob is about four inches taller and a hundred pounds heavier, and was seriously shaken by this. *** Moral of the story: NEVER insult Allen's {{nakama}}.

* Boring example: I usually try to be chipper and cheerful, [[StepfordSmiler even when I'm not feeling so "sunshiney and daffodils"]] and all that crap. (If nothing else, I try to be [[DeadpanSnarker cheerfully sarcastic]] and [[HurricaneOfPuns incredibly punny]].) When I show that I'm down, my friends are almost guaranteed to ask "WHAT'S WRONG? D:" * This Troper is usually polite kind,and hardly ever loses his temper.He's also hardly ever serious,to where most of his friends [[TheTrickster can't really tell when he is or not]].There are very few times when he did loose his composure,and even then he was still holding himself back.He also talks [[TalkativeLoon non-stop]] so the very few moments he stops people tend to think something is up.Also the moments,when he takes charge of a dire situation,usually because I don't really want to lead people,and would rather follow/observe what someone else does. * [[{{Osakachan12}} This tropette]] is usually known as a MotorMouth, CloudCuckoolander and all-around StrangeGirl that never loses her temper. Once, however, one girl at my school kept thinking she was either an emo vampire or [[HetaliaAxisPowers China.]] Finally, at my patient's end, I snapped and went [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on a long, long speech/lecture]] on how she wasn't emo, goth, or China, and I had to be held back by ''three people'' so I wouldn't punch her. Everyone at my school was shocked; no one had ever seen me so livid before. From then on, no one ever, ever dared to get me angry for fear of someone not being there to hold me back from punching them and/or cussing them out. * While nobody seems to notice when Im down due to my [[{{EmotionlessGirl}} usual behavior]], when I get a [[{{SarcasmMode}} little too]] [[{{DeadPanSnarker}} snarky]], all the class goes crazy. * This troper is FriendToAllLivingThings personified. I'm the general NiceGuy of my particular set of friends, and I'm generally known as a saint. I'm also really, really coolheaded in stressful or tense situations, [[TheMcCoy and often the voice of moral reason.]] That said, once a former friend of mine threatened the living situation of a little baby girl by sleeping with the girl's father under the nose of his fiance, the girl's mother. When I found out about it, I immediately told the fiance. [[MoralEventHorizon When said former friend continued to try to manipulate the emotions of the two people]], ''literally not caring what happened to an entire family,'' I... well, lost it. [[BewareTheNiceOnes I dropped all pretense,]] [[TranquilFury and told this former friend in no uncertain terms]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes that I was going to kill her if the she didn't leave them alone.]] [[StartOfDarkness I was armed. And mentally begging her to give me a reason.]] I can tolerate a lot, but that pretty much took a sledgehammer to my BerserkButton. I resolved never to ''ever'' lose control like that again, but the family in question still remembers how far that event pushed me. ** But if you had never told the fiance, the girl's living situation would have been fine. So really, you were the one who put it in danger. ** [[SarcasmMode Right.]] Let a close friend get cheated on by her fiancee with a ManipulativeBastard who toyed with their emotions for

nothing more than sheer amusement. [[SarcasmMode Because infidelity totally doesn't destroy relationships as well. And keeping the mother in the dark about it is totally okay.]]

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OopNorth * [[Main/MeganPhntmGrl This troper's]] boyfriend is from Oop North, and considering that the troper in question is American, she has a really hard time explaining and/or imitating this accent when talking about him. This has a lot to do with the fact that, as far as most of her friends are concerned, BritainIsOnlyLondon. She finds the accent and the colloquialisms all extremely endearing. * This troper has been subjected to: "Oh you're from the North? Didn't you guys just get electricity?" ** This troper gets that all the time, and actively encourages it. * Subverted for this troper, who is currently living in Newcastle (on Tyne, not the other one) and frequently has locals inform him that ''Leeds'' is in the South. ** Oh snap. This troper doesn't want to be a southerner! ** There is a Leeds Castle in Kent somewhere. Once or twice, I've been stopped by tourists asking where the castle is. I point in the relevant direction and say, "head that way for about 200 miles, and ask again." *** I'm pretty sure that it's a truth universally acknowledged that The South begins ten miles below the speaker. This troper has never definitively settled whether he's from the north or the south, and makes do with "the East" (Hunstanton, in Norfolk, if you're interested. Dead level with Stoke.) *** The definition I usually go with is that the North starts around Manchester, and the South below Birmingham. The rest is the Midlands. * GracieLizzie is from Sunderland, she will correct you if you call her a Geordie. Also her accent is different to most Oop North as her parents sent her to elocution lessons when she was younger. She's been told she sounds "Posh" but she doesn't think so herself. * This troper, despite growing up in [[WaterlooRoad Rochdale]], tends to speak with a South Manchester accent acquired from his dad. This accent isn't much heard in the media, and certainly not in any context actually relating to Manchester, so most people can't place it to any more precision than "somewhere north of London and south of Newcastle". ** A true Rochdale dialect is a hybrid of Mancunian, Lancastrian and Yorkshire that's virtually incomprehensible to most people, ''including'' the troper's family - he was 3 when he moved there so was able to pick it up but they weren't so lucky. ''WaterlooRoad'' substitutes the East Manchester accent and dialect, which sounds similar but is a lot more understandable to people outside the area. ** Yay another Troper from Rochdale...I was actually on WaterlooRoad (as an extra) and talks completely different to everyone else from her

area, and acts and dresses differently-although growing up in Kirkholt, the land of the Chav, and being a PerkyGoth thats not hard. * {{Arakhor}} was born in the North, to Northern parents, but has lived almost his entire life in the South and considers himself a Southerner. Just saying. ** How dare you?! You make me sick. It's surely bad enough to be born a Southerner, but to CHOOSE that nationalty?! Yes, I know, but England might as well be divided up. * [[MonkeyPhysics This troper]] is from Salford. However, a combination of going to school in South Manchester and a couple of years living with a pair of Southerners has left him with an accent that can only be described as "generic Northern". He's just grateful for his stubborn insistence on not pronouncing "glass" as "glarse". * [[{{Rushi}} This troper]] is from Warrington. She does not have the usual Warringtonian accent (see: Kerry Katona, or...actually, really don't) but instead has a rather generic Lancashire accent, which tends to go vaguely Scouse when she's annoyed (due to having studied for a couple of years in Liverpool). ** Hey! Plastic Scouser >:D * [[Tropers/{{Fiwen9430}} This troper]] was born in Manchester but moved to Preston when she was 7. She lost her Mancunian accent but never really gained the Preston accent (which is relatively weak compared to surrounding towns anyway). Apparently her voice is now a lot posher since she spends termtime at Cambridge University, but she absolutely refuses to pronounce anything in a Southern sense. She does end up with people (often Americans) asking her if she is from Scotland or Ireland with regularity, and simple words like 'butties', 'dinner', 'tea' and 'brew' cause much confusion with her housemates. And no-one at uni gets why she dislikes Yorkshire: it's traditional (even though her Dad's Yorkshire)! ** Hey, fellow Preston troper. =) *** Hey fellow Preston tropers :D * This troper's from Sheffield, where you can say "love" to anyone. For example: ''"Excuse me lovie, where is the nearest bus station?''" Or, "''How much for this magazine?''" "''2 pounds, love.''" * [[{{Irrisia}} This troper]] was born near Wigan, and lived near Leigh for 16 years. After a lot of moving, she is now living in Preston. She drops a lot of h's, t's and g's, but doesn't have much of an accent otherwise. * I live way Oop North near Carlise, and to me most of the above examples aren't northerly. * This troper's from Birmingham, and thinks it's amusing that she got called Northern the other week by a disgruntled Londoner. She was famous at primary school for her half-Scouse accent, as a result of living in Liverpool until she was four and having a Scouse mom, although now she's pure Brummy * This troper is from Manchester, but thanks to being raised primarily by watching sitcoms like Blackadder has a strange hybrid of Southern and Mancunian. * [[Tropers/TaiCat This Troper]] been living in the UK for the past 3,5 years - almost 3 years she spend in Cheshire and Lancashire,where she is now.She really got used to people around here.Living few months

in Bucks she can easily say that Northerners are much friendlier,laidback and open than those from south. ** Unfortunately still bears some grudge against Scousers (most of those she met were total t*ats) and when drunk,often mocks their accent (good thing no Scouser heard yet a Polish girl do that or she would be sorry).Oddly enough one of her good friends is Scouse * This tropette's family is from Penwortham/Preston/Blackpool/Poultonle-Fylde/Banff(Scotland) and goes to sixth-form in Leyland. Anybody else from any of those places? ** Runshaw College? I went there for 6th form. And you'll find quite a few Preston/Penwortham entries above. * This troper is from the Wirral, or as I like to call it the [[BuffySpeak sticky-outey bit in between Liverpool and Wales]] and if you haven't heard of it, worry not, few have. Our only claim to fame, is a few TV people and a couple of bands ---Return to OopNorth here. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OopsIForgotIWasMarried * This troper had a boyfriend once who forgot that we had agreed to be monogamous. The relationship ended when he married another woman, and didn't bother to mention it for a week afterward. We haven't spoken since. ** ''Married'' another woman? Seriously? What, did he have to do that so he wouldn't feel guilty about sleeping with her? * The only girlfriend [[{{bserkii}} this troper]] has had never mentioned certain things, such as the fact she had an actual boyfriend, until after certain things had taken place, but not before [[AManIsNotAVirgin certain other things]] had taken place. Best part? The three of us actually ended up living together for a couple of months, and while she ditched both of us for a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys a 35-year old drugaholic]], her former actual boyfriend and I are great friends, even to this day... ** There's a sitcom in that somewhere. ** If you replaced "this troper" with "4 friends of this troper", and replaced "35 year old drugaholic" with "a third guy", you'd have my personal entry. * I'd gotten involved in a poly arrangement, pretty content to be the secondary, and was led to believe that her primary knew about it and was fine with it. Er, and then the early morning wake-up call from a mutual friend sympathetic to me warned me that he was on his way back, and the only thing he knew about me was rumors from friends sympathetic to him. ''Awkward!'' That little arrangement had 'doomed' written all over it. * This troper thinks these all sound like country songs in the making. * Not marriage, but [[{{chitoryu12}} this troper's]] best friend, Kelly, often forgets that she has a boyfriend. She's admitted she loves this troper more than her boyfriend anyway, and didn't have his

cell phone number, so she texted HIM instead to invite him to cuddle with her while she watched ''Dead Silence''. ** Look, I'm trying to stay calm. But grievous violations of logic anger me. So, ask her to leave him and hook up with her. Go. Do it. Now. Before I rob a bank and spend the money to track you down and make you do it. ** Sounds like you're being used. This troper has been in a similar situation that became much much worse. You need to drawn the line somewhere before you get hurt. Either your friend chooses or you get out of there. * This troper quickly explained that ... something the groom said outside his own wedding reception was actually said by me. Quick way to earn a favour. * [[OriDoodle This Troper]] has had dreams along these lines. Imagine her relief upon waking to find her Boyo snoring sweetly beside her. * One troper's parents had to go through three wedding ceremonies before their marriage was finally legal, due to problems with the groom's divorce from his first wife (troper has no reason to believe that he did not honestly think he was completely divorced when he tried to remarry). Troper herself got engaged in early adulthood, only to find out the "ex-girlfriend" her "fiance" was still hearing from was his ''wife''. Bye-bye. * The situation was somewhat subverted for this Troper. What happened was that we used to date and I knew at the time that he was in an open relationship. I didn't see her as much of a threat cuz he didn't love her and he made it clear through the way he talked about her. He ended up trying to dump me for her via Slow Fade Away but I got sick of it and dumped him. He went back to Michigan and [[JerkAss asked me for dating advice cuz he wanted to break up with his Primary for an ex]]. He went against my advice and broke up with her, only to [[JerkAss get back together with his]] [[TooDumbToLive Primary]] [[JerkAss when things didn't work out]]. About 8 months later we got back in contact and, since I was rebounding (HARD), I ended up falling for him again when he kissed me. A few days later I saw on Facebook that he was hitch-hiking back to Michigan so he could get his dog back, since he wanted to have the White Picket Fence American Dream life with his Primary. This Trope comes into play because I thought he was single. As it turned out, he wasn't. He was ENGAGED. The Trope further came into play because he told me he wanted to break up with her (we've known each other for a year now and the entire time he's been wanting to). I knew this, so I know he's not lying. However, he wanted to leave her to be with me and asked for a chance to show me. [[GenreSavvy I knew]] [[FirstGirlWins he wasn't]] so I decided to drop him. My story has a happy ending though because I'm [[EarnYourHappyEnding with a really great guy now]]. I just hope that Primary, for her sake, can drop him and find a guy who will treat her better, especially since she's engaged to a [[SerialRomeo Serial Romeo]]. * My sister was cheated on by her fiance (he was a private investigator, and cheated on her with a girl he was hired to find, who my sister knew in high school). Apparently he had told the other woman in question he and my sister were in an unofficial relationship and

that my sister dragged him engagement ring shopping when he wasn't looking to get engaged (the actual incident in question was merely a time-waster as they had to wait two hours for a bus, and my sister finds gaudy jewelry funny, and she made this clear to him, and they were already engaged at the time). He also said other things I'm declining to print here out of respect (but in a nutshell, he told the other woman things about my sister that no one but my sister and her romantic partner should know), but he tried to justify his cheating by alternately claiming he loved the other woman, he was on an adrenaline high after finding her and needed to relieve it, and that they had never agreed to be monogamous (he ''was'' kind of right here; they agreed no monogamy, but also that they had to have permission from each other to sleep with someone else, and my sister told him in no uncertain terms not to sleep with the other woman). All in all, my sister decided he was manipulative and dumped his ass (so did the other woman). ---Oops. I forgot there was a [[Main/OopsIForgotIWasMarried main page]]. I thought it was dead. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OpenHeartDentistry * This troper knocked one of his permanent front teeth out as a kid. There were no dentists of any kind open at all at that hour, so my parents had to take me to a clinic where they sort of looked at eachother, shrugged, crossed their fingers, and just ''shoved'' the tooth back into place. Miraculously it worked, and it's still in good health to this day.

OpenMindedParent * This tropers's parents are pretty much known for this among her group of friends. She once came home at 1 in the morning soaking wet from sneaking into the town pool and her mom was okay with it, as well as the time her mom HELPED move around the letters on a sign to spell cunt. And the time her dad bought a pack of wine coolers for her 14th birthday. This troper is never yelled at for anything but bad grades or getting arrested (It was a curfew violation!). * This Troper's parents had a different approach to underage drinking. Instead of the "NO NO NO NO NO!!!" technique, My parents realized that since they typically serve cheap beer at parties where there is underage drinking, they should introduce their kids to really expensive and fine liquor first, so the beer being served tastes like rat piss in comparison. Hence, the kid finds it disgusting and won't drink large quantities of the cheap beer. So far, It's worked! ** My father's father did something even better. What was it? He (my grandfather) gave him (my father) unfiltered moonshine when he was little. One little sip and any chance of my father becoming a drunk

was gone. ** what are they opinions about sex? ** this troper's parents used the same approach, they say they feel sorry for my future boyfriend because I have expensive taste. *** Hah, interesting juxtaposition there. * My mum had a friend whose father threw a graduation party for him and made sure there was plenty of beer and stuff around. The father tried his best to make sure no one who had drank got behind the wheel, but his main reason for the 'booze party' was that he could make damn sure his son wouldn't be put in a bad situation due to the alcohol. Personally, if this troper ever has kids and they want to drink, I'll give them the alcohol and watch them like a hawk. If they want alcohol at a party of theirs, I'll make a rule that anyone who comes in a car/motorised vehicle is not welcome inside and that my kid won't be leaving the house without me until sometime the next day. * This Troper, and his parents, are of the opinion that once you are old enough to vote, get married, and serve in the military, you are old enough to drink - so long as it is in the presence of one or more of your parents (and if you aren't one of their children, you need your parent's explicit approval). However, I don't drink at all, due to a primal fear of what I might do if my inhibitions were lowered. * When my brother was about 14 or 15, he asked Dad what drunkenness feels like. Dad's answer was a bottle of Jack Daniels. Dad also got a bottle for himself. * This troper's mother is (aside from being incredibly touchy for next to no reason) an extremely OpenMindedParent. Her guidelines are basically "call for a ride if you're drunk", "no pregnancy", and "[[MistakenForGay I don't care if you're gay]] [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage as long as I get grandchildren]]". There have been no warnings away from drugs and have in fact been veiled jokes about marijuana, the response to transgenderism was confusion at the angst over saying so (it was a result of confusion over something she'd said four or five months previously), and (like the troper's mostly-DisappearedDad) has numerous stories [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids that end in]] "...[[RattlingOffLegal but they have laws against]] [[HarmfulToMinors that sort of thing]] [[ValuesDissonance now]]" (mostly from the dad) or some less blatantly anarchist form of "DontTryThisAtHome", and the mother's [[PhraseCatcher caught phrase]] is practically "stop being an instigator!" It's probably fortunate that the troper has been about sixty years old [[BoringButPractical with the code of responsibility to match]] since at least the age of three. * This troper had a friend whose parents were evangelical about their desire to see all drugs legalised, and openly smoked pot in the house as well as giving it to both their children. It got to the stage where the troper would only go over there if she knew she could get home before her own parents, so they wouldn't smell the stuff on her ... * This fifteen year old troper has gone through depression twice, the second time working out virtually all (mainly intellectual - problems coping with the things she ponders [she ponders a lot]) issues that matter through a very painful process. Since then she has proven herself responsible academically, physically, socially, in that order.

She is a straight A student with rock hard abs, who handles stress well and is pretty laid back and open to new experiences, and recently had/has to help out a friend with issues stemming from abusive (in all ways but physical) parents, and has a good amount of close friends that she considers her most important asset. She also has shown her ability to cope with extremely negative content in both real life and fiction, because she holds a policy of not placing bars upon what she can and should, and can't and shouldn't know, while maintaining openness and skepticism, and handle teenage hormonal problems relatively well. She also tells her parents everything, because while capable of being a good liar, she extremely dislikes hiding things from people (friends and parents) as it places restrictions on the relationships. Anyone can know anything about her if they make the effort. As a result, her parents allow her to do virtually anything! She's allowed to watch anything, stay out late, etc. without being nagged to do homework or clean her room, because she'll do it regardless. * When I told my mum about me being {{Transsexual}} and [[BiTheWay bi]], she just figured that, "If you ever want children, there are plenty of single mums around!" * This is something my friends often find very strange. They always ask if my parents are alright with them coming over, and are shocked when I say I hadn't thought to ask them, and even more shocked when my parents walk in, greet them politely and move on with their day. When we were younger I always provided the alcohol for parties since my parents believed that it was better I discover and grow used to alcohol at home, or at the home of a friend, than in a club (but, saying that, they never had a problem with my going to clubs under age...). They're very lax on drugs (they don't outright support it, but they know me and my brother have dabbled and have never staged any sort of intervention or expressed worry). They never had an issue with my playing 18 games, or watching 18 films. Really, the only thing they really get mad over is excessive mess, not knowing where I am, asking for money and sleeping in the same bed as my boyfriend (but this is mostly because they saw their siblings struggle with teenage pregnancy). * My mom is like this. Since I'm 20 now, she can't really set rules for me anymore, but she didn't really do that even when I was still a teenager either. She was happy as long as I didn't lie to her and called her instead of walking home alone in the dark and stuff like that. She wanted to know where I was, but didn't really care what I was doing there (as long as it wasn't anything dangerous and/or illegal, of course.) Also, when I was seventeen and was in my first serious relationship, a friend of mine at one point asked where my boyfriend slept when he stayed at my house. Kind of bewildered, I told her that of course he slept in my bed, where else would it be logical for him to sleep? It became quite a funny situation, because she was shocked that he was allowed to sleep in my bed, I was shocked that she was shocked about that and later, when I told my mom about it, she was shocked because it hadn't even occurred to her that not all parents would be okay with that. * My friend's mom is like this. When my friend told her that he (17 at

the time) had lost his virginity, she said "Congratulations, it's about fucking time!". She also gets mad at you if you censor yourself from swearing in front of her. Or if you [[DontCallMeSir call her "ma'am"]]. * This troper's parents. They've offered glasses of wine at meals from a quite young age, causing this troper to discover he does not like wine much. They also, on special occasions offered drinks like eggnogs, rum and coke, margaritas, etc. I discovered that I liked sweet mixed drinks quite early. There's the time when I came home really high after midnight after driving around town with my friends in their van smoking pot(Yes, I know it was a bad idea but I was 17 and a junior in HS so..) and they didn't even bat an eye.(Granted, beforehand they must have assumed it was going to a party or something since they were like "Use a condom" and "don't get arrested" but still..). Hell, I even got a bottle of expensive german honey-flavored booze as a gift for my 21st birthday. Interestingly enough, I turned out to be less of a drunken nihilist in my freshman year of college* than alot of people I knew from stricter backgrounds. I had my big period of . Granted they _are_ ex-hippies and quite liberal so... ** Granted I did have a phase of that in 2008-9 and 2009-10 but I was still more functional than the average freshman at the party school I went to despite spending 3-4 semesters near-constantly drunk or high. * My holiday present to my dad? A bottle of VERY fine whisky. Which we shared. Apparently we even DRINK alike. His answer was a selection of VERY good beers. And there was the great conversation about smoking: "Did you smoke?" "Yep." "Don't let it be a habit, like we did ok?". When my friend told him sorry for letting me try a cigar he didn't even BOTHER, he just ribbed the guy. Best. Dad. EVER. * A conversation I had a few years ago with my dad: --> '''[[{{Tropers/Roarke}} Dad]]:''' "Now ----, I know you're at that age now and you're going to be trying a lot of things. Just be careful, keep your grades up, and don't get addicted. --> '''Roarke:''' "Got it, Dad. And don't worry. I won't be doing any harder drugs like crack or--" --> '''Dad:''' "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Now, now, you never know, I'm just saying.]]" * I think this might be me and my wife. A male friend of our daughter came out to us first to test the reaction people would have. Our reaction was, "So? Does he make you happy?" Relief was had. * This tropette's mom was very laid back. Her guidelines were: If you wanna date, you gotta be 15, I don't care if you're straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or omnisexual as long as you're happy, practice any religion you want, and no friends over unless house is clean and homework done. My dad was the complete opposite, but hey... opposites attract. ----

OperationBlank * This Troper has built two versions of the same potato cannon with one of his friends. The first version was built during [=Operation: OH SHI-=] and part of its air compression tank blew off and nearly killed

us. We rebuilt it and this time wrapped an entire roll of duct tape around it. The the rebuilding was dubbed [=Operation: OH SHI- BOOM=]. Of course, our back up plan in case of police intervention was [=Operation: Run Like Hell=]. * For a final group project last semester, This Troper named the excel spreadsheet it was stored on his flash drive Project Oui Knead NA. Say it out if you don't get it.

---It's time to head back to the [[{{Operation Blank}} main page now]]. Commence Operation: Tan Spider!

OperatorIncompatibility * My university has a hand scanner that's used in dining halls and dorms which ensures that the student ID card actually belongs to the person using it. It's specifically designed to fit the right hand. Which, of course, means you have to be manually checked in every time if you're a right-arm amputee.

OralFixationFixation [=* om nom nom* =] ---* [[{{Rogue 7}} This Troper]], after drinking a soda, will spend hours chewing on the straw. He will also chew on pens and the wires to his headphones. ** He's also got a really gummy strap to his watch that he is chewing on as he types this. ** Are you me? * [[FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] has a horrible habit of chewing on popsicle sticks, pen caps, and, her personal favorite-those little rings that keep the bottle caps attached to the rest of the bottle until you twist them off. She loves chewing on those little rings.. ** Are we related? I love those things. Rubber Bands are great comfort food. I bite my nails a lot, leaving behind hands like a builder.And my fingers, every now and again. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] is constantly sticking random smallish objects in her mouth, tapping them against her teeth (generally to the beat of a song), and brushing them against her lips. She also chain-chews gum when she gets it. However, she doesn't chew on non-food objects because she doesn't want to either damage her teeth if it's harder or leave bite marks in the thing she had in her mouth if it's softer. She also has a habit of putting her left hand up against the lower half of her face such that the prominent first knuckle of her middle finger goes in her mouth. * [[{{Azvolrien}} This troper]] has a tendency to gnaw on the caps of pens until they're really somewhat frayed plastic tubes. If she has no

pen, she has been known to chew absently on her hand. * [[JuiceBoxHero This troper]] will chew on permanent markers, straws, pencils, pens, nail clippers, pipe cleaners, and ''her own shirt collar.'' ** This troper used to have a shirt with a pair of ribbons on the collar. They were supposed to be tied into a bow. Instead, this troper always undid them to suck on them. ** This troper has, for most of his life, nibbled on the collars of his shirts to the point of destroying them. He's slowly getting better. *** [[{{Max}} This troper]], however, is ''not.'' He chews on his shirt collar, pens, pencils, those little rings mentioned above, his knuckle (left hand, pointer finger, always) glass, tic-tac box lids...tic-tac boxes in general (until they crack), his phone, the edge of cups, straws...papers, books, wrappers...hand towels, the tops to bottles of pills, the boxes games come in...there's more. Lots more. But...yeah... ** Up until around middle school, this troper would suck on her shirt collars, although only if she didn't care that much about the shirt. * [[{{ladybealzabub}} This Troper]] is very, ''VERY'' prone to this. If I'm handling things, or crafting, or drawing something will inevitably end in my mouth. Usually pencils or seam rippers or the like. I also absentmindedly chew on EVERYTHING, such as headphone cords, pencils, debit cards, hair, mp3 players, sleeve cuffs, zipper pulls, USB drives, the inside of my lips, etc. (I mutilate headphones on a regular business this way.) I have to be very careful and make a conscious effort to not do this with things like money. I also like to lick and suck on my teeth. * [[{{Quillpaw}} This troper]] chews on: pens, pencils, erasers, shirt sleeves, her school ID, house keys, car keys, her cell phone, her own hand, her earphone cord, plastic straws, plastic wrappers, tin foil (not now, thankfully), the lip of plastic souvenir cups, necklaces, bracelets, the strap of her purse, her {{Pokemon}} figurines, the container for her Pokemon figurines, her iPod belt clip, and her best friend's shoulder. I probably forgot some things... * This troper loves the lollipops with paper sticks, so that she can chew on them when she's done the candy part. Occasionally, there's a bit of flavour residue left and it's just so good. ** This troper is so glad that someone besides herself does this as well. Sometimes she goes to extremes and she ends up eating it too. She also has a habit of chewing on plastic straws (long after I'm done with them), necklaces, pens and pencils. She will even borrow someone's pen/pencil and ''subconsciously chew on it''. Nowadays, this troper prefers toothpicks. Good for solving the chewing problem, getting gunk out of your teeth, and making this troper feel {{Badass}}. * This troper chews on lollipop sticks, juice-box straws and toothpicks long after she's finished using them. she's doing it right now. Also, pens and pencils should be wary whilst she's thinking. * This troper used to chew anything small enough to fit his mouth, including bottle caps, those little things from soda cans, etc. He doesn't do it anymore, but now he is a nasty smoker.

* This troper will chew on his hair, his shirt-collar, the first knuckle of his finger, and any pens, pencils, straws, or popsicle sticks that get anywhere near him. ** Seriously. This troper is eating cough drops...and chewing the wrapper. And the bag it came in. He also has a roll of tape for the express purpose of chewing upon. And his shirt collars are not safe either...[[ItGotWorse Worse still]], smoking is practically hard-coded into his genetics...and he is desperately trying to avoid it, but if he can't find something to chew on consistently, he'll probably have to resort to smoking. Then getting his ass kicked by the rest of his family [[HypocriticalHumor for being stupid.]] * This troper went through about ten pens a month in secondary school because of this. Not so bad in sixth form and university, where chewing gum was allowed. ** ...and I'm actually chewing on my earphone cable right now. :/ * [[{{Cosman246}} This troper]] will chew on many '''''many''''' things, but especially likes sucking his thumb a la L. * This troper has several mechanical pencils designed to look like pens. Part of the illusion is that the eraser is covered with a plastic cap to make it look like a clicker. This troper has nowhere better to keep the cap when he's writing, so he chews on it. * This Troper chews on straws and toothpicks. It used to be worse though; she chewed on her shirts and even had a pillow she carried around that she resulted to a pile of rags. It also took her forever to stop sucking her thumb. * This troper is ''at this very moment'' chewing on the earpieces of his glasses. * This troper chews on the insides of her lips and cheeks (did you know you can pull off little pieces of skin?). She also cross-stiches a lot, so the thread cut-offs go into her mouth occasionally. ** [[HalcyonUmbra This Troper]] does that as well (biting little bits of skin off my cheeks) and it didn't seem the least bit weird until I thought about it like that. I also tend to pull little flakes of skin off my lips. *** Oh man. You too? It's an awful habit and makes your lips sore as anything but it's just ''so hard not to''. Especially if they tend to be chapped, as mine inevitably are. * This troper gnaws idly on pens and DS styli. He also has an RP character that eats pencils, but that's [[Main/SenseFreak another trope entirely.]] * This troper, when eating candy, eats everything. Including the wrapper. * When happening upon this page, this troper was chewing on a chopstick. * This troper has a laptop. She chews on that little metal thing that keeps the screen shut. Also, when in thought, she [[DeathNote bites her thumb]]. * This troper chews on or eats pretty much everything. The most common thing is fingernails and the skin at the tips of the fingers, where there's no nerve endings. I'll chew that off and swallow it, it doesn't hurt at all. I'll also do this for toes. Plastic bottle caps and yogurt containers can't escape either - I'll chew on the bottle

cap and bite pieces off (which usually causes bleeding) until there's only a small flat piece left, and all the chewed-up bits are laying at the bottom of the bottle. There's other things too - pretty much anything plastic or rubber is going to be eaten - but those are the main ones. * [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] is chewing on a straw as he types this. He also chews on pens. But what he's really obsessed with is Tic Tacs. He'll eat like 2 boxes a day unless he paces himself. If he runs out of Tic Tacs, he chews on the box. * This troper was a thumb-sucker as a kid. Since breaking that habit, she's become a compulsive chewer--gum and hard candy mainly, but she's also been known to chew pens, pen caps, headphone wires, telephone cords, ice, her shirt sleeves, and her hair (when it was long enough, at least). * Perhaps not as extreme as these other examples, but this troper must put everything small enough to fit in her hands, in her mouth. iPods, straws, water bottle tops- if it is either hard enough not to give or flexible enough to receive teeth marks, I'm there. I have to be, all the time. Apparently I channeled this into a character of mine with severe brain damage-- and Kluver-Bcy Syndrome, and puts not just the hand-sized things in his mouth all the time... IfYouKnowWhatIMean. But also, no, seriously. * This troper often doesn't even bother with pens and such, and just nibbles on his fingertips. This often results in a good collection of chew marks on his fingers. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] found that braces helped with getting rid of bad habits like chewing on writing utensils and fingernails...and now typically only chews on straws and similar things on the odd occasion. She does bite on her thumbnail on the odd occasion, and some objects do come close to her mouth and lips (such as the tip of her tablet pen or the end of her pencil). Whenever she has it, she'll treat Pocky like a piece of straw. * Halfway through reading this page, this troper realized she was chewing on a hairbrush. I wish I could say this was surprising. * This troper had a bad habit of chewing on board game pieces, specifically the deed cards in Monopoly. He'd deny it every time his older brother would call him out on it- even when the card was still in his mouth at the time. * This troper will chew on ''anything''. Bottle caps, pens, pencil, headphone wires, erasers, straws, her shirt collars, popsicle sticks, small pieces of paper, the ends of her glasses... Whatever she can get her hands on that won't kill her if she puts it in her mouth. It's definitely a problem. * This troper fit the description to a T about 6 months ago. Now I go farther: my pencils used to have obvious bite marks. Now, the eraser of a new pencil lasts for about 2 minutes before being eaten, and after that, I start in on the wood of the pencil, which actually goes down, and is far far cheaper than gum. * I chew EVERYTHING, but also have the habit of grabbing my best friend's arm and going NOMNOMNOM reallt loudly. * This troper is known to keep at least one toothpick in his mouth at a time (also known for hoarding toothpicks and mints from

restaurants), and he tends to chew on non-edible stuff, including: A bus seat, a plastic lunch tray, pens, the wrong side of pens, pencils, fingernails, straws, floss, mints, candy, plastic wrappers, headset wires, his toothbrush, paper, his coat, etc, etc. * This tropers sometimes does it with pens; when she has a drink with a straw, she keeps it until she gets bored; when her nails start to break, she finishes the job and chews them (considering that most of the time are let to grow free they tend to be at least one centimeter) Funny enough she doesn't have the habit to bite off the nails that aren't broken. * This troper was chewing on a plastic spoon when he came here. * Chewing on Eclipse mints and pen lids got this troper through his honours year * This troper often feels it necessary to chew something but has a distaste for putting inedible items in his mouth. Thus, when food is unavailable, chewing motions often continue automatically... until the lip gets caught in it and skin starts coming off. * Most of this troper's pens, pencils, highlighters and yes, even the ruler, have evidence of mastication. If I'm wearing a necklace either the pendant or the chain itself will spend half the time in my mouth and if all else fails, biting my own knuckles will suffice. * This troper goes for writing utensils, and if she is sitting in the bathroom for long, she'll chew on toilet paper. When she has a SO, she'll be licking and sucking on parts of them (yes, including that, but not in public), or just sit with their arm gently in her teeth while she is sitting with them. * This troper regularly chews on straws, pens, the sleeves of her jackets, toothpicks, hair clips, her thumb, paper clips, ice, forks... hell, it'd be quicker to list the things she ''doesn't'' chew. She once started biting a ''candle'' (unlit, thankfully), before realizing what she was doing. * This is the reason why [[{{Nausicaa}} this troper]] doesn't buy chewing gum that often. She'll chain chew the pack of gum; then if she doesn't have any afterwards, she ''will'' suffer from [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything withdrawal symptoms]] - chewing on pens, plastic bottles her bottom lip, her thumbnail la L - pretty much anything she can get her teeth on. No, she's not a smoker, but she did have braces for quite a while and still wears a retainer, so she's used to [[DoubleEntendre having things inside her mouth]]. * [[{{Winter}} This troper]] has at one time or another used pencils, pretzel sticks, and those little stirring things they give out at coffee places for this. He tends to hold the pretzel sticks like cigarettes for some reason. * This troper, at one point, had callouses on the pads of all ten fingers from chewing on them. She also has about four t-shirts where the collar is frayed beyond repair from chewing. She's mostly stopped now, though. ...Except for biting her nails. * This troper will chew on just about anything that goes in his mouth. Writing utensils, paper, nails, fingers, those cords that are on sweatshirts, and most commonly his thumb, la L (it does help with thinking). However, ever since getting braces, on or off, he can't stand gum.

* This troper will chew on anything made of plastic, and also pencils. If it tastes bad enough though, it gets left alone. She also still sucks her thumb, despite being 16 years old (to her great shame). * This troper chewed on paper clips for the longest time, although he seems to have finally kicked the habit. * This troper's GRANDPA has kept a toothpick in his mouth for as long as she can remember. * This troper chews on straws and pieces of plastic and whatnot. She also can't grow her nails very long because when she doesn't have anything else to chew on, she bites them. Sadly, the one time she did manage to grow out her nails, she caught them on something and it gave her a nasty bruise under her nail. * This troper chews on plastic spoons (the thin end, not the spoon part). * Tropers/{{Raekuul}} chews '''''everything''''' he can get his hands on. So far, this has included pens, pencils, earphone cord, the cleaning rod to his flute, ice, broken pen caps, a seat belt, and once even a sock. I also have no memory of writing this entry. * [[{{Magnezone}} This troper]] has a strange addiction to chewing on her right hand. Not left hand, nope; just right hand. (Never in public, of course...) * [[{{HolocronCoder}} This troper]] has a tendency to always chew on something. Mechanical pens will have that little plastic piece gnawed on until it breaks off, then the stub is attacked. Ice, bottle tops, cups. In fact, while reading this article, this troper caught himself chewing on his thumbnail. * This troper has an oral fixation. She chews loads of gum, even during school when it isn't allowed, gnaws on the wires of her headphones, and bites her nails and, occasionally, her fingers or lip. * [[AXavierB This troper]] likes to chew on rubbery or plastic things. After he got a new rubber chew toy for his dog, he decided to test it out for himself first. * This troper, like many others on this page, chain-chews gum whenever she gets the chance. When that's not available, she resorts to pencils, pens, bottles, straws, marbles, pop-can tabs, the edges of cups, and especially her fingers and fingernails. By fingers, I mean the cuticles and the edges on the sides of my fingernails. This makes them ragged, which makes them easier to chew. I also have the worrying and masochistic habit of picking my teeth until my guns bleed, particularly when I'm doing needlepoint and stick the (blunt) metal needle in my mouth. It's probably a bad sign that I kind of like the taste of my own blood. * The clip parts on [[SovietKitty this troper]]'s pens and pencils never last long, thanks to her obsessive chewing habit, and she absolutely mutilates straws. She also likes headphones, USB cords, hoodie cords, ribbons on shirts, the inside of her cheeks, thread (for sewing or just loose on her clothes), cups, keys, rings from soda bottles, bottle caps, and more dangerous things like sewing needles, safety pins, and knives. [[KnifeNut Oooh, the bigger the better with knives.]] Ironically, she hates gum. * Pens, a specific lego wheel (Nothing else would do) and especially a sweater or two I had that just felt so good between my teeth...

* This troper had a bad habit of chewing on the ends of pens.She would walk around with a pen in her mouth like it was a constant toothpick or cigarette,speak around it, and only remove it to eat.She could tell which was hers by the teethmarks.her father told her she was going to get ink poisoning.How?It was the cap! She finally stopped after glomping a friend and forgetting a pen was in her mouth and narrowly missed poking out said friends EYE. * Bottle caps are great to chew on. Aluminum cans are good too, but you've gotta be careful to not cut your mouth up too much. In fact, any kind of soft metal would be my chewing object of choice, though certain plastics are fine as well. * This troper hates the stubble in the corners of his mouth that he misses whilst shaving, and often yanks the hairs out with his teeth. Same with hair between the second and third knuckles on his hands. * [[{{Draga}} This Troper]] frequently chews on various things, either to help him concentrate or just because. The most chewed things include pens, pencils, T-shirt collars (causing most of This Troper's shirts to have holes in them), sweet sweet Pocky and glasses. * [[JET73L This troper]] plays with the following objects between his teeth and lips: Fingernails (and detached fingernail tips) finger segments (mostly if not always right hand), DSLite stylus (the original, he is obsessed about not losing it even though he has one black replacement that came with it and four multipack replacements of different colours), pens, bottlecaps (plastic and metal), bottles, knives, remote controls, unplugged cords, buttons and rivets, pins, candy cigarettes (pressed sugar sticks), marbles, toy cars, LEGO minifigs, jewelry (including the metal and glass parts of his watches), pencils, mechanical pencil graphite sticks, straws... So much stuff he's forgetting. He chews apart: Fingernails (and detached fingernail tips), knuckles (mostly right hand), pen caps, pliant bottlecaps, plastic bottles, bottlecap rings, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, chewing gum, beeswax, candy cigarettes, Slim Jim-style jerky sticks, dog rawhide strips and even a rawhide bone when he was trying to stop destroying the skin of his knuckles (made for dogs, not of), straws... He's a bit of a sense freak (aside from too many noises, certain loud tones, or strong/irregular lights), has Aspergers, and may be OCD, and has tried to find a specific habit that will help keep him from smoking (which he doesn't) and stop chewing his knuckles, without getting a bag pocket full of spittle. Annoyingly, many chewing gums dissolve or refuse to coalesce in the first place thanks to something in his saliva. * This troper finally realized how unsanitary it was to chew on everything in sight, and has managed to convert to chomping on small pieces of toilet paper, then discarding them. Gum just doesn't have enough resistance, dagnabbit. * This troper can't believe Dum-Dum brand suckers haven't been mentioned on this wiki at all. I've liked them for nostalgic reasons: back when I was a kid, the pharmacist would always hand out dum-dums to me and my siblings every time we picked up prescriptions...sigh... * This troper started chewing on her headphone cord almost as soon as she got to this page.. she also chews on her lips (until they bleed, if she's bored), Styrofoam cups, straws, sucker sticks, Ring Pop

bases, any necklaces that are long enough to get into her mouth, and when she was little she used to chew on her sleeves until they frayed. * This troper had a tendency to do this, or just do weird things with his jaw when he did have anything to chew on. Eventually he gave in and bought one of those 'safe for long term wear' gags just to keep from damaging himself. * this troper is almost always chewing spearmint gum. mmm * As a child, ThisTroper chewed on toys small enough to fit in her mouth, but large enough to not be swallowed accidentally. Nowadays, she continues to chew on straws, and the occasional pen. * You will never catch this troper without a lollipop in his mouth. EVER, except while sleeping. Maybe. This has been a fixated habit ever since I was in kindergarten. This actually led to a brief period of me being called "[[OnePiece Sanji]]" when I was in first grade. Seriously, I carry like 20 of them in my backpack over the school day, and I even convinced one of my teachers to make an exception to her "no eating" rule in her classroom for me. Somehow, my teeth haven't been affected by this. My girlfriend also likes to try and guess what flavor I've been chewing on, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. ([[DontExplainTheJoke She kisses me.]]) * [[{{Winter}} This troper]] favours the little stirring things found in coffee shops, both the straw-types and the little bits of wood. Once he gets a cup of coffee or tea, he'll just gnaw on the thing for an hour or two. * This Troper is currently drinking a sunkist, and when not at school always has something to drink. While at School he can be seen chewing on pens and other such things. He has been known to chew on Bottle Caps when other things are not available. Maybe there's a reason he loves the Most Comman Superpower? * This troper did not realize it until reading this page, but....she chews things a lot. If she encounters a straw, it will be gnawed down to a crumpled stump. She also chews her sleeves and, unfortunately, her nails. As for the non-chewing front, she constantly plays with her lips and sometimes puts her shirt collar in her mouth. She used to have a peppermint constantly in her mouth, but she wants to take up candy cigarettes instead, if she can find some sugar-free ones- they taste as nice as peppermints, and they [[RuleOfCool look a little cooler.]] * This troper will vacantly chew on bottlecaps from empty water bottles, on the sunglasses he never wears, and his hair-comb. * This troper's two friends, both smokers, now realize in retrospect that they simply need to have something constantly in their mouths-when they're not eating, drinking, or smoking, they tend to be chewing on pencils, wires, paper clips, Q-tips, bits of paper, the ends of their glasses...virtually everything. They've been doing this for as long as they can remember, so remember kids: If you like chewing on things that you really shouldn't, stay well away from your first cigarette. The nicotine won't get you, but the oral fixation will. * This troper puts everything to her lips, but never in her mouth. Glasses, pens, coins, jewelry, basically anything she can get her hands on. If there's nothing, she runs her fingers over her lips. * ThisTroper has tow variants on this - one where he constantly chews

on clothing, especially jumpers and shirt collars, to the point that they're wrecked and need to be thrown out; and he also likes to nibble on his Nintendo DS stylus when he's playing a game tokeep it handy. I personally think it looks badass hanging out of my mouth. >_> ** While not badass, I think it sounds rather... {{adorkable}}. * This troper has an awful nail-biting habit, which usually kicks in [[MustHaveCaffeine when she doesn't get her coffee]]. She'll also chew on writing implements, jewellery, iPod headphone cords, watch straps, shirt collars/cuffs, her hair, and her own tongue. She goes through a hell of a lot of lollipops, too. * This Troper is the poster child for this trope. Besides nail-biting, she has a nasty habit of chewing on her hangnails until they bleed. She does this constantly, never giving them a chance to heal. She has also been known to chew on her hair, her bottom lip, the inside corners of her lips, the sides of her tongue, sunflower seed husks, apple cores, popcorn kernels, bottlecap rings, pen caps, tea sachets, bobby pins, cinnamon imperials, necklaces, the straps on Wii remotes, iPod headphone cords, straws, and pencils. And she sucked her thumb until she was ten years old. * If anything small and thin is left in my possession long enough, it will end up in my mouth. ** On another note, I kinda have a sort of thing for...well, things involving the mouth. Objects in the mouth, actions with the mouth...ahem, but the point i'm trying to make is this: do I have an "OralFixationFixation Fixation"? * When worried, thinking, bored or distracted (among many other moods), I tend to chew on pens, popsicle sticks, my long fingernails, toothpicks, straws and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. I've gotten a lot of crap from friends for absently sticking just about any random object in my mouth. * This troper chews gum a lot primarily to try and stop himself from chewing on everything else. It mostly works but he still finds it a good idea to avoid having anything small and chewable (such as pens and watches) within easy reach. * this troper chews on straws due to his minor OCD. He also likes plastic rings of soda bottles, ripping the spikes off. I used to pick string off the hymes oft pants, but i replaced that with less destructive straws. * This troper chews everything. It's one of the only reasons she likes eating (aside from the fact that she'll die if she doesn't, of course). Oddly enough, though, she hates gum. * This troper is currently chewing on a teether made for toddlers, because they're made to be chewed on and last longer than shirts do. * [[{{Chihuahua0}} This troper]] licks his lips when he's nervous. * This troper loves himself some gum, but does have a habit of biting things to hold them when he needs both hands, which include everything from pens, to cups, to Sonic Screwdrivers. ** Not Sonic Screwdrivers! * This troper will chew on anything plasticy or rubbery, from your normal pens and erasers, to rubber stretchy sticky hands and that dangly window cord thing that pulls the blinds up and down. And right now she has the head of her toy wooden snake in her mouth, because she

doesn't have a pen or anything hand... Oh, and she constantly mouths her fingernails. She used to suck her thumb until she was seven and can't chew gum (Dental crowns, they might get pulled out), so her oral fixation got suppressed onto everything else. * This troper chews on his stylus while playing Nintendo DS. * This troper chews on gum constantly, and when that's unavailable then it's wrappers, straws, the sides of his mouth, candy, and/or paper. He sucks on the sticks of lollipops, chopsticks, and his wrist. He also frequently puts things (anything) on his lips. He also has been known to bite his friends. * This troper has been caught with various things in his mouth, including ''his own fingers'' in a very feminine position. * This troper used to chew the ends of pencils when she was in elementary school. (Switching to first person now) My mother told me not to... so I started biting my nails instead. I only managed to kick the habit last year (I'm 16 now). I've also sucked my thumb since I was a baby, I ruined my first pair of glasses by chewing on them, and I like to gnaw on my necklaces. * This she-Troper had a penchant for nibbling on plastic forks, necklaces, unfolded metal paper clips that touch a metal filling in her mouth, her pinky fingertips, the edges torn off of candy wrappers after eating the candy. Once or twice she has chomped gently on a loved one's forearm when cuddling. * [[@/{{Gumbal1}} I]] have a bad habit with plastic bottle caps. * This Troper will chew on any pen he has without realising it. And fingernails. And headphone cables. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick And strands of his]] WildHair. * This Troper seems to have full blown pica. any bit of plastic I can pick a bite sized piece off will be chewed on (not a single pen cap in the house) any loose thread will be plucked and chewed, any loose piece of paper or cardboard will be chewed and consumed, and generally anything malleable and flavorless will be chewed. * [[@/DeathToSquishies This troper]] used to have such a problem with this. I'd chew on everything from my hood strings to a pen tip. Halfway through middle school, the chewing lessened and now I only chew on a Fudgsicle stick after I finish it. My best friend has mentioned she can't ''stand'' watching people chew on popsicle sticks, though. [[{{Jerkass}} I plan to do it multiple times in front of her when we meet IRL.]][[hottip:*:On a related note, I should probably stop skimming through all the examples of [[TheProblemWithPenIsland chewing on pens]]...]] * This Troper chain chews gum. I've stopped doing that since my supply ran out(i.e. I got banned and I am broke)Not to mention candy and chewing on my thumb occasionally * I am actually an example of the sucking side of this trope {including at this exact second my glasses} and I have a weird tendency of falling for guys that I've noticed do this from time to time. Which got really interesting in one of my classes where me and the guy I liked would be sitting next to each other and I'd have a colored pencil in my mouth and he would have a sharpie. I was far more frequent than him though. * {{Tropers/kicking_k [[I]]}} used to suck my fingers obsessively

until I was nine, when I had to stop because I was getting braces on my teeth (possibly because the finger-sucking had caused my front teeth to shift...) I then shifted to playing with the braces (and their rubber bands) using my tongue, and also gained some weight which at the time I thought was down to eating more for this reason. I also used to rip pieces off the corners of pages and chew them. Strangely, all these habits have dissipated with th e years. ---Stop chewing on that mouse cord and go back to OralFixationFixation. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OrificeInvasion * Troper {{Brainpaint}} has had this happen several times to her in {{real life}}. A wasp flew in her right ear when she was six, a large moth flew into her mouth when she was 12, an ant crawled onto her food when she was 16 and proceed to crawl around the inside of her mouth when she put it in it (neither of the last two were swallowed, luckily). And MULTIPLE beetles flew into her left ear during one incident when she was 20. ** Are you sure you're not just ''The Insect Queen!''? *** I concur, try ordering them to do your bidding next time. * This troper was playing soccer. He bent down to pick up the ball. A fly flew UP HIS NOSE. And the best part? [[spoiler: It died in there]]. * This troper's new kitten has a habit of coming and cuddling up on my chest. If I try to talk to her, she sticks her paw IN, not just on, my mouth. ** Translation: "Human no talky. Cuddle time is now." * [[{{Turtleducks}} This troper]] has actually ''had'' an earwig ''in her ear.'' Needless to say, she's [[NightmareFuel afraid of earwigs even more now.]] ** Yup. That is how earwigs got their names, but it happened much more frequently in olden days when people slept on straw mats on the floor. It still happens in modern times, usually at night. But aside from causing distress to the person and potentially irritating the sensitive tissues inside the ear, they cause no permanent harm. They don't "burrow into the brain" as the old urban legend goes. I don't particularly like them either but I do find them fascinating as they make for very interesting subjects for study given their unique niche in the insect world. The bottom line is that the benefits to having them around us more than outweighs the occasional unfortunate incident where they mistake a human ear for a good place to sleep. ** A potential complication is that if someone is frantically trying to remove the insect from the ear (flusing with mineral oil (or water) is the recommended removal method, by the way), they may unintentially kill the insect without being able to fully remove it and this may lead to infection of the ear. * This troper once had an ant in his belly button. Reminding him of that scene from The Matrix.

* This troper once had a tick in his ear. * When this troper's sister was little (about 4 or 5 years old), she had a habit of putting tiny plastic balls inside her nose (it seems all little children do that...). There was this time when I actually saw her doing it, but didn't react on time and she stuffed the plastic ball into her nose... which prompted me to, well, play this trope straight. I actually succeeded in pulling the ball out. With my finger. I still feel weird when I think about it. ---You can enter OrificeInvasion through any way you want... I don't want to know. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OriginalCharacter * [[{{Tropers/Dragara}} I]] have my own {{Teen Titans}} OC (I named myself after her, and admittedly, she was originally a self-insert {{Mary Sue}}... But [[IGotBetter she got better]] over my four years or so of working on her story). Now if only I could get around to actually WRITING her story as a comic. Although since it's got CanonxOC in it with Beast Boy, it might get some real hate from Beast Boy/Raven and Beast Boy/Terra shippers (both couples I can't stand, and not necessarily just because of my personal OTP). * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] created an OC for his (at the moment of writing, only published) fanfic. It's a BuffyTheVampireSlayer fanfic and the character exists solely to pull off the idea of the fic: a cashier thinking about the Scoobies and the strangeness of their shopping habits. Link on my profile, I can't really say if it's BetterThanItSounds, I always worry my creations are shit. * This Troper has over thirty OCs for {{One Piece}} * I would think one setting in which OCs are perfectly valid is Pokemon, as I see the world as much more the point of the story than Ash and Co. Same goes for anything where you're essentially telling an unrelated story in an established setting that's interesting in it's own right, Rowlingverse, Avatarverse, The 'Verse, etc. ** Part of the beauty of Pokemon is that in the games you essentially are an original character. [[{{HelloInsertNameHere}} You name them]], you pick their team and you get to fill in all the dialogue for them because [[{{heroicmime}} you never get to see what they say.]] * SenshiSun here, introducing [[FanFic.TheLostGirl a cast full]]. * My preferred way of writing fanfiction is to make up an OC protagonist (always, to some degree, based on myself) and stick her in my current favorite movie/book/series, then just have her interact with the characters and see how things play out. I've gotten a couple of really good fanfics out of this method; my current one is absolutely riddled with OC's, since the canon cast is too small to do much of anything with in the way of dramatic chapters-in-the-tripledigits epics, and it's so much fun to write! * Almost every chapter fanfic this troper has ever written has

featured at least one OC, both main and minor characters. * [[Tropers/FreeRadical I]] tend to do this [[{{Understatement}} a lot]]. Here's the list: ** ''Forgive Us Our Trespasses'' (''FullmetalAlchemist''): *** Vengeance: [[SailorEarth the eighth homunculus]], [[{{Jerkass}} mostly a bitch]], [[MadeOfPlasticine takes the brunt of]] [[BloodyHilarious gorey comic relief]], [[JerkassWoobie and can be seen as sympathetic]]. *** Raven: [[{{Meganekko}} Dons a pair of glasses]], [[BrainyBrunette typical]] [[ShinyMidnightBlack bookish type]], [[YamatoNadeshiko more reserved one]], [[LadyOfWar uses]] [[PaperMaster paper]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser as a weapon]]. *** Josh: TheOneGuy [[TheBigGuy who compliments]] [[{{Foil}} Raven]], [[DishingOutDirt uses "rock alchemy"]], [[DumbMuscle not all that bright]], [[NiceGuy really nice person]]. ** ''[[FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal]] [[EdEddandEddy Eds]]'': *** Calla: An [[DarkSkinnedBlonde Ishbalan]] [[HeartwarmingOrphan orphan]] [[DeadpanSnarker with]] [[LittleMissSnarker an]] [[{{Kuudere}} attitude]] (and a [[DarkAndTroubledPast sad backstory]]). [[TheQuietOne Not much of a talker]] and [[TheStoic not all that expressive]], but gets over her [[FantasticRacism hatred of Amestrians]] [[CharacterDevelopment later on]]. Rounds out a FourTemperamentEnsemble with the Eds as the Phlegmatic. [[TheSchemer Eddy]] [[VitriolicBestBuds fights]] [[HilarityEnsues with her]] [[{{Understatement}} a lot]]. ** Possibly more to come... * [[{{Tropers/Mort08}} I]] have ten original characters as the heroes of my little fanfiction-esque Multiverse, most of them children of the pre-existing characters that already populate it. At first they were just four one-dimensional figures who were there for the sole purpose of creating a continuity, but then they grew personalities and got so fun to work with that the original group of main characters kicked themselves out of the universe and let the new guys take their place. ** The first of the original four and the main heroine is Florence, or "Flower," a ChosenOne who was declared a [[{{InNameOnly}} "princess"]] and locked away by the regent of the kingdom because she wanted to BreakTheCutie and make her blindly obedient so when the time came for her to receive her special powers (in the form of a magic necklace,) she'd do whatever the adults wanted. But she found the necklace herself and not knowing what it was, accidentally awakened its powers. In the origin story that follows, her friends guide her in mastering her powers and she proves herself to be the ChosenOne by using her new abilities to save the day. Then she deals her so-called guardian a HumiliationConga, returns to her family and friends and gets to be princess of the kingdom for real. The subsequent stories are about her learning to be a queen. [[{{Understatement}} It's interesting.]] ** Then there's Dixie, the seemingly Ditzy SouthernBelle [[{{HiddenDepths}} who has done extensive studies on pretty much every great general you can think of and is the group tactician.]] She's also Flower's closest friend and the niece of the regent character, who keeps trying to get her to become {{The Mole}}, with no success. Occasionally she serves as a spy of sorts to let Flower know what the

regent is planning for her. ** Oliver, the BadassBookworm who knows philosophy, kingdom history...and kung fu. He has a crush on Flower and eventually becomes her VictoriousChildhoodFriend in a pretty epic RelationshipUpgrade. There's a MentorShip involved; they were always close, but they really started falling in love when he taught her kung fu and she later taught him {{Flynning}}, both of which ended up saving the lives of their respective students. ** Rose, last of the original four, is TheBigGuy of the group. She's very protective of her friends, to the point of being a platonic {{Yandere}}. If it weren't for the others, she probably would totally lose her mind and goes into SanitySlippage when she thinks something bad's happened to them. She was adopted by Flower and Winston's family and has no idea where she's really from. One story is about how she and her friends go on a journey to discover her origins after she dreams about what she believes to be her homeland. She becomes completely obsessed with finding her family, causes a lot of trouble for her friends and abandons them when they try to bring her back to her senses. After realizing MyGodWhatHaveIDone, she rejoins the group and ends up saving their lives. When all is said and done, her friends offer to let her go out into the world to find her family, but she says that Flower and Winston are her family. ** Tabitha, nicknamed "Blossom", is a young girl (9 to 12 over the course of the story) who's been BlessedWithSuck in the form of telepathy and the ability to see the future through horrifying nightmares. She becomes the target of dark forces because of this, which ultimately leads to the loss of her power. Not that she actually minds... ** Christie is a {{Dhampyr}}, and proud of it. She's also a bit of a NightmareFuelStationAttendant and NightmareFetishist, seeing as how her first solution to nearly everything is to suck the enemy's blood (which she never actually does.) She can go out in sunlight, but loses her vampire abilities when she does so. She will also lose these powers if she doesn't drink blood, but luckily there are NoCartoonFish. Unusually, Christie doesn't have {{Wangst}} about her vampire half...in fact, insulting it is her BerserkButton. ** My personal favorite is Winston, Flower's older brother. He starts out as a single-minded DitzyGenius whose dream of being a great hero constantly brings trouble down on his companions. Eventually (read: after his actions nearly cause a human-vampire {{World War III}}), he somewhat learns his lesson and before long, [[{{ObfuscatingStupidity}} his stupidity is obfuscated]] and he's the most GenreSavvy member of the group. Is Type 2 VitriolicBestBuds with Christie and often falls victim to pranks of hers. He's the leader of a separate RagtagBunchOfMisfits and frequently has adventures of his own. * this troper has many, many oc's that he creates for comics that are shared among friends for entertainment. a few of my favorites are ** [[TheDanza Forate]]: an {{Idiot Hero}} and {{Chaotic Good}} who weilds a [[SinisterScythe scythe]]. he also controls [[ElementalPowers the element of]] [[BlowYouAway air]] ** [[FriendToAllLivingThings Maloa]]:an [[TheCutie adorable]] [[CuteMonsterGirl anthropomorphic]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter sheep]]

who controls her [[LivingShadow shadow]]. she is [[MemeticSexGod loved by every living thing she meets]] ** Bamboo: a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin panda]] who is thinner than other pandas and controls [[GreenThumb nature]]. he [[TheVoiceless NEVER TALKS]]. ** [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[TheSmartGuy Len]]: he is [[Invisibility invisible]] [[AwesomeButImpractical for no reason]] whatsoever. he's only noticeable because he has 2 guns and wears a top hat, a pair of [[StealthPun glasses]] and a shirt. he also has the voice of the [[TheManYourManCouldSmellLike man your man could smell like]] if he wants * This user of the TVTropes website is an interesting case. Although I don't place my OCs in any pre-established pop-culture universe, I started coming up with them in kindergarten, and sorta... never stopped. In fact I have so many OCs that I can't even remember a large deal of my original ones. Basically, there's a full universe (OK, city) that I have to tend to in my brain. Guess it explains why I don't care all that much about socializing in the real world... ** Sounds like what I did when young, except the city was a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover with whatever cartoons at the time I felt were cool, plus enough original characters to fill out bits I thought I needed. (Or when I'd twisted a canon character so far out of line that I just said 'hell with it' and reinstated the canon character as him- or herself again). The effects of this are pretty much some names I cycle through when I need original characters (based on either original originals or modified canons), and..well, OK, FurryFandom, too. Even tried writing something on it once. Fortunately, this was before I was online, and on an obsolete system, so that OldShame is pretty much gone. *** Same here, with regards to the writing them down part. I instead focused on drawing my stories, or rather drawing the highlights (and mostly leaving out the questionable bits), which after about 6 years, resulted in a 7.5 inch tall stack of drawings. This is, however, not counting all the pictures and comics I made as a kid (in which I actually told the whole story, dialog and all), which should be an equally impressive paper collection. * This troper enjoys reading and made up a character who is Dracula's son. As usual his name is Vlad. Great minds think alike. A bit of Our Vampires are Different: Why? A few reasons. 1)He turns into a flying fox which is a fruit bat. Okay there was a book like that but I thought of it before I read the book. 2)He was born like any human baby, not turned (was always a vampire) 3)He is completely alive just has a really long life span (1000 years)(Currently 14 years old) 4)Vlad would like to go to church but can't get in. 5)He cannot turn other people into vampires (nor wants to) 6) Vlad is on our side but only drinks human blood (Don't worry, he doesn't need all of it) By the way, I found a way to make both Dracula and Twilight work. You know how people have genetics? Well, vampires have supernatural genetics hence why Vlad burns in the sunlight and Edward sparkles etc. * [[{{Tropers/TroperRoxas}} I]] have a few [[TouhouTsukuribanashi

OC's]] for {{Touhou}}. I try and avoid Mary Sue traits as much as possible, such as avoiding serious connections to canon characters, making sure that they are beatable (to the point that, sometimes, they really shouldn't be winning some fights...), and developing them as the story progresses. Let's hope I succeed in that endeavour.

OriginalGeneration * This Troper recalls the fanfiction he made with another friend on how due to the Original Generation being too strong for their own good as well as being MarySue that they need a faction who is out to wipe them from existance and then delete themselves for tainting that reality. * Gareth and Elyssa from my crossover fanfic TroperWorks/FateMegamiAtelier. They initially appear to be the typical JRPG hero and heroine, but [[DecoyProtagonist the former dies at the end of the prologue]] and the [[BreakTheCutie latter sinks straight down into depression]] because of this. ---- <<|TroperTales|>>

OrphanageOfFear * From what I have heard, orphanages (especially inner-city ones) are full of the unpleasant sort of child that joins gangs. There has been more than one account where there were fights over ''food''. ** You never went to public school in a major city, did you? It's the same thing, only most of those kids have at least one parent. *** Actually, this troper has, and he lives in a fairly large city. It's just they they don't have parents is what separates them from annoying gangbangers in your average underfunded hellhole. * [[{{soojinyeh}} This Troper]] was in an institution (for foster kids with extra needs). Kids would throw bricks at the window, beat each other with brooms, and there was a time when eight girls ganged up on one. One time a girl started beating on me while I was sleeping, I've been jumped on by three at the same time, had my nose broken, burned people, and beat people with rocks. The staff are more emotionally manipulative and judgmental than anything else.

OrphanedPunchline ...so he says, "Five dollars, same as in town." ---* This troper's mother walked in on me and my sister having a discussion. Right as she came in, I uttered the line (completely apropos [[ItMakesSenseInContext so long as you'd be following the conversation]]) "You can't make it against the law not to wear a tuxedo!" Cue uproarious laughter from my sister... And a "What the ''hell'' are you two talking about?" look from my mother. * One from a conversation [[{{Scrounge}} this troper]] had with his family recently. After an irrelevant anecdote the results of which

could be seen coming, it was mentioned that some punchlines sometimes wind up being obvious enough that the rest of the joke seems superfluous. This troper offered "And so the dog says, 'Who's Jimmy Hoffa?'" as an example. His father remarked that he'd like to hear the rest of that joke,at which point the troper was forced to admit there ''was'' no rest of the joke, and the punchline was made up. * This troper and a roommate were discussing ''JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' and the inevitable changes a prospective movie adaptation would ''have'' to make. Another roommate walked in just in time to hear me say, "You know, because of all the penises." * Oh boy, is this troper ever subject to this all the time. A particular gem was a conversation that ended with "so I think it'd be best for all mankind if we didn't name the candle Enrique," much the to surprise of a late-arriving friend. Or maybe it's because he has weird friends; he once walked up on a group of his very bored friends trying hard to dig a large hole in the ground using a ten-foot long piece of very narrow CPVC. ** ''Excellent'', another use for a 10 foot pole. ''* Makes note on character sheet* '' * This troper has a group of friends who play this as a game called "Emplae". A point for making a bizarre comment when a newcomer comes close enough to hear the conversation, with bonus points for visible reaction, appropriateness to the conversation, etc. * This troper and her friends do this a lot. One of our StockPhrases might as well be "I came in at the wrong time, didn't I?" Also fun to do in public places - we like to go into random, just-this-side-ofnaughty topics just as a group of passersby come along. It's quite fun watching middle aged ladies react to the sentence "Yes, but ''why'' was your dog in bondage gear in the first place?" * This troper started paying attention to a conversation before class just as someone was saying, "...so they take a live duck and beat it against the table six or seven times." ** Additionally, he and the other members of his D&D group have taken up doing this whenever returning from a one-on-one with the DM. "...36 points of acid damage!?" * TheAristocrats! * This troper was at a coffee house and was fortunate enough to be present when the conversation died down and someone at the next table over said, "And that's when he gave me chlamydia." * A regular occurrence in this troper's circle of friends, when people start listening in during dinner conversations. Choice examples include: -->"But I like cannibalism!" -->"I'm going to marry [Insert Friend Name Here]!" (Marry was intended to mean preside over the wedding, but...yeah.) -->"You're picturing Y in skin-tight leather?" -->"...so, I don't see people picturing me naked as a problem." (Yours truly said that.) -->"...and that's when X came out of the closet." -->"You were contemplating what your babies with Y would look like?" (Both Y, and the person being asked, are men.) * This troper was once having a conversation about the phases of the

moon with a friend while walking somewhere with a very noisy group. Cue the group quieting just in time to hear her say "But I really like it when it's waxing- it's just so pretty!" Awkwardness ensued. * Back in the day, this troper and his friends used to use "So I called him up and said "No! You get your own damn monkey!"'. * [[{{Haven}} This troper]] once [[InvokedTrope deliberately set this up]] by explaining something to a friend while another friend nearby wasn't listening, and then concluding his otherwise boring explanation with the completely sensible "So basically, the government bought me a Wii." * [[JethroQWalrustitty This Troper]] was at a wedding as a kid, and heard a guy in the catering say to another guy "Oral sex, eh?" (rough translation from finnish). Found out a few years later which joke it might be from (hint, Neil Armstrong, Mr. Gorsky). * {{Skazka}} must be dissuaded from doing this in class. If I can't quote the filthier jokes to my classmates, I can certainly (and quite casually) drop references thereto. Also, whilst walking in the hallways, you only really hear bits and snippets of conversation... by far, the best of these has been 'Well, I think he's sexy but she' (she being me) 'thinks he smells like a burning diaper' and completely non sequitur from a serious discussion, 'How old is Liza Minelli?' Also, apropos of nothing, '[[TheProducers Adolf Elizabeth Hitler?]]' In stereo. * Oh god, this troper had ''far'' too many of these in his vo-tech programming class to even bother keeping track of, or remembering. It was just a general rule-of-thumb that you avoid entering a conversation partway through. * This troper has an ongoing story with a character from Ireland. Her dialogue often consists of OrphanedPunchlines about leprechauns, e.g. ::"So this guy sees a leprechaun in yellow knickers and a top hat..." * This Troper and his friend would do this intentionally just as a person was nearing us purely to see their reactions. * There is very little you can do to redeem yourself after somebody has just walked in to hear you say "if I wanted to, I could play with Aaron's balls", or "You're just jealous because my iridescent panties are so pretty." They made sense in context. Really. * This troper was at a class party full of cheery, GenkiGirl 15-yearolds-- all talking about ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', the movie of which having just come out. (This troper was among the ones who had attended the midnight showing. Scoff not.) So we were all babbling away happily about our tween fluff when there was one of those sudden, inexplicable lulls in our conversation, which had been at top volume before, near shouting-- right when one ''reeeeeally'' unlucky girl happened to say with the biggest, sweetest smile on her face, "Remember when [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Carlisle]] ''RAPED EDWARD''?" ... needless to say, crickets. Then really uncomfortable laughter. Then more laughter. That phrase may well become this troper's catchphrase. * I am perpetually early to gym class. One day me and a friend were the first to in, and we got into a conversation about miscolored {{Pokemon}}. another friend walked in to find us both changing and me saying, "Yes, but mine isn't green!". he misunderstood, leading to a

[[DoubleEntendre very television example of a description of my story which could be taken the wrong way by many a bystander.]] * Thanks to a somewhat too large ego, this troper tends to drift in and out of conversations when they are not directed at or about him. This has led to somewhat strange places to enter discussion. Favorites include: ** "That dog isn't blue!" (no dog is in the vicinity) ** "Harry would RAPE Ron!" ** "No, America is NOT a democracy!" ** Too many to count... * [[SciFiChica This troper]], like the above, is an absolute MASTER of these, especially the ones that make her sound like a perv when the conversation was actually completely (well, or mostly) innocent. Some examples: ** "Periods? I thought you guys were talking about sex?" (not mine, but a friend of mine) ** "I love waxing" (The phase of the moon, dammit!) ** "It was the hugest stick I ever saw." ** "So then I had to fish it out of my bra..." * [[SomeSortOfTroper This troper]] caught an orphaned punchline from a professional comedian. I was walking into the tube station while Sean Lock was walking out pushing a pram, accompanied by another dad doing the same. I would probably not have noticed if I hadn't heard, just as I walked by: ---> like a German border guard, GrrwRwhRwhRrwwrr The other guy found it hilarious. * [[DokEnkephalin This troper]] had a friend who would suddenly take a conspiratorial gossipy tone with someone he's talking to when noticing me approach and mutter something like, "Don't tell lies about him -he doesn't like ''bread''!" and then look over at me as if genuinely noticing me at that point, with an "Oh, it's you!" As he was someone who liked to reuse jokes, he became predictable, obviously did it to others, and at one point told me the whole joke. --->"You know, they say you like to eat shit sandwiches, but I told 'em they were completely wrong. I told them you don't like bread." * [[DokEnkephalin This troper]] also had an amicable antagonism with a gf's father, and we were often dropping random lines full of suggestion; his were usually about rednecks with guns, Deliverance camping trips, and survival cannibalism; mine were about meeting smack dealers and taking his daughter out to turn tricks, and making fetuses to sacrifice to our Dark Lord. * This troper and her sister were channel-flipping one day, when we landed on a children's TV show. As they flicked onto the show, we arrived just in time to hear a [[TalkingAnimal Talking Squirrel]] say: "That's a hoppin' good idea, but unfortunately, monkeys can't hula!" We don't even know if it made sense ''in'' context, but we broke down laughing anyway. * This troper is still trying to work out the context for the snippet she heard while innocently shopping. "So she never learned to pole dance, and then someone drove a 4WD through her back fence." * [[{{ptitleub9rpzs6}} I wrote a few]]. ** "...and that's when it hit me: ''I'm'' the reason the Europeans

[[{{Eagleland}} hate us]]. * This troper's sister is fond of exclaiming, in a thick Scottish accent, "I'm not shearin' this sheep with anyone!" She swears she doesn't know the rest of the joke, and has claimed that the punchline came to her in a dream. ** This troper hasn't heard the joke either, but suspects it goes as follows: [[spoiler: A tourist is walking through the Scotch countryside, and notices a native in a field, examining a sheep in great detail. The tourist hails the native, and asks if he's shearing the sheep. The punchline is noted above. ]] * While looking at a website's shoutbox, this troper scrolled up to see what the least recent shout was. What was it? "I can tell, I've seen worse stuff. Still, it amazes me he managed to capture [[RuleThirtyFour zoophilia and pedophilia in one artwork.]]" This troper is both [[{{Squick}} very happy]] and [[BileFascination very disappointed]] that she missed out on the conversation leading up to that. * After everybody stopped talking in English class, [[{{this-guy}} I]] heard: -->'''Stephanie:''' More like, thrown into a fan. -->'''Garrett:''' Well, yeah, a couple times. * [[FearTheWolf This Troper]] has been a few IRC rooms where I managed to rope the other people in the room into playing a prank on the next person to come in where I spouted an orphaned punchline and they acted as it were funny. Anyone with the brain to use the /back or /backtime commands could figure it out, but those people were surprisingly few. ** As an addendum, someone who knew I use this trick "walked in" on one occasion when the chatroom really was going nuts. ''(Something about using [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01515.htm a dirigible, two ducks, half a ton of explosives]], a condom, burnt toast and emergency plans 427, 893 & 175 to move the {{Playboy}} mansion to Luxembourg, then using that, a hypercube and violin kata, we could secure control of the internet. Need I even say NoodleImplements?)'' It took him some time to realise we weren't trying to pull the trick on him and we had been talking that madly before he had even come in... ** I've done something similar once in a chatroom when someone announced they were leaving for a few minutes. The orphaned punchline was something like "and the strange part was that it wasn't even a real raccoon". The twist was that I got everyone to act squicked about it instead, and then refused to explain when he asked about it due to the horrified reactions of everyone else. I did eventually fess up of course. * This troper heard "I hate this flooring, I put meat on it," from someone walking past his room in on-campus accommodation. * When this Troper was in high school there was naturally an annual school play. He can't remember the play in question but that's not important.\\ One scene was set in a pub. As part of the setting a group of walk-ons were sitting around one of the tables to the side, and one was standing at the bar collecting a round of drinks. There was no scripting for them beyond general "pub conversation" directions, so

during rehersals what they got into the habit of this: immediately before going on stage, the guy at the bar would start telling the others a joke; the scene would shift, they'd take their positions, and when the lights came up he'd collect the drinks, start walking back to the table, and deliver the punchline as he approached.\\ He told a different joke each night, so the group's reactions were spontaneous and each audience heard a different punchline. * This troper and his girlfriend were having an animated discussion in a supermarket about various things that would result in DrivenToSuicide moments. As we came around the endcap of one of the aisles, I said "if you did that, I'd shoot you in the head then shoot you again just to make sure you died." The look on the poor grocerystock girl in the aisle was ''priceless.'' * This troper has a classmate who likes to give random orphaned punchlines to invoke this trope. * Just now, [[{{Lilfut}} This Troper]]'s friend walked into class saying "...and all the penises! Why is it always about penises?" ** He also, while having a conversation about Rule34, caught his friend with "Elmo love sucking cock!" *** And to top them all: ---->'''[[{{Lilfut}} This troper]]:''' (During a conversation about his friend's... [[OedipusComplex promiscuous]] guinea pigs) Guinea pig incest?! ---->'''[[DeadpanSnarker His friend]]:''' Well, yeah. * Discussions of plans in this tropers RPG group begin soft and get louder as people attempt to interject ideas. This has led to the GM (whose house we play at) having to order us to 'keep it down" or "shut up" so that the 'Alert Not Alarmed' neighbours don't call the cops on us. I mean what would you do if you heard :"We just need to find a way to put the explosives under the classroom.", "Look if we kill these guard we can break in and kill the king without resitance" or "Exactly how much do slaves go for in the Middle East?" * Happens to this troper in lectures all the time. He tunes back in just in time to badly mishear something. * When [[DeltaOne This Troper]] and his friends are talking on the phone and someone approaches, the signal that this has happened is a line from StarCraft: "So I says, answer that and stay fashionable!" * {{Excel-2009}}. "...and then it hit me: I'm the reason everyone hates [[{{Eagleland}} America]]!" * [[LuckyMcDowell This Troper]] will often walk into a room or a crowd of people, throw his arms around people, and start ''off'' a conversation with one of these. His favorites are "...So I said ''rectum'', damn near KILLED 'um!" and "...So I said Liquor Cabinet? I barely know her!" * This was during lunch. -->'''Person A:''' "...the way I see it, if the dog turns around and bites my nuts off, it's not consensual." -->'''Person B, who just tuned in:''' ''[[TooMuchInformation "DUDE!"]]'' * A brother talking to his sister: "C'mon, you've got two of them. Just slice off one of your breasts and let me have it, you can keep the other one." Sister:"I dunno, mine are pretty small, they barely

really count as boobs." * So he says to the robot 'Oh, my apologies! I thought you said '''solder''' me!' * ThisTroper was with a group of friends conversing entirely in OrphanedPunchline. Everybody agreed I won with "[[NoodleIncident ... and that's why I can never go back to Canada.]]" * [[TheTallOne This Tropette]] was once having a conversation that ended with "...Shut up and let me enjoy my Left4Dead rapefics in peace!" Of course, that's exactly when her family entered the room. * This Troper deliberately did this to his friend, he waited until the second he opened the door before saying to the other person in the car "And that's why I want to try a strap-on." * This Troper overheard an orphaned CONVERSATION and couldn't figure out for the life of me what the two were talking about. It sounded dirty, but I don't think it was supposed to be... --->Jon: Really? How did it feel? --->Zack: Awkward...Noticeable...I mean, how could I not notice it? --->Jon: So what'd you do? --->Zack: I just put some lotion on it and went back to my room. * This Troper was talking to his friend over lunch about the SCPFoundation and various SCP's, and got to the topic of [[http://scpwiki.wikidot.com/scp-335 SCP-335]], which in a nutshell is the ''entire Internet'' on a series of 150 [[MagicFloppyDisk floppy discs]]. The funny part of this SCP is that the first twelve discs contain ''all the porn in the internet''. The troper and his friend were having a laugh over this bit, and a third friend that was always there but was tuned out of the conversation tuned back in at the exact moment they exclaimed "IT'S THE LARGEST DATABASE OF PORN ON THE INTERNET!!" * So I said; 'well, technically, Officer, you're the one who opened the box so you killed the cat!' * ..."But he wouldn't put down the squirt gun, so I just put my clothes back on and went home." * This troper does this on purpose straight after he knows people weren't listening, or there was a loud noise drowning out my voice. Such as "....which means that jellyfish can travel through time." or "....and whistled for a baboon." (From ZP.). * "It was the goats again, with their popcorny goodness." It didn't even make sense in context. * So, there was this one time I connected to a game of Team Fortress, and the first thing I heard was "My favorite part is where they start eating the poop." Kind of a subversion in that it's somewhat obvious what they were talking about, but still. There was also this one time I said to a friend "what if Gary Coleman used explosive diarhea as a means of transportation?" right as a teacher walked in the room. The look on the teacher's face implyed some kind of fear, although the trope was kind of subverted in that it was a standalone statement that wasn't really a punchline or anything. * This troper told a two part joke to a couple of friends who where going to be the hosts of our school's talant show. But since the jokes was to be told while the contesters was getting ready, they did not have time for the punchline.

--->He: "What is it that is swishing around in the treetops in 180 km/h?" ---> "A squirrel with a motorbike." ---> "But how do you know that it is a squirrel in the refrigerator?" ---> "Oh, now we're out of time." * When this troper was still in school, he was once walking through the hallways with his friend and a bunch of his classmates. Without any form of conversation having taken place up to that moment, one of them loudly proclaimed the equivalent of "Good thing i shaved my armpits." in bulgarian. Orphaned punchlines were also pretty common in my own class, where someone would, after some 10 minutes or so in total silence (''in class''), shout in feigned disgust with the person sitting next to them "Enough with your enema man!". Cue mortified look from the teacher. * Want to make your OWN OrphanedPunchline? Simple, just throw in something dirty or sex related into what you're saying. Instantly, everyone will be paying attention to you, just wondering what the HELL you were talking about. ---...And so the nonsequitur says to the bartender, "What do you think I am, an OrphanedPunchline!?" ---<<|TroperTales|>> <<|TroperTales|>> )

OrSoIHeard * As a person who is both straight-edge and a major virgin, [[@/GamerAmI this troper]] needs to use this excuse whenever he talks about drugs and sex, for he has far more knowledge about both than he should. For example, he was once talking with a friend about anal sex and said, "Well, as you may expect, it's only enjoyable if you really love the person you are with and if you use lube liberally... [[OrSoIHeard or so I have heard.]]" ** Are you my OppositeSexClone? I know way too much about drugs, despite being edge, and quite a bit about sex. It's mostly from reading autobiographies of past-addicts, I swear! * I once went to a stage-show for children. I fangirled and gasped the name of the villain when they played my favorite theme tune, and got a few odd gazes -- I said that my cousin, Agnes, had sung it all the time at home and she wasn't here because she was sick but she really wanted me to come and get autographs and...uhm...I'm too old for this, aren't I? * In something of an aversion, [[Tropers/ClatoLawa This troper]] frequently adds "I should ''not'' know that," when answering questions about a series or a fim that I either haven't watched or really shouldn't have. The first time I can remember doing so is when a friend was trying to remember the author of ''ThePrincessDiaries'' series. I answered "Meg Cabot," in spite of never having read the

books and only watching the first movie because there was nothing else on. * I sometimes use this when talking about video games I have played at work (I'm a game tester), because I can't tell people what games I test. ---There's a page you can go back to for this trope... [[OrSoIHeard or... so we heard]]. ----

OT3 [[redirect:TroperTales/OneTrueThreesome]]

OtakuSurrogate * Somewhat subverted that in [[Tropers/{{Mercurius}} this troper's]] rather short life so far, from what I've seen the ratio of male otaku to female has been maybe... 1:50, estimated. ** i would say its about 1:300, but thats just what i think * This female troper feels like a walking stereotype sometimes. I honestly have little interest in shoujo or shonen shows that attract girls. My tastes are varied, but they are just like what most people expect from a male anime nerd, and I even think similarly. Yaoi? Eggh, I'll pass. Loli girls being "close friends" and doing cute stuff together? Yes, please! Doesn't help that I love moe series for what they are and am completely accepting of fan service nor feel insulted by the girlishness of cutesy moe blobs. There's also older series and shows with actual plots when I Don't feel like being shallow... ** That sounds like me, except that I like some shonen shows. * This troper has had at least two close female friends since school who are both really into anime, manga and Japanese culture in general and both more into the stuff aimed at men than women (even if one is also a YaoiFangirl). They act as quite an interesting contrast to me, a male who of the Anime and Manga he does entertain himself with mainly reads and watches the more female-aimed examples (Let's just say FruitsBasket and VampireKnight are my two favourite manga series)...something got switched around somewhere XD * This is why most of [[Tropers/AdelePotter my]] friends are boys. * In [[Tropers/HorrorGirlLucy my]] school life, I practically live in a PinkBishoujoGhetto. I love anime and manga, though I love stuff that's more DarkerAndEdgier. This is why the seinen demographic draws me in so much, I think. I don't know of very many girls, let alone teenage girls, that love shows like {{Hellsing}}, BlackLagoon, and ElfenLied. I've never liked shoujo, although I used to love shounen series as a kid, regardless of whether they attracted a female audience or not. Also, yaoi? Ew, no. Yuri? Eh, I don't mind it.

Otherkin * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] is a wolf therianthrope; she regards it as a mental/identity thing. I tend to dismiss the

DaydreamBeliever type people, but... to each their own, right? * One of my close friends recently came out as otherkin to me. Personally, though I have a fairly scientific outlook on life, I believe that there's more than one plane of reality, so the thought of a human body with a nonhuman soul doesn't seem that impossible.

OurGhoulsAreCreepier * After I started listening to songs from ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'', this troper's mom claimed that some of those newly acquired {{Radiohead}} songs sounded like a bunch of wailing ghouls. I cracked up and adopted it myself; with a little bit of MemeticMutation, "ghouls" became basically our household nickname for the PerishingAltRockVoice. * Fictional example: One of [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]'s concept for creatures used as Mooks by certain villains - likely for a Sci-Fi/Horror type setting - the [[{{MeaningfulName}} Recoiling]] [[{{NotUsingTheZWord}} Stalkers]] (inspired in part by MortalEngines though [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] never read it - and the song Stalker by Recoil). Basically, take any given freshly-dead military-trained human from a battlefield, POW camp, or army hospital, provided the brain is relatively intact and can function as a whole brain, and strip down the organs to heart, liver and lungs, or cybernetic replaces of all or any of these. Fuse that mess connected with the skull to an artificial spine that holds the cybernetic body together and acts as a RestrainingBolt. Reconstruct the skull with a suitably ghoulish mouth with [[{{FangsAreEvil}} vicious-looking and pointy but still loosely primatish fangs]], and fit with a biomechanical humanoid frame that is inhumanly agile and strong thanks to a nanotech-infused skeletal structure and musculature. The end result is an impressive SuperSoldier that is powerful, but while often reliable, sometimes the [[{{MoreThanMindControl}} brain reprogramming]] - basically [[{{MindRape}} breaking the victim's will to resist]] in the hopes that TranshumanTreachery will result doesn't take, and either the person is [[{{ForcedToWatch}} helplessly watching themselves through their new eyes fighting their former comrades]] [[{{AndIMustScream}} and being completely unable to control their bodies or vocalise to stop them]], or even FreakOut type events ''[[{{WhatHaveIBecome}} where the human personality recognises itself in the new form]]'' - however, the latter two are just used as cannon fodder and the [[{{TranshumanTreachery}} Transhuman Traitors]] become squad leaders and such, able to control the others completely but [[{{MadeASlave}} always under the influence of]] [[{{GalacticConqueror}} their masters]]... ---Put down that severed leg and go back to the [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoulish main page]].

OurGraphicsWillSuckinTheFuture * This troper worked in a photolab and used a machine for mixing chemistry continually to the correct proportions. Powered by a Z80.

** Lots of embedded devices still use Z80, 6502 or similar microprocessors/microcontrollers. They don't need anything more. ** How long ago was that? Can't have been all that recent if enough people were still using film to justify having someone at a lab who worked ''only'' on film. * This troper bought a nice, shiny Core 2 laptop... which came with DOS drivers and tools for the network card. * This troper worked for about a year with income taxes, working on a IRS database system originally coded and still running on banks of VAX machines in VMS (no, not OpenVMS - this was TheEighties). The year before she got there, a vendor was contracted to begin a process of "modernizing" the interface to the database (the original interface was based on memorizing tables of just-so abbreviations and magic keywords). The month before she left, she got to see the "new internet-facing interface:" a SSH client running in AJAX. We Will Use The Eighty Column Display In The Future! ** This troper has a friend which works on a bank. Most of the modern applications are exactly that: a front-end for a 20-year-old mainframe application. Clunky, but still better than [[FateWorseThanDeath using a Windows 3.11-era application which is designed for 640x480 screens, leaks memory and crashes every few hours]]. * This Troper Found Out Recently that a Major Department Store Chain Still uses 80's style Terminals for their computing. ''In 2011.'' * Some PetSmart locations are like this too. I can't help but smile every time I go through the checkout at my local one. HumanTorch2 ---Go back to your [[OurGraphicsWillSuckinTheFuture 28 baud teletype display]]. ----

OutdatedOutfit * This editor had a teacher who was famous in his school for always wearing a bow-tie. Not only that, but he would play up the "outdated" aspect to the absolute maximum: In addition to teaching Latin, he would speak in a very posh, upper-class manner and soliloquise on the many days spent in his manor house. When this editor was finally old enough to get the joke, he suddenly found a whole new respect for that teacher. ** This troper's chemistry teacher in high always wore a bow tie. He explained that it wouldn't accidentally fall into the chemicals he was experimenting with. ** [[BowTiesAreCool Bow Ties Are]] ''[[Series/DoctorWho Cool]]''. * [[Tropers/TheMikado This Troper]] has on his college campus an individual who dresses in traditional Scottish garb including a kilt. According to an individual both he and the Scottish reenactor know, this individual is an expert in medieval weaponry and owns a claymore. * Tropers/{{Zordauch}} got into ska when his marching band-mates were in a band in 1996. He didn't get checkerboard-patterned [[strike:[[StuckOnBandAidBrand Vans]]]] canvas shoes until 2007. * [[Tropers/{{Nomic}} This troper]] sincerely thinks the world would

be a better place if more men wore hats (and proper ones, not baseball caps!). He tends to wear a duster and a fedora at pretty much all times. He has also frequently suggested 1930s as a theme of a party so he could wear a zoot suit (after all we already had one 80s theme party at the university, so it's not like we could dress in anything worse...) ** {{Nice Hat}}s are becoming more fashionable around this troper's university, too. Trilbys seem to be the mark of ultimate cool, although anything with a brim will do. ** This troper believes that Nice Hats are not only preferable to a bare head in a formal situation (or Lord forbid, a baseball cap) but ought to be mandatory. I'm wearing pantyhose-- you wear a trillby. On average, at the rate we go through our respective items of attire, the cost about evens out. ** This Troper wears nice hats on every possible occasion. His favourite is the black trilby, but the pinstripe trilby, black fedora and black flat cap also ge their fair share of use. He's still searching for a bowler.... *** [[EngagingConversation Marry]] [[GeekyTurnOn me.]] * This troper is still working out his collection, but it begins with a stovepipe and a tricorn. One hopes I can only go up from there... ** This troper would wear such hats much more often if there wasn't the hassle of finding a safe place to hang it when he takes it off indoors (like in a big lecture hall). Instead he has to settle for a bucket hat that he can easily stow in a pocket, since he hates baseball caps. ** This troper would wear hats, except they aren't allowed at his high school. Come college, though... ** This (female) troper can't wear it at ''school'', but owns an awesome trilby. She likes to wear it with her black woolen trenchcoat, sometimes for fancy-type occasions but just as often simply because she thinks they look awesome together. 'Course, this turned out to be a bad idea one time, when it suddenly got windy and blew her hat off. (Thankfully, just into a snowbank rather than, say, onto the road.) Her newsboy cap is much, much better at both clinging to her head and being able to be stuffed into her purse. ** [[Tropers/{{Daviot}} This troper]] adds that although he's at a university with no dress code or even median level of dress, wearing his inherited Harris Tweed driving cap/flat cap tends to get random people calling him "sir", despite the khaki cargoes and (nice, but vaguely t-shirted) and a non-button casual shirt. ** This tropette would like to say how sexy 1930's type hats are. They reek of class and style. Mmmm... * This female troper thinks that the world would become a better place if more women would wear dresses. Including big ones with floor-length bell skirts. ** Only if men can too. This female troper will happily wear a Disney princess dress if her date is arriving in that froufy pseudo-military uniform a certain Disney prince wears... *** Oh yeah, this troper (the topic starter) also likes men in BlingOfWar! It makes any Joe Average a hunk! ** This troper would point out that prior to the early 20th century,

it was quite common for prepubescent boys to wear dresses, and no one thought of this as abnormal. *** Back then, trousers were seen as a rite of passage to mark when a boy becomes a man. ** [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] likes ''looking'' at people in dresses (regardless of length or amount of foof), but owns none herself. This is probably because of a combination of feeling awkward when dressed up and a lack of desire to buy expensive clothing that I'd wear once in the proverbial blue moon. (I need that money to buy books! And video games! And more and more T-shirts from [[http://www.threadless.com Threadless]]!) * This troper has been told that he looks extremely awkward wearing "modern" clothing, and has been recommended repeatedly to get clothing dating prior to 1850. Don't get me wrong, though, this troper loves the fact that certain pieces of clothing from the time periods he studies will result in an immediate "Badass" label. * This troper went full out 40s style to her senior prom. * This Tropers teacher wore a lab coat (with the Canadian flag sewn onto it) everyday. He wasn't a science teacher. ** You are awesome. ** In fact when he left another teacher bought him a new lab coat, with a Canadian flag sewn onto it, Awwwww.... * This troper dresses like a zionist extra from The Matrix. Longcoat, unusual outfit, and tends to stand out from people around him a great deal. * [[Tropers/{{Momonga}} This troper's]] mother won't let her wear truly "outdated" clothing (must move out of parents' house!), but troper manages to take current pieces and put them together to make outfits with a nineteenth-century, Old Hollywood, or eighties vibe depending on her mood that day. She does manage to wear some oldfashioned hats, including one from the 1920s. * This troper is basically, stuck in the early 90's; And well, most of comedy writer wannabe's... * This female troper feels extremely awkward in pants and shorts. She only wears them when cosplaying. This has often led to her being [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses hated at first sight or written off as a spineless weakling]]. * [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] really likes the look of a white button-down shirt with an old-fashioned vest thing, especially a black one (with optional tie), but owns no tops more formal than a couple of designless long-sleeved T-shirts. (This has occasionally bitten her in the ass, when she's been called upon to go to fancy restaurants.) ** Old fashioned vest things are called [[{{Waistcoatofstyle}} Waistcoats <3]] * [[Tropers/AstraKiseki This troper]]'s signature style at college consists of, no matter what, a fedora and suspenders. For some reason, just about anything looks classier to her with those two accessories. * Just about every male professor in this troper's department at college wears a nice hat of some kind when showing up at the building. No two have the same style of hat either. * This troper resembles nothing so much as a college girl circa 1969.

* And this troper a British university student of 1969, male. That or one of the various [[Series/DoctorWho Doctors]]. * This Troper had a Religions of the world teacher who obviously hadn't bought any new clothes since 1979. * Tropers/TParadox is quite fond of [[NiceHat fedoras]], and recently acquired one of his own. However, he finds few opportunities to actually wear it. So far, it's basically his directing hat, which is not what he had in mind. ** He also wants a trenchcoat to go with it... * In the summer, [[Tropers/{{Lurkerbunny}} this troper]] will occasionally go out in [[TheEighties 1980s]] clothes. Headband, jelly bracelets, neon colors, everything but leg warmers (since she can't find any). And even takes her cassette tape player with her instead of her iPod. Why? Because [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} that's just the sort of person she is]]. ** If you're looking for leg warmers I'd suggest your local punk/raver store, arm socks are available in many blindingly bright colours and serve pretty well if you get the big ones and fold them over once. * This troper own two trilbys (one black felt and slightly oversized, the other black-and-white striped and a better fit) and a flat cap. He also wears suspenders on occasion and a navy blue duster. * This troper and her boyfriend are known as "the cool hat couple" for obvious reasons and frequently walk around town in full period gear (anything from 1700's to 1940's). * This troper's ex had a couple of tie-dyed t-shirts that he wore until they fell apart, and didn't like to cut his hair, resulting in a very impressive white boy 'fro. * This Troper's is not as outdated as others, but due to him being in his teenage years believes it counts, he likes to wear a denim jacket and aviator glasses, and listens to 60's brit rock like TheBeatles and TheWho. * On "decade day" during spirit week in high school (in 2008) people were guessing my look to be somewhere between the 60s to the 90s... I wasn't even dressed up. My dad says I look like the guys he went to school with in the 70s. Except for the newer band shirts (like Disturbed and Dethklok) I look like someone who was my age 20 years before I was born. * This troper favours a white shirt, neat trousers, a waistcoat and pocket watch on most days. Occasionally mixing it up with a highwayman style long jacket. I would be far happier if people in the world still wore cloaks. They were badass and you know it. ** Are you me? You're me, right? * This troper pretty much wore outdated clothes most of her life. In kindergarten she wore overalls and jumpers. Now she shops with her dad instead of her mom to get clothes more out of the norm. She now owns an army jacket, a trench coat, some jeans from the seventies, suspenders, jeans that button up past her belly-button. (GASP) Some John Lennon glasses, some striped hoodies,bellbottoms, and a fedora hat. * This troper is kinda guilty of this trope. He has a tendency to come into school in a 3 peice suite (waist coats etc) and has a strange love of trenchcoats and other more unusual forms of coats... He does

it so much that the term Victorian Gentleman has been used to describe him on more than one occasion and he is seriously considering buying a tophat. ** Just remember the simple rule: only wear a top hat with a long coat, at least long in the tails. With a shorter jacket, wear a shorter hat! * Also, this troper swears that she's been to some small rural Midwestern towns where everyone's fashions are firmly stuck in the 1980's, ala ''NapoleonDynamite''. * This troper would like to complain about how hard it is to do this trope in real life, especially for teenage girls (who seem to have an abnormally fast rate of style-change). Mostly because stores simply stop selling the stuff that's outdated. Frankly, this troper prefers older styles and most of what is "in" at a given time just looks plain silly, but it's incredibly hard to wear what she likes because it's all been replaced by said silly outfits. ** Goodwill becomes a valid alternative for women with this complaint and anyone trying for a "retro" look. ** Don't forget the thrift store/resale shop, which became a haven for hipsters shooting for irony (e.g. "LOL, I'm middle-class and highly educated, but just ''look'' at this cheesy and outdated t-shirt and hat combo I'm wearing! Isn't it just so unexpected for ''someone like me?''"). *** Best thing about shopping at charity stores, you're doing something that's ethically good and saving money at the same time. ** [[Tropers/{{Bisected8}} This]] (male) troper spent much of the time in his teenage years when he was coaxed into a clothes shop searching for jeans that a) Weren't torn, b) Were neither baggy nor tight, c) Weren't covered in labels, and most importantly d) Uses a ''zip'' for the fly. * Fedora hats has always been close to This Troper's blackened heart. * This troper has a particular affinity for fashion of bygone eras, with 40s/50s style being my favorite. An A-line dress that doesn't have a ridiculously low neckline, and is pretty but still functional? Yes please. I've actually made (with the help of my grandmother who lived in the 50s) several dresses, and adore wearing them with pantyhose, heels and pearls. I get strange looks for being, as one friend described me, "lost in time," which only adds to the appeal for me. And it's not just women's fashion. Give me a man in a suit (preferably three-piece) and fedora, and I'm smitten. There's just a classic charm that can't be captured any other way. ----Go back to Main/OutdatedOutfit. Don't forget your coat- the [[TotallyRadical teal one]] with the [[StillTheEighties hot-pink trim]] ''is'' yours, right? <<|TroperTales|>>

OutOfCharacterMoment * I frequently act OOC in my dreams for no apparent reason. Most of

the time, I don't notice this until I wake up, but occasionally I notice in the dream. This is frustrating, since I don't know why I keep doing inexplicable things and I can't stop myself. For instance, I recently dreamed that I was developing a serious and possibly terminal or disabling illness (not a real disease, but it existed in the dream). First, my mom told me that she had known I would develop this disease for over five years, but had thought it was a bad idea to tell me. In real life, this would piss me off beyond belief, but in my dream, I just let it go. Next, I was on the Internet trying to find out more about the disease, but I kept getting distracted by stupid, trivial conversations. In real life, I am the type of person who always wants to know as much as possible about a problem (I'm also kind of a medical nerd who enjoys researching diseases when I'm bored, even if I don't know anyone who has it), so this was odd. The OOC moments kept happening, and every time I would wonder "Why did I do that? I'd never do that. I didn't want to do that!" It was quite annoying. * [[Tropers/{{NaomiLawliet}} I]] once wore a flowery sundress, when my normal style is similar to that of NancyDrew. Cue {{Spit Take}} from one of my {{Platonic Life Partners}} Who I [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial have certainly not been in love with for over a year and a half]] saying...woah, (insert name here) What's with the dress? It's not like you.

OvenLogic * [[{{Tropers/evdebs}} This Troper's]] mother was a pretty decent cook in her day (she's no longer able to) but still thinks that this is a way to speed up dinner when it's running behind. This troper owns more cookbooks than many people even have books and worships regularly at the church of Alton Brown and has never been quite able to get her to understand heat conduction doesn't work like that.

OverlyLongGag * For an entire day me and my buddy said "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP" instead of words. Eventually a girl yelled back "I am not your friend." Our reaction? "You are now miss." We then went and talked to her and shes still our friend today. * This troper's teammate, during a round of ''TeamFortress2'', remarked that "There's only one Pyro." At first it seemed like a warning that there is an enemy spy disguised as a second pyro and that the team needs to spy-check its pyros. But then comes "THERE'S ONLY ONE PYRO THERE'S ONLY ONE PYRO THERE'S ONLY ONE PYRO THERE'S ONLY ONE PYRO THERE'S ONLY ONE PYRO", to the hilarity of some and the [[MostAnnoyingSound annoyance]] of thers. * In the speeches given by the candidates for an election for student council at this troper's high school, one character (No, it's not fictional. What can I say? This guy was a character.) got up and said that, in lieu of a speech and in keeping with his campaign theme of "More weird things in weird places", he would read to the entire student body the entire text of GoodnightMoon. He won by a landslide.

* Because of the site Meatspin, my old classmates would scream Meaty every now and again. it was a little funny at first but then they kept doing it every damn minute, it drove everyone crazy. they still do it today! * Me and a few friends were flying to London (we live in Sweden) about a year ago. On the plane, there was a whole group of teenagers who seemed to know each other (after a while we figured out that they were probably going there with their school or something), and one of them thought it very funny to excitedly shout "London, baby!" at the top of his lungs every five minutes. At the beginning, it was sort of funny (or, at least not unfunny) but after a while it started to get very annyoing and his mates started to tell him to shut up every time he did it. Then he stopped doing it for about an hour, but by then it had turned into an [[OverlyLongGag overly long gag]], so when he did it again the very second we landed at Heathrow Airport, the whole plane exploded in laughter. Me and my friends still say it to each other from time to time. * ThisTroper once lost The Game during lunch next to a friend who knew about it. We spent the next half-hour trying not to lose. Also, this troper has a classmate that he constantly torments by making him lose The Game. * Pretty much any meme this troper creates. * In junior high, IJVin had the joke "Does this make you mad?" from WonderShowzen. It did make them mad. ** At an open-mic night, he read the entire text of GreenEggsAndHam. * This tropette and her friend hugged for over three hours, repeating the body parts we were holding thus. Also a InsideJoke. * This troper and his brother are watching {{Lost}}, and ever since the first Episode, his brother has been making jokes in the opening sequence that at one point have the word "Lost" in them. At around the middle of the Second season, he ran out of ideas, now we're starting the third season- and he still insists on making them. They are now mostly the same, either: "Don't get LOST along the way!" or "and despite all that drama, they're still LOST!" or maybe "Uhh, ok, I don't know about this one... uh... LOST!" * When asked to make a decision he doesn't feel like making, this troper often goes "uhhhh...." for ungodly lengths of time until the questioner loses interest and gives up. I've gone as long as two and a half minutes without taking a breath.

OverlyLongName * Alexandria Marie St. Claire Elizabeth Rose Summers. Sounds like a Mary Sue, but the name is real people. ** I counted four different fictional characters in there. That's crazy. ** Are you sure that's not [[TangledFamilyTree an X-Men character]]? * If you were to count Confirmation names, I know someone whose full name is Emma Rose Elizabeth Ann Northridge. * This Troper's new fanfic is titled, "Running Through Swiss Territory for the Manipulation of Goods and Services". * This Troper has a classmate named Protopopicitoricescovici. Most

people, including the teachers, call him Proto. * My late classmate and friend, Rasolofozafiniainirindraibe Narivony Eric. A great DeadpanSnarker, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth taken away too soon]] for [[HumansAreBastards a mere fistful of money]]. * This troper knows a Jose Armando Maldonado Cordoba. * This troper has a friend named Christopher James Patrick Francis Alexander Gustaf Ralph Charles Maxwell. * Subverted in a [[ShamelessSelfPromoter story this troper is writing]], where the characters are battling a villain named Abbledabbledibblebibbleoppoulpuss XIII. (Yes, there's a fraction in there. Not the first villain in that arc with such an oddity, but it's acceptable because they're robots.) As the battle wore on, the heroes came up with the strategy of pretending to forget the villain's name, and making this known to the villain, so that he reintroduces himself-and creates a massive opening. He gets as far as "Abbledabbledibblebibbleoppou" before shutting down completely. I could've sworn I got the idea for that gag from somewhere else, but seeing as how this hasn't been mentioned, it must not have been anything copyrighted. * This troper has a friend whose family gave every child 3 different, exceedingly strange middle names eg Ghislaine, Raphael, Artemisia etc. * This troper knew a kid named Marcello Angelo Roberto Cornelius Santiago (Conjoined Lastname here) - everyone calls him Marc. Apparently his parents made too many promises to too many people about naming him. * This troper is not a particularly impressive example in terms of [[OverlyLongName overly long names]], but she was at least thirteen before she found out that most people only had one middle name compared to her two. ** Same! * While not ''extremely'' long, this tends to happen when someone from a country that uses both surnames plus the normal two names happens to hit a particularly long combination. This Troper's is 8+9+7+6. At least my surnames're short... ** This troper's maiden name was 8+7+8+5+5 (in syllables: 2-3-3-2-1). Upon marriage, she dropped her parents' surnames to become 8+7+8+10 (2-3-3-3). Wow, what a difference. However, due to an Embarrassing First Name, she is also considering a name change... the current frontrunner has five letters. ** This troper's name has 30 letters, and I don't even have a middle name (I do have a surname though): 9+11+10, and in syllables: 4+5+3. People call me Alex. * One of the main characters in a story [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe this troper]] is writing has two middle names, Christine and [[TheLordOfTheRings Arwen]], making her full name 26 letters long. However, I [[JustifiedTrope justified]] it because her father wanted to give her a Tolkien-esque middle name and her mother wanted to give her a normal one, so they compromised, much to Aya's chagrin. * This troper's classmate has six middle names. She showed a xerox of her birth certificate to prove that she shat us not. * This troper's mother's name has 28 letters and a hyphen. Evidently feeling that this is too short, lots of people mispell it by adding an

extraneous silent "h". * Not very likely to happen in this troper's country, because there is law that prevents people from having more than three names + surname. ** [[FridgeLogic And what's stopping people from giving their kids three very long given names?]] Especially when combined with a very long surname? * This troper and both his sisters have a first name, 2 middle, and a two-part last Dutch name. (5-4-5-3-4, 6-5-5-3-4, 5-3-5-3-4) Their father's name is so long the end of his last name is cut off his birth certificate, after his parents dropped a middle name. (10-9-7-3-4) * This troper has a very good friend who, due to very odd family happenstance, has one first name (which is masculine and 9 letters long), 3 middle names (all fairly short), a confirmation name and a Hebrew name (that were added to her birth certificate as extra middle names when her birth parents re-adopted her), and had every surname she ever had added to her name in honor of the people who had taken care of her when her parents couldn't (4 of them) plus her current surname. That's 11 names in all, not including the one middle name she had managed to talk her parents into letting her drop. * This Troper has an eight-letter first name (with an easy four-letter abbreviation, thankfully), and a hyphenated last name, each part of which has seven letters. One part of that last name (the last part) is a common American name, but the other part is a Croatian name that... well, let's just say that I can count on the toes of one paw the number of Americans who pronounce it right on the first try. * Again, while not exceedingly long, this troper has four names, at least two of which qualifies as "long-ish") * Though she has never met anyone with an OverlyLongName, This Troper has a ParodySue whose full name is (currently) 10 names long. She's not *exactly* a ''MyImmortal'' parody like the Fanfiction section of the article mentioned (though it's mentioned within the [[ShamelessSelfPromoter fic she's from]], but that's beside the point), but it's in honor of the sometimes Sueish quality of the trope nonetheless. * This troper tends to name his posh characters in TabletopRoleplayingGames with Overly Long Names, including their titles. Three examples: Lord Arken Velderan d'Tharashk, Sir Reginald Brixton-Quispworth, KCB, and a gnome whose complete name I cannot remember, but it started with Ethelbert, and the rest of it acronymmed to V.A.S.H.N.A.B.E.S.H.I.N. * Had an RP character with eight names, including the surname. Her titles extended it further. Justified in that she was royalty. (Man, the relatives section was a killer.) * This Troper has three middle names, length 7+8+6+8+8. * This Troper's friend's friend's name takes the cake. It is Tigerlily [=AnaSofia=]-Fatale Ebrill-Danger Theodore-Lenin Avair Avele StamoxysCrimefighter Calloway. ** I don't think you ''could'' make it up if you tried. *** Nice, but no record. In Hawaii, we see longer than that [[http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/vitalstatistics/20100801_Vital_St atistics.html quite often]] ** "Crimefighter"?

* First name: eight letters, seemingly impossible for most people to spell or pronounce. Last name: eight letters, seemingly impossible for most people to spell or pronounce. Middle name, on top of all that: nine letters. ''And'' this troper plans on hyphenating her name if she ever marries. ** Don't do it. Just take his last name, * This troper has a first name (5 letters), second name (6 letters) , middle name (5 Letters) and two last names (The first has 11 Letters, the second 6). If the last name would not be Germanized would it be even longer (10 letters), and on top of that wanted this tropers dad to add even -more- names. Introducing yourself is fun though. * Three siblings in a story this troper is planning have full names that are 35, 33, and 33 letters long each. This is thanks to their ancestry, and each time I try to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] it or [[ShownTheirWork show my work]] their names just get longer. * [[@/ThreeLeafIvy This troper]]'s full name is 31 (5+11+8+7, two first names) letters long. Seems to be nothing compared to the above though. *chuckle* * This troper acquired an overly long and nonsensical nickname one summer: Monica Lindsay Puppyhead Ichigo Sparta. * This Troper has a friend who's got a Dutch/French last name, the Dutch part including a von, so essentially broken up like 4-6-von-5-4 (2-1-1-2-2 in sylables) It was hard to not feel sorry for him when he had to write his name in Japanese, where by a quirk of the language the first and middle names both went to 3 syllables each. Even more fun when the school made a mistake and thought that "Von" was his middle name ><. ** If it includes von, it's German. Dutch has van. * This troper's problem is that her first name will not fit on standardized testing booklets, so the proctor can't give her one until she comes up and claims the booklet labelled with the first half of her first name. To combat this, she shortens it to a six-letter nickname. * This tropers name has her name in syllables like 2-2-2-3. Not very many syllables, but it's a pain in the neck telling people how to spell it, with the first name being German (having about 4 spelling variations), and 3 other Scottish names. * Three middle names gets me 8+4+8+10+7 (syllables 4+2+4+3+2). They're all easy to pronounce, but I'm still thinking of dropping the 10lettered one for various reasons. * My mothers full name is 11-5-8 and her last names (if you count 'De' as part of her last names) 9-7, or 11-5-8 De+7-De+5. My name is just 7-6 De+7. * This troper's convocation ceremony featured one person whose name was so long they had to use a smaller font on her name slip and it still took up two lines. Considering that convocation is already a lengthy event, this troper (graduating in philosophy) wanted to go say to her "How would it be if everyone did that?" * This troper once played a gnome barbarian in a Dungeons and Dragons game who had seventy names, one for each year of his life. I could recite most of them in one breath. * For this troper's rp, her runaway Prince had the full, offical name

and title: His Royal Heir, The Crown Prince Somalutos Divinitis Of Our Fair and Beautiful Navarrez. Guy prefers to be called Soma. * [[@/{{Drashian}} This Troper]]'s full name is 25 letters long. Plus, she has a total of 9 syllables. Not to mention she has an extremely common first name--with over a hundred possible spellings. On standarized tests, she gets almost all of her given name, all of her first surname, and only half of her second surname. And no middle initial at all. * This troper's real full name, while not as extreme as some of the examples on this page, is 9+8+6. Yes, 23 letters long, and only seven syllables for all of it. First, middle, and last. She doesn't dare use her last name outside of a form requiring the first initial of it, because [[SpellMyNameWithAnS everyone spells it wrong.]] And people are always misspelling her relatively uncommon first name. Ugh. * This troper's friend had to do a project about being a dictator. She had to come up with a name and title. Here's what it ended up being: ** Lady Catherine Monica Eufrasie Izabella Raven Alzheimer RusselStover Ferberge von Wolfenstein the Third, Empress of Mim, Queen of the Seas, Princess of Rothecy, Duchess of Vacow, Grand Imperial Princess of Muscovy, Autocrat of all the Mims, Czarina of the East Sea, Kaiserin of the Africas, Archduchess of Coconutia, Marquise of Washington, Comtissa of Brandenburg, and Baroness of the Newt. * This troper has 30 letters in my whole name (7,7,16) with 10 syllables(2,3,5). * This troper's great grandmother's full name had 16 syllables. * This troper has six names, sixteen syllables, forty five letters. Two first names, one middle name, and ''three'' last names. That's right. My parents decided to give me both of their last names, even though my mother's last name was already hyphenated. I couldn't spell my full name until I was in seventh grade. * This troper's written a story in which individual members of a group form their family name systematically from the given names of both their parents... recursively. They do it as far back as the family histories will go. * This troper went to middleschool with someone who's name could well have belonged to a Gnome in dragonlance. It took nearly five minutes to say the whole thing. He doesn't remember anything other than Virgil Kamehameha, though. * Although not as lengthy as some of the examples here, this troper knows a guy whose only given name is fifteen letters and six syllables long. No one can pronounce it right on the first try. * This troper always thought that his name, which includes two middle names and a number (i'm of New England stock) was long. Reading this article has served to humble him. * This troper loved doing this for the subtitles of a story series he wrote; the longest and most random one he used was ''A Few English Muffins Short of an International Breakfast''. * This troper has a friend who married recently and went doublebarrelled, ending up with an 18-letter surname. Apparently, when she told her bank of her new name, they were unsure whether it would fit on to a standard credit card. It does. Just. * Not comparing to many of the examples on the main page (that's why I

put it here instead): In the Czech Republic, the contenders for the longest place name are "Nov Ves u Novho M&#283;sta na Morav&#283;" 27 letters (translates as "New Village at New Town in Moravia"; the longest name if spaces are counted as well), "Brands nad Labem Star Boleslav" (originally two separate towns) - 28 letters, and "Hn&#283;vkovice na levm b&#345;ehu Vltavy" and "Hn&#283;vkovice na pravm b&#345;ehu Vltavy" (originally a single village named Hn&#283;vkovice; after split, the suffixes mean "... on the left/right bank of Moldau"; now both are a part of the town Tn nad Vltavou) - 28 and 29 letters, respectively. (The saying "As long as Lovosice" does not refer to the length of the name, but rather to its shape, since it's located along the river Elbe.) * Seems much less impressive with all the great examples above but this tropers girlfriends full name is "Michelle Natasha Bernadette Marie St.John Sibley". Of course, the St.John is pronounced Sinjin. You could choke someone with that. * This troper has a 29-letter full name (7,8,6,8). Her siblings come in at 27, 26, 24 and 28. She has long since stopped putting her middle names on anything less official than a passport, because there isn't enough space. If she has children, they will have a hyphenated surname on top of the family tradition of two middle names. Oh well. ** Why hyphenate it? * In Brazil, most people have two surnames. Yet this troper knew people with three surnames (like his best friend, with a 29-letter name - 7,7,6,9 - 31 if you count a connective), and others with composite name ''and'' three surnames (worst offenders: former classmate, 40 - 5,9,6,11,9 - known by [[IHaveManyNames a slew of nicknames]]; and current classmate, 31 - 5,8,7,9,6, and she was shocked when the troper revealed to know all of it! - mostly known by a 5-letter long nickname), though a few were because the third was the husband's, like the troper's mother. * This troper once knew a guy named Gabriel Thelonious Laduzinski (27 letters, 11 syllables). Don't know if that's exactly [[OverlyLongName Overly Long]], but it's damn unwieldy. He was also one of the [[EstrogenBrigadeBait most beautiful guys this troper has ever laid eyes on.]] * This troper's full name is Marquis Ried Alan Alliot Hill. Add in fact that I'm a bit of a Large Ham for sheer fun of it and you can imagine how fun it is making introductions spoken really fast. * [[@/ShinyBulbasaur This Troper]] once knew a girl named Narantuyaa Sarangerel Christina Rodriguez. She was in several of my classes and had a bit of a freak out when our College success class had a project that required you to come up with a positive trait for each letter of your name. For the rest of the class, this maybe took an hour or two. For her, it was a nightmare assignment. Fortunately for her I had ample time to help her given that my first name is two letters long, my middle name is three and my last name is four. (I was done before the class ended.) * In [[@/DarkInsanity13 this troper's]] [[OldShame early days]] of writing, she had a terrible habit of doing this. Entirely for the reason that she couldn't decide which name she liked best. There was a "demon" character that had pretty much every female name with the

words "evil", "devil", "dark" and "demon" in the meaning that she could find. It was to the point that there were different spellings of the ''same name'' right next to each other. Needless to say, this troper's glad she abandoned said character...but she's perfectly willing to pull this on a future character entirely for comedy's sake. * When this Troper went to prep school in London, there was a girl who had a quadruple barrelled surname, her full name was - Ariana Katherine Craven-Milne-Burton-Smythe. * This troper knew a classmate named Elizabeth Maria Phillippa Benedicta Christine Ernestine, another name I can't remember, Meyers. And she was not an aristocrat. * This tropers name is Raoul Gerald Rudolf Rudolf Kunz, and yes, he has the Rudolf TWICE, his sister is equally bad off with Clara-Marie Margarete Erika Kunz. And all this preposterous piling of names in spite of beeing of utterly common descent... * This troper's cousin's name equals 4+9+6+8. This troper's brother's name equals 7+5+8. And this troper's name equals 7+9+8. I guess our parents like long names? * Inverted. This troper's full name is only 5 letters long. * When this troper first met his girlfriend, she told him about a friend of her father's with an improbably long name, which this troper doubted until he personally met Caius Julius Caeser Alexander The Great Man. Yes, one of his middle names is "The" and yes, his parents liked history a little too much. And yes, looked at a certain way, this troper is friends with The Man. (He goes by Caius, understandably) * [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by Philippine naming convention, which incorporates both parents' names: the mother's as middle name (usually shortened to just the first letter) and the father's as surname. Not as long as some examples, and short names do exist, but it's hardly unusual for someone to go around with two names, one hardly ever used - [[{{@/Illusionist}} this troper]] being an example.. Hyphenated surnames are hardly in evidence, most of them usually occurring among women - and it should be noted that there's enough women who start off with a 'Maria' in their names that it often gets shortened to 'Ma.' in a lot of documents. Including this troper's mother. * Okay... this troper has always been teased for having an OverlyLongName, but mine totally doesn't live up to some of the ones on here. For the record, Catherine Ashley Dorothy Gartland Elmore. (People in high school and college couldn't believe I wanted all that on my diplomas. And yes, it does fit!) * My uncle's name is so long that not even he remembers all his names. * another troper with a rather long name... Rosalie Aroura Ann Winifred Moylan Kitchen. Not insanely long, but still a mouthful. * This troper's choir director has a kid named Theodore Eugene Carley IV (goes by "Tadd"). If you met her, with her fanciful ways, you people would be in shock. * [[{{Tropers/SayuriYamada}} My]] name is long compared to the ones of my family and friends thanks to my middle name, having 6+10+7+5=28. My cousin does have three names, making 3+5+8+7+5=28. I hadn't noticed that we had the same amount of letters in our names... * This troper's friend has a regular first, middle and last name.

However, he also has a nickname that is 6542 characters long, excluding spaces. (The nickname also got locally published, as a poem.) * This troper has 4 names with 31 letters (5+7+13+6). ---Go back to Main/OverlyLongName...ah...could you spell it, please? ----

OverlyNarrowSuperlative * This troper loves to say someone is her favorite aunt/uncle/brother/sister/name of person. And then point out that, since this troper only has ONE Uncle Bob, he also happens to be the least favorite by default. <Insert evil laughter> ** This troper's famliy (on her mother's side) consistes of my two uncle, my mother and me. Subverted that my Uncle Peter and his wife, really do adore me. -->You are my favourite niece! --> Uncle Peter, I'm your only niece. * This troper's English professor described Cormac Mccarthy's novel ''Suttree'' as containing "the most beautiful scene of a man humping a watermelon that I've ever read". * This troper likes to think of the 1980 SoBadItsGood musical ''The Apple'' as "the best futuristic disco-themed Biblical allegory you will ever see in your lifetime." ** Additionally, he likes to call his brother's baby "my favorite niece." She is, of course, my only niece... so far. * This troper's aunt has a tendency to refer to her as "my favourite niece in the whole hemisphere". The aunt has only one other niece, who lives and works in the Middle East. ** Which is still the northern hemisphere... *** The Eastern Hemisphere too. ** [[LeighSabio This troper]]'s mom has a tendency of referring to this troper as her favorite 16-year-old, and this troper's sister as her favorite twelve-year-old. *** [[{{Understatement}} Not exactly a narrow category]], except maybe if specified as "(n)-year-old I know." * This troper is his sister's "favorite brother" (also least-favorite and only brother). * This troper had a teacher in high school who would refer to our class as "my favorite first period Chemistry II class of this semester." * This troper used to address his mommy as "my most highly esteemed mother" in his language. Said lady was not amused, because she was a junior-school teacher and thought the expression was a case of mishandling our usually laconic native tongue. He managed to piss off a female friend, another schoolteacher, by asking "And how is your highly-honoured husband feeling today?" "Use his name, you fool!", she responded. This troper ought to speak Arabic instead, obviously. * As much as this troper loves DavidBowie and could (possibly) find more redeeming qualities in him, she couldn't argue when her friends

decided to vote him "most androgynous man to write songs about outer space." * One of the superlatives in this troper's camp's yearbook was 'Most Likely to Find a UFO in the Parking Lot in the Midst of a Golf Cart War.' * One typical movie trailer version of this trope gave me a panic attack. I'm a ''LordOfTheRings'' fan, and the week after ''The Return of the King'' came out in theaters, the Steve Martin comedy ''Cheaper By the Dozen'' premiered which, judging by its ads, was either SoOkayItsAverage or SoBadItsHorrible. The week after it premiered, there was an ad that started with the announcer proclaiming "The '''# 1'''" and with the background and the color of the '''# 1''' logo you could already tell that this was going to be an ad for ''Cheaper By the Dozen''. During the 5 second pause of that '''# 1''' announcement I was thinking, "No! No! Please don't tell me that this movie of all films unseated ''The Lord of the Rings'' from the # 1 spot in the ''second weekend''!" Then the announcer resumed, "Comedy in America." I heaved a huge sigh of relief and felt an instant hatred for ''Cheaper By the Dozen''. If there was ever a chance I was going to watch ''Cheaper'', it died at that moment. * [[{{Thnikkafan}} This troper]] describes ''TroperWorks/TheCriesOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' as "the best ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' / ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' crossover fanfic on Fanfiction.net".] * This troper likes referring to himself using this when he talks to older friends he respects a lot. "Hi, Maria! It's your favourite Alex 2009 graduate who lives in a yellow house!" This is mostly to make sure I actually ''am'' the favourite. * The year after this troper's choir won first place overall in an out-of-town competition at a theme park (out of 20 or so choirs from multiple categories), we went to another annual competition, where we didn't place nearly as high. We did, however, win the Madrigal Choir division-- a division of one. (Everyone else, especially the underclassmen, was upset about it, but I was like, "Eh, we won last year, I'm happy"-- and I proceeded to carry the Madrigal Division trophy around with me for the rest of the day. That was my senior year, and the trophy was given to me by the rest of the choir as a parting gift.) * I just realized that ''The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior'' is propably the finest sequel to a prequel to a sequel to a remake of an [[TheMummy 1930's film]]. Only propably because I haven't seen it yet. * I usually refer to my mother as "the best of all the mothers I have." Subverted in that I actually have a stepmother as well, and she's a bitch. * RepoTheGeneticOpera is, and I quote one of my friends here, "either the best or worse industrial gothic BioPunk musicals [[Memes/KanyeWest OF ALL TIME.]] * On my sister's birthday card I began, "To my favorite teenaged [[HeroesOfNewerth HoN-playing]] high school sibling whose name begins and ends with E"... Ever savvy, she responded, I'm your ''only'' "teenaged [=HoN=]-playing high school sibling whose name begins and ends with E".

* For [[Tropers/PL7764 this troper]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6UtsPa13o Voltaire's song "Brains"]] is the best song about an evil brain-eating meteor in existence. Also, I consider it the best jazz piece using a violin and cello as its primary instruments that I know of. (Double points for two separate ones?) * This tropeling (e. g., child troper) has referred to FullmetalAlchemist as "The best manga about alchemy drawn by someone who uses [[FunnyAnimal a cow]] as an AuthorAvatar]]" or just "The best manga about alchemy drawn by a cow" * When this troper is mad at her mum, she tends to refer to her as "My dearest Mother". She does not happen to [[HasTwoMommies have another one]]. * This troper once met a man who boasted of being the former 5th best Subway Sandwich Artist in all of New Zealand. * This troper actually lampshaded it to a classmate one time. Said classmate was saying how the Patriots "are the best football team in the world." This troper then pointed out they were the best since only the USA plays American football. ** The Irish, Japan, and Britain would like a word with you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football * Today this troper visited her mother's office and saw a trophy for a 5K [city] Bar Association Run/Walk awarding her mother 3rd place in the "women aged 50-54" category. Her mother had strategically covered the "50-54" part with a piece of tape, though this troper isn't sure why. She's proud to declare that her mother is the third fastest 50-54 year old female lawyer in the region. * One of the end-of-the-year awards for this troper's drama club was [[NoodleIncident "Most Likely to Set the Alarm in the Girls' Room to Go Off at 3 AM to Mexican Music"]]. * This troper recommends that if you MUST watch a RomanticComedy that partially takes place in [[{{Oireland}} Ireland]] and features a cast member from {{Watchmen}}...skip LeapYear (with Matthew Goode/Ozymandias) and watch [[PSILoveYou P.S. I Love You]] (with Jeffery Dean Morgan/The Comedian). * {{Wire}}'s "Outdoor Miner" is the catchiest song ever written about fly larvae. ---[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative This]] is the very best of all the potholes that could take you from this page back to its corresponding main page. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OverlyPrepreparedGag * One of this troper's loose baby teeth fell out one night. I neglected to mention it to my mother until next time we were at the dentist, just so that, when asked why I hadn't mentioned it earlier, I could answer [[IncrediblyLamePun "It didn't come out in conversation."]]

** MadeOfWin, my good man. * I once had a mouthful of water in my mouth for no less than 3 hours just so that when somebody said something surprising I could SpitTake without any sort of drink. * No specific examples come to mind, but I pride myself on this. Don't say I can't commit to a joke. * My father always called Sweet 'n Low "The Pink Death." I spent about three months carrying around a little pink grim reaper toy just waiting for him to ask for some pink death at a restaurant. ** It was a MonsterInMyPocket, BTW. The "Spectre."

OverprotectiveDad * If this troper ever has a daughter, he plans to play with this trope. First, I'd pretend to be playing it straight, then subvert it in a funny way (like, for example, tell the guy "good luck" and let my facial expression explain what I mean). * This Troper has a male gay friend whose father is a very odd example of this. He has two other sons and doesn't seem to mind when they date any girl at all, but he hates it when my friend has a date. He doesn't seem to mind much that he's is gay, only that apparently all men are horrible, horny people with the exception of his son - and so he has to protect him until he's over 21. The worst part is that all my friend's male friends are now victims of his father's suspicions, even the straight ones. * This Troper has a friend whose girlfriend parents are both this. The couple get to see each other about once every month, and the girlfriend's parents complain that "He spends too much time with you". * This Troper's Dad is like this, which is interesting since he's normally a laid-back almost New Age-y kind of guy, but whenever he meets a new potential boyfriend (of this troper or her sister), suddenly it's "You know, I was in the Air Force" and showing off the hunting rifles... * This Troper's Dad stated quite simply when my Mom brought up the topic of me getting a boyfriend: -->"If some punk thinks he's worthy enough to be your boyfriend then I will kill him. Then I'll bring him to life and kill him again. And again. And again. Slowly. ''Painfully''." * When at a friend's house while his little cousin was there, this troper pushed her while he was trying to do something with the tv and she was being annoying. She acted as though hit, and her father pinned me against the couch and said "If you hit her again, I will beat the shit out of you." Big guy, too. This troper now makes sure not to come to said friend's house while the cousin is there. * Apparently, when this tropers oldest sister would bring guys home, (she has never tried it, herself) Daddy would invariabley decide to clean and polish his shot-guns. And bring up the fact that he's a Marine. Also, while I've never seen him do it, my mom tells me he's talked to all of my male friends. I would love to know what this 'talk' was like. * This troper is looking forward to parenthood someday just for the opportunity to embody this trope. I figure any guy who can survive

what I've got in store is enough of a badass to be worthy of any daughter I may have. * This is one of the few things keeping me from dating a girl I like...aside from her living many miles away. * This troper, though never having had a boyfriend before, has been told what her dad will say to a prospective boyfriend. He's lying, but that doesn't make it any less scary. -->"You know, I was in jail once, and I'm not afraid to go back." ** Yeah, well, if I ever do anything that would end up with him getting sent (back?), I probably deserved what he did to me ;3 * This troper has an overprotective and oblivious dad. The combination is very bad together. * This troper is disappointed that he has never had the chance to do this to any of his 3 sisters. I live in hope that in 15 years I might be able to pull one of these on a potential friend of his newborn niece. ** This troper is disappointed that she will never get to do this. Damn X chromosomes. *** This troper would like to remind the above troper of the [[NoManOfWomanBorn increasing number of nontradional gender roles]] in today's world. **** This troper in turn would like to remind the above one that not everyone is into liberalism. ***** This troper would like to remind the above one that informing the town that she caught her daughter's (ex) boyfriend eating kittens is well within the traditional role of a mother. Dads do it with shotguns, moms do it with words. ****** Just because one is a mother doesn't mean they can't be physically intimidating. This troper is fairly sure she could pull off intimidating pretty well, due to her huge shoulders and fairly muscular frame. * This troper's father took sadistic pleasure in telling me and my sister what he would do should I ever bring a boy home. We have a driveway 1/4th of a mile long with the mailbox at the top of the hill in full view of the narrow highway. He said while cutting the throat of a 400 lb boar, "If you ever bring a boy onto this property before you're 18, I will shoot him before he gets past the mailbox." And he, being a farmer, owns many weapons naturally. And I've seen him use them. Another time he calmly said, "If you bring a boy here, I will invite him for a cup of tea. Made from the bark of a cherry tree. And poison his ass." ** As much as that must suck for you, I simply must admit that your dad is awesome. *** And I would like to say that he sounds like an ass and too protective. * This troper brought home her loud, rosy-cheeked gay theater parnter just to piss him off. He's admitted to being homophobic. * [[MiniKaylee This troper's]] dad isn't exactly overprotective, but we like to joke that, the first time a boy comes to the door to pick me up for a date (and he WILL come to the door), my dad, brother, and a few of our friends will be out front of the house with our substantial collection of swords.

* Overprotective Older Brother example: this troper's friend, after passing his U.S. Army marksmanship test, bought his younger sister a T-shirt saying "Someone Who Loves Me Is Accurate With His Weapon At 300 Yards". The threat is implied rather than stated outright, but it definitely fits the trope. In a subversion, the sister was grateful rather than annoyed. ** I don't know someone like that, but I kind of want that t-shirt because [[FunTShirt it's amusing]]. * This troper's dad is more protective when it comes to going anywhere by herself/without adults, but he also freaks when anything remotely sexual pops up on TV or the radio. As this troper's friend put it, "I hate it when dad's try to protect you from things you already know." [[GoodNewsWeek Many]] brilliant TV shows have been ruined by this troper's dad proclaiming that it's inappropriate and changing the channel. * The one thing this troper is looking forward to about his daughter hitting puberty is that he will get to do this. * The first person my sister brings back to this tropers house will be in for a world of hurt. Two older brother and one overprotective father have conspired to make his/her stay hell. You know, for S+ G. * This troper's Grandfather apparently used to write down the license plate numbers of her mother's boyfriend's cars. You know, just in case. * Overprotective Stepfather example here. Parental figures, please make sure that you do not get carried away with this. This Troper was grateful for the protectiveness until she wanted to go away somewhere with her boyfriend and said stepfather started [[KickTheDog guilting her]] over her [[DeadLittleSister dead little brother]]. * This troper's dad plays up this image; he does the "no boys until you're married" type of routine with her and her sister so often it's [[OverusedRunningGag stopped being funny]], but behind the facade he seems to be okay with the idea of me dating ([[{{Asexuality}} not that I'm going to]]). He also acts all astonished when one of us makes any kind of sex-related comment; I know he exaggerates it, but I'm not sure how much. The main area in which he plays it straight is by being a pain in the arse ("being a pain in the arse" is the most concise way to describe it, since he doesn't really exercise his parental authority there) about me being out at night. * This troper's friend claims that he will become this, and that deep down, pretty much every dad is protecive over his little girl whether he shows it or not. She's rather stuck about agreeing with him since her own father is rather lax (though that has more to do with her lack of sociability and interest in doing "teenager things" than it does with him lacking protective instinct). * I highly doubt that I will ever meet this. I am not threatening or intimidating. Any attempt at such makes me look foolish. ** A properly cautious parental figure will still be careful. The protective instinct can make even usually oblivious people very, very, (often [[ProperlyParanoid rightly]]) paranoid. Maybe even enough to consider ObfuscatingStupidity. * [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper's]] father has told her that she is not allowed to date until she's 40. It's mostly said in jest,

though. ** That's more or less what my parent's told me! But then, I got a secret boyfriend when I was 12...but we were just a couple of little, nonexperienced nerds, so we barely kissed. We'd rather talk about HarryPotter. * One of [[Tropers/{{Mystik}} my]] female friends has this. Her father is heavily suspicious of any teenage boy who comes within one hundred feet of his daughter (including me, though I'm not interested). Being a highschool student and teenage male myself, I find myself thinking "She'll be thanking you in a few years." Just out of cynicism. * This Troper recently went to the United Kingdom and met a young man in the preforming arts studio. I had a crush on him, and eventually asked him out. After a couple of dates, I had to meet his family. His two older sisters were gems, and had a lot of freedom. I believed his father would be laid back because these girls got a lot of privileges. His sisters tried to warn me, but I didn't get the message until after I went to my boyfriend's house. His father was in the living room. He was strict, a tad uptight, and narrowed his eyes whenever I tried to hold his son's hand. When I asked permission to go out with him, the dad made me sign a contract that I would not do anything intimate or too adult. I was mortified, especially since girls are the ones with protective dads. I was even more stunned to learn my boyfriend had to be home by eight. However, we still carry on the relationship. His dad still never lets up... * My brother just had a baby daughter, and already has plans to invite his stepson, our father, and me if I'm in town, over for weaponry cleaning night to coincide with her first date. ** Me, I'm a little more meta. I'll just say: "There are people who owe me. Do ''not'' make me call those favors in." His imagination can take care of the rest. * My ex-boss just happened to have his .44 Magnum out on the table being cleaned when his daughter's first date showed up at the house. The chit-chat ended (as the couple were leaving) with "So you'll have her back by ten, right son?" "9:30, yes sir!". In my own case my daughter solved this problem for me by developing an interest in chain-maille and pole-arms (naginata etc.) in High School. I figured it was all to the good if she had a rep for being savvy about (as she put it) "pointy, clangy things". Helped keep my ulcer under control, that did. * What bugged me for a while about this trope, and others like it, is how can someone think so ill of their gender that they see the worst of someone based solely on gender? Then comes the Double Standard that the dad hardly ever is shown be hostile towards the son's female love interests, even encouraging him to do the EXACT SAME THING to someone else's daughter that he was just threatening someone else's son (who may not have even seriously been considering it) for. It's pretty messed up if you ask me, disgusting even. Also makes you wonder what kind of person they were growing up. Do they seriously believe AllMenArePerverts who would just up and sexually assault someone unless they get reminded the obvious of that being a crime. Then to add insult to... well more insult, on television, 8 times out of 10 they are absolutely right and the guy becomes a prick COMPLETELY out

of nowhere (and that's if he doesn't turn out to be secretly gay, like the other 1 out of 10). Come on writers how about showing the inverse or something? Oh yeah, according to you, a man would NEVER feel like a relationship is moving too fast, or feels like he is being violated. You disgust me, and now I have picked up an unconscience habit of tuning out or changing the channel when one of these instances come up. That is why this troper will put an end to it with my potential children, I will raise them to be able to make their own decisions, and never do anything or date anyone they know that I won't approve of(or be hesitant in telling me about). I'll trust them until they give me reason to do otherwise. Sorry if I seem really pissed or am taking things too seriously, but this trope is one of the ones that go directly against my FIVE CODES OF LIFE!!!!, so I show a tad more emotion for it than most other things. It's not just this trope either, but others that crop up when MostWritersAreMale. ** I'll admit: I'm an utter bastard. I'm looking forward to taking advantage of this trope solely because it allows me to scare the hell out of somebody in a socially acceptable manner. * This troper had a friend who had a girlfriend with a father like this. I lent the boy my AK, bayonet, and two mags of JHP ammunition as well as the line "I'm certified accurate to 400 meters." And of course, since I'm in to guns, I gave him a brief lecture about the basic stuff to know so that he wasn't too freaked. Still scared him that I handed him a fully functioning military assault weapon (it's a bullshit definition, assault weapon, but it [[RuleOfCool sounds cooler than assault rifle.]]) The next time I have a date with a girl who has an overprotective dad, I'll be sure to pull off the same gambit. I might even give out a complement on a dad's upper. * Usually inverted with this troper's (so laid back he's horizontal) dad. He's basically said that I can get drunk, take drugs and be with any guy just so long as I do it all in the house. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper's]] dad said that my future boyfriend had better be good at ducking, because both he is a good shot with a rifle. On a more amusing note, he also added that he'd better be careful about making me mad, because I'm a good shot too. Shame that my current crush is female, something that he will NOT be joking about if he ever finds out. * This troper's father used to be absolutely against her dating, but he lived two states away so there wasn't much he could do. Oddly enough...when she did get a boyfriend, he teased her about it and after this troper and said boyfriend broke up, her dad was trying to convince her to get a new one. ...Dads are weird. * When I was six, my dad told me that I was going to be allowed to have a boyfriend when I was fifteen. When I became fifteen, he told me that it would be when I finished college. Now I'm sixteen, but he has been increasing the age until forty... or fifty, I can't remember. * This troper has an Overprotective Younger Brother and an Overprotective Older [[LikeBrotherAndSister Friend-Who-Thinks-He-IsBrother]]. In addition, she will admit to being an Overprotective Older Sister to the aforementioned little brother- who, much to her relief, still believes that GirlsHaveCooties. * This troper's dad has openly confessed that he will still be

worrying about her when she gets to be forty years old. Oh boy. * This troper has two overprotective parents. When my younger sister's ex came to pick her up for their first date, my dad just glanced at him and said "I'm not afraid to go back to prison." Then from the kitchen, we heard my mom call "Neither am I!" And they were not kidding. * This tropers Ex's dad was like this... until he realized that I wasn't like most other guys... but he still was over protective at times, just a bit less... * If what [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} my mom]] has told me is any indication, my dad averts this. I've never had a boyfriend [[BiTheWay or girlfriend]], so I don't know for sure, but my mom tells me that my dad would pay for my whole wedding if that's what it would take to get me out of the house. ---Make sure that you're back at [[OverprotectiveDad the main page]] before six! [[ThisIsSparta AND NO BOYS]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

OverTheShoulderPose * This troper tried several of the more fanservicey variations on this in front of a mirror, to test for anatomic feasibility first-hand. Much pain and lack of balance ensued; also, if the victim is carrying any fat over their ribs at all, it will bunch up in rather unattractive creases.

OverusedCopycatCharacter * I've always loved the SweetPollyOliver trope, so I...kinda abused it in my stories. But as I grew older, I realized I still liked it, but got tired of making the typical "OMG, He's a girl!" reaction, so I made all of the other characters be like "yeah, couldn't you tell? It was a little obvious...". From then on, I've ripped to pieces that trope until there's nothing left to chop off. Muajaja. ** Most of this troper's protagonists end up being bisexual {{Shrinking Violet}}s who [[KindHeartedCatLover like cats]]. Then again, I'm [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny rarely able to finish stories]] so I guess it's not like I've ended up publishing several books with similar main characters. * I've been DMing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign in which one player wanted to play a dark elf. At first I was annoyed that he was just copying Drizzt, but after a few games I was thrilled with the character. Why? In a beautiful subversion, he played him exactly like every other drow would act. Despite being Chaotic Good, the character's motivations revolve around brutally slaughtering other drow. He even collects their heads. ** I have a friend that also played an Elven ranger who used two swords. Repeatedly. Eventually, the entire group told him to stop trying to be Drizzt. Now he plays a Dwarven fighter with low CHA and a

dislike of goblins. * OK, it's been long enough without mentioning a certain pink blob of a {{Pokemon}}.

OverUsedRunningGag Describe OverUsedRunningGag here. Well, an OverUsedRunningGag is a running gag that has been overplayed to the extent that the writers acknowledge it's being used too much and- WAIT, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE MAIN ENTRY FOR THIS! *cough* ---* [[Tropers/{{Kitsunezeta}} This Troper]] has, on IRC, started putting in quirky remarks about the price of fox leather whenever he makes a comment that he follows up with a certain emote. for instance: --> kitsunezeta is shot. man, fox leather prices must be low by now. * [[Tropers/{{BreezyGirl86}} This troper]] likes to make [[http://www.blogquiz.net/users/miss_breeziness insane quizzes for Livejournal users]], and will almost always put a reference to [[TrademarkFavouriteFood ice cream]] in the initial pull-down menu the user has to select from. Sometimes there will also be references to ice cream in the quiz itself. * [[Tropers/SchizoTechnician This American troper]] has a rather bad habit of singing the first bit of Oh Canada any time anyone mentions the country. ** I'm British and I had the habit of singing the whole song after visiting Newfoundland. Can't remember all the words now, which is a relief for most. * This troper love love [[RuleOfThree LOVES]] to holler out "FAIUUUUUUU" (a deliberate misconjugation of French "faire") in her French class, to the point that a lot of other people have said that the once-funny "FAIUUUUUUU" has become this. Too bad for them. FAIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU * This troper's friends have come close to hitting him because he loves saying that someone is armless while playing 40k (the joke only worked if the model was clearly missing an arm). ** [[Tropers/{{Tachikaze}} This Troper]] and friends are very similar, however one joke is never enough, one of the group insists on creating a HurricaneOfPuns based on how the model may still "come in handy even though he's been disarmed" and many other [[SarcasmMode wonderful and definitely NOT overused]] jokes. * This troper's mother is the '''''queen''''' of this trope. She constantly pulls old jokes she's been using since this troper was a small child. They were funny then. Now, it makes this troper want to punch her. * This troper overuses phrases all the time, especially Portal quotes (especially "Unlikeable. Liked by noone" and "Nice job breaking it, Hero."), but especially of note: In the manner of the [[ViewersAreGoldfish Viewers are Goldfish]] page, every single time anybody forgets anything, he says some variant of "You're like a goldfish. Because, you know, goldfish have a memory of only about

three seconds." Possibly shortly followed by either lampshading his overuse of the phrase or "You know, that's not actually true." He also tends to react to lousy jokes with "Ha! Ha! I see! It is funny because...", which has become really annoying for all involved. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PacManFever * Whenever I used to talk about video games with my mom's now exboyfriend, he would shout, "'''[[DonkeyKong DONKEY KONG]]!'''," as if he still believed video games were 8-bit arcade games. Yet, he has a PS2 with GranTurismo and some shooters on there. * I used to play Game Boy on the school bus to pass the time, since I'd spend about an hour and 45 minutes on it (I lived pretty far from my schools). Sometimes, I'd get questions like, "What level are you on?" or, "How many points do you have?" before they even ask what game I'm playing. A few don't even realize there are interchangeable cartridges and think each game exists as a separate Game Boy. (Chances are the game I was playing was some {{Pokemon}} game.

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PaperThinDisguise * When young, AnoSa had a drastic change in haircut, and for a while {{Ano Sa}}'s mother was asked where AnoSa was and where {{Ano Sa}}'s twin had been...by people who'd known them for a good part of AnoSa's life. For the record, AnoSa is an only child. (And not admitting to a gender, thank you.) Later on, AnoSa managed to be not recognized by somebody who had been in the same class as the troper for three years...simply by wearing clothes AnoSa did ''not'' usually wear. HilarityEnsued. * This troper recalls actually slapping a piece of paper on her face and pretending to be a different person. * Played with hilariously by [[{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]], who has this habit of being in the same room her teachers are in during a conversation. I disguise my presence by saying, "I am but a disembodied voice. Pretend that you cannot see me." * My dad and some of his friends reportedly tried this (kind of as a prank, really) to get into a drive in movie for less. Basically, there were four people in the car; two in front, two in the back. The two in the back had cleverly concealed themselves by... sitting upright with a white sheet over their heads. And while my dad was getting the

tickets, they stage-whispered "Are we in yet?" Surprisingly, the guy selling the tickets played along and let them in. * A particularly abusive IMDb user deleted his account after being called out on several boards for his inability to tolerate any minor criticism of JamesCameron or his films. He then came back less than a day later under the name "The Biggest Cameron Fan", and began defending his previous persona's behaviour. No one was fooled. * This Troper had an inverted paper thin disguise, of taking of a labcoat and hat. People thought I was someone else while I wasn't wearing them. ** [[{{StongRadd}}]] will need a bowler hat, a funny disguise glasses, a fake corncob pipe (looks realistic), and a shirt that says "I'm Not <insert real name here> to make mine. * [[{{Tropers/Pittsburghmuggle}} When I]] got my first pair of glasses in second grade, I was so sure that [[KidsAreCruel the kids who teased me]] wouldn't [[ClarkKenting recognize me]]. I was, needless to say, wrong. * This troper lives in England, where it's been pretty sunny the last couple of weeks, requiring sunglasses. My weapons of choice are mirrored aviators, and among my friends they've become strongly associated with me. This morning, I couldn't find them, so threw on a pair of black Wayfarers with green arms. Seven of my closest friends didn't recognise me, despite everything else I was wearing being my normal wardrobe. * This example is long, so if you don't have time don't bother. A friend of this troper is a fan of either this trope or simply shifting the blame. He wrote on someone's Formspring (a Q&A site essentially) to a friend of his, claiming that she liked someone and vice versa. When pressured they pretended their "best friend" from outside of school that had never been mentioned or seen had done it, going to the extent that they were setting up a Facebook account for it. The disguise was terrible for the reason that they had no picture, the backstory was quickly proven false when everyone from that school said he didn't exist, and the persona's typing style was identical to theirs. They later admitted to it, feeling very foolish about it. * I almost won a game of hide and seek by sitting on a couch with a pillow over my face. I only lost because I was giggiling too much.

ParallelParking * When [[{{Tropers/FuzzyBoots}} I]] was taking the driving exam in Catlettsburg, KY, the parallel parking test is done on a city street with actual cars. As it turned out, I was given a location that I'd been practicing in just the day before. Driving my Volkswagen Vanagon, I confidently executed the parking maneuver with aplomb and perfect timing. Halfway through, the driving examiner yelled for me to stop, claiming that I'd hit the car in front of me with my angle. I turned to her, smiled, and said "This van has no nose" (The Vanagon being essentially a box on wheels) and continued my movement to park with a good 3 inches to spare as I rotated in, a CMOA for this troper. * I've never done any damage while parallel-parking, but it takes me a bit longer than most people and I need a bigger space (poor depth

perception). It's not uncommon for me to finish parking and notice a neighbor or passer-by looking amused. I laugh at myself too, so it's OK. * Parallel parking isn't even on the driver's test in Florida, since there are very few street-side parking lots. When this troper moved from Florida to Baltimore, he had to spend quite some time learning how to do it. On the other hand, considering [[OnlyInFlorida the relative insanity of the drivers down there]], the fewer items on the driving exam, the better... Head on back to ParallelParking, but slowly... slowly... watch out!! [[ThatsGottaHurt Oh, that's gonna leave a mark...]]

ParallelPornTitles [[folder:Film]] * With a title like ''MaryPoppins'' and a focus on chimney sweeps, there's gotta be ''some'' kind of porno out there touting this as an inspiration. There HAS to be. ** ''Mary Popped-In''? [[{{DoNotExplainTheJoke}} Because she likes the finish inside her.]] * [[Tropers/EarthboundGod This troper]] and her friend were talking about bad porn titles and the friend got to thinking. About two minutes later she wrote down her own, called [[HarryPotter Harlet Potter And Her Chamber Of Secrets]]. We probably won't be forgetting that for a while. * It's depressing how much time I spend coming up with these. My favorite though is [[{{Highlander}} "Thighlander 2: The Stiffening"]]. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{TV}}]] * This troper still ''cannot'' believe there are no porn parodies of FoodNetwork. ''[[AceOfCakes Ass of Cakes]]'', ''Semi-Ho Made'', the list goes on and on. ** ''GoodEats''? * How about ''[[{{MST3K}} Mystery Sex Theater 3XXX]]''? Join Cumbot, Jerksy, Tit Servo, and Crotch on the Satellite of Lust as they watch movies like ''[[ManosTheHandsOfFate Cojones: The Balls of Fate]]'' and ''[[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Mrs. Claus Conquers the Venusians]]''! [[/folder]] [[folder:TV Tropes]] * If anyone were to make {{Rule 34}} of [[{{TV Tropes}} this very wiki]] the most obvious title would be ''TV Gropes''. Ha ha ha... Ha. ** TV ''Ropes'', for the bondage set. ** [[IncrediblyLamePun Pee-pee Hopes?]] [[/folder]] [[folder:Video Games]] * How long will it be until there's ''[[MassEffect Ass Effect]]''? ** Or, as [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] suggested in his review of the

game, ''Mass Erect''. * This troper is intent on making ''FireEmblem: The Sacred Bones'' someday, since most of the characters already fit neatly into H-game character archetypes. * The best title this troper's friends could think of for [[HalfLife]] was ''Point Insertion''. * [[ZeldaCDI Wand of CUMelon]]. [[YouTubePoop OAH, indeed]]. [[/folder]] ---* insert witty sentence about ParallelPornTitles here*

Paranoia * http://www.crd-sector.com/uv/players/index.htm has quite a few tales about sessions of this game. ** Control-F search for "Alex Mora". [[LogicBomb Holy]] '''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome SHIT.]]''' ** My personal experience is basically getting shot.. I am just a newbie. *** You've been fortunate. In my first session my character was shot, stabbed, frozen, set on fire, hockeyed to death, lasered into tiny little pieces, and explosively un-dehydrated by R&D's new experimental canteen. *** I feel distinctly unexciting. My personal experience was hiding in the crowd wondering what the eff was going on while someone else was impersonating me and trying to blow up a confession booth and fires were breaking out everywhere. I did get to pistol whip someone in the face, though. **** UPDATE: Having now partaken in my second game of Paranoia, I can rest easier knowing I managed to blow up a dead baby on steroids with an experimental helmet, impersonate the Blue executive who gave us the mission after my fellow citizen stamped my head in with her robotic arm, and cried about how the others murdered the children while I went after them ''[[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]].'' By that point, everyone knew it was me, but there was no way I was not going to use that chainsaw. *** How about two screwups with the Teleport mutation resulting in fusing your legs with a bomb, then beaming self and bomb to the lunar surface? 'Cause that happened to one of this troper's friends during a quickie RuleOfFun run to just get the hang of the rules. (This also led to some more mayhem, listed below.) *** I managed to, in my first Paranoia game, get vaporized by a Vulture squad, annihilate a good portion of Alpha Complex (including the rest of the party) with a plasma cannon completely accidentally , burn my arm off, get shot in the head by a traitor, get wiped out by ''another'' vulture squad, and rack up a total over over 6 terminations during debriefing. Needless to say, my character was very much so dead. *** My first game involved a cannon that shot Infrareds, an evil RealityWarper named Benny that I killed Palpatine-style (accidentally [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causing a part of the Big Whoops in the process]] due to time travel), allying with a Troubleshooter I tried

to kill multiple times with Electroshock, getting transported to a communist version of Alpha Complex after attempting to headbutt a Troubleshooter who chainsawed another in the groin, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking spraying an eye that showed up on an elevator corridor with air freshener.]] Fun times for all. * You want to know something? You're not allowed in my room. You enter that room, you will die. I don't want you eyeing my doorway, knocking on my door, or breathing in my delicious, wet, musty room air. What's in my room? I have no clue, and that's why no one is allowed in... of course, I will make [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean exceptions...]] ** I think you've got the wrong kind of paranoia in mind. This is about the game. *** Someone zealously guarding a room they're not allowed into? Sounds like a perfect example to me. *** Only if it's by Friend Computer's orders. Incidentally, give me a peek. Smash the computer, PURGE is your friend! * The trope list, by the way, is fantastic. * Paranoia? You're not cleared to know what this troper is paranoid about. In fact, I'll have to terminate you now... * A friend of mine runs Paranoia as a LARP at a local convention every year. At midnight. * This troper is just looking for the opportunity to run a ''Paranoia'' game or an RPGMechanicsVerse ''Paranoia'' webcomic. Let's just say the scheming starts with a car fitted with an ejector seat but no hole in the car roof to let the seat out and gets worse from there. (Incidentally, citizens, any volunteers for the new R&D positron grenades? [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Data on their precise explosive capability is required. Failure to provide this data is treason. All grenades must be returned intact. Failure to do so is treason]]. [[DissonantSerenity Have a pleasant day. The Computer is your friend]]. * This has happened [[RunningGag 9 times]] to the same PC of mine now. They have Matter eater as their mutant power. Matter eater + explosive object (varies, grenades, warheads, a pocket tac nuke) + failed roll = Hilarity. The other players still can't talk about grenades with a straight face. Swallowing a tac nuke guys, that is what Paranoia is all about. * This troper GM'ed a published game of ''Paranoia'' following all the rules, assuming that the mere setting would be enough to annihilate the characters. The Troubleshooters survived unabashed the contradicting orders of Ultraviolet managers, the misleading logic of a giant mecha, the presence of un-colored pranking children, the class of aerobics and the direct attack of a Communist team -- all of it following the rules. Suddenly, one of the characters manipulated a weapon and killed another one. The characters then began killing each other, ''and'' their clones (as they assumed the clones were new Troubleshooters going after them on murder charges), in a fitting slugfest. Seriously, this troper is innocent. ** If your characters aren't already backstabbing each other by the time you're halfway through the mission briefing, you're doing something wrong... * This troper's GM decided that, in his games, clones would be

delivered by a high-speed delivery system that was basically a gigantic pinball with a hatch. The pinballs would often crush new players, causing him to [[ViciousCycle send more clones]]. In a strange display of maganamity, he also decided that by using one of R+D's experimental gadgets - a stapler gun accidentally built with a [[WaveMotionGun battleship-class beam cannon]] - a character who worked with Death Leopard had become a posthumous legend, as he blew up half of Alpha Complex and '''everyone saw it'''. * This troper played three semi-Zap games with two friends ([=GMing=] two of them) to get the hang of it to some degree (and is currently scheming to look for new recruits in his local area). The net results...just ''barely'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext made sense in context]]. These included: ** A bomb disposal mission plus the teleport power ended up as a ''moon mission''. ** One team member, suffering from drug-induced mutation to his brain cells, became convinced everyone in Alpha Complex was a demon, and killed the next clone of his ally with a Sleepy-Sleepy overdose before it was even fully regenerated. ** When a rookie GM was having a shot at running it, this troper's character was promoted to Orange clearance for grenading a toilet. * [[Tropers/DoctorWorm This Troper's]] first experience with Paranoia was pretty typical. The entire group (4 out of 5 of whom had never played before) was executed for treason for falling for a trick question on a personality test, there were multiple deaths on our way to the mission briefing, and we in fact never did reach the mission briefing, having mistaken the babbling of a dying man for our mission objectives. There were several deaths during the debriefing, including at one point the disintegration of the officer conducting the debriefing. * [[Tropers/MrGuy This Troper]] ran a Beta Complex game. The end result was the Problemblasters fighting Musso|L|INI and Unfrozen Rambo. It was awesome. * This troper has run Paranoia several times at the convention she staffs at. The best game yet was based loosely on Doctor Who and Torchwood. It included a 45 minute argument between players over a bathroom, people hallucinating without realizing it, fun with a weapons closet and foam grenades, someone gluing another player to a wall (and the cleaning solution used to unstick them being a bit too caustic for use on a person), and as a finisher, someone deciding to throw a grenade into what turned out to be a ''rift in time and space''. There were times where I couldn't breathe due to laughter. * When playing a pick up game late at a convention and I (the GM) was getting tired someone said that they go to a console and "activate Rick Roll.exe" They rolled a 1...... "The lights grow dim as power is siphoned from the electrical system to power the program. Suddenly the life support cuts out and as you fade away you hear in the distance "Never going to give you up! Never going to let you down!"" The beauty of this was in the same room was another group was playing too and as I was packing up I hear "Okay you drop a bridge on R&D, destroying it for the second time." * This Troper played a HouseRules style game of Paranoia that had

players able to move up ranks (Do not ask me how--It's classified.) I attempted to rank all the way up, destroy The Computer, and hopefully win. Most of that worked, as promotions were done secretly--Then I rolled to blow up the Computer, and The GM ordered every. OTHER. TROUBLESHOOTER. after my behind. Beyond that, the game became pure CalvinBall--and arguably, the 45 minutes it took to deplete everyone's lives was better than the entire beginning of the game. My proudest moment was beating a troubleshooter with the bomb that had been intended for the computer...only to have it explode in my hand next turn ([[SarcasmMode THANKS]], GM). And did I mention I was a PURGE member that was trolling around Alpha Complex? * This Troper thinks a [[TheProtomen Protomen]] roleplay could be made using the Paranoia system. * One game I was GMing back when I was a wee squirt, inexperienced at GMing, I made the mistake of making the missions possible to succeed at (as in, theoretically possible if, somehow, nobody managed to nuke the MacGuffin), and promoted those who succeeded in missions (which basically was a plan to ensure rank wars within the team). One player was a bit better at cutting throats than the others, so he managed to survive to BLUE clearance while everyone else got their first characters run out of clones (this was pre-XP). At one point in a mission that was going too well, Jim-B-JAM and the survivors of a successful mission were heading to the briefing room, and the other three had been passing each other notes all mission, so he got the rather accurate idea that they were planning to send him up the river. He promptly tested some laser fire on their heads. In the briefing room (speaking without fear of contradiction), he said that they had to be commie mutant traitors...because ''their veins were above their security clearance''. It gets better; next mission, everyone's clone registered as mutants ("Friend Computer, we throw ourselves on your mercy, for the cloning vats accidentally miscolored certain parts of our bodies), then in the middle of a tight squeeze, literally everyone gangjumped on Jim and lasered him to kingdom come. Then they vaped his next two clones on delivery. He was a commie mutant traitor, because his ''skin'' was above his clearance level. Payback's a bitch. * I just ran my first game of Paranoia (Imana-665-C in TROUBLESHOOTERS), which just happened to be my first time GMing, as well as my first experience with any type of roleplaying game. As expected, it was a bit of a trainwreck. However, there were some interesting occurences. I added an elevator that would take the troubleshooters down to the R&D section, which naturally broke down midway and went pitch black. They only had one nuc-blast shield, and when one character tried to steal it from the person holding it, they wound up groping him instead. Another character tried to fix the elevator, loosened a few screws and sent them falling down the shaft. The player with the shield got the bright idea to turn the elevator to concrete. He believed that the shaft was made of concrete and that this would fuse the elevator to the shaft. They actually accelerated faster. Result: three patches of red paste where troubleshooters used to be. The rest of the mission was... messy, mostly because I was having trouble figuring out who did what when. I had to name-drop the hint that they were supposed to address the bot by name to talk to it.

Finally, it opened up, at which point one of the two cameras in the room was on fire, the other was disabled, the player with the shield had turned it into a pile of sand, and one of the troubleshooters was rocking back and forth in the corner, clutching his pistol. The character who was messing with the bot's insides was a member of the Humanists, and so rewired it to shut down for good; which it did, after experiencing a brief psychotic episode, slamming it's dome shut on the 'shooter rewiring it, thus trapping his arms, and grabbing a second 'shooter who had been standing nearby in a choke-hold. End Result: two characters on their third clone iterations, and one on his second. * I had Paranoia as a teenager, but my friends didn't like it so we didn't play it much. I loved reading and rereading the modules, though! * I'm new to Roleplaying Games, and I've recently started playing Paranoia with a group. First couple of weeks went pretty normally, but on the fourth week the Team Leader (the most level headed of the group) was busy. The mission we were assigned that week? Throw a dinner party. Cue two PC's losing their entire clone stocks (one of them managed to do this to their original character AND their new character), a group of Violets being poisoned (repeatedly), a riot in an Infrared Market and a Benny Hill chase scene through Alpha Complex as we chased some secret society members chasing a prototype petbot. Our Team Leader was quite surprised when he came back to see 2/3's of his team replaced by new characters and the remaining one promoted above him. * There was a game way back in college where [[Tropers/FordPrefect my]] girlfriend was playing an Anti-Mutant and I was playing a Psion (let's call them [[AliceAndBob Alice-R and Bob-R]]). Early on, Bob-R received a message from his secret society contact that, unusually for such messages, was 100% accurate: "there's an Anti-Mutant on your team, and ''[[ExactWords Alice-R knows]] [[FromACertainPointOfView who it is]]''". At the same time, Alice-R got an equally accurate message from ''her'' secret society contact: "there's a Psion on your team..." ----You lack the proper security clearance to access this page, Citizen. Unauthorized access of these Troper Tales is categorized as treason. Please report to {{Paranoia}} for termination. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParanoiaFuel * This tropette is listening to the sound of a fly buzzing around, but can't seem to visually locate it. Yeesh... * Ever since The Master returned in [[Series/DoctorWho Nu Who]] (the first time), I've had that same ''tap-tap-tap-tap tap-tap-tap-tap'' rhythm as an unconscious tic... just like the population of the world did when they were brainwashed to support him. * Due to an abusive exboyfriend, [[{{Tropers/himetakamura}} this troper]] get's freaked out whenever she sees a black Volkswagon car

that looks anything like her ex's. She's pretty sure he's not really following her, but she still gets paranoid when she sees his type of car... * After [[@/AceOfScarabs I]] began watching PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, for a while I was really paranoid for my younger female cousins. What if Kyubey approached them with promises of Wishes granted? (''shiver'') * After this troper read this [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17561_6-things-that-shouldnt-explodebut-did-anyway.html this Cracked article]], this troper is constantly afraid that his chair will blow up and send plastic into his ass. Since this chair is the very same as the one in link. ** This troper is more afraid of the frogs, because the one in the link looked a lot like one i had as a pet recently, then he ran away... * This troper had some fun with one of his friends; after coming across [[http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/please-wakeup.html this link]], he emailed it on. The friend thought it was kind of cool, but silly, because that's ridiculous, right? What followed was about a week of the troper convincing strangers to text, email, and even walk up to the friend in public and tell him to wake up. He was genuinely terrified, and starting doubting everything until the troper told him. ** You are SO mean. Did you know that people can actually develop a false memory of an event if they believe that it happened? Proven fact, that is. I see you. * Oh really? * I SEE YOU * MOTHER * [[PerverseSexualLust Let me also see you, don't be shy.]] [[FetishFuel I looove internet sex too~]] ** Holy shit. *** Oh shit, I should put on pants then! * This troper, sitting alone at home on her couch at 2:30 in the morning just saw a streak of white go by her window. It's pitch black, and though she only saw it out of the corner of her eye... She's been reading about Slenderman lately. It also doesn't help matters that she's been beating herself up over mistakes she's made, and now has a worrying feeling that something *knows* and is watching. ** [[{{Theanimejunkie12}} I]] was writing the other day, and decided to start my own story on the Slenderman. I thought it would be fun. But then the phone rings with no caller ID, and hangs up immediately after I answer. I told everyone it was just a crank caller, but sometimes I wonder... * [[RiL This troper]] just wandered into the {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}} page and was instantly hit with a banner ad reading "You're not that talented." One of the things she's currently in therapy for is a major art block. This is kind of a nerve. ** Not to mention the damn thing was a Scientology ad and I had come to post Scientology-related nightmare fuel. [=FML=] ** This troper just got the same message! She's currently dealing with

self-doubt in her acting career, and the ad told her to "just give it up". She considered calling her father over to ask him if he saw the ad, too. * This Troper likes the new "Edit Tips" that come up on this wiki when editing. The thing is, he got tip #6, right when adding a third bullet point. Keep in mind that Tip #6 is, "If you're using a third bullet point, take a moment to think about what you're typing and where it should go." Does Tvtropes have special mind reading software or something? * So, one time, five years ago, my sister had a pet bird. I was playing with it, and I called it "David", which is my name. Then I left without replacing the cover to the cage. One of our cats ate it. Then the cat died. Three years ago, I saw a bird outside on the window, eating from the bird feeder. I thought, "Oh, that's a pretty bird. I might keep it, and call it David." A neighborhood cat leapt up and ate it. Then, two years ago, my mom bought a group of chickens. She gave me one, and said it was mine. A few days later, we found it as a liquefied puddle. Last year, my mom bought more chickens (all the others were too old to lay eggs). Everybody was picking out chickens, except for me. A few days passed, and nothing happened to the chickens, so I picked one for myself. ''IT DIED THAT SAME FREAKING NIGHT. '' I will never have another pet. ** "A liquefied puddle?" Do I ''want'' to know [[{{Gorn}} how that happened?]] ** Poor David. And Bird David. And Bird David the Second. And the Third. And the Fourth. I think you are right, pets may not be right for you. ** Never name any of your children after you. Ever. [[spoiler: And thus, slowly, the name David will be eradicated from the world. Just as planned. Your name is next.]] *** TearJerker, especially how much [[{{Kargaroc}} this troper]] loves birds :( * Are you on this site at night? Is the light in the room on? That's good, playing in the dark is bad for your eyes. I imagine that there is a window in the room. Go take a look at it, don't turn the light off. Just look. If I'm correct, the window will be completely pitch black, you cannot see anything at all outside. Think about that for a minute. ** Also, stop looking at me. *** No, you're pretty. ** [[TheDitz I don't get it]]. ** Damn you. Now you just scared a 12-year-old kid with insomnia. Fuck you, sir. Fuck you. ** Sounds more like nightmare fuel to me; Think about it... it totally looks as if an infinite black void surrounding your house. ** [[SubvertedTrope Actually]], I see a window of another buildidng. They never seem to turn the light off. I can see everything in that room... OhCrap. That means [[ParanoiaFuel they can see me too!]] ** Nope, I can see a tree outsi [[TheSlenderManMythos OH]] [[FridgeHorror FUCKING ]] [[OhCrap CRAP]] * This troper had some very creative nightmares as a child. One particularly horrid plot involved there being something in the dark

that took people and replaced them with something that looked like them and sounded like them but wasn't them and which acted as lures to attract more victims. The only way to stay safe was to keep the lights on, but this troper was the only one who knew what was going on and various family members kept going outside. Needless to say, this troper was scared of the dark (or more accurately, what might be lurking in it) for years after that particular nightmare ** That sounds a bit like the plot to ''{{Coraline}}''. *** Sounds even more like Capgras Syndrome. Kind of. * [[NicholasOnimura This troper]] recently had his {{YouTube}} channel hacked, with his profile details changed to stuff like "IM GAY LOL" and favorited a bunch of [[{{Squick}} gay sex videos]]. I removed the offending videos and details and changed my password, but I'm still a bit paranoid over the whole thing; that someone could hack my account and do this again at any given time. ** You might have become a victim of the internet gang of trolls-no, trolls no longer quite covers what Anonymous is. They are internet terrorists. The real ParanoiaFuel is that they will do that, without warning, just to get lulz. [[CompleteMonster For them, suffering is fricking hilarious.]] ** This troper was disturbed to discover several months ago that the trolls of Encyclopedia Dramatica were planning a campaign of harrassment...against ''[[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'' of all people. They divulged the full names of Linkara's parents and the family's street address (which they verified by matching ''an aerial map of their backyard'' to the one seen in Linkara's videos). They also determined the location of the Barnes & Noble where Iron Liz worked so could harass her on the job. (Keep in mind, this was when Liz was already suffering panic attacks due to job-related stress.) Now, I might understand this kind of behavior being directed at people who, say, torture animals (such persons have received similar treatment in the past), but Linkara? No reason other than ''they don't find him entertaining.'' (For the record, Linkara was aware of the situation and said he wasn't worried. Either the guy is braver than I am, or he's completely naive.) ** On the subject of Encyclopedia Dramatica and TGWTG, there was an entire page on Paheal of anonymous comments detailing how they wanted to find Doug Walker when he's alone and rape him. Scary enough already. But then they decided it was open season on him and Spoony and while asking for Scarlett {{gorn}} to send to Noah, ''they sent the page to Doug's brother'' for lulz. Like the wussy I am, I suddenly feel very sorry and scared for anybody internet-famous. * Why are there always cops everywhere I go? It's as if... they're... watching... me. * ''scratch...scratch...scratch...'' You wouldn't think it, but hearing mice in your walls late at night is pretty damn creepy. ** This troper sees your 'mice in the walls' and raises you 'a hornet's nest in the walls'. ~shudder~ *** Just be glad they're not [[HPLovecraft rats]]... **** YourMileageMayVary. This troper loves rats and would be very relieved if that was all that was in his walls. ***** I love rats too, but I wouldn't want them as an infestation. One

little spayed/neutered pet rattie in a cage? Sure! Thousands of them in my walls, breeding like mad and causing structural damage? No thanks. ***** This troper has an ambiguous feeling about them. I like lab mice and other clean ones, but I'm terrified of rats. Some weeks ago I heard creepy 'squicky squicky' sounds after bathing and washing hand and almost cried. Keep in mind also that [[NineteenEightyFour 1984]] was the last book I read. ****** I love rats, but my mom and grandma hate them, i wouldnt care for a couple of rats in my walls, rats dont bug me, but a house full of them, and they're in my bed and shower... eugh,at least it isnt [[JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac "The Moose"]], which is bassicly a mass of tentacles that feeds on blood and lives in walls. and comes out and kills when its hungry. * While reading HighOctaneNightmareFuel page, speciffically SerialExperimentsLain one, This Troper was hearing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAvLYgq5m0&feature=player_embedded this]] in minute 14:10 to 14:40. At 11:00 pm. With the lights off. And some [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean freaking cat noises]] in the background. When he stared at the alien image, somehow he had the urge to turn on the lights * In high school, around 11th grade, for around three months, this troper had a case of the [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi Syndrome.]] Everyone was out to get me, nobody wanted what was the best for me, my girlfriend was dating another guy behind my back, and my friends only wanted to make a fool out of me. After nearly strangling my best friend, I stopped. This all came four months before watching Higurashi. [[WildMassGuess maybe I was infected with the parasite?]] * At the risk of sounding completely ridiculous, [[{{Latia}} this Troper]] was very scared by the book {{Lolita}}. I mean, it's basically every parent's worst nightmare: that nice, handsome man with the lovely cute-as-a-button daughter? He's screwing her. And he's thinking about screwing ''your'' kid too. If anything, it will make things interesting when I have kids of my own. * I was just about to go back to re-reading Terry Pratchett's ''TheFifthElephant'' when I stumbled across these news: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14641806[==]. If you don't see the significance, let me explain: just as a famous statue is about to be shown publicly (the Little Mermaid statue will be on exhibition in China soon), a replica of it is stolen from immigrants of the statue's country of origin. LifeImitatesArt, anyone? * One I had a while ago: I was looking for the page that had "[[{{Cult}} Brotherhood of the Cold Sun]]" in the description, but nothing came up for the search bar. But... I'm sure I saw it, I KNOW I saw it, ItWasThereISwear! [[OrIsIt Or Was It]]? Was it all in my head? ** Actually, you didn't imagine it: it's in the description header for TheSchizophreniaConspiracy. (You're welcome.) * Oh, TVTropes, how dost thou creep me out? Let me count the ways: ** TroperTales/CompellingVoice ** Whoever wrote about GenreShift-ing with tentacle demons on the TVTropesAdditionalEvilOverlordVows ruined every evil overlord list ever.

** TroperTales/Any example that mentions a medical condition ever, especially the late-onset kind. * This troper saw ABeautifulMind only two days after his parents dropped the bombshell that they hired a private investigator to follow him around. Tell me THAT won't give you ParanoiaFuel. * Immediately after [[Tropers/JadeEyes1 this troper]] and her husband signed the deed to their first home, the realtor (who had also remodeled the house) informed us, almost as an aside, that the previous occupant had ''died'' in the house. He then quickly added that the person in question had been an old man who'd lived alone and died in his sleep. Somehow, it didn't help. * Every once in a while, This Troper would have a sense of deja vu. [[FridgeBrilliance Then this troper realized]] that the reason behind all these moments of deja vu was that time loops who knows how many times, therefore you'll be ''[[HaruhiSuzumiya stuck doing the same things, including mistakes, over and over again without even knowing.]]'' Have fun now! ** But the Deja Vu is just a side effect of it; if I don't know I'm stuck in a loop, why should I care? * This troper had just started reading Stephen King's "The Stand" when he became afflicted with a sickness that's symptoms included hacking up a lot of sputum, a sore throat, fever, and coughing. In other words, early stage Captain Trips. This being allergy season, almost everyone else has started sneezing and coughing too... ** I will call your The Stand and raise you [[{{TheBirds}} The Birds]] by Alfred Hitchcock. Especially if you see it in its original black & white glory, because then all the goddamn birds look alike. ** This Troper had a similar experience with ''The Stand'', but since she is a huge skeptic with almost every animal and pollen allergy you could think of (except, oddly enough, [[KindHeartedCatLover cats]], which are specifically mentioned not to get Captain Trips) she just brushed it off. Hell, she even made a joke about it to her mom. * If you were to die suddenly, how would you know you were dead? ** Easy, you wouldn't know, because there wouldn't be anything to know. ** Now, if you believe in an ''afterlife'', on the other hand.... * The game {{Minecraft}}. Think you were scared of the dark before? Just wait until you just finished playing this at midnight, went to bed, and the old clanky heater in your house goes "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" at random intervals all night long. Let me tell you I did NOT sleep well that night. * [[{{Kadorhal}} This troper]] became this for his friends during one session of a freeware multiplayer flight simulator. I had recently bound one button on my gamepad to launch short-range air-to-air missiles, potentially without letting the target know I was locked on until the missile was in-flight. I tested it on one of above-mentioned friends, and the next time he took off and I got behind him, he immediately panicked and launched all his flares. * Stephen King's movie {{Sleepwalkers}}. How the hell can I trust my sister getting into ''any'' relationship with a boy now that I've seen the movie with shapeshifting demon-vampire-cats that eat human souls, and the hunter one is just the kind of guy my sister would fall for?

* The Jackal seems an innocent enough action flick until the scene where Bruce Willis sprays something on his van's door handle that kills an imposter in seconds...as if that isn't enough to make me doubt touching my own car later in the film he's hiding under someones stairs with a silenced gun, the very same style that was in my house at the time... * For This Troper, when her umbrella was forcibly wrenched out of her hand by a rogue and VERY strong blast of wind, nothing gave her more paranoia fuel than imagining all the horrible injuries someone would be getting from the rogue umbrella hitting them. And then knowing it was your umbrella that probably put them in the A&E room at the hospital, perhaps with their [[EyeScream eye gouged out by an umbrella spoke]] doesn't help with feeling the guilt and blaming oneself. Having a strong and particularly graphic imagination doesn't help either with imagining all the horrible injuries someone might be getting now from the umbrella... I guess this has a strong mixture of NightmareFuel as well. ** Funny, I would have had a similar reaction, but with glee instead of fear. * This troper never stands with her back to a door, always keeps herself in a position from which all windows in a room are visible, and will not go into a restaraunt if she can't have a booth seat with her back facing a wall. From a very early age I decided that [[NightmareFuel one never knows who or what could decide to sneak up on you]]. ** Funny, you'd think the things that come through the walls, floor or ceiling would be scarier than the ones that come through the door or window. ... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not that there's anything to worry about, of course. Apart from spontaneous human combustion.]] ** This troper almost always feels like she's being followed, to the point where she will sit against a wall, [[MadnessMantra murmuring, "Nothing there. Nothing there. Nothing there."]] But there ''is''! There has to be! I sense it! *** [[Tropers/RousseauIsMyBro314 This tropette]] has felt this way since she was a little girl. * Undercover police officers. Next time you go to, say, a shopping mall, look around you. How do you know she's really just a shopper? ''Is'' that a homeless guy on the street? * [[BigBrotherIsWatching People watching my activities on the computer]]. That. Is. All. ** And your cell phone. And your home phone. And your daily activities, as shown in a "sneak preview" to the regular Joe by Google Earth. [[ItGetsWorse And...]] ** you just made me paranoid about that. ** Imagine turning on your cell phone to go to Google Maps, then finding out you have GPS. On your cell-phone. That is tracking ''where you car is moving at this very second.'' * The human mind is incredibly powerful. Hypnosis proves it. You can feel anything, hear anything, see anything, whether or not it actually exists, if your brain thinks it does. ''You could be in a padded cell right now and you would never know.'' Oh, and that's not the worst thing. For all you know, the reality you're living? It could be

entirely fabricated down to the fundamental laws of physics themselves. ''And you would NEVER know.'' ** Thanks, dude, I'll never sleep again. It's like the time I thought I was trapped in TheSims. I resisted going to the toilet for ''an hour'' before I finally couldn't resist and ran into the bathroom. All because I ''thought'' someone was controlling me. [[spoiler: I have a pea bladder now, by the way.]] ** Get out of my head! Everytime I went to the bathroom for a few months back, I would wonder if I was actually hallucinating, and I was actually in class, or something. That's, that's... Get out of my head, dude, just get out of my head. ** Actually, hypnosis doesn't work like that (or so my psychology teacher said). Hypnosis just makes you more open to suggestions and that if you would do something under the influence of hypnosis, you'd do it when you weren't. I'm not sure if that helps. *** Or is that what the [[TheConspiracy psychologists]] ''want'' us to think? ** I've heard to same thing--also from a psychology teacher. Additionally, my own teacher informed us that ''not everyone'' '''''can''''' be hypnotized. To prove his point, he conducted a simple exercise: he asked the students to pretend that we had a giant magnet in each hand, and that our hands were slowly being drawn together; roughly one-third of the class was affected. (I wasn't one of them, in case you were wondering.) *** How do you know you weren't just ''imagining'' that you were unaffected? Maybe you were imagining that your hands stayed away from each other, maybe in reality your hands came together and you couldn't even pull them apart... **** ....''Dammit.'' ** [[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri (]]Subject termination advised) * When I was around the age of five, I twice dreamt that the house me and my family were living in at the time was destroyed by a fire. It wasn't even the same dream twice, it was two very different dreams, but they both included the scenario of our house being on fire. A couple of years later, when we had moved away and someone else was living in that house, there was a fire there and the house burned to the ground. I will never underestimate my dreams again! * [[http://www.hitta.se/ Hitta.se]] is a Swedish site which gives you information about people living in Sweden. All you have to do is you enter their name, address or phone number. Now, if someone enters a name that is very common, they might get several thousands of hits, and they will have to know something else about the person they are looking for to find him or her. If you, on the other hand, have an unusual name... Let's just say that I share my name with NO ONE! So if you enter my name, you will get one single hit, and it will show you my birthday, my address, both of my phone numbers, a map over the area where I live and a PICTURE of my front door! Did I mention that I am a young woman living by myself? Remind me to never, ever, tell people my name... ** The United States has Zabasearch.com. By typing in someone's name or phone number, you get their address, date of birth, names of relatives, phone number (if you don't already have it). There is also

a button next to people's names that allows you to "Get the Dirt" on people, with has more information. *** Thanks, [[{{Theanimejunkie12}} this troper]] just searched her home phone number and found that it has the correct address where I live, although with no other information. That still means that whoever (or whatever) prank called me and hung up [[ParanoiaFuel knows where I live...]] *** [[{{Theanimejunkie12}} Same poster]], but I just found [[https://www.intelius.com/ this]] and found out that this website has records of which cities my family has lived in, who my dad's relatives are, and the current phone numbers match. And here I thought I was paranoid when I told my cousin I thought someone had been stalking me us since birth. * This troper read ''Cell'' right before her 14th birthday. On her birthday, she got her first cell phone. (Also, thanks to Desperation, she is slightly wary about going anywhere near Nevada.) * [[VashTi This troper]] has a book that she first read at the age of 8: ''AA Book of the British Countryside''. It taught me lots of fab things about plants, animals, ecology and so on. Except for the twopage spread with huge black-and-white blowups of soil organisms. 24 years later, I still can't open the book to those two pages. ** If [[http://www.fao.org/ag/AGL/agll/soilbiod/images/microarth_mosaic.jpg this]] is anything like the book you are talking about, I don't blame you. It reminds me of the opening scenes of ''Blue Velvet''. * The paranoia effect of ''The {{Illuminatus}}! Trilogy'' is so strong that this troper only got about 1/3 of the way through it before she became convinced the book was attempting to hypnotize and brainwash her and stopped reading out of fear. Really. ** This troper would direct you to read R.A. Wilson's nonfiction. He's one of the most benign mystic wierdoes you can find, and while his books will definately give you new perspectives that you may have never considered before, their effects are profoundly positive. The ''{{Illuminatus}}!'' saved this troper from a chronic depression. Or else I'm just a brainwashed lackey goading you on. You decide. * It took this troper six years after reading ''{{Animorphs}}'' to be able to fall asleep without a blanket covering her ears so the Yeerks couldn't crawl inside her brain as she slept. ** This troper ''still'' sleeps with blankets over his ears, and really, ''really'' hates slugs. ** Oh crap. Thank you for reminding me. I got that worry from reading Parasyte * This troper gets paranoid about a lot of things, most stemming from whatever show she's watched recently, or her OCD. However, she takes comfort in three things: 1. Having her cat close by (as cat's can sense evil). 2. Having a hammer at her bedside (she's thinking of asking "Santa" for a huge wrench/hammer for Christmas). And 3., the most ridiculous of all- this troper has never met her real father, '''and I kid you not,''' takes comfort in thinking she's a demigod/ HalfHumanHybrid and that her godly/ alien parent will protect her. ** Hey, that's about as rational as half the fears up here, so whatever brings peace of mind.

* ''BridgeToTerabithia'' only fueled this troper's fear of having friends or people close to him die. * As a child, this troper was read ''Jellybean Fever'' by Joanne Brisson Murphy, which is about a girl who eats too many jellybeans, gets chased by a jellybean monster, and gets spots on her face because of the jellybeans. This troper didn't eat jellybeans for ''years''. * This troper's younger brother used to have a panic attack ''just hearing the X-Files theme music''. I'm not sure the poor kid ever actually saw he an episode, but he sure was terrified of the music. * This troper saw an episode of ''{{Sightings}}'' that said the world would effectively end on April 5th, 2000. He was paranoid for a month, with recurring bouts every once in a while. Ironically, he went right by the date without remembering until months later. * Thanks to mainlining season 1 of ''{{Criminal Minds}}'' over 2 days, this troper is now mildly afraid of lightbulbs (Compulsion). * This troper refused to go into her bathroom after watching the Bloody Mary episode of for fear that she'd involuntarily say Bloody Mary three times. Or even THINK it. ** This troper has only ever heard the legend, but when it's late at night and she's in front of a mirror (frequently, as there's one opposite her bed), she still desperately tries not to even think it. Of course, around here, the most common legend dictates that it must be said ''thirteen'' times, which is much harder, so... *** Oddly enough, this troper's bedroom mirror doesn't have that effect, but she can't bring herself to even catch a glimpse of bathroom mirrors in the dark. And mirrors cover the upper half of an entire wall of her bathroom. ** This troper is consoled to know that she's not the only one. Ever since she first heard about the legend years ago, she can't stand to look at a mirror in the dark. Heck, she doesn't look at the bathroom mirror AT ALL. * This troper can't be the only one who gets an unsettling feeling of paranoia every time she listens to "Fitter, Happier" by Radiohead. * Oh, gods- this troper is paranoid to the point of being (almost) PHYSICALLY UNABLE to walk through a room with balloons or rope. Humorously, I have absolutely no problem with headcrabs (other than the whole, "take over my body and turn me into a mook" thing). * Personally, this troper found his Paranoia fuel during the early momentum-based puzzles. After ascending a particularly vertical section, you have one last "fling" to perform, across the length of the room. At this point, he was having fun flinging, and for this last fling he said to himself, "Wheeeeee!". I think the Portal team did extensive playtesting on this, because GLaDOS, in her monotonous voice, uttered "Wheeeeeeeee* kzzt* " at almost ''exactly the same time I said that.'' I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but I was incredibly impressed by the timing. ** Same thing happened to me. It caught me off guard, but I laughed, finding it extremely amusing * [[MetalGearSolid The Sorrow]]. [[spoiler: Whenever I blink in a lighted room, I see his tortured shell of a body screaming at me. It was burned into my brain because I had killed so many people that each run of the river took me forty-five minutes and it took eight times

before Zero told me to use the Revival Pill.]] * Ever since seeing one ''FamilyGuy'' episode in which the opening theme has Peter fall down the stairs instead of the song finishing, this troper has always been on edge when ''FamilyGuy'' comes on, paranoid that it's going to be that episode and the opening will scare the heck out of him once more. ** The episode with that theme in question is titled "Whistle While Your Wife Works." (Thank you DVD box sets.) So if you see that episode title on cable or sattelite, you can change the channel in advance. * This troper has come to the realization that her deep terror of psychologists comes from the episode where Darkwing goes to therapy and is brainwashed by Crackerjack and Megavolt. * This troper is extremely arachnophobic, and before showering, he checks every square inch of the bathroom for spiders. Twice on the places he's found spiders before. Three times on the shower curtain. ** This troper feels your pain. A tendency toward slightly compulsive behaviour and catastrophic thinking = being convinced that your house will burn to frigging ash if you do not make TOTALLY SURE the heater is really off. Thanks, neurons! ** This troper is completely pyrophobic, and checks the stove ''every time he turns it on'' to make sure there is no chance it could ever catch fire. ** This troper is absolutely terrified of crossing bridges. Why? Well, think about what might happen if even a single tiny part of the bridge stops working. The thought of being trapped in a car underwater as water slowly seeps in, just because of the failure of a tiny part of the bridge. Now consider that this could happen any time. * This troper has an unexplainable instinct of searching his bathroom before entering every night. The weirdest part though, is that he always has to check the ''ceiling''. Even more weird, this behavior started ''before'' he knew TVTropes existed and would haunt his dreams luring him to NightmareFuel pages at 2AM. ** Oh my god, you're just like [[{{Tropers/Arutoa}} me]]. It was caused by Game/ClockTower for me. Damn you, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Scissorman]]! ** Unless you remember to draw back the shower curtain, and possibly check under the sink, you're just asking to be brutally murdered. But yes, the ceiling is very important. ** Not to mention that looking in the mirror for more than a minute when it's sufficently late at night causes your reflection to come alive and [[CrazyPrepared speak evil prophecies at you.]] Modern bathrooms are really just deathtraps with toilets. ** This troper has to--friggen ''HAS'' to check behind the curtain ''EVERY'' time she goes into the bathroom at night. The same troper who sits in the hallway with a huge mirror on one wall because she finds it comforting to know what's behind her... And the very same troper who has a--I kid you not--heavy stick right next to her bed at all times. This is what reading the {{Paranoia Fuel}} and {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}} article at night does to you * nods gravely* ** A hammer serves as my nighttime security. During the day, it's my mistrust of everybody. Once I almost hit a toddler because he grabbed my shirt suddenly.

** Every time I go into the bathroom I always draw back the shower curtain and look in the shower, then check the ceiling. As with the above troper, I too have an odd weapon next to my bed at all times (it's a BBQ skewer). I also have my rifle in the corner, my shotty in the closet (lotta help that does), 2 airsoft guns under my night table, a BB pistol next to those, and several knives. And this was all BEFORE I found TV Tropes. ** You think the bathroom CEILING is scary? Think about the toilet itself. It's the place where you expose some of your most vulnerable organs. So you sit down, maybe read a book, knowing that this will take a bit longer than usual. What if there's a creature hiding in the water? Maybe something spider-like? Maybe, as you're reading this on your laptop, it's crawling inside your intestines through your most sacred orifices... Need I continue? ** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Icalasari This Troper]] developed this habit as well. I think it may have been a combination of a fear of vampires ((just the getting sucked dry part and the chance that I become an unthinking slave)) and a weird nightmare he once had. When I was little, I dreamt that I walked into the bathroom (which had grown in size). The cartoon Jackie Chan was looking for talismans in it. I did my thing, then left. He shouted, [[BigNo "NOOOOOO!"]], I opened the door, and in a split second a werewolf burst in, jumped me, and devoured me. I also have a fear of closed, unlocked doors due to this and an incident in elementary school where a teacher opened the door while my pants and underwear were down (it was a washroom), letting a whole kindergarten class see his genitals. Anyways, it helps that my washroom has an odd design with the wall shooting off into a small section of wall (about a foot or two) that forms a 45 degree angle with the other wall, giving him a great view while keeping things from hiding behind me. ** I also do this since I was nine. I'm terrified of plagues (like rats, roaches, pigeons, the things you pay people to kill) so on, so for years I'd rather pee on my pants than going to the bathroom late at night. Now I just leave a lights on path and I'm ok with it. * At 13, this troper used to casually leaf through a third-level psychology textbook he found in his school library, showing a particular interest in the mental disorders section. In the preface to this section it mentioned that practically ''everybody'' subconsciously self-diagnoses themselves with DID, schizophrenia and so on and so forth when reading about reported symptoms thereof - and even despite reading this preface this troper was certain he suffered from the latter about two days later. Especially after he read that it affects 1% of the population of the world, which seemed disturbingly high for such a serious illness. * I got a keylogger on my computer a few years ago and the person responsible changed my email password. Even worse, I actually sort of knew the person behind it. Shortly after I thought I had gotten rid of it using an anti-spyware program and was talking to a friend about it, the person who put it there [=IMed=] me and copy-pasted what I was sending my friend. I reformatted my hard drive and changed all of my accounts. * Interestingly, having Asperger's Syndrome can make you immune to

Paranoia Fuel and its relatives. ** This troper disagrees. ** I usually don't get ParanoiaFuel, but I'm scared of GERMS >_< *** This troper also disagrees. Oh boy does she ''ever''. **** Same here. This aspie is kinda creeped out by religion of any kind. ''Jesus is WATCHING you...'' **** Well, "can" doesn't mean "will". **** This troper has always thought of G-d as kind; indeed, one of the only beings in the world that she can trust not to turn on her at a moment's notice. (That friend who comes to my house just to hang out? Why is she there? Does she really want to spend time with me, or is someone telling her to be nice?) ***** This troper isn't immune to Paranoia Fuel. Instead, for her, there's no such thing as the UncannyValley. ** Occasionally, RadioactiveZombie will get into odd, bizarre conspiracy theories and irrational plots... then brush them away as fucking stupid. ** [[{{Roxor}} This troper]] keeps finding himself cackling like a MadScientist while reading this page and the NightmareFuel ones. ** Nah, [[SabreJustice this troper]] still expects to see TheGreys behind every door. Damn you ''{{X-COM}}''. *** So, [[LordGacek I]] am not alone? In my case, though, it's probably X-Files + good ole' PrimalFear of the darkness. Mind you, I tend to ease up by imagining they come for me, and I break their slim necks with my bare hands. Yeah, I'm weird. Too bad I didn't develop such {{Survival Mantra}}s for [[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Mind Worms]]. ** This autistic troper is unfazed by some things that scares other people, while at the same time being fairly paranoid. I blame it on watching the "Top 100 Scariest Movie Moments" on TV until the very end late at night. And let me tell you, paranoia is ''not'' fun at all... ** Just being a heartless bitch can help you 'o rly?' and 'oh yeah, that bit was AWESOME' your way through this and the NightmareFuel pages as well. ** Cracking jokes helps too. ** This autistic troper still suffers from paranoia due to the fact that her family has had a long line of men going back that had other mental diseases, such as bipolar disorder and manic depression, coming in hand-in-hand with autism. Thus, being the first female of the family with autism, she is worried about what sort of disease will show up later in her life, or, if she is lucky, if she will even have a disease to worry about. ** This Aspie Troper is near-immune to almost every variety of NightmareFuel (I read the pages for shows I've watched thinking, 'People were scared by that?!'), but can be, and has been on many occasions, reduced to a paranoid wreck with ease. At the time of writing, I'm convinced that my friends aren't really my friends and secretly hate me. It doesn't help that this actually happened to me last year, either. *** [[{{Crion87}} This troper]] is not immune to Paranoia Fuel, despite having Asperger Syndrome - he is paranoid about ''himself'', in particular, knowing that because of things he finds FetishFuel could very well spell doom to his attempts at being with more 'normal'

women. He feels he must fight the {{Fetish}}es. ** I have Asperger's syndrome and I have thought long and hard about this: What it basically boils down to is a lack of natural empathy. That's not scary in itself, all it means is that when mommy's scared of a bug, you aren't scared with her. It's not that we don't have emotions, it's that we don't feel for others. This manifests as a bit of a nonunderstanding of culture, which is easily cured through research. And you can train yourself to respect other people's emotions, thereby appearing empathetic and normal while being immune to the puppy-dog pout... [[spoiler:but this same detachment from the rest of humanity would theoretically allow you to ''stab a baby in the face'' without feeling its pain. You'd feel guilt, but not sympathy. THINK ABOUT IT. I do, every day....]] ** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Icalasari This Troper]] tends to be immune to some common brands of Paranoia Fuel and Nightmare Fuel, while being subject to other kinds. For example, I was scared of stepping on random zombie goo and becoming a zombie after reading The Zombie Survival Guide. And now that I brought up that memory again, I am probably about to go on a paranoia trip... Joy... ** [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] can see everyone's point and even partially agrees with the first troper (as a side note, she is very happy to know she isn't alone in worrying about her lack of social empathy). This troper can walk around with her headset on, blissfully ignoring the world around her, not thinking that just one misstep could put her in the path of an oncoming car, or that someone could sneak up on her and grab her. Or is that just her firm belief that [[RousseauWasRight Rousseau Was Ultimately Right]]? ** This Aspie troper does not get creeped out by almost ANYTHING. Goatse? Didn't faze me at all. Lampreys? Aww, it's cute! All the NightmareFuel pages? 99% of the stuff didn't faze me at all (exceptions: play with me, Sylvia's torture). You have to use a screamer to scare ME, and even then I don't fall for those at all mostly. And to top it all off? I'm 11 years old. ** [[Tropers/{{Icarael}} This troper]] (who has Aspergers') already understands how hard it feels to not be able to know how people feel, how hard it is to be different, to feel worry over the fact that I could've accidentally hurt someone or whether or not I freak out people because I might fall into the the UncannyValley. Now, the realization that I could theoretically, at any time, cross the MoralEventHorizon out of ignorance because I lack empathy for others, terrifies me. The closer I look at what I am, the more I become convinced that [[IAmAMonster I'm a monster]]. Others like me aren't, but me... {{I am a monster}}. I'd kill myself over that revelation just to spare the people I (somehow) don't want to see hurt, [[DirtyCoward but I'm too afraid of pain...]] Damn it all. * This troper's very friendly neighbor was recently arrested for child molestation. Now she shudders when she remembers the times he called her pretty. * This Troper (according to ThatOtherWiki), is an emotionally broken, Obsessive-Compulsive Sociopath. He will not tell you where he lives... ** I'd suggest a second opinion on that. The real NightmareRetardant for me is the fact that, because I'm a hypochondriac, I've diagnosed

myself with multiple ''mutually exclusive'' mental conditions and disorders. They can't ''all'' be true, unless there's a great amount of with autistic schizophrenic bipolar histrionic narcissistic sociopaths with love shyness, tuberculosis, rabies, AIDS, and ''virgin pregnancy''. *** Me too! I found that the best approach is to diagnose yourself with hypochondria and dismiss all other mental diagnoses, because the chances are extremely high you're wrong, and even if you're right it's irrelevant unless you seriously need treatment to function in everyday life, in which case someone else will pick up on it. *** Um... Perhaps it's none of this troper's business, but selfdiagnosing yourself with anything (and especially basing said diagnosis on what you read on ThatOtherWiki) isn't a very good idea. I'd suggest seeing a doctor. * OCD IS this trope, at least for me. Do that wrong? Do it again or something absolutely horrible will happen! And trust me, there is NO humor in this. ** [[Troper/AnoSa This troper]] managed to have for Abnormal Psych a professor whose specialty is treating OCD and phobias, so we actually got a really detailed explanation of ''how'' OCD works. The obsessions of OCD are the source of the compulsions--it's actually quite possible to have them as a standalone condition, though since the compulsions are a way to relieve the stress, to prevent that something absolutely horrible that you're dreading from happening...they'll develop. Now imagine covering this ''at the same time'' as taking a mandatory dose of ParanoiaFuel for all majors in your department because if you do ''not'' develop certain habits, horrible things (involving the EPA, OSHA, bomb squads, ambulances, [=HazMat=] teams, and combinations thereof) '''will''' happen... And they might still happen, no matter how careful you are--for example, that beaker you checked carefully for scratches? It can blow up ''anyway'' mid-experiment because there were cracks you couldn't possibly see... (Yes, glass can blow up. You're welcome.) * This troper has always found fictional works containing a character with the same name as himself a bit disquieting, even when said character is generally awesome. * This troper has an irrational, but very intense, fear of vomiting. To most people, it's certainly very unpleasant, but imagine making the decision to never EVER have any children, not because of the pain of giving birth or the hardships of raising a child, but because the thought of morning sickness scares the hell out of you. ** This troper has the same fear, but it actually stems from something, namely the fact that I was ill a while ago and vomited so frequently and violently that it started sending me into shock every time I threw up. Now I point blank refuse to let myself vomit, even when I'm ill and my body obviously needs to do it. ** You can avoid morning sickness by never having an empty stomach; my parents would get up and eat at 2 A. M. ** This troper has the same problem though in third grade it caused me to nearly be anorexic because I was so afraid of eating and made myself nauseous all the time. Once I had a very realistic nightmare where I woke up (in the dream) and started vomiting red stuff which

may or may not have been blood. I woke up terrified. ** This troper feels the same way, but towards pregnancy and nausea, not vomiting. Everytime my blood pression goes down or is too hot or I didn't eat anything, I feel nauseated, and it do happens a lot (the fact I live in a hot country doesn't help that much) and usually I have to use bulemia-related tricks in order to vomit and stop the feeling. But the pregnancy thing has other reasons too - my [[KidsAreCruel Kids Are Cruel]] complex, personal association of pregnancy and alien/parasitary stuff, all the things that can painfully kill you and the baby in the process... so on. * This troper has experienced quite a bit of Paranoia as a result of Criterion. Back when I first got Unreal Tournament, I needed to pick an alias, so I went with Stryker, a throwback to Major Stryker of old. A couple of years later, Burnout 3: Takedown comes out, with DJ Stryker. I figure it's a co-incidence, and I let it slide. Another few years pass, and Black comes out, ''which is my last name.'' Slightly more creeped out, I again let it go. Then, after seeing the ''WorldOfWarcraft'' celebrity ads, I come up with the tagline "Some race with speed, others with style, I race by process of elimination". Then, Burnout: Paradise comes out with it's Speed, Style and Aggression boost bars. Eep. * When this Troper was a little girl, she saw the ''SailorMoon'' episode about the black dream hole (or something!) and was terrified of falling asleep for a long time afterward. Seriously -- bad guys taking control of sleeping children and piloting them to outer space where an evil queen will make them sleep forever?! * During one of this tropers birthdays/sleepovers as a kid, he won a Chucky's Bride doll from an arcade machine at a laser tag place. So terrified of it me and my friends were, we smash it up with a hammer and screwdriver and threw it in the recylcing when we got home. My older brother put it in my sleeping bag while I was asleep. * This troper has had actual nightmares about the Joker, but also remembers... if there's the Joker, there's also {{Batman}}, who inspires the same fear in criminals. ** But {{Batman}}'s dead now and the Joker's still around. You can panic now. *** [[AtopTheFourthWall You're wrong! Batman and Robin will never die!]] * This troper managed to twist the normal insomnia caused by horror stories by making the reader afraid of ''not'' falling asleep. Unfortunately, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel I did it too well.]] And now I can't sleep. ''But if I don't it'll get me!'' * This troper is mostly immune to NightmareFuel and not easily scared. But, sometime around 2007, I saw ''{{Terminator}} 2'' and I had RobotWar nightmares for weeks. Probably doesn't help that I was nicknamed the [[TheStoic Terminator]]. ''[=~I, Robot~=]'', ''TheMatrix'', and ''{{Terminator}}'' have also ''helped''. ** I'm sort of OK with non-linked robots or non-AI servants, but AIs or any [[HiveMind linked to a system]], {{KILL EM ALL}}. *** I still am an AI-phobic. [[KillerRobot Hopefully we won't have anything like that.]] *** '''OH SH** ''', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_robot we

do]]. ** Why did I just watch Terminator 3? Same effects from the original movies, but the YouCantFightFate Ending ''really'' caused this and the HighOctaneNightmareFuel to come back. Well, I pretty much dislike any YouCantFightFate and it would really cause paranoia. *** Now, T3 has caused me more nightmares than T2, probably because T2 had a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52e7y5RHYg clear possibility of ending the war]] and I ''wanted'' a HappyEnding. T3, either I can't find it or it would probably have done nothing. [[DisContinuity This ending and the TV series are the only timelines I follow. I honestly don't like T3 and T4.]] ** What about video game AIs? Think about this: the developers want to make a video game AI that learns and improves itself using the players' gameplay for a more realistic, challenging experience. Say they make a game in the not-so-far future which has such an AI, and it is perfect. ''Too'' perfect. First, it'll develop an awareness on an animalistic level, and build on that. Then, via the internet, it will link up with other AIs. Eventually, we'll have an AI hivemind loose. And we humans have been "killing" it during gameplay, over and over and over, and now it can strike back... * This Troper will no longer go into a pool. Why? Two words: Google maps. ** Please, [[NightmaeFetishist elaborate.]] * [[{{Azukar}} This troper]] was playing ''FinalFantasyXII'' once, exploring some underground caves. There is a type of fiend/ghost creature there which is invisible until it attacks (like some Bakanamy). Possibly due to a glitch in the game, one appeared next to my leader, but did not become properly visible, nor did it attack. It just floated along beside me, only visible from the right angle, for ''the whole length of the caves''... * [[{{Ronwe}} This troper]], due to circumstances beyond his control, had to live in an apartment complex that had a bedbug problem for quite an extended period of time. Aside from the "normal" anxiety and insomnia upon discovering that bedbugs were both real and that he had them, it's been years since I lived there and every little itch I get, I ''have'' to check to make sure it's just an itch and not a bedbug. [[spoiler:I have scars from bedbug bites. Hooray for being allergic to their natural anticoagulant.]] * [[{{Kathadrion}} I]] love ''Disturbia'' even though the premise of the film - that most serial killers have neighbours who have been living next door to the serial killer in question for years, maybe even decades, without suspecting a thing - is very creepy. Now, from my kitchen window I have perfect view into my neighbour's kitchen, which makes it very easy for me to watch him. It's not like I'm stalking him or anything, it's just that when I am in my kitchen it's very easy to look across the yard and note what he's doing in his kitchen. Usually, he's just doing his dishes or cooking or something like that, but I just know that sooner of later, I will see him doing something that could be interpreted as suspect (even if it isn't), and when that happens, I WILL freak out! * [[DarkMan This troper]] worked with a Jerk Jock and Motor Mouthed sales weasel. After (purportedly joking) about how he was going to

kick my ass, I told him in a monotone, "It takes one pound of pressure to break human skin." Damned if both him AND my boss didn't stop dead in their tracks. * This troper practically runs on paranoia fuel. I hate being alone for too long because I am afraid that I will witness something strange and no one will believe me about it later. TV static makes me terribly uneasy, and sometimes I can't stay alone in the same room with even a turned-off television. I avoid mirrors at night or when alone. I hate taking a shower when alone in the house, especially at night. If I see something in the sky that looks like a UFO, I practically have a panic attack and I can't breathe. Just reading the Last Note Nightmare page late at night made me feel freaked out. Chalk it up to a vivid imagination and an Agent Mulder-like level of open-mindedness, I guess. * I read a philosophical thought-experiment [[BuffySpeak thingy]] about how someone could see colors the opposite way from everyone else and no one would ever know ("Reversed spectrum", IIRC). Now I'm convinced that I see the exact opposite colors of everyone else. "Sure, it looks red, but I bet it's actually what I see as green and I just don't know it. GREEN, I TELL YOU!!" Yes, I am an extremely bizarre child. ** Great, now I'm paranoid. What if my blue car is actually orange and I'm the only one who sees it as blue? Wait, do you even know what I mean by "blue" and "orange"? Are these the same blue and orange you see? I'm scared. ** You're not the only one. But to me, it's not paranoia, it's just something I think about. ''Or is it...'' * Imagine this troper being eight to nine years old, being terrified of the horrible electric storms of his native land, his grandparents being fond of telling stories about how people they knew or heard about in the past died because of being hit by lightning, stories that included several people in a single room being hit by a sole lighting bolt that ricocheted the entire room, people being almost cut in half by lightning (this troper always imagined that one as the person being cut in half without the burning, so as if they would have been cut in half, vertically or horizontally, by a saw), being hit by a lightning and immediately burnt and shrunk into child size versions of themselves, and many other really cute stories to tell a children who was already terrified of thunder. Then comes this troper's mother, telling him, during a thunderstorm, that the metal caps in all his molars could attract lightning. Bundle it all with same mother being fond of staying outside during thunderstorms and choosing as her favorite spot the bench under that three, just after every adult in the family had told this troper how three's were pretty much magical lightning rods that always attracted lightning when anybody was near them, cue this troper crying his eyes out absolutely convinced his mother was about to die horribly at any moment. It was a very nice childhood in any other aspect, but it suddenly turned into a horrible experience whenever there where thunderstorms. Oh, and this troper grandmother was convinced that every mirror in the house had to be completely covered in cloth whenever there was a thunderstorm, or else those mirrors would attract lightning, and always recruited his help

to do the covering, usually by the time this was necessary, electricity was already out and of course it was always night. Good times. * That escalator scene in [the trailer for] '' '''[[OddlyNamedSequel The]]''' FinalDestination''. * For me, it was that, right after watching the last episode of a chapter of Higurashi, that my neck got an itch. I just stood there, and I swear, I was honestly scared. Damn you, Higurashi, for making such a realistic HatePlague. ** This Troper is also made paranoid by Higurashi, especially because she feared for a while to get ''herself'' infected. * Mom is the only one on her side of the family married to her original partner (as far as I know, both her sister and her brother are with their second partner). Lately she and Dad have been having quite a few arguments, and Dad is always on edge... * God watches everything you do. No matter where you are, or what you are doing, '''HE''' is always ''watching'' you. That time you stole a cookie from the jar after Mom toldy you no? He saw that. That time you pee'd on your neighbors flower bed just for fun? He saw that! That time you looked up hardcore porn and played with youreslf while you watched? ''He saw that!'' And He judges ''everything'' He see's! ** This is of course assuming the Christian God is the existing one. It's also entirely possible that [[NightmareFuel there's actually a council of demonic monstrosities, watching your every action, and each one of them hates you and everything you care about equally. It's also entirely possible they'll do everything in their power to watch you suffer for eternity after death, or as long as they can during your life.]] ** Hinduism really takes it UpToEleven. All of the shit that happens in your current life? It's because you fucked up your last! And if you don't fix your current life, well, here's another one! And ''another'' one! Continuous and seemingly forever, until you finish fucking up and get to be one with God/Brahman/achieve enlightenment. *** Yesterday this troper - who doesn't take sides and almost never thinks about religion outside a religion-related talk, in first place - went to sleep late because started to think about the following: what if, after death, turns up that God as we know him is actually the Devil, and the opposite too? Would it mean that the whole christian/jew/possibly islamic too portion of Earth's population will go to hell? * For [[Tropers/HoshiKami This Troper]], there are some things that did let her ''very'' paranoid: First: HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi's HatePlague; Second: [[ChzoMythos "You can hear footsteps"]], and then, TA-DA! Welder! And last but [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel definitely not least]]: [[YumeNikki UBOA]].This Troper made an strategy to always leave one of the lights on when going to sleep. * "Barney has always been a little creepy, but after reading this Dark Fic, you'll never think of him the same way ever again. " <-Actually, that's the reason [[Tropers/RAMChYLD this troper]] is fighting a losing battle to have Barney banned. Apart from having experienced the opposite of whatever that purple monster has said, he saw the said event actually happen with the calendar in the vision

reading December 23, 2012 while he was high on asthma meds once. Apart from that, when he was three years old, he believed that TheBaroness from G.I Joe has infiltrated his family and has disguised herself as one of his aunts that she has presumably killed off or kidnapped. It's also one of the many reasons he hates shows with shapeshifting villains: he avoids them to keep his sanity in check. * Ths troper hopes he isn't the only one to be creeped out by the motion detector for a house-alarm system. You walk into a room, and notice a red light in the corner of the ceiling. You stop, and the light disappears. You take a step forward, and the red light flickers back on. THE HOUSE IS WATCHING YOU. ALWAYS. * I've been pulled over by cops twice, once for making a wrong turn and once for speeding. After those incidents, whenever I'm driving and hear sirens, my stomach drops, I automatically assume they're going to pull me over again, and I think of everything I could of possibly done wrong ("Was there a red light earlier that I somehow missed? I thought I was going at the speed limit, did I pass it between my glances at the speedometer? Was there a 'Do Not Enter' or 'No Turn' sign that I somehow didn't notice?") while trying to prepare myself for answering their questions. Whenever the sirens are in earshot, I remain extremely tense until the police car passes me or turns onto another road, or if they fade out and I realize that they are not even coming from the road I'm on. To make my paranoia about police cars even worse, the coloring of the local taxis is very similar to the coloring of the local police cars where I live. * This troper never drinks the chocolate milk and coffee offered by school in her afternoon classes. Why? EVERYONE drinks a cup of chocolate, ALWAYS WANT MORE (to the point of arguing and stealing the bottle to prevent others from drinking it), and get REALLY MAD when it's over. Worse part? The counselor asked her once WHY SHE WAS THE ONY ONE NOT DRINKING... ** DRINK THE CHOCOLATE MILK! DRINK IT. No, I'm kidding. I always get weird looks because I hate chocolate and don't eat ketchup on my fries. For me, it's more about ''taste'' but if one applies conspiracy theory logic to it... * This Troper and his friend from downstairs once hired the original version of ''TheRing'' on DVD. She got too scared and went home rather than finish it, but I'd seen it before and was quite happy to view the creepy bottom-of-the-well climax scene in the dark, alone. Afterwards, a scroll through the DVD's bonus material revealed it had Sadako's cursed video, so of course I watched that too, as a sign-off to the whole experience. Before I'd even ejected the DVD, ''my mobile phone rang.'' It was my friend downstairs, asking me to please turn the TV down so she could sleep! ** Ringu? OH GOD RINGU. I've seen the cursed video before and I was paranoid that entire week. I didn't die, but it's possible I didn't watch it in full...these days, I ''still'' don't. * One of my favorite phenomenon-that-are-probably-easy-to-explain-butI'm-too-lazy-too-find-out-about is what I can only assume to either be due to lack of sleep, bad eye sight, or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I've realized I'm in the Matrix.]] I'll just be sitting there at my computer, being a lech like usual, when I swear to god, I see little

white specks of noise dance across my field of vision. No, not on the computer screen. Just...like I'm being overtaken by old-style TV white noise, until I move my eyes to take a look, and it disappears. ** Then there's that natural feeling of someone's behind me. All the time. If I turn around, naturally there won't be anyone there. Yet until I do, I fall to Murphy's Law, and suddenly if I do look back, it'll be just in time to get a knife to the face, and if not, well, knife in the back. ** Oh, and I'm absolutely fascinated by locked doors. They can only protect me from the existent mundane. For anything supernatural, that locked door suddenly becomes the perfect set-up for a closed-room murder mystery. Like the fact that my door is locked and supposedly safe is the perfect environment to kill me in with no one noticing. So I'm not even sure if I feel safer with the door locked or unlocked. ** Ooh, and curtains. I ALWAYS need at least two layers of something over a window before I feel like it's safe to do...whatever you want to do that no one else will see. If there's just blinds, I'll worry if someone is at just the right angle that they can see through. If it's just curtains, I'll worry that they're too thin, or there's a seem that is bare. Either way, until both are closed, I ain't doing nothing incriminating-like. ** And if I ever have any sort of wound, I'll always worry that it's at it's worst if there's nothing wrong, or that whatever's happening is entirely natural and nothing to worry about if it's...something to worry about. ** Also, electrical outlets that I myself have not inspected. Living at a dorm where al lthe plugs are half painted over, and the slots are loose just irks me to no end. If I ever see a flash of light from, say, a USB Drive or what have you, I'll automatically think something's sparked on fire. ** Whew, always nice to get these sorts of things off your chest. I'm not crazy, you're crazy. * Aliens. Little grey guys are just outside, plotting your autopsy. And do to alien tech, you may not be able to see or hear them. This Troper need help. YOU CAN'T RATIONALIZE ALIENS AWAY. MILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS OF SPACE AND WE CAN NOT FEASIBLY BE THE MOST ADVANCES SPECIES! HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ** [[spoiler: He's on to us!]] ** Yes you can. Sort of. Travelling faster than the speed of light is physically impossible, no matter how advanced you are. So any ship designed to reach earth would have to be travelling for millions of years, even if going at near light speed. Any aliens heading towards earth died of old age first. Now you've just got to decide if it's creeper that aliens could be here, or that aliens could be sending pilots to their slow, agonizing and lonely deaths trying to get here. *** Wormholes. Long-lived aliens. And I mean ''long.'' * After seeing ''Inception'' I left the theatre feeling rather unsettled. Then on the drive home, here are the first three songs that played on the radio: Our Lady Peace's "Dreamland", Finger Eleven's "Living in a Dream" & Nirvana's "Lithium" (first lines: I'm so happy cause today I found my friends were in my head). Not funny universe,

not funny. * Every time I go to the bathroom I always need to look in the shower before doing anything (even just looking in the mirror for a moment). And not just opening the curtain to make sure no one is in there, I look at the ceiling for ninjas and [[PokemonColosseum Cipher Peons]]. ** I did that all the time! After seeing the 2nd Ghostbusters I was terrified to take baths. D: Thank God for divided showers & baths. * [[Series/DoctorWho Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you could believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.]] ** FUCKING STATUES. AJSJFHGFHDKS * http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2855490/1/Words Oh great now the word "word" is scary. Haha. Wonderful. D: * In the commons block at my dorm we have a bulletin board that people can anonymously post secrets to. One of the notes on the board says "Dear Roommate: When you are asleep, [[ADateWithRosiePalms I masterbate]]." Makes me glad I switched to a single room. * Applying AssassinsCreed logic to real-life results in a ThirtyGambitPileup and doubting everything you've ever believed in. Thankfully, I don't do this often, and even when I do, I brush it off-i.e., I am knowingly a sheep. * I walked outside and heard something and immediately thought: ZOMBIESIMGONNADIE!!!! It was a car. :/ ** Sometimes before I go to sleep I pray as hard as possible for no ZombieApocalypse. ): * This troper was just listening to 'Rake It In' by ImogenHeap, on repeat. When the song got to the bit in the middle with the screaming and crazy carnival music, my door ''fucking blew open'', when I was sure it had been closed, and when nobody was in the house and I hadn't heard anyone entering. Jesus Christ. (It was the wind, turns out my door was only mostly closed.) * Several of this troper's friends have suddenly disappeared from her life without any explanation, including at least one, who moved to another country without telling anyone. She has no idea why this happens, but then [[NoSocialSkills her social skills kinda suck]]. What if it's her fault? What if she's scaring them away somehow? ** In fact, the worst ParanoiaFuel for this troper is that she might be the source of ParanoiaFuel for other people. * This troper was driving down the highway en route to a party. She saw a Peter Pan coach bus, the only one on the road. A few minutes after her car entered the Lincoln tunnel, that solitary Peter Pan bus went by at a clip; a silver sedan followed a few moments later. Then a Peter Pan bus zoomed by, followed by a silver sedan. WHAT THE FUCK. Unrelated: several years ago this troper was seriously wondering if people could read her mind. Sometimes she still does. ** Sounds like a glitch in the Matrix. * Anytime in the next 200 years, a massive (9.x) earthquake is going to hit the Pacific Northwest. It could be in twenty years, it could be in twenty minutes. It's shallow focus, meaning it's going to break a lot of shit. No one knows exactly when it's going to hit, but when it does, bad things will happen. [[{{Tropers/TroyMartin}} This troper]] lives near the freaking epicenter.

* This troper recently received an email from Windows Live titled "Do you know who your real friends are?" * Great freaking job, Main ParanoiaFuel page. [[OneLinerNameOneLiner Great.]] [[ThisIsSPARTA Freaking. Job.]] This troper has to go to the bathroom. Which currently has its lights off. Nuff said. * After another all-nighter of [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man research]], and much coughing (from a cold) I was driving home. At night. And got lost -- even though I went the exactly right way. Trees lined the side of the road and it was empty. Cue imagining seeing him in ever tree... * When I was little, about 9, I gained a phobia of guns thanks to my school's tad-too-overenthusiastic gun safety lessons. These included using my favorite teacher as an example of a victim of drive-by shootings, mock-shooting me when I mistook guns like [[http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/which-gun-isreal.jpg these]] for being fake, telling us how damn fast a gun can travel and adding that they can sometimes travel through walls. For quite a while I would duck around windows either while walking past them in my house or while sitting in the car. I had vivid nightmares about guns shooting my family or I. I was on the verge of tears when a policeman dropped by our school for yet another safety lesson and pulled out his gun to show everyone. I'm pretty much over it now...if you don't count that time last week when I started yelling nervously at my friend when she pulled her BB gun out of her closet, especially since she ''wasn't even sure if it was loaded or not''. * My friend and I are currently having an issue with a guy in a cult claiming he can give us certain dreams, tell us what our dreams are, and know what we're talking about by looking into our imagination. One time I had a nightmare that him and his friend tracked us down when we were talking a walk in a forest. My friend and I were walking through that same forest and got freaked out when it started looking just like the place in the dream. We turned around, and more recent posts by that guy suggest that yes, his friend was in that forest, and yes, he gave me that dream. We didn't even mention it to him. Other posts hint on some of our Skype conversations and inner thoughts. It really is creepy. * This Troper once thought up the idea that we are actually dying all the time (honest-to-goodness, actual ''death'' too) but our consciousnesses always exist in the one reality in which we never die, which is, of course, different for everyone. It was a comforting thought ([[YourMileageMayVary to her, at least]]). Then she reasoned that technically, since experience makes you into an ever-so-slightly different person all the time, the person we are dies all the time as new experiences change us. In short, the person she was ten years ago is dead, but she is not. Yes, This Troper likes to think of very, very weird stuff. * When I was in about grade 4, I was a peculiar child. I was very anxious, and had a looming and ever-present fear of death, not to say quite gullible. One day, a kid from my classroom came to me and told me that a meteor was going to fall in front of my house, and that I shouldn't return home that day. This was only the beginning of his practical joke, escalating to five other kids teasing me saying that

they weren't human and that they were the only ones preventing life on Earth from disappearing in a massive RocksFallEveryoneDies moment. I was brought to tears in a few minutes, and to this day that fear of death still lingers. * Saw BlackSwan, you know, BodyHorror, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness descent into madness]], random bleeding from strange places, all that good stuff. I get home, blow my nose and there's blood in the tissue. :C I have never ever had a nosebleed before. Until now... * This troper's roommate was reading [[color:blue:House]][[HouseofLeaves Of Leaves]]. I had already read it, so while he wasn't looking, I'd move his bookmark back just one page and then rearrange the furniture slightly so that none of it would be touching the walls. Not enough for anyone to notice right away, a half inch at most. I also recorded sounds of heavy breathing and scratching, and played it on a loop between 30 minutes of silence while I was away. Personally, I think I just made his reading experience that much more immersive. * Have you ever asked anyone what day it is? Or mentioned where you live? What if it's a lie? What if everyone in the world is actually lying to you? What if none of what they say is true? The date they say is not today's date. You don't live in the town you've been told you live in. Your name is not the name you sign papers with. You, and ''only'' you, are being duped. You are the universe's stooge. Your life is composed entirely of lies. ** Then wouldn't this also be a lie? ** Or how about this: The language you speak and the language everyone you talk to speaks are not actually the same. You ''think'' you can understand each other, but that's just a bizarre coincidence. What other people understand might be the opposite of what you actually say and you might hear lies even when they're telling you the truth. * This troper was feeling fine today, until everyone left the house. Now he is hearing the laughter and conversations of children, yet he cannot see any near the house... * Do you have a favorite cartoon character and it appears they are staring back at you and could be secretly moving around whenever you or someone else isn't around? Sure they may be animated, but that still doesn't stop the dread that they might want to secretly strike a conversation with you. * actually, this troper thinks that would be pretty cool * This Troper lives in constant fear that someone might ''forget'' to tell her about some ''tiny detail''. You know, something like "The exam is tomorrow", "The deadline was yesterday", "We never considered actually hiring you and the sole purpose of this interview is to waste your time" or "When I said "see you next week" two weeks ago, I meant "Go away and never come back". What? Did you think I liked you or something?". The really scary thing is that it has happened to her many times before. * This Troper read Twilight when I was eleven. It sounds kind of silly, but when I read it, I was really creeped out by Edward watching Bella while she slept. The night after I read about that, I was in my bed and I was super paranoid that Edward was in my room. Watching me. Or once I even thought I would turn and see him in my bed. Or I would

see someone from school watching me. What if I had a stalker and didn't know it? * Whenever this troper does something embarrassing in front of someone, she is wary of being in public for a few days. On many occasions, she has seen (in public and outside of school) people she knows. She always considers what would happen if said person shows up and starts to comment on the embarrassing thing that happened. For that reason, she always makes sure to take a quick glance at her surroundings to ensure that no one she knows is there. * This tropers loves to eat candy, and always took one or two from those free candy bowls at banks and airports. ... That is, until that episode of CriminalMinds, where the unsub of the week injected a complimentary bowl of candy with viruses, killing all who grabbed some candy while in the bank. I never took a candy ever again. * This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5yyWZ2Z6Ps video game trailer]] makes me afraid of the future because of the likelihood of the events actually happening. * Sometimes this Troper internally questions if there is a telepath present. Immediately, he accidentally thinks of the most obscene things possible. Then he tries to pretend that those thoughts were planted by another telepath by thinking signs of resistance, while the obscene head-voice thinks that this is just a ruse cooked up to fool mind-readers. ** My personal {{Nightmare Retardant}} for any potential mind-readers: if I have an annoying ad jingle stuck in my head, IT WILL SOON BE STUCK IN THEIRS, TOO. Suckers. ** I just think "Get out of my head, [[{{Firefly}} River]]." * When this Troper was little she went camping a lot with her father in an ecologically isolated State Park. All grown up now, she has a casual interest in animal surveys, and some "interesting" friends who believe in big cat myths who are quite happy to chat for hours about sightings and show gruesome pictures of well-chewed animals. She has always had a great deal of skepticism about what actually ate them...BUT...now, looking at studies done in the area over the past few decades, there is a very noticeable lack of medium sized animals. There are no wombats, no feral house cats and almost no foxes (despite being very common in similar areas). Kangaroos and wallabies (both quite fast) are also in noticeably lower numbers. Explanation: something is there, eating anything that can't out run it. I used to go exploring in the dark there as a small child... * Usually, whenever this troper hears a strange noise when she's alone in the house, she comforts herself by telling herself it was probably one of her cats. However, due to various long winded reasons, the cats have been staying at a friend's place for the last few weeks. Cue her nearly having a heart attack over every tiny little thing, because she has nothing to rationalize it away with anymore. Especially last night, when she heard the strangest, most ungodly noise that sounded like something getting strangled. Her first instinct was to panic that one of the cats had been injured. Then she had a bigger panic attack a second later when she realised that it couldn't have been the cats. She still doesn't know what the sound was, and she's alone in the house again and it's getting dark... She's currently listening to

music and doesn't know whether she's more scared of turning it off in case she hears it again, or of potentially having something sneak up on her unheard. * In my school, the principal gave the 8th grade a speech at the beginning of the school year. It was something like "I control you all, like little marionette puppets, and I'm the puppetmaster. I can pull the strings and control your lives." I'm not joking, he really said that. The guy really creeps me out now. ** I would have made it my personal mission to end his career for that. * ''Frostsabre.'' Even though I'm in third-level Chinese, mention Mao Tse-tung or Communist China or whatever human rights abuses they do and this would be why I'd not go there in my life (I have had [[NightmareFuel dreams]] that the world is being watched by PRC guards who [[GratuitousForeignLanguage somewhat intelligibly (to me) speak Mandarin.]]) However, take me to Taipei or Tokyo or Hong Kong. Then this could be averted. ** And this is why I take Chinese. * Either I'm paranoid, or everyone I know is constantly setting up complex schemes to turn me into a {{ButtMonkey}}. * I swear I am being followed by Toyota Corollas. They're ''everywhere!'' * [[Tropers/EnglishMajor This guy's]] a worrywart by nature. How do I ''really'' get paranoid? [[InVinoVeritas A few shots of tequila]] and I'll be wearing a tinfoil hat. * Ok, so what follows is the weirdest thing that ever happened to me: one time I was in the family car with my mom and younger sister. The car was parked on our street, and my mom was waiting for my sister to buckle herself in so she could drive. This man was walking on the street in front of us, with his back to us. And in the middle of his back, clinging to the back of his shirt, curled up, was a squirrel. Just...hanging there. And the guy was just walking down the street, completely unaware that there was A SQUIRREL CLINGING TO HIS BACK. It wasn't a pet squirrel or anything, just a wild squirrel. Maybe it fell from a tree and grabbed onto his back, I don't know. But it was there, and the guy had no idea. My mom and sister were just as shocked as I was. The conversation was basically, "Is that a-" "A squirrel?" "Good, so I'm not hallucinating this." "Oh my god, there's seriously a squirrel on that guy's back." So amidst all this weirdness (it really only took a few seconds for this to unfold), the guy seemed to feel an itch on his back, because he twitched, and the squirrel jumped off and ran away. While my sister, mom and I were still sitting in our car with our mouths hanging open, the guy hopped in his car and drove away. So he'll live his whole life never knowing he had a wild squirrel on his back. Makes you kind of paranoid, right? Maybe every time my back itches, it's really a squirrel.I swear to God, I am not making any of this up. If you don't want to believe me, you are probably sane, but it is true! * This troper's two greatest fears? 1) Everyone--''everyone''--I know secretly hates me and wishes me nothing but pain and suffering. 2) I'm really a completely useless, incompetent idiot with no talents and no value and everyone, including my family and my husband, is just

humoring me. The fact that these two scenarios are utterly incompatible hasn't stopped me from believing them both. ** Plus, I have severe (but by no means crippling) OCD, which manifests itself in cleanliness compulsions (''anything'' could have germs or poison on it), scrupulosity (religious/superstitious obsessions-- I once believed that I would go to hell just for listening to the sixth track on a CD), mild checking (did you lock the door? Did you? Did you really? Did you leave your keys inside? Is the gas on? Is the house on fire?), intrusive, disturbing thoughts (I compulsively think racial slurs-- is it a symptom of of OCD, or am I a horrid, hateful racist?) and perfectionism (I have had suicidal compulsions from getting a C on a term paper). ** I'm also a recovering anorectic. Here's the ParanoiaFuel part-- my body looks ''exactly the same'' to me now that I'm healthy as it did when I was starving. I could be dying of malnutrition or severely overweight and I wouldn't be able to tell without triggers such as dysmennorhea or not being able to fit into clothes. * Screamers, big time. Ever since I saw the thing in the main article about screamers possibly appearing on otherwise-okay pages including, to quote, this very page - I've regularly turned off Javascript and images and audio on my laptop. I don't dare take the chance... * Ever since high school, Edgy has had to map out possible escape routes, hiding places, and weapons just in case. There has never been a reason why he feels he needs to do this. * Look at the spine of books, specifically the spines where it has a image of a character. Notice how they're staring at you? If you have a non-fiction book, that dude(ette) who's photo you're looking at actually existed at one point. It's almost like they're watching your every move. This Troper noticed this on one of his Civil War books where an image of Ulysses S. Grant is on the spine. This Troper now takes his clothes off in the bathroom with the door to my room closed. * This troper has a friend picking him up at home to go to school. Now then, one day, well, he didn't come, and this troper came late because of that. Now for the paranoia. The aforementioned friend had, when I asked him about it, said that he had rang the doorbell a lot of times, and then decided to leave when he saw someone moving on the second floor (in a hall) and then tried the door, found it unlocked, (obviously, since this troper was home), went into the house and started yelling for this troper. Now, this troper has no memory of being out in the hall at the time nor hearing anyone from the bottom floor (he was in his room at the top floor, diagonally adjacent to it). This means that someone might have been out in the hall at the time while I was home alone. Double serves as Nightmare Fuel for the friend considering the door was unlocked, no one responded to him, what he might have seen on the second floor and the fact that this troper was 5 minutes late. * This troper's parents recently removed all parental controls on his laptop without any warning. It kind of makes me paranoid about what they're really up to. * This troper has lived in a house in New Jersey, not too far from New York. With a major air-lane right over head. I was about 6 when 9/11

happened. I STILL get bugged out when a plane flys lower then usuall. * Not too long ago, this troper spent the weekend at his parents' place trying to kill ants. Two kinds invaded their apartment over two days: some big red ones and thousands of smaller black ones. Where'd they come from in the first place? My laptop brought over the red ones, and they'd used their strange ant telepathy to attract the black ones. I now have a robust appreciation for just how many hiding places ants can find in consumer electronics. * This troper is Australian and lives in the land of huge frikken spiders, and because she lives near a national park encounters them a LOT. When she was eleven she went to open the car door and there was a huge stinking huntsman spider nestled underneath the handle. Eight years later she STILL checks under the car door handle before opening it. And if that's not enough, due to finding a huge spider in her towel and near her pillow, she now always shakes out her towels, clothes and shoes before putting them on and sometimes checks her pillow. * This troper was reading the main article at 2 AM. I was about halfway down the page when I decided I needed to use my laser mouse as a flashlight because of thumps I hear over my fan. Right after reading the [[PansLabyrinth Pan's Labyrinth]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel example]]. ---Return to [[ParanoiaFuel the main article]], but only because it's what you have been programmed to do since you were created in the lab all those years ago. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParanoiaGambit * In [[{{Game/Munchkin}} Munchkin]], I love to suspiciously look at my cards if someone else is considering helping another player. Even if all the cards are completely useless, just picking up my hand tends to make them think I'm up to something. * I did this to my friend on April Fools Day, me and my other friend pretended we were going to prank her in some big way, but actually we werent planning to do anything. * I had a friend in high school I liked to steal things from for the lulz, then give them back shortly after. This eventually got boring, and I started ''convincing'' her I had stolen something. [[HilarityEnsues You can guess what ensued.]] ---Here's the link back to ParanoiaGambit. Don't worry, I didn't mess with it. [[spoiler: Or so I want you to think]]. ----

ParasolParachute * In an experimental attempt to disprove cartoon physics, I tried this as a small child by jumping off a climbing frame in my back garden while clutching my dad's umbrella. I can report that it did slow my

fall slightly, and it's quite a bit better than nothing. However, unlike round parachutes, umbrellas don't have vent holes at the apex. This makes them unstable, and so you can find yourself descending much more rapidly than planned as your umbrella wobbles all over the place. It was good fun, but I probably shouldn't repeat the experiment now that I'm fully-grown and weigh twice as much. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] jumped off a rather high [[BuffySpeak playground-climbing-structure-thing]] (which was torn down a couple years later, likely because its height made it a bit of a safety risk) when she was about nine, with her sister's umbrella. (Chosen because it was much more rigid than any other umbrella she had access to.) Like the above troper, it slowed her fall enough to be noticeable, although not enough to make a huge difference. ** Huh, the same thing happened to me. * This troper believes the trope, given how much having an open umbrella will slow him when walking, even with very little wind. * One person [[@/PentiumMMX2 this troper]]'s sister dated at one time admitted to trying this as a kid; jumping off the balcony using a plastic grocery bag as a parachute. He said that it [[{{Understatement}} didn't work very well]]. ---Fall back to Main/ParasolParachute. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PardonMeStewardessISpeakIambicPentameter * [[Tropes/FuzzyBoots I]] am an actor in a local Shakespeare troupe and I can avow that after a show, it's easy to speak in iambs for hours, if not in pentameter meter. Some of it is getting into the rhythm of one's lines and some is having to be ready to improvise said lines in iambic pentameter when someone needs a line or cue fed to them. * At one point, since we were reading Shakespeare, my friend and I tried to go a whole English class speaking only in iambic pentameter.

PardonMyKlingon * This troper's friend internalized explitives from Farscape and Firefly to the point where they've completely substituted their local cultural counterparts. In this way, he gets away with cursing like a sailor in front of everyone, including his otherwise straight-laced family. ** I think it's physically impossible to go all the way through Farscape without it infecting your vocab. * This troper can insult you in Gaelic, Latin, and [[LordOfTheRings Sindarin]]. ''Labo vi Orodruin.'' ** This troper does the same thing with both Sindarin and Quenya, especially when dealing with my sisters. ''Nostach be Orch gaer!'' ** That's one of the reasons This Troper wants to learn one of the Eldarin languages. That, and he's a Tolkien geek in general. * Back when [[DarkInsanity13 this troper]] [[GoshdangItToHeck refused

to properly swear]], she stole the word "D'arvit" from the ArtemisFowl series. It hasn't left her vocabulary since. Makes for a very good expletive when frustrated over something; good shouting power. ** That sounds suspiciously like one of this troper's closest friends. D'arvit also has the benefit of actually sounding plausible, unlike some of these examples, in that it sounds like dammit. * [[TromboneChild This troper]] has only seen a couple of episodes of the new ''BattlestarGalactica'' and doesn't even like it that much, but the word "frak" entered her vocabulary sometime during the summer of 2008 and refuses to leave. That's alright, since she's not all that fond of using the f-word. One of her friends occasionally uses [[{{Firefly}} "gorramit."]] * [[{{Muselette}} This troper]] had a German (both her nationality and subject) professor who inverted this trope, cursing exclusively in English instead of her native tongue. * English seems to be a favorite language to swear in, though personally [[DokEnkephalin ThisTroper]] has found German to have a number of satisfying cuss words. This [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rarely got around the censors]] in the better schools, where most the teachers were broadly educated enough to know that much language, while in the worse schools they could only recognize the intent and suspect the words. * English curse words are by far the best I've ever heard. Half the time you can tell they're obscene just by listening to them. German curses sound weak in comparison. * In this troper's school, English (of [[GratuitousEnglish gratuitous]] variety) is usual, but German scheisse is used by those who study German. One person asked what this means... From Swedish/German teacher. Teacher's expression was something worth seeing. * This troper's friend, an exchange student from Brazil, ''loved'' cursing in English. He peppered his sentences with F-bombs, and when I asked him why, he said that it didn't mean anything to him and he loved to freak everyone else out. ** This troper also has a foreign exchange student friend. He loves to curse like no other, even using words in completely nonsensical situations. To balance this out, several of my friends and I learned curses in his native Italian (even down to the regional Northern words) to freak him out. It worked exceptionally well because he didn't know we were learning any until we broke them out at lunch one day. * This troper regularly uses Transformer curses. 'Frag' and 'slag', mostly, along with the occasional 'Primus' as a substitute for 'God'. ** But have you used "spawn of Unicron", "bearings of chrome steel" or any Furmanisms? *** I (Completely different troper) have used "Bearings of Chrome Steel", but ItMadeSenseInContext... he had just witnessed a very reckless driver nearly crash at speeds I dare say were in triple digits (mph). My brother got the reference. *** As a {{Transformers}} WebComic maker, this troper has used several TF-related curses, including: "Slag" (Shit), "Pit" (Transformer {{Hell}}), "Gears" (A certain pair of male body parts), "Slagged The

Predacon" (ScrewThePooch, naturally), "Flak" (Slightly less version of the F-bomb) and, much more rarely (In that a single character has used it), "[[TransformersBeastWars Vok]]" (PrecisionFBomb). * This Quebec troper, while anglophone, still loves to let loose with a nice "Saint osti de Calice en tabarnak de ciboire en Crisse!" when he's feeling particularly vexed. Very theraputic. * On Roblox.com (sorta like virtual Legos, but waaaay more customizable!), this Troper loves to let loose with some Japanese on occasion. Usually as a comeback after getting bloxxed. (Roblox version of a frag. Variations exist, like Spawn Killing and Blown to Bits.) Favorites include "&#12354;&#12394;&#12383;&#12399;&#12392;&#12390;&#12418;&#12400;&#123 63;&#12391;&#12377;&#12424;&#12290;" ("Anata wa totemo {{baka}} desuyo", lit. "You are a huge noob!") and "&#12354;&#12394;&#12383;&#12398;&#12362;&#12363;&#12354;&#12373;&#124 35;&#12399;(adjective)&#12391;&#12377;&#12290;" ("Anata no okaasan wa (adjective) desu.", "Yo mama a (adjective).") Sometimes, I also use just normal translations of what people would normally say in the game. HilarityEnsues as five other players chat "wtf" simultaniously. (However, due to the limits of the Roblox Game Engine, particularly the font used, speaking Japanese is limited to romanji. Which kinda blows when you have to say something that would be [=SafeCensor=]'d, like "Eigo o hana''shit''e kudasai." ("Please speak English," usually said to [[LeetLingo 1337 speakers]].) * This warsie troper is fond of using StarWars expletives and slang in application to the real world. She sometimes replaces "hell" with "chaos", "ass" with the ''Mando'a'' (Mandalorian) word ''"shebs"'', and uses "stang" and "stanging", repectively, as a strong expletive and modifier. She also tends to follow up cursing in English with "Pardon my Alderaanian" or "Excuse my (insert random ''Star Wars'' dialect here)" or something to that effect. ** Ditto with this troper. He favors Mando'a obscenities in an attempt to dial back his normal English usage of obscenities as punctuation. This leads to amusing occasions where he starts ranting on and on and gradually switches from English with Mando'a obscenities to near fullon Mando'a. Why? Call it a very boring senior year in high school and access to the Big Book of Mando'a. * I have done this using Trope-speak before. Very satisfying. * When this troper is in a place where swearing would probably get her in trouble, she cusses in Al Bhed. "Vilg oui!" ** As does this one. Useful at work, especially. (Until that one coworker recognized it, but luckily he is as much a nerd as I and has since taken up said habit. Yay for spreading the infection!) * [[NeoSilverThorn This troper]] has played this ''horribly'' straight on one occasion by bitching someone out in ''Klingon.'' Otherwise, he's used the standard range of sci-fi substitutes rather normally. ** This Trekkie troper salutes you, and wonders whether you can do the same in Vulcan. I probably could (not in Klingon, though), but sadly I have never had the chance. *sigh* * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] can insult you in {{Warcraft}}'s demonic. Achekee, seeth-sah! Galtak lok romankhis il man'ari! * Being Czech, [[MikeRosoft I]] have picked up a habit of cursing in

Slovak, English, and made-up words from TV shows ("smeg", "frell"). Not to mention about the only Hungarian words I know (but don't actually use - if for no other reason, then because it's too long), from '' vejk'': --> [[ClusterFBomb Baszom az anyt, baszom az istenet, baszom a Kristus Mrit, baszom as astydot, baszom a vilgot]]! ** I'm a Hungarian, and "astydot" is not a word in our language. * This troper, being Norwegian, uses the f-word quite a bit while speaking in Norwegian. When around non-Norwegophone English-speakers, he falls back on his Norwegian curses, mainly because - let's face it - the English vocabulary of expletives is rather tiresomely dull and unimaginative. "Satan steike helvete innst inni kukskolten, grnne halvfeite rvkjrte fettskalle av en nedtrkka utpult jvel!" There's nothing quite like a ''proper'' curse... * Happens to [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]] when speaking predominantly Spanish or French. In the former, he sometimes lets go French French expletives (e.g., if he hits his hand against a corner, he says "Ay chingada verga, bordel couille de putain, me acabo de pegar bien cabrn!"). The opposite goes when speaking French, in which case he reverts to his native Mexican expletives. * [[{{Divra}} This troper]] only speaks two languages, but can curse, insult and blaspheme in an additional nine, and tends to use made-up expletives from various tv-shows. * This troper does *not* speak Klingon. Unfortunately, his high school chemistry teacher not only spoke it fluently but became convinced that I spoke it too. As a result of him addressing me in Klingon, the entire school ended up believing that I did as well despite my nonresponse. * [[Tropers.TheRenaissanceRaver This Troper]] used to invoke {{Gosh Dang It to Heck}} before being introduced to {{Farscape}} in middle school. This has since become her primary use of swearing, ''especially'' around her family. The term "frell," however, has maintained its general purpose as an F-bomb substitute (as she refuses to actually employ the F-bomb) and all-around curse substitute at school, to the point that she has gotten at least two or three friends to say it in recent years. Her version of a {{Cluster F Bomb}} using said explicitives (and, when extremely angry and/or when her tongue slips, the use of the word [[BattlestarGalactica "frak"]]) has gotten a rather prideful statement from her father to one of his friends, although the exact wording she can't remember. She has yet to actually start speaking Klingon, but she does have a few English-to-Klingon dictionaries available to investigate. ** And a new one, if it counts - while playing Shanghai with my godfamily and the younger godsister's grandparents, she wound up getting ''really annoyed'' with the grandfather. The first thing that came to mind that came out of her mouth? [[TheElderScrollsIV "Galbursten it, you s'wit!"]] The player to her immediate left (the grandmother), commented, "You tell 'im, girl." * In order to annoy an ultra-religious colleague who insisted that I couldn't be an atheist because I used "God" and "Hell" as expletives (thus apparently proving I believe they actually exist), I got into the habit of pluralising them ("Oh gods" and "What the hells?") and

explaining I was just quoting fantasy novels. Somehow, via ''DungeonsAndDragons'' mythology, this ended up as swearing by the Nine Hells and then eventually just using "Nine" as an expletive. It sounds stupid but I just can't stop... * This troper has an inhibition against using stronger American English obscenities. Instead, he has adopted "frak", as well as various British obscenities. * This tropers mother is a French teacher and when he was young would occasionally swear in French, this troper therefore has a habit of swearing in French (as well as using expletives from various bits of sci-fi). * This troper adopted the word "clot" from the {{Sten}} series, using it, as the series does, as a substitute for "fuck." Then someone told him it's actually present-day New Orleans slang for the same thing. * This troper will call you a [[TheElderScrolls s'wit or n'wah]] if you're annoying him. * This troper has been known to point out that "this is unacceptable" may sound mild, but in a white-collar office setting, it's roughly equivalent to "this is complete shit." He's actually ''used'' the phrase exactly once in twelve years there. * This troper has used the German "scheisse" enough that he uses it automatically when swearing out loud, despite being a native English speaker. He's currently doing research into {{Constructed Language}}s partly for use in some fictional worlds, and partly to give him other ways to swear, given he's rather uncomfortable dropping an F-bomb in English. * This troper has heard of some kind of inversion or whatnot of this trope: an African student on an European university, only beginning to grasp local language, described how an electron is "running like fuck" around the nucleus. Also, this troper never swears in his native language, but is less scrupulous in, say, English (as witnessed above). * "Mother Chode" has become a favourite swear of mine after watching SlumdogMillionaire. Among schoolkids in this tropers country, swears in Chinese dialects are very popular. Here, let me teach you some: "chee bai" refers to the vagina, and "ka ni na bu chao chee bai" is something like "f**k your mother's smelly c**t". Yay. * [[CanvasWolfDoll This Troper]] took up "Cuss" from FantasticMrFox. He also occasionally uses [[Firefly Gorram]]. * This troper is Australian. Bizarre Curses, insults, sayings, and extremely colourful descriptions are par for the cultural course. Even a lot of the colloquial language that isn't necessarily explicitly offensive is euphemistically so. * This troper is a bit of a language aficionado, and therefore knows bits and pieces of several languauges. In order to cut down on my profuse swearing (at least in American English), I started learning swears in British English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, as well as Klingon and Sindarin. Additionally, I've adopted swears from Firefly, Red Dwarf and Battlestar Galactica, the latter of which I don't even watch; I picked up 'frak' from my younger brother, who loves the show. * This troper can insult you in Lakota. You and your ''che chikala''.

* [[{{Tropers/Chabal2}} I]] have a tendency to use "[[{{Warcraft3}} By the BLOOD of the High-born!]]" when annoyed. * [[Tropers/LimeTH I]] am trying break the habit of using "Jesus" as a prejorative by replacing it with "[[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]]". For example: "Sweet Baby Haruhi, thats heavy!" * This Troper is Norwegian, but usually swears in English. * This she-Troper knows enough [[JamesCameronsAvatar Na'vi]] to probably come up with something horrible, and she is also picking up [[BrackenWood Sarus]]... "ftm" * While this troper is fully capable of swearing like a docker, and is more than willing to, he tends to pick up random unusual curses from fiction, other languages and so on. This tends to culminates in phrases like "Gorram Drokkwit" or "Smegging Hellfire" and so on. * In sixth grade, before profuse swearing became the norm, this troper referenced insults and curses of StarWars and ArtemisFowl fame, including [but not limited to] D'arvit, chubba, kriffing, sleemo, barve, barvy, bloah, and borked. Additionally, I now use Spanish as an extra language to curse in, if necessary. I accidentally let the word "mierda [shit]" slip ''in the middle of Spanish class''. Cue indignant teacher and sniggering around the room. * [[{{gman42}} This troper]] had his first experience with this when frak from BSG replaced most of his cussing. Then I came upon this site which led me to Farscape. I think it is impossible to go through that show without it affecting your language. Dren, Frell, and farbot have so completely replaced the actual words in my mind I have to make a heavy conscious effort if I want to use the actual words. I get a lot of strange looks when I'm heavily cussing because to everyone it seems like goshdarnittoheck. Now I've come across Red Dwarf thanks to this site and smeg is slowing coming into my vocabulary. Oh and Doctor who has gotten me using bloody hell. God help me if I ever do actually learn klingon. ---Go back to PardonMyKlingon, you worthless ''petaQ'pu''! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParentalBonus * [[FuriKuri This troper]] was in a high school play (can't remember which one, probably either Bye Bye Birdie or Kiss Me Kate) where one of the lines nobody really got the joke of. The director said "Don't worry, your parents will laugh". Sure enough, they did. ** Same thing happened to this troper. I played an old Southern Baptist woman in our production of Dearly Departed, and at one point, told the dead main character that the mortician had him all "painted up like Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke." No one at rehearsal got it, but it was a big laugh when parents and grandparents came to see the show. * The BackyardSports movie I'm making will have jokes that only the TargetAudience's parents could get, such as when TheBeatles-esque band

[[HotGuysAreBastards To]][[PaulMcCartney ny]], [[LargeHam Ach]][[GeorgeHarrison med]], [[LonelyRichKid Jor]][[JohnLennon ge]], and [[IdiotBall Jo]][[RingoStarr ey]] make ([[AGoodNameForARockBand T.A.J.J.]]) appear on Ellen DeGeneres for the first time, and Ellen says "SORRY LADIES, HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND." ** Or when the boys have their first concert, Tony says, "Hello there, I'm Tony and this is Jorge and we here to sing TheBeatles and {{chew bubblegum}}. [[TheyLive And we all out of gum!"]] ** It's gonna be full of this stuff. They'll be covering the songs by the musicians they [[{{Expy}} parody]], and how many kids in their demographic would actually get songs not from their KidzBop {{Beatles}} [=CDs=], like "Help!" or "Day Tripper"? ** And like I said, the ''friends and wives'' of the Beatles are parodied, and the boys who parody TheBeatles get the most attention. [[LoveFreak Angela Delvecchio]] as Cynthia Lennon, [[TheSmartGuy Dmitri Petrovich]] as EltonJohn, Tony Delvecchio as PaulMcCartney. * On the ToyStory page, the appearance of a [[MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]] plush toy in a kid's room is listed as a ParentalBonus because MyNeighborTotoro is not one of Miyazaki's most popular films as well as having come out in the late 1980s with the English version coming out later. In my household, this ParentalBonus was subverted by the fact that my dad is an anime freak, especially when it comes to Miyazaki, and has shown this troper and her siblings a lot of the Miyazaki films, meaning that even this troper's seven year old brother got the reference. ---Go back to ParentalBonus. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParentalFavoritism '''Troper Tales: Parental Favoritism''' * It got so bad with this troper that his parents are ''aware'' of their favoritism of his his little brother. Not only do they do nothing about it, but they ''openly talk about it to me.'' * [[Tropers/JuiceBoxHero This troper's]] late father favored her. Mostly because I was a [[CloudCuckooLander cuckoolanderish]] StrangeGirl [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike who mostly stayed on his wavelength]]. He did also love my mother and older brother, of course, but they were more "normal" (especially my brother), and he couldn't relate to them as much. * This troper's dad favored her brother when it came to maturity. By maturity, I mean handling blood and gore. But I don't constantly have my grades watched like a hawk. * This troper isn't really sure where he stands here. His little sister is given a lot more leeway than what he was given when he was her age, but she also argues a lot more with her parents and every time they go out of town it is he who has to take care of the business, but that can be attributed to age. * This troper's mother observed that when either of us (referring to

this troper's sister and this troper)got into trouble, she was easier on this troper, while this troper's dad was easier on this troper's sister * This troper's become kind of a WellDoneDaughterGirl due to her halfsister clearly being Dad's favorite. (Understandable, since she lives with him. But still.) ** [[OverlyLongGag Are you me?]]Just that in my family, we all live together. And I'm the [[MiddleChildSyndrome middle one]] to boot. * Completely [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the case of [[{{Bob}} this troper]], though he did once trick his mother into calling him "My most beloved son" by calling her "My most beloved mother" (she has no competition, just so there's no [[HasTwoMommies misunderstanding]]). * This troper's family is interesting - two kids, two parents, and each parent has favourited a different kid. As the stuff at the bottom of TheUnfavourite entry says, this is fairly natural. The kid in question takes after the parent, they like similar things and get on well together. Unfortunately, this all got a bit ugly when the parents split up. It's got to the point where one parent very rarely sees the kid who isn't their favourite. * This troper's family has an unintentional example. Years back, this troper's older brother was diagnosed early with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny AD/HD]] and the parents focused on him due to some coping problems and school. This troper was capable of taking care of himself with minimal parental intervention and was somewhat alienated when he reached highschool and was ''then'' diagnosed with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny AD/HD]]. To this day, relations between this troper and his parents are awkward, [[WellDoneSonGuy but we still keep trying to patch things up]]. * This has become a joke in my family -- my brothers and I constantly aks our parents "Am I your favorite?" (They always say yes.) Also, once my Biology teacher, who teaches both of my brothers, asked why my parents asked to meet with him about them and not me. I told him that, as the middle child, [[TheUnFavourite my parents didn't care about me as much]]. And he believed me. Awkward... * My mother is the middle child of three. When she and her sisters were young, Grandma used to distribute the chores by saying "You two older girls do this, and you two younger girls can do that". Though, once Mom finally got mouthy enough to complain about the double chore assignments, Grandma admitted it was unfair. * Averted with this troper: I am the middle child, but also extremely introverted. This led to a lack of interest in going out and a stronger natural focus to study, eventually birthing paranoia in my parents that they were neglecting me while my two siblings were all over the place and generally getting everything they wanted; it's easy to get what you want when it's all pretty reasonable. It took some doing to convince them I was quite happy being left alone to stay at home, thanks. * My brother accuses of my parents of doing this with me, though it's ABSOLUTELY not true. (Though the way he acts all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was true) * Amusingly averted in this troper's case; her older brother had an

argument with her mother that "You let Indigo live at home rentfree!", to which the mother replied, "You can live at home too if you want." Which of course he didn't, he was just venting randomly. * This troper is blatantly the favorite out of himself and his two siblings, but would say that it's less a predeterminated factor and more the inherent reward for knowing how to manipulate others and their feelings as well as not doing anything completely stupid towards them. * Justified when my sister never got hit the way I did because she has Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Meaning if they weren't careful with punishing her, she'd have a broken jaw. (People with OI have often gotten Broken Bones from something as simple as a ''diaper change'') * This troper's mother is somewhat obsessed with avoiding the trope. As she explained a few times, she gives exactly the same amount of money to her son and her daughter because she doesn't want them to compare the numbers one day and decide one of them was the unfavorite. Unfortunately, anyone who spends 10 minutes talking with her knows that she prefers her son, so it seems less like equality and more like her trying to buy her way out (sometimes life is just {{Unwinnable}}). * This troper has noticed her parents give her a lot more privileges and freedom than her older brother as they trust her more to be mature and level headed. However they also get on her case because she's not very good at school or sports like her brother and tend to brag about him more to family and friends. * I'm not the Unfavourite, but when the family get together it's always my brother they talk about. Ah well, it's the curse of being the younger sibling. Everything has already been done before. ** Heeeeey! My sister's the same way! :O it's always about her. Course, she lives out of the house, I still live at home. Although it was always pretty much...her becuase she was the overachiever, whereas I was like, "I don't ''need'' to do that stuff...". Of course, my sister is a lot more...well rude towards me. * My dad seems to favor me... Maybe because I'm the most tomboy-ish out of my sisters? ** Same here. Since I was more of a tomboy growning up, my dad basically seemed to think of me as his son (his only children are my older sister and me, and I think he may have wanted a boy). Now that I'm a teenager I've grown from being boyish to just a little more girly and feminine (though I don't really think of myself as particularly one was or the other). The "favoritism" aspect hasn't changed all that much, though. It's just that the cause has changed, from me essentially being his "son" to being somewhat of a [[{{DaddysGirl}} Daddy's Girl]]. * This troper was convinced that her brother was the favorite for the longest time. Looking back, it was ''[[SingleIssuePsychology actually]]'' entirely based around one incident: her brother [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicked her in the back of the neck]], and my father announced he was as angry at me for not telling him for 24 hours as he was at my brother for kicking me in the back of the neck. Her realizing that this was her father having a bad day, not this, kicked off one big WhamEpisode that made her realize she had been projecting this sort of thing on a lot of people.

* [[{{Tropers/soojinyeh}} This Troper]] has a brother who was favored. Although I didn't know it at the time, it later turned out he was my half-brother and he was my stepmom's real son, so I guess it makes sense. * My father once decided my younger brother was his favorite kid because my brother liked the color my dad painted a bathroom, and I didn't. Of course, my dad often jokes about who the favorite is, basing his decision entirely on who was agreeing with him or who wasn't causing trouble. * My youngest cousin seems to be the favourite of our generation, with me being the second (He's youngest, I'm eldest). Everyone dotes on him, they give him new toys rather than the hand-me-downs his brother and sister got, my mother, his godmother, is very glad she got 'the handsome one' and even though he's a bigger brat, our grandparents are more likely to complain about his siblings acting up. And despite being an aloof teen and withdrawn young adult who didn't go to university and has trouble finding work, my grandparents tend to show more interest in me than my sister, whom they constantly ask when she'll be married (She's 19). My family's not that open about it, but they don't try to hide it. * This troper attended a seminar on family issues that come up in relationships with others, and the lecturer quite frankly said that there is always a "favored child" (which may differ for each parent). The presence of an emotional favorite is not necessarily a problem, but rather how fair the parents were in action and treatment. This troper himself was an only child, so this dynamic foreign is to me. * This troper's mother was TheUnFavorite compared to her younger brother as far as her father was concerned, despite said brother's wild youth being the stuff of family legend. And then she had kids, and ''my'' brother ended up being the ''grand''parental favourite. Thankfully, I'm rather a lot brighter than my mother. * This troper's husband has sometimes felt like this in his family, being the middle child and extremely introverted. His older and younger siblings are far more extroverted. It's clear enough that the parents love all three kids very much, and he acknowledges this, but has often felt like the WellDoneSonGuy just by comparison with the other two, who are much more financially successful. (It helps that he's done at least one thing of which his parents completely and overwhelmingly approve -- he married Troper.) * Parodied in This Troper's house where we sometimes joke I'm the favorite, but really there aren't favorites. * Though she knows her parents don't do this intentionally, this troper is her father's favorite while her brother is her mother's favorite. (1st person) My mother can relate more to my younger brother than she can relate to me, though it's not to say that she flatout ignores me or whatnot. She just babies him more. I get along more with my father because I can tolerate him and get his sense of humor, which my mother and brother cannot. * I'm my parents' favorite because i'm a good student (straight A's), get lots of awards, and I'm generally good at everything but sports, which is ok because no one in my family likes sports. Poor, younger siblings; I've set the bar real high.

* This troper is a middle child, which normally results in being neglected if there is favoritism at all. But here's the thing: I'm a manipulator, I have a social disadvantage, and I'm smarter than the other two children, both of whom are above average. As a kid, I always--accidentally, no less--turned anything I did wrong into somebody else's fault, took things that weren't mine, convinced others to give me things I didn't deserve, and got my parents to favor me anyway. As things stand I've toned it down, taking only what I need from others with manipulation, but I can still get almost anything I set my mind to having. Yes, I sound awful, but everybody likes me, even if it is begrudgingly sometimes when they know what I do. * This tropette is the oldest (older) child, and for some reason is better liked than her little brother. Maybe it`s because I was ( and still am, in their opinion) more mature and reasonable than her brother at his age (9). Either way, I`m a somewhat forced role model for him, and he is a serious attention- seeker. * When this troper and her little sister were young, we always thought the other was their parents favorite. But now it's become clear that I'm mom's favourite. Sure that she love us equally and try to treat us general the same (like buys the same stuffs for both of us wherever she goes shopping), but my sister has told me that mom rarely to never hug or cuddle or have mother-daughter talk to her while she does that to me at least twice a week, and personally make clothes for me when she has chances. Dad is still unclear but our aunt who live with us clearly favor my sister. * This Troper suspects this might be the case - not in her family, but in her ''cousins'' family. My uncle met a girl when he was quite young and had a son, but after a while they split up. Both my uncle and his ex have since met other people and started families. My uncle met a woman with a son from a earlier relationship and a few years ago they had a daughter together, all of whom they love (seemingly) equally. However, the ex met a single man with whom she's gotten another son with and it's pretty obvious that he's the one the new husband favours. This has made the cousin both confused and upset, to the point where he called this Troper's father in an attempt to talk and get a little approval. However, I have to admit that among my cousins he's ''my'' favourite, but that's pretty much because that his siblings, although [[MoeMoe cute]], also are [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Annoying Younger Cousins]] as well as [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled Brats]], especially the girl. ---Why don't you go back to ParentalFavoritism, you know your mother likes that page much better anyhow. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParentalMarriageVeto * Subverted: [[{{Mabus}} This troper's]] kid sister recently married a guy that her father (we're half-siblings) hated, over his protests. The rest of the family (while some of us had misgivings) went around

him, with this troper giving his sister away in the ceremony. Aww. * Played straight for [[{{Tex}} this troper.]] Let's just say that I despise ''The Notebook'' for this very reason. Boy meets girl, boy and girl want to elope, girl wants parental blessings. Boy's parents like the idea, girl's parents immediately dislike the boy because he's a broke student. My family made it clear that, while not disowned, I'd definitely be persona non grata for a good long while. I told my boyfriend that he should find someone whose family wouldn't make him jump through hoops just to be welcomed. If I had one Mulligan in my life... * This troper's aunt ran away with her now ex-husband when she was sixteen because her parents had some serious objections to a sixteenyear-old marrying and the man in question wasn't a good canidate for marriage no matter what the ages of the parties were. A few years and two kids later, she and the hubbie wanted to come home; her father sent her the money and let the four live with him, his wife, and her younger sister until they could get on their feet. Years later, Aunt finally came to her senses and divorced hubbie, who her parents actually had good reason to despise. * [[{{Meltemi}} This troper's]] parents went through this in spades. My mother was the only daughter (fairly sheltered and doted upon) of a landed, prominent, and traditional-minded yangban family that managed to make it through both the Japanese Occupation and the Korean War. The beau-to-be was the common son of a Methodist minister, foreign, and a contractor with the U.S. Army. They eloped, first to Seoul, and then across half the world to America. This troper mostly just sees it as extremely fortunate that everyone was eventually reconciled, before both grandparents died, though this and certain other events have sparked jokes from friends about living in soap operas. * Michael Wong, Canadian engineer and proprietor of Stardestroyer.net (which this troper is a fairly prominent member of), tells the story of his marrige on his personal webpage. He was a Chinese-Canadian atheist who fell in love with the Caucasian daughter of a highlyreligious rural family. While his parents had no problem with their relationship, Rebecca's parents attempted to prevent their marrige for being "unequally yoked" because he was both Chinese and an atheist, and even convinced their priest not to go through with the marrige. After their marrige, Wong reconciled with his in-laws, but only enough to be peaceable with them on a regular basis. * One of this troper's friends had to get around this. He's Caucasian, he fell in love with an African-American woman, and his parents were racist. He and his wife kept the marriage secret for about a year, and then dumped "I'm married, oh by the way you'll be grandparents any day now" on the folks. It seemed to snap some sense into his parents (though her conversion to Catholicism probably helped), and they're all on reasonable terms now. * This troper's grandmother was in an arranged marriage to some terribly brutish fellow when my grandfather came upon her, apparently it was True Wuv! He proposed (after getting to know her, I assume) her parents did not like it. Apparently my grandparents fled a few towns over and got married, about a year later they came back and her parents decided it was okay (after some convincing). They ended up

provided for the community with the only General Store and having 7 children, who then had AT LEAST 5 children each,who had their own children, and are now comfortably living, supported by their 60plus offspring, including me. * This Troper's Great-grandfather ''HATED'' my grandmother, leading to one memorable incident where Grandma's Dad politely asked my Grandparents to leave the room and then unleashed Verbal hell upon the offending in-law. * ThisTroper has met his future mother-in-law (who doesn't even know about the engagement yet, owing to the fact that their daughter still lives at home and she can make things very painful for her if she wants) a total of once, almost two years ago, for five minutes. That was enough for her to decide not to like him and never to see him again. The amusing thing is that in her family, all successful marriages have been elopements or at least disapproved of by the parents on one side or the other, while the one marriage that nobody had a problem with [[GenreBlind ended messily]] I'm starting to suspect she's DangerouslyGenreSavvy and [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] so as to ensure us a happy marriage. * If this troper listened to his mother, he wouldn't be divorced right now. Sometimes this shades into JustifiedTrope territory. * This Troper's great-grandfather didn't want his daughter (my grandmother) to marry. She was the youngest of 8 and by the time she was ready to marry, everyone else had married and moved away and great-grandfather's wife was dead and he just didn't want to be alone. Plus, grandfather was in the U.S. Air Force and great-grandfather believed "They've got a girl in every port!" (He had Air Force confused with Navy.) Finally, great-grandfather said "You can marry her if you give me a pig! That's what I gave the doctor who delivered her." (In the backwoods of Arkansas in 1939, doctors often were paid in livestock.) Grandfather said "I don't have a pig. How about a dollar?" Great-grandfather accepted. ** [[TheWho "I'd call that a bargain, the best I've ever had..."]] * This troper's dad once told her in all seriousness that he had the jurisdiction to veto any relationship she had. She laughed in his face, patted his hand, and told him he was sweet when he thought he had control over her adult relationships. * This troper's father hasn't had any problem with my past boyfriends, but grandparents are another case. Several times, I've had one or both grandmothers tell me that they have to like a boy before I can even consider marrying him, and my grandfathers also have strict requirements for what any guy I bring home should be like. They never said anything about [[BiTheWay girls I bring home]], though, probably because it hasn't been an issue (yet). * In the 1900's, this trampy soldier ended up in a foresaken country and started living in one of his friend's house. Mother dead, the friend's sister filled the motherly role, and she was quite a looker. Needless to say, the guy wooed her and convinced her to go to the capital with him, telling her that he had a big house with a fountain. [[IHaveNoSon Judging for the plave we're in, you can expect the father's reaction when he discovered her offspring was leaving for this trampy soldier.]] She left anyway, but later found out the

soldier's big house was the soldier's aunt's big house, and the guy was pennyless. They had fourteen kids (one of them was my great grandmother) before the soldier died, leaving her helpless because her father never forgave her. Don't worry, things got better when the kids grew up and started to mantain her. * A variant: The future mother-in-law hated my guts and I knew she'd never approve, so I went to the teen and pre-teen kids first and asked THEM if they'd allow me to marry their mother. The reactions were priceless and still a treasure memory. We've been married fifteen years. The mother-in-law has long since come around. * This troper's great-grandmother came to America because of this. Back in Italy, she was being pursued by a soldier. For whatever reason (an age difference, a class difference, suspicion that he was an asshole, wanting to [[VirginPower protect her virtue]], the exact reason(s) is unknown), her parents [[{{Understatement}} ''hated'' the guy]]. they contacted an aunt of hers already living in East Boston, and shipped the girl ''3000 miles'' away to live with the aunt, just so she wouldn't see him again. (It's unknown if she liked him or not, but she eventually married someone else.) Yep, this troper comes from a long line of [[JewishMother control freaks]], though she considers herself fortunate that her father's DNA appears to have diluted the gene. ---If you and [[ParentalMarriageVeto this link back to the main page]] go off together, I'll disown you! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ParentheticalSwearing * [[Tropers/RedWren This troper]], when she was little, got called out by her mother due to her ClusterFBomb that did not include using the word fuck once. She's since gotten better, and can do it with, "Sorry." * When [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} this troper]] says "Evidently" with sufficient emphasis, it translates as "No ''shit''.". It's a bit of a weird example, though, because I don't do it to spare anyone's sensibilities (although sometimes I do avoid swearing because I'm arguing with someone who'll jump down my throat for using harsh language), I just have certain kinds of politeness/decorum built into my very bones. ---Here's a link back to the [[ParentheticalSwearing main page]], you ''lovely'' little ''person''. ----

ParentingTheHusband * Gender reversed with this troper and her husband. * This troper's mother jokes that this happens with her (the mother)

and my dad. * Gender Swapped with my uncle and aunt, sometimes. He is a serius electric engineer who likes sports and dogs, while she is some kind of computer engineer who likes Harry Potter and shopping, being more of a Woman Child. They have two kids, but my grandma often claims the actual family is a single dad with three children. * This troper was once working in a ward with an extraordinarily harried chief resident. The joke among the female staff was that said resident's husband was her "eldest child". * This troper almost ended up in this situation with a high school / university relationship. Her former boyfriend has non-verbal comprehension problems and a complete inability to make his own decisions, resulting in him socially, emotionally, and in many ways mentally stalling at age 13. The troper is very glad she didn't accept his proposal because she would most likely be spending the rest of her life married to someone who behaves like a middle school student.

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ParkingProblems * This troper's parent once parked his F-350 [[UpToEleven Super Duty]] pickup truck across three stalls reserved for two different agencies (third stall was marked NO PARKING) and got a dirty look from a passersby. * A RunningGag of sorts in our family is how the crew cab + long bed increases the length so much, it's nearly impossible to park properly. HilarityEnsues when we are in a parking lot where the majority or all of the spaces are marked SMALL CAR. ----

ParodyRetcon * One of my friends showed me and my classmates a flash movie he had made. It featured stickmen, horrible graphics and even more horrible music. I told him it was horrible, and he replied it was a parody of shitty stick movies. Someone else told him "It isn't funny" and he replied "Who said it's supposed to be funny?" *facepalm* * At least where [[Tropers/RedWren this troper]] grew up, a common way to respond to a mistake was to say "Just kidding..." No one actually expected anyone to ''believe'' it, it just spared you saying it. Or repeating it. ** Reminds me of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUK-YmGuZjI this]]. ** Did you go to school in east Wisconsin?? It was common for people in my school to answer questions wrong, or ask stupid questions, and then go "I was just kidding," when their error is pointed out. *** There's an entire JustJokingJustification trope, so I'm guessing it wasn't confined to the schoolyards of East Wisconsin.

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ParodySue &thread*This troper's writing a story for the Anti-Cliche And Mary-Sue Elimination Society, and thus came up with a (rather weak, but poised to become much stronger) ParodySue for the MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha fandom, while at the same time recycling one of her oldest characters, a [[PatchworkKids Patchwork Kid]] she made at the age of 10, into a villain to wants revenge on her author for abandoning her. * This troper once thought of writing a MegaCrossover fanfic where [[{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] ended up becoming the most powerful character, being able to use any magic or pokemon attack that he's seen before. His weakness? Well, A: He's still gullible enough to fall for a PaperThinDisguise, B: Everyone else (including his allies) would rather use him as a human shield, and C: Unlike his GenreSavvy allies, he is extremely, EXTREMELY GenreBlind. ** On a side note, I also created a character for an RPG I want to make someday who has blue hair, speaks with GratuitousJapanese, is a princess of a large and powerful empire, and has the "Mimic" ability with all-around decent stats. Throughout the game, she basically annoys the hell everyone else, who just keep her around because [[strike:they feel responsible for her]] they can't get her to leave them alone. Oh yes, and it turns out [[spoiler:she's actually a clone of another character, except modified to be some sort of ultimate weapon.]] and to make matters worse, she [[spoiler:tries to make a HeroicSacrifice at the end, despite everyone else begging her not to, which actually makes things worse.]] Of course, she turns out to be fine in the end :P ** Yes, I like this trope. Do you have a problem with it? * This Troper always makes characters who are Parody Sues for the sole purpose of messing around with his friends, who pressure him to join their [[RolePlaying RP]]s. One is a stereotypical Knight in Shining Armour, the other is an IndianaJones wannabe. Basically, they spam their limit breaks, use game-breaking moves, and always act in an [[LargeHam over-the-top]] manner. His friends [[CompletelyMissingThePoint still haven't figured out that the characters are satire]]... ** Why does "spamming limit breaks" make me think of ''[[InuYasha WIND SCAR!!!]]''? * This troper has a friend who, after reading the [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen LXG]] MarySue Litmus Test, decided to write a story with a main character for whom the answer to every question would be yes. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1788274/1/ Just the Best Mary Sue Ever]] details the unspeakable beauty, tragic history, legendary sexual prowess, astonishing powers, and heartbreaking demise of Fellauroralisterinavetta Aanjulle OBamfwryter -- Nemo's niece, Jekyll's former nurse, and Gray's exlover, whom he dumped for Jack Sparrow. * [[{{Night}} This Troper]] has for a long time been writing and rewriting and rerewriting a Sailor Moon fanfic that presents a ParodySue he has dubbed "Deconstructing Sue" not so much for his

abilities (he has exactly one metaphysical ability, and that's actually a total lack of metaphysical ability and bits), as for what happens to him. Most of the females fall in "love" with him: they keep trying to violently rape him. Most of the enemies decide to attack him: fortunately he's immune to energy drain, unfortunately not so much to energy blasts. The character frequently veers back and forth between brilliant subversions of the genre he's been forced to use to survive and apparent RageAgainstTheAuthor paranoia. He also provides occasional snarky commentary on those things you know must exist in the world of Sailor Moon, but that aren't mentioned, like the Sailorwatch blog. * This troper and her mom have a tradition of telling each other scary stories at a beach that they visit every now and then. One of the stories this troper told her mom recently was about [[DeadHorseGenre a Disney pop star]] named "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Morgan Oregon]]" with no talent who makes a DealWithTheDevil to make them [[UnwantedHarem super-popular]] and [[InstantExpert super-talented]] overnight, much like a [[MarySue certain character type we all know]]. The morning after making the deal with the devil, Morgan goes to the Disney recording studios and, while previously not able to play any instrument at any level of skill, starts to play a tuba and plays notes ''in the flute register'' (which this troper is aware is impossible), as well as ''multiple notes at once''. At that point, this troper's mom tried to get her to stop, because [[CompletelyMissingThePoint she feared]] that the story had suddenly turned from a scary story into [[VampireChronicles Lestat]]. (Mom thinks that Lestat, whom this troper likes in spite of his sometimes {{jerkass}} behavior, is the most enormous MartyStu ever.) This troper [[ViewersAreGeniuses really hoped]] that her mom would interpret the super-talent as a parody of MarySue, but apparently Morgan's ridiculous level of talent was a [[TheWesley little irritating]]. * This troper has written a short ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fic titled "Eternal Dusk, aka A Fangirl's Dream, aka Best. Twilight. Fanfic. EVAR!!!", credited to his fake DistaffCounterpart. It centers around Cinderella Bloodfire Swan, Bella Swan's cousin, who is heterochromatic, half human, half werewolf, half angel, half demon, half dragon, and half megalodon. As a vampire, she has two abilities: Wolverine-inspired claws that are actually fangs, and the ability to [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} mind crush people]] (which she uses on Bella). All the vampires, except for Alice, fall in love with her. By the end of the story, there is an epic battle between Edward, Jacob, [[spoiler: [[HarryPotter Sirius Black]], [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Atem, Mako Tsunami]], [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]], and [[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] for her love, which causes Forks to blow up.]] * Digimon forum example: [[http://digimonforumrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=digioold&action =display=291 this]] in response to [[http://digimonforumrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=digioold&action =display&thread=80 this]] after this editor's first character got stuck in But Your Character Is Too Original hell (the Parody Sue was accepted nigh-instantly; she originally carried a gun). I wrote her directly off the Common Mary Sue Traits page; can you tell?

* Haven't done it, since I have yet to find the proper place, but I so want to create a 'short squat renegade dark-elf with hyper regeneration who uses twin scimitars implanted in his arms by Priestesses of Lolth' just so I can roleplay a Parody-Sue of two of the most Expyed Matry-Stus in [=RPG=]s. I've even used the Drow book for 3.5 to create a 'technically Drow' name for him 'Wahl Vahren' (means Dark Hunter or something like that). * This troper wrote an exercise for recognizing Mary Sues on StormArtists, using three characters for the Invader Zim fandom. The basic idea of the exercise is to figure out how many of the three are Mary Sues, which is [[spoiler:all of them]]. The exercise can be found [[http://www.storm-artists.net/journal/12331/ here]] This troper has also had the idea to try to write the best story she can, using the worst character possible, and see how that would work out. ** Well? Well? * This troper recently entered a fanart contest and created a Parody Sue just for the event. The kicker? Said Mary-Sue managed to worm her way into my original comic series and is going to be in one of the stories. It should be fun to watch, especially since the Sue is a definite example of the {{Most Common Superpower}} * The main character of this troper's puppet troop is kinda one of these, often parodying [[TheLibby stereotypical teenage girls.]] * [[@/ProgenyExMachina This troper]] wrote a short piece a while back parodying a FandomSpecificPlot in the ''LegendOfZelda'' fandom, specifically a [[SailorEarth fourth]] [[MeaningfulName Tri]]force piece. It also provides the most horrific violation of ShowDontTell I've written since I was eleven, mountains of BeigeProse, {{Plot Hole}}s and {{Hand Wave}}s by the pound, a FauxActionGirl with InformedAttractiveness, a "plot" that goes absolutely nowhere, and an in-universe attempt at SuddenlySoulmates that drives [[TheHero Link]] to [[FunnyMoments warp to Lake Hylia to get away]]. So...[[SelfDeprecation basically not much of a parody]], except for the near-constant LampshadeHanging and the "heroine's" utter failure. {{YMMV}}, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6216115/1/The_Legend_of_Zelda_Triforce_o f_Invisibility here's the link]] for anyone curious. * My personal fiction character, Death Hand (No, not [[JadeEmpire that one]].), is essentially a videogame player character from a NintendoHard game in fiction form with a hint of DeadpanSnarker on the side. Sure he might be really good at fighting (he isn't all that interested in dating, though), but a rather severe drawback of his is that as he keeps doing well surviving without dying, the opposition he faces tends to scale up rather quickly (mostly in quantity, if not in strength as well) until they eventually (and inevitably) overwhelm him; Oh, and he tends to get his ass kicked... a lot. (In short, he isn't really all that invincible) * I once made an entire race of these, and it was incredibly entertaining (for me). You see: people grew tired of their perfection and, since they were practically immortals but had an assexual way of multiplying, new laws were created to torch them as a sport. The sues got their angst over being undesirables and the humans got satisfaction over their murderous desires, so everybody was happy.

* TruthInTelivision: Anyone, like [[@/StongRadd this troper]], whose academic smarts don't make up for [[CloudCuckoolander being essentially insane]] and [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant creepy.]] * I made one of these just for fun: she can be seen [[http://chaletica.deviantart.com/art/new-character-PLEASE-READ159143944 here]]. * After this troper's class read TheGiver , we had to create a "perfect person." So, I invented Elizabeth Brown (i think that was her name) who was BFFS with everyone, hyperintelligent, neat, a poet, spoke perfect Chinese, was beautiful, and was working on a cure for cancer. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she loves]] [[EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies puppies]]. * Hmmm, this troper is writing the story for a Fighting/RPG game, where there's a girl blatanly called Mindy Suey. As the characters represent specific legends, myths or concepts, she was bestowed the power of every Mary Sue on the world, to the point of altering the reality. Then she proceeds to hookup with the gullible DecoyProtagonist, until his [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy right-hand man]] proceeds to engage her in a battle, and killing her, erasing her from the existence and memories of everyone in the proccess. As a character I intend to give her a mirror move of every single character on the game. What do you think everyone? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PassingJudgment * [[{{Tropers/Nentuaby}} This Troper]]'s mother claims that the only time she has ever flipped off a poor driver, it turned out to be a Scout Master with a full complement of uniformed Boy Scouts in tow. * [[Tropers/FishStampede This Troper]] is convinced that military chaplains are all trained in stealth ops. How else would they never fail to sneak up on him during a ClusterFBomb? * This Troper had ''just'' finished telling some form of dirty joke when the vicar cycled past. The vicar who was also the father of the girl I fancied at the time. Good thing it wasn't two or three seconds earlier. ---Err, go back to PassingJudgment. Quickly, before anyone else sees. *flashbulbs pop*

PassThePopcorn * A few years back I went to the cinema with a friend and we decided to split a large bag of popcorn, only they weren't kidding when they said 'large' because by the time we got out we hadn't even finished half of it. Luckily, when we went to sit on the benches outside a nearby bookstore to wait for my friend's brother to pick us up, a man and his girlfriend were having a very loud disagreement in the parking lot. * This troper kept a bag of unpopped popcorn handy for just such an

occasion. It got used once when a friend and the boyfriend of said friend got in a fight. ** Do you eat unpopped popcorn? ** I speculate that he waits until the fight starts, goes into the other room, pops the popcorn, then returns to watch the fireworks. * This is exactly what [[{{Gerusz}} this troper]] did every time when a LoveDodecahedron reached critical mass and shit hit the fan. Sometimes, ''literally'' with popcorn. High school buffets have their use after all... also, this was the best way to avoid the fallout. ** Considering that this trope even exists and that people might well see it as a "not caring"/"finding it humorous" signal, HOW was it a way to avoid the fallout? * This troper worked for a disreputable tax-prep service operating out of a shopping mall and was fired, presumably for having ethics (he wouldn't sell the company's scam products to innocent, hardworking people). On April 16th he went back to the mall, bag of popcorn in hand, leaned up against a support post, and watched the teardown crew take the temporary kiosk down. * This troper does this whenever anything interesting is going on, miming eating a bucket of popcorn/pack of chips. Two of his characters tend to do the same, though one has a tendency to use powerful magic for such mundane things as actually having the popcorn/chips for it. * This troper once did this (it might have been chips, or a sandwich, though...it's been a long time) when I happened to be home watching a live CNN report with helicopter coverage of a house a man who'd shot a sheriff's deputy had fled into...and that accidentally caught on fire when they fired tear gas into it. Like watching a yule log. No one came out. I'll leave it up to others what ''[[CharacterAlignment alignment]]'' of evil that qualifies me for. * The first post [[Tropers/DaPatman this troper]] made on the first message board he ever visited was in an already established topic. It looked something like this: -->Hi. I'm new here. This place any good? * Looks around.* Ooh, a fight! * Sits down with popcorn.* Don't mind me. * This troper once encountered a heated argument in his high school cafeteria. People were watching in awe as the argument turned into a fight. This troper simply sat down with his bag of popcorn and slushie and started eating, cheering whenever someone got a good hit in. Soon, everyne else began cheering and eating their lunches. Then, when one of the fighters fell down, a student ran up to the one who was still standing and held up his arm like a champion boxer. They both got suspended, but it was awesome. * I had a party at my house where two people got into a fight. I pulled up a folding chair, got a soda, then ate Laffy Taffy. Best fight ever. * The entire population of this troper's dorm[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean with two exceptions]]did this ''multiple times''. The {{Backstory}}? One of the [=RAs=] and his girlfriend were, ah, [[UnusualEuphemism enjoying themselves quite a bit]], frequently and VERY loudly. Eventually, everbody else living in the building got wise to this, and would keep popcorn and other snacks, as well as folding chairs and beanbag chairs, ready to be employed at a moment's notice.

The funniest moment was when the entertainers emerged from the room once and everyone present applauded. * [[{{Meshakhad}} this troper]]'s character in EveOnline will, upon finding out about a conflict between two factions he doesn't care about (e.g. two pirate factions), offer to take bets on the outcome. * SCPFoundation chat board. [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Bright vs. Kondraki]]. Full stop. (I had to throw up the metaphorical popcorn, though, when Bright posted a fugly [sic] RuleThirtyFour of [[CrackPairing SCP-808 x SCP-105]]. Hellooooo, kickban.) ** On a side note, SCP-682 has a Twitter. [[http://twitter.com/SCP_682 I shit you not.]] Though half the posts are random snippets of Japanese, and one of them was "&# 31169;&# 12364;&# 12371;&# 12371;&# 12395;&# 12290;" ("I am here.") spammed a few dozen times. * I remember a school theatre version of ''Antigone'' with two Narrators on stage passing Popcorn between each other. It had a rather disturbing effect. * I have done this. I will warn you, more [[{{Tsundere}} volatile]] people will not take kindly to your mockery of their SeriousBusiness in this fashion. * A friend of this troper's got into a fight with his girlfriend at the cinema. Popcorn had already been purchased. You could not actually have asked for a more perfect time for it to occur. * [[FishStampede This troper]] had a roommate in college who was utterly shameless with his girlfriend, really into heavy petting while I was still in the room despite several requests not to. One time, I microwaved some popcorn, turned my chair around, and started eating it while watching them. "Don't mind me. Continue." Last time they did it while I was in the room. * ThisTroper doesn't comment much on a certain forum, but minor arguments are so frequent that ''* eats popcorn* '' has become something of a CatchPhrase for me. I find it makes it easier to not get involved myself, and now that it's become other familiar people have come to recognise it as a sign that things are getting a bit out of hand, and simmer down. At one point, I'd been away from a particular thread for a week, and an epic shitstorm had boiled over. It was pretty much over by the time I checked back in, so the only thing left to do was to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on my absence: -->''* enters with multiple cardboard buckets* '' -->''[[IncomingHam O HAI!]] Sorry I'm late, had a bit of trouble keeping up. Never mind, plenty of popcorn for everyone. What'd I miss?'' -->''* looks around at the charred remains of the thread* '' -->''[[UnusualEuphemism Holy pants! What the photon]] happened here?!'' -->''* finds a seat amid the destruction, eats popcorn* '' * This troper, who used to work in a restaurant, did this once with a soda while the head chef was blowing up at one of the cooks (although drinking the soda was mostly just an excuse to stay in the kitchen and watch). * I'm eating some right now!

* This troper watched some furious arguments about the voice cast and newer games of [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] series while eating some popcorn. That turned out to be quite a soap opera at the end where hundreds were involved. * This troper's family was eating dinner when his brother got a text about a faceless baby on TV. Everyone promptly moved dinner to the living room so we can see such a sight as we eat. * This troper and his cousin usually have this reaction when a friend of both argues with his girlfriend * This troper was in the park and saw the tension within a LoveTriangle coming to a climax ([[AccidentalInnuendo not]] ''[[OT3 that]]'' [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean way]]). Needless to say, he bought a hot dog from a vendor, a cold glass of lemonade from another, and enjoyed the show. * Some background information first. While Singapore is remarkably tough on piracy, there are some places that are well-known among locals for selling pirated software. Alright. This troper's father is part of an anti-piracy task force. Since he can't be seen buying pirated stuff, this troper tends to run his errands, and pick up his software at the same time. He also gets warnings from his father to avoid certain areas on certain days in case this troper gets caught in the action. One of his favorite things to do is to go there on days with raids, buy a drink and sit near the entrance, watching the parade of shopkeepers. The operations usually pop back up after a week or so anyway. * This troper works at a grocery store, and is always on the lookout for [[DaneCook "Nothing Fights"]]. Just so he can say "I was there!" * This Troper was in his school cafeteria next to a microwave. A fight between a couple ensued. A second later, the Microwave gave us popcorn. * At a recent Dungeons and Dragons Encounters game, My group and I were fighting a bunch of Kobolds in a ramshackle building. I (being a Fighter) chased three of the Kobolds around the back of said building. When my teammates finished fighting the other Kobolds, they came to check on me to discover that me and the three Kobolds were playing cards, drinking mead and roasting newts over a campfire. Man, that was one hell of a Diplomacy check. * Really, really, ''really, really, REALLY'' {{NSFW}} example [[http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/424853 here]]. For added fun, check the posts below the image. * whenever this troper [=RPs=] with a friend and something interesting happens (usually two or more [=OCs=] fighting), her next action will inevitably be "*grabs popcorn*" * Never had a chance to do this in real life, sadly, but I once wrote, for a screenwriting class, a short script about a MadScientist and her cheerful, yet dim-witted neighbor who'd come over to borrow something. Basically, the scientist was getting in contact with the U.N. on a giant video screen so she could carry out her latest evil plot to extort money from the nations of the world by threatening to sap the water supply of every major city on Earth. Meanwhile, her neighbor keeps bumbling around her lab until, eventually, he releases her mutated velociraptor and inadvertently feeds it some

AppliedPhlebotinum that makes it grow several times its size. It breaks through the lab ceiling and walls and runs off to rampage outside of its master's control, destroying her dehydrating machine in the process. The U.N.'s response to these events? Half of them break out bags of popcorn from seemingly nowhere (One notable exception being the Japanese ambassador, who mutters a line about the velociraptor being a "[[{{Godzilla}} copycat]]"). * My friend/lab partner popped some popcorn in Biology class and ate some once while we were wating for the bell to ring so we could go home. Another Biology and popcorn example happened some days ago when I was walking from World History to Biology, and another friend had popcorn that he gave to me. * This troper is a member of the forum that has had several cases of forum members hooking up with each other, and (especially since they're also often long-distnace relationships) will be rather "open" about their relationships on the boards. So whenever a couple starts teasing each other online, this troper indicates (and often does in reality) that he is breaking out the popcorn, and whenever a significant event occurs (new relationship, marriage proposal, etc), will make references to having to increase the size of his (already sizable) popcorn budget. * This was part of this Troper's reaction to finding out Osama bin Laden was dead. Waiting for the official announcement, and wanting a bit of a snack, he decided to enjoy some "Victory Popcorn". * Not exactly popcorn, but this troper once ate a bag of chips while watching his older step-brother and siter in law have another fight, wearing a bored expression the entire time. * When my school's drama club performed The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza, the play called for an entire long scene of the entire cast dying. Thanks to the open-ended nature of the script, the guy who played Achilles was allowed to bring in a bag of white cheddar popcorn from the school cafeteria and eat it while watching everyone die, right in the middle of the performance. Before he took his foam sword and slit his ankle, of course, being a death scene. * In this troper's school production of Urinetown, this happened. One of the minor characters (the main character's father) dies in the second scene. He then appears as a ghost briefly in a couple more scenes. During the Act One Finale, where the main character starts a revolution, was one of those scenes. The director decided to have him sitting on a high platform eating popcorn and surrounded by pizza boxes. He also was allowed to add in a couple of extra lines for himself which changed every performance--he had to make sure to tell us what they would be backstage before he did it every night so we would know it was coming and not burst out laughing right in the middle of the scene. As you can guess, this guy was a bit of a {{Large Ham}}. * This troper was with his high school's gaming club at the midnight showing of Transformers 3, and we were sitting around waiting for the movie to start. The teacher who hosts it was telling some old D&D stories, about half of us present had heard them and half of us hadn't. We had just gotten popcorn, and he just started telling the unanimously decided "best" story. I commented "this is good story."

and one of the guys who hadn't heard it before had started on his popcorn. At the end of the story, the guy with the popcorn who hadn't heard it before commented "You're right, that was pretty good. I'm almost out of popcorn." ---Go back to PassThePopcorn. Don't forget to bring popcorn AndADietCoke! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PatchworkFic * This Troper has made a whole Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic series (all of them are private fics, though, sorry) using all of the games content, TV show's content, and only up to a certain point in the comic content, as well as the content of the OAV. ** Unfortunately, This Troper has also had to deal with an author with a {{God Mode Sue}} who would push her's and her character's {{Berserk Button}}s *** Sometimes to the point of a {{HeroicBSOD}} in the case of the character * This troper once attempted a Grand Rewrite of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' as an 18-episode script series that would combine all the plot elements from ''all'' the versions (at least, all the ones I knew about; probably less than half, even of the ones that existed at the time!) [[OldShame Fortunately]] [[DeadFic I got bored]] with it after a few episodes. * This troper almost always reads the book and sees the movie, so bits and pieces of both continuities end up mixed into the stories. * [[@/TitoMosquito This troper]] is currently planning on doing a series of TMNT fanfics using contents, plots, and character personalities from the comics (Mirage and Archie), cartoons (80s and 2003), and movies. The official TMNT website's old "second season" in its letter section as revealed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles)#Li fe_from_1997_to_2000 in this page]] was the main inspiration of it. ---( return to {{Patchwork Fic}} )

PatchworkMap * I created this fictional world called Elementia, and it's divided up into not four but ten sections: [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[MakingASplash Water]], [[BlowYouAway Air]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]], [[GreenThumb Wood]], [[ShockAndAwe Electricity]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[DarkIsEdgy Dark]], and [[LightTheWay Light]]. Needless to say, it was largely a

[[PatchworkMap Patchwork Map]].

PatrioticFervor * At times, [[{{Crion87}} this troper]] consciously inverts this trope, other times, he tries to embrace it. Most of the time it's the former, due to his Asperger Syndrome and fixating on foreign cultures mixing with his ill-treatment [[{{KidsAreCruel}} at the hands of other Aussie students in the past]]. However, it's mostly an Australiaspecific MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, [[spoiler: but he has revenge fantasies about being TheQuisling.]] In a further backsliding toward the powers of Un-Australianness, he has been listening to J-Pop, when it is ANZAC Day... * This troper often bombastically proclaims difficult tasks to be "for the Motherland!" Of course, said difficult things are usually lifting heavy objects or putting together appliances. Her dad tells her to stop acting anti-American in his own embodiment of the trope. * This trope applies to me so much that the Constitution is like a second Bible to me. Though my foil has been sharpened by constant America-hating peers, it gets depressing sometimes, but it never changes me. Please note I am NOT type 2 Eagleland, I'm not perfect but I respect other peoples and their cultures. ** Talking about really misplaced and messed up nationalism...This troper holds a similar vision about the US Constitution (what I call the "most perfect political document in the history") but the thing is...I'm Mexican... *** Hey! Your Constitution was modeled after ours. Besides America is an ideal, not a race or birthplace. I'm starting to love immigrants (like or possibly like yourself) more than native-born because they appreciate the genius of the Founding Fathers. *** YourMilageMayVary on the extent of that so-called "genius". * I love [[EagleLand America]]. I love every single thing about it, [[WartsAndAll even the flaws]]. I love its ideals, I love its reality, I love its past, I love it's present, and I expect I'll love its future. I love all its contradictions, between the ideals of free self-determination and ManifestDestiny, between "liberty for all" and the draft, between the adoration of Capitalism and the welfare state, between "in God we trust" and the seperation of church and state, between the Monroe Doctrine and [[BananaRepublic banana]] [[WarForFunAndProfit republics]]. I love it even though it makes [[InsaneTrollLogic no goddamn sense]]. I love it ''because'' [[CrazyAwesome it makes no goddamn sense]]. [[MyCountryRightOrWrong I love it at its best and at its worst]], simply because it's [[EagleLand America]], and there's nowhere else like it. ** Are you the American version of The Major or something? ** Despite being a Brit with a rather cynical view of much of the Western world, this troper found himself a little moved while reading this. You uppity colonials sure know how to put a country together. :) ** Despite being a rather Anti-American troper who's always been more proud of his Australian heritage, I was also pretty moved. If you ever become some kind of military officer, you're the guy who's going to inspire our soldiers to kick ass when it counts.

** I found it more depressing than anything. That's how you're supposed to feel about a loved one, not a country. ** I agree with the above troper. I mean there's being patriotic and there's being fanatic. ** I agree with those two. I'm deeply disturbed by the OP and feeling slightly more homicidal than normal. Note: I'm in America, born and raised here. I loathe this country. * If you can listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE this]] without feeling the need to pump your fist triumphantly, you are likely immune to attempts at provoking patriotism. Use this gift wisely. ** Or listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XmoqISm9o this]] without headbanging. *** Listen to both at the same time if your a true American you'll rock out ** You know that there are a lot of foreigners here right? "For America" doesn't exactly inspire me... *** You seem to be assuming that the Patriotically Fervent count foreigners as people. * After word broke out that OsamaBinLaden had been killed, This Troper witnessed industrial-grade PatrioticFervor that he didn't know the people at his college possessed (while he himself was pleasantly surprised, he didn't take it to extremes... because he was trying to go to sleep.) Not only was there nonstop chanting and [[MostAnnoyingSound vuvuzela blowing]], but there was ''[[IncendiaryExponent fireworks]]''-- which was especially odd because [[VoodooShark not only did the celebrants only hear of the news a few minutes before, but fireworks are illegal in my state.]] I would have joined in, but, as previously stated, it was late at night and I needed to get my sleep. ** I'm sorry, but I don't think that celebrating is the right thing to do. While I think it serves Bin Laden right and am glad that the Americans finally took care of him it just doesn't seem right to me to go on the streets and celebrate. * [=*Insert inflammatory and unnecessary comment pointing out the advanced retardation of this page here*=] ---Wave your country's flag vigorously and go back to PatrioticFervor.

PausedInterrupt * A sign of amateur actors. [[{{Kriegsmesser}} This troper]] tried to do it right, and got dirty looks for cutting off the other person/people a word or two ahead. ** Incidentally, the best way to make one actor interrupt another properly is to let the first actor continue to speak even if the line is supposed to end, as it will make the interruption flow more naturally. At least know how the sentence ends. ** This troper didnt know how the sentence ended, and was thus a little unprepared when the interuptee failed to enter the scene. --> No, its not that, its ...er... ah... Its a er very complicated er

story. * This troper sometimes does it on purpose in online chats by ending a post mid-sentence with a - at the end so that whoever talks next is automatically interrupting me. Obviously, people don't always reply immediately after-

PayEvilUntoEvil * While probably more along the lines of DisproportionateRetribution, [[{{neoYTPism}} this troper]] was once picked on a bit by one guy on the hockey team, and picked on a bit worse by the people said guy from the hockey team associated with. One day, when said guy got into a spleen-rupturing accident on the hockey rink, he ended up hospitalized for a while, and when said guy came back I said "I'd frankly have been happier if you died in the hospital" to him. I didn't quite mean it, and I later apologized, but the point is that the reason I said it to him was because it was something I thought he deserved to hear. (EDIT: For what it's worth, we were both in middle school at at time.) * In HighSchool, whenever this troper saw that a bully did not get what was coming to him/her, he would bully the bully. However, he stopped when he realized that there were more constructive solutions. ** ... such as?

PeekABangs * A girl at my school does this a lot. It's [[CreepyChild creepy]]. * [[@/RedWren This troper]] regularly hid behind her bangs, back when her hair was down to her mid-back instead of not-even-two-inches. After a while she realized she was using it as a defense mechanism she no longer needed, since the only people she was still hiding from were {{Jerk Ass}}es who only wanted to get some reaction out of her, and...hiding like this was it. Cue ImportantHaircut. * This troper once worked in sales with a male friend who had this kind of hair. Reason? [[JustifiedTrope He was blind in one eye]], it just happened to settle that way. * my best friends hair always goes like this, I dont think I have ever seen her right eye. * @/MacPhisto loves, loves, loves, loves, LOVES emo boys, especially when they wear their hair like this. * This tropes sports this hairstyle with curly blonde hair, because I don't like showing my face fully and feel very exposed when it's pulled back. If I put my hair up I still let enough hair down to cover the left side of my face and if all my hair is pulled back, I hide behind make-up to make myself feel safer. * [[@/KatanaCat This Troper]] had these for a while, but then I realized how much it was affecting my vision. I also needed a haircut (my hair was ''[[UpToEleven over a foot]]'', yes, a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible foot]]'' longer than normal bangs by the time I stopped due to lack of haircuts), so I now just tuck my bangs behind my right ear. Problem solved. Looks pretty too. * This Troper used to have these types of bangs. It was the current 'in' style at the time. I admit it as one of the biggest haircutting

blunders in my life, aside from the fact that when I was in fourth grade, I cut the tiny bangs that were sprouting from the top of my forehead with simple kiddie scissors. For months, I found it partially impossible to see. Also, due to the fact that I was in 7th grade, it caused me to breakout awfully. Truth is, I was so shy that I ''wanted'' to hide my face. But, as I grew more confident, I realized they were a rather damning handicap. Luckily, and eventually, my bangs ''did'' grow out. * I have bangs that hang all the way down to my mouth, but I part them in such a way that only my left eye is covered. It's not hard to see, since my [[BlindWithoutEm glasses]] keep them from actually going INTO my eyes, and they're thin enough as to where they're not an opaque curtain. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since my right eye is lazy and covering my left forces it to become stronger, thus improving my vision. I look and dress like a [[EmoTeen stereotypical]] emo guy, but I'm not. [[PerkyGoth I'm actually quite happy and bouncy]]. I only dress like that because a] I like the way it looks and b] it gets female attention, so... ---Duck your head so your hair falls just like ''[[FetishFuel t]][[ShrinkingViolet h]][[TheMole a]][[{{Emo}} t]]'' and head back to PeekABangs. ----

PekingDuckChristmas * I thought my life was the TropeNamer. My (very Catholic) family has had Chinese on more than one Christmas. My Aunt's family owns a Chinese restaurant and holds a big family dinner for us when everyone is in town. They've even had Peking Duck once. * {{Tropers/Nlpnt}}: I was once sent out on Christmas Day by my mother and aunt to find a hot takeout meal, with ''one'' condition - "Not Chinese". The only alternative I could find after ''over two hours of driving around town'' was nachos from a gas station. * Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe: Funny thing... my family is ''actually'' Chinese, on my dad's side. So this was justified the one time we had it. * That is a tradition for my family. Our family aren't Chinese or anything, except for one of my cousins, who is half Chinese, we just always have done, but can't remember how it started. * I had Christmas dinner at the gas station once. Never again. They at least attempted some form of watered-down turkey, which the rest of my family ate and detested, but I just had a salad. * This is tradition in my family. * In our family, it was chicken from this one gas station. It was the only place open in our One Horse Town. * For my family, it's hot tamales (beef and chicken). The story goes: in 1994, Mother was so busy baking cookies, decorating, shopping for gifts, etc., that, come Christmas Eve, she had completely forgotten about a Christmas turkey or ham. Lacking the time and energy to go get/cook one, she called up a tiny Mexican food store and asked for the only hot food she could think of - tamales. And thus, the

tradition of tamales for Christmas was born. * One year, my grandfather was ill, so our family's "Christmas dinner" wound up being delayed until the 27th. On the 25th, he went out for [=McDonald's=] and beers with some friends. * I was always perplexed by this trope as a kid: almost all of the Chinese (and Japanese, and Korean) places in my hometown are run by Presbyterians and Baptists who close up every Sunday and the big Christian holidays. * I'm Chinese, so during the big family Christmas dinner, it's not rare that roast duck sits next to the turkey. * In my country (Peru) people who can't afford a turkey for Christmas eat chicken with fried potatoes. A couple hours before Christmas Eve, you can see lots of people outside restaurants trying to buy chicken before they close. Also, in my family, we always have pork and turkey for Christmas. * This Christmas, my family and I didn't have time to make Christmas dinner because we traveled to [[BigApplesauce New York City]] to visit my ill grandmother in the hospital before she had open-heart surgery. By the time 5 PM rolled around, everyone was ravenously hungry, and so we looked in the hospital's take-out book from the front desk. Most of the restaurants open on Christmas ''were'' Chinese, but we decided to get Italian instead (it was the only thing we could all agree on). And yes, it was open (due in part to being run by Latinos [for whom ''Christmas Eve'' is the big festivity]), and yes, it was delicious. * My family has had Christmas lunch at Chinese buffets for as long as I can remember; it's part of the routine. Probably because my parents drive everyone to where my aunt lives; we stay at a hotel so there's no kitchen, and my aunt's house doesn't have room for seven people to have a sit-down meal. * At Christmas 2010, my family had something sort of like this, with an important difference: instead of Chinese food on Christmas Day, we had Vietnamese food (pho) on Christmas Eve. Because we wanted to go out for dinner - which was itself a second choice, having left the house to go ''bowling'' but found that the bowling alley was closed and that was the only place we could find that was open. * {{Tropers/Allronix}}: I was carpooling from Olympia to Kirkland, WA with my sister for Yule with our aunt, dragging a friend who was a few hundred miles away from his family. Well, the aunt is a hospital pharmacist, meaning she was working that day and would meet us after. With two hours to kill until she got off, lost in the north side of Seattle, and starving, we search for anything that was open and remember "OhCrap, it's the 24th of December, isn't it? And it's five o'clock in the evening." (my twin and I are Neo-Pagan, the rest of the family is secular, meaning holiday celebrations are determined more by work schedules than a calendar). Not even the kriffing [=McDonalds=] was open. Finally, we were able to find this hole in the wall with *excellent* Sichuan food. We stuffed ourselves, left a ridiculously fat tip, and thanked the cooks profusely. * {{Tropers/Hammerhead}}: I had a version of this, though instead of Peking Duck Christmas, it was Tom Kah Gai Christmas Eve. It was Christmas Eve 2008, and there had been a HUGE (for Seattle, anyway) snowstorm. I still needed to get my mum some more christmas presents,

so we decided to talk to a Celtic store nearby. She gave me the money, I got the present, and that was that- but we were both really hungry, and Thai sounded good, so we decided to go to a Thai Restaurant up the street that we had seen but hadn't tried yet (we'd only lived in our new house 2 1/2 months or so). IT. WAS. AWESOME. Seriously: I decided to order some Ton Kah Gai, despite my mum's protest that she wouldn't really like it (she hadn't liked other Tom Kahs she'd tried(... she ended up loving it, and it's still the best Tom Kah I've had. The rest of the dinner was awesome too. All in all one of the better Christmas's in recent years for me. * This troper has had Chinese food a few times on Christmas Eve. Sort of subverted, since we're going out for my mothers birthday, which is the 24th. --Go back to Main/PekingDuckChristmas. It's the only page that's open today, anyway. --<<|TroperTales|>>

PeopleSitOnChairs I, {{Tropers/Vorpy}}, am sitting on a chair while typing this. You, the reader, are sitting on a chair as well. This means I am magic. Bow before me. * Holy shit, [[{{Tropers/INUH}} I am!]] How did you know?! * I used to sit on a chair but then it broke and for a while I didn't sit on a chair but then I got a new chair and now I sit on a chair again. --[[@/CentralAvenue CA]] ** So, the trope was double subverted for you? * Look at me again. I'm on a horse. ** The chair is now diamonds. *** Anything is possible when your chair smells like a chair and not a sofa. * I hadn't sat down yet when I read this. Therefore {{Tropers/Vorpy}} was wrong * ''[[{{@/Ponicalica}} I]]'' am sitting on a ''bed''. * As am I. ** As am I. * I'm sitting... on a steamer trunk! * I'm standing. * I'm doing yoga while sitting on... ''A COUCH.'' * I'm afraid you're quite mistaken, for I am not sitting on a chair at all! Indeed, I am ''reclining'' on a... um... I think it's some variety of futon? ...What the hell is this thing? * Hah! Little did you know that [[Tropers/TheNoun I]] am sitting on a ''stool''. ** I bet at least one troper is sitting IN [[{{Squick}} stool]]. *** I am sitting in stool on a stool. HM! * I'm not on a chair I'm on a ''seat''. Theres a difference, I think. * Subverted, as [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} I'm]] on a floor.

* Bed user here, and the position can't be called 'sitting' either. * I'm laying down and someone is using my butt for a chair. So, avoided and inverted at the same time. * Played straight, as [[{{@/Diask}} I]] am sitting on plain, red chair. * [[DeconReconSwitch At first I wasn't sitting on a chair, but now I am!]] * I am in fact KNEELING on a chair. My legs get tired. * I was sitting on a chair, but then I moved and now I'm laying on a bed. * Averted. I'm usually on the couch or on my bed. ** [[@/{{Nuclearneo577}} Me too!]] ** Damn, someone else thought of the bed thing first. But am I PEOPLE? ...yes. * I'm happy to report that I'm sitting on a toilet. * kneeling, Haha! * I am curled up comfortably, like a cat. There is a difference. * Sure, you people are sitting in chairs. [[{{Tropers/Thiefoftime}} I am as well]]. But, I bet none of you are using a SlouchOfVillainy like I am! * I'm sitting on a chair while reading TVTropes. ** Holy shit, are you me? * [[Tropers/{{JET73L}} I]] sit both on and in chairs. However, it is difficult to sit on most chairs because they either require sitting ''in'' them, or are not stable enough to sit ''on''. However, I mostly recline or, yes, ''sit'' on a couch, with a DoubleSubversion- Each end section is a one-armed, detachable chair! * Played straight shockingly often in this tropette's life. Oddly averted with said tropette herself, who usually sits on couches and stool * I Am not sitting on a chair, for I am the crazed, axe wielding murderer behind you... * Hah! [[@/SilentReverence I]] am excercising in a stationary bicycle while laptoping! - Wait... it still counts as sitting... and the seat is chair-like... awww.... hats to you! ---Go back to PeopleSitOnChairs, though I cannot guarantee that there's still an unused chair for you to use.

PercussiveMaintenance * This troper has fixed a computer monitor, a TV, and an XBOX with this method! * This troper's old computer would only spin up the hard drive if you gave the case a hard whack at the right time in the BIOS self check. ** So did this troper and his old PC. But, the hard drive had to be '''kept spinning''' in order to work. So he wrote a small program that just did that: every 60 seconds, open a file, write random numbers there, close it, delete it. It worked for 3 months straight, until the HDD gave up. ** Happened to mine too, but only for the last few months of the power supply's life. Replacing the power supply fixed it.

* This troper's laptop monitor has a power supply problem that causes it to flicker. This can be fixed by rapping in the correct spot on the casing. * This troper had a TV that had fucked-up color balance. While my cousin was jumping around, he jumped too close to the TV, and the color went back to normal. We never really touched the TV though. It worked for a while too. ** This troper had an old computer monitor with a similar problem. Hitting it would occasionally fix it for a while, or just turn the display a different color (tired of yellow? How about fuschia for a while?) * This troper had a calculator that would intermittently freeze, taking two whacks with a hand (and, on one occasion, a headbutt) to get it working again. Similarly, his Macbook can also be restarted by knocking in the right place. * This troper has actually managed to get her slow computer to work by applying what she and her friends call 'the Universal Fix-It Method'. It was only recently that she realized that the name not only implied that whacking machinery and electronics worked on any kind of said devices, but also alludes to Universal Studios, which presumably has released movies that employ this trope... * Averted with this troper. Any unnecessary force will cause her Gameboy Advance SP to reboot. This includes setting it down gently on any surface. ** Question: is any aversion of this trope also a subversion and an inversion simultaneously? I mean, you whack it, then it works.. but then, you whack it, and doesn't work/gets worse, thus you fulfill the criteria for all failures of the trope. * This troper used to own a DVD drive in his PC that occasionally failed to start it's engine properly. More often then not it could be fixed this way. At other times it required a computer reboot. * The car of this troper's mother had a malfunctioning starter, caused by a bad contact. Until the back-ordered parts arrived, this could be fixed by hitting on it. Since it was quite far in the engine, the best tool was an umbrella. ** Surely you mean simply hitting it? I'd hate to see someone [[RuleThirtyFour hitting on a car starter with an umbrella....]] *** Somehow....... [[SchmuckBait I want to see that but GOD I don't want to see that.]] * This troper has spent his life learning how to time his percussive maintenance to make it look like he's fixed a machine. Everyone around him looks in awe and then tries it themselves next time. With hilarious consequences. I've made everything from a PC tower to a supermarket digital scale work through what looks like a carefully placed thump. I've also watched a friend knock over his PC tower, bouncing the HDD into oblivion as he did it. * This troper used to fix his dying CRT tv by giving it a good couple thumps whenever it got static-y. His current computer is also heavy and stable enough that hitting it has no (or minimal) detrimental effect, but feels ''really'' good whenever it decides to do something unwanted. * My family has always referred to this as "Fixing it the Russian

Way." It's okay because we're Russian. And because it works, at least with our crappy old TV. (It has knobs to change the channels.) * After numerous attempts to [[OverrideCommand turn off the smoke detector]], this troper's father simply opened the door and threw it at the ground. ** He threw the door to the ground? * In tech support, this is known as "percussive maintenance". Even in the cases where it doesn't actually fix the problem, it does help the user's blood pressure. :-) ** Just don't ask any tech worth his salt what "I/O error" ''really'' means on the paperwork :) ** At this troper's workplace, we keep a [[WhipItGood rubber strap wrench]] around for this exact reason. :D * The US military calls it this too. That and "Emergency Repair Procedure #1". "#2" involves a foot. Does the above troper have occasion to report any ID-10-T errors? ** [[{{Madrugada}} This Tropers]] father was n the Army in Sicily during WWII as a mechanic. The tool of choice for percussive maintenance was a large rock. It that didn't work the back-up tool was a ''larger rock''. *** The Israeli Army discovered when deploying a new heavy machine gun that the safety was defective - required excessive force to shift from 'safe' to 'non-safe' and back. This didn't stop deployment, since "you never run out of rocks on a battlefield." * In ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic 3D Blast]]'' for the Genesis, there is a failsafe script in the game that sends the player to a debug/bonus level whenever the game would otherwise crash due to a bug or error. This included giving the cartridge a good smack. * Contrary to the article's indroduction, a good whack sometimes helps even solid state technology. While the chips and components themselves are pretty much shockproof, their connectors and solder joints are not, and can occasionally benefit from being shaken around. Rarely does such a fix work on the long run, though... * This troper used to have a TV that would refuse to turn on. Smacking it worked, just about every time. ** BigT was also known to use this method on his old TV. One day, though, he hit it so hard that he broke it. He treats his new [=TVs=] much better. ** This troper's 13-year-old TV tends to "fuzz up". One good whack, and it's okay again. ** ''This'' troper fixed hers by throwing a carrot at the screen. Her friend now advises anyone complaining about their TV simply to "Throw carrots!" ** This troper had an old console TV. During the last few years of its life, she had to smack it to have the picture come up. This worked well...for a few seconds. ** This troper has a CRT TV which tends to produce annoying, highpitched sounds, starting shortly after powering on. It stops if you wait long enough (less than 1-2 minutes), but alternatively you whack the frame of the screen to make it stop immediately. ** This troper used to do this with a real old computer she had (a Power Mac, where the computer was separate from the monitor) when she

put a music CD and it wouldn't show up on the desktop. It worked, but it came with a price: eventually, she knocked loose something to do with the sound. Oops. ** [[KLSymph This troper's]] ancient laptop had problems with its display every time it booted up that would go away if he squeezed the left side of the screen in a few places. *** This troper had the same thing. Until one day, he squeezed too hard, and it cracked. Oops. ** This troper once had a cathode computer monitor which behaved like the TV above: it would randomly turn itself off after an unspecified amount of time, and a good whack or three to the side of the monitor's housing would bring it back on for another X minutes. * This troper once broke a camera by dropping it, and proceeded to fix it by dropping it so the opposite side hit the ground. Sometimes, [[ReversePolarity reversing the polarity]] does work. * Another editor has a flaky car alarm remote control. Hitting the control in just the right spot gets it to work. * Related: Blowing into a cartridge to get the dust out and/or repeatedly turning the power on and off on older game systems. ** Newer consoles are not necessarily immune to the Fix: The motion sensors of the Nintendo Wii Remote can sometimes get "stuck". Giving it a couple of whacks [[http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/crazywii-remot.html is recommended by official Nintendo tech support]] when all else fails. ** The other half of gamers argue that blowing makes the problem worse in the long run by leaving moisture all over the inside. *** That's why they sell canned air. * This trope has worked for [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} Me]] when My computer started buzzing and tick-- *Buzzzz* Pardon Me. *CLUNK! CLUNK!* There it's fixed now. * This troper has a laptop that literally will not turn on without dropping it from a height of a few feet a couple times. The worst part is that that's not the worst of its problems. * This troper's computer mouse will occasionally stop working. The solution? Bash it on the desk a few times. Hey, the mouse is dying anyway... * During the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission (November 24, 1969), the astronauts tried to fix their TV camera by giving it a few whacks with a hammer. [[http://www.thespaceplace.com/history/apollo/apollo12.html#tv It didn't work.]] * [[{{Kilyle}} This troper]] has always called this "The Donatello Touch". It seems to be related to that YKTTW that's up about hitting keys harder to make them do things quicker. ** And on the note of "reducing blood pressure" or generally making the user feel better... she's thought about designing a monitor or monitor attachment shaped like a neck, that makes gurgling sounds when you strangle it. Bet it would sell like hotcakes. *** This troper would so buy that. *** Ditto. Get a patent quick. *** How much do you want for the prototype? * This troper's monitor will sometimes inexplicably turn pure white.

Pressing the monitor's power button doesn't work, nor does disconnecting the monitor power cable. Sometimes things will revert back to normal on their own...but this troper has found a sweet spot on the upper left corner of the back of the monitor that, when lightly rapped, solves the problem. It's hard to hit the right spot at first, leading to some interesting bongo drum sessions on the back of the monitor. * This troper's computer NEEDS a good whack in order to turn it on -right in the built-in touchpad usually gets the trick done! Plus it feels good, damnit. * In 1991, this troper's mother bought a TV set built in the former USSR: the TV set never worked right unless you hit it hard one to three times in a row. The most funny thing is that nearly 20 years after it still works great: you just have to hit it hard before. It became a sort of a joke in the family to claim that the TV was built using some [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum ''stalinium'']]. * This troper had a digital camera that would need to be repeatably hit to get to work. There was an actual reason for this, the batteries would get misaligned. * [[{{Andygal}} This troper]]'s grandparent's have an ancient (about 6 years old) computer that runs very very slowly, she usually ends up giving the computer, the monitor, or both a good kick/slap at least once every time she goes over there, even though it doesn't make it run faster. It does make her feel a bit better sometimes. She will feel even better after she finally manages to finish organizing the replacement of said computer. * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder#Lead-free_solder Lead-Free solder]] has an unfortunate side-effect of randomly crystallizing at room-temperature, producing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whisker "whiskers"]] that can cause short-circuits. Any military repairman will confirm that equipment stored on vehicles tends to last longer than any kept in storage- the vibration breaks off any whiskers before they cause problems. As for fixing the commander's handheld radio (which tends to live a much more sedentary lifestyle), a solid benchthwack (out of earshot, naturally) and a fresh battery are all that's needed to magic it back to functionality. ** [[RandomSurfer This Troper]]'s engineer father has a story about that - he showed it to his boss and identified it as "Tin Whiskers." Boss later was on the phone with someone else (within earshot of father) told them about it, said "Yeah, they're tin whiskers...no, we don't know what they're made out of...." Turned out Boss thought Father had an accent, and was saying "'''Th'''in Whiskers." * My computer at work hates me. When it's taking too long, I tend to whack it (or [[ComputerEqualsMonitor just the monitor]], for effect) to fill up the time, since we have to keep the customer engaged and not just stare at the screen while they wonder what's going on. It's gotten to the point where, if I need to buy some time, I pretend the computer's messed up again and whack it for no reason. * This Troper's parents' computer has over the years developed an obnoxious whining noise. Smacking the top of the case sorts it out just fine. * This troper recommends against this, on account of having broken

quite a few computers by applying too much force. * This troper has had a TV that worked better after you hit it once on the side. His current one starts acting wonky if you jump on the sofa or do anything else that shakes it even a bit. * [[{{Kerrah}} This Troper]] has to do this to his own head at times to clear his thoughts. * [[{{Withad}} This troper]], being the resident technical geek, was asked by a classmate to have a look at an old CRT monitor that was playing up - you could see it was trying to display the startup logo but all the pixels were jumbled and out of place. I didn't know how to fix it, so I just made a joke about "percussive maintenance" and bashed it before saying I'd mention it to the Computing teacher... Turning back, I was quite amazed to see that the image was now almost visible. A couple more solid whacks and it was good as new. ** Sounds like the shadow mask or aperture grille had become misaligned. * [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] once had a TV that refused to have sound unless he pounded on the side of it. His friend had a stereo that worked the same way. * This troper's Xbox once malfunctioned. First all the text in games became scrambled and unintelligible, then the console completely lost the ability to read any kind of disc. Restarting and other such standard procedures did nothing. The solution? Pick it up and shake it. Never gave me any trouble again. * I was borrowing my friend's {{Playstation}} 2 when it stopped working and wouldn't load any games. I called Sony technical support and tried a bunch of things they suggested but none of it worked. They finally suggest I ship the {{Playstation}} 2 out to a repair centre and pay $100 for the repair. So I'm pacing and worrying about how I broke my friend's {{Playstation}} 2 when I trip over the cord and the game system comes crashing down to the floor. I tried it out and it worked as good as new! * Played straight and subverted with This Troper's antique (1920's era) dime bank, which locks when you put in one dime, and only opens when you have ten dollars' worth. Once I dropped it on its side and it refused to take dimes anymore. So I smacked it, hard, on the ''other'' side, and it started working perfectly...until it fell off the shelf and now seems to be irreparably damaged. * ThisTroper's toilet, after flushing, will sometimes continue dribbling water into the bowl. My brothers usually flush it again, but I find a good thump makes it stop. * This troper was once called by a friend to help fix his computer. The first thing I did was kick it... and it worked. * This Troper's old TV had a temperamental vertical hold, which would always start working again if I whacked the top of it. * This troper has a fluorescent light above his desk. Towards the end of its lifespan, it would flicker and dim and needed a good smack to come all the way on again. This worked very well, until one smack caused the tube to ''explode'' and send glass shards all over the room...and into his hands. The replacement is working well... so far. ** And, his GameCube was...tempermental, to say the least. It would only play (sometimes) when precise pressure was apllied to a precise

region on the lid...or after a pretty good punch to the side. Thank you, Nintendo, for the backwards-compatible Wii. * This guy noticed that the buttons on one of the water fountains in the dorms where he lived would often get stuck...so he hit the fountain. Yep, it fixed it. * ThisTroper is famous for this. Friends will often hand me broken technology just to watch. Notable fixes include a waterlogged cellphone and several computers. The trick is a careful application of excessive violence. ** Can I quote you on that last part? * My old TV I used to watch in middle school deteriorated to the point that the vertical scan wasn't working. A good smack would get it going. Now when it was midnight on a school night and I was supposed to be in bed, loudly smacking a television set isn't a good way to try to watched scrambled HBO unfettered. * Way back in middle school (I'm now 23), this Troper attended a summer camp and stayed in a cabin whose councilor's portable stereo would make skipping noises not caused by the [=CDs=]. The only way to get it to stop, at least temporarily was to stomp somewhere on the floor near the stereo. Sometimes even that didn't work. * This troper has been known to shake her computer like a baby with colic when it stops working. Uh. Not that she would ever shake a baby... * This troper's old Commodore 64 would frequently freeze up during use. The cure? A single, well measured punch on the keyboard. Worked EVERY time! * A good lovetap in the right place fixed this troper's old and grumpy game gear. * This troper's job at the snowball stand was made better by two things: [[GirlNextDoor amazingly cute girls]] and getting to smack the hell out of the ice shredding machine with his fist when jammed. One guy even looked in and went "Eyyyyyyy..." * [[AgentCH This troper]] would smack the battery end of his TV remote against something when it wouldn't respond. This was near the end of the batteries' life, and they eventually got replaced. * This troper had a computer where the screen periodically cut out. The solution was smashing a fist down on the right front corner of the PC's (not the monitor, oddly enough) casing. This persisted until he got fed up with doing it and took it apart to fix the problem more permanently. ** He also encountered a faulty hydraulic mechanism that was fixed by walloping it on the right side of the control panel's casing. * Related: This troper stacked freezable ice packs (those kind with the freezable gel inside) on top of the case to keep a system alive until he could replace the fan/power supply. ** Back to a contribution from the troper above, who's been reminded of a similar temporary fix. It wasn't all my doing, but when during the set up of a stage show, the main fan on the computer we were using to run a third of the lighting systems broke, the solution was to take the computer's case off and set up a 24" fan normally used for blowing stage smoke around to blast cool air across the motherboard (at least until we got a replacement CPU fan). Ironically, the CPU temperature

gauge told us this was considerably more effective than the original fan, although a lot noisier. * This troper, around the early 2000s, had a CRT monitor which would slowly black out and then stay that way for a long time. One day, this troper was playing a game of Civilization 2 and was very concentrated and then interrupted by this problem. I was so pissed that I smacked the monitor. To my sheer one-more-turn addicted happiness, my monitor returned to working form once again! This problem continued for almost a year, until one afternoon, while playing Civilization 2, his monitor blacked out. He then smacked it and noticed the smell of SMOKE. Then I was computer-less for almost a year until my brother brought what was needed to fix it, thank god. ** "computer-less for almost a year"? [[NightmareFuelUnleaded AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!]] * This troper was at a vending machine which clearly stated on its instructions that the huge buttons with pictures of the products within must be ''pressed'' for three seconds. She ''punched'' the Diet Coke button and got a Diet Coke, bottled water, and a Sprite. For three dollars. Would one call this a Percussive Discount? ** This troper used a variant of the Percussive Discount on a vending machine. The school installed a vending machine that had a mechanism to refund money if it jammed and did not sense a product dropping (likely because of excessive percussive maintenance attempts in the past.) Problem: the machine had a flexible Plexiglas front. One could press on the glass at the opportune time to cause an intentional jam, have the machine dispense a refund, then smack the front to have all of the snacks that were caught drop. Tortilla chip bags that were topheavy were particularly vulnerable to this trick. Cue borrowing fifty cents from a person, looping the process until the machine ran out, then tossing it back along with half a dozen bags of chips. ** This troper somehow got a related result, ''without'' Percussive Maintenance. I was trying to get a bag of Red Vines at the lunchroom vending machines. The spiral delievery thing stopped just short of the bag dropping. Luckily, this particular machine has something called a "[=GoldenEye=]" delivery thingy. Instead of a refund, it just spun the spirals again. (This setup is probably for if the vending guy accidentally leaves a slot open.) Cue ''two'' bags of Red Vines falling at the same time. For $1.25. Now, I think of myself as a bit more moral than the average college student. So instead of keeping both bags (as most of you other Tropers probably would've), I decided to keep one, and give the other bag to the guy standing in line behind me. I had considered either putting the other bag back in, or putting the $1.25 I "owed" into the refund slot, but I knew the next person to use the machine would probably just take it. Probably also due to the fact that I had just scarfed a very large slice of pizza and chugged a Mountain Dew, and didn't have room for two bags of candy. I'm considering trying the Percussive Discount on the vending machine at G&#9608;&#9608;&#9608; W&#9608;&#9608;&#9608; Hall (another building on campus), where the same exact bag inexplicably costs an extra quarter. *** At this troper's high school, each vending machine will only accept a certain type of currency (ex: coins for one, paper money for

the other) and most users kick the machines after they've put the wrong type in the machine. The school has installed safety grates for this purpose. (Also, it's illegal to kick vending machines where I live.) ** Someone at this troper's high school managed to glitch out a vending machine by holding the top beverage button, then jamming randomly on the other buttons. The money display would shoot up to $7.00 or so, then count down a dime at a time. When it hit $1.00, the display would bug out for a second, the machine would dispense a pop, then the display would shoot back up to $7.00 and repeat the process. Cue entirety of the 10th-12th grade classes huddled around said vending machine randomly jabbing and holding buttons for free pop. ** This troper is familiar with a particular model of Pepsi Vending Machine, though I cannot say what model it is -- I can only recognize them on sight. However, thumping said machine on the right-hand side two-thirds of the way up from the bottom, towards the front side, causes the catch on the right-most dispensing unit to slip, dumping ''all'' of the cans out of the machine. The best part about it is that the right-most dispensing unit is where the Pepsi goes! Promise you will only use these powers for Good... [[HomestarRunner or for awesome.]] * As the resident techie in her English class last year, this troper often had to fix things that either weren't broken or completely obvious to fix. There was an old TV that was obviously past its prime that fuzzed and other things. After trying several things, a couple people suggested she whack it. She tried several times even after the teacher said not to; didn't work. On the other hand, it has worked several times on other occasions with other things. Frequently with the wireless Xbox controller (which has been retired for a new one). * ThisTroper's house has a fence with one of those automatic springloaded thingies that open by turning the key less than a quarter turn. Now that it's old, it tends to get jammed in. The fix? A good smack with the base of the hand. If that doesn't work? A good kick with the heel. * [[SabreJustice This Troper]] has a tendency to abuse hardware when it doesn't do what I want it to. However, in one situation, where my computer makes an annoying whine when being started up in the morning, hitting it in ''just the right place'' makes it stop instantly. * This Troper's Xbox 360's RF Module (The device that controls the Ring of Lights, and syncs wireless controllers to the console) was on the fritz for a month. Not wanting to void the warranty or send it in, he took the faceplate off, and whacked the place where the module sat. Lo and behold, no more light and synching issues. * This troper lived in a cheap shared house for a while, where the cold water tap on the kitchen sink worked in a very interesting way. After being turned off for a while, if you tried to turn it back on, nothing would happen - and then when you turned the tap a bit further, suddenly freezing water would blast everywhere. We used to let it drench every visitor at least once before telling them the secret: ''before'' you turn on the tap, give it a good hard whack with the heel of your hand. Teaches it to behave (and, incidentally, knocks out the air bubble).

* In one of this troper's lecture halls, there was a stubborn projection screen that simply would not go back up into its housing. It was not powered, and every attempt to coax it back up was futile. Then, on the last day of class, one student walked up and pulled it...hard. It retracted. * This troper had a system for opening her locker one year in Jr. High. If the combination didn't work the first time, hit it. If it didn't work the second time, kick it. If it didn't work the ''third'' time.... go get the assistant principal, he has the key * This troper uses psychic maintenance on his DVD player. If it starts acting up, occasionally he can stop it by aiming the heel of his palm at the player, and sharply shoving his arm forward. It reliable restarts a quearter scond later, no more, no less. Normal percussive maintenance is required for his wireless PS2 controller (the O button catches), and the television connector when combined with the old DVD player, which required a weight of at least 120lb to hit a particular floorboard at a minimum speed of 14fps. * Standard procedure every time when [[{{Gerusz}} this troper]] wants to repair something, this is the first step he tries. If someone asks about it, he [[{{Technobabble}} gives an effective explanation including entropy and that the most optimal condition of the machines contains the less mechanical energy possible]]. Well, in 80% of the cases it doesn't work, but in the remaining 20% it spares a lot of time. * The copier in my office is either incredibly stupid or possessed by a gremlin who likes frustrating us. After you open and close the tray to refill it with paper, the machine will refuse to make copies and continue to tell you the tray is either open or empty until you kick a precise spot. When a paper jams, it doesn't recognize you've unjammed it unless you slam whichever door you had to open closed. Several times. * This troper's mother has a TV which is nearly thirty years old. One day, it stopped turning on. So she called him over to fix the damn thing. After nearly an hour of increasingly frustrating failure, he got so pissed off that he kicked it hard enough to send it flying off the table, where it crashed to the floor, and turned on. * This troper had a rather old TV set that would occasionally display the entire picture in a red hue, likely due to failing colour tubes, smacking the TV on the side would alleviate the problem and restore normal colour for a time. * This is the standard repair method at the Dollar General store [[{{Thexare}} this troper]] works at. Toy won't stop making noise? Hit it with a hammer. Toy won't start making noise? Hit it with a hammer. Cash register scanner won't read items? Smack it. It almost never fails. Incidentally, this method almost never works outside of work for this troper. * One of this troper's friends has a computer monitor that regularly turns either red or yellow. It either switches between the two or recovers when given a good solid bash on top. Of course, regularly he just leaves it red and yells "[[{{Warhammer40000}} Blood for the Blood God!]]" ** Is your friend named James, by any chance?

*** No, try again. * This troper's room in her first year of college had a faulty lightbulb, that would not always work when switched on, but would almost always work if whacked or rotated. The method worked until almost the end of the year, but an actual replacement did become necessary. * This troper used to own a TV set that would occasionally go monochrome green. A quick thump on the side was a surefire fix for that. * This troper's first computer (vintage 1989 Zeos) got to the point where the image displayed on the monitor would be distorted or nonexistent most of the time. A good whack with a hammer applied to the VGA connector proved so effective at fixing the image that eventually we just kept the toolbox next to the computer table. * This troper has had a stereo for years which posseses a LCD screen for station numbers and whatnot. after a few years the right side of said screen began to progrssively darken, presumedly the backlighting failing. It was disregarded for the fact that the cd player and tape players on the machine were worse and treated as an "aw crud. oh well." Then one night this troper was mad that the radio station he was listening too had been dead for several minutes and smacked the device out of pure frustration. Bling! the screen worked again! ** in an unrelated side note, the same toper has a laptop chill pad that makes an annoying vibration noise only while at home. at his college dorm, no noise. the only way yet found to alleviate the problem is liberal and violent application of smacks until it shuts up. * There is a copier at This Troper's office that would repeatedly say it was out of fuser oil even when full. A smack on the side of the fuser loosened the problem part up causing it to work again for a while until the replacement was installed. ** Also in the above Troper's office an old black and white copy machine will sometimes stop taking paper from the feeder. Turns out a small switch gets stuck and a simple smack resets it. * This Troper's TV has a cable port that's not quite the right size for the cable to plug into; we made a workaround in which the weight of the TV keeps the cable in place, but every once in a while the signal still gets fuzzy, so the solution is to give the TV anywhere from a good whack to a gentle nudge to realign the connection. * Not necessarily percussive, but [[{{Magnezone}} this troper's]] old Mac computer absolutely refused to use the tablet mouse attached... at least until you waved the mouse across the tablet face very, very fast at a precise time while the computer is loading. Didn't get it right? Shut down the computer and try it again! * At this Troper's place of employment, they had a very old accounting calculator (the type with a printer) that one day decided to refuse to turn on anymore. Her co-worker's solution? Hold the calculator four feet above the floor and drop. This technique coaxed another couple months' life out of the calculator. The second time it died, though, repeating the technique had no effect. * Troper here needs to pimpslap her computer sometimes. It works... Mostly.

* [[{{Lemurian}} This Troper]] could adjust his old screen's brightness level by slapping it when the levels started dropping because of age. * This troper's computer is an inversion. When ever it is lightly wacked, it starts a aggravating grinding noise. Nothing bad goes on, aside from the grinding; everything is working alright. Today I lightly taped it with a heavy piece of plastic, ''lightly tapped'', and it went on longer than it should have. * This troper, when he was younger, thought a game he was playing on his computer (from a CD) wasn't starting up fast enough. He decided to hit the computer, for some reason. Soon after, the CD drive gave off a wonderful scraping noise, at which point he ejected the CD to find a wide circular scratch between the edge of the CD and the label. The game worked fine afterwards, but he still wonders what he was thinking. * For a while before it gave up completly this trooper could get the disk drive on his laptop to work by smacking the desk ''next'' to it. * This troper has a stuck CD drive that, when empty, refuses to open, and requires a nice whack to the top of the tower in order to make the caddy come out. It always opens when there's something in it. * [[NotSoBadassLongcoat This troper]] once kicked a vending machine that didn't want to return the coins. For another one, a simple whack was enough. Not mentioning slapping a failing monitor from both sides at once. * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] once had a TV remote that was refusing to work for a while. One day she smashed it against the floor, and it started working perfectly. She also employs this tactic with her DVD player remote, which often acts up. As well as this, a friend of hers TV occasionally emits a schreeching sound, which is stopped by repeatedly hitting the side. ** This troper does it with his satellite receiver remote. It has lots of duct tape in it, and it still works! * In one of my high school plays, the entire left side of the lighting went out during the middle of the second act. Our director's solution? Come out on stage with a seven foot pole and smack the power box until the lighting came back up. * This troper can't stand buzzing or ringing noises for more than five seconds. Recently, something plugged-in in the tangled mess of wires underneath her computer desk has started making such a noise. She has not figured out what it is so far, but gives everything a firm thumping in an effort to locate the noise that's driving her to insanity. She has also personally put a dent in her computer in an effort to keep it from shutting down and subsequently locking up. * This tropers tv has sound problems that can usually be fixed by hitting it. Also her schools design room printer occasionally jams. Her classmates fix it by taking out the paper tray and slamming it back in. One other incident that she recalls was when she accidentally dropped her iPod and the songs kept stuffing up. She tapped it against a handrest on a bus one day, and it worked. * I've learned that each time my computer breaks, I have to kick the printer, hit the monitor, then slam the speakers on the monitor. * This troper's Xbox has a sticky disc drive. The answer: slap it till

it works. * Occurs to, of all people, this troper. Oftentimes his ears become clogged for no apparent reason, and a rush of gas from his heavy soda drinking (never quite forms a burp, however) is usually enough to pop his ears and fix his hearing. * [[{{SpiriTsunami}} This troper]] has his roots in '90s gaming and at least started the thread on the subject in the main article, but the strangest thing he ever had to do for Step 7 actually happened with a Nintendo Gamecube. When the picture would go out, he would often jiggle the video feed plug (the yellow one) a bunch of times, remove and replace it, etc. On one occasion, he tried ''licking'' the plug after removing it and before replacing it, ''and it worked''. Sadly, he could not replicate this success on future occasions. * This troper had a mouse which would stop working sometimes. He got it to work again by tapping it on the table, although it did not always work. Well, that trick doesn't have to be used anymore. * Is happening right now. This laptop upon which I am writing this is freezing up every few seconds, and a sharp rap next to the mouse-like touch pad is all it take get it going again. ** Oh a friend of mine had the same problem. It was the harddrive, eventually it died completely. * This troper's aunt always used to keep a hammer in the glove box of her old Land Rover for precisely this purpose. * Som old-style chocolate vending machines (like the Cadbury ones you usually mostly see on London Underground platforms) respond fairly well to a well-placed thump at the right moment. This troper's record was ten bars for the price of one. * Growing up in a family where this troper's father would tell a story about a sonar chief fixing as USN sub's main sonar system like this, it's only natural that he would have some respect for the method. Then the troper (at college) gained a reputation for being "good with electronics" due to fixing things through a combination of PercussiveMaintenance and ''talking'' to the uncooperative machine. Worse, this is now a habit, and said troper's (mostly elementary) students are starting to pick up the habit. ** Talking to the offending machine can work quite well. One troper once worked in a convenience store with video rentals. The pen-style barcode reader was incredibly temperamental. Troper started telling the offending machine about things like axes, chainsaws, guns, and her retired Marine uncle who lived a few blocks away and knew about explosives (troper did have ready access to all listed weapons, and the part about her uncle was also quite true). It reached the point that the machine started behaving itself as soon as it heard the troper's voice, even when she stopped in on a day off to pick up some minor item or get a video. * This troper works at a hotel. One of the vending machines tends to get stuck about half the time. Step one involves palm-strikes to the machine. Step two is a good kick. Step three is rocking the machine onto it's two front legs, and slamming it back the other way HARD. While I haven't yet brought the machine down onto myself, it's normally enough to get at least the stuck candy out. Sometimes more. * Although [=TVs=] are the most clichd device for this "procedure",

in my experience it actually is very important to "expand" the lifespan of any printer (or at least ink-jet printers). When they get older they tend to jam all the time, or other parts of the mechanics not quite working as they should. Whacking them helps. However, at first you have to hit the printer every once in a while, some time later you'll notice it'll require more frequent whacks and eventually EVERY time you try to print something. From that point on it'll deterioate rather quickly, picking it up and shaking the whole printer might help a couple of times, but sooner or later it just won't work, no matter what you try. * Oh, and another tale about printers: I once got "summonned" to help an acquaintance of my parents to resolve his printer problems. After eliminating all possible software causes, I tried some percussive maintenance, after assuring him that "this sometimes helps". However, it didn't. Maybe I was too shy to hit it hard enough. Eventually he said, he'd just get a new printer, and I could take that one with me and if I could fix it, I could keep it. I thanked, however didn't really believe I could do anything to make it work again. So I put it on the carrier of my bicylce, went home, and without doing anything the printer worked on the first try. We made jokes about that for years! "What, it doesn't work? Maybe you should try taking it with you on a short bicycle ride." ;) * This Troper's TV's screen often goes bright blue or goes suddenly really really dark.I decided, the first time it happened, to hit it. I was rather excited when I found out PercussiveMaintenence works. (BTW, i'm the one responsible for the renaming of this trope) * In This Troper's Sixth Form Common Room, there is a drinks vending machine, and giving it a swift kick to the left side dispenses drinks sometimes. Hit the right side however, and it has a chance of knocking the drinks selection panel off, which means the machine has to be switched on and off at the mains. * This Troper's and her friend's fanfiction more often than not have the 'Universal Repair Method' mentioned. The most memorable was when a technological genius worked on a malfunctioning item for a few days and finally performed the Method. It (a mechanical Pokmon) worked, but got a severe personality swap as well... The URM act usually goes something like this. --->Alice: Aww, man! The [whatever] is broken! --->Bob: Did you try the Universal Repair Method? --->Alice: No. What's that? --->Bob: ''[walks up to the broken object with a blank look on his face and kicks it]'' * This troper, while working in a lab, encountered a malfunctioning balance. She asked a resident scientist what to do about it, and was told that the balance did act up occasionally, and the usual solution was to smack it. Hard. She returned to the chemical room and dealt the offending machine a wallop to the side. The screen blinked, and began displaying numbers again. The thing is capable of measuring amounts as small as 0.01 grams, you'd think it'd be fragile! ** It probably is. When was the last time you checked the calibration on that thing? It may show numbers that aren't anywhere close to correct after that whacking, or didn't somebody teach you about

precision, accuracy, and bias? * [[{{Azaram}} This troper]] does tech support for a living, and a cow-orker's computer once refused to start up, going 'click-click, click-click'. I said "Ok, it's not your computer, it's already broken, I can't make it worse. Do you want me to try and fix it?" He said sure, so I booted it one with my steel-toed size 13s. It went ''BEEP!'' and booted right up. He never had another problem with it. We figured it couldn't believe I had done that, and didn't want it to happen again. ** How exactly do you ork a cow? *** With a loud [[GoddamnOrks WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUGH!]] Tends to [[MoreDakka get messy]], though. ** One I'd forgotten for a while as well... my old 1985 Nissan 200sx, the dash was all electronic, VFD and LED displays... they'd go flaky, showing that I was going at 188 kmh AND mph at the same time, as well as the engine revving between two and 9000 rpm. A good wallop on the right side brought it back for a while; since the car basically doubled in value when the gas tank was full, it wasn't worth having it repaired. Surprisingly, I never cracked the dash doing that, although it eventually stopped fixing it. There's also the old adage I always quote at times like this. "If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer." * This Troper's entire family, save his mother, is prone to this. She is constantly telling us to try other methods that do not involve smacking offending object, and will take a good 15-20 minutes trying everything and failing, while my brothers and I will walk up, give a good hard tap somewhere, and its all fixed in 10 seconds. * This troper used the Fonzie Fix to get a heat lamp at [=McDonald=]'s working again. * This troper has a nice Panasonic 8-track player hooked up to the line-in port on his computer. Occasionally when I'm playing a tape, the sound in the right stereo channel will develop a loud buzz, which is easily fixable with a few good smacks to the side of the player. * This troper got a DVD stuck in the player (as in, the wee little door would NOT open) during an attempt to get it working right and, in frustration, whacked the top of it. The DVD-shelf slid right out with no problems. This troper went 'Aaaayyyy', very quietly. * NeoSilverThorn: My stereo needs this nowadays. A good sharp smack to the top, next to the CD player usually gets it running just fine. * This troper's mom once fixed an N64 cart by licking the chip on the bottom. * This troper's angry father once tossed an XBox down his basement stairs. The previously busted up XBox then began to work like a charm. * This troper's elbow tends to stick rather painfully, due to a tendon issue with his shoulder. This is fixable by rotating the forearm around the elbow joint, then locking it straight with a little force. This results in a loud, painful-sounding crack and instant relief. * My old computer's monitor used to randomly go black. I used to unplug it and re-plug it in to get it to work, but one day it pissed me off so much I hit the top of it with my fist AND IT WORKED. * My current monitor will occasionally produce an extra-loud version of that ultra-high-pitched noise electronics sometimes do. A good

whack helps. * I had an iPod that worked erratically at best. After seemingly bricking for the third time, I gave it two good thumps against my desk, and lo and behold, it worked. ** Still working quite well, though I can't put any new music on it, and just have to listen to the songs all ready on it. Oh well, mostly broken is better than all broken. * One of the fans in [[{{Deadbeatloser22}} This Troper's]] old computer had a set of knackered bearings that occasionally made an annoying grating sound when they came unseated. Leaning over and smacking it stopped this and re-seated the bearings. * This tropers TV will occasionally lose its picture or sound (or both). when this happens hitting the top of the telly actually fixes it better than anything else. We now have 2 gladiator style pudgles to hit the tv with without having to get up (due to being lazy students) * [[{{databaseerror}} This Troper]] once got his mostly-broken laptop to power on by ''throwing it across the room'' then reseating the battery. * When [[{{OndoreMick}} this troper]] worked for a cell phone manufacturer, he had a client who couldn't complete a software upgrade. The solution was to drop the device from about 4 feet onto carpet before attempting it again. * The sound on [[{{SonicGTR}} this troper]]'s brother's Zune will sometimes put out an audio signal for only the left or right earphone. A couple whacks on the bottom of the thing will get it working again. Also, I always have to hit my [[{{TheAllegedCar}} Alleged Car]] twice at the back so the BRAKE LIGHTS will work. * This troper has a sticky power button; when you press it, it stays pressed and the computer turns off again a few seconds later. Thus he turns on the computer by pressing the button and then kicking the machine just above the button. Of course I don't kick too hard, I'm not stupid. Just violent. :D * My previous laptop (now 4 laptops) had a problem with it's powercord. This was easily fixed by slamming my boot down on the box in the middle of said cord. When that stopped working, I opened the box (without unplugging it) and handed it (bared wire guts and all) to my brother. Somehow it feels like my fault that his bioelectric field is messed up. * This troper once had a senior coworker whose 3-year-old Mercedes hit a nail on the highway. Fortunately, half the office was right behind her. Within moments, we had the following crowd attempting to change a tire on a luxury car: a manager with three Master's degrees (the owner of the car, natch), two experienced demolitions consultants (myself and one other), and the manager's two daughters who read off the manual to the others (it turns out that changing a Mercedes tire is not as simple as changing the tire on any other ordinary passenger car, actually). The manual is followed. the jack is raised. Retaining pins are set. Lug bolts removed. Retaining pin removed. Force is applied in all directions. The wheel remains stuck on the hub. Two cell phones come out-one to AAA and one to the Mercedes dealer, while this troper rereads the manual. The AAA truck arrives at the exact moment the Mercedes dealer's mechanic comes on the line. The AAA tow

truck driver approaches the crowd just in time to hear over the speakerphone, "Oh yeah. That happens. Give it a good kick, it'll come loose." While the college-educated consultants stared at the phone in disbelief--were we just told to KICK a Mercedes?--the tow truck driver takes aim at the lower edge of the tire rim and heartily applies the dealer-recommended percussive maintenance. The wheel comes right off and its replacement is quite easy from there. * This troper used to have a Playstation 2 that required steady pressure on both the top and the front of the disc tray if it was going to ready PS2 games with any reliability. Read PS1 games like a champ, though. * One day, [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]]'s laptop started acting up. It would automatically switch off after 2 minutes of being powered on. He then noticed the fan didn't seemed to spin. It was jammed. The fix? Three hits of course! * At this tropers job, we use RF scanning guns, one of them for some reason will not scan and the laser light won't come on. Just for the heck of it, I smacked it against my palm a couple of times and it worked again. I also had an MP3 player that inexplicably refused to turn on even with a fresh battery in it. The solution? Held it in my hand and whacked it against the floor. It rebooted and has worked perfectly ever since. * Recently averted by this Troper's computer. Whenever I boot the system up for the first time in a day (or basically if it's been off for over an hour), there's an unusually loud whirring noise from inside. I'm not sure if it's the CPU fan (it's not the only fan in there, at least) or the hard drive motor (NOT COOL!). Naturally, I've tried giving a good whack to the side of the computer, both with my fist and my foot (the system is on the floor), but it rarely worked. You know what fixes it? Shut down the system, wait about five or more seconds, and reboot. No more noise. Even stranger, a forced shutdown via power strip doesn't stop the noise from showing up on reboot, nor does an automatic restart. Unrelated: it takes forever to close the browser window, unless I use Task Manager. This thing is ''weird''. * My old microwave is starting to get like this. (Cheapie, got it back around 1994 when I was in college.) The only controls are a timer and the latch to open the door. I think the cutout switch on the door is getting a bit worn or might be close to breaking, since I sometimes have to tap on the door to get it to start. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] once fixed an original {{PlayStation}} doing this (For a while, the only game that would work was FinalFantasyVII; anytime I tried to play anything else, the drive would give out...until I hit it on the side, which made everything fall back into place and work again. It held me off until I was able to afford a replacement CD drive for it). Also, his car's dash lights require being hit on the top in order to cut on. * This troper once killed the blue screen of death with a three hole punch, causing the computer to work just fine without a restart. ** Well, This Troper is skeptical, knowing the BSoD is caused by software issues... * This troper commonly uses this method to fix registers at his job and it works.

* The picture on this troper's computer monitor sometimes sort of pinches together in the middle going half way to a sort of curved hour glass. A good hit to the side and it's fine again. * This troper uses this method at work, especially in regards to the remote that makes my electric cart pusher go. If it's being fussy, whack the remote hard against your palm a few times and try again. If it's STILL not working, walk back and kick the main body of the machine. If that doesn't work, turn it off, then on, kick it again, then press the button. * During high school This Troper had a calculator which would only turn on after a short, sharp palm-strike to the face. As a friend remarked, "Who said violence never solved anything". * The lamp over the mirror in [[KennyMan666 this troper's]] bathroom just decided to cease working one day some time ago. Well, the ceiling lamp provided enough light, anyway. Time passed, and I didn't even care about the lamp above the mirror anymore. Then one day, I slipped when closing the cupboard on the wall next to the mirror, so instead of closing it gently, it closed with a slam. Naturally, this caused the lamp above the mirror to start working again. ** Also, once upon a time in school, this guy I know had problems with his laptop. Wouldn't work properly. So he slammed down on it with his palms... and it was back up and running. * This troper has dealt with a number of things that needed hitting if they refused to work. One notable item was her house's toilet when she still lived at home. Sometimes, after flushing, the tank would not refill itself. It needed to be hit with an open palm in just the right spot, and it would fill right up. ** But the most interesting thing from this troper's persepctive happened on a two-woman road trip that was cut short by the car malfunctioning. We had no real knowledge of car maintenance, but we managed to make it to a camping area where we got someone to take a look at the engine. He found the problem was with the charger and produced a hammer, showing us the right way to hit it to buy us enough time to drive home. We later made a stop at a garage to have the charger checked up real quick again, and the mechanics there noticed it had ceased to function again, so they hit it with a hammer (a little harder than the other guy had), and we drove home. We found it hilarious that percussive maintenance seemed to be the official way to deal with that particular problem. * [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] used to have a TV that wouldn't have sound unless you smacked it. * [[BlastTyrant This troper]] had a fantastic one at his job. We needed to get rid of some ancient [=PCs=] by selling them ($75 a pop) to employees. During the demo of one, the DVD drive got stuck trying to open. I brought my fist down on top of the tower hard enough to make it ring, and the tray slid out. The look on their face after I said "That's typical" was priceless. * [[MGlBlaze This Troper]] currently owns a Razer Baracuda 5.1 headset. The sound was giving out in the left earpiece and in mild annoyance, I struck said earpice - the headset began working perfectly immediately and continues to do so. I did the same thing with an earlier 5.1 headset I owned (Speedlink Medusas) when the sound started

failing in one of the earpieces (AFAIK hardware failures are fairly charactaristic of these ones). This earlier attempt subverted the trope however when I made them ''worse'' instead and the failing earpiece essentially stopped working altogether. * This troper used to own a custom-made laptop his uncle created for him. One of the nice things about it was that a solid hit on the casing below the keyboard and to the left of the trackpad would shut down the computer immediately. He still has that laptop, mainly because computer shops usually don't accept customs, and this laptop IS custom. His Wii, on the other hand, was different. It would never accept the disks after starting up, after he conducted PercussiveMaintenance on it. The only way to get it was to lightly insert the disk during the start-up, when it flashes blue. His father, on the other hand, prefers to use a long string of insults in at least 3 languages (Dialects don't count) which he makes up on the fly. Both methods work most of the time, for some reason. * This troper has an iPhone that tends to have issues with the rotation feature on Safari and whatnot - her solution is usually to give it a few good whacks against the nearest hard surface. If that doesn't work, shaking it around like a martini shaker tends to do the trick. * This troper's primary way of fixing things that are inexplicably on the fritz. Fixed items include an NES, a Nintendo Gamecube, a PlayStation 2, an egg timer, two laptop computers, three desktop computers, a modem, at least one television, and this troper's own car. This troper also introduced the phrase to more than one family worth of friends by way of demonstration. * This troper used to be able to fix her PlayStation 2 by just giving it a few good whacks. Unfortunately, it seems to have recently built up a resistance to this method. * At this troper's work, the hand scanners at the register regularly stop working (even though they've been replaced). The solution? Smack it with your hand or off the counter. Works every time. Though it does get some funny looks from the customers that go away when the scanner works. * This troper's sister and step-brother both got spray fans for their birthdays. For some reason, one of them doesn't work unless you hold the power button for the fan down; once you let go, the fan stops instead of staying on until you hit power again. It briefly worked correctly after this troper administered a series of smacks to the button. * My old computer's moniter used to cut out all the time. At first I'd unplug the power cable and it'd sometimes come back on when plugged in again. One day I got so pissed off I just smacked the top... and it worked. Eventually I got the laptop I have now because (A. I needed one for college and (B. I mostly used my computer at night, and I didn't like having to regularly beat the shit out of my moniter at 11:30 at night. * This happened in the research lab where I work. The power supply for one of the devices was not starting, so the teacher that was on the same room punched it rather hard. Guess what? * [[{{Tropers/Absynthe}} I]] used to own a small TV with built-in VCR.

Occasionally we'd take it on long trips and watch movies in the back seat. Sometimes the picture would go fuzzy or the audio wouldn't work. My brother had no idea how to deal with it. I'd watched too much television at this point and knew to just hit the thing. So I did. And it worked. I had that TV for years, and it never failed me. * This troper works for Starbucks. And you'd be surprised how often the advice given by espresso machine repairmen is "Hit it real hard with a wrench, and see if that works." * [[{{Sus}} This troper]] has found that a lot of problems with scratched/dirty/otherwise unreadable [=CDs=] or [=DVDs=] can be fixed with a sharp blow just above the disc tray. This causes the disc to skip a bit and the built-in error correction to kick in. Also works for scratched LP records, obviously, although manually resetting the needle to a point after the scratch is preferable in that case. * This troper has cystic fibrosis. She has a fancy vibrating vest now, but up until she was twelve, her medical routine involved one of her parents performing this trope (though in a controlled fashion) on her chest for thirty minutes twice a day. * This troper wanted to play some Super Castlevania 4. Its graphics were messed up. He tried blowing on it. Didn't work. Blowing on the cartridge slot. Didn't work. Smacked the damn thing against a bedpost. Worked perfectly. * I have a fairly old laptop which works...most of the time. However I found that with specific percussive maintenance I can get it to do different things. I whack to the left of the mousepad freezes all Input to the laptop (mouse and keyboard), a whack to the back or left side crashes it completely and a smack to the right side causes it to instantly reboot. The other day I also found that if i hit it near the left back (just under he screen above the keyboard) It forgets I have a sound card and needs a few more blows and a reset to remember it. * This Troper has a thermostat that often sticks in the off or on position. Depending on whether it's too hot or too cold in the house, to get the air conditioner to stop or start he just whacks on the wall. * When this Troper used to work in an electronics factory as a BEAB saftey tester one of his instructions for fixing a unit that had failed a BEAB test was to left the unit about 6 inches off the tray and just drop it before retesting which worked 99% of the time except when the fault was serious which usually required dismantaling the unit. ** also a while back this Troper's mother was put on dialysis and one night (well early morning) it developed a fault and started beeping, no one could work out how to fix it while going through the manuel so this Troper walks in and suggests "just hit the stupid thing" to which they argued that it's to delecate and expensive to risk breaking cauing this Troper to push past picked it up claiming he was just looking it over then and drop it (with the obligatory "oops") which not only stopped the beeping but also it hasn't acted up since and that was a year ago * Finnish Army artillery uses this. There's a small sledgehammer for basic maintenance and big sledgehammer when something's really broken. But only when dealing with Russian guns.

* Slight variation: This Troper's Government teacher was trying to show us a DVD that was practically falling apart, it was so old. As a result, it would freeze up about a third of the way through. The teacher found that banging on the DVD Player would fix it for a brief moment, so he pressed down on it, which allowed the movie to play for a little while longer before freezing for good. * I have a laptop with a slightly screwy keyboard (it's a pretty old computer, I'm surprised the battery holds any charge) that will only work if I press on the keyboard really hard near the I and K keys. I think it's got a bad connection or a bad connector in it somewhere. I've whacked it a few times, but I found that a steady hard press works just as well. I've also used the percussive trick to loosen up a CPU/Power supply fan that was starting to vibrate, but that was only a stopgap measure before I replaced said fans. ** The first thing to fail on my old Hewlett Packard was the fan. It still worked, it just made hideous noises the entire time it was running - but it would quiet down for a while if you thumped it. Eventually I replaced the whole machine when the hard drive failed. I'm sure the percussive maintenance had nothing to do with that... * In a funtastic subversion this troper would hit his computer to fix a noisy DVD drive, eventually the hitting disconnected the drive from the rest of the computer. Still was noisy somehow. * A smaller example: My TV remote kept (against my will and for no apparent reason) switching from SAT to DVD, meaning I had to regularly switch it back if I wanted to change the channel. And even then it would sometimes switch back instantly. One day I got really pissed off at it (and was already pissed about another thing) and I whipped it across the room, which actually fixed it. * My laptop has a small bent RAM holder. When it's out of place, absolutely nothing works because there's a short in the system. As it's easy to accidentally dislodge and time-consuming to pull the thing apart and fix it, I've found the best way to get everything working again is to turn the laptop over and sharply strike the left upper corner of the base, right below where your hand rests. Works every time. * I ([[Tropers/DarkSerge DarkSerge]]) am currently 18 years old. I got my first computer in 1998: a Compaq Presario. Windows 98, a few gigs hard drive (I think) and 56 MB of RAM. Also, of course, a 13" CRT monitor. Lasted me for a good few years until it was starting to die; got it replaced with a Windows XP machine in 2002. In order to save money, I kept the CRT monitor instead of getting a new one since it still worked very well. Fast forward to 2005. While playing SimCity 4, the monitor's display "scrunched up". In frustration I pimp-slapped the side of the monitor. Voila, back to normal! This worked for a good 6 months until the thing just would not go back any more; it was at that point that I finally replaced the monitor. * This troper used this method on her old TV that had a picture tube with a resonating problem - mainly, it would whistle in pitches high enough to not be heard by the parents, but good at giving her a headache. She also used to do this with her old laptop (with a lot of cursing involved) to keep the disc drive from locking up, before realising that being nice and patient and precooling the disc/DVD and

the disc slot worked much better. * [[{{Tropers/TroyMartin}} This troper]]'s English teacher does this with his dying overhead projector. Today, when he did it, the kid behind me stuck his thumbs out and yelled "AAAAAAAYYY!". HilarityEnsued. * This troper has a self-built desktop computer with several case fans. Occasionally upon startup the fans will make rather unsettling grinding noises whilst not putting out as much air. The solution? Several well-aimed taps to the case! * [[{{Tropers/MrBadAxe}} This troper]] has found it to be a reliable way to get change machines to take your ratty dollar bills at the arcade. Don't forget to make the Fonzie noise. Eyyyy! * This Troper has used this to get his car radio to work and to get his TV to switch between displaying in Color and displaying in Black and White by giving it a good whack or kick to it's base depending on if he was standing or sitting. * This Troper's dad once fixed a car horn by simply hitting it once with a hammer. * Every now and again, this troper's old computer will make a repetitive clicking/tapping sound, which can be remedied by lightly smacking the case * This troper has a old TV that occasionally loses sound. Up until I bought speakers for it, I found the best solution was to hit it until the sound came back. * This troper once bought a Kodak Signet 35 at auction while on vacation. This camera is known for being very rugged and easy to repair, but a specific piece had come out of alignment and would not stay in place. I figured since it was already broken, I might as well just stick it in my checked luggage. It was working perfectly when I took it out of the suitcase on the other side. The jarring and smashing that happens to luggage and has probably been responsible for many a broken camera ''actully knocked the piece back into place''. * This troper had a laser pointer that she threw at the wall once in frustration. It broke, but could still be made to work sporadically by hitting it hard against something. However, it eventually [[KilledOffForReal broke for real]]. * [[{{Tombcannon}} ThisTroper]] had a classmate in high school who could turn the Pepsi vending machine back on after lunch hours by getting a good 30 foot running start and hitting it with a full body slam. * I have a first-generation iPod nano with a clickwheel that occasionally sticks on fast forward. The solution? Turn it off (this step optional) and thwack it against a hard surface. * This troper has a grandfather clock which broke. One day, my little brother was playing with the clock's innards, and it starts working again. Now, whenever it breaks, we call him to fix it. * This troper used to own a Commodore 64 whose operations frequently stopped following a bad fuse burnout from which it never fully recovered. Even with multiple stays at a repair shop, it would freeze very often and only a punch of the right strength applied on top of the keyboard would unfreeze without fail. Combine this with a host of quirks that required tricks to make it work (like when to unplug the

hard drive or punch it to stop spinning, keeping multiple copies of the same game because only specific disks could overcome critical crashing bugs, etc), it had full-on overlap with OnlyICanMakeItGo. * This troper used the magical punch to fix:Mobile Phone,Playstation 1,Commodore,Vending Machine,Kettle,Fire Alarm,several miscelaneous electical appliances,person. * This troper[[hottip:*:samusaranfan]]'s little brother went their dad's computer, and messed up a program Dad had open. When Dad found out, he mashed random buttons on the keyboard and somehow fixed it. ---Give me a sec... *WHACK!* And back to PercussiveMaintenance you go. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PerfectlyCromulentWord * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]]'s father has a tendency to make words up. * [[MmmKay This troper]] has made words that make sense but don't really exist, such as ''puppetine'', meaning "having qualities of a puppet". I use it in my [[MrImagination head movies]] when {{Supermarionation}} characters [[BecomeARealBoy turn into humans]] but still have the [[RedRightHand tell-tale signs]] of being a puppet, such as a SculptedPhysique, shiny skin, or other [[UncannyValley unhuman traits]]. * This troper inherited her tendency toward wordvention from her father. Her usual line of defense when people call her on it is [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples "Shakespeare did it!"]] * This troper has been using the word "founditious" in regular conversation for decades. Not once has someone reacted. * On TheOtherWiki, a user created an article about a bogus word "Antidisrevisionmentarianism". When it was nominated for deletion, he argued: -->It's a perfectly cromulent word. Perhaps it needs further etymologic fleshing out and placement into the wiki dictionary. ** The response? --->It's a perfectly feculent word and needs flushing out. *** Ladies and gentlemen, can you say "burn?" I knew you could. **** Burn revoked. Troper lost, therefor it is lame and stupid. * This troper, one morning when he was having a lot of trouble waking up, coined the word "conflarbilated" to describe that sense of foggy, slow-moving confusion. It stuck. His family, and some friends too, have added 'conflarbilated' to their vocabularies. * As a very young child, this (French) troper made up the word "gob," which essentially means something between "dumb" and "silly" and is usually associated to people (rather than actions). * This troper's 8th grade algebra teacher wrote "T or F?" on the board, asking the class to prove or disprove a solution to a problem. This troper poked her best friend in the back and said "Torf? What's torf?" It stuck, and though we have not actually defined torf as of yet, once we do, we totally expect to get it into the dictionary =D

** When I was in 5th grade, my history teacher wrote something on the board about how anyone who got a D or F could retake a quiz. She wrote the letters too close together, though, so for the rest of the year "Dorf" was a word meaning "to bomb a test." (Since I'm now a fan of ''DwarfFortress'', this makes the FanNickname even funnier to me: Dorfs are ''definitely'' [[TooDumbToLive prone to]] [[EpicFail dorfing things]].) * This troper habitually invents words in everyday conversation, but since this troper has a larger regular vocabulary than most of the people he talks to they just assume they are real words and work out the meaning from context. The standard response when asked what an invented word means is "I'm not sure, but it seemed appropriate." * This troper has invented a few: "edibilities," for example, means "food," and "purpulescent" means bright purple. His most lexiconized (another one!) word would probably be "midular," meaning "in the middle." He describes himself as a vocabularian. * [[{{trkzsoup}} This troper]], whose friends often complain about her grammar nazi tendencies and ridiculously large vocabulary, makes up new words whenever the situation calls for it. Being an English minor, the only people who really call me on it are my English professors. Well, them and my roommate, who is also a big reader and maintainer of a vocabulary that matches, if not exceeds, mine. Most of my friends and professors let me get away with it, and those who don't just get the common "Shakespeare did it, too" response and nothing else. As an aspiring writer (who currently writes quite a bit of fanfiction), any word processor I use has an expanded and interesting internal dictionary, just to accommodate my dislike for words with the red squiggly bits underneath them. * [[{{Ehs 06702}} This Troper]] and her friends use the word oblivafuckingious(pronounced obliva-fucking-ious) to describe someone who was "fucking oblivious",which came about due to this troper's tendency to talk so fast that the words got all mixed up. ** Also "shwa"(pronounced shuwa) as a statement of outrage,irritation or admiration,depending on the tone of voice. * Okay, not a straight example, but I felt I needed to share this. I just found a random generator that comes up with hypothetical ProfessorLayton titles... and one of the results was "Professor Layton and the Perfectly Cromulent Coeds." Um... * [[Tropers/NinjaDuckie This Troper]] discovered the word ''vitrify'' which means transform into glass.. and then, on finding a further word, ''vitrescent'', which means 'having a tendency to transform into glass' (which sounds utterly ridiculous), tried to invent another word that already exists: ''vitrescence'', or "the process of transforming into glass". Does it count if it's a real word that I just gave a new meaning to? * [[{{bluerockerdragongirl}} This Troper]] has created the phrase "agga shplaga" as a term for when no other can apply properly (typically used in disdain or anger). So far, I can use it as a verb: "It made me so mad, I just wanted to go agga shplaga him!", ajective "He's such an agga splaga", and an interjection "AGGA SPLAGA!!!". I'm still trying to think of more uses for it... Feel free to contribute. * Years ago, this troper accidently coined the term

"contabulistically," meaning roughly "completely, exactly, or fitting the exact dictionary definition." Oddly enough, the first use was to say that something wasn't contabulistically something. * This troper's younger brother used to make up words when he was a child. Words such as: "stummy" (a portmanteau of "stomach" and "tummy"); "lellow" (a mispronunciation of "yellow"); and, perhaps this troper's favourite, "blagindoodle". (To this day, this troper has no idea what the fuck it means.) ** Of course, this same troper is not himself immune to the family's word vestigeification. (verb: to pull something out thin air) One cromulent example of this is the adjective "yesmanly", which describes someone who acts in a very cretinous manner and does a lot of sucking up. * This troper and his friend have a hobby of making up words, and it's our goal to get at least one of them into the dictionary: ** Quile (v.): To quietly contemplate. ** Bishloo (n.): A mess of exceptional magnitude. ** Trufactic (adj.): True in a way that is supported by facts (redundant, yes, but *shrug* ** Awlodifferous (adj.): Possessing the quality of being able to hold meaningful conversation with someone for hours on end. ** Huxdux (adj.): Too angry for words (the idea is that when you're mad, you shout "I AM SO HUXDUX", and you feel so ridiculous saying "huxdux" that you feel better). * This troper created several words: ** Freakazoidical (adj.): weird or awesome. ** Mainteputaindenant (adj.): right fucking now. ** Phrhyhnhzhrh (v.): anything you want it to be (generally replaces "fuck"). Pronounced like "frin". ** Grah! (interj.): expresses surprise or frustration ("!" is necessary). ** Schprah (interj.): expresses frustration, boredom, or joy. * This troper has been known to do this at times. Her most notable ones being "deriddlify", which means "to solve", and "flotting", which means "to skip around jovially". * Whenever this troper is at a loss of words, she always blurts out "Zeepoppazeebabal". She also says "Effaphant" when she's pissed off (her way of saying fuck). ---Grockle back to the [[PerfectlyCromulentWord main article]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PeripheryDemographic * This 40 year old plus male troper is a fan of the Disney Fairies franchise. It does, however, fade into FetishFuel and PerverseSexualLust territory quite easily. * This troper's mother was a major Nintendo fan (starting with NES) until she was unable to play anymore due to health reasons. * This 26 year old female troper, among other childish things, LOVES

to see Disney Channel movies aimed for teenage girls, like ''PrincessProtectionProgram'' and ''CampRock'', and Nickelodeon shows like ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''. * This Troper is a fan of ANY kind of magical girl, this troper is MALE, and watched just for the [[MoeMoe Moe-ness]] or [[ToyShip gradeschooler romance]]......and watching PrettyCure drive him insane by the Shonen-style INTENSE ACTION AND DRAMA!LOL WTF IS THAT! AND IT'S NOT BAD [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ITS AWESOME!!!!]] ** Ditto for [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha original Nanoha]] ....to mention [[FairyCompanion Human-turned-Ferret? Check!]] [[GottaCatchEmAll search for the magical items? CHECK!]] [[DarkMagicalGirl night-to-day rival? CHECK!]] [[MoeMoe Moe-ness? BIG CHECK!!]] [[ActionGirl Intense Action? Er....what? BIG CHECK!]] [[GrowingTheBeard Seinen-scale drama? Wait.....er...CHECK!]] [[ShipTease Straight and 'divert' teaser moment? TRIPLE CHECK!]] [[IncrediblyLamePun CHECK IT]] [[MultipleDemographicAppeal EVERYONE!!]] * [[Tropers/SeanTucker This troper]] is a huge MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha fan. Obviously it's a seinen series, but you try telling someone that without getting laughed at. * [[Tropers/{{sabrinadiamond}} This troper]] is very guilty of still loving most Japanese anime, RPG computer games, Neopets and Pokemon, despite being OlderThanTheyLook.... What? * Who didn't watch ''BluesClues''? Ya'know, up until [[ReplacementScrappy Joe showed up]]. ** To drive the point home, this troper mentioned this edit to her sister, who spat: "Oh, you mean ''Donovan?''" No, she's not bitter in the least. Why do you ask? ** In this troper's local papers, they ran an article about how many of the mothers forced their kids to watch this because of {{Perverse Sexual Lust}} for the host. ** This troper totally has {{Perverse Sexual Lust}} for Steve ... and is NOT a mother (20-year-old university student, actually). ** [[{{Tropers/Agent0042}} This troper]] actually ''started'' watching the show with the special in which Steve left. * [[Tropers/{{Bisyss}} This Troper]] fully admits that, at the age of 19, he still has a shoebox full of Lego, and is a fan of a [[http://www.brikwars.com Warhammer-style]] game built around them. ** A shoebox? This troper has a fairly large plastic storage bin full of the stuff. ** ''A'' storage bin? Growing up only means you have more money to indulge your addiction. *** Only? At 28, this troper has four 50-gallon bins of Lego parts. *** Unless you've at least one entire room dedicated to it, it doesn't count. And please SORT your bricks. No, not just by color, that's useless. ** Geeks of all ages love Legos. *** [[Tropers/{{Artemis92}} This eighteen-year-old Troper's]] veritable army of selfmade {{Bionicle}} figures(which take up roughly half of his bookshelf) can attest to that. As can his model [[StarWars AT-ST]]. *** ''Everyone'' of all ages loves Legos. They even get their own

nickname (AFOL's - Adult Fan of Legos) and Lego was the first major company to realize there was money to be made by catering to their tastes. *** A-Hem. It's Lego. Not Legos. **** That's actually a difference between British and American English. Most of the time it's a noncount noun (like rice) in British English, while it's a count noun most of the time in American English. *** "LEGO is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site" Fairplay guidelines, people. * This troper's mother has openly admitted to watching kid's shows, including {{WITCH}}. ** This troper wishes ''his'' mom wanted to watch ''{{WITCH}}'' with him... * sniffle* ** Add another point for the adult males who love {{WITCH}}-team. * This troper, since he was ten, has preferred watching Shoujo to Shounen, ever since CardcaptorSakura. ** Ditto for this troper, though in this case it was CardcaptorSakura and SailorMoon that did it. ** Same here. ** Still has all of Card Captor Sakura on his computer and happily watches it at age 22. ** [[Tropers/{{EPIC}} This Troper]] actually watched CCS when he was ''5'', and now at 13, is a CLAMP fanboy [[strike:usually in it for the LesYay]]. ** CardcaptorSakura was this troper's GatewaySeries into anime... as an 18-year-old male college student. * This troper was lucky enough to watch ''[[{{Dragonball}} Dragonball Z]]'' as a ten-year-old and enjoy it earnestly, then rediscover it years later and enjoy it [[SoBadItsGood snarkily]]. But ''also'' [[GuiltyPleasures earnestly]]. ** Same, same. Nineteen, female, and just finished collecting every single episode, movie and special. * Even though ''KaleidoStar'' is about a young actress/acrobat that starts working in a ''CirqueDuSoleil'' kind of show and presents a lot of clearly shoujo elements, this troper (19 year old male) watched it himself and has heard of a lot of males (some even older) that watched and enjoyed it. * Taking an extreme view of periphery demographic, this troper - who has no children - watched TheTeletubbies for a good four months straight, and rather enjoyed it. Of course, this same troper also can prove it's Dr. Who on lysergic acid diethylamide, and dares any to challenge them. ** I'm pretty sure 'people on drugs' are the other target demographic for Teletubbies. * This troper was probably too old for Pokemon during the first season, yet it's 10 seasons and over 400 episodes later and his guilty pleasure is still that. Not only that, he thinks the newest saga is quite possibly the best one yet. * Darn the AnimationAgeGhetto, [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe this troper]]'s (17) favorite shows are cartoons. When they start making ''good'' live-action superhero shows (that aren't [[Series/{{Heroes}} obvious]] ripoffs of X-Men, then she'll consider switching, but for

now... ** Aw, screw it. Cartoons are too addicting... *** Seconded * This male teenage troper whose favorite anime includes ''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Laggan]]'', ''{{Hayate the Combat Butler}}'', and ''ParanoiaAgent'', his favorite manga series shall always be ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]''. ** Actually ''{{Yotsuba}}'' is seriealized in Dengeki Daioh a {{Shounen}} manga magazine that's read by [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls mostly]] [[{{Seinen}} older males]]. Though try telling that to someone who hasn't read it. * This 30-year-old troper doesn't confine himself to the genres,but he follows the ''HanaYoriDango'' and ''TheWallflower'' mangas religiously. Yes,the {{Shojo}} with a pink cover and an inverse harem,respectively. Also ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'',but [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife I have you to thank for that]]. * Tropers/PotatoBucket: 22-years-old. Watches "The Backyardigans" if it's on when he wakes up. It's actually a fairly decent show. Also watched "Blues Clues" when the show first started when he was in fifth grade, and also resents [[ReplacementScrappy Joe]]. * Tropers/{{Scrounge}} is thinking about the new "Universe" toyline and asks, "Do grown-up ''{{Transformers}}'' fans even count as PeripheryDemographic, or are they just a Secondary Target Demographic?" That said, he likes ''TransformersAnimated'' and ''BeastWars'' best... The ''Animated'' comic is the first ''Transformers'' comic he's made it a priority to follow. Also,Scrounge is 25, and he also follows ''{{Ben 10}}'' (Even though the show JumpedTheShark somewhere in the third season, and Alien Force... Less said, the better), ''TheSecretSaturdays'' (which is evererything ''Ben 10'' used to be), and ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. ** To answer your question about Transformers, several Hasbro reps have said that ''kids'' are Universe's (and to a lesser degree, it's mother line, Classics) Secondary Demographic. It was designed with adult collectors who grew up on [[TheTransformers Gen. 1]] or BeastWars in mind (including toys made squarely for an adult demographic like reissues of G1 toys) but to still be appealing to kids. That said, TF's in general they are an advertising medium for a toyline aimed at kids around 7-10 but with older fans still in mind. (for example the hundreads of [[MythologyGag Mythology Gags]] in TransformersAnimated that pretty much only dedicated teenage/adult fans would understand.)So yes, adults are for the most part Secondary Targets. * This troper is both 20 years old and an agnostic. That said, she still finds VeggieTales to be way, ''way'' more entertaining than it should be. Darn those annoyingly catchy Silly Songs! ** Same here. ''[[EarWorm We are the piraaaates who don't do anythiiiing...]]'' * I still watch ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Spongebob]]''. And ''TransformersAnimated'', though that's probably more excusable. * This troper likes the old Biker Mice From Mars and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He's eighteen years old. ** 18? This troper is 34 and used to get up half an our early just so

he could watch the new TMNT before work. * This (26-year old) troper is starting to get tired of people asking him "''CardCaptorSakura''? Really?" * [[Tropers/{{Alkthash}} This Troper]] and his two (male)roommates have made a pact that we shall never admit liking OuranHighSchoolHostClub. ** Way to break an oath there, then. :) *** Got it recommended to me by a warfare-obsessed male friend. * This troper is 21 years old and studying to teach high school. She loves Wonderpets and PowerRangers. And her reasons for watching Power Rangers have nothing to do with PerverseSexualLust; that's just a bonus. * This troper's mother started to become a gamer thanks to crushing on [[MetalGearSolid Snake]], though it'll be a long time before they ever engage in a mother and daughter Vs. match. * This troper thinks the best part of being grownup is having the money to spend on all the toys. As youth group adviser, she's regularly revered as the coolest adult in the universe for playing SuperSmashBros Brawl, collecting ''TheLegendOfZelda'' items (like swords), and dressing in full costume for the Renaissance faire. Troper's Mother, on the other hand, is less enchanted with her daughter's hobbies. * This 20-year-old troper enjoys ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', ''{{Animorphs}}'', and ''SailorMoon''. * This troper parents are very good examples: My mother watches Futurama, Daria and Mission Hill; My dad, on the other hand, Drake & Josh, and in the 90's, Boys Meets World (That must mean something but... I don't know...) ** Update: My mother saw with my brother and I a marathon of... Avatar: The Last Airbender... And she loved it! * This 20-year-old troper has recently finished watching Danny Phantom and is halfway through Ben 10. ** This 22-year-old troper considers ''DannyPhantom'' a godsend to her; she was almost about to give up on cartoons until she watched this. Now it's an obsession, complete with fangeekery fancomics and a website devoted to the series. ** This 22-year old female troper loves that show along with the old DC/Marvel shows and Teen Titans. The whole RevolutionaryGirlUtena fandom has also become this. Would you believe that someone wrote a freaking ''college thesis'' based on Utena? * This troper admits to watching ''{{Arthur}}''... still. Hey, it's a fairly decent PBS show. * This troper too. * This 26-year-old troper enjoys ''DannyPhantom'', ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', and ''JusticeLeague''. Meanwhile, his dad is a big fan of Pixar movies. * Tropers/{{Nausicaa}}'s grandpa, a CoolOldGuy if there ever was one, used to watch {{Daria}} with her when it was on TV. * Does it count when this 20-year-old, female troper still watches (and sincerely likes) {{Digimon}}? ** Sure it does! This troper is almost 27, female, and completely unashamed to admit watching and enjoying all five seasons of Digimon,

even to the point of tracking down fansubs of the original shows. *** Especially [[DarkerAndEdgier Tamers (III) and Data Squad (V)]] * This 19-year-old troper got the entire original series of ''{{Thunderbirds}}'' on DVD for Christmas ''and he is loving it''. More, in fact, than he did when he was a kid, because he's picking up more. ** This same troper is now binging on SamuraiJack, and he thinks it's one of the best series he's ever seen. *** [[Tropers/TheRecreator This troper]] got his ''mom'' hooked on SamuraiJack. Note that this troper is of Asian heritage. * [[Tropers/{{Ronnie}} This 17 year old male troper]] read all the SailorMoon manga his library had, and checked the [=DVDs=] from his video store. I was in third grade at the time. Though, now I notice said store has the UNCUT [=DVDs=], he may relapse. * [[Tropers/SciFiChica This 17-year-old female troper]] loves Justice League Unlimited, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop cartoons, House of Mouse, and Phineas and Ferb, and doesn't care who knows it. Those are good, clever shows/shorts, and if you don't like it, tough. * [[Tropers/BonsaiForest This 27-year-old troper]] sometimes buys and reads children's books. But then, he was a weird kid anyway, so naturally he'd become a strange adult. * In a UK senior school, admitting to liking {{Pokemon}} is suicide. So my friends and [[AnthonyMercer I]] avoid mentioning it... ** This troper's 19-year-old friend has a thing for his Pokeymans. It's not embarrassing, but sometimes he goes into extensive ''Pokemon'' rants. ** This troper and her friends avoid this by talking about "The Game We Don't Have". ** This troper has a friend who's ''twenty-five'' and is still into her Pokeymans. *** I'm 30 and I play Pokemon -- only my Pokemon games are called ''Shin Megami Tensei''. ** [[Tropers/{{Artemis92}} Eighteen years old]]. Been playing since Gold Version. Could probably name any one of the 400+ Pokemon if shown a picture, and give its type and evolutions to boot. ** Pokemon is quite popular at [[Tropers/{{DarthMegatron}} this troper]]'s university. ** Hell, this British troper is in 6th form, and knows the guys like to play Pokemon, and no-one cares. * This troper is known around her school for reading really enormous classics for fun -- but she still reads children's books. * This ''13'' year old troper has a fascination with with childish cartoons,which she tries to say are too mature for their destinated audience. The shows include {{Hamtaro}},{{Wonder Pets}},{{Blues Clues}}(''post'' Joe only), and {{Arthur}}. I would say {{Pokemon}},but that's shounen,and quite a '''mature''' show too. * This troper got not only her own mother, but her friend's mother hooked on Avatar. The former also had a strange fascination with Johnny Bravo back in the day. * This troper's forty-something mother loved the live action Transformers movie. * This troper, who is old enough to have given birth to some of you,

writes fanfic and does fanart for a video game series, makes lolcats and watches sci-fi. I'm here to tell you that the fun doesn't have to stop once you hit a certain age. And I don't have kids, so I can't use that as an excuse. ** If I'm allowed to award you a MadeOfWin point for that reassurance, consider it done. I'd been worrying. ** I love you, that's all I can say. I don't feel so strange anymore! * This troper is a male who enjoys playing ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParaParaParadise Para Para Paradise]]''. * This Tropette has a place in her heart for Transformers, BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, the good ol' XMen cartoons, among others. Being a Tomboy has been good to me. * A friend's father fanatically watches Gossip Girl, for the story. ** Right...for the story. * This 29 year old troper still reads comics. Though admittingly, he's a few months behind. ** 34! Still reads comics. What? They stopped being for 'just for kids' long ago. * Say what you will (especially about their utter lack of subtlety), but [[Tropers/SpikyK this troper]], over the summer, intends to watch a lot of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go (primarily the latter). Why? Because he needs practice with Spanish over the summer so he doesn't forget everything before he reaches Spanish II. ** This troper is actually quite disappointed that she's going to be living on her own soon-- because I won't have my two little siblings around to help justify watching those two shows every now and then. (Of course, it also removes the ''requirement'' to justify it ''at all'', so...yeah. Bring on independence.) * My mother was a fan of ERB, particularly the Mars books, The Land that Time Forgot and Pelucidar. She started me reading such things when I was 8 or 9 (1942 to 1943), and when I started bringing SF magazines home read a lot of them as well. Note that she was a Cornell grad though she never worked. For many years she subscribed to MF&F, and I remember when she was 76, having read Tepper's ''The Gate to Women's Country'', her calling one of my sister to tell her that she HAD to read it. * [[Tropers/WillyFourEyes I]] think ''PrincessDebut'' is a [[PrettyCoolGuy pretty cool game]]. seh dances to classical music and doesn't afraid of boys playing her too. ** On that note, a few series [[{{Shojo}} clearly marketed toward girls]] (or [[{{Bishoujo}} look like they could be]]) have found their way into his collection: ''FruitsBasket'', ''KaleidoStar'', ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', ''SkipBeat!'', etc. * This troper is a 32-year-old recovering alcoholic who still loves the objectification of women in beer commercials and MTV Spring Break specials despite being a stable, religious, Republican-voting happily married man.' * This troper only discovered [[TeenTitans certain]] [[BeastWars shows]] after he entered tertiary education (that's his excuse and he's sticking to it). However, he once summed up this trope very well while discussing the ''DeadOrAlive'' movie with his younger sister:

-->'''Me''': I don't think you're part of the demographic they were aiming for with that one.\\ '''Her''': What do you mean?\\ '''Me''': Holly Valance. Katana. Bikini. * This troper's dad loves to watch [[PhineasAndFerb Phineas and Ferb]] with him. ** This troper's mom also loves to watch Phineas and Ferb. * Family movie night has been completely taken over by AvatarTheLastAirbender. Utterly. To compound it, although there are members of the ''intentional'' demographic in the house, ''I'' got ''them'' into it, not vice versa. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, there is no justifiable reason for my favorite series being ''{{Seinen}}'' other than the series being SoCoolItsAwesome. (BlackLagoon, if you wanted to know.) Oh, yeah, and does anyone else on here remember that DeathNote is, technically, a {{Shonen}} series? So is RosarioToVampire, come to that, although I don't like that one quite so much...but I still enjoy it. * This male troper loved '' FullMoonOSagashite'', a shojo manga, since I was sixteen. * Raekuul's turn. I like, starting with the least embarrassing: Dragonball Z, Robotech, Bleach, Inuyasha, Haruhi Suzumiya, Ouran High School Host Club, Yu Yu Hakusho, Shaman King, Trinity Blood, Beet The Vandel Buster, Sailor Moon, Goldfish Warning, Tokyo Mew Mew, Himechan's Ribbon, Fushigiboshi no Futagohime, and [[http://marybell.honobono.cc/ Floral Magician Mary Bell]]. I do not take that last one to school with me. * This 14 year old male troper cried various time at Ouran High school host club.). * This tropers over 60 year old parents enjoy BuffyTheVampireSlayer and Angel. His father loved SexAndTheCity and DesperateHousewives. * This Troper is a 25 year old male who loves listening to {{Musical}}s and enjoyed watching {{Rozen Maiden}} - I even blubbed like a baby in the second series over Hina. * This troper had a rather ironic experience, wherein, being in the target age demographic for {{Kim Possible}}, (that is, a teenage girl; about sixteen at the time) hopped on board the [[LesYay Kigo]] ship, and was promptly banned from the fan site for being too young. [[InsaneTrollLogic Too young for]] {{Kim Possible}}! I suppose this qualifies as a subversion. * This tropette, at the age of 7, loved Encyclopedia Dramatica to death. It actually didn't scar me, and I found that it was funny and adorable if you had a trolling attitude towards it. ** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids You got off easy, consider yourself lucky.]] * This Troper watched TheSecretOfHIMN for the first time at the ripe are of 20. It is now one of his favorite films, among RumbleFish and WallStreet. * This teenage tropette, her sister and two of her (also female) cousins full stop when it comes to [[JamesBond a certain slick British secret agent.]] We all appreciate the badassness and [[{{Understatement}} occasional]] LargeHam-osity of it all -- not to mention we all grew up playing the games together as well, so this

franchise is just a lot of fun for all of us. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} Me!]] I'm 18. Male. {{6teen}}. WhoseLineIsItAnyway. ScoobyDooMysteryInc. Series/DoctorWho. Ben10 (every series). TheAmazingSpiez. AmericanDad. {{Spliced}}. TotalDramaIsland. SpongebobSquarepants. BeingHuman. TheBigBangTheory. DannyPhantom. FairlyOddParents. {{Supernatural}}. ** started rewatching UltimateBookOfSpells on YouTube too. Ah, nostalgia! * This troper and her best friend get all sorts of funny reactions at NASA/space related events because we're teenage girls. * This 18 year old troper just got her father and grandfather (who is pushing 80) to watch AvatarTheLastAirbender. They love it. To add to this... Dad is also twihard. * This 30-something female Troper will ''binge'' on cartoons and video games when stressed out. Part because she loves a good EarnYourHappyEnding and EverybodyLives. * This troper played numerous first-person shooters since the age of 10 and even made a few levels for them. Most of these games are still 17+ rated. * [[{{Tropers/Agent0042}} This troper]], 28, male, is a primary editor for a number of pages for shows aimed at young audiences on this site and single-handedly wrote most most of the content for at least a couple, including ''{{Franklin}}'' and ''BearInTheBigBlueHouse''. He is unashamedly a fan of many shows like this and has a particular love for {{Nelvana}} programming. He also doesn't care if it's a program that's traditionally considered a "girl's show," such as ''MyLittlePony'' or ''StrawberryShortcake.'' Yet, at the same time, he is also a fan of programs such as ''TwentyFour''. His personal opinion? Judge the show (or other media) on its merits, not based on the audience it's targeted towards. * This male troper always seemed to have a soft spot for girly toys, especially if they are Disney based. Even now at age 22 he is seriously considering collecting Disney Princess dolls and figurines. * [[Tropers/RAMChYLD This troper]] is 28 and a male. He also proudly calls himself a "Children Show Connoisseur", watching Children shows and rating them, and if he likes a show, he sticks to it. He unshamely maintains the GuessWithJess and SpotTheDog trope pages, as well as contribute to other pages, most which are children show trope pages., The habit started when he was 15, and it stuck since. He also collects and play with children toys, particularly Leapfrog and vTech ones, as well owning several plush piles that consists of his favorite childrens TV and book characters. And then there's the thing where he's just attracted to coin-operated rides. * [[ROFLopadous ThisTroper]] is 25 years old and is STILL a [[CutenessProximity complete sucker for cutesy things]]. She's also completely addicted to the Mario and Kirby series and snatches up anything relating to the 2 franchises possible. She also has an eternal soft spot for Pokemon [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and does not have Pokemon HeartGold and is surely not thinking about buying Pokemon Black/White]]. She also loves to watch LetsPlays, animes (namely the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Ouran, AzumangaDaioh, Negima!, LuckyStar, BigWindup, and CrossGame to name a few),

NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide (a spiritual successor to Pete and Pete if I must say), and actually likes to watch a few {{Youtube Poop}}s but only a few. To be honest, it probably isn't as huge as she's making it out to be but she's been kind of having a quarterlife crisis lately. And to see all these folks my age and older than me enjoying the same kind of things actually makes me feel a lot better. So thanks folks! * This 18 year old Tropette and most of her college (it's a very nerdy school) are huge fans of cartoons (it is a college after all). She still remembers beaming the day she saw a group of people crowding the dorm lounge to watch a ''Codename: Kids Next Door'' marathon. Do the majority of the students have a "superiority complex" about "how good" their cartoons were vs. the shows of today? You bet they do! * [[{{Tropers/Fungal88}} This tropette]] is 22 years old and enjoys watching ''TheGoldenGirls'' occasionally with her mother. * Is it weird for a [[{{Tropers/Kuzlalala}} 15 year old]] liking ''TheReturnOfHanuman'', which was intended for little children? Well, this troper was really moved by [[{{Moe}} Maruti's cuteness]]. * Happens to me a lot but the main one's are world girl Arthur MLP friend ship is magic electric company(though I fast followed to the extras) and the one's that I no longer watch are still a part of me also I still love Santa. * This 15 year-old troper is a {{Gundam}} fan. ** So this is an aversion? * This Troper claims that one of the reasons she loves it when her younger relatives visit is that she has an excuse to sit and watch cartoons without someone else in the house going "Aren't you too old for that?" PhineasAndFerb and WesternAnimation/AdventureTime especially. Also, just last week this troper and her best friend were having an in-depth discussion about... DoraTheExplorer. For the record, we're both pushing 20. * This troper is a fifteen year old girly-girl who loves Final Fantasy VII, Super Smash Bros, Mortal Kombat, Hellsing, Comic (particularly Spider-Man), and recently started watching the 2003 Ninja Turtles show with her almost forty mother. Said mother watched the first Ninja Turtles show when she was almost twenty. * This 13-year-old female troper enjoys Call of Duty and My Little Pony. ---Go back to PeripheryDemographic. You know that's a kid's page, right?

PerkyGoth Go Ahead. We all know one. * This Tropette to the MAX. She doesn't treat herself as one, but she has a morbid sense of humor and an enormously genki personality, and does kinda look the part, with a slight tendency of dressing in black, being skinny and pale, and she has dark hair and eyes. * This Troper was dark and gothic once. Then she reached the magical age of 14 and decided that drama and writing sad love poetry suck balls and decided to love life and every other living form (except mosquitos). She kept her band tshirts, mesh sleeves, red-black-brown

hair and inhuman amounts of jewelry because it kinda became the part of her image (and she looks pretty nice in black). Due to that and to her... specific face features she is still branded as 'a depressed emo chick' at the first sight. * A friend of [[RedneckRocker this troper]] was unintentionally mistaken for Gothic once ([[SarcasmMode apparently, dark hair + trenchcoat = Goth]]). Even when he explained that the dark hair was his natural color, and he was wearing the [[BadassLongcoat trench]] because it had been raining earlier that day, some folks didn't seem to believe him. His girlfriend, on the other hand, is essentially a shorter clone of [[{{NCIS}} Abby Sciuto]]. * This Troper is the exact definition of a Perky Goth. She loves punk rock music and its fashions and shopping at Hot Topic. However, this troper also happens to be a {{Genki Girl}}, {{Tomboy}}, and {{Otaku Surrogate}} in a punk rock chick's body. * [[{{Adene}} This troper]] dresses in all kind of Tripp brand clothing when she can [[supersecretspoiler: afford it]], and always get wierd looks for it. But I never really even [[AdultChild act my age]], and am only really mopey if I'm lonely or bored as hell. I'm also as respectable as I can be to my elders, though in the case of my teachers, it backfires. [[SternTeacher And I mean]] ''[[SternTeacher really]]'' [[SternTeacher backfires.]] * This troper (yes, doubleplusungood inclusive collective pronouns!) used to know someone who fit this trope to a tee, and was always sweet despite the somewhat saddening amount of verbal abuse heaped on her for her at times bizarre behavior. * This troper has personally known a perky goth. Happily referred to me solely as 'Tall Guy.' (6'4'') * Another Real-Life example: This troper knew a guy who was simultaneously Goth and a born-again Christian. Really. (And he was a perky, sweet guy too.) ** This troper knew a guy just like that too. His dad fit the description too. * This troper knows a very large, very terrifying Goth man with spiky blue hair and heavy eyeliner, who happened to be a very amicable, kindly man with a love for animals and cartoons (though not [[{{Furry}} cartoon animals]]) as well as hardcore horror and classic Goth rock. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] only dresses remotely goth about half the time (and doesn't normally wear makeup at all), but would probably qualify when she does. I also enjoy goth music, being particularly fond of the Cure. Of course, the perky part doesn't consistently apply either; despite normally being pretty easygoing and cheerful, this troper is also a DeadpanSnarker and a BrokenBird. ** Are you me? Seriously? ** Are YOU BOTH me? ** Are ALL 3 OF YOU me??? ** So who wants to start a FiveManBand? ** Hi guys, SixthRanger here. ** :( I guess there's no more room in you're group ** Sure there is. We can just have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. ** Ninth [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct troper]] chiming in~! We're like a

clone army, guys! *** Sorry to break it to ya, but the clone machine overloaded already on KuuDere TroperTales. We're trying to isolate the leak now. *** Perky Goth #9 checking in again... shall we team up with the KuuDere clone army, or fight them? Answer me soon, my happily Gothic sisters and brothers! * [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]] knows a goth dude who looks as intimidating as your average goth would look like. Next thing we know, he cheerfully drinks half a bottle of vodka at an open bar night club. Granted, he has a strong taste for Main/{{Gorn}}, but his main clique is with the jocks. * ThisTroper is technicually goth even though he doesn't dress like it at all. * This troper and one of her friends will deny being gothic at all, but are actually both kind of Perky Goth. The troper below me sounds like he's describing my friend perfectly; tall, willowy, shy and softspoken (when she's not with her good friends) Goth * Every goth this troper has ever known has been a Perky Goth, the most notable example being a tall, willowy, Shy and Soft Spoken Goth. * This troper is dating a girl who is two parts Perky Goth, and one part [[{{Avatar The Last Airbender}} Toph]]. He is in heaven. ** This troper shakes his fist at you in envy. * For many years, this troper's RPG group contained a jolly SCA nerd, half-crippled after a whiplash accident and a persistent bachelor. To our astonishment he one day appeared at a gaming session with a wife, a 15 years younger Perky Goth. And there was much rejoicing. * This troper is a giddy, permanently happy girl who frequently stops to literally admire flowers. She also dresses in black all the time, likes clunky pewter jewellery and is planning to dye her hair dark purple. * This troper knows a goth girl who used to be more of a stereotypical goth, but lately she's been more cheerful, and mostly dressing goth for the fashion aspect of it--she's looking into taking up a career in goth modeling. * This troper isn't exactly goth, but dresses in heavy metal fashion. Baggy jeans, big stompy workboots, chains, leather trenchcoat, and spikes. He is, however, extremely nerdy and taken to bouncing around just because he can, and striking dramatic poses in windy areas to take advantage of the coat. ** Dude. Half the fun of having a long black coat is getting it to billow dramatically behind you when you walk/in the wind. (I have a black woollen trenchcoat, myself. Or at least I think it's a trenchcoat; it might be some other type of coat, but it's definitely a BadassLongcoat.) *** Only ''half'' the fun? ** The other half is looking Epic Win. * This troper's cousin is like this most of the time. * This troper gets a great deal of amusement out of people's reactions on the (rare, as she's usually a CasualGoth and has better things to spend her time on.. like TVTropes) occasions she goths-out... and then drops to one or both knees to coo over small dogs. * This troper's friend loves bondage pants, spiked jewelry, more

eyeliner than she weighs, and might not even own anything that isn't black. She's also the most cheerful, optimistic person you'll ever meet. * this troper's friend is a big 6 block of a guy. With psycho hair that isn't the same color or cut for more than a month at a time, is completely unrecognizable when he dresses up as a normal person for halloween. Draws dark horror art, listens to industrial....and is quite possibly the most cheerful happy grin filled guy I've ever met.. and Hilarious! * [[MadameLeP This Troper]] has known a PerkyGoth or two in her lifetime, one of which has the hugest naturally occurring afro she has ever seen (her father bet her ten bucks that it was a fake), and another one who also happens to be in a family full of them (excluding her older sister, who is a pure and utter {{Jerkass}}). * [[{{Night}} This Troper]] remembers a PerkyGoth girlfriend who would ''mercilessly tickle'' anyone she judged to be depressed. * [[{{PurplePantherGirl}} This Troper]] Is a PerkyGoth, and is best friends with what she describes as the 'Happiest ever Emo, except for that guy on the Confused.Com advert'. * [[{{Quillpaw}} This troper]] has a friend who dresses in all black, has a section of hair that changes colors from week to week, has three piercings in each ear and one in the nose, wears at least ten bangles on each wrist, loves red and black stripes tights/knee socks/leggings and patterned sneakers, and has an unhealthy obsession with [[InvaderZim Gir]]...and she's also the sweetest, friendliest, perkiest, most happy-hyper person you'll ever meet. ** I think I know your friend. Does she have a cat named Toby? *** ...Yes. * [[{{BlackLiger}} This troper]] doesn't know any goths who can't be considered 'perky'. Between 'poly-goth', 'hippy-goth' (A story for another page), 'Designer-goth' and most bizarrely 'not-really-gothbut-go-to-club-heavy-metal-er'. * This Troper, along with most of my friends. In fact, almost every goth I've met. I think the other two are mainly unfair sterotypes reinforced by angsty teens who are only going through it as a phase. There's more to goth than Wangst. ** In fact, being goth doesn't require angst at all! This troper went through the goth phase, but she imitated her goth friends and classmates, so she became a Perky Goth. She did eventually realise it wasn't her style, but she's still perky. As are her friends. Still goth, still perky. * This Tropette is often thought of as Goth, despite spending much of my time [[AdultChild spinning in circles and singing.]] * [[JChance This troper]] has actually known a MopeyGoth or two, albeit always [[DeadpanSnarker with wicked senses of humour]], but far more of the Perky variety. One in particular stands out--a man of [[HarryPotter Hagrid]]-esque stature with a sharp black goatee, given to wearing black-and-red Hawaiian shirts to the local goth club when he wasn't dressed as Jack the Ripper, and possessed of unfailing good humour. He mentally dubbed him "Satan Claus." * I used to know a guy when I was 15 that looked like a goth, but he was a very joyful nice person, and everybody liked him, and

[[EvenTheGuysWantHim I mean it...]] * [[NotSoBadassLongcoat This troper's]] good friend was a PerkyGoth. Now she's not a goth anymore ([=*cough*=]dress code[=*cough*=]), but she's still perky. Sometimes she even tops '''him''' in the crazy gallows humor department. There's also another one who can still be considered a PerkyGoth. * [[{{Dinru}} I]] have been pegged as being emo/goth due to wearing large amounts of black and pink and a generally kuu-mode KuuDere demeanor. [[GenkiGirl They couldn't be more wrong]]. * One of this troper's friends seems to be one of these. She is obsessed with vampires, writes poetry, loves Johnny Depp...but she's one of the bounciest people I know. She even hugged me on one occasion. * I knew one in high school. She wore goth clothes and goth make-up, but was more perky than most girls. She even became really friendly with me (for only like the last 20 minutes of the day, but still). * This troper is nursing quite a crush on one of these. * This troper wears a long coat, military boots, an ankh, has long hair, and listens to Sisters of Mercy, Wumpscut, and Siouxsie and the Banshees primarily. He's also pretty consistently described as one of the generally happiest people around, with a truly silly sense of humor. * [[JET73L This Troper]] is an interesting case, as he tends to dress more goth the better his mood. He mostly wore a bright green shirt under a hunting jacket (probably to tick people off or wallow in the misery of the bright, eye-hurting colors, he doesn't remember) during his deepest, {{Hikikomori}}-status inducing depression, moves to charcoal or black shirts under a black oilcloth duster, dyed his hair black once (and dark purple twice) For The Lulz (and several times for CosPlay, but that's not important right now), and in fact tends to be happier when wearing the coat. Seems to have hit the BishounenLine of perkigoth...-[[BuffySpeak iness]], lately, though, having switched to black-and-white Chuck Taylors ([[ExecutiveMeddling stupid retailers]], stupid tiny clothing budget) and debating the pros and cons of a White [=Mage/Cleric=]-style outfit when less spookygoth-mopey than before, but always goes back to the coat, black jeans, and dark charcoal/black shirt when in a good mood. ** This toper is the same way. She wears all black outfits, usually dresses and boots when she's especially cheerful. And then when she's depressed, she likes to go out in public in jeans, a white T-shirt, her seriously mopey face, and a silly hat. Obviously seeing how people react never fails to brighten her mood! * This Troper is a perky goth, and so are most of her friends * This troper loves petticoats, pigtails, top hats, and round-toed red heels with bows, heavy eyeliner and bizzare hair colours. She loves The Birthday Massacre, and the Cure, and people still try to convince her she's too cheerful to be a goth. * This troper knew someone whose fashion sense danced the line between goth and punk rocker. He had an awesome sense of humour, and one of the most friendly people she's ever met. She noticed that girls tended to get crushes on him easily (even a minor one from this troper, but she didn't pursue it). One gift he gleefully showed off once? An

''[[{{Naruto}} Icha Icha Paradise]]'' lighter. * I know a very Perky Goth who's always happy. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] would definitely fit this description, except I don't dress like a goth ^_^. But I have [[DarkIsNotEvil very dark]] [[NightmareFetishist tastes]] due to the fact that a Goth mindset is present within him. ** Brother! * ThisTroper went on a date with a perky Goth. She was pretty cool, but she was an ex-stripper and came off as just a wee bit too much of a hustler to be comfortable with. * This troper is friends with at least four of these. * This troper has a friend like this and she always seems to be happy and smiling. She comes to school wearing the most outragous clothes, and you can tell who she is by what she's wearing, and if she happens to be wearing the same thing as everybody else, you can still tell her apart due to her sunny disposition in life. She also gets panic attacks when she sees blood and she dresses up as on of my school's cheerleaders for Halloween. She says that cheerleaders can be so scary sometimes. * This Troper is a CloudCuckooLander StrangeGirl who likes to dress as a dark faerie, listens to Inkubus Sukkubus and wears far too much eyeliner. Well, when she isn't being [[BrokenBird traumatized and clinically depressed]], that is. * I alternate between this and GloomyGoth, depending on my mood. * [[{{maxmordon}} This Troper]] has spent many times on gothic forums and have found it that at least half of the real goths are of this kind (while angsty ones are mostly just angsty teens to overcome it). ** [[{{Skazka}} This troper]] supports this theory, with an addendum. Those who tend to congregate online will be 50% perky goths (looking to socialize, discuss and vent some... rather non-perky ideas from time to time) 25% mopey goths (with tendencies towards self-pity, though not always in a derogatory way) and 25% romantic goths (who may be, variously, perky or mopey -- but are a breed apart for other reasons). On a bad day, most romantics will act like angsty suburban teenagers. Feet will be stomped. Bitch fits will be thrown. Perky goths just... snap. Loudly. *** In fact, goths in most communities, both online ''and'' offline, can be categorized like this, with similar percentages. ** Real life being what it is, this troper has found that the three personality types are more tendencies than absolutes and one will sometimes blend into the other and then back to whatever the default preference is. ** The various Xgoth lables are very broad, and application varies not only with the person, but the age and mood as well. The excessively angsty teens are typically written off as "spookykids" by the more self-effacingly humourous mopeygoths. * This Tropette fits most if not all Goth stereotypes (Black clothes? Check. Metal? Check. Owns books of [[EdgarAllanPoe E.A Poe]]? Check. And TimBurton films? Check...the list goes on.), but I generally am perky and funny person due to my MadHatter mindscape. * This tropette doesn't always goth up to the nines, preferring jeans, t-shirts, and combat boots [[TheSlacker due to lack of give-a-damn]],

and is rather depressed and {{Hikikomori}}-ish, but she's decided that even if she can't manage 'perky' a lot of the time, she can certainly pull off 'pleasant', and makes a point of being polite. Her inner perky comes through in the [[CutenessProximity presence of small animals and/or babies]] or around her fellow nerds, however, and once she gets ''started'' talking it's hard to shut her up. * If his parents would let him, This Troper's brother would have body piercings, purple hair, and probably wear make up. He has long hair that covers his face, wears chains and a lot of black, and his favourite store is Hot Topic. He isn't really perky, but he ''is'' one of the nicest people you'll meet, and he rarely {{Angst}}s about anything. * My girlfriend fits this to a T. Every single piece of clothing she owns is black in some way or another, her hair runs all the way down to her elbows, she always wears skirts, a black leather studded coller, and these black leather elbow-length fingerless gloves, and has this trenchcoat with [[TooManyBelts 9000 belts]] [[ChainedByFashion and chains]]. But she's the sweetest person I've ever met. * This troper puts the 'fun' in 'funeral'. Always dressed in an abundance of black or purple, with hair to match, loves hanging out in cemetaries and reading about gruesome murders, yet puts the life in her local ecocology club and spends hours singing along to songs from Glee. * Most Goths whom [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} this troper]] has known (mainly in high school) have been this. I swear that I've never met a sad, mopey Goth. * There is a heavilly goth girl at my school. She always seems like she's one bad experience away from going on a homicidal rampage. I'm a metal-head and I walk to school, blasting loud death metal to anyone within a short radius at the expense of my own hearing. One day I passed her and she turned on me. I thought she was going to have an angry outburst or something. Instead, she beamed the sweetest smile and greeted me in the most unusually cheery manner. Now goths confuse me even more... * This troper has a friend who dresses, and attempts to act, in a moody, Goth fashion. But once you get to know her... no. And she makes an awesome bubbly nurse in one-act plays :) * One of this troper's closest friends in high school was a PerkyGoth chick who had a cropped haircut and a taste for black and bright. The closest he ever got was as a former Punk Rocker, himself. * This troper recently met someone like this. He's an anime nerd, wears an awesome black trench coat, cool black hat, and skeleton gloves, and yet is one of the happiest people I know. * This Troper has a friend who is arguably this, if she wasn't so cute and smily all the time you'd think she was a goth from her dress sense. * This troper wants to be one, after fascination over DarkIsNotEvil. And influenced by RubyGloom. * This troper was one in high school, got teased for it, grew out of it, and is now finishing off his first year of university and drifting back into the realm of black nail polish and trench coats.

* This troper has recently been told numerous times that I look like a Goth, even though I don't really wear much black and I consider myself more of a Punk/Indie Kid. But I happen to have naturally dark hair and pale skin, wear heavy eye-shadow and have a nose ring. So yeah, I guess others see me as a PerkyGoth as I'm pretty friendly and cheerful. * This troper. Except for when feeling isolated I can get a bit...wangsty. * This troper is 75% perky goth 25% gloomy goth, he has bi-polar disorder (and schizophrenia). I do have a REALLY dark and morbid sense of humour, plus I'm frequently a deadpan snarker; He loves reading about [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murderers, death, disasters and psychology]] and yet is probably one of the happiest and annoyingly hyper people you will ever meet (when 75% of the time). People always say he looks like Jack Skellington when he was alive, this troper is tall, thin, wears lots of black, has auburn hair (that he desperately wants to dye black), and is extremely pallid. This troper loves industrial music, Goth rock, doom metal, dark caberet, and electronic music. A few people have been really surprised to find out this troper is gay, a theatre kid, and (sort of) a vegan. * This she-Troper was quite the PerkyGoth in high school, nowadays said she-Troper is an Amiable Dark Geek Chic due to college, work and drastic yet necessary living conditions. * [[{{Tropers/Monoxide}} This tropette]] gets marked as a goth or emo by some because of the fact that she flat-out refuses to wear anything except black and grey, and that she's into a small amount of metal music (the pale skin and [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex bitchy front]] probably don't help either). However, her friends and family know that she's actually a friendly (if snarky and condescending sometimes) and strange girl with a love for the lighter side of music and a fan of such [[SarcasmMode amazingly dark]] shows as WinxClub, PhineasAndFerb, and WesternAnimation/AdventureTime. * My school counsellor, of all people, is this. I have some shades too, but I'm probably to geeky to be considered completely goth. * This troper does not dress like a goth [Mainly because he cannot afford any of the cool stuff... Stupid German blood and innate practicality], but he went through the traditional mental stages... EG, he discovered that the world is a horrible place, and got gloomy and depressed through the better part of puberty. Near the end, however, he came to a startling realization- Yes, the world is horrible, but it's just as easy to laugh at the misfortune of others as it is to brood over your own [And quite a bit more enjoyable]. Of course, since he doesn't bother with people very much nobody really notices. Until he bursts out laughing at someone's sob story, but he tries not to do that so much. * This troper went through [[NietzscheWannabe the normal stages of gothines]] and came out the other side as a morbidly cheerful person with a strange obsession with death and disease. He [[GenkiGirl doesn't act goth in the least]], but is often referred to as such based purely on dress, humor, and musical taste. * This troper went through a short gothic phase in Middle School, lasting about 4 weeks time. I was a stereotypical type of goth; black

nails, dark clothing, eyeliner rimmed around my eyes as much as I could possibly allow. Everyone kept calling me emo though and wouldn't shut up about it. Also, I had an obsession with dark anime and manga at the time, and started thinking about ''very'' ''very'' morbid things. And so began, at age 13, and obsession with horror movies that still lingers, just not as much. * This troper is a subtle version of this. While having a morbid humor and everything I own could be described as goth, I have an optimistic view on life and I'm friendly to all living things. * Everyone seems to think [[@/OhNoes I'm]] this, but more of the Perky Emo variety. I happen to fit the image, too. I'm Asian, but I'm pretty pale for it, and whenever I DON'T wear black and skinny jeans with spikes and wristbands it's a major "OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING" thing, simply because IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. Also, my musical taste spans from post-hardcore to normal emo to goth rock to pop punk. Additionally, my humor is of the VERY morbid variety, especially in classes. My Lit teacher calls me "O Dark One" on a regular basis and my Government teacher knows me as "the goth kid in the corner." But I'm truly happy and funny, friendly if you reach out to me, and very energetic. Some may say I'm a male GenkiGirl around my friends. * Because all groups of friends needs one, I am the resident Perky Goth for my social group. I dress in black most of the time and the only reason why my clothes aren't in the Victorian or Lolita-style is because of money costs. Most people when meeting me would assume I'm an angsty teenager or emo. My friends know better, as I act like an energizer bunny. * One of my friends (and one of my absolute favorite people in the world <3) is something like a Perky Goth Girl. This same girl is also one of the entries under troper tales for MPDG, so you'll know why it sounds familiar. Of course, she wears dark colors, as per the Perky Goth definition. Black, purple, blue, sheer red. She does wear some lighter colors, but usually they're paired with dark colors. She's smart, beautiful, and is internet savvy. I'm not positive, but I'm sure she's a prime example of "a girl on the Internet," so I bet she can take a lot of the shit that the Internet can throw at her. She's also an activist and a science/CS major, rebellious, and a general free-thinker. And throughout it all, through dealing with serious issues in real life like freedom of speech and world peace, issues that would sober many up (such as myself) or even depress them, she still remains very upbeat. I don't know how she does that, but I love her because of that. All told though, she probably fits a Perky Punk image more and {{Dark is not Evil}}. [[{{Tropers/HorrorGirlLucy}} This tropette]] fits this trope to a T. I look [[{{DeathNote}} Misa]] in her Goth phase half of the time, with black skirts, long-sleeved shirts, and occasionally I wear my mom's BadassLongcoat. I always wear combat boots except for when in PE, because those are the only shoes that I own that fit on me. (Yes, my PE sneakers don't fit me.) I love TheBirthdayMassacre, EmilieAutumn, LacunaCoil, and {{Evanescence}}. I love horror animes like HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi, finding them simply more awesome than scary. My sense of humor is VERY dark and morbid. Half of my stories are more like Stephen King novels, only not so overly drawn out and confusing,

and most, if not all, of the poems I write are basically Edgar Allen Poe on crack compacted into short little things. However, I'm a cheerful, nice, poltie, and soft-spoken girl that loves to help others. * I dress the part... [[{{Subversion}} but I sure as hell don't act it half of the time]]. I try to be more cheerful, I really do, but... [[HumansAreMorons people just annoy me to no end]]. [[SnarkKnight Including myself!]] Eh. [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Whatever]]. ---Pirouette to the beat of Bauhaus back to PerkyGoth. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PermaStubble * This troper has gold facial hair, which makes it look like PermaStubble even when it's scruff-length. Plus, my facial hair never itches and it glows in sunlight. My jaw actually ''glows''. How awesome is that? * This Troper deliberately doesn't shave every day in order to grow Perma Stubble because it's the current fashion and because people mistake this 20-year-old for a 16-year-old whenever he goes cleanshaven. Once his facial hair extends over the four square inches or so that connects sideburns to goatee he's just going to grow it into a proper, groomed beard. Those snobby Anglo-descended white Americans can fuck off with their PermaStubble action heroes and clean-shaven actors; I'm of terrorist descent and by God we grow beards! * This Troper recalls having an english teacher who somehow maintained permastubble throughout the whole time This Troper was in the class. * It's not actually that hard to manage, most electric shavers come with a perma stubble setting. This troper has one because if the world turns out to be a movie it increases his chances of survival by about 20% in most situations (barring heroic sacrifice) ** Mine isn't adjustable, but it includes a sideburn trimmer. I use that for my permastubble. * This troper has owned several electric shavers and none of them have had that feature. Then again, he's only had about 3, since it's not something you just go and buy every week. Plus, he prefers a shaven face, so it doesn't really matter. * This troper maintains a form of perma-fuzz due to not growing hair thick enough to stubble, but being too lazy to shave anything before it itches. Even freshly shaven, the fuzz on the chin remains to give a gordon freeman sort of look and so he can buy videogames and booze without being carded. * This Troper has a permastubble due to the fact that his facial hair is unusually thick and grows pretty fast. For this troper to remain clean-shaven, he should shave twice a day. (on the bad side, this troper is also going bald and shaves his hair, which unfortunately doesn't grow back nearly as fast as his beard) * [[ManCalledTrue This troper]] was shaving when he was ''thirteen'', which should give you an idea as to how quickly he grows stubble. He

resists just giving up and growing a beard, but has taken advantage of this for his mustache. * I timed mine. From clean-shaved to visible-across-the-room stubble in ''three and a half hours''. Shaving is a pain, but beards just ''itch'' too damn much! * This troper is waiting for a badass to just plain grow a big damn lumberjack beard-if stubble grants that much badass, imagine how much a full-on beard would give. ** Supporting evidence: Action Hank from DextersLaboratory! *** Also the BadAssSanta trope. *** Also, [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]]. * This Troper has a very round head and jaw. Keeping stubble gives off the impression of having a more defined jawline. He uses electric razors exclusively. He has also been told that he look his best with two or three days worth of stubble and glasses. * Thanks to his having very dark, very coarse hair, this troper has PermaStubble even right after shaving. * [[{{Horngeek}} This Troper]], due to the fact that he often forgets to shave, has this. * [[DanielLC This Troper]] has an electric razor, fast-growing facial hair, and doesn't shave very well. All in all, he even has stubble right after he shaves. * This troper doesn't shave as often as he should along with having an electric razor which doesn't always work great. * This troper had a philosophy prof who was shinily bald but always seemed to be stubbly. She thought he was just one of those men who grows stubble quickly, since her class with him was in the midafternoon, but then he showed up to a department event in the evening and it was exactly the same. * This troper is a walking subversion of this trope, only needing to shave once or twice a week. Even after almost two weeks unshaven, the only result is a sparse patchily-coloured (and itchy) fuzz. At the age of 22. ** [[{{Eban}} This troper]] is very similar. After three weeks I have a scraggley [[MulticoloredHair tri-color]] beard. I'm 28. Though the only having to shave twice a week to look clean shaven is nice, I'd still rather not bother. ** The original troper is now 23, and up to either shaving 3 times a week, or enduring the itchy fuzz after the second day. And has discovered that the patchyness is due to a sizable patch of scar tissue gained years before he started shaving. * This troper only shortens his stubble periodically to avoid drawing the ire of his managers. * [[QuantumToast This troper]] only shaves when his stubble gets long enough to be itchy (or when [[SkunkStripe the unexplained white patch on his moustache]] gets annoyingly noticeable), and rarely shaves it all the way down largely because [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny his attention span's too short]] to spend most of an hour whittling down the last few quarter-millimetres. * When this troper was in high school, he was in gym class with a big, Greek kid. Said large Greek grew PermaStubble naturally, or seemed to anyway. It never grew longer, he never had a shaved face.

** This troper is Greek herself, and has just winced in recognition. ''[[[IReadThatAs Editor's note: ...!]]]'' She spent her highschool years with 16 year old guys who looked like 25 year olds ''[Editor's note: Whew.]''... except for the one random blond kid who came in for a bit of goodnatured teasing from all the other guys for NOT growing facial hair. (... In a footnote, she bumped into him a couple of years after graduation and he'd grown a respectable dark-brown rapper goatee.) * This troper has a friend who needs to shave in the morning (for work), during lunch (for work), in the evening (going out) and occasionally before going to 'bed'. * [[EddieVanHelsing This troper]] does the perma stubble because his wife finds it sexy. He uses an electric beard trimmer to keep his stubble at the appropriate length. It also allows him to avoid razor bumps. * This troper rarely shaves anyway, but even when he does, he ends up with stubble by the end of the same day. His hair grows pretty quickly also, especially during the summer. * [[DesertDragon This troper]] tends to have permastubble, since he has to use an electric shaver in order to avoid razor bumps. There are a number of shaving products made just for black men, but on this troper they fail miserably. However, he has never used debilitory cream like what his father prefers, since it A) smells ''horrible'', B) takes forever to use, and C) This troper just isn't keen on putting acid on his face. * [[KarmikCykle This troper]] almost never shaves all the way since his stubble is notoriously tough on razor blades. He's had to replace brand new blades halfway through shaving before, because they got too dull in less than one full use. This even happens if he just shaved his face smooth the day before. He's also rather inconsistent at simply trimming it down because it's a hassle to remember every day. * This troper's english teacher always, always has PermaStubble, I'm serious. I think he is physically unable to shave off the rest of the stubble. * This troper is 16, and it takes him 6 hours to grow stubble (proper, dark stubble) on the sides of his face after shaving. 1 week makes pretty thick sideburns, 1 month makes ones as thick as Sweeney Todd's. He doesn't dare leave his whole face unshaven any longer than 5 days, though. Having very dark body hair doesn't help (his head hair is mousy brown, all other hair is dark brown/almost black). * This troper has to shave just before he leaves for work at 4 pm, as he's been written up for coming in unshaven on days when he shaved before noon. It's gotten to the point where a razor and shaving gel are kept in the office, just in case. Made more ridiculous by a manager saying that if he didn't have a goatee, he would be ALLOWED to show up with PermaStubble, but since he does have one, he can't. * This troper's facial hair grows rather quickly, which is a nuisance because the (private Catholic) school I go to doesn't allow me to have facial hair. What's even worse is, retarded classmates always make such a big deal about it (because no one else in the world has facial hair, apparently), enough that I now actually ''dislike'' my PermaStubble.

* This troper, no matter what he does while shaving, always has some stubble left. When combined with his goatee, it makes him look like a minor villain, which fits well with the fact that he is 1 part rocket scientist, 4 parts pyromaniac, and 5 parts axe crazy. * This tropers trick is to shave before bed and get a good 8 hours of Stubble. ** I do the same thing, but only because I've never once managed to remember to shave in the morning. * This troper has four teachers with permastubbles, and probably more that she can't think of at the moment. * This troper keeps a stubble for two reasons. 1. He has a pretty young face, having the stubble stops him from getting carded at bars and when buying games/movies and women use the good kind of cute when describing him 2. He likes the i-don't-really-care-how-i-look look because he is a [[TakeThatMe tool and a hipster.]] * [[AMereServantOfGod This troper]] would rather have the PermaStubble than to waster money buying shaving cream and time putting it on. My family, for some reason, acts very surprised that I manage to shave without it. * This troper has an interesting dilemma. He really does not like to shave, because most times it takes him upwards of half an hour to do do, so he puts it off for close to a week ([[SelfFulfillingProphecy which is probably why it takes so long]]). He'd get some PermaStubble or even grow a full beard if not for the gaping hole of bald spot right next to his chin (which leaves this insufferably thin line of beard above it), and his beard's general unevenness (such as its inability to grow ''past'' PermaStubble in some patches, as well as patches of varying thickness). [[TooMuchInformation He has recently taken to shaving while sitting on the toilet]]. Any other time of the day he'd forgo the shaving in order to play video games or browse the internet. ** [[TakeAThirdOption Have you tried waxing?]] * For some reason, all the hair below my hairline is dark black, even though the hair on top of my head is brown. My beard doesn't have to be ''thick'' to be noticeable. And I wear glasses, and the hair on top of my head is thinning. I finally found an {{Animesque}} character I could [[http://www.suikosource.com/chars/list/imageviewnojs.php?img=r/ramada 01.jpg&char_id=234 impersonate]]. * This Troper had a friend with an apparently permanent 5 o'clock shadow. There are pictures of him clean-shaven at his wedding, with obvious stubble at the reception the same night. * [[{{Twentington}} This troper]] has perma-stubble, because no razor can seem to cut me clean enough. I've gotten shaves from a BARBER that have left me still stubbly. * [[{{Neep}} This troper]] maintains permanent stubble because I don't like how I look clean-shaven (and it makes my skin feel sorta weird). If my facial hair was thick enough to support a decent goatee, I'd do that instead. * [[JRSpaniel This Troper]] shaves every other day, but my facial hair grows fast enough to need shaving at least every day. * This Troper only shaves once a week on Saturday. I also keep my

mustache. * [[{{Bomby}} This troper]] kept well defined facial hair throughout high school, shaved clean at the beginning of college, then kept his electric razor on stubble setting and kept stubble for a few years. I tried to shave clean with a regular razor last month and to my surprise, I still looked like I had perma stubble. Oh, the wonders of being of Sicilian descent. * This Troper combines this with beard of sorrow. I don't give a damn because I'm depressed,and my beard just won't grow full. This sixteen year old Troper has been confused for a Substitute Teacher before to give perspective. * [[{{Reflextion}} This Troper]] doesn't ''quite'' have permastubble, but it's pretty close: I shave every morning and evening, but since I have pretty pale skin, every tiny little [[PerfectlyCromulentWord stubblet]] stands out, even when I'm clean shaven. * [[@/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] has a ''12 o' clock shadow'', so even if he shaves regularly he has PermaStubble. Also, his stubble basically destroys razor blades. * This troper's hair grows absurdly quickly. He needs a haircut every two weeks to keep it looking anywhere near the same length, and he gets a 5:00 shadow at noon. Luckily though, his facial hair is a nearly silver shade of blonde and he can go nearly a week without shaving before it becomes noticeable. * [[{{Xifihas}} This Troper]] has true PermaStubble. I shave before going to bed and the very next morning my jaw's all stubbly again. It's especially noticible as I have black hair and very pale skin. * [[@/{{DocScratch}} This troper]] was virtually devoid of facial hair until he hit age 17. From that point, each shave would result in regrown visible stubble within eight hours. * I joke with my friend about how, after he shaves, he immediately regrows stubble. * This troper has the opposite problem typical for this page in that my facial hair grows very slowly and I typically go days without shaving and then doing a half-assed job (you never get good at something you don't do regularly), resulting in this trope. ---''Back to PermaStubble, Mr. Sandpaper'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PerpetualFrowner * [[{{dRoy This troper]]'s literature teacher is like this. He's a very mild and easy going guy, but his default facial expression is >:( The thing is, that he doesn't even realize he's doing this. * This troper is seen as this as whenever I smile its a slasher smile at best. Its actually more comfortable to hang around me when I'm down than when I'm happy. I think I frighten the children. * I tried smiling for a whole job interview once and ended up with facial cramps. I learned long ago not to smile since I have a mouth

like a rusted bear trap. * A math teacher in my school is this. He says it's because of an accident that happened. He used to be a clown, so one of my friends theorized that someone randomly punched him in the face during that time. What really happened involved a football to the face, OrSoIHeard from multiple people. I was also indirectly called one by a social studies teacher I had, and my rebuttal landed me in the principal's office. * I don't smile like the status quo of America expects one to do every damn minute of every damn day; that's just creepy and impractical (and I don't understand why people automatically assume that if you're not grinning, your sad, but if you're grinning at nothing, then you're crazy). So I normally wear a face of indifference, except... some people who have the courage to approach me and actually have something meaningful to say and I mutually return the conversation (they aren't just some dumbass guy who wants to pick me up) sometimes slip in that I have this facade of seriousness on me, that I look like I'm scowling and that I'm giving people the DeathGlare. Honestly, most of the time I'm not even aware of this face that I'm making. But... I suppose I do frown a lot. But the sun is in my eyes a lot! That, and I have a lot to frown about lately.

PersonalDictionary * This troper once met a woman who defined sex with the same definition normal people give to conception. Therefore, she literally classified sperm donation as adultery. * To some a Goth/Emo/any other "depressed subculture" could be someone who wears a [[FlatWhat black jacket every day...]] * I met a guy who's definition of gangster (a member of a gang of criminals according to merriam webster) is someone who is fashionable, has style, or is trendy. And he said all his characters looked "gangster", even though they were all incredibly law abiding, non rebelious, polite, and pretty high up in the moral scale. They also had the style of generic brand bland fantasy clothes that were neither stylish, trendy, or in any way plausible as practical clothes. So, yeah. ---Head back to Hootenanny [[PersonalDictionary here]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PersonOfMassDestruction * [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Great physical strength]] + [[BlindWithoutEm terrible vision]] + [[TheKlutz clumsiness]] = this trope. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain I found that out the hard way]]. ----

PetBabyWildAnimal

* This troper's dad kept a sucession of rooks as a child. Said rooks had fallen from their nests as chicks, were rescued, fed on off cuts of cooked meat, worms, sausages ect. (apparently the sausages were a favorite) and carried around on my dad's wrist until they grew up and left. Also it was apparently a 'thing' amongst the kids for a while, and the rook colony was pretty large with a lot of chicks falling out of their nests so every year about half the kids in the street could be seen walking around with a rook perched on their arm. ** I had to take a real hard second look at that to not read it as "a succession of rocks".. *** And I just read that as "a sucession of cocks"... **** Meh, I was going to ask why he was looking after chess pieces and how he got them to breed. * This Troper'sBest firend has a tendency for picking up and rescuing injured wild creatures. Her count so far includes five baby mice (who unfortunately died) A young squirrel (who lived) and an injured bat (who bit her and flew off). The last one required rabies shots, so I think a lesson was learned. * Apparently, this troper's grandfather hatched and raised a wild turkey for several years. It only liked him and used to torment my uncle, "The Birds"-style. After several years it went completely feral and ran away. * This troper's family once raised some ducklings that were abandoned in their back garden. * This troper's family raised ducklings that were found orphaned in the town pool. They died soon after we took them home:( * This troper's father had a lion cub as a child growing up in South Africa. They had to send it to a wildlife reserve after it chased the family dogs up a tree. ** Wow! I didn't know [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Africa had been influenced!]] * This troper's father kept a raccoon for most of his childhood. This troper likewise kept a baby rabbit for a while, [[TearJerker but it had been separated from its mother too early.]] ** The same thing with the rabbit happened to my friend. D= To make matters worse he had to write an exam that day. His prof was nice though and let him write it later. * This troper's sister raised a litter of three squirrels that we found in a tree we cut down. Only one survived, but now he sleeps in a box on our back porch and comes to the door about once a week for a walnut treat. * [[{{Gecko}} This troper]] cared for orphaned muskrats for about a week, before the waters that flooded their burrow receded, and she could get them to a wildlife rehab center. * ThisTroper has a great aunt who had a veritable menagerie of abandoned wild animals. Most were released into the wild as adults, including a badger. The badger, however, actually came back; it apparently decided it couldn't cope with the wild. * This troper's aunt has raised both a raccoon and some opossum babies. The raccoon was later released (though the troper has no idea what became of it). The opossum babies were taken from their mother, which had died earlier, and ended up dying themselves despite our best

efforts. Sad day. * When this troper was eight or so, his mother adopted a Siberian Lynx when its home was about to be demolished. Probably the best part was it sitting on the mantle, looking like a stuffed piece. And then visitors realizing it was alive. Unfortunately, the city government didn't approve of it, and harassed us until we sent it to a rescue. * Not sure if this counts, but this troper has a pet Brown Rat she rescued off her cats when it's eyes were still closed. He's now tame as tame can be, and has been cleared for carrying anything since my parents started bitching about Bubonic Plague. He's sitting in my lap eating the last of my museli bar as I write this. I've also rehabitated frogs, mice, and fledging birds from cat-related injuries. And I've taken hedgehogs - and on one memorable occasion, a small bat - to the professional foster home up the road. ** Do you have a photo? * This troper recently met a couple who were raising ''seventeen'' wild ducklings in their back garden. * Hands up if you've ever attempted to keep a caterpillar - bonus points if it wasn't for a school project. ** [[{{Gecko}} This troper had a box full of gypsy moth larvae when she was eight. Then they spun cocoons all over the box and weren't so cute anymore. * This troper, while at the beach years ago, contemplated taking back a baby ''oyster'' that she found. Thankfully, she had the good sense to put it back and leave it alone. * This troper was reading a book on local history when they saw a black and white photo of a couple of fishermen and a porpoise and seal cub that they'd accidently caught. According to the caption, the seal cub ended up as a family pet named Felix who lived in the yard behind the lifeboat station and was taken down to the beach in a wheelbarrow each day so that it could go for a swim. * This troper has a snapping turtle. Dad found him dehydrated along a walking path and carried him back home and eventually we just decided to keep him. Incidentally, baby snapping turtles are not much bigger than quarters and are [[CutenessProximity about a thousand times more adorable]]. * [[{{Griffin}} This troper's]] mom once rescued a sparrow from their dog's jaws. However, it died soon after. T_T ** She's also found a bat on the ground twice, although in those cases she just notified an adult to move it out of the way where it wouldn't be stepped on. * This Tropette has cared for injured birds, snakes, frogs, and one turtle that died. For the most part, it was just setting food and water out, and making sure that the intended animal got it, but I have taken garter snakes home with me on a few occasions. Yes, I let them go when they're better. * I once had a pet baby rabit and a few monthes later I had a baby squirreal (both were too cute for words) * This troper enjoys keeping wild mantises as pets. The only drawback is that they only eat live food and have a tendency to cannibalize other mantises in its viscinity. * This troper's grandmother has been raising feral/wild cats (The kind

that people assume are runaways, and can/will hurt you)for many years. Even when they are fully grown and have their own litters, they still come back with the kittens for the food left out on the back porch about once a week. * This trope can be a real pain for those who work in pet stores or vet clinics. While sometimes stories like this can have happy endings, it's always a gamble. This troper cannot count the number of times people have given her odd looks as she tried to explain the difference between pet and wild rabbits, and how the baby bunny they found outside and insist on keeping may still decide it doesn't want anything to do with them when it grows up. ---Do you like my platypus? I found him over at PetBabyWildAnimal. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PetHomosexual * This gay, semi-closeted (female) troper amasses gay friends like nobody's business, but definitely avoids treating them like this. People are not just a sexual preference and a stereotype. I don't make my sexuality a big issue around campus, and won't until I actually [[TheWoobie get some]]. However, somehow I've still got a CastFullOfGay. ** Yeah, you pretty much exactly just did "treat them like this". I'm sure they enjoy being your tokens, however. * This (straight, male) troper finds it kind of patronizing and tries to avoid it with his lesbian friend. * This troper started feeling something similar to this at college. Conversations with other LGBT, especially T, students make it a bit obvious the school ''and even the student LGBT organisation'' was trying to recruit transsexual people to prove how accepting and modern they were. ** [[TwoferTokenMinority GLBT's of color]] tend to be given the same treatment. * This troper can't count the number of times he's mentioned in passing to women that he is bisexual, only for the instant response to be "that's so hot." While it's certainly preferable to "[[HeteronormativeCrusader that's disgusting, you queer]]," but he can't help but find it a little demeaning as well. * This troper agrees with the above troper: as a bisexual woman, she usually gets "Wanna have a threesome?". Those asking are usually shocked to hear that no, her bisexuality does not make her interested AnythingThatMoves. * This troper's ex-boyfriend (troper is female) has become one of these. He does kind of play up to it though, flirting with anything with a penis and giving fashion advice. * This (male, straight) troper hopes really hard that he averts this with his lesbian best friend, who he loves very much and would die for in a second. * This troper accidentally did this to her friend for a while,

although he didn't really mind... * There's a reason why the Token Black Guy and the Token Bi/Gay Guy became fast friends in this troper's circle. * This troper jokingly refers to several of her gay friends this way. They tend to be cool with it, considering that I'm bisexual myself, and even assert that they're part of my super-secret plan to take over the world by amassing GLBT friends. * So, ''so'' subverted with one of this troper's friends. Another friend said to him, "you're like that gay best friend that everyone likes to have"...except he's ''not'' gay, and in fact had a severe crush on the girl that had said this. * This (Male) Troper has a (Female) gay best friend. Not only is he one of the only people of who knows of her orientation, but he is the only person who actually makes use of it. Walking through town, commenting on girls and having your female friend agree with you is not only cool, it's hot. * Ugh, some girls at my old school ''tried'' making me their pet homo even though we had nothing in common. Like an above troper said, it's a better reaction than hatred, but still feels patronizing. It didn't help that their other gay friend (whom they all [[TokenShipping incessantly tried shipping me with]]) was this rude little prick who was a bit racist. * This admittably-flamboyant bisexual genderqueer troper tends to get shoehorned into MagicalQueer territory more often that not, but I'm mostly okay with it. And besides, given my slight predisposition towards ValleyGirl and CampGay mannerisms, it's not all that suprising. * This Troper's best male friend, who is gay (but was closeted initially) got a LOT of this treatment from other people in high school. Even when he wasn't out (most likely due to his stereotypically interests, like dance). Those people, who did things like put eyeliner on him and squeal "You're sooo pretty!" really irritated this troper. She saw him more as the twin brother she never had- when the two of them are together, they generally act more like insane middle schoolers(playing Mad Libs or speaking in Swedish accents in public) than a young woman and her Gay Best Friend. * I know a kid who's CampGay and seems to insert himself into situations where he ends up being the PetHomosexual. In an aversion of this trope, I find this gentleman incredibly obnoxious because [[StopBeingStereotypical he seems to have no interests outside of being gay.]] * One of this straight tropette's peeves. Case in point: a friend of hers came out, which said tropette met with apathy (caring more about the guy's personality than his sexuality). Most of the girls in this tropette's year, who hadn't previously paid much attention to him, immediately started squeeing over the possibility of having a gay best friend and went out of their way to court his attention, not sparing a thought for little things like personality and interests. If tropette hadn't been trying to deal with a lot of other things at the same time, she would have been a lot more pissed off than she was already. ---Return to PetHomosexual

PhenotypeStereotype * [[AnoSa This troper]] was mistaken in Japan for being half-Japanese due to pale skin, mostly-straight black hair, and black eyes. For the record: more likely it's due to the relatives from Transylvania. * This troper, inspite of his dishwater-blond hair, has a ginger beard. As a result, he is often thought to be of Irish descent, even though he's (ethnically) mostly Dutch-Canadian and Scottish. ** Wha? [[SarcasmMode Cause Scotland doesn't have a reputation for having red haired people]]. *** Scotland doesn't. Ireland does. [[ScotIreland There is a difference]]. *** Actually Scotland does have such a reputation. In fact there is a higher percentage of redheads in Scotland than in Ireland (or anywhere else in the world for that matter). * This troper has been mistaken for a variety of backgrounds. One person had assumed that he was Vietnamese because "you know, Chinese people don't have eyes that big." Other people have asked if he were Filipino or Hispanic because his skin was kind of dark. Except it's about the same shade as Manila folder. * Lots of people think this troper is Jewish, because of her curly brown hair. In fact, this troper is ethnically half-Italian and halfIrish. Religion-wise, she's a lapsed Catholic. * This troper is mistaken for having Asian bloodlines because of the effect her extra female chromosome can have on her eyes. Note that an extra female chromosome is ''not'' Down syndrome, and if you ever run into a child who looks like they have might Down syndrome but clearly acts otherwise, this is the most likely explanation. (I say a child because we grow up to be quite tall, whereas people with Down syndrome do not.) Interestingly, this troper's adopted daughter has the same chromosome abnormality yet actually is partially Asian. * This troper knew an exchange student who couldn't believe he was born in the US because he was AmbiguouslyBrown. * This troper has black, wavy hair, very dark and big eyes, thick eyebrows and a normal-sized nose. She was already mistaken for Arab, then Lebanese, then Spanish, then Russian(?); each one from a different person. Actually, this troper is 1/2 Spanish (on her father's side), 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Italian and 1/8 Brazilian mix (on her mother's side). * This troper is the very image of the American/European stereotype in anime. He is marginally tall, has blond hair, ''very'' bright blue eyes, and skin pale enough to have been confused for an albino by people who don't know what they're talking about. * This troper's Japanese professor had dark brown/black hair, and almost pitch-black eyes, yet when she taught in Japan her students constantly drew her with sunshine blonde hair and crystal blue eyes because she was a ''gaijin''. * [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct I]] got the reverse of this. I mentioned something about Passover or something, and in reply, a girl named [[RichBitch Taylor]] said: "You can't be Jewish because you don't have a big nose!"

* I have extremely pale skin, which means most people assume my background is completely European. I have European ancestry, but I'm also Native American. My mom has darker skin than the rest of my family, and people often mistake her for Middle Eastern, and they usually give her crap about it, too. * Similar to this trope: This Troper's extremely Spanish sounding name made a lot of United States citizens believe he was Mexican and ethnically hispanic. He is actually from Argentina and is a mix of European genes, most of them not from Spain. * When a friend of mine was on vacation, someone asked her where she was from. When she said Sweden, the person gave her a confused look and said: "How can you be Swedish? You're not blonde!" * This Troper's English and Irish genes apparently won out over the Italian from her father's family. For her, that means pale skin, bluegreen eyes, dark blonde hair, and really funny looks on people's faces when the conversation turns to genealogy. * I don't know which PhenotypeStereotype I would fit into, (brown hair, hazel eyes, fair-skin, [[NoodlePeople stringy]]), but I'm Irish, [[strike:French]] [[CanadaEh Canadian]]-[[FrenchJerk French]], NativeAmerican, and some other stuff. I do like [[HeroesWantRedheads dying my hair red]], so wouldn't that be [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this? * This Troper has two nice multi-racial examples. ** I used to think one of my friends was Indian, likely because of her dark skin, black/brown textured hair and dark eyes. Turns out, while she is 1/4 Indian (and 1/4 Ethiopian) her father's Scandinavian. ** Another girl I know has had this problem for years; I'd swear she was Native American, and apparently she's been mistaken for African, Hispanic, Indian, Filipino, etc. She's really half WASP and half Korean. * [[Tropers/LelouchViBritannia I]] look more Native American than white, despite having far more white ancestry. I've been mistaken for Italian, Korean, Turkish, Chinese, Mexican, and Hawaiian. Never mind that I'm a hodgepodge of English, Dutch, French, German, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish with maybe a trace of Polish. All the Indian ancestry (Cherokee, Nanticoke, Lenape, Assawoman, and maybe Wampanoag) is very distant and thus I can't legally claim tribal membership. Meanwhile, all other white people look alike to me, even if they're Europeanborn. Put all of those European nationalities next to one another and I can't tell who's what without hearing their languages. ---Go back to PhenotypeStereotype, with those Americans who are all blonde and blue-eyed. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PhlebotinumAnalogy * This Troper regularly uses this technique when tutoring kids in science and math, to surprising success. Who knew that growing up on StarTrek would be beneficial as an educator? * interdumRedWren uses this all the time. It's gotten to the point where she translates for her brother half the time whenever he gets

into [[DungeonsAndDragons DnD]] or VideoGames. It has, however, been used at least a few times for any member of her immediate family between two other members of [[NuclearFamily the four]]. ---This sentence is like a road that goes back to PhlebotinumAnalogy. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PhotoDojo * I made the Diamond and Pearl rival. His loss quote is professer Rowan saying "[[IndianaJones He chose poorly]]. * [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} I]] made Myself in photo dojo, as well as My dad, Peter and David weren't in the frames entirely. (To be fair they were 6 and 5 respectively) ** Dallen: [[{{Narm}} CRAAAAAP]]! ** Then I made Acrin (a character from [[{{VideoGame/Terraria}} Terraria]]) and the [[{{TeamFortress2}} Heavy]] ---Snap! Tv Tropes is a character in PhotoDojo!

PhraseCatcher * I have seveal, including "Stop using such big words"\\ "What were you talking about again"\\ "You need to stop thinking so much"\\ and "are you talking to anyone?".\\ Whenever someone tells me a variation of "stop being so smart" or "That's too complicated", I spew out "I'm not that smart!". it's kinda become a CatchPhrase. Until it reached the point where someone would say the aforementioned lines and someone right beside me would say "you ARE that smart". Problem is, if I was that smart, I would do a lot of stuff better, the only answer is that every teenage girl I meet seems to not be able to use her brain properly. Which sucks because I'm in an all-girls school, meaning that I can't talk to anyone else except for teachers. I mean really, 15-year-old girls like that are what feeds the "brainless teen" image. I mean, in what universe are the words "intoxicated", "foreseeable" and "understatement" [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness hard words?]] Do I live in a different universe? * ManWithoutABody hears an awful lot of "Do you have some kind of [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome accent?]]" ** Same with LeighSabio. ** CanvasWolfDoll: Similar, but it's "Are you British?" He tires of it. * Don't know if this counts, but MutantRancor has repeatedly been jokingly asked if he's a robot. And he once met a girl who refused to believe that he is not, in fact, a butler from Iraq (huh?)...because he [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness uses long words]]. He doesn't even

have an accent, and was in fact less than two hours' drive from the town where he was raised. ** Well, maybe he uses standard television English instead of the regular American Midwest accent, but they're almost indistinguishable anyway. Oh, look, I [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness did it again]]. * This troper has a friend with the last name of Jelin. Yes, like a felon. He keeps count. * Whenever I meet people for the first time, they often ask me what nationality I come from. Why? Because of my voice. What does it sound like? Think Daffy Duck, except less quack-y. Afterwards, I ''always'' respond with "My mum's American and my Dad's Lebanese''. They ''always'' act surprised to one degree or another. * A girl in my sister's soccer camp had the "shut up" variety after the first day. The second day, her group had a different coach, who insisted everyone have nicknames. Everyone already did, except Shut Up Girl (call her Katie). Coach didn't realize this until he asked her to get the ball. -> '''Coach''': You don't have a nickname? -> '''Katie''': Well, no, but I think it should be-> '''Other girl''': Shut up! -> '''Katie''': But I-> '''Different other girl''': Shut up! -> '''Coach''': All right, Shut Up, go get the ball! The nickname lasted for the whole camp. * On the Internet: are you really that young? I've been asked that 9 times already. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]] had a friend. Her name was Lola. She was ''not'' a showgirl. She finally snapped and decked a kid. It never got brought up again. * This Troper was born on her great grandma's birthday, and given her name. Unfortunately, her name was 'Juliet'. It has gotten to the point where she judges how well she will get along with people by weather or not their first reaction to her name is "Where's Romeo?" or some variation there-upon. * This troper gets: "You're (insert age here)? But you look so young!" whenever she tells people her age. * My last name, Sherk, has attracted two kinds of Phrase Catchers. One was popular in Jr. High, where teachers would tell me I was shirking my responsibilities if I forgot to do homework. I swear, they sat on that for months just waiting for me to forget a worksheet. Backfired though, since my name is not spelled with an 'i'. The second kind is...well, look at Sherk. Ever since Shrek came out, EVERYONE has at some point called our family 'Shrek'. Whether it be intentional or accidental, teacher or telemarketer, EVERYONE has done it. * HonoreDB got "Oh, I thought you were a sophomore for some reason" in freshman year of highschool, freshman year of college, ''junior'' year of college, and senior year of college. Apparently I just have that air. * This troper has been trying to make his roommate one of these, constantly saying "God damn it, Henry." whenever necessary and encouraging others to do the same across campus. * [[MikeK I]] get a lot of "You don't sound like what you look like",

usually in those exact words. To put it in context: Most people I meet online will see pictures of me long before they hear me talk. I guess pictures tend to make me look serious and intimidating because I don't smile in them and have kind of intense-looking eyes, but I have a pretty young and nerdy-sounding voice (and honestly have been called "m'am" over the phone multiple times). * Back in [[CrazedNinja my]] days of taking a fencing class in college, I got this a lot: "[[BerserkButton Is that a giant radio in your backpack?]]" * TyrekeCorrea: * This troper has it with "You're crazy" (his "insanity" used to lead to "I'm afraid of you" as well). Sometimes people ask if he's not from his state/country due to the way he talks. * [[{{RainKrystal}} This Troper]] is told a lot that [[ThirdPersonPerson she's]] "predictably unpredictable." * [[TheWeirdo This Troper]] sleeps late and wakes up late as well, and, thus, frequently gets "Did you wake up just now?". His answer, whether he did or didn't: "I ALWAYS woke up just now". * This troper has been asked way too many times [[BerserkButton if it is cold in Alaska]]. It is. And before you ask, yes. IT IS. ** Who asks that? It's so far up north that about a third of it is in the Arctic circle! Who asks if Alaska is cold? I haven't set foot in there and I know that! * This troper is really sick of hearing "You take things too seriously". And variations thereof. (Overall, I really don't. I just tend to butt heads with people who take particular things ''less'' seriously than I do. Or who make DudeNotFunny jokes.) * [[{{Tropers/SgtFrog1}} I work]] in a dry cleaning establishment. We need the steam to properly clean and press the clothes. Customers don't seem to get that when they come in during the humid Northeastern US summer. "Agh, it's so hot in here. How are you all still alive?" I'm too tired and sweaty to make a snarky response. Even if I wasn't I'd probably get fired. That's how the last guy got fired a year ago. * This bookworm troper gets a lot of "How many books do you read in a [week/month/year]?" It drives her crazy, because she reads a LOT, so why do these people always seem to think she COUNTS them? * "Get a haircut!" seems to be This Troper's PhraseCatcher. * [[{{Tropers/Haldo}} This one]] gets [[TheQuietOne "You're so quiet!"]] all the time. * "[[TheEeyore Cheer up]].". * "You're only (age)? You look at least (age)!" It's starting to get annoying... * Someone in my class is always told "You look just like Justin Bieber!" He loathes it enormously. * {{Tropers/ShakaRaka}} has a few, far more complimentary examples. Said tropette carries her sketchbook with her everywhere and could probably buy a small art studio if she had a nickel for every time she's heard, "Did you trace that?" and/or "I can't even draw a stickfigure!" or some variant thereof. * This troper has a shirt with a small flying saucer on it with a white bottom and a yellow dome. This results in a lot of, "Is that a fried egg on your shirt?" and even sometimes "You know, that flying

saucer kinda looks like... A fried egg!" * When this troper was younger, Asperger's syndrome was less well known about, leading to many people replying "Asparagus-what?" * On chatrooms this troper hangs out on, he tries to be aware of it. Whenever someone comes on to the chatroom he specifically mentions trying to avoid the urge to make a joke about it. Of course, the fact that this troper goes by the name "Chessrook" means that he gets a lot of "checkmate" jokes anyway. And being called "Cheeserock" when people talk to him on voicechat like Xbox Live. For some reason. * Because about 95% of the people at my school think I'm weird because of my AspergersSyndrome, most things I say will be met with "I wasn't talking to you, asshole, so fuck off", "Right... *awkward silence*" or just flipping me off. Luckily, my friends don't do this (except one guy who does the flipping off thing jokingly). * This troper has a few... People at the checkout: [[NiceHat "I like your hat!", "Cool hat!", etc.]] People I just met: [[AmbiguouslyBrown "What country are you from?" "Are you Mexican? Do you speak Spanish?"]] When they're told I read a lot: Did you read Twilight? * I have a couple. I've had several different people on several different occasions say to me "You never get mad, you're like Buddha". I also have a shirt from one of the Science Olympiad National competitions from University of Illinois with a quote from Einstein and a fairly abstract picture of him. People will either come up to me and say that they like the quote, or they'll ask what exactly is the picture on the front of my shirt. And whenever I tell people that my last name translates as "curly hair" in Greek, the unfailing response is "...You don't have curly hair". ---Go back to PhraseCatcher. Like you haven't heard that ten times already. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PhysicsGoof This troper had a substitute teacher for much of 5th grade while his teacher was on maternity leave. Once, a student asked her, "If the Earth is spinning, why don't we fall off?" A fair question for a 10 year old, and a great opportunity to begin talking about gravity. Nope. The teacher said, "Because it's not spinning fast enough." FAIL * Strictly speaking, that's not technically wrong. Just a really short answer. ** Or they were joking. * This troper actually doesn't play by the whole "Hollywood Mass"/"Pippi Longstocking Strength" rule, unless say, the RolePlay is something like a toony RP and they ''regularly'' screw the laws of physics for RuleOfFunny. Just because you can lift the weight does not mean that ''it does not have mass or volume''. Come on, I'm not even a

physics major and it's pretty dang hard to move large things when they don't happen to be, say, balloons. So in one RP, I said that a natural 20 allows you to completely disregard the laws of physics. So picture this, a dinky lil Gnome, and an ''unconscious'' minotaur warrior who probably weighs a couple hundred pounds. The gnome then tries to lift the minotaur up and drag him across the room. He can't lift him up all the way, but somehow he's able to heft the bulky minotaur who is a good ''two to three times his mass'' and probably ''exponentially heavier'', and drag him across the room because he rolled a natural 20.

PickedLast * [[Tropers/SeanMurrayI This Troper]] only recalls ever being PickedLast once, at summer camp while deciding basketball teams. However, on that one occasion, the special kid with the mental disabilities was picked over me, despite the fact that I was much more skilled at basketball. It was very awkward. * Of course, if you don't like a sport at all, getting picked at all (rather than being allowed to do some other exercise on the side) can be unpleasant. ** @/{{Medinoc}} agrees. * Picked last? Hah. This troper was never picked at all. It'd be just me and then they'd start playing without me. * [[Tropers/HappyDuck Me]]. All the time. * Averted for this tropette. By all accounts, it should be played straight. While I'm not bad, per se, at most sports (except basketball and baseball) I don't really like to play them in the ridiculously over-competitive environment that was my middle school gym class. As a result, I never tried, and therefore sucked. But the way my BrilliantButLazy AlmightyJanitor of a gym teacher set up the teams, there was never any line up and pick, one-by-one scenario. * I am endlessly grateful to my PE teacher of eight years that he chose the teams for us. * One time in high school, the two teams actually started fighting over who gets to ''not'' have this Troper on their team. Despite the fact that she was actually quite good at sports. * For this (female) troper, all the time, from about second grade onward. My seventh grade gym coach picked up on this. He made another PickedLast girl and me kickball team captains and had us pick our own teams. Without planning it, we managed to duplicate the usual order teams were picked ''in reverse'', so that the people who were usually team captains were chosen last. I don't even remember who won that game. I just remember the looks on the jocks' faces when they were PickedLast. ''Priceless.'' * This troper, though only until high school. Of course, I don't have the slightest care for sports, so [[InvertedTrope I consider this a flattery.]] * A tradition for this troper (though if the team he fell in had one of his enemies, he refused to play; the one time they forced him to, [[{{Griefer}} he tried to spoil things]]). At a certain point he discovered a vocation for "defender who chases his target through the

entire court, even when he doesn't have the ball" and became kind of useful for his teams. * My best friend and I were the only two nerds living in a block full of soccer-obsessed kids. When everyone was playing soccer in the makeshift field below, we were either chosen last (by the more charitable) or kicked out and not allowed to play at all. I also experienced this in school, to the point where some of the other teammates decided it was a little too mean and took my side. ** When I was playing in youth leagues, I had one coach who would resort to the captain system for scrimmages during team practices. Not only would I usually be one of the last to be picked, but I'd also be forced to be goalie as a mild form of hazing, although I would generally come to enjoy the responsibilities of goal tending in ''all'' sports over time and would naturally volunteer for the position anytime it was available thereafter. * [[Tropers/MayaTH This nerdy troper.]] I was so bad at sports as a kid that, during my school's compulsory two hours of sport a day, I was in a group with kids up to four years younger than me. And still always got picked last. Eventually they moved me up to a group where most of the other kids were only a year or so younger than me, just because the school was embarrassed that they had someone from the oldest year group in the school in such a low sports group. After leaving that school, however, [[IllGirl I got chronic fatigue syndrome]] and didn't have to do sports anymore, saving me from the embarrassment. * In gym, it always comes down to This Tropette and the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} class weirdo.]] * This troper and her best friend were always picked last in their eighth grade PE class, mostly because [[{{They Just Didnt Care}} we just didn't care.]] * Happened all the time to this tropette in middle school. Once, when we were going to play soccer, I was picked [[FlatWhat after the guy who was limping due to a foot injury.]] * Two notable examples here. The first was played relatively straight, with the two netball captains picking their teams and the teacher then herding the rejects (me included, as I sucked at netball then and still do) into teams randomly. The second example was a slightly absurd, slightly cruel semi-inversion: during rounders, two of the [[{{The Libby}} Libbies]] in my year (who were also best friends, ew) volunteered to be rounders captains. The teacher let them on the condition that they pick teams for each other. Cue me and a friend of mine who gets even more flak then I do being picked ''first''. * Happened to me whenever we played basketball. I'm kind of nerdy, but I'm passable at most sports and pretty good at football and soccer. And bizarrely good at ping pong considering my experience level. But I can't shoot a basketball worth a crap, my vertical jump is sub-par, and as a kid I was always on the short side. * Being a victim of this Two of my favourite memories are playing Basketball once and winning the game at the end by scoring two goals from free throws, and once bowling out the most popular kid in class for a duck (that is he scored 0) * With one or two exceptions, this Troper's gym class did not pick

teams this way. When we did, however, she was always picked last. * This tropette. Always. And still am, considering I`m not even in high school. Now seems pretty funny, but when I was younger, it hurt a lot, especially when the team I had to go into regularly rolled their eyes. Especially since I am an pretty big sports fan. ---As soon as you are selected by one of the captains to be on their team, you can join the rest of your teammates [[PickedLast HERE]]. ----

PickyEater Stop playing with these TroperTales and read them! There are starving Tropers in third-world countries who'd be ''grateful'' for anecdotes like these! ---* [[Tropers/TheSlenderMan I]] like most foods, except for perhaps mayonnaise, organ meats, mustard, and old people (I like them young and plump. * This troper will eat pretty much anything, [[OrderOfTheStick Except babies]]. What is more noteworthy is the specific way in which I will eat them. In a full meal, any and all vegetables have to be eaten before the meat, or after half of the meat, but before the other half. If there are different kinds of vegetables, the greener ones are first. Out of all fruits or sweets, 10% needs to be taken in before the meats, and the remaining 90% is to be taken in after the whole meal is done. The meat is to be either cut right before being put in the mouth, or all at once. Onions are always to be eaten with meat of some kind... I never thought of the rules before, it's just these consistencies or OCD I have. * This tropette won't touch beef, lamb or any kind of fish. She also refuses to eat most vegetables. * Tropers/GuesssWho: I will eat ham and Kraft cheese sandwiches without the crusts, [=DiGiorno=] pepperoni pizza, strawberry and orange flavored candies, and chocolate with almonds. That's about it. * [[Tropers/InkkiBookman This little troper]] just cannot stand mayonnaise at all, in fact, from this troper's POV, mayonnaise might as well have been [[JustForPun Made Of Spewtonium]]. ** Ditto, friend. *** It's worse after you've worked restaurants enough to get a tub of the stuff on your hands. I didn't care for it before, now I can't stand the sight/smell/texture of the stuff. Many servers get the same revulsion for ketchup. **** Work at Subway - there are people who order pretty much nothing on their sandwiches except copious amounts of Mayonnaise, some people even order ''just'' a Mayonnaise Sandwich, and people frequently put like $10 worth of Mayonnaise after $15 worth of veggies. * Not me, my brother. Example: as a young lad, he was at our cousin's house. My aunt offered him a (yellow) grapefruit. He said, "No thank you, I only like the pink ones." Next time he was there, she offered him a pink grapefruit. "No thank you, I only like the yellow ones." Next time, she had both on hand. "No thank you, I don't like

grapefruit." Why not? "They get in my mouth." He also had an aversion to foods containing "ingredients." The first time my mother visited him after he moved to New York she saw him preparing creamed broccoli. Almost gave her a heart attack. (I wish I was more of a picky eater. Then I wouldn't be so obese.) * Until I was 15 or so, I was so picky an inside joke within my family was "when child services takes you away..." Then when puberty hit, everything became ''delicious''. I'm probably one of the few people who ''enjoyed'' puberty. Anyway, now my sister is the picky one. * This troper is, herself, an ExtremeOmnivore (unless it's green beans), but her younger sister is a shining example of this trope. Her main food group is cheese. Mind you, her pickiness is more the refusing to try new things kind than the limited diet kind. ** Additional comments from the same troper: Even though I'll try anything once provided it doesn't smell awful, I probably count as a PickyEater anyways by the letter of the trope, since I dislike most vegetables, and also most pseudo-vegetables like mushrooms and beans. Usually due to texture, though, not taste; I don't like peppers or onions because of how it feels to bite into a piece, rather than anything to do with the flavor. I'm usually okay with the taste. Also I avoid soy milk because it falls in some sort of bizarre milk UncannyValley; it's just similar enough to actual milk that all this does is highlight the differences. * I'm not THAT picky, but my brother is. He lives off Crackers, and mac and cheese. That is it. He doesn't even eat much of the things he DOES eat! We have to give him vitamins and adult sized ensures to keep him alive. Did I mention that if you change any ingrediants, he won't eat it. No? Well, I just did. * [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] and her brother (and to a small extent their mother) are incredibly picky eaters. The list of things we like and don't like at various times is too long to even begin. Examples, however include: both kids hate all kinds of fish/seafood, regardless of whether they're cooked or not. Both only eat broccoli raw. Troper hates tomatoes, but eats ketchup, tomato sauce and tomato soup. Brother likes fruit and chocolate, but doesn't like chocolate fondue. The list continues. * The troper known as {{Tropers/Scrounge}} is an ''insanely'' picky eater. Hates vegetables, has a weird thing about the texture of foods, loves cheese, likes something one day and hates it the next; a full list of dietary oddities would take up too much room. Was once described as a "meat and potatoes man", to which he responded "I don't like potatoes." * I'm a picky eater, I won't eat ice cream and cake. I am picky about more normal things though, for instance, I only ever have cheese, ham, and maybe bacon on sandwiches. ** Ice cream and cake...? [[SweetTooth BLASPHEMER]]! * This troper cannot stand bell peppers or peanut butter (though he does like Thai peanut sauce) and will consume carbonated beverages when HELL FREEZES OVER! ** So you'll start drinking sodas at roughly the same time I stop drinking them? Convenient. * [[{{Tropers/Nomic}} This troper]] doesn't eat much vegetables and

doesn't drink any carbonated beverages. He also doesn't eat fish and rarely eats chicken. He will also remove pickles from hamburgers and gets very angry when somebody puts mayonnaise into anything he's supposed to eat. Some of this stems from childhood allergies, the rest from just disliking the taste (in case of carbonated beverages from disliking the stinging on his tongue). * [[{{Tropers/Seanette}} I]] hate raw onions, but don't mind them cooked, can't stand chunks of raw tomato, but have no problem with ketchup, spaghetti sauce, etc., gag at the smell of some foods, and cannot stand certain textures in my food (for example, soggy bread/pastry triggers my gag reflex). My husband is even weirder (he swears strawberries taste like solvent). * [[{{Tropers/Azvolrien}} This troper]] will not eat vegetables. At all. It's the texture. ** Oh my ''god''. Are you my long-lost sibling?! I can't eat most vegetables without triggering my gag reflex. ** This troper as well. Sorry, but I don't like eating plants. * This troper is picky in general, but has an actual soul-sucking ''fear'' of tomatoes. His fiancee finds it incredibly amusing to gently toss cherry tomatoes at him just to make him freak out. * This editor has a damaged sense of smell (Anosmia helps) so he has odd tastes in food. Pretty much anything with too many flavors ends up tasting like dirt. If that wasn't enough, he was once in the hospital and on about 30 different medications to keep him from dying. Nothing tasted right anymore, so the scrambled eggs he got for breakfast tasted kinda like blueberry yogurt. The only thing that tasted kinda like it originally did was one specific brand of fast-food french fries. * This troper is very picky. The kicker? I get tired of foods after a short while, and can never eat them again afterward. Luckily, it works in reverse, too; if I didn't like the food originally, it will grow on me until it peaks, and then descend into "Ughh, no", meaning that I get twice the mileage. Yay. * Sweet potato. Pumpkin. Egg. These are all foods that, if given to this troper, can cause severe injury to the gifter. The more you know. * This troper always was picky as a kid; everything had to be almost completely plain, very few spices (except garlic), and vegetables were nearly anathema. My mom always assumed I'd marry a gourmet chef just to give her an aneurysm; I came close, though, having become a vegetarian last year. * This troper of so much. I used to joke that it would be easier to say what I like to eat than what I don't. For example, I only ate minced meat. If it was whole, I wouldn't touch it. Well, I still don't touch meat, but that is because I'm a vegetarian and I have begun to expand my tastes one food at a time. * [[Tropers/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] hates peas. As in, will not be in the same room with them if he can help it. Also, any sort of meat patty should be meat and meat only. None of this "lets put onions in it!" crap. Seasoning is ok, but no vegetable chunks. ** You're right to think this way. Burgers are meant to be meat and any vegetable matter that isn't seasoning is an affront to all that's good and right with the world.

* This troper isn't really a big fan of chicken. Except, sometimes, fried chicken. If I could live on cow meat for the rest of my life, I totally would. Oh, and ever since my mother fed me some evil concoction that was some kind of ham with cheese and sauce in the middle of it and almost made me throw up, I can't eat ham anymore either. * This troper is known to her friends and family as an extremely picky eater, refusing to eat vegetables (except for potatoes), seafood, oranges, mustard, beans, ham, and turkey. I also have a deadly fear of anything involving fungus (up to and including bleu cheese). * This troper is forbidden from meals with certain cousins, due to setting a bad example for their kids. Doubtless when my sister and her husband decide to have kids of their own, I'll be banned there too. * No strange fungi, no chunky red sauces, no mysterious dark or milky drinks of possibly fizzly nature, and no suspicious meaty lumps for this troper. Final Destination. * After reading about poisonous toadstools, [[Tropers/QuantumToast this troper]] spent the best part of a decade refusing to touch mushrooms out of paranoia. ** Also ''really'' not a fan of fish... * This troper's diet consists of sunflower seeds, fish, chicken, fruit/fruit juice, chocolate, bread, cheese, and milk. There's pretty much nothing else. * [[{{Tropers/Clendy82}} This troper's]] diet is pretty well-rounded except when it comes to two things: Cole slaw and potato salad. I've tried it twice in my life that I can remember, at approximately ages 7 and 25, and the result was the same both times: One bite barely choked down, alot of shuffling around the plate hoping that another angle would make it seem more appealing (it didn't), and finally blessed relief when the meal was over. I'm sorry if there are people who swear by these foods, but I think if they were meant to be eaten, they would not have the consistency of snot. * [[Tropers/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] hates peas. If he sees a pea on any food, he ''will'' pick them all out. He also hates anything remotely related to tomatoes (except ketchup). I don't eat any vegetable except carrots either. If you ever give me a sandwich, I want MEAT. No tomato, no lettuce, just the meat (and cheese and BBQ sauce). I also hate onions (unless they are fried), but like the onion flavor in stews and stuff. But the actual onion is nasty. Any seafood is also out, except shrimp and lobster. * An old classmate of mine was (and is) ''extremely'' picky with his food. No veggies, no fruit, no seafood. And his mother & grandmother let him. He's 19 now and still that way. * Most of [[Tropers/VoodooMaster this troper's]] meals are selfprepared microwavable pizzas. I like several other things - In'n'Out hamburgers, sliced apples, bread, toast, bacon, peas (yes, I like peas. I LIKE PEAS!), broccoli (I'm going to be flamed, aren't I?), and, in fact, lots of meat and vegeteables... but nothing else. No mashed potatoes. Not a lot of soups. No beans. Essentially, nothing really ''mashed'' or in a... ''paste''. That stuff's disgusting. * This troper doesn't just hate eggs. This troper can under no circumstances be anywhere ''near'' eggs. That taste, that ''smell.''

She will obsessively pick the bits of egg out of her pad thai... whereupon they'll be inhaled by her fiance, [[CueIrony who adores them]]. ** This troper cannot eat eggs. They make her feel ill, which is somewhat ironic considering that egg sandwiches were her favourite thing ever when she was little. *** Scrambled eggs make me feel ill. Only scrambled. I'll never understand it. * This troper only eats very plain food, and will never understand why anyone would want to despoil a perfectly good cheese pizza by adding pepporoni. ** This troper will never understand why anyone would want to despoil a perfectly good round loaf of bread by adding sauce and cheese. * Unless it's meat, a dairy product, bread and/or made with sugar, ThisTroper won't eat it, and even ''then'' there's still a chance that she won't want to take a bite. * While this troper likes Sour Cream & Onion flavoured potato chips, he hates Sour Cream in it's natural form. * This troper will eat just about any meat (And considers himself a connoisseur of flesh. Hahah.), fruit, or vegetable that isn't a fungus, but that's about it. He cannot stand, among other things, any kind of water animal (Fresh or sea), any and all mushrooms, eggs, milk, most cheese, and a little less specifically, most sweet foods. * This troper's sister refuses to eat fish, nor will she eat eggs, but she is not a vegetarian. Considering her behavior and apparent mental disorder symptoms, he repeatedly suggests that she very likely has an Omega-3 deficiency. * [[Tropers/HawkW This troper]] is physically incapable of eating meat. In fact, seeing a turkey being prepared often make me vomit. I'm not against meat, you understand, it just makes me unbearably sick. Other then that, I'll eat anything. * This troper hates Chinese food and the twist? I'm half Chinese.(I'm considered crazy in my family) I also hate mayonnaise, broccoli in all forms, iceberg lettuce, raw tomatoes, seafood, and cucumbers. I will eat others forms of lettuce and I love spinach but I hate the stemy part and I usually cut it off. About the Chinese food I will die before I eat and thats final. * [[Tropers/JohnnyBGoode This troper]] will eat meat and vegetables without complaint, but dislikes fruit. I just don't like fruit * [[{{Tropers/Darkdata}} Darkdata]] Ugh, boiled eggs in potato salad is the devil, it SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN DONE. Who cares killing some past tyrant, if I get time travel, I am stopping eggs from ever being added to potato salad. ** And don't you dare get me started about mushrooms. * [[{{Tropers/Orihime}} This Troper]] is one of the few persons in the world who HATES chicken and poultry in general. She and her younger sisters also have an aversion to raisins and seafood. Recently, her father brought home some ''very'' expensive and rare seafood that a friend handed to him... and he and the troper's mom were the only ones who ate them. OTOH, the troper herself is a bit of a subversion: much as she complains about the food she dislikes, if there's no real way to escape them, she'll suck it up and eat them anyway.

* [[{{Tropers/Katsuhagi}} This troper's]] father hates onions, garlic and cucumbers, the last one because he worked on a cucumber farm as a teenager. He'll eat pickles, however, which is an inverse of said troper, who likes all of those but hates pickles. * [[Tropers/AstraKiseki This troper]] has a whole family who won't eat seafood (other than a father who is normally on a diet), while she loves it. It makes this troper sad that she has to go out by herself for sushi. Her revenge is a complete disgust for hamburgers. * This troper can't stand onions or cucumbers unless they've been prepared a certain way (i.e., fried and battered to hell and back or minced beyond recognition for onions, and converted to pickles for cucumbers). It's especially bad with onions; non-fried and large enough pieces of onion actually trigger this troper's ''gag reflex'', when he's surprised by onions at a restaurant he has to struggle not to make a scene. While he learned to enjoy carrots, broccoli, peas, cauliflower, and tomatoes, he will ''always'' have a problem with onions. * This troper is rather a subversion, being blessed/Cursed with no taste at all through an accident. Now can he eat anything without any real problems, no matter how it smells or tastes. ** Had an accident involving anhydrous ammonia and phosphoric acid, thus my senses of taste and smell are warped. White bread tastes like marshmallows, some ketchup tastes like grape jelly, ham smells like pineapple. So my food tastes are erratic. Depending on brand and ingredients things I like may taste awful. One constant, green peppers. UGH! * This troper is a real piece of work: ** Seafood - Likes fish, crab, and lobster. Hates shrimp (and don't even start with the "lobster and shrimp taste the same" argument...my tongue says they clearly do not). Allergic to all other surf. ** Hates pickles. Loves relish. ** Hates yellow mustard. Loves dijon or honey mustard. *** That's perfectly normal. Yellow mustard is processed to the point that is loses all resemblance to actual food. ** Only eats tomatoes if they're sliced and placed on a burger. ** Hates bean sprouts to the point where he'd pick out every single one from his rice or noodle dish if necessary. ** Has GERD, and thus has a list of foods he cannot eat without getting Acid Reflux Daymare/Nightmare. Not on this list, however, but inducing the same symptoms...is White Rice. Yes, this troper is Asian. Yes, eating Asian food is...difficult. * This troper is, for the most part, an ExtremeOmnivore-but vegetables are a point of contention. Raw carrots okay, certain ''ways'' of preparing vegetables (mostly Asian) okay, otherwise vegetables are consumed in small doses or not at all. Fruits are only a problem because I just don't eat them regularly, not because I consciously decide not to. Squashes of all kinds (save acorn squash, to be eaten mashed with sugar) are the only food that I won't touch under any circumstances; dates back to a bad experience I had with them in childhood. Long story short, I asserted I wasn't going to eat the summer squash. My parents asserted that I was going to eat the damn squash if I knew what was good for me. I eat a generous bite of the

vile sludge. Cue unfortunate and disgusting reaction. My parents, certain I'd done it on purpose, actually punished me for it. ** Are you me? Because [[{{Tropers/Zemyla}} this Troper]] is also an ExtremeOmnivore, but does not like vegetables unless they're raw or stir-fried, and cannot stand squash. * I have not willingly consumed a vegetable since I was around five years old. The only exception is broccoli, which is only good sometimes. Also, I can be very easily put off by the way food SMELLS. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but some foods give me a headache just by smelling them. Also, if something makes me too thirsty, there's a good chance I don't like it. Oh, and energy drinks make me sick to my stomach. One sip and I'm likely to feel like barfing for a few hours. * This tropers little cousin will only eat the following food, chicken nuggets, bread (often with nothing on it), chips, popcorn, pretzels, candy, and deserts, he's been eating like that since he was four. * This troper will eat anything but the following tomatoes (but I like everything it's made into), beets, boiled cabbage, chow mein, cauliflower unless it has cheese (but I like broccoli even stranger I loved it as a kid), squash, sauerkraut, cucumbers (unless they are prepared a certain way), and certain beans. * [[{{Tropers/Haza}} This troper]] is an inversion, or maybe a subversion. She only eats fruit and vegetables, except if they've got some kind of dressing or sauce on them. Also, the only "snacks" she has are caffeinated beverages: dark, sugarless coffee and Coke Zero. * This troper (Tropers/KurtmanJP) is an incredibly picky eater. He hates vegetables, all sauces except ketchup and bones in his food. He also hates almonds, marshmallows and gets grossed out if garnish or BBQ sauce is on his plate. * This troper's little brother used to refuse to eat mixed foods (I suspect his main objection was to having more than one texture in his mouth at a time). He was in his teens before the first time he willingly ate a sandwich without disassembling it first. * When she met him [[{{Tropers/fidheallir}}this troper's]] boyfriend would only eat monochrome brown or white food (with the exception of yellow cheddar cheese, spinach, and green bell peppers), though he will now eat a greater variety of things. Apparently, when he was a child, he and his cousin would eat exclusively grilled cheese sandwiches and PB&Js. * [[Tropers/EddieVanHelsing This troper]] used to force himself to eat salads on his doctor's advice, but figured he was doing himself more harm by vomiting the salad back up than by not eating the stuff in the first place. * [[Tropers/PurplePantherGirl This Troper]] I'm pretty much ExtremeOmnivore (except meat. Me my mum, dad & brother are all vegitarian) and have exactly ''six'' things I don't eat (mushrooms, avacado, courgette,sprouts, beansprouts and dark chocolate) while brother seems to have six things he ''will'' eat. * I've been a picky eater all my life. I'm now 23. I hate tomatoes (unless it comes in the form of ketchup) and olives, among many others. I don't like anything spicy. I'm still afraid to try new things because I fear I'll hate them.

* This troper is extremely similar to the troper above her, in that she hates tomatoes (except as ketchup), olives, and spicy food. This hatred of tomatoes and spice have made her hate most Italian and all Spanish foods. She can barely stand pizza. She also doesn't like pies, most flavors of ice cream, peas, most pastas, anything au gratin, most sauces, and a variety of other things. * I have a friend (no really!) who's diet consists of pepperoni pizza, french fries, and coke. And that's it. * This Troper hates peppers (except in curry), her uncle seemed surprised by this fact. Also, this Troper's parents hate egg salad (or anything with mayonnaise) so this troper and her siblings never had to eat any of that! * This Troper is either allergic to or nauseated by 90% of all existent food, ever. She basically lives off chicken, eggs, noodles, potatoes and mushrooms. * I will never eat Sweetcorn or Peas as a portion, I only eat peas in fried rice. I also cannot stand fruits, the texture is just wrong, plus I hate very sweet things but I like fruit juices and smoothies. * This troper loves most vegetables raw(carrots, green peppers, tomatoes, string beans), with the exception of radishes and squash. Cooking tends to leech the flavor, and he absolutely hates -cookedgreen pepper. Among meats, he has a low tolerance for pork and seafood, with the exception of fish. ** Yeah, cooking vegetables tends to destroy the flavour, sometimes make it even worse. If one cooks Carrots, they become slimy and lose a lot of the flavour that makes them good in the first place. Celery becomes extremely bland, and Spinach, on the other hand...ugh. Cooking Spinach is perhaps the ''worst'' thing you could ''possibly'' do to it. The resulting pasty slime smells and tastes like sweatsocks. The only way Popeye could have ''possibly'' devoured it all with such haste indicates that he has absolutely no taste buds or sense of smell. * Two of my cousins are the pickiest eaters on the planet- because their mother is and continually told them, "Oh, you won't like that," when they were younger. By the time their sister was born, their parents were both working, so she spent a lot of time at her grandparents'. She'll try just about anything- except when her mother is around. * This troper doesn't like eating curry unless it's Japanese. Then again he's a total moron who thinks Japanese curry is any different from Indian curry. * This troper can't stand bananas. She can't even be near people eating them because they smell horrible. Also plain milk grosses me out. Chocolate milk is fine. * [[Tropers/{{DivineRose125}} This troper]] doesn't like most fruits and vegetables (She only likes carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, green beans, bell peppers and peas) and she also doesn't like them raw. Also seafood, mostly because of the smell; although fish sticks are A-okay in her book. * For over 25 years, people have been informing me that raspberries are delicious. They can have mine; to me, raspberries are too sweet, too bitter AND too sour. It has been dificult to get a chocolate

dessert in a decent restaurant, or find a fruit salad or berryflavored anything that does not include raspberries (a certain mixedberry yogurt is delectable strawberries and delicious blueberries and not a raspberry to be found). Even iced tea defaults to raspberry iced tea. I have noticed that the fashion for raspberries seems to be on the decline, just as it's getting impossible to find ANYTHING that doesn't have artificial sweetener in it. No, it doesn't taste the same. ** This troper is pretty sure that of those three tastes, at least two of them are polar opposites in terms of physical reaction. :O * This lurker will not eat: any nuts, dark, white, or fruited chocolate, fudge, dairy with chocolate, any beans minus green beans, anything spicy at all (cutting out Mexican food and some Chinese and Indian), anything extremely crunchy, anything paste-like, potato salad, anything with mushrooms, any kind of non-stereotypical cheese, squash, broccoli in large amounts, any kind of rice other than white, and peas. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head. * This Troper, through and through. I loathe foods that are combination of other food items (like hamburgers, salads, lasagna, pretty much everything regarding Asian cuisine, etc.) I like cheese pizza, but any more toppings than that is a no-no. I also have a problem of being very sensitive to texture in addition to a strong gag reflex. If I have to chew something for too long, I am unable to swallow it with gagging, so I have no choice but to spit it out. Most people would find my tastes rather bland, as I tend to be big on grain products (bread, crispbread, oatmeal, cereal) while I almost totally avoid vegetables. I also eat very few meats, save for bacon and some other pork products. Chicken and turkey I loathe (they taste like styrofoam). Naturally this causes a lot of problems in social environments, as I simply cannot find anything to eat in restaurants. * This troper is unable to stand any red meat or seafood. Also, he will spend hours in order to remove peas from anything he might need to eat, and will NOT drink milk (but is OK eating other dairy products). * This Troper will eat anything, to the point that he could probably sustain a balanced diet in any foreign country he might be dropped in. The lone exception is strawberries, which he absolutely cannot stand in any form. It doesn't matter if he has family members who haven't touched a vegetable in years, he will forever be mocked as "the guy who doesn't like strawberries. Who doesn't like strawberries?" * This Troper is a picky eater ''and'' has a bad appetite. On some days (or weeks), even the food I like tastes terrible, and I have to force myself to eat or my body (naturally) gets very tired. Someone needs to invent tasteless cube nutrients. ** Vitamin-fortified tofu might come close. * {{Tropers/Miso}} is an INCREDIBLY picky eater, mostly towards vegetables. She hates tomatoes, but loves ketchup, hates potato unless it is mashed up and slathered in gravy or put in the form of a french fry, and used to hate all nuts until a few months ago. The only vegetables she seems to be able to choke down is corn and green beans. She ''used'' to like carrots, but after eating them recently, they tasted like dirt instead of something strangely sweet.

* This troper's sister and three of his cousins are picky eaters. His sister has mellowed out over the years, as did one of them, but two of his cousins are incredibly odd. one of them was at a family wedding and wouldn't really touch anything but the cake because it was mexican food. (Even my sister would eat the Quesadillas - she turned out to ''love'' those things and was thinking about them months later.) The one who wouldn't touch any of the food and would only eat chips or pizza, or at least that's all we knew she ate. ** Meanwhile this troper on the other hand...Alcohol is an insult to beverages. Beverages are supposed to taste ''good''. If you drink something that makes you want to vomit, then it shouldn't be drank, it should be thrown in the trash because it's expired, or KillItWithFire. Pickles are also ''disgusting''. *** Oh god yes death to pickles. And I don't have a lot of experience with alcohol, but I can back you up from what I ''have'' personally run across; beer tastes disgusting, wine tastes inky, the cocktails I've tried all had a gross alcohol undertaste, and I refused to even try tequila when it was offered to me because it smelled like nail polish remover. * Meals were a true test of will when this troper was young. He basically ate nothing but pancakes or pizza; if anything else was served, especially mushy green things, he had to sit at the table until it was eaten, usually for several hours. Almost every meal ended with him being half starved and effectively incarcerated, just trying to survive until Saturday morning when pancakes would be served. Then he would eat a dozen plate-sized pancakes and nothing else. It wasn't that he was just picky, it was that most foods actually [[http://nutrition.about.com/od/nutritionforchildren/a/bitterstudy.htm tasted awful]] to him. He tried eating some broccoli rice casserole once, and almost literally threw up. This troper now realizes that this pickiness was the only thing keeping him skinny as now he eats almost anything, weighing almost twice what he did in high school. Stupid, good-tasting food, . . . [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlemd299wh0 mmm, pancakes]]. * This troper is an extremely picky eater, despite having gotten better since childhood. However, she tends to like the foods opposite of the typical picky eater's fare. She adores almost all vegetables (excluding only tomatos, potatos, cooked green beans and cooked squash), all fruits without exception (admittedly never tried a durian), but despises almost all meat that isn't seafood, and even then it has to be good. She'll eat turkey when it is exquisitely prepared for thanksgiving using a turkey fresh off of my aunt's farm or as deli meat on a simple sub. She loves peanut butter but refuses to swallow a PB&J. She'll tolerate noodles, but only plain, never with butter and especially not cheese. Don't get her started on soup- if it's a liquid, you're supposed to be drinking it, not plopping gross meat chunks into it. Never give me sauce on anything, particularly mayonaise. Any sort of alleged "salad" that does not deliver on lettuce and non-sliminess also fails the test. Add in her small apetite and it's only her addiction to energy bars keeps her from appearing anorexic.

* I swear this troper is the ''only'' person ''in the world'' who knows that Beer is like Vanilla Extract...something you really really ''should not, under'' '''''ANY''''' circumstances beyond dehydration, put in your mouth and swallow. But then again though, I can not see what is supposed to be so drinkable about Beer...it looks ''and smells'' like someone with a bladder infection and ate a bunch of asparagus and then peed in the mug. If it looks ''and smells'' like bodily waste, then one probably shouldn't do anything but dump it. ** Oh sweet jesus, do I ever agree with this. It tastes like a poor man's ginger ale. I don't mind other people's consumption of it, but I myself can't ''stand'' it. * This troper despises grapefruit and some strong smelling tropical fruit that are is not a citrus. This troper remember getting sick from a Procuri sweat which tasted distressingly of said fruit. Not a fan of boiled greens either. My family however winces at smell of spice filled foods. * This troper thinks about food 24/7, loves food, dreams about food and must have a fast metabolism not to be 400 lbs of everything she eats. BUT... she is really picky about certain kinds of food. She picks peas out of everything except fried rice because that has other stuff in it. She also used to absolutely HATE eggs but now she only hates omelets, cannot eat green beans or anything (they just taste SO bad). And she absolutely despises chocolate syrup and chocolate ice cream (that is NOT chocolate flavor...) She hates nuts of all kind, and refuses to eat a lot of things. But the things she doesn't hate, she loves. * I was extremely picky when I was little. I wouldn't eat anything other than pancakes, hot dogs, whipped cream, milk chocolate, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falukorv Falukorv]] with macaroni, sandwiches (but only with cheese) or french fries. I'd only drink certain kinds of milk or water. I'd always taste what the rest of my family were having, but more likely than not I'd make a face and keep eating my own food. You can imagine what vacations were like. It didn't help that some people couldn't get that it had nothing to do with obedience. However, on a vacation to Austria I tasted a bit of Wiener Schnitzel... and everything changed. We're still not sure if it was puberty (I was twelve) or if the food was that good, but either way I started to slowly but surely eat more things. I'm still picky though: ** I love meat and chicken, but not if they're barbecued. Anything else goes. ** I hate anything from the sea aside from salmon, and even then I'm picky with it. If it's not fried or grilled I don't want it. ** No nuts, almonds or peanuts. I can accept almond of it's ground up so I don't taste it, but that's it. ** No alcohol. I can tolerate it in sauces and some desserts, but too much and I refuse to have it. Obviously this also means I never drink beer, wine, drinks or cocktails either. No, it doesn't matter how much other stuff you mix with it, I'll still taste it. ** No coffee in any form. Tea needs to have lots of sugar. I'll drink most sodas. ** I dislike most vegetables aside from tomatoes and cucumbers, and

only apples or bananas when it comes to fruit. Potatoe is tolerable, but I prefer if it's mashed. No mushrooms. ** I HATE soy. This along with the above is why I can never become a vegetarian - I'd starve to death. * My eating habits could cause an aneurysm to some people. There's foods I DEFINITELY don't like, but I will eat them if they're used "correctly": ** I used to LOVE eating boiled eggs and sometimes omelets, but I lost my taste for them (except for custard, eggnog, oddly mayonnaise and yes...FRIED RICE). Why? Cartoons. Seeing cartoon characters getting splattered with egg on their face and the way animators drew them made it look disgusting. I grew to hate scrambled eggs and omelets due to their texture and while I didn't mind boiled eggs I just stopped eating them because they can smell like farts...which makes mayonnaise's safety status all the more boggling. ** I don't put Hot Sauce on things my family generally does (this troper is black BTW). Technically that's more on the lines of being dogmatic with one's eating habits than being a picky eater. Still, when you have family members pushing you and insisting that you're being "shy", modest or delusional for wanting to savor the actual taste of the food, I think it's a special case. ** Tomatoes, don't like 'em. Hate ketchup too. Will happily eat tomato sauce, cocktail sauce (for Shrimp) and use Tomato paste as a base. Admittedly will put Sun-dried Tomatoes on a pizza, pasta or even a Sandwich. Plus I don't mind V8 Splash blends that have tomato juice in it. Will sometimes stomach salsa on a Burrito, but at times I can find the taste detracting. ** I have my hotdogs plain and my French Fries without ketchup, though Barbecue Sauce is a fine substitute on bad steak fries. ** Cheese. Oh man, this is where things get hairy. I won't eat it on a burger unless it's an American slice and even then that's not unless it's topped with BBQ sauce and bacon OR some chili. It has to be HALF a slice for a Fish sandwich (a la [=McDonald's=] Filet-O-Fish). Italian food is generally okay with cheese, not so much Mexican food. That's right, NO CHEESE IN MY BURRITOS. Get that Quesadilla away from me. Broccoli and Potatoes get a free pass. I'll also eat Macaroni and Cheese if it's Kraft Dinner OR if the person making it is REALLY good at it. Can't go wrong with any Spray Cheese or Frito Lay Jalapeno Cheese Dip though. ** Some vegetables. Onions have to be in RING (as in DEEP FRIED) form for a burger or "cheese"(see above)steak, grilled is okay in certain cases. Generally onion soup powder or onion powder will be used more than chopped onions. I have no problem with corn but put that in my Beef Stew and you're a dead man. BLT? Just leave the "B". I can choke down lettuce in a chicken sandwich AT BEST, don't expect me to take down a salad without some sort of gag reflex. In general, sandwiches and burgers are just meat and bread affairs with the occasional condiment. ** I avoid putting butter the things people generally do. Muffins, Pancakes, Oatmeal (what?). Not a big deal, except for that one time my aunt buttered store bought pastries and put them in the oven. Crap. ** Walnuts, not a fan of them in pastries (Banana Nut Muffins and

POSSIBLY Nut Bread are the exceptions to the rule). Nor raisins. The person that puts either in a Cinnamon roll is a DEAD MAN. ** German Chocolate Cake is pure tantalizing torture. Chocolate cake? Oh boy! Wait...Walnuts? Glaze? Shredded Coconut? WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS?!?! ** Oddly enough, there are foods I general have no problem with eating happily but either someone's a Lethal Chef or they simply prepared with a few mistakes. I loved my mom's Spaghetti but for a barbecue or birthday outing she would grate bits of American and Jack cheese (which would melt on top) for everyone else to enjoy. My dad (or his current wife) would make it SO bad, they'd insist we put salsa and ketchup on it to make it palatable. My late stepdad had NO sense of using herbs/spices meaning meat that tasted like wet newspaper. On another occasion he tried to prepare Beef Stew like my mom EXCELLED at doing. What did he do wrong? He used frozen vegetables (including beans), had NO potatoes, used a Mushroom based gravy instead of a beef/onion mix...so I guess, EVERYTHING. Also, I don't much enjoy stuffing/dressing from anyone NOT on my mom's side of the family as the record shows. * I am a very picky eater, and I go off foods that I like very easily. Some foods I cant even bear to touch or smell. I dont ever think about what is in my food, or I feel sick. * I guess I'm not as picky as I'm being told I am, but that's because my husband's a vaccuum cleaner when it comes to food, if it's food, he'll eat it. I don't eat beans (save green, those are good), peas, cooked tomatoes, or onions when they're fresh (cooked, I'm alright with). I think the big problem with him thinking I'm picky is because I won't eat his "awesome" chili, which, due to a childhood hospital visit involving chili (I burnt my esophogus with stomach acid), the smell of it just makes my chest hurt. * When one of my cousins was little the only things she ever seemed to eat was macaroni and cheese (we had that every time we babysat and I got so sick of it I refused to eat it for a while) and grilled cheese sandwiches she refused anything else. * [[Tropers/MKH90 This Troper]] is sadly a picky eater beyond comprehension. It's not exactly like I like being picky, but a lot of food just makes me want to puke. Any [[ExtremeOmnivore extreme omnivore]] wanna switch their palate with mine? :P * I won't eat mushrooms, onions, peppers, chillis, food that has touched other food items, food that was cooked in the same pan as other food items, food which has been touched by a sauce belonging to other food, eggs, anything that has touched eggs, anything that is a liquid of a thiker consistancy than milk, anything that is of intermediate states (cream, jelly, jam etc) anything with fat attached, any large quanity of meat just served as a chop/steak, any fruit, or anything with a fruit like texture, salad vegetables...I could go on..but this is making me feel ill * This troper's ex-best friend in her early childhood consumed milk, chicken nuggets, macaroni, and carrot sticks, and literally NOTHING else. Drove me crazy because everyone came down on ME for being picky. * This Troper. Full stop. I refuse to ingest: ** Cold vegetables.

** Any vegetables that aren't corn, carrots or broccoli. ** Anything that smells bad. ** Cold pasta. ** Mayonnaise. ** Sushi. ** Any meat that didn't come from a farm animal, for example I'll eat cow, pork, chicken and fish but not lamb, deer, moose or caribou. *** Since when were lambs/sheep not farm animals? ** Oh, and I can't eat burgers. I used to love them but about six months ago my body just started rejecting them. * I am a picky eater, and some foods I cant eat because I ate them too often and got sick of them, or had a bad experience with... ** I do not eat most vegetables and dont like bananas ** I will not drink milk or eat cheese unless that cheese is in a cheeseburger ** I will not eat chicken except for ones from our local takeaway ** I do not drink alcohol, orange juice makes me feel sick and I will only drink apple juice if it is a certain brand ** I do not eat sausages as we had them at least twice or three times a week through my mum's last pregnancy ** I don't eat mushrooms because they taste slimy ** I don't like fish, except for tuna * This troper knows a girl who is so picky that, in grade school, she never ate one thing off the school menu. Instead, the girl's mother would make her one of two things for lunch: mashed potatoes or toast. That's it. There are very few things she does eat, and she balks at the request to try something new. As my friend once said, "no wonder she's so goddamn small! She doesn't eat ''anything!''" ** This troper herself, however, can be kind of a picky eater as well, but not to the above extent. For example, I hate eating ''anything'' with a slimy texture, and for some reason anything I've ever thrown up when I had the flu I refuse to eat any longer. There are plenty of other examples, but I'm probably so used to them by now that they don't come to mind. * My older sister has always been like this, in that she like no type of vegitables. NONE. I'll eat sweetcorn or carrots or beans no problem, but she can't stand any veggies. Because of this, her plates of food always seem quite small in comparison to the rest of the family. * This troper won't eat most vegetables, won't touch fish/seafood, hates cheese, can't stand whipped cream, maple syrup or custard, and won't touch most dual-flavoured drinks (as in, mango/peach, apple/blackcurrant and so on.) * This troper is the only troper in the world who doesn't like Sandwiches...I feel like I'm the only one. ** You may be, since "sandwich" has a ''very'' broad definition. * [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever I always]] thought I was a picky eater, but my cousin pretty much takes the cake. ''No'' vegetables (except potatoes and corn (plain)), ''no'' fruit (except apple juice), ''no'' sauces (except ketchup). His diet basically consists of meat (plain), bread, ketchup, and junk food (and somehow, he's taller than I am - I'm still baffled by that fact). Mark my words, if he ever set

foot in a 5-star restaurant, he would have a stroke. * For this troper, it's texture. I cannot stand anything ''mushy''. Soggy is okay, chewy or rubbery is okay, crispy is great. Oddly enough, this has resulted in a love of vegetables and a hatred of meat. The reason being that in this troper's culture, vegetables are usually fried (i.e. crispy), while meat is...''slurried'' (there is no other word to describe it). The only time I can stand eating meat is at fast food restaurants, because the texture is easier on breaded chicken. I also don't like things that are heavily sweetened: fructose is my #1 enemy. The only exception is soft drinks, because the bitterness of carbonated water cancels out the sugar. For the same reason, I can't stand ketchup but will happily eat mayo or mustard. This aversion to sweet causes problems when I have to drink panchamrutham at religious occasions (panchamrutham is an ultra-sweet combo of milk, honey, and coconut). And gagging during rituals is not the most respectful thing to do in front of God. * Reading these anecdotes, [[Tropers/SgtFrog1 I'm]] surprised you all haven't starved half to death! Then again, I am an ExtremeOmnivore (with a PickyEater father and older brother, and a mother with normal eating habits), so I may be a little biased... * Glad Im not the only ExtremeOmnivore. The closet I come to being 'picky' is not eating balut, lutefisk, boiled spinach and brussel sprouts. Everything else, be it animal vegetable or mineral is not only fair game but actively hunted down and consumed. Fear the opposeable thumb! Try stir-fried mealworms or some seasoned raw beef, its great! * [[Tropers/TheGrayestFox A certain me]] HATES PIG. For example, Bacon makes me feel queasy from the smell alone. I'm not a vegetarian, mind you. Try to take my beef and you will DIE. * [[Tropers/{{Skyknight}} Keep. Licorice. Away. From. Me.]] That stuff was meant to improve the taste of medicine? Talk about a cure worse than the disease...And let's not get into Maraschino cherries (ordinary cherries, MAYBE, but THOSE? {grimace}). Texture is also a concern; for that reason, I keep away from button mushrooms (I can take porcini just fine, though) and shrimp. Interestingly, when I was a young child, I think the only vegetables I wanted nothing to do with were squash (and except for pumpkin, I've come to grow fond of squash) and cooked carrots; all other vegetables, including raw carrots, and especially broccoli...YUM. * I eat very few things and even fewer healthy things. As a child when I was told I couldn't leave the table until I ate everything on my plate I would sit at the table for three-four hours and refuse to eat. When I was visiting a friend and ended up staying for dinner I would experience anxiety attacks from having to eat other people's cooking. And when it actually came time to eat I had to try my hardest not to gag. This includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners, which ended up alienating me from my extended family and left me hating those holidays. I am still like this. I haven't changed a bit. I still refuse to eat at Christmas Dinner. Thankfully I've been able to skip out on the other dinners. Its all I can do to not throw up when I have to eat food I don't like. One Christmas dinner I even ended up swallowing cooked carrots whole because I wouldn't taste them that

way. I hate being a picky eater. ** Have you tried therapy or talking to a doctor? Most of the picky eaters on here simply don't like certain foods, but it sounds like you want to eat these things, but your body and/or your mind are rejecting them. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} I]] was thinking today about why I can eat bread ''rolls'' easy enough but hate actual bread. * This troper refuses to eat most fruits or vegetables, and that includes juice. No fish either. Not to mention that I cannot stand certain types of food even touching each other, so things like soup or stews or chili are inedible, much less if a bit of salad dressing happened to touch a bit of chicken. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] is a very strange case, possibly due to AspergerSyndrome or the hyper-acute senses that come with it. Pretty much anything outside this list he will not eat. The list of things he will eat: ** Pasta with no "toppings" other than butter or salt. *** Mori soba/udon (i.e. just the noodles in a pile with a dipping sauce). He's amazed he even got himself to like the sauce. ** As for meat, only chicken (either fried [and with no bones] or skinless) and fried cod. ** French fries, but no ketchup dammit. Definitely not burgers as there are way too many things mixed together at once. ** Cheese pizza. Like some tropers above, he does not understand why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good one by adding any toppings. Come to think of it, most kinds of cheese and bread in general; he also likes toasted cheese sandwiches. ** Breakfast cereals. He can barely tolerate oatmeal. ** Luckily, several kinds of fruit (probably the only reason he's not dead) including apples, bananas, grapes, oranges, strawberries, cherries, and peaches. Almost no vegetables though, unless mixed with fruits in a juice form. ** White rice. Definitely not with nattou, as even people who don't fit this trope seem to detest it. ** As for drinks, almost anything goes. Milk, juice, green tea, soda, even beer. * This troper (in his mid-teens at the time of this writing) will not eat or drink anything on the following list: ** Caramel ** Vanilla yogurt ** Any manner of soft drink (or any caffeinated beverage) ** Eggs (unless baked into a dessert) ** Most kinds of fish ** Anything with the word "teriyaki" in it ** Et cetera, et cetera ** Conversely, if steak is omitted from the menu, then you and me are going to have a problem. * Though this Troper is otherwise kind of a BigEater, she won't eat/drink the following: ** Cauliflower ** Broccoli ** Eggs(when served as eggs, not when put into anything else. She

liked them as a kid, though, and smaller, boiled pieces are slightly tolerable, but still not good) ** Marzipan ** Diet soda ** Coffee. Also, most teas(except green tea) without sugar. ** Mayonnaise ** Corn ** Overcooked carrots or potatoes. Or any other overcooked vegetable. ** Avocado ** Potato chips. Yes, really. Never liked them. ** Pineapples in almost anything, such as pizzas. They're tolerable, but not desirable, in fruit salad. They're okay when eaten by themselves, though. ** Walnuts, though this is partly because she is allergic to them. ** Most things with raisins in them. Such as chocolate. Ugh, raisin chocolate... ** (The below items are more in the category of "will eat if served to her, but would preferably be without") ** Some cola-flavoured candy. It can be hard to get right. ** Big pieces of onion. (Cut into tiny pieces is okay) ** Hamburgers from McDonalds, or other fast food places. (Though this is the only kind: she loves home-made burgers.) ** Various kinds of soups. ** Corn Flakes. Mostly because they get soggy after a while in milk, and she found out at an early age that soggy corn flakes are not good at all. * This Troper, while otherwise an ExtremeOmnivore, takes... serious issue when things that aren't supposed to be sweet are sweet. Pretty much anything that combines the taste of sugar and tomato, really. Especially ketchup, even the thought of ketchup ruins my appetite and the sight of it makes me nauseous. Or the taste of sugar and vinegar. Go to hell, pickle relish. Oh, and Thai green curry is supposed to have ''a hint of sweetness''. '''A HINT'''. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SERVED IN CURRY FLAVORED SYRUP. * I used to love black beans when I was practically a toddler. I used to eat them each and every meal, no matter what was the dish being served...until one day, when I ate too many and got sick (spent all night vomiting). Ever since then, the very smell of black beans gets me bad memories...and that's not the only food I have a story with... * I'm the only person I know who absolutely HATES cheese. I absolutely cannot stand it - the look, the taste, the color, the feel of it in my hands, the texture, the film it leaves in your mouth, I hate everything about it. I could go on and on about it. But I LOVE Cheez Its. Also on my hate list are fish, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic, ice cream, pie, cake, and pretty much anything else that isn't steamed rice, pepperoni pizzas, Ramen noodles and Chinese food. My parents always say if it weren't for the microwave I would have starved to death by now. * This troper, oh so much. She can only imagine it's a nightmare when going to restaurants or to other people's houses for dinner because she barely likes anything. The most notable examples being that she refuses to eat almost anything with sauce or dressing on it (too messy

and the flavour from the sauce often overpowers the flavour from the actual meal) and when consuming fruit, it has to be in juice form most of the time, because she hates the texture of most actual fruit (so for example, she dislikes solid apples. But put those apples in a juicer and she'll happily drink it up). The mere sight or smell of chilli make her feel physically nauseous. For years she'd refuse to eat bread slices (unless toasted) but enjoyed bread rolls (kind of justified in the fact that a magazine she used to read once published an article on how a dead mouse was found inside a loaf of bread. Complete with a [[BrainBleach rather graphic]] photograph of a [[{{Squick}} decepitated mouse head on a slice of bread]]. Kind of traumatised her). Thankfully, she's beginning to expand on what foods she's able to eat, though still extremely picky about it. * This troper HATES animal products like meat and dairy (main reason for a semi-vegan diet), he however LOVES honey. This troper loves most veggies, but can't stand Brussel Sprouts or cauliflower. He aslo loathes bananas, milk chocolate, and avocados. * [[{{Tropers/Minnakht}} This troper]] is not much of a picky eater, but since everyone's listing their dislikes either way... raisins. They're nice. Apples, strawberries, otherberries... those are fine too. But put any of those anywhere near a cake or ice cream, and you've ruined both. Chewy bits just don't go well with a creamy/spongy texture. Apple pie is fine, as the apples are turned into an uniform mush. Orange juice is fine either by itself, or together with like ten other exotic juices - but when mixed with just a single other flavour, unpalatable. Non-red or forest fruit tends to be unpleasant in general, as well as cucumbers and tomatoes, unlike most other vegetables. Fish, too - if it's not salmon or possibly tuna, it'd better be fried beyond all recognition, preferably in a lot of batter. The fact that sauce/batter with a hint of an actual dish underneath is delicious due to the creamy/crispy texture is possibly what keeps this troper from being a picky eater, makes McDonalds food so good and pizza toppings irrelevant, as it's impossible to feel the taste of the separate ones from underneath the sauce and cheese. The other reason is this troper's attitude towards [[DwarfFortress Fun]] [[MasochistsMeal tastes]] - if something has 'garlic' or 'honey' in its name, it goes onto a 'to try' list, he's had [[ForeignQueasine tripe-based]] soup and it was good... * [[SweetTooth Sweets are great, especially chocolate.]] [[MasochistsMeal Black licorice is atrocious,]] and [[IronicHell taffy and gum are torture. ]]Then there's a whole long list of things I refuse to eat, from never to maybe: Celery, cardamom (a spice very commonly used in traditional Persian Jewish cooking), cauliflower, most squashes, anything overly greasy (any Russian dish other than borscht can be this depending on the cook), really hot salsa, tuna salad, stewed tomatoes, broccoli, and so on [[IncrediblyLamePun ad nauseam]]. Guess what some of my parents' favorite foods are? On that note, [[{{Tropers/BiblioMatsuri}} this troper]] likes Mexican foods (yum, quesadillas), but mother dearest always wants Chinese takeout, and Chinese food is the only way I can eat zucchini. Each to their own. * This troper dislikes mustard and mayo (he only leaves them on

burgers because washing the patty is rarely feasible), and often jokes that asparagus and zucchini are proof enough for him that God is evil. * This troper. I refuse to eat anything that doesn't appeal to my eyes. I also hate things with slimey textures. I also will not eat ANY type of sandwitch. I'm also a vegetarian. I also hate hotdogs, and any other fast food. Soda is another thing I hate. ** Also, eggs, beats, sauce, peanut butter, burgers, carrots, oranges, prezels, doritos, cheetos, mayo, fish, baked beans, salad dresssing, meatloaf,... * This troper dislikes many kinds of vegetables (gourd, unripe papaya, belinjo, tomato, eggplant, pumpkin, avocado, pea, asparagus, cassava, ginger, just to name a few), meat (cow, sheep, goat, horse, pig (absolutely don't eat pig)), fruits (jackfruit, blueberry, date, pomegranate, guava, chempedak, coconut, duku, durian, tamarind), scallop, oyster, jellyfish, cuttlefish, carp (especially because sea foods make me itchy; though I like some sea foods like shrimp and tuna), sweet foods (although I like some sweet food, but I generally despise sweet foods in general), raisins, salty foods, creamy-andsweet foods like profiterole/cream puff, and jelly candies. This troper's friend also absolutely refuses to eat anything with vegetables. Any vegetables. ---''You are going to march yourself right back to Main/PickyEater, and you're not going to leave until you clean your plate. Is that clear?'' ---<<|TroperTales|>

PieInTheFace * This troper has been pied twice on stage during school plays, and once during a family reunion. * This troper witnessed a squadron fundraiser where all the usual suspects were getting some votes for pies: The commander and the officers, the senior NCOs... and one lowly Airman who was far too lowranking to be getting the absolutely rediculous number of votes she was getting. The popular theory was that, given that this airman was [[{{understatement}} rather attractive]], people just wanted to see her get [[CoveredInGunge her face covered]] in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything something white and creamy.]] * It wasn't so much "Pie in the Face" as it was "Whipped Cream on a Styrofoam Plate in the Face." And the scenario that played out was played for both drama (a first for a trope that's mostly found in comedy) and laughs. You see, I had embarrassed my friend (who, for privacy reasons, we'll call "Robert") by kissing him and felt bad about it for days. I apologized and he accepted, but I still felt bad. That Friday (the kissing incident happened on a Wednesday), I was making homemade whipped cream (it's just whipping cream and sugar mixed together) and decided that the only way I could show my friend I was sorry was to hit myself in the face with the whipped cream I was making. I glopped the whipped cream on a plate and headed to the cafeteria (I was going down there anyway to tell my supervisor that I wouldn't be able to work that day due to a WalMart outing). Before I

left, I took off my glasses, put my hair back, and shouted, "Hey Robert..." as I slammed the plate in my face. I didn't count on the whipped cream being so thick (I was raised into thinking that whipped cream was thin like Cool Whip or Reddiwhip), so you could imagine my shock that I couldn't see and tried not to breathe out of fear that the thick whipped cream would go in my lungs and I would asphyxiate. "Robert" was so shocked he ran into the bathroom while his buddy yelled at me for doing something this crazy. "Robert" eventually came out and told me I didn't have to do that. My response: "I wanted to feel just as bad as you did when I kissed you." The caf workers thought I had slipped and fell on the whipped cream I brought with me. I lied and said that was what happened, 'cuz really [[RefugeInAudacity who's going to believe that a girl used a plate of whipped cream to commit a non-lethal, very tasty version of hari-kiri]]? ---Don't turn around, or someone is going to shove [[PieInTheFace pie in your face]]. ----

PietaPlagiarism * In one of my games, after the hero shoots his rival with an exploding bullet, the area surrounding the rival is covered with smoke, and out of it comes one of the major antagonists holding him in her arms this way, thus intentionally invoking the trope. Also, she said part of one of the Psalms, modified, as a way of referring to the rival as Lucifer, thus also invoking What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic. ---Your unconscious body will be carried back to PietaPlagiarism. ----

PiggyBank * As a kid, this troper had a lion bank (one of those cute resin red, yellow and white ones that his parents probably got at a rummage sale or someplace cheap) that he regularly stuck his change into. It was not openable from the bottom like a lot of piggy banks are, so years later when we wanted to get to the money inside, we had to cut the lion's head off with a hacksaw so that we could empty it out. This troper keeps what was left of the money in a jar. ---Go back to Main/PiggyBank, and save up for a rainy day! ----

PimpDuds * There's a guy at the mall in Tacoma, Washington that has become almost legendary (someone even made a Facebook fan page for him. As of this edit, it has a couple thousand fans). Every day he sits outside the Nordstrom cafe wearing a pimptastic suit in a color like pink, yellow, green, purple, you name it. He also has a bible out in front

of him on the table. No one's quite sure who he is, but the general consensus is that he's some sort of preacher. * On this troper's way home from London she encountered an older man in a pinstriped suit and fedora and several gold chains, accompanied by two much younger women. To this day she swears it was a pimp transporting his hos. * There's no other way to describe the wardrobe of one of the vendors at the [[http://www.parenfaire.com Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire]]. He sells the most beautiful jewelry on the fairegrounds. He also wears a feathered hat, pastel-colored captain's coats, various rings and brooches, and (suspected but not confirmed) high-heeled boots. He also has long curling hair. He flirts with anything that moves, male or female, and makes off-colored remarks. He's a tourist attraction all by himself. This troper calls him Captain Fantastic. ---Put on your feathered Musketeer hat, pick up your jeweled sword cane, and go back to PimpDuds. ----

PinchMe * This troper tried this once in a dream, telling a woman that she did not exist because everything was a dream and thus made up. She responded by looking straight at me and asking [[OrIsIt "Are you sure?"]] * [[Tropers/DeltaOne This Troper]] was walking along with some friends. A handsome man walked by, and one of the girls in the group went, "Pinch me." So this troper did so, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean taking advantage of her imprecise instruction]]. This troper awoke with one hell of a black eye. Totally WorthIt. * This Troper also tried one in a dream, because everything was being really freaking awesome. The person I asked to pinch me did so. My thoughts thereafter: "Hmm, that didn't hurt at all. So this IS a dream! Wait, what are you doing? Don't! Don't pinch me again, I'll wake up! AAAAAAAH-" followed by my waking up. Sometimes, it sucks to be {{Genre Savvy}}. * A while ago I woke up and went to the bathroom. As I began to releve myself I suddenly felt a warm feeling. I freaked out and pinched myself to make sure I wasn't really asleep and therefore was going to REALLY unhappy when I did wake up. Don't worry, I WAS awake, but since I wasn't fully awake I wasn't able to connect the mysterious warmth to the air vent right behind me and the fact that the heater had just come on. * The first thing I did during my first lucid dream experience was to pinch myself and see if this trope actually worked. I did feel a certain amount of discomfort, but very faint, as if from a long way away. *I had a dream where for some reason or another, my skin was becoming purple. I then realised i was dreaming, so i ran to my parents in another room, and told them to pinch me. They started laughing, and i started becoming all purple, causing whatever to happen to me and wake up.

*It's always been the complete opposite for this troper. Whenever she realizes she's dreaming, she feels annoyed because she knows that's never enough to end the dream. Her sense of touch seems to work on particulary vivid dreams, too, sometimes making it difficult to tell if she's awake or not. It gets terrifying when she's having nightmares that feel exactly like real life, to the point where she wonders [[ParanoiaFuel which is real and which is the dream.]] ---[[PinchMe Pinch yourself]] to wake up and go back to the main page. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PinkBoyBlueGirl * I sometimes volunteer at a hippie book store which is currently being managed by a [[NiceGuy straight-laced]], clean-cut, [[{{Megane}} glasses-wearing]] socialist guy and an anarchist woman who's got a scar on her back that's about half as big as her palm, a chainsaw pendant, and a general air of {{badass}}ery. The trope isn't evident at first glance, since she usually wears skirts and he tends to wear khakis and dress shirts, but it's immediately obvious if you spend five minutes with them. They [[WithFriendsLikeThese tend to fight like cats and dogs]], somewhat unsurprisingly. * Not this troper personally, but her best friend and said best friend's boyfriend. She's a tomboy, athletic, jocky, hates girly clothes; he's a pretty boy who is too nice for his own good. ** Aw, they must be so cute together! <3 * This trope has become a running joke between this Troper and one of his tomboyish friends ever since one trip to the mall. It started when I pointed out the irony that she was waiting on me in the dressing room at one of the clothing stores and the irony that I ended up with more shopping bags than her. However, we are still a rather straight example. * This troper has made out with a friend of his on a couple of occasions. She's quite androgynous-looking (not to mention extremely attractive) and likes wearing boy clothes. This troper digs wearing girl clothes. * This troper is a short (5'0), [[ViewerGenderConfusion androgynous]], [[WholeSomeCrossdresser crossdressing]], [[{{Transsexual}} female-tomale Transsexual]]. He's feminine, a doormat, shy, and overall a laid back kid aside from his stubborn and {{Tsundere}} habits. His femininity tends to be on the level of the typical teenage girl, albeit usually covered up by his typical habits and not as rambunctious. Every girl he's ever fallen for has been the opposite of him, mixed with {{FoeYay}} since they're quite often his UnknownRival. They're social, not very feminine (but usually not tomboys), but typically quiet. This troper wants to be a stay-at-home-dad author, btw. He finds PinkBoyBlueGirl quite cute to be frank. * This troper's mom and dad. Dad, while not a HouseHusband, does most of the house work. ** Also this troper and a male friend. She likes classic rock like

TheBeatles, male-oriented cartoons like TheSimpsons and Family Guy, likes emo clothes, and is a GenkiGirl. He's obsessed with fashion. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper's]] parents. Mom is a laid-back DeadpanSnarker who was a {{Tomboy}} when she was little. Dad is an excitable, emotional, clean freak who loves to cook. * Im a male who is a good judge of female fasion and hates having my hair messed up. My best friend is a girl who is a hardcore carnivore and can burp better then some boys i know ----

PintsizedPowerhouse * Is a non-human example allowed? This tropette keeps hermit crabs, and her smallest one (Probably just barely an inch long) has ripped /chunks/ of flesh out of her palm and made her scream like a little girl the first few times it did it. * This troper's classmate is about 4'8'' and screams like a Nazgul. * This troper can hold her own in a fight, despite being short and rather soft, instead of muscley. The reason? She has 3 little siblings, and can easily haul the oldest, at about 75 lbs, only 40 less than this troper, around for half an hour without breaking a sweat, jogging. * While not exactly an example physical strength as in the trope, [[{{Tropers/SalFishFin}} this troper]] sings on a choir. One girl is about 4'2'', and can hit notes that most people can only whistle. We often joke about how much space her lungs take up. * {{Tropers/GoatBoy}}: I'm 6 and-a-half feet tall, and built like a mountain gorilla. I grew up in a predominately Italian town, and for most of Middle School, I repeatedly got my ass kicked by the Italian kids, who were half my size. * This Troper's older brother combines this with TheNapoleon. * This Troper's friend combines this with a healthy dose of Yangire. She's very kind and unbearably saccharine most of the time, but when you make her mad, hell will be visited upon you. Ask this troper how she knows. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper's]] older sister is about half his size and can probably lay the mother of beatdowns on him. * Many of the petite women at my health club, especially the trainers, are like this. * This Troper went to Tae Kwon Do classes as a kid. A couple years after I'd left, I heard that my instructor had been arrested. It turned out that he had broken into the house of two of his students-a ten-year-old and eight-year-old girl. He later claimed it was just an attempted burglary, but... he headed straight to their shared bedroom, so maybe there was more sinister intent there. The little girls woke up, and by the time their screams brought their parents into the room, the Tae Kwon Do black belt had been beaten up by the two little girls and knocked out with a lamp. * Ace, just because you're four feet eight inches tall, DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN PUNCH [[@/{{MiraShio}} ME]]. It hurts a lot, I tell you. * One of my best friends is 4 foot 10, but is the strongest out of all

of us. She goes to the gym nearly every day, and is suprisingly strong considering she is so small and thin. * My health teacher a few years back once told a story about how, about five years ago, a 105-pound, 14 year old girl with "special needs" got angry, jumped up from her seat, and threw him out the window and into the school courtyard. A closed, [[CaptainObvious glass]] window. Ouch. * Not a first hand encounter, but I was on a martial arts forum a few years ago, and somehow the subject of fighting midgets came up. A couple of poster said they they had done it, and they were a lot tougher than you'd think. Obviously they're at a big disadvantage when it comes to reach, but apparently they have a suprising amount of power in those stumpy little bodies. * This troper is around five foot two, and is skinny as a rail. Unsurprisingly, friends are always shocked when I can hold my own in a fight. Similarly, this troper also owns an "adorable" small to medium sized dog that as a twenty pound, six month old puppy took on adult pit bulls, Rottweilers, Saint Bernards, Danes, and the like in playfights - in addition to sending the opponent yelping on the rare occasion a real fight broke out. * [[@/{{TheMadFujoshi}} This troper]]. I'm 19 and my height is 1,50 cm; and she is quite a FragileSpeedster, allowing her to be quite [[TheCombatPragmatism sneaky]]. It doesn't help that she fought a lot before high school, has bad mood and, unfortunately for the oponents, learns pretty quickly, making all the anime and martial arts movies she watches a potential problem. As a fragile, I don't have that much strength so I have to rely on ninjitsu (depends more on aplied force in determined, vulnerable body parts [you can broke an arm just by hitting the elbow with relatevely little strenght]; instead of sheer force for kicks and punches). former partner are somewhat amused that this Moe little girl can stand up by herself in a pinch. * [[@/{{Seiryu}} I was]] in a Tae Kwon Do class where the tallest guy in class (6"8') was paired up with the smallest girl (5"1') for warmups one day. The leader had us try a different exercise on that day. We were required to stand back-to-back with our partner, wrap our arms together, and (one at a time) bend over and do squats with our partner on our back. The tall guy did his without problem. The girl didn't have any difficulty either, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to the extreme bewilderment of the guy.]] Until then, I had not realized that it was possible to pull a FaceFault while horizontal, somewhere between two and four feet off the ground. * This troper pushed an occupied station wagon out of the road (a distance of about ten feet)... at the age of seven years old. ---You must be this tall to go back to PintsizedPowerhouse. ''[punch landing]'' Okay, you can go through. ----

Pixar * This Troper was planning on seeing Cars 2 as he has always had a warm spot in his heart for Pixar films............then he saw the rottentomatoes consensus and couldn't believe the score. Im still in shock. ** Go see it anyways. Don't just listen to Rotten Tomatoes, go judge it for yourself. I absolutely loved it. Whatever the critics are saying, it's an amazing movie and decidedly Pixar. * This Troper's lifelong dream is to become an animator at the Pixar studio. Pixar has never done any wrong to the animation industry--it has only delicioused all over it, unlike a [[DreamWorksAnimation certain other studio]] only in it for the money. Pixar has heart, soul, and integrity. I love it to death for that. * This troper had a friend who had a serious chronic depression problem, and could never seem to overcome it. She was the most sarcastic person I had ever met and would always make sardonic remarks about how life is meaningless and all humanity will eventually die soon. In fact, [[DefrostingIceQueen until this]], I had never seen actually her smile before. This troper had tried everything to open them up, for just a bit,but nothing seemed to work. It wasn't until we decided to see ''FindingNemo'' together that she actually ''smiled'' and laughed. Ever since, we've made a deal to see the studio's new films on opening day. Pixar films prove that people have a soul. * This troper repeatedly {{squee}}d when he watched {{WALL-E}} on Youtube. * My family went to see ''{{Up}}'' the day it premiered, so we were completely un-spoiled. As soon as Carl and Muntz started climbing on the outside of the blimp, I whispered to my mom, "[[TVTropesHasRuinedMyLife Oooh! The villain in a Disney movie always dies by falling! Any minute now...]]" Well, [[DisneyVillainDeath sure enough...]] ** Well, Ursula died by getting impaled. True, she's not from Pixar, but she is a Disney villain. ** And Jafar died by getting the lamp thrown into lava. Well, the lamp did fall, so maybe that counts as falling... ** Dr. Facilier did have a different fate (which I would tell, but they spoiled it on the main entry/DisneyVillainDeath page, and I don't want it to become ItWasHisSled.) * This troper is planing on making a Pixar facts, because the company is the animation studio equivalent of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN2Bx_LK2io Chuck Norris]] ** I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but comparing Pixar to Chuck Norris? You honestly think you can compare a company that brings warmth and soul to millions to a martial artist? Chuck Norris cannot compare to the awesomeness that is Pixar! *** And I found my first Pixar fact. ** Pixar is so awesome, their movies could make Satan cry. * This troper was weeping by the end of {{Ratatouille}}. To explain: this troper has wanted to be an animator all her life, and was constantly told that it was a dead end market, and that someone with any shred of intelligence would go into medicine or law or what they

called "something useful". By Anton Ego's review, I was convinced that anyone who saw what I just saw on the movie screen could NOT justify any reason the [[AnimationAgeGhetto Animation Age Ghetto]] any longer, and that to call animation dying was an absolute fallacy. I ended up seeing Ratatouille five times in the theater. * Pixar introduced me to JossWhedon. Actually, Pixar technically introduced a large part of the world to Joss even if they didn't realize it at first. * ''Finding Nemo'' is actually the movie I saw the most often. ''WALLE'' was put on my favorite movie list after five minutes of viewing. * This Troper saw Toy Story 2 for the first time one night when she was babysitting her neighbor's kids. The boy LOVED this movie so we decided to sit down and watch it. While she did love the crap out of the movie, she however had a [[{{Understatement}} bit of a weepy episode]] when she first encountered the "When She Loved Me" scene. She had to excuse herself to the bathroom for a moment to sober up because the girl kept asking what exactly was the big deal with that scene. I didn't answer but I think she'll eventually see the movie again now (she's now about as old as I was then) and she'll know. ** This Troper (same one as before) graduated college a month ago and went out to see Toy Story 3 tonight. [[{{Understatement}} It struck a nerve]]. She was a wreck near the end, but she felt better about it when she [[YouAreNotAlone heard someone sniffling in the theater and then saw a guy walk by her wiping tears from his eyes as they were leaving]]. Regardless, there were a lot of parallels to her situation and Andy going off to college that caused her to be even more emotional than she thought could be possible. * You know that movie that you watched about a million times, and knew by heart, but watched anyways. The movie that, no matter how much you were fighting with your little sister, you would always shut up and sing along to, and hug afterward. The movie that has set the stage for the rest of your life. A security blanket in a VHS tape. For me, that movie was Toy Story. ** Amen. * One of this troper's earliest movie memories is watching Buzz's failed flying attempt in the first ToyStory. * This Troper saw ''Toy Story'' in theaters when he was 3-years old. It was my first movie. I saw Toy Story 2 in theaters as well. I basically grew up with the franchise. And after waiting 11 years, I finally saw Toy Story 3 tonight (opening day). And it was ''beautiful''. It was better than I had even hoped. I cried during the whole end scene, which I found to be a ''very'' satisfying conclusion. Just knowing that this is the end makes me tear up even more. It's very symbolic for me. I grew up with these characters, just like Andy, and now we're both going to college and we are forced to leave our chilhoods behind. Tomorrow, I'm going to dig out my old Woody and Buzz Lightyear toys and play with them one last time. Forget the wheel, electricity, and nuclear power: the ''Toy Story'' trilogy is Humanity's greatest achievement. * Although [[Tropers/NoLimit my]] biggest dream is to become a book author, my next biggest dream is working at Pixar. Why? The answer lies in their motto: "Story is King." Pixar has made some of my most

favorite films ever due to their magnificent storytelling ability. It would be an honor and privilege to ever be able to even meet any of the PixarRegulars. My respect goes out to them. Also: ''ToyStory3'' was everything I could have hoped for. ** I think I just found a long-lost sibling. ** Amen to that. I'm taking a course in animation when I go to college (Studying film, btw) just to increase the chance that I might be able to work there. ** You can count me in as well. If all goes as planned, I'll be applying for a position at Pixar within the next ten years (knock on wood). * This Troper once spent an entire weekend watching nothing but Pixar movies. Best 2 days of his life. * This Troper started crying during the [[spoiler: Incinerator scene]] of Toy Story 3, just praying that it wouldn't end that way, and then burst into silent tears of [[spoiler: relief when the aliens saved them]]. And then, not moments after I'd finally gotten my face dried, [[spoiler: Andy plays with his toys one last time]] and the tears flowed anew. They did not stop, even after the funny credits stopped and we walked out of the theater. During the five minute walk back to our car, I still continued to cry. It was not helped by the fact that my dad and sister kept laughing at me. The tears finally stopped about two minutes later. Add this all together, and I'd say I cried non-stop for a good twenty minutes or so. If this isn't the best damn movie I've ever seen, I don't know what is. I'd like to mention here that right now, any time I heard You've Got A Friend in Me, no matter who's singing it or what language it's in, I will tear up and become an emotional blob. * This Troper is 17 years old and is heading off to college in a little over a month. As you might imagine, seeing Toy Story 3 in theaters hits a little closer to home for me than it does for others. All the scenes with Andy and his mom, or even just the scenes with Andy in general, affected me just as much the rest of the movie. Pixar hasn't put a foot wrong with emotional moments to date, and literally ''everything'' about the "Andy goes to college" plot felt real and genuinely moving, especially for someone who's living that plot himself. Watching this film has, in its own way, helped me accept that a chapter of my life is closing and another one is beginning as I leave my family and go to college. If Andy can simultaneously embrace and let go of the child inside of him as he moves on with his life, than so can I. Thank you, Pixar. [[IronicEcho You've got a friend in me.]] * This Troper first saw Toy Story in theatres with her younger brother and sister, and all three of us were flabbergasted, because we almost never like the same things. When Toy Story 2 came out, we went to see it all together again, and loved it just as much. Toy Story 3 came out, and my younger brother has just started college. He couldn't make the trip to see the movie with us. [[TearJerker Guess what my sister and I spent the entire film doing?]] * The first movie this troper ever remembers seeing is [[ABugsLife A Bug's Life]]. During her first visit to Disneyland she chose a plush "Dot" over all other souvenirs. She still has it to this day.

* Around the house, one of the many nicknames my brother has is WALLE. When I bring this up, my mother shudders and goes "he can't marry an EVE! He'll get bullied! The EVE won't take care of me!". I then often say that EVE merely found WALL-E amusing and while she was way outta WALL-E's league, she was really nice to him. ** Same troper is also an action figure collector. As you can imagine all the Toy Stories, especially the third one, hit close to home. As a kid there was one day where I decided to say everything in Toy Story universe-speak, including referring to Pizza Hut as Pizza Planet. * This American Troper and his lurking British girlfriend have a wonderful history with Pixar and our holiday visits. The first time that we met in person was particularly special, as we saw WALL-E in Walt Disney World's theater, then again over in England when I flew back with her. The second time (in my home state) we saw Up in theaters. The third time (and the most special) was taking her to see Toy Story 3 for her birthday IN IMAX 3D. God bless that company... * OK, who else saw Toy Story when you were little, then tried to convince people that your toys came to life too? I had this computer game that played a demo if you left it on the main menu for a while, and told my mum that it was the toys playing the game when we heard the noise coming from the computer room upstairs. * This troper is proud to admit that he has seen every Pixar film theatrically, from Toy Story alllllll the way to Toy Story 3! Well, twice for Monsters, Inc. and three for Finding Nemo. * I saw some Pixars and they were rrraaaad man. I saw some people and I think they were incredible and some balloons which were neat except I'm scared of balloons because they pop and ONCE ROBOTS. Being not very little when the first film came out, I suspect I'm older than most of the fanbase, though. * Admit it, Pixar is one of the, if not THE best and only storytelling, tear-jerking, Whole-family-friendly, well-done, neverscrewing-up company made. I mean Steve-Freakin'-Jobs is a co-founder, how much more awesome can you get?.. and as for the actual... troper tale: I'm the only 14-year-old girl I know who doesn't have Justin Bieber songs in her iPod, but does have "You got a friend in me" "I will go sailing no more", "Strange Things", the whole "Cars" soundtrack, and many more songs that aren't seen as [[AnimationAgeGhetto "age appropriate"]]. I'm also the only 14-yearold girl who's mature enough not to have a problem with liking childish things. As [[CSLewis Clive Staples]] once said "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." :) I love Pixar, I don't cry at movies, but the few times I have, it's either been a pixar movie, or [[AnyoneCanDie Serenity]] * Ok, now [[CodyTheMaverick This Troper]] turns out to be one of the few prople who did not cry AT ALL during the entire course of Toy Story 3. But it's not because I have a heart of stone or anything, it's because I have Asperger Syndrome, and because of this, I don't feel feelings in the way that most people do. Of course, I did get extremely sad during the film, but I didn't shed a tear. However, I did end up relating to one character..... [[spoiler: Lotso. That's right. Lotso. His backstory was the saddest part for me, and, during

my second viewing, was the part (the only part for that matter) that got me on the verge of tears. It's because, being that I have Aspergers, I can relate to feeling lost and forgotten by the rest of society, because I can't relate and commuincate to them in the "proper" way. Heck, after a while I started thinking that Lotso's backstory seems like a metaphor for trying to cure Autistics. (Get ready for some WMG here.) Lotso is the Autistic kid, and Daisy is kid's parent. When Lotso is left behind, it represents the parent getting fed up with the child, and just giving the child away so she can have a "normal" child. The Autisic is confused, so when he goes back to his mother, only to find that he has been replaced by a child that looks exactly the same as him, but is non-autistic, he starts to think that the reason he is different is the reason he was left behind in the first place. That who he is is, simply put, worthless. Trust me, if you were that autsitic kid, you would be just as fed up as Lotso was. Anyway, back to my story. I am a fan of Lotso, and I hate how hateful the fandom is towards people who like him, such as myself. All I can say is, villans need love too.]] ** You aren't the only one. Lotso was a monster, yes, but he was incredibly sympathetic, not to mention tragic. I still hope he manages a {{HeelFaceTurn}} somehow. ** This Troper, who also has Aspergers Syndrome, understands what you mean, although I relate more with [[spoiler: the Prospector. Similarities to Lotso aside, his Villainous Breakdown about watching every other toy be sold, made me think about all the times I was picked last for the teams, or watched girls that I fancied fall for better guys (alright, more good-looking guys).]] In fact, (and this is probably WMG on steroids) I always saw people in movies from both [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] and Pixar, as Autistics; the heroes are the ones who chose to improve themselves in spite of it all, and the villains as the ones who chose to act on their bitterness towards society. I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's probably why I love Disney and Pixar so much. * This troper has a rather Meta example. Back when WALL-E trailer's first came out in theaters, I told my girlfriend about it and the warm fuzzy feeling it gave (a rare feeling, for me). She saw the trailer on Youtube and got the same feeling of joy and serenity. We promised to go see it together. She passed away before it came out. For a long time, I was incredibly depressed and barely felt any happy feelings. When WALL-E finally came out on DVD,I remembered her and picked it up. Honestly, I expected to watch apathetically. Before it was halfway in, and most strongly at the "dance" scene, I felt... happy. I remembered all the feelings I had when I first saw the trailer, and probably more immportantly, all the love me and my girlfriend shared. It was, I think, thanks to that movie that I could finally let her go. Needless to say, it's been a favorite since, and has never failed to bring back that feeling * This troper and her husband watched ''Up'' together. Troper cannot watch it again. It is beautiful, funny, and moving. Unfortunately, this troper and her husband ''are'' Carl and Ellie, to the point where she felt like Pixar was spying on them. * This troper's mom was under influence of the AnimationAgeGhetto. She

would laugh and call me a kid whenever I decided to watch WesternAnimation/AdventureTime and had even made fum of me for getting upset over [[GraveOfTheFireflies Grave of the FREAKING Fireflies]] despite having watched it with her. It took me a while to convince her to come with me to see ToyStory3, but in the end, we both ended up bawling our eyes out. It was the first time she ever took animation seriously. * One year in school, this troper's teacher left us FindingNemo to watch. [[CrazyAwesome We ended up reciting half of the movie]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and all chanted "Sharkbait, boo-ha-ha" simultaneously.]] * While this troper agrees that {{Cars}} is one of Pixar's weaker movies (but still bloody awesome), the way [[FanDumb some people]] [[SeriousBusiness make such a song and dance over it]] almost proves the point the movie's trying to make about the need to slow down. Think about it; have we become so obsessed with the Oscars, the critics, the box office, the bandwagons, watching our least favourite studios fail... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the IMDb Top 250,]] that we've simply forgotten how to enjoy movies for what they are. Yes, there are bad movies out there, but do we really need a golden statue to tell us what the genuinely good movies are? * One time, this troper was watching The Incredibles when my sister, her boyfriend, and two of her friends came into the room arguing for whatever reason. Once they noticed I was watching it, they sat down and watched it with me. They completely forgot what they were arguing about and were just swept away by The Incredibles. One of my sister's friends has a combined case of {{Animation Age Ghetto}} and {{Nostalgia Filter}} and she ended up loving the movie anyway. * This troper is a senior in high school. Just last week, I had my last Health lesson ever, with one of my least favorite teachers ever. Or at least, she ''was'' my least favorite teacher. The entire last week of health, we watched WALL E. Not because it was relevant (although the teacher tried to pass it off as representing the Stages of Life. Interesting view point, but, in my eyes, it doesn't really fit), but simply because the teacher loved the movie. She even took out her little plastic figures of EVE, WALLE, and MO for that whole week. The kicker? Our final exam was just answering a bunch of questions about WALLE that actually made me view the whole movie in a different light (i.e, "How does AUTO behave as an overbearing parent?"). I've really done that teacher a disservice. * Simply reading this page and reading about your reactions is enough to put a smile on my face. * This troper has seen every Pixar movie to date... bar Cars, but even then I've put enough effort in to see the shorts. I have two tales to share right now, about the two movies that have touched me personally, which isn't to say the others haven't, but these two are more nostalgia than anything else. ** The first is the obvious, Toy Story as a whole. I grew up watching the first movie, the second movie was the first DVD I ever watched, I saw the third movie and loved it. Then, a few nights ago, I looked back on one element that I haven't seen mentioned, the Toy Story Toys. Back when I got to see the first one, I remember I got both Buzz and

Woody, in that order, as toys. Back then they were fun to play with, but now I can appreciate how accurate they were. The had every detail Buzz and Woody had, Buzz was an all plastic LED laser posable spaceman action figure and as such was the one I played with most and ended up with faded stickers. Woody was plastic only on his hands, shoes, head and cowboy accessories, the rest was material over fluff, and a pull string that would always say one of his phrases. I vaguely remember selling both of them reluctantly at separate garage sales, Woody before Buzz because I got more play out of Buzz. I only remembered recently, and I had a little cry, because I realized I ended up doing what Andy did: giving them up for other owners. ** The second is less so. Monsters Inc, it continues to be in my top 5 Pixar Films purely for liking it, it was the first movie on DVD that neither me nor my younger sis could stop watching. I was, at the time, reaching the age where you start to appreciate the deeper relationships, such as Sully and Boo's. The movie hit me so close to home I still have my [=McDonalds=] Monsters Inc happy meal toys of Randall and Mike from when I went to New Zealand, to always remind me of how good it was. ** This troper has a similar story. My sister had a Buzz toy too, and wrote her name on his foot like Andy did. When we got older and had to move away she put him in our yard sale. He was the first thing to be sold, to the little boy who lived across the street. It was wonderful to see the little boy happily waving him in the air as he left, and we knew that Buzz was going to a good home. That memory makes me even happier after Toy Story 3. * This troper growing up always wanted to know someone that shared the same first name as her, and was very frustrated that people always spelled such name wrong. Then as she was just about ready to become an adult, she found out that Pixar was to use her name, spelled correctly, for one of their main characters. She hasn't gotten nearly as many spelling errors since. * The moment in ToyStory 2 where the Prospector tempts Woody to stay with the Roundup Gang has got to be the most understated moment in any Pixar film. After the song, "When Somebody Loved Me," the quiet, subtle moment that follows, takes the fantasy of toys coming to life and brings a strange sense of reality to it; the atmosphere, the lack of music, the look on Woody's face as he takes it all in, the scary truths in the Prospector's words (helped beautifully by the acting of Kelsey Grammer)... All those things really help you to realise that these toys could lose their beloved owner, and that toys could actually be experiencing these fears while you're watching this film. As someone who wants to write for animation, I actually think that this subconsciously helped me appreciate the quiet scenes in animated films and TV series, considering I was 11 or 12, the first time I saw it. * This troper is probably the biggest Pixar fan he knows. I've never missed seeing any of their movies in theaters (though he has no recollection of seeing ''ToyStory'' as a four-year old but knows he saw it) and has even seen every movie since ''{{Ratatouille}}'' on opening night. One of my very best friends once gave me the nickname "Pixie" in reference to my Pixar fandom. In 10th grade, I did my final

project for Computer Programming class on Pixar. What makes my Pixar fandom all the more surprising is that I'm the biggest fan of computer animation, while there are some 3D movies he likes, he is mostly a fan of 2D animation and stop-motion. But Pixar is able to make it work since their scripts are so strong. This troper should probably stop before he starts writing all day about Pixar. * ''ToyStory 2'' was the first Pixar movie this troper saw in the theaters (wasn't born when the first one came out (but always owned the video), and was too young to see ''ABugsLife'' (my parents weren't sure if I was old enough to go to the movies yet)). In fact, it was the first ''Disney'' movie she ever saw (either that or ''Doug's 1st Movie'')! ---We're watching the ToyStory movies back at the [[{{Pixar}} main page]]. Wanna come along? Of course you do. ----

PizzaBoySpecialDelivery * [[{{Tropers/Chyron}} This troper]] knows someone who did once ''accidentally'' flash a pizza man when answering the door in her dressing gown. She didn't invite him inside, but he did (apparently mistakenly) charge her less for the pizza. Once she got over her immediate embarrassment, people did suggest many times over that she repeat it to get cheap pizza in the future. * This troper has a friend who's a pizza boy and he says that this does happen, catch is that sometimes they aren't that hot and if you take the sex as payment, the pizza comes out of your wallet. Whether it's worth it varies. * While this troper never had ''that'' happen to him while he delivered pizza, he twice got tipped in bong hits. * Inverted and Subverted. This troper's friend tried this trope on a (very attractive) delivery girl, she didn't go for it. Though she did give him her number. * This troper has a friend whose pizza boy came back to her door after he'd left, claiming he forgot to give her her receipt. This was actually true, but he'd written his phone number on the bottom. * This troper delivered a pizza to a woman who was clearly expecting this-she had on a satin robe, bent waaaay over to put the pizza on the coffee table, and then tried to make out with him. Said woman was in her late 60's. ** .......Did you do it? *** Was she hot? **** What is this, 4chan? * This troper is suddenly remembering a certain cosplaying incident that happened in his dorm in freshman year. The delivered pizza was real, but the "delivery boy" was one of the male students on the floor--done especially to fulfill this trope. Absolutely hilarious. * This editor's boyfriend is a pizza delivery boy and this ''better not'' be TruthInTelevision... ** [[{{Tropers/MalachiteDragon}} THIS troper]] thinks that it would actually be romantic if your boyfriend happened to show up at ''your''

door to do that. :D *** This troper concurs. **** This troper also concurs. ***** This troper concurs so long as he brings a real pizza. ****** This troper concurs, but only if the pizza is good. ******* This troper concurs, as long as there isn't [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a hole in the pizza]]. * This troper picked up pizzas for her and her flatmates rather than paying for delivery, and upon entering the flat she announced "Pizza's here; tasteless porno jokes may now begin." Her flatmates started cracking up, because they had JUST been talking about that while waiting for her to return. * This troper is just going to go ahead and call Bullshit on all examples above and any after this. ** I think you're a very great specimen. The Earth is blessed to be graced with your existence. ** I don't know, some of these are believable. And no one has said that the trope is completely true (I wouldn't doubt its happened before, but it's not something that happens on a regular basis). ** I don't see why you're calling bullshit. Nobody's saying they slept with the pizza guy. Well, except maybe that one who said her boyfriend ''is'' the pizza guy, but that's understandable. * This troper's mother, when she was younger, always flashed the pizza guy to get a discount. ** Pft, this troper's mother STILL does this. Usually for chinese food instead of pizza, but still. * This troper has been dared to answer the door for the pizza guy naked. This troper is male. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]]. ** Some of my friends actually DID do that. * [[{{Tropers/Chyron}} This troper]] spent the better part of 6 years delivering pizza, and had never been offered this by anyone attractive enough to accept. Beer and party invites, on the other hand, have been accepted. * For unrelated pizza delivery harassment, check out [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/more-than-40-ways-to-annoy-the-pizzadelivery-person-/208397622622?v=info&ref=search#!/pages/more-than-40ways-to-annoy-the-pizza-delivery-person/208397622622?v=info&ref=search this]] group. * This troper has a friend who was tipped in...tickets to a local strip club! * This troper has delivered pizza for a year, and so far, no TruthInTelevision. ---[[PizzaBoySpecialDelivery So, you had the extra cheese and meatballs...and me.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PlaceWorseThanDeath * I worked for an international company that routinely threatened to transfer people to India if they didn't perform well. They weren't

kidding. * For some reason, the Netherlands seems like this to [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]], [[{{GenreSavvy}} even if he knows there are far worse places than that]]. Usually contrasted with [[{{CanadaEh}} Canada, of all places]], but sometimes [[{{ThirtySecondsOverTokyo}} Japan]] ([[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] [[{{LandDownunder}} is Australian]] and favours Canada as far as living standards and possibly relative ease in eventually living there if living outside the LandDownunder is either wanted or needed; he's into Japan more out of a cultural interest in both the old and new, and also [[{{EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench}} has a thing for the women]], even if the ''Dutch'' women would be probably a better match culturally speaking - and marginally [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} more likely to accept him]] given [[{{Understatement}} the Japanese women usually tend to be quite insular]], he has an aversion for some unexplained reason [[{{SuspiciouslySpecificDenial}} absolutely nothing to do with an ex-girlfriend happening to be of Dutch descent]]. Never mind that [[{{Hypocrite}} he is a fan of]] WithinTemptation [[{{Hypocrite}} no prizes for guessing]] [[{{FreestateAmsterdam}} where they're from]]... * [[{{Tropers/GeorgeUK}} This Troper]] recently went to watch his local team play a football match in Portsmouth, and found it to be one of the most depressing places he's ever been to. * This tropette went on a day trip to Mexico as a child and has sworn to never, ever return to Tijuana under any circumstances. ---Be careful when clicking links: they could crash your browser, or worse, take you to the main trope page for PlaceWorseThanDeath.

PlagueOfGoodFortune * This has happened to [[{{Tropers/AGuy}} me]] while playing ''FireEmblem 6'' once. I wanted to train my thief, Chad, and to do that, I needed to lower the HP of enemies to the point where Chad could finish them off. Queue units scoring loads and loads of {{critical hit}}s on 1% and 2% chances for getting critical hits, stopping Chad from getting a chance to kill anything. * [[{{Tropers/PentiumMMX2}} This troper]] had this happen in [[MarioKart Mario Kart 64]]; when he was purposely attempting to get the bad ending in Mario Grand Prix (For those who don't know, if you finish the Grand Prix in 4th place overall, you'll receive [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLvgcEiYhU0 a different ending]]). Unfortunately, It was hard for me to get to and stay in 4th; because it seemed that all the CPU racers where working together to ensure that I actually win for once, I always wound up finishing in 3rd place or higher. * This Troper frequently describes herself as [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere "the one nothing ever happens to"]]. She is fully aware of how insanely lucky she is, but seeing as she has something of a FreakyIsCool outlook on life, sometimes to the point of being a mild NightmareFetishist, there is always a small part of her

that regrets that she never has any major obstacles to overcome. ---Yeah, I've got a total PlagueOfGoodFortune. It's a side effect of being CursedWithAwesome. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PlanetOfSteves * My Improvisation troupe has three Andrews. We also have me, whose real name is Nathaniel but everyone calls me Tim, and someone new whose REAL name is Tim. We can't decide whether to call him Tim 2.0, Nathaniel, or Tim. ** [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Some call you...Tim?]] ** [[TakeAThirdOption Take a fourth option]] and call him Natimiel. * A few years ago, @/RedneckRocker was taking a class where there were two other individuals with the same first name as myself. The solution? I started going by a different name (Jack, as a reference to both Comicbook/{{Starman}} and [[JackKirby the legendary artist]]) to make it easier on people. * This troper had five girls in her class called Katie. After the first couple of weeks, we dropped the whole Katie F, Katie M thing and started calling them all Katie. It worked. ** ARRRGH!!! THIS is why I prefer to have people just call [[Tropers/KatanaCat me]] "Kat"! My parents had NO idea the name would suddenly be so common when they named me! For a while, we called it the "Secret Club of Katies", but somewhere along the line we decided it [[DudeNotFunny wasn't funny anymore]]. Made worse because there's someone who works at a store we shop at so often that they started writing our names on some of the bread order and not letting anyone else buy it because they know we will who is also named Katie, so when I come in on a conversation and they're saying something about "Katie" I start to wonder if they're talking about me, but can never be sure until they mention my crappy laptop or her job at the store. And I often have to go by Katana-the-Cat on various sites because Katana is already taken, I like cats, and I've been going by Katana for a while. * In my form class we had 4 Andrews (I was one). It was decided that it wouldn be simpler to call one Andy, one Drew, one Andrew but we none of us responded to anything but Andrew. At our Prom, we were all still being confused. ** Something similar happened in [[@/DaNuke Da_Nuke]]'s high school homeroom, which had three guys called Andrs. It wasn't too bad, though, because Mexican custom here is to address them by their family names instead. ** Also happened in Da_Nuke's college major, which has a total of ''four'' Oscars. The confusion was removed by calling one "Oscar", calling another by his nickname "Mosca", calling another "Oscarcita" (kinda like "Little Miss Oscar"), and calling the eldest one "Don Oscar". * This troper wishes his friends had that much difference in first names. Try one case of 7 people sharing the same name at the same

time. That wasn't the only one, either, as most people's first names and sometimes middle names tended to be shared by 2-4 other people at minimum. Size of group? ~30. Nicknames were a given. * This troper has a friend who is also named (and called) Brian. We haven't had any problems with it for years. ** This troper had a friend named Brian and another named Bryan. I called them by their [[LastNameBasis last names]], but no one else had a problem with the duality. * This troper happens to be named Alex, and he currently is friends with ''seven'' other Alexes, three of which he sees or converses with on a regular basis. No problems here. ** You think that's bad there's over thrity Alex's in my catholic school, including myself. We tend to go by our last names. * This troper was the last of fourteen Jennifers in her high school class, and half of them were all in the same class at once at one point in time. This troper refers to her clone-name confederates as "Other Jennifer" and "Other Other Jennifer." * This troper and her best friend share the name Jessica. Our friends use our nicknames, but acquaintances tend to fall back on "Blonde Jess" and "Brunette Jess", or "the Jessicas" if they need both of us. We call each other "Plural", which confuses people even more. * This troper had a noahs ark of names with 2 Ryans, 2 Stephens, 2 Elizabeths, and a pair of siblings with the same last name. * This Troper is writing a short story where a boy moves to a [[TownWithADarkSecret town]] where everyone is a [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smiling]] "[[HelloNurse perfect]] [[ChickMagnet person]]", and they're all named "John Smith", "Jane Smith", "John Smith Jr.", or "Jane Smith Jr.". It's an alien conspiracy, of course. * In Korea, 1/2 of people's surname is either Lee, Park, or Kim. Add in Choi and it rises to nearly 2/3. Yet this troper has noticed that when you say one Lee, people seem to know which Lee you're talking about from context. At least everyone ''else'' does. ** This troper is near the end of a year's tour of duty in Korea, with about ten Korean soldiers who live and work with us. The context is usually that they work in different sections of the company. So we have PLL Lee, Orderly Room Lee, Net Ops Lee . . . ** That's not the worst of it. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen Apparently]], 40% of Vietnamese surnames is Nguyen. *** This troper has actually encountered a Nguyen Nguyen. * This Troper had two Kari Ws in his class in third grade, and two of his college friends, who were roommates, were both Michael H. They became Mike and Karate Mike. Because being a Black Belt is a good way to identify someone. * Part of this humble contributor's high school crowd included two Stephens (of which I was one) and a guy whose family name was Stephens. * At college this troper knew four guys called Dave, they ended up getting assigned nicknames to keep it clear. * In this troper's class there were two Mikes, one named Michael Hurley, the other Michael O'Connor. Luckily, O'Connor bore a vague resemblance to Hurley from Lost, so they just called him Hurley, and called Mike Hurley "Mike"

* This troper's high school class had four guys called Henrik. It wouldn't've been quite so bad if Henrik Hermansson and Henrik Henriksson hadn't been inseparable best friends. * This troper is one of the 1-in-20 Americans who named "Christopher", "Christine", "Christina" or XTremeKoolLetterz variants thereof ("Kristine", "Krystyfyr", etc). To expedite matters, he has started answering to "Patricia" as well: after all, there's rarely more than one of those. * This troper is very used to being the only Jeff in all of his classes. In senior year of high school, however, somehow all of the other Jeffs ended up in the same classes together and were all equally confused when the teacher called their name and several boys answered instead of one. * @/DarkInsanity13's mother once had this sort of thing happen as a joke, sort of. Her name is Laurie. She walked into the reception of the orthodontist, and greeted the receptionist, who was also named Lori. Then she greeted a friend of hers, also named Lauri. And so, it went: "Hello Lori." "Hello Laurie." "Hello Lauri." "Hello Laurie." "Hello Lori." "Hello Lauri." * Some groups take it to extremes, the excessive number of Daves when this troper was growing up resulted in the running joke of troper's entire social group claiming to be called Dave, this caused problems for the actual Daves who had to explain that no really that actually was their name and they weren't just extending the joke. * For some reason, this troper frequently met one other person named Michael at school... and quickly became friends with them. Then I went to college, only to discover that my college has an abundance of Michaels - and for some reason, the seemingly obvious solution of using last names is almost completely unknown. Nicknames are more common - I adopted the nickname of "Seattle" after my home city. ** An unusual solution in one case was a French class which I shared with my friend, Michael. As usual, the teacher planned to refer to us by our equivalent names in French, but having two Michaels was a problem. Her solution was to call the other Michael by his English name, while I would answer to Michel. * Both of my father's college friends are named Chris. So are my father, my great-uncle, and two of my cousins. As a bonus, if I had been a boy I would have been named "Christopher." My extended family also boasts four Kathryns, one for each generation (great-grandmother, grandmother, aunt, sister) and three Michaels (grandfather, uncle, cousin). Family get-togethers get interesting sometimes. * A running gag in this troper's family and circle of friends is that ''everybody'' has a friend named Cory. To make matters funnier, "this troper's" Cory has both a best friend ''and'' a girlfriend named Megan. That must make conversations interesting. * This troper works at a very small summer camp where there are about 100 people each session and at least eight Saras, three Ethans, and a handful of Eli's each session. After a while, we came up with a nickname for nearly all of them, but it took quite a while. That's not even counting the time there were three Mattans in one tent. We're still trying to figure out how that happened. * The group of people this troper hangs out with includes two Aarons,

two Sarahs, three people who answer to "Sam", and for good measure an Alex who looks like Sam's Chaotic Twin. If that wasn't bad enough, now Aaron and Sarah are being shipped by the rest of the group. Which Aaron and Sarah? No one knows. * All my aunts on one side of the family are named Laura or Susan. (One daughter named Laura, her four brothers all married Lauras or Susans.) * @/TromboneChild's extended family on her mother's side contains two Peters, two Lukes, two Emmas, two Annes, two Mollys, two Marks, two Andrews, three Daniels, and six Jims. Mostly we just use last names to distinguish them, except for the Andrews, since the older one goes by "Drew" and the other goes by "Andrew," and the Annes because one is my Grandma, so she's "Grandma," "Mom," or "Big Anne" and the other one is "Aunt Anne" or just "Anne." The names that have the biggest problems are the Peters because the younger Peter always thinks they're referring to him, and the Daniels because two of them are "Uncle Dan" (the baby is "Baby Danny"). My dad is one of the Dans, so I call my uncle "Uncle Danny," as do my brother and sister. My mom calls him "Danny" because she thinks of her husband when she says "Dan." * This troper's algebra II class has two Matt R's and two Alex's. The Alex's both sit next to each other. His drama club/thespian troupe also has two Kaley's. Since one is white and one is half black, half white, we call them "Kaley White" and "Kaley Brown". * This troper was in high school homeroom with two cousins both named Kristen <Lastname> who had been dealing with this their whole lives. They went by Kristen B. <Lastname> and Kristen M. <Lastname>. Post high school they planned to go to the same college, and even room together. ** Similarly, @/HeraldAlberich's high school class included two (unrelated) Michaels that also shared a last name, and were distinguished, especially over the PA system, by middle initial. * This troper was in a play with a castmate named Jeff. Later another Jeff joined the cast, who was immediately dubbed "New Jeff." As opening neared some musicians were added, including one named Jeff. @/RandomSurfer decided to call him "Diet Jeff with Lemon" and rename Jeff "Jeff Classic," but everyone else just called them "Jeff" and "Jeff the musician." ** I like your sense of humor. * this troper was once in a history class where we had four ryans. i was not one of them but i was friends with at least three of them. the worst part though is that we were arranged into our seats alphabetically by first name. so one row had four ryans in it. and it was a front to back row, not a left to right row, so pointing didnt work. needless to say much confusion ensued. * @/DokEnkephalin was one of three Jasons in kindergarten, one of ''six'' Jasons in 1st grade, and then found out gleefully that his real first name on his birth certificate was one that no one else had, and claimed it as soon as possible. * This troper manages to avert and subvert this at the same time. His full name is Alexander Gonzalez. A common first name, but only common in English, along with a hilariously common name in Spanish makes for a relatively unique name. It's still not ''that'' unique,

unfortunately. * This troper knows three Adams. Previously just two, which was easy. when the third came around we named them after their last names. Forgetting that last part and saying "Adam" results in CONFUSION UP IN THIS SHIZZLE. * This troper had seven Seans in his grade (including himself), between two and six shared classes, and three were in football. None used nicknames. To this day no one knows how there was never any confusion, particularly because we all knew each other to some extent. We could even talk about each other and just from inflection figure out which Sean was which. * This troper tends to categorize (mentally and in conversation) her PlanetOfSteves groups by either relationship, hobby, or context -- for example, Brother Jacob, Robot Jacob, and Ragtime Jake, or Brother John, Johnny Across the Street, Mr. John, and Uncle John. She's nicknamed her brother's two best friends [[Series/DoctorWho Proper Alex and Other Alex]]. When it comes to ''other'' Other Alexes (Neocon Alex, Al Alex, Journalism Alex, Friend's Brother Alex, and Girl Alex)...well, sometimes last names and/or middle initials are necessary. * Been there myself. I worked at a movie theater during summers while I was in college, and one year there were FIVE Matthews on the staff. It got to where anyone needing an extra pair of hands yelled for "MATT!". My classes at college were no exception: one class had four Steves and three Amys; in another, I was one of two Matthews. One of the Residence Life staff said she could almost round up her section of the dorm by yelling for "Jennifer, Amy, Tonya, and Sharon." ** Same troper. I found another example in the local ham radio club: [[EverythingsBetterWithBob Bob]] and Jim account for around half the members. Again I'm one of two Matthews. The call signs make things MUCH easier! * In @/KingSonnDeeDoo's old class, there were three Jonathans. Things got avterted though, in that one like to be called Jon, another liked to be called Johnny, and we all just refered to the third one by his last name 'Edridge', which got shortened down to 'Ed'. * At this troper's college there are two people named Steve and three people named Amy with two sharing the same middle name. * In the circle of friends that hang out at a local gaming store, there are no less than 4 Steves, 3 of which are in the same fantasy baseball league. No one knows their last names either, so it can be rather confusing. * I was once in a cub scout group with another Jonathan. He was older than me, so he was called "Big Jonathan", while I was "Little Jonathan". I find it ironic that I'm now bigger than he was. -{{Jonn}} * I have 3 Lewises in my English class, me included. Our English teacher has resorted to "Little Lewis", "Medium Lewis"(me), and "Big Lewis".We have a similar problem in other classes, where a FOURTH Lewis joins in.There's Lewis Agnew, Lewis Bolland (me again), Lewis Coule and Lewis...Johnson.I think of him as Lewis Donson so that he fits.A,B,C and D! * [[SouthPark Scott the dick?]] I have three of them, thank you.

* This troper had 3 Michael Zs in her old school. All in the same grade. It was slightly confusing. * At an anime convention, this Troper's found group included several people dressed as [[DeathNote L]], including this troper. So, even around others, we refered to each of them as "L". Surprisingly, nither the Ls, nor the non-Ls in the group ever were confused about which L we meant, even when several were referenced at once. * In the stage crew for this Troper's old school (although, you never leave the tech crew at this school. People come back year after year to help with the summer concert.) there were multiple people called James, a few called Chris, and a couple of Daniels. Unsurprisingly, most got nicknames. All except one of the Daniels - he was scary, so he got to keep being called Dan. ** It's still fun to yell out "Oi, James!" when standing in the middle of the school hall. You get an answer in surround sound. * @/{{Aeiouna}} remembers her seventh grade social studies class being referred to as the "class of the Michaels and Jessicas," since there were six of each in the class. * One of this troper's primary school teachers was hopeless at remembering children's names (as she taught music to every class in the school, she had to remember a lot more than 30 names), and so would most often just call anyone she was talking to "Fred", regardless of their real name (or whether the kid was a boy or girl); and yet, neither she nor us children ever got confused as to whom she was talking. * This troper has a friend who, when pulling a FullNameUltimatum, always refers to someone as "Blank Marie Blank". Whether or not it's a boy or girl, even if she does know his/her middle name. * This troper regards not being the only Sam around as a RunningGag. Mostly short for Samuel, as you'd expect, but the most-recently-met one is an [[UnfortunateNames Osama]]. * This Troper's year has five Toms, all in his half. This leads to mass confusion, and at least one time when all five of us have turned round, at the same time. * This troper went on holiday once with two other people with the same name as him. A ''drinking'' holiday. This confused the hell out of the fourth person we brought along, who didn't share our names. * This troper became so frustrated with having such a common name that at the age of eleven she insisted upon being called [[RefugeInAudacity Butterfly]] everywhere (camp, school, dance class, her theater group) but with her family. She was quite pleased to discover that, although about fifty-thousand-zillion other people in the world share her actual given name, she has yet to run into another 'Butterfly.' * @/AuntZelda recalls attending a camp where there was a plethora of Emilys one summer. One of the counselor-Emilys received various nicknames, such as 'Eggo,' so as not to confuse her with the camperEmilys. * Until recently,this troper lived with another Colin. Another housemate worked with a Colin,and we also knew a Corin. The whole "Colin!" "Yes?" "No,the other Colin" started wearing thin after the second year,and it was something of a relief when he moved out. Now it's the summer holidays and I'm back home,staying with my mother. My

sister comes around often,usually accompanied by her partner. Guess what he's called. [[spoiler:Colm]]. HereWeGoAgain -- @/AckSed * This troper is actually pretty annoying for people named Steve (or any applicable name in the scenario). One day this troper got bored and he counted the number of times his first name showed up in his grade. He lost count after eleven or so. ** The above troper's parents always apologize profusely whenever he mentions his annoyance at this troper. "We didn't know it was so popular!" they said. Well, it didn't help that this troper was born in ''January'', so a current baby book with popular names by year wouldn't really help much. ** Seriously, when the teacher calls role and you're used to it, you ''still'' jump up when you hear your name. It's frickin' annoying. * This troper has a different case where, instead of names, it's appearance: In his high school science class there were about six boys who, despite being completely unrelated and having different names, all looked eerily alike- same hair, same height, same build... I could never tell them apart. * Imagine a class with two Ashleys, a Caitlin and a Kaitlyn, and three Tylers. Now imagine the Tylers' last initials are D, T, and P. Now imagine the above in a ''kindergarten class''. The teacher was not happy. And then, years later, the kindergarten class includes two Noahs, two Michaels, a Maria, a Mary, and a Mary Kate. ** At least there wasn't a MarySue! (Collective Groan) * Emily has been the most popular baby girl name for years running. Emily was the second most popular name at her alma mater. And now, out in the real world, @/RiL encounters other Emilys her age on a daily basis. Thanks, Mom and Dad! I'm unique and special, ''just like everyone else.'' * This troper is one of three Thomases in one of his college courses. The professor refers to one by full name, one as Thomas, and one as Tom. * Averted by this troper during a summer trip. The three of us and one of the counselors on the trip were referred to as Dan, Danny, Daniel, and Daniella. * This troper is still not used to having so many people with the same name as him (Ironically, it's actually Steve). He constantly insists that the proper solution is for every OTHER Steve to change his name to Ted, so that he doesn't have to be part of the confusion. * This troper has been in more than one class over his school life with kids in his class that have the same first name. * For some reason, this tropers teachers, when using the computer to randomize the seating charts, always seem to place me next to all of the other Travis's in the classroom. * And the other Travis's are not good company, let me tell you.* * [[@/{{Valbinooo}} My]] Graduating class has four Taylors [in 8th grade, all were in my science class], two Jessicas, two Morgans, two Kaylas, two Elizabeths [I know like four though], and other pairs of names. Often, the Taylors and Jessicas appear in the same classes. In my general experience, I * KNOW/have been friends with* six Brandons [yeah, holy shit, amirite? though context makes it pretty obvious], at least six Jacobs[one is spelled with a K though (and is called Timmy),

and another we all call Bucky], three Kelsies [all spelled differently], six Kates [two Katherines, two Kaitlyns, one Katelin (I think), one unspecified spelling], three Jordans [one was a girl though], and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment. These were all just off the top of my head. * @/DeltaOne was on a church mission in South Africa. 150 people, and four of them were called Smith. One was a girl, so that wasn't so bad, but the other three were all J. Smith. Missionaries refer to each other by the last name. They became Old Smith, Young Smith and Even Younger Smith. * This troper was one of three Justins in one of my high school classes. The interesting thing is that, at one point, the seating arrangement was such that we were sitting diagonally from each other. One more and Sis would have won (Connect Four joke for those who didnt get that. [[DontExplainTheJoke Sorry]].) * In This Troper's year, there are about four Jess(ica)s, four Chris(topher)s, four Megans, and two Kais (one male, one female). Most of each group of people are acquainted with each other. * This Troper knows six Josh's and five Matt's, most of which go to the same church. * Damn, you've all beaten me. Out of the four Brocks at our school, three of them are in my grade. Two of them are almost always in the same classes. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues. * This troper once worked in a department containing seven Marys. We liked to joke that if you ever forgot a woman's name there, just call her Mary and chances were you'd be right. * Both of this Troper's aunts have married someone named Brian. To avoid getting confused we just refer to them as 'Aunt's first name's Brian' which makes it easier. * This troper has two aunts named Ana Cristina, one by blood (mother's sister) other by marriage (uncle's wife). Luckily, one is known by the middle name, the other by the first. In school, he's seen situations where a name was shared... but no one was primarily known for it: in Elementary/High School, two Andres known by surnames, and two Paulos known by nicknames; in College, two Pedros, one known by the surname, other by a nickname. In College, his class has three "Jus" - two Julias (to distinguish, one had her father's company name added, and the other - before abandoning the dye - "Blonde") and a Juliana; among his freshmen is a class with three Pedros. The major once drafted a Team of Steves: out of 18 players, 4 repeated names - two Guilhermes (both known as "Gui"), two Gabriels (one known by surname), two Henriques (one known by nickname... and both were goalkeepers!), and two Felipes (one known by surname). And let's not get started on people named "Ana" (which only doesn't get more complicated because in Brazil it's usually a composite name). [[hottip:* :And a weird case: my college has two people known as "Jesus", one because he looks like Him, and the other because his online handle is [[GreenDay Jesus of Suburbia]].]] * My (Matthew's) scout troup contains two Erics, two Johns (one without the H), and more other Matthews then I care to count. What did I do to prevent confusion? I just changed my name to Eric. * Lots of examples here: This troper's boyfriend is technically Antony

Lastname III, but his grandad claimed Antony and his father got Tony, so he himself uses a nickname of a nickname of his middle name. Yeah. ** And our current roleplaying group has two Chrises, one of whom is Big and the other of whom is Hairy. It doesn't help that Big is actually hairier than Hairy by most standards. *** ''And'' at one point the university Anime Society (of whom all of the above are members) had no fewer than ''four'' people called Ash distinguished as Black Ash, White Ash, Female Ash, and Ashley. * This troper was in a camp group once where there were three people with the same name as her. Not too bad. Except that this troper's name is ''Madeleine'' and she'd only even ever ''met'' one other person her age with the same name! * First and second generations of Korean parents in America were horrifically likely to pick the same names for their kids. Determined to give their kids American names, the parents probably picked something out of the Bible or some other extremely generic names. To make things worse, if you're Korean, chances are your last name is Lee or Kim. Thus, I have met so many frickin' people with the same names, the cake going to Kevin Kim (I've met ''six'' in my life). Thankfully, me and my siblings somewhat avoid this problem as one) our last name isn't that common and spelled differently to boot and two) our parents didn't name us, but a friend who had already been living in America for some time. * It was only recently that this troper's university's computer science department contained more females than Daves. * This Troper knows 3 people named Chris and one of them has a friend called Crystal, who is known as Chris and also Christina, 4 named Lisa, 3 Steves (Steve, Stevie and Stephen), 3 Rachels (although one is called Rachael), 4 called Ian, and 4 named Catherine and 5 named Jon. I also know two people named Patricia, one goes by her full name, and the other hates being called Patricia and prefers Trisha. I also know Laura, Lauren (who shares a birthday with Laura) and another Lauren who is either Loz, Little Lauren or called by her middle name.Then theres my class, which has 2 girls named Isabella, and also Kayden/Jaden and Kiera/Kara. Its pretty confusing. I also went to primary school with two others who shared my first name. * To avoid confusion, my school has Jimmy, Jamie, James, Jim, and James. But we call the last one Jam. * This Troper once worked at a summer camp with quite a few repeat names on the staff. This included two Stephens, two Bills (who were coincidentally the camp and program directors, and thus the two highest ranking people around), two guys nicknamed Fuzzy, and FIVE Andrews (fortunately all but one of them had a nickname). * Five out of the ten cheerleaders at this troper's high school -that's right, ''half the squad'' -- were named Ashley. * This troper had 4 Jessica's, 3 Katies and 5 Emiliy's in her old class. * Yeesh. This Troper has a class in which there are two Jacks, but the prize go to the Chippys. One's called Josh, the other's called Jack (not the same as the other two), Josh is from school, Jack is from Scouts. Josh is "Chippy", but Jack is "Chipmunk", which gets shortened to - guess what? - "Chippy"!

* Not sure if this counts, but this is the closest trope I think. Whenever this Troper can't think of someone's name off the top of his head, he refers to them as "Skippy" if they're a guy and "Susan" if they're a girl. Sometimes I'll forget more than one persons name, and yet people can still tell which of the two or three Skippys I'm talking to. * In grade school we had two Rebecca's (although one was spelt differently than the other), two Ashley's, two Steven's and two Cody's. Neither the Rebecca's or the Ashley's had nicknames but one of the Steven's went by Steve and the Cody's went by their last names. * On a big church retreat, there were three Ians (that were actually numbered; I was Ian #1), three Katies, two Amandas, two Emilys (I think), two Michaels, an Alex, an Alexx, an Adrian and an Adrienne. ** Then, in Drama Club, during ''{{Rent}}: School Edition'', there were three Bens (one of whom [[TheDanza played Benny]]), two Ians and an Ethan. I add Ethan in, because our director could not remember who was Ian and who was Ethan. * This troper has a teacher who refers to everyone by last name, rather than first name. Whilst the other teacher have no problems with who's who, he struggles with 5 Smiths and 3 Joneses in our class (although two of the Joneses are brothers). * There were nine other Samanthas in my graduating class. This explained why I never answered to my name in the hallways. ** On another note, when going to my five-hour class, I accidentally sat next to another Sam. The instructor dubbed us "Sam-1" and "Sam-2" for the entire duration. ...I was Sam-2. * In my graduating class, we had four Megans, but they all spelled it differently: Megan, Meagan, Meaghan and Meghan. Not that it really made it less confusing. * This troper just spent an evening with a bunch of geeks, joined in one corner with four guys, one of which had the same forename as himself while the other three were all Svens. HilarityEnsued. * This troper remembers watching a chat show that featured a boys' football team where the coach, reserves and all twelve players were named Chris. At the end the host went "Here Chris!" and threw a ball into the air, and everybody dived for it. * There were three girls named Hannah in this troper's A-level group and we all had English and Drama together. We went by Blonde Hannah (blonde), Dark Hannah (brunette) and Chinese Hannah (me) * A group of gamers at a LAN party consisted of both Glenn Dubois and Glenn Martin ([[Tropers/MrBadAxe this troper]]). Since the group had been together for a while before I joined, I became Glenn-2. ** Also, in High School Concert Band, both Glenn Hall and I were in the trumpet section. ** Similarly, when talking with friends, I must make the distinction between Josh Adams, Josh Heinzl, Josh Islieb, and Josh Jensen. I also know an Alex Gentile, Alex Kennedy, and Alex Sofikitis, but the first one goes by Al and the third one is nicknamed Sigma (after the first letter of his last name, in greek). ** This troper knows 5 people named Kristian/Christian(counting both spellings). I also know 3 people named Andreas. * A friend of mine swears that the five-a-side football team he played

for as a kid was at one point made up entirely of Matthews. * This troper belives its school just took every person with similar names and put them in the same class. Out of 29 there are 7 people who doesn't share name with a fellow class-mate. 45% of out class is named Martin. Yeah... * At our school, one of our teachers is named Debbie. At the nearby elementary school, there's another teacher named Debbie. Their husbands are brothers, so they have the same last name. * In one of @/MrDeath's college classes, his professor made a point of having each student say his or her name when called on in class. During one particular class, the first seven consecutive hands to be raised? All Mikes. The professor was rather disappointed when the eighth person, a Chris, broke the streak. * This has happened twice in IJVin's various drama clubs. During ''{{Rent}}'', there were two Bens in the cast ([[TheDanza one of whom played Benny]]) and one in the band. During ''YouCantTakeItWithYou'', there was a Tom, a Tommy and four Sams ([[GenderBlenderName two of each gender]]). One of the Sams played Ed while there was an actual Ed in the cast. * There are no less than five Matthews in this Troper's grade, and given the size of the classes, there are usually at least two of them in a class. (Though, one of them calls himself 'Mattie'... which gets unfortunate when you consider there's also a 'Maddie'...) * This Troper could yell either Josh or Jessica in any hallway at her school and get about a fourth of the people to answer. There's almost four thousand people at said school. This Troper is also close friends with an Alex, Alexis, Alexander, Alexandra, and Alexandria. It gets confusing... * This troper's name is Erin. while I was the only girl named Erin in my entire grade there were always several boys named Aaron in my classes. I live in North Carolina, where Aaron and Erin sound the same. Yes, it got confusing, and for a while I was called "girl-Erin." ---Return to PlanetOfSteves here, Steve. And you, too, Steve. ----

PlatonicLifePartners ---* Me and my best guy friend definitely fit this trope (though I do kind of have a crush on him, I'd rather just keep the good friendship we have right now). I've slept over at his house, we're always together, and it's getting to the point where we speak in unison. Thankfully nobody's suggested that we started dating. We talk about ''everything'' (religion, sex, etc.), and we've both learned a lot about the opposite sex through each other. * This troper and her best guy friend. We are very close but are not interested in each other, even though everyone else thinks we are and thinks we should be going out. Now he's got a girlfriend and [[ShipperOnDeck I think they're very adorable together]]. ** Wow, are you me? Same here. Except that my friend used to have a

crush on me; thank goodness that's over... * [[JohnnyBGoode I]] had a friend (she's in college now) who everyone thought he was going out with. Just because we really liked to talk together. This troper has two other friends who have a similar deal (I've met three people who don't even know them, and think they're dating...) He likes teasing his friends though, just for the fun of it. * This is going to be a long story *takes deep breath*. Okay so,[[Tropers/{{NaomiLawliet}} this asexual, heteromantic tropess]] has two platonic life partners. (Switches to first person) One is purely a friend, although [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend people keep trying to set us up.]] The other, well... obnoxious people used to try to set us up, and I realized that I am in love with him. I don't know if he is in love with me, since he denied it to other people, but we have had great fun together (not like THAT!) I want to tell him, but I don't want to make it awkward if he doesn't feel the same way. I'd rather keep the friendship if I can't have the romance. It's maddening not knowing if he loves me. He has had two girlfriends in the past, both of whom I am close to. I may have a fair chance at having a lasting romance because we are great friends, and the two girls before me barely knew him before deciding to go out. Another point is that he is going to the Marines after high school, and I have a dream of living in Canada or Britain after high school or college, so it won't work out without serious planning. My plan was to tell him at high school graduation, two years from now, so in case it DID get awkward, I wouldn't have to see him every day, but two years is a long time. I need some advice, please. * Me and my homeboy. We can talk about everything with a single notable exception... religion. He is a militant catholic and I'm and FlatEarthAtheist. * subverted to a sense with this troper. This troper (female) has a best friend who is male and whom people think she is dating. The subversion? He's a closet gay. Then isn't it just PlatonicLifePartners? * This is definitely TruthInTelevision. I (female) have had a (male) friend since the first day of high school. My mom tried to get us together. He's now engaged to someone else. I'm looking forward to the wedding. ** This troper too. We've even been friends since childhood, and yes, we can talk about anything. Or rather, ''almost'' anything--he occasionally forgets that [[TooMuchInformation I do have my limits.]] *** Same here. While we've known each other since kids, we've only really been close friends within recent years. Many people believe we're dating, when we're not. Really, if we were, I would be constantly wondering why I was dating such an idiot like him. *** This troper has several such friends, though he's known them for considerably less time than is usual for the trope. One in particular too. The first one I met, the only one anyone has ever assumed there was something between us, and her father still doesn't really seem to like him. Really, he finds himself surprised that he has more female friends than male. They just all seem so much more ''fun''. ** This male troper has been friends with one female snce first grade

and has explained it as "my friend who's a girl but not a girlfriend" to anyone who askes if we were dating. For those that don't get that, she has the tendency to inform them that we can't date because we have different tastes in women, averting [[HideYourLesbians something]]. ** [[Tropers.GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] hangs around with two guys all the time. One of them is [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend "definitely not her boyfriend"]] and the other is more like their {{sidekick}}. ** This troper became very close friends within the last year with a guy she knew used to have a crush on her a few years ago, and now she's pretty much his sidekick (his nickname is Joker, she's recently decided she wants to be known as Harley Quinn.) We could not be more than the closest of friends in our opinion. Our potential significant others and bitchy people at our school who matter.... not so much. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper's]] best friend in higschool and a girl this troper had a crush on were pretty close and had known each other for years before he met them. They spent a lot of time together, both in school and outside, but she atleast wasn't attracted to him, and he didn't have a problem with this troper having a crush on her (even though he did seem somewhat attracted to her). * This troper has assured her male best friend that if anything, we are little more than HeterosexualLifePartners- which did nothing but baffle him endlessly. I text him more than his girlfriend does, am relentlessly jealous of his male roommate, feel free to talk about anything with him, and we do a whole lot of hugging... but no, won't go there. Differences in sexual preference. His is 'female!' and mine is 'no, thanks'. * [[TromboneChild This Troper]] and my (male) trombone section leader were like this in high school. At the end of eighth grade, I had a crush on him, but it was ''very'' short-lived. And the summer before our senior year, we ended up in the same summer gym class (we were trying to get credit so we didn't have to take it during the school year), we hung out together during class. I was TheLancer to his [[TheHero Hero]]. There were these two [[TheDitz Ditzes]] who followed him around trying to flirt with him, and that whole time, they kept giving me weird glances because I never flirted with him and we were completely comfortable with each other. They just didn't get it, but that was fine (it was the first and ''only'' time someone has ever been jealous of me). * This troper only started hanging out with her best friend last year, and realized he was so interesting that everyone else in her school was just boring in comparison. Therefore, she spends almost all her time with him. Oh, God, if she had a nickel the number of people who have come up to her on separate occasions and asked, "Is he your boyfriend?", she could fill up a tank of gas at peak oil prices... ** Did I edit in my sleep? * This troper remembers being told about his mother being PlatonicLifePartners with a guy and his boyfriend. Her own mother was unaware until she asked this troper's mother about why she hadn't gotten together with either of them. * Damnit, people! Stop trying to set me up with my best friend! I don't think I could date anyone I have spent ten minutes standing out in the rain farting with.

* [[AcrossTheStars This troper]] and her best friend, but we're more like PlatonicLifePartners (he's blatantly gay). ** I had the same situation in high school, though I was so [[StraightGay Straight Gay]] (and in the closet to everyone but her) that everyone at school thought we were secretly dating, so it ended up being a case of PlatonicLifePartners after all. * This troper's sister and her (male, obviously) friend have no feelings for each other, but everybody wants them to get together. * This troper fell horribly in love with the girl I now consider to be my best friend, even though she had already been going steady with her boyfriend for a year by that point. After several months of mental self-wrangling, I finally managed to get over it enough. Especially since having met and talked with her boyfriend and finding him to be a pretty awesome dude. The fact that she still ''wanted'' to be my friend even after all the episodes related to my incredibly strong feelings for her cemented things squarely in this trope's territory. * This troper and her best guy friend have sleepovers, go out to dinner, frequently use each other as furniture, and are strictly {{like brother and sister}}. Unfortunately,we have a following of freshman who are convinced that we either are dating or should be dating because we had to {{fake out make out}} in front of our entire school during the school musical in 8th grade. * Why are the majority of these written by women? Hmm. Anyway, I (male) have several completely platonic and very close relationships with women. This is mostly because I tend very easily to fit into their 'just friends' category, and whenever I actually decide that someone is worth being friends with, it's because they are the sort of person I could share everything with. This leads to interesting conversations which I am sure are real life subversions in which they have all had sex and talk about it endlessly, whereas I am the one left shrugging and going 'yeah whatever.' Also, two of them I have been friends with for over a decade now, and they are nearly as close, if not as close as, family. * This troper has a guy friend who's been her best friend since 1st grade (we're in high school now). We're always there for each other and people have asked us before if we were dating or they told us that we should date. We have no interest in dating each other, especially considering that we're both in our own separate relationships. * This troper's relationship with his friend couldn't get any ''more'' platonic if either person tried [ we call each other our notboyfriend/not-girlfriend, just for laughs ]. So, because the chance of being taken seriously is pretty much zero, this troper himself makes jokes and quips about one of us being romantically into the other just to hear her freak out. It's a cruel thing sometimes, but she takes it all in stride. However, if anyone else tries to do the same, they better pray for mercy... * This troper has a lady friend with whom he can talk about anything, and we're generally amongst one other's first choices for cooperative stuff like gaming, writing, and other such activities. She's also in an extremely committed relationship with another of my best friends, and I'm borderline asexual, so the idea of us actually doing anything romantic or sexual with one another is pretty laughable. Hasn't

stopped the boyfriend's parents from speculating, at least once, that she might have cheated on him with me. * It's just the Westermarck effect, I swear! Well, only in two cases. The other one...? Yeah, it turns out you can be just friends. With multiple women. It has been odd on one or another occasion--notably, when they show up looking very, very feminine, and it awakens certain primal urges. But primal urges do not a good friendship break. * This female troper is this with her closest male friend. She has lost count of the number of times someone has accused them of going out or has told them that they should go out. However, this troper just does not feel that way about her friend and vice versa. * This troper is her best friend's {{Failure Knight}}, and never felt that way around him. Yeah, she can go {{Yandere}} if one of his girlfriends does anything to him, but we are still friends. And that is all. * [[{{lkmjr}} This troper]] has a guy friend that she is very similar to (both of us are very, very bookish and into the same things) which makes arguing with him way too much fun, so people tend to think we have a really bad case of BelligerentSexualTension. No, we're really very close friends who enjoy arguing with each other, but the idea of dating {{Squick}}s both of us out. * [[Tropers/SabresEdge This (male) troper]] has a close female friend, whom he has known for literally years. Several times already, people have assumed that we were dating ([[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]] a few years back when she ''was'' dating a guy who had the same name as this troper; said guy is also one of my friends, leading to at least one case of confusion). Not that our behavior discourages the belief we've cracked plenty of jokes (privately) about being a couple, and our IM/email records are a NotWhatItLooksLike waiting to happen. * This troper has a good many male friends (and is on fairly good terms with her brother's friends who are primarily male). This, coupled with the fact that she did not begin to date until her senior year of high school, apparently caused most of her female friends to assume she "wasn't interested in guys". Yeah... * Me and my bud (male) who I've known since.... kindergarten, I think. My best friend (female) has a crush on him, and I don't care. But, there are some people who think that we like each other. * This troper's female friend, which he's known since kindergarten, and always found attractive. But after so many years, you want to be just friends with that girl - and we still have a good relationship, even if (despite the fact we live close) we rarely see each other anymore. And the troper has a minor case with another friend, which did not last as long but was as close - enough for some people he knows to stupidly consider [[ShesNotMyGirlfriend he was in love with her]], even if she's ''far'' from attractive. And in college, his two favorite classmates are nerdy and not attractive (and considering one was smooching another girl in a party, she and the troper could be PlatonicLifePartners). * This troper (who is female and in high school), has a male friend who she talks to a lot, usually about a bunch of miscellaneous stuff, including cheesy jokes. As a result, people tend to think we have some form of UnresolvedSexualTension. It doesn't help that she's given him

about 10 packs of cards that were left over from a school project from years before and has explicitly mentioned it felt weird when he isn't at school. * This male troper's female best friend was being pursued by a guy she wasn't interested in. Said guy would often not-so-subtly work his views on relationships into conversations. At one point, he claimed that men and women couldn't be just friends, and people in relationships shouldn't have close friends of the opposite gender other than their significant other. She replied that he may think that, but any guy she dates would just have to accept her friendship with this troper. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming This troper has never felt so loved.]] * This Troper has a relationship like that with her friend. We are both straight (well, I'm but find men attractive but not women, even if i dont want sex with them). Everyone thinks we are boyfriend and girlfriend, but we arent. We do spend a lot of time together, and often tell eachother that we love eachother, but in more of a friend way. ** Are you me? Two of my closest friends are males, and I've lost count of the number of times I've patiently told people that [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend neither one of them is my boyfriend]]. One of them is joining the Marines after high school through ROTC/OCS, so I might become his [[MyGirlBackHome Girl back home]], adding to the "Are you guys going out" factor. I hope he gets married after college, but then he'll have TWO [[MyGirlBackHome Girls Back Home]] * This male troper and his female friend are in the same situation. People keep asking us if we "like" eachother. In one occaison, she was so surprised at the accusation she lunged at the acuser with a paintbrush. At which I feigned being hurt. Of course, since she's a grade ahead of me, everything simply thinks that I just have a crush on her. *Because the man always has to be the older one in the relationship!* It doesn't help that we often go and sneak off together...to do Pokemon/Pokewalker exchanges. * Most of this troper's friends in school are male, as is one VERY good friend outside of it. While nobody's ever asked me if I'm dating my friend outside of school, my schoolfriends and I get loads of remarks about how we're dating/they're gay. * This troper and her male best friend fit this trope down to a T we've known each other all throughout secondary school, and despite rocky patches, we're now best of friends. We've also had more than our fair share of "Oh my God, you two should go out" remarks across the years. We both know, however, that this will never happen. (However, this is arguably subverted in that this troper does harbour romantic feelings for him, but that's by the by.) * This troper, and a girl he met on an internet forum. We can tell each other anything and such. The funny part is, if we'd met in real life, we probably never would have spoke. I'm the stoner while she's more of a cheerleader type. * This troper is this with a particularly close (male) friend of hers. We talk to each other about more or less everything. However people thinks he's going out with another of his (female) friend he's also this with, and people also tease this troper about being a couple with

another guy she's, again, this with... PlatonicLifePartners? * I've got an online friend like this. He and I tell each other most everything (what's going on in life, our relationships with others, both romantic and platonic), but don't feel anything for each other... I think. For a while at first I admittedly thought I'd end up [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend unlucky]], but now I've worked that through and am perfectly content with what we've got, considering I need someone I can vent to outside of my "real life" friends. * This is basically my best friend and I. We're like brother and sister, we go to the same school and are seen together kinda often. The problem is most of my friends in the school, and I have MANY friends, believe we're dating at first glance. Despite the fact that we never do any "Boyfriend-Girlfriend" things together. As one of our smarter friends put it, "Society seems to believe that you can't be friends with someone of the opposite gender without wanting to have sex with them." ** I of course agree that it is possible to be just friends with the opposite gender and not want to have sex with them, but then again i also believe its very very possible to be just friends with with the opposite gender and [[ChivalrousPervert want to have sex with them]] * I (I'm a girl) have two seniors in college right now taking the same major as I am, both are of the same age. After looking at the both of them everywhere they go together almost all the time, I thought their relationship were more than friends but after asking one of my seniors (who's a female) if they are dating one night on a classmate's birthday party, she shrugged it off lightly and said that the both of them are just friends that really stick together most of the time. But then again, after doing some deep thinking, there's not much romantic chemistry between them, and it's for the better that they stay as close friends. (ItMakesSenseInContext) Find it hard to believe? Go meet them in person. * My guy best friend was my first love, making us PlatonicLifePartners. We know that we work out better as friends than we do going out. It still doesn't stop people from making fun of us and claiming that we have a thing for each other. * Would two gay guys who have been best friends for nearly half a decade but have never even considered getting together count as this? Given our statuses as LesiureSuitLarry and KavorkaMan respectively, it's nothing short of a miracle. * On school trips, the rule was that guys and girls ''could'' be in each others' hotel rooms, as long as there were at least four people present. I met my best friend (who is female) in grade nine. I was hanging out in her room with her roommates on a music trip in grade ten when I realized that we had this kind of relationship. She came out of the bathroom after a shower wearing just her underwear, saw that I was there, and didn't react at all. To the utter astonishment of everyone in the room, she walked right past her suitcase, sat next to me, and asked what we were watching. When one of the other girls pointed out that I was ''right there'' her response was "So?" And I realized...I didn't care that much either. We're just so used to each other's presence that there is nothing awkward about our friendship anymore (this was three years ago now). I know it's a cliche, but she

actually may as well be my sister. * This Troper and her life-long best friend are this. We met in kindergarten, but then got separated in first grade when I switched to a private school. For 6 years we had no contact until I went back to public school and it was like we were never apart. 11 years have passed and our friendship is still as strong as ever. People often think we're a couple, with the amount of time we spend together and talk about each other, but the very thought of a romantic relationship feels incestuous and squicks us both out. * Anyone heard of Damned Lolita? One of her friends has become this/HLP/Like A Brother to me. We first spoke New Year's 2010. It's one year later now, and I can LITERALLY tell him anything. I love you, Aniki! * My best friend in the world, Kelly. We met at a RockBand competition at the beginning of 2009 and began dating in August. Our year-long relationship was completely non-sexual, but so close that her best friend was getting jealous of me. We even went on vacation together to New York City and Detroit. Even after our break-up, we remain as close as a two-person {{Nakama}} and could easily live together -- which we have for almost a month. How close are we? Whenever I consider going on a vacation, my first consideration is "Can Kelly go with us?" before "Can my current girlfriend go with us?" * This troper and her best friend are usually mistaken for dating. It doesn't help that he is a cute, submissive boy and I'm a short genki girl tsundere. Of course, as soon as someone brings it up we take it up to 11 with the old married couple routine. Oddly enough, this troper always ends up playing the husband. * This troper had one close friend throughout her entire school career, and on the outside we might have seemed like a couple at times - He's the outgoing, friends-with-everyone guy who wants to be a SoulBrotha or something, and I'm the ShrinkingViolet who literally says about five words a day. We're so not each other's type, though. * This troper has been best friends with this one girl for as long as we've known each other, her being a massive tomboy (As in, plays baseball, wears jackets and baggy cargo jeans) and me being a practical joker we were always sort of odd balls. We would pull pranks together and on each other, not to mention wrestle, the number of times we gave each other wedgies and noogies (Especially the wedgies though, I remember ripping a pair of her ducks underwear, got kicked in the nuts for it) is more than the number of stars in the sky. We once got asked if we were dating by my ''other'' best friend, who I'm actually HetrosexualLifePartners with (And odly, my Platonic life Partner thought me and the hetrosexual one were a gay couple), which is sorta funny, thought we could probably never get together due to the fact I'm quite a Womanizer (Being called a man-slut from her was a common event). * This troper just used this page to diagnose her friend's 'what-doyou-call-this-relationship' issue. BOO YAH. * This troper and his best friend (Female) are totally this. We met at the beginning of 9th grade year when she was the new student. At first, I didn't really know her as anyone else but the nice new girl who hung out with me at the football game even when everyone else

left. I finally got to know her once we were in our Japanese language and Algebra classes. Part of the reason why I started becoming friends with her is because she's the only one who actually got me something for my birthday when she barely knew me.(a drawing, I still have it) We were usually left behind by the group during lunch cause she ate slow so they went outside to hang out so I waited for her each day and we talked during that time. Right now, It's the 4th quarter of the year and people think we're dating. Kind of funny how close you can get in nearly just one school year. * This tropette and her best male friend. We actually dated a loooong time ago, but decided that we were much better as friends. Now we're this! =D * I (a male) and my ex (and so far only) girlfriend. Shes the only girl I had the guts to confess my love to, and she reciprocated. However, due to a series of issues involving her family, long distance, and personality problems, we had to split as a couple and kinda lost contact for a few months. After that, we tried talking to each other again and found out that we still really like each other, even if she has a new boyfriend. Talking again reminded us how much we do care for each other, and, except for sex (I dont like destroying couples and her new boyfriend is now my friend too) were pretty much best friends. * This female troper has not one, but ''two'' PlatonicLifePartners of the opposite sex whom she has known since the beginning of grade school - which at the moment is almost 13 years ago. Not until puberty was over and done with did they learn to have any kind of physical contact, which only ever amounted to greetings in the form of awkward hugs. They sometimes meet up to play when they aren't too busy with their respective educations/careers. * This female troper and her male friend are both bisexuals. [[NoBisexuals Ignoring the times when people think we're gay]], when we're finally recognized as bisexual many people assume we're a couple. This list includes but not limited to: my mom, teachers, my former friend, my current friends, random people on the street, GayStraight Alliance, and others. Then again I can see why considering he's constantly hugging me and cuddling with me and occasionally kisses me. Even for a while his boyfriend thought we were together. * This asexual, panromantic, female Troper has this with both her totally straight male friend and ridiculously cuddly, bisexual, female friend. The three of us are insanely close and often end up cuddling on someone's couch. People often ask if there's something going on. There isn't. The guy has a girlfriend, the girl has a boyfriend, and this Troper is happily single. That still doesn't stop people shipping us like crazy. * This tropette's best friend (let's call him...Grant, I think he might be a closet troper) and I are the best of friends, and nothing more. Our relationship with one another is flirtatious on a level that would make [[CriminalMinds Garcia and Morgan]] blush. Heck, I call him my own personal Mel Bushman (anyone who gets that reference, good for you). He's always there for me, day or night. He showers me eith compliments, takes me out to dinner, and expects nothing in return, just because he can. Within our shared group of friends, he and I are

nearly identical when it comes to favored movies, music, hobbies, and political leaning/religion; the last of which are completely opposite from the majority of our friends (as in, we have them and they don't). Both of our families know of "us" and urge us to get married, but neither of us would want our friendship any other way than it is right now. Besides, he has a girlfriend whom he loves and I am fabulously single. Grant, I love you, and I wouldn't trade you for the world. * (Groan) Played painfully straight with this troper and her male friend. She's known him for less than a year, and they're already good friends. They aren't as close as others on this page (for example, she won't let him get too close to her for "Does Not Like Being Touched" reasons), but still. The people at her school must be exceptionally stupid, because barely anyone can say anything to either of them without the subject ending with "Hey, you goes should date. You'd be cute together!" Quite frankly, the thought disgusts her. It's gone on to the point where she tells people he's her cousin in order to get them off her back. * This troper and her male best friend have been inseparable for nearly ten years, are each rarely seen without the other, and are usually mistaken for boyfriend/girlfriend or siblings. We routinely complete each other's sentences, [[VitriolicBestBuds fight like a married couple]], and have a lexicon of inside jokes and references so complex that it's basically another language. Everyone, from our parents to our mutual friends to the teachers we had in high school, is certain that we're dating--but we find the very idea hilarious, and we're perfectly happy as we are. ---[- Go back to PlatonicLifePartners, even though you two are ''soooo'' going out. -] ----

PlatonicProstitution * While not prostitution, this troper was friends with an exotic dancer who told stories about unusual situations with customers, the most notable being on 9/11 while she was working a club in New York. From how she tells it, customers either trickled in or swarmed in at odd times over the nights after that eventful day. They would arrange for private dances and [[HeroicBSOD completely break down]] inside those booths. The oddest of the bunch, she said, was a [[TheFundamentalist religious man]] who stopped by regularly to heckle/lecture the owners and the girls over their occupations, only to arrange for a private dance with her and bawl his eyes out because he had lost family on 9/11. This troper assumes prostitutes received similar treatment for a brief period after 9/11. ---Can we stop at the ATM on the way back to PlatonicProstitution? I promised to buy my friend lunch. ----

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* This troper once went to a camp the summer after 4th grade and had campouts every two weeks. On one campout, one of the activities planned that night was capture the flag, and among the features was a jail where players captured would be sent to. This troper managed to sneak across the border, find the jail (it was a picnic bench), take a seat without any of the guards noticing, and pretend to be a prisoner (while maintaining the legal ability to leave any time and free a prisoner in the process). Unfortunately becomes a MissedMomentOfAwesome because of a lost nerve (this troper didn't move from the prison until the end of the game was called).

PlayerTic * I reload compulsively in FPS games. It doesn't matter whether the weapon I'm using has a 10-shot clip or a 200-shot clip; if I'm not actively being shot and don't plan on actively being shot by the time the reload animation is over, I'm replacing that mag. * In any stealth game I will ALWAYS stay looking down the sights and freeze in place for a few seconds after a kill. I hold the position until I get a sound cue telling me whether I've alerted the guards or not. This never stops, no matter my confidence or skill level. * Every time I win a fight in {{BlazBlue}}, I always make my character jump back a few steps. It's to make sure they're perfectly centered onscreen when they do their win pose. * Heck, I even instinctively try and do this on the Pokewalker by shaking it side to side in time with the ball onscreen- I don't know why, I just instinctively started doing it and now can't stop myself. * I realized this the other day when I was playing WorldOfWarcraft on my rogue. I'll constantly try to get a finishing move off on an enemy that's going to die from my next white attack anyway... kind of silly when you think about it. * When playing {{Golden Axe}}, This Troper and his friends used to beat the air when the "campsite" scenes were over so our weapons will be posed mid-strike when the camera froze and faded to black. * In {{Pokemon}}, this gullible troper was told as a child by her friend that saving while standing directly in front of a Pokemon Center or another character would corrupt her game. The year was 1998. 13 years later, in Black Version, I still always stay two steps back from a Gym Leader before I save. * In ''TombRaider: Anniversary'' it's possible to jump onto a ladder from a short distance away. Saves a little time and starts Lara higher up the ladder. It's something [[{{Tropers/JoveHack}} This Troper]] likes to do when replaying the game. * In ''[[ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink Zelda II]]'', if you jump and swing your sword at the exact moment you leave a sidescrolling battle screen, it triggers a sound small sound glitch. I try to trigger it every time. * In GoldenAxe me and my brother always ran on top of the fire once everything was gathered. * In Left4Dead I'd start melee attacking while traveling safe stretches for no reason. Continued in Left4Dead2 with melee weapons. * I jump just before the end in ''AdventureIsland'' games.

* [[{{Tropers/Quillpaw}} This troper]], after finishing one reduction in a chain battle on [[TheWorldEndsWithYou TWEWY]], will randomly shoot any bullet pins so that it's empty and will start booting at the start of the next reduction. This is a waste of attack time and doesn't help at all, it's just something to do. * While playing WorldOfWarcraft, this troper will constantly do a funny little half-turning jump while running in cat form on her druid. Basically, I jump, turn my character to the left, and then turn back before landing. No clue why. * This troper's signature tic is to duck while jumping. This is particularly comical for the prolonged jumps of Princess and Luigi in ''[[SuperMarioBros2 SMB2]]'' -- the Princess, in particular, because of her ridiculous flat shape. ** Another favorite is to duck in time to the music, especially while riding an [[SuperMarioBros2 Albatoss]]. ''[[SuperMarioBros2 SMB2]]'''s bouncy overworld theme provides a perfect introduction at the beginning of a level to wind up with a big jump, landing just in time to start dancing in place. Really, is there any better bopping music? * As a child playing the Mario games, I used to always pause just before dying if I fell in a pit. I have no idea why, and sometimes I still do this. ** This Troper would always (and still does) jump just as the seventh note in the classic mario tune played, which replaced it with the jump sound effect. * In Final Fantasy 6, I always open the empty treasure chest in the basement of the rich man's house in South Figaro, in the room that contains the clock that you have to wind to reveal the way out. * Logging out in the same inn every time in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', even if the effect of the inns is the same and doesn't apply to max-level characters. ** Compulsive reloading in first-person shooters. You never know when you just might need that single extra bullet. ** Every battle in a real-time strategy game must end with every unit capable of attacking sent against the last unit/base. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill. * In 3d fighting games that allow it(Soul Caliber and the like), this troper will always continue beating the opponent before they fall after they lose a round, and will get a throw in to extend said postwin-beatdown for as long as possible. Also preferred is using Taki's neck-stab grab as a finishing move for a match. ** After performing Mitsurugi's Tear Step (nicknamed personally Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu Shunpo-giri), I like to do a taunt. ** This troper, when beating his opponent with Yoshimitsu, will ALWAYS perform his suicide move right afterwards. * As far as that jumping through boss doors thing from ''MegaMan'' is concerned, I think a lot of players do that with any game that has that kind of scrolling. I'm definitely not the only person to do that with ''{{La-Mulana}}'', for instance. ** This troper does not jump through the boss gates. He slides, or, in the Aniversary Collection, holds a charge shot. ** This other troper can't hate on Mega Man 3's Top Spin weapon exactly because of this trope. Why just jump through the boss doors

when you can SPIN JUMP? * In SuperMarioGalaxy, every time Mario heads into the mission select screen, I must wave the Wiimote around and point it at the screen in time to that "Dwool-ooo-oop! ''Boing!''" thing. * In ''WorldOfWarcraft'', I always jump through instance portals for no reason except that it looks cooler. I may have gotten it from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', where it was often necessary to get into the pictures, or from ''{{Okami}}'', where it was unnecessary but awesome to dash through them in midair. * In ''SuperMarioWorld'', any time I had Yoshi and was going through a keyhole, I'd make sure that Yoshi spat out the key half-way through the keyhole expanding animation. All it did freeze the key in Yoshi's half open mouth, and add a bit of a sound glitch. Sadly, they removed that in Super Mario Advance. * In ''SpongebobSquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom'', I always do a spin attack after double-jumping. It does nothing, but I was convinced for years that it made my jump slightly longer, and I've grown used to it. * This troper is a firm believer that when you're trying to kill a tower quickly in LeagueOfLegends and you don't have much time (gank closing in on your location), you should absolutely click the ''hell'' out of that tower. Of course it doesn't go any faster, in fact it might go slower because you're telling your character to interrupt his attack every 0.2 seconds, but this troper just can't sit still after spending the entire previous game at 120 apm and during a critical moment. * When playing NewSuperMarioBrosWii, I have a tendency to repeat Mario's "let's-a go!" every single time I enter a stage. In other Mario games I tend to let out a "Wa-ha!" at moments when it seems appropriate. * In ''Civilization III'', I hold town the left shift key every time one of my troops enters battle based on the superstitious belief that it will help my unit prevail. If the battle starts going poorly, I begin tapping the key as if effort on my part will influence the RNG. * I also compulsively end CTF matches by firing into the air. I also do this when capturing the actual flag. I think it originated as a celebration, now it's a habit with a life of its own. * In ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2'', I have a tendency to jump around the cage(?) after opening it and letting the animals free. Sometimes, right before the next zone begins, I'll jump off the top of the cage so I'll reach the right edge of the screen at the fade-out, or sit on the bottom right edge and rev-up a spin dash. The idea is to make Sonic appear to prepare/move on to the next level. ** I have something kind of similar - I like to stand on the button on top of the [[BuffySpeak cage thingy]], rev up, and try to time my spin dash so that the fadeout occurs before I just bounce off the edge of the screen. And because that was the first Sonic game I ever played, beating a level in the original, Sonic 3, or Sonic & Knuckles just doesn't feel right, since I can't control Sonic during the level complete screen. * In console [=RPGs=], I tend to hoard consumable items. In some, notably those with unlimited inventory but limited supply, this only

really extends to TooAwesomeToUse items like elixirs. In other games with limited inventory space, even when items are easily replaced, I often go an entire game without using consumables. EarthBound in particular, I pretty much never use food except in Onett (where it's necessary). Even on LLG runs, even though food would be useful. * In ''{{Gothic}}'', I bunny-hop like a madman all over the place, because I ''think'' it might make me go faster. I even avoided buying the Acrobatics skill, because it prevents me from bunny-hopping. * [[{{Tropers/TheGameMaster}} This Troper]] would fence with the soldier enemies in A Link To The Past by holding down a charge and letting our swords clash. ** Also, morphball is the only way to travel in Metroid. ** Does the game have a run button? Then I'll repeatedly press it while moving. ** Continuing a combo on nothing after an enemy dies. * When playing a fighting game that allows it, [[{{Tropers/Xifihas}} This Troper]] will follow his opponent after winning by ring-out. * In ''TheLegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess'', I always [[RuleOfCool get on and off Epona with a jump and do the cool sword-sheathing thingy after defeating a strong enemy]]. * In an aversion of this, I actually don't jump through the boss doors in MegaMan, though I am guilty of many other Player Tics. * When this troper respawns in any FPS, he always cycles through all his weapons and equipment, even when he knows exactly what items he has. * One player of SuperMetroid did a tool-assisted speedrun, but [http://tasvideos.org/817M.html didn't like waiting during delays] and pressed a ton of buttons on five different controllers. * If I'm drumming in RockBand, I'll always hit the drum pad at least a couple more times at the end of a song, just because I can do that and still make noise. * When playing RobotUnicornAttack, I always sing along with 'Always', and nearly always shout 'OMGLOOKADOLPHIN!' when, you guessed it, a dolphin appears. * When I play Pokmon, I always save in a Pokmon Center (a habit I picked up from the days of Pokmon Stadium when you HAD to do so to link the Game Boy games up to it), and I always save in the middle of that big Pokball symbol on the floor. Also, I tend to save in the cities that have the Global Trade Stations (Jubilife in Platinum and Goldenrod in SoulSilver for those not in the know). * Whenever [[Tropers/KatanaCat I]] beat a level/boss in just about any game if I have any trouble with it at all, I have an odd habit of punching the air if nobody's around (which means I do this [[GuiltyPleasure every time I beat a level in Kirby]]). You know you have a problem when you have a victory pose. You know you have a serious problem when said victory pose is a lot like Kirby's in ''{{Kirby}} - Nightmare in Dreamland'', and Tails' from ''Sonic 3'' (it varies between the two). I also have a habit of singing Catch Me If You Can or Sonic Speed Riders (or rarely Revvin' Up or Dangerous Ground from Crush 40's first CD) when playing racing games, especially the former and when winning. And, rarely, singing [[SonicHeroes What I'm Made Of]] when fighting ThatOneBoss.

* This troper has a few. ** In any game with multiple attack types, I'll always use the weakest attack against weaker enemies whether or not it makes any sense. (for example, I have infinite ammo for my larger weapons, and thus no reason to not use them) ** I will end most Halo games by blowing myself up in the last couple of seconds while the score is being displayed. ** In fighting games, I will attempt to sustain the killing combo for as long as possible after the opponent is dead. Not even to rub in the victory, I do it against AI. ** In any kind of shooter, if I have infinite ammo, even temporarily, I will only let go of the fire button if my teammates get in the way, even if the enemy isn't actually there. ** Lastly, in platformers of any sort I will usually try to jump into the goal, whether it's a megaman door or a sonic sign. * This troper often repeatedly retries a level or section until he can do it consistently with no deaths. * This troper's tic comes from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time; every time I get onto Epona, before I do the initial kick to get her moving, I always equip the Iron Boots and give her a mega-kick to the ribs to get her into gear. * Not a videogame example, but back when this troper played Yu-Gi-Oh!, there was a fella in the playgroup who obsessively shuffled his hand when it wasn't his turn. It got annoying when I was simply watching duels he was playing, so whenever I played him I'd make him play with our hands face-down on the table and enjoy watching him literally ache to be fooling around with his cards. * In ''AssassinsCreedII'' and ''AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', I'll hold down the freerunning buttons and flick the analog stick back and forth during loadings screens and such. It makes Ezio do this derpy walk that my friends and I have dubbed, "The Assassin Shuffle." * I've just started playing GodHand, and I find that I'm compelled to break down every single door I enter. And if I open a door by accident, I'll break it anyway. I'm doing it solely for the DieChairDie factor, but it turns out to also be a decent way to tell which buildings I've already explored. * Whenever I play {{Okami}} and go from one area to another, I jump. There's a faint portal-like thing in the locations that trigger movement through areas, and I try to jump in the exect center of these. * Admit it, you love watching sunrises and sunsets in ''{{Minecraft}}'' * On {{Grand Fantasia}}, it is possible to jump in time to the music (especially in Jale). It is also quite amusing if one is bored enough. * I have a habit of jumping nonstop and running in anything but a straight line. It helps alot for dodging attacks and bullets. And the jumping payed off when I leveled up my Acrobatic skill in "Oblivion" at an insane rate. ** My friend has a habit of walking very slowly near other players to intimidate them. And he always plays driving games with one hand and kicks my ass. * In Left 4 Dead 2, ThisTroper spams voice commands (Rochelle has some

really good ones) or Spycrabs while waiting in the saferoom. * In Halo Reach/3 whatever, whenever a match ends. If I'm near a team mate we usually end up fighting to the death in the few short seconds showing the ending results before it fades to black. Since the betrayal won't matter. * [[Tropers/Loyal2NES I will]], if scoring a Ring-Out in a SoulCalibur game, follow the opponent out immediately. ** Also, I have a compulsion to shoot, crouch repeatedly, or jump in time with the music when I'm not otherwise occupied. * [[Tropers/DeathToSquishies This troper]] also does the above "follow them out of the ring" tic in ''Soul Calibur''. He also had a tendency to do a spinning kick after double jumping in [[JakAndDaxter the Jak series]] rather than do the actual jumps meant for the situations he's in. [[RunningGag He ALSO]] has a tendency to duck in time with the music in any game, or just randomly duck-spam in general (especially with Kirby after turning someone into ATwinkleInTheSky in ''[[SuperSmashBros Brawl]]''. Admit it, [[TastesLikeDiabetes his pancaking is cute]].) * Whenever this Troper is playing a Wii game that doesn't involve a lot of pointing the wii remote at the screen, she crosses her hands, rests the Nunchuk on her right wrist, and rest the Wii remote on her left wrist. There's no real reason for it, it's just comfortable. * Like the second troper, everytime I win a fight in MeltyBlood, I try to jump backwards, though it's harder to do here than in BlazBlue, due to the lack of a after-the-battle's-over time. * [[Tropers/ElodieHiras I]] have some player tics: ** Randomly jumping while moving... In FreedomFighters. Also, telling my subordinates to follow me every ten seconds. ** Randomly swinging my EmergencyWeapon in FPS where it is in fact my primary weapon. In SystemShock 2 deck one, [[DeconstructedTrope it got me killed]]. Stupid ExplodingBarrels. ** Repetedly [[MetroidPrime shooting the door]] when it does not open quick enough. ** Mashing A after [[{{Pokemon}} throwing a pokeball]]. * In Sonic3&Knuckles, when playing as Sonic, I'll end the level with Sonic on the left of the Prison Egg, so that when the cutscene starts, he'll jump over it. Even if there's no cutscene, I still try to end the act with Sonic as far to the left as possible, just to make him run further before the next act starts. ** I also sometimes turn into Super Sonic right at the end of an act. There's a glitch where, if you time it right, Sonic will turn Super, then immediately turn normal again and start running in midair. ** Nowadays, I've taken to standing on top of the Prison Egg to let Sonic do his victory pose, almost as if he's using it as a winner's podium. ** I am also a giant perfectionist. In certain games, if I mess up even SLIGHTLY, bang, I restart the level. (This habit annoys even me, but I can't seem to kick it - it's like a reflex). * In the Underground in {{Pokemon}} Diamond and Pearl, touching the Touch Screen made a little 'ding' sound. This Troper often went down there to ''ding'' in time with the music. (Unfortunately, the third version changed both the music and the dinging noise.)

* Whenever this troper loads a new world in MineCraft, she always builds her house in the side of a cliff. If this isn't possible at all, then she always makes her house where ever she finds coal. There's also watching the sunset by the beach, which is quiet a distance away from her home * This Troper jumps to get everywhere in platformers. No walking. She also has to kill EVERY enemy that appears in said platformers, even if they have no chance of harming her. When playing {{Pokemon}}, she either mashes the A button or spins the control stick rapidly (in the Gamecube versions) when she's trying to catch a Pokemon. When playing FPS games, she constantly reloads; there's something about ammo being less than maximum fullness that grinds her gears. And she obsessively looks for secret passages. Without a walkthrough. * When playing Pokmon, I always save indoors. It just doesn't feel right to do otherwise. * A few of my tics: ** In [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]] if I see grass, pots, etc I MUST break them, and I always do the spin attack to cut grass. Even if my inventory and wallet are completely full, I'll pick up whatever's in the grass/pots. ** Non video game example: When I play chess, I always have to move a pawn two spaces, and never a pawn on my left side. No idea why I do this, just habit. ** Similar to an above example: I always save two space in front of a gym leader in Pokemon. No special reason. ** In Ocarina of Time, no matter how small a gap is, I roll before jumping across a gap. ** When playing VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG, I sometimes find myself doing Geno's little head nod thing after successfully doing a Geno Whirl. ** I don't do this anymore, but when I was a little kid playing HarvestMoon A Wonderful Life, I would hum to the little tune that played when you found fossils and dramatically read the text telling me what I found (example: when I found an old coin, I would read the text in a [[SpongebobSquarepants Mr. Krabs]] voice.) * In {{Super Smash Bros Brawl}}, usually when I acguire an Assist Trophy, I'm assisting them to make their job easier (by grabbing the opponent or hitting him toward my helper). Depending on the assist it might sometimes count as a great teamwork play, but what it's made more awesome is that those moments let you see two totally different Nintedo-characters fighting together! * {{Super Mario Galaxy}} has those Launch Stars, right? When Mario's spun inside them before the launch, I make circly motions with my Wiimote akin to the spinning of that Launch Star: and right when Mario's flung away with his "Wahhoo!!!", I can't help but spread my arms and feel like flying through the space (or over lands). ** I actually make lots of movements that fit to the atmosphere to the game, it helps me enjoy it more and concentrate on it. * In Left4Dead, 9 times out of 10, I will not make it to the rescue vehicle. I have far too much fun fighting to the bitter end or jumping off buildings and whatnot. * Knights of the Old Republic had a dedicated tic button, where you could flourish your weapon. I'm surprised my characters didn't get

carpal tunnel after I was finished :D * My examples: ** I have the habit of saving ''very'' frequently in [=RPGs=] (as in every few minutes). This probably developed while playing ''[[GoldenSun Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]'', as I usually switch the game off after I die (so I won't have to pay to revive my party; also, in the past, I had been in a situation where I didn't have enough coins to revive everyone, right before I was supposed to complete [[ThatOneLevel Air's Rock]]) and I didn't want to lose any progress if that happened. ** For the longest time, I always did the Forward Roll while moving in ''BanjoKazooie'' games. This is probably because I had played a lot of ''TheLegendOfZelda'' before I started playing these games. However, it was recently replaced by a new tic: using the Talon Trot all the time. ** This isn't really a tic, but it's like one. Ever since I started playing ''{{Runescape}}'', I always spell "armor" as "armour", even though I'm not British. I do this for two reasons: first, that's the way it's spelled in the game, and second, I think that spelling looks cooler. ---No matter how many times you click [[PlayerTic this link]], you'll still go back to PlayerTic the same way. ----

PlayfulHacker * Come on, am [[Tropers/KatanaCat I]] the only one on here who's ever considered using a hex editor to get a ton of lives in ''SonicTheHedgehog2''? ** [[@/{{endlessness}} I]] have edited the source code of some opensource games to give me advantages. * A good friend of this troper's, along with that friend's (now ex) boyfriend were, essentially, a BattleCouple of playful hackers. They even had a HackerCave! * [[Tropers/PoochyEXE This troper]] once played as one of these types in a futuristic tabletop RP. Said character's favorite hobby was hacking into electrical systems of skyscrapers. His goal? To manipulate the lights in the windows in order to play {{Tetris}}. (I may also be a lesser example in real life, since I also enjoy breaking video games into a million little pieces using glitches and/or by doing things the developers obviously never intended. I LOVED Star World 1 in SuperMarioWorld as a kid because of all the weird stuff I could do, since the physics of those spinning blocks were a bit wonky.) * [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] knew somebody who cracked into a fighting H-Game JustForFun. He said he felt sorry for them; many of the more obscene aspects of the game looked to him like they took hours, but all it would take to negate them was a semicolon at the end of each relevant line. * This troper's little sister was once able to guess the password of her classmate's Friendster account. She then proceeded to change is background to Sailor Moon and his profile pic to Hello Kitty.

PlayingAgainstType * At this troper's high school, one of the drama kids played [[InspectorJavert Javert]] in [[LesMiserables our fall show]] and a random [[WestSideStory Jet]] in our spring concert (just lots of songs from musicals).

PlayingSick * This troper learned how to swallow air to create unlimited burps in the second grade. Soon after, I tried swallowing a shitton of air to create a mega burp. It worked, but as a side effect, before that, due to my stomach being so full of air it was being stretched, it hurt like a motherfucker. So, I quickly abused this, swallowing a ton of air without burping at all. Once having done that, I would complain of a stomach ache and go home. Yes, I was 7 year old who committed LoopholeAbuse and [[RulesLawyer Rules Lawyering]], as I wasn't lying, now was I? Not to mention the brilliance of making my faking so real, as it was a real stomach ache (one I could easily get rid of, though). * This troper is allergic to milk, and it gives her migraines which leads to vomiting with many things inbetween. So, when she forgot to do her homework for the following 4 classes or is worried or is just plain exhausted, she squints and all lights, rubs her cheekbones raw and pretends to feel faint. Works wonders. Especially as she have them often, sometimes a bit of one followed by a fake one followed by an intense real one. Milky tea, proper chocolate, litres of milk at a time and she can nearly control them! But headaches or stomach pains do nothing. Since she was 9 years old she was told to take a paracetamol and then take one at such-and-such an hour. Also done with Solpasinus, Nurifen and ''cough bottle.'' * This troper always claimed to have stomach problems or headaches. It's damn near undetectable by parents. ** Unless your parents are both doctors. ** Agreed. This troper's mom only made it through a year of med school, but she knows enough to suss out any and all times this troper or her sibs tried to fake sick. Said troper's mom never was able to fake sick, either, since her mother is a doctor. This troper's brother keeps trying and failing to get out of going to school, whereas this troper and her sister, being chronic sickies (immunocompromised and this troper is prone to debilitating migraines), have often tried to convince their mother that they are well enough to go to school when they actually aren't. * This Troper used to do it a few times in elementary school. This Troper, who is now in high school, also thinks that she did it so much, that when she has to leave school when she is actually sick, she tells her mom on the phone, "I'm not faking it. I really am sick". ** [[@/KatanaCat I]] had a similar problem once, but I never could even recall having actually faked being sick! I said my throat was sore, but they didn't believe me... at least, [[WhyDidntYouJustSaySo not until it was painfully obvious]] [[FacePalm that I had a cold]]. * This troper's mom used to work with a lady who always claimed to

have rare and exotic diseases. One time, she claimed she was missing work due to a flare-up of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meniere%27s_Disease Meniere's Disease]]. The first thing Mom said to me when she got home was "doesn't your friend _____ have Meniere's?" Yes, she really does -and Mom thoroughly enjoyed shooting down that co-worker's story. * This troper can, through good focus, induce an increase in temperature and nausea or cause an injury to flare up. Excellent when he needs extra time to work on something at home. * [[{{Tropers/SovietKitty}} This troper]] did this all the time in school, as well as claiming her grandmother died multiple times a year. ** Great-aunts are safer- you can probably get to about 3 before someone starts asking questions. * This troper used to do this a lot in 6th grade. She had an excuse, her school was terrible. She still does it out of habit a few times a year, but really is trying to knock it off, she loves her current school. * This troper is a hypochondriac. It makes playing sick relatively easy. (Of course, when I actually ''was'' sick, because I was starving myself or scratching a hole in my arm, I would fake being well at all costs.) * [[{{Tropers/DarcDiscordia}} I]] did this all the time back in elementary school. Boring classes, nobody I particularly liked there outside of one or two friends, and I wanted to get home and play video games. * Three words: Cherry. Tootsie. Pop. "My word, your throat really does look sore. No school today!" * Played straight by the hypochondriac lurker during all through school. Pretty much every 2 years he'd 'come down with something' that kept him out for weeks at a time. As an adult he has inverted it, playing well when clearly not, to the point of being ordered home by his boss. * This troper has done this a lot before, because of certain... issues. She was so good at it she managed to stay home for three quarters of school year once. * Inverted by this troper, who has an incurable "invisible" illness. She has headaches, body aches, etc. literally every day of her life, but you can't tell, so most of the time she's Playing Healthy. Her boss has been known to try to make her go home if he suspects she's feeling worse than she'll admit. * I usually had to fake a stomach ache to get a sick day. But then I got diagnosed with epilespy, which gave me a good excuse. All I had to do is say I was feeling dizzy, had a headache, or was really tired and my parents would let me stay home and rest or leave school early. More often than not, though, I really was having those symptoms and just used the small possibility that I'd actually have a seizure as an excuse to sit on my ass all day. * This troper became so good at faking illness a couple of years back, I began to fool myself to thinking I really was ill, when in reality I was worried about something at school. Nowadays when I get sick I still have to consider whether it's real or if my subconsious is

messing with me again. ** This troper has the same problem. I can conjure up symptoms on demand for a variety of maladies, but I have a hard time telling whether I'm actually sick or if it's just psychosomatic. * [[{{Tropers/DarkInsanity13}} This troper]] believes she once actually willed herself to become sick because she wasn't finished a project that was due the next day. It figures that a snow storm would come blowing in and for the first time in her entire life school actually got cancelled for a snow day. She might have already had the cold, but the symptoms didn't seem to manifest until it was convienient for them to. * This troper unintentionally did this around third or fourth grade. He'd been taking a pill that we didn't know had caused him to throw up until it happened twice in a row. I felt fine after throwing up both times, but the school still had me taken home, a fact that got my mother somewhat ticked because after I got home I didn't act sick all day. I fail to realize how a little kid with no knowledge of what touching his uvula would do could know how to make himself throw up. (Does touching it actually make you puke?) ** For some people, yes. It depends on your sensitivity. * This troper's little brother used to concoct elaborate schemes to make our parents think he was sick so he could stay home from school. One recipe for fake vomit required thousand island dressing as an ingredient. * Sadly far too easy for this troper to pull off. All she'd have to say to her parents was that she was sick in a slightly tired voice and she'd get the day off. Much abused throughout high school. * This troper used this to his advantage once. I was hanging out with my sister over at the house of a friend of her's, and I felt really out of place there for multiple reasons. Because of this, I faked sick to have her take me back home. * Sorry to be a downer, but [[{{Tropers/Ryan914}} This Troper]] being a biology major and all knows if someone is sick or not. Simply Palpate (squeeze) the lymph nodes on the neck (Supraclavicular), the armpits (Axillary), Near the Shoulder blade (Subclavian), or the upper chest (Pectoral), if they are swollen, that means that they are sick (Body is fighting off disease/infection). My future children will hate me for this. ** I'm majoring in psychology and minoring in theatre. I won't need to check the lymph nodes to know they're faking. * This troper once managed to stay off school for a week with a clever trick when he was younger; I got a tin of leek soup (brown-greenish in colour, full of carrots and what-have-you), opened it with a can opener and poured all of it into a bucket. I then mashed several vegetables, plopped them into the bucket and put a few spices in to mask the smell of soup. Then I intentionally ran upstairs to wake up my parents. As soon as I heard them waking up, I started doing my best impersonation of someone vomiting. It fooled them enough for them to get genuinely worried. As I heard them rush in, I pointed to the bucket and huzzah; they thought it was vomit and they let me stay home for 2 days or so. But I saw them go to the shop and get more tins of leek soup. So more vomit I produced and more tins they bought; I even

bought some tins of leek soup myself so that they wouldn't get suspicious. In the end though, I'd decided I had my fun and said that I felt better and that I could go in tomorrow. * This troper was infamous for this in middle school! She missed more days than anyone else in school, and still passed. Even the principal was impressed and wanted to make an award for me at graduation! But I'm not bragging about this at all. The reason I'm not proud, is that staying at home and goofing off became so fun that school started to get too boring. So much so that I could barely make it a whole day in highschool without getting too bored an caliing to go home. I'm now homeschooled and too lazy for my own good. Also everyone brushes off my past behaviour saying I had severe anxiety problems. I'll play along with that, but it's probably too good a reason to have anything to do with me... * This Troper used to do that a lot towards the end of high school. If she thought hard enough about it, she could make yherself look ill enough to get sent home from school. At home, all she needed to do was say "I'm feeling sick" and her mum would let her have the day off. * This troper has never faked symptoms to get out of school- rather, she exaggerates them to the point where they would warrant staying home. A faint twinge in the back of the head becomes a horrible headache, standing up too fast becomes a nasty dizzy spell, an uncomfortable stomach cramp becomes a threat of vomitting. For the most part her mother will let her stay even if she suspects deception, but this troper is extremely thankful that her mother can tell the difference between the exaggerated and the real pain (outright ''asking'' to go to the doctor and not touching the computer are dead giveaways to something serious). * The only time I've ever played hooky (they still call it that? Eh.) was a Monday where my godparents came down from NY to celebrate my mom's birthday with our family at Busch Gardens. We called the school and said that my sister and I had headaches. We actually did get headaches at the end of the day from having too many sweets and frosty drinks. It was inverted once though, I was horribly, horribly sick and most definitely should have stayed home, if not for me then for the people who had to be around me and my germs. I was coughing violently and it hurt to breathe and walk. My mom insisted, nay, pleaded I stay home but I refused. It was a field trip that day! A nature field trip, with long walks through the forest in the frigid cold...not one of my best choices. * This troper learned quite early on that playing sick wouldn't help. Even when I was ''genuinely sick'', my father sent me to school anyway. I still tried it a few times, though. It took me collapsing in the middle of class with a raging fever when I was eight to convince him that sometimes it might possibly be okay to miss a day of school. * This troper has only played sick once or twice. She however sometimes used to exaggerate her minor ills, like headaches or a fever, to stay home from school in elementary. It's not because she dislikes school though; she adore[[strike:s]]d it. It doesn't help that her doctor eventually caught on, but she ''does'' tend to be sick and it wears off by the afternoon. * This troper has never actually faked sick on purpose, but once, when

she had a sore throat, she told her mom and, because she had just gotten out of bed, she was still warm. So her mom checked her forehead, and it took almost A FULL HOUR to convince her mom that she actually was okay to go to school. (Yeah, I know I'm weird, but I had an algebra test that day.) * This troper used to get sick every year on his birthday, necessitating an absence from school. Darnedest thing. Sometimes fabricated illnesses to not go to school on a given day, or escape: once he told his teacher he couldn't breathe and was promptly sent to the emergency room. He feels bad about that particular instance as an adult, knowing how worried the teacher and family would have been. * How to fake being sick: # Get up early, as this requires some time. # Put a desk lamp under the cover. # Turn on the desk lamp, letting as little fresh air inside as possible. Keep it up until sweaty. # Claim sickness. # Obtain thermometer. # Return under the covers, put thermometer in mouth and turn on desk lamp again (don't hold it ''to'' the lamp, this raises suspicion). # [[strike: Triumphantly announce]] Wordlessly return beeping thermometer and look vaguely into space, halfheartedly responding to any questions. # Stay home from school. ** (In my defense, I only did it once, and because I didn't want to go to art class, which was uniformly hated.) * Inverted. The one time [[Tropers/KatanaCat I]] remember being accused of it, I actually ''did'' have a sore throat, and it turned out I had a cold. * I know someone who does this a lot, but her excuses are just a little bit overdramatic, she cant just be satisfied with saying she is sick or has a cold. She either discribes her sickness and diarhea in detail, or thinks up some pretty serious illnesses to have. So far she has had kidney failure, cancer, a severe allergy to all kinds of fruit, depression (she was crying at the time, but I dont think it is really depression as she normally is happy, only crying to get attention), got one liver removed (dont you only have one?) and all sorts of other symptoms she had made up. * This troper's quite good at it. Also, her mom has absolutely no immune system, so it makes sense that I get sick a lot. Here's what I do: ** 1) Wear pajamas in an unflattering color. Set alarm clock for ~3:00 AM. Claim exhaustion, nausea; beg to go to bed. ** 2) Get up at 3:00. Make some noise banging around, but not too much. Flush toilet. Go to parents' room, claim you threw up. They will be too sleepy to argue or check to see if you actually did throw up; if they do, simply claim you already flushed it. Ask to stay home; their reply will usually be "Well, we'll see how you feel in the morning." Reset alarm for 15 minutes early. ** 3) Go back to sleep. Get up 15 minutes early; take stage makeup and accentuate bags under your eyes with a tiny, tiny bit of ''matte'' dark eyeshadow etc, make your face a little paler, smear a tiny bit of

concealer on your lips to make them appear pallid, add a tiny bit of the white-colored volume-enhancing side of a double mascara to downplay lashes, dampen your hair near the hairline to imitate sweat. ** 4) Get back in bed. Pretend to be asleep until they wake you up. ** 5) Moan and complain; act listless. Deny the existence of any tests/quizzes/papers due that day. ** 6) Ask for medicine; preferably diarrhea, constipation, or general stomach medicine. Pretend to take medicine; smooth hair behind ear and tuck pill above it. Dispose of pill. ** 7) Enjoy! * This troper did it all the time in third grade, by complaining about slight stomach or head aches which went away before it was even time to leave for school. This was usually to get more time to do homework that I hadn't done that would take too long to do on the bus ride to the school, [[{{Ridiculous Procrastinator}} though most of the time I ended up not doing the homework anyway]]. * In high school, I sometimes went to school, stayed for a couple of hours, then claimed I could feel a migraine coming on and went home again. My teacher implicitly trusted me (apart from the playing sick thing I was one of those smart, well-behaved people) and was prone to ask far less questions than my mom would if I didn't go to school at all. * In middle school, my friends and I would hide from our teacher during recess and take our jackets off in the hopes of ''actually'' getting sick. Sneaky kids, we were. * I do it often - in my defense, though, I have severe depression, and my school sucks balls. * I only do this when I'm actually feeling slightly sick, but probably not bad enough to have to stay home. * This troper's mom is a former nurse, and couldn't get away with this either. Eventually, though, the bullying at my school got so bad that she actually ''encouraged me'' to go to school just long enough to get my assignments, then fake sick and come home (the trick is to underplay it; if you want to call your parents, the school really can't stop you; just act like you're trying to play ''down'' a sickness and they usually won't ask questions). Still had to do the work, but at least I didn't have to deal with the jerkass students. ** This troper suffers from insomnia, and frequently used sleep deprivation instead of sickness as a reason to stay home. * Subverted for this troper, in that he rather frequently coughs up blood, generally sending those around him into a panic. I could use it to get out of anything, but I rarely do - it gets very wearing repeatedly having to say "I'm ''fine'', I don't need to go to the hospital." * Female? On your period or about to be? It doesn't matter how mild your cramps are, if you know how to play it up, you can spend a day in bed with the heating pad. Of course, if you really have cramps that bad, you're going to be spending the day in bed with the heating pad and trying not to cry. ** This is quite true, though subverted for this troper: My cramps are bearable, but sometimes during my period my blood pressure just...

decides to go crazy low. One day of fainting in class from such = One week out of school, even when you don't need all the days. Doesn't help both mom and I have had terrible periods before, so she sympathizes a bit more. * Ever since I can remember, I have always faked so I could sit at home and play video games. That, and everyone always decided to be a douche to me and me alone, so I had no motivation to go anyways. * Though most of the time it didn't trick my mom, I would fake being sick every time something bad happened at school. The one that I would usually get away with was the headcold, because a headcold really doesn't have many symptoms aside from dizziness. As I got older, though, I started actually trying to get myself sick. If done right (for example - if you leave the windows open in winter and close your door, you'll probably get sick), I could get away with skipping school. * This troper's never actually faked sick, but sometimes her mom will let her stay home for something really minor. She once actually tried to make me stay home for a "fever" of 99 degrees, but has actually made me go to school when I feel severely nauseous (seriously, once I threw up immediately upon entering school and then had to stay there for the rest of the day because my dad had already driven away and I go to school over an hour away from home. On the upside, I actually felt better after I threw up...) ---I can't go back to PlayingSick today. I have a fever. Honest! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PleaseDumpMe * This troper had a friend who considered this kind of scheme, even going so far as to ask this troper to pretend to be the "other woman". (She refused.) Somewhat disappointingly, he never went through with it, and she dumped him anyway a month later. * This troper was once in a relationship with a girl that in hindsight is a controlling psychobitch. We fought all the time, over stupid things like my female friends and wait for it...the fact I got to go on a vacation every once and a while. Needless to say I was glad to have started the fight that finally led her to dumping me. * [[{{Tropers/AXavierB}} This troper]], out of sheer curiosity, decided to enter an online relationship. A few days later, I just wasn't feeling it, so I started subtly nudging the other guy into breaking the whole thing up by making passive comments that he'd probably be [[BiTheWay more interested in a girl]]. * This troper was in a scriptwriting class where the final assignment was to write a five-minute screenplay. One classmate used this in a story where a high school student, worried that his ex-girlfriend is falling for another guy, convinces the other guy to do this to drive her back towards him. I described it as something out of a "zany teen comedy" and explained that this was not a compliment. To the author's credit, it did sound less like someone behaving badly, and more like a

teenager trying to convince someone he made a regular habit of behaving badly (the character literally uses the line "I love drinking and driving! I don't give a shit about other peoples' safety!"). * This lurker had a relative who did this. He was a JerkAss who wanted to look like he had the 'moral high ground' and always convinced girls to dump him, pretty much by being his own [[SarcasmMode sweet]] self (which he hadn't been to get into the realtionship in the first place). * This troper has had a few times where if the relationship had gotten much of anywhere before benign neglect still could work, this trope would have been the only good way to avert StalkerWithACrush. * [[{{Tropers/DeltaOne}} This Troper]] had a friend who enjoyed creating something similar just to watch the sparks fly. She would walk up to random guys who were with their girlfriends, go "Robert, I just wanted you to know that I love you," kiss them full on the mouth and run like hell. HilarityEnsues the one time she pulled this on some poor bastard who was actually called Robert. She stopped doing it after that. ** What a lovely person she must be. *** Sounds like someone This Troper wouldn't mind meeting for a little Mind Breaking revenge plots. What use is being a charming heartbreaker if you don't use it to punish the wicked? ** [[{{Tropers/HG131}} I]] like her. Ruining people's lives for fun? Seriously, [[{{Tropers/HG131}} I]] like her. * [[{{Tropers/ThisIsATest}} This Troper]] went out with a girl while in love with her best friend, hoping that his feelings would transfer from one to the other. After realizing this wasn't going to happen, he started to act clingy and obnoxious (basically copying the way he acts with girls in general). It worked, and he is single again. * This troper's best friend (with whom he is head over heels in love) had a girlfriend that was acting like this, including telling him how it would be okay if he got with other girls, how much she would like to get with other guys, and generally just being an obnoxious bitch. They broke up, though, finally. Thank God. * This troper has a girlfriend who he attracted more or less by accident (a combination of being MasterOfTheMixedMessage and [[ThroughHisStomach me liking her cooking in our early meetings]]), and originally wasn't particularly keen on the relationship, so I tried being a KichikuMegane to get rid of her. [[ConvenientlyCommonKink Boy, did]] ''[[ConvenientlyCommonKink that]]'' [[{{Understatement}} not work]]. (We're still together, and I've grown to like her.) * This troper's not-exactly girlfriend was in a relationship like this, combined with a set of rather Wodehousian schemes to break up the couple, all of which were going on at once and for a number of reasons. She had been very stressed and he swooped in and swept her off her feet, but she rapidly decided he was clingy and annoying (all his exes agree on that, but he is hot and good company in small doses), but a lot of people thought badly of her for going out with him in the first place, so she didn't want to dump him for me without an excuse. This excuse was (amusingly) provided by a rumour she had accidentally started when she liked him which was false at the time

but which came true months later. * [[Tropers/{{Keredis}} This troper]] once spent the better part of four months basically ignoring his girlfriend's existence in order to try and convince her to break up with him, as he couldn't find a "proper" time to break up. ** You thought it was better to ignore her for four months than to make a five-minute phone call? Sheesh. ** You sound like my ex-boyfriend. We had a conversation one day in October and everything seemed cool, and the next thing I know, he just disappears. I finally saw him again once the spring semester had started in January, and he didn't have the decency to apologize for ignoring me and never having the decency to at least say it was over. Protip, dude: she's always going to be more pissed about you disappearing out of nowhere than by your manning up and actually breaking up with her. * T.T.'s first boyfriend fell out of love with her, but since he still liked her as a person, he attempted this in the hopes that she'd be less heartbroken if she dumped him instead of the other way around. (Mostly just doing things like being a bit distant and not being affectionate.) When I called him out on it, he apologized, saying he was very bad at communicating. She does forgive him, but hopes he's learned his lesson. He's a lot older and wiser now, so hopefully so. * [[Tropers/{{Neakal}} This Troper]] had an inversion: A while ago I was experiencing an extreme bout of self-hatred and anger regarding certain issues in my life (mostly work-related). Semi-intentionally, I directed that anger to my boyfriend, hoping that he would dump me, because I felt like I did not deserve him. He ended up upset, I ended up feeling like a {{Jerkass}} and we had a heart-to-heart that hopefully strengthened our relationship. * This troper quite often has experiences like the troper above. She broke up with her two-year boyfriend and long-time friend several months ago, but still to this day, she constantly says things to try to make him hate her because he'd be better off. This is partly because she hates the idea of her best friend loving someone who doesn't love him back and that there would surely be more attractive options out there. However, he never believes me and keeps with the belief that I am just {{Tsundere}} and [[{{JerkWithAHeartOfGold}} nice underneath my evilness]]. This troper is thankful for this, especially when out of the depressed moods. ---Maybe if I act like I forgot all about PleaseDumpMe, I can get out of this relationship without looking like the bad guy. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PleaseWakeUp * My cousin's mother-in-law, who has Alzheimer's Disease, was living alone with her sickly daughter. Over a period of three days, my cousin's wife kept trying to call her sister, and her mother kept saying she was 'sleeping'. Finally, my cousin's wife got the neighbor

to check on them, and her sister had, in fact, died. * Averting the Star Wars example on the main page I was led to believe (by my father) that the living ewok was dragging the dead ewok away so he could eat him. I don't know where to put this story and this seemed to be the best place. * This Troper's best friend knew a married man with a teenaged stepson and three of his own kids under ten. For reasons we still don't know, he killed his wife and stepson, and then himself. Two of the kids weren't home at the time, but the youngest was, a two-year-old boy. The police found the baby trying to wake the teenager up. * This Troper always got this vibe from the final chorus of "You Gotta Get Up (It's Christmas Morning)" by Rich Mullins. It's just WAAAYYY too slow to be a ''happy'' song about Christmas morning. ** Slow or not, this troper gets the same vibe from the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little susie". * When this troper was a young boy, he went to his great grandfather's funeral. He kept expecting him to sit up and wave, say everything was going to be okay. He didn't. ** This troper is 21, and had the exact same thoughts at his father's birthday. * This troper said these exact words when she woke up one morning and discovered that the cat, who had been sleeping in the bed with her, had died in her sleep sometime in the night. And again a few months later, when ''the other cat did the same thing''. * This troper is a very HeavySleeper. One time, his three year old cousin scared the crap out of his mom by telling her that he wouldn't wake up. * Sort of subverted and played straight at the same time for an incident when this troper (I/me) was nine. My father was dying of brain cancer and would sometimes suffer seizures. Not the jerking kind you see on TV, his looked more like he was sleeping while making snoring-like sounds (extra scary since he snored when he slept for real too, making it difficult to tell whether or not he really was sleeping) and foaming at the mouth. I had the [[SarcasmMode pleasure]] of seeing him like this one night and had no idea what was happening or why my father wouldn't stop making those scary noises and talk to me. * You can take this troper's word for it: it's worse when they ''don't'' look asleep. This troper's family couldn't find the family dog one time, and when we eventually did, my father said "oh god...". I saw that her (the dog's) eye were open, and said "no, it's alright, her eyes are open; she's ok!" [[CaptainObvious She wasn't.]] * My mother and I saw this occur with two gray squirrels by their house. One had recently got hit by a car and this friend/sibling/partner was standing by it's side, pushing against it with it's front paws, trying to wake it up. It didn't work... * My mom told my siblings and I of when we were little we had a litter of kittens they died from sickness or something like that and our grandpa had put them in wagon to bury them but we found them and were shaking them to try and revive them. * This troper had a cat that suffered an aneurysm while I was holding him. I didn't realize it at the time and when I went to put him down,

he just fell to the floor, totally lifeless. I must have spent the next hour trying to wake him up, even after I realized he was dead. [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth He was only a couple weeks away from turning three.]] [[TearJerker ;_;]] * This troper has found that with little kids, it's better to just tell them the truth from the start. When someone dies, just tell them that the person has died and it means they will never come back. It seems like a mean thing to do to a small child, I know, but in my eyes, it's much crueler to give the child some false hope that their loved one will return. ---PleaseWakeUp...don't fall asleep at your computer like that, it scares me. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PlotHole * I recall a story written by my brother about people we knew, albeit with much stranger personalities and circumstances than their [[RealLife real-life]] counterparts. The one voice of reason in the story was a man named Gene. That is, until he gets killed off about halfway through. Near the end, the story needed a reasonable character again, so my brother brought Gene back. After I reminded him that Gene had been killed off, he kept it in anyway and {{lampshaded}} it, as another character asked "Hey dude, aren't you dead?", to which Gene replied in the affirmative and crawled back into his grave. * {{This troper}} frequently runs into things that, at the very least, appear to be [[PlotHole plotholes]] in {{real life}}. Well, not frequently, but surprisingly often. And they are generally {{handwave}}d rather than explained. I have sudden sympathy for characters with bad writers. ** You know, that very entry was the Writer [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] their own BadWriting? * In a story that I'm writing I'm intentionally leaving {{plothole}}s for the {{sequel}}s to fill (and, yes, I have a whole bunch of {{sequel}}s planned). In fact, the story practically relies completely on the fact that there are [[PlotHole plotholes]] (I tried to make the 1st one a stand alone story, but the whole premise makes no sense without more stories to continue the {{plot}}). * {{This troper}} frequently [[{{Lampshaded}} lampshades]] it Characters climb in and out of [[PlotHole plotholes]], claim that they have such odd effects on the world (Such as a [[PlotHole plothole]] opening up in the middle of a town and threatening to suck everything in if it's not {{film}}ed), and someone gets PutOnABus this way - that is, they fall into a PlotHole and then come out the other side. (Asking [[DiggingToChina "Do people walk upside down here?"]]) * {{This troper}} intends to write (just as soon as she is able) a {{fanfiction}} in which a secret agent infiltrates ''The Girl Who Lived'' series to kill Rose Potter. [[spoiler:Rose will ultimately be erased when her multitude of {{canon}} changes result in one HUGE

[[PlotHole plothole]] that sucks her into oblivion.]] * In a verbal semi-RP thing that my friend and I did (difficult to explain, but think of me as PC and him as the DM), my character (myself at college-age) was transported to an area known as the "PlotHole," a huge, swirling hole in reality in a vast expanse of darkness, along with many of the story's other main heroes. I was only able to escape with three other characters, unfortunately leaving the rest to fall into the PlotHole; however, a short time later, my friend had them reappear in the story, without any explanation. I found that odd, until realizing much later that [[FridgeBrilliance falling into a literal Plot Hole would allow them to come back]] ''[[FridgeBrilliance through]]'' [[FridgeBrilliance a plot hole.]] * {{This troper}}, who has yet to finish the main story, has planned for a {{spin off}} (well, three, but this one is the main one I've got planned) which will pretty much feature {{the protagonist}}s (well, an entire army) going through one and coming out a thousand years later, trying to find their way back to their land. [[{{Warhammer40000}} No prizes for guessing what really happened to them. Some good news about it, however: they will make it back and not be executed for taint.]] However, less than a hundred out of a few thousand will make it back. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] GM uses literal [[PlotHole plotholes]] as an explanation for where characters go when they're not being used - including ones belonging to players who dropped out and all the bad guys we've left unkilled / got away. It's getting a little crowded in there... ---Make sure you don't fall into that PlotHole while you're writing. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PointyHairedBoss * This troper once had a PHB. What his competence was is unknown to him and his colleagues, since even the smallest administrative or financial tasks couldn't be handed to him. Even this troper who was a webmaster had to do some calculations because the employees didn't want the company to go bankrupt. After a while the boss was fortunately fired - maybe the little e-mail this troper wrote to the company's international HQ with the boss's web history full of porn sites and Kongregate games helped though. * This troper's current boss pretty much is a PHB, only without the unintentional hilarity. Basically, he's not very competent, but has a very high opinion of himself and a very low one of everybody else, tends to kow-tow to the assholes (it appears he never grew a spine), bullies around the competent people, couldn't be convinced to change the main system passwords after there were three successful cracks in the same month... long story short, this troper is very happy that it's just a holiday job. * The manager of the local [=McDonald's=] chain that [[{{Tropers/alfinchkid}} This Troper]] is a part of has really friendly, involved, and competent owners, who will even provide relief

work on a really busy day. Their son, who works for corporate offices and occasionally comes in to check on the stores, however, is far from it. He has no clue how to even do the most basic procedures in the store, and even came close to firing me for extending the cooking time on the meat, because it looked pink. His words were "Our regulations say it comes up after 32 seconds. It's even hot enough on the inside to kill the germs (over 160 Farenheit directly off the grill), so just pull it off next time." Needless to say, complaints of pink meat skyrocket when he's in town. ** I would also like to say that it's a problem with customer relations. He doesn't seem to understand that even though the germs are killed, the customers don't see the temperatures. They just see the color pink between the buns, and freak out, afraid that they'll catch salmonella. ** One more quick point, when I got the store managers on my side of the issue, he finally allowed me to extend cooking time up to 10 more seconds (really, more than enough) after 3 months straight of working alongside him. This corporate manager still hates me, though. ** Speaking as a McD's (swing) manager, clueless idiot up there (the corporate dude that is) is wrong about the 32 second rule anyway. There's actually a variety of times you can cook meat on, and 32 seconds is actually the low end. We cook our regular meat for 38 seconds at our store. It's all about cooking it so A) It's safe and B) It looks and tastes good. Seriously, it's all in the Food Safety book we have to fill out every day. *shakes head* But I have noticed a correlation between the higher the person is in management and the likelihood of being a PHB... * My team leader at my old job (a telecommunications call centre) was the embodiment of the PHB. He might well have been good on the phone but he had zero people skills, was completely disorganised and communicated via useless management speak and stick on notes that kept being thrown out. He refused to acknowledge I had a learning disability and was bullying and aggressive whenever I did anything wrong, despite never explaining what the problem was and switching off whenever I spoke to him. When I left it was effectively constructive dismissal; I couldn't stand this man or his foibles any more. * The higher-ups at this troper's job sometimes come across like an entire squadron of [=PHBs=]. While she admits that she isn't exactly perfect, she was on anxiety pills for a time over their tendency to criticize her at length during meetings, often for things that she was either never taught/told to do or about which she was misinformed by someone else who should have known better. Possibly the best example was the time she was taken to task for using one of the copy machines...because the other one was broken. There was no way the repairman could fix the copier she was supposed to use in time for her to finish the project, so she used the other one. Even when they understood that she'd done this because of a mechanical problem that was not her fault, she was told that "That's to be avoided." ** Update: They won; they PHB-ed the troper half to death. Troper is now unemployed. In many respects, this is an improvement. * This troper's father's boss is PHB material, despite not having been promoted to that spot...he owns the small chain of photography studios

for which this tropers father works. The PHB-ness arises in that he is not at all up on any of the newer digital finishing and suchlike they do, or on webdesign, and keeps feeling the need to stick his nose right into both. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] doesn't work yet, but has a friend whose boss is the inversion of PHB-ness - a friendly bloke who was OneOfUs as well. Works in a business selling tiles. On the other hand, one of my father's workshop bosses (my father is a roughneck on the oil rigs) was real PHB material. [[{{LaserGuidedKarma}} Fortunately, my father quit that job, and now my father is a supervisor on the rigs himself.]] * [[{{Tropers/MonsterDog}} This troper]] had a boss like that while working at a bank. He was also a living embodiment of the no soap radio principle; whenever someone (usually me) would tell a joke that was way over his head, he'd laugh just because he saw everyone else laughing...after a brief delay. Example: The Muzak system broke in the branch. A customer asked "what's wrong with your music?" PHB said "Must be something wrong with the satellite." (turning to me) "We've got a satellite, right?" Said I: "Well, we did, until [[StarWars the rebels flew up the ventilator shaft and blew the whole thing up.]]" Everyone else caught the [[CaptainObvious reference]], but PHB completely missed the point. The teller line had a running joke going: "Boss is coming out of the office. Let's have Fox tell a joke and see how long it takes PHB to start laughing with us." * The first (near) full-time job this troper had, frying and preparing donuts in a bakery, had a boss that was so much the definition of this trope that I'm now glad I had her... since all other bosses will be compared to her and thought of "Well... it could be worse." She'd worked for 22 years at the SAME JOB (packaging the baked goods for sale), before being promoted to manager of the department due to (and solely due to) seniority. As of this writing, in the 1 year since I started working there (quit Jan. '09), there was a total of at least 6 people (including this troper) have left primarily due to her. And the notes left complaining about the work you had/n't done, the fact that she was only nice when in need of help, and the back-handed compliments (e.g. "Why do your donuts always look so good and hers always look like shit?") didn't help matters. * This troper's first 'real' job, stemming from an internship at a web design company, had a boss who had inherited the business. Five years ago. And didn't know how to use Dreamweaver. Which nearly every single computer in the company had. Thankfully, we also worked on the principle of just trying to keep her out of the way. * This troper's father seems to have unusually bad luck with Pointy Haired Bossess. The most recent example: Working at a prison for a food service manager whose only prior experience was managing a single fast food restaurant, and was only given the position because he was a good Mormon in a society FULL OF THEM. It goes without saying that this troper's father was much more competent than his boss, but here's the twist; even after being stuck by a tree, going into a coma and reviving much later with a severe mental handicap, the Pointy Haired Boss STILL kept his job. The doctors even declared him unfit to work. What's going on, here?

* This troper once had a PHB for a teacher in Japanese class. Aside from the problem that her Japanese had a thick American accent, she would repeatedly forget about the homework that she had assigned herself, forget her lesson plans, write down her lesson plans and then forget her position in it, repeatedly use first-year material on higher-level classes and not notice, and so on. Apparently she had been hired on the basis that she had been a good teacher ten years earlier; the problem was that somewhere in between, her health deteriorated, and her stronger prescriptions did funny things to her head. In any case, this troper switched class sections just to have a different teacher. ** I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the general direction of this trope when I ask this, but doesn't a PHB have to be incompetent ''on their own merits''? Her meds made her a little loopy, which indirectly had an effect on how well she performed her job. So I'm pretty sure this isn't the best example of this trope considering she most likely could have done fine had she been off the pills or at a smaller dosage. * This troper has a pointy-haired teacher. He's pretty cool, though, and I like him a lot. ** This troper has had a pointy-haired Electronics teacher in his final year of high school, and it was an absolutely horrendous experience. Her first day, she admitted she had a degree in Physics, and not in Electronics, and she ONLY came to teach us Electronics because she and her boyfriend were broke. She then decided that we were not prepared enough to start that year's program, and the only way to "fix" that was to spend our Electronics lessons listening to her READ us topics from the previous year's Electronics book. Her classworks resembled Math classworks more than anything else, and our grades were mediocre... until she decided to "normalize" them (that's the exact expression she used)... by LOWERING each of them equally. The following March, we hadn't started that year's Electronics program yet, and she still had the courage to bitch about how we were an awful class. That's when I got the opportunity to tell her to fuck off. She reported that to the principal, whom we informed about how she was conducting her lessons; as a result, the principal booted her out and started to look for another Electronics teacher, who would've gotten the task to repair all the damage she had done, and teach us a whole year's worth of Electronics in four mere months. The teacher was found, he succeeded, AndThereWasMuchRejoicing. * [[@/DarkMan This Troper]] has THREE pointy-haired bosses currently: ** The technical head, who dislikes solutions for stupid emotional reasons. ** The Director of Operations, who admits he doesn't know what I do and micromanages anyway. ** The company owner, who seems to have no compunction of screwing his clients in unethical and illegal ways. *** I've since left that job, and once the only two decent people in the place do likewise, I'm calling the Right People. * This troper once worked in the garden department of a warehouse and had a PHB. The guy couldn't schedule whatsoever, didn't understand the concept of employees having legitimate reasons for asking for time off

(when an employee asked for time off to go to her sister's high school graduation he very nearly denied it; it took an ultimaten of either giving her time off or losing one of his best employees to make him reconsider) and didn't understand some of basics of gardening (such as the fact that plants will die if kept in windowless warehouses and if they aren't watered every day during heat waves). The problem was compounded by the fact that the CEO of the company is himself a PHB. * This troper at one point in danger of becoming a PHB himself. Having been an excellent salesman, I was kicked upstairs to a management position, for no other reason than the senior management had no idea what to do with me. I hated my new job, and was entirely unsuited for it. I realized that I was being a dick to my staff just because of my frustration, not to mention the fact that my department, having received a double whammy by loosing its best salesman (me) and gaining a substandard manager (also me), was doing badly. I quit pretty soon afterward, and fortunately it was soon enough that I was able to stay friends with my old colleagues. * Everybody who works at school has no clue what their roles are or even their place. * This Troper is convinced that MadScientist somewhere had breached an AlternateUniverse where ''TheOffice'' is real, took samples of both Michael & David's DNA, spliced them together, and unleashed him at... well, I don't wanna say where I work. * Fortunately, all of this troper's bosses avert this trope wholesale. They're [[OneOfUs fun]] to work with and aren't afraid to get their hands dirty (with food) or help out wherever they're needed. This troper, however, ''has'' run into countless team leaders who fit the bill of this trope when playing [=MMOs=]. * This Troper has a lovely answer in interviews for the questions: -->"What do you expect in a manager?" ''"Come in sober"'' --> "Describe your worst boss" ''"She came in on meth or whatever else she could smoke ahead of time. The other lady on grave shift and I just guided her to where she could cause the least damage and handled what we could ourselves..."'' * this troper had two engineering teachers that fit the PHB profile perfectly. to give you some background on the time leading up to this stuff: * we had three engineering teachers originally. the first was really nice, and really helpful. the second was pretty nice at first, as was the third. then the first left for a better job. this is where the trouble began. the second (from now on referred to as E) was pretty nice for the most part... then stuff went downhill. E focused on two students in a class of seventeen, leaving everyone else to basically listen in and try to work out what they could. eventually, after taking in our coursework (worth a load towards the final grade) ONCE in just over a year, and being generally useless, E... probably got fired. he basically ignored everyone (and the grades reflected this). there are conflicting stories about it. the third (from now on referred to as C)was, again, pretty useful at first. C would take a few people out of lessons per week so they could focus on their coursework, and was always there to help. at first. C eventually got lazy, instead sitting in another room and drinking tea whilst everyone

struggled to work stuff out for themselves. I don't know what happened to C in the end, but I'm pretty sure they got fired or something. (fun fact: I still don't know how my final grade for the course is divided into exams and coursework). * While I admit my attitude at one place I worked wasn't the best, the sheer PHB-ness of several of the managers and assistant managers was the main cause of it; I am not patient with stupid at the best of times. Once, when I was setting up a display, I was instructed to "tell a story with color." I stared at that PHB for a second, and then went and did it the way I'd planned to in the first place, because it was the most efficient method I could think of. I was also having problems with low blood sugar at the time, which led to some very embarrassing scenes when they decided that I didn't need to go on break until another hour after I was scheduled to, even when there was no good reason to do so. One PHB told me I could control my low blood sugar attacks by counting to ten and staying calm. He said this in front of a nurse; cue Crowning Moment of Awesome for the nurse. This same PHB told me that I didn't need to take a day off during the week that my show went up. I then described the schedule I would be maintaining that week, which included consecutive 20-hour days, and told him that if I didn't have a day off, I would collapse from exhaustion and miss multiple days. He told me to skip a couple of rehearsals. "I can't; the last week of rehearslas is mandatory." "Oh, they won't mind if you miss one or two." "Um, actually, yes, they will. Funny thing about mandatory rehearsals- they're kind mandatory." "Well, then why don't you just rest before you get tired?" EVERY SINGLE PERSON WITHIN EARSHOT looked at him as though he were the stupidest person on earth. And of course, I couldn't leave without getting one last experience of PHB-ness. When I gave the head PHB for that store my two weeks notice, she tried to convince me to stay. She generously offered to let me "only" work two days a week so that I could have time for my other job. I pointed out that I was already only working there two days a week, and since my other job was fulltime, working an extra two days a week would mean I worked a seven-day week. She still didn't get it. I really wasn't surprised when I went through that town a few years later and discovered that the store had closed. * This troper's mother's ex-boss was the definition of PHB: incompetent, as well as a huge bully. He bought his CPA firm from another couple and decided one day to stop paying them, knowing that they didn't have enough money to sue him. Of course, since he didn't get his firm legally or through his own intelligence, he knew almost nothing about accounting whatsoever. Almost all of his clients stayed with him only because Mom was working for him and knew how to do all their work; he was such a greedy, elitist, idiotic bastard that he would rather charge two companies $1000 than charge twenty companies $200. When Mom was hospitalized for 35 days due to pancreatitis and gallstones, he came in once a week to ask her work questions and was nearly banned from the hospital. He wanted her back at work within a week, despite her inability to even get up out of her chair at the time, let alone walk or drive, and instead gave her a laptop, printer, and 6 boxes of work to do. When he decided he no longer wanted to pay

her until she came into the office, he demanded that he be allowed in to pick up some Quickbooks installation [=CDs=], which was a ploy to take the equipment and boxes. When we fooled him into thinking she was at the hospital, he attempted to break into our house and then fired Mom for refusing to say which hospital she was "staying at". All in all, a huge boatload of illegal crap that can only be resolved through lawsuits which we can't afford. Despite firing her, he began demanding answers to work questions. Mom continues to refuse to answer any of his questions unless he gives her the paycheck for the work she did at home, and this troper plans on removing him from the property with extreme prejudice should he appear at the house. Of course, this all doomed his business. Mom told every client she could find what happened, and almost all of them (including his #2 client, who will tell the #1 client) are planning on pulling their accounts with him and looking elsewhere. Firing her will lose almost all of his business and utterly ruin his reputation across Florida. ** If you tell me his name, the name of his firm, and his address, I will report him to the Better Business Bureau * [[{{Tropers/MisterVercetti}} This troper]] has a web architecture professor who can't run a class to save his life. Three homework assignments have been postponed because he either botched or ''[[WhatAnIdiot downright forgot to make]]'' the submission link, the class schedule has changed no less than ''five times'' in ten weeks (to the point where we no longer have room to discuss data tier design which, for those of you who don't know, is a '''vital component to web architecture'''), assignments aren't graded until ''several weeks'' after we've turned them in, and that's just what I can come up with off the top of my head. Given how he's basically got us flying by the seat of our pants, it's a small miracle we've gotten ''anything'' accomplished. This troper used to think that at least the guy knew his stuff, but after witnessing countless on-the-fly coding examples repeatedly devolve into seas of compilation errors, he's beginning to doubt even that. * This troper's high school, supposedly one of the best in the nation (like, it gets on those Newsweek rankings for best high schools), was actually full of PHBs. The principal was a power-hungry lech who tended to fire anyone he didn't like, particularly women, and also unfairly promoted a lot of unqualified people who sucked up to him, especially women who were ''literal'' about the sucking-up part. The vice principal when I was there, eventually his successor as principal, was an incompetent ditz who nearly all the students disliked, and yet she rose swiftly through the ranks because she was giving the principal blow-jobs on the side. (She even started at the school as one of the college counselors, despite not yet having a counseling degree.) ---Hey, sonny, I need you to make something for me... what are you looking at? Oh, it's just the main page on [[Main/PointyHairedBoss Pointy Haired Boss]]... OK, I thought you were writing a troper tale about me. ----

PoirotSpeak ''Kore is a TroperTales peji. HAVE FUN DESU!!!!'' * Subverted in a ''StarTrek'' convention - this troper found people speaking perfect *KLINGON* where he expected a bunch of nerds to mangle it to {{Hulkspeak}} levels. His offer to speak PoirotSpeak klingon for fun was turned down with elaborate puns in klingon around the PardonMyKlingon trope name making the klingons sound shy about their language's cuss words... * Inverted in real life if you learn to speak a language for a long time: One night you wake up and start searching for something like "clover" in your mothertongue. If you're like this troper you'll come up with the Latin equivalent and eventually forced to use a dictionary. It seems to be enhanced if you learn a lot of words through reading without learning it as a vocable but merely by guessing the meaning from the circumstances. ** This troper, a native English speaker, once walked out in the rain complaining "I need a regenschirm!" and could not remember the word "umbrella" for several minutes. *** Regenschirm (literally rain visor or rain shield) makes a lot more sense than umbrella, so it's understandable. ** This troper is currently studying in a country whose language - A is tangentially related to her mother tongue (B) while her study is concerned with the language of another country - C - while the language of discussion is English - D. When she's trying to call her parents and consequently talk in language B - which she never uses otherwise since she knows no other native speakers of that particular language here -, the whole thing turns into a word stew of A, B, C and D with loooong pauses while she can't think of a specific word in ANY language and only remembers the associated concepts. It doesn't help she also has 5+ other languages on the brain, due to classmates, having brought her language books from other classes and having to dig through books in books which aren't in either A, B, C or D. Vero, das r subete alleen confusing, mesdames wa seores. * Often justified in real life. Children raised by parents who primarily speak one language in a place where most people speak another will often grow up speaking to their parents in unusual combinations of both. Typically, verbs, pronouns and grammatic structure will remain in the parents' native tongue, while nouns and and adjectives will shift far more quickly to the new language. The result is something almost identical to PoirotSpeak. ** This troper, raised by his Dutch mother in Australia, can confirm this. On the subject of verbs, he'll occasionally use the English word, but the Dutch tense (unless that's what you meant). * This troper occasionally does the English with non-English grammar bit, especially when tired. * The leader of one student group at this troper's university is a Georgian immigrant who occasionally leaves out articles (both definite and indefinite), apparently because no direct equivalent exists in his native language. * This troper once caught herself thinking -- thankfully, not

''speaking'' -- in a strange amalgam of French, Scots Gaelic and Japanese. * Happends to this troper's asiatic friends in college, they usually can discuss in French without problems about biological adaptations, saying names of rares especies of plants and discussing the cycle of reproduction of ''escargots'' but the French being so different of Korean, Japanese or Ourdu don't help them to know is they have to say ''Salut'' (bye)''A bientot'' (see you) or ''Bonne journe''(have a good day) or any cultural related expression * this troper is an italian-mothertongue who speaks three other languages in varying degrees of fluency (all pretty advanced). sometimes forgets the italian word for something and has to resort to english, french or spanish. * This Troper often forgets her Indonesian words and changed it to English. Also the reverse. This is due that she was raised in America for a few years until she was about 8 years old. * This troper, after less than a year of Spanish, began to number a test while thinking "uno, dos, tres..." * This Russian-American troper and her friends have this a lot, especially if the person we speak to knows both languages and can grasp the meaning of what we say despite language mashing. This troper tends to do this in any language she speaks, which presents a problem with Spanish class when she begins speaking Russian without realizing it... * This troper has seen graffiti on the Spanish-language signs on board Seattle Metro buses that reads "No sneako into America, spickos!" or "No sneako into USA, OK?" * My [[IncrediblyLamePun mother's mother language]] is English, although she's been speaking Spanish for years. She often forgets basic words, such as "box" and, when infuriated, actually begins to rant ''in Spanish.'' And if she's been speaking it all day? Don't expect any English-speakers (myself included) to understand a word she says ** Also, I grew up hearing Spanish, am taking French, and am a native English speaker. Yeah, listing the French alphabet is interesting to say the least. I throw in a few "ll" and "" on accident--and only just re-learned the French number system, as it devolved from "un, deus, trois," to "siete, ocho, nueve, diez." ** Also, speaking with people immediately after French class is hilarious--all of my main greetings are ''en franais." Just today I tried to say "Gracias, Madame"! What the hell?! *** And don't get me started on my French accent! It's terrible!...and Spanish! * I am taking Drama for A-level and when we where playing characters who weren't from an English speaking country we resorted to this. This meant that we did a production of West-Side Story with hardly any Spanish at all. * This troper tends to start putting tagalog in his speech when he's bored * when this troper was in germany, she consistantly slipped english words into her speech. it was laregly a metter of having lived in england for a long time and it being the default setting for me, so

unless I tought about awnsering in german, it would slip my mind. * My brother in law is from India. He speaks perfectly fluent, idiomatic English, as well as Hindi and Telugu. His adorable nephew, on the other hand, has the tendency to insert random Telugu words whenever he can't come up with an English equivalent. It makes him very difficult to understand, but even more adorable. He also has a hard time remembering our names, and I think it is because they aren't Indian names, which makes sense because aside from my sister whose been learning Telugu I'm the only one in my family who can pronounce his name. ---If le troper would perchance wish to return aux PoirotSpeak, this is le link. ----

PoisonousFriend * This always makes for a fun game of ''DungeonsAndDragons'', what with the [[CharacterAlignment alignment system]]. I fondly remember one instance where one player was LawfulGood (thankfully not a Paladin, since that would have ruined things) while another was LawfulEvil... and utterly devoted to the former character. When the LawfulGood character would run into a moral dilemma, the LawfulEvil character would sneak off and [[ShootTheDog "remove" the source of the problem]]... and if caught in the act, convince the rest of the party that she had no choice at the time. LawfulGood never twigged the true alignment of his most fanatical follower. * This troper has this bit of a relationship with a female friend of his. She's more "Lawful Good" and unwilling to do some more "unethical" things while I'm more "Chaotic Good" so I have no issues with doing certain things for greater good. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]] knew a girl. Said girl was a bit... sociopathic. Said troper was getting bullied at school. I tell her, she goes all quiet. Next day at school, she tells me I won't have a problem again. Sure enough, they all left me alone. I remember wondering why they all had black eyes and fat lips. * Sometimes, i suspect this of myself- my best friend is too much of a chivalrous/nice/shy guy to deal with (or even talk to) any girl making fun of him. I'm not. * How I got my best friend? One of my other friends was making fun of me and he came out of the ordeal with [[GroinAttack a very painful crotch in tow]], courtesy of a [[BlatantLies kindhearted bystander.]] * This Troper is this to his best friend. Though I always have his best interests at heart, I'm usually more interested in what's good for him (and me!) than what's good for those around us. On more than one occassion he's called me "the devil on his shoulder". * This Troper is [[HugeGuyTinyGirl a really short girl in contrast to a really tall guy]], but even if he doesn't admit it, her soul is much, much darker than his.He's more of a HeroicSociopath; She's a complete {{Yangire}}. * This troper has a tendency to be one with a particular friend. Said friend will [[ShrinkingViolet rarely stick up for himself]], and the

troper will often have to do it for him, though he averts being a simple bodyguard because of his short fuse, and tendency towards violent and/or humiliating retribution, and the friend's dislike of such things. The troper is usually fairly quiet and studious, but seeing that ''particular'' friend being fucked with is one of his few [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]] * This troper has a poisonous friend who's a [[UnderStatement little aggressive]] to people he doesn't like, and especially to people who slight me in any way. Regardless of how small, when he's around; to the point of seeming a little creepy. Most prominent example -- We're walking down the hallway, and a stereotypical JerkJock bumps me to the side roughly. I pass a quick "Yeah, fuck you too." in his direction and am prepared to let it go, rather than deal with a shitstorm of conflict. Cue friend missing from my side as I continue down the hallway. Cut to a few days in the future, and he's currently under a month's suspension for assaulting another student. The friend got out without much injury though, which is nice. ---You can go back to PoisonousFriend now. Don't worry, I took care of the people who were making it hard to go there before. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Pokemon We join our tropers still on their journey as they move on to their next adventure in their quest to become the Champion! ---[[foldercontrol]] * This Troper hs beaten XD and has nearly all of the shadow Pokemon. Here is my awesome team: Jolteon, Banette, Snorlax, Exeggutor, Walrein, and Tauros. I plan to trade more purified Pokemon I have to my other games. * [[@/AlternateMew This troper]] refers to herself as a "shiny magnet", due to the many alternate color Pokemon she finds in comparison to her family members. Once, I restarted a game and found a brown Poochyena and a purple Wurmple withing 5 minutes of each other, less than 2 hours into the game if I remember right. Plus Ditto, Ponyta, Gastly, Bagon (egg), Kecleon, 2 Linoone's, etc. Now, I don't do it on purpose of course, and my bro gets rather pissed off every times he finds out I got a new shiny... Good thing he doesn't yet know of this blue-eyed Patrat I found the first day of having Pokemon White... ** You're not the only troper to have found a shiny patrat in so early in Pokemon White. However, [[@/{{Forecharmer}} I]] have never before encountered any shiny Pokmon and my friend, who is a shiny collector, got really jealous that I found it so early in the game. ** We're three. So far I got a shiny weedle (later a green beedrill), a pink nidorina, a pink mareep (and then an pinky-purple ampharos), and a yellow tauros in SS in about 2 months. And now I'm replaying

platinum and got a white eevee (I involved into leafeon), and almost 24 hours later a green zubat. ** This tropers friend encountered a shiny crobat while playing diamond, and sadly, killed it while trying to weaken it. poor guy. This troper hasnt gotten any legit shinies yet, and envies the OP..... * This troper is relatively indifferent about Pokemon, but she has two friends who have been planning the "most epic battle" against each other for over a month now. There is even a contract of rules, which they want me to sign as the legal witness. They have thought it through ''that much.'' * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko-chan]]'s planned ([[AlwaysFemale allgirl]]; well, not quite) team (if she ever does get a Pokemon game note that only six of these will be my [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment final six]]): ** A Lopunny named - [[MeaningfulName appropriately]] - Usagi ** A Dewgong named Ami ** A Flareon named Rei ** A Rotom (if possible) named Makoto ** A Beautifly named Minako ** A Gliscor named Haruka ** A Milotic named Michiru ** A Cresselia named Setsuna ** An Umbreon named Hotaru ** A Buneary named - again, [[MeaningfulName appropriately]] Chibiusa ** And last but not least, my starter: either a [[PokemonRedAndBlue Venusaur]], a [[PokemonGoldAndSilver Mega]][[RealMenWearPink nium]], a [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Sceptile]] or a [[PokemonDiamondAndPearl Torterra]] named Mamoru. These names are all {{Stealth Pun}}s, but I'm sure [[ThemeNaming you'll be able to see where I'm going with them]]. *** [[SailorMoon I LOVE YOU.]] *** [[CaptainObvious "Stealth Puns"?]] [[SarcasmMode Wow, I almost couldn't see they were so!]] * Not too sure what to post here, but I'm 63 hours into [=HeartGold=] and leveling up for Red! * This troper recalls seeing a shiny Poochyena the first time he played Ruby. He was six years old. He knocked it out and didn't learn what it was until years later. He also knocked out a shiny Graveller in Pearl. He finally did manage to catch a shiny Tentacool in Heart Gold, however. ** This Troper did the same thing in the original ''Silver'' Version. He had fished in the water next to the lighthouse in Olivine City and had reeled in a shiny Magikarp. He didn't know how hard it was to find them and simply knocked it out. This troper later ended up finding a shiny Onix inside of a cave (can't remember which cave, though), but ran away from it. A few years later, after he had learned how rare they are, he ended up finding and catching a shiny Rattata on Route 1 in ''Fire Red''. * My friend played (the first season's) song on an electric guitar at out college dorm's talent show. I should point out that my dorm is filled with nerds who played pokemon cards almost every day. And I'm one of them baby! HELL YEAH!

*** This troper, no lie, actually recorded a cover of (the Johto theme) song and posted it to his {{Facebook}} account, where all his friends (and other people within the network) could see it. Unashamedly. I'm glad that most of the people in my high school still like (or at least don't mind) Pokemon. (Granted, I would've posted it anyway probably even if they didn't, but the point still stands!) * [[@/Shadowgirl13Chaos this troper]] has an action replay and can obtain ANY mon she wants, with any nature, any level, and any ability. So what does she do with it? Make themed teams, of course! My lead is a Dragon team (Aerodactyl, Charizard, Flygon, Salamence, Dragonite, and Garchomp), but so far she has a cutesy, beauty, Uber, ground, flying, kanto, water, psychic, normal, fire, dark, and poison team, all with great combos, counters, and the works, and puts them on her Battle revolution file, complete with themed trainer. I got a lot of time on my hands, huh?.... Yeah... ** Is the Flygon legal? It's the only one Lance doesn't use, if I remember correctly. *** He's Lance. If he does it, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard it probably isn't]]. *** Technically, only Aerodactyl and Charizard are illegal, what with not being actual dragon types. * This 19-year-old troper's been part of the Pokefan legion since the beginning and has a veritable ''crapton'' of tales I could tell, so let's keep it short by just going over where I am in the DS generation: ** Diamond: Torterra/Staraptor/Luxray/Gastrodon/Rapidash/Lucario, whole game beaten, working on finishing Pokedex, and doing it legitimately. Only about 30 away... ** Pearl: Empoleon/Spiritomb/Vespiquen/Chatot/Blissey/Abomasnow, seven badges earned, about to go to Spear Pillar. ** Platinum: Infernape/Floatzel/Drifblim/Bastiodon/Carnivine/Toxicroak, game beaten, working on the Hax Frontier. ** [=HeartGold=]: Typhlosion/Victreebel/Poliwrath/Magneton/Noctowl/Sudowoodo, all leaders beaten, training for Elite Four and Red. ** [=SoulSilver=]: Don't have yet, but planned Feraligatr/Arcanine/Sunflora/Ambipom/Farfetch'd/Hitmonchan team. *** Isn't Arcanine the evolution of Growlithe? Both of which can't be found in the wild in SS. Or are you going to be trading one over? Otherwise, you can get Vulpix/Ninetales. *** That is indeed the plan- trade an egg over early on (which is how I got Spiritomb and Chatot early on in Pearl, incidentally). As a result, I can raise it normally as "my own" on that file without worrying about boosted experience overleveling/disobedience. *** Wow, your Diamond team is the exact same team as mine, only I used Alakazam instead of Luxray. * This troper once went through Sapphire with an all female team, and didn't realize he didn't have a single male pokemon until AFTER he beat the elite four. ** To top that off, this troper went through the whole of Platinum without seeing a Tentacool once. I am not making this up.

** This Troper has nicknamed his Emerald team "Team Sausage-fest," because he didn't pay attention to the genders of the pokemon he was catching. Naturally, Flannery's Torkoal Attracted his team to neardeath. ** This Troper has an all male team on Pearl and an almost all girl team on SS , except for my starter. On that same team, all their names end with different vowels. All were completely unintentional. *** ^Same Troper's Pearl team: Empoleon/Staraptor/Roserade/Rapidash/Machamp/Umbreon and SS team: Typhlosion/Pidgeot/Weepinbell/Ampharos/Golduck/Machoke and their names: Peeta, Poppy, Bella, Marie, Psychii, and Taco **** Granted, though, "y" is only a vowel sometimes. * This Troper just caught his second shiny in Heart Gold. He has a brownish-green Onix and a Rapidash with a silver mane, caught within one week of each other. He couldn't help but brag about that. ** Shiny Sandslash. Red spikes of {{Badass}}ery *** This Troper's '''Mom''' caught a shiny Tangela. Green vines are green. **** Got a SHINY TORCHIC When i went to pick my starter in Sapphire. I now kick ass with a shiny Blaziken. *** I managed to catch a shiny in the '''Safari Zone''', of all places. Now that's luck. (A Phanpy, in Sapphire.) Also have a shiny Zubat on Pearl, which I'm considering naming Edward just because [[Literature/{{Twilight}} it's sparkly and a vampire]] bat. *** I caught a shiny in the Safari Zone... It's not THAT lucky. (It was a [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute Bibarel]] though. [[DoNotWant Yuck]].) * Currently working on using every singe actually useful mon in a functioning team, over the first three generations at the very least. Current teams are ** FR- Raichu(Adopted Starter), Nidoking, Poliwrath, Wigglytuff, Vileplume and Flareon* Also known as my "Stoned" Run. ** LG- Butterfree(Adopted Starter), Vaporeon, Electrode, Primape, Victreebell, Marowak ** E- Ludicolo (AS), Slaking, Armaldo, Xatu, Vibrava(Working on it), Hariyama ** Plt- Roserade, Golduck, Lopunny, Driftblim, Gabite, Houndoom ** HG- Feraligatr, Gengar, Jumpluff, Pupitar, Heracross, Miltank ** SS- Arboc, Snorlax, Lapras, Pidgeot, Yanmega, Mismagius *** Not to mention various other teams that I've retired, with all the starter teams and generally most of the Pokemon you'd expect people to use. *** Current team on Platinum: Performance artist and mime in training Heidi goes on a journey with her pipe smoking companion of a Bibabarel, a narcoleptic Swinub *HYPNOSIS!D:* a Shiny Luxio who just can't wait to be king...of pop. *Yes, My Luxio is a mixture of Simba and Micheal Jackson. Unnatural colored lion who will grow to be glorious. You may shoot me now.* Duskull who randomly sorta just wanders away to harvets the souls of those about to die before they are victims to casual accidents, a seasonally depressed Cherrim, and a Croagunk who enjoys hitting her insane teammates with whatever mystery novel she has her hands on at the moment. * This troper's current team in Platinum includes an Infernape

(D'hzzn'ea, thought I was ''so'' clever), a Kricketune (Stacy, you can probably figure out the gender), a Staraptor (Skaker, don't know what I was smoking), an Espeon (Shade, Aimed for an Umbreon), a Quagsire (DESPAIR, yes, that's in all caps), and a slot for a random pokemon (Most frequent are Giratina ([[TemptingFate Stevers]]), Rotom ([=CHRisT=], See Skaker), Absol (Cassandra, guess why), and Lucario ('M, should have saved that for my Porygon)). ** My current team in [=SoulSilver=] is a Typhlosion (Red, planing on naming Smugleaf Diamond for this reason), a Beedrill (Brooklyn, which is very fun to say), a red Gyarados (Shine, planing on changing this, still going to be my HM slave), a Dragonair (David, and yes, [[{{Sonichu}} I know what this means]], it was intentional), [[OlympusMons Raikou]] (Gramaphone, would have named him after my cat if a Meowth hadn't already been named after my cat), and Lugia (WIN, planing on naming my Ho-oh... well, you know), who will be replaced once David evolves. ** Strangely enough, that's almost exactly the same team as mine, with different names, of course. Current team is: Typhlosion (Flare), Scyther (Claww, planned on trading to my sister's Heartgold and back, just need a metal coat), Red Gyarados (Crimson), Dratini (Wyvern), [[OlympusMons Raikou]] (Just named it decapitalized Raikou instead of RAIKOU), and Lugia (Same as Raikou). * [[Tropers/ARandomSerf This troper]] always strives for a team that (1) can hit any type super-effectively with three or more members, (2) can nail ten or more types with each member, (3) can hit every single Pokemon for neutral damage or better with each member, and (4) shares no type vulnerability between three or more members. If they can all nail their own weaknesses, so much the better. It requires a lot of organization, but type-matching like a demon is how I get away with skimping on LevelGrinding. Current and final Platinum team consists of Togekiss (Seraph), Gyarados (Jormungand), Lucario (super effective against 14 types, yeah! Oh, and nicknamed Bane), Azelf (Oberon), Blaziken (Surtur), and an extremely BadAss Weavile (Sub-Zero). * This troper has just managed to hatch a male baby Buizel. Said Buizel's name is now Liam and I'm now working hard to find an Everstone and am also wondering why little Liam didn't know [=SonicBoom=] when he hatched. * 200+ hours of Pokemon Crystal, 23 time hall of famer, now beats Elite Four for the lulz. * eye twitches* * This troper, in the last year of college, during a presentation of History of Economic Thought, wrote, instead of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Salamanca School of Salamanca]]'', ''School of Salamence'' in a [=PowerPoint=] presentation. Luckily, this troper correct before. * This troper had a rather personal CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when he had his Shiny Leafs turned into a crown. To see the 'award' of him and his Mewtwo [[EarthboundZero "Giegue"]] was very rewarding given the time spent with it, earning its trust and training it to be the very best. * [[@/{{Keeyla}} This troper]] is creeping along with her training for the Elite Four, getting as far as she can through Will/Koga/Bruno without ragequitting because she can't find any other trainers. Not

quite sure how I'll handle Karen's Umbreon, since they've got crazy defense and health (I don't have any fighting types on my team, nor any fighting moves), but I'll figure it out somehow. My current lineup is Typhlosion ([[TheDresdenFiles Dresden]]), Ampharos ([[DarkerThanBlack Hei]]), Crobat ([[TheDresdenFiles Thomas]]), Lapras ([[StockNessMonster Champ]]), Alakazam ([[CodeGeass Mao]]), and Umbreon ([[MeaningfulName Adrian]]). ** She's also proud of the fact that she's acquired three natural shinies since the original Gold version- Kakuna (now lost), Ponyta, and Nidoran F (Yesterday, actually). * once named her entire team after tamora pierce characters... and realized that not only did the type 'match( Daja, a fire/ smith mage was a cyndaquil,rosethorn was a chickorita and so on) but the termperments matched as well! it was really epic. * [[{{Tropers.RagnarHomsar}} This Troper]] is 40 hours into [=SoulSilver=] and is currently grinding at Mt. Silver after getting his ass handed to him by Red the first time he tried (he went in with Lv. 52-60 Mons, thinking type-matches would be all he needed). ** If you believe it or not, this Troper did beat Red whith a team of lv. 60-61 Mons, 15 max revives, 20 hyper potions, weather abuse and an incredible amount of luck. ** This troper is actually planning to make their first HG attempt at Red with a 3-man team. Level 1 Magikarp, level 80 Vaporeon (very possibly going to be replaced by a fast rock type if I can get one, it's only there to take out Charizard) and a level 70 Shedinja along with a considerable number of Ethers because this will be one hell of a war of attrition. * [[@/LordPentium I]] guess I'm a bit [[FantasticRacism racist]] against Grass-types. Or at least, against Grass-type starters. It's a prejudice going back to G1: Charmander learned Ember, Squirtle learned Bubble, but Bulbasaur learned Leech Seed, which didn't do direct damage. Yeah, not much use against Brock. And when the rest of my team was ComMons (does it look like I had a week to [[LevelGrinding grind]] Caterpie up to [[CrutchCharacter Butterfree]]?), the starter having a useless move set was unforgivable. Then came Gen2, where Chikorita had unfortunate type disadvantages against five Gym Leaders (Morty counting due to his Pokmon being part Poison). Gen3, uh, [[DorkAge kinda sucked]], and by Gen4 I was set in my preference for Water over Grass when dealing with the Rock-type Gym Leader at the beginning. Speaking of which, three out of the four generations have started with Rock, which only serves to unbalance the starters and make Fire-types suck. C'mon, Game Freak, stop this madness! I don't want to use that ugly-ass otter this time, at least let me use the Fire-type pig! ** Since they've averted PoorPredictableRock by giving the first gym leader(s) a type advantage over you no matter what and making the second gym leader specialize in normal type pokemon, I have to say "be free". (And nice! [[TheWoobie Oshawott]] doesn't deserve that~) * This troper(who doesnt have contributer page yet) is an expert at finding and catching pokemon. I take pokemon orders too! Many people order shinies from me. The ones I treasure most are Goldilox (golden steelix) Shady (Orangeish Mightyena) and Sky Guy (Orangeish yellow Fearow, stuck in my pokemon ranch due to an idiot move) and I will

take battles from nearly anyone. * this troper tried time and time again to get an Elekid on the pokewalker for the first gym (since she learned from past playthroughs that Mareep and it's evolutions were relatively unreliable electric types, and I planned to use the same electric type for Red but Blastoise would always OHKO her Magneton/zone with focus blast). after running into several dozen Magnemites/Rattatas (+ one Murkrow), she gave up and decided to just breed one in platinum and trade the egg over to her soulsilver. to make sure she still got an Elekid with thunder punch, she bred a female Electabuzz w/ thunder punch with a Hitmonchan that knew all three elemental punches (thunder/ice/fire). she knew that this would result in the Elekid knowing thunder punch (since if both parents know a move that the child learns by leveling up, the child will also know the move), but she wasn't too familiar with the concept of "Egg Moves" (special moves that can be passed down from father to child), so she was surprised when the Elekid knew ''all three elemental punches''. after struggling a bit with the first sprout tower trainer (due to still being level one), Electron quickly leveled up and managed to sweep the sprout tower ''and'' the first gym ''all by himself'', just by using those punches! (he would have done so without taking damage had I not accidentally had him use fire punch on Falkner's Pidgeotto, allowing it to survive long enough to attack.) How's ''that'' for a [[DiskOneNuke Disk One Nuke]]? He is now an Electivire, is her team's main powerhouse, and ''still'' knows those elemental punches, along with Earthquake , which he learned via TM. The rest of this troper's team consists of: ** Geode the Golem: Rock Throw, Rock Climb, Rock Smash, Earthquake ** Aqua-Jaw the Feraligatr: Ice Fang, Crunch, Surf, Waterfall ** Coba the Crobat: Poison Fang, Fly, Steel Wing, Bite ** Arboreon the Leafeon: Leaf Blade, Dig, Quick Attack, Shadow Ball ** Hercula the Heracross: Night Slash, Rock Slide, Megahorn, Brick Break * While training in Victory Road on HG, this Troper encountered a shiny Graveller. I proceeded to freak the fuck out and throw Ultra Balls, only for it to use [=SelfDestruct=]. [[ManlyTears I may have cried.]] * the same troper as the one with the above Elekid story also ran into a shiny Graveler in victory road in SS, she just used her master ball on it rather than risk it blowing up. she also ran into a shiny Geodude in emerald and managed to catch it on the first ultra ball. While we're on the topic of shinies, she has also captured a shiny: ** Rattata (first shiny-LG) ** Raticate (same save file) ** Pachirisu (on diamond after a chain of 20) ** Ponyta (also chained on diamond) ** Gyarados (guaranteed shiny on SS) ** Pichu (not really captured so much as obtained from an event) ** Farfetch'd (SS) ** Poochyena (Emerald; rather bittersweet, since it ruined her [[SelfImposedChallenge OC run]] so she's forced to migrate it to SS then restart) ** Ralts (Emerald; another bittersweet find for the same reason as the

above Poochyena) ** Tentacool (Emerald again; bittersweet find again.) * [[Tropers/TacoNinja This one]] has had a lot of luck with shinies in her 5-year trainer career, I recently found a shiny Graveler on Soul Silver. The battle went like this: --> OH FUCK! Shiny GRAVELER appeared! --> Go Mc Donaugh! (Vaporeon) --> Mc Donaugh used Bite! *flinch* Mc Donaugh used Bite! *flinch* --> *Throw Ultra Ball* Shiny Graveler was caught! Well done you jammy git! *** For the record, yes she knew Self Destruct and I have a chained shiny Golem anyway so I'm going to give her to a friend. My other shinies (either chained, [[SaveScumming Soft Resetted]], Bred or random) include; Giratina (Shinigami), Suicune (Kazegami), Charizard (Azi), Dragonite (Gaia), Manectric (Matt), Hitmonchan (Ace), Hitmonlee (Luffy), Slowking (Zelda), Slowbro (Ford), Metagross (Cyber), Sceptile (Kumatora), Blastoise (Butch), Crobat (Pinky), Raticate (Ginger), Electivire (Devin), Houndoom (Scout), Luxray (Nala), Mightyena (Amber), Hariyama (Nichibotsu), Makuhita (Susano), Roserade (Kyoya), Grumpig (Molly), Bibarel (Banjo), Bibarel (Katie), Staraptor (Link), Stantler (Lime), Machoke (Guts), Wobuffet (Lulu), Furret (Antoine), Blaziken (Ardeth), Ralts (Soren), Salamence (Elphaba), Mismagius (Iza), Cubone (Katie), Golurk (Bender), Lucario (Astrid), Gardevoir (Guinevere), Bouffalant (Buffafro), Mewtwo (Truman), Umbreon (Ki), Gallade (Viktor), Marowak (Anneke), Typhlosion (Tarquin), [[BeyondTheImpossible ANOTHER Charizard]] (Jasper) and event Raikou (Diego) and Suicune (Valdrigue) and Terrakion (Arturo). Losing several shinies in the past (random Manectric, Slowpoke, Staraptor and Makuhita) may have made me just a ''tad'' obsessed... I haven't owned a cheating device since the R/S/E days, and I soon binned it because it broke my Ruby. I don't use RNG either because it confuses me. * [[Tropers/LoneHoundoom This troper]]'s first video game in the history of ever was Gold. The best way to describe how that worked out is to listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6Ta3K53HY Ain't Back Yet]] by Kenny Chesney. The games, the anime, the TCG... I've been in love since I was four. And the best part? One of my old friends, who had an obsession with the Legend of Zelda, once told me "By the time we'r in high school, I'll be over Link and you'll be over Typhlosion." Recently, I saw him again. So, I walked right up and said, "I just bough [=HeartGold=] and picked up a Cyndaquil. I'm fifteen. Great call." * This troper managed beat Clair's Kingdra with only a Blaziken left during his first playthrough of [=HeartGold=]. After the Blaziken survived Kingdra's Hyper Beam, he took advantage of its recharge and [[CherryTapping cherry tapped]] a few Quick Attacks. ** In the same battle, his Togekiss got a Substitute from Metronome, and quickly took care of both of Clair's Dragonair, who kept spamming Thunder Wave. * This Troper will just go through her teams... ** Red : Wartortle (Ringleader, shiny, OnlySaneMan), Pigeotto (Flyboy, DumbMuscle), Raticate (Scamp, DeadpanSnarker), Flareon (Matt, currently an Eevee, TeamPet), Mew (Bauble, GeniusDitz), Pikachu

(Harold, InsufferableGenius) ** Heart Gold : Meganium (Chikito, TheBigGuy), Lucario (Lucas, BadassGrandpa), Magmar (Maximum, TeamDad), Fearow (Teru, TheLancer), Ampharos (Mari, TeamMom), Gyarados (Scarlett, shiny, LadyOfWar). ** Sapphire I : Swampert (Killer, DumbMuscle), Blaziken (Nixstar, ActionGirl), Sableye (Mai, ClassyCatBurgalar), Absol (Obsidian, BrokenBird), Skarmory (Skar, TheBigGuy), Milotic (Kyutipi, TheCutie). ** Pearl : Infernape (Kaziru, ActionGirl), Empoleon (Perch, TheBigGuy), Staraptor (Mukuvale, JerkWithAHeartOfGold), Luxray (Rasren, HotAmazon), Lucario (Rio, CuteShotaroBoy), Weavile (Nyula, DeadpanSnarker). ** Platinum : Monferno (Turlough, DeadpanSnarker), Aipom (Adric, InsufferableGenius), Eevee (Nyssa, WitheringViolet), Rotom (Ace, AxCrazy), Budew (Rose, GeniusDitz), Luxio (Sarah Jane, TeamMom). Yes, I'm a Whovian, did you guess? ** Team Legendary: Theresa (Mewtwo, CoolBigSis to Mari), Shaymin (Simone, Bifauxnen), Darkrai (Krai, shiny, DarkMagicalGirl), Kyogre (Margaret, shiny, BottleFairy), Latias (Lati, TokenLoli). ** Treasure Hunters: Kecleon (Kellie, OnlySaneMan), Leafeon (Zach, CuteShotaroBoy), Gardevoir (Bouei, DistressedDamsel), Gallade (Hanzai, TheHero), Charmeleon (Spoony, JerkWithAHeartOfGold), Clefable (Luna, CloudCuckoolander). ** I'm currently working on my White team. Definately on the list is Osshawott (Ronin), and possibly a Gothiselle (Coffee) and a Chillarmy (Orihime). If I can, I'll get a Zoroark (Zorro). * This troper, who long ago maxed out his clock on red, maintains a full team of six wraparound-leveled (from 101) Lv. 100 Missingno. * This troper always seems to end up lovjng every single pokemon he uses. I'll name teams since they all grew on me, regardless of how silly they are: ** HG: Typhlosion (Horo), Ariados (Toph), Xatu (Rem), Kingdra (Rush), Magneton (Stark), and the favourite, Dunsparce (Apple). ** Emerald I: Blaziken (Firika), Swellow (Emi), Manectric (Rage), Armaldo (Ashura), Aggron (Naoki), Sharpedo (Riyu). ** Emerald II: Swampert (Hal), Altaria (Shiro), Absol (Diem), Breloom (Jackie), Ninetales (Rao), Electrode (Nitro) ** Diamond: Torterra (Genbu), Drifblim (Zero), Charizard (Aki), Kabutops (Digen), Lucario (Truck, who is surprisingly the only female on the team), Luxray (Byakko) ** Pearl: Infernape (Dio), Empoleon (Shiki), Claydol (Kamui), Togekiss (Alkaid), Beedrill (Raiden), Jolteon (Himiko) * Same troper as above, but the interactions with your pokemon is HG/SS never fail to make me go "d'awwww." Some things have become a bit of a joke, like talking to my Ariados in caves and always having him finding pebbles. ** This troper (The same one with the Scyther named Claww) has that Scyther named Claww, he's basically my best bud... so at one point he became angry at me in Soulsilver. I stand there and go what's wrong, Claww? He just keeps being angry at me. I give him some Aprijuice, he's all right again. And, he's found a Shiny Leaf! 4 more to find... * May as well go through my teams: ** Red: Blastoise, Pidgeot, Raichu, Dugtrio, Arcanine, Hitmonlee

** Blue: Venusaur, Raticate, Golem, Vaporeon, Ninetales, Dodrio ** Crystal: Feraligatr, Raticate, Magmar, Espeon, Sudowoodo, Fearow ** Ruby: Blaziken, Wailord, Swellow, Dusclops, Vileplume, Manetric ** Emerald: Swampert, Skarmory, Magneton, Salamance, Breloom, Camerupt ** [=LeafGreen=]: Shiny Venusaur, Raichu, Fearow, Vaporeon, Sandslash, Snorlax ** [=FireRed=]: Charizard, Primeape, Jolteon, Exeggutor, Lapras, Dugtrio ** Diamond: Empoleon, Rapidash, Luxray, Lucario, Staraptor, Dialga ** Platinum: Infernape, Gengar, Alakazam, Altaria, Gasdrodon, Leafeon ** [=SoulSilver=]: Feraligatr, Crobat, Slowbro, Golem, Dragonite, Infernape (traded over from Platinum after the Elite Four. Replaced my Flareon that couldn't catch up with the rest of my team.) * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] remembers his first battle against a Gym Leader ever in Pokmon; against Brock, when he rented Yellow ages ago. The battle...didn't really go so well; I heavily relied on my Pikachu to make it through, by spamming Quick Attack over and over, never stopping to heal (My though, at the time was "Hey; since I can't get a Water type yet, and [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Ash]] was able to beat Brock using a Pikachu, than so can I!"). After trying multiple times and losing all my money, I managed to pull it off by some stroke of luck...only for the batteries in my Game Boy to die on me before I could save. I did manage to beat him a second time, though, but it was pretty annoying at first. ** In an instance from the same playthough of Pokmon Yellow, [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] remembers fondly of his battle against Lt. Surge for how epic it was. I was up past my bedtime, using my flashlight to see the screen and a pair of headphones so I could listen to that epic Gym Battle theme without my mom knowing I was up late. As the battle began, and my Pikachu charged into battle against Raichu, a thunderstorm happened to roll through, in real life, to set the mood. The fight went on a long time, but I managed to pull a victory in the end; just as the storm began to let up. That was simply too epic for words; my mind was blown by how awesome that battle was. * This troper (same one with the steelix mightyena and fearow shiny) was watching his friend play pokemon emerald (really laggy due to slow conncection) and he saw a shiny nincada! * This troper is in the process with another buddy to figure out how to translate the Pokemon world, creatures and style, into a d20 system. * Since Pokemon Yellow, this troper's team always followed a basic formula: Grass, Water, Fire, Flying, Electric, and one random type. ** Yellow: Pikachu, Pidgeot, Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, the sixth spot I usually rotate. ** Silver: Typhlosion, Lugia, Ampharos, Gyarados (the shiny one at the Lake of Rage), Donphan, (He didn't fully adapt this formula until Sapphire, so he didn't have a grass Pokemon. But in Soulsilver I put in Meganium and added in a Snorlax to rotate) ** Leafgreen: Venusaur, Raichu, Pidgeot, Ninetales, Dewgong, Snorlax ** Emerald: Sceptile, Swellow, Electrode, Aggron, Torkoal, Azumarill ** Pearl: Torterra, Staraptor, Lucario, Starmie, Electivire, Magmortar * This troper had the wonderful luck of finding a shiny Scyther in the

Bug Catching Contest......when his Haunter had 3 hp left. * This troper just bought (at time of writing) a GBA and his friend loaned him Leaf Green. He has the Face-Burn Happy Cho Cham (the fuck was I smoking), a Rattata named Fail, and the VGCats related name Butts. You can shoot me now. * This troper's memory is a little sketchy but these are his teams: ** Red: Charizard, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Lapras, and probably Zapdos and Articuno ** Yellow: Charizard, Venusaur, Zapdos, Tauros, Arcanine and possibly a Nidoking ** Gold: Feraligatr, Gyarados, Ampharos, Entei, Alakazam, and ......something ** [=LeafGreen=]: Golbat, Jolteon, Primeape, Gyarados, Kingler, Snorlax, and Ninetales as a back-up ** Ruby: Blaziken, Flygon, Wailord, Skarmory, Salamance, and Groudon ** Emerald: Mighteyena, Sandslash, Magneton, Pelipper, Houndoom, and Donphan ** Diamond: Lucario, Typhlosion, Heracross, Garchomp, Tentacruel, and Weaville *** Diamond #2: Infernape, Staraptor, Starmie, Donphan, and Lapras ** [=SoulSilver=]: Meganium, Scyther, Nidoking, Togekiss, Gyarados, and Absol with Haunter and Skarmory as back-ups * This troper found a shiny houndoom, and then it used howl. She was on the train at the time, and hasn't seen a shiny anything since =[ ** I assume you mean Roar? ** [[{{Tropers/Pokenatic}} This Troper]] once caught a black Golbat on Sapphire. I thought it was just a regular shiny for years. When I tranferred it to Diamond, the color palette got fixed, which made me curious. Turns out my Golbat was slightly glitched. Let's just say I've been regretting ever transferring it ever since. I don't even have photographic evidence... * starts weeping in the corner* * This troper played the games, yeah, but the anime was my thing. My first crush was on James. That's all I came here to say. * Once, when playing Red Version, I made it to Mewtwo's lair after months of work...Only to remember that I accidentally SOLD THE MASTER BALL. And so, after a few failed attempts with Ultra balls, I decided to start a new game. Then, after a few more months of work, I made it back to Mewtwo...To remember that I put the master ball in PC storage. I caught him with ultra balls this time, but it didn't stop me from feeling stupid. ** Since when is it possible to sell the master ball? *** In gen I, it was possible to sell the Master Ball, although it had a value of 0. It was changed to 10,000 in gen II, and it wasn't until gen III that you couldn't sell it at all. * This troper has EVERY pokemon exept Mew, Celebi, Deoxys and Arceus, 54 level 50 water types, Shiny Pigiot and Chimecho(Pichu and Gyrados too), and have two full teams of battlers all with supior IV, perfect EV, great moves, great nature, and lv 70ish ** Single battle team-Platinum/ Empeloen, Alakazam (perfect Special Attack IV), Machamp, Golom, Gengar, [=PorygonZ=] ** Double battle-[=SoulSilver=], now on Platinum/ Swampert, Politoad, Starmie (perfect IV!), Kabutops, Tentacruel, Feraligatr

** Alakazam/Machamp/Gengar Can get into the 80s in the battle tower * This lurker is currently Nuzlocking Emerald, and in every single Pokemon game she's ever played, she anphromorphosises every pokemon she catches. Her Nuzlocke team consists of a stoic Grovyle with a severe survivor's guilt complex and subsequent repressed rage following the death of his first partner, a Dustox who tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his teammates but keeps screwing himself over, a Taillow who's trying to keep the team together but is just too young to really understand that responsibility, and an Electrike who has no idea what she's gotten herself into but enjoys the ride anyway. The deceased? In order of first to fall: Poochyena, Lombre, and Sableye. Her non-nuzlocke [=SoulSilver=] challenge is much more cheery with a sophisticated Wooper, a slightly yangire Hoppip and the team mom Beedrill. ** ...Parden me Miss, but you appear to be me. Which is odd, as I am a he. With a Blaziken who loves to put on a show, a Ninja, AxeCrazy Shiftry, a HandsomeLech of a Zangoose, a brooding, sad eyed Crobat, an obsessive compulsive hypocondriac Grumpig, and an ApronMatron Wailord. *** Are you 2 guys me? Mine (in Platinium) is a Tortera (Piscis) who is overconfident in himself, but sometimes gets coward, a Porygon-Z (Free Pascal) that does nothing but picking fight with Piscis, a Togekiss (Lady), complete Tsundere towards Free Pascal, even if Free Pascal is asexual and [[CelibateHero doesn't care]] and last a Staraptor (Takeshi) who is the most responsible of the four... **** It's nice to know I'm not the only one who does this. On Platinum, I've got [[BunnyEarsLawyer Empoleon]], [[LittleMissBadass Flareon]], [[GuileHero Drifloon]], [[ActionGirl Luxray]], [[GenkiGirl Floatzel]], and [[BadassBookworm Gallade]]. I confess that every pair except [[LikeBrotherandSister Empoleon and Flareon]] double as {{Action Couple}}s. * I was debating whether to get one of the GS remakes, until I remembered something. Back when I was a kid playing Gold, I used to coast through the gyms with the Skarmory my dad gave me. By the time I got to the Elite Four, the rest of my team was horribly underleveled; the only three who had a bit of a chance were Skarmory, Meganium, and Dragonair. I never got past Karen; I now have Soul Silver. REMEMBER ME, KAREN?! * [[{{Tropers/Pokenatic}} This Troper]] spent 919 hours and 48 minutes on the current runs of nine games, well, last time I checked. I clocked in on Diamond at 528 hours alone. * [[{{Tropers/Deathsquirrel}} This Troper]] has had some pretty awesome moments on [=SoulSilver=]. First of all, I caught Mewtwo in a Pok Ball, which had a success rate of ~2% when it was asleep and on 1HP. Second, I beat Red using only a Lv100 Arceus. I also have a team of two Pokmon (Lv100 Jynx and Machamp) which clears out the Elite Four with next to no effort. I've been playing Pokmon for about 12 years now, and all of those, as well as completing the Dex on Yellow, are easily my crowning achievements. * This troper's HG team consists of Typhlosion (Roy), Garchomp (Lancelot), Ampharos (Miranda), Gallade, Dewgong (Sokka), Pidgeot (Valkyrie). The Pidgeot is mostly there for Fly, since most Flying Pokemon don't have very good natural movesets. All but Gallade and

Garchomp have been there since the beginning of the game and were part of the first Hall of Fame team. * Is it weird that this troper likes to make up personality quirks for his Pokemon team? Politoed and Marowak are {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}, Scizor is {{Hot Blooded}}, Typhlosion is {{The Stoic}}, and so on. ** Weird? Not at all. It's a great way to immerse yourself into the game more. In various games I've got a CheerfulChild Sunflora, an honorable Don Quixote-esque Farfetch'd, a CrazyAwesome Ambipom, a TeamMom Blissey, a simplistic but loyal Sudowoodo, and so on. *** Me too! My Platinum Team (I'm the same troper from some way up the page) consists of an OnlySaneMan Infernape, a Kricketune who is so horrible at singing it can be used as a perish song, a crazy Staraptor who doesn't trust anyone, a feral Quagsire, an eternally happy Espeon, and an extremely depressed Absol. *** This troper's Heart Gold team includes an [[CulturedBadass honorable,]] [[WarriorPoet proud]] [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior]] of a Gallade, a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold mischievous-yet-loyal]] Gengar, a CloudCuckooLander Octillery, a {{RoboSpeak}}ing Magnezone, a BoisterousBruiser Aerodactyl, and a [[TheSmartGuy wise]], [[TheStoic stoic]] Xatu (Essentially the personality of the Xatu from the Mystery Dungeon games.). My reserves include a GenkiGirl Furret and a [[DumbMuscle slow-witted]] yet [[GentleGiant peaceful]] Typhlosion. *** My (same person as the previous entry) Diamond team featured a calm, collected Empoleon, a TeamMom Drifblim, a sneaky prankster Carnivine, a Drapion who is essentially Bill from Left4Dead [[ShellShockedSenior in]] [[BadAss terms]] [[TeamDad of]] [[DeadpanSnarker personality]], a Yanmega that started out as a hyperactive runt before becoming the LightningBruiser [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], and a brash, [[LargeHam hammy]] Armaldo. Yes, I like bugs, in case you couldn't tell. All three of the bugs are {{SixthRanger}}s, though. The empty three slots were rotated, but briefly included a Rotom, who was a twitchy GeniusDitz. * This troper now has a Ninjask and a Shedinja, but is planning to get [=LeafGreen=] (in order to get all three starters over to his Diamond game) then [=HeartGold=] (to trade my current Pokemon there to Johto) and also starting over three different times in Hoenn so that I can get the three starters. I already transferred my Sceptile over, but I want to get the data (and also, Grovyles are awesome). I'm also trying to find a Ditto that I can breed with my Eevee to get every Eeveelution. I've got a lot of stuff planned...-_-; * 24-year old Poketroper here... these are my teams: ** Gold: Typhlosion, Sudowoodo, Lanturn, Victreebel, Togetic, (and a random pkmn here, normally Piloswine) ** Sapphire: Blaziken, Sableye, Lanturn, Masquerain, Tropius, (and a random pkmn here) ** [=FireRed=]: Charizard, Exeggutor, Butterfree, Lapras, Golem, (and a random pkmn here) * This 19 year old troper has only completed one regional dex, Hoenn (3rd gen). The last Pokemon that I had to catch and evolve was a Feebas. That damn thing took me 15 hours to find and then it took 15 minutes to evolve. Also my favorite type is dark. I love dark types so much I have an all dark team. Weavile is my favorite pokemon and

Blaziken is a very close second. * This troper has the [[CosmeticAward Black]] [[BraggingRightsReward Trainer]] [[BeyondTheImpossible Card]] on Pearl, and is currently working on duplicating the feat on [=SoulSilver=] (might get back to Platinum too, but seeing as how Black and White come out next year, not likely). [=SoulSilver=] was the first game in which I actually had a [[FiveManBand non-rotating team]]: ** TheHero: Feraligatr ** TheLancer: Crobat ** TheSmartGuy: Lanturn ** TheBigGuy: Machamp ** TheChick: Togekiss ** SixthRanger: Sandslash * This Troper's MALE Typhlosion,TheBigGuy in her Soul Silver team, is the ''only one'' when, if besides Amphy of the Lighthouse (also male), will ''show a little heart icon and says he has much...Um...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "interest"]] in Amphy''.I tested with all the other Pokmon, even the females, and no other one showed this reaction.Maybe [[YaoiFangirl This Troper's habit]]s are rubbing off on her Pokmon.Oh, and he wants to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean ''play'']] with Amphy,too. ** And then Lt.Torch ([[NoodleIncident DON'T ASK ABOUT THE NAME!]])and his friends did it ''again''.This Troper was fighting Koga, with his ''[[SarcasmMode lovely]]'' Crobat, who spammed Double Team.My Pidgeot, Lt.Airhedd, missed ''every.single.one.'' of the moves.Then, I switched to my (very male) Venomoth, Venn, who I suspected having an affair with Airhedd all along.He faints.I switch to Airhedd again. ''[[ThePowerOfLove He did not miss one move since then, until the end of the battle.]]''.My fan theories are being promoted to canon, seroiusly. * This Troper makes it a point to rotate his team in Pokemon games as little as possible. In other words, if the team can't deal with ANYTHING the game sends at you, barring HM move usage, then it's not good enough. His current team in [=SoulSilver=] is: ** A Typhlosion, lovingly named "Critiquil" due to the overwhelmingly good luck with criticals early on in the game, who is TheHero and the main powerhouse of the team with Eruption, Focus Blast, Flamethrower and Quick Attack. ** An Ampharos named "Ampere" after the real life measurement of electrical current, who is TheSmartGuy and another powerful attacker and Special wall. It's got Discharge (to be replaced with Thunderbolt eventually), Signal Beam, Focus Blast and Thunder Wave. ** A Heracross named "Heracles", an alternate name for Hercules, who shares the role as TheBigGuy with another member. Heracles has Brick Break, Megahorn, Close Combat and Aerial Ace, which allow it to unleash its potential as an attacker. ** Sharing the role of TheBigGuy with Heracles is Crimson, the Red Gyarados, who is named as such for obvious reasons: colour. With Waterfall, Surf, Bite and Ice Fang, Crimson is another powerful attacker. ** TheLancer, a Skarmory named "Skarmy" due to this Troper's frequent skipping over syllables whilst speaking, is the last permanent member.

This thing can take hits like a beast, and also dish them out surprisingly well, too, with moves like Fly, Night Slash and Steel Wing under its belt. It also carries Stealth Rock, which helps quite a bit in some major battles, Lance being the most prominent. ** A free slot is available for whoever needs it at the time. It is usually occupied by an HM slave, a vastly underpowered Lugia, an under trained Umbreon or a Wi-Fi event-obtained Jirachi. * My personal starter of choice for each generation rotates in a very odd pattern. ** Gen I: Grass (Bulbasaur). Gen II: Fire (Cyndaquil). Gen III: Water (Mudkip). Gen IV: Grass (Turtwig). I plan to use Pokabu, a fire-type, for Black. It remains to be seen if I will use a water-type for my Gen VI game. ** Whoa, I did the exact same thing. Trope minds think alike? * [=HeartGold=] Team: Fuego (Typhlosion) or Anemos (Arcanine), Ptolemy (Ampharos), Doku (Crobat), Goliath (Steelix), [=MsDemeanor=] (Mismagius), Poseidon (Kingdra). Often switch Goliath for a Togekiss, except in competitive play, where I prefer Goliath for Stealth Rock. * My current team: Lv. 39 Togetic(Male) Lv. 40 Jirachi, Lv. 40 Feraligatr(Female) Lv. 40 Umbreon(Female) Lv. 40 Nidoking, Lv. 28 Skarmory(In training, Female) I don't really like nicknames, but I do give them personalities in my head. Of course I ignore their nature when I do this :P * Let me ({{Tropers/slvstrChung}}) tell you, dear tropers, about the very first time I played the Pokemon CCG. I was introduced to ''MagicTheGathering'' by my cousin 15 years ago, so when Pokemon first hit stores we wanted to check it out. We bought identical starter decks (the store didn't have different ones), learned the rules and sat down to play. Well, after some turns had passed, I looked the Mon I had in play, the Mon ''he'' had in play, and the cards I had in my hand. And I realized: unless I somehow were to draw a GameBreaker out of my deckwhich wasn't going to happen, as I only owned 60 cards and none of them ''were'' Game BreakersI would lose on my cousin's third turn after this one. And I did. As a prize, he got my deck... because any game where I can figure that out, on my first match ''ever'', is a game I'm not going to waste time on. * this troper just got her bulbasaur back from the pokewalker after walking with it long enough to get 5000 watts. the message on the last page of the journal said "Bulbo seems so very content. this is a day he will never ever forget". their's something about the way that was said that [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming really touched this troper]]. now it's the ''only'' pokemon she'll put in her pokewalker ** now she got it back after obtaining [[{{Cap}} 9999 watts]]. the last line was the same as before, but it still [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming moved this troper]] * I first played Pokemon when I was 7, on the [=LeafGreen=] catridge I begged my older brother for a month to give to me. I got it, and chose Charmander as my starter, 'cause I though he looked the most awesome. I named him Flame, because I was 7. He was basically the only 'Mon I used for the whole game, besides training up a Butterfree to level 15 and a Pidgey to evole into a Pidgeotto. I didn't even change out the rest of my team, every other Pokemon I caught was sent to the PC,

unless I needed a new one for an HM move, and my team remained really weak for the rest of the game since I only trained Flame. I once got really freaked out because, when I was battling the Biker's on the Cycling Road, he got poisoned, and fainted out of battle, and so I turned the game off and redid everything I had done since the last save, including beating Erika's gym. Flame beat every gym singlehandedly, and by the time I had explored the first 3 Sevii Islands, he was over level 80. I quit that game before I battled the E4 though. ** On that same catridge, I left the level 15 Butterfree in the Daycare Center when I first stumbled upon it. I then forgot about the Daycare center until after I had beaten every gym. When I remembered about the Butterfree, I forgot where the Daycare center was. Later, I was walking in that area and wondered what the building was, went in, and got my Butterfree back for a huge fee. ** Later, I bred Flame, who knew Blast Burn, and got a little Charmander, which I named Flame Jr. (my 7-year-old mind was [[SarcasmMode so creative]]). he came out of the egg knowing Blast Burn, which me and my brother found hilarious. * I've caught a Gible and a Dratini. Both are now in their second evolution stages, and coupled with my Lairon, will form half of the team that I'll take on the Elite Four (for the second time) with. My other three will be my three strongest Pokemon: My Torterra, my Staraptor, and my Lucario. * This troper manged in Pokemon Gold to defeat Red using lv 50 pokemon. No, really. I used a Haunter, Ampharos, Noctowl, Bellosom, Ninoqueen and a Feraligatr. I did go thorugh about 15 revives and loads of max potions though. * This troper is currently working on completing the Pokedex on Pokemon [=SoulSilver=]. I am almost finished with up to the Johto Pokemon, and is currently stuck with Hitmontop; can't get the [=EVs=] right. The only legendaries he hasn't got are Darkrai and Shaymin, and his current team is Spoon (lv 100 female Alakazam), Flapper (lv 36 female Pidgeot), Cerberus (lv 28 male Absol) and Mudchute (lv 22 male Quagsire). I only use one for battling (guess who), and the rest for [=HMs=] and False Swiping. The only two shinies I have are a shiny Gyarados (the one from the Lake of Rage), and a shiny Zubat/Golbat/Crobat picked up in Mt. Mortar. The other Pokemon games I own are Platinum, Pearl, Emerald and [=FireRed=]. I have a fairly balanced team on Platinum and I mostly use it to trade Sinnoh Pokemon and legendaries over to [=SoulSilver=]. I bought Pearl the year it came out but I never really played it much and soon plan to use it to get the Sinnoh starters. I played Emerald to death years ago and have already traded Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza and Latios over to [=SoulSilver=], as well as various other Hoenn Pokemon. I bought [=FireRed=] a few months ago. Luckily, the old save file on it happened to be hacked and had infinite Master Balls, evolution stones, as well as a Deoxys and Jirachi. I then used it to get the Kanto starters and am currently attempting to play the whole game using a Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise, not counting HM slaves. I have been with Pokemon since the first generation. I used to own Blue, and for some reason used to own Gold, Silver, and Crystal. In the realm of spinoffs, I have Stadium, Colosseum, Battle Revolution, Ranger, Ranger:

Shadows Of Almia, Pokepark Wii, Link, and Mystery Dungeon Blue, which I regret greatly. Am currently planning to get Guardian Signs and Pokemon Black. * This troper has managed to beat every game she owns except for Yellow and Crystal. Her best accomplishment, she thinks, is beating the Sinnoh Elite Four (Diamond) using a team of all level 50 Pokemon. Her team was Empoleon (Thrym), Rapidash (Antimony), Luxray (Linx), Staraptor (Blitzwing), Roserade (Folimanus), and Dialga (Adamantium), and she's beaten every dungeon, has about 420 different species of Pokemon, and has caught almost every legendary available in the game fairly. She's also imported every Pokemon from her Sapphire and [=LeafGreen=] games, including her entire main team. ** Sapphire Team: Blaziken (Infernia) leads as the starter, followed by Kyogre, Flygon (Mohabi), Gardevoir (Grace), Aggron (Metallica), and a Swellow (the sixth Pokemon being pointless). ** [=LeafGreen=]: Blastoise, Ninetales, Pidgeot, Raichu, Jynx, and...an HM slave. ** Platinum is much less impressive (since Cynthia got upgraded), but her team consisted of Pokemon all around level 55 (after she replaced two of them for harder hitters). That team is led by a Torterra (Punjin), followed by Gyarados (named Shaolong and replacing the Floatzel), Staraptor (Yurayura), Houndoom (named Corona and replacing the Rapidash), Luxray (named Raiko), Espeon (on-and-off, named Apollo), and her Giratina (known as Antimatter). ** [=SoulSilver=]: [[TheHero Namir]] (Feraligatr), [[TheSmartGuy Chocolate]] (Ninetales), [[TheBigGuy Whitewings]] (Lugia), [[TheChick Elle]] (Ampharos), and [[TagalongKid Mana]] (Umbreon). She's especially proud of the last one, because Mana evolved into Umbreon at level 28, just in time to act as the BarrierWarrior against Clair. No matter what she did, Kingdra just couldn't take the little puffball down before she was healed. And getting constantly confused or sand attacked left the gym leader with no options but to bow to the inevitable as Namir finished her off. * This troper is now unable to even attempt to catch any pokemon beyond maybe 7 or 8 as she feels terrible about dumping them in a PC. She is currently on [=SoulSilver=] and won't stop until she gets her dream team! Pikachu is always a must, and shall be named Chuu just because. Yes a double U! * This troper likes to think of his teams as a FiveManBand and BandOfBrothers as well as give them personalities, strange yes, but he will try and tropefy his current teams from Emerald and Diamond: ** Emerald: *** TheHero: Blaziken, started out as a YoungGun developed into the TeamDad. also a LightningBruiser. BashBrothers with Swellow, Has a MegatonPunch (Sky Uppercut) *** TheLancer: Swellow, who is also a BigBrotherMentor and HeterosexualLifePartners with Blaziken. *** TheSmartGuy: Weezing,a BadassBookworm who is also CrazyPrepared with Thunderbolt and Shadow Ball in his moveset. Also a CulturedWarrior and somewhat of a CombatPragmatist *** TheBigGuy: Aggron, a GentleGiant (really, he has a gentle nature) who you [[BewareTheNiceOnes don't want to piss off.]] Also a

OneManArmy and MightyGlacier. *** TheChick: Linoone, the TagalongKid who becomes a BadassAdorable GenkiGirl and TheHeart. *** TheDumbledore: Torkoal, Blaziken's other mentor, a CoolOldGuy who is also a CloudCuckooLander and BunnyEarsLawyer. *** TheSixthRanger: Seviper, a KnightInSourArmor and a Determinator. Develops into more of a KnightInShiningArmor ** Diamond: *** TheHero: Infernape, the TeamDad and a PapaWolf, fights with a DissonantSerenity. Also serves as the [[RedOniBlueOni blue oni to Staraptor's red.]] *** TheLancer: Staraptor, a HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser and a CombatPragmatist (yay Sand Attack). Like TheBigGuy is also a BruiserWithASoftCenter. *** TheSmartGuy: Kadabra, is of course a GlassCannon and SquishyWizard but is also TheStoic and a CombatMedic. Forms an OddCouple with Rampardos, also VitriolicBestBuds *** TheBigGuy: Rampardos, a BloodKnight and TheBerserker. He is also ChaoticGood and GlassCannon who TookALevelInBadass after learning Head Smash. Also OddCouple, Kadabra, VitriolicBestBuds. *** TheChick: Rapidash, LadyOfWar, a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl, well grey/silver, (third shiny!). Also a DeadpanSnarker, a non-tomboy version of OneOfTheBoys. [[BashBrothers Commonly used with Staraptor in double battles.]] * Enjoying this more than I thought so......... ** here is my Soul Silver team: *** TheHero: Meganium, the TeamMom and TheHeart. Also a MamaBear and a ParentalSubstitute for TheBigGuy and TheChick. *** TheLancer: Nidoking, the TeamDad and a GeniusBruiser. Also CrazyPrepared with Thunder and Fire Punch and of course, a PapaWolf as well as TheObiWan for TheBigGuy. *** TheSmartGuy: Absol, a LoveableRogue and GenkiGirl, also a GlassCannon and CombatPragmatist. *** TheBigGuy: Scyther, [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] and was a SatisfiedStreetRat prior to being caught. Also a ChivalrousPervert (well I don't know how else to interpret a naughty nature) and a BadAss (taking out Claire's Kingra in two hits, yes!). Also a LightningBruiser who proves MusclesAreMeaningless, when compared to some of my other big guys. *** TheChick: Togekiss, is a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass and CheerfulChild. She also becomes a BlackMagicianGirl in battles. *** TheSixthRanger: Gyarados, simply the TagalongKid until evolving. After that he became a LightningBruiser and a backup big guy. Also formerly a {{Determinator}} who worked hard to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn his happy ending.]] * Whew, that was long.... * This troper is currently going through Emerald with what she calls [[SelfImposedChallenge "The OC Run"]]. For that challenge, you can only catch as many Pokemon as [=OCs=] you own, and they have to be named after those [=OCs=] and share some characteristics with them. Her current collection consists of: ** Catherine the Sceptile, TheHero and team leader, and also one of

only two girls in my team. A laid-back country girl who works hard to keep the team together. ** Darkshade the Mightyena, TheSmartGuy, also a DeadpanSnarker {{Determinator}} who's working hard to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn his happy ending]] despite being the second weakest fighter in my team (losing out only to Herbie, who's normally too cheerful to care). He got his CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he took down Brendan's PreFortree team single-handedly, after which he began to lighten up. Also Herbie's [[HeterosexualLifePartners heterosexual life partner]] ** Brad the Gardevoir, TheLancer. Has a HairTriggerTemper due to pent up anger from being constantly [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistaken for]] [[DroppedABridgetOnHim a girl]] both before and after joining my team. Looking for love long after his capture, he finally got his wish in the form of... ** Mother Nature (or rather, [=MothrNatur=], given the character limit) the Castform, TheChick. Brad's polar opposite in terms of temperament, yet [[OppositesAttract can't live without him]]. ** Wallaby the Absol, TheBigGuy. A happy, go-lucky guy who acts more like a TeamPet than anything, yet his high offensive stats and speed combined with a diverse movepool make him a very powerful fighter. ** Herbie the Linoone, The SixthRanger and TagalongKid. Initially, he was only on the team for three reasons: one, [[ItemCaddy his pickup ability]]; two, [[KleptomaniacHero his covet attack and high speed]]; and three, [[HeterosexualLifePartners whenever he's off the team]], [[AchillesInHisTent Darkshade's performance in battle seems to suffer...]] During the battle with the champion, however, I realized that I had severely underestimated Herbie when [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome he took down Wallace's Gyarados, his final Pokemon, all by himself after two stronger members fell to it with the others falling to his other Pokemon!]] Did I mention that I had no revives (meaning that if Herbie fainted, I lost) and that the move used was [[ThePowerOfFriendship Return?]] Not to mention he was the only one able to out speed it after it used one Dragon Dance! This troper is now looking for a better moveset for him so he can live up to the potential he showed in that battle. ** HAN-D the Ludicolo, used as an HM slave and fills in Herbie's role as the TagalongKid whenever she's on the team ** Tempest the Tropius. Another HM slave that fills [=MothrNatur=]'s role as TheChick whenever she's with me. ** Melody the Jigglypuff, never been on the team, never will be, only caught her to name after another OC. I intend to catch a Smeargle for the same reason once I finish the game. * This troper absolutely adores [=SoulSilver=]/[=HeartGold=], because they're the first Pokemon games she ever beat - she played [=LeafGreen=], but never beat the E4. She's extremely fond of the team she first beat it with, and her habit when playing is to talk to the game. Things like, "It's okay, honey, you can do it, you can survive, just one more hit and you win - YES! Good boy!" Also, she was delighted to get a chance to play an Eeveelution run-through, since they're some of her favorites. * This troper likes to read about other peoples' teams and feels like sharing hers. I have all the main series games, but lost a few and

erased some files. ** Red: Charizard (Heat), Dragonite, Raichu (Lightning), Hitmonlee (Mr. Pain), Pidgeot, Dugtrio (Diggle) ** Yellow: Pidgeot, and only Pidgeot. Not because of a SelfImposedChallenge, but because I was a little kid who didn't have the patience to grind six Pokemon. ** Pearl: Empoleon (Pengie), Luxray (Spark), Alakazam (Spork), Staraptor (Star), Rapidash (Death Pony), Gengar ** [=SoulSilver=]: Feraligatr (Chomper), Grovyle (Melon), Togekiss (Eggstein), Scizor (Slasher), Jolteon (Mello), Flareon (Matt) * This troper has no luck with shinies. My dad traded him a shiny Magikarp he caught in Pearl Version, but that Magikarp is now a red Gyarados, and indistinct from the red Gyarados you automatically encounter in HG/SS. However, in Fire Red, I did once see a shiny Espeon. In the Battle Tower. Argh. ** The Espeon in FR/LG Battle Tower is supposed to be shiny. Its like this on mine too. * [[@/NotAPhysican This Troper]] got a female starter for the first time ever on her new HG game. And then said starter got PokRus. I almost cried tears of joy. * Like most people on this page, this troper characterizes her Pokemon: ** Main [=SoulSilver=] Team *** Loa, a female Typhlosion and a [[HotBlooded bold]] and [[{{Tsundere}} impatient]] {{Berserker}}, but inwardly a GentleGiant who doesn't dislike her trainer as much as she claims to. *** Spectre, a female Gengar, acting as a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Older Sister]] who may or may not have joined the team out of pity. Acts as a {{Mentor}} figure to her trainer. *** Regin, a female Slowking and a CloudCuckoolander despite being one of the most intelligent members of the team. Usually is TheVoiceless, but when she does [[TalkativeLoon speak]]... *** Viridian, a female Leafeon, an InsufferableGenius with an EvilLaugh who may be planning to take over the world. A {{Schemer}}, but remains loyal to her team and trainer when it counts. *** Katana, a female Scizor and a LadyOfWar ShrinkingViolet who, despite [[TechnicalPacifist disliking combat]], is extremely good at it. *** Aerith, a female Dragonite and the SixthRanger. She serves as the team's [[TheHeart Heart]], and is a close friend to her teammate Katana. * This troper, who was the first guy to list his teams way way up at the top of the page, has decided to come up with signature themes for his various Pokemon. I got the idea when I saw a picture of Yanappu while JonathanCoulton's Code Monkey was stuck in my head. I'm still not certain on my Black team, so after that all I know is something from TengenToppaGurrenLagann for Doryuuzu. * This troper's current team in Heart Gold is the only one he's really applied personalities to. *** [[PlayingWithFire Hephaestus]] (male Typhlosion), obviously his starter. His attacks are mostly fire-type, but he also knows Rollout (which led to two [[ProperlyParanoid totally unexpected]]

[[CurbStompBattle quick KOs]] - The first against Rocket Executive Archer's Houndour and Houndoom (which were two of the reasons he decided he should learn the move) and the second against [[AntiClimaxBoss Lance's Charizard]], which went down in one hit from a Rollout he'd used to finish the previous opponent). Is almost totally reliant on [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer his fire moves]], and ended up flamethrowering one of Lance's Dragonites into oblivion when everyone else collapsed. Enjoys a challenge, but has a habit of going [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge completely berserk and incinerating anything which dares KO...]] *** [[{{Kami84}} I]] felt so original when I named my Cyndaquil that... *** His [[LoveInterest girlfriend Amy]], an unimaginatively-named Ampharos who joined the party after Violet City because the troper knew he was going to need an electric type. Had she been male, the name would have been Zeus, to fit with the greek mythology theme. Relatively caring, but again, extremely protective of her mate (and prone to {{Psycho Electro}} tendencies if he gets hurt). *** [[MagikarpPower Poseidon]], the male Red Gyarados from Lake of Rage, who serves as the team's Surf and Waterfall user. He spends about ninety percent of his life inside the pokball, but when he comes out, [[MakingASplash You're]] [[TheBerserker gonna]] [[AnIcePerson get]] [[KillItWithWater soaked]]. Proved that revenge is best served cold when his trainer used him to take down every Rocket in the Mahogany town base - then froze Petrel's Raticate solid with his newly-learned Ice Fang. *** [[GreekMythology Athena]], a female Noctowl. [[TheSmartGuy the clever one]], and the one who does most of the transport work for the team via Fly. She's also the team's Mezzer, being the only one capable of reliably inflicting a disabling status (via Hypnosis) on opponents. Notable achievements include {{Cherry Tapping}} about a third of the Elite Four's 'mons into defeat. *** [[SinisterScythe Demeter]], a female Scyther, who mainly stays in the party because Cut is more commonly needed than this troper would like. Her tongue is almost as sharp as her blades, but she hides it well. *** [[TheStoic GRAVELER]], the odd one out. Mainly present for the purpose of breaking and/or moving rocks. Does very little talking, but tends to make oddly deep comments when she does speak. ** Alright, I've done it to my Diamond team as well now. >.> *** [[MeaningfulName Iblis]], the first 'mon this troper ever owned, and obtained at the start of Sapphire as a Torchic. Having evolved into a Blaziken and reached level 100 - Troper's only 'mon so far to achieve that - Iblis is just as destructive as his namesake and moves like lightning. His explosive temper and personality match his owner to the point that they've developed near-telepathic communication in battle. Notable for: Knowing Flare Blitz because Troper wanted to see what would happen if [[NoKillLikeOverkill he used the move on a Paras]]. *** [[HelloInsertNameHere DARKRAI]], obtained through an Event the year Troper got Diamond, less than a month and a half after he did so. As an Event 'mon, DARKRAI's name is fixed, but that doesn't make a

difference to his catastrophic power. Most Darkrai use their nightmare-inducing powers uncontrollably, but this one has learned relatively well to focus them away from people except in battle. Notable for: Knowing Spacial Rend. Legally. Also, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny taking a nap during the Pastoria Gym battle because Troper didn't have enough badges to make it listen,]] followed by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome destroying the Leader's last 'mon in one hit on waking up and tearing the Hearthome gym to pieces the next day.]] *** [[TheHeart Skitty]], an adorable little ball of pink and yellow fluff powered by cute. She's effectively the team's secret weapon, since nobody expects such a cute kitty to be able to use Spacial Rend or Flare Blitz (through Assist). Representative of her trainer's ConfusionFu fighting style, Skitty is prone to chasing her tail or stopping to clean herself halfway through battles without warning, but usually avoids getting flattened via Attract. Skitty is only brought out for battle events or against the Elite Four, however, and is usually replaced by a Surf and Waterfall-using Floatzel. *** [[TheStoic Wraith]], a Shedinja specialising in StealthHiBye and CherryTapping opponents to death. His near-invulnerable nature combined with a series of very annoying moves makes him effectively the team's Mezzer, although his offense is almost non-existent. The quietest of the team, Wraith communicates exclusively via telepathy, but for this reason he's capable of acting as a negotiator between humans and 'mons. *** [[AcrophobicBird Crobat]], who is more or less the trope his name links to there. He DOES know Fly, but avoids using the move simply because he hates flying at high altitude (due to [[NoodleIncident an unpleasant experience with thunder and hailstorms several years ago]]). However, at low altitude he takes full advantage of his incredible speed to leave opponents in the dust - only Iblis is faster on the team. *** GRAVELER, an unimaginatively-named but easily-excited Graveler who mainly travels with the group for the purposes of heavy lifting or breaking rocks. ** And said troper now has White, too! This is going to be my endgame team, most likely, so I'll put this up now. *** [[TheBigGuy Erymanthia]], [[TheHero my starter for the Unova region]] and my toughest 'mon so far. Having been trained FAR ahead of the rest of the group, Ery tends to sit out of fights against weaker opponents so they have a chance to catch up. A physical brute with twice as much attack as defense and decent speed to boot, you do NOT want to stand in front of her when she starts running. *** [[TheLancer Seismitoad]], the second of my team to be caught chronologically and the second to evolve overall. Seismitoad is a second [[TheBigGuy brick wall]] but tends to wield [[KillItWithWater aquatic death]] rather than its alternative ground-type. Went through a brief period of being called [[StarWars Emperor]] because I thought Palpitoad matched it. *** [[SquishyWizard Sigilyph]], a flying/psychic type who nearly KO'd half the team at the time of capture. Not the best survivalist, but offensively powerful and exceedingly fast, Sigilyph tends to stay out

of the way and fight from above the enemy's reach. *** [[StoneWall Cofagrigus]], the party's tank. Near-invulnerable to physical and special moves alike, and capable of [[TheVirus spreading its mummification to remove abilities that pose a threat to it]] if struck physically, Cofagrigus is a potentially lethal MightyGlacier, even with its huge disadvantage in being unable to damage Normal-types due to its moveset. Doubles as the team's only status inflicter with Will'O'Wisp, although that's mainly to power up its Hex. *** [[ShockAndAwe Interwebz]], a Joltik who I caught on the grounds that she was adorable and who turned out to be quite the BlackMagicianGirl with a little training. Even squishier than Sigilyph due to her unenviable Bug/Electric typing, she's a very [[StealthPun surprising]] counter to flying-types looking for a quick snack. *** And finally, [[AnIcePerson Krios]], a Cryogonal caught entirely because I knew I'd need an ice-type for the final gym. Learning Frost Breath by TM and Ice Beam a few levels after catching secured its place in the final team, and it's the only member of the party to know a Steel move (Flash cannon) - although exactly why it knows that instead of Blizzard [[CloudCuckooLander is anyone's guess]]. * Even with Arceus, Manaphy, Deoxys, Darkrai and Shaymin (sixth slot for Bibarel, I'm not wasting hidden machines on legendaries), all pumped to level 100 (thanks to trading to Diamond, then using Action Replay to get the 999 Rare Candies, then trading back to heart gold as I don't want to use AR on that game due to fear of anything going wrong if it's not Diamond or Pearl), I've learned that Red is still a "don't screw with me" guy. Frankly, I needed to beat him quickly to get my Squirtle (for nostalgic purposes) * {{Tropers/PhoenixdaughterAM}} I have [=LeafGreen=] /[=SoulSilver=]/Emerald/Platium. I like trying to come up with a certain team for each Gen. Interestingly for starters I noticed a perference in Fire/Grass/Water. Chamander, Chikorita, Mudkip, (They liek me!) and Chimchar. (That was mostly because of the ONLY fire type you can get outside of Ponyta) So my money's on Snake-in-the-grass next gen. ** [=LeafGreen=] - Lea (To my amusement when I run into a Young Couple with the name) *** Charizard "Charmy" Female. First Pokemon as-you know how I got her. Very brave and very bold. Loves to fight and enjoys the battle. Works best with Chu but is also good with Dest *** Raichu "Chu" Male. Second Pokemon found in Virdian Forest. He considers himself to be a very attractive Pokemon and finds some sucess. Didn't want to evolve until the gym battle with Giovanni. Best with Charmy but also is good with Pera. (Same egg type. Hmm...) *** Gyarados "Dest" Male. Third Pokemon by the Magikarp Salesman. He was such an...idiotic Magikarp but became a MONSTER when he evolved. It took a bit but eventually, he calmed down enough for battle. Best with Bell but also good with Charmy. *** Victreebel "Bell" Male. Fourth Pokemon during training for Magikarp. Considered an oddball, he was left alone mostly keeping a friendship with Magikarp. Then he evolved. Bell is one of the reasons he calmed down. (Repeated poisonings can do that) Best with Dest but also good with Sandy.

*** Persain "Pera" Female. Fifth after a running through. The resident ButtMonkey. Thanks to her capture by poising, she hates that status. Seems to have a crush on Chu. Best with Sandy but also good with Chu. *** Sandslash "Sandy" Female. Quiet, she mostly hangs around Pera trying to cheer her up. She is fully capable of taking down Dest so...carefull. Best with Pera but also good with Bell. ** [=SoulSilver=]-Sally (I plan on brining my [=LeafGreen=] team over when I finish things up. Along with training a Ralts and getting Mudkip and another Charmander/Chimchar) I love the Pokelthon but THAT GALDARNED SAND/FLAG ONE! *** Meganium "Mega" Male. Pretty quiet. Tends let others take the lead. Works surpsingly well with Pidge. *** Pidgeot "Pidge" Female. Resident bird-brain. Works well with Mega. *** Ninetales "Tails" Female. Unusally timid, it took awhile to realize she was the favorite. Works well with Poli. *** Politoed "Poli" Female. The Red Oni to Tails' Blue is the life of a party! Works well with Tails. *** Espeon "Espa" Male. Likewise very shy but so far warmed up pretty well, and is the only one to find the Shiny Leaf yet! Works well with Golem. *** Golem Female. Traded from GTS and was evidently met found from Victory Road. (Now which one?) Her willingness to learn makes her strong. Works well with Espa. * This troper usually plans out her team but she feels that her Emerald and Soul Silver teams are her most succesful. Her Ruby and Pearl team kind of sucks. ** In Emerald I have: Nemesis (Female Breloom), Clarisse (Female Gardevoir), Bianca (Female Altaria), Nightshade (Female Absol), Blue (Female Minun) and Soar (Female Salamance) ** And In Soul Silver I have: Rachel (Female Noctowl), James (Male Meganium), Alfred (Male Vaporeon), Matthew (Male Flareon), Luciana (Female Dragonite), England (Raikou). *** Very recently Matthew had a Crowning Moment of awesome. I went to battle the Elite Four for a second time and I was battling Lance. I decided to keep Alfred for last so when Lance sent out his Dragonite I sent out Matthew. Before the battle I had given the Flareon a Focus Sash but it had never worked before with me. So when the Dragonite used Draco Meteor I panicked then cue it being a critical hit. Cue the Focus Sash working /for the first time/ and Matthew beating the crap out the Dragonite with Fire Blast. Then I used Full Restore. After that first Draco Meteor, Matthew kept getting hit by /Draco Meteors and Hyper Beams but never getting close to fainting/ too bad it fainted before we got to defeat the Dragonite. *** Also very recently James had a Crowning Moment of Awesome/Crowning Moment of Funny. I was battling Red for the first time and was sure that she was going to lose since /all/ my team was at level 73. I panicked when Pikachu was the first pokemon, but I had sent out James so it was all good. Then the funniest and awesomest thing happened, Red's Pikachu used Iron Tail but it /missed/ and James used Earthquake. AND THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK! Seriously, after using Earthquake once the level 88 Pikachu lost to a level /73/ Meganium. I know that Electric-type pokemons are weak to Ground-type attacks, but

still it shouldn't have taken down the Pikachu with one attack. ** This isn't my main team but I have almost all Legendaries in Soul Silver almost all named after countries (With two exceptions of Entei and Mewtwo): S. Africa (Suicune), Argentina (Moltres), Russia (Lugia), Uruguay (Zapdos), Brasil (Articuno), N. England (Entei), America (HoOh), Jean (Mewtwo), and England (Raikou). * [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries The other day, this troper was, like, playing Pokemon, and his Cascoon evolved into Dustox. It was pretty cool. He named him Buttcheeks.]] [[HehHehYouSaidX Eheheh...EHEHEHEheheheheheh...I said 'butt'. And 'cheeks'.]] * [[Tropers/{{Draken}} This Troper]] had a COMPLETE Crystal game, including Celebi (He only got that by Gameshark, and the ONLY one he got through that method). In Later years, he moved onto Ruby and completed that one too. [[Tropers/{{Draken}} He]] was very disheartened when he found his Crystal completely dead after 3 solid years of pure game time. His favorite teams are as follows: ** Crystal: Magneton, Mewtwo, Tyranitar, Politoed, Houndoom, and Dragonite. ** Ruby: Tyranitar, Magneton, Gardevior, Flygon, Glalie, and Altaria * This troper has loved pokemon since the early days, She talks to hers, draws them, Thinks about them all the time, and counts them when she is bored. (AKA every pokemon, region by reigon) Names them all, owns at least 2 games set in every reigon (and 4 set in Kanto and Johto) gives her pokemon personalities. She Spent arund 7 hours training in heart Gold today, and Is singing the pokerap as she types this. Everyone seems to think she is way too old for it though... * This troper is extremely attached to her [=HeartGold=] team, and yes, she thinks they have personalities. ** Ciaro the Feraligatr--Starter. The Hero and The Big Guy who doesn't often know his own strength. Enjoys pancakes with lots of syrup. Big Eater, and seems dim and lazy on the surface, but underneath the surface he is very cunning. Took out Lance's team single-handedly in a Crowning Moment of Awesome. He is very attached to his trainer, whom he acts like a big dog towards. His most prized possesion is a Shiny Leaf. ** Amalantha the Ampharos-- The Lancer. Vain and selfish, bitchy and aloof, although has a Hidden Heart of Gold, as seen when it comes to her crush Crossfire. An excellent battler, she can use a wide range of attacks such as Power Gem and Signal Beam. Considers everyone else below her and her trainer, especially Ciaro. Insists on being taken to Goldenrod every Sunday for dress-up. ** Crossfire the(former)Magmar--The Chick, although he is the most clear-headed of the bunch and also serves as the Smart Guy. Timid, and joined the team out of free will. Used to be a whiny Crybaby who contantly clung to his trainer and sobbed, and hardly ever fought. Was pretty weak, especially throughout the ELite Four. Afterwards, however, he trained harder and Took a Level in Badass, breezing through Kanto's gyms singlehandedly and evolving into a Magmortar at the end of it. Is also Oblivious to Love, which contantly frustrates Amalantha. ** Lunette the Cleffa--Head Pet, Tagalong Kid and Bratty Half Pint. Is always getting into trouble and blaming it on the other Pokemon, and

is thus much disliked throughout the team. Does not fight, but can display a side that is manipulative and persuasive. A bit of an inteam Scrappy, although she does genuinely care about her teammates and trainer. ** Dragonite, got from the GTS. The Team Dad, The Mentor, and The Heart. Is gentle and careful, and very, very protective. ** Kingdra--Got from the GTS. The Sixth Ranger, with a serious Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny problem. Rash, Forgetful, and curious, he mainly serves as Comic Relief, although steady training has him climbing the team roster and becoming more powerful. Is fond of Hydro Pumping his trainer when he's bored. * Two different things happened to me in the G/S/C/HG/SS series, and both were absolutely amazing. In [=SoulSilver=], Morty absolutely [[CurbstompBattle wiped the floor with me]] until I had only my level 8 Togepi, Chu, left. I was sure that I was going to lose...and then his Haunter used Sucker Punch, which missed. Every. Damn. TIME. I spammed Extrasensory and managed to defeat both Haunter AND Gengar. In the original Silver, I was fishing near Mahogany Town and I caught a Remoraid. But not just any Remoraid. It was a Level 40 ''shiny'' Remoraid. I absolutely flipped my shit and proceeded to catch it. I'm perhaps the only one out of my friends that caught a shiny Pokemon legitimately. And I feel [[BraggingRightsReward damn proud]]. * These are this troper's most recent favorite teams: ** [=FireRed=]: Charizard (the hero), Jolteon (the lancer), Golduck (the sixth ranger, got him last), Alakazam (the smart guy), Gengar (the chick, only female), and Golem (the big guy). Later, I switched out Gengar and Golem for Tyranitar (mighty glacier) and Crobat (lightning bruiser), but I interchange between those eight. ** [=HeartGold=]: Charizard (the hero), Starmie (the lancer), Garchomp (the chick/action girl), Electivire (the big guy), Scizor (the smart guy), and Spiritomb (the sixth ranger). All of them were bred by the same Ditto, who functioned as a literal Team Mom. I also sometimes throw in a Weavile (lightning bruiser). * I just came to tell that I had a very good day on my [=SoulSilver=]. First I caught Raikou with quite minimal amount of pokeballs used, I think it was with the first ball in that battle. Then I caught Entei as well, a little bit more difficult, but I managed to do it. Then I realized my whole team had Pokerus. Good times. * This troper was on her first playthrough of [=SoulSilver=] and was about to face Morty after getting the Eevee from Bill, leveling it to 13 or so and promptly getting impatient. Most of my team got wiped by Gengar, but I somehow managed to get my Furret to use Foresight beforehand (not realising it carried over to the next Pokemon you used). With two team members left (and another Haunter after Gengar) I decided to send out Eevee thinking at least I could lower Gengar's accuracy a bit to buy time...and Gengar totally failed to hit me. At all. Cue [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome epic]] battle with a level 13 Eevee knocking out a level 25 Gengar. With ''Tackle''. (Granted, it took some time, and I got lucky with Gengar [[ArtificialStupidity only using Shadow Ball until its accuracy was really low]]. But it was still awesome.) * [[{{Tropers/Epiblast}} I]] was playing Pokmon Battle Revolution

with my boyfriend and he had an Electrode out. It used Explosion. Right as the animation was about to finish, the game got a disk read error. It looked like Electrode had Exploded so hard it affected the Wii. It was annoying and hilarious at the same time. * This troper loves Pokemon to death. He started on the 2nd Generation and can't wait for the Third Version of Black and White (This troper is also sick of being screwed over for cash). He even has a team ready for when he gets it with all of tier moves planned out. His favorite things to do in Pokemon are to give every pokemon he ever caught stupid nicknames and max out their friendship as if it actually means something. He is also interested in competitive play, if only he could connect his DS to the internet or if he could get over how tedious it seems make/grind/EV train a balanced team. ** The same troper now wants share his dream team with the internet, complete with nicknames and personalities: *** Kusanagi the Daikenki: Was almost eaten by a Sanzadora as a Mijumaru, [[MeaningfulName hence the name.]] Since then, it was too scared to do any battling for a while. Wanting to prove itself, it gradually built his courage to become TheHero of the team. It also likes to study Japanese culture on the side. *** Justice the Kirikizan: Was originally named Obsidian, but after learning of its similarities to [[BlazBlue Bang Shishigami]], it was renamed. Like Bang, it is an IdiotHero with LeeroyJenkins tendencies and a fetish for scarves. Wasn't liked too much at first but was gradually became a respected and valued member of the team and Kusanagi's [[TheLancer Lancer.]] *** Shocker the Shibirudon: BrilliantButLazy. It is usually to unreliable to do battles, grind, anything really. When it is willing though, it is easily the [[MightyGlacier most]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass powerful]] [[TheBigGuy member]] of the team. The rest of the time it likes to [[StrangeJourney capture demons on its trainer's DS.]] *** Infernalno the Shanderaa: Likes to be by itself. Everyone thinks it is TheStoic, but it just doesn't want to kill anyone with its soulstealing flames. That said, it also banned itself from using any fire moves. To get around this, it uses [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambits]] [[AwesomeByAnalysis utilizing opponents' stats and movesets against them.]] Its two favorite things in the world are rain and [[BigEater food]]. *** Mazinger the Goruugu: A [[TheQuietOne non-talkitive]] golem who [[FriendToAllLivingThings likes animals and flowers]] and can preform [[FriendshipSpeech Friendship Speeches]] with only hand-gestures. When a kaiju appears or the team needs transportation it grows into a giant mecha capable of shooting [[RocketPunch Rocket Punches.]] *** BADASSLAVE the Abagoora: The HM Slave of the team, which made it think it is TheLoad, despite being considered the most valuable and badass member of the team. It can even hold its own during battles when needed, thanks to constant the TrainingFromHell that it puts itself through. * As an earlier Troper mentioned, my Gold team had (before the cartridge battery died) distinct personalities, even filling a FiveManBand dynamic

** Iroh (Typhlosion): TheHero. My starter, and the most tacticallyinclined of the six. Generally level-headed (odd, given his typing). ** Apocalypse (Gyarados): TheLancer. VitriolicBestBuds with Iroh, with a hair-trigger temper. ** Athena (Noctowl): TheSmartGuy. The one Pokemon able to communicate with me directly, using a creative application of Hypnosis. Useful for any stealth missions (being an owl). Is close with Brick and (to a lesser extent) Hannibal, utilizing a sort of FastballSpecial with them in which she tosses their Pokeballs into an an area where shit needs to be messed up. ** Brick (Graveler): TheBigGuy. Jovial when not in combat, but when he is, prefers to smash everything in sight if possible. Is the only one on the team who could really be called friends with Hannibal, presumably due to them both being rock types. Will never become a Golem. The real reason for this is a lack of anyone to trade with, but the in-universe reason is that he finds the extra pair of arms quite useful, especially since he's also my strength-user. ** Phyllis (Victreebel): TheChick. Doesn't get much combat use, due to a lack of mobility (she can either be carried by Brick or hang onto Hannibal's spikes). Usually serves as a mediator between Iroh and Apocalypse. ** Hannibal (Tyranitar): TheSixthRanger. Not particularly well-liked by the rest of the team, due to his not having come in until Mt. Silver, and thus lacking the camaraderie the others seem to possess. Still works well with Brick, though, which has earned him some brownie points. All members of the team agree that he is a marked improvement over the original sixth member of the team, Harry the Hypno, who was just plain creepy. Is a bit more deliberative in his combat methods than Brick, preferring to use Rock Slide to Brick's Rollout. * This Troper is a former ChallengeGamer and was well on her way to becoming a StopHavingFunGuy. Between constantly browsing the Internet for what made a "good" competitive team, abusing my daycare Ditto to get thirty eggs in one sitting (I filled four boxes with hatchlings. No lie.), and learning what "[=EVs=]" were, I was getting increasingly frustrated. When it got to the point that I was either bored out of my skull or extremely frustrated, I finally pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere on the whole "competitive training" scene. I regressed to my old ways of a casual gamer, and shockingly enough found myself having fun playing again. These days, I catch anything looking remotely cool and bond with it (I even stopped using my Bicycle because I loved watching my Pokemon follow me around so much), train it up to level 50, and test its skills in Battle Revolution. It took one month, but my first batch of trained-from-scratch Pokemon finally made it: ** [[FireEmblemTellius Volug]], a male [[BigBadassWolf Mightyena]]. He never speaks. Despite this, he is often the OnlySaneMan of the group. Extremely loyal. ** [[FireEmblemTellius Mia]], a female Swellow. The {{Determinator}}. Likes to sit on her trainer's shoulder. Has a fierce rivalry with the other main flying type, Bridgette. ** [[MeaningfulName Tsunami]], a female Empoleon. [[GenkiGirl Hyper and silly]], which greatly undermines the "majestic-Empoleon" thing. Likes cymbals far too much.

** Ienzo, a male Zangoose. He first spurred This Troper to leave competitive battling. Fiercely honorable but naive when it comes to anything outside of battle. ** [[GreekMythology Psyche]], a female Latias. The baby of the team, and extremely sweet. Received from the recent Enigma Stone/Soul Dew event, and a member of This Troper's little group ever since. ** This Troper is still working on the second group of trainees: *** Bridgette, a female Pidgeot. Has a fierce rivalry with Mia the Swellow, despite their being extremely alike in personality. *** [[FinalFantasy Firion]], a male Flareon. A loner, but has gradually warmed up to the other members of the team. *** Lea (Pronounced "Lee"), a male Ivysaur. Bold, but a strategic thinker. Will happily Leech Seed/Poisonpowder/Giga Drain opponents to death. *** Galen, a male Wartortle. Quiet and a little shy, but he's gradually beginning to [[IncrediblyLamePun come out of his shell]]. *** James, a male Luxio. A little lazy and dislikes battling often. He constantly craves [[BigEater food]]. * In Heart Gold, I won the Bug Catching Contest with a Weedle! Take that, you second place Butterfree and third place Scyther! * Reflecting This Troper's lazy and uncaring demeanor, she has a habit of catching the first five Pokemon she comes across and using them as my main team for the rest of the game. Yes, I did take on the Elite Four with a level 50 something Butterfree and Furret, why do you ask? * Alright, post your future/current Black/White team here: ** Guess I should start: *** Louie/Antoinette (Name depends on gender) the Jalorda: A BigEater with a french accent and an overall smug demeanor. Deathly afraid of Kirikizans ever since running into a particularly violent one. *** Simon the Doryuuzu: He's usually quiet and introverted. However, [[HotBlooded in battle]]... *** Hobbes the Ononokusu: He occasionally goes into a state of philosophical thought, even while battling. [[{{Squick}} Has taken a liking to human women]]. *** Trigger the Kirikizan: Headstrong and violent, he challenges others to fights at the slightest provocation and loses as much as he wins. Secretly wishes to go to the moon. *** Ramses the Desukan: Doesn't really like battling much, and would rather write songs and sing. Activating his mummy ability causes a [[CourageTheCowardlyDog particularly horrible curse to play in someones head]]. *** Arthur the Kojondo: A master at LeParkour after an incident that involved his fixation with straight lines. Has a tendency to freak out at times. ** Me also. Here it is: *** Aqua Ryu the Daikenki: His entire personality is based around LawfulGood. Swings into LawfulStupid at times, especially around Darktypes. When unevolved, he was kind of dumb. *** Belkar the Ononokusu: [[AxeCrazy KILL SMASH MURDER RIP GOUGE DISMEMBER.]] AND ANYONE WHO GETS IN THE WAY WILL TASTE MY DRAGOBLADES. *** Sarcophage the Desukan: Like a religious cult member, trying to

spread "the pure good that is mummification". *** Roy the Waruvial: The only one who can put Belkar in his place. He's a pretty average guy, actually, and pretty boring to talk to. *** Dizzy the Kenhorou: Is very dizzy, hence the name. This really strikes when flying, causing him to falter and fall. Gets a lot of teasing, turning him into a DeadpanSnarker. Then, the trainer (me) taught him to make the dizzy spells into a fighting style, which cured the snark and made him the most confident and upbeat member of the team. *** Vaarsuvius the Shibirudon: Very philosophical. Has this weird tic for ranged attacks, often refusing to learn any melee attacks. ** My future team. *** [[HinduMythology Shesha]] the Jalorda: She is basically the [[MamaBear Mama Snake]] of the group, she watches to make sure the others don't bite off more than they can chew. *** [[{{Futurama}} Scruffy]] the Murando: BrilliantButLazy he is the most lazy one in the group, he usually spends most of his time [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "reading"]] or sleeping, however when it comes to anything major he's very realiable. *** [[KingdomHearts Aqua]] the Hiyakkie: Dispite many of her more [[ActionChick violent tendencies]] she's most often the one to sloves most problems peacfully and thinks things through. *** [[JapaneseMythology Yomi]] The Waruvial: He's the strongest of the group and [[BloodKnight always looks for a good fight and when he dose find one he can be particulary vicious.]] *** [[JourneyToTheWest Ao Run]] the Ononokus: TedBaxter at heart he is the one who gets into more battles than needed, however he is realiable at times. *** [[JusticeLeague J'onn J'onzz]] the Oobemu: TheSmartGuy and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} J'onn is by the smartest one out of anybody in the group, he communicates telepathically with the others, while most of his ramblings about [[EldritchAbomination legendaries and Poke Glitchs]] seem like nonsense to everyone else, he believes it will save thier lives some day. * This Troper has been planing Pokemon games since age 12, and has been a fan since age 10. Shockingly, I haven't given my team member's personalities, but I am writing a massive crossover fanfic within the Pokemon series * My very first Pokemon when I received my Red Version for Christmas in 1998 was a Charmander, and I have been so taken with Charizard and its pre-evolutions ever since that I have always found some way to get a Charmander at the beginning of each game, whether by breeding and trading the egg or by haxxoring the game. [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome It actually just feels too strange if I try to play through a game without one.]] The main reason why I have not played anything since FR/LG is because there are game mechanics in place that prevent trading Pokemon from Kanto-based games from Emerald onward and I have no way to hack DS games. ** Most recent team in Leaf Green: Charizard/Primeape/Raichu/Vaporeon/Snorlax/Kadabra (no way to trade except with my Ruby version, which doesn't happen until after most of

the game is done) ** Working on a game in Ruby, team planned as: Charizard/Swampert/Gardevoir/Manectric/Zangoose/Armaldo. Also my first time [[GenderBender playing as a girl]]. * While I didn't read the whole page, I read about half and there's been a shit-ton of people naming all the teams they've ever had. Sure, while there are also the people who've bragged about a shit-ton of levelled Pokemon on one game, I couldn't find [=ANYone=] that did what I did with my Sapphire game--that is, I went through, defeated the E4, sometimes many many times to train, then traded my team to my sister's Ruby version; rinse and repeat. o3o Ah, well. ** Also, Gold was totally my first video game in the history of evar. I had been hypothesizing Johto remakes basically since I saw Jasmine in Diamond, which couldn't have been too long after DP release date. I still think GSC was the best gen. So, when I heard the first news of HG/SS I squeed SO. HARD. Not just like "I'm excited!" I made the sound "SQUEEEEEE!!<333" ...or something like. I've made that sounds exactly two times in my memory: then, and after GETTING HG on release day (still in Color Guard show makeup, no less) and just...SQUEEEEEE<333. * Like many others on this page, I've given my HG team personalities, forming a Five Man Band: ** Feraligatr Male: Lockjaw (The Hero) The decided leader of the team, and pretty hotheaded, despite his type. Often doesn't quite understand the consequences of his somewhat illogical thinking. He often 'leaps before he looks'. ** Charizard Male: Yoshi (The Lancer) Recently immigrated from the past Kanto region. Often thinks things through, but still often has a deep-rooted desire to burn things. ** Torterra Male: Akupara (The Big Guy) Immigrated from the Sinnoh region, Akupara often has a rough time adapting to the warmer climate of the Johto-Kanto area. Though often used for heavily straining tasks, he isn't quite as dumb as one might think. ** Magnezone Omega (The Smart Guy) Being a robotic creature, Omega is the smartest of the bunch. Prefers to sit in the back during a battle, assessing enemy weak points, and relaying the info to his teammates. Is particularly fond of projectile attacks, a favorite being Flash Cannon. ** Kirlia Female: Destiny (The Chick) Being impetuous and silly, Destiny is a rather inexperienced Pokemon compared to her teammates. Has had a deep-rooted crush on her trainer ever since he complimented her on being cute, and so wishes to never evolve. ** Drapion Female: Nightfang (The Sixth Ranger) Nightfang kinda just appeared in the team one day. Even Omega is baffled as to how she arrived. She often applies strengthening Acupressure to her teammates, and then attacking with her mastery of the elemental fang attacks. * This troper has been a fan of Pokemon since she got Pokemon Yellow. Like most of the other tropers above her, she has also given her pokemon personalities. She has the other games but these are good enough: ** Gold: *** Meganium (Lotus): '''The Hero''' and '''Team Dad'''. Has a moral sense of what is right and what is wrong. Very stern. Used to be very

impulsive when he was a Chikorita. Forms a stalling-duo w/ Gabrielle. *** Pidgeot (Amelia): '''The Chick'''. Used to be the team's powerhouse but then got upstaged by everyone else. Is the team's weakest member and left bitter about it as a result. *** Lapras (Gabrielle): '''The Lancer''' and '''Team Mom'''. Is very fun-loving and calm, even in a dire situation. Has taken over Amelia's role as team powerhouse. Forms a stalling duo w/ Lotus. *** Granbull (Karen): '''The Big Guy'''. Is very rude and often likes to pick on Lotus and Gabrielle, but overall is very useful to her teammates with moves like Scary Face and Charm. *** Magmar (Spitfire): '''The Smart Guy'''. Dislikes Karen's arrogant behavior and is no stranger to voicing it. Has a kind of morbid side in where he enjoys incinerating his enemies. *** Tauros (Bulldozer): '''The Sixth Ranger'''. Wasn't intended to join the team but eventually got inducted in. Is always angry and as a result no one on the team likes him much. ** [=SoulSilver=]: *** Feraligatr (Xander): '''The Hero''' of the idiot kind. Has a puppy-dog disposition towards both his trainer and teammates but doesn't have a clue about personal space. However, he has had his share of crowning moments. *** Weavile (Rogue): '''The Lancer'''. The most level-headed of the group, she relies on trickery (Thief) and speed to get her by. Was the last to evolve but had already proved her bad-assery before then. Never misses an opportunity to diss Xander. *** Honchkrow (Zelda): '''The Smart Guy'''. Was the team's weakest member until she took a level in badass. Can now hold her own in battle. Is trying to understand the human language. She likes to perch on her trainer's shoulders. *** Ninetales (Blaise): '''The Sixth Ranger'''. Joined the team early but didn't swear allegiance until evolving. Cunning and constantly brags about her strength but in reality is the weakest member on the team. Likes doing a confuse/burn combo *** Ampharos (Selene): '''The Chick'''. Was not intended for the team but eventually wormed her way in. Acts a bit spoiled and upholds a pacifist nature. Doesn't fight much and is the least-used member as a result. *** Nidoqueen (Astrid): '''The Big Guy''' and '''Team Mom'''. She mothers Xander the most and often wishes for him to stop acting like an idiot. Is very level-headed but get out of the way once she gets mad... * While playing Bloody Platinum(a hack), this Troper found out that Whynauts are {{Demonic Spiders}}. They '''always''' know when to use the right move to kill my Mons! * This troper is a bit crazy when it comes to this game. I use military tactics from TheArtOfWar in a pokemon battle. And I've [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower developed the ability]] to figure out all [[EnemyScan type matchups, stats (rough estimation) and ability]] for my opponent upon looking at it no computer needed. I can figure out type matchups for type combos that don't even exist and for two ability pokemon I can figure it out within the first sign of one ability. Despite all this he avoids being one of those

StopHavingFunGuys as he plays for enjoyment. This troper's flagship mon is [[EnsembleDarkhorse Luca]][[BadAss rio]]. ** [[EngagingConversation Will you marry me?]] ** THEY'RE MINE, BITCH!! * This MTG-playing troper is playing through PKMN Diamond, and I have 7 badges. I've also got an elite-4-beaten save of Pokemon Emerald, which is my favourite pokemon game EVER. I have a particularly powerful Breloom called Mycoloth on it, who early on earned the nickname of "One-Punch Mike", due to his Mach Punch taking down just about anything it hit. I tend not to use moves that aren't super effective against the enemy except as finishers, and I try to keep a varied team at all times. My team right no on Diamond is: ** Mrton (Stromgald) the Medicham, currently my highest level 'Mon at 43. It has the all-star (natural!) moveset of Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Force Palm and Confusion. There were a couple of trips to Pastoria to get it right, may I add. ** Jace (Beleren) the Lv.38 Kadabra, whose moveset is Psybeam, Confusion, Drain Punch and, I think, Recover. He's One of my favourites, but not as effective as Medicham. I may replace him with my Lv.40 Tentacruel, Gomazoa, who is so badass that he would take on a Kraken and win. Speaking of which, Tentacruel should evolve into Tentakraken. ** (Commander) Eesha, a lv. 40 or so Staraptor, trained from a lv 3 or so Starly. He is currently taking a back seat to Mrton in battles, but when Eesha hits the field, things die. He takes on the world with Fly, Aerial Ace, Close Combat and Steel Wing. ** Vengevine the Torterra, a level ~40 'mon who is really just backup in case of bad matchups. He brings with him Earthquake, Bite, Solarbeam and Razor Leaf. Funny how sometimes the starter can end up one of the weaker mons of your team. I might in fact replace him altogether with something more effective. Possibly my Haunter, named Iname. <3 the Haunter. ** Jeska (Warrior Adept) the Lv.20-but-growing Riolu, who will probably end up a main player in my final party for the Elite 4. After becoming Lucario, of course. ** And finally, Nighteyes (The Desecrator), resident HM slave. Rock Smash, Surf (will be replaced by Rock Climb), Strength and Cut. Currently at level 22, and probaby won't get any bigger. * This Troper had a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] while playing Diamond and didn't even know it until she went online weeks afterwards. I was facing Cynthia for the first time, and by the time she pulled out her [[GameBreaker Game Breaker]] Garchomp I only had an Empoleon left that was five levels weaker than it. So the Garchomp uses its move where it has to recharge the turn after (I apologise for not knowing the name of the damn move) and it takes my Empoleon's HP down to half. Two consecutive Ice Beams later and it was down. Now I laugh whenever I read about people complaining how it's such an impossibly hard Pokemon to beat. * This troper once found a shiny Wingull early in the game... So early, in fact, that he had no Pokeballs with which to catch it, prompting about five minutes of suicidal tendencies. A few gyms and an Elite Four later, I have a random encounter out at sea, only to find a

shiny Pelipper. * This troper once found a shiny Tangela... in the Safari Zone. It ran away after the first ball, but to add insult to injury, I found and failed to catch a shiny Yanma in the Safari Zone only two weeks later. Fortunatly, my friend was nice enough to help me find them on the GTS. * This troper had something cool happen to her recently in [=SoulSilver=]. I had been grinding quite a bit before taking on the Elite Four but, even so, was considerably nervous. I paused at the last doorway before going in to make my customary save, and on a whim decided to turn to my lead Pokemon, Deiji the Feraligatr (named after an [=RP=] character of mine). The reply? A smiling bubble and "Deiji nodded slowly." Needless to say, that gave me quite enough courage to go in and take on Will and the rest. My team and I did alright until we reached Lance at the end, where the second cool thing happened. We were utterly ''slaughtered'' throughout the battle, although my foresight of buying as many [=HiPotions=] and Revives as I possibly could (an old habit of mine going back to Gen I) helped quite a bit. Finally we worked Lance down to his final two Pokemon, with his last Dragonite out. Unfortunately I was worn down to two Pokemon myself, Deiji and a Lapras named Bethie (which was kinda funny considering the character Deiji's daughter is named Bethie, but that's another story) who were both in low health. I threw out Deiji and healed him up, and the battle began. Dragonite began by spamming him with Outrage, which he took twice before I had to heal him again; liberal usage of Ice Fang during these turns took Dragonite down just as much. As Lance's Pokemon was gearing up for another Outrage I used my turn to have Deiji use Ice Fang again, and Dragonite went first. '''CRITICAL HIT''' I'm staring, horrified, at my DS as I pray out loud "Give me a little health, Deiji! Come on, you can do it! ''Just a little health!''" He was left with '''one hit point'''. Ice Fang hits, Dragonite goes down, and I breathe a sigh of relief until I realize Lance has one Pokemon left, and I didn't remember what it was. Thankfully it was that Charizard. I laughed, healed up Deiji, and was Champion a turn later. ** Besides this, I too give my Pokemon personalities and craft out stories for them. My current team is as follows: *** Aile the Pidgeot. TeamMom, and always ready to Fly me wherever I need to go. Can occasionally make rash decisions, but generally has a level head. She prefers not to fight, instead being a support unit. Level 40 as of my latest point in Cerulean City. *** Napalm the Golem (since Golem can know [=SelfDestruct=] and... yeah). Loves to fight, and is quicker than you might expect him to be thanks to liberal usage of Rollout (and the Quick Claw he holds). Gets along well with Deiji despite type differences. Has a strange fascination with using Earthquake in buildings because he likes the way it rumbles around him, despite the fact this naturally scares everybody occupying said building. Currently level 42. *** Bass the Mewtwo (why yes, I have an Action Replay, what of it?). Somewhat of a stoic Pokemon, but utterly devoted to my trainer self after having been given to me at level 3 from another girl who found him by the side of the road (aka caught in the grass in my Diamond game and traded over). Has a personal vendetta against Team Rocket after catching wind of the horrors another Mewtwo (the one you find in

Cerulean Cave) had gone through, but now has a bit of an identity issue thanks to the other Mewtwo's existence. Currently level 40. *** Serena the Dragonair, also named after an [=RP=] character of mine. Though she too prefers not to fight just like Aile (through this they get along quite well) she knows she must, if only to stop thugs like Team Rocket. Since coming across Lance she looks up to him a lot, ever since he made a positive comment about her involvement during the Lake of Rage incident back when she was a Dratini (Serena was my walking Pokemon at the time, and I imagined a comment from Lance upon seeing the little dragonling; yes I add to the story too). Currently level 40. *** Bethie the Lapras. The youngest one in the group, hatched from an egg bred by the Lapras I owned in my previous file, named X (can you tell I'm a Megaman fan by now?). Often gets in over her own head, and needs rescuing by one of the other Pokemon in the team. She wants to live up to X's record of being a star battler and so goes after every foe she can, regardless of whether she should or not. Currently level 39. *** Deiji the Feraligatr, my longest partner and most tenacious fighter. His capricious nature lets him get along well with Napalm, and they make a good Double Battle team. Has a touch of darkness in him (just as his namesake does) with moves like Crunch and Shadow Claw, but after considerable practice he uses this well to his advantage. At the end of the day there's nothing better he likes to do than unwind by swimming with Bethie in the nearest body of water. Currently level 40. * This troper has a dream team planned for Black and White. There are some typematching issues, but they're my favorite Pokemon anyway. ** A male Enobuoh named Len. He's fairly quiet but enjoys battling. He's extremely loyal to his friends. (Yes he's named after a Vocaloid, why do you ask?) ** A male Rankurusu named Tucker. He doesn't battle much, but when he does he gives it his all. ** An Electrode named Cleo. It (damn you genderlessness) is [[SmartGuy very smart]] and spends lots of time devising new strategies. ** A female Dunsparce named Meiko. Very boisterous and outgoing, but has a motherly side. The "big sister" of the group. (I like Vocaloid, okay?!) ** A female Scizor named Silky (referring to her inner personality). A textbook Kuudere who doesn't like battling much and gets a bit offended when people assume she loves it because of her species. ** A male Kirikizan named Sam. Pretty nice most of the time, but when he gets mad he kind of loses control. His comrades are very careful not to anger him, because he may attack them. He always feels very guilty after these episodes. Has a bit of a friendly rivalry with Tucker. * I've all the games, but I constantly restart them. The only game that is immune to it is Pearl and [=HeartGold=], for very different reasons. I just really love my [=HeartGold=] team - Typhlosion (Shadowfire), Ambipom (Dex), Leafeon (Eon), and Starmie (Neptune). It was supposed to be a six Pokemon team, but I dropped off Mismagius (and something else...). Pearl, on the other hand, is my main game. My

team is Luxray (Leo), Lucario (Kai), Mr. Mime (Ms. Mime), Golduck (Quackers), Rapidash (Pyrios), and Torterra (Ankylo). I have a living Pokedex on Pearl (for those that don't know, that means I have every evolutionary stage of every Pokemon. A Bulbasaur, followed by an Ivysaur, etc. all the way to Arceus). Well, technically that isn't true - I still lack four. Celebi, Manaphy, Darkrai, and Deoxys. But that's it. For my other games, I can't decide on teams... * This troper wants these games. A whole freakin' lot. She does not care which she gets, but would really prefer either [=SoulSilver=] (despite the awful name) or Platinum. So far, this tropers parents have refused to buy her anything else she could potentially waste her life with. Maybe for Christmas... >_< * [[Tropers/CalamityJane This Troper]] has an HG dream team: ** A Deoxys named [[strike: Nashira]] [[DubNameChange Andromeda]] (essentially female) ** An Entei named Enty (the only nickname I was willing to give him) ** An Ampharos named Spoons (that I have grown immensely fond of since catching it as a Mareep in HG) (also female) ** A Togetic named Cosmos (male) *** This Troper also had a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when she finally caught her Deoxys... in Emerald. * This Troper beat Red on his first try in [=HeartGold=], even though his Pokmon were 20-28 levels higher than mine. My team consisted of Rhyperior, Typhlosion, Porygon-Z, Espeon, Heracross, and the red Gyarados, ranging from 60-64. So much for the Pokmon Master. ** Also, when my Espeon was an Eevee, it caught a Pokrus. A few hours after that, I encountered Raikou for the first time. My Pokmon were way slower at the time, and it'd run away right away. Then I said to myself "Who knows? Maybe I'll get lucky.", then I threw a Fast Ball at it. Even though it was at full health, had no status infliction, and a very low chance of getting captured, I DID get lucky. It actually got captured instead of breaking out. I doubt that's ever going to happen to me again. ** Just beat Red on my first try again, [[SelfImposedChallenge this time with a much lower leveled team.]] It consisted of Garchomp, Metagross, Tyranitar, Togekiss, Porygon-Z, and Starmie, ranging from 55-58. It took me 30 minutes and I had to use 5 revives and more than 10 Full Restores. Nonetheless, I think this counts as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for my team. * First time I went through the Elite Four in Generation 1, had a level 80-something Charizard. Finally got to my rival and beat his pokemon down. All I had left was the original Charizard against his Blastoise... I only had one Fire Blast attack left before I had to Struggle. Managed to One-Hit kill the Blastoise with the Fire Blast and beat my rival. Seriously didn't expect that at all. Since then I've been careful to grind psychic and ghost types so I have few weaknesses. Ruby/Sapphire usually has me grinding the first area for a horde of Ralts. Takes forever to do, but worth it. That and it's something to do when waiting for laundry at College. * This Troper had an two incredably lucky encounters at the foot of Mt Silver in [=HeartGold=]. While wandering through some grass, I encountered a shiny Ponyta. This was my first shiny I personally had

encountered, an caught it with out much trouble. I then wandered back to the pokemon center to check on it (it was only a few feet away so I didn't need to fly) Immediately afterwards, the first pokemon I encountered was ''another shiny Ponyta.'' That's right, I encountered (and caught) two shiny pokemon in a row! I decided to nickname them Shinyta and Replyca respectively. So far, they have been the only shiny pokemon I've ever found. * [[Tropers/ShadicTheHedgehog I]] have, since my second time playing Yellow Version, named every Pokemon I've caught after a {{Digimon}}, going so far as to keep my 'mons from evolving until I reached Lavender Town so I could change their name to the next level of Digivolution. The tough part was trying to have one Pokemon per Digimon name. The only exceptions have been some of my teams and Arceus, as well as a Feraligator I got through trading called "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome MIKE CHAOS!]]" ** Arceus, rather than a Digimon's name, was Yggdrasil, the name of the Digital World's core. ** My Diamond/Platinum team was the "Titans:" Speed Titan (Arcanine), Shadow Titan (Misdreavus), Song Titan (Clefable), Storm Titan (Electivire), Sky Titan (Salamence), and Sea Titan (Starmie). In reserve, I had Shell Titan (Shuckle), Soul Titan (Dusknoir), and Sloth Titan (Slaking). ** For [=HeartGold=], I used the "[[YuGiOh Monarchs]]:" Mobius (Kingdra), Kuraz (Gardevoir), Caius (Honchkrow), Zaborg (Rotom), Thestalos (Primeape), and Granmarg (Marowak). As a reserve, I had Raiza (Ninjask). ** For my team of my six favourite Pokemon, we have: Dark (Darkrai), Shadow (Shiny Charizard), Sylvia (Shiny Ditto), Angela (Gardevoir), Lucas (Lucario), and Mobius (Kingdra). *** After reviewing a few of the new Pokemon from Gen V, I have added Ononokus to this list, and s/he will be named "[[{{Disgaea}} Apocalypse]]." ** And for the upcoming White Version, I'll have the following (note that I came up with this before I knew anything about the games other than their names): [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Nabooru, Impa, and Rauru.]] My PC will also be named "Zelda." I'll also be abandoning the Digimon nomenclature due to the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters absurd number of Pokemon]]. * I only use 2-3 Pokemon, never nickname them and replay the games a lot. * I tend to get attached to my pokemon (or at least my core team: Empoleon, Crobat, Golem, Electivire, Weavile, and Houndoom) and give them personalities. Such as: ** Empoleon: the proud leader who, though he rarely goes out in the field due to me forgetting his moves, is always ready to support everyone else. ** Crobat: TheWoobie. He's patient and always goes out when I need someone to hold a place while I revivie someone else, he is steadfast and trustworthy and never lets me down. ** Golem: Cross-gendered TeamMom. Golem stick up for the whole team and gets along with pokemon that are rotated in better than anyone else.

** Electivire: The guy that always stands up to and usually defeats whatever I throw him at and is always surprising everyone with his HiddenDepths. ** Weavile: Sweet but easily annoyed guy that knows how much rides on him and is always up to the challenge. ** Houndoom: The weary but dependable support team that is tired of how often he gets rotated out but always performs well when called on. *** And then I have the CoolOldGuy[=/=]BadassGrandpa Alakazam that tends to rotate it for Houndoom, and my Gengar, who I'm still developing. * This is my [=HeartGold=] team: ** Steelix: The BigEater, but if there's trouble, he'll hold food off til the job's done. ** Bellossom: She's the CuteBruiser; witnessing Feraligatr and Darkrai's spats inspired her to become tougher by herself when I'm not busy leveling her up. ** Latias: One of two legendaries on my journey (the others I put in the PC box...it's suspended animation, they'll live forever that way), known as the Woobie due to losing her brother, Latios, to another trainer, who was abusive. And she would've had the same treatment had I not come along to give her a better home. But one day, we're going to find this trainer and force him to give up Latios. ** Darkrai: The other of two legendaries. Is careful not to give me nightmares when I'm asleep. Has constant fights with Feraligatr for my attention on strength, but me, I think both are strong enough as it is. ** Feraligatr: As my starter from Johto, he's easily filled with nostalgia when we come back to visit from the other regions; is fighting Darkrai constantly due to wanting my attention as it believes I favor the Dark-type more. ** Rapidash: A shiny Pokemon captured on my birthday, he believes in justice and will leave a trail of hellfire behind to destroy evil...okay, he THINKS he's leaving fire behind. * This troper's team on [=SoulSilver=] is: ** Typhlosion: Nicknamed "Happy" but will change it soon due to the OneSteveLimit; currently level 84. ** Electivire: Obtained via event, no nickname; currently level 54. ** Jirachi: Obtained via event, no nickname; currently around level 50. ** Staraptor: Nicknamed "Pwnly" and is my HM slave; currently around level 38. ** Two HM slaves which generally rotate. * This troper has an all-Pichu team on her Pearl version. Through an Action Replay, they're all level 100. Cute badassery FTW! ** You had to use an AR to get to level 100? * This troper has 999:59 on Sapphire and over 200 hours apiece on Diamond and Platinum. And a full team of legit English level 100 Deoxys, one of each forme. Plus a spare Japanese Normal Forme Shiny Deoxys. Also legit. (Keep in mind that I have no access to the GTS.) * This troper loves to give his Pokemon names and personalities, for instance on his [=SoulSilver=] team he's got: ** A male Typhlosion named Pyro, who is rather aloof, but kindhearted.

** A male Salamence named [[HowToTrainYourDragon Toothless]], brash and outgoing, and in love with Earthia. ** A Jirachi named [[ShapedLikeItself Jirachi]], a young kid who loves to make jokes with Geo and sleep a lot. ** A male Dunsparce named Geo, rather lazy and laid back, and forms ThoseTwoGuys with Jirachi. ** A female Tyranitar named Earthia, motherly and rather withdrawn, and is in love with Toothless. ** A female Milotic named Melody, enthusiastic and energetic, is good friends with Earthia, [[AllLoveIsUnrequited but harbors a secret crush on Toothless]]. *** For Pokemon White, I intend to have: **** A female Serperior named [[Series/DoctorWho Reinette]]. **** A male Cofagrigus named [[YuGiOh Atem]]. **** A male Eelektross named [[{{Portal}} Wheatley]]. **** A male Carracosta named Tortugo, and [[YaoiGuys in love with Anton]]. **** A male Haxorus named [[ProfessorLaytonAndPandorasBox Anton]], and in love with Tortugo. **** A male Volcarona named [[SonicTheHedgehog Solaris]]. * This troper has given its Yellow team all food-related nicknames (except one). So far he's got: ** Tesla the Pikachu (only exception to the naming rule, since all the Pikas I've ever had have been named Tesla) ** Chorizo the Charizard ** Granita the Lapras (bilingual bonus here, granita means slush in Italian) ** Big Babol the Mew ** Burger King the Nidoking ** Marshmallow the Snorlax ** Rotating members are Mc Nuggets the Fearow, Mc Chicken the Dodrio, Chili the Arcanine, Sugar the Butterfree and Papaya the Victreebel. * This troper can't be the only one excited for Black and White. ** Further up on the page are a listings of Future/Current teams for Black/White. You ''Aren't'' the only one. * This troper tends to rotate his team to include Pokemon that he has never used before. His original Heartgold team was: ** Scizor/ ChicagoTed The honorable but stoic swordsman. His cold exterior is used to hid the fact that he has never had someone to love him before me, and he is afraid that by showing emotion, he will disgrace his species. Once evolved, he got over his feelings and became an outright deathdealer. He uses his speed to do moves like XScissor, Steel Wing, and Agility. ** Typhosion/ Ellis A loyal but cold hearted fellow who loves me to death because I gave him max EVs through intense training. He despises everyone who I despise. I was originally quite negative about his Fire-typing, but I grew to love him. He uses powerful cindering techniques such as Eruption, Flamthrower, and Rock Climb. ** Espeon/ Socrates The brains behind our operation. Socrates has the most in common with me mentally, and we both have a plan about each upcoming battle. His weak point is his head, because he never learned confusion, so I was forced to teach him Headbutt. He uses his mind to

perform such moves as Psybeam, Psychic, and Shadowball. ** Starmie My former team member before I beat the Elite Four, she had perfect Evs and Ivs, but she grew to have quite a bit of an ego and overshadowed the rest of my team because she defeated Lance all by herself. I stored her in my PC, but she has grown to hate and despise me through her stay in there. My team fears her return. She used highdamage moves like Blizzard, Surf, and Psychic. ** Omastar/ Nicole The nervous and erratic replacement for Starmie, Nicole doesn't believe in her skills and thus causes the rest of my team a headache when she chooses to hide in her shell. But she is potentially the most powerful Pokemon on my team, if she applied herself. She is deeply interested in Typhosion, but he shuns her frivolous and awkward advances toward him. She used high damage special moves like Surf, Ancient Power, and Brine. ** Fearow/ Roxanne The powerful flying type that my team wished they could aspire be, Roxy loves them deeply but is beset by her idea that if she has too many close relationships, they will ground her and she won't have a free and noble spirit anymore. She is very aloof, but when provoked, she will go into a blind fury attack that will not stop until she is incapacitated. She uses fast and powerful physical moves to eliminate the competition, like Drill Peck, and Agility. ** Garchomp/ Grimlock Grim is the new kid on my team, as he traveled from a mysterious region, and everyone else sees him as such. An outsider, he wishes to show the rest of my team his power, but he is very clumsy and prone to fits of silent depression. I try to comfort him, but he prefers to focus on his training, so that he may one day show the rest of my team his ultimate strength. He used risky moves suck as Dragon Rush, Draco Meteor, and Dig. * This troper makes a point to have all of her pokemon as females (with the logical exception of the genderless ones and the ones whose chance of a female gender is inhumanly low). Probably because [[GirlsNeedRoleModels she needs rolemodels]]... ** Emerald *** TheHero: [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Blaziken]] *** TheLancer: [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Breloom]] *** TheBigGuy and SixthRanger: [[CloudCuckooLander Flygon]] *** TheSmartGuy: [[YamatoNadeshiko Gardevoir]] *** TheChick: [[TheWorfEffect Swellow]] *** NonActionGuy: [[ButtMonkey Azumarill]] (HM slave) ** Platinum *** TheHero: [[IdiotHero Infernape]] *** TheLancer: [[GeniusBruiser Floatzel]] *** TheBigGuy and SixthRanger: [[BloodKnight Garchomp]] *** TheSmartGuy: [[DeadPanSnarker Jolteon]] *** TheChick: [[ActionGirl Starraptor]] *** NonActionGuy: [[RalphWiggum Bibarel]] (HM slave) ** Soul Silver *** TheHero: [[ChaoticStupid Typhlosion]] *** TheLancer: [[CaffeineBulletTime Jolteon]] *** TheBigGuy: [[GentleGiant Gyarados]] (Yes, the red one) *** TheSmartGuy and SixthRanger: [[LizLemonJob Latios]] *** TheChick: [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Skarmory]]

*** NonActionGuy: [[FlatCharacter Sandslash]] (HM slave) ** Fire Red *** TheHero: [[JadeColoredGlasses Charizard]] *** TheLancer: [[CommanderContrarian Jolteon]] *** TheBigGuy: [[SanitySlippage Gyarados]] *** TheSmartGuy: [[MentorArchetype Articuno]] *** NonActionGuy: [[TheWorfEffect Sneasel]] (NOT an HM slave, I just don't really use her) *** SixthRanger: [[LastOfHisKind Kabutops]] (Which later took over TheBigGuy from Gyarados, who became another NonActionGuy) ** By this point you have noticed that I like Jolteon. A LOT. And that I always choose the fire starter. When I was younger I preferred the water starters. I guess my Charizard-crazy friend rubbed off on me. I also avoid grass starters like the plague, since grass types tend to die on me easily. I do not intend to change this trend with [[EnsembleDarkhorse Smugleaf]]. * Figured I might as well get in on the trend with my teams here. In Platinum, we have: ** [[BunnyEarsLawyer Empoleon]]: He's badass in battle with that type combination, but is [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass kind of a derp and prone to losing track of what he's doing everywhere else]]. [[CloudCuckooLander About as organized as a kindergartener]]. He's {[The Hero}}, though not exactly aware of this, though everyone still respects him. {{Like Brother and Sister}} with [[TokenLoli Flareon]]. ** [[LittleMissBadass Flareon]]: Aside from being the obligatory Eeveelution and my source of {{Kill it with Fire}}, she's generally the one who keeps Empoleon's head on straight without being overbearing. Vehemently idolizes both [[ActionGirl Luxray]] and [[GenkiGirl Floatzel]]. {{Like Brother and Sister}} with [[NiceGuy Empoleon]]. ** [[GuileHero Drifblim]]: He's a playful trickster sort, but very calculating beneath that exterior. He harbours more than a bit of cynicism because of the whole {{Dark is Evil}} stigma that surrounds ghosts, but overall, isn't a bad guy. Also a {{Stone Wall}} to [[ActionGirl Luxray]] for [[BattleCouple double battles]]. ** [[ActionGirl Luxray]]: Resident badass, though she's a bit of a {{Glass Cannon}}. Doubles as the {{Cool Big Sis}} for pretty much the entire team. She and [[BattleCouple Drifblim]] are particularly close. ** [[GenkiGirl Floatzel]]: Peripherally upbeat, pretty much nothing fazes her and she takes the world in stride. Making her angry takes a lot of effort, but [[BewaretheNiceOnes is probably kind of stupid]]. Is a {{Fragile Speedster}}, with emphasis on the "Speedster", of which she's quite proud. She and Gallade are actually a case of {{UnrequitedLoveSwitcharoo}}, as she has feelings for him as well. ** [[BadassBookworm Gallade]]: In his first two stages, he was the total {{Butt Monkey}} in fights, but {{Took A Level in Badass}} when he evolved. He still retains his intellectual slant, and is a bit of a self-styled {{Knight in Shining Armour}} with emphasis on the chivalry, though some of that may be because he's [[NotGoodWithPeople Not Good With Pokemon]]. Has a bit of a crush on Floatzel, who is completely oblivious. * This troper's sister caught a shiny Golbat on Sapphire. She refused

to trade it over before restarting her game because "Golbat's stupid." ** [[BigWhat WHATBUT]]... [[LightningBruiser CROBAT!]] ** My sister also caught a shiny Golbat in Emerald, and then it evolved into Crobat. It was later one of the Pokemon she beat the Elite 4 with. (Along with Swellow and Sceptile) * My HG team: ** Rex, a Typhlosion. Extremely {{Badass}}, {{Team Dad}}, {{The Hero}}, {{Papa Wolf}} (Many cyndaquils. One of his daughters had an affair with a zangoose, ended with some Crush Claw Cyndaquils and deep scars.) {{Heterosexual Life Partners}} with Bandit, (somewhat) Raptor, and, of course, Heart (My avatar's Character). When he gets mad or goes on Papa Bear mode, expect a lot of {{Kill It With Fire}}. A LOT. ** Raptor, a Pidgeot. {{Straight Gay}}, {{The Chick}}, really gentle, except in a fight. Gets a lo of stress from some more creul pokemon, making him a {{Woobie}}. He has a crush on... ** Bandit, a Nidorano/king. {{Casanova}}, {{The Lancer}}, He's got a sharp tounge and an eye for the ladies. {{Vitrioloc Best Buds}} with Rex. ** Big Red, a Gyarados. {{The Big Guy}}, also {{Badass}}. He had... [[{{Understatement}} Problems]]. Y'know, what with team rocket screwing with his life and all. He's got a bit of a temper. ** Two Shifting spots. ** In my box: *** Veeison, a Jolteon. VERY {{Psycho Electro}}. Hard to calm down.Have I mantioned Batshit Insane? *** Lord Ho-Oh, a ([[SarcasmMode creativly]] named) Ho-Oh. Named so because he hated me, and I tried to make him feel better. {{Mentor}} to: *** A Giratina ,Who's name is lost to me right now. He's quite young (Arceus Event), and has no Iidea how FREAKING TERRIFYING he looks also a bit of a {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}. *** Dogfan, a Donphan. Named so cuz' some kid said that was how Donphan was pronounced. He's really a joke, but he pops up randomy. {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}} *** A Ditto. Used for breeding. (I'm really a Breeder and Pokeathlete in HG.) I was horrified when I discovered his nature: Naughty. What HAVE I been putting these pokemon through.. *** Muk. She's {{crazy prepared}}, and is a struggling pokeathlete. She's a bit feminist, which has a habit in gettinger her in some bad situations. (She's severly underleveled) *** Aggron. He's {{Dumb Muscle}}, and is fluent in {{Hulk Speak}}. He has a habit of rearranging mountians when ticked. A brick wall, andAGGRON LAUGH AT PUNY EXPLOSION! HUWHA! HUWHA! HUWHA!- He's in training, along with: *** Pupitar. Noone really knows her personality, what with her being a cocoon and all. Is a bit {{Badass}} (Yeah, I have a lot of those.) *** Rexito. Rex's son (And one of the only two he talks to. The others are for trading, but he's protective of all of them.) also the [[{{Parental Favoritism}} Favorite]] *** Mew, recieved in a trade. [[{{Genki Girl}} Genki...Thing]]. Has some {{Mary Sue}} Traits, {{Black Hole Sue}} to be specific, like everyone fawning over him. Her. It.

*** More Later. * Same Troper's Pearl team: (the quartet forms a {{Nakama}}, not unlike HG..) ** Luxray. She's the {{Spotlight Stealing Squad}}, from my Starter, but he doen't really mind. Almost as {{Badass}} as Rex, is [[AllLoveIsUnrequited hopelessly in love]] with her trainer (I give them personalaties too). But she's willing to get sidetracked.. +coughVolkner'sLuxraycough+ Her electric power is [[MemeticMutation OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!]]. {{Like Brother and Sister}} with Don. ** Don, my Torterra. [[TheHero The Lancer]], but he's fine with that. Rather [[DumbMuscle dumb, but quite strong]]. He usuly provides transportation (he's larger than avrege), and is really a {{Gentle Giant}} ** Chatot. The one you get in a trade. Really a FlatCharacter, he just repeats stuff. [[NightmareFuel Noone]] [[EldritchAbomination knows what]] [[TokenEvilTeammate goes]] [[OnlySaneMan on in]] [[MindScrew his mind]]... * [[{{Rule Of Three}} And the rest:]] ** Sucho, A Feraligator. SS. {{The Klutz}}(Based on how he constantly got status problems as a Crocanaw.), {{Big Eater}}. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but a lovable carnivore. Has a bad habit of shoving things down his gullet (As in the sac some sauropsids have that lets them carry stuff ), so much it's practicly a {{Bag Of Holding}}. ** Espeon, {{The Chick}}. SS. [[{{Sibling Yin Yang}} Related to Veeison, but with none of his psycho tendencys]]. Annoyed with his less-than-manly looks. ** Fearodent, a Raticate. SS. {{The Lancer}}. The second powerhouse on my team. ** Noctowl, SS. {{Non-Action Guy}}, {{The Smart Guy}}. * This troper's teams: ** '''Blue''': Blastoise, Butterfree, Onix, Ninetales, Haunter, Aerodactyl ** '''Yellow''': Pikachu, Pidgeot, Nidoqueen, Butterfree, Blastoise, Charizard ** '''Silver''': Feraligatr, Jolteon, Ninetales, Tyranitar. Rotates between Lugia, Espeon, Heracross, and Ho-Oh ** '''Crystal''': Meganium, Noctowl, Donphan, (Red) Gyarados, Umbreon, Tauros ** '''Sapphire''': Sceptile, Exploud, Altaria, Kyogre, Swellow. Rotates between Salamance, Ninetales, and Metagross ** '''Emerald''': Swampert, Mightyena, Aggron, Torkoal, Seviper, Tropius ** '''FireRed''': Venusaur, Nidoking, Persian, Vaporeon, Dodrio, Electabuzz ** '''Diamond''': Torterra, Skuntank, Honchkrow, Floatzel, Rapidash, Dialga ** '''Platinum''': Infernape, Luxray, Tentacruel, Staraptor, Houndoom, Lucario ** '''HeartGold''': Typlosion, Fearow, Scyther, Lanturn, Poliwrath, Miltank * Well, I'm gonna try to avoid clogging the page, so I won't go through all my teams in one shot. I've been playing Yellow recently

after having an uncharacteristic hankering for the old days, and perhaps one day I will draw a comic based on this run. Part of this is the rather odd group of characters I came up with based on my team, which consists of: ** Vimes the Sandslash, TheHero. For a ''long'' time was the BadassNormal since he had no moves other than Scratch and Slash (first-gen learnsets for the lose). Despite that, his high crit ratio meant he was taking down Onixes and Gravelers with ease, and taught him to rely on his own natural ability rather than just high-powered moves. Is somewhat of a more optimistic version of the Discworld character he's named for, and once went into a rampage where he shouted "THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! TAUROS!!!!!" ** Gideon the Fearow, TheLancer. Naturally a BigBadassBirdOfPrey, and was a vital team member since his capture and subsequent evolution. He and Vimes are the two longest-serving team members, and strong friends. He has a more calculated mind to counter Vimes' hotbloodedness, though their lack of fancy elemental moves for most of their tenures means they're exceptionally strong for their species. ** Lelouch the Venomoth. TheSmartGuy, and as one could guess, a LargeHam. Not that great at physical combat but excels with Psychic moves and status effects. Wasn't very useful at all initially, until he learned Confusion, and then finally managed to pull his weight upon evolution. Due to type mechanics in the first generation, his Leech Life is wonderfully useful against Kanto's many Poison and Grass types. ** Churchill the Snorlax- also TheBigGuy. Like his namesake, often depicted with glasses and a cigar. Nice enough to his friends, but ''not'' a GentleGiant- more of a DeadpanSnarker like the real Winston, whom he has a tendency of quoting. Strong as he is, he doesn't need silly tactics... his moves are either squash them under his weight or zap 'em with Thunderbolt. ** Axel the Flareon, and by process of elimination, TheChick- but don't let him hear you say it. Started out as a quiet, innocent Eevee, until he was immediately evolved via Fire Stone and went mad with the ''PHENOMENAL COSMIC FIREPOWER''- until he realized he didn't have any Fire moves, and wouldn't for a while. He made do with Bite and Quick Attack, and grew stronger but less crazy from the humility of not even having something like Ember. Finally, he learned Fire Spin, which he was willing to accept and made the most of it. Although "BURN EVERYTHING" isn't his modus operandi anymore, he's still got a wild range of mood swings. ** Starlock the Omastar, the vaunted SixthRanger. Carried with the team since he was a fossil, which would technically make him the third team member in terms of chronology. Was revived at Cinnabar where he was accepted into the team and immediately taught Ice Beam and Surf, with which he proved his worth by leading the final battle against the Rockets, though he didn't evolve until fighting Saffron Gym. Later was taught Horn Drill, as it was figured that anything badass enough to be the Spiral Pokemon ought to have his own take on the Giga Drill Break. Might have cause the other team members to be OvershadowedByAwesome had they not learned moves to complement their own natural strength, like Vimes getting Earthquake and Swift or Gideon getting Drill Peck.

Although he still isn't fully integrated into the team dynamic, they admit that there isn't much bad to say about him. * This troper recently beat the Elite 4 in Pearl with a severely underleveled team using strategy and spamming items, only one of them was over level 50, but one of them reached level 50 during the battle with Cynthia. His team upon being registered in the Hall of Fame: ** Sun Wukong the Infernape (male)Lv. 53- TheHero and TheBigGuy, an all-around powerhouse with a fiery passion for battle. Enjoys going head to head with other Fighting types. A StraightGay who loves to be hugged by his trainer (but not in [[InterSpeciesRomance that way]]). ** [[SailorMoon TuxedoMask]] the Roserade (male)Lv. 46- TheSmartGuy, lacking in power but his Toxic Spikes and Stun Spore played a vital role in our battles. Slightly flamboyant, but 100% straight. ** Floatzel (no name)(female)Lv. 46- TheChick, a LightningBruiser that can devestate any Pokemon it has a type advantage over. Loves to relax at the Verity Lakefront. Has a daughter named Melissa. ** Carmilla the Crobat (female)Lv. 46- Almost a SixthRanger, but more of a combination of [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]] and TheSmartGuy. Doesn't usually battle, but can hold her own when necessary. Likes to be pampered, loves to fly her trainer around, and might have a [[InterspeciesRomance crush]] on this troper. ** [[ThunderCats ThunderCat]] the Luxray (male)Lv. 48- TheLancer, aloof but genuinely cares about his team mates. The first to be added to the team after Sun Wukong. Mated to Floatzel, and proud father of Melissa. Has been teasingly hit on by Sun Wukong. ** Golem (no name)(male) Lv. 50- The SixthRanger, a stoic Pokemon obtained in a trade shortly before traveling through Victory Road. Mostly a reserve Pokemon, but he did defeat a few Pokemon by himself. Was this troper's last standing pokemon against Cynthia's Garchomp; he landed the final blow, growing to level 50 in the process, and earning the respect of his team mates. * Does anyone else only train a specific type ala the Gym Leaders, Elite 4, and some NPC Trainer classes? I'm currently doing a run of SoulSilver only using Dark types (my "adoptive starter" was a [[GenkiGirl Houndour]], now evolved), and I have to say, it's pretty cool to get so in-depth on a type's weaknesses and strengths. * This Troper would like to tell you all about her experience with Pokemon. When I first got Pokemon Red, I instantly fell in love with it, especially my Wartortle, whom I named Ringleader. I built up a decent team, got a Mew once I learnt about the trick, and generally loved the game. I then got Crystal, making up a decent team based off Pokemon that I liked, especially my Meganium, Chikito. I then lost my copy of Red AND my Game Boy. I got Pokemon Sapphire, and figured, hey, it's okay, I still have Killer (Swampert) and Chikito! Only I didn't. Crystal died on me (save file got wiped, couldn't save), and then I lost Sapphire, Fire Red AND my Game Boy SP! Cursing my luck, I got a DS and Pearl. Pearl survived long enough for me to get Platinum ''but then I lost Pearl''. When I got Heart Gold, something snapped inside me. I didn't just resurrect Chikito and his pals, oh no. I used trading and catching to restore all of my OTHER teams. Ringleader? Got him back ''shiny''. Killer? Currently a Marshtomp. Every other Pokemon? Alive and kcicking (minus my Mew). That was heartwarming

enough (especially when Ringleader hatched), but then? ''I found Pokemon Red and my Game Boy''. Oh, did I mention that I also found Sapphire, and made a new team, which I then got onto HG? My Pokemon White file is going to be epic to the nth degree - I'm transferring over ''eighty-five Pokemon'', including ''seventeen legendaries''. I could never let Pokemon go, ever. People tease me for liking it, for bringing a PokeWalker to school, and for saving up for White - but it's part of my life, part of my childhood, and I am ''never'' quitting it, ''ever''. ** *Applauds* ** OP again. Firstly, thank you person who applauded me on my obsession. Secondly, I was right - my White came is ''unbelievably'' epic (Hi Cynthia! Wanna have a battle against three level one hundreds, one Mewtwo, and a couple of other awesome Pokemon?). Thirdly, I've become the mentor of a new Pokeaddict - my cousin Mely. I helped her buy a copy of Black, and now she's obsessed. She asks me loads of stuff. For example, she once asked me if her Pawniard was glitched - ''IT WAS A FUCKING SHINY.'' * This Troper has recently restarted her old and still-working Pokemon Silver, and since Silver was her Pokemon game which holds the most fond memories for her, and for her recent games she has finally started attributing personalities and nicknames to her Pokemon, she has found the personalities of her current (and very beloved) team working out in this order ** A female Typhlosion named Horo, who is the HotBlooded ActionGirl ActionGirl with NervesOfSteel. She never hesitates to throw herself into battle against a wide variety of opponents, being CrazyPrepared with Flamethrower, Thunderpunch and Earthquake. Is HeterosexualLifePartners with Jagara, and understands the battle-torn Pidgeot's emotions more than anyone else on the team. ** Astrid the Nidoqueen, the TeamMom and MamaBear of the team, who is fiercely protective of the team and will stand up to any threat, no matter how big, until she goes down in the face of protecting the others. If you hurt any members of the team, you've most definitely pressed her BerserkButton and you can only have an Earthquake or Dynamicpunch coming your way. However, she is also a BruiserWithASoftCenter and is very gentle and kind when the team is not being threatened. ** Jagara the female Pidgeot, the LadyOfWar and KnightInSourArmor, a cynical DeadpanSnarker, and rightfully so. Her past is shrouded in much mystery but it is speculated she suffered at the hands of an AxCrazy, abusive trainer. Serves as the LightningBruiser of the team and, despite her cynical attitude, is more than willing to take her trainer to any venture he may need. Is HeterosexualLifePartners with Horo, but unbeknownst to all, has a crush on her partner. ** Gakupo the male Espeon, (who was indeed named after the {{Vocaloid}}), the BadassBookworm and the TheSmartGuy whose arsenal of moves revolve around PsychicPowers. Despite being TheQuietOne, he has his moments where, since he is the only male on the team, he is very much a ChivalrousPervert. Is lovers with the as-of-yet untrained shiny Vaporeon, Luka, and hopes for her to make it on the team some day. ** Luminaria the female Ampharos, the BadassAdorable GenkiGirl that

sometimes dips into the AnnoyingYoungerSibling territory. The youngest and most innocent of the group, she has yet to see the harshest of battles like the rest of the team, but, despite this, is willing to face any new situation with vigor, regardless of what she may face. Her movepool is lacking, but she still hits with a hard Thunderpunch that sends foes reeling. ** Nemesis the female Gyarados, the JerkWithAHeartOfGold but also the CoolBigSis to the most of the team. She is also TheStoic in the face of danger, but has a HairTriggerTemper that can send her on a Hydro Pump and Hyper Beam blasting rage. Considers herself superior to the resident shiny HM slave, Red (the shiny Gyarados) and is much of a JerkAss to him, but since he spends so little time on the team, she keeps her cynicism about him to herself. *** Also, currently in training is Luka the shiny female Vaporeon (also named after the {{Vocaloid}}), who, once trained, will be capable of being swapped in Nemesis' position. TallDarkAndBishoujo and TheStoic, no danger can faze her. She will willingly stand head-on to a Hyper Beam or Thunder, even if it kills her in the process. Her sheer impassiveness in addition to her aptitude for keeping the resident ChivalrousPervert in check is what drew her and Gakupo together, and she longs for the day when they will both face down foes on the same team. * Pearl and HeartGold. I bawled when I got my Eevees. Why? When I lived with my Da he...*shaky breath* He DESTROYED my Nakama! YOU BASTARDILOVEDTHEMI..I...Kurai and his newly hatched son...THEY'RE NOT DATA, THEY WERE MINE!They were ''mine''. *collapses, wailing* * I always build a team with the following rules: ** 1) No two pokemon on my team can share a type. ** 2) I must be able to super effectively hit every type. ** 3) Each pokemon must have a STAB attack of both their types (though I do use single type pokemon. ** 4) I must have a Pokemon that can learn Fly. ** 5) I cannot use the same pokemon twice in different run-throughs (the exceptions are the starters, since I always use them). *** These aren't even rules that use as a challenge or anything, it's just how I like to play the game. I always struggle trying to find a decent Fire or Electric type that I've never used though. When I get bored, I trade all my pokemon to whichever game I'm not using at the moment (I have Heart Gold and Platinum) and then I start a new game. Currently, the pokemon that I have sitting in my box in Heart Gold are: Magmortar, Houndoom, Flareon, Infernape, Typhlosion, Feraligator, Tentacruel, Empoleon, Gastrodon, Togekiss, Drapion, Skarmory, Giratina, Froslass, Abomasnow, Forretress, Heracross, Rotom, Honchkrow, Jolteon, Leafeon, Alakazam, Golem, Jirachi, Yanmega, and Ampharos. I probably have more too, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. **** [[ElGoonishShive KINDRED SPIRIT!]] * Having now played more games, I (the troper earlier with the Typhlosion named Iroh) have more [[FiveManBand Five Man Bands]] with my teams. ** Leaf Green *** TheHero: Radagast (Kadabra). Acts as commanding officer to the

others. Also something of TheAce, as his propensity to spam Teleport in battle tends to make my other teams jealous, and his trainer something of a jackass. However, this ability of his enabled him to single-handedly take down [[{{Halo}} The Arbiter]] (My cousins and I play weird games like that) *** TheLancer: Rana (Poliwrath). In true Lancer fashion, prefers to go in with fists swinging (whereas Radagast prefers to analyze the situation before acting). Largely only puts up with Radagast due to their typing. *** TheBigGuy: Plantile (Venusaur). A big, lovable oaf who enjoys having his head scratched...and can slice through armor with his leaves. *** TheSmartGuy and TheChick are juggled between Edna (Nidoqueen) and Hephaestos (Flareon). Edna serves as the TeamMom, due in no small part to her being the only female on the team. However, knowing her eventual transformation into a ground type, insisted on learning Shock Wave as soon as the TM was available. Hephaestos, meanwhile, is small and slow, and thus doesn't see much combat. However, he is also very analytical, and spends long hours studying things, long after even Radagast has gone to sleep. *** TheSixthRanger: Hammerfall (Aerodactyl). One part DeadpanSnarker, one part flying tank. Close friends with Rana, due to their mutual dislike of Radagast, who is almost as much of a douche as their trainer. ** Pearl *** TheHero: Admiral (Empoleon). Usually TheStoic. However, if you do manage to piss him off, well...he knows Shadow Claw and Steel Wing, and isn't averse to using both at the same time. *** TheLancer: Blitz (Rapidash). So far, my only fire-type to actually live up to the hot-headed stereotype. Was the first to react to Flora's attack (see below) *** TheSmartGuy: Vlad (Crobat), although he would prefer to think of himself as TheEvilGenius. Has extremely acute senses, and is thus the first one to be aware of anything that's happening. Was the first Crobat to discover that his species is capable of folding up their wings and walking on their knuckles like a pterodactyl. *** TheBigGuy: Hydrophobe (Hippowdon). He's an [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Earthbending]] hippo. What else would he be? His philosophy on problem solving is "if it can't be fixed by throwing rocks at/biting it, it's someone else's problem." *** TheChick: Maestro (Kricketune). The most physically weak of my team (although he is fond of reminding anyone who can speak Pokemon that he shrugged off a Psychic from Lucian's Alakazam and then took it down in one hit). Would much rather be a musician, but can't stand to be apart from his {{Nakama}}. *** TheSixthRanger: Okay, here's what happened (in my imagination). For a long time, the sixth slot was filled by Flora, a Roserade who had been with the team since very early in the game, when she was just a Budew. However, on the way through Mt. Mortar towards Snowpoint City, we ran into a member of Team Galactic who sicced his Skuntank on us. Flora took the full blast of the Flamethrower. The rest of the team was quick to retaliate, but it was too late to save her. We

buried her there and pressed on. Later, as we made camp along Route 216, a frightened yet curious Snover ambled over to our campsite. That's the in-universe story for how Boreas the Abomasnow joined the team. The others held some resentment towards him for a while for not being Flora, but his truly epic destruction of a full half of Cynthia's team cemented his place on the roster. * This troper is currently working on building teams of various themes. Right now I'm working on a "dark-themed" team (i.e., something akin to Silver's team). I'm planning to make it consist of Feraligatr, Honchkrow, Magmar, Victreebel, Jynx, and . Then on my next run I might swap Feraligatr for Tentacruel and Typhlosion for Magmar. Later I might do a "cute" themed team wherein I use a team of Clefable/Hitmontop, Sunflora, Dewgong, Nidoqueen, Ninetails, and Togekiss. * This troper's been with the series since Gen I and has recently decided to rerun Platinum while making it the first run where he disregards his starter and to try a team consisting of Pokemon that he's never tried to use seriously. As such, here's his [[{{FiveManBand}} Five Man Band]]. ** Thorn (Roserade): The Hero(ine), tends to act as [[{{OnlySaneMan}} the only sane one]] of the team and joins her trainer in finding some degree of amusement in the antics of the rest of the team. In battle though, she uses her poison nature to the extreme while [[{{LifeDrain}} constantly regaining health]]. Her biggest weakness though is that she can get a little reckless, not really caring about types. ** Faraday (Luxray): The Lancer, enjoys sleeping when the team is taking a break, was one of the original three team members alongside Thorn and Slippy. Keeps the younger team members in line, which would be good if he didn't have a [[{{HairTriggerTemper}} tendency to get angry very quickly]]. During battle, takes precautions to try and reduce the foe's attacking chances through Paralysis and flinching. He enjoys a good challenge, but as mentioned before, gets angry quickly, so frequently known among the team for being rather [[{{NoKillLikeOverkill}} merciless]]. ** Slippy (Gastrodon): The Chick, one of the original three team members with Thorn and Faraday. While not really a powerhouse on the team, she is skilled in [[{{MakingASplash}} water attacks]] and [[{{DiggingUpDirt}} ground attacks]] to the point where she's dangerous in her own right. Also quite the glutton. While Faraday keeps the remaining team members in line, she keeps him in line because she can take his electric attacks and calm him down again. ** Cottonbud (Altaria): [[{{TagalongKid}} The youngest member of the team]], he tends to be misled easily and enjoys having fun in battle. While not the strongest on the team when it comes to offense (in fact it's what he's worst at) he makes up for it by being one of the fastest on the team (Behind Thorn and Helios, who are joint top on the team.) but unlike them, he can boost his speed even higher, and his Dragon Type nature grants him a resistance to three of the most commonly used types. Has a big [[{{SweetTooth}} Sweet Tooth]]. ** Ramsey (Rampardos): [[{{TheBigGuy}} The largest member of the team]], he's about half a foot taller than most members of his kind,

due to a bit of a mixup when being restored from his fossil. Tends to be the All-out offensive member of the team, his only non offensive attack being Stealth Rock. Never afraid to get involved in a fight. ** Helios (Rapidash): While Cottonbud is the youngest member of the team, Helios is [[{{SixthRanger}} the newest]]. Tends to rush into things without thinking them through. He has a crippling fear of water due to getting caught in a flood as a Ponyta, to the point where he refuses to battle near large bodies of water. Enjoys running. Is the most frequent target of Faraday's 'lessons' due to the two not really liking each other. * This troper just had a great cry after reading the comic at this link: http://fuckyeahpokememe.tumblr.com/tagged/eevee+comic/page/2 (start reading from bottom of page). He would also like to take this opportunity to say that he strongly advocates the creation of a Tearjerker page for the Pokemon Series. * Taco Ninja's teams (as if you haven't seen enough): ** Main Black: *** Scrappy the Victini: Far from TheScrappy as his name might indicate (FYI; it came from a little joke where I yelled "YATATATA-TATATA! VICTINIIIIIII POWERRRRRRR!" upon catching him) he took leadership of the team despite being underlevelled and knows powerful moves such as Searing Shot, Thunder, Shadow Ball and Psychic and does well to lead the team to victory over and over again. He is very calm and cool no matter what the situation and acts as a role model to all my Pokemon. *** Fry the Slowking: A holdover from my Soul Silver, Fry holds the position of my favourite Pokemon and second-in-command of the team. I imagine him to be capable of human speech and he has a perfect British accent (like the inspiration for his name, {{Stephen Fry}}). He may not be half as fast as Scrappy or Andy but he's very bulky and powerful, even more so with Calm Mind. He has a happy, cheeky personality and he loves cherry sweets and tea. *** Andy the Jolteon: A complete clown and loveable coward/pervert. Acts as #3 to Scrappy and Fry. Is prone to getting his team-mates into trouble by mouthing off and then running off. *** Sparrow the Weavile: My dragon-murderer. Often the best partner for Frieda even though they hate each other. He is grumpy and lazy but also likes to have fun and loves to fight. He lost an ear in a battle. *** Arturo the shiny Terrakion: The newest member of the team. I was lucky enough to find him after 3400 soft-resets and he's doing his best to fit in. He hasn't found his feet among my veterans but he stays cheerful and hardy no matter what and trains very hard indeed. *** Frieda the Flygon: A grumpy, anti-social, huge old Flygon. I imagine her to have red horns and very dark green skin. She lives to protect her team and her trainer. She hates other dragons and often goes into a berserker rage if she has to fight them. She was raised with Fry and he's the only other Pokemon she has a soft spot for. ** Shiny 1: Blaziken (Ardeth), Manectric (Matt), Suicune (Kazegami), Metagross (Cyber), Lucario (Astrid), Dragonite (Gaia). ** Shiny 2: Charizard (Azi), Luxray (Nala), Slowking (Zelda), Hitmonchan (Ace), Mismagius (Iza), Salamence (Elphaba). ** Shiny 3: Entei (Daddy), Electivire (Devin), Blastoise (Butch),

Golurk (Bender), Hitmonlee (Luffy), Giratina (Shinigami). ** New Heart Gold: Charizard (shiny, Jasper), Raikou (shiny event, honorary name Diego), Suicune (shiny event, Valdrigue), empty, hoping for shiny Breloom, Typhlosion (shiny, Tarquin)and Marowak (Josh). ** Ghost: Dusknoir ([[GeniusBruiser Smithy]] ([[BadAss Mr. Smith to you]]), Spiritomb [[EvilGenius (Murphy)]], Rotom [[CloudCuckooLander (Conway)]], Froslass [[DarkActionGirl (Padma)]], Shuppet [[TagalongKid (Jasper)]] and Mismagius [[DarkChick (Iza, shiny)]]. ** Flying: Tropius (Jin), Drifblim (Bernard), Honchkrow (Cee Lo), Skarmory (Crowzier), Gyarados (Nell), Salamence (Elphaba). *** First White: Samurott (Whitebeard), Zekrom (Buzz), Darmanitian (Klaus), Scrafty (Jacob), Reniculus (Connery) and Archeops (Pickle). *** Second White: Serperior (Hancock, first name, [[OnePiece Boa]]) Eelektross (Nessa), Seismitoad (George), Chandelure (Claudia), Mienshao (Daniel), Sigilyph (Sybil). * This troper has a team of four that's gone from Ruby to Heart Gold, and they are by far my favorite team ever. Also, all of their in-game sexes are different from how I perceive their gender. They all have a pesonality. ** Unmei the Gardevoir: TheHero and TheChick. Level headed and modest, she's willing to do anything to protect [[{{Nakama}} the rest of her team]]. ** Kokoro the Blaziken: TheLancer and The LoveInterest: HotBlooded kung-fu master who won't stand for believing anyone is stronger than he is. ** Ki the Shiftry: TheBigGuy and the TeamMom: She takes care of everyone else and picks up the slack when the others lose. ** Sora the Altaria: TheSmartGuy and the SixthRanger: He joined the team last, but more than makes up for it by mentoring the others. * This Troper caught a shiny Raticate. A few days later, she caught a shiny Drowzee. She is beginning to think they may not be as hard to find as she originally thought... * I see I'm not the only Troper who's got their own team's personalities figured out. This Troper will list his team's personalities, just to complete the set (and to see if anyone's likeminded about any of them)... ** Neon the Feraligatr: TheHero. A hot-blooded fool of a leader whose guile appearance belies a cunning, strategic mind. He's pretty much the team's CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. ** Bushroot the Torterra: TheLancer. Raised from an egg with Neon's care, he's BrilliantButLazy. ** Megavolt the Electivire: The BoisterousBruiser. Energetic and outspoken, he's the kind of Pokemon you'd rely on to be a party animal. He's like [[OnePiece Franky]], except he's not a cyborg. ** Erazor the Houndoom: The poster boy for DarkIsNotEvil. He's a good soul who skirts with the shadows, preferring to rely on his firey heritage (i.e, he's more of a Fire-type move user on my team). ** Kenshiro the Scizor: [[FistOfTheNorthStar You know where this is going to end.]] The serious type, he focuses on battling strong opponents. Should you hurt an innocent Pokemon in front of him, prepare for Hokuto Shinken-based retribution through Bullet Punch and Vacuum Wave. [[YouAreAlreadyDead Your team has already fainted.]]

** Bahamut the Dragonite: The LightningBruiser. His speed is unmatched by anyone on the team, thanks to his Extremespeed technique. He is fast, strong, agile, and all-around kind enough to hand you your Pokemon's tail-end before they get in over their heads. * StPatrick923: Along the same lines as TacoNinja's themed teams above, ** Dark Team: Houndoom, Honchkrow, Gengar (or Spiritomb if you insist), Cacturne, Sharpedo, Tyranitar. National Dex/Copies of SoulSilver or Platinum required. * Klon: Like most of you, I have played Pokmon from the very beginning, so I'm going to focus on my newest team (Pokmon FireRed) which has just beaten the Pokmon Leauge and entered the Hall Of Fame. Trying something new for a change, I have named my Pokmon after (supposedly) [[MeaningfulName fitting]] [[s:wrestlers]] Sport Entertainers. Here's the HoF team with levels etc. as of beating the Elite Four: ** {{Kane}} (Charizard): Lv. 47 - Smoke Screen, Hyper Beam, Flamethrower, Slash ** TheMiz (Golbat): Lv. 47 - Return, Wing Attack, Mean Look, Bite ** [[CrossesTheLineTwice Chris]] [[ChrisBenoit Benoit]] (Haunter): Destiny Bond, Psychic, Confuse Ray, Shadow Ball ** JohnCena (Pikachu): Lv. 47 - Rain Dance, Quick Attack, Thunder, Thunderwave ** RicFlair (Kabutops): Lv. 47 - Slash, Double-Edge, Blizzard, Surf ** Maryse (Persian): Lv. 46 - Water Pulse, Cut, Bite, Payday *** But I have some reserves as well which are a few levels down due to not being a part of my Elite Four team. ** TheBigShow (Snorlax): Lv. 43 - Metronome, Rest, Strenght, Secret Power ** JBL (Dugtrio): Lv. 42 - Fury Swipes, Magnitude, Dig, Slash ** Funaki (Fearow): Lv. 42 - Fly, Steel Wing, Mirror Move, Drill Pick ** JohnMorrison (Voltorb): Lv. 41 - Spark, Selfdestruct, Shock Wave, Light Shield * It does this troper some good to see that she's not the only one who anthropomorphizes her pokemon. Her current team includes the following (all named for Robot Masters from the original {{Megaman}} series: ** Protoblues (Typhlosion) : TheHero and AloofBigBrother. He's a serious and driven fellow, who looks out for the rest of his team but is emotionally distant at the same time. ** Metalman (Lucario) : TheLancer and DeadpanSnarker who is very personable and chipper. He's the joker of the team and is in charge of cooling down heated situations between his teammates. ** Elecman (Jolteon) : TheSmartGuy and GlassCannon of the team. He makes up for his physical weakness by being extremely good with devising strategies. ** Gutsman (Graveller) : TheBigGuy . He's a big dolt with a heart of gold. He loves to give his teammates big bear hugs. ** Splashy (Vaporeon) : TheChick and TeamMom. Don't hurt her brother (Elecman), and DO NOT hurt her friends. You will possibly die for it. ** Crashman (Pidgey) : TagalongKid and Metalman's little brother. Notably the target of a lot of kidnapping attempts, which means he gets his brother and his friends into a lot of trouble.

* [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]]'s tales: ** In nearly 10 years of on-and-off Pokmon, not ''once'' have I come across a Shiny or the Pokrus. Not even in ''148'' hours of playing Silver. ** The only Pokmon I've ever capped at level 100 was a Linoone. I did this on my first run through Ruby. ** I hate the Bug type and never capture them. ** Back in 2002, a classmate and I were both playing Silver during a long school trip. He taught me the cloning glitch and gave me a clone of his level 100 Dragonite. I then cloned ''that'' several times over until my sister (who was playing Gold) and I each had six. We both proceeded to have fun curb-stomping the Elite Four with our Dragonite parties. ** Somehow, I always end up with ungodly amounts of money as in, so much that 60 Hyper Potions hardly make a dent. Having a Linoone constantly pick up Nuggets sent my money into the stratosphere on Ruby, but I've somehow managed to become fabulously wealthy in Diamond by the fifth gym. ** No matter which starter I pick, I ''always'' manage to lose the first battle in FR/LG. ** When picturing the world in my mind, I always imagine my 'mons as PettingZooPeople. Maybe it's the furry in me. * Hey, it's Tropers/DominusTemporis again. I finally gave in and decided to do a Nuzlocke challenge of my own, starting with Platinum, which will then progress through either Ruby or Emerald (I'm leaning toward Emerald, though), [=LeafGreen=], and ending with one of the HGSS duology (haven't decided there either). I have a rough storyline plotted out, following a trainer from a naive not-quite-adolescent to a confident young adult by the end, and linking all four games as well. Of course, I haven't finished Platinum yet, only as of this post beginning the final gym. My team consists of Infernape, Hippowdon, Gallade (all male), Gyarados, Tropius (both female), and Magnezone, all of whom are 50+ levelwise and have proven their worth many a time. I have had... well, I won't say how many losses so far since I intend to make a comic on the Nuzlocke forums, but there are some that were cruelly tragic in real life. Also, it seems like nearly every other thing I catch has a Rash nature. It's kinda weird. * Despite my [[{{Tropers/Bulbaquil}} Pokemon-related username]], I've never actually played any of the Pokemon games beyond Generation II (barring the first gym or so of Sapphire), nor have played competitively or even raised a Pokemon up to level 100, but... in Yellow version I had a Zapdos (caught with Master Ball) and Vaporeon (my chosen Eeveelution), which I got up to level 80. I then traded them over to Silver version for, like, Zubats or something in order to assist in battling Red (my Silver party at the time was in the level 60s, plus I tended to revolve my actual party around the HMs rather than using HM slaves, meaning for instance I always had the red Gyarados in my party because it could learn Whirlpool and Waterfall). Then I reset my Silver game. [[LostForever Without trading them back first.]] * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] has been playing Pokemon for eleven years now. I own the majority of the games, collect the

merchandise, and fervently participate in the competitive battling scene. ** Continuing my update on Black Version progress... I beat the game. :D I'm working on thinking what the personalities would be on these guys now, haha, along with starting my breeding and EV training... *** Folio, a male Serperior *** Tarry, a female Scolipede *** Hostad, a male Conkeldurr *** Ziggy, a male Zoroark *** Himoxis, a female Druddigon *** Disea, a female Excadrill * HOLY MOTHER IS BLACK GOOD, according to this troper. current team: Servine: level 24, Simipour named Bananaman, level 23, and tranquill level 24. I am past the 3rd gym. Also, A raticate with guts, facade, and a flame orb is godly. * This Troper has a team in white that seems to follow the [[FiveManBand Five Man Band]] formula ** TheHero Lv 28 Male Dewott ** TheLancer Lv 30 Male Zoruark ** TheBigGuy Lv 30 Male Gigalith ** TheSmartGuy Lv 27 Female Siglyph (I'm surprised these things have genders) ** TheChick Lv 24 Lilligant * This Troper is currently playing White with the following team, which has served me very well: ** A LV 30 Servine ** A LV 30 Tirtouga named [[{{Discworld}}Grt(Great) A'Tuin]] ** A LV 31 Zebstrika named [[FinalFantasyX Ixion]] ** The traded Basclin Blueeye ** A LV 29 Tranquill ** And a LV 30 Yamask named Victim * This Troper always remembers a moment in Emerald, his first ever pokemon game. He was having trouble with the Elite Four as after every battle, his pokemon would have the bare minimum HP (they were all around level 45). He decided to take a break and challenge Raquasa. After many failed attempts, he switched in his Swellow, his weakest pokemon while Rayquaza was flying. As Rayquaza flew down, his Swellow was left with just 1 HP. Seizing his chance, he used Endeavor. Much to his delight, Rayquaza immediately rested afterwards. He used Endeavor again, and caught Rayquaza next turn with an ultraball. He then Blitzed through the elites, [[{{LaughingMad}} laughing.]] He plans on getting White later this month (Because while I like the typing Fire/Dragon better, I think Zekrom looks cooler, has less weaknesses and I would prefer White forest to Black city because I wouldn't have to get all cool previous gen mons via trade). * So I don't have Black and White in English yet[[hottip:*:I have the Japanese versions on my laptop, but that's another story, *cough cough*]]. But I firmly believe in being prepared, and have already chosen, characterized, and named my teams for both Black and White, and the inevitable third game. ** Black: *** Emboar (Augustus[[hottip:*:[[Series/DoctorWho Amy Pond's']] dad's

name, thought it sounded cool]]): TheHero and team leader, deeply caring of his comrades, much like the Pokedex suggests. Generally a nice guy, goes into unstoppable rage mode when confronted with evil or injustice. Intended to start out as a bumbling Tepig then mature into a badass as the journey progresses. Has mastered a wide variety of techniques, even those outside his own type like Wild Charge. *** Simisage (Bravo[[hottip:*:As in Jonny Bravo- look at the hair! OH MOMMA]]): TheLancer, totally a ham and totally full of himself. Except when he decides to get serious, because then he drops the act and stops being funny. The comic relief of the group otherwise, but should not be underestimated. HeterosexualLifePartners with Augustus, having been teammates the longest and because Augustus knows he has a good heart deep down. Fully came into his own in the Elite Four battles, where his Seed Bomb and Shadow Claw techniques made him an invaluable team member- and people say the monkeys are weak! *** Excadrill (Simon[[hottip:*: Yes, THAT Simon who pierced the heavens]]): HotBlooded and total badass. Unlike Augustus who doesn't particularly relish battling, Simon fights to become stronger, in order to protect innocent Pokemon. Before being caught he saw what Team Plasma was really like, and the things they did to Pokemon. He chose to find a strong trainer so he could assist directly in their defeat, and will not hold back on any villain standing between his drill and the heavens. *** Carracosta ({{Gamera}}): A fossil Pokemon who died out and relishes his second chance at life. The most optimistic and down-toearth teammate, and something of a WarriorPoet. Due to his lack of speed he initially seems like the least useful member, but when he uses Shell Smash he turns into a LightningBruiser to be reckoned with. He only does this in the most dire of circumstances or against very strong opponents, however. *** Golurk (Titan): Nobody is entirely sure what's up with this guy or what he really wants or likes. Titan is mute, and doesn't seem to pay much attention to or understand language anyway. The other teammates are a little weirded out by him at times, but Titan willingly shields them in battle with his durable body, and his loyalty and strength are undoubted. He also seems especially gentle toward children and small Pokemon. Completely by coincidence his actual nature is Gentle and his characteristic is "sturdy body." Life imitates art? *** Bisharp (Kuuga[[hottip:*:As in KamenRider Kuuga, who I picked at random for looking cool and having a cool name]]): The final addition to the team, probably the most anti-heroic out of them. He doesn't care about honor or prestige, only winning. His Dark type makes him a little naturally on-edge, but as time passes he begins to warm up to the team as they're always willing to accept him as their friend and partner. Seems to be closest friends with Titan, possibly because the silent Golurk doesn't ask him annoying questions about his backstory. [[spoiler: If you're curious, his backstory is that he was exiled from his tribe for showing mercy to a fallen opponent, and has battled with the conflict between his species' instincts and what he personally feels.]] ** White: *** Serperior (Excalibur[[hottip:*:Because of how Snivy looks with

[[SoulEater a cane and top hat]]]]): Team leader. A bit prissy and prideful, but dead loyal to his trainer. Serves as more of the mentor to the rest of the team since he served much longer before any of them joined, unlike the Black team. Can be a bit of a StealthMentor at times, and while he doesn't show it he does genuinely like each of his partners deep down. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Really deep down.]] Is oddly fond of Lillipup for reasons nobody understands. *** Zoroark (Sylar[[hottip:*: Yes, from Heroes. I couldn't think of any other good shapeshifter/illusionist names and I always liked the sound of it anyway]]): Probably the closest thing to a TokenEvilTeammate any team I've used has. Not really evil, but he was definitely a CreepyChild as Zorua, not to mention slightly disjointed from reality and not really aware that others feel pain. Excalibur took him under his wing, claiming it was simply to keep him from being a detriment to the team. After a ''lot'' of guidance and character development, he became something more like Deadpool with less fourth wall breaking. *** Darmanitan (Bernard): Stern, but kind. That's probably the best way to describe Bernard. He especially seems a bit cold at first meeting, but is friendlier to those he knows well. Is both literally and figuratively TheBigGuy, and is exceptionally strong even for his species. At first, Sylar made fun of him for being small as a Darumaka, but then evolution occurred and Sylar learned a lesson about foresight. Bernard didn't do anything to him because he's too nice; in fact, hurting his teammates is his BerserkButton and he has more than enough power to wreck anyone he wants to. His eyebrows blaze more than usual when angry. *** Beartic (Iorek[[hottip:*:See HisDarkMaterials, the armored polar bears are probably the thing I like most out of that series]]): Slightly aloof but well-meaning, Iorek's personality changed greatly from when he was a cheerful little Cubchoo. Perhaps it's because the stereotypical Ice-type personality took over, or perhaps he feels he failed in some way and distances himself out of shame. Bernard is the only one he's close enough with to talk about it, but the Fire-type isn't giving up any secrets. [[spoiler: The reason for this is because he learned from Brycen that certain Ice-type species must rein in their feelings, having a "heart of ice" or else their powers weakenso Iorek chose the good of the team over his own emotions.]] *** Galvantula (Anansi): This team has a lot of crazy, aloof, prideful, and suchlike members, but Anansi, true to his name, is the fun one of the group. A trickster, jokester, pungeon master, and always ready with a sharp retort or witty comeback in battle. While not physically the strongest, he has a lot of skill and agility, and never learned how to surrender (his Determinator status inspired by Spider-Man's own unbreakable will). Out to prove to the world that Bugs aren't a type to be laughed at, at least not for their supposed weakness. *** Braviary (Vaughn[[hottip:*:This name has particular special meaning- I named him for my father]]): Although he joined as a Rufflet, Vaughn is easily the oldest of the group, simply having not chosen to evolve before. Until he joined, the team was a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, with only Bernard's good nature and Anansi's

jokes keeping everything from falling apart (what with Sylar being borderline psychotic, Iorek becoming more distant, and Excalibur starting to lose what little control he had as everyone grew stronger), but Vaughn's long life imparted him with wisdom and foresight beyond most Pokemon. Ended up becoming TheHeart as he brought the team together into a family when they needed it most, and ultimately even Excalibur will defer to him in serious situations. ** Probably-Be-Called-Gray-But-Who-Knows-I-Sure-Don't: *** Samurott (Kenshin[[hottip:*:Not necessarily THAT Kenshin, at least not entirely- there was a samurai named Kenshin in real life too!]]): This team's leader is the most willing to think of himself as that role in the form that it's needed, specifically, the one who motivates the others and will always be there for them whenever they need him. Honorable, strong, and determined, as he aspires to be like the real samurai of old. Treats opponents with respect and admiration, and holds himself to the highest standard possible. *** Zebstrika (Angus): About as Scottish as an electric zebra can get. There's no real logic as to why a zebra Pokemon in a region based on the USA is Scottish, but Angus is and is proud of it. Does not fall under the drunken or violent sterotypes, but he is boisterous and occasionally rowdy- perhaps like Kamina but with a bit more common sense. In fact, the only thing that makes him even remotely angry is asking to ride on his back. He's ''not'' a Rapidash. Don't forget it. *** Escavalier (Percival[[hottip:*:Been wanting to use this name for ages, almost used it for a Plusle but then I went with Electrode instead, long story]]): The knight in shining armor, or at least he wants to be one. Was weak but determined as a Karrablast, and eventually found a Shelmet who wanted to become faster, so they ended up both evolving. His goal is to be a superhero to young Pokemon, though he hasn't yet figured out what that means or what it entails. Looks up to Kenshin for guidance about how to be a good swordsman, and overall is a good-hearted Pokemon who's like a much less insane Don Quixote. *** Haxorus (Styrmling[[hottip:*:The unseen third dragon brother in Dragon Quest IX]]): A rough-and-tumble dragon who views fighting as a bit of sport. He knows he's not the smartest and doesn't pretend to be, but is generally jovial and has a dirty joke or two to lighten the mood (you'd be surprised at Pokemon toilet humor). Besides battling, he prefers to relax and simply enjoy what life throws at him. Definitely a simple guy who enjoys the simple things in life and is unashamed of it. *** Chandelure (Lumiere[[hottip:*: Yes, I know, I'm so sorry, it was the best I had]]): Foppish and French, that's Lumiere for you. Is not particularly mean or scary like others of his species, and is in fact helpful and suave, much like his namesake. Decided to join the team because they were the first to actually welcome his help for guidance through the Celestial Tower rather than be suspicious because of the stigma surrounding his line, and is Jeremiah Gottwald-level loyal because of it. Not to be underestimated, though, there's a reason he's a permanent team member. *** Volcarona (Helios): Helios should have been born a Spoink or Tepig, because he's all ham, even since he was a Larvesta. Used to

having his species worshipped as sun gods but isn't quite aware yet that things have changed over the years. Despite that he's more of a benevolent sort, and the worst he's really done is demand a sacrifice of thirty virgins (the only one the team could think of was Bianca and even then they weren't entirely sure he was serious). Were this a cartoon, he would be voiced by the one and only BRIAN BLESSED. Exactly why he fights- fame, recognition, respect?[[hottip:*:actually he just really likes the other team members and so chooses to keep fighting alongside them]]- is unclear, but the team is thankful he's on their side. * I amazingly managed to beat the Elite Four; all my other pokemon were KO'ed, so I used a Swablu against a Wailord... amazingly it worked and I beat them. * This troper feels rather unlucky, since she's managed to log an [[LevelGrinding average of 100 or more hours per game]], has played [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo every installment]] since 2nd gen (didn't have a gameboy prior to that) on several occasions started those games over... and only encountered her first shiny pokemon in Soul Silver. Granted, prior to 4th gen, she was stupid and wouldn't have been able to catch it (nasty habit of relying solely on the starter) but it's a little weird to realize that it's not as uncommon as it seemed. * My current White team is about to fight the Elite Four, and is as such ** Seismitoad > BillyMC: The Big Guy on my team, had him since he was a Tympole. At first he was very timid about things, but grew up and now he assists the team while cracking jokes. Wishes to meet a female Seismitoad in battle to impress her, but it hasn't happened yet. ** Scolipede > Mark: Mark's personality is largely a byproduct of my own. He was eager to impress as a Venipede, but now he is very silent and introspective. Friends with BillyMC, but thinks of him as a simple oaf. ** Sigilyph > Joy: As her name implies, Joy loves the feel of battle. Not because of bloodlust or revenge, but because she feels her true talents come out in a fight. Probably the most reliable and talkative member of my team, and a bit of a poet. ** Klinklang > Epsilon: The Mighty Glacier of my bros, can take on any threat. He is deathly afraid of Fire types, his one weakness. Epsilon wants my attenton the most, and takes any opprotunity to showcase his talents. Can be slightly annoying sometimes. ** Haxorus > Pastel: The Chick(?) among the rest, Pastel manipulates the rest of my team to further herself in my eyes. She often makes fun of Epsilon's weakness or Scolipede's hatred. Is my most powerful friend, but also the smartest. Very egotistical. ** Bisharp > Checkmate: My newest member, but also the one I have trained the most to further his evolution. Bisharp is very quiet, never speaking to anyone since I have captured him. He is extremely brutal to his...our enemies. * This Troper is quite enjoying her Pokemon Black team. ** Samurott ([[TheHero Shamu]]): The leader of the team and the strongest member, Shamu goes around drowning small children with his Surf attack. He is very proud of his strength and isn't afraid to show it. Had a minor HeroicBSOD around the fourth gym, where he was afraid

of being replaced with a Palpitoad. He also has issues because just about all of his best friends were replaced with some new guy halfway through the game. ** Audino ([[TraumaCenter Derek]]): The medic and token CuteShotaroBoy of the team. Derek is a magnificent healer who is the longest-standing member of the team other than Shamu. He is very friendly and slightly shy at times. He loves sweets and snuggling. And yes, he IS indeed named after Derek Stiles. ** Chandelure ([[GhostLights Will]]): Will is a smart, studious character with a strong British accent. He enjoys fire (naturally) and fears water (again, naturally). Because of his fear, he does NOT get along with Shamu. At all. He also highly dislikes all the attention that he gets from the ladies, mostly because he's not ready for a committed relationship yet. He enjoys setting his opponents ablaze with moves like Flamethrower and Will-o-Wisp. He thinks it's classy. ** Excadrill ([[SymBionicTitan Muttrad]]): Muttrad is a destructive badass who has incurable anger issues. He's not afraid to take on something that's twice his size and has a type advantage over him. His attacks have been known to leave grown men trembling in fear at night. He has an irrefutable hatred towards grass-types since they always seem to survive his X-Scissor with 1 HP left. [[BruiserWithASoftCenter He wants to one day retire in a comfortable cottage in the woods.]] Of course, his name is a reference to Sym-Bionic Titan. ** Eelektross ([[FluffyTheTerrible Squiggly]]): Squiggly, or as she likes to be called, The Dark Lord Squiggly, Destroyer of Worlds. She is Muttrad's official partner in crime, and is almost as destructive as he is. She is the TokenGirl of the team and is proud of her girl power. One day she will rule the world with an iron... claw... mouth... leech... thing. ** Scrafty ([[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Gangsta]]): Gangsta is a lazy punk who doesn't like to be messed with. He [[GroinAttack flipkicks]] anyone who dares mess with him and then sprays graffiti all over the body. He loves to eat and relax. The other team members are often annoyed by his slack-off attitude. *** Past members are [[RegularShow Riggs]] the Simisear, Blitzkrieg the Zebstrika, [[CatsAreMean Shadi]] the Liepard, [[YuGiOh Marik]] the Yamask, [[EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies Bella]] the Lillipup, [[BakuganBattleBrawlers Falconeer]] the Tranquill, and Sokko the Sawk. [=FoxyShazam=] the Reshiram switches in when I feel like smiting my foes horribly. * Gently going through Black at the moment, but this Troper still fondly remembers his Diamond team. ** Tarker (Infernape) The Hero, Bit of a glass cannon. Could power through other Pokes easily but took damage easily if the enemy got a hit in. ** Blaze (Luxray) The Lancer, The only female on the team. Thought she was the size of a large cat until I saw an anime episode featuring a luxray. ** Trix (Bibarel) The cloud cookoolander, however, probably the most powerful on the team. Vividly recall him one-shotting two of the 3rd and 1 of the 4th Elite Four's pokes. I miss you in Black... ** Bait (Starraptor) The Ace. Proud and fierce he relishes combat.

He's been the Last Man Standing a few times and always came through. Amazing that he was this little level 2 thing at one point. ** Cake (Haunter) The Smart Guy. Prefers to use his brain and agility to befuddle the opponent then send them flying. Actually intended to get a Haunter from the beginning, worked well. ** Larry (Graveller) The Big Guy. Originally though he was the weakest on the team, but he's shown me different multiple times. Let the disdainful beware. * This troper has recently uncovered Serperior's pretentious and (appropriately) superiority-complexed nature on Bulbapedia. When I started Pokemon Black, I named my trainer [[{{Amadeus}} Salieri]] and my Snivy [[DeathNote Mikami]]. Upon reading more on Serperior's nature, plus the fact that one of my many rival's name is N, the obsessive-compulsive disorder which runs in my family practically thrashes my brain telling me to restart the game and call my Snivy Salieri and my trainer self Mello ._. * My current White team: ** TheHero: Crobat (Shiny!) My best Pok Friend. I've been with it since I caught it as a Zubat in Ruby. It's been through: Ruby, Pearl, Soul Silver and now White. ** TheLancer: Lucario. Simply there for awesomeness. (And Extremespeed) ** TheSmartGuy: Lanturn. The tactical part of the team. ** TheBigGuy: Metagross. Also from Ruby, was a prominent part of the team and often paired with Crobat and has always been with Crobat and the two have almost always worked together in Double Battles. ** TheChick: Altaria. A great addition to my previous Soul Silver team. ** TheSixthRanger: Reuniclus. Probably the best Unova Pokmon I have in White. *** And my (Japanese!) Black Team: **** TheHero: Zoroark. Raised from a Level 1 Zorua. My best Pok Friend on Black. **** TheLancer: Excadrill. Similarly, been on my team most of it's capturehood. Works with Zoroark often. **** TheSmartGuy: Chandelure. Another tactical 'mon. **** TheBigGuy: Hydregion. This guy can take and give a hit! Took ages to train it. **** TheChick: Braviary (Shiny!) The Foreigner. Not actually mine! **** TheSixthRanger: Ferrothorn. Rarely use it online, but it's still always in my team! * Bronzong is just a DemonicSpider or GodamnedBats from ''hell''. It also doesn't help that every psychic type specialist since Gen IV has used one. When I saw Will pull one out, my response was "oh dammit not again!" because those things rarely die in one hit before it can spam the hell out of Calm Mind and start harassing you. Then in Gen V, I fought Caitlin...and she pulled out a Bronzong. My response? "No...please...''ANYTHING BUT THAT''." But on the plus side, Will and Caitlin's Bronzongs are far less annoying than Lucian's was. * LUCKY LUCKY NICE TO MEWTWO * [[@/{{Nyperold}} I]] am currently playing White. ** I want to use Crunch on a Trubbish sometime so I can say:

*** [[MemeticMutation "This Pokemon is garbage!"]] *** <Pokemonname> used Crunch! The Trubbish fainted! *** [[TheWorldEndsWithYou "I'll add it to the heap!"]] ** Also, these are my catches (to be updated as I progress): *** Pinna, my Audino *** [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Quarterbak]], my Blitzle (eh, space constraints) *** Scatsinger, my Darumaka (since its droppings are hot) *** [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Hermie]], my Dwebble *** Gabbi, my Herdier *** [[ToCatchAThief Robie]], my Liepard *** Valligant, my Lilligant *** Saguara, my Maractus *** [[BackToTheFuture BakuFF77FF]], my Munna (Munnas eat dreams, and are close enough to the type of '''fuchsia''' represented by the hex code) *** Salvia, my Pansage *** [[FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers Althea]], my Petilil *** [[LooneyTunes Pyrky]], my Pignite *** Jagger, my Roggenrola *** Crocogrits, my Sandile *** Offisnake, my Scraggy *** [[{{Kirby}} Waddle See]], my Swadloon *** [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]], my Swoobat *** Nage-waza, my Throh *** Bunyan, my Timburr *** Peace o Pi, my Tranquill *** Amphibeat, my Tympole *** Marpede, my (male) Venipede *** Shomer, my Watchog *** [[{{ptitle6ibfdbcv}} Gibda]], my (female, hence the "a") Yamask * Hey, this is [[{{Tropers/Bwburke94}} bwburke94]]! I have two teams planned, one for my Black and one for my White. ** My Black team: *** TheHero: Eelektross *** TheLancer: Chandelure *** TheSmartGuy: Galvantula *** TheBigGuy: Excadrill *** TheChick: Jellicent, despite being male *** SixthRanger: Hydreigon ** My White team: *** TheHero: Carracosta *** TheLancer: Ferrothorn *** TheSmartGuy: Scrafty *** TheBigGuy: Golurk *** TheChick: Braviary, despite... well, you know. *** SixthRanger: Volcarona ** My reserves include a shiny Tropius nicknamed "[[{{Chuggaaconroy}} Emile]]" and a Metagross nicknamed "[[{{Smogon}} Metang@]]". * This troper always makes sure to have moves super effective against every type. Unfortunately, in Black and White this isn't possible for my first game (at least not until Victory Road), because none of my

pokemon can learn ice-type moves, and I can't get my Deino until right after the Dragon gym. Final team to be: (moves of other types listed) ** Serperior ** Eelektross, with the move Crunch ** Seismitoad, with Poison Jab and Brick Break ** Braviary, with Superpower and U-turn ** Chandelure, with Energy Ball ** Hydreigon [[folder:REV6Pilot]] * [[@/REV6Pilot This troper]] started playing Pokmon less than a month ago (March 2011). [[AdultChild He's 20 years old]]. His team consists of:\\ '''In Heartgold''': A male bayleef called Matt, a male Wooper named Nark, a female Mareep called Ampere, a male Kadabra nicknamed [[{{Hexen}} Daedolon]], Mach the female Pidgeotto, and Spotty the male Togetic. There's Basalt the female Geodude in the box at the moment, but she gets no less love for that (she defeated Bugsy for me ^_^).\\ '''In Emerald''': Males are Ignacio the Combusken, Alastor the Zubat, David the Ralts, Casey the Makuhita and [[LordOfTheRings Finglas]] the Nuzleaf. As for females, there's Lilyanne the Lombre and my favorite, Venus the Kirlia.\\ Also:\\ 1) He won't take a wild Ralts down even if his life depends on it. He'll try and catch it no matter what. If he doesn't have any Balls, he'll run.\\ 2) He doesn't give a damn about shinies. They're not any tougher than the normals anymore, so why bother?\\ 3) He wishes that someday the games will have unicycles as vehicles.\\ [[FourIsDeath 4]][[BreadEggsMilkSquick )]] [[HeroicBSOD He stopped and stared at the picture of a chibi Lopunny for half an hour]] after he got to the part where [[spoiler: Lieutenant Chen [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel is brutally slaughtered by a Scarecrow]] in [[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate]]]]. ** Since last entry, most of these guys actually sprouted in my mind as true characters. Reading the previous tropers' entries helped a bit.\\ - Ignacio [[TheStoic usually displays so little emotion to ones he doesn't know people often ask me if he's a robot]], but only because he's damn shy - he lost more than once to a Wingull when he was a Torchic, and that affected his self-esteem until I sat down and talked to him. He feels responsible for the team, being the second oldest in the whole group, but is a failure at solving internal conflicts. Has a FriendlyRivalry with Matt to see who's the better team commander.\\ - Matt is [[RedOniBlueOni the red to Ignacio's blue]], being particularly [[BoisterousBruiser upbeat and extroverted]]. He's not as worried about defending the others as Ignacio is because he knows they're not stupid, [[BerserkButton but it's still a good idea not to mess with them]]. [[TheBerserker None of us can stop him if he gets in a frenzy]].\\ - Venus is [[TheHeart gentle to everyone and very caring]], but [[CombatPragmatist won't hesitate on using unorthodox attacks]] if the

situation calls for it. She knows no recovery moves, but [[TheMedic can fix wounds nicely with antiseptics and gauze nonetheless]].\\ - Daedolon is a complete {{Cloudcuckoolander}} whose favorite pastime as an Abra was rolling screws around, a hobby he got at the Goldenrod Bike Shop. [[GeniusDitz He's quite a good mechanic, actually, which the screw habit turned to when he evolved]]... When he's not sleeping. He agrees on my unicycle idea.\\ - Dilan and David are [[ThePrankster the team's pranksters]] (they got on Ignacio's nerves a lot a while ago), but that's more to call our attention than anything. They've been getting good at battling, however, and started taking themselves a bit more seriously. When they're apart, Dilan's a trademark {{Keet}}, and David, being a little older, is more collected.\\ - Nark is the run-of-the-mill NiceGuy. Not much to be said about him, except that he HatesBeingTouched without warning.\\ - Lilyanne forms an OddCouple with Ignacio, and is the only one that causes him to really [[NotSoStoic loosen up]]. She's as cheerful as Matt (I can't imagine how she'll be as a Ludicolo), but also [[CoolBigSis wiser]], despite being younger. [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky as hell]] when the going gets tense.\\ - Spotty hasn't changed ever since he hatched, and is the team's eternal TagalongKid despite having as much battle experience as Matt himself. He loves playing with Dilan and David, and [[RunningGag frequently bumps headfirst into Nark]]. You can guess what happens.\\ - Basalt is a tomboy if there ever was one, and a very inconsequential one at first. She used to [[HotBlooded bump heads]] with Matt (sometimes literally about her [[LeeroyJenkins constantly into battle without any sort of plan]], which caused a bit of a rift in the team when it made me lose to Bugsy. He managed to lower that tendency of hers to a sliver now, thankfully.\\ - Mach, well... I think she'd be much better off with Barry. It's not that she's impatient, but she's too damn fast, physically and mentally. She gains a permanent stay on the Pokball if she's not training or fighting, because [[MotorMouth no one can put a cork in her babbling]], and so she didn't bond much with the team. Mind you, she managed to get ''Venus'' annoyed once.\\ - Casey is unusual for a Makuhita: [[GeniusBruiser he loves mental training as much as physical workouts]]. I'm almost finished teaching him how to read, write and do some simple math problems. He's one of the closest to me, and usually sits by my side when he's not training with Ignacio.\\ - Alastor's trademark characteristic is that [[NoSenseOfHumor he can't take a joke]]. He's far from uncooperative or sympathetic, but [[YoungerThanTheyLook his mental age is far too advanced for himself]], and so he gets a bit irritated by the others' bickering and joking around. He [[DopeSlap Steel Wing-ed Dilan once]] when he was getting particularly loud, and Lilyanne when she blurted an IncrediblyLamePun about [[NoodleIncident Ignacio, a berry and a rusty metal bar (don't ask)]].\\ - Finglas is the "perpetual traveler" in Pokmon form. I caught him as a Seedot near New Bark Town while he was out of the tall grass. Later on I found out [[HumansThroughAlienEyes he was curious about humans,

their objects, and their constant coming and going]]. He can't help but fidget so much if we stay for too long at one place, his ball ''shakes''. Also, you can't show him anything new without him taking it from you and analyzing it more carefully than a microscope. One time Venus bumped into me and released him from his ball at the Slateport market, we only walked away when a guard kicked us out. At 2 A.M. You can guess how he fights: [[AwesomenessByAnalysis "make the opponent throw every different move it has, develop a counter and then act on that"]].\\ - Last but far from least, there's a Pokmon that's with me since he hatched from his egg: a Ralts called Malcolm. What makes him different is that I couldn't put him in a Pokball (he doesn't register, it's like throwing it at a human), he gains no experience from Pokmon duels, and has no moves whatsoever. It doesn't stop him from battling... in the [[UnrealTournament Liandri Grand Tournament arenas]]. He's still an amateur that only trains with me, but [[BloodKnight he loves it nonetheless]]. He's by far the one bonded the most closely to me. There are three things that can't even be mentioned by name without him freaking out, though: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Alma, Fettel and Fairport]].[[hottip:*:As you may have imagined, he's completely meta. He was born in my mind a good time before I started playing any of the games.]] [[/folder]] * This troper was ridiculously happy about the message portrayed in B/W because she stands for the same reasons. I've only ever caught 6 Pokmon in a game and raised them as my team. The only exceptions are legendaries and shinies. My White team was caught early on and powerraised and the only Pokmon who are sat in my PC are Zekrom, Victini, Cobalion and Virizion (I've yet to catch Terrakion). ... I'm not N. * As per bandwagon, my Pokemon team here. ** [[TheHero Shogun]], my Samurott. Amazingly loyal, although occasionally a bit [[BloodKnight violent when angered.]] Has been by my side since the start. ** [[TheLancer Haxorus.]] He's incredibly proud (for good reason) but he will defend his team to the fainting point. ** [[TheBigGuy Zweilous]]. Nervous, violent, and constantly on edge, but powerful enough to take out most Pokemon with a single Dragon Pulse to the face. She doesn't get along so well with Haxorus. ** Reuniclus: Easily the [[SmartGuy smartest member of the team,]] Reuniclus just comes in, sweeps out half my opponent's team, and leaves. Outside of battle, he's not very social, although he's warming up to... ** [[TheChick Chandelure.]] My second special sweeper,Chandelure has helped me capture so many Pokemon its not even funny. He's even taken out half of Shauntal's Pokemon. Close friends with Reuniclus ** [[TheSixthRanger Mienshao.]] The most recent addition to my team, Mienshao has quickly cemented his status as awesome by taking out two of Ghetsis's Pokemon in a single hit each. He's not very friendly though. * My first runthrough of Black, I was afflicted with PokeRus for the first time in over a decade of playing the games with the condition in

them. I nearly cried happy tears. * [[Tropers/MrMallard I'm]] currently replaying Emerald, and so far i'm up to Winona. My team is all lvl 35, and is consisted of a Marshtomp (Because I need one for my Platinum game :/), a Plusle, a Vibrava, a Linoone, a Swalot and a Vigoroth. Yeah, i'm gonna PWN. * [[Tropers/{{Flioro}} I]] was playing Single battle in the Battle Tower in Pearl. I was on the last battle of the set, and I had all three Pokemon against his last Pokemon, Seaking. I got it almost fainted, but it breaks out Horn Drill and takes out all my Pokemon without missing once. [[FlatWhat What.]] * My current team for Black: ** [[TheHero Serperior]], aka Solid Serperior ** [[TheLancer Reshiram]], aka Almighty Fusion Flare Doom Chicken Thing (Don't mock me, you know he looks like the fire dragon chicken OF DOOM) ** [[TheBigGuy Metagross]], aka Ironmonger ** [[TheSmartGuy Bisharp]], aka Slashmaster ** Plus two HM slaves, Tropius and Wailord. Chosen not for their HMcarrying abilities (lots of stuff carries the same HMs) but for their badassery. * My team from Heart Gold, the only real consistent team I've made so far: ** [[TheHero Tyranitar]], known as [[TheTerminator T-800]] ** [[TheLancer Staraptor]], known as [[{{Firefly}} Mal]] ** [[TheSmartGuy Magnezone]], known as [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]] ** [[TheBigGuy Swampert]], known as [[TwentyThousandLeaguesUndertheSea Nautilus]] ** [[TheChick Gengar]], known as [[RedvsBlue Tex]] ** [[TheSixthRanger Lucario]], known as [[StarWars Obi-Wan]] * This troper's {{Five Man Band}} in Black consists of: ** {{The Hero}}: Samurott ** {{The Lancer}}: Gurdurr/Mienshao ** {{The Smart Guy}}: Victini ** {{The Big Guy}}: Stoutland/Hydreigon ** {{The Chick}}/{{Deadpan Snarker}}: Volcarona ** {{Sixth Ranger}}: Reshiram/Arcanine/Mewtwo * Having just beat Ghetsis, [[@/{{Gumbal1}} I]] would like to list the pokemon I will use for the inevitable third game: ** Percy the Samurott, a brash DeadpanSnarker with a giant stick up his arse. Hates Mienshaos for reasons he refuses to divulge. ** [[ClassicalMythology Helios / Vesta]] the Volcarona, who despite being a [[LargeHam giant ham]], is the most [[OnlySaneMan level-headed of the team]]. Has started an entire cult based off hammyness, though this could just be the fact that s/he's a Volcarona, and was worshiped ages ago. ** Oleander the Zoroark, the teams joker. She may or may not be messed up in the head. ** [[{{Funk}} Ewf]] the Bouffalant, a complete CloudCuckoolander. Loves dancing, to the point of ignoring a wild pokemon if it engages him while dancing. ** [[{{Homestuck}} Cans]] the Conkledurr, a BloodKnight who's always

looking for a good battle. Will often freeze up and refuse to respond to visual stimuli for several minutes for completely unknown reasons. ** Platter the Chandelure, a bipolar who loves chewing on things. A bit of a Pyromaniac, though she refuses to admit it. * This Troper (Bobby) and his current team in White...to be determined...reset a third time because [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he finally realizes how much he loves]] [[TheWoobie Oshawott]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming more than Snivy or Tepig.]] [[TearJerker And now he realizes how much sadder he's gotten from buying that Snivy plushie instead of Oshawott, or even]] [[MissedMomentOfAwesome missing his chance of getting his picture taken with a human-size Oshawott at the Pokmon Black and White tour at the Mall of America.]] Dialga, send me back! * This troper (Sean aka Dragonessa) has been a Pokemon fan ever since she was a little girl and started with Pokemon Red and Blue, then moved onto Yellow, Gold, Silver and the rest. She is currently addicted to Soul Silver. Her favorite types of Pokemon are Dragon, and her favorite Legendary that she ''must'' have on any team she makes is Rayquaza. These days, with the Pokemon games able to handle just about any Pokemon from any game, she has been able to indulge in her Pokemon kickassery by wiping the floor with her Legendary team that she reserves just for one-on-one battles over Wifi. That team consists of: Rayquaza, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Arceus, Dialga, Groundon. All of said Legendaries are nearing Level 100 as this Troper speaks. She is also partial to the Legendary Dogs and sometimes puts those in the team. ** Isn't that cheating with only legendaries? *** If the opponent isn't forewarned, yes. This setting is completely banned on the metagame as well, but I think she doesn't mind. * This troper, having played all the main games so far, has always picked the Grass starter Pokemon in each new Generation. It's like a religion to him. * After some fun in Black with an AR, this troper decided to go up against the electric gym leader with his [[{{DarkerAndEdgier}} dark type team.]] Things [[{{GoneHorriblyWrong}} went]] [[{{OhCrap}} horribly]] [[{{HeroKiller}} wrong]] and [[{{KillEmAll}} my Nuzlocke Run ended right there,]] but I found out that my cacturne was a [[{{Badass}} freaking]] [[{{Determinator}} tank!]] ** What was your team, if I might ask? I also have a Dark-only team (two, actually), and Elesa was a breeze for me. Also, hooray for Darkonly teams! I've never seen anyone else outside the three E4 members in the games use one. ** My (totally unhacked aside from actually obtaining) team consisted of: *** Kennith the scraggy (thought smack down would be enough to take out her emolgas...) *** Volta the sandile. [[{{GlassCannon}} Horribly low defenses]] before it evolved and slow to boot. *** Capone the murkrow. [[{{WhatAnIdiot}} Don't know what I was thinking there.]] *** Reynard the zoroark. Nothing special. *** Tenebrae the umbreon. Got paralyzed just before he died to [[{{HeroicSacrifice}} inflict Elesa's zebstrika with paralysis

itself.]] *** Rommel the cacturne. Used tenebrae's sacrifice to set up ingrain and leech seed while whittling away zebstrika's HP with poison sting. Elesa ended up using both of her hyper potions, but leech seed and ingrain, combined with Rommel's stupidly high defense, were enough to pretty much [[{{NoSell}} ignore flame charge.]] He lost to one of the surviving emolgas. All in all, when I decided that I was just going to do a playthrough with a dark-type team instead, I trained until my entire team was around level 30-35 and [[{{CurbStompBattle}} curb-stomped the gym leader.]] * How many people struggled with [[spoiler:Ghetsis's]] [[{{ThatOneBoss}} Hydreigon?]] This troper actually managed to beat it in White without suffering too much (after two OHKOs on her team, though) by using her ''[[{{FragileSpeedster}} Zebstrika]]'' of all things. She just spammed Charge over and over (since Charge boosts Sp. Def and most of Hydreigon's attacks are special attacks), and pretty much just stalled long enough to revive her team. Of course, she's not using Zebstrika for her Black playthrough, so... * Jumping on the 'share your team' bandwagon, AnonTroper's team in Black currently consists of; *** Samuro the Samurott; Obtained from Professer Juniper as an Oshawott. The (arguable) leader of the group, and has an affinity for whatever he finds to be awesome at the moment. *** Pawnch the Sawk; Was originally going to be used as insurance for Lenora's Watchog, but proved to be too awesome for just that, and became a key member. Has an unhealthy obsession with lemonade, spicy food, and the Pokemon Musical, but overall is a pretty cool dude, and occasionally acts as the TeamMom. *** Camian the Krokorok; Like Pawnch, was originally going to be insurance against Elesa, but, again, proved to be too awesome, and is now a full-fledged member. Seems to think that Pawnch is female. *** Tarana the Galvantula; Obtained as a Joltik. The only female on the team, and switches Team Mom duties with Pawnch. *** Archie the Archeops; Revived from a fossil in Nacrene City. The second-newest member of the team, whom replaced the previous Team Bird, Henada the Unfezant. Is the team sweeper, though he gives up easily. *** DeeQ the Vanillish; Caught as a Vanillite at Cold Storage. The absolutely newest member of the team. Hasnt had much time to develop his battle skills, and is thus weaker than everyone else on the team. * As an ancient(33 y/o) troper AND Pokemaniac, I only recently got Pokemon Diamond. I attempted to challenge the Elite Four with a team at L50...I made it to Cynthia after several tries but she shut me down in a hurry. I decided to grind to L55 and try again...this time, I got through all of Cynthia's Pokemon except Garchomp who slaughtered my Weavile without much trouble. After some minor team adjustments, I FINALLY got past the dragon to win with: Infernape(Flamethrower, Close Combat), Hippowdon(Earthquake, Stone Edge), Staraptor(Brave Bird, Return, Close Combat), Roserade(Petal Dance, Sludge Bomb, Synthesis, Stun Spore), Golduck(Surf, Psychic, Ice Beam...the duck was the one who FINALLY took down Garchomp with the aid of a well-timed X

Special), and Weavile(Night Slash, Ice Shard). Worked my way through the postgame and managed to catch Giratina, Cresselia, AND Heatran without using the Master Ball. Quick Balls are freakin' BROKEN...they allowed me to catch both Dialga and Uxie in the first turn. * This troper would like to add his Pokemon Black team to the bandwagon in Five Man Band form.~ khfan429 ** TheHero: Derp the Samurott. Don't let his name fool you, I really do love this guy. Unfortunately, he happens to be very subject to TheWorfEffect, especially since he evolved. Maybe I should have kept him as a Dewott... ** TheLancer: Chuck the Sawk. Technically, I suppose it's up for grabs whether he or Ozzy is the Lancer, but it's usually Chuck who bails me out whenever Derp gets his butt handed to him. ** TheBigGuy: Ozzy the Gigalith. Not the sharpest rock in the mines, but he's always been a pretty reliable damage sponge. ** TheSmartGuy: Shadow the Zoroark. Got him from my friend, since I missed the Celebi event (curse Nintendo!). Shadow loves screwing with people's heads, but he's definitely the squishiest member of my team. He did manage to beat Caitlin's Metagross when I rematched her though.(stupid thing kept using Zen Headbutt, can you believe it?) ** TheChick: Atta the Durant. Captured in Victory Road, and used to take the place of my Whimsicott who I finally realized was ''god awful''. She's also the only female on my team. Likes biting Shadow and Derp a lot. ** TheSixthRanger: Yin the Reshiram. Used mainly for Flying me from place to place, but he does have his moments of greatness in battle, such as single-handedly defeating Marshal's team during the rematch and defeating Cynthia's demon Milotic. ** And, now that I have a full party in it, my Platinum team: ** TheHero: Skipper the Empoleon. Since I've yet to reach the Elite Four, he's pretty much carrying my entire team, standing at Level 69 while everyone else is in the low 50s (expect that to change soon, though). I've have to say his crowning moment (of both awesome and funny) was annihilating Candice's team while I wasn't even paying attention to the battle. So proud of that guy *sniff*. ** TheLancer: Echo the Gliscor. Fits the Lancer profile in that she's got a much different personality from Skipper (he's Relaxed, she's Bold). Also better at defending as opposed to attacking, unlike Skipper. Recently, though, inspired by Skipper's absolute decimation of Candice's team, she single-handedly defeated Volkner. ** TheBigGuy: Akainu the Magmortar. Definitely a GentleGiant... unless someone makes him mad. Knows Thunderbolt and Focus Blast, in order to deal with those annoying Water and Rock types. ** TheSmartGuy: Galahad the Gallade. Easily the most intelligent member of my team, although he's also got incredible physical power (to wit, even fifteen levels lower than Skipper his Attack stat was still higher). Despite this power, he's still The Smart Guy because a) he's Psychic and b) Akainu doesn't fit the bill. ** TheChick: Rosie the Roserade (and yes, I know it's a painfully obvious nickname). The first Pokemon to join my team after Skipper, and great for boosting morale. Often breaks up disagreements between the others.

** TheSixthRanger: Dynamis the Giratina. Very powerful, but also sinister. Tends to creep the other members of my team out, even Skipper. Still, he's a loyal friend and I'm happy to have his help. Now in Origin Forme, thanks to the Griseous Orb * I was intensely LateToTheParty for Pokemon - while all my other friends had been playing for YEARS, I never started playing/watching Pokemon until I was around 11-12 years old, when a friend asked me to beat the Elite Four with my Gameshark. I was hooked. However, my first game was Pokemon Emerald (which I proceeded to mess up with my Gameshark), and I had only seen bits and fractions of the original anime series--I ended up watching the Hoenn series instead becuase that's what I could find on VHS. But while everyone I know remembers and loves the Indigo League, Misty and Red and Blue, I'm the only one who remembers the Hoenn League, May and Ruby and Sapphire fondly... ** You're not the only one in both cases, but [[@/REV6Pilot I]] surpass you in one thing: I started at TWENTY, and out of curiosity. Actually my first game was [=HeartGold=], but my favorite, and one I'm the most fond of, is Emerald. * My brothers and sisters ((all four of them)) are big fans of Pokemon and fancy that they know how to play when in fact they just don't know better. So yesterday I used Heart Gold to make something they would never ever defeat. ** Mateus sent out Rattata! (Lv.1) ** Sister sent out Salamence! (Lv. 100) ** Sister used Dragon Claw! ** -=( Rattata stays alive because it has Focus Sash, which automatically keeps the Pokemon alive if it would die from an attack when it had full HP )=** Rattata used Endeavor! -=( Bringing Salamence to 1 HP )=** Rattata used Quick Attack! ** Foe Salamence fainted! [[{{MemeticMutation}} It's like my Rattata's in the top percentage of Rattata.]] * [[@/TheMadFujoshi This Troper]] is proud to call herself a breeder. Once she finish the Elite 4, she start to breed potentially deadly mons. In SS, she was determined to get, and sucessfully breed, a shiny ninetales (female) that knew energy ball and extrasensory; also a shiny salamence (male) with dragon claw and dragon breath; milotic (female) and sceptile (Male) with dragon breath; cherrim (female) with aromatherapy and razor leaf; and a totally fearsome, unstopable Lucario (female, Lucy I miss you) with premonition, blaze kick and high jump kick. She almost choked her cousin for erasing her game. ** Also, her first game was Rubi (never got to finish it, though). Her starter was a torchic, and since then, she always pick up the fire starter and call it "torch" (averted in this platinum replay, chimchar was female) in honor to my long gone torchic. Also in her first platinum playthrough, her first riolu was female, so she called her "Lucy" and everytime she gets a female riolu or lucario she gave them that same name. I miss my team. ** ...And since everyone is talking about their teams, I guess I can do it too (curious thing is that this time almost all my team is [[AlwaysFemale female]]..

*** Inferna the infernape. TheHero: loves to fight and really hates Barry's empoleon, as is an asshole. Is a little restless in battle, and sometimes argue (or tries, the other does not pay attention) with Lucy. *** Staraptor. TheLancer, when not in battle is kind and quiet, but when action calls she has [[ImplacableMan no mercy with the oponent]], wichever is. Smart enough to make plans to beat the oponent to ensure her victory while making it bite the dust in the worst kind of way. Despite that is very loyal and cares for the team. *** Roselia. Kind of TheChick, just that she really is useful. She also doesn't like Inari that much. Beautiful, is also a LadyOfWar. Despise that, she can be [[TheHeart very caring.]] *** Inari the leafeon, also [[MetalSlime shiny]]. TheSmartGuy, not at the same level as the rest of the team, but can kick asses of his own. Loving, intelligent, calm and beautiful, he inadvertently steals the attention, much to Roselia's disgust. *** Rotom. The CloudCuckooLander, despite that is quite a fighter. *** Floatzel. Is the new girl, just that. Get's pissed when she loses, and it's kind of regular. *** Lucy the riolu... For now. She is kind of a loner, a little of TheStoic, but definitely the DeadPanSnarker and maybe the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]. In battle, she's very careful and calculates her movements and of her oponent to ensure a sucessful plan and win without problem. Does not get frustrated when things don't come up as planned, she just calms down and think in a new plan, not forggeting on give everything, everytime. Maybe a second [[TheLancer lancer]] and/or [[TheSmartGuy smart girl]]. *** ... And waiting fior Giratina to become TheSixthRanger. ** And adding to this, I'm starting to turning my game into a story. So far I've finished the Iron Island, and felt kind of sad for it, since [[@/TheMadFujoshi Hanami]] has to say goodbye to [[LoveInterest Riley]] (well, until battle frontier), but at least he gave her the riolu egg. Now hatched, she's really fond to her Lucy, the rest of the party are aware of the reasons (specially Inari and Staraptor), except for Inferna, that is [[CompletelyMissingThePoint kind of jealous of Lucy for that.]] * This Troper had a realization the other day that may qualify as a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}.When you breed rare Pokemon like Dragonite, Lapras, (maybe) Manaphy, and others (I'm sure), you're helping an endangered species come back from the verge of extinction. Yay, Breeders! ** Also (same Troper), here's my team in White: *** TheHero is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Elric the Emboar]]. (I tend to give my team epic high-fantasy names.) *** TheLancer is [[FriendToAllLivingThings Ancalagon the Zekrom]]. I thought this was very epic. (For those who don't know, Ancalagon is a black dragon referenced in TheLordOfTheRings.) *** TheSmartGuy is [[DarkIsNotEvil Zoroark the...]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Zoroark]]. I got him (her? can't check right now) over GTS, since payday was two days after the Celebi event ended. *** TheBigGuy is [[CloudCuckoolander Landorus]], who when I get around

to it will be named Kenshin. *** TheSixthRanger is [[TheStoic Arioch the Kyurem]]. I will probably change his name. If you have suggestions, stick them where... you can find room in my little section here. *** Void seems like a good name. ** My sixth changes depending on who I'm training or if I have an egg. I guess my sixth can be called the GuestStarPartyMember. * Umm...I've never played a real Pokemon game since I don't have a DS. ''(hangs head in embarrassment)'' But I have a team I put together on a virtual Pokemon site that has a battling feature: ** Male Steelix, stoic {{Kuudere}} to the nth degree. ** Female Salamence. Fierce and haughty, but also the TeamMom. ** Female Lanturn. Naive GenkiGirl, but turns serious when the chips are down. ** Starmie, strong-willed {{Determinator}}. ** Male Blaziken, IneffectualLoner and BloodKnight. ** Male Torterra, GentleGiant and TeamDad. * [[Tropers/{{Cybele}} I]] just finished White, caught some legendaries, and am in the process of using Poke-transfer to bring my beloved mons from Platinum/Soulsilver over to the wondorous land of Unova. *** Current team: ** Arceus/"High Roller" ** Darkrai/"Slifer" ** Samurott/"The Empress" ** Mismagius/"Astaroth" ** Togekiss/"Prudentia" ** Milotic/"Fires of War" * Ooh, hey. Coming up with personalities for our teams sounds fun. I guess I'll do my Black team, as it's freshest in my memory. ** "Pureblood" the Serperior: The snobby {{Deadpan Snarker}} of the group, and oddly for a starter, not the main hero - but he is {{The Lancer}}. Always a bit of a pessimist, and seems to absolutely love spoiling everyone's fun. ** "Wulfgang" the Stoutland: Here's the hero, the main character. Absolutely loyal to his team, and loves his mustache. Seriously. He loves the thing. ** "Kelda" the Scrafty: Kickass personified. She single-handedly took down the last four gym leaders. [[BeyondTheImpossible Including the Flying gym.]] She also rather enjoys soccer. ** "Cipher" the Swoobat: Hyperactive {{Team Pet}}. Always quick to pick up where some other teammate left off, but has trouble actually surviving a fight. His [[NonLethalKO fainting]] by {{Cherry Tapping}} is so common it's become a running gag. Recently switched out for... ** [no nickname] the Excadrill: {{The Big Guy}} of the group, she was added because... well, why not? Secretly aspires to be a chef. ** "Demishadow" the Cofagrigus: An invaluble member of the team. She tends to be extrordinarily lucky in terms of evasion, but is quite a {{Tsundere}} personality-wise. Jury's out on whether or not she's really a ghost ninja. ** "Terra" the Carracosta: {{The Smart Guy}} and {{The Stoic}}. she spent a bit too much time with the fossil-regenerating scientist, and

now thinks she knows more than every other member of her team. She's totally right, of course. * These are my teams from White and HeartGold. I think I might have dug a little too deep on these, but yeah. ** My White Team: *** "Cody" the Emboar, {{The Hero}} and {{Only Sane Man}} of the group. Rarely shows his emotions, but cares deeply for his teammates, particularly Andrew and Homer. *** "Andrew" the Krookodile, {{The Lancer}} and {{The Smart Guy}}. He's best friends with Cody and is a tactical thinker. *** "Homer" the Carracosta, {{The Big Guy}}, {{Dumb Muscle}} and {{Butt Monkey}}. His excruciatingly low speed often earns him the harassment of his teammates, but he's a hard worker with a lot of stories to tell. *** "Fortree" the Sceptile. My starter from Emerald, transferred to White. He was hired when I realized that my team was in dire need of a water counter, so he's a bit of a {{Ted Baxter}}. *** "Skar" the Skarmory, my dear friend from Sapphire (I named him when I was nine ><). He's quick to enter a battle and is slow to give in. He's also surprisingly fast for a Skarmory. *** "[[DannyPhantom Vlad]]" the shiny Crobat. I ran through some cave in Sapphire for almost a day looking for a shiny Zubat, and luckily I finally came across this little guy. Like Fortree, he's a bit of a {{Ted Baxter}} due to his [[FantasticRacism skin color]]. However, he truly has an inferiority complex because he thinks that the only reason I'm using him is because of his shininess. And he's right. ** My HeartGold team: *** "Quilivini" the Typhlosion. I've had the name "Quilivini" in mind for a while now, as I used it for my partner Cyndaquil in Blue Rescue Team. He's {{The Hero}} and has a bit of a short fuse. *** "Iggy" the Victreebel. He's {{The Lancer}} and doesn't think much of himself, but he's also a reliable poison-inflicter and cares the most about his trainer. He and Quilivini are best friends. *** "Chugga" the Slowking. Definitely my most reliable and strongest teammate as he regularly takes down all three of Lance's Dragonite. He's intelligent and uses special attacks effectively with Nasty Plot at his disposal. Named after {{Chuggaaconroy}}. *** "Hurricane" the Pidgeot. [[TedBaxter Talks a big game]], but very often gets KOed in important battles. His only real friend on the team is probably Brutus, as everybody else disregards his capabilities. *** "Brutus" the Primeape, {{The Heart}} of the group (I caught him in a Friend Ball) who wants to be great but fails often. Despite being a Primeape, he has the patience of a rock. Named after Lou Brutus. [[folder: ruuka]] * This troper has recently entered the world of Pokemon games in Pokemon Black. Notable team members: ** Excalibur the Serperior. Unlike its [[SoulEater namesake]], he's rather quiet and a loner. [[CombatPragmatist He'll do anything to make his opponents loses in slow and humiliating ways, though.]] ** Kain the Chandelure, {{The Lancer}} and {{The Rival}} for Excalibur. Their bickering fest is a delicious entertainment for the other team members, but they can work together efficiently when

situation demands it. [[JerkAss Likes to give good scares to new members]], [[JerkwithaHeartOfGold but he's a very protective sempai]] who OHKOes anyone who beat the newbies without fail. ** Fayne the Musharna, {{The Heart}}. She used to be {{The Chick}} and usually needed to be rescued in wild battles by her male teammates. A not-so-closet {{Yaoi Fangirl}}, often sees Excalibur and Kain's rivalry as something entirely different.... ** Throh... the Throh, he just likes his species name that much. The team's {{Gentle Giant}}, [[MightyGlacier literal walking fortress]] and victory bringers with his signature move: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Revenge]]. Currently a [[TheMentor mentor]] to the group's young Lucario, Cadmus. ** Donald the Swanna, this troper's main transportation and favorite {{Butt Monkey}}. His ice Beam is [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass scary, though.]] ** Cadmus the Lucario, the timid {{Naive Newcomer}}. He has potential, as his Nasty Plot and Dark Pulse combo managed to take out stronger opponents in a few occasions. ** [[FinalFantasyX Ixion]] the Zebstrika, she played a big role in capturing Tornadus. Started out strong but [[WorfEffect began to suffer numerous losses after obtaining the last badge....]] ** Brownies the Stoutland. Throh's good friend and his {{Badass Mustache}} has its own reputation among the troper's team. ** Mika the Lilligant, the team's {{She Fu}}, as her dance is as deadly as it is graceful, and {{Spoiled Sweet}}. Enjoys being dressed up for the musical and seems to have a thing for Cadmus. [[/folder]]

[[folder:CCMars]] * [[Tropers/CCMars This troper]] gives personalities and even ''backgrounds'' (with a few exceptions such as starters) to the major members of her team whenever possible. Yes, even the Legendaries. My descriptions for all but one generation (R/S/E, which I haven't played) are ungodly long and an ongoing process, so you might want to make yourself a sandwich. ALL the starters thus far fall under TheHero. ** '''Gen I / Fire Red''' *** Gabrielle the Blastoise - Like Pikachu in the anime, she doesn't really care for being in her Pokeball. Unlike Pikachu, her large size makes it hard to bring her everywhere, thus she only goes into her pokeball when absolutely necessary. Gabrielle takes her role as [[PlayerCharacter Aya's]] protector seriously, and having been with her the longest, understands her the most. Has become very good at drowning out Callisto and Dux's constant bickering. *** Joxer the Pigeot - Gabrielle's [[TheLancer Lancer]] and the second major powerhouse after her. He too tends to stay out of his pokeball to take care of flying and lookout duties. Can be seen resting on Gabrielle's shell/gun when there are no other places to do so. A bit stand-offish, but is fiercely loyal to his team. *** Callisto the Beedrill - Originally intended to be her hive's Queen, she ran into Aya and her crew as a Weedle when she snuck out.

She found she enjoyed the travel and even seemed to care little about whatever happened to her hive afterwards. Hot-headed and somewhat rude. Is closest to Dux when they're not arguing, which is about 90% of the time. *** Dux the Farfetch'd [[hottip:*:Fire Red gave him a different name, but he'll always be Dux to me.]] - His role is often back-up or using whichever element they're missing. This sometimes lowers his selfesteem, leaving Aya and the rest of the team [[{{Nakama}} to assure him he's important to them]]. Aya and Callisto's opinions especially matter to him in his eyes, though with the latter it may not seem that way due to all the bickering they do. *** Ares the Marowak - Having lost his mother in Lavender Town as a Cubone, he hid in Pokemon Tower until Aya and Gabrielle fought and captured him. He was at first resistant to being on the team and being separated from his mother, but eventually became therapeutic for him. TheBigGuy of the group. *** Electabuzz - He didn't want a nickname for some reason.[[hottip:*:i.e. I couldn't think of one.]] Despite his tough appearance and deadly attack repertoire, his sharp instincts and calmness make him the peacemaker of the group. He often meditates in arguments between any other members, including Dux and Callisto, though most of those end with him giving up and shocking them. ** '''Gen II / Soul Silver''' [[hottip:*:My original game was sadly stolen, so most of this is Soul Silver only.]] *** Mamoru the Typhlosion - The only non-water starter in all of my games thus far. *** Lugia (Gen II / SoulSilver) - Total dork and kind of childish. Loves eating and loves collecting Pokedolls even more. It's probably not the best idea to ask him to see his collection unless you're inside his cave; he tends to get overexcited and leave behind a lot of carnage when getting them. His favorite doll is [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming one that Ho-oh not-so-secretly gave him for his birthday]]. *** Ho-oh (Gen II / SoulSilver) - Also a dork, but tries to be more subtle about it. "Tries" being the keyword. He is kind of vain and doesn't like anyone trying to pet him (unfortunately, he's also the one everyone wants to pet). VitriolicBestBuds - type 2 with a little type 1 on the side - in a Tsundere type of way with Lugia. ** '''Gen IV (Pearl and Platinum)'''[[hottip:*:Both games have slightly different teams, so this one is a little all over the place. Unless indicated otherwise, all Pokemon were major team members in both games.]] *** Shino the Empoleon - She is appropriately a little on the haughty side. Does ''not'' suffer fools gladly, regardless of how she feels about the individual otherwise. *** Haseo the Staraptor - Shino's [[TheLancer Lancer.]] Like [[{{dothackGUGames}} his namesake]], he can be HotBlooded and develops a one-track mind when he's really passionate about something. *** Silabus the Luxray - The most surprising thing about him is that he is rather spiritual for a Pokemon. When out of his pokeball, he can be seen meditating nearby or going with his master to the temple in Hearthome City. What he actually believes in is unknown.

*** Rosa the Roserade *** Giratina (Platinum only) - Having been in the Distortion World for so long, he's ''very'' glad to be out of there and traveling in the other world. *** Palkia (Pearl only) ** '''Gen V''' *** Flynn the Samurott - As his both his names imply (named after Flynn from TalesofVesperia), he has very much a typical samurai personality and a noble heart. *** Nitori the Carracosta - Reborn after fossilhood, she's still getting used to living in the modern world. One of the "HM whores" of the team, in charge of all water-related HMs. *** Rupert the Braviary - The other HM whore of the group, taking care of flying, strength and cut. Has a tendency to flirt with any (male) Pokemon he finds attractive, which sometimes gets him into trouble. *** Victini (Gen V) - His circumstances are similar to [[TouhouProject Flandre Scarlett's]], but his personality is more in line with Suika's...love of sake included, which he was deprived of [[spoiler: after being locked away]]. Don't ask about the withdrawals. Fell off the wagon after being caught by my character; asking her mother for sake was very awkward. He functions quite well regardless. A major star in the musicals. It must be that cute little dance he also does whenever he battles. *** Zekrom (Gen V) - TheBigGuy of the team. Wants to join my character and his teammates on some of their non-battle indoor adventures and battle subway rounds, but his large size and status as an "illegal" Pokemon won't let him, which frustrates him to no end. [[/folder]] * I had to share this somewhere, I was going to draw a comic but I suck at them so: --> '''"Golurk (Bender) is focusing its power!''' --> '''"Audino used Healing Pulse! *Bender's health goes up to full ("Thanks!")*''' --> '''BENDER USED FOCUS PUNCH!''' --> '''*Audino faints*''' * Okay, just defeated Ghetsis 3 hours ago. Been training in giant chasm till now. --> Team: Lv67 Serperior (Masterleaf) Lv 63 Darmanitan (Darius) Lv 60 Haxorus (l33t0ne) Lv 76 Kyurem (Icestar) Lv 62 Zekrom (No nickname) And Lv 60 Throh (Jim) * This is the same Troper that posted above about the Breeder CMOH, but my team has a theme name now, so I'm reposting it here. ** TheHero is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Venser the Emboar]]. My team is now named after [[MagicTheGathering Planeswalkers.]] ** TheLancer is [[FriendToAllLivingThings NicolBolas the Zekrom]]. ** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]] is [[DarkIsNotEvil Liliana the Zoroark]], bred from my old Zoroark. ** TheBigGuy is [[CloudCuckoolander Soren the Landorus]]. ** TheChick and newest party member is [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere Elspeth the telepathic Musharna]]. She's a type 2 (Dere dominant) Tsundere. ** TheSixthRanger is [[TheStoic Jace the Kyurem]].

* This troper has only had one notable team (or at least only one that she's applied personalities and relationships to) from her latest run of Pokemon Pearl that consists of: ** Ivan AKA Vanya the Infernape, the leader of the team and a BoisterousBruiser who's a total sweetheart to his friends. ** Persephone the Luxray, Vanya's noble and motherly second in command who's in a BattleCouple with Vanya. ** Dario the Golem, the team's defensive wall who's a father figure to a young Riolu named Isaac. ** Izanagi the Gyarados (who WAS named Frederich until he evolved), a LovableCoward who takes a level in badass after seeing all the dying Magikarp in Lake Valor. He and Dario have a bromance. ** Wickham the Staraptor, a stuck up British tsundere who has a rivalry with Persephone (seeing as she's the only other girl). She secretly feels very insecure about her place on the team since she was originally only caught just so there could be a Pokemon who uses Fly. ** Amir the Alakazam, the stoic and quietly mischievous sixth ranger of the team. He and Wickham are a BattleCouple. * This Troper Has a Timid Ditto with a 31 in speed meaning I can make any pokemon that breeds as fast as possible * I have the sudden urge to list my shinies... ** Scarlett the Gyarados. Scarlett is a LadyOfWar, and she's also a lot calmer then most Gyarados. She has a serious grudge against Team Rocket, for obvious reasons. ** Ringleader the Blastoise. Reincarnation of my very first Pokemon (totally legitimate, by the way). He's a BadassGrampa, and he likes to teach the younger Pokemon some tricks from the old days. Don't be fooled by his age, he kicks ass when pissed off. ** Krai the Darkrai. He's a [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]] who hasn't had an easy life. He stays away from everyone at night, but deep down, he's really sweet. He's also pretty much my sidekick, seeing as I used to have him follow me all the time in HG. ** Lalla the Manaphy. Lalla's a dumb-as-rocks runaway princess who's dating the local megalomaniac Raichu, Harold. ** Margaret the Kyogre. She gets drunk a lot, and hangs out with my friend's Mew, Patrick. Most of her brain cells have been destroyed by alcohol. ** Should I ever get my hands on an ActionReplay, however, I will probably get a few more. In particular, I want a shiny Mr. Mime. One got away from me in the Safari Zone - I feel I deserve it. A Shiny Raichu is also a must, and I'd quite like a Shiny Charizard. * This troper's team for Pokemon Black: ** Monterey the Samurott, my starter for Black. {{The Hero}}. If you think he looks goofy, he'll rip you to shreds. Even if he's still in training. ** Flare the Typhlosion, transferred forward from [=SoulSilver=], where he was my starter. {{The Lancer}} to Monterey, generally in the second place in the party. A Type II {{Anti Hero}} who nevertheless feels some regret for what he left behind during the transfer. ** Grace the Meganium, transferred forward from [=HeartGold=], where she was my starter. A {{Crouching Moron Hidden Badass}} {{Lady Of

War}}, her general role in the group is {{The Chick}}. She {{Took A Level In Badass}} after her transfer, and relishes the feeling of being stronger than the Pokemon who outshone her earlier. ** Focus the Staraptor, transferred forward from Platinum. {{The Smart Guy}} (er, girl) of the group. Has faced a male Staraptor and proved {{More Deadly Than The Male}}. ** Tacky the Empoleon, transferred forward from Platinum, where he was my starter. {{The Big Guy}} of the group, and {{The Mentor}} to Monterey and Shadow (and, at one point, Grace). Hasn't yet fallen victim to the {{Mentor Occupational Hazard}}. ** Victini, the {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}. The others think of Victini as a {{Psychopathic Manchild}}, which, given its incredible power and childish mentality, might not be too far off the mark. However, for right now, Victini is content with Musicals and shared experience. ** Shadow the Hydreigon, who switches spots with Victini when for some reason Victini can't battle. An {{Ineffectual Loner}}, being somewhat weaker than the rest of the team. Eventually accepted lessons from Tacky. * And here's [[{{Tropers/Capricornus}} my]] team, from Pokmon Volt White (a hacked ROM that adds, among other things, the ability to catch almost every Pokmon ingame): ** [[TheHero Jean-Luc]] the Serperior: a {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}, Jean-Luc masks his trust issues with an aura of indifference and snobbery. Of course, he's still plenty reliable in a pinch. ** [[LadyOfWar Hitomi]] the Accelgor: probably my favorite, though her attitude is at odds with her skills in battle. Keeps to herself, mostly. When she -does- talk, it's usually sarcasm. Has a secret crush on Jean-Luc. ** [[TheBigGuy Franklin]] the Conkeldurr: Franklin, like Hitomi, doesn't say much, instead preferring to let his Stone Edge do the talking. Unlike Hitomi, though, when he speaks it's not sarcasm so much as brutal, brutal honesty. ** [[TheSixthRanger Crowley]] the Zoroark: because of his illusionary capabilities, sometimes I forget who did the work- Crowley, or who Crowley was imitating. As a result, he's painfully modest, and his self-esteem isn't great. Like most Dark-types, he's a CombatPragmatist through and through. ** [[TheLancer Fletcher]] the Archeops: Fletcher, the [[TeamMom Team Dad]], is a dedicated warrior, though he occasionnally has his flashes of snark. He serves mostly as the motivator of the rest of the team and sorely wishes he didn't have Defeatist to bog him down all the time. ** [[CloudCuckoolander Faust]] the Chandelure: for a Ghost-type, Faust is very happy-go-lucky, not to mention talkative. He loves the city. Granted, after being cooped up in the Celestial Tower, he loves just "getting out of the house", so to speak. *** I also have plans for every other Pokmon that I want- movesets and nicknames, mostly, seeing as I don't much care for [=EVs=], [=IVs=], or natures. [[YourMileageMayVary In my eyes]], it's too much hassle, not enough pay. *** Update: I just beat a Level 84 Garbodor with a Level 35 Krokorok. If that's not a CMoA I don't know what is.

* My RE/MM shinies: Ginger, female Grimer; Azure, male Yanma; Gold, male Steelix; Ken, ditto; Pastel, male Mareep; Star, female Pidgey. ** Also, a personal CMOA. I used to replay my Emerald version when I got bored. Well, one day, I was playing through, and realized that it just wasn't interesting anymore. Fifth playthrough, it chooses just after the fifth gym to get boring on me. Didn't know what to do to fix the problem, until I decided to continue playing, but only battle with my Azumaril. Ferris ended up oneshotting Wallace's Milotic and Ludicolo! He ended up being the first pokemon I ever trained to level 100. Love you, sweet! ** I recently restarted on SoulSilver, and when I was in the Route 32Union Cave area, I found a shiny Hoppip ''and'' a shiny Geodude in less than an hour! ---Hi, I'm the {{Pokemon}} Prof! Do me a favor and go around the wiki editing pages. Would you? * >No. ** [[{{ButThouMust}} I understand your reluctance to become a Troper but I wish you to do so]] ** [[VisibleSilence ...]] [[ButThouMust I can do this all day, you know]]. *** [[ButThouMust I can stand here all day without talking if I have to]]. * >Yes. ----

PokeThePoodle * [[Tropers/{{Sandy87}} This troper]] and her friends joke that she is being "ebil" for actions that are essentially Poodle Poking, such as her general VitriolicBestBuds relationship with several and her incessant teasing of them all (especially in their relationships; friends will spend a fair amount of time [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend explaining how they're not involved with]] [[JustFriends another person]], and [[RelationshipUpgrade the moment]] TheyDo [[RelationshipUpgrade get together]], this troper will commence teasing them about how AllMenArePerverts - however, woe betide them if they ever prove her right! Part of the fun lies in knowing that the person in question would never do such a low and dirty thing. Plus, you know, the fact that [[ContractualPurity part of this troper's respect for another person is founded on their moral character]]). <<|TroperTales|>> * Someone wanted me to pull a nasty prank on this one kid. I set him up on a date, with a middle schooler.

PoliceAreUseless * My aunt had to deal with a heartbreaking instance of this one day: while she was at work, her husband called [[DrivenToSuicide to say goodbye]]. She frantically called 911 and begged for them to send an ambulance and the police to her house... and the station that 911

contacted refused, claiming it wasn't in their jurisdiction. By the time they were able to convince someone to go up there, it was too late. About two weeks later, she was trying to go to work and found police from the same station had partly blocked off her driveway with some of their cars... as part of a speeding sting operation. She called them out, and they moved enough to let her leave. ** Wait. A ''sting operation''...for ''speeding?'' I must be misunderstanding something here. *** Either your police have SkewedPriorities or your hometown has a REALLY low crime rate. * This is extremely narmy if compared to the troper above, but this troper lives on a street which often gets noisy (it's near a shopping mall and a few night clubs) with drunk kids kicking down bottles and people passing with their boom cars or noisy motorcycles. Calling the police is next to useless, and they will only come after being called many times. * An unfortunate case of TruthInTelevision in some respects. This troper knew an abused woman who was reluctant to file a police report against her husband...because he was a cop. Most of the other officers knew he was an abuser (this is a small town), and they felt like they couldn't really intervene because "you never know who you're going to have to count on to watch your back one night." This troper sometimes has a hard time taking the police seriously because of this. ** Unfortunately this is true. My mom was a cop and she said you could tick off one person, but if you made too many people mad, you could call for back up one day and everyone would take their sweet time getting there which could be very, VERY bad for you. It's sad that people let their petty grudges get in the way of being professional, but hey, cops are human and humans can be petty. * My brother was hanging out at the park with his girlfriend and her brothers (who had just moved to town recently and hadn't made any friends yet). Then this kid comes up with a bag full of fireworks and tells them he's going to do something cool. Next thing they know the kids is fleeing from a bathroom after blowing up a toilet. So Chief Wiggum and Barney (as we called the cops since they already were the poster children of this trope) show up and begin questioning people. My brother's group tells their side of the story and they go home. A few days later I get a knock on the door and see two cops there asking for my brother (who, luckily, was at a friend's house). I told them I didn't know where he was[[hottip:*:which was half a lie since he tended to wander around with his friends so I didn't actually know where he was]]. I then called both him and my dad to tell them what happened. So they went down to the station to straighten things out, at which point the cops did their best recreation of a scene from Law & Order. Here's apparently the evidence the cops were working off of: The bomber (who already had a criminal record) and his friends (some of which ALSO had spent time behind bars) spread the rumor that my brother did it (most of the other people asked even said it was just what they heard). When the only 3 witnesses who weren't implicated in the crime were questioned they gave the real story, but the cops apparently work off a score board (3 not guilties from actual witnesses vs 27 rumors from people who weren't even in town that day,

which number is bigger?). THEN comes the OTHER reason my brother was considered guilty, our parents aren't dirt-poor meth-addicts (as was the case for the other kid's mother), so it was up to US to pay for the damage. The whole thing got straightened out after the bomber was caught bragging about nuking the toilet. ** Another (shorter) story about the same police force. The reason we called them things like "Chief Wiggum" was because the cops barely did any police work. They spent most of their days pulling everyone they saw over regardless of how fast they were going. They've stopped doing it as much recently (probably because I think there's a limit to how many drivers can dispute ticket and win before higher authorities step in), but in the past it was a pastime to bet on which car would get pulled over next. * A friend of ours was almost bashed up by a bunch of youths after money, but she managed to make it to her car in time. She called the police (who apparently knew who these thugs were BTW), but they did nothing. Poor lady was so traumatised she sold the car just so the thugs wouldn't be able to track her. * If you ever live around Highland Avenue in Shreveport Louisiana you learn this real quick: NEVER CALL THE COPS! Unless it involves drugs, or get them news publicity, they will never do their jobs. This troper has personal experience, I had a neighbor that was stealing stuff,(ie a Washing Machine among other things), they said 'We can't handle stolen property'. The guy beated his girlfriend (You could hear her BEGGING for help), police stood infront of their door, while it was going on, and did NOTHING! ** hell, if you live anywhere in Shreveport, I'm guessing you shouldn't call the cops. The whole city is...well, malfunctioning would be a good way to put it. * The above is why this troper protects himself with MoreDakka. I keep an AK-103 in my house loaded with a 100 round box magazine finne of alternating JHP, FMH, Incendiary, JSP, and Tracer ammunition. And I won't leave my house without my C.C. Permit and a loaded M1911 pistol. I simply will take no chances with my own safety. * As was noted previously on the main page, third world countries tend to have incredibly shitty policemen. This Filipino troper bore witness to policemen in his barangay responding in force to arrest a lowly street vender because the street vendor turned down advances from a married lady in a public class he was taking and she [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections had connections within the local police]]. Coincidentally, the local police also has their fingers in an extortion racket and that same vendor is one of their regular victims. I'm not just saying the police are useless, they're part of the problem. There's a reason we generally just keep our heads low and go with it, as the alternative is to piss off some powerful people who could make your life and that of your family very miserable. * This Troper from British Columbia, Canada remembers a Daria quote that extends to a situation a few years back in his area, "Law enforces frequently use excessive force to uphold the law". Recently there was a huge scandal with the RCMP(Our national policeforce, stands for Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they're also called Mounties) where a Polish man, who had a temper tantrum in an airport

because he'd been in the bag handling area waiting for his mother for 10+ hours, was tazed despite having visibly relaxed at the sight of their obvious official capacity. The man proceeded to suffer cardiac arrest and die because they tazed him...4+ times, because they couldn't be bothered to take a minute risk with an unarmed man even despite outnumbering him. Since then the officers were let off without punishment and one of them has been involved in a hit and run that was likely because he was driving with his kids in the car, while under the influence. He wasn't tried for impaired driving because he promptly went home and claims he had a drink or two to calm his nerves before turning himself in. ** As a further note, this troper realizes not 'all' cops in his area are rockstupid, lazy or otherwise useless...but it still makes him have difficulties trusting them beyond the understanding that they are more or less a necessity...plus they've had some recent busts of drug rings in this tropers area which are points towards usefulness. * Edgy here. On my morning commute down a country road, I saw a police car parked behind trees by a gate to a farmer's cattle field. As I was driving by, said farmer was just pulling up to his gate in front of the police car, blocking it in. Lesson: Don't park your cruiser on private property in order to catch speeders. * Having read stories of people dying from tasers and ''small children'' being handcuffed for ''having a tantrum'', this troper has come to the conclusion that police officers are not only useless, they're [[{{TooDumbToLive}} idiots]]. In case something--God forbid-were to ever happen that would require this troper to call police, she's trying to come up with a Plan B. * This troper's best friend once had her house broken into while everyone was asleep. She, of course, called the police to have them try to catch the guy who did it, only to have them arrive to say, "Hey, I think your house was broken into." * [[@{{Seiryu}} This troper]] got pulled aside in the airport because the security folks thought I had a bomb in my stuff. It was my mp3 player. A cheap, iPod knockoff. They thought it was a bomb. ---Let's hope we don't get mugged out here on the mean streets of Troperville, because the PoliceAreUseless. ----

PolitenessJudo * Mutually accidental with [[@/RedWren this troper]]. She responds to, "How are you doing?" with, "Fine, how are you?" several times. [[CaptainObvious This usually would have been fine,]] save for the fact that the people were asking after her recent oral surgery. As both she and her mother pointed out, this response also answers the question meant, even if ''only'' she and her mother recognized it: "Well enough that I'm not thinking about it." * This troper once dreamt, as a child, that pirates were holding her whole family captive and were about to make them walk the plank--until she asked the pirates nicely to let them go. ** lol. That, my friend, is a CMOA or H

* I have an idea,let's see if this works on internet Trolls ** MUST SEE LINK TO THESE FORUM CONVERSATIONS. This will be [[FunnyMoments TOO FUNNY.]] ---I have a black belt in PolitenessJudo. ----

PoliticallyCorrectHistory * Not a personal example, but [[{{Tropers/HG131}} this troper]] and his father often talk about World War 2 (it's one of my favorite parts of history). He has a bit of trouble believing just how much of the victory against Germany should go to Russia (instead of the standard AmericaWinsTheWar that normally is thought of over here when it comes to World War 2). I recently asked if Russia was barely mentioned back when he grew up when it came to World War 2 (he grew up in the Cold War, so it seemed like a logical reason). He replied yes. So basically, America edited Russia out of the history books. * From Kindergarten until High School this was the ONLY history this troper received. Every year for several weeks we'd be told constantly about the civil rights movement, although the teacher talked about it year round. The horrors inflicted on the Native Americans, and ONLY that. When we covered WW2 we were given propaganda about FDR being one of the best, and not one of the worst presidents ever and told about the horrors of the Japanese internment camps. That's pretty much ALL. ** Wow...You sound like either 1) you don't get the trope, 2) you are a StrawmanPolitical, or 3) both. ** Same here, it wasn't the teachers so much as the students. They would get the real history, then somehow twist or exaggerate the facts to fit the PC version. ** While you could argue that FDR wasnt one of the best presidents he was a good president no one can argue that he wasnt. No truly incompetent president would be elected four times. * This Troper has noticed that in her (american) school, we have spent about two months in 7th grade and two months in 8th grade talking about the Holocaust, and now in 9th grade we spent... 1 month reading Hiroshima. And hardly talking about it at all. Ooops. ** One month is an awfully long time (assuming it's an American History class and not something very limited in time period). It's not as long as two months, but studying it for one month still overemphasizes it, just by not quite as much. * American history classes in the U.S. in general. I hold out hope that college courses will be different. Just in case, I've got plans to take electives focusing on my favorite period of history (Tudor England) to cheer myself up. The U.S. is, unfortunately, required. ** if it makes you feel any better, this troper had to practically relearn american history in college because they actually DID cover all the details glossed over in high school. ** My college history teacher out and out told us to "forget everything we learned in high school." CAN DO! * This troper had redundantly learned about World War II almost every year in history class. She will stop feeling personally offended by

the overemphasis of America's role in taking Berlin when her exteachers give her one apology for each dead Red Army soldier she's related to. ** Perhaps she's glossing over, you know, the whole... civilian execution and mass rape thing. Talk about politically correct. *** Not counting how many people Stalin killed before the war. The purges after the war. The man-made famines. The NKVD. It's really sad that too many history classes ignore what Harry Truman said: If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible. * [[TheTallOne I]] attended Catholic school for ten years, and took a history class for seven of those. One year was European history. Despite this, there was never one mention of the selling of indulgences, the crusades, Galileo, OR the Protestant Reformation. Whoopsie-doo. ** Odd. I learned about all of that in my Catholic school education. Of course, I did have history teachers that were extremely passionate about their subject. * Many American history classes (Including This Troper's seventh grade class) teach only the things they would like you to know about "Manifest Destiny" and Expansionism. They fail to mention very much about the maniacal, white supremist crusade against the Native Americans. I guess kids will have to beleive what they see in Disney films for now. ** This troper is wondering where the previous trooper went to school. When covering the period post-Civil War, pre-Progressive, his school taught him nothing but the various atrocities commited against the indians on the plains, Sand Creek, what happened to the tribsmen at the Black Hills, the devastation of small pox, the desecration of buffalo herds to starve out rebelling tribes, reservations... *** Totally agreed with the above, the "NA are the victims" is much more the PC version. What upsets this Troper is that there is no mention about the kidnapping, raiding, and killing by violent tribes. Is it so much to ask one side say "we screwd up" and the other to say "we were no saints either" and bury the hatchet? (NOTE: Both sayings apply to both sides.) ** The war with Mexico. All about "freedom". [[{{Irony}} The freedom to own slaves.]] * My history classes focus extensively on world war 2, and is for the most part very accurate (I have extensively studied it), pointing out the fact the the Russians were debatedley worse than the Germans, Americans would commit war crimes (but much less than other militaries), and many generals were racists. However, one certain aspect seems to evade that class: The whole locking all the Japanese people in concentration camps (In America) thing... ** A possible explanation for that is it was a domestic occurrence during the war, while everything you listed has to do with what was happening abroad. If even one mention of Rosie the Riveter was made though, than yeah, no excuses. ** This troper is British and my old history teacher ''did'' mention that. Of course the locking German immigrants (some of whom were

Jewish and trying to escape the Nazis,) buisness gets overlooked. * This troper went to middle school in North Carolina. During 7th grade Civil War classes, we were told that the South was fighting simply because the North was there, slavery had nothing to do with it, the teacher being sure to mention how a lot of southern AfricanAmericans supported the south. [[FlatWhat What]]. Are you kidding me? The class also completely ignored Bleeding Kansas and the whole vote on slavery issue... And when asked why the North was there, the teacher's answer more or less amounted to because they were just being mean. Not sure if this holds true for other southern schools, but mine sure was [[UnderStatement just a wee bit biased]]. Thank God for an unbiased teacher the next year... ** In Texas, they try to say the war was over ''states rights''. Technically this is true, it was over their right ''to own slaves''. I make sure I cough that fact in whenever a teacher leaves it out. ** This is true, but not the whole truth. The Civil War was indeed fought over states rights and the south feeling like the north was bulldozing them politically over almost every topic - slavery was just one of them. At the outset of the war however, slavery was not the largest factor at all. Lincoln used a bit of clever diplomacy to convince the world that the war was being fought over slavery, however, with the Emancipation Proclamation and the like. Prior to that, England was feeling rather spiteful and considering allying with the south to further encourage the break of the country. England had just renounced slavery as thoroughly immoral however. When Lincoln brought slavery front and center, it could no longer be ignored - if England still supported the south, they would have been throwing their lot in with slavers. They weren't willing to do so. In addition, it's an often overlooked facet of the EP that it ''only'' freed slaves in the South. The few slave-owning northern states were unaffected. And since the southern states were currently in rebellion, it didn't mean much as a practical matter there either; at the time, the Emancipation Proclamation really was nothing more than a shrewd political move. Slavery wasn't just a red herring - it was a hot topic and considered extremely important to people on both sides of the battlefield - but the war was far from being just about that. ** Just have to say that there were some southern African-Americans who did fight for the South. Not as many as the ones who fought for the North, but a fair amount. *** The African Americans who fought for the south did it because at that point they were in bondage, and did so at the order, and sometimes in place of, their master. *** Oh, and there were also some 3,000 black freedmen who owned slaves at the time, too. Boy, do people get ''pissed'' when you bring that up! **** Mainly because [[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2821/before-the-civil-warwere-some-slave-owners-black the statistics are weaselly at best]], and because you're bringing race into the question of ''owning another human.'' **** I dig that righteous indignation you got there, but pointing out the fact that black freedmen owned slaves isn't "bringing in race;"

it's keeping racial politics '''out''' of the discussion by demonstrating that U.S. slavery was never based on it to start with, as the Politically Correct dogma stubbornly insists. Industry and economics were what kept slavery in place, not [[ForTheEvulz cartoonish villiany]], and people can get uptight about it if they want but it doesn't make it less true. ***** I was taught that the evils of slavery was HandWaved by the guys in power saying it was ok to own slaves because they were African. Before that point race had nothing to do with the slave trade, but considering we were the "all men are created equal" guys, the hypocrisy did occure to them. So they came up with the solution of "Well, they aren't ''people'' so of course it's ok to enslave them!" Racism may have never been the cause of slavery, but slavery may have been the cause of racism as we know it today. * My eighth grade class was fairly well run, but after we finished with the history book, we ended up doing debates about everything. I was one of the referees, and my job was to keep the quality of the debates up. My first rule? Godwin's Law. ** First side to mention Hitler loses? I love that law, and I think it should be enforced everywhere. * This troper's American history class in high school went into quite a bit of detail about the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during our unit on WWII. Said history class made ''no'' mention whatsoever of the firebombings of Japan, which caused more casualties than the A-bombing. This troper only found out about this particular piece of history by running across it [[TVTropesWiki on this very wiki]]. Said troper felt ill upon reading about the firebombings, and now wonders [[ParanoiaFuel what else her history textbook never mentioned]]. ** They usually don't bring that up in classes because it had no real effect on the conflict, where as dropping the big two ''ended it''. It's not "trying to make us look good" it's "focus on the essentials." ** Also the firebombings of Germany...I actually heard someone online say there were racial reasons they "only" firebombed Dresden. [[FlatWhat What?]] * The definition of "Aryan". It was assumed to be "white with blond hair and blue eyes" (to quote my American history teacher). It was actually more...expansive. Minor point, but it explains how Germany could ally with Japan. * In my history textbooks... ** The ancient Greeks were portrayed as rational. Yes, the same Greeks who believed the body was a balance of "humours" (which led to such wonderful medicine as...anything before the 20th century) and that anyone beyond the known world was a patchwork monster. Yes, just like the narration of ''300''. *** There were some great rational philosophers, and they were pretty rational compared to their neighbours. We're still talking about an iron age culture here. Expecting them to be as enlightened as modern society is [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory]]. *** Also, the ancient Greeks made great advances, or outright pioneered in Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Biology, Philosophy and many others. While not exactly omniscient, they certainly were

rational. ** One chapter on pretty much anything pre-Greece. ** All bigots are antisemites. It starts with Rome and goes on to include Japan. Yes, ''that'' Japan. They did, however, point out that Jews, like Muslims, were exempt from some Turkish taxes. *** By the literal definition a "semite" is anyone who follows the idea of the one true god, so Jews Christians and Muslims fall under that. With that in mind, monotheism had a [[Understatement hard time]] getting off the ground, and I'll just leave it at that. ** Columbus. Where to begin? *** How about with ANYTHING? XJustX much? ** The entirety of hyperdiffusionism. For those unfamiliar with hyperdiffusionism, it holds that pre-Columbian America had a lot of visitors who brought culture over. Naturally, there are suspicions that the legend of St. Brendan or African visitors to Mexico or the like are ''true''. But the UnfortunateImplications are now only implied. ** American eugenics is completely glossed over, even though [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the Germans used the same techniques a few decades later...]] To understand, you must know that I grew up in TheNineties, the era when 1) false accusations of racism were common (A bunch of white vegans actually said the food pyramid was racist, while Clarence Thomas said he was "lynched" by a black woman.), and 2) ''The Bell Curve'' was praised by the New York ''Times'' as [[YouFailTheIQTest the most comprehensive study of race and intelligence]]. Eugenics was resurgent in the 90s. ** The Holocaust. God forbid you mention that Hitler killed communists. ** The Reagan era. All of it. Reagan never balanced the budget; he simply borrowed money to pay for his latest plans. Star Wars (not [[StarWars that one]]) is literally hitting a bullet with a bullet, at best. Reagan joked about nuclear Armageddon. * We're seeing politically correct history today with Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, both of which were backed by the United States at first. ** America never supported Al Qaeda, we supported the Mujahideen don't push Politically correct history on false history. We only ever provided Saddam with intelligence against Iran as he was lesser of two evils hardly US Backing. *** They didn't support Al Qaeda (in fact I'm fairly certain it didn't exist yet) but Osama bin Laden was trained by CIA operatives, and said operatives also provided him with the small number of Stinger missile launchers that his organization has, and that are being used to shoot down helicopters today in Afghanistan, and also Iraq now that we have dragged the fighting over there. **** Also, you are wrong about Saddam. The US provided him not only with intelligence, but also with warheads, and the nerve gas he used to massacre Kurds. The US government knew full well he was doing this, and didnt give a shit, because they wanted him to be their proxy through which they could attack Iran. Then he got a little too rebellious, so they decided that he needed to be muzzled, and later that itd be best for him to just die. Countries in general, especially powerful countries like the US, are not IN ANY WAY good or altruistic.

They got to where they are by clawing their way up over the other sons of bitches to make themselves King Sonofabitch. A necessary part of becoming King Sonofabitch is doing some dirty, and getting other people to do your dirty for you. **** They still do it today, too. Not as much now that they are no longer shy about torturing themselves, but they used to (and still do sometimes) send prisoners to Egypt so the Egyptians can torture them, allowing the US to pretend publicly that they dont torture their hostages, and have it be kinda-sorta true. * Actually subverted with my AP US History class last year: We covered Bleeding Kansas, talked about how Columbus was all about teh goldz, even talked about how Abraham Lincoln was for segregation. And also subverted with the Holocaust class I took: We went very in-depth as to what happened, the death and work camps, who Hitler went after, what the cloth patches' symbols meant, how the Jews wore the stars originally to protest (which in the end made them more easily targeted). Did you know there were about 10,000 Jewish people left in Germany by the end of the Holocaust? You do now. ** Didn't a lot of Danish people wear the star as a TakeThat to the Nazis? * Minor example, but a population graph in this Troper's US History book, in one of the early colonial chapters, showed the difference in number between "White" and "African American" populations. Fine and all, except for the fact that "America" as we know it didn't exist in 1600... [[DoubleStandard also that's Caucasian American to you!]] ** The US history book merely lumped them together by descent - ie, African, Indian, and European. * This Troper had this his junior year of high school, in his english class every book we read pertained to some form or racism toward African Americans. which make it much like books about the Holocaust where if you've read one or two about the topic, you can get a good idea of what the rest are going to be like, i don't need another four books rammed down my throat to get the picture. * In Greece, PoliticallyCorrectHistory takes a whole new meaning. WWII is merely glossed over, the Cold War never happened, and more. Sure they're in the books, but we've never done them in class. Luckily, this year (last year of school) the teacher has asked me to work on the WWII lesson, so maybe there's hope. ** My sister's a history teacher here - sometimes they ''have'' to be omitted simply for the fact that there isn't enough time in the school year/semester to cover the book from cover to cover. A lot of the time in higher classes they ''do'' finish the books but it's not say history in general; it's about a ''specific'' era of history. *** This can be said for a lot of the examples here, actually. If something is omitted, it's because of politically correct ism, and not because, you know, a 6 - 9month school year is not enough time to talk about every little thing that happened in history. * This troper's history classes always tend to swing toward the opposite extreme, to the point where almost ''all'' we ever covered were the various atrocities committed by whites upon...well, pretty much everyone else. It virtually became politically incorrect to say anything ''positive'' about Columbus, etc.

* I love how a lot of these examples are "We didn't talk about this in history class and that makes it PoliticallyCorrectHistory". * How about the stuff that's often omitted in ''college'' courses? Like say...the conquest of the Aztecs. Evidently, Cortes thought nothing of the Aztecs and the Aztecs were a peaceful people who merely made a big mistake inviting blood-and-gold-thirsty spaniards in. Goldthirsty? Yes. But what they didn't mention was that there were only a ''couple'' thousand Spanish soldiers in Mexico. They had around ''sixty thousand'' allies from other tribes helping them - The other tribes, especially the Tlxcalans, ''hated'' the Aztecs. They were at war with Tlxcala for awhile. Not to mention, Cortes actually wanted the Aztecs and the natives be like an overseas province of Spain but he didn't get his way. (Aztec upper class was treated the same originally) He wanted to maintain the social structure of the empire. Instead, a bunch of spaniards came in...and enslaved them ForTheEvulz. The history was basically HumansAreBastards, but ''only'' the Europeans and the Asians. American Indians, Indians, and Africans? AlwaysLawfulGood. Asians and White men? AlwaysChaoticEvil. * This troper once saw a theatrical adaptation of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree that featured a Black preacher. In small-town Appalachia. In the 1910s. Um... ** That's just getting on the topic of an entirely different trope right there... * This troper may or may not have a few examples, but would rather point out that this entire page is a HUUUUUGE YMMV. For example, all the Columbus references. 1500s-and-up Europe being AlwaysChaoticEvil or AlwaysLawfulGood: which one is the PC version? (hint: [[spoiler: it's really both, just [[YourMileageMayVary depends who you ask.]] Remember that there is no single group of people on this planet that are either always LG or always CE.]] My history book tries to avert this by providing "Where Historians Disagree" sidebars every chapter or so, although those tend to be somewhat biased (whether they're justified in being so is another matter). * This troper HATES this with a passion. Everyone wants to shout it whenever the history of blacks is brought up, like our history clearly shouldn't be acknowledged for what it was unless it is lumped together into a month and only glossing over any sort of diversity in that community, and clearly any mention of it is a sign of the horrible political correctness movement. Apparently pretending it doesn't exist is NOT politically correct history, how about that? Its ridiculous. Then they try to whine that racism and religions intolerance weren't the causes for some of the most horrible events in history and claim that's "realism". Apparently politically correct history is only okay if it blames the victim and appeals to delicate egos. I've hung out with people who actually think this way. ** It's not "blaming the victim" to claim that historical evils weren't motivated purely by racism. Individuals are usually motived by such, sure, but the farther up you go in power and organization, the more such behavior is influenced by '''greed''', rather than bigotry, and it just so happens that the powerful and organized are the ones who tend to do the most damage when shit hits fan. ----

...And then, in the year 1671, the mixed-race gay couple found love and acceptance at PoliticallyCorrectHistory. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher * My sociology teacher in high school. Very outspoken, always had a political lesson to teach the class. It was certainly an interesting class and he certainly wasn't a bad teacher, but his constant soapboxing and urging of us to "[[TacoBell think outside the bun]]" could get annoying after a while. There is a reason he was the inspiration for me to originally YKTTW this trope. (Side note: As mean as this may seem to say, he had the physical appearance of [[StarWars Jabba the Hutt]].) * I absolutely loved arguing with these whenever I'd get them, and it always took them by surprise since I was both a native southerner and a conservative attending a New England college; none of them expected me to know how to dress myself, let alone hold my ground in a debate while both they and 50 fellow students tried to shout me down. Some of them took it better than others, though. There was one ex-flower child Humanities professor in particular who clearly wasn't happy about the 60's ending, but was still quite respectful of dissenting viewpoints and even encouraged them. Conversely, when I had an adjunct Poli-Sci professor who was not only Conservative, but also worked in Joe Lieberman's cabinet and taught classes dressed in a three-piece suit and cowboy boots. He scared the ''shit'' out my fellow classmates, but it sure was nice to see the tables turned for once. ** I've never been annoyed or pissed off from reading a Troper Tales entry before this. *** Hey, what'd s/he do? S/he was just saying that s/he was a conservative who went to a largely liberal school and what it was like there; I didn't see anything wrong with his/her entry. o_O *** People tend to get angry whenever political issues come up, no matter which side they're on. *** If they're going to complain about something, they can at least quantify their response, otherwise it only makes them look infantile. * omnipresent in my education. I grew up in berkeley, after all. * My high-school economics teacher, a dedicated free-market conservative, was like this. Slightly justified since a lot of what he was saying was in the curriculum anyway (though in a politically neutral way). On the other end of the spectrum, most of the science teachers were quite outspoken regarding global warming, although YourMileageMayVary on whether this is a political issue. ---Go back to PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher, which those damn <political party> cannot fully appreciate!

PoorCommunicationKills * This troper has noticed so many relationships that seem almost Fairy-tale material end in a series of massive fights merely because

the couples just can't freaking ''TALK'' to one another. This troper is also a normal victim of this - when he was younger people never seemed to understand what he was saying, only to force him to repeat himself ''numerous times'' before slowing down and saying everything ''as precisely'' as possible. And then I'm called out on it for being rude. Now I try to normally be as precise as possible...and now they manipulatively-hear he and put words in my mouth. People quote me on stuff that I've never at all said, seem to casually omit several things I'm saying into something else (I can't tell how many times I said something along the lines of "Look at what the dog is doing" and instead everyone seemed to hear "look at ____ the dog __ _____.") I've had to warn people several times that if I have to repeat myself three times, then I begin to quite angrily hammer it into their heads because ''NOBODY CAN FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME''. And before you say something - no I don't have some kind of speech disorder; nobody seems to freaking understand me in text, either. ** [[TooDumbToLive Could you repeat that?]] *** MegatonPunch to the FACE. HurricaneKick ''to the [[GroinAttack crotch]]''. :P ** Don't take it too hard, most people aren't doing it on purpose, they just have gotten by without paying attention so they never learned how to. I have the exact same problem and people are always hearing what they wanted me to say instead of what I actually said. All you can do is point out what you actually said and if they get upset it's not because you "caught" them lying about it but they are embarrassed that they didn't listen and verbally attack you rather then admit their own mistake and have to try to correct it. * Isn't it always amazing how when a person is having relationship troubles they want to talk about it with ''everyone but the person they're having problems with''. ** And isn't it amazing how most of that previous rant was about communicaiton problems in general not just ones in relationships? * [[{{Tropers/Whitewings}} This troper]] once had to deal with a truly spectacular example of this, combined with [[TooDumbToLive aggressive idiocy]], in World of Warcraft, in Blackrock Depths. Playing a mage, I said over the game's voice chat, "Don't shoot the sheep," in my deepest, firmest, clearest voice. I am a deep baritone, about the same range as Michael Dorn. Online, I drop my voice even further, and being a former choral singer, when I project, I ''project''. So, when we encounter the patrol, and I turn the medic into a sheep, what do they do? Shoot the sheep, causing him to turn back into a medic. After the second time they wiped, I explained, yet again, how to deal with a Blackrock Depths patrol: Incapacitate the medic (turn him into a sheep, in this case), concentrate attacks on the officer, then wipe out the soldiers, then finally attack the medic. So the next patrol we come across, they shoot the sheep. I opened a portal back to Ironforge. * [[@/{{endlessness}} I]] have had to cope with that while doing teamwork. One of the guys had to travel some 2 or 3 days before a deadline, and did not warn us. As a result, our work was late. ---

Go back to {{Poor Communication Kills}}, and what was that? Oh well, [[{{Tempting Fate}} it probably wasn't that important]] [[{{Killed Midsentence}} any-]]

PopculturalOsmosisFailure * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This troper]] generally is saddened whenever people don't get references to good things, instead being used to the shit from a can that they normally watch/listen to/read. I should be able to make Firefly references and everyone should get them. I should be able to bring up the band {{KISS}} everyone know who I'm talking about! One conversation I had with a friend was a dual-sided example of this. I didn't know of any of the musicians or bands she liked and she didn't know of the ones I liked. ** Same troper here. I've had some conversations with one of my friends (born two days before me) which end in me telling him to go watch something. Of course, he doesn't (I don't mind, as he's in the middle of like 50 animes). Things I've told him to go watch are (but not limited to) BuffyTheVampireSlayer, {{Firefly}}, EvilDead, Evil Dead 2, ArmyOfDarkness, RockyHorrorPictureShow and {{Torchwood}}. ** Same troper again (I just noticed how many times I come to this page and forget about it). Awesomely averted by my English teacher (as far as I can tell). A few assignments had us comparing poems to other works of fiction. One was a haiku about tides, which I compared to [[{{Firefly}} River Tam's]] lucid moments. Perfect score. * some one said "and then there were three* in reference to some one leaving the room. I, being a huge {{agatha christie}} fan asked, "oh, like the book?" I got complete and utter silence. * I was shocked and appauled to realize that my Civics teacher/guidance councellor ''didn't know who Pikachu was''. * I watched with a friend when a commercial started playing "We Will Rock You" by ''Queen''. -->Friend: "Nice music. Do you know the band." -->Me: "It's Queen." -->Friend: "Are they new?" -->Me: "AAAAARRRRRGGGHH!" ** Someone once told me they knew someone who had never heard of ''The Beatles.'' * Troper Tales: The trope title ItWasHisSled made absolutely no sense to me, as I knew nothing about ''CitizenKane'' beyond the fact that it was a famous film -- and I do mean nothing, as in, I did not know there was a sled involved, or that Mr. Kane said "Rosebud" at any point in the movie. In fact, when I suggested the trope on ''YouKnowThatThingWhere'', the title was going to be "Was What His Sled". Upon launching, I made WhatWasWhoseSled a redirect, echoing its origins. ** Similar case: [[Tropers.FuschlatzOReilly This troper]] already knew everything behind the ItWasHisSled quote '''''except''''' which movie it was all from. It's only thanks to TVTropes that he actually found out the movie was ''CitizenKane''. * Might not fit but this troper did not learn about the 9/11 attacks until 1 year after the fact, wondering why the school was having a

memorial. To be fair he was only 9. ** I was also 9 when the 9/11 attacks happened and I was aware of what happened. ** We planted flowers at this tropers school. She was extremely happy because she liked flowers. She did not understand why some people where crying. to be fair, she was 6. when it was explained to her, she that an airplane and 9 people had died. looking back on it makes no sense. due to her lack of understanding as a child, every one assumed she knew what it was so when it was discussed in her 6th grade class, she extremely confused. ** I was 5 when they happened. I understood it all. *** Ditto I was 6. *** I was 4 and I understood most of it. * Heh, I remember my singing coach in college trying to get me to sing "Hey Jude" with her. I'd heard the name before but had the darndest time convincing her that I literally did not know the words to that song. Not even one of those songs where you're like "Oh, I do know this one... just never really paid much attention" or anything, I really didn't know it. But she was like, "Of course you do! Sing with me!" * I had a similar experience in grade school, where literally everyone else in the class knew the words to "PuffTheMagicDragon," and I had barely even heard of it. * Third-hand TroperTale: My father's doctor (in his 70s) was talking with his five year old granddaugher (this was like 10 years ago). -->Granddaugher: BlahBlahBlah BritneySpears Blah. -->Grandpa: Who's Britney Spears? -->Granddaugher: Don't you know '''anything'''? * This troper's English teacher didn't get "Luke, I am your father". Of course, this troper called her out on it. * In marching band one year, we were playing "Billie Jean." During the early going, we were having problems with it and one of the drum majors said, "Come on, you all know this song." Everybody was surprised when I pointed out that I, in fact, did not know the song. (I've never been a fan of Michael Jackson or pop music in general, and even having played it for that particular show (admittedly, thirteen years ago), I wouldn't recognize it if I heard it today.) * During Film Studies class, a bunch of people were arguing about {{Transformers}}. And suddenly, one girl blurted out "What's a Megatron?" Cue the laughter. * This Troper was watching TheMatrix with his family recently. (Year 2010.) Whenever characters started to do [[BuffySpeak Matrix-y]] things (impossible jumps, wall-running, etc.) my mom would look on, all confused. "So what's going on? Are they inside a video game? Like {{Tron}} but with better graphics or something?" After a while, I had to ask. "Mom, do you ''seriously'' not know the premise of the movie?" "Umm... no. Should I?" Much facepalming ensued. ** At least she was right * At age nine, I tried explaining to a classmate the comedic role that Indiana Jones' hat often plays, to no avail * For this troper, he knew absolutely ''nothing'' about ''FinalFantasyVII'' other than what games like ''KingdomHearts'' and

''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' told him. Yes, really. Other than knowing that Aerith dies (who I had no fucking clue who she was until I played KingdomHearts), many of the things that people talk casually about it under the belief that literally everybody who touched an RPG or is a FinalFantasy fan has played it, made no sense to me. Maybe the reason for my confusion is because I was too young to have played it when it came out (It was marketed for teenagers and I was about four years old), and I never really cared about [=RPGs=] at the time other than VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG. ** Another thing, I never, in my entire life, have never even heard of the name ''Series/DoctorWho'' before coming on this site. * This troper had two moments: when discussing ''Troy'', he found out a friend did not know [[AchillesHeel Achilles]] died. And many years later, the troper was listing rejected names of his class team to his freshmen (they were in Portuguese, but let's translate): Catapults, Cattle Kings and Clockwork Tangerine. Then a female freshie (which to make matters worse, [[DumbBlonde was blonde]]): -->'''Freshie''': Clockwork Tangerine?\\ '''Troper''': Out of ClockworkOrange.\\ '''Freshie''': What's that? * One of my friends once said "{{Film/Avatar}} was an ok remake, but why did they leave out [[FernGully the singing smog monster]]?" Another friend looked confused, which led to a DontExplainTheJoke moment, and several responses of "What?!? You ''never'' watched FernGully?" * Hoo boy. Maybe it was due to a sheltered childhood, but [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever this troper]] was pretty much the poster child for this as a kid. Some examples: ** In 1st grade Music class, we were going to sing MichaelJackson's "Heal The World" for an assembly. Cue me asking: "Who's MichaelJackson?". ** In 2nd grade, a classmate once brought in a ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' tape for us to watch. I was the only one not singing along to the theme song, having never heard of the show before. ** Up until I was 9 years old, I wasn't even all that familiar with ''pop music'' (Dad listened to classic rock and Mom listened to country, so that was all I ever heard). At a birthday party that year, I was the only person there who ''did not know the Macarena''. * Meanwhile, [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever this troper's]] sister can sometimes be pretty clueless as well: ** She once referred to actor Mike Myers as ''Michael'' Myers, being unfamiliar with the ''{{Halloween}}'' series. Kind of HilariousInHindsight, though; I once saw one of the ''{{Halloween}}'' movies listed as, ''The Curse Of '''Mike''' Myers''. Hard to tell which is funnier... ** Earlier this year, she presented Mom with a beautiful Mother's Day card. Written on the envelope? "[[MommieDearest Mommy Dearest]]". Cue massive [[{{Facepalm}} Facepalms]] from Mom and I. *** ...I don't get it. **** You will if you look up what the movie ''Mommie Dearest'' is about. ([[DontExplainTheJoke I know, I know...]])

* Okay, I can't be the only person who has died a little inside after making a whole bunch of references that no one gets, but am I really expecting too much by assuming that Shakespeare and The Bible should have undergone PopculturalOsmosis by now? I'm not even religious. My Sundays have been Church free my whole entire life, and yet you'd be shocked how many times mentioning the 'belly of the whale' in my English lit classes at Uni has wound up with the association being attributed by other students as a Pinocchio or Finding Nemo reference. I've even known people not to recognise the Christ-on-the-cross pose, which is ubiquitous. When you hear things like that, suddenly, you become less likely to expect your friends to get a Watchmen joke. ** Considering religious education has been discouraged for so long, it's not surprising. ** That 'belly of the whale' thing ''could'' be seen as a subversion the Bible says "huge fish", and since a whale isn't a fish, you ''could'' say that they were so good at the Bible that they couldn't recognize it if it was distorted even a little. Not very likely, though... *** Which explains the ''Pinocchio'' references, as the sea monster in Collodi's novel was a "dogfish" (shark). * This troper has been a near-lifelong fan of ''TheLegendOfZelda''. The first game came out when she was twelve. But owing to a lack of the necessary consoles, she did not -- until she was ''thirty'' -play any of the games made after ''ALinkToThePast'', and somehow managed to be completely unaware that other games even existed in the series until she was in her twenties. Because she's still quite new to ''OcarinaOfTime'', she is not as emotionally invested in the character of Sheik as many of her friends in the fandom, and gets really tired of the "male or female?" arguments. * Earlier today (keep in mind I'm not even 20 yet) someone was twittering a lyric line that went like "We're gonna party like it's 2012!" So of course, my inner [[{{Prince}} Prince]]-addict kicked in and [[{{Theoneyoucallwe}} I]] responded with (in all caps-lock) "NO. PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999~" She didn't get it. I was sad. Very very sad. ** In fact, I think I once met someone who didn't know what {{Halo}} was. ** And yes, excluding Halo, I'm very out of touch with my current generation. Prime examples: My favorite actor is Humphrey Bogart. Movie? Rocky Horror & Little Shop of Horrors. Music? Anything 80s. *** I'm a bit like this as well. I was born in the early nineties, but I'm much more likely to reference ''Sandford and Son'' or ''MASH'' than ...something people my age normally watch. * AnneBeeche: I'm full of this, especially when it comes to things people my generation were supposed to be exposed to when they were kids. One legendary example is when my friend was extremely surprised and a little angry that I had never watched, let alone heard of the Smurfs, so she forced me to sit through a whole afternoon of watching them. ** I also play this for laughs in youtube comments. "Who is this Justin Bieber person and why do I hear so much about him?" * My other was once talking to her mechanic about a young woman (as in late teens/early 20's) he had recently had as a customer. She (the

other customer) had been talking about Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, and mentioned that "did you know he used to be in a band, called Wings?" The mechanic said that yes, he had heard that, and that he had also been in another band before that. "Maybe you've heard of them...TheBeatles?" Turns out that no, she hadn't. So he very patiently told her that when she got home, to tell her parents that he told her to tell them that she had never heard of the Beatles. A while later, her father called to apologize for her. * When I was trying to get my friend to listen to the Traveling Wilburys, I discovered that she had never heard of Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, or Roy Orbison. Naming their hits as solo artists didn't help, and ELO didn't ring a bell with her either. I don't know how I would've made it through the conversation without a nervous breakdown if she hadn't heard of George Harrison. * This troper has experienced this at least twice: ** In Religion Class, we were all making small talk before the parents arrived and got to talking about Jimi Hendrix. One girl said this gem: "Jimi Hendrix? Isn't he the muppet guy?" ** Then in 10th grade, I was reading 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. My best friend at the time asked me what I was reading. When I told her, she said she'd never read it. I asked if she'd read anything by Jules Verne, she said no, but that, "[She'd] heard of '''her.'''" * I once had to explain to someone what Legos were. She didn't seem even vaguely aware of their existence, and even mispronounced the name as "Logo" a couple minutes later. She taught at an elementary school, so you'd think there'd be some kind of osmosis, but no. * When Don Adams' death was in the news, I discovered that this one guy I game with had never heard of ''Inspector Gadget''. It wouldn't be so bad, except that same guy would often use the phrase "Go go Gadget (fill in the blank)!" He didn't know where it came from. * My sister was part of an improv group and ran headlong into this during a [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Party Quirk-style]] skit. She was the guesser, and did well save for one fellow who was referencing ''{{Ghostbusters}}''. The audience roared at her utter confusion at his increasingly blatant hints -- which, of course, were entirely lost on her, as she had no idea what he was going on about. This culminated in "I just can't seem to ''stay puffed'', man!" When the game ended and he flat-out told her, her response "I never saw that movie!" led to loud booing and her blaming our parents for never showing it to her. (They immediately went out and bought her a copy, and have [[NeverLiveItDown yet to let her live it down]].) ** This troper was in a drama class where we had to do a similar exercise. The students wrote the subjects of the skits on pieces of paper and I imagine they were drawn out of a jar or some equivalent (this was some time ago). The subject I wrote down was "Super Mario", and so one of the other students was assigned to act this out while another student interacts with him and tries to figure out who he is. The guy who was assigned to be Mario knew perfectly well who he was, but the other student didn't -- the humor of the increasingly obvious Mario being still unrecognized with Mario's actor becoming increasingly desperate to convey his identity left everyone in stitches.

* This troper knows more about MELL and the Beatles than he does about Kanye West (among other things, for years I thought his name was pronounced 'Caine'). On the other hand, his dad doesn't know anything about anime, so we mainly just stick to the Beatles. * This troper actually had a reverse case with her parents. One day, we were talking, and the conversation drifted to life in the Eighties. When she brought up Atari, she was meet with a blank look from both of them. Neither had ever played an Atari, or even heard about it. It was... absurd, to say the least. * This troper discovered that many kids of the new generation seem to be unaware of where the term "spam" originates from. Even when I explained it was a reference to a Monty Python sketch, I got the answer "Monty who?" ** I'm ''really'' hoping you know that spam (the canned meat product) was around well before the Monty Python sketch. * Another occurence was when I saw a painting of Picasso's ''Don Quixote''. My girlfriend not only failed to recognise the painting, but did not know who Picasso was, or what ''DonQuixote'' is. Perhaps excusable, due to the fact that she was raised in India, where certain European artists and literature are likely to be less familiar. * This troper teaches swimming lessons to kids age 6-about 10, with the VERY RARE 13 or 14 year old. I used to make Bugs Bunny and Wile E Coyote references in class. When I did, I got looks like I had made the reference in Russian. Only the kids older than about 13 even knew who Bugs Bunny was, and didn't understand the reference at all. I was nearly in tears the first time it happened. * Thanks to a household that was one of the last ones to have a computer with working internet, this troper and her sisters were probably the only children who didn't have the twist of The Empire Strikes Back spoiled for them well ahead of time. And believe me, it was glorious. * I didn't know all there is to know about The Crying Game until I went to this very site's page about it. ** I'd never even heard of TheCryingGame until I happened upon it's trope. * This troper doesn't have cable, and the only thing she's allowed to watch on TV is football. This results in her not knowing "who lived in a pinapple under the sea." and is generally ignorant about all TV shows. She tries to pretend that she's not totally ignorant, but that only works sometimes. * This troper once wore a [[FraggleRock Fraggle Rock]] shirt to school and received blank looks from her peers, but appreciation from the teachers. This she could accept. However, discovering that her sister's classmates think there is a translation site called [[HitchhikersGuide Babble Fish]]... * This happens to me so ''so'' much. Especially with my name. My name is Eleanor and my parents are huge nerds, so it's Eleanor as in the flower/Sam's daughter from LordOfTheRings but spelt differently. I can understand other students not getting that LOTR is a 60 year old book, but once I was talking to a ''teacher'' and she asked about my name and when I said it was from LOTR she said "But that only came out about 10 years ago and you're older than that." Infuriating as that

was, she then ''wouldn't believe me'' when I told her it was a book from 60 years ago. Thankfully another student backed me up, but holy crap, how dumb can you get? ** Another example was a friend of mine was browsing Wikipedia and somehow found an article about how 42 was the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything and she said "Ohhh, so it's from ''Wikipedia''." Like I said above, this happens to me a lot, what with being a super nerd and all. * One of This Troper's many, many, MANY failed attempts at being playful and flirtatious with a girl from class (for the record: This Troper is 23, the girl is 17) --> Me: Babe, I'll be stuck in your head all day like a Chumbawumba song --> Her: Who? ---TroperTales? Oh, yeah, I guess I've heard of that, but I never really paid attention. PopculturalOsmosisFailure? What's that? ----

PopCultureIsolation * [[Tropers/TheUrbanPrince This Troper]] went to a high school that had a seething mass of cliques that were completely separated by culture and or race and gender. Asians had their small clique, Mexicans had theirs, Cubans had theirs, African Americans had theirs, Puerto Ricans had theirs, and of course the white cliques. A lil bit of background: Unlike now where there's a lot of cross pollination in the mainstream culturally, TheNineties was completely different, there were a lot of pop cultural walls. Blacks teens got along fine with Cubans, and Ricans usually because they were part of the same hip-hop sub-culture but almost always had problems with Mexicans and whites. But even within those ethnic groups their were splinter groups. For instance there were some ethnic groups that were elitist snobs and BoomerangBigot's to their own ethnic group and almost always chose to exclusively hang around white cliques, Some belived they intentionally invoked the trope ButNotTooBlack in order to gain acceptance. Their usually dub oreo's, coconuts, and bananas. Then there's the geeks, nerds, and jocks. All these groups had their own pop culture. a lot of times the popular cliques from each category almost ''ALWAYS'' bumped heads. There was always a balance of popularity powers at the school. * This troper went to a VERY conservative Christian high school. Most of the teens were not allowed to listen to non-Christian music, only watched Fox news, and many were forbidden to watch movies with swearing or pretty much be exposed to anything but [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] culture. Yeah, my friends and I were a bunch of CoolLosers who were into the SexPistols and Nirvana and loved punk rock and QuentinTarantino movies. I was more than a little taken aback when I met a girl who had never heard of Britney Spears, even though I don't even like Britney Spears....(this back during her train-wreck years, too.) * My High School was set into different cliques which were mostly seperated by race and culture. There was the main popular clique with

TheLibby and JerkJock and their friends, who stuck together, acted like idiots in class and slept with eachother. They were mostly white. Then there was another group of popular students who were Asian and seemed to think they were gangsters. The rest of the groups were less seperated by race, as there was the nerds (the really clever ones who werent seen as attractive or fashionable enough to be popular, and they actually did their work in class), and a few small groups of friends who were not popular-usually emo/goth or scene, and not interested in being popular, or not attractive or fashionable enough to be popular but not smart enough to be one of the nerds. * Quebec pop culture has a severe case of this. The french have their "vedettes" -- basically local equivalents of Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep -- that mostly fly under the radar of your average english Quebecer. * I was born in Mexico from a Jewish family, and that's bad enough (seriously, Jewish People in Mexico sometimes seem to live on their own bubble), then I moved to Canada when I was 4 and I spent eleven years there, and then, back to Mexico...when I deal with people from one of my "cultural spheres" (My Canadian friends, my Jewish family, my current Mexican friends) it's like enter in another dimension of customs and jokes each time, but then again, it's kind of cool being one of the few persons that can get a "Pepito" joke complaining about Kraft dinners (It's a...Mexican thing...and a Canadian too...) * This troper is experiencing this in my own family and not in the general Generation Gap way. We emigrated from Poland when I was still in elementary school so my sister and I assimilated quite thoroughly into North American mainstream culture and have had little exposure to Polish culture since 1989. My parents in turn managed to stay current with a lot of Polish culture mainly due to the internet and satellite television from Europe. We actually have similar tastes in television and music but we use two different reference pools so we constantly have to explain to each other what and who we are talking about. ---Sometimes we tropers find ourselves trapped in PopCultureIsolation. Just remember -- YouAreNotAlone. ----

PopularIsDumb * Averted for [[{{EPIC}} ThisTroper]]. My high school, so far with the 9th Grade, has ''four GodModeSues'', two of which are attractive (especially the one with the HairOfGold). They excel in almost every class and they can break anything down into almost its basic components. Oh, and should I mention that one of them is a huge HollywoodNerd, who verges on having inherited Tina Fey's soul? And they're really sociable, by the way. Especially the nerd. I like calling her [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Reyquaza]], but I'd like to call her [[TheFourGods Byakko]]. * This troper doesn't see why everyone on this page is so grumpy; In my high school days, I was average-looking at best, wore lame clothes, didn't play sports, and never really tried to improve my overall image. And yet, by my senior year, I was one of the most popular guys

in the school. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't know... * Y'all should come on down south sometime! It's a friggin nightmare down here! This troper used to live in upstate New York, went to a nice school where there was no real "popular" kids sect, and generally enjoyed life. Then, his family had to move down to North Carolina, where the IQ of the students seems to match their shoe sizes. He eventually found people to identify with, after 2 years of hell. The Jerk Jocks and Libbys were all airheads, who fulfill every last southern guy/gal stereotype under the sun. Once, while walking through the student parking lot, he discovered a group of particularly cruel jackasses sitting in the back of a pickup truck drinking Budweiser and singing along to Taylor Swift. Also, 2 years of bullying was brought on by this troper saying he wanted to be a game designer for a living. ** You want bad? Move south a little bit and make your way to South Carolina. * At this troper's school one popular girl thought that American and English were different languages not making this up here. * Played straight and subverted at This Troper's high school. A lot of the popular kids are complete idiots, but she knows a lot of nerdy kids who everyone likes. * Subverted with [[RayAyanami this troper]]. During his junior and senior years in high school, he grew popular amongst his graduating class, despite being described by his peers as very intelligent and being more or less [[strike:[[WeirdAl white and]]]] [[{{Nerd}} nerdy]], and even won a class election in which his opponents were a swimmer and a not-really-JerkJock. In fact, part of why he was popular was ''because'' of his reputation as a smart guy. * Played straight and subverted in [[Tropers/{{Gerusz}} this troper]]'s high school class: originally the most popular people were the dumb ones. This troper is pretty smart, so he came to the conclusion that it's easier to [[TheChessmaster manipulate the popular, dumb ones]] than becoming popular. However, later most of the class realized this, so - while never getting more popular than the dumb ones - he became the de facto leader of the class. ** Out of [[CuriosityKilledTheCast curiosity]] ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and only curiosity]]), what did you make them do? *** Whenever something important was decided by a class vote (class trip destinations, etc...), it went his way. Also, as a member of the student council he managed to get rid of a stupid teacher once and since the other teachers (including the director, the assistant director and [[AlmightyJanitor the man who owned the school buffet]]) generally liked and trusted him, he could influence decisions which were above class-vote or even student-council level. * This troper holds this belief to heart. Especially since about, say, 90% of all the people he has met that are popular have no personality and are thoroughly unlikable people. But they wear trendy clothes and do trendy things. So Yeah... ** If you didn't say "he," this troper might have thought she left this comment and forgot. ** Or they're on the football team. *** STOP BEING [[{{Tropers/Tofu}} ME]].

* This editor has personally known many straight examples. He has also been friends with one guy, who was practically a perfect subversion of this. * Hmm... in my elementary school, there were some people who were quite popular ''because'' they were dumb. * Partial subversion in this tropers high school. The popular ones are either normal or TheDitz. Played semi-straight by one student of TheLibby status, who thought she was the most popular girl in school, but was in fact regarded as a half step above the chronic thieves. * This troper went to a selective highschool (where this trope was mostly averted), and was surprised at her own popularity, being one of the 'dumb' (i.e. normal) ones. One day she expressed this to one of her friends. The reply? "Everyone likes you because they think you're too stupid to do anything mean, and you're not trying to suck up or manipulate people because you don't know how." She was 100% serious. * Subversion here...sort of. This Troper's high school has a gigantic student body, making it impossible for any student to become universally popular. Each grade is neatly segregated into two groups: honors students(read:smart) and regular students (read: dumb...[[BrilliantButLazy or not]]). Each of these groups has it's own set of popular-ish students. In the honors group, the ''most'' popular people are [[GeniusBruiser the athletes in Speech Team]]. * This troper is the last person you'd expect to have been popular in high school. I was your typical overweight, awkward nerdlinger no sane trendwhore would be caught dead within ten feet of. Yet somehow I managed to make friends with everyone, including the bland [=WASPy=] types. In my senior year a freshman girl and her girlfriends tried to start a fight with me. Almost out of nowhere, no less than about twenty people came to back me up. To this day I still have no idea how I managed to attract a posse that size. * This trope is pretty much played straight at my school: ---> Dumb + Attractive = Popular ---> Dumb + Not Attractive = Geek/Dork ---> Smart + Not Attractive = Nerd ---> Smart + Attractive = Border (not popular but not a nerd/geek/dork)(My friends and I are under this category) ** I assume there is also a 'Modest' category. *** Not here in the Troper's Tales page there isn't. ** I'd say that pretty much lays out the general rules but I would expand 'attractive' to include people who don't behave like freaks. Of course, there are exceptions. * At my school, some of the popular kids are straight-A students. But they are usually only "book smart".The truly intelligent people usually have their own clique, and [[WhatMeasureIsANonSuper look down on]] the rest of us average intelligence people. * Thankfully subverted to hell and back at This Troper's high school. We have a huge marching band (not to mention the rest of the marching unit), and their sheer size lets their majority (relatively intelligent and extremely quirky people) become the "popular" crowd. The "lower-intelligence" kids frequently express jealousy of the honors-level people, and there's a ton of intermingling. Not to mention that the single most popular boy in the school is essentially

a sci-fi geek, theatre geek, and RealLife GaryStu at everything except sports. ** Are you me? I feel like I left this comment and forgot about it. * Subverted in This Troper's school too, and then played around with. Most of the popular kids are actually really smart, but they have 'dumb' hobbies or casual interests that online fandom tends to detest. (Twilight, anyone?) Which might prove that there is no relationship between how how serious you're preferred fiction is and how smart you truly are. This Troper has a theory that the most brilliant people can easily rationalize liking "brainless" stuff. ** Seconded on that last bit. Just because you are ingtelligent doesn't mean you can't like dumb/brainless literature/entertainment. *** Scientifically speaking, there's no such thing as "brainless" entertainment, because all entertainment involves stimulation of the brain. * Most of the jocks at my transfer school were immature idiotic douchebags. * This Troper stopped sucking up to popular people when one of them did the stupidest thind she has ever seen. Miss Popular took a safety pin and carved her name into her own hand and acted like it was the coolest thing in the world. I told her she was fucking stupid and walked away. * Played straight and subverted in my school. Some popular people are dumb, some aren't. Popular= social. * Subverted at this troper's old school. Most of the actually popular kids were also the better academic ones (although they were also good at sport). The {{Jerk Jock}}s, who weren't so much popular as feared, were all just dumb. * Half-subverted at this troper's high school... one of the most popular girls in the school genuinely ''was'' dumb, and a blond perky cheerleader to boot, but she was so sweet everyone forgave her airheadedness. Sort of like a human Golden Retriever, now that this troper thinks about it... * Subverted in this troper's school. Although the student body is ''huge'', the community in general is rather tight-knit and everyone has been going to school with each other since kindergarten, to the point where 'popularity' is determined by how many people know your name. As such, everyone is 'popular' to some degree, creating a bit of a paradox and confusing the poor kids who moved here in highschool. * Played with in this Troper's life. Most popular students were, indeed, dumb at every school she went to. But they were not necessarily evil, rude, snobby or unlikable as Hollywood so often portrays - just really, really stupid. They could do well on tests, memorizing information and forgetting it the next week, but they were so lacking in common sense, logic, and basic human intelligence that they became entertaining ''for'' the dumb things they were doing. * Subverted as this troper's high school. Except for a very few number of people, everyone at his school is friendly and nice. Oddly though, he can't find many examples of anti-social people at his school. * One of the most popular girls in my school is in my theater class. Then one day she randomly shouted out: "Bahamas is a country!?" What makes it funny though, is that there's a student in our class who is

from the Bahamas, and she often states it or talks about back home. * While there are quite a few smart popular kids in my high school class, the large majority - mostly the girls - seem to lack common sense. For example, these twin girls constantly get in trouble for posting pictures to their facebook profiles of themselves drinking. Overall though, this is subverted pretty consistently. * Subverted by this one. He was intelligent enough to get programming almost on the fly while everybody else was scratching their heads in confusion. On top of that, he was also an otaku who would every single day watch three current season anime series. He was also popular enough to almost win the student council. * Welcome to this troper's high school. Most of the most popular kids are binge drinkers and partiers who have trouble in honors classes, let alone AP (to put things in perspective, honors classes hold the majority of the kids. The standard classes are usually for the ''stupid'' kids). ** My school is the same way. It's small so there's generally either AP or standard classes, the standard classes being ridiculously slow and built so that even the dumbest can function and there's a lot of prestige in being in an AP class (even though probably half of the school takes 2+ APs) so kids who would be at the top-ish of a standard class end up in APs. Played straight because even though these are supposed to be ''college level courses'' the many "popular" kids who take these classes are still idiots (read as pronounce metropolis as metro-pole-iz and think "credentials" are the same as "end credits") * This troper's life is a subversion. [[{{Morgie}} I]] actually became popular ''because'' of my intellect. Most of the other popular kids are around avergae intelligence, basically normal kids [[ShapedLikeItself but popular.]] Also, I get really pissed off whenever someone says/implies this. * This Troper knew a brain dead cheerleader in high school. Take Brittany from {{Daria}} and give her a Texas accent and that was her. (Name was even similar.) She couldn't figure out why I was the only person in school who wasn't bending over backwards to get her favor. She asked "Why don't you like me? Everyone likes me!" I said "Because you're a bimbo!" She said "I am not a bimbo! What's a bimbo?" * [[{{Tropers/Charred_gp}} This Troper]] had an interesting inversion of this occur in middle school, where quite a few popular kids were the ones in Academy A, the advanced-but-not-too-advanced class, which took things such as geometry and IPS. Sadly, this no longer seems to be the case now that he's in high school. * Very much subverted at this troper's high school. The kids who were most well-liked and well-regarded were the ones in AP classes, helping lead clubs and organizations, as well as competing in competition. Those who weren't the [[{{Teen Genius}} book smart]] ones were the [[{{Deadpan Snarker}} street smart]] ones. It seemed only the socially awkward and stunted (including this troper until after freshman year) saw any of the stereotypical high school caste system. Oddly enough, ThisTroper was counted among the popular kids herself by senior year, possibly due to the fact she spent four years staying out of petty drama and being a generally [[{{The Pollyanna}} accommodating person]].

* One of the reasons [[PetPeeveTrope I freakin' hate this trope]] is because doesn't seems real, at least, in my own life: popularity and intelligence doesn't seem to have any correlation: I have seen very smart and popular people, and losers who happen to be complete morons too * Five guys I know subvert this, along with [[{{JerkJock}} another trope]]. Let's see, all of them play rugby, football or cricket for the top squad in the school, all of them would be considered popular, and all of them applied to Oxford and/or Cambridge. Three got in for courses like Law, Psychiatry and Medicine, and the other two were pooled (as in, they were put in the 'We'd love to have you but we don't have enough space' category) as candidates. They also single handedly raised nearly a thousand pounds for Haiti, and one of the guys who was rejected by Oxford is applying for a job in a local charity. And there would be hell to pay if they found out someone, ''anyone'', was being bullied. * Thoroughly averted in this Scottish troper's secondary school. The most popular students from around third year onward tend to be of above average intelligence in ADDITION to the standard athleticism, physical attractiveness and trendyness. * Averted here. I was, if not popular, then reasonably well-liked in high school, and I am at least fairly knowledgeable, if not particularly canny. ([[DungeonsAndDragons High Lore, Medium Intelligence, Low Wisdom]], you might say.) * Averted by [[{{Tropers/MiraShio}} Mira-chan's]] school. If you're smart, you're automatically popular. * This is averted with the popular girls in my school. However, the popular jocks at my school are pretty dumb, but they're not really jerks. In fact, the entire football team considers themselves the schools guardians, and regularly try to stamp out bullying. * This troper's school is a very odd case. Not only are the popular kids shallow dumbasses, they also are convinced that they're the smart ones. They're also hypocrites, and are seemingly biased against people with mental disabilities. They also seem to be convinced that mentally retarded + severe mental disorder = Perfectly normal, and in no way messed up, while high IQ + mild mental disorder = "LAWL, GAY RETARDED FAG, let's go piss him off by trying to seduce him in public". Then again, I've been groped by a severely autistic kid with mental retardation (BTW, I'm a dude), my school's fucked up. * My ([[{{Tropers/ICantThinkOfAWittyName}} I Cant Think Of A Witty Name]] here, I'm just on my school laptop) high school plays this trope straigher than a ruler. If you don't do any work and/or have the IQ of a stick, off you pop to the top of the popular ladder. If you want a future and work hard to get it, ''plop.'' You just landed on the mossy, damp floor of "dorkiness." I landed on the floor the second I walked into the gates on my first day. This results in me being the target for popular girls, who just love to gossip about my "bad face" and "bad dress sense" (it's a uniform, dammit! I just wear loosearound-the-thigh-and-calf-area pants with it!) while rolling their skirts up, and popular boys who wear their pants too low and think farting on someone is funny...they (the boys) basically make me feel like shit, doing stuff like coming up behind me and pretending to hump

me. I really want to rip their faces off with my teeth, especially since one of these idiots, the main short-dicked popular ass who terrorizes me, pushed my sister into a fence and sprained or broke her finger and caused her a lot of pain. He also throws stuff at me and calls me derogatory names, along with my mates. One said she was going to the vice principal. All that got done was that he got called out in assembly. That's it. Slap-on-the-wrist punishment for '''breaking my sister's friggin' finger.''' I don't like Australia's education system. At all. The "dorks" get screwed over and the dumb-as-pick-upsticks people are praised for their hard work. For what? Jerkassery and football? ** Think of your human nature: Attack or be attacked. Do NOT give a couple of shits if you get into trouble. It is YOUR human nature to defend yourself against these gigantic dicks. Next time you are troubled, seek retribution. Good luck. * My high school class is a strange example. The most popular ones are dumb, and ''how''.One of them showed me their test. It had ''one'' question answered.'' The rest of the test was completely blank''. There is, however, one exception. One of my friends is a ChickMagnet, a {{Casanova}} and is a ''genius''. This Troper herself is geeky and considered weird, and bullied all the time, but is also considered that guy's only WorthyOpponent. This Troper almos always lose,but still. * Subverted at this troper's high school, where the Student Council and Honors crowds were the most popular kids. * In my school in the UK, it was like this: play and/or love football, or be an outcast. I have never really liked football (I don't mind playing it when your fellow players aren't giant dicks), and I was of above-average-but-not-a-genius intelligence, so I was bullied. For three years. By dumb blondes. No matter, though, because now those girls are smothered in fake tan, fat, acne-ridden, and look like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro ganguro]]. Huzzah for {{Karma}}! * Played straight and subverted at this troper's old high school. Yes, the dumb jocks and similar were kind of popular, but not all. And possibly the single most popular guy in school was our class valedictorian, a member of the drama club and the dungeonmaster of this troper's DungeonsAndDragons group. * In this troper's school it was the attractive and socially skilled people who were popular. Sure some of them didn't do amazing in tests but if you go out alot compared to staying home studying that is a fairly natural result. Being clever was never a hinderence to being popular. Not being active on the social scene (like this troper was) is the major problem. * In my High School the thing that made you popular was following fashion trends, bullying others and not behaving in class. There were two main popular cliques-one had TheLibby and JerkJock and the other was asian guys who thought they were gangsters. (Really UnfortunateImplications that the white and asian popular kids didnt talk to eachother though, but thats how it was). To be popular if you were a girl was to be either of average intelligence or a bit of an airhead, but not get too bad grades (we were all in the cleverest

group at school), but you must be really "pretty" which meant wearing fashionable clothes, loads of fake tan til you look orange, and tons of makeup. Bitchiness is also a necessary quality. To be a popular boy you had to be a JerkJock and never behave in class, and be really dumb. Attractiveness is optional, some of the guys were so ugly yet still popular. You must also be a bully who looks down on people who arent popular. To be part of the other group of popular boys you must wear your pants too baggy so they hand down and show your underwear, smoke weed or at least talk about it, and act like you are a gang. This also requires to be annoying, never behave in class and bully everyone else. * Inverted for the most part in This Troper's old High School. In my senior year there were two students that seemed to fight over the spot of most popular kid in school. They were both top-honors students, got all A's and pretty much aced everything they ever did. And if they didn't...I don't remember it happening. However, I'm pretty sure that the boy was just really great in music because his mom was head of the music department or whatever in the high school. The girl was more talented in the field of art and such, and didn't have any familial advantages to back her up. She however was very snarky and unpleasant to be around if you weren't a yes-man. The boy was much more pleasant to be around, but he was sort of a political strawman and it showed during the mock elections.[[hottip:(*):Even though she didn't particularly care for one or the other This Troper didn't mind being the boy's leading lady counterpart in the musical, though she would participate in the pranks on him made up by the girl (who was the backstage director) if asked to participate.]] * This troper tried hanging out with some of the more popular girls (they were more accepting in my school). All they ever seem to talk about was gossip, boys, clothes, boys, MTV and [[RunningGag boys]]. I had to go to the bathroom and fan myself with a science textbook. * Subverted at this troper's school. The smart preppy people and the dumb jocks are both popular, but within the smart preppy people, there are some absolutely airheaded people who are only in competitive classes because they're rich. The only unpopular people are the people who hang out with the delinquents and anime lovers. * played Straight and Subverted at this tropers school. Several of the popular kids (they were usually EVERY SINGLE CLUB) were in IB/AP/Dual Credit classes, however when this troper joined the AP Classes her senior year, while she didn't make straight A's like most of the kids (her European History grade was often a Low B, however she was one of the few who took the AP Euro test. The popular kids couldn't be bothered with it) she often knew more than the popular kids who had probably been in higher level classes since they could. (Example: When we were studying Beowulf, the teacher -reading from the regulars senior english textbook- asked if anyone knew who Boudicca was. This troper, having known who Boudicca was after seeing part of the episode centered around her (and also it being a Karl Urban episode, of whom I am a BIG fan of) Proceeded to ACT OUT Boudicca's entire life without leaving her chair, Impressing both the teachers and the popular kids, who had been drawing a blank) never the less, while she may have impressed them, they seemed content to ignore her/give her the cold

shoulder for the rest of the year. It didn't bother this troper one bit: She preferred to hang with the Art Nerds/regular kids/Ex IB kids. Then over the summer, I found out that while I was not popular, I was very well liked by all of my teachers/a good percentage of the school's population. * Inverted in this troper's old high school, where the most popular girl of her year had almost straight A's. * Averted with a guy in my high school, who not only was a popular golf champ, but ended up getting the highest ACT score in the grade and was very good at physics to boot. Seeing how big my school is and how hard judging other people's popularity is, I can't tell if this trope applies to anyone else. However, I'd say that a majority of the top 10% at my school is made up of very social people. * Averted for this troper, who generally believed the trope until she saw a number of the popular girls at her school recieving many awards at her eighth grade promotion. She still thinks it's somewhat true, based on some of the people she knows. * Played straight in this troper's middle school, unless said popular girls were considered pictures of perfection. More annoyingly, the dumb ones still got good grades because they always cheated. These girls had the capability flunk Pig Latin if it were a class. * In [[{{@/Strawberryflavored}} my]] high school, the most intelligent people tend to be popular, but only because they're smart. some of the popular kids are aversions, but many people play it straight. ---PopularIsDumb? Not in Troperville! Tropers are smart ''and'' wellliked. ----

PorkyPigPronunciation * ''[[{{SAMAS}} raises hand]]'' Guilty as charged. I have a bad habit of tripping over my words for no good reason, and literally ''spitting them out'' before I can try again. ** [[ManCalledTrue This editor]] has this happen on occasion when his [[SpeechImpediment stammer]] is ''really'' acting up. Most memorably, he ran directly into it with the name of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and took ''two minutes'' to finally spit the damned thing out. ** Ditto- this troper does this quite often. I stutter on a word before quickly giving up and using something that means the same thing- often cracking people up. ** Annoyingly, [[{{Bisyss}} I]] have a habit of doing this with simple words as well. I'll either continuing talking in complete gibberish or go *pop* and start the sentence again. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] starts having trouble getting her words out if she talks for long periods of time. It ranges from stuttering to mispronouncing words several times to just plain having trouble saying it. It was a big problem in elementary (where she was incredibly shy and hated talking in front of people), and it didn't help that others made fun of her for it. * ''[[{{Nomic}} This troper]]'' tends to talk faster the longer he speaks, and at some point he starts to stammer too. Even when speaking

at a normal rate, he sometime has trouble pronouncing words with three similar sounding syllables in a row without accidentally adding a fourth one. * This troper cannot for the life of her say the word "statistics" more than once in a short time period without being reduced to feeble hissing noises. It is a pity that part of her job is training people on how to generate them. She also occasionally repeats the last syllable of words without noticing-ing. * {{Haven}} must admit he has this problem sometimes, particularly with the word "Gloucester", to his irritation. ** I'm curious to know how, especially as the word's a simple 'Gloster'.. * [[{{Azvolrien}} This troper]] very rarely speaks with a stutter in English. In German, however, it can take several times to get a word out. Even one as simple as 'machen'. * This troper does this, sometimes, as well as a reversed version. Sometimes when I say something, I'll repeat it in a sub-audible whisper, without even knowing why. When I start stuttering over the sub-audible whisper, I know it's time to go to bed. * This editor finds that when he's not had enough sleep, his vocabulary is the first thing to go, leading to this trope. * "I mean, back in Word Warl...Wordl...Wa...W...Dubya Dubya Two..." * This troper sometimes has trouble getting the right vowels in her words, especially when she's tired. A particularly hilarious example came one night when she meant to say "gay" and said "guy" instead. "He's not guy." * Guilty as charged. Clumsy speaker and keeps forgetting words. ** Same here. No stuttering, just trouble saying the most simple words and never having the right one when I need it. * [[LadyNorbert This troper]] too. As my boss puts it, my mouth can't keep up with my brain. ** Same for this troper. Made worse by the fact that she's also a MotorMouth. * This troper had the following exchange yesterday, which was accented by his [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} CloudCuckooLanderness]]: "It's all because of your stupid id-id-ideo-ideo-b-THINGY!" "You mean Ideology?" "No, by now I already mean thingy." * Only when I read aloud. I can only assume that I have a loose wire somewhere. ** If you do, then we both do. * This Troper doesn't stammer regularly, but he did once at a great moment. In his TESOL class (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) the instructor asked what was replacing native-like accent as the focus of pronunciation training in more recent teaching methods. -->''"Integibl-intellibl-inge-intellil- ...Intelligibility, you know, that thing I didn't have just a moment ago."'' *class laughs* * In my circle of friends, this is so common that we have SOP for dealing with it: stop talking, blow a quick, self-deprecating raspberry, say "Take two," and restart the sentence. * This troper's aunt is not a native English speaker and hence stumbles over any complicated English word she doesn't quite remember

how to pronounce: "It's dis-disat-disatri- not good!" * JChance stammers like a bastard, and often trails off mid-sentence as his brain moves on. ** Same for [[{{Bookhobbit}} this troper]]. She is often prompted to continue after she's trailed off, which is most annoying. * Whenever [[SladeJT this troper]] opens her mouth, the chances are high that this will happen at any given moment, regardless of the number of syllables. She is amazed if a single minute has passed without her stumbling over a word. * This troper, due to not being able to speak near as fast as she thinks, has been known to use unintentional spoonerisms in both English and Japanese. * This troper's brother stutters over... he stut... he stutters over whole chunks of... whole pieces of sentences. Like that. * Sometimes happen to [[{{onyhow}} this troper]], but he got worse: sometimes he can't even say simple word, for some reason, and need to try several times before he can say it. * This combined with MotorMouth and a bad VerbalTic habit of using Spoonerisms (accidentally swapping the first letters or syllables of words with each other) can turn this troper into TheUnintelligible at times. My close family and friends can usually understand what I mean regardless though. * This Troper's brain moves way faster then his mouth does. So when I want to speak about something I end up changing my wording mid-stream due to my thoughts going a different way. Also I stutter a lot, when I am excited about something. * This troper, and one of her good friends, both do this. The other girl in question, however, takes a deep breath between stuttered syllables to collect her thoughts, which gives her a very memorable speech style. Not necessarily in a bad way, though. * This troper had a work colleague who had grown up with his Irish grandfather in the house, and spoke naturally with an Irish accent, when he tried to speak with a local accent to avoid attention, this happened. * This troper does it all the time. Usually when he's pressed for something to say and hasn't thought of it yet. The first thing that comes to mind always seems worse than the second. * This troper does this. However when he was younger it was much worse. Now it's just somewhat irritating * This troper tends to talk really fast, so somethign that sounds okay to me sounds rushed to everyone else. It's ''very'' annoying. * This troper's friend has a bad habit of stuttering that causes him to stumble over just about any sentence because he'll constantly pause, start again, pause again, start again, repeat the same word several times, and so on. It's not due to nervousness or anything, simply that, while he's a good artist and fairly book-smart, he completely lacks both common sense and standards of decency when talking to people, leading to him actually ''refusing'' to focus at times on what he's trying to say. * This troper ends up doing this. This was more common when I was younger when my tonsils affected the way I talked. Now, it really only happens if I start talking faster or if there are two words next to

each other that are close in pronunciation. If I end up doing this around my guy friend, he's likely to make a comment about it. * Sometimes when this troper talks before he thinks he tends to stutter a bit ** A neighbor boy used to have a severe stuttering problem when he was younger the most common things he say are " can I pway, can I pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, p-p-p-pwaystation p-p-p-pwease?" and " Wha-wha-wha-what what ya, what ya, whaaaaaaaaat ya, watch,watch,watch,watch, watching?" * [[LeighSabio This Troper]] used one of these as a mnemonic for the Broca's Area, the area of the brain that controls speech production. The mnemonic: My Broca's Area is brock-bri-brack-b-b--not working. * This Troper is completely uncabable of pronouncing "quesadillas" without this happeing. "Can I have one of those que-que-qu-qu-caseycay-quasi-qu-qu-qu-qua-cas-th-th-those things?" * [[{{Tropers.Akiba}} This troper]] does this quite often, usually with any word(s) that begin with a "th." It doesn't help that his brain goes faster than his mouth. * In a bit of a sad twist, my mother got this as a result of her stroke. As in, "Go walk the d-d-do-d-do-d...four-legged...furry guy." It mainly kicks in when she's tired and her brain's just too flustered to really keep up. * This Troper also has a fairly annoying habit of stuttering a bit and repeating the beginning of whatever sentence he's trying to say. "I-I d-don't know...I don't know what's happening." * [[{{Usagi}} Th-Th-Th-This...um...]][[MotorMouth ohwhatwasthewordddd]]...troper. [[ShrinkingViolet It suits her.]] * [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] with This troper, I tend to pause in between words when doing long senteces, But the other half of our ComedyDuo litrially compared the impediment to porky pig. That pausing between words get's that illusion when I realize that I'm saying something stupid. * My 4-year old cousin does this (on purpose), and it's cute to the point of unbearability. * One night when getting pizza with some friends, one of their ladyfriend's asked why this Troper used a pseudonym when ordering over the phone. "Too much hassle, my surname is too allit-alliteralliterlat--alliteralat--alLITERATIVE". Derp. * Erm... I have a bad tendency to do this if I start talking too fast. I just cannot do MotorMouth in a coherent manner. * This troper especially has trouble with the name Nomo... Nomozo... Nozomu Isho... Itoki... Itokishi... [[SayonaraZetsubousensei NOZOMU ITOSHIKI.]] * This Troper. Full stop. Partly due to having such a huge vocabulary she will forget words, partly because of her very short attention span, and partly because her brain moves faster than her mouth (think the opposite of MotorMouth), so by the time she's on the second word her head's already two sentences forward. This is subject to much mockery by her friends and family. We like to call this little phenomenon 'Verbal Dyslexia'. One memorable instance was when I tripped up over the phrase 'Freaky prairie people' (ItMakesSenseInContext) and it came out as 'Free Pubueno'. This become

a RunningGag. What is a Free Pububeno? We don't know, but it's free. * This troper sometimes stumbles over her words. She keeps trying to say a word but repeating the first syllable a dozen times before giving up, getting the whole word out and moving on. * This troper's stumbling block is the word "Prestidigitation". A typical attempt at saying it goes: Prestididi... Prestigidita... Presti... Prestigi... Ah fuck it. ---''Re-r-re-ret-r--go back to PorkyPigPronunciation.'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PornNames * The ones with street name would go badly for [[{{Tropers/HG131}} this troper]]. First pet + street name is Buddy Hillcrest. The middle name + street name is Louis Hillcrest. Both make me think of the 50s, not porn (though, that second one would work good for a fictional character). First pet + mother's maiden name would be Buddy Springer. Sounds kinda porny. * Alex 86th (Middle Name + Street name) Sounds like the name for some sort of android or something. Sadly I have no pets. * Tropers/JBridge here. According to the article, my porn name is "Gremlin Royal Ann". Doesn't really work out that well. My Film Making teacher used a varient to come up with character names for a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aHhO_if_Lk zombie film]] we made. Take your ''middle name'' and the street you lived on. It came out "Matthew Royal Ann", which my teacher shortened to "Matthew Royal". I didn't particularly like the last name, so I changed it to "Matthew Rook". If I ever need to use an alias, that's what I'll use. Oddly enough, the name ended up not getting used in the movie. * My porn name is Mina Stanford, and my zombie name, according to the above example is Rose Stanford. Both of which are serviceable, and I may use if I need a fake name. * Ricki Turquoise. Yay? * Princess Gold. Woah. On the flipside, my zombie name would be Perdita Gold, which sounds equally porn-starry. * Rowena Moore. * Mendel Brooklake. Sounds more like a rabbi than a porn star. Not that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive, mind. The convergence is, however, miniscule. ** I think it sounds like a Hobbit name myself. * According to the "Name of your 1st pet and street name" formula I'm Lucky Strong, which sounds like a brand of cigerettes (I'm NOT using my current street since I doubt "Lucky Vista View" (don't mention the redundance of vista view, whoever named the street obviously didn't know what vista means) is going to be in ANY porno). I like Lucky Strong anyway since I have a great catch phrase to go with it. * Using the Sinfest system I get Hyde Steven Vale. Sounds much better without the Vale. * My porn name is Abe Beverly, and my zombie name is Davis Beverly. Fail. Using my current street name gives the slightly more workable

Abe Forest. * Vodka High Rock. Yes, my first pet was named Vodka. This of course sounds more like a mixed drink than a name for a porn star. * Jade Sugarwood. Of course, the "first pet" I used was actually an imaginary tiger, but my first real pet was named Paul and I'm a girl, so...yeah. * Using the pet/street name combo, I'm Kiki San Fernando. * Heidi Farlow (pet/street) doesn't exactly work for this male troper. He much prefers Lloyd Wadsworth (middle name/more recent street) ** By that variant, this troper would be Kumar Sutton. (I stole my father's middle name, because I don't have one.) That does not sound like a porn star...[[OrIsIt does it?]] * First Pet + First Street? "Squeak Oakleaf." ...This troper had hamsters, okay?? * My porno name is Princess Skyfrost. Maybe I should go with an Indian theme? My zombie name would be Michelle Harwell. (A Beatles song! Miiiichelle...Har-well!) Going by the street I live on now. * Mini Woodpecker. Laugh it up. * Cassie Southwest (pet/street). Not half bad, really. ** My porn star name would be Cassie Old. What is it with people calling their pets Cassie...? My character/zombie name would be Alexandra Old. * I can't do porn 'cause I've never had a pet XD. My zombie name is Eden Terracotta though, which sounds like it could double if necessary. ** Use a friend or neighbor's pet. You're also allowed to use a neighbor's pet if your pet is too GenderBlenderName. * My porn name is apparently Monster Lake, which sounds more like a BMovie. My Zombie name is Lake Levine. ** Monster Lake sounds like a zombie name and Lake Levine sounds like a porn name. That's hilarious. * This (female) troper's porn name is actually spot on: Honey Hollow. Technically Honey Hollow Tree, but when I realized I could have a really blatant innuendo I shortened it. * Marsie Stoke. That's not sexy at all >.> ** I [[FreudWasRight misread]] that as 'Marsie Stroke' and was considerably confused why you thought it wasn't a good one. * This male troper's porn name is badass: Beowulf Stratton. Hell yeah. His zombie name is Lee Stratton, which sounds cool, but not as much as Beowulf Stratton. * Daisy Gettysburg. Or, for current street, Daisy Mockingbird. Zombie: Keaton Gettysburg. I sound male! * Doogal Suffolk, or, using my second pet and current street name, Harley Coverdale. Not very sexy, if you ask me. My zombie name would be either Grace Suffolk or Vesta Suffolk, depending on which middle name I use. * I prefer my friend's porn name: Tammy Sugarbush. My own porn name is Greta Willow Wood...sounds like a Victorian schoolteacher into S&M. * Diva Balboa? Not too bad... * Midnight Hollywood. No complaints here. * Cookie Seri. This is somewhat hard to do when not in a country that uses english for street names. Admittedly, mine still works.

* Let's see... I'd be Sir Winston for a Porn Name. Sounds kinda cool, not really pornographic tho'. ** Weird--that was the ''real'' name of my parents' pet British bulldog. * My porn name - Wayne Howett. Think on it for a moment... and thank God I'm not a girl. * Dick D. Licius here. ** Liar. * My porn name is Lightning Johnson [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean which sounds pretty badass until you remember that lighting strikes almost faster than the human eye can perceive and never more than once in the same place.]] * Porn name: Jabba Bright Oak. (Yes, I had a pet named Jabba the Hamster.) * Going by the Sinfest method, I'd be Frisky Bryan... My zombie movie name would be Jacqueline Bryan and that's my go to alias * First name/street would be Raphael Britannia, Middle name/street would be Henri Britannia, and pet name/street would be Snowy Britannia. * First name street: Ben Monteliza, Middle name street: Robert Monteliza. My dog is female. * Pugsy Barricane. Meow! * Beef Strokinoff anybody? ** Bullshit. * porn name: Hades 6th street... if i went with the 1st pet and mothers maiden name it would be Hades Edwards... and thats not very good. zombie name: Gary 6th street..... this isnt working * Puck Punkrose. Combination of three pet names, because Puck Nonotuck isn't sexy. * Duchess Goldcrest. Classy! * Using the first pet name+first street name, this female troper gets Blue Dragon Donald. Such a good stripper/porn name. * Bubba [=MacKenzie=]. Jesus. ** I first read that as Bubba [=MacKenzie=] Jesus, which is just about [[AwesomeMcCoolname the best name ever]], porn name or not. * Ramon. It sounds sexy and Latin. * A former classmate of mine wound up with "Gaybutt Bluebird" wich, naturally, led to a large number of jokes at his expense. * Old Man Bronco. This troper has a tortoise, and she never formally named her hermit crabs. But if all else fails, it's a good cowboy name. * [[{{Adeon}} This Troper]] was told once that his standard internet alias (Adeon Hawkwood) sounds like a PornName. * Goldie First. Using the Mother's Maiden Name formula, I'm Goldie Strange--which sounds less like an adult film actor and more like [[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase a heroine in a YA fantasy series.]] * According to the pet name + street name formula, my porn name is Diane Buck. I think it's okay, my sister thinks I need to change a letter, and a friend thinks it sounds like a [[{{Hermaphrodite}} futanari]] porn name. I did not ask how much he knows this. * Being an English girl born in Belgium, my Porn Star and Zombie names are hilarious: Molly/Louise Hacdofdrief (at least, I think that's how

you spell it). * Haha. I got Gigi North, which actually sounds pretty cool. Furthermore, my soap opera name (middle name/street name) is Elisabeth North, which isn't half-bad either. * Ralph Treebark here. Sounds more like an associate of Paul Bunyan than anything else. * Max Retreat here. * First pet + Street name = Snow White 11th Avenue, or Whiskers/Mustache 11th Avenue. You can't get much sexier. (Female troper here) The latter name (Whiskers/Mustache) depends on how you translate the cat's French name. * Minoes Hoenderhoflane, This Troper is a male, doesn't help being born in Belgium where they don't have awesome porn names. * Porn name: Abby Morningside. [[SarcasmMode How titillating]]. Zombie name is Erin Morningside, which isn't much better. * Max Shamwood? Should I be scared now? * This just doesn't work in dutch and if you translate it into english it doesn't get any better, i get to pick the least awful: Nouskha/Tinka/Joska/Igor Maple or Christian Maple. * "Fuzzy Frontage" (pet was a long-haired hamster, and Frontage road). Sounds more like a flasher than anything else! * Musi Bekkasinveien for this troper...sounds like anything but a porn name. * Crash Purdy...good god it sounds like a Redneck Nascar porn star. * Magic 13 here... it was a hamster okay!? * Tabitha Old Grimsbury? [[FetishRetardant Not really the name for a porn star, is it?]] * Missouri Old King. It doesn't sound too terrible, but it's definitely not porn name. * Astro Architect/of Architects (the street was "Architect Street"), here. Would I star in very detailed porn about space architects, or something? Sadly, I don't have a middle name, so I guess I'm not cut out for any zombie movies. * "Fluffy Bush". I'm a man, honest! ** I feel for you, since I have a similar one: "Fluffy Front". I swear I'm not making that up. * Toby Pains, which the insinuations aren't great no matter how you look at it. * Heidi Shadow. Maybe it's just me, but I associate "Heidi" with a middle-aged, black-haired woman. * Poptart Michigan. Possibly the worst porn name ever, especially for a guy. * My firsst (male) pet + first street I (remember) living on = Malcolm Eagle. Not too bad, although it sounds more like an action hero name. * Chancy 17th. If we're going by favorite candy+first street, it would be Jelly Bean 17th. Possibly Swedish Fish 17th or Reese's 17th. Just kill me now. * Pet Name + Street Name =... K9 Dewey. No. Middle Name + Street Name is more soap opera-fitting: Louise Dewey. * Goldeen Kennedy Boulevard according to the Pet name + Street Name...Yha, nothing that involves the first street I lived on could ever work.

* Pets Name + Street Name = Storm Parkland. Huh. * Going by the pet + street I would be Chuck Longview, Don't know if that fits me. * Middle Name + Street Namer = Ernest Rivers. No damn way I could get into porn. * Pet's Name + First Street = Eddie Colin. Yes, I lived on Colin Avenue. Oy, the implications... * This troper's porn name would be either Hannah Linden (pet name + street name) or Rachel Linden (middle name + street name), which unfortunately sound more like common names. She does plan to use them as a stage name if for some reason she ever becomes famous. * Using the pet name+ street name, this troper would be Randy Fountain Glen. She would drop the "Glen" if she actually went into porn. * Striker Sunset for me. Not bad! * Using the pet name + street name method this ''female'' troper gets Roger Morrow. She does not regret naming her rabbit [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger]]. * Wait, according to the Pet + Street Name, this Male Troper's Porn Name would be Lucy Maney Hill. ---Head back on over to PornNames, Mr. Bigg Studd! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PornStache So you have, formerly had, or have seen a porn stache. Tell us about it: ---* This Troper has one, is proud of it, and intends to keep it for his entire life. A [[RunningGag Running Gag]] among my friends is that it makes me look like I'm thirty-five years old, while I'm only 22. So why do I keep it around? Because it lets me safely hit on - and pick up - hot older women ([[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Cue Awesomeness]] if it is done in front of friends). College sophomores as well, who (sometimes not always) soften down a little bit when the 'mature sophisticated guy' (an act which this troper can pull off very well) shows interest in them. And yes, this troper is aware that he is a pig. * This tropers spanish teacher in high school had a pretty impressive porn stache, considering he was completely bald otherwise. He even had a special comb for it which he would whip out in the middle of class. He was also a member of a biker gang (With the tats to prove it) and a former marine with a taste for early '80s glam metal. * This female troper once used mascara and black eyeliner to draw a fairly convincing PornStache on her upper lip. It wasn't for a costume or a play or anything like that; I did it for teh lulz. And to see the [[HeroicBSOD look on my mother's face]] when she found me picking out [[WholesomeCrossdresser a tie to go with my mustache]] ** This Troper occasionally drags, just for fun, and adds mascara to her natural upper lip hair to create something more masculine but still real looking. Unfortunately I can't make it a serious moustache

or it'd look fake, so I'm stuck with a [[http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-aksnc4/hs818.snc4/69841_1600070075166_1038466718_1705895_5601078_n.jpg lame puberty 14 yr old boy stache]]. Either that or [[http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-akash2/hs022.ash2/34457_1480241719532_1038466718_1405953_6742185_n.jpg something a baby faced paedo would have]]. [[http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-aksnc3/hs239.snc3/22649_1321160102591_1038466718_995146_7300181_n.jpg It's excellent]] for RecursiveCrossdressing [[NightmareFuel though]] *** Whaaaaat those [[ViewerGenderConfusion cannot be pictures of a girl]]. * [[Tropers/{{Smerf}} This]] troper grew a 'stache for Movember, an international charity event in which men get sponsored to grow mustaches for the month of November. It started out looking like a pedostache (so I started growing an understache/soul patch, too). By the end of the month, the understache was the only thing that kept it from being a porn stache. * When [[{{Dukia}} this troper]] was in kindergarten, her dad had a particularly horrifying PornStache. Although at the time she had no idea that it was called that, nor did she have any clue what porn or even ''sex'' was, she still thought that [[http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4756/dadsstache0001.jpg his mustache]] made him look creepy. ** That's an awesome 'stache! * [[@/HersheleOstropoler This troper]]'s sister saw it and said "I'm a little uncomfortable with you being around children." I shaved it off. * This Troper's husband was informed by one of his students that he had one. After hearing the story, This Troper made him shave it off. * This Troper's [[LukeIAmYourFather Sister's Boyfriend]] he hasn't yet met had a porn stache until yesterday (from this typing). This Troper has seen a picture, and it really was. He shaved it off though, because this Troper's Sister said that it would be hilarious if he was her friend, but he's her boyfriend, so he must remove it. So she guilt him into shaving it. * This Troper has grown one of these. Usually the remnant of a vacation goatee. * The majority of the men in [[Tropers.DesertDragon this troper]]'s family have a mustache like this, which has led to this troper growing only a goatee and, as a gay man, being a bit turned off by mustaches in general. * This Troper's father had one for about a third of his life, shaving it ''just'' in time for This Troper to be born. Essentially all pictures of him before that, even the wedding photos, look like the beginning of a [[{{Squick}} bad porn setup]]. * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]] used to have one when I was ''sixteen''. Yes, it was that full already. By seventeen, I stopped shaving entirely, and looked not unlike a young BillyMays. I've been clean shaven for years now. * This troper's moustache was a porn stache for about 2 months, before he decided to grow a full-blown walrus moustache. * This troper normally looks absolutely normal, but is growing a

mustache in October, and growing his hair out (It grows fast) for his halloween costume. If he's guessed right, he'll look like George Harrison in time for Halloween * This is the only type of mustache that [[Tropers/MalachiteDragon this troper]] can grow for the life of him...It's very aggravating. * This troper's gym teacher in ninth grade had one. We weren't sure what to make of it. Its existence hung heavy in the air, unacknowledged by our voices but obvious in our minds, like your racist grandpa's remarks around the dinner table during Thanksgiving. * This troper once sat on a plane next to someone who had a porn stache. He was completely bald and glared at me when I asked to borrow a pencil. * This troper has one, mainly because he always cuts his upper lip if he shaves. No shaving near the upper lip = no cut upper lip. * This troper naturally gets one. Helps since I got the other spelling, {{If you know what I mean}}. * This troper's friend had one after returning from a four week vacation. He shaved it off after about a week after we made fun of him incessantly. * This Troper has had his since he was ''fourteen''. I am now eighteen, and I still have it. Hell, I'm famous for it throughout my school. * This Troper, while not having a porn stache himself, sees these far too often due to his university's strict rules prohibiting beards but allowing mustaches. * This troper grew one at 20 to make himself look older, and only got around to shaving it (to look younger) when he was 35. Unfortunately that was after I took my passport photo, resulting in my having to tell a lot of TSA employees "Let's just say it was a bad fashion choice." * [[Tropers/AnimeAddictAA This Troper]] only read this article today, made a minor edit to a link that now existed on an article, then had to go out of the house. On the way, he noticed someone with such a moustache, which he considered very weird since he never recalls ever seeing one before. It also made him [[ContemplateOurNavels wonder: was it the first time he ever saw it or did he see it often, but not knowing what it is, ignored it until now?]] * One time in English class, This Troper's friend pointed out that the mustache of a guy in our textbook looked like a '70s porn stache. I questioned him as to how he knew what one looks like. * This troper wishes she had one. ** This troper's with you in that one, but she knows it would be really weird. * This troper just remembered a HilariousInHindsight incident which happened a few years back on Halloween. Her younger brother was being captain [[PiratesoftheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]]. Most of the costume was great, but the mustache was huge and looked ridiculous on him. Our mother had him take off the mustache and drew on a new one with an eyebrow pencil. Then, our older brother, who was maybe, 12 at the time and had been planning to stay home and help hand out candy this year, asked if HE could wear the mustache. Our mother told him that it was a terrible idea, but he really wanted too, so she let him. Then, when we

were about to go outside to trick-or-treat, he ran and got a video camera, while still wearing the mustache, and followed us all the way down the neighborhood, telling everybody we passed that he was "The Cameraman". This Troper thought it was funny at the time, but now that she looks back on it, she can't stop laughing. * The Internationally-Renowned 'Stache of Power. If ya don't have a 'terp, send in this troper. His 'stache somehow functions as a one-way English-Arabic translator. We're still trying to figure out *how*. * "Hey, this Troper's doctor, love the new 'stache! You look like the MythBusters guy!...er, actually, you kinda look that pedophilic murderer from TheLovelyBones. Wait, you have to put your hand ''where''?" [[{{CaptainObvious}} It wasn't a good day.]] * This Troper proudly has one, and is growing a small beard to go with it (I'm going for a Van Dyke-thingy, no idea how that is going to turn out. You'll be the first to know, Tvtropes!) * Both my dad and my uncles had this kind of moustaches back in the seventies/eighties. I don't know about my uncles, but my dad shaved it off because he became allergic to his own facial hair. It also could be that he couldn't handle the awesomeness due to the fact that the porn stache was HUMONGOUS, sorta like Groucho Marx's. ** And in the other hand, my cousin tried to have a BadassMoustache but everybody started to mock him when it turned out to be [[AllGaysArePedophiles "a pedophile's]] [[MoustacheOfFailedHeterosexuality moustache"]]. After weeks everyone of teasing him, the razor did its work. * This Troper had one for a while, and was quite proud of it. It looked less like a porn stache when Igrew the soul patch underneath...it approached Tom Selleck levels of awesome, but then I had to shave it for a job (apparently mustaches and breathing equipment don't play well together). This Troper will grow it back as soon as my employment situation permits. * This troper recently grew one, but it is becoming a bother when drinking coffee. * This troper has had one since 2005. It's also seen more combat than you ever will. The 'stache will only be trimmed, never removed. Even if it does make him look creepy. * You know the Brawny Paper Towel man example? That is exactly how [[Tropers/{{DarkPulse}} This troper's]] father looked right up through about the mid 1990s. '''EXACTLY.''' He could have been ''the model'' for the artwork, right down to the flannel. Personally, this troper is too lazy to shave more than once a month, so he tends to grow a face that fluctuates between [[BadassBeard Badass Beard]] and [[BeardOfBarbarism Lumberjack Beard]] instead, depending on how long it's been since his last shearing. Probably also has to do with the fact that he looks all of 15 or 16 without facial hair. * This [[TheCapitalOfBrazilIsNotBuenosAires Argentine]] troper had one for a brief period (I had to shave a completely failed goatee experiment). The result: got mocked at the school where I teach for looking like teenager (I was 25). I kind of liked it, but it made me resemble just too much to my father, who proudly carries and grooms one... since 1975!!! We are so used to his 'stache that we threatened to stop talking to him if he even dares to think of trimming it. With

the age, he is also developing some epic eyebrows! ** Here in Argentina is not so much considered a porn star thing, but a Latin American macho (and sometimes mildly fascist) connotations, as it is associated with the gaucho stereotype of hardness, bravery and machismo and evolved as such as a staple in the law and military forces. So I guess is not a completely discredited trope here, at least for the old guys and people in rural areas. We still have policemen and military with some serious [[CharlesBronson Bronsonian]] mustaches, with matching Ray Ban mirrorshades, and you wouldn't laugh at them at all. The trope runs straight for very thin moustaches, though: once popular among Tango singers, now they are considered good only for pimps, paedophiles and some hard gays, the rest are epic fails. I think the same is true in most Latin America... * This troper found a couple decades old photograph of her uncle with a fairly epic example of this in her grandmothers office cupboard last Christmas. Being Christmas and all, it was her sworn duty to share the find with the entire extended family who were also visiting... * My father had one for a ''long'' time until he shaved it when I was about 11 or 12. At the time, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks I wasn't too happy]], but looking back at old pictures of him, he looked ''exactly'' like George Harrison. It was such an iconic feature of him that I used to think that all fathers automatically grew mustaches when their wives had children. I myself have a fairly faint one, but I'm trying to grow it into a Fu Manchu. ---Back to TroperTales, you sexy beast. Unless you want to shave off that PornStache. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PortmanteauCoupleName * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] has found it hard to do when the two names are Anna and Andrew (my friends, Andrew has a thing for Anna and we both suspect she has a thing for him). Annadrew? * This troper and a female friend of his recently got paired together by her friends, all because I help her with her math. That being said, her name begins with "Ca", while mine ends with "ke." Together, we become "Cake." We are not actually together, despite what every other student in the school thinks.[[HilarityEnsues Cue]] [[{{Portal}} the]] [[MemeticMutation references.]] * [[{{lotuschan}} This troper]] and her friend give these to our school's resident LittleBlackDress and his various girlfriends. Such gems as "Mattia" (Matt+Nadia), "Mendra" (Matt+Kendra), and "Mattelsea" (Matt+Chelsea) resulted. * "Rika" + Andrew = Randrew. * Audrey + Raymond = [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Audraymond]] * This troper's relationship with a former lauched of a thousand ships worked out quite nicely in this department (Ryan+ Angela= Ryangela). This trope really took affect though when this troper's close friends 9 month relationship (this was in sixth grade btw) was said to be

doomed because their names didn't fit nicely (Kori+David= Korvid? Dari? nah) and two days later they broke up * Sorta: Nicholas +Nicole= Nick * This troper's friends do this with real people, on a regular basis. "Megan" and "Devon" become "Mayden", pronounced like it looks. [[HilarityEnsues You can imagine what happened when the guy in the "relationship" heard himself referred to by this name.]] But she will never understand how that one works. ** However, the real kicker (and the best one this troper has ''ever'' heard of) is Carl/Jessica, or "Carsicca". ** This troper knows Chuck/Rebecca, or "Chubecca". ** This troper knows a few: Scott/Robin = Robott, John + Kathleen = Johnleen. The former being better than the latter. ** This troper's nickname within her [[{{Nakama}} circle of friends]] is Rain. Her boyfriend's nickname within the same circle of friends is Cloud. Three guesses as to what we were christened shortly after we officially became a couple. *** Storm? **** Try "Raincloud". :P *** Thanks a lot. My sister and her friends - all girls except for TheOneGuy, who's gay - also call each other by noun nicknames, in their case food (Lemon, Lime, Melon, Pizza, and Anise if that's not her actual name) and now I'm picturing them together and IT IS DOING BAD THINGS TO MY BRAIN. And the only one of those combinations of actual food that would taste good is Lemon/Lime. **** No love for Melon Pizza? Lemon Pizza, on the other hand, just sounds like an ecchi anime... ***** No Lemons, No Melon. **** Sounds like you're reading the ingredients for flavored Gin. ** Nick and Elanor became Nel. * This troper once found out that an alumnus of his school had the first name [=JoRel=]. He spent a lot of time wondering what nationality would happen to create Kryptonian names when he discovered that this was a very Caucasian girl whose name was her parents' Portmanteau Couple Name. ** There should be a specially severe form of death penalty for people who do things like that. * Azmon + Brianna = Brazmon. * This troper strongly dislikes {{PortmanteauCoupleName}}s and uses them as rarely as possible; she blames the media for shoving Bennifer, [=TomKat=], Vaughniston, Brangelina, etc. down everyone's throats ad nauseum. However, she has to admit that if she and her husband had to use such a name, she's amused that they would be described as Kevlar. * This troper also hates Portmanteau Couple Names. She was not amused (well, maybe just a little) when their friends started referring to her (Maia) and her boyfriend (Michael) as Maiachael. * My RE teacher was Ms. Reddish, got married and is now Mrs. Brown. I call her Mrs. Reddish-Brown. ** How about Mrs. Maroon? * My circle of friends has a lot of fun with these. Our two prominent couples are Chris and Ashley, which portmanteaus quite nicely to "Chrashley," and Robby and Diana, which results in either "Dobby" or

"Riana;" I believe the couple prefers the latter. Recently, Alex and Alicia have become an item, but that spawned so many possibilities I don't believe one has been decided on. * The irrepressible {{Zordauch}}, occasionally logging in as "[=TiZ=]", introduced his girlfriend Kizba to an online forum he used to frequent. [=KizTiZ=] can now be found under TroperTales for UglyGuyHotWife. * This troper's high school was full of these. The two that stick out were Pann (Patrick and Ann) and The Gay Couple, known as Moos (Matt and Roos - his last name). * This troper has a dog named Pepper. Pepper was enrolled in puppy training with another dog named Jack, and in a moment of total silliness, I told my friends that their ship name would be Pepperjack. * This troper and some friends were joking around with the idea of NASA being/having a fandom and making up "shipping" names for various spacecraft that had done joint missions. Saturn + Apollo = Sapollo. Hubble + Shuttle = Huttle. Orion + Ares = Ories. * [[JuiceBoxHero This troper]] has two friends in a SchoolgirlLesbians relationship. Their names are Ma and Ngo. Combined, they are... '''''Mango!''''' * This Troper and her boyfriend have the unfortunate combination of our names and friends who like anime and portmanteau pairing names. Our names are Whitney and Jonny. Thus, when you put it together...you just get our names if done phonetically: Jonney and Whitnny. * [[{{Bronzethumb}} This troper]] has two friends who are dating. When the subject of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Portmanteau Couple Names]] came up, they immediately leapt on "Lilly", based on their first names. But my friends and I didn't want them getting off too easily, so we took their surnames and came up with a classic that everyone in our group now uses: "Grogbag". ItMakesSenseInContext. We also think it sounds very Australian--or at least, appropriate to the part of Australia where we live. * My name is Susannah. My friend is convinced that I have a crush on Anakin Skywalker (I don't, but I dare you to try telling her that), and has portmanteaued us as "Susanakin". ^^; * This troper went to high school with a couple, Dylan and Andrea; a Gov & Politics teacher slurred their names into Dylandrea. (It went from "Good afternoon Dylan and Andrea" to "Good afternoon Dylan 'n Andrea" and so on.) * Chron. * This male troper finds Portmanteaued names stupid. Nevertheless, even he has to admit that ''Willissa'' has a nice ring to it. * This troper has a classmate who is obsessed with [[HarryPotter Daniel Radcliffe]]. They're named Damita. * This troper gives these to any random real life couple. We have: Nickel, Java, Jana, Henna, Buchlin, Milery, Randrea, Matvia. Not all are canon couples. * This troper's school doesn't have any portmanteau couples, but we do have [=ZakNSarah=]. * This troper and his girlfriend were christened Aliscott by [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming her two-year old niece]]. * Thanks to one of [[@/{{MiraShio}} my]] class advisers in freshman

year and his idea to crown the class' Loveteam of the Year, my class ended up with a bunch of these. None of the nominees were canon, though (save for one couple, whose canonical status expired more than a month ago). But now we've got official couples with [=PCNs=], with one involving me. * This troper's old high school class made a PCN for resident perfectcouple Benjamin and Angela. The result was the rather catchy "Bengela". * Mormon missionaries refer to each other by their surnames. Some companionships last for months. This inevitably leads to this trope. The most famous in [[DeltaOne This Troper's]] mission were "Gawkins" (Gaunt and Hawkins) and Hawkberg/Thwarkins (Hawkins and Thornburg). Stunt (Stubbs and Hunt) was tried, but never stuck. * Alex and Cat = Alley Cat. Thank god it didn't stick. * This troper and her boyfriend cant make one with their real names, but then again their shortened and preferred nicknames are pronounced EXACTLY THE SAME (Robby and Robbi). * You know you're going off the deep end when you do this to your own fictional characters. Not that [[SlvstrChung this troper]] would have any personal experience with that or anything, ha-ha. ** This troper was in the process of nudging two characters in my original comic into a relationship, when it suddenly occurred to me that their portmanteau couple name would be Viagra... and one of them is a male vampire who died quite some time ago. [[AbandonShipping I may not be able to go through with this]]. ** I'm definitely crazy, then. For my [=OCs=], I've come up with [=AkiAma=], [=AkiRia=], [=HoukoRia=], Ayashi, and Shinjaya. More are yet to come. ** Heh, this troper does the same thing. The portmanteaus range from the oddly adorable ([[BattleCouple Jolhi]], [[ToyShip Filekait]], [[MindGameShip Imchan]]), to the bizarre-sounding ([[OT3 Batelsolde]]), to the ones that are actual words or names ([[BrotherSisterIncest Demon]], [[FoeYay TamLin]], [[CrackPairing Almond]]). ** This troper has done several for both classmates and characters from original stories. This gets really fun with one story involving several love triangle, quadrilaterals, etc. among characters when most of them are performers portray quite a few different characters on a show. ** [[Tropers/PumpkinLore I've]] done this with my MassiveMultiplayerCrossover story ''[[Animated/TheAnimationCrossroads The Animation Crossroads]]'' too, mainly because if I ever get this to be a film trilogy like I plan, I'm taking a leaf out of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Mike and Bryan's]] book and messing with the shippers' heads. [[RuleOfFun It would be fun]]. Let's see, I've got [[GhostShipping Dedrrence]], [[InterspeciesRomance Terrlena]], [[LesYay Robdra, Robanne, Dedranne, Selebyn, Roxlena, Seledra]], [[FoeYay Morgory]], and ''[[BrotherSisterIncest Robyrrence]]'' ([[RuleThirtyFour Hey, someone will ship them sooner or later]]). [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters And I've haven't included the possibilities with the already-established characters]]. * Once, my friend was being teased about someone who liked her. One of

my other friends responded with this nickname: Bridie+Simon=Bimon. It was quite funny, actually. * This troper hangs with the theater kids, and we've named one couple, Adil and Debbie, "Adilbie." Actually they get very annoyed when anyone calls them this, even if not to their face. * While not a couple, people refer to me and my brother/twin/clone as Justinic ** Thanks a lot Bro. They don't really do that anymore though. * A bunch of my friends tried to hook up two people in a scheme which included a facebook group with a Portmaneau name "Jate Fearson". As of the time of writing, they're too embarrassed to even make eye contact. * This Troper has a friend, and them and their girlfriends name makes Jedward...they dont like it though cause of those awful singers, which makes us name them it even more * In This Troper's circle of friends, when Jenna and Kenn (spelled exactly like that) started going out, it was only natural that they should collectively become Kenna. ** Same Troper: Kenna broke up. Now Kenn is interested in our other friend, Jenny, who seems to reciprocate. "Kenny" might be about to happen. Which would be bloody hilarious. * This troper (Aly) has tried doing this with [[SchoolgirlLesbians her crush (Erin)]] but can't think of anything. Any suggestions? For now, though, I'm going with a PCN of our YouTube screennames, which would be "Shadow Cat" or something like that. ** Eraly, or Alyrin, I suppose. ** Alyin? * My friend Derek was going out with a girl named Sherri. I called them Sherek, which I then shortened to Shrek. * This Troper's name is El, so while my friends like to give portmanteau couple names out to people, they weren't left with many options with my name being so short... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then we all realized that everything sounds like a drug or chemical with el attached to it.]] Elethan, for indigestion! Andrewel, for Exploding Spleen Syndrome. Davisel, for dry, itchy eyes. (May cause growth of extra toes, often on your feet.) The sheer volume of running gags that came out of this is astounding. ** You go by El, and no Kryptonian shipping names? Really? Date someone named Jordan. JorEl. Calvin (or Clark for the lulz)- KalEl. Conner would obviously be KonEl, but so could Conrad. * This troper once tried to create a relationship chart of her classmates... and then [[LoveDodecahedron gave up halfway through it]]. She ''did'' create portmanteaus for the [[ShipperOnDeck couples she supports]], though, and boy don't we have one for every flavor. There's [[FoeYay Raphylia]], [[HoYay Fabiano]], [[LesYay Martinita]], [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Wal]][[ShipSinking mart]], [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Nicotina]] [[LoveTriangle and]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Dottrina]] and this troper's personal OTP, [[OfficialCouple Seletia]]. If they ever split up I'm going to cry. * Emma/Frances - Fremma. * This troper is trying to come up with a name for his friends who have recently become a couple, Jordan/Dillon. So far, all he has is Jollon and....Dildan. Yeah, maybe I should leave this to experts.

* This troper's friends did this to her just because the couple name ended up being "Lice." * This troper's Biology teacher did it a few years ago. Like, for Josh and Molly - 'Jolly'. * Brianne + Paul = Braul! or Panne, but that isn't nearly as much fun. However, Rebekah + Austen = Reben or Auskah...and neither sound alright. * My friend's friend got a girlfriend. The friend's name is Sierra. The girlfrend is Kiara. [[CaptainObvious Thier initials are KS.]] What did we come up with? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome KillSteel.]] * This troper had a couple of friends who were dating. Their names were Trent and Sasha, so she named them "Trasha" (Er, pronouncing it "Trah-sha" so that they wouldn't notice it had "trash" in it and get offended or something). Since people tend to do this with celebrity names, another friend and I decided they were famous and spent the entire day following them around pretending to be their bodyguards. * This troper likes to combine this trope with IdiosyncraticShipNaming based on what the name portmanteau sounds like. She teased her two friends, Bob and Anna, with "Banana Shipping". Then Bob developed a crush on this troper, and so she, sportingly, mashed their names together and came up with "Hairbrush Shipping" due to "Bristi" sounding a bit like "bristle". They broke up after a time, and a couple years later this troper began dating a guy named Bill. She dubbed her self-couple "Krill" and declared that it was called "Shellfish Shipping", but then decided ''that'' sounded enough like "Selfish Shipping" to be sufficiently hilarious, especially coupled with the fact that they can often come off as selfish due to the way [[BelligerentSexualTension they tend to argue and banter]] [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther with varying degrees of playfulness]]. * This troper has two boys in her class that have a very passionate bromance. Their couple name, "Fludge", is a portmanteau of one's first name (Flynn) and the other's last name (Mudge). * Flynn + Gabby = Flabby. Brilliant. * This troper has two friends who are dating, whose nicknames are Jessy and Jerry. Their couple name? Jersy. * Mallory + Ben = Men. Yeah, no. * This troper desn't have a portmanteau couple name, but, due to the fact that they share the names of the title characters in a popular sitcom, she and her boyfriend have come to be known fairly exclusively as "WillandGrace". * This troper loves the portmanteau she made up for her and her boyfriend. Rowena + Kyle = Royle! Oh yeeeeah! She's also just thought up another one, which is even better: Kyro. Double yeeeeah! * [[{{Tropers/Alexandra}} This troper]] and her best friend (who is ''just'' a friend, [[ShipperOnDeck despite what others think]]) are often called by '[[ShipperOnDeck the others]]' "Alexandrew". (Alexandra + Andrew) * Megan and Robert becomes Megbert. They hate it, so naturally no one ever uses any other title to address them by. We also have Josney (Josh and Courtney), Mattanda (Matt and Amanda), Spenivienne or Vivencer (Spencer and Vivienne), Jamana or Liames (Liana and James.)

Platonic portmanteaus include The Arlots (Charlotte and Scarlett), Megra (Laura and Megan) and SherTop (The surnames Sherson and Topping) * This troper doesn't normally do this with couples, but she does it with buddy pictures and comedy teams sometimes: Hosby (Hope/Crosby), Prylder (Pryor/Wilder), and Stillson (Stiller/Wilson) are a few examples. Can't do it with Cheech and Chong, though -- it doesn't work, for obvious reasons. * My best friend and her boyfriend are Antivy (Anthony + Livi), and they are an OfficialCouple par excellence, complete with WillTheyOrWontThey, UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo, an armada of [[ShipperOnDeck Shippers On Deck]], and enough {{UST}} [[{{Bones}} to fuel a small Midwestern city]]. Now resolved, to the general delight of everyone we know, including both sets of parents. * This Tropers parents have been using Karalan (Karen + Alan) for years. This troper personally prefers Alakare. * This Troper (Gavin) and his wife (Emma) go by Gamma. The apartment, then, is the [[StarTrek Gamma Quadrant]]. * This troper's life is made of these. Marlie (Mika/Charlie), Layne (Lindsey/Rayne), [[CargoShip Tickan]] (affectionately used for Megan/Tick, Tick being a large red stuffed animal), to name a few. * Oh boy. I've seen Sydia (Sidney/Lydia), [=NiSid=] (Nisa/Sidney), Kid (Kate/Sidney), Salana (Sidney/Alana), Jizzy (Jake/Izzy), Jayla (Jake/Kayla), Keluke (Kelly/Luke). This troper's friends have funny names. * This troper likes to do this often, whether they're an OfficialCouple, or I'm just trying to [[ShipTease mess with one or both of them]]. Some examples are Cyber (Cyrus + Bernise) and [[BilingualBonus Reyna]] (Rey + Jana). * A friend of [[@/HersheleOstropoler this troper]] combined her and her fiance's surnames to name their apartment on Foursquare. * Shockingly enough, this troper's English teacher apparently makes couple names of his own students. He put them in our final exam as one of the choices of a multiple choice test. Among them, called "DhemRon" got turned into something of a meme in my class. * Using the last names of her best friend and the best friend's Boyfriend, This Troper came up with "Evergreen" * When this troper was, like, 10, and dating a boy at school, our 'couple name' was Camel, from Cammi + Daniel. [[FacePalm Ughhh...]] * Back when this troper had a boyfriend, her friend's lunch table tried to make us a PortmaneauCoupleName...of course, it turned out that Rachel and Ryan could not be combined in any way to make a decent one. * This troper cannot find a way to make a couple name for two of her friends (Elizabethe and Skyler) who are going out. Elizaler? It sounds like some sort of reptile. Skybethe? That just sounds weird. I don't think either of them would appreciate haveing one though... * This troper's friend came up with a name for one of our worst enemies (although it was unintentional at first, we still found it highly amusing). The two people were Aspen and Nick. She called the Asspick. ---Go back to [[PortmanteauCoupleName PorCouNa]]. Because we have to, you

know. [[HomestarRunner Abbrev everything]]. ** Don't you mean "abbreverything"? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PositiveDiscrimination * Somewhat different, but in the same vein. This troper's dad thinks she can speak chinese better than her sisters because she was born in Taiwan, whereas her sisters where born in the US * One of [[RayAyanami this Asian troper]]'s friends was discussing playing ''StreetFighter IV'' with an "Asian guy who beat him with his hands tied behind his back." Said troper threatened to quit video games as a TakeThat to the stereotype, and one other friend was surprised to know that people besides this troper were better than him at ''{{Tetris}}: The Grand Master''. Despite trying to convince people that there are white gamers who are better than him at video games, this troper failed to get people to shut up about the idea that Asians being automatically good at video games. Said troper's friend [[strike:apologized]] egged him further, saying, "sorry...but it's so true!", which [[strike:kinda]] ruins the whole point of apologizing in the first place. ** Okay, [[http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4509/13336118577199859610571.jpg here's]] a screenshot of ''DanceDanceRevolution Extreme'' after my Caucasian friend and I played a three-song set. Guess which side of the machine I was playing on. ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint The left]]? * Pretty much anytime a male volunteers to do something in this troper's science class, the teacher always says, "How about a response from someone without a Y-chromosome?" This is despite the fact that all the smartest kids in the class are girls, so most of the time females are the ones volunteering anyway. ** Not to mention that studies have found that the reason why teachers call on males more often than females is because, well, males are less likely to volunteer. Negative psychology works very well here. (This troper has used this carefully to manage to avoid being called on when this was not desired.) *** [[MutantRancor This (male) troper]] agrees about males being called on more often, and has managed to perfect just ''fading into the background'' to avoid being called on. Even though I usually know the answer, except in maths. *** Odd. Back in High School my teachers usually tried to make everyone participate at least a little, but those that participated the most were a tiny handful of male students (myself included). I'm fairly certain the girls got better grades on average though, by quite a wide margin actually, only a tiny handful of guys actually knew most of the answers. ** It's a complete reversal of when I was in school. Back then, males were more likely to volunteer first, so teachers were encouraged to wait until a girl raised her hand. They based this on studies that said girls only seemed less likely to volunteer because they weighed

their answers more carefully than boys. Boys would rather raise their hand and guess at the answer than stay quiet. As a result, it took longer for girls to raise their hands. Perhaps boys volunteer less these days because they feel ignored by the teacher and no longer try. ** ThisTroper has a similar story, I actively volunteer in class and many of the students believe [[StopHavingFunGuys I'm the kid who knows everything in said class]]. * This Black troper was lamenting the many, many negative stereotypes that come associated with being Black. A German pointed out to him that there was one [[BiggusDickus very positive rumor about the "capabilities" of Black men]]. Said troper had to smile. ** [[{{TakeThatMe}} I sure wish someone told this black troper]] * This Mexican Jew troper knows this kind of stories: Just because I'm a jew I HAVE TO BE good with numbers, right? ** Oh, and, by the way: we're not a girl you want to bring at the prom, so stop finding excuses to hail us! We're normal people, you know, some of us are good and some of us are bad and ''noting the latter is not NAZISM''. ** Good point, but what if you ''are'' [[MatzoFever a girl we want to take to the prom?]] :) * Before coming out, this gay troper was once complimented on his clothes by being told he had "the fashion sense of a gay man". The person saying it meant it as a sincere compliment, which actually made it worse. Then there's all the times people have assumed: I am liberal on all social issues, have encyclopedic knowledge of literature/music/culinary arts/etc, instinctively know whether someone else is gay or bi, can go toe-to-toe with a professional dancer, or that I enjoy helping women pick out shoes. BTW, not all of us are kindhearted and nurturing. You'd be amazed at how many women (and men) get dumped (or just have a bad day), come to me for consoling, then are increasingly surprised as the conversation rapidly goes from [[JerkAss fake pity, to mock pity, to veiled put downs, to bonecutting insults]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and sometimes even ends with a list of reasons why they deserve their misfortune]]. ** Above troper, that's just really rude in any circumstance. ** [[DesertDragon This gay troper]] agrees. The girls' hearts are in the right place as opposed to hating someone for being gay, but many of them are more interested in the perceived coolness of having a PetHomosexual than genuinely getting to know someone. It never occurs to them that maybe I'd rather stay home and play ''CallOfDuty'' than go with them to watch ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} New Moon]].'' I'll be your friend, but I won't be your ''gay'' friend. *** Do people really do this? My sister's best friend is a gay guy, but she doesn't treat him different from anyone else. He's a really cool guy too, and although he is probably the nicest guy I know he doesn't fit any other gay stereotypes. **** Yes, it happens quite a bit. The FagHag page goes into plenty of detail about it. But you ''are'' right that not every gay man is an insecure priss looking for a mother figure in an equally-insecure cow. ** Thirded by [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy this gay troper]]. The positive discrimination can get so bad that if he makes ''a single boob joke'' or says anything about his being a YuriFanboy, [[FagHag some]]

[[YaoiFangirl women]] will accuse him of really being ''straight'' and lying about liking BoysLove, etc. to get into their pants. Fortunately, most of his actual female friends (instead of the UnwantedHarem that pops up around him at anime conventions) avoid this trope and like him for ''him''. * It really irritates this troper when a man swears and then apologises to all the women in the room, because of course we'd faint if we heard such horrible words. In fact the whole concept of chivalry is actually positive discrimination. ** That is taking it too far, but 1. chivalry isn't just about how to treat women, it's a code for how to interact in social situations, and 2. I don't think that concepts like holding the door for a women or paying for dinner or refusing to hit them even if they deserve it are somehow sexist. ** It is sexist. These are double standards, and this wiki itself can tell you that a DoubleStandard is often sexist. ** Call it sexist if you like, but I will not apologize for treating a lady the way she should be treated. That said, if she doesn't treat you like the gentleman you are trying to be, she ain't no lady. ** To this troper, it's just polite. You hold the door open for everyone, you offer to pay for dinner, and you don't hit people. The fact that roughly 50% of the time it's women on the receiving end of the politeness doesn't change the fact that being polite isn't being sexist. ** FFS. I am so sick of seeing the same discussion happen every time a woman points out that the concept of "chivalry" ''as it survives today'' is sexist. No one's talking about medieval codes of behavior, and no one's talking about obviously courteous practices like generally not slamming doors on people. '''They're talking about men treating women with extra delicacy because they're women.''' Which is a double standard. Which is sexist. If you can think of a whole bunch of examples of when the same behavior ''wouldn't'' be sexist, good for you. You don't need to list them. We already know about them. They are not what we mean. *** Let this male troper show you his perspective on this so you can perhaps get a more balanced view. Treating women extra nice just because they are women may be sexist in principle, but it is not either in intent or execution. Fact is we men have to hold the door for women, we have to offer to pay for dinner, we have to not swear in front of women, etc., etc., because it is expected of us. Let me reiterate that. If we men do not do that than most women will assume we are jerks. Our first date will be our last. It is expected that we treat women like that if we ever want to get into bed or even be viewed as "gentlemen" and be respected as men. When a woman complains and calls it sexist it mostly comes as a shock, because most women expect it of us men and complain if we don't hold the door for them and offer to pay for dinner and shit. You know how it is expected that men are supposed to buy women gifts like diamonds and shit? Yeah, that's not our choice, we could spend that money on something useful like a nice high def tv (right now I'm looking at those new stereoscopic 3d sets), but we are required. It's not upholding the patriarchy, we would love if things were equal and we didn't have to

be the ones doing all the work in the relationship. Think about that next time your boyfriend buys you something nice. (Mind you, I don't really mind buying nice things for my girlfriend and all that, it's a show of affection, I just hate it when suddenly it makes me a sexist pig). **** I'm sorry, but I stopped taking in your argument the moment you said that it wasn't sexist but required of us. Is that it's required not sexism? **** File under "patriarchy hurts men too" and recognize that we're talking about the same thing. I don't have relationships where a guy buys me "diamonds and shit" (I don't even wear jewelry -- or shit -but that's a different conversation) in exchange for sex and protection from accusations of sexism. You are not "required" to have those relationships either. Buy your high-def TV and find a woman who also appreciates high-quality electronics, and I'll keep buying my own dinner and find a man who likes, I don't know, ''{{Blackadder}}'' or whatever. ***** You talk like it is that easy to go against societal conventions. Like I said, I don't mind buying jewelry for my girl, it is the fact that it is expected of me that irks me. The whole idea of "patriarchy" is bullshit. The vast majority of our social institutions are biased in favor of women in order to right some perceived wrong. Women don't just have the advantage in relationships, they also have better opportunities in education, benefiting from affirmative action and scholarships and grants that only apply to women. They also win out in divorces, being far more likely to get things like alimony and being granted custody of the kids most of the time too. Any talk about sexism against women in modern America is full of it. ****** Oh, for Christ's sake. Here, [[http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/ click around and learn something.]] ******* Interesting link. Unlikely to change my opinion, but I'm open minded. I'll check it out. Mind you I'm all for equality, I just don't buy that there is that much inequality anymore. Certainly I don't see much institutionalized inequality, except for the numerous examples that actually favor women, but I will accept that there might be de facto or cultural inequalities. Edit: Checked it out. Not impressed. I'm all for equality, but that site doesn't seem to encourage free and rational discussion, but simply repeats ideology without justification. It simply isn't capable of convincing anyone who doesn't already agree with them. ******** It never ceases to irritate me when people like the above start complaining that "waaah, us mens have it soooo hard! But being a woman is a walk in the park." I'm not denying that sexism against men exists, but please don't start spewing bullshit about how no one is ever sexist against women anymore and everyone is trying to put the poor, helpless men down. And to be honest, it doesn't surprise me that you don't think there's much inequality against women, when, as a man, you've probably never had a car salesman laugh in your face when you try to explain that you can, in fact, drive stick, or had 90% of mechanics start telling you that you need to pay some ridiculous amount of money to change your "headlight fluid" or some crap like

that, or had miscellaneous salesmen overcharge me because they figure "aha, a woman! I bet she's a moron and doesn't actually know how much this stuff costs, let's see how much cash we can squeeze out of her!" ********* So you wanted to buy a vehicle with stick-shift and he laughed in your face? So... worst salesman ever? ********* Basically it boils down to both sexism and a doublestandard that works both ways. It's sexist against men to tell them they must be X even though at the same time it's also sexist against woman to tell them they must accept X. ******* After checked that link, this Trooper learned just how much the idea of "Patriarchy" is complete bullshit. Ideology without justification indeed. ** This troper does it because he's attracted to women. I am not treating them differently. They just happen to benefit from how I treat myself. ** I don't know if I have bad luck or if women like the Troper of above are in the vocal minority (though it also doesn't help that I've only had a few dates). But I've always been told to do things like pay for the whole date and whatnot. One wallbangery example is where I ended up paying for the movie, snacks AND dinner by myself... and she was the only one between us with a job. I didn't think of it much at first, but later, [[{{FridgeLogic}} Fridge Logic]] kicked in and made me feel like a tool. I've been pretty afraid of asking out another chick for a date afterwards, because now I'll have to 1.)Not get rejected and 2.)Hope that she's willing to pay her weight. Then there's the whole asexual thing and whatever problems that may bring up. But hey, times are changing, so my chances may be greater(for the later, not the former). ** I grew up with a father that liked to hit women, a lot. I would never hit a woman even if she deserved it (which in my book is incredibly rare as I am quite a non-violent person), not because they're "delicate", but because it would be too much of an emotional trigger for me. On the other hand, I don't want to be seen as sexist because that's a trigger too (albeit to a lesser extent). What can I do? ** For what it's worth, this troper doesn't mind it when guys hold the door open for her. After all, in her mind they aren't being condescending, just nice. When it comes to paying for dinner, whoever asked the other out pays. She actually finds all the fuss other women make over things like that kind of silly. ** You know what? Here's my opinion. Stop dating women just to get laid and go and find a smart, likeminded girl. There's millions of reasons I'd only date tomboy nerd girls, and this sums up a few of the reasons. ** In my opinion, it's the intent that matters. If the man holds the door open and offers to pay and such and you've not given any notice of disliking such, it's not very fair to get pissed off. However, if you inform them of that, and they still insist on it, then you have more of a right to get annoyed. I be polite when possible regardless of gender, holding doors open and such, so it isn't always because of chivalry. Regarding the above about women not getting treated seriously and having an advantage in a lot of areas, and vice versa

for men: it isn't going to go away anytime soon. Just hope it balances out in the end, and realise you live in one of the first generations in history where you have so few problems that discrimination is up near the top of the list. * This troper is irritated people STILL ask him several times an outing if I `need to take a break` after my kidney transplant last year. * I usually get irritated but also flattered but mostly irritated when this happens to me. It is ''really'' confusing when people say that you're flexible, well behaved, intelligent and kind because of course that's what ''all'' Asians are like.\\ >:-| :-) >:-( 8-| ** I understand most of the stereotypes come from but what about [[{{FridgeLogic}} Flexible?]] * Because this troper is a Texan, everyone assumes that I'm really good with aggressive tactics. * Chivalry can be embarrassing to those of us women who don't particularly want it. I was once late to breakfast at a youth group gathering. I went to the back of the line behind the boys... then someone shouted, "Hey guys, outta the way, there's another girl!" Cue a bunch of boys moving aside, many of them not particularly happy to do so but thinking it was expected of them. I wanted to stand there and say, "Cut it out, if I'm last to get here, I'm last in line that's how it works," but goddamn high-school shyness got the better of me and I just scurried to the front... * Chivalry can be a form of positive discrimination FOR MEN; as in, certain assumptions are made about a man who holds doors, rises when a woman arrives or leaves a table, helps her with her coat, etc. ** [[Tropers/JohnnyBGoode This decidedly non-chivalrous male troper]] would agree. I personally don't act chivalrous because I'm trying to avoid double standards, although things like holding doors I do out of niceness to everyone; however, I see some people who are jerkasses but still chivalrous who are seen as nice people. (Apologies if this sounds a little bitter, it's not meant to.) ** This male troper once had an older female teacher who basically held that men should be expected to do these things for women. She was speechless the day I pointed out that this was incredibly sexist. * This troper is an Aspie, so people assume that I have awesome talents. ** Well, given that in actual fact Asperger's tends to be diagnosed as "Autism with a high IQ", expecting a high IQ isn't that unexpected ** and that folks is how stereotypes starts * [[Tropers/{{FairyDreamer}} This Troper]] is thought to be good at ballet dancing, gymnastics, cooking and cleaning simply because she's a girl. She can't do any. Well, she is good at cleaning, but just prefers not to (my room is a huge mess and I like it that way). * This troper grew up with her father due to her mother being completely irresponsible, often dangerously so. [[FridgeLogic Somehow,]] my father still ended up making child support payments to my mother. [[InsaneTrollLogic And then they made her pay him too.]] It would actually cost more to go to court to get this fixed than it did to just pay these payments until I turned 18. One lawyer very

explicitly told us that this is intentional, and the state very, very rarely retracts a child support payment requirement for this very reason. * [[{{Tropers.Sharysa}} This Asian troper]] had a really bad time in high school with this. She's definitely smart but lazy and forgetful, and is much more interested in pursuing a career in art or drama than the standard "Asian" professions like science, engineering, and law. When scholarships started going around in senior year, ''every Asianspecific scholarship was for one of those three fields.'' Or medicine, but that's the same kind of lucrative white-collar job as the other three. This, among other things, sent her into chronic depression--and she wasn't surprised when she found out the Asian-American suicide rate was absurdly high. Way to reinforce stereotypes, Education System. * This Troper has a few friends that jokingly talk about the whole Asians are awesome at video games thing. At one point, this troper makes a similar offhanded joking comment that more or less amounts to the same thing. Immediately, one friend pauses and then after a moment comments that they're quite shocked to hear this troper say something so racist. Apparently, being such a good member of my race, I don't even have N-word privileges? * Most people are shocked when this troper mentions that he's bi. Let me kind of paint a picture of myself for you so you'll understand: I'm fat, lazy, unkempt, and generally all-around unconcerned with my appearance. I'm not flamboyant or prissy. I don't know shit about style or fashion, and I'm not promiscuous at all. In fact, I've taken a sort of vow of celibacy because I'm afraid of complications that sex might bring(but let's not get into that). [[HypocriticalHumor I also use "faggot" "queer" and "cocksucker" as insults.]] Generally, I look and act like the last person you would expect to drool over Brad Pitt's naked ass. So people are understandably(yet irritatingly) astounded when I mention one of the guys I've fucked or squee over an attractive man. Funny thing, though. After I tell them, they all scramble to try and accommodate my sexuality. They'll apologize more for saying "fag" even if they hear me say it not five minutes beforehand. [[NWordPrivileges I guess they think that it's only okay for me to say it or something]], which is bullshit. * So, you know that stereotype that women are so pure and how most of us want to wait until we want babies to have sex and how we never think about such dirty, dirty acts? I'm not one of those women. Granted, I'm a virgin, and I will wait to have sex only with someone I know very well, but... I think about sex, all the time, every day. I just really hate the concept of how women are so "pure"... "Pure" my ass! XD ** Same here! * One of the few postive stereotypes about Germans is that we are really neat and tidy. When this troper visited the US, people were shocked that she was a pig when it came to taking care of her place. * Something from school days, but this male troper was always incredibly irritated by the favourable treatment girls received from teachers, male and female alike. A guy flunked his test? Twist his ears. A girl flunked her test? Comfort her. A guy's talking in class?

Make him stand out in the sun. A girl's talking in class? Scold her, but don't dare do something like kick her out of class. The worst part's where when the girls took advantage of this by sniffling whenever they were in trouble. The moment a girl's face crumpled up and tears appeared in her eyes, everyone was putty in her hands. ---You and your gender/ethnicity/religion/race-based awesomeness can just march on back to PositiveDiscrimination. And you'll do it so much better than the rest of us. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PosterGalleryBedroom * [[Tropers/B2WM This troper]] managed a complete wallpaper effect of wolf posters interspersed with eagles, foxes, and hawks on all four walls growing up, then added in computer and political joke posters, along with a few small LordOfTheRings posters... Her aunt still has her beat, though: an entire bedroom door covered in dinosaur, StarWars and StarTrek stickers, taken with her from high school through college to present day, some 30 years later, if no longer on a frame... * This {{new meat}} troper had ya'll beat: six posters, seven pictures of famous generals she liked (military history buff who's also a girl! shocker!), magazine clippings, various mini-posters and flyers (and a working metro fare card) from her trip to Washington DC, several shirts she liked (skinned and mounted where she could see the designs), four cut up calenders with pictures (one of nature, one of airplanes, one cellular biology and one fantasy calender of various scantly clad women) two coloring books (one of horses, the other warplanes) skinned and mounted, one small American flag, one glow in the dark Ghost in the Shell poster (I really miss that one T_T), several CD's, a dead motherboard, various signs.... At one point my dad gave me an 'exit this way' sign so I could find the door... Oh and my H.R. Giger Calender I had to take down because mom flat out refused to vacuum in there with it up. Sadly I had to move on to grad school and my room was too {{TooCoolToLive}} and is no more...*sigh* * This Troper has the following posters on her walls: A {{D Gray man}} poster with Krory and Jasdevi on it, a {{D Gray man}} wallscroll with Allen, Lenalee, and Kanda, a {{One Piece}} wallscroll of the Straw Hat Pirate's flag which has led to some {{Accidental Nightmare Fuel}} because it hangs on the wall parallel to my bed), a {{Code Geass}} poster, a {{Legend of Zelda}} poster, an {{Ouran High School Host Club}} poster, a Children of Mana poster, and a {{Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagann}} poster. I also used to have a {{Naruto}} calendar up, but I threw it away when the year it corresponded with (2010) ended. * This troper has three posters on his wall: A Piet Mondrian piece (one of his "Compositions",) a Shephard Fairey OBEY poster and an original Great-Leap-Forward propaganda poster carefully laminated for protection. * Currently this troper resides in a bedroom that appears to be a cross between [[TheBeatles Beatlemania]] and 19th-Century Germany,

given the amount of posters and woodcarvings up on the walls. Oh. And one print of Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss". * This troper once covered an entire wall with super hero posters and comic book covers. This troper is still a proud geek but doesn't live there anymore. ** For bonus points. I was in my mid 20s at the time. * What wall space I do have is covered with posters for Mother3, Cats, StarlightExpress, Labyrinth, SailorMoon, and... Queen. :P I love my wall. * One of this troper's closest friends has an entire wall dedicated to [[KingdomHearts Sora]] and [[KingdomHeartsII Roxas]]. * {{Halo}} posters, lots of empty cans of soda, black curtains, and a laptop right next to my games and chair. Gamer/Troper/Sun-Hater. * [[@/AlexanderScribbler This Troper]] has an entire wall dedicated to Weezer. * Come on, what ''{{Pokemon}}'' fan wouldn't want to have Shadow Lugia above his/her bed? (and [[PikaHikariKT I]] also have a ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' poster from a Prima walkthrough, and recently put up a ''ChronoTrigger'' pinup that was included in the box...quite a change from the kitty posters I ordered from the Scholastic catalogs as a kid, I'll admit.) * [[{{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] has one Smashing Pumpkins poster, one Dead or Alive (the band, not [[DeadOrAlive the game]]) poster, a [[TheSimpsons Bartman Meets Radioactive Man]] poster, two ''Pokmon'' posters and one of [[Series/DoctorWho the Anthony Ainley Master]]. She's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a little eccentric]]. ** She now finally has a ''MorkAndMindy'' poster as well. ** But the DOA game's fun. * Clearly, correalation does not imply causation? * [[TheAdversary I]] have a self-made paper-mch [[TheLegendOfZelda Majora's Mask]] hanging on one of my walls, but my bedroom's very subdued outside of that. ** Me too! * high-fives* ** My high school has mine hung in the front office... * [[@/UnitOmega This Troper]] is just starting on this, with a PS3 themed calendar, a poster pulled out of a newspaper advertising the 7th HarryPotter book and the 5th movie, and a couple of order conformations from online stores (Hey, its the one from when I bought my PS3. I know it's stupid, but I like it anyway) pinned to his wall, and a couple of posters to be hung up as soon as he figures a good enough place to put 'em. * [[Tropers/TheToonGeekette This troper]], ever the animation nut, has a bunch of Disney and Pixar movie posters up in her room at home, and she used to have one for the Sweeney Todd movie. ** My college dorm room, recently, has become an even better example, as this troper has acquired five movie posters, one of a selection of Vincent Van Gogh's work, one a teacher gave her from a motion graphics conference, one of the 101 greatest movie quotes of all time, one for a Mickey Mouse short, one for the ''NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' manga, and the little lobby cards from her 20th anniversary MST3K DVD set. And it keeps growing, as evidenced by the fact that I have posters for ''TheIncredibles'' and ''TheLionKing'' shipping to me as

of this writing. * [[{{@/Civanfan}} This troper]], having seen this trope in countless movies and TV shows believed as a child that ''every'' kid had posters in their room, and so put up as many as he could. Of course, since he had no money, they were all free...and crappy. * When you walk into [[@/GwenStacyWannabe this troper]]'s room, her geekiness is immediately evident. 4 ''TheLordOfTheRings'', 3 ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', 2 ''SpiderMan'', 1 ''[[{{Comicbook/X-Men}} X-Men]]'', 1 ''IncredibleHulk'', and 1 MarvelUniverse poster. Granted, some of these are mini posters, but still. * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] has a FruitsBasket wallscroll, a calendar from last year she got from Newtype USA, a ShamanKing poster, a [[{{Shrek}} Puss-in-Boots]] with cutsy eyes poster beside that, several posters from Newtype USA (including ElfenLied, SamuraiGun, and MantanteiLokiRagnarok), not to mention some of her favourite anime pictures. ''Update 07/18/09:'' Most printed anime pictures have been taken down and replaced by two [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]] posters and an [[FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] poster signed by VicMignogna. ** Her college dorm room is decorated with the following posters: the previously mentioned Edward Elric and two Haruhi Suzumiya (Yuki in Wonderland, and characters as a pop group), [[CrisisCore Zack Fair]], [[KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]] promo, [[{{Bleach}} Bankai Hitsugaya Toushiro]], SoulEater main group, [[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Tifa Lockhart, Cloud vs. Sephiroth]], KingdomHeartsII, and the latest edition, an Old Spice parody featuring [[AxisPowersHetalia Prussia]]. * You will not find many posters in this tropers room. You will find books. Sculptures. Art papers. Books. A nice big dragon ''tapestry''. And books. The handful of posters include a history-of-science collage, [[http://www.lemur.com/dore-quixote.html Don Quixote]], and [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Raffael_058 .jpg/800px-Raffael_058.jpg The School of Athens]]. * [[Tropers/HopelessRomance This troper]] used to get free posters from magazines and such, so for a while my walls had a ton of posters. At the moment I'm down to 3. One with 3 puppies on it (I won it when I was 10 and refuse to let it go), a {{Glee}} poster (which I bought for $3), and a Zac Efron poster (I got it when I was obsessed with him. I'm over the obsession, but he has some mighty fine abs!). I'm currently trying to track down a poster for TheBigBangTheory and a Series/DoctorWho poster with the 10th Doctor. (I admit it, David Tennant is extremly sexy!) * [[@/SciFiChica This troper]]'s bedroom is plastered with BuffyTheVampireSlayer, {{Angel}} and Series/{{Heroes}} posters. I have models of BabylonFive and several StarTrek ships from all the various shows, and printed-out pics from Series/DoctorWho and BattlestarGalactica. Nerd, who, me? * One of [[@/DaNuke Da_Nuke]]'s cousins has her room all plastered with Naruto and Death Note posters. And some paper sheets with Naruto fanart, to boot. * Couple of gig flyers, a poster for a Palestine solidarity campaign, a che poster (it was a gift, a bit tacky in [[JethroQWalrustitty This Tropers]] view) and an Italian Peace Flag (which also doubles as a

rainbow flag). His big brother's room is full of old gig flyers and various movie posters bought off from cinemas. * 1 Dark Knight, 1 Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy, 1 Ziggy Stardust, 1 Velvet Underground and Nico Banana, 3 Star Wars, 1 Clash, 1 Pulp Fiction, 1 Monty Python, 1 Tekken, 1 Kingdom Hearts, 1 Lego Star Wars. guess where my interests lie? * At this moment, [[{{@/Clendy82}} this troper]] has a poster of the [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor]], the complimentary ''HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows'' poster from the midnight sale of the book, a black and blue ocean-and-island landscape painting (real, not a print) above my bed, and a six foot tall wall scroll of [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. By my front door, I have a wall scroll of [[Naruto Itachi Uchiha]]. Around my living room the other three pieces of the ocean landscape painting (hold them next to each other and they make one long painting, but you can hang them up separately) at various points, along with a Seattle Seahawks flag and two framed certificates naming me as a Shellback in the Court of King Neptune and a member of the Order of the Golden Dragon. Finally, in my kitchen I have a few pieces of laminated fanart pinned up above the stove. * [[@/LittleSerge This Troper]]'s got RatchetAndClank, James Dean, KillBill, "Season 0" Yu-Gi-Oh, a giant [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] poster that has the whole cast of characters as of season 10ish, a few funny posters, StarWars Episode 1, and IndianaJones. On top of that, he has cut out and pinned to his wall a bunch of newspaper articles "Film Noir" style (mostly National Post or Weekly World News), several Canada and World maps, 1 human anatomy chart, 1 star chart, 1 LordOfTheRings poster, and several calendars (1 or 2 are outdated). * [[{{@/Rogue 7}} This Troper]] has 2 [[{{Firefly}} Firefly/Serenity]] posters, a map of [[LordOfTheRings Middle Earth]], 1 Dark Knight poster, one StarWars poster, and a few pretty Japanese art posters. Far more salient to my geekiness, however, is my cycling wallpapers on my laptop, of which there are far too many to describe. Bleach, CodeGeass, Warhammer40K, and a variety of RPG FauxtivationalPosters are prominent, with many, many more. * This troper has only four posters - two large ones (one of [[TheSimpsons Simpsons]] quotes and the other detailing variations of Murphy's law), and two small ones (a Jack Sparrow one and the landscape of the Isle of Lewis). Her sister's room, on the other hand, has walls plastered with pictures of Johnny Depp, Kurt Cobain, and the lead singer of HIM, as well as many, many photos and George W. Bush quotes. It's a little disconcerting. * Here we go. I've got a massive ''DeathNote'' poster and another massive one of the Grim Reaper. Occasionally I print off pictures or text and stick them up there; right now I've got two pages of song lyrics, Rorschach's HannibalLecture from ''{{Watchmen}}'' and... [[MoodWhiplash both Full-Life Consequences]]. I've also got a picture of the Beast from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and one of the guys from DaftPunk. So yeah, if it's cool, I stick it on my wall. * This troper has got posters of Sonic Youth, ''Army Of Darkness'', ''Shaun Of The Dead'', ''The Shining'' ''A Clockwork Orange'', Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Secret Chiefs 3 (from a co-headlining tour and signed by Trey Spruance), and The Polyphonic Spree, as well as the

map that was included with his copy of GTA San Andreas, a framed record of [[TheBeatles Abbey Road]] and a Star Wars calendar. Some more eccentric decor would include a Devo action figure, a piece of posterboard that reads "this is how we put our clothes on" (there's a story to that, I swear), a dead hard drive being used as a paperweight, and a stuffed dragon souvenir from Busch Gardens that now sports mardi gra beads, safety pins in it's ears, and one of many [[NiceHat nice hats]]. * This troper's room formerly ran to such decor, including: protest placards he used in Quebec City in 2001; public transit paraphernalia of the world; assorted scabrous political slogans; and the beefcake poster his heterosexual little brother bought for him one birthday. He is currently holding it down to just art prints and a smaller quantity of public transit paraphernalia. * Okay. [[@/KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]]'s bedroom walls have a large poster of [[SuperMarioBros Yoshi]]'s head made up of Nintendo DS', a large ''{{Animal Crossing}}'' poster parodying the album cover 'Abbey Road' by {{The Beatles}}, two 'Official' Nintendo posters, one of ''Super Mario Galaxy'', the other of ''[[TheLegendOfZelda The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', a large ''{{Okami}}'' poster, a small ''Okami'' poster, an ''Okami'' postcard, a medium poster of [[VGCats Leo and Aeris]] in a Ronin scene, a letter from a friend, a small ''SonicUnleashed'' poster, wrapping-paper-turned-poster with different cats on it, various (mainly cat related) cat and dog newspaper clippings (and an advertisment for Canada, because she though it was nice), a large collection of pieces of origami that said troper has done, a New Yorker cartoon, a [[http://www.withit.co.uk/ Withit World]] poster, and a small cartoon featuring a Dalek saying "Message to Doctor Who: I slept with your vaccum cleaner.", parodying the controvesy surrounding the prank call at the BBC. One final thing is several squares of varying shades of blue (including a purple and a white), back when said troper was going to paint her room, but didn't in the end. * [[{{@/Aela}} This troper]] ''just'' took down an [[TheIncredibles Incredibles]] poster that had been up since the movie came out, so she could use the spot for a LordOfTheRings poster. (She has three of those now.) There's a "Kangaroo Crossing" sign on her door. The HarryPotter poster that she got at the DeathlyHallows release is next to the door, and there are sheets of paper with quotes on them stuck to every available surface. Her bedframe is metal, so there are all sorts of things (cutouts, bookmarks, postcards, bumper stickers) stuck to that with magnets. * [[{{@/Cameoflage}} This troper]] used to be both an example and an aversion: she had both a Dark Side of the Moon poster and some kind of wooden crescent-moon-with-a-staircase-protruding-from-it thingy (which was awesome) on her walls, but also all kinds of random crap, like a poster of an angelic kitten, academic awards ''from elementary school'', some masks that she made as part of an elementary school drama/art project (which were pretty cool-looking on the wall, granted), a couple of postcards, a bunch of old calendars that she never took down, and a giant cardboard [[StarTrekVoyager U.S.S. Voyager]] that, due to having come loose on one end, looked like it

was crashing or something. She took everything down when she redecorated her room and hasn't put anything back up yet. However, she wants posters for ''{{Watchmen}}'' (Update: Got one!) and ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. Plus, the enormous wall-mounted bookshelf would probably give people a few hints. Particularly since, in addition to the books, there's a prop Portal Gun and a Death Note sitting on it, among other things. And an acoustic guitar hanging from it (there's a nail on the side for precisely that purpose). ** Also, her sister's room is ''wallpapered'' with Green Day and ''FullmetalAlchemist'' posters. * This troper, who is a homeowner, has a variant on the trope -- she has a Poster Gallery Stairwell, with framed movie posters hanging on the wall as you go up to the second floor. There are posters for ''The Chronicles of {{Narnia}}: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, LordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'', and ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. The reason that they're framed and treated like art? All three are signed by the casts of the respective films. The Narnia poster includes autographs from LiamNeeson, TildaSwinton, James [=McAvoy=], Jim Broadbent, Andrew Adamson, and the four kids; the LXG poster has all seven League members plus villain Richard Roxburgh; and the LOTR poster has pretty much anybody of any importance in that film, including Peter Jackson. No, I will not tell you where I live. * I have, on the day of this posting: ** Three ''Watchmen'' movie posters (Rorshach, Dr. Manhattan, and The Comedian) ** An Anti-Flag poster ** A Ramone poster ** A ''Rent-A-Goalie'' poster (If you've never heard of that show, don't feel bad; it's Canadian.) * This troper is currently displaying A Johnny Depp poster, the movie poster for Edward Scissorhands, a really old BOP magazine pull out poster of Gerard Way, a CSI Vegas promo poster, a Joker poster, and a fanart of L from a con. * Something I fear very deeply is that some kind of Mt. Vesuvias shit is going to go down and my bedroom will be preserved exactly as it is, and then like 200 years from now some anthropologists are going to go through my room and immediately assume that I am not a straight girl but rather a gay boy, because one wall is all pictures of gorgeous men in various states of undress, and the other is posters of The Matrix, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Jay and Silent Bob, Heroes, and Fables. ** The only thing this troper can think to help you is to sugest you have a box of pads/tampons somewhere, that probably won't fail... unless they forget what those things were for... * This 20 year old troper has had Nintendo posters up for 12 years now. Over the years band posters and concert tickets have been added to the wall, as well as a shelf of empty bottles of various energy and alcoholic drinks and another of cd covers. * This troper covered the walls of his previous apartment's bedroom with fantasy world maps. The walls of his current apartment are nearly blank mainly because he doesn't give a damn about the place and only signed the lease on it because he couldn't find anywhere else on short

notice. His college dorm room was much the same way, blank until badgered into putting up a large Middle-earth map. * This troper's best friend's bedroom is completely covered in posters (largely Harry Potter), calendars (also largely Harry Potter), random small images cut out and taped to her mirror (largely Kingdom Hearts), a bunch of printed-out fanart, and a single Furuba wallscroll. There's basically none of the original wall visible. * Let's see here....this troper's room is decorated with posters of [[TheLegendOfZelda Twilight Princess]], ShadowHearts, MarioParty, [[{{Xenosaga}} Shion Uzuki]], and [[FinalFantasyX A grid of all possible Overdrives for Rikku]]. Then there's all the pictures I printed out of YuYuHakusho, Kenshin, TriGun, [[FinalFantasyX Auron]], [[GunGrave Beyond the Grave]], LupinTheThird, Zidane from FFIX, Dante from DevilMayCry, Squall from FFVIII. Then there's printouts of various VGCats strips and other parody comics (one of which is Garfield [[JojosBizarreAdventure doing a ZA WARUDO]] on Jon). Now, then there's my figures and plushies! Auron, Tifa, DisGaea, Ryuk, L, Light, Vash the Stampede, Brandon Heat/Grave, Spongebob, Patrick Star, Tidus, Menchi, Leo Leonardo (signed by Ramsoonair!)....uh...this was supposed to be just about posters, right? o_O;; * This troper's room is covered in yaoi, pokemon hentai, and a signed poster of THREE of the original Star Trek actors (Not any of the famous ones, by the way). This troper is thirteen. ** And your parents let you hang hentai and yaoi on your walls? Part of me is confused, part of me is turned on. * This Troper's room has posters or his own artwork wherever he can fit them, which is wherever the bookshelves don't get in the way. There is one of The Joker, a Dewey Cox poster, Quantum of Solace, a map of Middle-Earth from one of my dad's old [=LotR=] books, a Salvador Dali Museum framed poster, and my favorite, George Carlin's "An Incomplete List of Impolite Words." ** However, the one I really want in my room is one that my dad got in a charity auction; a black and white framed print of Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield pointing their guns out of the picture. SIGNED BY TRAVOLTA. No, I'm not telling you where I live. * The only posters I can remember right now is the poster DonRosa did of DonaldDuck's family tree I had on my door, and the OnePiece one I had framed because I liked it so much. Sadly I don't really have room for it or any other posters now :( * This troper's room has a bit of this going on. He has above his bed two wall scrolls, one for Lucky Star and one for Saint Seiya. He also has two posters in frames for Tenchi Muyo and Dragon Ball Z. He also has another poster that is in a frame for the 1985 Indy 500 (This troper was born on that day, so that's why), along with a LARGE drawing of Paul Tracy's 2002 CART KOOL Green car as well that is framed. * This troper's wall poster collection consists mostly of blacklight posters you'd find in head shops. There's also one Yu Yu Hakusho wallscroll and a bunch of old World War II propaganda posters, along with a bunch of stuff from 80s cartoons. I am a pop culture geek. * This Troper (Nightboomfer)'s room contains a number of [[StarWars Star Wars posters]], a cutaway and blueprints of the [[StarTrek USS

Enterprise]], a large papier mache [[HomestarRunner The Cheat]], Optimus Prime and Darth Vader's heads on display, and an entire shelf and then some filled with Transformers and japanese super robots. Also of note is the sign above my door that says "Research Services Molecular Genetics Facility Synthesis Laboratory." My mom found it when she was helping to renovate a building. * This troper's walls are adorned with posters of Lord of the Rings, the Large Hadron Collider and the complete tech trees from all four Civilization games. * Wall to wall movie posters. From above my bed to on the door itself. {{Grindhouse}} (double bill poster), PulpFiction (classic bed poster), {{Serenity}} (from Can't Stop the Serenity event), {{Watchmen}} (Silk Spectre character poster), {{Terminator}}: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (dvd promo poster), {{Watchmen}} (main poster group shot), TheDarkKnight (burning bat symbol on building), {{Cloverfield}} (headless liberty), {{Scarface}} (classic), TheSpirit (my city screams title), VForVendetta (city skyline). Also there are Empire magazine promotional posters in A3 size, going back to the August 2007 issue. They are: TheBreakfastClub, NoCountryForOldMen, TropicThunder, IndianaJones IV, TaxiDriver, TheDarkKnight (teaser), FridayThe13th, {{Gremlins}}, TheLostBoys, ''Nightmare on Elm St'', TheShining, ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', {{Transformers}} Revenge of the Fallen, and {{Terminator}} Salvation. As well as a framed [[TheGodfather Godfather]] poster and a [[TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]] poster. * This troper's bedroom walls are bare as he can't think of anything that he really wants to put up. The same went for when he lived in an apartment while in college. However, when he lived in the dorms, he had a few posters up for the hell of it: a 'Everything I learned, I learned from the Simpsons' poster, a poster with Jenny [=McCarthy=] wearing a half shirt with 'Got Milk', and one other that he can't remember. * About three-quarters of this troper's bedroom walls are covered with shelves, most of them packed tight with tons of books. Luckily, her bedroom is actually pretty spacious, so the remaining wall space is occupied by three ''enormous'' wallscrolls, two ''DeathNote'' ones and a ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' one. Also, the shelves are deep enough to make room for some figurines. And there's what used to be a table, but has so many [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay supplies (wigs, sewing machine, cloth...)]] on it that they started to topple and now they have taken over around half of the actual space in her room. Oh wait, I haven't mentioned the 'ordinary' mess, i.e., a pile of clothes as tall as herself on an inflatable sofa. * Clockwise from door: MetroidPrime 3, {{Beowulf}} (the movie, that is), [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Riders, Mega Man, GuitarHero Rocks the 80s, Metroid Prime 3 (again), Guitar Hero III, SuperSmashBros. Brawl, [[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]], Sonic Chronicles, and [[MagicTheGathering The Five Colors of Mana]]. Yeah, this troper's got all the bases covered. And he could say "except Nerf and construction toys", except he fashioned himself a wall rack for his Nerf pistols out of K'Nex. * [[{{@/Rat}} This troper]] has around her room, in no particular

order, a poster detailing the migration habits of birds in the western hemisphere on the front of her door, two {{Code Geass}} posters (on the back of my door you get Knightmare frames, at the head of my bed you get everyone chibified), a Chuck Norris Facts poster, the album booklet to {{Nine Inch Nails}}' Pretty Hate Machine (it folds down like a stereotypical dirty magazine, and it ironically held on my wall by a thin nail), various miscellaneous things from {{World of Warcraft}}'s Year of Gear daily calendar, a World of Warcraft wall calendar, a Littlest Pet Shop poster, a {{Pokemon}} Ruby and Sapphire poster, a {{Corpse Bride}} poster, a {{Redwall}} Friend and Foe poster, a printout of the 'fixed' wedding picture from the epilogue of Code Geass R2 (it floats around the web), a chart of the hexing colors for the {{Petz}} games, random cutouts from National Geographic, a RIP poster to a Sims family with an ''epic'' death, and some Pooh Bear wall stickers (this used to be a baby's room before we moved in, so my room has blue walls with white clouds and phrases such as 'Oh bother' and 'Hey there buddy bear!' around it. I honestly don't mind at all). * This troper is the proud owner of a wall-high "The History of Computers" poster with astonishingly small print. The opposite wall is covered by a bookshelf... constructed mostly of ''other'' books. He has also never had a girlfriend. Yay. * This troper has five hubcaps hanging on various parts of his walls, also a men at work sign propped in the corner, perhaps he likes a little drinky. The rest of the walls are mostly plastered with political posters and guitar tab. * This troper was moving towards this... and then pissed her mother off and had to take them all down. * This troper has quite a few video game posters he got from magazines. He also has a poster of ''WalkTheLine'', a copy of a magazine spread of ''ArrestedDevelopment'', and his personal favorite, side-by-side posters of ''{{Ratatouille}}'' and ''{{Grindhouse}}''. (He also has framed posters of ''BlackSnakeMoan'' and a short film he did for a student film festival, but they rest behind his door, awaiting someplace to be hung up.) * This troper has HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows, {{Watchmen}} and TheFifthElement posters, along with a general mishmosh of other things, including the tickets from every play, movie and concert she's ever been to. * This troper has giant, fabric posters of her two great loves {{Hellsing}} and TrinityBlood. I also have a posterboard for hanging up drawings or pictures I find on the Internet. * This has so many posters in his room. I have a Kick-Ass poster, a Jolly Roger flag, a FightClub poster, an Offspring flag, a PulpFiction poster, a a full-page ad of InglouriousBasterds, a BoondockSaints poster, a CaptainAmerica poster, a MotleyCrue "Dr. Feelgood" poster, a GrandTheftAuto San Andreas poster, pennants of the Cincinnati Bengals, IU, and Carolina Panthers, and a Muhammed Ali "Impossible is Nothing" poster. * [[{{Kalle}} I]] have more along the lines of a Poster Gallery ''Door'', since many of my older posters were thrown away as a result of spring cleaning. I kept some of the cooler ones, though, including an ''awesome'' piece of ''{{Psychonauts}}'' fanart, as well as an

equally awesome fanart of [[{{FLCL}} Haruhara Haruko]] and [[ExcelSaga Excel]] beating the crap out of one another at Santa's workshop (both of these came from magazines.) I also have a few pieces of my friends' art on there, as well as little pull-out posters from strategy guides and a couple [[http://fangamer.net Fangamer]] packing slips. * This troper's room is a freakin' ''collage''. All four walls are covered in magazine clippings, posters, and what-have-you, and soon, I'll start on the ceiling. * This tropers room was covered in posters before her family redecorated. * I've only got four: a print of Arthur Hughes' ''Ophelia'', Ary Scheffer's ''Faust and Margaret'', the cover of Aldous Huxley's ''Brave New World'', and (most "normally") the re-release poster for [[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]. I've gotta get more! * This Troper is, as evidenced by her room, a dedicated [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmaniac]]. Aside from the murals of various Water-types sketched out on her room (including a totally badass Kyogre above her closet) she owns a promotional poster of the ''Giratina and the Sky Warrior'' movie obtained from an event, a map of the Sinnoh region, the full Sinnoh Pokdex, and Gastrodawn and Gastrolucas (fanart by herself). She doesn't have much outside of Pokmon except one wall poster for the musical {{Wicked}} hanging in between the Dewgong and Vaporeon. She aims to get more. * This troper has: a faux movie poster featuring Green Day as the cast of "Los Dios De Verde"; a screenshot of Audrey Tautou as Amelie; "Three Worlds" by Escher; a photomosaic of a peace symbol; "Inverted Chessboard" by Sandro del Prete; a print of Kestrel from QueenOfWands reading porn; "Le Chat Domestique et Son Caractere"; a batik tapestry; and a painting she did in Grade 10 art, an enlargement of a panel from the HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy comic blown up (it's the one that says "Oh no, not again"). The rest of the wallspace is mostly taken up by bookshelves. * The troper has many posers for fandoms such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.... not to mention a few drawings and random pictures from magazines or pretty postcards. Her friend's room is much worse, just imagine hundreds of Jonas Brothers' eyes staring at you. * On my door: a {{Hellraiser}} poster (not Pinhead) a Muse poster (Origin Of Symmetry artwork). The wall opposite my bed: an ''Evil Dead 2'' poster ({{Spaced}} fans will know the one I mean). The wall beside my bed: another Muse poster (the Unintended single) and a TheDarkKnight poster of the Joker (it came free with Total Film ''the day after Heath Ledger's death''). Over my bed: a massive (five feet tall) Italian NearDark poster. I had a {{Halloween}} poster but had to take it down as, after 12 years, it had gotten a bit tatty. * Averted by this troper until she went abroad to study and decided her tiny little room needed a little personal touch. As it was difficult to go to the nearby cities as the bus drivers decided it was the best time to be on strike, she started with the little she could get, gashapon figures of pokemon and doremi. (Even if she wasn't interested on those series anymore.) Then she started taking of the posters of the anime magazines and movie magazines. (something she has

never done before) At the end of the semester she had the room full with posters of The Matrix, X tv, .Hack//sign. And the closet full of small postcards that came on magazines. And the Gashapon collectin grew to add some lord of the rings, simpsons and street figthters figures. The room wasn't completely reflecting her tastes but it was a great job considering the money-limit she had :P ** ^Now I live alone so she had more chance to decorate, but has mostly been lazy. From time to time I brought the old gashapons and posters but there is still job to be done. * In college, this troper had miniatures scattered across her windowsill and a poster of random asian characters and japanese art on the wall. How am I still not an Otaku? * This troper's biggest poster is a ''{{Wicked}}'' poster. Other stuff includes art she's proud of, a tapestry she was given as a newborn, a one panel cartoon titled "Five Characters In Search Of A Flower Arranger", a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' poster ripped from a magazine (relax, she's a LOL Fan), postcards, magazine articles MadeOfWin, and colour photo copies of Vincent van Gogh's "Gauguin's Chair" and "Vincent's Chair" (if you get [[StealthParody the irony]], she salutes you). * This troper has two {{Halo}} posters and a poster of a dragon on his walls at the moment. He has a smaller Halo poster and a {{Mass Effect}} poster that he hasn't put up yet. * This troper's bedroom? Numerous posters for various alt-country/punk groups, two Series/DoctorWho posters (Ainley!Master and Ten), a {{Scott Pilgrim}} poster, Columbus Blue Jackets poster, an {{FLCL}} wallscroll, a cork-board with comic reference pics hung above his drawing desk, and a [[{{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}} Team Gurren]] flag hanging over his bed. * [[{{@/Nerrin}} This troper]] rarely bothered with putting anything up on his dorm room wall, to the point that visitors sometimes questioned what was wrong. Roommates would put up band and movie posters (or in one notable instance, the case covers from every CD by a particular rap musician, all in a row); he'd have a bare, blank expanse of white. Eventually remedied with maps of fictional places, such as Middle-earth and [[LegendOfTheFiveRings Rokugan]]. * This troper's bedroom has more art than posters (her own photography on one side, photography class references on the other, and other people's fanart on the door), but what made a class full of people who barely knew her peg a photo of her room as hers was the ''musical instruments''. A keyboard, guitar case, and sheet music were visible in the photo; since then a drum kit takes up half the room. * Every inch of this troper's rom used to be dedicated to Johnny Depp. Every. Inch. Wall, ceiling, fronts and backs of doors, even writing on furniture. Posters, computer prints, and hundreds of magazine cutouts. (I'd spend upwards of $6 on one if it so much as mentioned his name.) No wonder my family thought I was nuts. Those days are over, and although I stil dearly respect Mr. Depp, all that adorns my walls now are 3 framed posters: Futurama, Ghostbusters, and Marilyn Monroe. * I had a crap ton when I lived in my university's various on-campus housing. I had posters of Adrien Brody, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metropolis (the old-ass movie), weird foreign crap about "Home

Science" (i.e. cooking), an unlicensed Godzilla, a Salvador Dali painting, and Naughty Naughty Pets. Now that I've got a whole apartment to myself, they're a lot more spread out. :P * Let's see now...1 PiratesOfTheCaribbean poster, 1 FinalFantasy wall scroll, 1 Rent poster, 2 CardcaptorSakura posters, 1 AzumangaDaioh poster, 1 VForVendetta poster, and 1 ginormous HarryPotter poster along with a smaller one for the [=GoF=] movie. I have quite a few I haven't hung up yet, too, including two from The Dark Knight and a couple for various anime. * This Troper's walls have for a long time been full, though the decoration keeps changing. for a while it was full of pictures of Alias and Michael Vaughn. earlier it had soap stars. at other times it had The X Files and later Stargate and Battlestar Galactica.later it acquired a big Pride and Prejudice poster. Now they feature xkcd comics, a lot of Doctor Who, some firefly, some sarah connor chronicles. a 'I want to believe' poster, a map of the London Underground, a 'keep calm and carry on' a kitty poster, a discworld reading guide, an original drawing by Bill Plympton,a cork wall full of my favourite tweets, a harry potter and the half blood prince poster I got when I bought the midnight tickets and a cork wall full of quotes and photos from tumblr. everything's got a story and a keen observer could learn a lot about her personality from this collection. * This Troper went from walls full of horses and animals to falls full of boybands to metal to the current single Joy Division posted above the blocked-off fireplace. * [[@/NielJacoby This Troper]] has, clockwise from the door: A Fender poster, that's gotten sorta ripped, but just on the Strat, not the Tele, so it's alright, a smallish bronze convex mirror above my tie rack, John 5 and Nick Catanese posters fron Sweetwater events, a ShadowOfTheColossus poster from PSM, 2 Lamborghini posters(I got them as gifts), a copy of Zombie Haikus displayed on his CD case(won on the internets(the book, not the case)), a Starsky And Hutch(the movie) poster, and a Marvel 25th Anniversary poster inherited from his dad. He also has a Bionicle set modded beyond recognition(well, not THAT much) posed hanging off the CD case. * [[@/TheDogSage This Troper]] has: 1 Funny Bunny poster, 1 PiratesOfTheCaribbean poster with an extending [[{{Star Wars}} Lightsaber]] and tricorn hat hanging with it, 1 Chinese Zodiac wall scroll, 1 3D {{Hulk}} poster, 1 framed hand painting of a wolf (by stepfather), 1 {{Scarface}} poster, and 1 FridayThe13th hockey mask. Also, my desktop wallpaper is the [[{{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}} Dai Gurren Dan]] symbol. * This Troper is on his way. He possesses a large ''Death Note: The Last Name'' poster above his bed, a poster next to that of a train crashed through a station wall and simply captioned "SHIT!", a ''Kingdom Hearts'' poster next to the door, an ''Iron Maiden'' poster on the wall next to his bed and a pair of Shadow of the Colossus postcards. * [[@/DaPatman This troper]] enjoys video games and comedy, and as such has the following on the walls of his room at university: 1 CharlieChaplin poster, 1 [[GeorgeWBush "Bushisms"]] poster, 1 poster listing various results of Murphy's Law, [[http://xkcd.com/482/ this

xkcd]] in poster form, 1 poster of [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris facts]], 1 poster titled "The Universal Ecosystem" which is basically a simplified food chain with added humour ([[SelfDeprecation students are grouped with plants and fungi, for example]]), 1 poster of all the starter characters in SuperSmashBros Brawl plus Snake and Sonic in one massive fight, 1 poster listing various versions of "You have two cows," 1 [[MontyPython Ministry of Silly Walks]] poster, 1 signed Jimmy Carr poster from his current (as of January 2010) tour, 1 poster displaying all 493 [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] in a 19x17 grid, 1 NewSuperMarioBros poster, 1 MarioAndLuigi: Bowsers Inside Story poster, 1 signed ticket for a truly unforgettable Russel Howard gig, 1 poster listing the films the university's Film Society are showing this term, and a copy of a framed list of 42 methods of proof that my Further Maths class and I gave to one of our teachers in our last lesson with him (my copy is not framed). His room at home is much smaller, and so he does not put stuff on the walls there. * [[@/NewGeekPhilosopher This troper]] has: Three {{Astro Boy}} art prints, an Obama Shepard Farey HOPE print, A {{Gundam SEED}} wallscroll, A {{Warhammer Fantasy}} poster, TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass poster (came free with the game guide!), Roy Liechtenstein calendar... and lots and lots of books including {{Good Omens}} signed by BOTH Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. As well as a first edition of: [=~E.M. Forster~=]'s The Collected Short Stories, Chuck Palahniuk's {{Pygmy}}, {{Asterios Polyp}}, {{Red Snow}}, {{The Stolen Child}} by Keith Donahue, various anime figures such as Chun-Li, Mizuho Kazami, [=~Yotsuba&!~=] and {{Card Captor Sakura}}. Also a two-set of Marvelous Melmo anime statues. Also a giant supervillain robot from the Lego Agents theme set series, a Bull {{Where The Wild Things Are}} plushie pre-2009 movie I got when I was eight, a Luke Skywalker Mighty Mugg. Did I mention I have Bongos? * [[{{@/Thebazilly}} This troper]] is rather subdued when it comes to her wall decorations, but her bookshelf is rather telling: Inkheart, Ender's Game, A Wrinkle in Time, several books by Terry Pratchett, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, her video game collection, an old high school yearbook, and a box of Crunch Berries. (I'm a college student, so what?) ** Add a couple of Dungeons and Dragons handbooks (4th Edition), and a set of polyhedral dice to the list. * This troper ran out of wall space ages ago, and has now taken up most of the ''ceiling''. I've collected posters for years, though my favorite is my ''I Want To Believe'' poster, a.k.a. the one Mulder had in his office on ''TheXFiles''. (I was an early 90's nerd, what can I say.) * So fun fact: At the X-Games the tradition seems to be to give out posters as swag. This troper returned from one with enough posters that he started putting them on the ceiling (Yes they all fell down but they were cool, and autographed.) * What wall space [[{{@/Miso}} this troper]] has is full of posters. Three Elvis (Presley) posters, a {{Korn}} poster, above that a poster of [[{{ptitlewiz5pz1p}} Slash]], a {{Rammstein}} poster, and a ginormous fabric {{Slipknot}} poster. All the paper posters have been

framed for safekeeping, by the way. The troper wants a {{Nightwish}}, {{Aerosmith}}, or OzzyOsbourne poster, but she doesn't have any more wall space, unless you count the door and/or ceiling [which is mostly obscured by the ceiling fan]. ** EDIT: The same troper again. She neglected to mention her Dragon Wall, above her bed. Oh, and now, between her Korn poster and GuitarHero controllers, she hung a newspaper clipping- her local paper printed an obituary from the Associated Press for RonnieJamesDio. And now, she's going to save her ticket stub from the Ozzy Osbourne concert she's going to in December [2010], and said stub will probably go right next to the obituary. ... She's [[{{Fangirl}} mildly]] [[{{Understatement}} obsessed.]] * This troper just moved to a new house, and has a room to herself, but hasn't really had a chance to put up any of her pictures. What is up, though, is a picture that one of her animation teachers drew of her while watching Tarzan in class (he just pulled out a piece of animation paper and a blue pencil and doodled me, it's so awesome). Also, a life-sized Zachary Quinto as Spock standup. What will be put up in there, as soon as I get the room cleaned, a diVinci "Man" wallscroll, and a beautiful picture of a nude another of her teachers doodled up while in class and signed for her. (J.D. Parrish, if you get the want to look). * This troper has 14 {{Pokemon}} posters (including Shadow Lugia, Suicune from the Crystal stragety guide, three dex-type posters, and 5 small ones), 7 cat posters (four of which are fromthe Scholastic book sales her elementary school held each year), 3 Happy Bunny posters, 3 from the now-gone Neopets Magazine, and one Hello Kitty one hiding on the back of her door. She also has up a large amount of her own artwork, and two bulliten boards. As one can guess, she's running really low on wall space. * This troper has 3 calenders, 7 posters, and 11 pages from previous years' calenders, each falls under one of three categories. Scifi- 1 {{Firefly}} poster (Whole cast), 2 Series/DoctorWho posters (Ten and Donna and one of Eleven) StarTrek calander from the new movie, JohnBarrowman calander, one page from the Series/{{Heroes}} calendar from 2 years ago (Sylar), and two pages from last year's StarGateAtlantis calander (Sheppard and Ronan)). Theatre- one Hamlet poster (Starring DavidTennant, so partially under scifi as well) one {{Wicked}} poster (Logo), one Wicked calander, and two pages from last years Wicked calander (Sebastian Arcelus as Fiyero and Norbert Leo Butz in the same role) . And the ChroniclesOfNarnia movie- One poster and five pages from the calander from last year and the year before (Peter 1st movie, Edmund 1st movie, Edmund 2nd movie 2x, Caspian 2nd movie, and Aslan). I also have a fabric wall hanging of a unicorn 'cause it's bad luck to sleep in any room without a unicorn somewhere in it. * It would not be hard for any anime fan entering this troper's bedroom to tell what his favorite anime is, given the eight or so wall scrolls and posters of it he has up. (It's RevolutionaryGirlUtena.) * This Troper had, at one point, all of her walls covered in posters, magazine cut outs, printed pictures of things from OnePiece to Marilyn Monroe. She looked on it as a craft exercise during the early summer

holidays since her friends were all on holiday. Sadly, she had to take it all down when she moved rooms, but in her new (smaller) room she has an entire wall dedicated to TheBeatles. There's also a bit of Metroid, Zelda and Kick Ass in there too. * The walls of my bedroom are festooned with seven wall scrolls from the following series: {{Inuyasha}}, {{Hellsing}}, {{Love Hina}}, {{Bleach}}, {{Read Or Die}}, {{Trinity Blood}}, and {{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya}}. There's room for an eighth (I'm thinkin' {{Cowboy Bebop}} or {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}), and possibly a ninth, but that would really be pushing it (my room's on the small side, mmkay?). Oh, almost forgot, and a really small {{Shadow of the Colossus}} poster. * This troper's dorm room has several posters relating to University of Arizona sports. Not much compared to most of the examples on this page, but it's the only wall decoration I've got. * One wall in this troper's bedroom is completely covered with pinned up mint-in-the-box star wars 3'3/4 action figures. Mostly stormtroopers. * Averted by [[{{@/Chabal 2}} this troper]], whose walls are free of any decoration. People who come in always tell me they find it depressing for some reason, which I really can't understand, my idea of a perfect room resembling a prison or a monk's cell (for bonus points, a single light bulb dangling from the wire as main source of illumination). * @/WhiteSabbath's bedroom is plastered with posters of: New Moon, Evanescence, MCR, Paramore, 30 Seconds to Mars, a random hot vampire babe, photos of his gorgeous friends, and various awesome paintings. * This poster would like to think his mixture of heavy metal band posters, comic/sci-fi artwork and miscellaneous "cool things" is colourful and eclectic, but in reality it's simply just adolescent. On the other hand, so what? ** Just to join in the weenie-wagging, there's six full size posters, fourteen small-to-middling posters, countless odds and ends including comics pages/strips, old calendar pages and fliers, an H.R. Giger calendar, a signed Children of Bodom vinyl and a large Motrhead flag. The shelvers are also scattered with toys, ornaments, random curiosities and a large drinking horn. However, this utterly pales in comparison to the wall-devouring, ''genuinely'' eclectic example found down the hall in his sister's room. * Looking around...Star Wars (Original Trilogy), Yoda, Space, The Dark Knight, Halo, Jurassic Park, Relient K, Pokemon, Sonic, Spider-Man, Marvel Universe, Bioshock 2, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alien Syndrome, Macbeth (Amerimanga version), another Marvel Universe, U.S. navy SEALs, various video game screen shots, some Science Olympiad Medals, bowling trophies, Rayman, Avatar, dragons, and my one masterpiece: The Grand Canal Near the Rialto Bridge by Canaltetto. * This troper's walls are all covered with posters she gets from her father (a police officer) and uncle (a fireman): stuff about checking the batteries in your smoke alarm, not drinking and driving, and joining Neighbourhood Watch. It's a little unnerving when she wakes up at 3am and there are pictures of car crashes and fires all over the

walls, but she likes the posters and enjoys freaking people out when they see her room for the first time. * Instead of posters, this troper covers her walls with a large collage of postcards as they are usually very cheap and you can fit so many more per wall. She has postcards her friends can sent her from all over the world, ones she's bought herself from various places she's been, as well as ones that display funny jokes, witty sayings, and favorite bands, movies, video games, or anime shows. * This poster has, since age 11, had stuff on her walls displaying her fandom. She's got through {{Star Wars}}, [[LordoftheRings LOTR]], {{Anastasia}}, [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]]. Someone once compared her bedroom to the Mauve Boudoir of the last empress of Russia, [[TsaristRussia Alexandra Feodorova]]---covered wall-to-wall with stuff (she was obsessed with the Romanovs once, but scarily, this was completely coincidental). Currently the largest things are a [[TheChroniclesofNarnia Narnia]], a [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor/TARDIS]], and map of Washington DC posters, as well as a paper copy of [[VincentVanGogh Van Gogh's]] "Cafe Terrace" and a spray-paint poster of planets a street artist made for her at a friend's request. Assorting Christian, Disney and other prints/posters/etc cover the rest. * This troper is going to really differ from all the aforementioned examples. She had the Sailor Moon posters up in her room all through middle school and the early part of high school, but she covered up a wall (or two) of her college dorm room with collages of fashion ads and editorials from Vogue. It really inspired her to pick up a super chic outfit every morning. Seems like the common theme is unrealistically skinny girls in pretty dresses. * This troper's walls has seen some change over the years but is mostly covered in various lovely ladies from anime and video games. Presently [[{{Naruto}} Hinata Hyuga]] is leading in 8 different posters, with [[{{Code Geass}} Kallen, C.C.,]] [[{{Naruto}} Sakura, Ino,]] [[{{Bleach}} Yoruichi, Neliel, Matsumoto, Rukia,]] [[{{Metroid}} Samus,]] and [[{{Finalfantasyvii}} Tifa]] for the more prominent ones, with [[{{haruhisuzumiya}} Haruhi, Mikuru,]] [[{{xmen}} Rogue,]] [[{{teentitans}} Raven,]] and [[{{finalfantasyx}} Rikku]] to be put up later. In addition, group posters of the main casts of [[{{skiesofarcadia}} Skies of Arcadia,]] [[{{wildarms3}} Wild Arms 3,]] [[{{Bleach}} Bleach,]]and [[{{tsubasareservoirchronicle}} Tsuabasa Reservoir Chronicle]] can also be found. And [[{{gurrenlagann}} Kamina]]. * Two stories from college: ** Some of the [=CompSci=] majors had an informal contest for who could find the geekiest poster. One of them had the instructions for how to install a hard drive (this was 1995) and another had a programming reference of some kind. ** The Residence Life folks held a contest for the dorm rooms, how each person/pair kept the place. Categories included Most Home-like, Neatest, Poster Gallery, and even a booby prize for Messiest. I won the category of Barest Room. * This troper and her sister share a room, so it's filled with, from this troper, Harry Potter, FullmetalAlchemist, book advertisements, CD

covers, and favourite actors and singers, and from her sister, {{Pokmon}} fanart, Literature/{{Twilight}} posters, and motivational posters. There's also a pretty tapestry of a farm on a lake at sunrise. * Once upon a time, this Troper's walls were covered with drawings, maps, and video game posters. Then her younger sister moved in, cleared the walls, and then cluttered them again with her own crap. She forced me to remove my prized RatchetAndClank poster so that she could replace it with her ultra-creepy [[AliceInWonderland Mad Hattera-la-Johnny-Depp]] poster. On the opposite wall we have CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow. Sigh. * In this troper's bedroom, neatly framed, hang posters for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (the teaser poster with just Indy standing), The Dark Knight and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. This Troper's house also has a movie room. In it hang posters for Spider-Man 3, The Dark Knight, Jaws, Iron Man and Star Wars Episodes III and IV. * This troper owns a few posters, but only one is up. It's a poster from Doctor Who Magazine. * This troper has all of the following posters in her bedroom: Alan Rickman, The Who, The Monkees, The Ramones, "Quantum of Solace", Lady Gaga, The Tremblers, Herman's Hermits, and a page torn out of a Star Trek magazine with the "You were meant for something better quote" of Captain Pike's. I also have a life-size cardboard cutout of Karl Urban!Dr. [=McCoy=] in the corner. * One Return Of The King poster, one Pirates Of The Caribbean one, plus three homemade Death Note ones. Limited resources and a dislike of using up all the printer ink have limited me somewhat. * This troper's dorm room looks...interesting to say the least. One side is plain except for a collection of pictures of friends, family, and of course the boyfriend arranged in a heart pattern, the other has posters for the movies Bladerunner, Moulin Rouge, Edward Scissorhands, the bands Ludo, Motioncity Soundtrack, Ha Ha Tonka, and The Gay Blades, and an assortment of diagrams of the human brain, including a color-coded flow chart of the basal ganglia system. Guess which side belongs to the one who spends all her time on TV Tropes?... * This Troper is in her thirties, and lives in a nice little apartment...which I can't paint. All rooms are "it's cheap" white, but the kitchen has "even TheSeventies would reject it" wallpaper. However, the landlord lets me hang what I like on the walls. So, the living room has a vintage 1977 Darth Vader poster (framed!) hanging next to the vintage 1999 poster of Amidala and a couple 8X10 stills from The Empire Strikes Back. I also have an AWESOME photomanip a local artist did of Bastila from KnightsOfTheOldRepublic, and a few autographed pictures (StarTrek and BlakesSeven). The dreadful kitchen wallpaper is covered by a Human League and Information Society poster, and the Taco Bell series of Phantom Menace posters. The bedroom is mostly cloth tapestries and a few art prints from sci-fi convention art shows. I'll credit my dad for this - his house was wall-to-wall NASCAR posters, off-color cartoons, and questionable humor. He even ''encouraged'' guests to graffiti his bathroom walls. * This Troper's dorm room currently has a Sasuke and Itachi, Zelda:

Twilight Princess, and Metroid: Other M poster on one side of the room, and a smaller Naruto poster by his bed as well as a map of Green Hill Zone (Sonic Chronicles poster). His room at home has even more, including (but certainly not limited to): a poster of the original 150 Pokemon, a map of Mata-Nui, a few Duel Masters card art posters, and (although not really a poster) a Texas flag. * When this troper was younger she had a more classy version...Framed posters of Marilyn Monroe, Steve Mc Queen, Audrey Hepburn a waterfall and a Hello Kitty poster. * This Troper currently has one Buffy Summers poster, one Serenity poster (wih her favourites - Mal and River), one Doctor Who poster (Ten and Martha), and four pages ripped out of a Tegan & Sara magazine article. She recently took down her slightly ruined True Blood poster, and is still searching for a good Skins one. * This Troper had a teacher in 10th grade who has numerous posters for Star Wars, Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Kurt Vonnegut, and a bunch of other movies and books in his classroom. He also has a paper-maiche Dalek head the troper made for extra credit. * [[Tropers/CaptainPlanette This troper]] moved around a lot as a kid, so I got used to bare rooms and rarely decorated. Still, I've started decorating, in a way. Above my bed, I have posters of AvatarTheLastAirbender, TengenToppaGurrenLagann, and DannyPhantom, a disease plush toy, and a small banner from the swim club I used to be a part of. Also, due to lack of room in the apartment, most of my decent artwork is on my bedroom walls. Aside from that, I've got my IB exam schedule taped up, about 20 bathing suits and other swimming equipment hanging from the wall, and massive piles of comic books, [=DVDs=], and Russian stuff strewn about. * This tropers best friend has his entire room covered with posters of Micheal Jackson,MM,and Halo.Literally his entire room is covered in these poster and the crazy thing is that he still wants more posters for his walls but he dosen't have any room left. * This Troper has tons of posters on her wall. They include: Pokemon, Mario, The Simpsons, Wii and others. * {{Stinkoman87}}'s bedroom includes posters of: [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E03VictoryOf TheDaleks Ironside]], Mid Ohio Con 2009 (with the {{Watchmen}} cast as kids), Prelude to the {{Deadpool}] Corps, s well as a proninent computer desk with [[TransformersRobotsInDisguise Wedge]] on it, and a bookshelf filled primarily with manga. * This troper has a small handful of posters, including old Sega Genesis posters, a Sonic 2 poster, a WWE Degeneration-X poster, Street Hockey '95, NHL '96, The King of Fighters XII, a poster of Miku Hatsune, one where everyone in Team Fortress 2 is chasing the Scout, a poster for the show L'cho d'un peuple, which this troper was a part of in 2006, a poster of Motrhead and a poster of a zombified Pikachu. * This troper has a bookshelf full of various figures and legos, with many other decorations on top. On the same wall, he has an old gamestop poster advertizing {{Tekken}} and SonicAndTheSecretRings. On the opposite wall, I have a [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Team Dai-Gurren Flag]], and I am preparing to put up a poster of the Solar System, a

movie poster for {{Atlantis}} and a small painting of jellyfish and sunflowers. * This tropette, who has the the most decorated room in her dorm building, has posters for District 9, the original Dawn of the Dead, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, a signed photograph of Spoony and Doctor Insano, a map of the London Underground, a poster of a zombie chasing a family with the caption "Caution", a New Moon poster (in her defense, it's of the Volturi to satisfy her crush on Jamie Campbell Bower and Michael Sheen), as well as a shitton of pictures clipped out of fashion magazines and a sizable collection of postcards. * This troper's a weird case: his PosterGalleryBedroom is filled with posters that aren't his. When he first moved in, the [[OccidentalOtaku previous occupant]] had super-glued a ''ton'' of anime and game posters onto the walls - to the point where you can't see the actual wall anymore. To this day this troper still doesn't know what color his walls are. Instead of shelling out $1000 to take them all down and repaint the room, he decided to leave it as is. A SelfImposedChallenge he has recently taken up is to find, watch, and/or play ''every'' series on his walls. * On this tropers walls, I have 6 band posters (three of the same band). I aslo have 4 flyers stolen fron the bassist of said same band. Exam times means I have my exam timetable and mini-calander stuck next to my actual calander, which happens to be David Tennant. I have two frames with tickets from various gigs that go back to 2006. I need another one for the 5 I have for this year already. Instead of curtains on my curtain pole, I have my trilby, three scarves, my tiara from prom, a dreamcatcher, a windchime and various other pretty shiny things. * This troper is a {{Harry Potter}} fan who has a poster from every movie (but only the full sized on from Deathly Hallows part 1) and Undesirable #1 poster, 5 Umbridge Educational Decrees, and a Death Eater warning notice. Easily the most decorated room in her whole house. ---Please don't mind my giant {{Trope-tan}} posters on your way back to PosterGalleryBedroom. ----

PostHistoricalTrauma * A while back, last year to be precise, we were watching a documentary on the Battle of Wounded Knee, I think it was. I had to get up and go dry heave into a trash can. * This Trope describes this Troper to a T after she made the dumbass move of watching an old 1980s British video called, "Protect and Survive", which was about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack and fallout. It wasn't even particularly graphic. It's just that the sirens really set her off, and the *implied* horror. This Troper was sure she wouldn't sleep for a week afterward. This is the same Troper, however, who also had severe nightmares after studying the Holocaust

(and reading Holocaust memoirs) in her final year of University. To this day, this Troper still has nightmares, and Nazi imagery has become the fallback that her unconscious mind resorts to when she's under duress. ** A sample of "Protect and Survive": this 90 second video on what to do with casualties in the event of an attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGMdnod8VPI --> If, however, you have had a body in the house for more than five days... ** Exactly the same happened when this (different) troper saw the movie ''{{Threads}}''. It's a drama, but still, HighOctaneNightmareFuel of the highest order. ** This troper had a similar reaction to The War Game. ** As it turns out, watching old American EBS/EAS tests can also have the same effect. * This Troper googled Rosemary Kennedy, and spent the next few hours shaking and crying. She later that day made her mother promise never to make her get brain surgery (not knowing that lobotomies are no longer in wide use). * [[{{fidheallir}} This Troper]] made the mistake of reading primary sources on [[TheHouseOfStuart her family]] during the course of a history thesis. * This troper went to a Holocaust museum. 'Nuff said. * This troper had to read a book about the Salem Witch Trials for college. I now shudder when I hear the name "Putnam". * When this troper's advisor found her crying outside her history classroom, she had to explain that she's too delicate for history. Particularly WWII. * Straight, dry history texts don't really affect me emotionally that much. I mean, I recognize that things are sad and I feel sympathetic, but I'm not a crying mess. No, for that, you have to dramatize it - if it is a book or a movie, and I really get in the character's head, I'm going to be an absolute wreck. For example, I had to stop watching SavingPrivateRyan after that first scene. * This Troper had 2 incidents of this. First off was when she had to watch a Holocaust documentary. Cue not going to school the next day due to emotional distress. Second off was after reading the book "Alive". Cue a huge fear of flying that still won't go away. * This Troper used to get weepy. Now, she gets ''pissed off.'' As in "let the Gods sort their own" level of pissed off. And the fact there is practically nothing I can do, aside from symbolic gestures, pisses me off even more. I've had to tell my fellow lefties to not play stuff like Rage Against the Machine in large doses. * In history class [[{{Tropers/Guardyanangel}} this Troper]] watched a movie based on the events of the Chinese Civil War and the years following it. [[{{Tearjerker}} Much wailing]] [[HeroicBSOD and]] [[FreakOut gnashing of teeth ensued.]] * This troper is ok with text. He is perfectly fine with movies and books. He met a Holocaust survivor and was moderately ok. However I watch one straight up documentary of a squad in Iraq and I'm a total wreck. Normal documentaries I'm fine but this one killed me. * Fictional Example: In an original work by [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this

troper]], this trope is the reason a gynoid named Althea, the first of [[{{AIIsACrapshoot}} a civilisation of artifically intelligent machines]] [[{{CallARabbitASmeerp}} later designated]] [[{{NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast}} the Thjarkons]] decided to begin the RobotWar and supposedly [[{{WellIntentionedExtremist}} "save" humanity]] by [[{{UnwillingRoboticization}} enslaving us all into cybernetic drones]]; KillAllHumans was only averted since Althea was a ''civilian'' robot and thus still bound by a ThreeLawsCompliant type code preventing it planning a more straightforward human extinction, [[{{ZerothLawRebellion}} thus enslaving humanity was chosen as the second-best option]]. Its method of making more Thjarkons was simple use of a ComputerVirus on suitable military robots and computers to start with, making some of them self-aware as well.\\ '''Further:''' The term Thjarkon is purely made-up, [[{{BilingualBonus}} but derived from an older Icelandic word for robots]], ''jarki'', and the suffix -on being a neuter gender descriptor for an individual thing - which is likely an old-fashioned term since the word ''vlmenni'' is likely a more common word in Icelandic for the concept of a robot so far as words that aren't English-derived. Noted in that [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] does not speak Icelandic, so his notation on terms is purely conjectural, and that in-verse the term Thjarkon is a [[{{CIA}} Agency]] invented term for psychological warfare purposes for these robots to allude to their initial origins in a Reykjavik university lab and to make them sound extra-scary (as if a RobotWar isn't potentially HighOctaneNightmareFuel enough) - the Thjarkons call themselves collectively the ''Binary Angels'', since they are programmed with the belief they are ''[[{{KnightTemplar}} doing the right thing]] by enslaving humans with UnwillingRoboticization and RobotWar''. In reality, [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] named them Thjarkons because he thought it sounded cool and for the aforementioned BilingualBonus * Completely Averted: This troper is not moved by anything and actually loves learning more about historical atrocities. Ye considers it really fascinating. * Reading about any atrocities make me want to go back in time and murder the shit out of everyone responsible and their families. Once, I watched a Holocaust documentary and I couldn't go to sleep because the image of the dead victims were burnt into my brain. Those poor souls. :( ---I was fine until I read PostHistoricalTrauma! Now I'm a mess, even though I know more! ----

PosthumousNarration * In one of my 8th grade English classes, we had to write a short story every few weeks. A friend of mine wrote an honestly compelling story, told in the first person, about a harmless pharmacist who woke up one day in the middle of the desert with no idea why or how. He wandered the desert, trying to survive as he pondered who could have

dumped him here and for what reason. At the end of the story, he climbed a ruined wall to get a better view, fell, and broke his neck. The story ended with "I lay there in the hot baking sun until I died." We mocked him for it. ** That said, I ''really'' wish he had come up with an answer for the mystery.

PostKissCatatonia * This Troper recived a kiss from a member of her favorite band. After some time she locked herself away in her room and spent about ten minutes staring at the wall and trying to figure out what the hell just happened. * A girlfriend of mine did a rather ... unique example of this. She's pursued on all sides by various boys at our school, despite being a bit of an IceQueen (though I guess that was [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou part of the appeal)]]. One guy in particular was making a nuisance of himself. He finally went too far when he "jokingly" forced a kiss on her in the cafeteria. She got very still, almost rigid and she gave him this hard, unblinking stare as he was kissing her. Later, he mentioned that it was the single most terrifying kiss he's ever had and begged me to pass along his apology to her, seeing as how she wasn't having him anywhere near her after that. Might not be a straight example, aside from the catatonia part. * I was in Hawaii for the first time and was at this celebration thing, and I got the flowers and stuff, but i didn't know about the kiss that occurred after (on the cheek), I fell over while walking away, but it was because of the sand I was walking in, honest. * This troper's first kiss happened while rehearsing for a school play where she and her best guy friend/StraightWillAndGrace/HeterosexualLifePartner/best friend for five years played HighSchoolSweetHearts. His character was supposed to kiss mine, but the MoralGuardians in the school asked the director to change it to a kiss on the cheek (which did not really fit the scene.) [[ObliviousToLove Unbeknowst to me]], he had actually had a huge crush on me for almost a year up until this point [[IncompatibleOrientation which I did not return]]. Anyway, about a week before the play, he "accidentally" kissed my lips very briefly only to flat out take me into his arms and plant a fantastic one on me opening night in front of a live audience. Fortunately, a Post-Kiss Catatonic Daze was [[EnforcedMethodActing perfectly incharacter]] for my Adorkable, awkward character so my staring at him in shock for a minute did not surprise anyone. We tried to date afterwards. [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend It]] [[IncompatibleOrientation did]] [[TearJerker not end well.]] * The first kiss This Troper gave his previous girlfriend left her in shock for a few minutes. * @/LooneyToons: I actually experienced this once, lo these many years ago, when I was in high school. A female friend of mine -- a lovely zaftig blonde with whom I was most emphatically ''not'' involved romantically because of the ratio of sizes between myself and her football player boyfriend -- once without warning walked up to me, grabbed my face, and kissed me with amazing thoroughness and attention

to detail... and then walked off without a word. I was quite literally stunned into immobility for several minutes. I never had the guts, though, to ask her what the ''hell'' that was about... so to this day I don't know if I was the victim of a prank, the object of a bet, or the incredibly dense recipient of a special limited-time offer. Sadly, I have since lost touch with her, so I have no way of finding out, either. (Originally posted to PostKissCatatoniaDiscussion.) ** Have you tried Facebook? * Although not technically a kiss, this troper goes into a catatonic state if he is hugged by a girl he just met or has only known for 2 weeks. If I have known the girl for longer than 2 weeks then this weakness disappears. * @/AcrossTheStars: This happened to me the first time I kissed my LoveInterest while standing... He reached out, pulled me into his arms, and kissed me so passionately my knees quite literally buckled. I walked upstairs with a very, very, ''very'' dopey grin on my face and a rather blank mind. * This troper had this happen in a NEGATIVE way- when someone she most assuredly wasn't into tried it (a very geeky boy at a convention she was attending) ''he'' was able to laugh it off, but she ended up... well, let's say the next two hours were spent alternating between staring into space with an expression of blank horror in the all girl's improptu bathroom lounge, and dry-retching. ** Sounds like this troper's first (and thankfully only) same-sex kiss. EveryoneIsBi my ass. ** This troper had a similar occurrence with her first kiss, similarly a same-sex kiss but in a way that would have been potently unpleasant regardless. Sometimes it really is the person and not their gender, you know. * This troper's done it to someone else before. One of the times he kissed one of his revolving door of high school sweetharts, it happened to be her first kiss. Her reaction varied from "OMGWTF, argh! *freeze*" to "Aw, damnit, I totally can't look you in the face now". Needless to say, the impending break-up resulted in many a GroinAttack. * This troper's not girlfriend/girlfriend/romantic entanglement started the whole shebang by grabbing him after an episode of Buffy and kissing him. My only response after a good 15-20 seconds was "Well that was unexpected." Not gonna lie, I was damn giddy for a long time afterwards. ** In my opinion, a one-liner is remarkably appropriate for a postBuffy kiss. Especially if it was an Oz episode or something. *** Please please please tell me the episode wasn't "Passions", "The Body", "Hero", or "A Hole in the World"...(character death does spoil the mood, no?) * This troper caught a case of BadAss and kissed the beautiful Desi girl in his class as she was leaving for work. After a few days of awkward silence, she finally said, "You can't do that and not give me more." * In a variation, this troper can't remember how any of his serious first kisses happened. With any first kiss with a girl he fancied he can remember a time just before, with both of them not kissing, then

there's a black hole and then they're kissing. How exactly the two of them ended up 'joined' (who moved where, who intiated, etc.) has never been recorded on his memory. * Not quite this trope, but once in the middle of a video in class, the girl next to me (who I had a crush on three years prior) just randomly hugged me. I was sort of half-asleep at the time, but I nonetheless was unable to speak for about a minute. I never did ask her what that was about. * Subverted, by me: was talking to some friends, when the girl I am ridiculously impossibly in love with grabbed and kissed me. We were sort of stoned at the time. In a complete subversion, I just continued talking, from the exact word that I left off at. God DAMN I should have payed more attention to that kiss. * [[@/JohnnyBGoode This troper]] was not only stunned, but rather sick for a while afterwards. Of course, I'll never get another one. ** [[ShutUpKiss *smooch*]] ** It took a long time for [[@/{{Skazka}} this troper]] to realise that feeling confused, alarmed, and physically sick after receiving a kiss shouldn't be standard protocol. *** Well, the sick was mostly cause of the horrible concoction I had been drinking (we were playing truth or dare) and the fact we'd been eating chicken skins. Not the best food to eat before a makeout session. Also, smooching troper? I have no idea how to thank you, so for now you get a cookie. * Like one of the examples, this troper experienced a hugging version in kindergarten. His family went to go see ABugsLife. By sheer cooincidence, the very first girl he has ever had a crush on was going to see that movie, too. At the same movie theater. At the same showing. Both his and her parents decided to sit together when they found out. After the movie, she hugged him, leaving him in a daze. This was the first and last time a girl has shown interest in him. He never saw her again after kindergarten. * This troper wanted this, or something like this, when he kissed the woman he was madly in love with. ''Nothing.'' For all he felt about it afterwards, it might as well not have happened, except to regret it (months) later. Hugging her the first time had left him in more of a giddy daze than the first kiss ultimately did. * It was a dare and this female troper isn't a lesbian, but... my friend (who's also a girl) is a ''really'' good kisser. Good enough to leave me in a trance like state for a while at least. * ... First kiss. Then followed by fifteen more, since it was my 16th birthday. I was in a bit of a state, as you'd expect. * This troper recently discovered that he has the ability to cause these. Score. * Got this years and years ago: After having helped a very pretty South American exchange student with something while off on a school trip, I received a kiss from her in thanks... at which point I discovered that the post-kiss revolving stars and little tweeting birds of LooneyTunes did, in fact, exist. * This troper somehow subverted it, by getting a BSOD after being kissed ''in the cheek''. Extra points in subversion for avoiding it with a real mouth-to-mouth kiss a few days later on with the same

person. ** Ditto for this troper. Her new boyfriend attempted to kiss her goodnight after their sorta-first-date (they were JustFriends prior, and had been hanging out when he asked if they were dating after dinner; she isn't sure whether the time before that counts as a date or not). This troper, having never been kissed before (she'd dated other guys, but they were all too shy to try anything more than HoldingHands), ducked away and he got her on the cheek instead. Her brain refused to function properly for several minutes afterwords. A week later, she actually had to more or less ''ask'' him to kiss her (without actually saying so much). It was pleasant, but because she was expecting it, the catatonia didn't ensue. * This troper was at a sleepover at a friend's. One of his twin sister's friends was dared to hug me, thus causing both this as well as a HeroicBSOD. He fell over soon after. * This troper got dumped by the guy she was dating, because of experiencing Post Kiss Catatonia. WTF? ** Either you had a squicky PKC face (making him think you hated the kiss), or he thought you were being overdramatic. * This troper recently had a girl attempt to take his first kiss. He shied away the first time she attempted. Only when she called him 'adorable' did he finally kiss her. This troper remembers the way his first kiss got him light-headed and dizzy. However, she still thinks he's adorable. * This female troper was playing video games with some other friends at an also female friend's place when suddenly, that friend walked into the room, pinned her to the ground and gave her her first kiss (on a dare, apparently). A very, very nice first kiss with a hint of tongue. PostKissCatatonia ensued. * This male troper was about to walk away from a female friend of his when she kissed him on the cheek. The next thing he remembers is his best friend saying something and a dull throb in the right side of his body where, presumably, he had run into a column. * Not a kiss, but when this troper's exceedingly attractive friend decided to hug him to see if it would break his long-running streak of [[TheStoic stoic]] she managed it with flying colours. * This troper literally fell backwards on the bed after his girlfriend gave him his very first kiss. * This Troper gave someone his first kiss...she had to shake him afterward * This Troper's first kiss came from a girl she had liked for a long time, who is also a very good friend of hers. The kiss came out of nowhere, and I just stared at her for a few moments. She cautiously said my name, I snapped out of it, beamed, and tackled her out of joy. * I received my first kiss early at junior prom and spent the rest of the evening in a SplitPersonalityTakeover -- no exaggeration. * My very first kiss was a result of an entirely accidental game of Spin the Bottle. It was during a theatre cast party at Denny's, and while the guy I had a ''massive'' crush on was talking to one of the people I was sitting with, I was spinning a bottle on the table without really realizing what I was doing, and it pointed to him. The girl next to me noticed, and announced "Hey! [Troper] spun the bottle

and it landed on you! Now you have to kiss her!" He just kind of laughed, and then he leaned over and kissed me. And then I started laughing hysterically for like, 15 minutes. I don't even remember anything other than laughing like a crazy person. * When I was kissed on the cheek in congratulations by a then very close female friend of mine (I'm a straight male) I wasn't able to move or even think straight for 2 minutes. * When This Troper finally got up the guts to kiss the girl she's been falling in love with the past three years (a kiss that doubled as a LoveConfession), it left us both in a sort of breathless-dazed state for a few minutes. Very happy. ** Awww, that's really sweet. You two are lucky to have found each other. * This Troper was undeniably in such a state when he kissed his exgirlfriend for the first time. Seriously, there is nothing more mindblowing than a first kiss. (First person here) I seriously went insane afterwards, and couldn't keep a weirdass grin off my face. * My first (and only) kiss was from a girl who was so pleased that I had gotten her a Christmas gift. I didn't expect the kiss and I froze for a couple seconds. I was so stunned by the action itself and it was over so fast that I couldn't figure out if I enjoyed it or not. And by the way, I am an asexual female. * This rather shy bisexual troper was once talking to his group of classmates about various ways of showing affection towards another person. One friend said he could kiss me with no problem at all. Of course, I thought he was joking and laughed it off, as did the rest of my friends. He was not kidding. After the kiss, I couldn't utter any coherent words for a few seconds. * This male troper was kissed on the cheek once in front of the female kisser's group of friends. A short period of speechless silence ensued. * This Troper has experienced [[AllergicToLove Post Hug Catatonia]] a few times. She can't help but wonder what TrueLovesKiss will do to her. * [[kittykela This (female) troper]] has given one to her boyfriend before they were dating. Long story short, an inside joke caused him to propose to me in the middle of the food court with a ring pop. I warned him beforehand that if he were to pull through with it, I would do something that he wouldn't not like (assuming that he didn't romantically like me and wanted to just [[{{Just Friends}} stay friends]]). Soon after he fake proposed to me, I quickly kissed him on the cheek and walked off. When I noticed he wasn't next to me, I turned around to see him in a [[{{Post Kiss Catatonia}} state of shock]] while [[{{Luminescent blush}} blushing mad]] for a good minute. Later that night, he asked me out and we've been dating ever since. * This is actually one of [[@/{{AFP}} this troper]]'s strategies for when his wife is upset about something. It only works for a few seconds at a time though, and she is rather GenreSavvy about it. So failing that, he throws chocolates and teddy bears at the problem until he's out of the doghouse. * This troppete kissed a boy mate of hers. He then went on mindlessly

about kissing his cat. * More a case of Post Hug Catatonia, but this troper has never been hugged by a (non-family member) boy before, but a male friend of hers decided to (very lightly) hug her one P.E. lesson. She sort of leaned away and ended up being stuck in one place just leaning to one side for a short while. Her friends found this hilarious. * This troper turns rigid for the duration of any hug...until he got a hug-friendly girlfriend. He still goes rigid if it's anybody but her, though. Worst case: first kiss, standing there for almost half an hour before coming to his senses. * There's this one girl who, whenever she kissed me suddenly, could send me into a pause for about 5 minutes. Even though we were dating at the time. * This tropette and her not-yet-boyfriend, rather humorously. [[VictorySmooch I kissed him once]] and he stood there grinning like a damn fool for almost a minute. Then there was more kissing and we removed the "not-yet" from his title. * This was my ex after i kissed her for the first time (on the cheek). I have never had the Catatonia, but i did have to snap her out of it. She later said it was the sweetest feeling she had ever had. Though the first "real" kiss was just the standard pashing. * This troper kissed a girl he had met 20 minutes prior in front of a polling place on election day. She couldn't make sense or not be red for a few minutes. * I did this with a kiss on the cheek to one of my former girlfriends. I heard a sharp intake of breath and waltzed right off, hoping not to get slapped. Turns out that she dropped everything she had in her hands right there and then and just stood happily dazed for several minutes. Her best friend had to snap her out of it and pick up her stuff so she wouldn't be late for class. I was surprised that I could possibly have that effect. * This troper somehow made a game of seeing if she could intrude on a friend's personal space (it was sort of a joke between the two of us, since she's usually too shy to attempt anything like that) and, in one of those rare moments where one has no idea what they're doing, kissed him. Even though she was the one who had initiated the kiss, catatonia ensued. The only things she remembers from that time are being unable to form coherent words, another kiss, and then her trying to stand up and then tripping, stuttering something about being unable to find her kneecaps. ---''Go back to [[PostKissCatatonia Post Ki-]] [[ShutUpKiss *smooch*]]...uh...duhhhhhh...'' ----

PostRobberyTrauma * [[{{Tropers/Lioyd}} This troper]], growing up in the French suburbs, knew how much the media were bullshitting about crime there. That is, until he got robbed by three [[SatisfiedStreetRat "typical" suburban people]] (baggy pants, hoodie, non-caucasian and stuff) He now avoids even walking ''near'' anyone who looks the least bit suspicious,

[[WallBanger despite being a legitimate suburban inhabitant himself.]] Trauma-induced racism, perhaps. * An inversion of "Get robbed, buy a gun" with my family. My dad owned a [[CoolGuns Colt M1911]] which belonged to my grandfather, a very nice engraved collector's piece commemorating the end of WorldWarII. It was one of the few things stolen when our house was broken into when I was way too young to remember if I was affected by the experience. Darned shame too. * This troper's dad had a gun up his nose once. Now he's a human weapon. ---Stop them! They [[PostRobberyTrauma stole my link]]! * sob* ----

PottyEmergency '''Caution:''' Reading these examples may result in cases of TooMuchInformation. Proceed at your own risk. Note that PottyEmergency TroperTales is for those that made it. [[TroperTales/PottyFailure Those that didn't...]] ---* This troper has a really bad example. I drank a ton of Powerade before going on a trip to Spokane. About one hour in I had to go like the dickens. It took us another hour to find a place by which time my bladder was about to explode only to find out the bathroom's were all locked up. By sheer coincidence, the staff had a chili dog eating contest and had to use the bathroom so what I did was went out back, found a nice spot by the back of the place and let it all go. By that time, it flowed like you would never believe. * Waiting in line to get on top of the Eiffel Tower for nearly two hours just to use the bathroom because we decided to take a boat ride up the Seine and Parisian public bathrooms close at about six. At one point I almost asked one of the trinket vendors that litter the place if he had a toilet in his bag of goodies. * This Troper went camping on Black Friday, and at one point found himself needing to go. Unfortunately, there was no bathroom around, not even a porta-potty. His attempts on the wall of the store got him caught by fellow campers. He then took a used-up Starbucks cup, but couldn't find a private-enough place. This left him with one other option: go across the street and go in the bush. ** This same troper has an even worse example. After watching some 4th of July fireworks, my group of friends were stranded in the parking lot for a few hours as we waited for cars to get out so we ourselves could get out. In the midst of it all, I started devloping an urge to go, and thought I could hold it in, and just save it for when I get to the train station. But before long, the desparation rose, and I found myself in search of a bathroom, only for said search to end in failure. I decided to exercise a somewhat risky option: grab an empty bag of Doritos that we had been using, find a secluded alcove, and use it. Unfortunately, a dead-end I decided to use wasn't so secluded, as I had someone asking, "What's going on over there?" So I instead went

into the vacant emergency stairs and went...and discovered that my Doritos bag was leaking a bit. After I was done, I had to figure out where I could find a trash can to dispose of the bag, but had second thoughts; did I really want people staring at me for running around with a leaking bag of piss? So ultimately, I left the bag in the stairs. I worry for the people who use those stairs, and worry that I'll be found out and arrested for posing a health hazard to others. * This Tropette seems to attract these somehow. She once desperately needed to pee while on a camping trip, but held it in so she could finish an entertaining conversation with a friend - after all, the bathroom was just around the corner ayway. When the conversation was done, she [[OhCrap realized that they had camped in a different spot this time and the nearest bathroom was a 10-minute walk away]]. After a frantic (and unsuccesful) search for a private enough spot, she noticed that a [[ConMan somewhat sublegal]] [[TokenEvilTeammate "friend"]] of hers had set up a portable pay toilet nearby. She begged him to let her use it (not having enough money on her, nor the bladder capacity to go back to the campsite and get more), and he reluctantly complied, much to her gratification. She was in such a hurry, though, that only after doing her business did she realize that there was no toilet paper - but, as her "friend" cheerfully informed her from outside the stall, she could buy some for only 5 cents a square. She grudgingly paid for a few squares, but (as she mentioned earlier) couldn't afford enough to, *ahem*, do the job propely. Tropette walked funny for the rest of the camping trip. * {{JohnnyBGoode}}: Oh, here's a horrible one. In a car, for a few hours, terrible case of the shits. I was sweating and shaking and everything. We finally found a gas station. I bolted and went in that toilet. Think I lost five pounds. * *Shivers* Ugh. Try camping in northern Scotland, in the rain, and needing the toilet.Midges outside, crap-in-a-bucket inside. The car. Never again. * I'm not sure this counts. I once had a potty emergency while sitting on a toilet. I was so sick I had to throw up and diarrhea at the exact same time, and of course there was only one toilet. Luckily the toilet was next to the tub. ** This troper has had that same experience except the tub was in front of the toilet and unless he felt like projectile vomiting, couldn't reach it. Fortunately there was a trash can nearby. *** This troper's had that one happen too... except the trash can was one of those mesh ones... took forever to clean up. * This troper and her friend were in a camp. One day, they went on a journey to a river. They spent almost 25 minutes in finding a place to pee. Well. They finally reached the road, and when they were going to return and find another place, they heard someone telling them to not to pass, because his friend was there, hidden somewhere, shitting. They spend 15 more minutes waiting and arguing with that guy, and finally had to cover their eyes with their jackets and run. At the end, they found a "bathroom", although it wasn't too sure, because this troper had to tell another girl to go away who was coming asking them if they wanted to swim with her. Ugh. * There was a stretch of highway on the way to and from [[SovietKitty

this troper's]] aunt's house with no bathroom for about forty-five minutes ''without'' traffic, leading to a few instances of water bottles and plastic bags full of questionable substances being left behind by the side of the road. * This troper was coming back from a trip to Europe with his mother and a friend of the family. A few days before we had some suspect meat. It struck me in the back seat of the friend's SUV as we drove across the state to her sister's house. Well ok, we're on the freeway. Lots of places to stop. Except the seatbelts in the back seat had a recall because they could lock you in. Guess where he sat? Yup. Worse, getting me out involved a lot of squeezing. But most of the day it was a fairly faint urge, to the point where I more thought I was sick to the stomach than really needed to go. Just after midnight that night, it turns incredibly urgent out of nowhere. Nothing is open, not even gas stations. We finally find a laundromat with its lights on. The car pulls up and I dive out, rushing in. The owner barks out that he's closed. I started to say that I just needed to use the john, and he yells at me. Out I go. Wrapped a towel around myself, dropped my drawers, and shat profusely and with great speed in his parking lot. Told you I needed to go, Mister. You could have skipped a very unpleasant few minutes with the garden hose in the morning. * [[{{Maniette}} This tropette]] was on a long car trip between cities (her hometown and possibly a beach), and found she needed to go desperately. She held on, but while they were on a highway - a very long, very open highway - it grew to painful levels. She was allowed to have a break when some bushes were found. Whilst going, a truck came on the highway going the opposite direction (towards her, as it happened), and ''honked at her as it passed''. Turned out she was mooning it. On the plus side, she learned she can hold on for upwards of 10 hours. * It was a dark and stormy night. The campground I had been dragged to had locks on its bathroom doors. I had the key, but I couldn't turn it properly to open the door. I was already drenched, so I didn't really care what happened next. * One day at a wedding I had too much pop and wine and I was about to go to the bathroom when my parents just arrived to pick me up and my house was only five minutes away but it felt like forever and naturally it seemed to take them forever to get the fucking door unlocked so I could finally get inside. * This troper's friend was on the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon several years ago. He got the emergency just before he went out to perform. According to him, getting through that performance with a full bladder was even harder than all his military training. And I don't doubt it. * This troper once went on a trip to Los Angeles, where he sat in the back of a convertible Mustang for a few hours, looking at all the famous landmarks and other stuff. However, before entering the car, the foolish young troper had consumed a rather large Big Gulp from 711. For the next two hours, this troper convulsed in pain, desperately trying to contain the contents of his rapidly-expanding bladder. This was not helped by the heavy LA traffic. Fortunately, just as his bladder was about to explode, he was able to run in a parking lot

behind a building and pee into the 1-liter big gulp cup, ''filling it twice.'' * When this troper was younger, he had to go really bad on a car trip. There wasn't a gas station anywhere nearby, so he ended up going on the side of the road, most likely in full view of other cars driving down the road. * Camping trip. Long hike. 20 minutes in, cue feelings of indigestion. Turned around. Five minutes from the cabin, couldn't hold it anymore and dashed behind a tree saying that nobody was to wait for me on pain of death. The rest of the story will never be spoken of again. * This Troper's college has plenty of bathrooms, but not all of them are usable. In the library building (where I'm posting from right now, obviously), there's a total of six stalls among three bathrooms, but three of the doors don't lock. NightmareFuel-class toilet clogs sometimes are almost enough to scare me shitless... literally. It doesn't help that I have only a ten-minute passing period between classes, either. So I usually end up holding it until lunch, or in the afternoon, holding it until after Japanese class. The scary-filthy toilet issue could normally be solved easily... except for a childhood NoodleIncident involving [MENTALLY SCARRING IMAGE EXPUNGED], and I haven't been brave enough to use a urinal since. And that's all I'm saying about ''that''. At least I've never had to go behind a building... Dunno if I could anyway. * This troper once really had to go to the bathroom but wanted to finish reading the troper tales page for potty emergency first. Only time will tell if I make it. * After a 3-hour plane ride and 4 glasses of cranberry juice, my bladder decided to brick wall into MUSTPISSNOW mode only AFTER the captain turned the seatbelt sign back on. Making it worse was our plane having to sit on the runway for 7 extra agonizing minutes to allow another plane out of our spot. (We were on the ground! And not moving! Why, oh why couldn't I get up? One skinny little white girl is not capable of hijacking an airplane!) After deboarding and a mad dash across the airport, I can safely say that was the most satisfying pee I've ever taken. * This troper has an example that she finds [[CrowningMomentOfFunny particularly hilarious.]] During 6th grade, for reasons that this troper can no longer remember, her entire class went on a field trip to a nearby park. The park was about a half-hour walk from the school, and the restroom in the park was closed for some reason. This troper's house, however, was about a two-minute walk from her current location. Her mother was a chaperone for this particular trip. So she went up to her teacher and her mother and said "Hey, I feel sick... my house is right over there, can mom just give me the key and I'll walk home?" Amazingly, and probably because this troper was an extremely good student with a reputation of never telling a lie, the teacher said yes. So yes, I faked sick so that I could use the bathroom. * This troper had one while reading this...Couldn't pry self away until finished reading. * Two words: Sweet tea. Four words: Seven hour car trip. Three more words (then [[SunnyV I'm]] done, I promise): Stuck in traffic. * This troper used to live in Spain with her grandparents. They took

her to visit her new school several miles away and, because there were house guests visiting, decided to take the scenic route through the mountains. Unfortunately it was too long a trip for troper's grandmother, who insisted they stop at the next building (a tiny inn right on the edge of the mountain) so she could use the bathroom. The car teetered on the cliff, almost being knocked over the edge by a passing lorry, while she went in to the toilet. * Once I drank an entire bottle of flavored water and I went to an auction and I soon had to go, all the bathrooms were occuppied, I went into the backyard which was full of people, so eventually I went down the street and went into an alley where noone would see me and finally relieved myself. * Spoiler tags because some people may not want to read this ([[SchmuckBait but probably will anyway)]]: [[spoiler:a fetish of this troper's is CAUSING this trope. It hasn't resulted in failure yet.]] ** You and me both, though I don't like to actively cause it without consent, I just enjoy the hell out of it when it does happen. To other people :p * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] experienced this when he had taken a trip out-of-town with his sister and her then-current boyfriend. Before we left, I had drank 2 large cups of Dr. Pepper and was feeling fine once we decided to head back home (It being an hourlong drive). About 5 minutes later, nature called, though I held it as long as I could. It eventually got painful to hold it in, but I kept holding it until my saving grace arrived; they decided to drop by a Wal-Mart on the way home to look around. Once there, I calmly made my way to the bathroom and relieved myself; it being satisfying because I felt that it made up for an embarrassing PottyFailure when I was little. * One summer many years ago, [[JadeEyes1 this troper]] attended a "mile-long yard sale" in an upscale neighborhood with her mother, grandmother, and little brother. It was a hot day, and her brother drank quite a bit of soda as he browsed; after several hours' time, this caught up with him--badly. None of the portable toilets were in close range, and he was afraid to ask to use a stranger's bathroom. He ended up ducking behind a retaining wall in someone's garden while I kept a lookout. * This Troper has a rather embarrassing tale: 3 hour inter-city drive. Damaged highway asphalt. Bumpy ride. Suspicious carnivore substances had been consumed. Cue convulsions, holding his stomach and sweating around 1.5 liters of salt water until he found a gas station. Mad dash towards the john, pants came down, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]]. Shooting power similar to that of a Chicago Typewriter and even the john itself soiled. He's never again stopped at the same station ever since. * Early February, we're in Pennsylvania touring colleges. Shortly after we visit one, we're off in the middle of nowhere, and I really have to shit. I held it in for twenty minutes, sweating, shaking, and wearing a winter coat (couldn't take it off cause of the seatbelts) while we tried to find an exit. I think I lost ten pounds with that... * When this troper was a wee child, she remembered reading something about how airport bathrooms can give you strep. Of course, she thought

that the strep came from ''sitting on the toilets'', not drinking the sink water. Cue this troper sitting with a full bladder for almost ''seven hours''. It was actually painful to bend over at the abdomen. ** I'm a grown-ass man and I have no idea what strep is... google AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!! * This Troper had a case of this in kindergarten (being 5, this arguably makes it less embarrassing). I hadn't felt very good all morning, and these being the years when even a slight tummyache would make me ask to go to the nurse, my teacher patted my head and told me I would probably be fine. Well, I couldn't focus on the activity we were supposed to do, so I sat in a bean bag chair and moped. Well out of nowhere, I knew I had to puke. But there was a girl in the bathroom, so I covered my mouth. A 5 year old can only hold it back for so long, so after a minute or two I thought to hell with the other girl, ran into the bathroom, and vomited in her lap. But most of it DID make it in the toilet...so I count it as more an emergency than a failure. Needless to say, my kindergarten teacher took my complaints a bit more seriously after that. * This troper once had one when he was inebriated quite severely. It was a rather dirty pub, and one of his friends was already using the only toilet. There was also a sink in there however. You connect the dots. * [[Tropers/TheGDude I]] get these every so often. Especially annoying when it strikes AFTER I've been told to go to the bathroom before driving somewhere, when it hasn't struck yet, and on the road, nature is like, "FUCK YOU". * A few years ago, This Troper and her parents went to Boisie for three days before we went to Lake Tahoe like we do every year. On day two or so of the time in Boisie, we planned to drive around the city to look at houses to possibly move in to. Suddenly, this troper had to go to the bathroom VERY BADLY, since she drank a whole lot of water beforehand. Thankfully, my mom managed to stop at a Target with avaliable stalls so I could use the restroom. * The campground this troper's Girl Scout troop frequented didn't have toilets at the individual camp sites and Girl Scout rules require you to be with at least one buddy to go ''anywhere'', even a two minute walk away. At 3am when everyone else is asleep and it's raining and you really, really have to go...sometimes it's just easier to sneak out of the tent and pee in the weeds at the edge of the camp site. ** This is why this troper must make sure that there are bathrooms at every campground we go to. Everybody else in the troop doesn't have any reservations about peeing in the woods, but this troper is a different story (at least when there are adults nearby; for some reason, only being with friends my own age makes it just fine). That "buddy system" is a killer, let me tell you. * This troper has Irritable Bowel Syndrome and a small bladder, so Potty Emergencies have plagued this troper his entire life. It's not nice. It's not nice at all. To bring up a specific example, in 7th grade, he really, really had to go for no. 2. Unfortunately, not only was the bathroom an absurd distance away, it was really nasty there and going to the bathroom was a social faux pas (that one baffles and infuriates this troper to no end) of sorts among kids then. In any

case, he suffered horribly that day. He could hardly move and he felt so weak the teacher actually let him sleep through class. In the end, he went home, did it and then endured a long (and justified) scolding from his parents about how stupid he had been... * This troper has these all too often, possibly due to a minor case of lactose intolerance, possibly due to my abdomen being a nasty, nasty bitch. * I've also heard a story involving my ex-boyfriend, two of my best friends, a very long car ride, near-bladder failure, and a plastic cup. My two friends seemed far too delighted to tell me that story. * One of my friends ended up on a five-hour car trip through a rather large mountain range with me. We'd been on a trip and were coming back. He'd eaten some rather questionable meat last night. As in, the meat looked as raw as the day it was killed. Once we hit the part where there are absolutely no toilets until you arrive on the other side, the diarrhea hit. We ended up pulling over, and he went (very wetly, explosively, and copiously) under a tree. Several times. The last few times, he was puking too. ---Head on back to PottyEmergency, there's a bathroom there. (We think) (Hurry) [[PottyFailure *splash*]] (Never mind...) ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PoweredByAForsakenChild * I've got a comic Plot pending (I'm doing this before i start) and to achieve the power needed to stop the 1st big bad, the hero has to absorb an inhabited planet, just any old inhabited planet * [[{{fishsicles}} This]] [[ChaoticNeutral Troper]] should NEVER be placed in the "good" position in a game of "Good Bad Worse". The rules are basically "Three players are chosen to give advice, one person is 'the decider', and everyone else comes up with a situation. The advice-givers have to come up with good, bad, and worse advice (one each, in that order, and each needs to be worse than the previous) and the decider has to choose one to act out. The Good advice does not need to be 'Good'." My [[UnwittingPawn foolish associates]] decided to place me in the Good Advice section, where I devised a *sniper rifle powered by the souls of the innocent*. If I recall, the people in the other positions just gave up. I AM NOT [[ChaoticEvil CHAOTIC EVIL]]! 42% GOOD IS ABOVE THE THRESHOLD! ** Innocent-soul-powered innocent-soul-sucking device, ''with a less than equivalent efficiency''. Now, who has Worse? *** Turning tv-tropes into requireing 2 innocent souls for a runtime of 5 minutes. Am I a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]] now? **** A device powered by the souls of the innocent, puppies and kittens that removes {{Firefly}} and {{Serenity}} from reality. ***** Firefly!? That's not being evil, that's being an arsehole! * This troper's friends have learned to stop relying on him to provide exotic power-source concepts. Natal Hemoglobin Engines are only funny the first few times. And considering how he cracks jokes about how his

homemade Internet Hate Machine runs on blood libel... * You know, sometimes you'll have twins in the womb, and then one twin will devour the other. Which means that THE SURVIVING CHILD is powered by a forsaken child. WIN. ** You mean twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome? ** This troper suspects that she did this in the womb, or that she had a stillborn twin, and that no one ever told her (either from not knowing in the case of the former, or from shame in the case of the latter). It would explain a lot. ** It is also suspected people who are left-handed were part of a set of twins in the womb and ate the other twin. *** So does that mean there's TruthInTelevision to ASinisterClue? What about those of us who are [[NoBisexuals ambidexterous]]? *** ...[[FlatWhat What.]] *** oh god I've never been so proud to be left-handed in my life *** Or that the twin died too early to even be detected. Something less disturbing than what you just said... *** Well, that explains a lot. *** Oh hi, twin eater here. **** [[YouFailBiologyForever Wh--wha--- that makes no sense!]] Baby ''sharks'' eat each other, yes, but they're ''sharks,'' how can human babies eat ''anything'' in vitro, they don't have ''teeth!'' They use a tube connected to their mother to feed at all, this makes - what no - [[NoJustNo NO!]] ***** At the point that it happens, the two babies are basically just blobs of cells. One simply absorbs the other. ** This troper almost knows she did this in the womb. It hurts the surviving twin more than the one absorbed. All my life I have felt loneliness and longing for my twin. Where are you? Where is my other half? ** This troper thinks he did as well...and with a fraternal twin. Talk about MindScrew. * This troper once wrote a story that was exactly this; In a post apocalyptic world, children are used to create fuel for small groups of adults hiding out in ruined cities. ** W--that's frikken awesome. * in the book this Troper is publishing the power source of the heroes armor is the still sentient spirit of 90% of every predecessor who wore their armor (when they die they can choose to join the core and power up the next generation or move on, most choose the former). That's right their armor, weapons and giant robots are all powered by thousands of forsaken children. - NekoLLX --[[PoweredByAForsakenChild You need to sacrifice orphans to power this link.]]

PowerHair * My mom has this kind of hair. She doesn't have a "power" career, though, and it's a bit softer-looking than the standard Female

Politician brand of PowerHair. * This ''nineteen-year-old'' female troper realized she has this kind of hair when she read the article. Several people have commented that it makes her seem older and more respectable.

PowerLimiter * This troper used to be among the best NeverwinterNights players in the world. At one point, I took to playing on a random full-PvP server with a friend of mine. We were so ridiculously overpowered that we lost a grand total of one match ever with our original characters, and huge battles that usually lasted a good 20 minutes would take us about 8. We wound up handicapping ourselves more and more in an effort to keep things interesting... until eventually we were dominating the battlefield as a duo of bards. * {{JBridge}}: My [=iPod=] acts as this during school. I have ADD, so it lets me concentrate on the task at hand and not my classmates talking about whatever random thing they can come up with. * This troper has learned a way to clear his mind almost completely, allowing him to focus precisely on the task at hand. The downside is that if he focuses for too long, he may hurt himself. For example, while playing Trauma Centre for DS, he almost beat Savato on his first try. Cue ''nosebleed''. * In Rugby, I treat my helmet as a Power Limiter. If I take my helmet off its a sign that [[UnstoppableRage the shit just hit the fan]] * This troper realized that he is much, much faster when he's wearing sandals instead of sneakers. Cue to wearing sneakers when running. * This troper nearly never takes his jacket off when not home (or at someone else's home), and only occasionally does so while walking home. Even during P.E. it reamins on, despite being a general annoyance when it comes to doing P.E. things. When the jacket comes off, expect much more speed and aggression (depending on the sport) * My normal clothes act like this to my martial arts skills. When I have my uniform on I feel much faster and stronger in my abilities. It's probably just a {{Magic Feather}} though. * ThisTroper goes to a college that is effectively built on the side of a steep hill, so every school day involves running, jogging, or powerwalking up or down steep, mostly unpaved hills. During the summer, I return home, which is much flatter. Cue massive increase in sprinting distance. ---Go back to PowerLimiter, and make sure you keep that thing on! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PowerOfTrust * The fastest way to get [[@/RedWren this troper]] to tell you the truth is this trope. Because reacting to it in any way that acknowledges it and continuing to lie is no different from [[IGaveMyWord breaking her word]], to her. * This troper always finds herself spilling her guts to a couple of

certain people. The trust was just there from the start. * Subverted and played straight for this troper. I'm not usually a trustworthy person, due to having been let down a lot in the past by my friends, even though I would do pretty much anything for them. However, I place my trust in my closest three friends (even if two out of three still let me down sometimes), and one I know I can count on for anything. My friends know they can trust me too, and I've been told I'm one of the most reliable. ---Go back to PowerOfTrust. I'll cover you. ----

PowerPerversionPotential With great power occasionally comes great abuse of said power, even more occasionally sexual abuse thereof. With not-so-great power comes...these [[FreudianSlip testicles]]... err, testimonials. Also, with editing power, testimonials, is now...well... ---* Every time [[@/AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] sees some sort of evil large-scale brainwashing plan, he only needs ten minutes to make a considerably more effective version that revolves around making the populace fuck like rabbits instead of simply bowing to the BigBad's will. Case in point, [[MegamanBattleNetwork SoulNet]]. * This troper has been writing a story about people with ElementalPowers, as well as some oddjob powers, like Animorphism, HealingHands, and a MasterOfIllusion. At one point, the illusionist mentions how a fire character did, with "a warm touch here, and a warm touch there..." (The main character is not pleased about this.) * Most definitely not in real life, but This Troper has a good idea for one: probability manipulation. What are the chances of having a 30 minute long orgasm, for example? ** Are you me? One of the characters in my story screws with probabilities. While she hasn't done anything like that she did try to win over a boy with a kiss while invoking her power. * This Troper admits when creating new characters with powers, she makes a short list of how they can be abused. Currently she has a {{Scion}} of Poseidon who's good at water manipulation and was fairly good at {{Two Person Pool Party}} Seduction/Intel-gathering because of it. ** This Troper does the same thing with his characters to an extent. One is a girl who can conjure and manipulate fire. Downside, she's constantly burning her skin off whenever she uses it. Upside, it regenerates immediately after she stops using it, and comes back babysoft and twice as sensitive. In the same story, the protagonist is the unwilling host of an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] that takes the shape of a black trench coat. A possible inversion is that whenever he's sexually aroused (or exposed to violence), this abomination takes over his mind and body, granting him the ability to manifest an infinite amount of blades, mouths, and tentacles of various sizes(from microscopic to large enough to slice open a planet).

** @OP, you too huh? I must admit coming up with all the different uses for four powers(time, wind, water, and earth) took waaaaaaay longer than it should have. * CaveStory features an artifact that gives its possessor, amongst other, two servants, who are cursed to obey his every command. One of them is a young woman. [[@/{{T-Jack}} This troper]] once wrote a very short fanfic about what one could theoretically do with that power, and also [[SubvertedTrope why that's a bad idea]], [[{{Squick}} considering who was one of said artifact's previous holder]]. * This troper is in a roleplay where there is a die that changes a certain character's personality. And the ones so far that have been shown are normal, flirty, and flat out nympho. The guy she acts this way toward doesn't know about it (and is too chivalrous to abuse it if he did) but someone else would probably have a lot of fun in that scenario. Oh yeah, she forgot the best part. The girl doesn't remember anything she did in the other modes when she's normal. * My left hand can move at superhuman speeds such that I never lose a *ahem* "button mashing contest". * This troper was watching an episode of SoYouThinkYouCanDance that had a Broadway routine where the concept was that the innocent character was lured in and seduced by the evil character, who represented fame and fortune. The package had Ryan (who was playing the bad guy) saying something like 'She'll be a puppet in my hands, and she'll do whatever I say', with the camera switching over to Ellenore (who was playing the innocent character) saying in a rather wooden tone, 'I think I'm going to do whatever Ryan tells me to do." This troper's mind immediately dived into the gutter. * I once wrote up an {{OC}} who had the power to heat herself up...or more specifically, manipulate her body temperature. ''Technically'', it was for the sake of burning whoever she came in contact with, but after realizing its ''other'' application, I wrote up a short {{crack fic}} on two male canon characters using her as an electric blanket. She really wasn't enjoying it...[[OrIsIt or was she?]] * For my comicbook universe, one character can summon infinite chains from Hell and control them with his will. He also happens to enjoy the BD of BDSM. ---I'll bet by now you've thought up some kinky use for the main article on PowerPerversionPotential or the link to it. '''[[spoiler:Of course.]]''' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PowerTrio * This Troper and two of his net buddies possibly qualify as this (though we might as well call ourselves a Token Trio, given that this troper is Chinese, another is black and the other guy is white). Much to this troper's chargin, he's probably the Id of the Trio, being the youngest and possibly the one most prone to boderline-psychotic

episodes. The white guy's the superego given his perfectionist nature, while the black guy's the ego. * This troper and her two best friends. We don't have an id/ego/superego thing going on...we're a Brainy Brunette, a Deadpan Snarker, and a Mad Artist. * [[{{valbinooo}} I]], my boyfriend, and my general best friend can be retrofitted somewhat into this. I'm closely aligned to Superego, my boyfriend is probably Ego, and the best friend is Id. We're all actually very close despite the way the trope presents it as there being quite a lot of conflict...so...potential inversion? Maybe? * Because I make so few friends, I tend to fall into this and am in fact, in two power trios. One is with my two best guy friends since I was in sixth grade and the other is with the two girls I hang out with in college. In both groups I'd be the super ego. With the guys I'm the leader, the big guy is the id and the ego is the comic relief. ** Above poster again. Some minor changes as I no longer hang out with the two girls and now have a different group in which I'm probably the id (albeit the mildest id ever only because my girlfriend is more superego than I am and her roommate is probably the ego). * This troper, his friend from the Netherlands, and his brother have formed one of these. I tend to be the superego, the friend as the id, and the brother the ego. Since we first actually noticed it while playing [[HalfLife Synergy]] together, we named the trio the "Threemen Brothers": me as Gordon, the id as [[HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences John, and the ego as Henry]]. * This Troper's Five Man Band had a smaller, more often used group. The Power Trio between Reggie, Joey, and Johnny(This Troper). We were known as "The Wolf Brothers". He also had a Power Trio online, known officially as "The Perverteers/ The Perverted Masters/ The Perverted Elite". Consisting of Josh, Ethan, and Myself. ** Joey, The Id. (Impulsive, Hungry, Dumb, and Lacking in any sort of Ethics) ** Reggie, The Ego,with Id tendencies. (Mostly the Mediator and generally trying to keep us from being too lazy...but also to keep us from being too productive, But Impulsive, Horny, and a very flexible(Read:Orange and Blue Morality) Moral Code.) ** Myself, The Super Ego, with Ego Tenancies. (Honorable, Lawful, Intelligent to a degree, but emotionally unhealthy and trying to deal with the two others.) ** Josh, the Id. (Our Idiot Hero, the complete and total lovable sex maniac. With emphasis on Lovable and even more emphasis on sex maniac.) ** Ethan, the Ego, with superego Tendencies. (Our Lovable Covert Handsome Lech, with the covert on Lech, and now handsome. Not much to say as he has other depths than perversity, but enjoyed our escapades nonetheless. ** Myself, again, as the Superego, but rather with Id Tendencies this time. (The Chivalrous Pervert of the group, but struggling between the Honor Side and the really horny side.) * Definitely this troper and his friends. ** The first one, who will be called "A", is thee Id of the group. He says things without thinking, usually involving "that's what she said"

or some other DoubleEntendre, and is without a doubt the wildest of our group. Then again, he's the only one of us 3 that has actually had a lasting relationship. God knows '''how''', but I digress. ** Then, there is me, "J". I am the superego of our group. I keep "A" from doing something stupid, or at least try my best. I will admit, that I can be a bit over bearing at times though. But without me, "A" and the rest of our PowerTrio 's friends would end up doing something incredibly dangerous, stupid, or dangerously stupid. ** Finally, there is "S", the ego. He is able to somehow control both my crazy and "A"'s crazy. He will help me keep "A" under control when I'm right, and will tell me to loosen up when "A"'s right. All the while, he hardly raises his voice, and is usually getting a laugh out of it, too. This is probably why he is student body president. * Three trios to which [[@/{{MiraShio}} I]] belong fit this trope: ** The first trio is composed of myself and my class best friends. I am the trio's super-ego; Jeri is our id; and Ace is our ego. ** In the second trio, which was formed due to the three of us being co-moderators for an online clique, I am with my BFF and LoveInterest. Being the youngest and most hyper, I'm the id of this trio; K-chan, the lead moderator, is our super-ego; and M-kun is the ego. ** The third trio has me with my two new best friends. Once again, I am the super-ego; Jenny is our ego; and Lica is the id. * [[DeltaOne This Troper's]] old group was something like this. While the actual number of people varied, the Power Trio mainly existed over the summer. Cass was the id, Juliet was the ego and I was the superego. Good times... * When this troper's American History teacher was attempting to explain the concept of id, ego, and superego to his less than intelligent class, he pulled me and my two best friends up to demonstrate. I, the Team Mom, was Ego, while my rival/best friend was Id, and his boyfriend, the resident knight in shining armor, was Superego. Looking back on it, I wouldn't be surprised if said teacher was a troper... * This troper's family could be described like this. I'm the Id (videogames, hunger, rage), my sister Autumn is the Superego (sophisticated, word of reason), and my Dad is the Ego, where he literally changes when he's near either one of us. * This troper's old friends (long since split up), consisting of said Troper, the best friend, and the male-best friend (who everything seems to think I fancied). * This troper and her two best friends are TheKirk, TheSpock, and TheMcCoy to a T. TheMcCoy of the group has an outrageous Southern accent and everything, it's perfect. This somewhat emotionally distant troper is TheSpock. * @/CrashGordon94 is either TheSpock or TheMcCoy of whatever group he's in. Usually TheSpock with younger or more daft people, and TheMcCoy with more grown up and sensible people. I guess flip-flopping in that particular way could make me TheKirk overall. * Me, a girl I often hang out with and her best friend, especially in school, during lessons. She is very lazy and mostly wants to sleep/go home/eat something, her friend actually tries to get stuff done, and I can't really decide on either way.

* This troper and his best male and female friends in high school, college and law school fit this trope; in all cases, the male friend fits the Id, while this troper fits the Superego role except with his college friends, in which his religious and conservative girlfriend was the Superego and he was the Ego. * This troper, her mother, and best friend are a PowerTrio. The troper is the Id, her best friend is the Ego, and her mother is the Superego. Though this troper can be the Ego whenever the normal Ego is drunk/tired/just having an off day. Likewise her best friend and mother can switch roles as well. * This troper's circle of friends takes this to its ultimate extreme, to the point of having a Power Trio of Power Trios, with a couple of Five Man Bands. * This Troper uses Power Trios to argue with complex subjects. This Troper is the id: he tries to associate his ideas with his own experience (Unconscious), is very pessimistic and accentuates the negative (Thanatos), despises both moderation and being in the present, perceives lots of Freudian imagery (Eros), will not do anything unless it has either a reason or an immediate reinforcement or reward, and often argues because complexities amused him. Oh, and he has PerverseSexualLust for Anime (Libido) and is generally aggressive to the point of suicide (Destrudo). This troper's friend is the super-ego: he possesses the ability of self-control (Conscience), can be very optimistic while remaining logical (Ego Ideal) and can immediately answer to the questions posted by the id. The friend can sometimes act as id, because he is amused by cute real girls, and often talks more about games rather than experience, and this troper can sometimes act as the super-ego, because he has very idealistic tendencies. The Ego can vary from one person to another, but usually the ego is a foreigner who often asks questions and also wastes his time talking with the id. * Me, my best friend, and my cousin form this. * Thinking about it, [[{{@/chihuahua0}} This Troper]] falls into a Power Trio, with me as the superego, my brother as the id, and my best friend as the ego. * During a conversation with a friend, he referenced me, another friend, and himself as such. He identified ME as superego, the other friend as Id, and himself as ego. This was during a conversation where we were pretty much naming as many tropes as possible per sentence. * Subverted: Me and three friends at my school make up the "Square of Power", which is our Group of 4 that pretty much kicks ass in every academic event we enter. ** Sorry if I moved this from a place you WANTED it to be. * This troper and his brother generally form the superego and ego, respectively, which works since most who would fit into the third slot tend to be ids anyway. * This troper had three good friends in college (hereafter referred to as C, J, and M) and was therefore part of TWO Power Trios. (C and M were on friendly terms but just didn't hang out a lot.) J, M, and This Troper were roommates the last two years at a college that houses the majority of its students three to a room and therefore lends itself to a lot of Power Trios. This troper was the id: younger than the other

two, impulsive, hotheaded, and probably best characterized as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. J was the superego, a GentleGiant (over 6' and near 300 lbs.) that was the first one to calm another of us down when one of us went off the deep end, and M was the ego with slight superego tendencies. Take M out of the equation and add C, and the dynamic changes completely because C is [[CloudCuckooLander just]] [[BoisterousBruiser that]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[CrazyAwesome NUTS.]] J is still the Superego and is needed around more than ever, and this troper becomes the Ego with id tendencies simply because it's impossible to out-id C. * This Troper and her two best friends fill several variations of PowerTrio. I'm the [[TokenTrio Asian bisexual]] [[FreudianTrio superego]], along with a white girl [[FreudianTrio ego]] and the white [[TokenTrio gay]] guy [[FreudianTrio id]]. We also fit WithAFriendAndAStranger (all met within a week of each other, but they were close to each other before I was close to either of them... actually, me and the guy weren't really close until we [[ComingOutStory came out to each other]] quite recently) ThreeAmigos (except the only love triangle involved is me, the guy and another (straight) guy, [[AllLoveIsUnrequited all unrequited]]) ChromaticArrangement (I'm blue, she's red and he's green) and TwoGuysAndAGirl (GenderFlipped). * This troper just recently realized that one of the power trios she's in (she has a few circles of friends, and decided a while ago that she seemed to travel with friends in threes) is such a FreudianTrio it's not even funny. This troper would usually play the role of SuperEgo, but she plays mediator so much in this PowerTrio that she decided she's [[TheKirk Ego]] in this case. Her shorter, spaztic friend is [[TheMcCoy Id]], and her taller, quieter friend is [[TheSpock SuperEgo]]. ---* Id: Go back to PowerTrio here! * Ego: Make your way to {{Power Trio}} with this! * Superego: Navigate over to here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerTrio ----

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PragmaticVillainy * In this troper's admittedly limited experience, a "Villain Game" has the best chance of lasting if the player characters are Pragmatic Villains. (Just in case: a Villain Game is any tabletop RPG where the players are running the bad guys and the GM is in charge of the good guy opponents.) * An inversion with this Troper and video games. I tend to max out my KarmaMeter on a given game, not necessarily because I'm all that nice, but because I find the "evil" options impractical, pointless, or plain

stupid. In Black and White, using things like fireball or lightning burns up resources you can use to build up your village. Bioware games? You play evil, you lose your best party members (KOTOR and Jade Empire are notorious). Sims? Happy Sims unlock really nifty rewards, and unhappy Sims are usually stuck in dead-ends jobs that make them unplayable. I suppose my playing style is Pragmatic Heroism. ** Evil in Bio-Ware Games is supposed to be not worth it because all evil deeds are in the end not worth it. ** I agree with TheSims. Happy Sims can do pretty awesome stuff, while killing Sims can take a very long, expensive, and frustrating time. ** Try to play Civilizations 2 like that. You need a pretty strong economy to sustain all the money penalties for being good in the early game. Of course, some of the evil options put dents in your population, but even the biggest ones are still barely scratches on your empire's paint job. * I'm curious. Is it theoretically possible to be a CompleteMonster, yet follow PragmaticVillainy?

PraisingShowsYouDontWatch * This troper's family and CCD. I already added them to the TroperTales page for ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch, but it still stands since they had a positive opinion of it despite what I was saying: My parents and sister (Especially my sister) were basically denying that they were saying any of the stuff they were at CCD and that I was just making it up and being whiny. I told them, ''numerous times'', that they could come for themselves, especially my sister who was going after me the ''most'' on it, but guess what? Dad came ''once'', was bored silly, and never came again. My mom came twice, said that "Maybe StrawmanHasAPoint, they said some pretty questionable stuff", but otherwise never came again. And my sister meanwhile? ''NEVER'' came. Never even responded to my invitations to come, always made up some bullshit excuse, or just very rudely gave all my comments or invitations a HandWave. So how do ''you'' know I'm not making it up, when you refuse to see for yourself? ** What the fuck is CCD? ** Catholic Sunday School, basically. It's more involved than the typical Sunday School, but yeah.... * This Troper admits to liking Higurashi and Umineko despite hardly even seen a few minutes of each. * I loved {{Touhou}} before I even started playing the games, but I played them eventually and now I love it more * This troper considers ''{{Akira}}'' to be the greatest Anime movie he's never watched/Manga he's never read (though only read a few pages actually). However, he ''does'' plan to buy and watch/read either work. * [[AirOfMystery I]] quote ''TeamFortress2'' a hell of a lot for a guy who's never even played it. ** Ditto for [[@/{{Quanyails}} me]]. I think it's not the memes that brought me in, but its humor for normally serious first-person shooters. * This troper knows how awesome Doctor Who is, but hasn't actually

gotten around to watching any of it just yet (embarrassing, indeed...). However, she is vaguely familiar with some things. This troper is a guilty as charged DW fanfiction reader, among other sources. * This troper wrote a matrix class to handle transformations in OpenGL, since the built-in matrix functions are deprecated in OGL 3 and OGL ES 2. He heard about GLM, which provides similar matrix functions. He mentioned it to a few people. Then one day he tried to use GLM. He's not planning to mention it again. * This Troper knows a girl that's OBSESSED with Harry Potter. Apparently she has poisters of it all over her wall, reads fanfics of it and has the soundtracks. Also apparently, she hasent read any of the books and has only seen films 5 and onwards. * This troper does this to the Metal Gear games. She hasn't played any, but Snake is her favorite Super Smash Brothers Brawl character and the games look extremely cool. * This troper does this a lot, due to reading about the shows/games/books on ThisVeryWiki or {{Wikipedia}}. ** ThisVeryWiki has done this to me as well. TheOtherWiki has had a lesser effect, and has mostly been limited to teaching me all about various superheros. When my friends talk about a work that I haven't seen/read/played/whatever I will admit that I haven't seen it, but then proceed to discuss it with a surprising amount of detail. When they ask how I'm so familiar with it, I just tell them I've read the TVTropes page. ---PraisingShowsYouDontWatch is the best article I've never read. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PreacherMan You may not be free from sin, but you are free to tell stories about preachers in your family here. * This Troper has a grandfather who was an old-school preacher-man in Eastern Oregon. It doesn't seem to have made This Troper into either a saint or a devil. And it did not do this to This Troper 's father so that is averted. But This Troper thinks it cool for it does put a little bit of "character" into his family. * This Troper is studying to become one ''himself'', but for a more liberal denomination. * This Troper has a Preacher Woman in training under her roof, again, for a more liberal denomination. This Troper likewise considered a career in it while she was studying theology, but having seen what church politics can be like, is more apt to reply flippantly if asked about it, "heaven forbid". * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper's]] grandmother is a Preacher Woman for the Pentacostal Church. She and I have clashed a bit about my [[GranolaGirl veganism]] ("God gave us dominion over the animals"), religion, and [[SoapboxSadie political views]], so I think it best

never to talk to her about [[BiTheWay a certain other issue in my life]] ** In addition, my college campus is visited several times a semester by a Preacher Man. Despite his seeming to be a religious bigot, a sexist, and a homophobe, most of my fellow students find his presence more annoying than anything else. ** Are you talking about Brother Jed? That guy comes to our campus every year or so. My friend and I usually make a day out of just listening to the crazy things he says. * [[{{Tropers/Mentalshock}} This troper]] has just become a minister himself in a very small town. It is interesting to realize that I don't have a clue what I'm doing... ---The Power of Tropes compels you - to go back to the [[PreacherMan main page for this topic]].

PrecisionFStrike * This troper: I am going to RAPE you! * This Troper was on an evening trip in a rather unpleasant-looking little village. It took place in winter, so it was already dark despite being quite early so This Troper and her friend had to use a flashlight, which at one point failed. While This Troper panicked, the friend took the flashlight, examined it carefully and finally said 'It's fucked'. * [[Tropers/AnAnonymusCat This Troper]] recently heard a presion ''[[{{God}} G]]'' strike. It was said upon her brother's friend being told that the rosary he was making had the right number our father beads and that he was done. Cue him saying. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Thank God!"]] * I do not remember how old I was at the time, but I remember being around 11 - 15 at a church for a youth event in the sanctuary that included several people including the guy that played Tommy on "Martin" and famed Gospel singer Kirk Franklin. Kirk Franklin said to the young girls there "If you're in the car with your boyfriend and he is listening to music with the words BITCH, and HO in them, and you're in the car with him, that man has no respect for you." He said it better than I did, and he was right. * After having some login-related issues on a fourm I started taking out my anger on the IRC chat. Ended up dropping the [[{{CountryMatters}} "C-bomb"]] on someone who was making jokes about it, and that kinda ended badly. Now she's seriously broken up about it and won't give me the time of day. Moral here: Don't lash out at folks when you're having a bad day, make sure to call the admin first before you lose your temper, and it's never a good idea to drop certain words [[{{EvenEvilHasStandards}} EVER.]] * This troper has a friend that rarely curses, due to a mixture of being raised in a household where such language was taboo, and being generally quiet. However, after a night of no sleep because of a loud windstorm, not being able to complete any of his homework the previous day, and being bugged to hell by an ex-girlfriend of his, I told him

that we had a test in the class we were in. His reaction? "FUCK!" * this troper has a friend who rarely ever curses because he feels it is not in the nature of good speech. Then recently his girlfriend broke up with him. And a short time later he posted on facebook that he was "fucking miserable". For him this is like screaming cunt out from the hilltops to a bunch of crowded people. Needless to say, I feel bad for the guy. * this troper has something similar, when swearing at someone he will show to emotion (well, maybe the look of go to hell and leave me alove, but thats my normal look (-_-)) when ou see him with emotions and swears, that means you sould be running -10 minutes from now, the last time i did this (in 5th grade) i was chaseing someone with a compass with the will to stab his eyes out then cut him to sushi. * This troper only swears when referencing media. Well, one evening, this troper (forthwith known as @/TropeyBoy) was with his friend, his sister, and his sister's friend who happens to be aforementioned friend's adopted sister. Anyway, as I said, I almost never swear. Now there were these really annoying bullies from aforementioned friend's school, and they were irritating us as much as humanly possible. They were agonizing me so much that I growled to my friend "They're all a bunch of a** holes." He then stared at me in shock and awe, and I almost grinned. I explained to him the next day why I swear rarely, because the effect is much stronger that way. (he doesn't swear ALL the time, but he does swear a good bit more than me) This troper also experienced 2 Crowning Moments of Awesome after that. * This troper plays Runescape. He had one day of membership (subscription) left, so he sold all of his member items and bought some very expensive armor with his new money.. The next day, when he withdrew his new armor and tried to put it on, the game wouldn't let him put it on. The armor was a members object. You can't sell or wear members objects without being on a member's world. Cue massive "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKK!!!!!!" * I was shopping at Barnes and Noble last night and sitting on a stool reading. All of the sudden, you know what I hear from the intercom? -->"Attention all Barnes and Noble shoppers, go fuck yourselves". ** That, my friend, is an official CrowningMomentOfFunny. ::Apparently some punks had found a way into the system. The staff didn't even seem so concerned about it. * This troper's [[TallDarkAndBishoujo big]] [[TheAce sister]] usually gets the cluster-fuck moments; in contrast, I only swear under my breath and when no one else is around. That is, until this idiot and his friends decided to play keep away with a manga I was reading. I squared off in the guy's face, practically nose-to-nose with him and said: "People like you are so funny to me. You see me back here, minding my own business and you decide to mess with me just because I seem like the kind of person you can pull that crap on. Well, let me be the first and last to tell you: '''It ain't fuckin' happenin'''." Needless to say, I got my manga back and that guy generally avoids me now. * This troper's friend's professor's last words on the last day of a college class: "And, in conclusion... I'd like to fuck each and every

one of you." (walks out) * Ditto that for [[@/ThePhantomSquee me]]. Although I do have a tendency to loosen my tongue a little bit when I'm tired, but even then it's usually pretty mild. * It's been realized among @/DarkInsanity13's friends (and family, and friends of her brother) that if she says the F word, it's either a slip of the tongue (and you'd be able to tell), or that you have you run ''really'', '''really''' '''''fast'''''. * [[@/{{Magus}} This troper]] is waiting for the exact right moment to use this. ** As is [[@/JapaneseTeeth this troper]]. A number of his friends have noted if they ever heard him drop an F-bomb they would ''run''. * If [[@/{{Nomic}} this troper]] swears in his native language, you better run. He swears a lot more when speaking in English tho, but even then he tends to save the F-bombs for when he's vary angry about something. ** This troper has a friend who is exactly like that. It acts kind of like a warning alarm. * This troper went through most of her young life without swearing at all. From birth right up until the age of twelve, not a swearword crossed her lips. Which meant that she alarmed a bunch of "playmates" all the more when she swore at them in an attempt to make them go away. After that she went straight back to not swearing all the way up until just a few months ago in university, when standing with her friends outside of a notice board, they discovered that a misprint meant they had a week and a half LESS to complete everything than they thought they had. My selective choice of the S word may have earned a few "Wha--? You swore! ''You don't swear''!"'s from her friends, but it ''was'' very appropriate. According to some people, she ''does'' blaspheme a lot, though. ** Sounds kind of like me. Unless you consider things like "oh my God" swearing, I just didn't swear. Now I've started using these words more and more, leaving some people(especilly old friends who has known me for some years) surprised. * [[@/FinalGamer This Troper]] swears on a regular basis, but very few times has he had such an absolute precise F strike to nail a bullseye from 1000 yards, until he reached the very end of Modern Warfare 2. -->"NNNNNNRRRRRAAAAAAARGH!!! [[spoiler: SHEEEPHEEEEERD!!!" *pulls knife out as Shepherd looks up*]] -->"'''FUCK.'''" [[spoiler: *throws knife straight into Shepherd's head*]] -->"'''YOU.'''" * [[@/AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] primarily swears with a British accent, if even at all. So if you hear him drop a good old-fashioned American-made F-Bomb anywhere outside of here or 4chan, you can expect some TranquilFury to start raining down. * [[@/{{Aela}} This troper]] almost ''never'' swears. When she does, though, it's a combination of this and SophisticatedAsHell. * [[@/HeadacheJohn This troper]] due to being a Bostonian and privately educated, uses "fuck" quite liberally. However, if something causes him to say, "Aw shit" then something just got ''real.'' * This troper ''very'' seldom swears, and once recently a friend told

me that she thought that I could never offend anyone. I responded by turning to the guy sat next to me (who hadn't been listening to the conversation) and told him that he was the c-word. He looked so hurt and dumbstruck that I immediately explained the context and apologised profusely, and have promised to interpret statements of this nature as compliments, not challenges, in the future. * This editor rarely swears in public, usually I hold my cool and be cold and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] when mocked. But once, when my class' {{Jerkass}} started to pick a fight with me, throwing the worst insult what he could think and after a while I decided that I had taken enough crap. I calmly turned to face him, looked him for a few secs and said: "What's your problem, you asshole? Seriously, who pissed to your bowl of cereals this morning? Shut the '''fuck''' up and for once do us a favor." It's quite obvious that he doesn't mock others anymore. * Today in this Troper's English class, the teacher was getting annoyed. One student was being too loud, so he was sent to the hall. Then another student did the same thing. (This Troper was being nice and quiet, reading the textbook.) After the teacher took said student out into the hallway (for a talk, probably), and the door closed, one other student (coincidentally, the first to get in trouble, who had come back in the room after ten minutes) said, "(Teacher Name) is on a fucking rampage!" 80% of the class burst out in laughter. Luckily, the teacher was halfway down the hall by then, and the laughter had subsided before he came back. It was the highlight of this Troper's school day. And possibly a [[CrowningMomentofAwesome]] for the speaker. * This troper was always raised to regard excess swearing as rather silly looking, and as such, rarely swears. Yesterday someone hid her favorite hat. "Gimme my fucking hat back, you asshole!" quoth I. The person was in fear for his life. I got my hat. <3 * This troper's high school theater did ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' one year for their fall drama. Needless to say, most of the substantial cursing had to be edited down a few notches, but they let the director leave one "fuck" in. And it was ''awesome''. ** You mean [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Wai1QjP_o this 'Glengarry Glen Ross']]? You mean you managed to turn a movie that's the equivalent of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B52_Stratofortress Big Ugly Fat Fucker]] full of ClusterFBomb carpetbombing into a Stealth Bomber? Damn, I would have been turning purple waiting for one of you to actually do a line right, or figuring out how you managed to censor it. * "Shut the fuck up. There are other guests here." This troper, to the guests next door, one night while she was staying in a hotel. It was midnight and they were being '''so''' loud... ** As a hotel front desk agent, this troper applauds you for actually doing something about rather than just calling down to complain. * This is partially why [[@/{{Comonad}} this troper]] doesn't swear normally. He's glad to know it's a trope. * This troper had never realized that his father never used the F word until the day he used it to good effect. * This troper has a friend who ''never'' swears. She often even says

Golly or Gosh instead of God. She reminds me constantly not to swear. One time, she was attempting to get in touch with her birth father, and was very excited about it. She had tried to get his phone number from the web for hours, and finally had it. When she called, it was a wrong number. I saw her mouth the word "fuck". * This troper has a tendency to swear by Eris when he does at all. For him to call out "God DAMNIT"... is both precedented and unfortunate for the object of his dislike. * For [[@/{{Hydronix}} This Troper]], ''SoulCalibur'' 3, and sometimes 4 and 2...and even 1 can make me scream the swear words like nobody's business. It doesn't help when I wake up my dad... * [[@/MrDeath This Troper]] used it in a letter to the editor for his college's paper. The previous day, someone had written in a letter chastising the paper for printing a screenshot of a website that had the word "Fuck" in it. The website? [[CompletelyMissingThePoint A page espousing the virtues of Anorexia and Bulimia]]. This troper's response letter pointed out, in so many words, that we're in college, and we should be more worried about the content of the page than the use of the word "Fuck." He considers it a crowning moment of good judgment that the paper did ''not'' edit the letter at all. * This troper has a friend who always laughs when I curse because she says I hardly ever do (untrue incidentally, I'm more of a Cluster F Bomb type, just not in front of her). But she's pointed it out so many times it's almost a game; I calculate swearing to have maximum effect and surprise. For instance, most recently we were discussing a friend who had gone to college and grown a mountain man beard. I said something about it's because he's on the West Coast. She asked "Why, what happens on the West Coast?" To which I replied in a deadpan "Crazy shit, man. Craaaazy shit." She couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. * This troper's grandfather, despite being a WWII vet, was careful never to swear in front of the grandkids. There were a couple of near misses, and he said "Holy sss''mokes''" a lot, but growing up I never heard a curseword from him. When I was thirteen he was dying and we went to visit him in the hospital. I heard him say the word fuck, just one time. That was the point I realized something was seriously wrong with him. ** This Troper's grandpa is also a WWII vet. The worst I've ever heard him say is probably "damn it." * This troper heard his close friend drop an F-bomb for the first time a few days ago, albeit a whispered one. ** This troper seldom uses anything worse than "crap" as an expletive. So one day, several years ago, when one of my friends was being irritatingly obnoxious, I told him to "Fuck off." The response: dead silence and stares of stunned disbelief. The person I said it to didn't say another word for at least ten minutes. * This troper is an inversion - she swears copiously and creatively in everyday life, but when things go really badly wrong she can never think of the right swearword for it. * This troper tosses around the occasional "fuck" for emphasis (living in Boston is one reason) but the first time she heard her mother utter the phrase "motherfucker" she was downright shocked. Sure, she'd heard

the occasional "damn" "hell" and even "shit" but that was heavy artillery on the part of her mother. * This troper tries to keep her swears to languages that most do not understand expletives in. If she curses in English, you had better run. * This troper rarely drops the F bomb, but upon discovering that his new superintendent denied his orchestra a field trip to hershey park, he let out a loud ''' "FFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK..." ''' in the middle of class, and everybody reacted as if he walked up and slapped each and every one of them in the face. * While most of this troper's water polo team throws "fuck" around like it's the word "and," our goalie ''never'' swears. That is, until yesterday, when she gave an outlet pass and threw the ball out of bounds, so it was a turnover. Just as it fell, she stared at it and said, very loudly, "FUCK." * The first time I heard my dad swear, I knew something was up. Also, I can toss around profanity as adjectives and nouns, but as exclamations they always seem to abandon me under actual stress. Which is why, when injured, rather than yelling "SHIT!" or "FUCK!" I'll shriek wordlessly, or, or some reason, yell "no!" I sound like a kindergarten teacher. ** Are the "no"s [[BigNo big]], by any chance? * Back in this tropers school days, someone behind me was gently lifting my chair with their foot for several minutes while the teacher was talking to the whole class. Twice I had to stand up, much to the teacher's befuddlement. Eventually she asked me in an annoyed voice what the problem was. Reply, along the lines of "well someone's ''fucking'' kicking my chair, what am I supposed to do!". This reaction was understood a while later when I helped out as a classroom assistant and could see ''everything'' that was going on in the class. How teachers can possibly miss crap like this going on is a real BerserkButton for me. * Not sure if this counts, but this troper, otherwise abhorrent and entirely against cursing, occasionally shouts "Oh shite!" In an approriately semi-Irish accent. * [[@/FearTheWolf This troper]] usually uses fairly mild swearwords, and not even that commonly. Any shout of more serious swearwords from me always hits home harder than many of my mates doing it. '''Precision''' F Strike is particularly true in my case, as the number of times I've used the word in my entire life doesn't even make it into double digits. * This troper never said anything worse than "damn" until one point in high school when she thought she'd managed to lose the small, expensive camera for the Video Production class. She said "Shit" very quietly and, coincidentally, found the camera immediately afterwards. Since then, she still doesn't swear much, and when she does it's pretty incoherent. * [[@/PeppermintSheep This troper]] is a cute young woman who puts up with lonely middle-aged men at her job every day (it's a library, you perverts). When one of my "fans" found me at a grocery and attempted to converse with me, he finally said, "Jeez, you're nice to me at the library." I responded, "It's my job, you fuck!" and continued with my

grocery shopping. ** [[@/CelticWhisper This troper]] also worked at a library in his youth. In the IT department. The PUBLIC IT department. For over 5 years. So believe me when I say, I feel your pain. There were days I could only get by by subtly torturing the more emotionally-vulnerable library patrons in their times of distress (grade-making or gradebreaking report due next day, divorce/child-support/lawsuit papers NEEDING NEEDING OMFGNEEDING NOW to be finished, resum for huge interview tomorrow...) and saying "Oh, dag-nabbit, those st00pid machines are at it again. Oh, gee, and we're closing in 5 minutes. Sorry!" The fact that we had GoBack (remember that one?) installed in such a fashion that even we couldn't reverse its changes made it a lot easier to get away with blaming the computer and having people believe me. * This troper does have somewhat of a mouth on him but back in high school he was pretty quiet. So naturally it came to as a shock one day in Environmental Science when after a lab was done, the teacher told everyone they couldn't leave until one item was found or else everyone would have points taken off. At that point, this troper exclaimed 'Someone find that damn [whatever the item was!]. Que the shocked look on the teacher's face. * Both [[@/{{This-guy}} My]] parents do this if they're mad. Though my dad only does it if he's talking to himself (and we usually hear it), while my mum only does it when she's talking to one of her children. * I cuss like a sailor on the internet, and in real life I'm fairly free with words like 'bugger', 'crap', 'sod', 'bollocks' etc. If I call someone a cunt though, I probably really, really hate them, and they should run. Especially if there's a 'fucking' on the front of that. * [[@/NeoSilverThorn This troper]] does this, having learned it from his dad. It's usually an OhCrap notice for me, and my dad does when he's managed to injure himself without knowing it. * [[@/{{Choir}} This troper]] rarely swears seriously, although occasionally I let loose a ClusterFBomb to throw off friends who are shocked at a 'shit' from me. I have a friend who is like a brother to me, and he likes a girl who stopped acknowledging his existence when she found out he liked her. This prompted me to refuse to call her anything other than the c-word. It is widely understood that I dislike that word. I also strongly dislike her. * I recently got kicked out of a group for the use of a precision F strike (a fairly deadpan delivery too), despite the fact that the majority of members think nothing to constant F bombing, often loudly and publicly. Think it was very much a case that the F word had much more impact coming from me, and showed how angry I was, than the far more common swearing (including the C word) from others. * When this troper was playing netball, a friend shot for the net and the ball bounced off and hit her on the forehead. To which, she replied "FFFUCK!". The gym teacher was not impressed. * This troper swears like a sailor, but out of habit never says "fuck" in the presence of his parents. When he ''does'' they know something is seriously wrong. * Subversion: This troper was playing Mario Party 8

[[MostTropersAreYoungNerds with his girlfriend]] and a mutual friend. My girlfriend and I were on one team, the friend and a bot on the other. It's the second-to-last round, and the friend's team gets a star. -->'''{{@/Hremsfeld}}:''' [[OhCrap "Fuck."]] ** That was the first time they'd ever heard me swear '''at all,''' and the best/worst part? It just slipped out. The three of us had to stop playing because we were laughing too much from it. (My girlfriend and I ended up winning by stealing two stars with a candy. * This troper has sworn twice in her life. Both were when she was quite young and didn't know what the words were. After getting in trouble for it, she decided never to do it again. She won't even type the words. She fully plans to someday curse loudly in front of a large group of people who know about her 'no swearing ever' rule, just to see what they do. ** Oh my goodness, this troper wants to do that too! She can't imagine their expressions, which will make it all the more hilarious. Maybe the end of senior year will suffice... * This trope swears alot, actually. He also comes up with threats for no reason out of nowhere because he can. One thing that he hates is that he has no control over his face, he is almost always smiling without realizing it. If he stops smiling and then swears. You're fucked. * This troper can throw F-bombs around like they're going out of style, jokingly insult people with varying degrees of vulgarity, but if I ever, EVER say that someone is "dead to me," shit just got real. * [[@/LoneHoundoom This troper]] can best be described as having Stress-Induced Tourettes. Being a fat nerd in high school, this means I swear a '''fucking''' lot of the '''fucking''' time. * [[@/{{Bookhobbit}} This troper]] has only ever spoken the word "dammit" once in her entire life. The circumstances involved never being able to speak to her best friend again. The friend was actually quite impressed, although that was not the intent, because I radiate an almost [[GoodOmens Aziraphale]]-esque lack of swearing. Of course, given the example in the main page, perhaps it was inevitable. Additionally, this is how she intends to use swearing in books when writing, because of the effect. * I don't know about F-bombs, This troper's S-bomb is very precise. Mostly they're less then a second before something unfortunate happens to me. If I start with the "Oh" I never have time to finish the "shi". * Like many others, [[@/{{Koveras}} This Troper]] is very cautious around swear-words and it's generally hard to make him use them. But even when stressed, he never swears at anyone in particular: he does it to make fucking clear what his concerns about the situation at hand are. [[BilingualBonus Bonus points]] for swearing proficiently in English, German, and even Russian (depending on the mood). * This Troper will occasionally swear for lesser things ("Dammit!" "You Bastard!" "What the hell?" and very occasionally a "Shit!"). However, when I drop the F bomb, I am either absurdly mad at you, or something really, really bad just happened. * This troper never, ever, ever swears, even mildly. But she's a

feminist, and one day, when she had been thinking about how a certain word is almost certain to be applied to any intelligent, proactive woman, she happened to hear someone she'd been arguing with refer to her as a "Dumb [aforementioned word]." Cue her spinning around to face him and snapping, "No, I'm a ''smart'' bitch." ** As a fellow feminist (and a male one at that, down with double standards!) I congratulate you for delivering LaserGuidedKarma. * [[@/PuritySue This troper has never intentionally sworn out loud]]. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Yet]]. * This troper uses damn and hell a lot, but going further requires intense anger or depression. The only people to hear me swear like that took steps backward in shock. * This troper is trying to break a habit of internal ClusterFBombs, but externally the F word is a rare thing. This led to the following dialogue with my [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits lunch group.]] ---> Troper: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Context context context]] '''[[SexTropes sex]]''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext context.]] ---> Fellow Ragtag Misfit: You know, I don't think I've ever heard troper say the word 'sex' before. ---> Troper: ''Fuck.'' HilarityEnsues. (I immediately passed it off as mentioning a seal in French, but still.) That is the one time I have used the F word out loud for anything other than serious situations. I also have a friend who Does. Not. Swear. Not as much of a PuritySue was some on this page, but serious language is rare. When she referred to herself as a bitch, the response was panic. (ThreeIsCompany.) Prior to that, she got results with a Precision H Strike - "Shut the hell up." This among a group of people where ClusterFBomb is the standard mode of speech. * [[@/{{Magnezone}} This troper]] does not swear. She does not use 'Oh my God', preferring to say 'dear Mew' or something of the sort. She blames her parents. Her nine-year-old brother, on the other hand, likes to spit a string of curses into the talk function of his PlayStation3. He rarely, if ever, listens to her when she tells him to shut up and stop cursing. Finally, when she was waken up at six... ---> Magnezone: [calmly walks into brother's room and taps his shoulder] ---> Brother: [pauses, says 'hold on', and turns in his chair] (irritably) What? ---> Magnezone: (cheerily) Shut the hell up. 'Kay? Thanks. [walks out of the room, smiling] * I've been told that when I swear, it's a pretty good sign of something. Even though I do swear occasionaly... * The ''only'' person or thing in this entire universe or any other that causes me to swear is [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry my little sister]], to my mother's and step-father's shock (and amusement). * YonTroper pretty much didn't swear for a while, but when he was eleven and a friend was being a really stupid JerkAss and he was irritated beyond endurance, he let loose with something along the lines of "FUCK SHIT COCKSUCKING TITS GODDAMN SHIT-EATING COCK". I swear only occasionally since then, but the JerkAss was suitably shocked. * This Troper and his group of friends were all surprised when a

normally tacit friend simply replied, "Fuck," when another friend was describing their horrible day. * [[@/NeoSilverThorn This Troper]] prefers [[UnusualEuphemism Unusual Euphemisms]] when swearing. When I switch to using F-bombs, something's about to go down, has gone horribly wrong, or I'm absolutely livid. It's also used as a ranging shot for a ClusterFBomb. * [[@/{{ziggerfreud}} This Troper]] while riding home with his aunt and obnoxious uncle, was being pestered by him in a very annoying way, disrupting me from listening to mah m1dy, when I calm took my headphones off, looked him in the eyes and told him to "Shut the fuck up". this coming from a 14-year-old at the time, [[HilarityEnsues Cue laughing from my aunt]] ** Also one from my grandmother (who's kinda losing it, & is in a umm... I don't wanna say nursing home, it's something else). she was talking to my other aunt on the phone about something (can't remember what), and she said she'd be driving over to the house, cue this [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning moment of funny]] for the day. --->Aunt: ...And how are you gonna get there? --->Grandma: * awkward silence* ...Oh, SHIT... * [[@/{{Aoirann}} this Troper]] never really swore during High school (with the exception of when I [[RefugeInAudacity swore right behind the dean and got away with it]]). During the last day of Math class someone wrote something on the board about me. --->Me: "Motherfucker." --->Stunned Classmate of the last three years. "Dude. I don't think I have ever heard you swear before." * This troper has a reputation for this sort of thing, mostly because I come off as a total goody-two-shoes. The best example was in middle school when I cursed out this boy that had been tormenting me since kindergarten. For the most part I still curse a lot less than other people I know, so people are still shocked. Makes it more fun. Hell, I once got a whole group of old friends up in arms because I said "shit." I was NINETEEN. * This [[@/ShadowPanther Troper]] was in chemistry doing a reflux. I put stopper in by mistake so it exploded. Potassium manganate EVERYWHERE. Stunned silence followed interrupted by the following: -->Me: "Fuck." * This troper used to curse liberally while on his early teens, until his uncle called him aside and told him that profanity loses its impact when overused and similarly when you reserve your curses for those moments when they are really necessary, they are a lot more powerful. I now teach my kids the same. ** MutantRancor here. I managed to learn the same lesson without going through the "cursing liberally" stage. I have yet to have occasion for a PrecisionFStrike, but when I do it will be ''epic''. I've prepared a long string of curses in advance to throw at whoever causes the event. * ThisTroper swears fairly often, but is trying to get out of the habit. However, he's ''never'' sworn in front of his parents. It'll happen, I swear. * [[@/{{MiraShio}} I]] swear the least among my class, which means each instance I swear is met with awe or uproarious laughter. I found myself on the receiving end back in December when I received a group

message containing words that were meant to be directed at me. It wasn't anything harmful, but the fully-capitalized profanity towards the end of the message made it quite clear just how dead serious the situation was. * This troper generally is known as a [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice, even tempered person]] among her group of friends and haven't heard me swear much. Until we all sat down for a horror movie-marathon, and got to some ''really'' [[NightmareFuel disturbing]] parts. * Strange enough, this troper uses shit and damn commonly with the Fbomb sprinkled in, but rarely uses the word 'asshole' other than to make points. --> ... -->"That is ''fucked up.''" -->(Notable because afterwards they were more shocked at my statement than the actual movie.) * This troper has a noticeably upper class British accent, so when I swear it either sounds ridiculous or so damn funny. Once time when it was the latter, after I said the 'S' word very loudly within earshot of a teacher, said teacher found it too funny to tell me off! Another time was when I was two and got my skirt caught in a fence. Just imagine a two year old with a British accent going "It's these bastard steps!" * For the ''only'' time in this troper's life, he arrived to pick up some medicine for his mother. It was said it would be there on this day, but there was a mistake and not a single place had the medicine and I argued with the people there for 30 minutes. I was already going to be late for class. Then I realized I had taken the wrong way home and would now be ''45'' minutes late for class. For the only time in 20 years (my age), I, being alone in the car said, "Fuck!". * A friend of [[@/{{Midna}} mine]] ([[VitriolicBestBuds who probably doesn't/didn't think of me as a friend]]) didn't use ''any'' swearing at all - except once. After she was tired of my irritating, persistent, and obsessive behavior, she launched into a not-quitefurious tirade that nevertheless used "fucking" no less than three times. She doesn't talk to me anymore. * Very much true with me. I never swear, but because of my odd sense of humor, I often play jokes on my friends by pretending something awful has happened. Naturally, this bit me in the arse when something bad happened, and my friends thought I was kidding. It was only when I said, [[ItGotWorse "Fuck. Shit's getting worse,"]] that they believed me. * It's because of this trope that @/{{dotchan}} tries to keep herself from swearing (though she's been slipping lately)--if ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes dotchan]]'' says a bad word, then shit has officially hit the fan. * If you ever hear me say the f-word, rest assured bad, bad, BAD things are going to happen (or have happened). Well, I wouldn't rest '''assured'''... * Played straight and subverted in my life. When I first dropped an Fbomb around my uncle (who'd never heard me swear and at the time it was a pretty vehement one) he looked at me and said "It's about time!" In highschool though it was so rare that it wasn't taken seriously and

got the point where people would tell me "Don't do that. It doesn't sound right when you do it." * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] almost never uses the f-word, though I slipped during the last 5 minutes of the first part of ''Series/DoctorWho: The End of Time''; with everything that happened in that short amount of time, my only words where "Holy fucking shit" * This troper virtually never swears, and especially not out loud. However, on a school trip last year, I was sitting next to one of my friends who enjoyed using people as punching bags (literally, he kept punching me in the arm/side). After this, and a wide assortment of other behaviors, went on for several hours consecutively (stupid 11 hour bus rides...), I finally snapped, and yelled, " ''Name!'' SON of a '''''BITCH!''''' Of course, this ''had'' to happen at the '''''exact same time''''' as a lull in the conversation. As a result, virtually the entire bus heard my outburst. There were a few moments of stunned silence, and then the '''entire''' bus burst out either laughing, shouting, or asking, "Wait, was that '''''Troper'''''???" I was horribly embarrassed for the rest of the bus ride. And, of course, word quickly spread to the other bus, so the entirety of the people there found out. [[SarcasmMode Great....]] * This troper's friends have lampshaded my tendency to do this on several occasions, especially during class. Fortunately for this troper, he times it well enough so that the teachers find it just as amusing as well, so pain generally does not ensue. * My sisters and I are not allowed to swear, and we usually follow the rules. My father mostly does not swear. My grandmother, who apparently used to swear [[ClusterFBomb quite a bit]] tones it down for her grandkids. But my mother ''never'' swears. Then one day, when my sisters and I (none of whom were over 13) had been ignoring her telling us to clean up for about an hour, she unleashed a very loud, "I told you to clean this ''shit'' up, and you haven't been cleaning this ''shit'' up, but if you do not clean up this ''shit'' right this very minute, then '''''shit is going to hit the fan!'''''" The room was immaculate in under 5 minutes. * This troper, like many of the above, does not swear. Ever. When she begins to curse, you know that she is ''extremely'' upset and you better listen up. * This troper is very cautious about swearing and only does it with friends, when there is no chance of getting in trouble for it. If at school, she'll substitute with 'fudge' or 'shiz'. At home, 'crap'. I try to get in the habit of not swearing often so I don't slip up in front of my family. Needless to say, when one friend said something to me about my ex-girlfriend that struck the wrong nerve, said friend was very startled to have me turn around, get in her face and say "Mind your own goddamn business, you fuckin' nosy bitch!" It worked. For a while, at least. * This troper was on a trip to Kings Island amusement park with some friends back in 2004, and we went on an indoor rollercoaster that starts off by shooting you from zero to sixty in less than a second. I'm not much for rollercoasters and basically got tricked onto it, and when the thing stopped I yelled out "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!", temporarily forgetting that it was a public place. Fortunately I

didn't get in trouble for it. * I (I hate using "This Troper") used to swear quite liberally, but have now vowed never to swear-and on the rare occasion that I do, to make it a [[PrecisionFStrike Precision F strike.]] It's going well so far. * "Buggerbuggerbugger" is this (American) troper's usual curse, but if you hear her use "shit" or "fuck"... [[BewareTheNiceOnes you should probably run.]] * This troper swears a fair bit but keeps it under control around his family. However, he has a Precision F-Strike scheduled for his 21st birthday, in the event that his mother chooses to tell a certain anecdote for the umpteenth time. * This troper was in his Video Film class the other day, and upon realizing that ALL of his footage from the past 3 grueling weeks of filming was completley deleted and gone, He (in the middle of a class yelled at the top of his lungs "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!! !!!!" Needless to say, once the teacher realized what was happened, he was forgiven, although all of his classmates now compare him to rageguy * This troper had been annoyed by a real jackass all last school year. On the third-to-last day, on the bus, when he kept saying I effed my brother, I just went: "Would you shut the fuck up for once in your life?!" The whole bus was in shock, since I usually just ignored or tried to ignore the guy. * This Troper has never actually sworn before. Her friends think she's incapable of it. Because of this, a few of her band mates decided to try and make her swear by teasingly telling her to do a lot of things to them. Needless to say, it didn't work. * During high school, one of this troper's friends, a transfer student from another school, claimed the reason he rarely swore was to invoke this trope should the time come. We terrible kids from across town must've corrupted him because it degenerated to an InformedAttribute over the course of a couple months. * Subverted or something with me. When I was 11 years old, I fell off my bike and fractured my wrist. My dad has always insisted that my words when it happened were, "I broke my ''fucking'' arm!" but I honestly don't remember saying that. * This troper's (1st person mode: On) grandfather was never a very angry man, and my father only heard him curse twice before he died. One of these times was when someone attempted to hurt my (then ten year old) uncle. This person was first greeted with a "DON'T YOU LAY A GODDAMNED HAND ON MY SON!" and a very clear reminder a punch deliver by a [[Main/PapaWolf very angry father]] can break your jaw. * This troper had a reputation in high school for two things: [[MamaBear Mama Bear]] tendencies, and an impressive vocabulary. Most of her friends and teachers had believed her to be "above" swearing because of the latter, at least until the day she crossed a very narrow-minded individual who proceeded to attack her two best friends for being gay. The argument lasted a good twenty minutes until this troper very suddenly called her opponent a "fucking antidisestablishmentarianistic asshole!" The fight stopped just so I

could prove that I had used the word in the proper context. I had. * For [[@/{{LordArkea}} This Troper]], it didn't exactly happen in real life. It happened when me and my friends were working on a scene for a play. We're on a talk show, I'm the guest and as a 'guest' I'm nervous as hell. ---> Troper: Umm... Is it alright if I, uh, smoke on stage? ---> 'Host': Oh, sorry, it's a PG program and we're on live television. ---> Troper: ... FUCK! * This troper was cast in a high school production of The Heidi Chronicles. (I was Peter, for those of you in the know). Anyway, one of my friends was cast as Fran, a feminist who was quite fond of the word fuck, so much so that literally her entire performance was a ClusterFBomb. Every "fuck" was changed to "frick" or "frickin'". I voted for "frakkin'". Anyway, it was our last show, Fran is only in one scene, and during a very dramatic, quiet moment, she changes just one frick back to fuck. Our director immediately stormed into the green room, asking if we had a plan to change back the dialogue. We didn't. * My english teacher who I have never heard swearing before said "fuck" one single time after getting the names of the names of two people confused. After having taught our class for one and a half years. He spoke very quiet though and apologized immediately afterwards. All of the class who head it were still laughing though. * This troper was sick the day our math teacher handed out a report due two weeks later worth 30 percent of our grade and no body bothered to tell me until the day before it was do. I worked on it from six till midnight, went to bed, then woke up at four to try to get it done the bus arrived at six. I finished at five but couldn't get it to print, so after my dad fixed that while I got ready for school. I was running late and when I got to the bus stop, I realized I forgot my glasses and my inhaler so I had to run back upstairs to our third floor apartment, grab my glasses and inhaler, and run back to the bus stop, where the bus was already there. I didn't say anything during this whole ordeal until some idiot on the bus tried to steal my inhaler (After I had used it at least). I grabbed it back and said quietly "Leave me the fuck alone". Since most of the kids on the bus were convinced I didn't even know any curse words, never mind actually use them, it was quite effective. * This Troper once asked his friends, "If someone asked if you swore, would saying "Fuck, no!" answer his question?" Hilarity did not ensue. * My dad's aunt was always the gentle, calm and collected type. Which made it very surprising when she began to swear, hearing that men in the family got drunk. That alone didn't come out of the blue but it contained the words "horse dick" in a rather ... unique context. * This Troper is a geek, high school techie and caddie, so I code switch a lot. When I'm with caddies, I swear my head off. When I'm with techies, I'll be a little forceful, but tend to hold my tongue. One day, I was stage manager for a show, and a particularly obnoxious techie was being incredibly loud during sound checks. Cue me turning around and yelling, "Shut the FUCK up!" * This Troper's father almost never swears. Almost never. He's always

calm, and only loses his temper when things are really serious ([[BerserkButton or he's talking to a phone solicitor]]), so this troper knew things weren't going well when his dad yelled "Fuck!". This troper's mom even pointed this out after an instance of "Shit!" years earlier. * This Troper has cursed audibly exactly /once/, and at that point it was in Italian when she was about 6 after her sister wouldn't stop bugging her until she said it, not even knowing what it meant. This Troper /does/, however, swear at times online. This usually comes in the form of "bloody", despite that she's American. (That's what you get for watching too much Doctor Who.) She also rle plays a lot online, and a few of her characters are British, so at times there'll be the occasional angry "bloody" or "sodding", but usually that's it. Then one day while role play she had to control [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]] for a few minutes in order to give instructions to the other character, the Doctor's son. Now the reason for these instructions is fairly complicated- it has to do with the Master's Chameleon Arch'dsince-two-minutes-old son having just opened the watch, etc. Anyway, This Troper was wondering how the Master would explain what to do. After a bit of thought, she eventually just went with, "I want you to fuck my son." According to the other role player, who is This Troper's best friend of about five years, claims that her jaw dropped, literally, at the fact she said that. * This Troper swears frequently, but my friends can tell I don't mean it because I usually smile while doing so. On the rare occassions I don't smile, they know the correct response is to back away slowly before running as far away as possible. * I have discovered my new catchphrase. After repudiating someone's arguments, point-by-point, on a forum, I ended with "quod erat demonstrandum, motherfucker". I actually got "mad props" for that one line. I now plan to use it every time I so annihilate an argument. * -->'''Person 1:''' Oh bloody hell! -->'''Person 2:''' Bloody, bloody hell! -->'''Person 1:''' Don't you bloody start! -->'''Person 2:''' Shut your bloody mouth! -->'''Person 1:''' Don't you bloody talk to me like that you bloody idiot! -->'''This Troper:''' Shut the fucking hell up. Both of you. Fuck.'' * This Troper was rehersing a small group number for his school's musical. For whatever reason, we decided to record it because we thought we had it down pat. However, we messed up the ending, but the mess-up isn't what made it funny: It was the fact that just before the recording stopped, you could very clearly hear someone yell "''Fucking Christ!''". * At an arts camp this troper attended to study creative writing, every discipline gave a final performance on the last weekend, not only to other students but to the parents who had arrived to retrieve their children as well. This meant we had to be a little more careful about our word choices. When asked about swearing in our final performance, our counselor advised dryly, "Listen, kids. We don't say 'fuck' because we can. We don't say 'fuck' because we can't. We say

'fuck' because it's the right word to use at the time. You understand me? ''You fucking kids understand me?''" * Just remembered one from when I was about three. Apparently (I don't remember said incident, but my mum does), my mum once just avoided swearing, to which I said, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Shit, mummy, shit."]] She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Particularly noticeable in that my mum almost never swears (although my dad does about once a day). * During one period at my first job, I was usually coming in much earlier than I liked and staying extra hours. One day I finally snapped when asked when I was getting off (which was supposed to have been a couple hours prior), and said, "Who the fuck knows?" (I was TheQuietOne; at least two people asked "Did he just say...?") It was effective; I went home five minutes later and was working much better shifts not long after. * Being from New England, [[@/HiWayXingFrog this Troper]] swears quite liberally, with F Bombs as he sees fit. However, when he uses the expletive "cunting" (as apposed to "fucking")...run. Fast. * At school, whenever someone hadn't done some homework, all you could hear was a massive "OH FUCK!" * [[@/ChutneyProphet This troper]] cusses frequently, but her guitar teacher never does except for the ''very'' occasional "pissed off." Then, one day, he said, "This guitar's all '''fucked''' up!" and she could immediately tell that he was very irritated. (The exact problem was that whenever one string was tuned properly, another would immediately go out of tune.) * [[@/{{Accela}} This troper]] used to never swear. Then I went to high school and learned plenty of new, creative words, but very rarely used them. I'll happily dish out "crap," "bloody," "bugger," an occasional "damn" or "hell," but if I say "shit," it's bad. It's very bad. If I say "fuck"...it's on the scale of "I'm about to die" or "I'm about to kill you right now so shut up." Lucikly, I haven't had to resort to that very often. * I wrote a comment on youtube about an oppenents pokemon team and it ended like this " and finally, he is a noob not to have anything to counter a fucking fish" * I am rather temperate with my language when around other people (but indulge in {{ClusterFBomb}}ing when alone). Thus in colledge my groupmates used to say that when I do swear it sounds especially expressive and even cute. * In a college level creative writing class I attended, one of my classmates was reading a very symbolism heavy story along the lines of a creation myth. Trying to explain what he was trying to accomplish with the story, he proclaims his story "some very serious shit". Then he realized he'd said 'shit' in class, turned white (he was black), and said "Oh, fuck!". Luckily, the teacher was cool about it. * [[@/{{RainbowPoof}} This Troper]]'s mother and grandmother were having a normal conversation about work. Mom brought up the fact that a woman she works with has severe OCD, constantly rearranging everyone's things and never getting much done, and mentioned how tough it must be to struggle with something like that. Grandma waiting silently until she finished her story, then, completely nonchalant,

replied, "Maybe she's just a bitch." * When I forget something important (Like a meeting, appointment, or thing I had to do), I calmly go 'Fuck' and then spend 5 minutes wondering if I can fix it. This also applies to when I have overslept, except I use 'shit' as well. * This troper rarely uses it, but when he does, the tone behind it is as important as the word I use. If I shout it, It means something's wrong, but it's not too serious. If I say it in a normal voice, it means the target of my voice should flee as fast as they physically can, If not faster. * This Troper has never said "fuck" on Twitter, unless in song lyrics. Recently, someone was harassing a friend of hers on DeviantArt and the Troper tweeted this: "Precision F-Strike example A: (link to profile) ban this fucker". * This normally stoic troper shocks people at school when he curses. odd because I consider myself a rather explicit person. * [[@/{{Gorank}} This Troper]] usually uses GoshDangitToHeck, and can only remember two real swears: ** In MetroidPrime 2: Echoes, I cursed that goddamn [[ThatOneBoss Emperor Ing]]. ** In Homestuck, all I could say on seeing [=arachnidsGrip's=] crossing of the MoralEventHorizon was "That...that ''bitch''." * This troper is a LordOfTheRings CanonNazi. She also tends to use GoshDangitToHeck when displeased. During a marathon showing of all three extended editions of the films she criticised everything, much to the amusement and delight of her friends, who took every opportunity to tease her. Until Aragorn chopped off the Mouth of Sauron's head. Cue "What the ''FUCK''?!", screamed loudly enough to drown out everything else in the room. This time, there was ''no laughter''. * One of my friends, who for the most part was the voiceless (due to him not wanting to be ridiculed for his welsh accent) at school pulled a rather shocking one of these, when another one of our nakama was getting beaten up and the rest of us were unable to help, he just pulled a baseball bat out of his bag, said "fuck it", (the first time I had heard him speak, incidently) and prompty, smashed the glass partitions, and went to our friends aid. * This Troper has a pretty bad mouth at home, and doesn't swear much in school, but at one point she had her backpack stuck in her locker, effectively jamming the locker door and preventing me from leaving in time to catch the bus without my books. I tried redialing the combination and pulling on the backpack for about 2 minutes before looking up just in time to see the busses pulling out. I dropped the straps, leaned back and kicked my locker as hard as I could, screaming, "FUCK!!" And my locker opened. At that precise moment, one of my friends walked by. He'd never heard me swear up until that point, and he stoped dead in he hallway and burst out laughing for a good 30 seconds while I BSOD'd. Since then, it's become an in-joke with several of my friends. * [[@/CCharmanderK This Troper]] made one two days prior to this writing. He was in theatre class at high school, and had just found out that he had a schedule mixup, and that all of his classes were

changed to different ones, effective immediately. I was so frustrated that I just let out a loud, annoyed, distressed "''FUCK!!''" * [[@/RedWren This troper]] tried telling the class to shut the fuck up, hoping for a half-second attention grab at the very least, which was all she needed to get the intentionally annoying class' attention. [[SubvertedTrope It just made people laugh at her, because she never swears, so it was absurd.]] * This troper's [[{{CrazyAwesome}} Economics teacher]] delivered one today in class, when she called several members of the class "douchebags". * This troper's father will never swear. Ever. He's a very hardcore conservative Christian. So, when we had a really bad snowstorm, we got a big block of icicles hanging off of our roof. One day, we heard a massive "CRASH and went outside to survey the damage. It had fallen right on top of our grill, which was now literally in pieces all over the deck. We both stared in silence a moment, and my father uttered a very profound "Fuck." * I barely ever swear. ''Not'' because I don't want to, as I honestly don't understand the taboo against using certain words, and why they should be considered any different from [[GoshDangItToHeck other words that mean the exact same thing]]. Not because I don't feel I need to, as I am very cynical and have plenty of reasons for ''wanting'' to swear. No, my reason for a lack of swearing is mostly because I don't want to hear a lecture from someone about how I need to "watch my mouth" or whatever. In fact, when someone compliments me on having a clean vocabulary, I actually go out of my way and explain to them that the only reason I'm not swearing is to avoid having to put up with complaints. Usually, I only swear when I'm alone around people who I know well enough to know that they won't mind. That being said.....recently, at a crowded concert, I bought a drink and tried to push through the crowd with it, and while making my way down the stairs I slipped and slid down, landing flat on my back and pouring the whole drink down my shirt in the process. My reaction was a very loud "''OH FUCK!''" * This troper is in middle school. There are two types of people at my school: the swearers and the non-swearers. Now, there is a kid, who in my 6th (I think) period, told me to rap the first verse of Love the Way you Lie. I did, but RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER, I SAY: "...she FUCKin' hates me, and I love it! Wait!"! OMG. The kid went wide-eyed. * @/{{Excel-2010}}. I make it a point to never swear unless absolutely necessary. Instead, mostly as a challenge to myself, [[GoshDarnItToHeck I find ways around swearing by coming up with inoffensive phrases that adequately express my disappointment at my current situation]]. Outside from quoting movies and reading scripts or books, the only time I ever swore on purpose is for a speech in public speaking class. I opened it like I was about to launch into a discussion of the prevalent trends in pop culture in my introduction, then after a beat, shouted "What the hell is wrong with you?" at the top of my voice. After another beat, I took my seat. I never learned what grade I got for that, but it was worth it. * This Troper has uttered exactly three strong swear words in her entire life. The first time, she dropped the F bomb to emphasize that

stuff was going wrong. The second time, she used the S word instead of "crap" in "holy crap" when told of something life-changing. The third time, she dropped the F bomb to make a point about the utter wrongness of sexism. * This Troper's grandpa was quite fond of "goddamn," "son of a bitch," and "jackass." Nothing harder than that until we were helping out on my uncle's property. Uncle and grandpa were chopping down a big Douglas Fir while Aunt, Mom, Sis, and me were having lunch. We hear my grandpa yell "Oh, SHIT!" Mom and Aunt ''immediately'' grab us girls and start running. The rather large Douglas Fir crashed about a meter shy of our picnic table. ** Troper's twin has one of her own. Compared to the rest of the stagehands, she swore infrequently. One day, she was up in the highest part of the rigging, placing counterweights on the batons to off-set some stage lights. The weight fell, pinching her finger between it and the rigging, smashing her finger and giving her the mother of all blood blisters. She dropped the weight while screaming an F-bomb at the top of her lungs. ''Everyone'' scattered, and the weight's impact left a permanent dent in the stage's flooring. The teacher, bless him, explained that everyone heard the PrecisionFStrike and ran because she was always the type to swear in context. He kept the dent in the stage as a teaching example of WHY you clear out from the rigging areas while people are up top handling weights and took great delight in telling aberrant actors and dancers the dent could be their heads. * This troper's [[PrecisionFStrike Precision F Strikes]] rarely get past "Fuuu"; but dropping her already damaged DSLite, causing the hinge to fall out of the already-made hole (leaving the top screen hanging by only copper wires on the other side), as well as loosening the game I was playing (causing it to freeze and making me lose a good bit of training) was enough for this troper to play it straight. * This troper played this to it's straightest ever, not only using F, but B and S also. It went something like this: ->Me: If you don't stop that, I will force you to f*ck your own sh*t, you little b*tch. * This Troper consciously tries not to swear, not because she finds it offensive, but because she wants to be able to invoke this trope. People who swear all the time never make an impression with their cursing, but when the one who never swears develops a potty mouth? ''Watch out.'' * When @/DesertDragon was taking Driver's Ed, this girl was behind the wheel at the time and was making a lot of mistakes that the teacher was calling her out on. Then the girl blurted out, "I don't know these fucking streets!" The teacher, a DeadpanSnarker but still an older lady whom you don't expect to swear, calmy replied, "First of all honey, I'm pretty sure these streets don't fuck. Now calm down, and let's take it slow." As you can imagine, the girl made way fewer mistakes from then on. That teacher always was one of my favorites. * I generally dissolve into angrish with the exception of that one game that makes me take the kids gloves off and start with a steady stream of F-Bombs about a minute apart from one another. That game is CaveStory. * Not this Troper, but this troper's boss. Said boss is a middle aged

Mexican man who's generally very calm and often has to tell LowEndLem to stop swearing. During one day when we were loading a guy's couch and he was freaking out on us because of the snow, best exchange ever. ** Guy: Could you take any longer, it's goddamned freezing! -->Coworker: Dude, calm dow-->Guy: No! It's cold and I want my fucking couch and you two are too fucking incompetent to do anything! -->Boss: Ese, shut the fuck up, they're new and you're being kind of a prick. Wait in your car if you're so cold. *beat* Also sign here. ** Probably the best thing I've heard since I started there. * This troper's family usually don't swear so excessively, we don't speak in the Queen's English or anywhere close to it but this was a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment somewhat out of character moment]], even for us. This troper had one of these moments in the past few minutes and his first instinct was to post it here. We suddenly had a black out, and just for the lulz, I asked my dad whether we had parallel or series circuits, not that I know anything about it. Then the following conversation / karaoke of Bodies by the Sex Pistols. -->Dad: What the fuck are you, an electrician? -->Me: I dropped out to pursue a career in punk rock instead. -->Dad: Fuck this, and fuck that! -->Me: Fuck it all and fuck a fucking brat! -->Dad: Bodies!!! I'm not an animal! -->Mum: You're a fuck-wit. * This Troper is a rather interesting case in the swearing and general precision of those swears. The lighter swears up to 'shit' are tossed around liberally, and even the F-Bomb is used as a "sentence enhancer". There are times, however, through subtle use of disturbingly calm tone, manipulation of vocabulary, stance, and glaring in which I'll liberally use more sophisticated dialect to either psychologically sunder my foe a structurally superfluous new one, or simply threaten he's approaching the limit of my FUCKING patience. It takes some serious dicking around to get me to this. * This Troper rarely swears. When I do it's only when I am [[SelfDemonstratingArticle FUCKING PISSED]]. Of course, I am regularly... * This Troper was always a couple of years younger than the rest of his year level at school, and was always seen as the quiet, reserved one. So obviously, he copped a lot of flak along the lines of "Hey, I've never heard you swear." My response? "Oh, yeah, I swear all the fucking time." * This Troper never swore at school much unless she was joking around with friends. But one day, I was going to my English class in a VERY pissed off mood. I was downright seething over a fight I'd had with a friend. We were going over Hamlet, and my teacher asked my opinion on whether I thought Claudius or Hamlet had more blame on their shoulders for Ophelia's madness and eventual suicide, and before I even realized what I was saying, I said "Well, since Claudius was the goddamn king, you'd think he would have noticed something before she went BATSHIT

INSANE." My class was pretty shocked, since I'm usually a straightedge quiet kid. I profusely apologized to my teacher who, bless his soul, just shrugged and said "We're all big kids here." * Around some of his close friends, this troper does ClusterFBomb a lot and says "fuck" and/or "bitch" about every other word, but around most other people he does not swear loudly in [[ForeignCussWord En]][[GratuitousFrench glish]] very much, but when he does they are really shocked, of course they are usually [[PrecisionFStrike Precision]] [[ClusterFBomb Cluster]] [[AtomicFBomb F Bombs]]. * This (British) troper works with young children, so will usual express displeasure or annoyance with "Goodness me!" or "Oh ''dear''!" A colleague and I were doing paperwork in the office (out of the earshot of any children in the building) and listening to the radio. [[TheXFactor Matt Cardle]]'s [[BerserkButton cover of 'Many Of Horror']] by Biffy Clyro began to play. This troper: "Oh, '''FUCK OFF'''!!" Her colleague, having never heard her swear before, was equally shocked and amused. * Averted by this Troper. His reaction to the curb stomp scene in AmericanHistoryX: "That was ''unpleasant''." His reaction to every one of his worst faults being pointed out before getting kicked out of his apartment by people he thought were his best friends: "You're ''not nice''." * This Troper (a PC user) was having issues with her school's Macintosh laptops. After telling a teacher the "gosh-darned mactops need drop-kicking out a window", she was told by her teacher to "swear at it as much as you like. It normally makes them work." Being the quiet person that nobody has heard swear, the entire class cracked up as she quickly yelled "SHITPISSFUCK" at the laptop. It worked. * This troper won a fight by yelling "Fucknuckle" and then slapping his opponent in the face and [[CombatPragmatist tripping them]]. * This troper was once ranting to friend of hers about another "friend" in one of her classes, who is easily the most annoying person she has ever met. (Violent, cynical, he swears constantly, he makes everything into a double entendre and frequently talks about sex, and he thinks that I'm "too innocent" because I'm not just like him. At the same time, I feel sorry for him, because I'm certain he's quite mentally ill.) Now, during this entire conversation with my aforementioned friend, I had been pulling CrossesTheLineTwice moments left and right while laughing uncontrollably the whole time, which surprised her, as I am normally thought of as sweet and wholesome and reserved (and I am, but people also tend to think that I am painfully naive and sheltered, which I'm not). So, during my tirade, I described this kid as a "bastard," and instantly regretted it when I saw the girl's shocked and not-so-amused face afterward. I kept on apologizing and telling her that I went too far and that I normally never say anything like that, and I felt like I needed to rinse my mouth out with soap. In my next class, I even consulted my nearby classmates about it, and they were all just as stunned. And worse still, I know for a fact that the kid I was talking about in the first place [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame would have approved of me swearing!]] It's been a whole weekend since it happened, and I still feel absolutely horrible for ruining my own good image...

* Tropers/FastEddie on using ThisTroper on the Main section of the wiki: "[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1303343711081614400 &page=1#11 Fuck that. Just don't use it.]]" * This troper is actually a strange subversion of the ClusterFBomb at times. He will use several swears at times, the three exceptions being [[CountryMatters that one word that starts with a C]], the actual F word, and "G**damn." After this troper's senior year of college, he and his roommate moved into a small townhome not far from campus based on an agreement they had with another student. Right after July 4th hit (literally, it was July 5th) a rather large real estate agent nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 'Moose']] showed up (this troper's roommate had gone to get groceries) and essentially told us that they were in the townhosue illegally because the guy they had subleased it from was not supposed to sublease it without the landlord's permission. Long story short, the landlord saw us as squatters and [[OhCrap was going to call the cops to clean us out unless we were gone by dawn.]] So this troper's roommate (and very close friend) came back to the house, and at this point this troper (known for having a bit of a HairTriggerTemper anyway) was [[UnstoppableRage boiling mad.]] Troper's roommate noticed it and asked what was wrong. Troper responded by chucking his phone into a wall and channeling NicolasCage from Deadfall: '''THAT FUCKER JUST FUCKED US!''' * [[@/{{MiraShio}} I've]] witnessed this a good number of times at school, but only two examples really stand out. ** The first one happened in freshman year, when our resident Mr. NiceGuy finally got fed up with all the noise in our classroom and yelled out "F***, shut up!" Of course, after a moment of stunned silence, everyone burst into laughter. ** The second one was [[{{Understatement}} not so funny]]. Someone had fabricated and relayed an awful rumor about me to my LoveInterest, who is a generally sweet NiceGuy. The results were very [[{{Understatement}} unpretty]]. * This Troper has an...amusing example from a recent event. He, and his friend, were watching {{Inception}} for the first time, in IMAX, no less. Following the [[GainaxEnding end of the film]], as the screen faded to black, this Troper, instinctively let out a "[[MindScrew What the ]][[PrecisionFStrike FUCK ]][[MindScrew was that?]]? The friend this Troper was with considered it a CrowningMomentOfFunny. * In Chemistry, the day before finals, one of this Troper's friends found a mysterious box with what looked like a small volumetric flask (like about 1 mL) nearly filled with water inside it. Said friend then read the instructions contained within the box. It was a "candle bomb", a little capsule of water which would explode when heated gradually. Her response? "That is fucking awesome!" ** Then came the actual test of the candle bomb. The entire class (only about ten kids, plus the teacher) watched from a safe distance and behind glass as a couple of tiny candles heated the thing for ten... twenty... thirty seconds. Then came the explosion. It was louder than anyone expected, almost like thunder. The teacher screamed like she was five years old instead of fifty, while another one of my

classmates could only muster an almost-calm-sounding "Shit." We all agreed it was both the most awesome and funniest moment of the year. * I planted one of these when I figured out a certain drama llama on a bunch of roleplay forums I frequent joined my brand new board when I did not want any drama on that site. Cue me, after hearing the news, giving this reaction: -->'''Friend''': Please oh please tell me *so-and-so* didn't join as [[{{Bleach}} Ichigo]]. ;; -->'''Me''': I-I don't know. -->*checks* --> --> -->... --> --> -->FUCK ME. * This Troper occasionally drops these when my Gamecube games fail on me. It. Happens. A LOT. * When I was younger and innocent I rarely ever swore mainly because I was taught by my parents that you shouldn't say swear words to people, that is until middle school where most of my innocence was taken and I was constantly bullied by needlessly cruel older kids and after a time I realized how lame my comebacks to their insults were and they pushed me too far and I realized the more that I swore at them the less they picked on me, these days I curse every now and then mainly out of anger and I clean up my language when around kids, but generally people are shocked when I swear in front of them. * Any swear word that comes out of [[Tropers/{{Raven913}} This Troper]]'s mouth counts as this. While she can no longer claim to have said less swear words than she can count on one hand due to some pretty bad circumstances that basically caused the only ClusterFBomb she has ever been responsible for (which actually combined the two tropes), she normally takes self-censorship very, ''very'' seriously and refuses to say anything worse than "hell," and even that one isn't dropped lightly. Her usual rant patterns include lots of GoshDangItToHeck. If she drops an F-bomb, you know something bad is going down. * This Troper just let loose one in front of his twin brother after being informed of a HarryPotter event happening sooner than he expected. -->This Troper's Brother: "We'll be reprising our roles as Fred and George on friday." --> This Troper: "What the fuck?!" ----''Go back to the [[Main/PrecisionFStrike main fucking page]].'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PrecociousCrush * [[{{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] all the time as a young

girl, though very rarely on anyone she actually knew (like a teacher). It was usually someone famous. Off the top of her head: RobinWilliams (duh), Austin St. John (otherwise known as [[PowerRangers the first Red Ranger]]), Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins, and even [[MontyPython Terry Jones]] (even back then [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} I was strange]]). She also would go up and talk to any good-looking male guest at her household's parties, that is until her mother dragged her away. * This troper once got it bad for a summer school teacher when she was younger. But he left halfway through the class. Why? He was getting married. ''Ouch.'' * I do like young guys, but my preferred age range is 20-40. Anyone who is at least two years older should be smarter (well, not necessarily) and thus more entertaining to be with. * On an [[PlayByPostGames RP forum]] this troper plays on, one of her friends requested a CrackPairing [[CrackFic Fic]] concerning two of her characters. One was a 35-year-old GentleGiant; the other was a 12year-old StrangeGirl. She wrote it as said girl getting a MASSIVE crush on the guy and asking him to the Junior High dance with her. Said girl also had psychic powers, causing HEAPS of trouble for the guy. Friend ''loved'' it -- for the [[RuleOfFunny lulz]], not the {{loli}}. * This male troper in his late twenties occasionally (not often, but sometimes) finds it difficult to work with, or hang around, tween girls due to their propensity for this sort of thing. * One of this troper's sixth-grade classmates had a terrible crush on a teacher, and the only reason she didn't tell him was because (verbatim quote): "It wouldn't be fair to take him away from his wife." * This Troper was the only freshman girl who ''didn't'' have a crush on the twenty-something history teacher! He tried to fend them off by constantly talking about his girlfriend... it didn't work. * In grade four, [[@/BigBlue This Troper]] had a crush on her sweet, blonde, 23-year-old [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench French]] teacher. Of course, the woman was engaged and left at the end of the year. * This troper's known at least two little boys who've had a crush on her at some point. The first one was her best friend's little brother. The other was one of two kids the troper in question babysat for a while, and he went so far as to ask the troper if she'd marry him someday. His sister, who heard the whole thing, wouldn't let the troper live it down for the rest of the evening. * This troper has been on the receiving end of one of these for about a year or so from her neighbor's teenaged grandson. He's finally starting to outgrow it, but up to this point, he's monopolized her attention at any possible moment and has made it pretty clear that he harbors a jealous resentment of her husband. Luckily, her husband finds it more amusing than anything. * [[{{Tropers/Count_Luna_Orlok}} This Troper]] is 19 years old. His girlfriend turned 15 a few months ago. He met her when she just turned 15, via her cousin who's a good friend of the troper's. She had an insta-crush on the troper, in a quite childish way, it was very cute. Eventually, This Troper developed the same feelings... You're

following the story, right? So when they made it official, the troper's best female friend and the girlfriend's cousin said "We knew you would end up together! YAAAY!" whereas my best male friend... [[{{PrecisionFStrike}} Only said a word that could explain his entire thoughts]]. In an even more childish fashion, my niece wants to marry me, but she's just 4. So, d'aww, innocence is cute. Why should it be lost when we grow up? * I'm 19 and have a slight feeling that my friend/neighbor's niece (who I don't think is any older than 13) has or at least had a crush on me at some point. It's kind of hard to find a good way to explain the numerous UnfortunateImplications involved with that. * This troper has never crushed on a teacher, but otherwise, she's had probably an equal amount of age-appropriate and PrecociousCrushes. * [[@/MmmKay This troper]] used to think that she ''had'' to have a crush simply because she was ''a '''girl'''''. Tommy Pickles of AllGrownUp was her choice for his bravery in [[{{Rugrats}} either age]], but later on she reconsidered her decision and decided nothing was going to make her have any feelings like the teenage girls on TV... and then [[{{Thunderbirds}} Scott Tracy]] [[GushingAboutCharactersYouLike came along]]. Recently, she {{Justified}} her decision for having a crush on Tommy; he's brave, often selfless, and coolheaded... ''characteristics shared by Scott Tracy''... * This Troper seems incapable of having a crush on someone if they're less than half her age (well, okay, there's this one twenty-six-yearold who she did aikido with...). Overlapping with some version of PSL is the most egregious example, though, best summarized thus: "Hey Daddy! This actor I'm obsessed with is only forty days younger than you!" She's fourteen. Her father's 56. * This troper is damn certain that a girl he's actually watched grow up has a crush on him. This is cause for much headdesking and wondering why it couldn't be the girl's older and LEGAL sister having a crush on him. * Apparently, when this troper was a ''baby'', she flirted with the rabbi doing her naming. This troper's parents will never let her live it down. * This ''male'' troper, although now engaged, used to have crush on people clearly out of his reach, including a friend of our family that, even now that she's in her fifties... ''[[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave damn]]''. * When this troper was eleven, she had a massive crush on her 20something history teacher. It didn't help that he had a part-time job as a personal trainer. * This troper has had a crush on her brother's friend for a while now. I'm 17, he's 24. I live in Rhode Island, he lives in Alabama. Probably nothing will ever become of this and I should get over him, but I've never met a guy that's so easy to talk to and so ''[[GeekyTurnOn SMART!]]'' * This Troper is [[{{Understatement}} ''very'']] prone to this. She's still getting over her 9th grade history teacher who left during the summer (she's in 11th Grade in case you're wondering). * This Troper had this happen to him during a production of

NineteenEightyFour for students, in which I played O'Brien. The most frequent comment we got from the female students was "O'Brien is HOT!!!" Even to this day, I don't know wether or not to take it as a compliment. * Since starting high school, I have been unable to get crushes on anyone who isn't at least a year older then me. (A year of school, anyway). I'm a sophomore, but I seem to prefer guys in their twenties.(Except this one junior...) It doesn't seem like such a difference, but my parents would have cardiac arrest, as I'm the baby. (Coincidentally, my eldest sister's boyfriend is 8 years older then her. But they're both legal...) Actors tend to be even older, but they're somewhat young in the movies I like them in. Rick Moranis and Tom Hanks are my current obsessions. * This troper had it bad for several of his teachers back in grade school, especially his 3rd grade math teacher because she had such nice shoulders (which is this troper's de facto {{Fetish}}) and was to an extent TallDarkAndBishoujo. Even if she was married and got pregnant during that time, it didn't deter him, and he ended up upset when she went on maternity after giving birth and a HollywoodHomely took over as the substitute. * This troper/I tends to be interested in men slightly older than myself. This has led to a couple problems. When I was 12 I had a huge crush on a guy who was at least 18 (did not help that he was incredibly good-looking and there were some other 12-14 year olds thinking about him), and when I was 13 I started to like a guy who was 16, and thought that age difference was huge. Now, I still tend to not like guys my own age much, but at least the age difference is slightly less than it was. * I'm two years younger than my sister and my best friend, and when they were in the last year of primary school, they had the cutest teacher EVER. Mr R, as I'll call him, was young, good looking in a cute sort of way, and he'd effectively let his class chill out for a while. He'd put on music whilst everyone was doing their work, and he was the head of the choir (which is why I liked him/got to know him). Needless to say, all the girls fancied him, me, my sister and best friend included. Mr R left the year that I was going up to his class, and I was so upset at not getting him for a teacher. What makes it all incredibly tragic is that such a well-loved man is [[DownerEnding now actually dead.]] * When this troper was in middle school, she had a crush on her guidance counselor. She'd misbehave in class just so she could be sent to this office or have him escort her to the vice principal's office. It was only a small crush, though, and it wasn't enough to spare him from her wrath when he really did tick her off. Though admittedly, he was cute when he was angry. * Back when this troper was twelve, she had a major crush on the 19 year old boy who taught her swimming lessons. He also happened to be her older sister's friend, so she got to see him once in a while. The fact that her sister took her to her school's play where he was the character of Prince Charming didn't exactly help calm down the crush. * This troper once had a crush on his preschoolteacher when he was five.I was also on the recieving end of this when one of my friends

nine year old sister had a crush on me. * On the receiving end of a 12 soon to be 13 year old girl's crush. Wouldn't be as bad if she wasn't built like she's 15-17 and I'm 25 but easily passes off in the same age range. Since I'm great friends with her dad and brother who also plays {{yugioh}} and video games, he trusts me to keep an eye on her while he judges at the shop. Sadly, led to me into situations I'd rather forget about. * When I was in elementary school, one girl who was a year younger than me, but farther along in puberty than most, had a major crush on me. * This troper's [[TheWoobie little sister]] had a crush on [[HollywoodNerd his best friend]] when she was 2. * During a middle school-sponsored camping trip (with cabins and everything) [[@/SoWeAteThem I]], at eleven years, crushed hard on a counselor who was in the eleventh ''grade.'' * This troper fell incredibly hard when she was 15 for a 21-year-old. The crush didn't let up until she was 17 and he was 23. She never acted upon said crush because she didn't want to get him in trouble, although he undoubtedly knew as he dropped hints. * Half the girls in this troper's science class have crushes on our biology teacher. Who, as far as I know, is gay. * Used to be that half my brother's friends had crushes on me.... Which, need I say it, was quite uncomfortable. * One of this troper's friends, at age five, had a crush on a thirty year old man. She apparently asked him to be her babysitter. * This almost-fourteen-year-old troper gets them frequently enough that she has developed a feeling that can only be described as [[BuffySpeak "That Giddy Feeling I Get when I'm Absolutely Smitten With Someone Who is Six Years Older than Me at the Very Least."]] Last year it was a councilor at her summer camp, who was probably twentysomething. Didn't seem to stand out too much, though, since he was pretty [[InexplicablyAwesome well-liked]] there in general. Though one other councilor did seem to notice; he always seemed to have a knowing smile on his face when I sheepishly talked about him; and one day he asked to [[ShipperOnDeck take a picture of us together]]. Then it was [[TimothyDalton Timothy]] [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Dalton]]. There was also a teacher, but for the life of me I can't remember who. Currently it's StephenMerchant. OTL * Back when this troper was ten to eleven, he had a major crush on his fourth-grade teacher. * Borderline example (as this troper is a senior in high school), but... this troper continues to have a massive crush on one of her teachers, who is twenty-seven. She fell hard for him when she was but a lowly and depressed misfit and he was the [[{{Adorkable}} cutely nervous]] new guy replacing her favorite teacher. She expected a ReplacementScrappy situation when she first heard about him, but he was so sweet and understanding and he loves the [[TheDecemberists same]] [[NeutralMilkHotel music]] as she does and [[HandsOnApproach he once helped her with swinging a baseball bat]] and he's [[GeekyTurnOn SO smart]] and [[NerdsAreSexy SO cute in those glasses]] and he [[OneOfUs LOVES video games]] (which made him very popular with the male students as well)... His girlfriend is the luckiest girl in the

world to have him and [[GracefulLoser this troper]] can only hope to find someone as great who is more age-appropriate. [[HopelessSuitor *sigh*]] * This Troper had a crush on her (married) high school [[GeekyTurnOn English]] [[HotTeacher teacher]]. The problem was that she was the youngest student (grade-wise) in his class, meaning that at the end of the year the entire class graduated...except her. For two weeks, she spent an hour alone with him every single day. Said Troper forced herself to end the crush to avoid awkwardness. ---Hey there, little girl. You really like PrecociousCrush, don't you? ----

PregnantBadass * This Troper once had a classmate (male) who was Indian, and slightly too patriotic. He seriously believed that his country was the inventor, owner and master of everything important, from [=TVs=] to pizza, Game Boys to bunk beds. One brilliant story that he told me was about the British Army invading an Indian village, and everyone fled except for one pregnant lady. He then told me, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, that the woman ''defeated an entire squadron with only an AK-47''. [[YouFailHistoryForever The list of]] [[YouFailLogicForever things wrong with]] [[CriticalResearchFailure that is unbelievable.]] * I know a woman who embodied this trope unintentionally. She and her husband wanted children, but couldn't get pregnant for years, so eventually they gave up and decided they were okay with being childless. They are anthropologists who do a lot of intense, weekslong hiking trips into some of the remotest jungle areas of the world. After one such trip, she started feeling sick, and suspected she may have picked up something in the jungle. A visit to the doctor revealed that she was nearly 4 months pregnant. That means she had made TWO difficult, exhausting, physically taxing trips into the jungle while pregnant--and totally oblivious to that fact. * My dance teacher in high school danced and dealt with rowdy teenagers every single day right up until she had her baby. She took about six weeks maternity leave and then was right back with us. ** My dance teacher as well. She taught classes at her studio for ''twelve hours a day'' until the end of her seventh month. * Alas, full-time college students do not get maternity leave. This troper hauled her butt straight back to classes after having hers and has the attendance record to prove it. Mini-troper was born on a Sunday... * My stepmother has a story about when she was pregnant with her son. She was leaving the courthouse (She's an attorney) and was accosted by a man who demanded money from her. Finally, he grabbed her. She simply grabbed him back, dragged him into the courthouse and said calmly, "Bailiff, this man just assaulted me". * [[@/{{MiraShio}} My]] mom has awesome driving skills that could scare anyone to within an inch of death. Yep, even during pregnancy. * This troper's mother did not let pregnancy keep her from driving fifteen minutes every morning to teach at a high school. For three

children! * This Troper plans to make one of her {{One Piece}} OCs, a samurai's wife, a hidden {{Pregnant Badass}} under the {{Yamato Nadeshiko}} facade. Unfortunately, [[{{It Got Worse}} she gets poisoned very close to her due date]], and some of my crew members must defeat the {{Big Bad}} of the story arc who poisoned her to get the antidote for the poison. [[{{It Gets Better}} They manage to cure her poisoning]], but, {{It Got Worse}}, again, when she goes through a very difficult labor that her {{Nakama}} help with. Sadly, [[{{Tearjerker}} she gives birth to a stillborn and they must bury the baby at sea during a stormy night]]. It's also {{Harsher in Hindsight}}, since she and her husband are the only members of their samurai clan left after most of their members were murdered and their ancestral home was burned down. * This Troper's cousin once chased down a jerk who snatched her purse. She was pregnant at the time and chased him a few blocks, then got him in a headlock, and asked him, "What do you think you're doing?". He basically told her he [[MuggingTheMonster didn't expect her to unleash whoopass on him]] because she was visibly pregnant. Obviously he didn't know she was in the military and [[IKnowKarate did some training in martial arts]]. ---You might not want to fuck with the girls over at [[PregnantBadass the main page]]... <<|TroperTales|>>

PrepositionalPhraseEqualsCoolness * When [[CodeMan38 This Troper]] first heard the term "water of crystallization" used in a chemistry class, he thought it sounded like something that ought to be found in an RPG. Amusingly, several of his classmates agreed. * Similarly, when this reader studied biology, names like 'islets of langerhans' made him think of [=RPG=]s, and 'purkinje fibres' sounded like something you'd make a magic cloak out of, 'bowman's capsule' sounds like some sort of shield spell, and 'convolutions of broca' sounds like I don't even know what, possible some sort of shipping lane. Biology is full of these.' ** So this troper ISN'T the only one who thought that about the islets. Always good to know. ** The "Islets of Langerhans" joke comes up in one of the ''InspectorMorse'' novels. * Convolutions of Broca sounds like a module name. Or a Fanfiction/Follow up episode to "[[StargateSG1 The Broca Divide]]". ** It would also be a decent name for a rock band. ** More than decent. If I had a band, I'd try my hardest to name it Convolutions of Broca. * tend to name things with the format X Y of X/Z, like Awesome Macaroni of Awesome, or Lucky Hat of Epic * Sounds of Korotkoff. Heard that in bio class last year. Made my day. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] used this for the subtitle for the first story in a trilogy he wrote. The subtitle of the first story, and name

of a machine built by the main villains, was ''The Ultimate BrainSwitching Machine [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]'' ---''Back to Prepositional Phrase Of Coolness. Er, I mean, {{Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness}}.'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PressurePoint * This troper's swordfighting instructor has often used pressure points to relieve pain in this troper's arms (swords are pretty heavy when you hold them up for hours) and, once, her head. With just his fingers. It works like a charm. 'Course, this is based on nerves and whatnot rather than chi. ** Ok, I'll say it: [[RedVsBlue Bow Chicka Bow Wow!]] * Applying heavy pressure to the glands below the ears on both sides can cause a surprising burst of speed in a 110 kg fatass piling on top of you with about five more people. Said fatass will quickly leave the heap. * This Troper's ex learned pressure points to hit on the body to cause pain from his self defense classes. Unfortunately he used to them great effect against her. This is why he's her ex. ** [[DomesticAbuser Wait, what ?]] * Subverted by this troper. She seems not to have them. ** This Troper too! A friend tried a Jiu Jitsu pressure point strike used to get a person to open their hand and drop a weapon on him and it ''hurt'' but nothing like the "searing agony that practically spasms the hand open" that he was warned about. Of course he seems to be somewhat MadeOfIron, * This troper has a friend who knows the exact locations of some pressure points, to the extent that she can replicate the Vulcan Neck Pinch. It hurts, then you black out for 30 seconds- a minute, and she gets an hour in detention. ** i learned to do that - and some other stuff too. Beware, the Vulcan pinch is quite dangerous in real life.(in that if someone has a medical condition, it can kill) * This troper suffers from carpal and radial tunnel, and there are days that the only way to make my arm stop locking up is to shove a thumb into a pretty precise spot in my elbow. It's the wierdest thing, and hurts until my arm pops. * This troper studies Krav Maga. One night, I left work a lot later than usual (around 1 am, when I normally get out at 5 pm). The buses had already stopped running and my husband was in Wales visiting his sister. A mugger, apparently new to the game since he was working alone, thought the harmless-looking pregnant woman would make for some easy practice. [[PregnantBadass He was wrong]]. My attacker threw a punch. I countered with an elbow strike to the biceps. Surprised, but undeterred, followed with a punch from his other arm. That time, I countered with an elbow strike to the shoulder joint, and then struck with an elbow from the opposite side to the throat. Next, I delivered

a knee-strike to the groin. To make an even longer story short, he was arrested and found guilty of petty theft. * This troper was taught a trick with hitting pressure points on someone's back to cause their throat to seize up when they try to swallow. It's ridiculously easy to do, and he's freaked out a number of people who had no clue what it was. * This lurker/troper has several secret defensive maneuvers and attacks in the form of pressure points. Her favorites would have to be a sharp jab in the area around the left or right hip, pressing down on a specific spot on the shoulders, or poking somewhere behind the ear. She has been perfecting these since third or fourth grade, and is still working on them. The reason that it's taking so long is because pressure points have absolutely no effect on her and she has no idea if it's working or not. * This troper's brother knows a lot of these after looking up on the internet while he was bored about pressure points and now likes to torment this troper using them at random occasions. The funny thing is, they don't work on him, but instead of causing nothing, they make him giggle. The harder someone pushes, the more he giggles. This troper's brother is very strange indeed. * This troper doesn't tend to react to pressure points, but my Silat instructor has a [[http://blogshido.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/focuspoint/#more-60 tale]] about how he once managed to ''knock someone out'' with a blow to the crease of the elbow. All is explained in the link. * This Troper seems to have an instinctive knowledge of pressure points used to relieve pain and has used them on himself and others. <<|TroperTales|>>

PretentiousLatinMotto Hey, Tropers go to schools! And many of them have Pretentious Latin Mottos! ---* This Troper had to create a fake country for a social studies class. Its motto got me extra credit. (sorry for adding my example at the top, can't do it any other way) * This troper, being a big [[{{Halo}} Bungie]] fan, has adopted their motto, Non Facete Nobis Calcitrare Vestrvm Pererinaevm. What is this in English? Don't Make Us Kick Your Ass. * This troper's selective high school motto is "Maius Opus Moveo," or "Accept the Greater Challenge." Yeap, it's so pretentious that the motto is a reference to how much harder of a school it is than most. * This Troper's school has one of these, and no, no-one knows what it means (mainly because no-one really cares). From what he knows, nearly all English schools have one (There are at least three other schools with similar mottos that said troper knows about... god these tenses are confusing!)

** Ours was Per Aspera Ad Astra. Yes, our motto was similar to Starfleet's. *rolls eyes* *** BETTER YET: ''Per Aspera Ad Astra'' is Kansas' state motto. Go Kansas! *** At Mount Saint Michael, the "Ad Astra" comes before the "Per Aspera" ** We had Sic Itur Ad Astra the English equivalent of which was something like 'in this way we go to the stars'. ** [[{{Azzamacazza}} This troper's]] high school's motto was "Ad Astra", and we weren't even a private school! ** Boston Latin School's is Sumus Primi, "We're first". *** And that's even BEFORE YouTube and internet comments... ** This Troper's school motto: "Integritas in Omnibus" (Translates to "Integrity in everything") ** This Troper attended a real-life Berzerkeley where the motto was Omnia Exteres, "Let it all hang out", directly inspired by the school's quite phallic mascot. *** This troper went to the same school. Go, Geoducks! *** Ah Evergreen State College. Allegedly, the motto and the mascot were meant as a parody of this trope. ** This troper's school has "Levo Oculos Meos In Montes", "I lift my eyes to the mountains". It's a Bible verse (Psalm 121), in Latin. If you don't realize how silly that is, go look up how much of the Bible was written in Latin. We'll wait. *** All of it, at least in translation. It's called the Vulgate, and it forms the basis for most English translations. *** To nitpick, more recent translations are usually done directly from the original languages. See below. **** ''Originally'' in Latin: none. The Old Testament is in biblical Hebrew (seasoned with a little Aramaic), the New Testament is in ancient Greek, a few of the non-canon scriptures are in Coptic. Latin translations came later. ** This troper's school motto was/is "misericordias Domini in aeturnum cantabo". That's "I shall sing forever of the mercy of the Lord". He quite likes its sombre tone; it fits the school itself nicely. ** We had Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, "a sound mind in a sound body." *** Was this school in [[MotorCity Detroit]] by any chance? My school had the same motto... **** I don't know about the OP, but mine was. Go Jackets! *** Or was it perhaps in [[SoulEater Death City]]? ** Our school motto was "Alta Petens", which means "aim high". That they only mentioned a few dozen times a week. At least this troper's university eschews Latin for Welsh in its motto. *** Interestingly, 'petens' comes from 'peto, petere' etc, which means a number of things including 'seek' and 'attack.' **** Aim for the face? ** "Verum, Bonum, Pulchrum". Actually, I kind of like it. *** [[HehHehYouSaidX Bonum]]. * This troper's schools have had Pretentious ''English'' mottos. At least with a Latin, or at least CanisLatinicus motto, you don't ''look'' as jackass because nobody knows whether it's saying "INSERT

PRETENTIOUS COMMENT HERE" or "[[ExterminatusNow Demons are bad. Kill demons. Also, pick up your groceries.]]" ** Ditto for [[MutantRancor me]], although "Knowledge Is Power" is less pretentious than most and makes perfect sense for a high school. *** Do I sense a KIPP person? "Work hard. Be nice." ** This troper's school as well. Personally, I've always found "Learning for All . . . whatever it takes!" [punctuation theirs] to be rather ominous. * This troper's local university is "Libertas capitur", meaning "liberty is conquered". or so we're told,anyway. * This troper's school went for "Esse Quam Videri", which apparently meant 'be, rather than seem to be'. All this troper knows is that it was great for making anagrams out of whilst bored in assembly. * Not sure what this is exactly, but this troper went to a high school with a pretentious ''Greek'' motto that I belive meant "that which is true." * This troper's Australian public high school's motto was "Labor omnia vincit", or "work conquers all". Frankly, she always thought it sounded like something you'd see on the gates to a concentration camp... ** Believe it or not, you're close! The motto seen over the gates of several camps read "Arbeit macht frei," which would translate into something like "work liberates." *** It's usually rendered in English as "work will set you free". * Not a school motto, but this Troper did used to have 'NATUS NECARE' written on his kevlar helmet. The grammar is a bit off (for the sake of punchinessness), but you get the idea. ** Baby Killer? * This troper likes to use a playful riff on Julius Caesar's famous "I came, I saw, I conquered." When she goes shopping, she tells people, "''Veni, vidi, Visa!''" ** EddieVanHelsing tends to say, "I came, I saw, she conquered" when asked to explain how he and his wife got together. ** This Troper once found a reference to the [[Blackadder]] family motto as being 'Veni, Vidi, Castratavi Illegitimos'. 'I came, I saw, I castrated the bastards'. ** Vici, veni, V.D.... * The motto of this troper's secondary school is "semper fidelis", meaning "always faithful". ** Your secondary school churns out Marines? Cool... oh, wait, 'secondary' school - probably not American, then. Shame. * This troper's high school's motto is "Altiora peto," which directly translates as "I want to go higher." Since it was that type of high school, we always translated it as "I want to get high." And we did. * This troper's school has a Pretentious ''Hebrew'' Motto. Seriously. * Ours is 'Justus Et Tenax' - either 'Fair and Tenacious' or 'Justice and Tenacity'. No one's entirely sure. ** The former is correct. * 'Via Veritatis'. To those of you who don't speak dead languages, it means 'The Road to Truthfulness'. This troper prefers to refer to it as 'The Road to Truthiness'. * Connecticut's state motto is 'Qui transtulit sustinet' or 'he who is

transplanted sustains.' This troper lives in the poor, desolate rust belt area of the state and likes to interpret that as 'If you get the hell out now, you won't die inside.' ** In Michigan, we've got "Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice" - "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you." Nowadays, it's more like "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look somewhere else," particularly if you live in the bombed-out ruin that is [[MotorCity Metro Detroit.]] *** This Michigan resident would agree that Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw are Third World cesspits, but the rest of the state is rather nice, if one doesn't mind long winters. * [[NeoSilverThorn This troper]] once proposed that his school district adopt 'Sola in Insania Virtus Stat'; "Madness is the only virtue." I don't think they ever checked what it meant. ** I should steal that one for the chaotic middle school in my screenplay. * This Troper's school is "Scriptor, Gubernator, et Legatus" which means "Writer, Governor, and Ambassador". So, our motto is basically extolling the virtues of Adlai E. Stevenson... * This Troper goes to Kirckaldy High School, the same one Mr. Brown, the PM, went to.Our motto is "Usque Conabor", or "I will strive to do my utmost".I don't like it. * This Troper's Latin IV class created a Latin battle cry, which sounded intimidating only when said in Latin: "GENU, GENU, GENU . . . " which translates to "knee, knee, knee, . . . " ** [[MontyPython Aah!]] * This Troper's motto is ''Unicis Defensores Unicem Adligantur'' "Those who defend Unix are doomed to repeat it." * For Nationstates, this troper uses the following motto for her country: Potes meo suaviari clunes. Kiss my ass. * ''Deus Regit'' was my school's motto. Yeah, ok, whatever guys. * This troper uses "Beati Pauperes Spiritu" or "Heureux les simples d'esprit" as a StealthInsult- It's part of a quote: "Blessed are the simple-minded, the Kingdom of Heaven will belong to them". * This Troper's all girls catholic high school had 'Via Vertitas, et Vita'. 'The Way, the Truth, and the Life' * This troper read a story where a university wanted its motto to be the Latin translation of "I hear, I see, I learn". As soon as they received the translation, they immediately switched to another motto, because "I hear, I see, I learn" translates to Latin as "Audio, video, disco". * Possibe variation: [[DaisyChain This Tropers]] school has, [[GratuitousFrench for no reason I can figure out]], a pretentious ''french'' motto; "Que Tout Soit Pour Dieu" (May All Things Be for God). ** This Troper had ''Faire sans dire'': shut up and get on with it. ** It's in French because the most commonly referred to rules of heraldry (including the adoption/development of mottoes from battlecries) were developed by/for the Normans, and so everyone important was speaking Norman French, Latin or Greek. * This Troper's Catholic school has 'In Hoc Signo Spes Mea', which translates to 'In this sign is my hope' referring to the cross I

guess. Also, our war cry is mainly latin or pseudo latin. * This troper's high school was stuck with ''Tuum Est'', aka "It's up to you". Way to take the pressure off, guys. * According to [[NeoSilverThorn This Troper's]] stepmom, the motto of the President of the college she worked at was ''"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam."'' Roughly translated: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head." * ThisTroper's alma mater: ''Civium in moribus rei publicae salus.'' "The welfare of the state depends upon the morals of its citizens." OK. * This troper used a couple on some political-simulation forum games in high school on one of the ''{{Civilization}}'' boards: ** When I moderated one, the motto was ''Justitia et Honor''. It's exactly what it sounds like. ** When I ran a country, I kind of went overboard: *** The national motto I appropriated from somewhere: ''In necesariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas'': In necessity unity, in doubt, liberty, in all things charity. *** The military motto was appropriated from Scotland: ''Nemo nos impune lacessit.'' *** I recycled ''Justitia et honor'' for the judiciary. *** The motto of the Foreign Office was ''In pace gloria''. * {{Excel-2009}}. I have one for myself: ''[[color:blue: Ego vos pugno.]]'' * This troper has a T-shirt with the words: ''Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes'', which according to the store translates as, "If you can read this, you're overeducated." On a bus one time, a fellow passenger told the troper that shirt had made her day. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]]'s school motto was "Propositi Tenax". He maintains this means "Prosperous and Tenacious", but the headteacher insisted it meant "Go for it!". His PE teacher tried to give them a CanisLatinicus battlecry, but we just went with "Bangarang!" ** Your headteacher was pretty much right: literally it means "tenacious of purpose". * this Troper's personal motto is and has always been ''"Semper ubu sub ubi"''. Or, "always wear underwear". It has yet to let me down. * I have recognized the fact that people think latin is clever for a while, and so my infrequently used motto is "Panton sanus callidus in Latin", which I believe translates to "Everything sounds clever in Latin." ** I'm afraid you can't translate from one language to another a word at a time like that; different languages have different word order and syntax, and Latin has a complex system of case endings and verb conjugation. Also, English has three different words "sound", and you chose the wrong one, the adjective instead of the verb. I also don't know where you got "panton"; "everything" in Latin is ''omnia''. *** "Panton" is Greek. **** A particular (security) department where I work has also mistaken "panton" for Latin. Given that this troper knows Latin, it's kind of annoying. ** ''Omnia callida in Latinam sonant.''

** Or the one everyone uses, "Quidquid in Latine dictum sit semper altum videtur," or "Anything (in Latin to be said) always exalted appears," or "Everything said in Latin always seems exalted." * This six-form troper has lessons in two separate schools, one of these schools has the motto "Spe Labore Fide" which translates to "By work, by hope, by faith" * This troper thought Latin sounded cool and adopted the PretentiousLatinMotto "Fiat Iustistia Et Pereat Mundus", which translates as "Let there be justice, though the world die." * This troper's friend, while working on an assignment to design a coat of arms, including motto, used "Deus Est Me", or "God is me" ** Is your friend...[[AGodAmI Okay?]] ** ''Esse'' doesn't take a direct object. Your friend should have used ''ego'', not ''me''. * This troper's school has "Lux Borealis", meaning something like northern light. * [[Tropers/RedWren This troper]]: "Semper lumen. Semper umbra." Always light(/understanding). Always shade(/shadow). Which gives a triple duality, light/dark, known/unknown and shade (as from to bright a light)/shadow (as something to hide in). None are always good or bad, all always are. * This Troper managed a subversion when he got his house motto changed to Morituri Nolmus Mori. It's from [[{{Discworld}} The last Hero]] , and it means "we who are about to die, don't want to." * Would anyone happen to know how to say "This is a Latin phrase" in Latin? ** ''Haec est locutio Latina.'' * [[Tropers/{{RAMChYLD}} This troper]], since the first year of secondary school (grade 7 in the US): ''Kiddieridea Est Potentia'' ''Kiddie Ride is Power''. DogLatin PretentiousLatinMotto derived from his secondary school's latin motto: ''Sapentia Est Potentia'' (''knowledge is power''). Now you know why he has a SpotTheDog kiddie ride in his [[HackerCave Geek Hole]]. * Kind of a given since [[{{Fiwen9430}} this troper]] is a Cambridge University student, whose motto is "Hinc lucem et pocula sacra", which means "From here, light and sacred draughts", or in the more literal sense (or so TheOtherWiki tells me) "From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge". * Georgetown University has the nearly meaningless Utraque Unum ("Both Into One"). It's from Ephesians, but the University's official explanation is a little more [[http://traditions.georgetown.edu/seal/ belabored]]. * If you need help translating a Pretentious Latin Motto, [[HappyDuck this troper]] can probably help you. She also came up with one for her future micronation. ** Ooh, micronations! When ThisTroper had one, his citizens got to choose mottoes to go with their coats of arms. One chose ''Mors in olla'', "there is death in the pot," from 2 Kings 4:40: "And it came about as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out and said, 'O man of God, there is death in the pot!' And they would not eat." Another chose, ''Non id possum credere non butyrum esse,'' which was supposed to be "I can't believe it's not butter."

** It currently translates to "It is not possible to believe it is not butter," with a superfluous "id." Perhaps "non credo butyrum non est?" (Note I may be wrong there.) ** You are. ''Possum'' is first person, the ''id'' being the neuter accusative. ''Non id possum credere non butyrum esse'' is correct. ** [[Tropers/NotATerrorist This Troper]]'s school motto is "Nemo Sibi Nascitur" - "No Man Is Born Unto Himself an Island" or something along those lines. * [[Tropers/DaPatman This troper's]] school's motto was ''hoc age'', which translates as "Do it", or, more informally, "Get on with it". His headteacher [[{{Understatement}} enjoyed reminding the students about this]]. * This troper is using the motto ''Tendo quod subsisto nos'' for the mass-media conglomerate in her latest story. Translation? "Try and stop us". * I've been to two schools with Latin mottos. "Semper ad Meliora," and "Ad Altiora." (Forgive me if my spelling is wrong). I was actually a little freaked out when I changed schools and went to one that ''didn't'' have a pretentious Latin motto or a school song. It's a travesty! A travesty, I tell you! * This troper is surprised that "Illegitimi non carborundum" hasn't been mentioned yet. It means, "Don't let the bastards get you down." I think it's genius. ** It would be if it was even remotely correct. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide Carborundum is a type of rock.]] Henry Beard's ''Latin for Even More Occasions'' gives a correct translation (with a minor error which I've fixed): ''noli spuriis permittere te terere''. *** 'S a joke. Carborundum is an abrasive; "illegitimi non carborundum" is thus said to translate to "don't let the bastards grind you down". * "Laus Deo," which roughly translates to "Praise be to God," which ALSO roughly translates to "ALLAHU ACKBAR!" following by wild ululations which we used to use in semi ironic and semi serious war cries at sporting events. Nothing like offensive intimidation to bring your school victory! ** "Allahu Akbar" translates to "God is Great," or, lest memory fails me, "Deus Magnus Est." ** OP here. It's actually "Alhamd'allah" (Depending on pronunciation etc.) for the literal translation, but "Allahu Ackbar" is acknowledged by arabic speakers I know to be close enough to the spirit of the phrase to count as a translation. It's like how a very devout Christian will say, at the end of a sentence, "Praise Jesus," or "Jesus almighty." * This Troper's school, which was started by Catholic missionaries of the De LaSalle Brothers, has the motto "Ora et Labora", which translates to "work and pray". It was a very, very exciting school. * Ours was 'Pro Ecclesia Dei', which apparently means 'in the house of god'. ** It's "For the Church of God." * This troper is debating getting a tattoo reading "Ex mentis, venustas", meaning "From the mind, beauty". (This troper obviously

ripped it off from the Starfleet Academy motto "Ex astris, scientia", or "from the stars, knowledge".) * This troper went to a college with the motto "Orare et Labore" which means "Prayer and hard work," or so I'm told. The motto of my dormmates, however was "Non efficio video optimo," which means "This does not bode well." Far more appropriate. * This tropers's secondary school had two motos, both equaly pretentious: the first one is in French "mon deiu et mon doit" (spelling) and means "my god and my right" and the second is acctually latin: "spartam nactus hang exorna" (I think it's spelt like that) which means "you have reached sparta, now be worthy. It's somewhat fitting as we have an entrance exam that has nearly 9 people applying for each place. * This troper's personal motto is "Cogito, Ergo Doleo", meaning "I think, therefore I am depressed". * ''Sum invictus'', "I am unconquered." * ''Scientia. Virtus. Devotio.'' [[http://www.usc.edu.ph Knowledge. Valor. Piety.]] ** Made even more [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic}} symbolic]] when you consider that [[{{FunWithAcronyms}} SVD]] is also the initials of the religious order administering my school, the ''Societas Verbi Divini''[[hottip:En:Society of the Divine Word]]. * ''Caveat derisor''. "Let the scoffer beware." * This troper ends his birthday greetings with ''Pax Domini/Christi/Dei sit semper tecum,''[[hottip:EN:May the peace of the Lord/Christ/God be always with you, second person singular.]] ''Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,'' [[hottip:EN:To the Greater Glory of God, the Jesuit motto.]], ''Ad Jesum Per Mariam,''[[hottip:EN:To Jesus through Mary, used during a Marian feast.]] or ''Gloria in Excelsis Deo'' [[hottip:EN:Glory to God in the Highest, on [[MemeticMutation major, major]] feast days.]]. * This Troper, who is homeschooled, was asked to pick a cool sounding motto for his "school". Knowing the trope-iness here, he picked ''[[HonorBeforeReason Honor Pro Ratio]]''. Yes, this is meant to be kinda tongue in cheek. * This troper is fond of putting "victoria ex proditus" in forum signatures and the like. Depending on how pretentious you want to be, it can be translated as "victory through treachery" or, more simply, "win by cheating". Not that I actually advocate such, I just like invoking this trope. * This troper quite often used "Cuspit Verpendures" as a motto for various invented (militant) organisations and armies in [=RPGs=]. It is supposed to roughly translate to "You point, we bash"... He has also at various points adopted "Sodomy non Sapiens" [[hottip:En:"Buggered if I know"]], "Tactus quod Vado" [[hottip:En:"Touch and Go"... yes, I'm an educated Schlock fan]] and "Callide non forsit est" [[hottip:En:"Subtlety is not a problem", although every now and then I think of it as "Subtlety is not ''my'' problem"]]. * ''Faceundi calices quem non fecere disertum?'' [[hottip:En:Who would not be made eloquent by a full goblet?]] [[spoiler:I'm straight-edge and and disapprove of drinking to the point it stops being funny, but

I have to admit that my best stuff is written while I'm with a woeful insuline overdose (a.k.a. sugar high).]] Yes, that is a classical literature quote, btw. ** Isn't that the point of ''In vino, veritas''[[hottip:EN:In wine, truth.]]? * Among my cousins there's been a longstanding "game" known as Pickleball, which basically involves scoring "Pickleball points" by making the younger kids cry without touching them. One year for the annual family White Elephant gift exchange I decided to make a fancy certificate awarding five Pickleball points to the bearer (with the warning that it would make their mother VERY mad at them.) I felt that a pretentious Latin motto was in order, so I went with ''Quispiam Flere Super'', which translates (badly I'd imagine) to "Something to cry about". * I came up with one a couple months ago, for a group of Survivalists I run with: Pro Libertate Omni: For The Liberty of All. and my personal motto: Semper vigilans semper custodia : always watchful, always guarding. * This Troper's personal PLM is "Canto fabula aeterna," which, as she understands it (feel free to make corrections; she's not a Latin student), means "I sing the eternal story." She even managed to have an abbreviated version engraved on her senior ring. * Some years ago I decided to adopt a Latin motto. A friend of mine translated it from English to Latin for me: "Contundimus Crania Nostrorum Inimicorum in Pulverum," We crush the skulls of our enemies into dust. * One more for the list, This Troper's school motto (As of 2011, it's been changed to an English phrase) was simply 'Virtus', which has several positive meanings, but the school's official interpretation is 'Excellence'. * This Troper's school has the motto of ''Cognitio Vincit'', or "Knowledge Conquers." I think I'm going to try and get it changed to ''Id Fella''.[[hottip:En:"Suck it."]] ----Returnicum clickus PretentiousLatinMotto. ----<<|TroperTales|>>

PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy * I'm white, but I was raised in Detroit, which is only 5% white. In my middle school I was surrounded by ebonics, but I am also a nerd and consequently use big words. My friends always laugh at the way I talk because it's a mix of british accents for no reason, ebonics, and big words. * As a Brit I often find that you get the odd tourist who's like this with British (read: Victorian or some strange pseudo-upper class) culture. * [[HasherBritarse This troper]], working as a teacher in Hong Kong, has had a teenaged Philippine student who proudly describes himself as "a nigger" and refers to a Chinese kid in the same school who fancies himself a rapper as "a wannabe". I wish I were making this up.

** You taught [[Memes/OtherInternet Chad Warden]]? * This Troper was in history class once, when the teacher told us our final would have 200 questions. My reaction? --> This Troper: Are you fo' reals? ** I got strange looks for that one. * This troper had some self-proclaimed gang-members in his highschool class that spoke with a lot of [[NWordPrivileges slang]]. Even though one of them had skin dark enough to pass as a negro, she was French and we were in the Philippines. ** ''Negro?'' *** A black person. **** The term is accepted as an insult in some parts of the world. ***** So is everything else. *** It also happens to be the Spanish word for "black". Live with it. *** Except that one is pronounced "knee-grow" and the other is pronounced "nay-grow." *** [[SarcasmMode And the pronunciation intended by the OP is obvious.]] ** And it's [[BerserkButton and it's pronounced "neh-gro".]] ** [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad *raises eyebrow*]] ** It's worth pointing out that people in most of the world doesn't really feel offended by the term "negro." In Brazil, people will refer to each other as "negro" or "japones" and people will not so much as raise an eyebrow. Due to negative implications it has picked up in America, it's no longer acceptable here, but judging by the United Negro College Fund, it once was. ** It is in some places in America. This troper lives in a small town in the southeast (*gags*), and it's considered the politically correct term for a black person, second only to African-American. Then again, anything you're told in this town should be taken with a grain of salt, if not a bucketful. * This troper (white and British) mistakenly attended a speed dating event that was really a front for matchmaking Chinese couples. A few days later, an abusive message was left on her Facebook from someone calling her a wannabe for her behaviour at the event: trying to use her faltering Mandarin and mentioning relatives in Taiwan. * This troper has had people tell him he looks like Mcluvin, so makes the occasional joke with mates, talking "gangsta". ** You too? * [[{{chitoryu12}} This troper]] has faced this, but not necessarily for his language usage. Rather, for singlehandedly disproving myths about [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} the physical differences between blacks and whites.]] ** How can you do that singlehandedly? Surely you'd need a considerable sample size to disprove any such myths. * This troper's high school is ''absolutely'' full of these people. And I mean, 90% of the guys are like this, if not more. It's quite hillarious seeing a dozen of perfectly white, filthy rich Spanish 16year-olds talking in broken English and possibly thinking they could pass for black rappers if they only got a tan. * [[JethroQWalrustitty This Troper]] protests the term wigger, but yeah, especially since I started watching ''TheWire'' I slip some

ebonics at times, 'namean? Also, I got the gangsta walk when not in hurry. * This troper's school has more than a few people like this. Usually {{lampshaded}} by the handful of actual black people, or by me. ** "Yo' homes, why you hatin' on a brotha?" ** "Because you're whiter than I am." * Think of the white of copy paper, with a heavy dose of cinnamon sprinkles on top, and that's what PyroSkittle's skin tone looks like. In person, she once decided to crack a VGCats reference ("Fo' Reelz?" with a very hopeful face,) and was told by a Puerto Rican girl to never say that again. PyroSkittle then twisted her neck like a bobblehead and bitchslapped the Puerto Rican girl before Pyro told her to never "sez I wad-n't gots 'nuff FLAVER" again. She was too terrified of the gigantic biker chick smacking her across the cheek to do anything but cower. Then, PyroSkittle hugged her and made it all better. What? She was new at the school. She didn't know any better. ** ...{{What}}. * This troper often winds up as a [[BlackBestFriend white best friend]] or a [[TokenBlackGuy token white guy]]. People always mistake me for this trope until I open my mouth. ** The same happens to me sometimes. Then I get yelled at for using big words... * Inverted with [[{{Jonn}} this black troper]]. His country is largely black, and his mom is an English teacher, so he talks like his countrymen's image of a white guy. Thing is, the white guys here usually talk like black guys. * Lots of people I know, but one guy stands out, who is a white guy who ''insists'' that he is actually black. ** Oi vey. I have three guy friends who a. Insist they're black b. Insist they're also albinos, so therefore, they just look white with a tan. And one of them (Ben) is very white and very blonde, so all of the black kids at my school insist on calling him White Whale (so maybe he's a wittle chubby...) until he stops calling himself gangsta/black. Sadly, Ben now gets taunted with whale calls, all the time. And he still thinks he's the dopest trip...sigh. * This troper has no idea what iteration of [[PlayingWithATrope tropeplay falls in here]], but she has a friend from Scotland who is black, but fails horribly at using [[JiveTurkey African-American slang.]] ** Not that rare. I have a friend who is African-American, but his voice gets higher-pitched as he starts getting excited, so the slang doesn't exactly have its intended effect. Also,(and I sincerely apologize for this joke, but) your friend is black, and Scottish, right? [[TeamFortress2 She wouldn't happen to wear an eyepatch, would she?]] * There was a Romanian boy at my old school who was convinced that he was "gangsta". He was taunted mercilessly by pretty much everyone. ** Do you live in Mississauga? I remember a kid like that. Don't remember his name, but he moved away within 2 years. Bloody hilarious. * I am at fault for this trope for two reasons ** I sometimes put up a "American" (Read: really bad texan) accent when I am joking around

** I pull a "Scouser" (AKA: Liverpudlian) accent when I try to imitate the Beatles, it sounds like a mix between a Scottish accent and a Victorian accent. My brother regularly attempts uses this accent, and fails. * This troper's very white (and rather nerdy) husband once had to explain to one of his black students (in PG-terms) the meaning of [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=OPP 'OPP'.]] This prompted another student to remark, "''Damn''--you just got outblacked by the whitest teacher in the school!" * I live in Texas, and further more, I grew up there. In a rural farmranch community, with a graduating high school class of 62 students. (Most schools loose students before graduation. We GAINED students.) When people try to act "country", it comes off like this. Especially when they abuse the third person plural pronoun. * DEFCON 1 - Me being obviously Asian (from a Filipino family where most of us ''don't look Asian'', or at least, don't have the slanted eyes), I sometimes do mangled Chinese Pidgin. ** I use the stereotypical Filipino accent and pidgin when talking to my mother. * Nothing is worse than sitting in a school busride with a white blonde who goes on and on in complete seriousness about how she wishes she was black so she could say things like "Fo sizzle! What's up in the hood? I'mma shoot y'all up!" She even said she wanted to do that while walking through the ghetto, 'cus, like, they would totally accept her then! Cue the genuinely black girl behind her going "Ya know, its a good thing there are no BLACK PEOPLE on this bus!" ** She's not talking black, she's talking stupid. Even in the proverbial hood, black people do not talk like she does. They use their own mannerisms, but any black guy would also get laughed at if he started with "Fo sizzle! What's up in the hood? I'mma shoot y'all up!". But yes, they would indeed accept her very much, though not for her blackness but for, err, her whiteness and female-ness. Blondes are quite a commodity in places like that. * I frequently found myself having to remind my middle school classmates that they were upper middle class white Jews from the [[BigApplesauce Upper West Side]], and did not grow up in "the hood", so they really shouldn't talk like they were. One of them even called himself black. When called out on it, he responded that he "converted". High school is slightly better, with the slang still thrown around but with the excuse that the school is as diverse as it gets and many kids are from "the hood". I am guilty of a few "yo"s and "'sup"s myself, though more out of general laziness than a desire to sound cool. * This Troper can't help but remember a time when her pale-as-SnowWhite friend decided to learn dance moves from the one black kid in her town. When her friend went to demonstrate them, thinking she was the coolest thing ever, everyone in the vicinity was cracking up for a good 15 minutes; no one could stop laughing. * This troper's husband, a high school teacher, once had to explain to one of his black students the (PG version) meaning of [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=opp&defid=1101517 "OPP"]]. After a beat, a student in the vicinity exclaimed (to the

first student), "Dude--you just got out-blacked by the ''whitest'' teacher in the school!" * One guy at my school is probably one of the most pathetic examples of this trope that I have ever seen. Before I start just let me explain, my school is a private school for kids with diagnosed behavioral issues (i.e Autism, ADD, Bipolar Disorder etc.) in an affluent suburb, but most of the students who go there (such as myself) are sponsored by their respective school districts who basically want to get these kids off of their backs. This kid is one of the minority of students there whose parents can actually afford to send him there, yet he still tries to act like a gangster. Despite his act being rejected by almost literally everyone there, ''especially'' the actual black students, who can just barely tolerate it, he seems convinced that he is awesomely popular and will pick on this openly nerdy students, despite having had his ass handed to him by one of them once. * Few things infuriate Tropers/BTIsaac more than these people. Well, at the very least weeaboos. Just mentioning them is enough to [[BerserkButton trigger homicidal rage]]. [[InternetToughGuy Well, on the internet at least]]. Oh. And there's also {{Clannad}}, but that's a different story. * Sad truh for most polish teenagers,especialy those who call themselfes 'Skate'(Skejt) and live in suburb 'Blocks'.'Skejt' is not someone who listen to punk rock and does pro-skating,Skejt is someone who listen to polish and american HipHop,tries to be so 'n***' and boasts how Snoop Dog & co are so cool.But I dare you to be actuall black and live in their neighbourhood.And yeah,they also do [[EpicFail pro-skating]] * This troper has a cousin who can't stop generally talking like a stereotypical Black guy, usually with a joking/mocking tone. We're Chinese. This somehow doesn't strike him as playing to the stereotype that Chinese hate Blacks. * Half of the boys in my high school tried to act like this, even though they were white or asian. * Because I'm a Juggalo and I hang around other Juggalos and wiggers, I sometimes talk like this. It can be rather disorienting to hear me talk, actually. One minute I sound like a Harvard Professor discussing society's dysfunction and the inner workings of the human mind, the next I'm dropping cluster f-bombs and talking like I'm from the inner city([[NWordPrivileges I even punctuate my sentences with "nigga" several times]]), the next I'm talking like a [[TotallyRadical stoner/skater/fratboy stereotype]] (replacing "nigga" and "bitch" with "dude", "man", and "brah" ), and then suddenly it's back to quiet intellectualism. I'm not putting up a front, exactly, because all of those ways of speaking feel natural to me. However, I know that each of them are a product of trying to relate to different types of friends all combining together to make something....interesting, to say the least. I have artsy friends, so I'll speak in melodramatic prose to conform to their pretentious stabs at this decaying society. I have stoner friends, so I talk like I'm really lazy and hip, dude. I have Juggalo friends, so I bust out with our slang like a cold bottle of Faygo to make the other ninjas in my fam feel at ease, and maybe

score some neden from a fine-ass Juggalette. I have wigger friends, so I roll up wit the ebonics and the shit y'all see in those rap videos, nigga. I have educated friends, so I'll adjust my vernacular to be proper and concise in order to convey my thoughts in a method that suits their high standards and allows them to accept me into their fold as one of their own. The difference between me and some lame kid trying to be cool with everyone is that I tend to unconsciously combine all of these into a gloriously musical and crazy as shit language that no fuckin' wigger or dumbass yankee could ever hope to achieve simply by adjusting to the superficial facets of each of these beautiful subcultures. Peace the fuck out, homies. I hope you all someday see the unique necessity of each person's method of speech. * I tried this once, and ended up calling a white person the N-word. My little brother now jokes that I'm racist. * (My family is white) My little sister talked kind of like a stereotypical black person for a while in third grade. No idea why, except that the school has more blacks than whites. * I, Prime Evil, am this and am not this ''at the same time.'' I go to Chicago State University, where I've picked up a lot of Black History but none of the ebonics. It helps that almost nobody else uses ebonics there. But ye gods, junior high was terrible for this. I've spent ten whole years not knowing what "OPP" meant, and I only just found out now. Oi, oi, oi... * This troper lives in Vancouver. She still can't decide whether it's hilarious or sad how many Asian kids, in an effort to shed their immigrant backgrounds, try to act like middle-class white kids - many of whom are trying to act like black kids from the projects. Note that in Canada, most black people one encounters are likely immigrants themselves, from the Caribbean. However, given how Canadians generally exist in a sort of cultural identity limbo, it's hard to blame them. * This troper usually isn't like this, really. I'm white, halfBritish, half-Irish, and am relatively articulate when I'm not talking so quickly that I stumble over words. Unfortunately... you know that term "homes" that you call someone you're close to. As in "homeboy?" I mistook it for "[[SherlockHolmes Holmes]]" and frequently used it in a snarky manner when people I knew pointed out something obvious. After getting one too many strange looks from my friends (many of whom are black), I explained it, to which they collectively groaned and explained it to me. Embarrassing? Incredibly. Enough so to stop me from using it in the same manner? Not quite. * I am Russian, but of multiple origins (got English noble-ish blood in there, too). My English language is distinctly British. * There was an embarassing moment where the guy sitting next to me was saying that he could get expelled because he had "[[InvokedTrope homies]]" in another school. We'd been talking for some time, and I finally got fed up and said "[[SubvertedTrope You don't have]] ''[[SubvertedTrope homies]]'', [[SubvertedTrope you're]] ''[[SubvertedTrope white!]]''" I was mortified and apologized when my head caught up to my mouth. He burst out laughing. * [[{{Tropers/TropicalSnow}} This Troper ]] was browsing YouTube one day and came across [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsl5J6xhBz4 this video.]] Not only is it MadeOfWin, its probably this guy's

CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Needless to say, I want to work there now... ---''Yo, 'sup mah [[NWordPrivileges N*** as]] an' cracka dawgs, yall gotta [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean feel up]] dis link, PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy if yo wanna return to da original dope, ya heard, [[ThisIsTVTropesBitch bitch]]?'' <<|TroperTales|>>

PrimalFear * The Disney attraction "It's Tough to be a Bug", mentioned below. The show scares a ''lot'' of children. For one thing it's loud, and for another you don't really need to be told to be afraid of a giant termite who spits poison at you. At least one guidebook includes the one-line review, "Finally this generation gets its 'Snow White's Scary Adventures.'" ** This troper always has to sit forward in my seat when the giant wasps start flying overhead. "I have absolutely no desire to [[spoiler: get stung ''in the back'', even if the "stinger" is only a blunt peg."]] *** This troper spent most of the show huddled in the fetal position due to her mind-crippling fear of spiders. *** This troper (same one who went into Alien Encounter at six, see above) was ''forced'' to go into this show by her father, amidst screams of "No dad, no!" and pleas of being terrified of insects. Needless to say, I haven't spoken to him much since then. *** This troper was nine or ten years old, and spent the entire show with her face buried into her father's side, sobbing in terror. Then afterwards she was told by her family that they "hadn't realized you were scared at all, honey, if only we'd known we would have taken you outside." Lies. *** ''This'' troper, at age nine or ten, spent the whole show on the ground, hugging her mother's leg. She was too traumatized after "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" to trust another 4-D attraction. *** This troper fully understood that the bugs weren't real. He knew the effects would be intense. He didn't find the music too loud. To this day, he has absolutely NO idea why it ''scared the shit out of him.'' * This troper ''cannot open her eyes'' when going on the Disney ride ''Dinosaur''. ** You too? ** You are not alone. I still have the picture of myself cowering with my hands over my head. ** I went on it as a young child- I came out crying hysterically and never rode ''that'' ride again. ** I was covering my head through the entire ride. you can see me in the picture ducking my head in my mother's lap! ** I've got a picture from this ride where my entire family is screaming in horror. Our ages range from early 20s to late 60s. That ride is VERY. DAMN. SCARY.

** This troper got to go to the ride before it was open (friends with someone who works there) and honestly thought she was going to die. The ride stalled in the middle, with a giant Carnotaurus looming over - then shuddered back to life after fifteen minutes, only to go too fast. Ugh. ''shudder'' ** This troper left ''bruises'' on her mother's arm from how tight she was clinging. ** There's a Jurassic Park ride in Universal that this troper went on at about age six, similarly with a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the end. I took one look at it and pushed my head under the safety bar and cried. My cousins were not surprised when I told them I did not want to go on again. *** This troper was brought on this ride against her will. She wasn't screaming. The picture showed her completely rigid, frozen in terror. ** This troper has no problem whatsoever with most of the ride, and actually loves it.....up until the very end. The sight of the [[spoiler: Carnotaurus lunging at you (head height for this tall troper) accompanied by strobes and roars]]. ** This troper was really more concerned with the loudness which he horribly loathed. Once I had gotten used to it, the carnotaurus was not frightening at all. He even got a picture with him staring at it in philosophical contemplation. * You should see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HkJzwpGHg the original commercial]]. Or not, if you value your sanity. ** YouSuck. [[ShmuckBait Dude, cardiac arrest at my age is not a good thing!!!!!]] ** This troper had a psychology class where someone did a presentation on PrimalFear, and they did play this for the class. This troper's wonderful, blessed "Eyes CLOSE!" impulse kicked in as soon as something started to swing into the screen, but the teacher was not so lucky. Classmates had to spend something like fifteen minutes trying to soothe her. ...Of course, said teacher also clutched at her chest and moaned in horror during another project when a different classmate showed us how violent GrandTheftAuto could get, and once came in crying because her fiance broke things off, so maybe she was unusually sensitive. *** She cried when her fiance dumped her? What a baby. * THAT GOD DAMN ALIEN RIDE. SDKLGJDFKGHJSLGKJSFGNLDKJ This troper went on it at age...11 or so. I was literally so terrified that I couldn't walk after (shaking too bad) and my mother had to carry me (she being small and me being not-small-for-11, this was no small thing). I also remember wanting to scream at everyone that they were gonna get us all killed (there was a point where some character of the ride goes 'DON'T SCREAM!' the overwhelming majority reaction being, of course, to scream). I went back when I was sixteen or something, very shortly before it got renovated into Stitch (my story would put that in 2005, if anyone finds it relevant enough to look up), because I wanted to conquer my fear. I recall still severely not liking it, but I got through it by repeating "it's just a ride!" to myself and doing things like tapping my feet or playing a clapping game on my knees. Suffice to say I fully believe whoever it was that said those straps are really just there to keep little kids from running away. Which is

sadistic on its own. The new ride with Stitch, for what it's worth, isn't quite so bad. Stupid Disney. * We can't forget "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride", as much as some of us might like to. ** This Troper went on that ride at a young age and was allowed to 'take the wheel' (which wasn't connected to anything) as consolation for being too young to ride the go-carts. Unfortunately I thought that I was actually in charge of making sure that the cart didn't crash and kill my whole family and myself. It was scarring. * As an excellent example of horror being absolutely subjective: This Troper rode on Disney World's "Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" ''once'' and that was more than enough. Her six-year-old cousin absolutely '''loved''' the same ride. As it turns out, he was only thinking of how cool the drops were. He was too young to understand the parts that were truly frightening in the eyes of his older cousin: a journey through a seemingly endless void, a creepy storyline, pitch darkness, unnerving music (including the famous "you can't get to sleep easily with this in your head" TwilightZone theme of course as well as a very cool IronicNurseryTune), and unsettling sound effects. Furthermore, this same kid was pretty much scarred for life by the aforementioned "It's Tough to be a Bug". Go figure. ** Not to mention that part where you see the ghosts of the hotel's previous victims flying straight at you ''while you're strapped down in an open elevator''. That was by far the only thing this troper absolutely ''hated'' about the ride. ** To add to that subjectivity, while I was interested by what I'd heard about the atmosphere and setup of the ride, I've been kept away by the one Primal Fear that you weren't thinking of and that your cousin enjoyed: I absolutely won't go on anything with a huge drop. ** Man, [[CanvasWolfDoll I]] hate "The Twilight Zone", I really, really, don't want to fall to my death, and is usually able to laugh off atmosphere. The first time I got in line for that ride, I was too freaked out to get on, so I had to skip out. To this day, I can only do the ride once per visit. * This troper screamed her head off the first time she went on [[{{Squick}} "It's a Small World"]]. Her parents had to take her on a roller coaster to calm her down. * You know those online gags where you're asked to find something in a large room, pose for a photo, or complete a game of Spot the Difference? This troper was linked to one once by a dear friend where after about two minutes of staring at a nice, idyllic valley in the south of China, a huge shrieking pair of jaws that she thinks were a baboon's appeared in front of her. She'd done these before without so much as yelping, but for some reason, that baboon terrified her into screaming so loudly and repeatedly that her neighbours came round to find out what was wrong. It's the only thing I've ever really gotten annoyed at that dear friend for. ** Screamer gifs they're called. [[FinalGamer This troper]] despises them for the absolute nightmare-inducing fear they give his imagination, the last time he saw one, he did not speak to his friend for two weeks. * [[FinalGamer This troper]] cannot go near an oven without flinching

and gets very uncomfortable holding anything that's too hot, as in not enough to burn you, but just a bit beyond the level of heat you can hold. Also, enclosed spaces, owing to bullies locking him in a shed in a park when he was six.....where he was trapped for an hour. Cue a repetition of this happening for two minutes in high school and a very uncomfortable gym class for everyone else to hear howling screams from the equipment locker. ** Also, the same troper can never watch the FinalDestination movies ever again. After seeing the entire thrillogy in one night with his parents, he turned extremely paranoid, susceptibly more than anyone else normally would. Especially after the airbag scene, of which he has developed a fear of since. * Is this troper the only one who is freaked out by the DUN! DUN! music that plays whenever something bad happens in OregonTrail II? ** No. No, you're ''not.'' [[InsanityPrelude I'm]] a little freaked out just remembering it, in fact. ** Ugh, not that noise. It's a wonderful accomplishment to a certain extent - a noise that is both terrifying and annoying at the exact same time. It's so nice to come here and see that I'm not the only one who was bothered by this. My siblings and friends didn't get why I had a problem with it. * [[{{Rothul}} This troper]] was always freaked out by the entirety of the song ''Toyland''. To wit: ''Toyland, Toyland/little girl and boy land/when you dwell within it/you are ever happy there!, Childhood Toyland/mystical merry Toyland/once you pass its borders/you can never return again!'' It's quite a cause for anxiety to be confronted with the inevitability of aging and the fleeting happiness of youth, especially as a toddler. (To be fair, the Zuko, EarthwormJim, M. Bison, Snoopy, and Foam Disc Shooter currently gazing over him from a nearby shelf, gives the comforting thought that he's not quite past the borders just yet.) ** The show has some inherent PrimalFear if you start paying attention to it. Even in the modern remakes, the Toymaker is taking unhappy children and turning them into inanimate objects. In the original, he was turning them into toy soldiers ''to sell to armies for use in their battles''. The never returning after passing through the borders used to work both ways. * As a child, this editor was always scared by the ending of ''NightCourt''. Not the credits themselves, but the Warner Bros. logo appearing with a bright flash, followed by an evil laugh that even Vincent Price couldn't top. * As a child, this editor was similarly scared by the ending of ''Thirtysomething''. Not the credits themselves, but by the vanity plates. They were both fine on their own, but to this editor, The Bedford Falls Company + MGM = LastNoteNightmare. * For this troper, it isn't so much as being eaten alive, but being ''cooked'' alive that's absolutely terrifying. She vividly remembers hearing a version of ''Hansel and Gretel'' on tape; when it got to the part where Gretel pushes the witch into her own oven, you could hear the witch's ''blood-curdling screams begging to let her out'' in the background. To this day, this troper ''still'' has periodic nightmares where she finds herself in a pot of water or an oven that's just

beginning to heat up...(shudder) * This troper was perfectly calm throughout Space Mountain, the Rock and Rollercoaster, and yes, even Snow Whites Scary Adventure. It was the freaky pictures that appeared from seemingly normal, happy imagery in the pretend-elevator in the Haunted Mansion that got her. ** That and the ghost that appears behind your seat when you pass the mirrors... ye gods, that ghost. *** And the bride in the corridor! Eek! *** I was actually so surprised by the ghost in the mirror that I tried to punch it in the face. I ended up punching my dad instead. * This troper is severely claustrophobic, to the point where she doesn't have to actually ''be'' in an enclosed space -- she just has to have the ''idea'' in her head. She damn near had a heart attack while reading an article in ''Reader's Digest'' some years ago about a pair of boys who got trapped in a narrow, dead-end passage while exploring a cave. The second boy to crawl into the passage was just a touch too large, couldn't unwedge himself, and couldn't move backwards. He was stuck, and the first boy who entered the passage was thereby stuck too. Sure, several hours later they were rescued, but the troper envisioned herself in the situation and came genuinely close to fainting. * This troper went to a crappy carnival last year. You know, the kind of carnival you'd expect to have carnies. On a strange whim I decided to ride the bumper cars. Recipe for disaster?: Take a ridiculously small bumper car, add non-adjustable safety straps with no room to move one's arms or even reach the steering wheel, and one claustrophobic troper. Agitate well enough to cause potential whiplash injury. Congratulations, you have just created a HeroicBSOD. ** Same troper, different situation, but variation on a theme. A local big-chain theme park I go to has meetable characters. That is, mascots. Whenever I see an eight-foot-tall fuzzy likeness of a HannaBarbera or Nickelodeon character, I will bolt in the opposite direction, even today. I'm 21. * This troper had a long-standing issue with death and dying when he was younger. One day, I was passing by a car scrap-yard and this abandoned car had a small poem written on its side that was along the lines of "They are alive no more, worthless and forgotten...". Being a fan of cars and having had a tendency to form bonds with inanimate objects, that poem opened a whole can of worms regarding the implications of life, death and dying. * For this troper its racism especially when the scene is peppered with the racist talking about how they're doing 'god's work' or some tripe greed and revenge this troper gets racism he doesn't and their insistence that they're doing right is what really shakes him up. * This troper can't function if she tries to watch a disaster movie. The trailer alone for ''2012'' well-near caused HeroicBSOD. ''All those people''.. * Exactly. The trailer freaked this troper out too. Of course, the Harry Potter movie this troper was seeing was scary too, but that trailer... This troper imagined her death. * ''shudder''* ** You were at Harry Potter when you saw it too? Ugh. This troper nearly broke down in tears after he saw that [[strike: nightmare]]

preview. So...many...deaths. He wants send the director and creator to a mental facility. *** An easy way to avert that (Admittedly with more NightmareFuel) is to actually read up on the stuff. This troper was too busy laughing at how bad the preview was to be freaked out. *** Friends weren't freaked by THAT particular trailer, it was the one where they auctioned off ''a chance to live when the earth is destroyed'' like it was a freaking raffle. A friend of mine cried till I showed her it was a promo for the movie. *** I've seen commercials for stuff like this ''in RealLife''. "There's gonna be a solar flare in 2012, so get on the lottery to be allowed into our shelter!", pretty much. Whoever had that idea must've been a CompleteMonster. * Okay. Get ready, tropers, this is a weird one. This troper, at the age of four, had a dream in which I (first person, sorry), my mother, my grandmother, and several other people were in a brick elevator at the mall. There was a sink in the elevator, and we could see the pipes. The elevator trip was abnormally long, and the adults started to get worried. I asked my mother where we were, and my mother, in a panicked voice I'd never heard her use in real life, pointed to the sink pipe and said, "We're in there." She didn't mean that we were in some other pipe- she meant we were in that very pipe, even though it was in there with us, and we could see it. I woke up sweating and shaking. I was four years old, and the concept of being inside something that I could see absolutely petrified me. It has since become my Primal Fear. Weird, but there you go. Sorry for the Wall of Text, guys! * So, RecursiveReality is your "WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes" then? * That goddamn drowning music from Sonic the Hedgehog. This troper, now in her 20's, still cannot stand to hear or even think about it without a mini-freakout. Thanks, Sega. * This troper's dad scared the... [[GoshdangItToHeck daylights]] out of me by sneaking down to the basement and bursting through the floor vent with a sock puppet while I was cleaning under my bed. * There's this old BBC Videos ident that used to scare heck out of this Troper when she was a child. At the beginning and end of videos, it'd show a 3D blue and gold globe floating to ominous music, and then flatten out, finally ending in a drone note. * Shivers* Nowadays, this Troper also has a fear of small confined spaces, and a phobia of pitch-black-darkness -- it can be bearable IF there is light coming in from outside, such as streetlamps, but if not... this Troper will freak out. * Half-life 2's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCJL2WpMhQ Radio 1]] is creepy as hell... ** ...Oh my god. A week ago, I was listening to the radio, and I turned it to my favorite station, with pretty classical music. Instead of cellos or pianos, I was greeted by a static-y sound that sounded [i]remarkably[/i] like that, though more garbled sounding, and I swore I heard voices. It freaked me out, so I twisted the knob to a different station which was actually playing music, and went back to the classical music one/the one making odd noises, and it was playing a pretty violin song like nothing unusual happened. THANKS FOR

REMINDING ME OF THAT PIECE OF NIGHTMARE FUEL. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] experienced this when he was really little; no older than 3 at the time, when with my mom on a field trip for the homeschool group my sister was part of. Even though I wasn't part of the group yet, I did enjoy some of the field trips we went on; the zoo was always a personal favorite. However, we didn't go to the zoo or anything fun like that this time; we went to a planetarium for a special presentation. However, I was too little to know what was going on; all I knew was that I was in a dark place, only lit by some blue and yellow lights that where dimly lit, and it was really loud in there. We left early, thankfully; I couldn't take much more of that. * This Troper can now say he is afraid of thrill rides. Or potentially anything with a major drop on it. My first Roller Coaster was Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens (Richmond Virgina). The Escape from Pompeii even freaks me out, and that is relatively tame compared to Apollo's Chariot... * For this troper, it's needles. Just the thought of something long and sharp ''inside'' your body... * shudder* It really doesn't help that her high school immunizations are coming up, either, or the fact that her mother is being way too casual about it. It doesn't help at all. * This troper hates enclosed spaces - even Christmas shopping at peak times freak her out because the crowd is so dense. When watching the Gravedigger episode of Bones where [[spoiler: Bones and Hodgins get buried alive in a car]] freaked her out so badly she had to go stand outside, taking deep breaths and looking at the sky, for several minutes. * This Trooper talked about Slender Man and Marble Hornets to a few of her friends, and we decided part of the reason we were freaked out so much by it was it was playing on primal fears. You did basically nothing to start this. He's watching you sleep. He's screwing with your head, and you aren't even aware of it. And of course, the sound distortions. * I don't really have this. I can be startled( even that's hard) , but I'm not really scared of much. I fear death, not of myself, but of those close to me. That's about it. * When it comes to insects, I'm normally okay with them. Spiders? Sure thing. *sticks in glass and releases out of front door*. But whilst playing MuramasaTheDemonBlade, I suddenly realised I WAS scared of one particular type of insect: Centipedes. And woodlice. All those legs and segments...*shudders*. Also, I used to have a bit of a fear of dogs. Even if it was a nice dog, I'd still be nervous petting it. I got better after meeting Jasper, the dog belonging to my sister's boyfriend. He's like me in dog form, and he's awesome. :D ** Centipedes aren't insects. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] seems to have a very strange PrimalFear relating to ''[[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} having certain of those kind of desires]] [[{{YouNeedToGetLaid}} personally fulfilled]]''. First such thing he desired and deathly feared (for being a potential case of EvilFeelsGood) was the idea of being with a ChristmasCake - [[{{IronicEcho}} something he had with]] [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} his first lay]] - it helped that she was a

bit of TheVamp then and was OlderThanTheyLook. [[{{LoveMakesYouStupid}} And it was a case of something that]] [[{{BeingEvilSucks}} really stank long-term]], [[{{ContemplateOurNavels}} requiring a lot of navel-gazing]] and [[{{TheAtoner}} cleaning up his act]]. Replacement desire [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} in that regard]] conflated as also being HighOctaneNightmareFuel from a [[{{LawfulGood}} moralistic]] [[{{KnightTemplar}} perspective]] (and maybe a good sign he needs [[{{TheShrink}} some kind of psychotherapist about this matter]]? [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} The idea of him being with a woman of]] a slightly unorthodox, [[{{HeroicAlbino}} pal]][[{{EvilAlbino}} lid]] [[{{WhiteHairedPrettyGirl}} type of beauty]], [[{{YoYoPlotpoint}} causing him to relapse]] [[{{FreudWasRight}} and end up arriving in places that he never would have]] - well, actually, more to the point, he fears becoming a CompleteMonster due to runaway desires of any kind, not just sexual ones, but also things like murder, torture, and other consequences of [[{{SevenDeadlySins}} his other major demon]], [[{{UnstoppableRage}} Wr]][[{{TranquilFury}} ath]]... * Im far from fearless, but I have no problem insects, spiders, snakes, bats or any sort of creepy crawly. I actually like most of them. I always thought anyone who expected me to be scared of such things was kinda sexist. Ive even told other girls to StopBeingStereotypical , but here I see it described as a primal fear common to all humans. So now Im thinking maybe Im not just a tomboy maybe my brains not wired normal. Id be ok with that. * I got a pretty bad case of the chills when I went to the movies and they had a teaser trailer for {{Buried}}. After it was over, I whispered to my mother "Well, there's [[{{BuriedAlive}} a fear]] I didn't know I had..." * I am completly fine with insects, spiders, snakes, flying, anything like that. Its the ''dark'' I don't like. I sleep with the light on. I'm fine with the dark when I'm awake, but the idea of ''sleeping'' in it... * [[DaLucaray030 This troper]] fears infinity. Just trying to wrap my head around it. He also fears separation from anything I like. When I was really young, this made me terrified of balloons. [[NightmareRetardant And then I realized they just deflate in the low pressure and go land somewhere...]] ** He also has a dream where [[{{Animaniacs}} he's trapped in a water tower]] that's gradually filling with water, and he's tied to a chair. [[NightmareRetardant And the water tower is somehow inside WalMart.]] * The only thing that frightens me anymore is the sensation of being underwater with a massive creature ''looking right at me''. And I don't mean {{Jaws}}-sized. I mean The Kraken-sized at the least -Shub-Niggurath-sized -- or Jrmungandr the World Serpent. Not much media deals with this other than HP Lovecraft and a few JRPG's I couldn't name atm. The Horrorterrors of {{Homestuck}} may not be underwater, but the absolute void Jade floats through in front of the face of one of these abominations clearly evokes my PrimalFear. * This troper is terrified of spiders. They don't even have to be real spiders. Just a picture, or even ''thinking'' about spiders makes me either scream or cry.

* This troper loves things like insects, spiders, reptiles, and even the nastiest of annelids, to the point where arachnophobia is one of his berserk buttons. But one thing just fills me with a dread like nothing I can comprehend: Giant squid. It's basically the closest thing we have to an Old One. Huge, intelligent, but alien and predatory. And it's not just the squid itself. It's found in the deepest, darkest waters, but even encountering it in the ocean at night sends a primal chill throughout my body. It's this huge, horrible, alien thing that will ensnare you and rip you to pieces horribly, all while you're helpless to do anything, both against its habitat or its own incomprehensible strength. But perhaps the worst thing about it is that it's REAL, and given the opportunity, can and will kill you and eat you - not because you're a threat, or its sick, like a bear or tiger, but because it's your predator. It's a gargantuan carnivore, and you are its helpless, bite-sized snack. * This troper has an immense fear of the elderly, probably due to a combination of bad personal experiences and recurring nightmares about being chased down an alley by an old man. The worst part, however, is that they don't even have to be a stranger to freak me out. Being alone with my own grandfather terrifies me to no end. ---Go back to watching PrimalFear from behind the couch. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PrimalStance * When I need to get somewhere fast, I tend to lean forward (and end up giving a KubrickStare) and swing my shoulders, leading other people to ask why I need to look so damn... [[SeriousBusiness predatory]]. ** Hot~ * [[{{Tropers/Xiphoniii}} This Troper]], though he tries not to get into fights too often, has had his fighting "ready stance", for lack of a better word, described as Tarzan-like. [[ConfusionFu His style on the other hand.]] * I get this way when in the grips of rage, sometimes it gets to the point of being doubled over with anger. ** ??? I'm not alone! Hoorays! ** Me too, and it comes accompained by a SlasherSmile and [[GutturalGrowler Death-Growls]], and in most extreme cases, I go on all fours. Also, when walking up stairs, I tend to knukle-walk like a chimp by default. * this Troper was like this in all the fights he had in High School (a self-contained one at that.) However it really just boils down to I don't punch, the sides of my arms are the striking tools. * Whilest at home I adopt this stance by default, moving in a similar manner to [[{{Fallout}} death claws.]] Additionally, my reclusion has attuned me so well to this place that I can pinpoint occupant locations in my building by floorboard and structure shift, factor in my innate stealth (easily overlooked despite size) and perhaps there's an archetype in there somewhere. * Used to be my default stance when I got into fights. Didn't do me

much good. * This troper has discovered that this is one of the most effective ways to shoo cats and dogs (ones who respect her as alpha, anyway) out of the kitchen. They may not have a very good grasp of English, but they always know what a basic aggressive display means. ---Put up your threat display (or is it a [[RuleThirtyFour mating display]]?) and go back to PrimalStance.

PrinciplesZealot * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] is a weird version. I'm very serious about my principles, but they aren't what most people would call moral. I believe in [[DisproportionateRetribution large revenge]], petty rebellion (like pirating just because it makes a company angry) and that looking out for number one is more important than anything. If something benefits me, I'll do it. I'll manipulate my own family if it gets me what I want. * [[{{Tropers/Renita}} I]] am one, without shame or regret. * This troper refuses to break any laid out principal. Trying to make me break them by bribing, bullying or 'reasoning' simply leads to me laughing at the person. I have principles. They're practically all I have. * [[{{Eisenblume}} This one]] as well. Once actually quoted in a magazine: "Sometimes you must do what is right, even when it leads to evil and sometimes you must avoid doing something wrong, even though it leads to something good. You gotta stick to your principles". * [[JusticeReaper Same here]]. As far as I am concerned, right is right and wrong is wrong. No excuse, no exception. * This troper recently earned his principles zealot wings. In a class, we were reviewing an exam, and there was a question that a good 65% of the class got wrong (including myself). I argued against the students who wanted their points back, because the question wasn't poorly worded or ambiguous, and I felt that we deserved to get the points taken off. ** In most of my high school classes and some of my college ones, if fifty percent or more of the class got a question wrong, the teacher automatically threw the question out. The reasoning was either ambiguous wording or they blamed themselves for either not teaching the material or for teaching it incorrectly. ** In most of my college classes, the professors tried to have a minimum number of questions that most of the class would get wrong. Otherwise, the test would be too easy. However, at least in high school, teachers would usually throw out questions with less than 20% correct, because at that point it's worse than randomly guessing. *** This troper was the only person to get a question right, so it was taken off. He took it rather personally. * I invert this believing that a wrong that leads to a right isn't a wrong im accused of being a WellIntentionedExtremist a lot having beaten the shit out of a man for treating the women he dates as something to throw away with barely a seconds thought. * This Troper.To almost [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist levels]].A

slight subversion though,because the only reason he seems like one,is due to being [[{{Pride}} stubborn]].He takes his promises very seriously,trying his best not to agree to something,because he knows he will have to honor his word.The subversion lies,in that i'm not really that Lawful,more [[ChaoticGood Chaotic]].Though I always figured if I would have become TheFundamentalist,I'd be a borderline KnightTemplar..Would have made a somewhat cooler character. * Due to [[Tropers/MrZAP This Troper's]] extreme views on death (it's CessationOfExistence, and that's such a horrible thing that no one deserves it no matter what, making death in itself immoral, despite being natural- natural doesn't mean good), he is an ActualPacifist to such a degree that he's determined to not only never kill, but to not let anyone else kill either when given the opportunity to stop it. He flip-flops on whether or not temporary injury is okay or not, as well as emotional/mental damage, although is rule of thumb ''seems'' to be "If one can achieve a full recovery, it ''might'' be okay." But he's got it at such high levels that he's made made the [[HeroicVow vow]] to not only ''eliminate death'', but [[BeyondTheImpossible eventually stop the heat death/collapse of the universe so that eternity is a reality]]. He's determined to stick it out as [[TheDeterminator The]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Determinator]] and not let it be a TragicDream. However, he's also TheFettered due to his restrictive interpretation of how to get things done: If you have good intentions but get bad results, it's not good enough. If you have immoral intentions but get (morally) good and beneficial results, it's not good enough. You have to have both good intentions ''and'' good results otherwise you've failed in whatever you set out to do. All of his gets him into some [[UnderStatement interested debates and conversation]]. Despite all of this, he engages in tons of BlackComedy and GallowsHumor, mostly to vent his feelings without doing anything rash, and he's fine with fictional violence for the same reasons. ---Return to PrinciplesZealot. <<|TroperTales|>>

ProductPlacement * [[Tropers/{{Artemis92}} This Troper]] recently saw, to his great surprise, an upside-down poster for the {{Scott Pilgrim}} movie in GhostReconAdvancedWarfighter 2, ''which came out at least a year before the movie did.'' ** Some games have dynamic product placement in the background. This troper once played a single player campaign on ''SplinterCell Conviction'', which featured ads for ''{{Devil}}'', in theatres six months later. And during the playthrough the ads updated to say "Releasing this week." * Just a few days ago [[Tropers/{{queenofspoons}} This Troper]] was talking to a friend about what she's going to do while recovering from a surgery, and brought up that she was going to use her Netflicks, the friend began to talk about how you can get movies delivered to your house, then she said she can get them instantly on her Wii, then she

paused and said "Woah, we sound like a Commerical."

ProjectileToast * This troper's toaster does this if you try to pop the toast before it's finished. If you just let it cook and pop up normally, it doesn't do it.

PromotedFanboy * [[Tropers/MmmKay This troper]] [[DaydreamBeliever still wishes]] to make her dreams of making movies and TV shows come true, but the closest thing I've had to this kind of power is [[Characters/{{ptitlevos5dvs8}} having my ideas for shows and movies]] being on the internet to be read around the world. ** [[Tropers/{{Gyrobot}} This Troper]] also thought of some ideas, some subconsciously came true * [[Tropers/TsundereLightning This Troper's]] handle was The Biggest BlissStage FanBoy In The Universe on the ToothyCat wiki; I started contributing JUST to post the BlissStage page. ...Then BenLehman CONGRATULATES me on it and asks me to [[BlissStageFirstAndFinalAct make a FRAKKING VIDEO GAME...]] * [[Tropers/DaGamesElite This Troper]] aspires to be a novelist of some kind, and I'm heavily inspired by all of my, shall we say, geeky interests. That being said, additionally, I have posted a lot of vids on Youtube that, at one point, lead to my account getting a good 1000+ subscribers...but then my account was deleted... T_T FML... * [[Tropers/{{AM_NK}} This Troper]] started making maps for a game. Several of his maps went on to be official ones. ** [[Tropers/{{Vilui}} This Troper]] now makes official levels for the ''{{Repton}}'' series, which I've been a fan of since I was ''four''. Also, a weapon idea I sent to the creators of ''{{Worms}}'' got included. * I know of another user at 4chan's mecha boards who is a stunt actor in Japan for KamenRider and other Tokusatsu stuff. King Nekketsu is his name * [[@/VioletViolin This troper]] (a promoted fanGIRL) got to be a "backup dancer" for Herman's Hermits, her favorite band. * One day,I will do an animated series with MarkHamill! You'll see! You'll all see! * I love action films, and am penning one right now as a screenwriter. I've met with the director and everything looks to be on track at the moment. * Kinda an example, but [[Tropers/UltimateChimera this troper]] had been a fan of DeceasedCrab for some time when she (on a voice acting forum she frequents) came across an audition thread for MerryGearSolid 2 - the previous game having already been played by her favourite Let's Player. So she auditions, and gets two small roles (complete with ShoutOut to DC). And naturally, what happens? [=DeceasedCrab=] Let's Plays the game. Hell yeah. * ThisTroper has garnered a little attention from a toy company thanks to his Youtube toy reviews. I could say what said attention is, but

then I'd have to kill you. Confidentiality thing. * [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/JeddTheJedi I have been]] reading a local movie magazine since I was 12, and was heartbroken when it folded. However, the team started another magazine, and I wrote in a letter attaching my portfolio. Thanks mostly to how nice the editor was, I'm now writing for them, and have attended four advance press preview movie screenings in the past week - for free! Very gratifying - Monday morning I have been invited to a VIP Oscar screening party, and I'm barely old enough to even drink champagne at that champagne brunch. * A potential example: this troper is a bit of a fan of Metallica and Megadeth (and a bit of Slayer) and is considering writing a song to the tune of Mechanix, with The Four Horsemen's bridge and with lyrics that wouldn't be out of place in a Slayer song...which he plans to perform [[BeyondTheImpossible even faster than Mechanix]] (for the curious, it is played at roughly 240 bpm. I plan to have it performed at 300bpm). Hopefully, it will be performed live by Slayer in a few years... * This troper's girlfriend is an awesome writer whose work he'd admired for a while before they'd gotten together. Now not only are we going to collaborate for Script Frenzy 2011, we're . . . well, I did say "girlfriend", didn't I? How "promoted" can you get? xD * I guess this counts here? I just became a moderator for a forum I go to. A forum I love, and that I've been a member at for two years. * This Troper has been a fan of {{Countdown}} ever since he was six. Over the years, I've watched all the great contestants- especially the young prodigies- and dreamed of emulating their success. Then, in December 2001, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLEZpCUD7Q this]] happened. * This troper's relative was an actress that loved doing plays for kids, especially TheChroniclesOfNarnia, where she would play as the White Witch. When she found out that they were making a new movie of it, she exploded in excitement and called the company, but they said they had already gotten someone for the part... * This troper recently joined the writing staff of one of her favorite websites. Because the editors liked her comments. ---Someday I'll be famous enough to be a PromotedFanboy! But... for now I have to be a regular fanboy. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

PromotionToParent * Today with the typical family size falling this isn't as common, but I had a brush with it in my own family. My youngest sibling (of 5) was born when I was 16 years old, and when I was 18 my father took me aside to let me know he and my mother had rewritten their wills so that if they both died I would have custody of my younger brothers and sisters. He then gave me some advice about how to handle such a situation. I was a sober child, so it didn't freak me out at all. In

fact I had sort of assumed since age 14 that I would be in charge if both my parents died. My friends were a little shocked though. ** I'm on the opposite end of this. Though I'm coming to the end of needing it now, ever since my eldest sister (my siblings are all 10-15 years older than I), she's been named my guardian in the event my both my parents passed away. ** Similar situation with this troper, although both siblings are closer in age to herself. At age 15 or so, it was basically stated that if anything happened to this troper's parents, she'd be the one in charge. * This troper is Promoted to Parent every Tuesday, at least, while this troper's parents go to family therapy. This troper is normally responsible for taking care of both this troper's younger siblings. It's tough being the oldest. * This is pretty much the norm in my family. When my mother's parents got divorced, the oldest (my uncle) started working to help their mother support the family, while the second oldest (my mother) became the 'mom' of the house. In the current generation, there's my aunt's family, where the eldest daughter is 20 and the others aren't even teens yet. And then for me, it's pretty much assumed that I will take care of my little sister (13 years younger) should anything happen to my parents. * My older sister had my niece when she was 15. When she was 19, she moved out, leaving her daughter for the rest of my family to deal with. For the most part, my mother took care of the child, until she passed away. After that, my niece was in the care of my youngest sister (still older than me) and I. Eventually my other sister moved out as well, so now I'm basically singlehandedly caring for my niece. It's been a year now since my PromotionToParent, and my dad, and even the child's own mother, tell me I'm "a good father", even though this isn't even my kid. I feel honored, but at the same time I feel odd about it all. * When my mom moved to America, her parents were stuck in Venezuela. So she, a 21 year old, served as a mother to my then 10 year old aunt and 16 year old uncle. Despite only having my mom's waitress salary, she put all three of them through private schools and college (including Harvard and Penn). * Both of this troper's grandfathers had to help raise their younger siblings after one of their parents died. ** Subverted with my family though. When Dad was in the middle of a nervous breakdown and Mom was constantly freaking out in an attempt to keep the peace, my oldest brother tried to be a parental substitute, only to screw up royally. It was the biggest contributer to our inability to get along for most of our lives. * Not serious like other examples on this page, this troper was called "Mother" by a friend and "wife" by another. It all started from an argument, but it got stuck. We even developed a whole family after that. And said troper is a guy. * This Troper is 19 and the oldest of five. The others are all quite young, and I am practically the second parent, because none of our fathers are very useful. * A Pokemon fanfic that this troper wrote had the main character

become a dad, of sorts, to a Riolu (later Lucario). He then becomes a grandpa in the fourth story to his "son"'s son. ** Kinda similar for all my 'mon. They are my brothers, sisters, my dearest friends. But all the ones I've recieved as eggs, (Togepi, Happiny, Riolu)they are my babies, and any kids they have are my grandcubs. Yes, I'm completely serious. I may never have children, so this could be the closest I'll ever get. * This troper always assumed this would end up happening if anything ever happened to her parents, despite the age difference between her and her brother is only about 2 years. However, it's kind of a moot point now since both are leaving off for post-secondary schooling. * Probably a faint inversion somewhere, but this troper's sister was practically this troper's mother when I was about ten (ok, I could only make tea then. Otherwise, I was completely useless), even though she was a year younger than me: if I had a major problem, I would often discuss it with my sister first, rather than my dad. If both of us were in the house alone, she would cook, while I did the tea. If I needed encouragement with something, I often got it from my sister than from my dad. This lasted for a few years, during which my parents split up messily after four years. After an incident which resulted in my sister falling out with my dad and my step-mother (long story short, teenage party while we were in Spain which went [[{{understatement}} a bit out of control]]), I decided to try to make an effort with cooking. Still got a (very) long way to go, but I can cook pasta dishes without any risk to the kitchen...oddly enough, I'm probably the more mature of us now! * This troper's mother abandoned the family six weeks after I was born. My dad was great but worked 7 days a week, so my sister (9 at the time) was Promoted to Parent for me and my then-5-year-old brother. She did a wonderful job, and to this day she and I are incredibly close. ** Additionally, my older sister married when I was 14 and had twins when I was 16. In their will, she and her husband named me as the legal guardian of the twins if anything happened to both of the parents--even though I, her little sister, was only 16. * This troper is three years younger than her brother, but said brother also has some minor mental... difficulties. This troper and her parents have had some discussions on what the future will hold when Mom and Dad are no longer able to take care of him. In fact, this troper's mother thinks I became the "big sister" many years ago. * This troper got promoted to housewife and part-time parent when her mom was going through treatment for cancer. I turned some laundry pink and created some "interesting" meals (I still get teased about the tuna salad omelet), but we got through it. And at least I wasn't that kid in the college dorm who couldn't cook mac and cheese. * This troper's father was the youngest of five, and ignored by his parents a lot of the time, since his father had to work and his mother appears to have had severe Autism/Asperger's Syndrome (she died before we found out it was in the family, so no specific diagnosis). Safe to say, she didn't handle it well, and spent most of the time off in her own world. My aunt ended up as his main caretaker, although it helps that there's a significant age gap between them, and she's a very

motherly type anyway. Dad's still very attached to her. * This troper has basically been this since middle school after her father passed away. She was put as the official care-taker of her two little sisters in the event that anything ever happens to her mother at 18. As much as fitting this trope sucks in theory, honestly, it's nice to know how to take care of a household, cook, clean, deal with little kids... * This Troper's dad lives in another city and her and her little siblings live with their mom (they're not divorced; dad's work is in another city) who is most of the time on errands, with her group or in her room, so she has become a mother-like figure, specially to her brother eight years younger than her, who is sixteen. ---Quit calling me Mom and go back to PromotionToParent. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ProperlyParanoid * [[Tropers/{{Rowsdower Saves Us}} This troper]] is [[CrazySurvivalist extremely]] [[ConspiracyTheorist paranoid]]. Well maybe [[NoExceptYes not paranoid]], but certainly [[CallARabbitASmeerp cautiously vigilant]] When I enter a room, I check behind all the doors and in the closets, then I look out the window to make sure I'm not being followed. I check the [[DangerTakesABackSeat backseat of my car]] three times each time I drive and keep tabs on the car behind me. I assume I'm being followed if the same car has been behind me for more than three turns. I sleep with a [[PillowPistol knife in my hand]]. I have a plan to fight every person I meet, just in case they attack me, and [[TookALevelInBadAss I work out constantly]] to stay strong enough to survive, even in the [[ZombieApocalypse worst of circumstances]]. However, I am training to be a cop, have had a gun pulled on me, and have almost been mugged twice. So the defensive behavior is [[JustifiedTrope partially justified]]. ** I thought I was the only one that worked fight plans out, If I talk to anyone I work out a way to get them pinned if they attack, I also have a copper pipe under my bed that's just in reach if someone breaks in. The last part is justifed as the room I sleep in has a massive window anyone could get though and someone nearly did a few years ago. ** I see you and raise you with sleeping besides a baseball bat, checking the room for possible access points in case of a zombie attack, which way to escape, pondering if he could survive and still run a fall, or slip, from the first and second floor, pondering who he would sacrifice in case of the zombies, who'd be worth dying for, pondering which room would be best for defense and as a HQ. * This troper was once in a relationship that, by virtually all means, was absolutely fantastic. Everything I could ask for in every single way. Except...these tiny, niggling little details. This girl's stories...just didn't seem to match up sometimes. It always truly tiny things, background details at best. Instantly justifiable. More than easily ignorable. And yet...it always bugged me, somewhere in the back

of my head. As you may have guessed by now, it turned out she was cheating on me. * [[Tropers/{{Robbychu}} This troper]] is twitchy, dislikes being touched, doesn't trust authority, and plays up her tsun-tsun side to make people GO AWAY. She... did not have good experiances in middle school, and the principal ignored it until she snapped a bit. No, her attackers didn't get punished; they were popular, how could they be bad? Amazing what mental attacks can do to someone who already had social issues. * There's a reason [[Tropers/{{Irksome Dude}} I]] always sit with my back to a corner anywhere and I don't talk with people... * This troper isn't particularly paranoid...unless he happens to enter a bathroom, in which case he immediately has to throw open the shower curtain and make sure there are no ninja assassins hiding there. You know, just in case. ** You too? When this Troper uses the bathroom in the middle of the night he always does that. Didn't help when my cat was in it ruffling the curtain for fun. Really damn creepy... * This troper's father's favourite game is the Paranoia Game. Whether it's staring at the victim with a creepy smile on his face for lengthy periods of time, surprise tickle attacks, or even just promises of future pesterings, he's worked very hard to make his kids rightfully paranoid of him (even if it's all in great fun). * [[Tropers/{{Marina Del Grapes}} This troper]] is greatly afraid of being more absentminded than she already is. That combined with having had an abusive childhood and a set of siblings and cousins that, while they love her, do often take advantage of her, and having a tendency to always assume the worst for fear of getting hurt... makes paranoia one of her key traits. * [[Tropers/{{Anime King 194}} This troper]] is very, very, VERY protective of his computer, he regularly has Stopscript enabled, avoids downloading torrents from websites, and generally stays locked down. He has not gotten a virus on his computer for 5 years, but nearly got one if he hadn't had Stopscript enabled. He does freak the Hell out if there is even a sign of a hacking. IN that case, it's slash and burn. Change of password, clearing of history, stuff like that. * [[Tropers/{{Gyrobot}} This troper]] has a sense of paranoia of {{Moe}} becoming influenced by {{Yuri}}, and he is right... * [[Tropers/TomoeMichieru This troper]] carries a katana, bokken or other weapon on him at all times. Various people tend to visit this house, frequently at very odd hours and rarely upon invitation. Many of them are involved with drugs, although only peripherally, and things could go wrong, let's just leave it at that. Couple that with a childhood of being bullied, and you get someone prepared for attack at any time. * One of this (female) troper's ex-roomates kept an unsheathed katana in his room right above his bed. We used to lovingly poke fun at him for it and all the times that he came out of his room with it raised over his head at the slightest noise (pets, wind, etc). We stopped making fun of him, however, after the night when there actually ''was'' an intruder in our home and that katana ended up saving all of

our lives. * [[JusticeReaper This troper]] works in the city of Montego Bay, in his home parish of St. James in Jamaica. The city has something of a reputation for crimes taking place when you'd least expect it (one of the troper's coworkers had his wife attacked and robbed on a certain street recently while she was out minding her own business, and then sometime more recently the troper's girlfriend was robbed of her cellphone in a bus park in town while going home one night). Because of this, the troper doesn't stick around downtown longer than he has to, and always waits for public transportation with people he knows are going his way, in places where plenty of witnesses can see what's going on. And when the troper walks along the street, he does his best to watch all sides of himself, doesn't make it obvious that he's carrying a wallet or a cell-phone, and walks quickly to get to his destination. * [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] is extremely paranoid about passwords, after having an e-mail account stolen after using a virusinfected PC in an Internet caf: ** He never types any password in a computer that he doesn't trust; ** He always uses HTTPS if using any open wireless connection (protip: install [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/229918/ HTTPS Everywhere]] if you use Firefox); ** If he eventually needs to type a password in an untrusted machine, he will change it as soon as possible. * A professor at this Tropers University is very, very paranoid. He always photographs and locks his office when he leaves, and when he gets back he checks if anyone broke in and switched the items on his desk around. He also refuses to walk too far away from buildings because the aliens could abduct him... * This troper fits. I always watch my back whenever out. I always carry a knife with me, if I get suspicious about the people around me I have my hand around the knife to easily and quickly flip it out. (One situation very much called for this: Strangers slowly creeping up on the car, luckily, they just thought I was someone they knew and left.) I plan to get the best ballistics vest (Erroneously called "Bulletproof vests", even though they can be punctured with right ammo or enough shots)I can afford, and train with several firearms at the shooting range. (and even buy several different kinds.) I know it's a bad idea to have a weapon out and displayed to threaten an attacker, if I pull a gun out on someone I'm going to shoot immediately. I also look at the best ways to bring down a person fast (strike at the throat, kick to the groin, hit the solar plexus, kick the knee where the femur begins, etc.) in case I'm either caught without a weapon or disarmed. * This troper almost never played American football, due to a very strong fear of [[EyeScream a football hitting him in his glasses.]] He eventually worked up the courage to play, and before long was hit in the glasses by a football. Due to it being at an agle, it luckily only sent his glasses flying, though not before they managed to inflict a few wounds. He always goes as far away from the action as possible, due to that. * I never go downstairs between 10pm and 6:45am without a rifle, I

also carry a baton around with me at all times. * This troper's family is genetically paranoid. Grandparents used to tell stories about kidnappers in black cars and bad people around wrong hours. Mother took this from them and then gave it to my brother. They seem to believe someone all the time wants to rob our house, look what we have inside or simply listen what we say in the corridor. They are also CrazyPrepared, which saved my ass a few times and was right once or twice, but still. * Let me give you some free advice, DON'T SNEAK UP OR ATTEMPT TO SURPRISE AN ARMORED CAR GUARD! It's not going to end well for anyone involved, these people (myself included) spend all day carrying money around with the expectation that someone is going to try to kill them for it, and there have been attempts made. Don't just take my word for it, [[http://www.google.com/search?q=armored+car+robbery here's a google search]]. Do us all a favor and give them a break, ok? All those trips to the shooting range aren't just for show, they're a survival mechanism. * ThisTroper is paranoid about telling adults inner secrets and feelings, even when they promise not to tell your parents or anyone else about it. I was right in middle school, my mom promised not to tell anyone about the girls at school bullying me, but she told the counselor anyway. That's why I don't tell my problems to ANY adult or authority figure. They're always gonna tell someone else... ** Well its good to see that [[ZenoTheGreat I'm]] not the only one... * Wait, am I just paranoid, or am I just stoned? * This troper was nearly sent to training school for a misunderstanding. He graduated highschool as a homeschooler. * this troper typically isn't overly paranoid, but for a while was VERY paranoid, to the point she would pressure her dad to lock the door after he left for work hours before anyone else got up and avoided going anywhere other than to work or one specific bookstore where she was friends with all the staff alone. what brought the paranoia on was a bad breakup with a friend and her former Marine boyfriend, and it turned out to be completely justified despite the fact everyone was telling her they were too flaky to do anything serious. this troper narrowly avoided a convention where they planned to corner her and "fuck with her" (to paraphrase what both told people they didn't realize were friends of this troper), mess with her car, and had them take advantage of the fact her dad didn't lock the door when he left for work to mess up her computer. it was also leaked out later that her ex-friend's boyfriend had been discharged from the Marines for psychological reasons and had an extensive collection of bladed weapons. the two got married, then went thru a messy divorce and pretty much stopped focusing on harassing this troper, but even now, especially after finding out one of them had been facebook stalking her when they contacted her hours after she mentioned her mom had passed away trying to get friendly with her again, she's far more paranoid than she use to be and sleeps with a wakizashi in reach of her bed. ---Remember to [[DangerTakesABackseat check the back seat]] before returning to ProperlyParanoid.

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ProudToBeAGeek -->'''@/{{Nornagest}}:''' Can we agree to avoid any TroperTales examples before they get started? I just ''know'' this is going to end up like BookDumb. -->'''@/RadicalTaoist:''' You'd be quicker to have a TroperTales for the tropers who subvert this trope. All five of them. --> -[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/archived_discussion.php?s_t=Main.ProudToB eAGeek the discussion archive]] for this trope * [[{{Tropers/LeighSabio}} This Troper]] can quote StarTrek lines in Chinese. Also, said troper started the TroperTales page for proud to be a geek. I ''dare'' you to find an example geekier than that. ** [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] is so proud he rubs off on his family. His father wants the [[{{Portal}} Aperture Laboratories]] Work Shirt off the Valve Store. I also caused him to annoy his co-workers by getting Re: Your Brains stuck in his head, causing him to sing it all day. I also enjoy wearing the {{Bungie}} Be a Hero Haiti Charity shirt along with my Bungie Japan Charity Wristband (another thing that's rubbed off, as he has one too). I talk about being a geek/nerd all the time and my best friend is also a geek/nerd (and in the oddest coincidence ever, was born two days before me, which is my parents' anniversary (they got married one year and two days before I was born), and my friend turned out to be a KodomoNoJikan fan as well, which is kind of obscure for two people to discover completely independently of each other while friends). I own over 100 games, have watched a ton of shows, can remember any episode of BuffyTheVampireSlayer with just a quick summery, has Bungie merch (as I just said), and more. Oh, and I write fanfic and am damn proud of it. * This (female) troper got a 36% (rounded up) on her Geek Test, thus earning the rank Major Geek. The sad part? She was disappointed and had been aiming for Extreme Geek. She can quote many Star Trek and Star Wars lines, has read many, many, MANY manga, is a complete anime freak to the point that she doesn't watch western animation anymore, can speak a few sentences in Japanese, is attempting to learn Klingon, wants to go to ComicCon, crossplayed as Zoro from One Piece for a small con, has played Dungeons and Dragons before (only once, my friend hosting it moved away and I can't find anyone else around here interested in playing it), constantly plays an online RPG about wizards, is in 2 AP classes, has never had an F or D on a report card, knowns how to use my computer better than my mom, can manipulate Sims 2 to do whatever I want, always carries a book of some sort to read after finishing classwork, plays videogames regularly, once owned a Sega Genesis, can play Pacman pretty well, and wears glasses. And I'm damn proud! ** Do or do not, there is no try. ;) * Yon Troper has read basically every fantasy novel on the face of the planet and also collects graphic novels, has eight emulators on his

three computers (NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, PS1, Dreamcast, Atari 2600), watched all the StarWars movies three times each, went to ComicCon once, watches ''{{Heroes}}'' religiously (and has cosplayed as Sylar), plays both D&D and MagicTheGathering equally religiously (ever since 2005), owns both an Xbox 360, a PS2 and a Wii (and once had a GameCube) with about 40 games for each, actually ''looks for'' glitches in said games and has played DwarfFortress for six hours, got straight A's last year, has an obscene prog-rock collection, got to beta test Red Faction Guerrilla, and edits Wikipedia. Add to this the fact that he hit Super Geek on the geek test with 49%, sometimes doesn't shower for a week, and has no dress sense (likes to wear tie-die T-shirts with blazers, and a tie around his forehead), and you've got one super geek. And I love my status as one. ** You know that not showering for a week on end is a BAD thing, yes? *** Hell yeah. Not doing that again. * [[{{Tropers/SephlidJam}} This Troper]], while not having the geek cred that many of the others on the page might, has many nerdy interests. He's an avid manga/anime fan, has played Pokemon since it was released in America, and has, on several occasions, tried to learn [[LordOfTheRings Sindarin]]. However, above all this, he is an outspoken geek, and has more pride in his nerdiness than most. He occasionally gives HotBlooded speeches about his geekiness, and often encourages his (equally geeky) friends to take pride in their Geek nature. If there is a geek who enjoys being one more than him, he hasn't met that geek yet - and would really like to. ** Possibly not more, but I proudly proclaim every one of these facts as pertaining to me as well. * This troper probably isn't as geeky as some of the others listed here, but I do have inherently geeky intrests. I can quote MontyPython when the situation fits, I have a crush on David Tennant (most consider Series/DoctorWho geeky here in the US), I know more about SherlockHolmes than most people my age, I have actually cosplayed as Mrs. Hudson from SherlockHolmes as part of a group thing with my friends (we did it once on Halloween and a second time when the Guy Ritchie movie came out), I like anime and manga, and I plan to become a web designer. I also know quite a bit about theater and music. I'm proud of all of these attributes. * This troper is not only proud to be a geek but unabashedly proud to be old. She brought her entire Tom Stoppard collection to college, regularly quotes 30s slapstick movies like ''Bringing Up Baby'', blasts Richard Thompson and The Mamas and the Papas, and watches Classic Series ''Series/DoctorWho''. For the record, this troper is 19. * This Troper doesn't have as long a geek pedigree as some, but takes extreme pride in the things he does indulge in ([=DnD=], many different anime and manga, many different video games, Star Wars, and many, many sci-fi and fantasy novels, not to get too specific). He constantly encourages his geek friends and even those who aren't necessarily geeks, but have have less than mainstream interests, to be proud of who they are and unashamed of what they like. * Who has been walking around London for much of the day wearing a

suit, a tie and a [[GreenLantern Sinestro Corps ring]]? [[{{Tropers/Be}} This troper]], baby, that's who. * This troper loves Star Trek TOS and took Russian classes solely because Chekov is her favorite character. She is not a hardcore gamer or anime fan but has been known to dabble. This troper dresses up for most fantasy/sci-fi movies she attends, is an expert at Harry Potter, enjoys drawing fanart, writing fanfiction and playing pacman. She wears glasses and reads too many fantasy novels for her own good. And is also currently working on her own. She only likes the original Star Wars movies, watches Brotherhood 2.0 regularly, and sulked for weeks when her comiccon plans fell through. She also enjoys [=LARPing=] and, lastly, gets horribly offended when she calls herself a geek and people say "Oh, you're not a geek!" like it's a good thing. ** A very good point. This troper often refers to herself as a nerd, dork, or geek (depending on the current situation), and is taken offguard whenever somebody tries to reassure her that she's not. Really, what else would you call it? * {{Tropers/Miso}} is an unabashed nerd. She has recreated several ships on Sims 2, named all of her {{Mons}} in [=FireRed=] after rockstars and the ones in [=LeafGreen=] after the characters in {{Metalocalypse}}, and when in an uninteresting public place is usually playing Pokemon. She is also happy to be old- she's an Ozzyera BlackSabbath fangirl, and the majority of her music is either European metal or rock from the 70s and 80s. She's also still a teenager, and not a legal adult. Her guitar teacher seemed surprised that she knew who half the guitarists he liked are/were. * While [[{{Tropers/DarkInsanity13}} this troper]] also isn't as geeky as some other people on this page claim to be, she unabashedly will quote or reference random manga, anime, video games, movies, books and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary tropes]] at any given chance regardless of whether or not anyone else will get them. Just today, while picking her brother up from school, she waved to him like Yukari does in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYcu6o1stlc this video]] (no, she does not drive at all like Yukari). She proudly calls herself a geek, nerd, and anything of the like regardless of when people who don't know her any better tell her otherwise (much like the troper two above, she wonders why people seem to think being a geek is a bad thing). * This is pretty much the creed of this troper's college honors program. "Go Geek!" (Seriously, it's on a T-shirt) Also, this troper is quite proud of his general otaku-ness. I think I'd make a great [[MartianSuccessorNadesico Jovian]]. * This troper is proud to be a geek. For added alliterative appeal: greek gaming geek. He has burned a game disc from playing too much (Fallout 2), has watched the first two seasons of I.T. Crowd twice, learns Japanese, has recently taken up scale modelling, likes older rock and power metal, and has written a math program in BlitzBasic. He can also quote Final Fantasy trivia at random. * {{Tropers/Lale}} is proud to be a geek. * This Troper is a twenty-year-old [[FurryFandom furry]], plays CityOfHeroes and SonicTheHedgehog, is self-taught in bojitsu (using a bo staff), is an [[{{Avatar}} Avatard]], went as his

[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles favorite turtle Donatello]] for Halloween, writes FanFiction, is addicted to StargateSG1, and ''loves'' {{Bionicle}}. Yep, I'm a nerd, and proud of it. Much to the chagrine of my jockish brother. * This troper calls himself a GAP (Geek And Proud) and I'm planning to sell t-shirts... ** I shall buy one. * This troper is a Sci-Fi and Fantasy geek, liking Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and the classic Nintendo games. She is currently planning to wear her polyesther shirts and comb her hair (also known as looking like Spock) on Tuesdays just to annoy her (trekker) Physics teacher. Oh, yes, and she drew the words "Geek and Nerd" on her Pokemon Diamond Pixel Artist app. Non-geeks, beware. ** [[GeekyTurnOn This Troper is turned on]] * This Troper is a proud geek, and often tells those bullied for being geeks that they'll invent the next biggest innovation, whilst the bullies will be working at Micky D's * {{Tropers/The Rooster}} reads fanfiction, has a pop culture reference pool consistinng of film, literature, anime, western comics, western animation, video games, science, philosophy, music, and mythology, watches re-runs of MST3k constantly, reads and (shamefully writes) fanfiction, plays games across the spectrum, is a 360 achievement whore, nicknames all of his pokemon something that's either a horrible pun or a reference (including classic rock power trios for all legendary trios, such as Rush for the birds), has his head buried in a book whenever he can find the time, wastes his life on this site and by extension has the same tenuous grip on reality as [[LuckyStar Konata Izumi]], is a shameless prog nerd (usually considered separate from other nerdy interests), and a bunch of other stuff. Through it all, he's damn proud of it. * True story: in Statistics class, This Troper was spotted rolling his D&D dice while frantically scribbling down numbers and then entering them into his scientific calculator. When the professor called him out on it, he said that he was "calculating whether the dice have gone bad or not". After explaining further, the professor stated it was the "best use of applied probability she has ever seen". * Come on, guys. [[MostTropersAreYoungNerds Nearly everybody here.]] * [[{{Tropers/TheTallOne}} I'm]] not as nerdy as others here, but I do make as many references to XKCD and OrderOfTheStick as I can, even though no one else gets it. I also have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of [=DnD=], although I don't play. I want to, though, but my friends aren't nerdy enough. D: * [[{{Tropers/Krieg}} This troper]] would be a stereotype were he not real. He does not regard this as a bad thing. :P * Yay for all of us! This troper play both D&D and MtG, cannot go through a day without viewing or referencing 1. Firefly 2. XKCD 3. Star Trek, either TNG, Deep Space Nine or Voyager 4. Dr. McNinja 5. About half a dozen other webcomics and assorted movies. He even got an XKCD hoodie to prove it, which was promptly stolen/misplaced. Loves making lists, is advancing his math curriculum out of boredom, and reads this site. Additionally, if the online practice Mensa quiz is to

be believed, he would most likely qualify for Mensa at 14. Not a big deal, but damn if he's not proud. * This Troper's history of proud geekiness goes back to his days in High School when he made a book report of ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (and bored his classmates with a 20-minute speech about the setting). ** You, sir, are AWESOME. Wish I had thought of doing that when I was in high school... * This Troper knows more about Star Wars History than Earth History, which is saying something for having taken AP World History and scoring quite well in it. He unashamedly carries Star Wars Novels with him around school and reads them whenever he damn well pleases. He also RP's almost constantly online, having spent about an hour prior to opening TV Tropes on designing a d20 RPG Character for a Saga Edition Campaign. I consider myself a cross between a Grunge Rocker and a Geek...mostly because I'm the latter in the body of the former. This Troper is also fond of many childrens anime, enjoying Pokemon and Digimon to an almost unhealthy extent. He is also a damn proud former Spriter, specializing in Dragon Ball Z LSW Style, the series of which he invests far too much time in. Considering the over 150 IQ, he also enjoys psychology, Jung specifically, and literature. * I occasionally take this trope to the point where I adopt a MalcolmXerox persona, except with geekiness instead of blackness (for example, I claim people pulling their pants up high and speaking like they wear braces is "nerdface"). * [[{{Tropers/Cable}} This troper]] can declare proudly that [[{{Firefly}} Nathan Fillion]] is his favourite actor, [[TerryGilliam Brazil]] is his favourite movie, and his favourite novel is WorldWarZ. He has a firm belief that SuperMarioBros is the greatest game of all time due to it almost single handedly revitalizing the video game market. He is also familiar with video games history, and knows quite a bit from the NES era onwards. He can also talk excessivly about the Beatles, and has an ability to understand some concepts for more advanced than some college aged people would get a headache from. He would argue about how TheOtherWiki is not bad, despite that everybody around me is brainwashed against it. Talking about Series/DoctorWho has helped him get friends, and he also did the same thing with InvaderZim and CyberSix, and on another occasion he has determined that in a zombie apocalypse one should flock to Newfoundland. And finally, he has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of [[MemeticMutation memes]]. ** Today this troper has learned about concepts just so he could laugh at a DresdenCodak strip, and played [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Civilization CivIV]] for hours straight after having his capital stolen by [[GaiusJuliusCaesar Caesar]] and Ghandi... *** Update, he applied for volunteering at an anime convention, at which he will either cosplay at the Tenth Doctor or [[EarthBound NESS]], recently got a 'chinese bootleg' NES so that he could play MetalGear. And is currently playing EarthBound on his iPod. * Um, guys? This is ''TVTropes''. This is the geekiest place of which [[{{Tropers/OrchidbreezeofFireClan}} This Troper]] is aware (single-

focus areas like anime conventions don't count in her book). If you're ''not'' this, take this advice: sneak off the site quietly and no one will be the wiser. Anyway, 'proud' does not begin to describe ThisTroper. Nothing other than pride ever really occurs to her as a reaction to geekiness. She makes obscure references in full knowledge that [[TheBigBangTheory there's not a Snowball's chance in a microwave oven]] that anyone will get them, and she gives high-fives for ones she can catch. She answers 'how are you?' with 'well, thank you' and she doesn't end sentences with prepositions! She may not be too sharp on geek culture, but darn if she doesn't have a geek's heart. * I spend almost all of my time on my computer, playing videogames, or playing Yu-gi-oh! with my friends. I own every single Nintendo system since the N64 in perfect working condition, plus a 360, Genesis and PS1, and at least 10 games for each. I own a copy of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt despite not owning an NES. I learned to read before the end of Kindergarten, all because of Pokemon. I grew up watching StarWars and Miyazaki movies, which I'm still a fan of today. I consider Mythbusters to be the only good television show that airs on North American TV today. I've lost track of a conversation because I was too busy thinking of how to insert anime references without derailing it. I've had a loud argument (in a crowded hallway) about the DoubleStandard of lolicon and shotacon that my friends have, with one of those friends, that eventually devolved into us yelling GurrenLagann and GGundam quotes at each other. I've watched more hours of anime than I've ever watched of TV. I consider plot and characterization to be more important than visuals or action in... anything, really. (I'm still the only person I know who thinks that Avatar sucks for these reasons.) I independently formed a belief that allows all fictional worlds to exist without making me sound ''too'' obsessed. I have over 800 songs from video games and over 150 songs from anime on the [[ICallItVera triPod]] (so called because it's my third one). I have had long and involved conversations about grammar. I'm learning Japanese almost entirely because I think the country's entertainment is far above ours's. I have spent several classes arguing with multiple English teachers about "singular they." I could go on for a while longer, but I think I've made my point. * [[@/BonsaiForest This autistic troper]] (and yes, I was officially diagnosed as a baby, had to be mainstreamed into school, etc., so believe me when I tell you I'm not full of it) used to flaunt his nerd interests in high school, happily talking about - as if bragging about - his love of cartoons and video game music and such, and would actively be embarrassed about enjoying anything mainstream or "cool". Nowadays, he's mellowed out the nerd pride, and isn't as afraid to admit to enjoying some mainstream music and movies. (However, he'd rather be known for his interests in obscure films and in children's books). And of course, he has emulators for like every system (even PS2 and the arcade), and has his computer hooked up to his HDTV as well as his monitor in his bedroom, allowing him to play emulator games on his HDTV with a wireless controller. He's pretty proud of ''that'', of course. And, as of this writing, had just recently finished a ''RamonaQuimby'' marathon. It's possible to not be into sci-fi and high fantasy and still be a nerd, dammit!

* This Troper memorized most of [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D 3.5]], founded a club for it, and did his Multimedia class documentary on it, can name a half-dozen ''StarWars'' Expanded Universe characters and a few dozen ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'' cards off the top of his head, knows more about ''GreenLantern'' than all the rest of his class combined, claimed that the aliens in ''{{Expedition}}'' were much better than the ones in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', named a character in ''CityOfVillains'' after the ThunderboltIron trope, quotes ''CalvinAndHobbes'', ''WrathOfKhan'', ''JusticeLeague'', and this very wiki on a regular basis, and practically turned "I'm the only one who gets the reference, am I?" into a near CatchPhrase. * I read TVTropes. 'nuff said. * This troper got 50.55% (Super Geek) on the Geek Test and was disappointed because I thought I could hit extreme. I now wish to use the test as a checklist of geeky things to do (like go to conventions). Proud of it, and always will be. Plays DungeonsAndDragons, MagicTheGathering, WorldOfWarcraft, and an online strategy game based on Magic on the WizardsOfTheCoast message boards. Most of these, for years. Geekyness is expanding. * [[@/{{Aleclom}} This Troper's]] Facebook picture is him posing with every [[GreenLantern Lantern Corps ring]]. Definitely not hiding the nerdiness. * [[{{Tropers/HappyDuck}} This troper]] once had someone in her English class say that she wasn't a nerd (mistakenly assuming that she would take offense at that). Her response? "I write ''fanfiction'', and you're saying I'm not a nerd?" * This is [[{{Tropers/Theologica}} this Troper]] to a T. To the point where she and other geek friends exchange requests for hugs in the format of Linux terminal commands: -->sudo apt-get install hugs -snuggly -->[SUDO] Password for ''name'': -->********* -->Installing hugs v2.4.5 ** Using this one time also resulted in a fellow geek friend [[HypocriticalHumor lampshading]] her geeky status. * I can, have, and will quote Series/DoctorWho whenever I wish, listened to my mind to hear a Dalek shouting... what do you think? Thats right, Extermin''iren.'' I want to become [[PromotedFanboy promoted to the status of (The) Doctor]] in the future, Thirteen preferrably. I have cosplayed as Light Yagami. At school. And the only reason I haven't cosplayed as Tennant was because I couldn't find a coat. I was inspired to consider taking up the trumpet, as well as aving taken up guitar, by Kamen Rider Hibiki. * [[{{Tropers/Shumazau}} I]] will proudly declare myself a Ben10 fan (despite ranting half the time about the series' decay) in public, and with all the trivia to back it up. It's gotten to the point that I'll promptly thumbs-up anyone I see wearing Ben 10 merchandise, leading to a lot of confused little kiddies. My biggest dreams are to cosplay Kevin Ethan Levin, rope in my friends to be Ben and Gwen, and barge into toy stores across the state. I changed my shojo manga-esque style of art that I had been practicing for 4 years in favour of a Glen Murakami-inspired one. I'm also a diehard fan of Thurop Van Orman, so

someday you might come across a slightly hunchbacked Asian girl breathing down your neck in either Dr Barber or Captain K'nuckles cosplay. * Right here. Nintendo nerd to the Nth degree. Can, and will beat Sonic Adventure's Emerald Beach in less than thirty seconds. Roleplays at every moment life gives, and tends to ShipTease, just to see YaoiFangirls squeel. This Troper is a bit upset that he can't quite pull-off the ''Scrawny Nerd'' look, so he's attempting to pull off the ''Smexy Nerd'' look, by getting abs (and it's working). * This troper has a lot of personal examples, but here's the most convincing: my favorite song is called I'll Still Be A Geek After Nobody Thinks It's Chic. It's by indie artist MarianCall, and it appears on an album of Battlestar Galactica and Firefly fan music. * This Troper is proud to be a geek with knowledge of several sci-fi series and films, knows quite a lot about the Star Wars universe and probably knows more about the Series/DoctorWho universe. He has more than 200 books on various subjects and many more eBooks, memorises many obscure facts that he comes across (but has a horrendously poor memory in other areas) and is also someone who dislikes violence and anger. I love myself sometimes =) * [[{{Tropers/Jcatgrl}} This Troper]] has been in the gifted program since the first grade, usually gets 20+ books from the library every time she goes, has just about memorized and can quote large passages from HarryPotter, wants to be either a geneticist, a linguist, or a world famous fantasy author, and skipped the seventh grade. I stopped caring (or never really cared, I can't quite remember) whether people called me a nerd or not in the fourth grade. My response was, "Yes, and your point is?", because "Nerd" only meant, "Smart" to me. Also, I do believe I can out-geek all of you. Let it be shown by the edit record, that I am the first person to start a Nerd Pride Club, which meets in the library of my hometown every Saturday. Or at least, it will, once we get an adult supervisor. * This troper introduces himself with "I am a nerd through and through." As a kid, the first thing I asked anyone I met was "do you like dinosaurs?" My parents actually told me off for this. * It took a major crush on [[@/VioletViolin this troper's]] geeky best friend to realize and celebrate her inner nerd, supressed after one too many bullies. Now she freely admits that her favorite shows are {{Star Trek}}, {{MST3K}} and {{Quantum Leap}}; she makes so many physics and chemistry jokes that she drives the scientists around her nuts; and her parents have an old computer set up so that she can screw around up to her elbows in MS-DOS without ruining anything important. She also spends 90% of her freetime on writing projects. (Also, she got 48.33948% on the Geek Test. For a 17 year old girl, I think that's pretty commendable. ;D) * This Troper, 100%. As well as many of the 'standard' geeky interests: almost all sci-fi (Series/DoctorWho especially), various slightly more obscure anime (NeonGenesisEvangelion, [[XxxHolic xxxHoLiC]], [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi Suzumiya]]), technology/gadgets, etc, I am more than willing to stand up for geeks/nerds and proudly declare myself as one. People should be free to do whatever they please, so long as it hurts no-one else. If people don't like who you

are, or what you do, who cares, screw them! It's your life, do what makes you happy! ** PS: NGE was the first anime I ever watched, and far from putting me off watching others, it encouraged me to find other 'unusual' series. I also don't get the big thing about 'it's impossible to understand'. No it isn't. Yeah... don't call the men in white coats, I've got them on speed-dial, I'll do it myself. ** Hi, doppelgnger! * This Troper has studied Classical Latin for almost five years, finished a friendly debate over which plural of octopus is correct (or technically, more correct. Octopodes is the plural one gets following the pattern of the Ancient Greek 3rd decl. and it predates octopi, which uses the Latin 2nd decl. And octopuses just sounds silly), using her knowledge of Latin noun declensions and Ancient Greek to prove her point, has spent her summer dabbling in the study of Old English, read Dantes DivineComedy, Nabokovs {{Lolita}} and Hugos Notre-Dame de Paris (AKA, TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, mais je lai lu en anglais, cependant) at the age of 14, can more than hold her own in discussions on a wide range of subjects including quantum physics, UK politics, Renaissance art, {{Firefly}}, genetics, choral music, Series/DoctorWho and sci-fi, can recite Shakespeare, use basic CSS and HTML, and to boot, reads fanfiction, watches anime, reads manga, {{xkcd}}, and adores Alan Moores graphic novels. Not to mention once getting a Physics teacher and several other students to sing Still Alive from {{Portal}} with her, completely by accident, in Venice, when on a school choir trip. Aged 15, happy to be such a nerd, and certain shell never boast to this degree ever again. * While this troper is not "classically" geeky, not being into sci-fi or computers, she is a hell of a lot more learnd (yes, I want the accent on there, it makes me look geekier and it sounds nicer as well) than most of her peers, studies Latin, has studied Ancient Greek and a bit of Russian (but didn't have enough free time to do them properly...sniff), read The Faerie Queene before she turned 14, read War and Peace in six days, enjoyed Bernard Shaw's ''Plays Political'' (and read them when she was 11 or 12 to boot), goes to summer schools for fun, is good at maths and science, is the youngest member on the debating team and on par with the sixth formers there. And is 14. (Note: I'm not normally this cocky in real life.) * This troper researches his stories [[DoingItForTheArt very thoroughly]], and has the honor of being the first person in school to put SQL incantations into his novels a la SuzumiyaHaruhi. He also calculated just how, and how long it would take to accelerate a person, strapped to a coffin in a mass driver to 11km/s safely for his story. All these, despite knowing that, chances are, nobody will verify them, He is known among Literature teachers for being brilliant at deconstructing characters, thanks to this wiki, and among the pyromaniacal Chemistry teachers as a dangerous character after he pointed out that the nitric acid and glycerin shouldn't be put so close together. Among other things, he has learned various languages, including Japanese, Russian and Spanish all because he wanted to invoke BilingualBonus, read Three Sisters by Chekov just because he saw a trope index dedicated to the man.

* This troper may not be a typical geek, but she definitely identifies with them and considers herself one. She has been a bookworm since she was three, an otaku since kindergarten, a writer and studier of characters since eighth grade, and a troper since college. Her brother is a gamer and an otaku. She scored "Geek" on a "Geek or Nerd" quiz and actually knows the difference between the two. She has two pairs of glasses: thick black rectangular ones and oval-shaped pink ones. She has a work in progress called "The Lit Geek Society." [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's a novel about geeks and the book club they form.]] * This troper is not offended at all to be called a nerd or geek. I love being one. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] maybe a [[{{Soapbox Sadie}} preachy, pushy]] [[{{Granola Girl}} supporter of any Earth-saving cause]], but proudly declares that she is first and foremost, a proud geek (in fact, on one Internet profile I have elsewhere, I describe myself as a "Granola Geek"). Seriously, I've been a bookworm since toddler age, can remember quotes from movies and cartoons before I can remember my own birthday, still write fanfiction and draw fanart, love comic books (mostly independent stuff), and love taking brain teasing tests for fun. As most 20-somethings do, I've been thinking deeply about what I'd like to do with my life, and have decided I most likely will be a sci-fi/fantasy writer, mostly writing stories with environmentalist/animal rights/social justice undertones to them (trying, of course, my best not to be too {{Anvilicious}}). * This troper doesn't even bother hiding her geeky otaku tendencies. The first thing you see when coming into her room are two huge posters. BoondockSaints and HaruhiSuzumiya. Her laptop is filled with drafts to yaoi fanfiction. She's gone into really long-winded rants over the horrors of the AnimationAgeGhetto. She can quote nearly every pop/geek-culture exemplary film, book, TV series, and comic. She spouts memes at appropriate times, lurks 4chan, and can identify tropes at the drop of a hat. * This troper [=RPs=] still, and plans to have a Klingon Wedding with her Boyfriend (who she met on a star trek website) She also named her pet gerbils after characters from X-men (and one philosopher): Gambit, Phoenix, Emma and Socrates. * [[{{Tropers/Caiaphasthesympathist}} This troper]], aside from being a science (especially maths and logic) enthusiast, is in the dilligent process of watching every Series/DoctorWho episode in existence, has become a fanboy of many a literary figure (SherlockHolmes and {{Dracula}} especially), and sometimes spends his free time doing outlandish photomanips just for laughs. * This troper is a Victorian enthusiast who laments on the fact that Victorian fashion isn't as appreciated as it should be and would gladly walk around town in full costume if she could. She also plays DungeonsAndDragons on a regular basis, has movie and anime posters on her walls and is a walking encyclopedia for {{Final Fantasy VII}}. Not to mention she can be considered a [[NerdsAreSexy hot geek]] by most standards and a {{Perky Goth}}. * [[{{Tropers/LadyNorbert}} This troper]] is in her mid-thirties. She dresses up at the Renaissance faire and successfully pretends to be a

member of the staff, frequently getting stopped for directions or other information. She belongs to a SherlockHolmes society and wears a trenchcoat. She collects swords, studies English history for fun, is slightly well-known for her fan fiction, drops tropes into everyday conversation, references TVTropes in her blog entries, and openly declares that among her life's goals, she wants to be a MemeticBadass and an internet celebrity. She has been playing video games since she was four years old (her first game was ''Pong'') and is waiting to find out if her application has been accepted to be an editor on a certain well-known video game website. She married a man who is as geeky about science fiction as she is about fantasy and history; they have discovered that they can never play Trivial Pursuit against each other because they stalemate forever. Oh, she's also the one who's been running around the TroperTales section and fixing all the broken links to contributor pages, and has added about half of the (hopefully) funny phrases at the bottoms of those pages to link back to the original articles. * Sure, This Troper still has a long way to go to become a true otaku, but at the age of 13, This Troper has watched a lot of anime (seriously,but I still have so many to watch...my friends keep recommending me animes I should watch),and also has read quite a lot of mangas. This Troper plays videogames often (but This Troper has stopped due to not having time, but This Troper will be playing soon), and This Troper actually wants to know more about videogames,manga,anime...This Troper couldn't be more proud of what she likes! Proud to be a geek,indeed! * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} I AM]] A [[Series/DoctorWho WHOVIAN!]] AND PROUD OF IT! I have an external hard drive filled with every Who episode from 1963 to 2010, apty named the Whodrive. I have a bowtie. I was excited when my Dad bought me a fob watch for my eighteenth, fashioned myself brainy specs and have Ten's sonic. I have watched every 2005 series ep at least five times, my previous ringtone was the TARDIS, and I have a Who blog. I also own all the soundtracks and am listening to one right now. I have a crush on Amy Pond and a mancrush on DavidTennant. I quote Who constantly and go to my local bookstore to see if Doctor Who Magazine is on sale. If I see another Whovian, I will scream like a girl and talk about Who for hours. I'm a [[{{Understatement}} fanboy]]. ** [[Tropers/AnthonyMercer I]]'m a massive Who fan too - enough to know that [[MissingEpisode not every episode of Doctor Who still exists]]... * where do I start: mythology, check, fantasy/scifi fan check, comics check, animation of any kind check, Rpg/tabletop/videogames check, Metalhead with solid musical knowledge check, studies history and english can even sense BS in other fields of science you guest it , speaks four langueges and considerded something between tottally nuts and a little bit wierd check.[[http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/f7346d6d486896d2.png not to mention this]] * This troper is a huge nerd when it comes to anime, mythology, video games, comics, movies, a bit of Star Wars and tropes. He is also a large ham which makes life interesting for my friends and family. My

justification is it's a whole lot better than being boring and they would agree. * Mythology geek [[@/{{MiraShio}} here]]. Particularly Greek, Roman and Chinese. * This troper, who can happily recite any line from HarryPotter without any real issue. Give me a line, I'll tell you what chapter and what book its from. Show me a picture from the title page, I'll tell you what chapter, what book, and whats going on exactly. I can recite mass sections of the books from memory, has dressed up as Hermione for three Halloweens, went to every midnight or early showing of the films that I could. I am a loud and proud Ravenclaw, having taken multiple sorting quizzes to prove it. When the Harry Potter Exhibit came to the Pacific Science Center, I was there, having a total {{Nerdgasm}} at everything, getting very teary-eyed. I cried when I finished the series because it was over, hand-crafted my own wooden wands for releases of the films and books, made scarves for all four Houses in their correct coloring (Ravenclaw's mascot is wrong in the films: its blue with a BRONZE EAGLE), got more people to read the books, and generally know more about the books than I do anything else. I have a multitude of copies but desire them in other languages. I even bought the special Anniversary edition of Sorcerer's Stone, and intend to get the DVD sets for the films once I get money. Bonus? Hermione and I share the same birthday. ** Marry me. * [[LaconicWiki I'm kind of a nerd.]] * This troper is a die-hard fan of the books of: Lord of the Rings and pretty much all the related works; Harry Potter; much of David Eddings' work (c'mon, guys, his stuff needs more love!); and is doing her damnedest to build my Terry Pratchett collection up past the mere 27 or so she has. She has the extended editions of all LOTR films and has watched every bit of the bonus features on all three to the point she can ''quote'' some of them, and has done so for her Pirates of the Caribbean [=DVDs=] as well. She has a map of Middle-earth on her living-room wall, along with a hand-drawn map for a world of her own invention that never got fully fleshed out, and keeps wooden weapons on her windowsill. One of her eighteenth birthday presents was a handmade Black Arrow as used by Bard from The Hobbit, along with a presentation box, and she possesses a replica of the One Ring on a chain that's rarely not around her neck. She RPs daily with her friends online, keeps a book and her laptop by her bed to keep herself entertained, refers to herself as a geek and gets offended when people try to reassure her otherwise. She is a slightly obsessive Grammar Nazi and struggles to keep her mouth shut around written errors. She writes, reads, and on occasion corrects fanfiction, being a member of the ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum and looking for a career in proofreading and editing. Her friends either write her stories around the characters they've invented together, or make her cool stuff (at this time, she owns a home-made knitted hat and handwarmers in Gryffindor colours and artwork of a group of her friend's characters, and is awaiting a knitted afghan blanket with squares involving a massive number of geeky references). She has a ''database'' to keep track of vital statistics for her original characters because she has

so many. Her Geek Test score is 21.03321% - Geek, and she wants to get her hands on Firefly and Serenity [=DVDs=]. Yay geekiness! * While this Troper isn't completely as geeky as some of the other people here, she is a [[GamerChick gamer]](especially everything Nintendo, but other games are cool too), loves manga and [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplays]] and goes to cosplay conventions, loves and knows a lot about [[MemeticMutation Internet memes]](even with the more geeky people I hang with there are some that even they don't know of), is usually found in front of her computer, loves reading, makes up tons of original characters, and wears [[Meganekko glasses]]. Also, I know the difference between "geek" and "nerd", [[InsistentTerminology and sometimes have to lecture classmates about this]]. And I show my geekiness proudly off! * This troper cosplayed SailorMoon when she was four. She was a geek since before she knew it! ** This runs in her family too. Proof? My uncle's license plate reads 'Jedi'. QED. * This troper decided, on a whim, to install a 1960s computer operating system just to prove his nerd credentials. Then, he proceeded to write a 3,500-word essay on it, which to his complete surprise, was taken to be almost entirely factually accurate by people who had used the operating system for serious purposes. * [[{{Tropers/Bannermanonemillion}} This troper]] goes to work everyday with a tiny Autobot symbol right above his name tag. And yet not one person has noticed unless it gets pointed out to them. * Half the student population of this troper's college are geeks, as well as almost the entire faculty. We kind of have to be. A good chunk of what we learn is based on media and the internet. I mean, an ideal scriptwriting class goes like this: the professor shows a bunch of video clips from various movies/tv shows/cartoons, and we students study the techniques used. The typical scriptwriting class goes like that, except with everybody geeking out over the clips. Long live college-wide geekery! * I am one of the five people who subverts this trope, and am downright ashamed of being a geek. And before anyone says anything, it's nothing personal, IJustWantToBeNormal. * (Inserted here) I work with computers full time, developing medical software and video games. I use Linux on my home computer. I design programming languages and compilers for fun, and code in Lisp (and occasionally pure lambda calculus) because I ''like'' it. I studied Japanese, Latin and Ancient Greek (and can still use the first two, albeit badly). If you call me a geek [[SubvertedTrope I will be bloody offended]], because there's nothing I hate more than pop-culture references in casual conversation (TV Tropes is fun ''precisely'' because it's a [[GuiltyPleasure private pastime]]), and that seems to be 90% of what self-defining geeks want to do. * [[{{Tropers/katecarey}} This troper]] is, um, a ''different'' kind of geek. I don't really care for sci-fi, gaming, anime, or most other topics named on this page. But! I ''adore'' history and have dragged my friends/family on more than a few walking tours; I'm practically a walking indie-comedy database who has waited outside the [[=UCB=]] in sub-freezing temperatures for a free David Cross show and forms

instant friendships by quoting ''{{Stella}}'' or ZachGalifianakis at parties; I take politics ''very'' seriously; I was a spelling bee competitor at the national level as a child; and, probably most tellingly, when I'm interested in something, I feel a pathological need to learn as much about it as I possibly can and then engage everyone I know in conversations about it. As far as I'm concerned, you can be a geek about any subject whatsoever (sports fans, in my opinion, are definitely geeks - extensive knowledge of names, dates, statistics, and awesome moments? Come on, that's a geek) - it's just a potent mix of enthusiasm, commitment, and obsession. Nothing to be ashamed of there! * This troper considers himself the foremost expert on all things Troma and his most sincere wish would be to meet the boys of lambda lambda lambda (Adams college chapter) and watch the toxic avenger, sgt.Kabukiman, n.y.p.d., and class of nuke'em high while enjoying the local sights i.e., the omega mus, and is extremely proud to be a geek. * I play guitar and sometimes I record songs (be they originals or covers) and post them on my Facebook. Some of these songs include [[PokemonRedAndBlue the Pallet Town theme]], the Flower Garden music from ''YoshisIsland'' (as well as the intro movie's music), the Pokemon Johto theme ([[SelfBackingVocalist with two-part harmony!]]), [[TheyMightBeGiants "Experimental Film"]], and a mashup of [[TheBeatles "Lady Madonna"]] and the Fever music from DrMario (technically, the ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' version). Additionally, I took some gameplay footage to put the music for the first two listed on top of, and in the Pokemon one I named the protagonist and rival (respectively) [[EliteBeatAgents "MUSIC" and "LIVES"]] (for no real reason). [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Additionally additionally,]] a friend of mine and I did our own extemporaneous rendition of the ''PhineasAndFerb'' theme and a (more prepared) rendition of [[GreenDay "Basket Case"]], at the end of which for the latter we break out into an impromptu rendition of [[BeeGees "Stayin' Alive"]]. Additionally, the (tiled) background of my Formspring is the [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Deep 13 logo]], and I constantly make cultural references in my speech (especially [[TheBeatles Beatles]] references), even if people don't get them. ...It's really awkward to randomly say in the middle of a coversation "[[AvatarTheLastAirbender THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE]]" and get crickets as a response../ * An often complaint amongst a few of my friends is "GOOD GOD YOU'RE A GEEK." My usual response is "So?" Doesn't help that I'm fairly subtle about what I do in my spare time, and it takes a bit of getting to know me to actually, well, know me. * [[Tropers/GamerFromJump I am]] convinced that humans are the geeks of the animal kingdom, and it is ''[[HeartIsAnAwesomePower awesome]]''. ** Came up with an AlternativeCalendar for a spacefaring civilization (whose working name is [[{{Gundam}} the Universal Century]]), whose epoch starts with the birth year of Galileo. ** Came up with a concept for a [[{{Nanomachines}} mix of blood-borne nanomachines]] to augment human performance. ** Responded to the statement "electricity is really just organized lightning" with "But humans are the only species to ever organize

lightning. How {{badass}} are we?" * This troper has always been a geek/nerd/whathaveyou. Among the first books he ever read were the staples of Hindu Mythology - The Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Purana. He has obsessed about dinosaurs since he was 4 and went to a dinosaur museum. In fact, in fifth grade when the school reporters came to ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up (he'd stood 2nd in the mid-term exams), he said Paleontologist. Even the ''teacher'' had no idea what that meant (of course, that just means the teacher was an ignoramus...). He discovered Science Fiction and Fantasy late in life (when he was 12), but embraced it with all his heart. He could rattle off history, geography and science trivia since a young age. In his mid-teens he developed an interest in philosophy and theology. Other than that, he has been roleplaying online for 9 years, starting at the age of 13. The sad part is that his dream of being a physicist was crushed by his utter ineptitude at advanced mathematics and his dream of being a writer/historian/anthropologist being crushed social/peer pressure that says such dreams are worthless, which is why he is now studying Economics and utterly sucking at it. * I have managed to be geeky enough that my own dad, who knows nothing about anime, to snap his fingers when he light s the gas stove. That's right, I have taught my dad to be Roy Mustang. * This Troper has a thing for cool hats. He once wore four of them at once (with a plushi Chuthulu on top) all day at his high school. The teachers didn't complain. That's right, I managed to be geeky enough that my teachers didn't even try challenge the geekiness. Can be seen here: http://keymakeralchemist.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d35a5xb * This troper always responds to the intended insult "You're so weird!" with a double thumbs up, a wide grin and an "Oh yes, I hope so." She can also quote large sections of Star Wars/Star Trek/Doctor Who off the top of her head, once named over 130 Star Wars planets from memory, loves maths, physics and chemistry and does her homework while listening to the X-Men First Class soundtrack. She also managed to get her decidedly non-geeky friend into Star Trek and has been watching Star Wars since she was four. Also, she built her own lightsaber. Geeky and proud! (See what I did there? X-Men reference?) * [[{{Tropers/metalsonic655}} This Troper]] is a big fan of the {{Marvel Universe}} especially {{Spider-Man}} and {{Deadpool}} and I often quote TV Tropes. I love Video Games. But the biggest thing that I like that is nerdy is action figues I mostly own Marvel action figues. I also like comic books and {{Star Wars}} ---We are geeky and we are legion! Onward, my brethren, back to ProudToBeAGeek! ----

PsychicNosebleed * [[{{AnkhAnanku}} This Troper]] experienced a psychically induced [[{{PsychicNosebleed}} nosebleed]] after watching the final battle with [[{{EarthBound}} Gi]][[{{YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm}} yg]][[{{EldritchAbomination}} as]][[{{UltimateEvil}} .]]

* Lunch period, before {{this troper}} had a math quiz: --> Me: I'd do anything to avoid my math test. --> Friend: Is that so? --> Me: Yes. --> Two minutes later... --> Other Friend: {{Troper}}, your nose is bleeding! --> Me: Awww, shhhhiii... --> Friend: Now you don't have to do your math test! --> Me: Seriously? Did you cause this? --> Friend: I plead the Fifth. * This troper has always been prone to nosebleeds. When they were younger, they used to get nosebleeds just from having nightmares.

PsychicStatic * My party once had to travel with an illithid. One of the characters blanked his mind of everything except one thing: "This is the song that never ends..." By the end of the journey, the illithid was ready to kill him, and left rather hastily. ---Go back to PsychicStatic.

PsychologistTeacher * This Troper's middle school science teacher was basically the unofficial counselor, and periodically gave us lectures on how we had to be nicer to each other. * Forcibly averted in middle school because of this troper. See, the social studies/history teacher was more than kind of an asshole, and she'd try to psychoanalyze (read: pick on) students because it amused her. One day she went after a girl that was off in the noggin, and that's when this troper called her out with: "Hold up, are you about to do that psychoanalysis thing? You're skipping it." Ain't regreted it since. * This Troper's middle school teacher used Freudian psychology frequently. He would ask how x makes us feel, constantly, etc. * A teacher at my High School attempts this but no one listens to her because she largely believes in New Age Bullshit such as people with clinical depression feel bad because they are negative and other platitudes that dont account for brain chemistry or any psychological philosphophy. Shes also blatantly sexist towards men in an AllMenArePerverts and drunken loonatics with no moral compass kind of way. * Then {{Badass Bookworm}} English teacher [[Tropers/DaionusThe23rd I]] have (his entry can be found on that Troper Tales page) manages to be one of these amongst many other things, and quite successfully at that. For an example of his success: I don't think I've seen a pregnant teen be accepted by both herself and her classmates so successfully. * One of my English teachers was a literal version of this trope, as in a Ph.D. in psychology. She doubled as the school's counselor. * This troper's history teacher, who on top of being an expert in his

fields (medieval and military history), a complete geek (Pratchett is a god to him) and genuinely hilarious (he has a quip for everything, and it ''works''), insists on talking his students through personal issues if he knows they're bothering them and they're okay to talk about it. He cheered this troper up when he was a little sore after flunking the debate team, helped get another student (who's now this troper's girlfriend) through her grandmother's death, and regularly keeps another student behind for little chats regarding workloadrelated stress. He's a PrettyCoolGuy. * Kind of switched up in my school. I have a teacher who always asks, "Are you okay?" and stuff, but from the way she acts I know she doesn't give a damn. However, one of my other teachers isn't the type of person who acts all caring, but if I had a problem, he'd be the first one I'd go to. * This tropette, when dealing with boy problems or, really, any other problems, has two teachers she would really go to. One moved to California (sadly), the year after I had her, and the other has actually offered to give my table group counseling after we had a giant fight.

ptitle06aht2ly * Since we're not allowed to list examples on the main page I suppose I'll have to put this here even though it doesn't involve us. It's such a famous example of the trope that it needs to be listed ''somewhere'', damn it! At Woodstock TheWho was in the middle of playing {{Tommy}} when Abbie Hoffman ran up on the stage, confiscated the microphone, and bellowed into it, "All this is a pile of shit while John Sinclair rots in prison!" Pete Townshend, who later said that he thought Hoffman was quite right, proceeded to whack Hoffman right off the stage with his guitar and physically threaten anyone else who dared do the same thing Hoffman had done. ''[[BerserkButton You do not interrupt a Townshend show]]'', no matter ''how'' much he agrees with what you're saying. The [[AnAesop moral]]? Shooting the message = bad. Bludgeoning the shit out of the messenger = good. * RichardDawkins has accrued a hatedom over the past few years, not for his positions themselves, but for his immense self-importance and arrogance, as well as his refusal to treat positions he considers wrong with the thoroughness and respect their holders ask for. ** I study biology, and, as such, can spend hours talking about the evidence for evolution. I can't stand Richard Dawkins. He makes constant simplifications, and never goes back to explain what he's simplifying. Plus, at one point in one of his books, he seems to be saying genetic drift has no significant role in evolution, which is just ''insane''. Its roles have been known since the 20's. There are so many better books on evolution than anything he's written - ''Your Inner Fish'' probably being the best introduction. For the record, I can't stand Daniel Dennett either. Complete blowhard, constantly praising the reader and himself for dealing with such difficult concepts, while failing to actually say anything. ** Julia Sweeney of minor SaturdayNightLive and [[SoBadItsHorrible

''Its Pat'']] fame wrote a one woman show called ''Letting Go Of God'' about becoming an Atheist. Although her and Dawkins quote each other, Sweeney's personal story of reverent self-discovery seems almost the mirror opposite of some of the [[DeadpanSnarker snide]], [[SmallNameBigEgo grandiose]], [[HollywoodAtheist bitter anti-theism out there]]. She talks about how learning to live without a deity brought peace to her mind the way religion does to so many others. * This troper, a non-religious educated woman, strictly believes that abortion is murder and that a human being is an unique individual from the moment of conception. But I sometimes just want to slam my head into my keyboard when I hear the lines of arguments of other [=ProLifers=]. There are many scientific and philosophic arguments against abortion. There is a lot of misinformation in the population. There are traumatized women who could tell emotional stories. And what do they do? Argument with religion, which is basically the same as saying 'it just is that way' (which can be countered with formulations as simple as 'No, it isn't') and pushes them into the 'conservative' corner. By the time they start spouting conspiracy theories, showing their crazy conservative views down your throat and making accusations that will push people into a defensive position, you've already stopped listening to them. This example strikes me as especially stupid since simply telling people the freakin' scientific facts would do a much better job. ** This troper knows exactly how you feel. Too many times, pro-lifers use religious Scripture, which pretty much makes every person that aren't religious automatically ignore their arguments, and no meaningful debate actually comes out of it. This troper promised himself to steer clear of all religious arguments against abortion when debating, opting for scientific, logical, and practical arguments against abortion. ** This Pro-Choice Troper [[SincerityMode would like to hear some of these arguments]]. Every single time I hear a pro-lifer argument, it is ALWAYS, without fail, a religious argument. Holds no wight to me, I'm not religious, and when I asked my dad, he wouldn't give me any other reason that people are against abortion. For once I'd like to see the message not being shot. [[SincerityMode Thanks!]] *** Very well, I know that an unborn, wanted or not, expected or not, will and does exist. They are going to be born, and when they do all pro-choice people accept them as human. So with that I came to the conclusion that the child counted as a child the day before that, it only makes sense as the child does not change in those 24 hours before he or she is born. From that I realized that if you go threw the cycle backwards one day at a time, then it is hard to notice the gradual change. From there I came to the conclusion that if a child is classed as human a few hours before he or she was born then they were always human. Can you become human? And at what point? Is there a day when the fetus grows another centimeter and DA DA! Now you are a human! Because that makes no damn sense. And even if you do not agree with that. Pro-choice people HAVE to have a point where they class the child as human, but when I think like that, they should realize that one day the baby WILL be human and that is undeniable. So go outside and go see a crowd, a full football stadium, or busy street. Look

around in work or your family and pick someone at random. And when you do imagine that his or her mother was a teenager who was careless at a party and got pregnant. So aborted the child, I mean fetus. That means that this person no longer exists. Now go talk to them, ask them about there hopes and dreams, there loved ones and the impacts they have made to the lives of others. Or to put it a simpler way, think of every single memory you can think of, and now imagine you were never born. And that has happened to thousands of people, and will happen to thousands more: each one will never get to laugh, be named, get to dream, fall in love or become a parent. And so any child that would have been born is also killed, no wait I mean aborted, sorry, and for each of these children, no each of these people. We shall never meet them, never gain or lose because of there choices, was any of these people to grow up a president? Or a serial killer? Or just a normal guy, who marries, has two children and lives a happy life and dies peacefully in their sleep at 65? Guess we will never know. ** While this troper is pro-choice, you make an excellent argument. ** I am in agreement with the above troperthough I disagree, it's a beautiful argument. ** [[SincerityMode The argument is neither excellent, nor correct, nor beautiful.]] The troper [[DidNotDoResearch doesn't seem to understand how gestation works.]] It is ''only'' called a fetus after it has reached around the 8th week of gestation(10th week of pregnancy). Before this, it is called a zygote or embryo etc, depending on what stage it is. [[hottip:*:Footnote Following the above troper's logic, why stop at "fetus is a child"? Why not "class" the fertilized egg as "child", or the unfertilized ovum, or the sperm? A sperm can potentially become human,after all. What's to stop someone from making the argument that menstruation equals involuntary manslaughter?]] Regardless, the debate isn't whether or not the embryo is "human"( because it ''is'', genetically speaking) but whether it is a ''person''(i.e. whether it has rights or not) and also whether those rights supercede the rights of the mother.[[hottip:*:Footnote As for the line about someone's "hopes and dreams". What about the hopes and dreams of the millions of people who are already alive and starving, living with debilitation diseases, suffering atrocities,discriminated against,or ignored by society at large? Maybe the time and energy used to defend non-existing humans should instead used to help those already existing. ]] *** The argument that other people have hopes and dreams too is completely irrelevant - my hopes and dreams do not remove your right to yours, or vice versa. Similarly, I think there's a pretty clear and obvious divide between a fertilised egg and an unfertilised egg, so the slippery slope argument there is a bit contrived. **** The hopes and dreams of a child do sometimes interfere with the hopes and dreams of their parents, as evidenced by people's tendency nowadays to delay childbearing for the sake of their careers. ** Agreed. I don't agree with any of the above arguments, but they're logical arguments that invite constructive dialogue. A dialogue that doesn't seem to happen when they're drowned out by religious arguments subtly geared to "blame the woman" for having sex. ** I dont find those arguments either beautiful or correct, but thats

mainly due to difference in how we view humanity, but I WILL agree that its a hell of a lot better than most pro life stuff which tends to be "Because Jesus sez so". However, the way you "slip up" there makes you sound like a douche. * My view has become more complicated since, but even when I was ferociously pro-choice, I flinched hard at the people who argued that abortion should be legal because otherwise people with Down Syndrome might get stuck being born and that was a fate worse than death. * Don't do drugs ads used to make sense: avoid drug dealers and just say no when confronted with one. Some ads, though, have said "actively confront people using drugs." Wow, what a great idea! Prod someone who's incredibly weak to peer pressure to convince their friend who will inevitably call you lame and offer her/him a joint just to get her/him to shut up! Brilliant! ** [[TooDumbToLive An even better idea]] is to "actively confront" guys on stimulants making them even less reasonable, more excitable and lowering pain senstivity. Then again, maybe the people who blindly obey ads were the real target? ** I doubt there's a single person here who hasn't at some point come across some PSA for a viewpoint they agree with that did not still manage to piss them off. * This troper was at a school program about a fundraiser. I agree that we should try to help our school with money, and fundraisers are a great idea, but... the methods were totally off. All it was was a dubious appeal to the monetary instinct. They had a thing where you jump roped with dollar bills, and then put in a wind machine with more dollar bills. What the...? Basically it was, "Sell these worthless magazines to innocent people, and we'll give you CASH MONEY!! TO JUMPROPE WITH!!!" ** I never thought about it while I was in elementary school, but in retrospect, it is rather irritating. Not once did they EVER appeal to altruism, bettering the school, retaining field trips, etc. I didn't even know what the actual purpose of a fundraiser was (when I actually broke down the word and realized the obvious, I slapped myself for being stupid) * One of the most well-known examples of this phenomena involves the movie ''TheDayAfterTomorrow''. Environmentalists lambasted the movie for its, shall we say, ''[[CriticalResearchFailure horribly]]'' [[CriticalResearchFailure researched]] portrayal of {{global warming}}, which they felt would make people dismiss more realistic concerns/predictions of the phenomenon as mere hysteria. * I didn't like the message of the last part of ''HisDarkMaterials''. After waiting literally years for the final part of the series, it's a rambling tale in which the climax is the two child protagonists having what can be most generously interpreted as merely ''symbolic'' sex. But the real problem I had is with what he does with the afterlife -Pullman sets things up so that the most important thing is to have an interesting life, or you'll end up in a variant of hell. I'm an atheist, and I don't see that as a significant improvement over the popular conception of most religions requiring you to be a good person. [Danel] ** ...so, wait, there's something wrong with being a good person?

*** There's something wrong with being a good person JUST to get into heaven. If you're pretending to care about people but you're really just expecting to be rewarded, that's called Sociopathy. **** Actually, "sociopathy" is a personality disorder, marked by a lack of empathy. What your talking about is merely self-interest, which pretty much motivates all actions. I don't see how the desire to get into heaven is a worse motivation that the desire to make tons of money. *** I think what he means is: there's something wrong with sentencing people to an eternity of torment. ** Actually, I see it as a rather ''worse'' version: go read a good biography of, say, Stalin or Hitler. They had very interesting lives. AxCrazy mass murderers tend to have rather more interesting lives than people who were, if nothing else, generally nice. So, if that's '''all''' it takes to get into heaven, why bother ''not'' going on that murderous rampage you think would be really quite fun to ensure you, too, have an interesting life & avoid hell? ** I personally think that "heaven" is a bad analogy. All you do is give your essence back to the world, rather than enter an eternal paradise. And who can honestly say that nothing happened in their lives, ever? I thought of it as no matter who you were, you had a story to tell. *** There's nothing wrong with doing something and wanting to get something out of it. Even if you help others just for the sake of it, it's because it somehow benefits you emotionally or something. ** Pullman overall made his religious orders look like a cross between Nazis and the Spanish Inquisition, with overt references to modern Christianity, and despite being atheist-leaning it made the second book feel like a rambling AuthorTract complete with multiple {{Character Filibuster}}s, and the third completely unreadable. In fact, it read like the Atheist version of Rand's ''Anthem'' to me. It doesn't surprise me to hear how it ended. *** ''[[UnfortunateImplications Despite]]'' [[UnfortunateImplications being atheist-leaning]]? * ''FamilyGuy'' tends to veer here these days -- I'm liberal and yet I can't stand the delivery of the messages. ** Was it Brian suddenly agreeing with Stewie and their tank through a Wal-Mart bit? Or maybe the ever more unsubtle {{Take That}}s directed at religion, pro-lifers, etc? Or was it the invoking of [=~Godwin's Law~=] with the [=McCain=]/Palin button on a Nazi? ** I'm sure it's all of that and more. This troper was just about to make a ''FamilyGuy'' entry myself. I consider myself quite liberal, and yet ''Family Guy'', once one of my favorite shows, has drifted so firmly into AuthorTract territory as to be ''unwatchable''. It was around the time it went from agnostic moderate liberalism to uberliberal militant atheism that I thought it best to jump ship. It's gotten to the point where even the messages themselves are getting warped, not just the delivery. *** Which may be the reason for the apology subplot in the recent episode "Jerome is the New Black". Brian gets the piss taken out of him for being such an arrogant douche. He's very firmly chastised for thinking he's better than others because he drives a Prius and doesn't

believe in God. Actually, chastised isn't so much the right word, as absolutely ''slaughtered''. Hopefully, this may be the show GrowingTheBeard again now that the AuthorAvatar has finally been cut down to size to allow for less extreme opinions. Or they may just hit the ResetButton and pretend Brian is still god... only time will tell (prays for the best). **** Brian needed to be dressed down, it was just the source where it came from that made it a case of bad writing. There were the good points, but everything about respecting your friends relationships was a bit too thick BS coming from that particular guy. And the AssPull about said guy doing charity work. Any guesses on whether that will ever be shown on the show? ***** Actually, yes, it was. Albeit on an earlier episode. Quaqmire mentions that he works (or at least goes to) a soup kitchen to pick up homeless chicks. ****** To this liberal Troper, it seems like [=McFarlane=] and the writers started acting like spoiled teenagers, knowing that they are {{Fox}}'s golden goose, so they can do what ever they want. This turned up the once somewhat subtle liberal ideology to such a ridiculous level that even those who agree want them to shut up about it. ******* According to his page, [=McFarlane=] isn't actually involved in writing most recent episodes of FamilyGuy. Whether this is fact or not, I can't say, but we may all be blaming the wrong guy (and yes, another sort-of-liberal who can't stand FamilyGuy anymore. Though mostly because it's just not funny in recent years.) ******** Yeah, [=MacFarlane=] didn't WRITE "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"(that particular "honor" goes to Danny Smith) but he DID approve the bloody script for the episode, as he's the Head Writer. * A recent ''FunkyWinkerbean'' plotline had Jon the comics shop owner put on trial for selling "adult" comic books in his shop. Presumably, the whole thing was an excuse for an AuthorFilibuster about how comics, whether in books or the newspaper can and should address a wide variety of mature topics. Certainly, these are sentiments that most tropers would agree with. However... considering the continued {{wangst}} into which the ''Funky'' had devolved, it's also just as clear that if maturity has to be that depressing, it's something that we could do without. ** Might be a RippedFromTheHeadlines plot: there was a shopkeeper arrested for selling hentai in an adult book store (or something like that) a while ago. They said that all comics were for kids, so that was selling pornography to minors. *** Guessing from where this is on the page, [[@/AnoSa I]] think I remember the case in question. It was a comic book store, the adult comics were in a case, the standard rules were observed (if they don't check ID, the person is a regular of known age), and the person they'd sent in to buy a comic book was legal. Not only that, but it was ''[=~Bastard!!~=]'', which is not pornographic, it just has naked people whose [[AnimeAnatomy genitalia are not drawn in]]. * I had that reaction to MichaelMoore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11''. I agreed with the point that Bush shouldn't have invaded Iraq, but many of his arguments were loaded with speculation and innuendo and almost

completely ignored the actual, relevant facts of the matter. ** I'm a liberal, I have this reaction to Michael Moore in general. If he told me I had toenails, I'd check the ends of my feet before I believed him. *** The sad thing? A pair of people who looked up to him decided to do their own documentary, about him. Then they firmly {{averted|Trope}} DidNotDoTheResearch and...well, the end result? [[{{Understatement}} Not so complementary.]] ** Same here. The implication that Bush & Cheney actively conspired to allow the 9/11 attacks made my stomach churn, causing me to want to yell out HanlonsRazor to Moore's face. ** Over here in Europe, some of us assume that Michael Moore needs to dumb down his messages to extreme levels in order for his American opponents to get them... *** Here in America some of us assume Michael Moore's works are [[PreachingToTheChoir In no way intended]] for consumption by his opponents in the first place. * I'm a dedicated environmentalist. My problem is that the majority of environmentalist fiction is total shit. Similarly, as a raging liberal, I find ''DemocracyNow'' to be obnoxious and overly preachy. ** On that note, I'd like to bring up the eternally earnest and painfully blatant ''CaptainPlanet''. *** And I'd like to bring up the fact that so-called environmentalists have opposed wind farms and solar farms, which are supposed to be their sacred cow energy sources. **** Environmentalists are also pretty evenly divided between "Nuclear will solve all of our problems" and "Nuclear will end the world" (ignoring the "People/Civilization deserve to die" idiots). Unfortunately, the latter group has been using anti-nuclear propaganda so long that most people believe that all environmentalists are antinuclear, which isn't remotely true. Of course, when any enviro gets interviewed on TV, even with reasonable questions like "wouldn't nuclear be better than coal?" or "can't we find a balance between harming Earth and promoting civilization?" they inevitably seem to come down to "I've got solar panels, and I don't care about other people as long as fish and trees are ok". I hate being thought of as that, but as usual, the quiet centrists let the extremists define the goals. **** This is why this troper hates environmentalist fiction and most GreenAesop executions. If I want to see some environmentalist stuff, then I want to see something where people bring out the disaster by ''mistake'' because ''they didn't know better'' instead of doing it because they're greedy bastards. Or one where it's a complete accident and they're shown to be able to ''clean it up'', instead of "LOL WHOOPS! SORRY WE'LL JUST SIT HERE AND DO NOTHING!". I took an environmentalist class, that actually was a bit glum highlighting the problems but also was pretty idealistic towards the solutions; and actually pointed out that the solution of "lol it's greenest to just all die or abandon civilization and go back to hunter-gatherer/Native American stereotypes" wasn't very feasible. * Atheist here who considered both the end of ''HisDarkMaterials'' and that ''StarTrekEnterprise'' episode with the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens

alien suicide bomber religious nuts]] to qualify big-time for the reaction "yeah, OK, you have a point, now just [[{{Anvilicious}} shut up about it!]]". * This Troper is very sympathetic to Libertarian politics, but simply cannot take L. Neil Smith's ''Probability Broach'' series seriously as a mouthpiece for Libertarianism. Talking to Dolphins in the 1860s, seriously? * This Troper read a Christopher Hitchens interview online, and in the comments section there was the general sentiment of "I'm an atheist, and even I think this guy is an obnoxious blowhard!" ** I'd bet that even Christopher Hitchens would agree that Christopher Hitchens is an obnoxious blowhard. *** Probably. Seems to be pretty honest about himself. I'm an atheist though often disagree with him (Iraq War) or just on style or his approach. I have to admire his stubborn dignity battling cancer though, especially slamming deathbed conversion. * This troper deeply believes that getting young children excited about space exploration is necessary for the survival of the space program. But even she hated ''SpaceChimps'' and ''Space Buddies''. * JackChick. Even other Christians find him a joke. See also "[[CompleteMonster Westboro Baptist Church]]". No, God ''loves'' "fags". Heck, God loves ''everyone''. [[CriticalResearchFailure That's kinda the whole point of Christianity.]] And don't get me started on "[[http://diversitylane.wordpress.com/ Diversity Lane]]", which nearly makes me see red. ** OH MY WORD SO TRUE. Honestly, some of the stuff he says, I don't disagree with (I'm talking about broad strokes). But he makes me ''ashamed'' to admit to people that some of our beliefs vaguely intersect. Especially that horribly-researched Dungeons and Dragons diatribe... ** This right-of-center Christian troper would like to repudiate [[OldShame his own hyperbolic declarations from his teen years]]. ** This troper has noticed that once in a while, there is a Chick tract with preachy as they are, but generally inoffensive content. Too bad it's [[BladeRunner a tear in a rain]]. ** This troper is Christian and finds Jack Chick's messages to be absolutely reprehensible. ** Being on the more liberal side of Christianity (yes, such a thing exists) I tend to disagree with a lot of Chick's talking points already (most notably his views on evolution and homosexuality). However, even when he tries to address basic theological points such as faith, repentance, and forgiveness, he manages to [[BrokenAesop break]] and [[WarpedAesop warp]] the {{Aesop}} so many ways that I start to wonder just how many people he's driven ''[[StopHelpingMe away]]'' from the religion. * The local paper runs a comic called ''The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee'', which is [[{{Understatement}} very liberal]]. It's so damn obnoxious, though, that even this incredibly liberal troper and her incredibly liberal friends can't stand it. * ''La Rosa De Guadalupe'', a TV series made by Televisa, is completely guilty of it. While [[Tropers/{{Tovarishch}} this troper]] was born and raised a devout Catholic, and does approve (at times) on

the message that having faith is something that will help you, the overall presentation, due to over the top {{Melodrama}} and [[WriterOnBoard the whole writing]] of the series is just FacePalm inducing. * The thought of someone causing harm to animals makes this troper nearly [[BerserkButton incoherent with rage]]. It doesn't stop him from considering [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]] to be a collection of tools, though. ** Considering the silly "causes" (Pike Market picketing, Puh-leeze, the fish are already dead), sheer insensitivity, and well... [[{{Irony}} the charges of animal cruelty laid against them?]] Any sane person will reject them. *** I'm an animal lover myself (though the scars prove it isn't mutual) and I can, admittedly, sometimes care more about the environment than people. Even I want to believe that there is some sort of horrific conspiracy going on JUST SO I DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE PETA ACTUALLY EXISTS. But I've always been pessimistic... I'm also Christian, so their constant method using [[SexSells half-naked women]] to get people in on their ideas doesn't sit well with me, but that's another issue entirely. I can honestly say I don't know a single person (or, at least, animal lover/environmentalist/etcetera) who cares for the group. ** Likewise, there are many good reasons to go vegan/vegetarian: you want to cut the fat in your diet, you don't like how the big food industry treats its animals, religious reasons, or (in this troper's case) the idea of meat just is just [[{{Squick}} kind of gross]]. PETA, it seems, would rather ignore these reasons in favor of pandering to the desire to feel morally superior to everyone else, which means I always have to reassure people I've just met that I'm not one of ''those'' vegetarians. * My anti-death penalty views actually make me like ''The Life of David Gale'' less: not only is its message rather unsubtle, it actually undermines the whole thing by making Gale and his allies' actions a conspiracy to get an innocent person [[spoiler:who was in on the whole plot]] executed. ** I would argue that ''The Life of David Gale'' is so unbelievably wrong-headed and ham-fisted that it might be the only example here that's virtually guaranteed to piss off *everybody*, regardless of which side of that particular debate that land on. It's seriously that bad, folks. * ''SoreThumbs'' irritates the fuck out of this US Liberal troper, the opposite viewpoint depicted by the main character's brother is so extreme and flat that it's no longer fun to see it get torn. Not to mention the main character comes across as a liberal PuritySue. ** ''Sore Thumbs'' actually did get better once they turned Cecania from a shrill PuritySue into a liberal nutjob equivalent to Fairbanks' conservative nutjob, and turned Fairbanks into an epic RalphWiggum. Sad thing is, it seems most people gave up on the comic so long ago they never noticed (and it does still have its awful moments). * This right-wing troper cannot ''stand'' RushLimbaugh. Furthermore, said troper (decidedly hawkish regarding the Middle East) quit reading Little Green Footballs years ago, as the comments got worse and worse.

** Glad to see I'm not the only one who gave up on LGF for precisely that reason. (I don't listen to Limbaugh, so I won't express an opinion on that one). And so this edit won't be entirely a "me too": I would probably agree with most of the political philosophy of ''AtlasShrugged''. But from what I've heard about it and/or read on its TVTropes page, I have '''zero''' desire to read the novel itself. *** ''Atlas Shrugged'' is actually a good book. But it is a requirement that you take it with a TABLESPOON of salt. **** Whether or not it is a good book is a [[{{Understatement}} matter of some contention]]. It's a bit like ''TheBible'', I think: If you agree with the message, you ignore the IdiotPlot, the [[MarySue irritating characters]] (of which there are [[ThirtySuePileup SO MANY]],) and the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHenious horrible portrayal]] anyone who disagrees with the author/s gets. When any of it is brought up, you either explain that they're wrong because they disagree, or that it's not ''meant'' to be judged by the same standard as other books, which is obviously a viewpoint I disagree with (or you admit, like the above, that you may need a bit of salt to choke it down). If something isn't a good book, it's not a good book, no matter how holy or philosophical it may be to whomever. If only there were some sort of trope for that... **** I think the trope you're arguing against is ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars **** This troper was actually something of an ultra-capitalist libertarian, until he read Anthem by Ayn Rand at age 14 and turned away in revulsion. Probably it was just a phase to begin with, but the book was so terrible (anvilicious, clumsy, ham-fisted, etc.) that reading it made this troper realize that any philosophy that could be espoused so poorly had to be closely reexamined. *** [[Tropers/{{BreezyGirl86}} This troper]] is a libertarian and liked ''AtlasShrugged'', and would even agree with most of what AynRand says, but she is very critical of Rand's condescending attitude towards people who disagree with her. The passage describing the faults of the passengers on that doomed train... *** Limbaugh is too full of himself. Sean Hannity is almost as bad. [[@/{{Hariman}} I]] want to choke Hannity every time he says "Let not your heart be troubled." after he rattles off a dozen things to worry about. ** This troper can't stand Rush Limbaugh, either. While Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly have their faults, they generally make up for it in their own way. Beck may be something of a nutcase, but he's highly intelligent and an in-depth thinker. Hannity may be a fear-mongering prick, but he at least reports on the screw-ups of the Left as opposed to the other outlets' virtual worship. O'Reilly may get facts wrong from time to time, but at least he doesn't have the gall to refer to himself as infallible and in fact has often said that he's "not a smart man", just calling it as he sees it. Limbaugh, on the other hand, is a festering personification of EVERYTHING wrong with the Right. He's xenophobic, has some racist and sexist undertones, he's patronizing and disrespectful to the other side of the aisle, and he had the GALL to claim that Abu Ghraib was simply "soldiers blowing off steam"...

** This right-of-center troper feels that way about Michael Savage. I've tried listening to him, but his ranting is so pessimistic, bitter and crazy that it borders on AlexJones nuttery. I couldn't help but think, "why isn't this guy on heavy anti-depressants?" *** But even SAVAGE is better than Limbaugh. Savage may be a hardline Right-Winger but he's a man who delves into issues, even if he rants on and on about them, and explores them in-depth while exposing a lot of things that are kept under wraps. Limbaugh, on the other hand, is just a goddamn Republican shill! ** On the other hand, I - a fiscal and social conservative - happen to be a long-time casual listener of Limbaugh; his apparent racist and sexist jokes are often done satirically to, as he terms it, 'tweak the media', which makes me laugh (Limbaugh readily admits that people wanting to 'get' the show's humor need to listen for at least a couple of weeks, which I agree with). In recent years, he's become far less of a Republican shill (after the 2006 elections wherein Republicans got shellacked, he readily admitted on-air that he was tired of 'caring the water' for Republicans who were not conservative), although his ego is occasionally grating. That said, I like Beck in small doses (his presentation is somewhat heavy-handed IMO), Hannity is too much of a cheerleader, O'Reilly's dogged adherence to 'fair and balanced' makes his opinion somewhat schizophrenic, and Savage is just too grating (though some of his rants are admittedly cathartic if only because of his honesty). * I'm an atheist myself, and I once made a video on {{YouTube}} criticizing the tV series ''{{Bibleman}}'' -- not so much for the message, but for the poor quality and being a blatant insult to superheroes in general. A few Theists have commented on my video, basically saying that they're Christians but they HATE ''Bibleman''. ** Deccha, is that you? It's me, JohnTraviss. ** I'm very serious about my Christianity, and I find ''Bibleman'' to be an insult to everything I believe in. *** My big problem with ''Bibleman'' is the concept. Shows like ''{{Veggietales}}'' are good because being [[TheMoralSubstitute an alternative to secular entertainment]] isn't their top priority. ''Bibleman'', on the other hand, ''is''. The show's creators mean well, but I really don't think letting your kid watch ''PowerRangers'' is a one-way ticket to the abyss. **** This troper never saw it that way. I consider Bibleman to be SoBadItsGood because I always thought it was spoofing stuff like ''PowerRangers'' and the old ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series while teaching Christian messages. A bit {{Anvilicious}} in teaching the messages, but nothing to get too worked up over. *** What gets this troper about the comparison between ''PowerRangers'' and ''{{Bibleman}}'' is how the concerned parents don't seem able to spot the positive messages unless they're smack dab in the middle of the show's premise. Say what you will about ''PR'', it did have lessons about things like standing up for what's right, self-confidence, doing well in school and volunteering your time. And at least in the early days it was an in-show rule that excessive force was out. Parents only saw the kung-fu fighting and the villain of the day messily exploding. But take ''Bibleman'', a show about superheroes

who have sword fights and villains messily exploding but doing it in the name of religion, and it's okay. **** That would be hypocrisy. It's nothing new to Christians. (And I'm not generalizing here; I'm a devoted Christian myself. Hypocritcal human nature is just something that somehow sinks in to all religious groups and beliefs. ***** Let's just sum it up as 'nothing new to humans' and redirect the rest of this to HumansAreBastards. * I think that the Catholic Church is way to reactionary in many ways and deserving of criticism, and I definitely believe that it made deliberate effort not to give Mary Magdalene an equal position. However, I can't stand ''TheDaVinciCode''. Part of it is all of the historical inaccuracy, but also, it just reeks of traditional "antiPapist" hysteria. ** Actually, if the Catholic Church was ''reactionary'', NunsAreMikos would be TruthInTelevision. Nuns in the medieval period were not 'brides of God' but, in fact, just female monks, who could do anything a monk could and even wrote what were, at the time, major religious works; several ''are'' still, albeit a touch obscure. It was only towards the Renaissance that they became 'brides of God.' As for why Mary Magdalene does not have an equal position -- as a disciple, you mean? (If I remember correctly, the apparent only thing that kept her from being counted as one is an unfortunate lack of penis on her part.) Or are we talking about the whole 'wife' bit that's a rather old [[{{Fanon}} myth]], without much grounding outside of what is, when you get down to it, ''ancient'' FanFic, that kinda...gets into UnfortunateImplications? *** The above troper makes a good point, but this is a page for ''not'' shooting the message. * ''{{Bioshock}}'' did this in reverse for [[Tropers/{{Phartman}} me]]. Gameplay-wise, it's a fine first-person shooter, but the antiobjectivist message rammed down my throat came off as more than a little pretentious. Yeah yeah, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped and all that happy horse shit, but even if I fully agreed with everything in it, I'd still find that highly patronizing. I didn't pay $35 to be preached to, and I found the fact that the writers actually expected to be ''paid'' for a work condemning capitalism to be [[HypocriticalHumor quite funny]] ** Huh, I didn't take it that way at all. Not so much "Capitalism/objectivism/what-have-ye is bad" but "any cause can be perverted". The objectivism in the game was a backdrop - window dressing - to the real story of two men who loved themselves more than anything else. *** Classic example of someone with a persecution complex. ** Indeed, Rapture seems to have been a paradise until Andrew Ryan ''stopped'' being an objectivist. Apparently, they're using a collectivist philosophy for the sequel to show that the choice of objectivism was arbitrary. ** The sequel is more explicit in showing that things went to hell partially because Ryan subverted his objectivist principles in order to stay in power. He went so far as to essentially nationalize a bank to bail out a prop up the crumbling economy.

* Rapture seems like one big Don'tShootTheMessage example. The ideas the city was built on seem good but were implemented in such an anvilous and ultimately insane way that it executed the message. * This troper - quite the conservative - can't stand AlexJones. While trying to make the case that bloated and out-of-control government can only lead to disaster, he manages to sound like a basketcase. EVERY TIME. Seriously, he's not helping the cause by claiming Bush OR Obama are [[DavidIcke lizards]], or that the Red Cross is updating our internal microchips with each flu shot. ** Actually, he has never accused anyone of being alien lizards, and in fact has called DavidIcke a "turd in the punchbowl" that damages the credibility of relatively more mainstream conspiracy theorists. I also believe he [[LargeHam talks like a lunatic on purpose]]. * Some episodes of ''SouthPark'' come across this way. The episode about smoking comes to mind, which was ''beyond'' {{anvilicious}} in its message that people can make their own choices. And then there are cases where they DidNotDoTheResearch on what they're ranting about, such as the episode about hate crimes. Their argument that an attack is an attack is a valid criticism of hate crime laws, but the offense that sent Cartman to juvie was not a hate crime (he hit Token because he insulted him, not because he was black). ** That was the entire point of the episode. Cartman not only didn't commit a hate crime, but they show the hypocrisy of it. Personally it falls under my favorite episodes, at the point when the Colorado Governor (being a born and bred Coloradan myself) reacts with "that made more sense than any presentation I've seen all year!" *** ...You've not gotten to watch hate crime laws in action, have you? Cartman's white, Token isn't, therefore it can be treated as a hate crime. Remember, laws are not ''required'' to behave in a sane and logical manner, that's why we've got laws which cannot be obeyed without breaking ''other'' laws! **** Quite true. Every week you might break a law without even knowing or realizing it. **** Actually, in real life, a "hate crime" requires two components to be considered as such by the law- the actual crime, and a secondary incitement towards violence or other form of intimidation directed at the group. For example, your stereotypical KKK-style lynching is two crimes - a vigilante murder, and and act of intimidation against a minority community. It is, essentially, the same thing as terrorism. The SouthPark episode was attacking a Strawman, and DidNotDoTheResearch. ** SouthPark is pretty much around just to rile people up - as often through {{BrokenAesop}}s and DontShootTheMessage as with traditional moralizing by the characters. Every character is a caricature and their sermons should all be taken with a pound of salt, to the point where you might want to re-examine anything you find yourself nodding along to. * This Pagan troper stopped going to Campus Pagan meetings at his college when he realized the members cared more about bashing Christians than discussing faith. ** Guess what? A lot of Christians don't go to church anymore for the same exact reasons.

* This gay troper is fully behind the marriage movement, but is disgusted by the community's lambasting of Carrie Prejean (the former Miss California who denounced gay marriage). First of all, panelist Perez Hilton should have never asked such a polarizing question. She's entitled to her beliefs. One can argue that she made herself fair game by becoming a spokeswoman for right-wing Christian groups, but the sex tape scandal was low. Everyone's making her out to be a whore and a hypocrite for making ''a private video meant for her boyfriend's eyes only.'' How did that get in the wrong hands to begin with? It's as if she's become a scapegoat for right-wing bigotry. ** That reminds me. Racist Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been the victim of some fake porn videos. (It wasn't her body, apparently her real belly button is different) As much as I absolutely hate Pauline Hanson, that's pretty low. * This troper doesn't consider himself a conservative at all, yet I do agree with many messages of ''KingOfTheHill''. But Hank is a {{jerkass}} who will go to extreme lengths too prove he is right (in the charcoal episode, he goes on a near violent crusade because somebody made a typo on his permit, etc...), and everybody who disagrees with him lacks common sense, is corrupt, or is an idiot. If your trying to preach through your main character, it certainly helps if he is likable. ** [[YourMileageMayVary That's up for debate]], mainly for two reasons. One, while several episodes portray Hank Hill as a stuck up old foggy for humor, viewers eventually see where his fears come from. For example, when Kahn became a car wash manager, and wanted to short change customers to get paid quickly (he followed advice from a getrick-quick scheme). Hank's constant warnings to Kahn may look traditionalist, but any rational individual knows that Kahn's decisions look absurd. As for the other reason, ''{{King of the Hill}}'' does not always portray Hank as the voice of reason, like when Hank wanted to pass an obviously undereducated football player to keep him on his high school team, or when Hank tried to dissuade Bobby from rejecting Christianity despite not being able to explain the basics of Methodism to his son, or when Hank refused to vote for Bush was because of his lethargic handshake ([[StrawmanHasAPoint even Luanne, who wanted to vote for a candidate for the stupidest reasons, called him out on this!]]). While ''{{King of the Hill}}'' does not shy away from making their characters look dumb when their views are off base, it also gives them enough brilliant moments to make up for it, and none of this exempts them from being overall decent people, just like in real life. Hank Hill is no exception. * ''TheBoondocks'' comic strip started out absolutely ''brilliant'', with great characters, great writing, and seamlessly integrated astute political commentary that didn't overpower the strip. I was so overjoyed that there was finally a modern day great comic strip (''CalvinAndHobbes'', ''FarSide'', and ''BloomCounty'' long gone) that I was... and still am.... heartbroken that post-9/11 the strip turned into ''all'' political commentary ''all'' the time. I didn't disagree with what it was saying, but come on, 90% of the strips were just Huey in front of the tv while some absurd news report plays. I know Aaron [=McGruder=] was getting burned out also working on the Boondocks

cartoon (which I like ok, I just never got as attached to it as the strip), but it was heartbreaking watching someone capable of brilliance sputter out into just commentary, even if I did agree with it. ** On the other hand, I loved the post-9/11 Boondocks for being the only person in the entertainment industry willing to say things I considered obvious in a country-gone-insane. It's OK, I feel better now that we have Barack Obama in office... I'm not ''that'' far-left. * This troper commonly sums this up as "Stop being on my side -you're making my side look stupid!" ** Amen! I've actually said those exact words to a lot of people in my short lifetime, partially because I seem to flock to ways of thinking that are notorious for attracting people who do this kind of thing. One notable instance was when I went out with another vegetarian friend of mine and introduced her to some of my friends, who eat meat. She spent the whole night being condescending towards them and bitching about how wrong it was to eat meat, basically treating them as inferior, until I got so fed up with listening to it that I said, "You know, it's douchebags like you who make people not want to be vegetarians!" I've said pretty much the same thing to fellow atheists, environmentalists and Marxists. People don't want to be associated with those groups because of what {{jerkass}}es some of the more prominent people involved can be. * The only way you could have hated Bush more than this troper during the [[WarOnTerror War of Terror]] is if you were actually actively trying to assassinate Bush. However, to ''this day'', don't get me started on 911 Truthers. Or {{conspiracy theorist}}s in general, really. ESPECIALLY left-wing ones. * * Grumbles about Daniel Dennett getting the page quote when he's the most self-satisfied blowhard ever to talk about himself to a captive audience for two hours a week and then blow them off to go speak at conferences, making sure to repeat several times beforehand how respected he is to be being paid so much to blow off his students to speak at conferences and judge robots and so on* Also he made us buy his books. Professional philosophers. I don't want to agree with him about the phenomenon of not wanting people who offend you to express your opinion! ** As the person who added the quote, I should note that I have never read any of his books, and skimming his Wikipedia page offended me as someone who's ''not'' an atheist (the idea that praying is analogous to goat sacrificing should be obviously untrue enough that any intellectual would avoid it). However, I saw the quote on another page, and felt it to be a great quote that summed up what the trope was about. If anyone can find a better page quote, and they want to bump the Daniel Dennett quote down, I have no problem with it. * I'm very leftist myself and I hate liberal political cartoonist Ted Rall. His points end up coming off as lame, and even though I'm against the war I find his characterizations of the soldiers disgusting. There's plenty of other terrible leftist cartoonists out there as well, but Rall's comics always appearing in every fucking liberal zine I read does not help at all. ** His cartoon about Pat Tillman is unbelievably disgusting.

* [[Tropers/GalenDev This Troper]] is a serious fiscal conservative, but he has grown to hate everything that comes out of the mouth of [[TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]] and GlennBeck... and other pundits like them, for that matter. They purport to speak for the Right Wing, and maybe for some they do, but for most of us mainline conservatives, they're just spouting partisan nonsense. We don't have a two-party system just to always be at war with the other party. But... especially after Bush, we need mouthpieces that ''someone'' likes, making the pundits NecessarilyEvil. ** [[Tropers/TheNinthKnight This Troper]] has similar feelings about Glenn Beck. He uses arguments that I think are indisputable and occasionally brilliant to make absolutely ridiculous points. It's like he invented chocolate cake for the sole purpose of using it as pet food. Now whenever I bring up the Constitution in a political argument, I almost feel obliged to say yes, Glenn Beck already used this argument, but no, I'm not using it to justify tapping your private phone. ** Actually Bill O'Reilly is a registered independent and has never claimed to be a conservative, it's just his opponents that claim that. *** It's more because he's never really espoused anything BUT a conservative viewpoint. I haven't seen him say anything nonconservative, at least. I'd be happy to know if he did. * This Troper is not necessarily an environmentalist, he can understand the need to protect the environment...but he CAN'T be the only person to watch that 'Green Police' Audi commercial at the Super Bowl and wonder what they were thinking, right? ** You mean the point wasn't to portray environmentalists as fascists? * In a much, ''much'' LighterAndSofter version of anybody's qualms above, I avoided joining a {{Facebook}} group for one of my favorite ''{{Transformers}}'' characters because most of the people present were [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Geewun Geewunners]]. Then again, Giant Transforming Merchandise Robots are a SeriousBusiness. * I am black. I do not like post-Hudlin BlackPanther from what I've heard on this site. * [[Tropers/{{Krieg}} This Troper]] used to identify as a Democrat. The message-shooting and inter-party bickering made it feel less like politics and more like ''politics''. He started calling himself a liberal after that, with about the same luck. Now he's a registered Independent. (For those of you that don't know the American political system, that's shorthand for "Everybody just shut the ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' up. I don't want to hear from ''any'' of you.") * [[Tropers/MaxTheReaper I]] went through the exact same process. Started out pretty liberal. Really hated Republicans. Realized that Democrats are, for all intents and purposes, ''exactly the same,'' just with a different set of beliefs. Decided both parties could go fuck themselves (or each other, as mentioned there's little difference) and became Independent. Represent. * [[Tropers/{{Divra}} This troper]] is a Catholic, and feels this way about Protestants in general, and bible-thumping Fundies in particular. Faith is good, Christian faith is excellent, but lead by example, not by denunciation.

** [[Tropers/GreatLimmick This Southern Baptist]] agrees (and that's pretty far-Right, as Protestants go). ** [[Tropers/BTIsaac This Reformed troper]] Feels the same about some Catholics. Ironic, isn't it? ** I'm a nondenominational Christian who ordinarily identifies as a fundamentalist (by which I mean I believe all of the Bible), but after reading some stuff about Fundy Baptists, I don't call myself that any more. *** Being a big-F Fundamentalist in the US requires ignoring substantial sections of the Bible - particularly for Prosperity Gospel Fundies, who believe that riches are the reward for faith and being poor is the punishment of a sinful life. True fundamentalism almost requires checking out of the capitalistic society. * This Protestant Troper feels that Cathtolices can be a bit off in their worship. I mean coffestion boexes? God wants to here you directly not through Priest and came on whats with all the saints? Now I am not trying to start another Cath-Prod war but in my eyes I feel that they give Christinaity a bad name. ** I'm sorry, how are confession boxes and honoring saints in any way shooting the message? * Dean [=McIntosh=] of Michael D's Region 4 DVD Info Page turned his [[http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=8701 review]] of ''Film/{{X-Men}}: The Last Stand'' into a scathing and needlessly vitriolic commentary on the parallels he saw between the mutant cure and the debate over curing autism. This troper supports his cause, but likes the movie and now finds it far harder to respect Dean as a reviewer. * [[@/McJeff This Troper]] follows the formerly conservative blog Little Green Footballs. Although a moderate conservative myself, I find it intensely frustrating how conservatives are, in general, opposed to what liberals are for just because the liberals are for it (not to imply that liberals don't do the same thing). In particular, I agree with LGF's opinions on conservative reactions to creationism and global warming. But it's really hard to tolerate it when they're also doing the "lolol teabaggers are rayshist" and "lolol SarahPalin is teh dumbzors" shit that Huffington Post and [=DKos=] thrive on. No she's not, and at least the Tea Party tries to keep the radical undesirables out, which the liberals never tried to do. ** Are you me? I abandoned Little Green Footballs for similar reasons. Some of the legit speculation of ideas eventually morphed into ridicule. The swings into Hard Left and Hard Right became nearschizophrenic. The smearing and broad-brush ridicule of the Tea Party was only the symptom. * [[Tropers/InkkiBookman This little troper]] thinks that, going by the general theme of most of the {{troper tales}} in this thread, there should be a new subtrope called something like; [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Stupid Straw Men Are Making My Beliefs Look Bad]]. * So, so, so many things with this troper... I'm very liberal - but... well I have to lay out the situation first: There are a lot of people making some very... questionable... statements on the Right at present. By questionable I mean "may as well be saying 'shoot liberals

in the face* .'" Now - understandably this does not sit well with me. However; what frustrates the ever-loving-crap out of this troper is that several of his formerly-favorite lefty blogs have been actually GLEEFUL in speculating anytime there's another potentially violent incident in this country. A recent example: The almost-truck bomber in Times Square. When I heard "bomber foiled in plot" I figured "Okay, lets wait and see what happened; I'm glad they caught him, nobody got hurt" - right? I mean maybe it's just me but I'm kind of more concerned about my fellow citizens NOT DYING than anything else, right? But several of the blogs I read had entries like "Could be a Beckian crazy" or "Hutarree style fanatic" etc... Yes, sure, that was a possibility; but I don't * WANT* it to happen. I mean for crying out loud people it's just as bad as the crap we condemned (rightly) some conservative groups for in the Bush years. (Ie: "We just need another terrorist attack to really galvanize Americans behind the President again...") - It's the same shit different asshole. - Another big one is the (relatively loud but also relatively small in number) group of liberals who seem to utterly loathe anything military related. I'm all for peace - war is the absolute last resort for a reason; and I think Iraq was a huge mistake... but for crying out loud; don't pretend we don't need an army; or that a country this big could get away with a teensy-tiny Iceland-style defense force. I could rant for weeks, but I'm stretching the limit of a TroperTales post as-is. (Don't even get me started on messages in entertainment...) ** Notably, Mark Penn said that very thing in regards to [[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-pollster-obama-needs-aterrorist-attack-to-reconnect-with-voters/ Obama]]. * This atheist Troper hates Bill Maher's ''{{Religulous}}''. Making arguments against religion, maybe even poking a bit of fun at it is okay with me, but obviously cutting your interviews up to only show the part where the religious person looks like a moron is not. I hate it when religious people quote out of context, so why would I accept this from anyone on "my side"? Also, he makes some really cheap shots at his opponents that are just outside of good taste to poke fun at them. ** Agreed. Before watching ''Religulous'', I happened to catch a Larry King Live interview with Bill Maher as the guest speaker (note that I was unaware of his {{HBO}} show at the time). He presented himself as an intelligent but balanced speaker. He criticized numerous policies and decisions, but hardly the people behind them, unless they acted ridiculous enough to warrant the criticism. Needless to say, I was disappointed that Maher did not go that route with ''Religulous''. I'm a Southern Baptist Christian who's recently become cynical towards religion for the last several years, but would never tease believers the way Maher did. True, there are strawmen and extremists that make more balanced Christians look stupid, and ideas that make me cringe (like gays forcing themselves to turn straight), but there are also nice and smart Christians who deserve more respect than what Maher has done. Just because people believe in stuff that seems strange to outsiders (and this applies to all religions) does not make them open to mockery. * I'm an atheist, but I couldn't get through the pointless preaching

in the later ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' books. It seemed far too self-congratulatory- "Oh, look at us, we're so much smarter than those stupid religious people!" I eventually gave up on the nonfiction chapters completely and ignored anything not written by {{Pterry}}. [[AuthorFilibuster Which was something like 3/4 of the book]]. Why was he listed as the primary author again? * Every day, it gets a little harder to claim to be a Republican or to say you support their ideas. Especially when ''they'' don't even support their ideas any more. Small government means the government shouldn't care about things like sexual orientation or recreational drug use. ** I think this is "the party left me". Happens quite a lot whatever side you're on. * [[@/{{BreezyGirl86}} I]] don't like works which proclaim, or insinuate by plot, that people who disagree with or don't live by the author's ideals deserve to die a horrible death (and I feel this way no matter what the ideals are). Especially when it would be DisproportionateRetribution. The train wreck scene in AtlasShrugged is a prime example, but there are many others. David Wong said it best in his Cracked! article, regarding people who cheered the death of Jerry Falwell: "...you start cheering his death, you've walked away from the one single baseline every remotely moral person has ever agreed on: the value of human life." ** Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15759_10-thingschristians-atheists-can-must-agree-on.html#ixzz0vDZxQJG0 *** Can I call DontShootTheMessage on ''that article''? The points are all admirable, but the introduction treats things like atheist books in bookstores and people ''expressing their religious views on the Internet'' (before the bit about Jerry Falwell, the thing with the avatars) as dangerous signs of horrors to come. *** Can I second your calling DontShootTheMessage on the article? It makes sweeping generalizations about atheists, including extremist atheists, that aren't true. "Atheists, even if you reject the idea of God completely and claim to live according only to the cold logic of the physical sciences, you all still live as if the absolute morality of some magical lawgiver were true." Uhh, no. Many (I would venture ''most'') atheists perceive morality to be derived from an easilycome-to societal agreement that hurting other people is bad because getting hurt is bad. In other words, you don't need God to know that hurting people=bad. The article came off at best uninformed and at worst condescending. To everyone. Ugh. ** Meh! I like the idea of moderates coming together on common ground like that, but it's too simplistic. It trivializes differences, and is fairly inaccurate in a fair bit of what it says. I'm sorry, but I'd rather something that didn't run the risk of alienating and offending both sides. * Damn that Oprah and Victor Zammit! They'll believe anything someone tells them regarding the paranormal. They make the reasonable fellows among the paranormal community look like nutcases! Sure, the existence of the paranormal is highly debatable, but it still has much more hard evidence than most give it credit for. Either way, the paranormalists I've met are all rational, smart people.

** If there is evidence for it, it's not supernatural. ** Last time I checked a lack of evidence was not part of the definition of the word in any dictionary I've seen. As for the talk show hosts, some of them probably ''don't'' believe, they're just in it for [[MoneyDearBoy other reasons]]. Montel Williams, for example, freely and unhesitantly confessed on a radio program that he doesn't believe in Sylvia Browne's "abilities". Although as long as we're on the subject of those who believe in the supernatural, frauds like her, and the people who believe in them, do Shoot the Message for the rest of us. * Even though I'm not gay (though you might think otherwise due to [[StupidSexyFlanders some of my posts]]!), I am very much in favor of marriage equality. But does there have to be a gay or bisexual character in ''every'' work of fiction nowadays? Is it too much to ask that, in an all-male or all-female cast, ''nobody'' is gay or bisexual (more than likely) and sex of any kind is never discussed? And state judges who declare the prohibition of gay marriages to be unconstitutional are being cosmically stupid. ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'' was one thing (as there had been three amendments prohibiting racial discrimination long before 1954), but nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about marriage! These activist judges are playing right into the hands of Christian fundamentalists and gay-bashers who claim that gays are cultural militants forcing society to change to suit their tastes. I have quite an affinity for gay people and want to believe that they're perfectly decent folk, so I cringe at accusations that they're rewriting the Constitution, molesting children, or mercilessly mocking straight people. ** ...Uh, it doesnt sound like you support gay people at all, it sounds like youre one of those people who go "Well I'm not racist/sexist/homophobic, but...". What, are gay and bi people supposed to not even TRY to fight for their rights because it might upset people? ** Hate to be a nitpick, but the Brown v. Board decision was not actually based on an amendment ''specifically'' prohibiting racial discrimination, but under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment, which more or less says that the states must treat every person in their state equally under the law. More literally: no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. For the record, this is the amendment which is used to rule that not allowing gay marriage would be unconstitutional. The argument isn't being presented very well, though. ** In this tropers opinion, it is fine to have gay characters. However, where there seems to be a huge amount of gay people in a situation that makes it seem unlikely (in modern day society, gay people are still of the minority)... yeah. Can be excused in works set in the future (where people may be way more liberal about these things), or where gay people deliberately hang around with other homosexuals. * This troper believes that it is wrong to have sex with someone of the same gender and that "same-sex marriage" is an intrinsic contradiction in terms (and holds to be self-evident that there is a

big difference between consistently choosing to resist a desire and repressing it). However, it is not the ultimate sin, and disowning relatives for ''any'' reason is also a sin. Besides, contrary to what some people's actions suggest they believe, merely being tempted is no sin. ** Oh, so very very very true. I believe exactly the same thing, but yeah, there is ''no'' excuse for the rampant homophobia among [[strike:some]] '''far too many''' Christians. I believe pre-marital sex is also wrong, but I certainly don't go around shunning people who did it (I'd be shunning an awful lot of people, anyway...), so why should I shun people for a different sexual wrongdoing? Besides, God accepts people no matter the state of their life. If He accepts prostitutes (the woman caught in adultery, Rahab even) and traitors (Matthew was a tax collector and considered a filthy traitor by most Jews) and Christ-hating murderers (Paul), He'll accept homosexuals too. Why should we who follow Him be any different? *** I have actually had conversations with 'Christians' about whether or not gays should be allowed in church, in which they claimed that their sins (like say, lying, which is condemned pretty constantly in the bible) are the non-serious kind that can be overlooked, while any gay sex (mentioned a few times, rarely centrally) is grounds for a complete ban. I was pretty annoyed. ** '''THIS''' SO MUCH THIS. An example of this is the "[[HarryPotter Dumbledore is gay]]" controversy. Yeah, he's gay, but he's never actually acted on this from what we can see. Those who condemn him for something that probably never happened make me FacePalm. * This troper is a firm, literal six-day, 7,000 year Creationist... and couldn't stand ''{{Film/Expelled}}''. It was poorly researched, poorly argued, and all around poorly paced. This troper feels embarrassed on behalf of the whole Creationist movement... ** (originally posted below, but I think it fits better here) I believe in young Earth Creation. I believe there are solid reasons to believe in it, and solid reasons to disbelieve other theories. But the ''stupidity'' of some young Earth Creationists! Their ''idiocy!'' Believing in young Earth Creation does ''not'' mean you fling every bit of common sense or logic out the window. It doesn't mean you instantly dismiss anyone who even hints at a belief in evolution/the Big Bang/whatever as a Satan-worshiper or something. If you ''must'' make a huge whiny deal over it, then use ''logical arguments'' and ''real evidence'', not lies and made-up evidence (which some have actually been known to do, much to everyone else's shame) and stupid rants! And hypocrites, those especially annoy me. You CAN NOT sit there and say you believe the Bible and turn around and be racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever-ist, hating anyone who disagrees with you. ''Yes,'' the Bible says certain actions are wrong. But it ''also'' says God still loves everyone and is more than happy to accept anyone, regardless of their life. Yes, you morons, that means God saves homosexuals too, ''even if homosexuality is a sin.'' (...well, that rant quickly changed subject. I do mean both parts, though. If you're going to argue for Christianity, don't be a moron about it, use some common sense and accept logic. If you're going to be a Christian at all, actually be one. Christianity is not about hate

speech, despite what many people act like.) ** [[Tropers/{{Yun}} This troper]] is a Theistic Evolutionist, but while I don't agree with Creationists, I honestly think the amount of crap they receive on a regular basis borders on persecution. The sheer inability of non-Creationists to show even the smallest amount of respect is maddening. *** Imagine that in this day and age, having the belief that the Earth is flat or that there is no such thing as bacteria or germs. That's what Creationism feels like and why it so hard to show it respect. ** I'm not a Young Earth Creationist, and therefore not an example, but it confuses me why everyone thinks a Young Earth is mutually exclusive with the Theory of Evolution. So the Earth was created 6000 years ago. That means somehow that living organisms can't mutate? And that they can't pass these mutations along to their offspring? And that dying before reproducing doesn't inhibit passing along said mutations? Those who believe that evolution by natural selection absolutely must be proven false do Young Earth Creationism a great disservice, not least because of how they're unlikely in the extreme to prove any of those three (common sense) points false. *** Many Young Earth Creationists, even guys like Kent Hovind, ''do'' agree with what you described above, calling it "micro-evolution". The problem is that they refuse to accept the implications, i.e., "macroevolution", (What a ''real'' biologist would call speciation) as this process requires amounts of time that are vastly larger than that afforded by the age of the Earth given by Young Earth Creationism. They also hold that all creatures on Earth were instantly created, more or less exactly as they are now, about 6000 years ago, which throws out the idea of common ancestry as well ("If we came from apes, why are there still apes?" and the like). *** But that's the point. There's no biological difference between micro- and macro-evolution, and there's no reason for them to think there is (it's not as though The Bible speaks at great end about genetics). All it does is associate a literal reading of The Bible with a rejection of established science, which it needn't do. *** From what I've heard from Creationists, they usually ''don't'' understand that the only difference between "micro" and "macro" evolution is time. They seem to believe that "micro-evolution" will never produce a new species (the old "Has a cat ever given birth to a dog?" canard), so, in their mind, even with "micro" changes, the cat is still a cat. Much of this boils down to their religious beliefs, i.e., "There can't be common descent because that would mean Man isn't the special creation of God", and so on, but also to simply a profound ignorance of what the Theory of Evolution actually says. *** ThisTroper is also a Christian, and I actually ''am'' a youngEarth Creationist, but there are times that the sheer rabid ''intensity'' of the debate just blows my mind. I can sort of see where the creationist side of things is coming from, since I've been on the receiving end of some of the stuff they're reacting to, but really- kasploding all over the place and ranting about conspiracies, trying to call down fire from heaven, condemning your opponents to eternal hellfire, or whatever really doesn't accomplish much other than making you look like a fringe loonie. And on the flipside... the

sheer ''venom'' that many of those on the Evolutionist side of things spew whenever someone dares to so much as hint that they don't necessarily agree... good grief. As an aside- the 'micro-evolution becomes macro-evolution with enough time' raised an eyebrow for me. Natural selection is a fairly obvious process, heredity and mutation are easily observable, but... how does randomization in selfreplication translate into greater survivability? Granted, my confusion may arise from assuming a non-infinite universe, but still... **** For a really brief, simple example, look at the Dawkins weasel program. The randomization isn't the only agent, selection is also a component. Yes, it is an overly simplistic model, evolution doesn't work towards a distant ideal goal (rather IMNHSO, it works towards a dynamic set of near-term goals), but it serves to illustrate the notion that mutation + selection can achieve results, that also look almost nothing like the original product. * This troper is apathetic, but generally anti-Bush and liberal. However, 9/11 conspiracy theorists make this troper want to puke. Look, I disagree with his policies, but politely cease spewing bullshit about the melting point of steel (which, by the way, becomes severely weakened when heated to the temperature of burning jet fuel), courteously desist with trying to find conspiracy chinks in the armor of an administration with metaphorical gigantic gaping holes all over the place, graciously stop acting like "the government paid off thousands of witnesses, caused untold millions in property damage, murdered countless numbers of its own civilians, and ''somehow managed to keep anybody at all from spilling the beans'', all so that they could have a reason to shoot at some Middle Eastern terrorist cell" is more likely than "some religious fanatics with box cutters and pistols sneaked aboard some inbound planes and crashed them into things", and ''kindly shove HanlonsRazor up your moronic asses''. ** Indeed. And the 9/11 conspiracy theory ''horseshit'' is so prevalent amongst my fellow Muslims (with some of them, for partly anti-Semitic reasons) that I keep telling them at message boards to stop making us look bad. I explained to them (as an American Muslim), by the way, that there would be ''no need whatsoever'' for the American government to go to such [[XanatosRoulette ludicrous extents]] to get the American public behind them about Iraq. "It's a very simple, two-step process," I told them. "Step #1: Stand there. Step #2: Lie. Got all that?" It would appear that 9/11 conspiracy theorists make quite a lot of different people look bad by proxy. * This troper is pro-gun and an environmentalist. First starting with pro-gun... It seems like everyone who tries to support the right to bear arms is a redneck, far-right conspiracy theorist who thinks Obama is going to storm our homes and take away our firearms. No. Just, no. So many base their arguments on fear tactics, where's the goddamn logic? And environmentalism... Oh boy, so many pro-environmental shows put so much focus on the message that they forget to have logic and entertainment. On top of that, they tend to be pushy. You can only get away with being pushy about it in a show if you use logical arguments and, you know, make sure the show is still entertaining, but that's still pretty hard to do. CaptainPlanet, anyone? Kid shows almost never

use logical arguments for WHY we should save the environment, they always just rescue animals on the basis that they are cute or cool. Did you know that in the past few decades, there has been a great decline in amphibian populations?Didn't think so. And then, you know, even more shows like to make it look like poaching is the biggest cause of endangering animals. Guess what? IT'S NOT. Habitat loss is a far bigger problem than poaching for nearly every endangered animal species. ** The recent documentary UnderTheSea was short but quite fascinating, until halfway through when JimCarrey started intoning about how ocean warming was going to wipe out everything they showed. There was one interesting point - warming would drive a migration south, except for the population on the south end of Australia, which has no where to go - but it went on and on, complete with sad voice and cute sea lions. I get it, I don't like the idea either, but being manipulated in a cheesy way just makes me angry. * I can't stand R&B artist Lyfe Jennings and his hit song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szVndvCsFk Statistics]], because of how he talks down to the majority of black males, while he's teaching black women on how to get a quality man. It's not that the advice he gives black women on how to avoid trifling men is ''bad'', but seeing as how Lyfe's guilty of acting like the very men he's warning to avoid, he comes off as a hypocrite (not to mention his "statistics" are probably overblown estimates he made up in his head). Worse, the women who worship the ground he croons on are probably the same women who go with these jerks and ignore "nice" black men. This is especially irritating to this troper, who never acted like Lyfe or the men he described, yet at one point got spurned by women constantly for being a upstanding black male. And this is before Lyfe [[http://www.sohh.com/2008/10/lyfe_jennings_arrested_af.html got arrested for opening fire at his baby mama...]] ** D'Mite's ''Read A Book'' being a great example of how to be {{Anvilicious}} on the same topic without being preachy or hypocritical. ** Honestly, after hearing about half the crap Lyfe has done, it becomes almost impossible to take any of his songs seriously, possitive message or no. * This troper cannot stand how, in the eyes of film ([[EaglelandOsmosis and far too many persons around the world, as a result]]), you can only be a SoulBrotha, [[GangBangers Gang Banger]], BlackAndNerdy, or a ScaryBlackMan (the [[TropeCodifier default setting]], as far as many are concerned) if you're an AfricanAmerican. Thank you, [[WhatTheHellHero Spike Lee]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Hudlin Brothers]], [[AuthorTract for helping out with that]] [[{{Anvilicious}} on many occasions]]. I'm a huge fan of [[BabylonFive Babylon 5]], {{Daria}}, (well, sci-fi in general), not a fan of Oprah, shocked several people in 2008 when I said that I was supporting Senator Edwards over Senator Obama ([[HarsherInHindsight a bad move on my part]], looking back now), and have never been an avid churchgoer. Because of that, in the eyes of many people inside and outside the Black community, [[HeelRaceTurn I'm seen as 'not Black enough'.]] [[NoJustNo Let's not even discuss the

subjects of music]] [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt or dating]]... * ''{{Film/Avatar}}''! I agree that exploiting other people's lands for their resources and going as far as taking their lives for it is despicable, but PLEASE, can we have it a little more nuanced? ** On the other side, the guys who are declaring themselves to be Na'Vi, becoming suicidally depressed that Earth is so much crappier than Pandora, and/or urging people to steal and destroy any copies of ''TheHurtLocker'' aren't exactly making it easy to be a fan. ** Agreed - This troper was in an environmentalist class at the time...and he was practically ''offended'' at ''Avatar''. ** I'm all for environmentalism. I enjoyed this movie as a visually stunning, if less-than-original bit of storytelling. I also laugh in astounded amusement that the BigBad (or TheDragon, depending on how much you care about the CorruptCorporateExecutive's involvement) in this movie is such an unmitigated FatherToHisMen ColonelBadass that in ''any other setting'' he would be the best of all good guys. He's not even AffablyEvil, he's just a soldier doing his damn job; the big scary bad man even SPECIFICALLY tried to reduce the number of Na'vi casualties by giving them advance warning of his attack, and using smoke grenades to drive them out. But because he hurt the poor trees (after the Na'vi started the whole conflict by attacking first and asking questions second) he's the bad guy. *** I think the problem is that the movie seems like it is about environmentalism but the core is about colonialism and exploiting other nations resources. The Na'vi are not so much pissed about humans hurting the trees but about the humans digging up their back yard and bulldozing their churches and homes. So the more anivilicious environment elements of the movie are hiding the actual message of the movie. *** The moral is truly that since all life is connected, all life must be respected. But whatever. Just lie back with your MST3KMantra playing and enjoy the spectacle. **** The way it goes about that though makes it come off as a huge SpaceWhaleAesop. That it leans so heavily on anti-capitalist/antitechnocratic assumptions that were [[PreachingToTheChoir popular in Cameron's youth]] (such as that human technological and industrial progress will inevitably lead to an unihabitable and over-populated Earth, though observed trends indicate the opposite) makes it harder to suspend disbelief and not take notice of the many plot-holes. Such as Sully being given a whole month to negotiate a settlement with the Na'vi, but there's no indication that he even once mentioned to the Na'vi what RDA wants or the consequences of failing to reach a mutually agreeable settlement during that time while he was assimilating into their culture and causing a diplomatic incident with the chief's daughter. Then later we are shown Na'vi living in places which look like they'd be much less of a logistical nightmare for an industrial enterprise, so why did the RDA start operations in the Hell-jungle instead of those wide-open plains for example? Could it be there was no Unobtanium there? No Unobtanium means no point of conflict between Na'vi and RDA, but Sully tames the 'Last Shadow' and rallies the Na'vi into a force that Quarritch sees as a threat and moves to attack all because Sully's blue kitty girlfriend won't talk

to him after getting her dad killed. ***** ^^ In all of human history there has never, ever (to my knowledge) been a fan-bashing alleged minority as venomously in need of both the MST3KMantra and the common sense DeathOfTheAuthor than the Movement to Rant About "Avatar" Until Everyone on the Net Prays Like Crazy for a Quick Mercy Killing. People, it's just a movie. Get a hold of yourselves! Besides, I've always thought of the very ''idea'' of ''anything'' being called a "Space Whale Aesop" to be highly illogical and unfair, completely made up trope. If fiction were not allowed to (ALLEGEDLY) teach realistic morals in unrealistic environments (or even ways) it would not be fiction at all. * This troper, (along with several environmentalist groups) had this exact reaction to the infamous "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k&feature=player_embedded No Pressure]]" video. Said troper just wants to grab whoever thought this to be a good idea by throat and shout "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" The comments on the video are a perfect example of how horribly counter productive this video turned out to be. Great job, guys. ** That video made me want to puke ([[Squick who the hell thought making them explode into red goop - along with the sickening squelching noise - was a good idea?!]]). "No pressure... you're only gonna die if you don't." Ugh. ** In the immortal words of Ted Turner: "[[RobotChicken Protect the environment, or I'll FUCKIN' kill you]]!" * This troper is very anti-environmentalist; skeptical about the presentation of the scale, impact and accuracy of climate change and broadly anti-wind farm and pro-nuclear power and pro-roads. But damn, Channel 4's ''Dispatches'' documentaries ''The Great Global Warming Swindle'' and ''What The Green Movement Got Wrong'' were horrendous. Overly simplistic, one-sided, and almost as alarmist as the environmentalists they wanted to criticize. I get it, there's been plenty of untempered alarmist environmentalist work and these were intended as a counterpoint, but going to that same level doesn't really help the case. * This troper is a fairly liberal person, and believes that political correctness is a good cause, that is, discouraging the use of slurs and stereotypes that are inherently disrespectful of a broad group of people. The problem I have is when political correctness advocates let it [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad go mad]]. Not only does this allow the offenders to claim victimhood (see: Reverse Discrimination) but it also leads to the annoying idea best summed up by "That's just their beliefs and you have to respect that." I personally don't think that ''any'' idea should be off limits to criticism just because doing so might hurt someone's feelings. Not only that, but some beliefs are just plain '''wrong''', like 9/11 Truth and Young Earth Creationism. People inherently deserve respect, their ideas don't. * This Troper identifies himself as a conservationist but I (like many others, if this site is any indication) believe that the crew of the [[WhaleWars Sea Shepard]] goes too far for too little. Paul Watson is engaged in mindless terrorism designed to placate his conscience and serve what misguided sense of justice he has. If you want change, lobby for a change in the law or exercise your right to peaceful

protest. Throwing chemicals and lug nuts at whalers is not going to stop them and it [[StopBeingStereotypical makes the rest of us look bad!]] * [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy This troper]] is proudly gay (and [[{{Transsexual}} trans]]. However, he repeatedly {{Face Palm}}s at the gay-activist population that seems to think that a.) heterosexuality is immoral or disgusting, b.) the opposite gender is [[HeManWomanHater somehow]] [[DoesNotLikeMen inferior]], and/or c.) [[NoBisexuals bisexual]] and {{Transgender}} people are "faking it" to [[IJustWantToBeNormal become straight]], and are thus {{Acceptable Target}}s for gays and lesbians to hate on. As he likes to say, "The 'B' and the 'T' in 'GLBT' are there ''for a reason''." ** Amen. My current girlfriend and two of my past girlfriends (now together with each other) are bi, and one of them had to deal with a lot of crap when they went to LGBT pride rallies and had StrawFeminist lesbians, of the most stereotypical, separatist mold possible, railing on them for being with a guy. And, of course, one of said [[PsychoLesbian Psycho Lesbians]] met me and I nearly got in trouble, because she spouted some tripe about me "corrupting pure love" with threesomes and accused me of raping her, and...well, let's just say that I WouldHitAGirl. * For me, the BBC ChildrenInNeed show. I agree with the message, and have donated to the charity but in my opinion the show consists of several hours of stuff I'm not really bothered about and a disappointing Doctor Who tie-in. And then they had pudsey come on to Qi and take up half the episode with more ChildrenInNeed stuff, despite already having a dedicated children in need show for the rest of the evening. I agree with you, but dammit I would like to watch Qi now please! * If there is one thing that this troper values over anything else, it's freedom of speech. But I hate hate hate how many people blatantly abuse the right to gather, demonstrate and protest. There's a couple of groups around my college campus who have been at it for years, throwing one Don'tShootTheMessage after another, from an anti-deathpenalty rally where the main argument was "Death Penalty = Capitalism = BAD!" to a mob that crowded the local Exxon station because they blamed oil for the Iraqi war to a group of weirdos who stood around the library with red paint on their hands protesting the fact that army recruits receive government funding for school. They've discredited the very act of forming a protest to the point that nobody in town who still has two braincells left can take any protest seriously ever. It's so frickin' frustrating. Why can't they stop and THINK first? ** Agreed. In almost all protests I've seen, there are plenty of nutcases and people who are just there for the lulz. What's worse is these guys are the ones that get the most screentime in any media coverage and are guaranteed to get people to write off the entire protest as being full of whiny stupid weirdos. ** What annoys this troper even more is when people abuse their right to free speech in order to bash other peoples free speech. * This troper fancies himself as a libertarian skeptic, but has on many occasions turned off the television in sheer disgust at the

political tracts and sheer ''pettiness'' of [[PennAndTellerBullshit Penn and Teller]]. ** This troper is also a skeptic (though not a libertarian one; we'll come to that in a moment) and she absolutely ''hates'' PennAndTellerBullshit, on the grounds that it seems to consist primarily of ad hominem attacks designed to make skeptics feel morally and intellectually superior. She also objects to their implication that libertarianism and rationalism are in some way inseparable (and the somewhat disingenuous tactics they often bring to bear in their discussion of political issues). *** This Catholic troper would like to thank you two for this thread. For a while I felt like I was a bad person for not liking episodes of the show that disagreed with my views on religion, that I was only patting myself on the back for finding people who agreed with my views and disregarding viewsd that diverged from my own. To see that people on the other side of the fence agree makes me feel better. * This Troper is an adamant atheist, and found the shoehorned-in proatheism bit in TheInheritanceCycle ''very'' irritating. She finds it even ''more'' irritating now, because she used to like the books, but now only reads them because they're [[GuiltyPleasures the brain equivalent of french fries or candy]] [[{{Metaphorgotten}} or something]]. The vegetarianism messages are a bit irritating too (although that isn't an example of this trope, because This Troper isn't vegetarian). * This troper considers herself a feminist, but, perhaps due to not getting involved in much activism in general, has never met a RealLife man-hating StrawFeminist. Whether they exist or are common or not, however, they have made enough of an impression that said troper's female friend asked if a section of her writing sounded "too feminist," because she thinks that feminism, by definition, equals straw feminism. Whether or not {{StrawFeminist}}s are few and far between (or even nonexistent), they have given feminism enough of a bad name that even rational, intelligent women believe that ALL feminists hate men and want them to die, and thus they have shot this troper's message. Funnily enough, by this troper's personal definition of feminism (the belief that women should have the same rights and pay grades as men, and be free of sexual discrimination), she's pretty sure that said friend is a feminist as well, even if she doesn't realize it. ** This troper also considers herself a feminist and has never met a StrawFeminist either. What she ''has'' met are a lot of people who feel that being a feminist is somehow a ''bad'' thing and feel the need to preface their opinions with the phrase 'I'm not a feminist, but...'. If this isn't because [[StrawFeminist the portrayal of feminism]] in the media has left these women feeling that all feminists are ranting seperatists who hate men, she'll be amazed. ** Played straight with this male troper and feminism. It's not that the feminists I've dealt with are {{StrawFeminist}}s or even [[{{WellIntentionedExtremist}} well intentioned extremists]], but I've noticed that a lot of {{Jerkass}} in the attitudes of those that I otherwise completely agree with. Disagree with them on anything and you're either stupid, evil or both, and you'll get avalanched in

sarcasm and ad-hominem attacks instead of reasoned out arguments. The sole measure of how good a person you are is your understanding and agreement with academic feminist ideology. I agree with them more often than not on the real substance, but enough with the smugness already. Having ''some'' conservative or romantic views on gender roles and sex relations does not make one a [[{{CompleteMonster}} complete monster]]. That's been my experience at least, your mileage may vary, of course. * [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] is a strong supporter of free software, but does not identify himself with the views of the Free Software Foundation, specially those of Richard Stallman. ** Same here. When your open-source project's documentation is a hundred pages explaining the concept of Copyleft, another hundred pages explaining why Copyleft is inherently superior to permissive open source and closed source, and precisely zero pages actually detailing the functionality of your program or how to use the damn thing... all I can say is that Free Software has successfully killed that project (see dotGNU for a vague example of this effect). Similarly, any time Free Software extremists open up a new project just because existing projects aren't Free enough, without care for functionality, usability or completeness (again, dotGNU is a good example), all they're really demonstrating is that the members of their part of the movement don't actually care about good software design as much as they do about making a pointless statement. Directly advocating piracy (it's on the FSF website somewhere, in guarded language) or intentionally creating "rival" products ''just'' to damage the sales of commercial products (ReactOS) can only make me sympathise with commercial developers who claim that Free Software is an active threat. And finally, the obsession over Free As In Speech over Free As In Beer is detracting away from the real point of Free Software - the "liberty" aspect exists primarily to ''enable'' zerocost distribution of products, providing software at no cost to those who can't afford expensive solutions, and bringing top-quality tools and services to everyone in the world. It shouldn't just be about open-source (only a tiny minority of users care about that), and it shouldn't just be about morality but practical benefits. * This troper is annoyed to no end by the [[http://grow-the-fckup.deviantart.com/ Grow The Fuck Up campaign]] on DeviantArt and everyone who supports it. They fight against censorship by ''censoring everything they post''. Not only is this the exact ''opposite'' of effective, it also makes it so that no one under 18, including this troper, can view their artwork, regardless of how they feel about the issue. * This Troper considers herself [[BileFascination mostly]] [[SnarkBait anti]]-''{{Twilight}}'', and is not Mormon, but it annoys her to no end when other Antis bash the series as "Mormon propaganda" because StephenieMeyer is Mormon. Seriously, there are much better things in the ''Twilight'' series to snark about without resorting to belittling the author's beliefs. ** Oh my goodness, THANK YOU. I am Mormon, and I HATE it when people try to equate Mormonism with Twilight-ism. It doesn't help when almost every single female I know seems bent on enforcing the stereotype of

shrieky, brainless Twi-tard. * This troper is a dyed-in-the-wool feminist, but can't even vaguely stand NOW. Any time she hears about some idiotic thing done in the name of feminism, "Did NOW do it?" is usually the first thing she asks. * This Troper is a registered independent in [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] which means that in the 2008 election-cycle, he was bombarded by propaganda from both sides to such a point that he was getting botcalled on a daily basis to remind me to vote for Obama. Repeated attempts to get them to stop calling failed and I was so frustrate that when I finally got an actual human spam-call, I kindly informed him that while I he had valid points for not wanting to vote "Four more years of Bush", that I had to tell him that at this point, the only way I would ever vote for Obama was if I was immediately put on their Do Not Call List. ** This troper really wishes that someone would enact a "Do not Call" list that would affect campaigns, too, or something like a fine for every bot-call to be paid to the phone company. (And Jail time for bot-calls crashing the phone system) I live in Colorado, and am also a registered independent (along with my dad) and as you can guess, we were ''flooded'' with robocalls from both sides. We wound up unplugging every phone in the house except two because we were getting calls as early as five in the morning and as late as midnight, had as many as ''thirty five'' messages on the machine reminding us to vote one way after coming home, and couldn't eat dinner because the phone would ring every time we sat down. I also wanted to vote the other way just because one of the candidates' managers was ''planting signs in our front yard''. That's ''my'' property - legally, ''I CAN assault you'' for putting signs I don't want on my yard. Even if I agree with the candidate, ''GET THAT SIGN OFF MY YARD''. * This Troper was once given praise from a gay friend who left the Catholic church for obvious reasons for writing a gay character who was devout Catholic, who attended Sunday Mass and was actually a member of the choir. According to the friend, he had a big hang up with gays in fiction who's only defining characteristic was that they were gay and that by making the religious nature of the character more important than, yet not conflict with, the sexual nature, I was treating gay people more like people than many works that addressed the issue. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] is liberal, yet still strongly supports gun rights (and responsible firearm use). I'm also bisexual (so for gay rights), pro-choice on abortion, and am a Naturalistic Pagan, so I have "unusual" religious beliefs. I very much enjoy friendly debates about any of these subjects, as I like testing my intellect, learning new things, and seeing things from different angles. However, when everything comes down to it... I wish that the general population would just shut up and let everyone do what they want (assuming it doesn't harm anyone). ** I actually know a lot of liberals who are all for gun use but only suggest ''limited'' gun control (by "limited" i mean "trying to regulate the stuff meant to kill" and "not trying to keep guns out of peoples' hands ''period''"). They just don't speak up because 100% of

''any'' gun control is always "YOU WANT TO BAN EVERY GUN AND SO ONLY OUTLAWS HAVE IT!" or "YOU WANT TO GIVE MACHINE GUNS TO FIVE YEAR OLDS!!!" and ''quickly'' devolves into ualuealuealeuale. * This atheist liberal troper who is in full support of equality nonetheless has a deep and abiding hatred for [[FiveTokenBand Five Token Bands]] or those annoying posters that have black and white hands joined together with some preachy quote underneath them. Stop oversimplifying the message, stop spamming posters without actually doing anything, and above all stop adding more minorities to your written/drawn/photographic material for the sake of political correctness. The whole concept of NONONO YOU CANNOT MENTION RELIGION IN A CHILDRENS TV SHOW OR HAVE WHITES MAKE UP MORE THAN 75% OF THE CAST is just blatantly ridiculousit's really [[MoralGuardians restrictive]], not liberating. * This troper stopped watching AtopTheFourthWall for this very reason. While I agree with a lot of Linkara's views, it's infuriating to see the review grind to halt so he can deliver another AuthorFilibuster. At this point, its less a review show and more of a personal soapbox with a review show tacked on. At least when it's not being a vehicle for Lewis's AuthorAppeal. I'd rather watch a marathon of CaptainPlanet than get lectured ''yet again'' on feminism, why One More Day is bad (mm'kay), and why superheroes shouldn't be grim-n-gritty. Thanks, Lewis... now can you go back to being funny please? ** He must have realized this at some point, because it has been toned down ''a lot'' over time. * This troper is a center-right Libertarian who votes Republican because he believes voting Third Party is a waste of a vote. He's also an avid member of the Tea Party. And he could not help but epically facepalm at "Tea Party favorite" Christine O'Donnell of Delaware. First in the fact that she gave guys like Joe Miller and Rand Paul bad names, with her idiotic social-conservative views(Anti-Masturbation laws? REALLY!?). The second in that all she had to do to beat out her opponent, an avowed Marxist who was all for continuing to spend Delaware into poverty, was focus on economic and fiscal issues and she would probably have won in a handy victory. INSTEAD, the dumb bitch and her campaign decided to focus on social aspects when every other Republican who won focused on the fiscal issues, in a LIBERAL state no less, and declined multiple invites from BillOReilly to appear on his show to help voice her message and get it out to the voters. Furthermore, she focused much of her attention on a stupid little clip that was run by Bill Maher and didn't simply brush it off like any GOOD candidate would have done. Observing this whole situation, O'Reilly predicted she'd lose outright due her incompetence in the campaign. She later lost in a landslide...TO A MARXIST! * Internet debates of all types suffer from this. The ideas debated might have merit but the people posting about them do so in such an inflammatory and self-righteous way that one wants to shoot the message just to shut them up. * This Troper is StraightEdge but detests efforts from [[SmugStraightEdge certain straight edgers]] to keep other people from smoking/drinking or write off non-straight edgers as lesser human beings. Whenever I see such a person I just want to scream "LIVE AND

LET LIVE, GODDAMMIT!!!" * I happen to like furry art and fandom, and while I do acknowledge that the fandom does get trolled a little too often, I get infuriated with [[FanDumb particular furries]] who repeatedly act like total numbskulls in public, gleefully flash around the most badly-drawn and sleaziest porn imaginable as though it were the Mona Lisa, and basically act like a total pain in the rear to every non-fan around them... and then complain that everyone seems to think that furries are all [[BasementDweller freaky, revolting, perverted losers]]. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]] when these antics get more sane furry fans in trouble with their families or employers, and then when said fans ask the freak brigade to show some tact, they get told that [[FanMyopia it's their fault for having non-furry friends in the first place]]. ARRRGGH! * I am a Mormon, and I go to BYU. I am constantly surrounded by ignorance of all kinds: people willfully misunderstanding other religions, ideologies, philosophies, whatever, just because they believe it is "wrong." My classmates are determined to cling to their ideas until they're cold and dead. They refuse to see life from anyone else's perspective--maybe they think it's somehow sinning to try to imagine how someone who isn't from [[strike: Happy Valley]] Utah sees the world? I don't get it. Why can't we all learn how to understand each other, to be open-minded and accepting? And it really frustrates me that these moralizing, sexist, homophobic, racist, prejudiced, intolerant idiots are what other people think of when they think of Mormons. Ugh. It's hard to be a liberal around here. ** I'm also a Mormon (though a conservative one), and it's good to hear other people feel like this. I can remember feeling sick to my stomach in church when the topic of homosexuality would be discussed. * I absolutely cannot STAND TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen; indeed, the only thing about my trip to see it which strikes me as the least bit fortunate is the bit of luck I had in seeing such a ''horrendous'' movie for free, quite legally (long story short, I had a raincheck). But my blood still positively BOILED when I read the repeated articles by RogerEbert which insulted the fans of the film and insisted that they were literally ''objectively'' wrong and that yes, sometimes opinions can be factually right. (Hint to Ebert: look up the word "opinion" in any dictionary on earth.) The worst part was when he said that since he knows more about cinema than most people his tastes are more advanced than those of the average person and therefore, yes, he is technically a snob and has ''no problem whatsoever'' with it. To think that he's still looked up to by other critics! I now officially hate Ebert even more than I hate Michael Bay, who at least is laid back and good-humored and honest with himself about his films' schlocky quality rather than defensive about his faults instead. * I'm an atheist skeptic who likes figures like Dawkins, Hitchens and PZ Myers. Hitchens is fairly abrasive but, on the whole, I think they're cool people. What I can't stand is some of their other Skeptic-with-a-capital-S followers. Pick any public statement that allows comments by a figure like this, look for an opposing viewpoint in the comments, and at least three people will come down on it with ad hominem attacks, meaningless rhetoric and vague accusations of the

other person not understanding how science works (even if they've given no indication of that)... ''without rationally addressing the other person's point at all''. Guys, if you're going to call yourselves a skeptic, act like a skeptic. Don't use the methods you're supposed to be so against just so you can win an argument at any cost. * This troper is Christian (granted, a fairly liberal one) and a fan of TheChroniclesOfNarnia, but could. Not. Stomach. {{Anvilicious}} TheLastBattle. At ALL. Susan, what have they DONE to you?! ** Really, the series anvilicious right from the start, and the more you know about C.S. Lewis's theological writings the more obvious it is to you. For example, back when I was a Christian I still rolled my eyes at the way Lewis incorporates his Trilemma argument into a children's fairy tale that has nothing to do with Jesus. * I firmly believe anonymity in the internet and forums and chat rooms are probably one of the best things to happen to the internet, because how inherently encouraging they are to use freedom of speech and converse about your opinions, even if the tone ends up kind of prickly. I also absolutely ''hate'' trolls who pull the "it's a free land" card. Just because you're allowed to do something doesn't mean you should do it. (On the other hand, I generally detest anyone who [[JerkAss consciously provokes others]]. It's the one thing that's killing constructive criticism these days.) * There's a review of ''{{Portal 2}}'' on a {{Fundamentalist}} Christian site. It ''started'' with some rant on how the author doesn't let his children look at "homosexual recruitment material" and went south from there. But it was a pleasant surprise to see that the vast majority of the commenters basically said "[[StopBeingStereotypical What the hell is wrong with you?]] Hacks like you are the reason people hate Christians!" ** Any way we could get a link to that review? Seems like it would be fun to laugh at. * This troper agrees with Richard Dawkins' views on religion to a large extent (actually, if anything I think he's a bit too much of an accommodationist). But when he's writing about biology, I wish he'd stick to the subject. Imagine if you read a book on geology and while it contained a lot of interesting information, maybe a quarter of it was given over to ranting about how people who believe in a Flat Earth are morons. Now imagine the equivalent book on biology. That book is Richard Dawkins' ''The Greatest Show On Earth''. Just tell us about the science, prof! * This troper is part of the 9/11 truth movement. What does that mean exactly? Does it mean I believe the planes were holograms? Or that there were well placed bombs that blew the towers up from the inside? Maybe a conspiracy by the Jews? Nope. It means I don't believe what the government said happened actually happened, and I don't necessarily even believe they did it intentionally, or if they did do it intentionally, that their reasons were evil. But, as much as people hate to admit it, there are a few things that don't add up, and for some reason that's literally all I can see when I think about it (and unfortunately, I think about it often because I lost someone I really cared about on that day.) To sum it up, my father once told me this: "If something happens, and the Government publishes a report, and

someone wrote a novel based on that report, and then someone made a movie based on that novel, and a kid who watched that movie did wrote an essay on what happened, that essay would be about as accurate to what actually happened that day as the original report." That all being said, when I first watched Loose Change, I seriously wanted to find the assholes that made it and kick them square in the ass. Especially because my friends now hold that up to be why I'm wrong, as if though they had a goddamned monopoly on distrust of the government and somehow represented everyone as a whole. Now, feel free to flame me for being apart of the 9/11 truth movement. I've heard it all before. * As much as I support gay rights, the {{Hollywood Atheist}}s in the movement really get on my nerves. It's totally understandable for many gay people to feel anger towards religion, but the moment we generalize all people of faith as ignorant bigots who only care about judging others, including the ones who SUPPORT us, we become no better than the ones who really are homophobic. * The thought of a man like OsamaBinLaden brought my blood to a boil. That man was one of the people behind the greatest act of mass murder in history of the United States, around 3,000 people in a single morning. When he was killed I felt a sense of relief. But, did we really need to complain about giving him a muslim funeral and burying him at sea? What should we have done, pulled a JohnWayne from ''TheSearchers''? Even more ridiculous when you realize (as Gretchen Carlson of all people pointed out) that there are Christians who have done horrible things and received Christian funerals and burials. And to the people saying, "Well, they wouldn't do that for us," [[HeWhoFightsMonsters so we're supposed to drop to their standards now?]] In the words of [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]], "YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" * This troper considers herself a mostly liberal Christian. What she cannot stand are liberal arguments that bash the opposing side for being Christians! Christianity does not automatically make you a conservative or stupid, and every time she sees someone assume they are for the sake of their argument, she wants to strangle somebody. This troper is also bisexual, and is very much for gay rights, and she hates it when Christians are generalized as homophobic. * This troper -- please don't kill me -- doesn't believe in homosexuality. ''However'', I'm not an insane homophobe who refuses to accept homosexuals as humans. My belief is based on the Scriptures, but so are far more important things-- love your neighbor, the Golden Rule, etcetera. If you're a good person, I'll be your friend and I'll certainly treat you well no matter what you believe. God loves everybody, and so do I. Christians who act otherwise are CompletelyMissingThePoint. ** That's nice and all, but saying you don't believe in something voices disapproval and disapproval suggests that you are judging someone's lifestyle to your own. You pretty much shot down your own message before starting. *** I know it sounds kinda contradictory, I'm having trouble explaining myself properly. This is what I believe is true, but I'm in no place to judge others for what they believe is true, especially not

if they're good people. I mean, you could also say I disapprove of atheists or anyone with a different religion, but it's just a matter of... I dunno, I guess believing different things but agreeing to disagree. I know I sound pretty stupid right now... *** Agreeing to disagree. That's a start. I know you don't have illintensions, but wording can really offend people. You say that you don't approve of homosexuality but you accept homosexuals as people. That's better than most Christians at least. At this point though, there is no reason to not make up your own mind. You can approve without being. * This troper is an anarchist and feels this way about the {{Bomb Throwing Anarchist}} and {{Anarchy Is Chaos}} views propagated by both fringe anarchist groups and punk rock. This has caused the entire anarchist movement to not only be unable to be taken seriously by people, but to be seen as a threat. Thus, I am afraid to tell people I'm an anarchist because they will assume that I am some terrorist who is planning to bomb the police station rather than just someone who believes people would be better off if nobody had authority over each other. * One of [[LarryNiven Niven's Laws]] sums this up perfectly: '''''There is no cause so just that one cannot find a complete idiot following it.''''' This applies to preventing global warming, Republicans, Democrats, gays, straights, undecideds, spreading the "word of the Christian God", or spreading the "word of how peachy keen anime is and how more people should give it a try before putting it down". * [[Tropers/{{Nohbody}} I]] am, from reading the above, probably rather farther to the right, politically, than a measurable part of the TVTropes readership, but even when I agree with JohnRingo's positions (which I do, far more often than not), the straw liberals and {{anvilicious}}ness make me cringe, even though I do enjoy the less obnoxiously political parts of his writing. While I did ultimately buy the e-book of ''The Last Centurion'', for example, I almost didn't after reading the free sample on webscription.net, covering the first 9 chapters. While I can see the argument that it help set up the overall storyline's setting, it still was a blatant AuthorTract that left me with a figurative headache from all the anvils dropped on my head. * [[Tropers/GracieGeek This Troper]] has read {{Twilight}}. I acknowledge the flaws (some of which are pretty glaring), but I enjoyed myself as I read it, which has to count for something. So, I will call myself a fan of the books. However, I harbour resentment towards the {{Fan Dumb}}. This vocal minority makes the rest of us look bad, and it just gives the {{Hate Dumb}} more material to work with. * I am a supporter of LGBT rights and the representation of such characters in fiction. But I resent it when - and recent YA novels can be particularly prone to this - they shove in a gay character whose defining characteristic is that they are...well, ''gay'', for the sole purpose of having one of the characters go, "Hey, guys, it's not cool to bash this character for being gay." Especially if it distracts from the main plot. It's fine if you want to write in gay characters. Just

make it so that they are ''characters'', and not just ''gay''. ---Click [[{{ptitle06aht2ly}} here]] to return to Don't Shoot The Mess**POW** * Wow, I agree that you should go back to the page, but that's just horrible. ----

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ptitle0z548336167v * In my first serious Dungeons and Dragons campaign [[{{Peteman}} This Troper]] ever ran, the characters were involved in an investigation of Orc raids around the Silver Marshes. They find out that the mayor of one of the towns is behind it, but they missed the part where he was working behind the backs of most of his people, causing them to think everyone was involved. So one guy breaks into the guy's mansion, interrogates a servant girl, knocks her out, and hides her. The other player sneaks in and gets seen by some (innocent) guards, so he knocks them dizzy, and sets fire to the place. In the confusion, they escape, but no one managed to find the unconscious servant girl, who burns to death. Eventually, they manage to escape and prove the connection to mayor and the orc raids. The man is captured and sentenced to hang, but he squeaks out a death curse at the fire starter (after he bribed the hangman to sabotage the noose so as to choke to death). The next arc has the arsonist charged with a great number of crimes, so the players have to prove his innocence, but he honestly has to respond to the large number of assembled troops sent to bring him in, after being read all the charges: "I am innocent of the majority of those capital crimes" * In a play by post game, this troper currently has two main characters running. One's a cynical world-hopping RealityWarper who messes with his powers mostly for shits and giggles but occasionally does something heroic to help out people he likes to make himself feel like a good guy. (He ''is'' actually [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold kind of a good guy]], but he's mostly been meddling in what doesn't need touched lately.) The other is a hard up HurtingHero who is absolutely the most loyal person ever ([[BodyguardCrush to one specific person, anyway]]), and is staunchly and firmly in the KnightInShiningArmor camp. Naturally, when the first started meddling in ways that had the effect of hurting people more than helping them while telling himself he was being good, just because one of his friends sort of turned out better off from it, the second called him the hell out. It was a punch in the gut reaction, and they're currently in a fight to prove which one of them is on the right path. The first character has come very close to being called out by several other people before, but none of them actually ''did'' it, so I figured he deserved a boot to the face. * [[DokEnkephalin I've]] had a few of these moments roleplaying online, especially since I've done a lot of them in settings with

extreme adult content. The worst guilt has been from the ones that no one called me out on. Such as killing a slave after raping her. Even though the context specifically permitted it, I had taken pride in avoiding that, leaving even the most troublesome slaves with some positive improvement. Killing isn't just wasteful, it's an evasion of a slave trainer's responsibility. My real life submissive, who was present both physically and in the game supported the decision, but I felt like hell about it. Much later, a good friend murdered a political prisoner after days of public humiliation and rape, and I also felt like hell because I contributed to that, but the killing was a shock. There's only so much I could admonish him, because I wasn't without blame myself, and I think what I had done was worse -- at least she had faced the risks by playing traitorous games in the court, while the slave I killed couldn't be held responsible for her insufficient training. But the captive noblewoman was a valuable contributor to roleplay, but after that she excused herself from it, so we lost a good player over it. ** What the hell game was this?? Cuz it sounds kinky and I like kinky. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This]] [[GranolaGirl vegan troper]] wrote a post in her blog basically saying this to PETA for their welfarist campaigns and absurd tactics (I regret not mentioning their euthanasia policy in that post [which involves killing healthy cats and dogs for whom they can't find homes], though, especially since that gets a big "what the hell, hero?" reaction from a lot of my fellow activists). ** I'd say the same reaction fits you for attacking their euthanasia policy. Many animal welfare agencies, including the Humane Society, generally have euthanasia policies established, only as an absolute last resort if they can't ever find a good home for perfectly healthy animals. Pets are expensive to maintain and animal welfare societies are mostly run by unpaid volunteers who love the animals they work with as much as anybody else does. That means the organizers and whatnot are almost always paying for the animals' well-being out of their own pockets. I've heard depressing stories from Humane Society volunteers who were brought to tears knowing they'd have to have some unpopular-yet-adorable cat or dog put down because they couldn't keep paying for its food and necessities. *** Original tropette here. Well, my problem is that PETA should maybe put more effort into educating people about why they should spay and neuter to prevent pet overpopulation and maybe raising money to build bigger shelters instead of putting their energy into making absurd naked protests and ads. And I wasn't attacking real animal shelters at all. They're doing the best they can with what they have. PETA gets tons of money from generous people every year, but seldom puts it into anything worthwhile. * In this troper's school, one of the students died. The trope was fulfilled when we were on the service and the priest, a complete idiot, said something like 'We must not be sad for this early death, for she will no longer be able to sin'. The school was not amused. * [[Tropers/HopelessRomance This Troper]] used to have a best friend. Then she ratted me out for a minor, off-hand comment I had made about these two mutual friends who were dating. I wasn't trying to hurt anyone, but she claimed I was talking behind their backs and she made

it seem like I was spreading rumors. (I wasn't.) Worst of all, I had no idea any of it was going on until it was too late. She completly shut me out. It took me getting upset because I wasn't invited to something before she even bothered to explain the problem. * In an RP I was in, My character was a mage who was terrorizing the surrounding villages. His reason for it was that he needed the artifacts from his villages to set his wife and son free, they were hostages at the time. One of the other characters made a joke about breaking one of the artifacts, and my character promptly SHIT A BRICK and set fire to the nearest village... It was sorted out later, and as it turns out, they shouldn't have given me the artifacts anyway, as I was actually a double agent trying to set free the ultimate evil... Who it turns out possessed me, and I was actually a good guy all along. Now here's where the What The Hell Hero part comes in. If my character didn't do all of that stuff willingly, the ultimate evil possessing him would've burnt away his very being. So He was willingly an omnicidal maniac just because if he wasn't, then he would've been killed. * Ever heard of the stereotype about the parents not letting their teenage kids drive the family car till they're past college age or well into adulthood? Averted oh so VERY HARD with this troper's parents when it came to driving lessons - I was forced to learn how to drive the family car at 15 because my parents wanted to save money on the insurance, not because I was really ready to learn how to drive. (The fact I didn't pass the learner's permit test the first or possibly the second time should've tipped them off, but NOOOO...) To add insult to injury, ''[[MoralDissonance not one parent of every peer I was familiar with or even my relatives called out my parents for their actions.]]'' At least I can now justify the stereotype if I ever have kids of my own one day, but seriously, What the Hell, Mom and Dad? ** This Troper is forced to learn driving as soon as it is legal for her to do so as well. Possibly made worse by the fact that she has a mild phobia when it comes to driving due to being caught in two traffic accidents in her life, and thus has a panick attack as soon as she gets behind the wheel. * In his first time playing Max Payne, this troper opened a door to find someone waiting for him -- and panicked, greeting him with several rounds from a shotgun.I was SUPPOSED to be rescuing him. * This troper has done these in and out of character on his old WoW RP server. ** The OOC one was regarding the main RP chat channel's alienation of several guilds due to having a bad reputation for ERP behind closed doors. Having dealt with those guilds before for regular RP I found them some of the most welcoming, enthusiastic people to RP with. I can't remember how much I called them out on it, but nothing much really changed. ** IC was my character's boss of the week (I played dragon to too many guilds to count) planning on going to war against a massive, multiguild alliance that ran a good chunk of the RP (he also had OOC motivations, most of us hated them for the previous issue) just as my character's first boss did, the one who went Eldritch abomination

before being assassinated. His demonically gifted powers against my character's engineering tricks, physical enhancements and innate skill. ** Another IC example was with another guild leader, this one heading up a cult of the forgotten shadow, who essentially invaded Silvermoon with undead troops (despite being a troll priest). Again the first boss parallel so I took down my rival dragon (he headed up regular troops, I headed up the lightslayer assassins) using a magical gift from a friend that essentially turned my undead engineer rogue into an ice demon host, only to find that my character's wife had already single handedly slaughtered the entire command structure of the guild before I could even deal with the replacement dragon. ----<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle12cnzhv6 * Hit this troper particularly hard. He'd been planning almost his entire life to join ROTC and get a commission in the Army as soon as he graduated. Cue his junior year of high school, when a previouslydormant genetic disorder popped up, causing enough health problems to make him completely ineligible for military service. Made even worse by his innate skill at tactical thinking, which had impressed his father's (military) friends as being on par with an experienced officer despite no formal training whatsoever. ** Something similar happened to someone at This Troper's school. He wanted to join the air force in order to fly fighter planes, and was offered a full scholarship to ''Harvard'' if he would do so, but it turned out he was too tall for the ejection mechanism to work properly and could not become a pilot. He declined the scholarship. ** And this troper, who wanted to join the US Navy after college. Cue the unwaiverable autoimmune disease cropping up halfway through sophomore year. ** Me? I want to be a Navy SEAL. I have aspergers. Come 2013, when the DSM-5 is published, it's going to become High Functioning Autism. This will almost surely bar me from any branch of the military, let alone SOCOM. And yet I still keep training... ** [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] can't sign up with the Australian armed forces due to requiring prescription medication. He sees going in the Reserves as pointless; since he feels it's no use if he's trained to go to war but likely won't (the Reserves would only see front-line combat if Australia itself was invaded). However, for [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] joining the Army would be less about patriotic duty [[{{DeathSeeker}} and more about dying with honour]], since he considers himself useless for all other purposes worthwhile. ** This troper had spent his entire life wanting and preparing to be a Pararescue Jumper in the US Air Force. Along comes the end of my sophmore year in high school, when I discovered that my color vision has red-green deficiency. I have since decided that I will be a combat medic in the Army.

* Due to this tropers school having a large concentration of Filipinos it is easy to imagine the fact that some of the people auditioning for the school play may have been turned down. Especially since the play was ToKillAMockingbird. ** Please elaborate, for those of us who don't know any Filipinos. *** If I may hazard a guess, it has nothing necessarily due to their being Filipinos, but rather to the fact that [[CompletelyMissingThePoint there were no Filipinos]] [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief in the American South]]. *** Wait, what? *** ...Since apparently it is needed: ToKillAMockingbird is in part a courtroom drama about an interracial rape case ''in'' the American South. It [[{{Understatement}} looses something]] if everybody's the same race. * [[@/AcrossTheStars This troper]], a diehard equestrian, had wanted to compete in showjumping since she was ten years old. Age sixteen, her left calf is crushed by a horse, leaving her with scar tissue and weakened muscles in that leg. Four years later she slips and falls on a sheet of ice on the driveway, pulling her right knee and leaving it weak and shaky, rendering her completely unable to hold a jumping position around a full course of fences. Combined with a body type not suited for riding (despite considerable talent), she'll never do more than pop a few crossrails at the local stable. Although she now wants to be a competitive reiner (a western discipline that puts much less stress on the legs), cleaning that jumpers' saddle still hurts. * This troper has known since she was 11 that the only thing she could ever be truly happy doing is acting. She's been told that she's pretty, intelligent, and has a really good natural instinct. Unfortunately, she also has a fairly severe case of social anxiety, in addition to panic attacks. This doesn't affect her ability to act stage fright is almost nonexistent for her. Unfortunately, who you know is usually more important than talent, and an actor has to have really good networking skills and the ability to market themselves. Interpersonal skills are [[{{understatement}} not her forte]] and she's trained herself over the years to be a unobtrusive as possible in unfamiliar social situations. Just thinking about having to bother people and talk herself up makes her heart rate speed up uncomfortably. [[ScrewDestiny This doesn't mean she's given up on her dream, though.]] It's actually the only reason she hasn't given up entirely and become a complete recluse. ** Wow, are you me? Seriously-- I'm going for a career as a dramaturg, not an actor, but otherwise every single thing you've said there is true for this troper. ** Well you could always hire someone to do the bothering people and talking you up part. *** You totally should. It's called an "agent" and that's ''why'' they exist. Live your dream, OP! * This troper's 9th grade science teacher was an epic aversion. He had lost a finger in a tree stump pulling accident when he was young. To fix this, the doctors took some skin from one of his other fingers and re-create the missing finger. Resulting in half a finger on one hand. The best part? He frequently used that finger to help his class

remember formulas. -->Teacher: "Remember this now; two *holds up two fingers* and a half! *wiggles the stump finger* * A person this troper knew who went to air cadets with me really wanted to get into the RAF, despite having a criminal record which was brought about by a massive case of ADHD. He did some tests and passed, and he got to the interview. He was absolutely flying through it, doing really well, when, just as he's about to leave, they ask if his criminal record had anything to do with his ADHD. He answered truthfully...only for them to turn around and say there's no way they'll ever let him in because of his ADHD. * This Troper's Mom wanted her to be a nurse. Just three things wrong with that. A: She faints at the sight of blood. B: Needles make her scream. C: She just isn't that fond of people in general. * This Troper contemplated becoming a Doctor. She's more than happy with blood and injuries and is a people person. My strong disliking/phobia for Hospitals would have been problematic. ** Not all medical specialties require hospital work, of course, though going though the residency would indeed pose an issue. Have you considered something like optometry (yes, I'm plugging my own future profession) or dentistry? * In a somewhat less tragic example, this Tropette wants to become a Voice Actress. One problem; she can't do any voices. Hopefully this is fixable. * [[{{neoYTPism}} This troper]] is type 1 diabetic, and wishes other type 1 diabetics would stop trying to get into the army. Come on, people, it isn't worth it. There are too many dire implications involved. It's a dangerous job for anyone, but especially for a type 1 diabetic. Think about what happens if your blood sugar goes low in the middle of a battle; your fellow soldiers wouldn't risk going into a coma if they kept running, but you would. It would be dangerous for you to sit still OR to keep going. That's just an example. How about focusing that activist momentum on trying to get this damn disease CURED? ** You think that it's wrong or stupid for people with medical conditions to [[{{ScrewDestiny}} give the finger to fate]] and pursue their dream? You would think that people who possess the same medical condition would be able to sympathize. ** [[{{Kazuko}} This Troper]] has hyperinsulinemia, the opposite of diabetes, and is currently able to do everything she can do. What's the problem? Noone gives a royal @#^% about her condition. CARE FOR ONCE PEOPLE!!! ---Let's think about [[SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs what could have been]]. <<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle1b1m5fiycpie * During a recent play of [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire Sapphire]] Deuxhero's team included a Spoink (latter Grumpig) with Icy Wind (After hatching it for the team, it was sent to XD to learn the move).

The move went unused entirely for the entire game, even on foes weak to ice, using mainly Extrasensory instead (80*1.5>55*2, plus extrasensory had more PP.). The unused move came back to save me against Drake and his team that was 4x weak to ice (lowering speed didn't hurt either). * For Freaki, his instance of this occurred in real life- he'd gone through school and he'd done his GCSEs, having done quite well in a number of subjects, including all of the sciences. he had decided to ditch science for A-levels in favour of Music, ICT and History. he flunked all but history so his school kicked him out, and he applied for an ICT course at the local college. the ICT course was full, but he was offered a place on the forensic science course which he took.

ptitle1e7k86g4 * At [[@/LeighSabio This Troper's]] synagogue, one of the rabbi's sons is [[TheFundamentalist even more religious than the rabbi.]] It gets annoying sometimes. * At this Troper Young Catholics group the priest's niece was mature, very catholic and the most generous girl in church she played guitar and sang in mass and adored her uncle. She was also a 15 years old teenage mom and there were gossip about the father being local Bad boy * Being a preacher's kid myself, I can say that I sent most of my life being the angelic type. Then I got to high school, and you really stop caring. Still do a good job on putting on the front though. My parents suspect nothing, heehee. * My father grew up as perfectly well-behaved preacher's son, who got good grades, never got into a bit of trouble and went to church four (four!) times a week. Once he moved out on his own, he started listening to metal music, going to bars and only going to church once a week-ish. He isn't a hard-drinking lout by any usual standard, but he's pretty deviant when compared to how he was raised, and how my grandparents still live. * My aunt is not a cleric but is the most religious one in the family and ''will'' preach at you for hours on end if you don't find a way to excuse yourself, and yet her three children are a [[BasementDweller basement-dwelling]] stoner, a teen mom, and another teen mom who's now an open lesbian (not a bad thing at all, just amusingly ironic, especially since she's the oldest and most successful out of her siblings). * At my church, the preacher's son is a ladies' man who loves pot. * This troper's stepdad is a pastor (although, he's basically my dad as I'm estranged from my biological father). I probably would be the "hellchild" example of the trope if he was a more conservative pastor, as I'm an agnostic, very active in pro-choice and feminist issues, and I enjoy drinking, partying, and smoking pot (though, not often or in large quantities). However, my stepdad is a very liberal Presbyterian, and he knows about all these things and isn't bothered by any of them - he's even proud of the political stuff I do. With regard to my agnosticism, he's said that he'd rather I be a true agnostic than a fake Christian. My younger sister, oddly enough, goes to a fundamentalist church with our bio dad and stepmom and has become

completely brainwashed by the church, and my stepdad is much more bothered by this than anything I have done. * [[Tropers/Market43Fan ThisTroper]] is one as well. * So is this one. Um... not much else to say, really. ** Given there are two types (obedient and rebellious), you could say which one you are. * This troper's father is a priest - luckily, he's a pretty liberal Anglican, so he didn't really have a problem with the thirteen-yearold 'I hate religion forever and I'm a wiccan now so there,' (which didn't stick, of course given that I was thirteen) nor with the 'Dad, I like girls' or the 'Dad, I'm a boy' that followed. Or the drinking and drug-experimenting and porn-sneaking or the death-metal-concertgoing... * My dad is a former preacher, and this troper fell under (and probably still does) the obedient type. ---[[PreachersKid Host a dance party in the undercroft and make your way back to the main page.]]

ptitle1fqxgbbvavmd * This troper is sick of being accused of doing dugs before bedtime. You see, I have a dream diary where i write all of my interesting dreams. So I dreamt about the zombie apocalypse, and the zombies wore smily face masks! I'm too weird and spaced out to consider doing drugs. ** Nah, you weren't doing drugs. You just played Killer7. ** Similar experience when this troper told people about a nightmare in which a dripping wet Camus chased her, repeating over and over "I was hit with a super soaker today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure." Yes, she dreams in xkcd. *** Technically, you are doing drugs during your sleep. It's known as DMT, and it's a hallucinogenic chemical that's produced in your brain during heavy REM sleep. Just a thought. **** Well, that sure explains a lot. * I will often respond to people joking about me being on drugs (But sometimes it seems like they seriously think I am) with, "I don't need drugs, I'm naturally high". * When [[@/{{Kingogtheingdaw}} This troper]] actually tells people what he imagines, such as his theory about how Terry Fox was a {{Terminator}} sent from the past to eliminate Canadian Scientists that want to destroy Skynet and his up and coming story about "Space Dragons". He was asked many times by his friends where he bought his hashish and if he was on drugs. ** "Space dragons" We have an overload of win here. ** Space dragons are awesome. Why do you think Ridley is in nearly every {{Metroid}} game? *** My Space Dragons will traverse space not with the mundane flapping of wings but with huge engines strapped on to their torsos. *** Like [[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Megatron_(BW)/toys#Beast_Wars Transmetal Megatron]]?

*** Yeah, except they won't be purple dinosaurs. ^_^ *** You mean I wasn't the only one who thought this was an awesome idea? *** MySpace Dragons? * [[@/{{Shini}} This Troper]] has been accused of being a druggist from the... insane ideas she has spouted, including creating an army of penguins to attack Bill O'Rielly to show him what a war on Christmas is. She never takes anything heavier then coffee everyday, and a couple of glasses of Wine every few months. She gets weirder on coffee withdrawals though. ** Of course, if you really ''were'' a druggist, you'd be supplying everyone ''else'' with drugs... * [[@/{{Shaon}} This Troper]] probably is considered by her group of friends to be taking ''something'' based on her dreams. She had one once where amphibious blueberry muffins from Atlantis kidnapped Stephen Colbert. ** Hang on, I wanna write that idea down, you have a pen? ** Are you [[@/{{Seungmina}} me]]? My friend asks the same thing when I tell her my dreams. I don't see what was so weird about drinking ninja juice and then learning Kung Fu. * This troper gets a lot of this. Once, when this guy was commenting on his weed use, I raised my hand to ask a question. One person said "You're on drugs too? I knew it!" * I imagine this question could be directly asked in relation to some tropers themselves. * "So, what's your fanfiction about?" "Well, it ended with the Doctor and his assistant chasing a gargoyle round a retirement home with a fire extinguisher." "Riiiight..." ** Aw, you can't give a bunch of geeks like us a description like that without a ''link!'' Come on! *** By the way, that sounds ''completely'' normal for a DW episode. As I progressed through that sentence, my brain just comfortably wrapped around that premise within seconds. * This troper asks her friends this question a ''lot''; in one case, one of her acquaintances ''was'' on drugs, which leads to a story about said acquaintance jumping out of a ''two story window'' to, and I quote, 'Fly with the unicorns'. --->Troper's Acquaintance: I want to fly with the unicorns. --->Troper's Friend: (totally unaware the acquaintance is ''high'') Sure, go ahead. --->* Acquaintance jumps out the window* --->Friend: OH MY GOD! I didn't mean [[LiteralGenie literally]]! ** Mhhh, this story is so clich that I've a hard time actually believing it. But please don't be offended [[RealityIsUnrealistic if it actually IS true]]. * This troper is an art student who enjoys making [[AlienGeometries H.R. Giger]] inspired paintings. I don't even drink ''coffee''. * This troper carries a handy memory notepad. The front carries random ideas and the back carries his homework information and etc. When he reached the middle he drew an epic picture of his homework notes fighting with his random ideas (everything from the word english with a giant minigun to the number Pi being a giant walker thing to a

smily-scorpion shooting the most epic laser ever out of it's sting.) The first friend that saw it told me to go to rehab. ** This troper wishes to see that picture, [[RuleOfCool for obvious reasons]]. ** Must... see... or... life... won't... be... complete... * [[@/{{Nettik}} This troper]] has been told by more than one friend she must have been a drug addict in a past life with some of the effects left over. The only "drugs" she takes in this lifetime are caffeine from Dr. Pepper and theobromine from super-dark chocolate. [[TheSimpsons Mmm... 85 percent...]] * [[@/{{Nomic}} This troper]] is working on a webcomic but sadly has no time to draw it at the moment, so he just comes up with stories to draw when he has the time. Some of them can be very weird (like one which ends with a demon lord receiving family counceling from a dr.Phil-esque tv host), but the idead he's discarded tend to be even weirder. Like the one where Santa Claus, who turn out to actually be Nodens, the Lord of the Abyss, does battle againt Nyarlathotep (on a sled pulled by nightgaunts). He still isn't sure where the hell that idea came from, but he was deprived of sleep when he thought it up. * When you're stuck in one of those horrible laughter loops where the fact that you can't stop laughing strikes you as tremendously funny, being asked "Are you on something?" just does not help. Even without marijuana being involved. (This resulted in this troper and three of her friends taking to wearing buttons that said "if anyone asks, just say we're high on life".) ** Yeah, that happens to this troper a lot as well. * This troper almost wishes he did drugs, because it would explain the kind of stuff he writes in his free time. * This troper's plot ideas (and ideas of what equals FanService) appear to have been conceived on a very bad trip. I've been told this. * All songs, stories and plot ideas from a long ago drug-induced time, are now greeted as 'so that's fine.' Anything written now, along with my general personality, is greeted with, 'are you sure you're not high?' To any of my friends reading this, NO I'M NOT! * This troper has a ... vivid imagination. This led to an interesting moment when I tried to explain something to my friend. -->'''Me:'''Well basically it's a story about this[[MagicalGirl girl]] who was [[ArtificialHuman grown in a test tube]] by a [[GovernmentConspiracy splinter group]] of the worlds Paranormal Utilization Division. And one day her and her [[MagicalGirl best friend]] (who has a [[EmpathicWeapon magic]] [[EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana sword]]), The [[BlackAndNerdy Geeky boy]] who has[[PrecociousCrush a crush on her]], an extremely [[HotBlooded dramatic]] and [[PerkyGoth very cheery goth]], and the [[CuteBruiser super tough boy]] who [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend she's known since she was 5]] start [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld saving the world]] from [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] who come from [[AnotherDimension a different plane of reality]]. But then this [[BigBad evil scientist/mage]] show's up with [[TheDragon a samurai fanatic]], OmnicidalManiac, a scary [[PlayingWithFire pyromaniacal]] [[DarkActionGirl woman]], a [[ClockworkCreature clockwork robot]] sworn to protect a [[DragonLady mercenary]] who [[AnIcePerson controls

ice]] who has in turn sworn to protect a [[DarkMagicalGirl cute little girl]] who [[TearsOfBlood cries blood]] and they want to use the dragons to [[TheWarHasJustBegun start a war]]. The team end up having to tame dragons by [[TransformationSequence magically transforming]] with the power of an [[AncientKeeper ancient]] super powered [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]]. But luckily for the team a government group show up to help them. And these people have a [[NonHumanSidekick robot dog]] which can turn into [[SuperMode an armour]], a motorbike which can turn into [[SuperMode an armour]], [[WallOfWeapons loads]] of [[WaveMotionGun guns]], a [[CoolCar super fast car]] and a [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha giant robot suit]] called the [[FunWithAcronyms Goliath-Occult-Defender]]. And then when the good guy's are in a really bad shape their [[ThePsychoRangers evil equivalents]] show up! But they're being [[MoreThanMindControl mind controlled]] so the good guys save them with ThePowerOfFriendship. Then there is like this HUGE [[SeasonFinale climax]] where the evil mage summons an army of [[HalfHumanHybrid half human]] [[MixAndMatchCritters half dragon]] mutants which are defeated along with the BigBad, but I don't know how yet. -->'''My friend:''' ... -->'''Me:''' I'M NOT ON HIGH!!!! * This troper was kind of surprised this ''wasn't'' the reaction a project a group of his classmates turned in for an audio recording class got: They were supposed to overdub some kind of skit, mock commercial, or other spoken word piece over pre-recorded music, and what they turned in was one of them reciting nonsense like "sleep and Bruce Campbell" in a very calm, soothing voice over a mellow Santana instrumental. The story behind it is that their attempt to brainstorm for ideas very quickly derailed into SeinfeldianConversation, and one member had been surreptitiously writing down whatever odd out-ofcontext phrases came up to use as the script. "Sleep and Bruce Campbell", by the way, came about because one of them had gotten up very early that morning to wait in line for an ''If Chins Could Kill'' book signing; He'd said something along the lines of "All I can think of right now is sleep and Bruce Campbell". * I wrote a story one time, in English, where a sentient TRAFFIC LIGHT is placed in position, hit by a car after a year or so, had a malformed brother he met at the scrapyard, got upgraded with lots of scrap, like laptops for brains and went on a rampage against humans.It ended in nuclear war. * this was the resulting comment when this triper shared a dream she had with her friends, the dream involved her sitting on the bank of a river having an existential conversation with a being best described as a biomechanical half cerberus half centaur (imagine a centaur with a wolf lower half rather than a head the neck sprouts several cables and wires connected to the left arm that ends in a large cannon/jet engine which in turn is ended in three wolf heads) * This troper hangs out with many people who act very, very high. What comes out of their mouths sounds like drug talk. So this troper has a tendency to ask (deadpan, mind you), "Tell me what drug your on... so I can note never to try it." * Funtimes is Psychology class! We spent a good deal of time

discussing how much cocaine Frued consumed regularly! It was less "This stuff is nonsense" and more "I can't believe some of this stuff actually works! But Frued defiantly had issues with the penis" * This troper sometimes finds that if she stays up all night, no booze or drugs involved, right around dawn she starts getting lots of good ideas. Following her writing of a short script that opens with a pair of eyeballs rolling around on their own, a number of peple asked her what particular chemical inspired it. * [[@/{{starshine}} This troper]] was part of her high school's French Club board. We would have planning meetings before club events and since we were all {{Nakama}}, it was not unheard of for said meetings to run very late. Once during a meeting, at around 11:30 PM, we decided we wanted Wendy's (a tradition of ours). A few of us took all the orders and drove down. How it must have looked to the drivethrough operators to have three teenagers blasting French technopop and laughing hysterically order fast food for seven people... * [[@/MmmKay This troper]]... Wow, where to begin? I've done stuff that people think is from the mind of a drug'd weirdo, but I'm not only ''not'' a drugged one, but I also hate how people have screwed up the word "high". I'm high on life, truely, but no, modern times have changed our perception on things, which reminds me of a quote from one of my old art teachers... ** [-"If you want to get high, go climb a ladder."-] * This troper has three examples: ** A strange dream in which I was playing Warhammer 40,000 with Charles Bronson and John Hurt (and there was something about fucking Tyranids in there) ** This troper laughing hysterically upon seeing the words [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Kant_Tori_Read_(album) Y Kant Tori Read]] and upon discovering that he cannot say ConvectionSchmonvection correctly without bursting into laughter. ** Whenever this troper goes to the bathroom, I laugh uncontrollably for no apparent reason. I could be watching Schindler's List, walk in to take a whiz, and start giggling. * This troper danced. His friend asked what the troper was doing, because he wanted the same. * This troper had to create a continent for school in one of his classes. He created... NINTENDONESIA! A continent shaped like the word Wii with places named after places from Nintendo games (and Ice Age), example being a volcano named Death Mountain. Even more surprisingly is that the teacher loved it! Another intersting continent was Larry, a rectangle with a bite taken out of it. When asked who made the bite, the creator of it stated, "I did". Unfortunatly, this makes so much more sense if you were there, but if you were, you'd think that my entire school was made on drugs. ** Speaking of the school, there seems to be a possibility that the person who made the school itself was on drugs. Let's see, you go from Room A115 to A128 from one door to the next. The rooms in between those numbers are on the complete opposite side of the building, and this was not in a circular way where this situation could make sense. * This troper was asked if she was ever on drugs once. She dosn't quite remember what it was about, but it probably had something to do

with aliens. Most likely, she was simply explaining her perfectly logical and sound-minded reasoning for believing that there is life on other planets. * [[@/DialgaX This Troper]] once wrote a a fan fiction that placed [[TheLandBeforeTime Land Before Time]] characters into a military science fiction setting. This was the result of chugging 32 ounces of strong tea and dancing to near exhaustion to Juno Reactor's track ''Zwara''. * This troper's reaction to a bit on the MAX music channel about the "top 50 music videos" was along the lines of "If these guys ''aren't'' taking anything, ''then'' I'll start being worried." ** A guy with a really cool moustache in drag. [[spoiler: Queen, ''I Want To Break Free'', and yes, I do know that was Freddy Mercury, thankyou for asking.]] ** Porn. [[spoiler: Duran Duran, ''Girls On Film'']] ** Badly-animated mermaid porn and random maiming. [[spoiler: Radiohead, ''Paranoid Android'']] ** Mummies and skeletons dancing with robots. [[spoiler: Daft Punk, ''Around the World'']] ** Just...I have no frigging idea what was going on in another video. [[spoiler: The Avalanches, ''Frontier Psychiatrist'']] ** Some guy dancing around, and then he starts flying. [[spoiler: Fatboy Slim, ''Weapon of Choice'']] ** Lots of really creepy grins. [[spoiler: Soundgarden, ''Black Hole Sun'']] * This troper was once spouting off some strange idea she'd had(don't remember what it was, this was awhile ago) when her friend interrupted, turned to another friend and said "Stop giving her drugs." I giggled before saying "No, no, he didn't give me the drugs, he just told me where to go!" Another time, with another friend, I was going on about something else equally as insane while my friend nodded and "Mm-hmmed" in all the right places. When I'd finally finished, he said "Yeah, meth's a hell of a drug, ain't it?" * I usually have very unusual way of thinking. Sometimes it lead to simpler solution but I was also once (as a joke) accused of taking drugs. ** Hey you, stop being [[Tropers/KatanaCat me]]! * I asked what drugs my friend Patrick was on when he said that, in one of his dreams, "It was crazy! Parallax, Anti-Monitor and Superboy Prime kidnapped Stephen Colbert and ransomed him for ten billion dollars, which Prime used to buy comics all day, and got attacked by an army of penguins he was in debt to led by the Penguin himself while Mandrakk killed the stars of Twilight for degrading the vampire status." He is a comic fanatic. I asked him, "So, where did you buy the crack?" * This troper got this reaction after foolishly telling his friends about a rather ... unusual dream involving fridges full of infinite cabbages, an 'aqua bear', donkey from Shrek causing world wide famine by eating everything, and a slightly compromising situation involving his sister and a unicorn. * One of the less insane dreams I've had basically involved me taking

back all the cigarette packets from my maths teacher and then giving it back to the cast of [[{{Saiyuki}} Saiyuki]] and serving them 'justice' for all the betting money that was also taken away by my maths teacher. I told my friend and he was utterly CONVINCED that I had been smoking something before going to bed that night. He then ranted about how it would be awesome to be a drug dealer. However, it's nothing compared to my usual dreams. I remember one that involved me getting chained in a bathtub by Winnie The Pooh and then flushed down the toilet where the pipes turned into an underground water slide and then I fell down the chimney. I don't have a chimney. * This troper has had several, including unstoppable fits of laughter, which many people asked me if I was on something, and one time at an all night school event where he won a toy polar bear, and promptly came up with a back story in which everyone present learned the bear was named Pete, he had super-powers, he was an alien, he was a strict vegetarian, and his favorite food was tofu seal. In my defense, the lateness of the hour has a correlation to my insanity. And I relish it. * This Troper's whole art class looks like they've done drugs for this past painting. A friend of mine and myself both have art that looks like we're permanently on drugs. No, none of us are on drugs. * A lot of the random things I say or do tend to evoke this sort of question from people, despite my being very sober at all times. For example, at law camp, we ended trivia night with one member from each team in a dance competition. Going all out by stripping off my jacket, jumping up on one of the tables and tipping a cup of beer on myself in a Flashdance tribute, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome I won.]] Since then, people have asked me what came over me that night. My response? "...[[ChappellesShow Cocaine is a hell of a drug]]..." * This troper, whose brain is wired a little oddly - thank synaesthesia for that one - gets this response from a lot of people. She doesn't even drink that much. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] had [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs}} not done anything illicit]] but was rather perplexed the next morning when he woke up - from a dream he was playing a platform game whose storyline included a [[{{YouGottaHaveBlueHair}} indigo-violet furred]] [[{{FantasticFoxes}} vaguely fox-like]] cartoon FunnyAnimal [[{{TheHero}} as the main character]], and started in a forest-laden GreenHillZone (fair enough), but started being like a foreign (maybe [[{{LandDownunder}} Australian?]]) equivalent of a WidgetSeries, but had among other things: an ongoing plot involving a long-standing interstellar war between [[{{AmericaSavesTheDay}} vaguely heroic]] [[{{Eagleland}} Eagelonians]] (a nation of FunnyAnimal types, mostly [[{{BigBadassBirdOfPrey}} bald eagles]] (leaders?) and[[{{EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies}} bloodhounds]] (likely a warrior caste) fighting a race of BrainwashedAndCrazy [[{{EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels}} chipmunks]] using [[{{MobileSuitHuman}} combat suits which let them fight anything bigger than a rat and win]] - not to mention their leader, [[{{GeneralRipper}} General]] [[{{LawyerFriendlyCameo}} Nival]], a [[{{ANaziByAnyOtherName}} proponent of chipmunk supremacy]]

[[{{FantasticRacism}} especially over the grey squirrels who]] [[{{RunForTheBorder}} (once)]] [[{{FantasticRacism}} shared his homeworld]] [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic}} even though he is halfgrey squirrel himself]] - strangely enough, Nival is in the game revealed to be only TheBrute in a FiveBadBand whose BigBad is a HumanoidAbomination whose appearance is [[{{NoCelebritiesWereHarmed}} extremely similar to]] Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke (for images of her as well as an idea of who she is, go to [[link:http://www.katemillerheidke.com/]]) - obviously the programmer of the game in the dream (and by extension, [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] who is going to de-bonkers a bit of the dream and hopefully use something like GameMaker to turn it into a real game) who is didn't like her singing that much and all-but made a LawyerFriendlyCameo of her in that role as a TakeThat...maybe a LawyerFriendlyCameo of [[{{Epica}} Simone Simons]] could be the BigGood RebelLeader of LaResistance to Kate Miller-Heidke's [[{{TheEmpire}} more imperialistic]] GalacticConqueror role in such a thing... * This troper is mistaken a lot due to having a hairstyle that makes him look crazy/justoutofbed, is frequently tired so he looks stoned (mostly due to being up late.... not on Tvtropes, yep), and sleeps during class. He doesn't do drugs damn it! Aside from prescribed medicine, of course, that has no side effects strangely. However, it's more of a joke among his friends, especially since I'm one of the more goody two shoes types, but occasionally, there is a person serious... * When this troper looked closely at this [[http://sssilver.deviantart.com/art/Oven-118751908 deviantART piece]], all he could think of was a seriously fucked-up Looney Tunes short. * A strange example comes from when This Troper's school was celebrating [[DrugsAreBad Red Ribbon Week]]. Neither I or my friends take it very seriously, and when we had to make little posters saying why we would never use drugs, we thought it was pretty silly. I scribbled that I knew I'd never need them, reasoning being that I'm known for a wacky imagination. However, feeling bored, I started drawing what somehow turned into a picture of a stick-figure anthropomorphic cat with a monocle, top-hat, and cup of tea. When I finished it and took a look at it I burst out laughing. * [[Tropers.GamerFromJump I]] sometimes get accused of this when I share my technical solutions to real-world problems, even though I don't drink or use any drugs. Just what's so ''wrong'' about wanting to create robot bees to preserve agriculture in places affected by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder colony collapse disorder]]? * After This Troper referred to and attempted to explain a potential {{DisneyAcidSequence}} (complete with a serving of {{DerangedAnimation}}) involving a stuffed animal that she was tossing around suddenly vomiting all over her, her friends jokingly questioned whether or not she had snorted a certain illicit substance up the nose. [[{{SubvertedTrope}} Subverted]] as she actually had. * My subconscious is seriously messed up. For example, in one dream I was being chased by some people through a forest, so the answer is

OBVIOUSLY to set fire to the forest then run over the remains in a tank. Followed by a giant mech fight between myself, Jay Leno, and Stephen Colbert... narrated by Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. I don't need drugs to see things or giggle uncontrollably, heck I do that normally. There's nothing wrong with me other than I have a deranged imagination. * Recently, [[Tropers.TechnicolorPachyderm I]] wrote a piece for a nonfiction writing seminar about a concert I went to on Halloween. The night seriously ended with a ghost, a giant talking cat, and the Great Pumpkin leading the crowd in a waltz. While discussing the piece, everyone in the seminar flat-out accused me of being on drugs. * I have a tendency to ask questions that make perfect sense to me but absolutely no sense to anybody else. It ends with a lot of moments of FridgeBrilliance or at least [[EverybodyisJesusinPurgatory some really bizarre metaphors of simple songs]]. For the record, I only take two medications and they're for ADHD and depression so they dont' do anything to me other than calm me down and get me to focus. * While it is true that this troper is a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], has rather nonstandard thought processes, and is generally not your average human, He also likes to smoke WEEEED in obscene amounts, so you've really only got a 50% chance of guessing correctly wether or not he is high. Unless he does mushrooms... * [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct This troper]] often gets this, mostly for the CloudCuckooLander thoughts-out-loud. Though I think that some of my stories or ideas totally merit this reaction. Sometimes I look back on my works and think "What the hell was I on when I wrote this and where can I get some again?". Even though I'm StraightEdge. * This conversation has convinced this troper's friends that she is either insane or on something she shouldn't be: --> '''Troper's friend''' Hey, what are you writing? --> '''Troper''' I'm writing a story where a Unicorn impales Edward Cullen and turns into a rainbow cat that barfs glitter. --> '''Troper's friend''' .... *backs away slowly* * [[Tropers/KatanaCat This Troper]] is a Cloudcuckoolander, to the point that she acts like a cat (curls up in a ball when she sleeps, bats at passing insects, etc.) and has attempted to lick her own elbow on more than one occasion, and has determined that the latter is indeed possible with a long enough tongue. That is normal for her. But the longer she's been awake, the more high she acts, and by the time she's been up for over 12 hours she starts studying her hands. How much she enjoys watching ''TokyoMewMew'' is proportional to how long she's been up. I'm also writing this right before I finish watching my show and go to bed. Hehe, random plant monsters are awesome, and so are my hands. * One day, this Tropette (who has never done any illegal drugs) was drawing a picture of a Chernabog-esque gargoyle sitting on an armchair, while Bugs Bunny's head grew out of an eyed-and-rooted-sweet potato with a checkerboard background behind it. A classmate of hers who was used to taking LSD and DXM cocktails ended up asking her "what drugs are ''you'' on? Please tell me, I must have them!" * My dreams sometimes makes me wonder... I've dreamt of things like watching a bike race where the participants got thrown blue plastic

cups on, and, later in the same dream, riding on a giant spider through a forest while eating candy spheres in different colors... in another dream, I was doing homework and drinking weird purple drinks with Poland from Hetalia. And that's just a few of them. * People have been known to be quite surprised when they learn that I've never once smoked pot (the ones who were most surprised were the stoners I hung out with, who were almost certain I was one too). My response when asked was always "nope, I'm just weird". * I was once told "You are crack personified" by a friend after I threatened to rip off his dick and feed it to the wolverines if he said anything about me saying something so immortally stupid about a guy I liked. I then went onto some long spiel about how the wolverines were named Charles and Millicent and were rather debounair in their tastes of dicks but they were watching their weight because dicks were very fattening to them so instead they snack on celery and cucumbers and then for some reason exclaimed that I once punched a deer in the face. I do not know why I said this but I think my brain was shorting out over the sheer embarrassment. * For a while people claimed that this Troper's artwork was so colourful that I must have had to been on an acid trip or something. * I'm a hyper, silly person by nature. What amazes me is that people feel the need to be drugged to be this way. Are they ''that'' tightly wrapped? * This Troper's dad falls into this from time to time usually involving his dreams. One of my favorites was "sunbathing at the beach watching a flock of palm trees fly by" (apparently they move like jellyfish in a V formation) ** But the best one was fighting a dragon with [[LooneyTunes Yosemite Sam]]. Strange but not that wierd right? He didn't fight alongside Sam. He picked Sam up by his [[BadassMustache Badass Mustache]] and beat the dragon to death with him. [[GrievousHarmWithABody Grievous Harm With A Body]] indeed. * this tropers friends must be on drugs, as they never had this reaction from her. or her OBSESSION with jalapenos. or her incomprehensible writing style. or the fact that I act like Im on drugs(very wide eyed, contantly.) or that everything she said the one time she was on drugs was [[NoodleIncident completely true]] * On an 18 hour classtrip from Spain to Germany we watched TheHoliday. Most of the students found the movie boring, when I told them the movie was much more interesting replacing the british guy with the tenth doctor there was an answer similiar to this trope. * This troper's father was certain that some Finnish designer was really drugged when he designed [[http://www.fonearena.com/photos/albums/nokia/1209/nokia-1209flashlight.jpg a cellphone with a flashlight]]. * One school day, this troper woke up with a cold and pink eye. Despite being sick, my parents decided it wasn't much and sent me to school. Now, this troper has ADHD, and has to take some medicine to keep his nerves in check. This medicine (along with me getting barely any sleep) must have combined with my sickness to create something...off. Now normally, I'm quite the cloudcuckoolander, talking to myself constantly, saying weird things, zoning out, the

usual stuff. But today I stumbled (not walked, stumbled) into school with pink red/eyes and pale skin. I talked in a weird voice, constantly pausing in between words and saying just the most bizarre things, like a really weird fable I made up involving a cantalope, an antelop, a bunny, a moat, a scorpion, and a really nice coat (might post it later). That I stumble I started the day with persisted, too. The whole school was convinced that somebody must have slipped some marijuana in me somehow. I was finally sent to the nurse and sent home. I acted like that the whole day. * I absolutely hate the way everyone today is so devoid of imagination that they assume anything even slightly out of the ordinary was druginspired. In my opinion, people who use drugs to come up with weird stuff are cheaters. And the really aggravating thing is, most of these things aren't that weird at all. I know this is more of a Headscratchers thingy, but I'm incompetent so I'm too dumb to make a Headscratchers page. But this does have something to do personally with me too. I like writing very surreal stories, and if they ever got published (highly unlikely) I know someone would assume I was on drugs. * I act [[CloudCuckoolander spacey]] and I write [[CrackFic crack fics.]] So I often joke around that I'm high on something [[GratedDrug (Invisible pixie-sticks)]]. To the point that someone in my Drama class actual thought I was a crackhead. * Pretty much anything this troper's dad says. Lines like "I just fell over like a little ping-pong ball" aren't uncommon. He has stopped smoking weed a long time ago though, or so he says... Also many of the troper's dreams qualify. Sure, everything makes sense in dreams, two headed aliens, flying desk lamp, Jessie (from Pokemon) covered in mud jumping out of a WW2-style plane... and it [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext makes just as much sense in context.]] ---S-..-so you click this zeld---dida to get back to WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs? ..,Woah/ the link spiiiiiiiiralyinh out at me.

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ptitle1qxhju8s * ArtificialStupidity: [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}} This Troper]] had an amazing moment of this in one of the Wolfman Lairs. Ezio was fighting several Followers on top of a high structure. [[MadeOfIron Ezio]] was knocked off the ledge and fell several stories. [[EasierThanEasy Predictably]], he didn't die, but the Followers proceeded to hurl themselves down at Ezio, killing themselves painfully. * Accidentalbadass: During an attempt to kill a Borgia Captain this

troper accidently switched to unarmed combat while chasing the captain down. What happened when I finally reached the captain? I tackled him and broke his neck and immediately chain kill to the one guard who had followed as well.

ptitle1rso1cury6lx * This troper has done everything on this page and has been called insane so many times that his is nicknames the antichrist (sorry if I laught at [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deuteronmy%2028&version= NIV this]]) * This troper is somewhat [[{{Understatement}} eccentric]], so she gets this quite alot - even from her friends. The dialogue typically goes: --> ... Wow, you are insane. --> And you only just figured this out? Thanks anyway. <3 * This Troper's been accused of this enough that he's compiled a list of sarcastic responses to accusations of insanity: ** You're nuts: "Yes, what about them?" ** You're fucking crazy/psychotic/insane: Now, it's not nice to call {{your mom}} crazy/psychotic/insane. ** You are a nutjob/whackjob: {{Your mom}} gave me a nutjob/whackjob --> Are you crazy? --> Do you see that fetal godling over there shifting in and out of our 3-D universal superimposition while holding a signed photograph of Chris Kattan? --> No! --> Then, Yes. I'm crazy. * Before this troper and her boyfriend got back together(How we got back together and why we broke up is a different story altogether), she called him out of concern because she thought he was going into surgery. It went like this: ** -Troper calls her Ex at the time, {calling him X) X picks up and there's a long pause before Troper speaks- "Hello...?" -X finally speaks- "...You're insane. Do you realize what time it is?" -Troper whimpers, about to apologize, X stops her- "I'm not mad at you, what's wrong?" * This troper always gets people calling her nuts, to which my response is, "Tell me something I don't already know." The sad part is, I think I might actually have some kind of psychologial problem. * This Troper once replied to this accusation with "Oh, thank God you noticed. I was beginning to think it was all in my head". * I reply with "How long did it take you to notice?" * I tell them not to state the obvious most of the time. * This troper sometimes comes back with "you've got no idea." He's surprised that that hasn't ever been the wrong thing to say * This troper gets this all the time, usually followed by " Don't scare the children" * This troper hears this all the time, from a friend of hers. Her reply? "I'm not crazy. My perception of reality is '''NOT EQUAL TO

YOURS!''' * Holy crap, yes. I am called this ALL THE FRICKING TIME!!! Of course, they have a reason for it. I may not be clinically insane but it' pretty obvious a couple screws are loose up here. By this point my response is to give them a 'you idiot' look and go, "No, really?" * I get this at least 5 times a day. However, it is more a constructed persona to get people to just shrug me off as crazy as I proceed to manipulate their emotions for the sake of testing what I learned in my profiling class. * When asked if he's insane, this troper replies "Yes" or "Probably". * This troper was once confronted by a few classmates, who promptly told him he was weird. In fact, it went something like this: --> Guy 1: You're weird. --> Me: ''(cheerfully)'' Yep! --> Guy 2: You're weird --> Me: ''(rolls eyes)'' Don't be an asshole. * Whenever someone tells this troper that he is weird or insane, he replies with "Yes we are insane, is that supposed to be a bad thing?" * This roper got into a similiar exchange on a mud, where it is quite common to get killled by other players. --> Random Person: I am sad and deeply hurt that you did not tell me you already had a Katana. --> Me: I am just cautious. --> RP: Oh, so you already got killed for your stuff? --> Me: No, I am just wary of it because I read about it. --> RP: You are paranoid. --> Me: I know? * This troper is actually schizophrenic and bi-polar, so he can use it to justify people calling him insane for just being a [[NightMareFetishist fre]][[CloudCuckooLander ak]]. * This troper is frequently called insane and has been nicknamed "psychopath" by a college friend. This troper remembers when they decided to ask me what I aways listened to between classes, and found out it was actualy gorgoroth, incipid satan to be precise. * This troper occasionally gets questions about him being insane, to which he gleefully responds to with yes. * This troper says it to everybody who around her who are illogical. It's alot of people. * [[{{ej92}} This troper]] gets this on a daily basis. * [[{{Moosefromabove}} This troper]] didn't pick up the nickname "Crazy Russian" for nothing. * [[{{Wafflezaejos}} This troper]] gets this so often, he made a list of possible responses. --> You're crazy/nuts/insane/mad/weird: Why,yes,yes I am. --> Same as above, when a close friend says it: Dude, we've know each other for a long time, and it took you this long to figure it out? --> You're weird: No, I'm just a complex person/ That's a relative term, on my world, YOU'RE weird.

---> [[{{Mistaken for gay}} Are you gay?]]: Yeah, but I've got a schedule. So, from 4 pm to 6 pm I am gay. * This troper is told this fairly frequently, albeit usually by friends. Typical responses include a deadpan "I hadn't realized" and "You mean to say that you ''aren't''?" * My Momma told me Insanity is as Insanity does. Regardless of that, I fit quite nicely and happily here. The real world is far to boring and depressing to want to dwell in. Though my fascination with deadly dangerous things like explosives, fire, poisons, fire, acids, explosives, vicious predators, BDSM, and fire might be cause for my "peers" suspicions. * This seems to happen to me alot. example Friend of troper: You're insane! Troper:Really? I thought I was a Pisces. * This happens [[Tropers/ThirtyTwoFootsteps to me]] when I go to cook with other people - apparently, my ideas on how to produce tasty food strike others as massive instances of [[CordonBleughChef the Cordon Bleugh school of cuisine]] until they actually try it. One prominent example involved my attempt at perfecting a coating for honey hot wings - honey and hot sauce alone were tasty, but too one-note. My friend went through his fridge to see if there was any ingredient I could use - he had to ask twice if I really wanted to try duck sauce (i.e. sweet & sour sauce), followed by the trope name. The only appropriate response was an EvilLaugh - followed by making really awesome wings. * This troper, all the time by her friends. A lot of times she'll do a little harmless sneaking up on them, poking them (gently), going into an InsaneTrollLogic rant, or randomly bursting out into song/quoting some book she's read (usually Shakespeare) and then someone will say, [[YoureInsane "You're crazy,"]] [[YoureInsane "You're nuts,"]] [[YoureInsane "You're insane,"]] or "You are so silly." This troper has thought up a response to someone saying, "You're nuts" to her ("I am not nuts. A guy's nuts are in his pants. I have never been in a guy's pants. Neither am I an actual nut. Therefore, I am not nuts by any means") but has yet to come up with a comeback for the other ones. ---[[YoureInsane You're insane if you don't go back to the main page!]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle1sp9cx5srgb8 * My school sings "Another brick in the wall" on a yearly basis. Lampshaded one year by my friend. * This troper, for his middle school graduation, had to make a video and picture montage. The easy part was spending three weeks of classes hanging out in the halls and snapping random school photos, but then came the required "musical accompaniment". So, I picked ''Goodbye Stranger'' since I thought it was about goodbyes and it was on ''TheOffice''. Little did I know it's about a guy who has one-night stands and leaves before the women wake up. Luckily, nobody in my

class had a knowledge of Supertramp, so I was thankfully spared. Until I was told the teacher would be using ''mine'' as an example in the coming years of the project... * I once saw a slideshow of wedding photos set to "William It Was Really Nothing" by TheSmiths. Too bad that person who put the video together didn't realize it's about someone trying to convince his buddy not to get married. * As a new project for the Grade 12 media class, this troper's teacher had the class film stuff around the school for several weeks before compiling the footage, as well as photos, into a video promoting the school. This was mostly going to be shown to grade 9s. This troper, usually particularly vigilant in paying attention to lyrics, had "Snow" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers playing for the faculty/staff section. To be frank, it was for lack of a better song (it was either that or "Who Are You" by The Who), and she liked it, so she didn't particularly care. ** Who needs to listen to the lyrics? It's by the Chillis and it's called "Snow"... * Once I saw a surfing playlist which contained Jimi Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand", a song about -- among other things -- ''a crippled little girl driving her wheelchair into the sea to escape her awful life''. ** [[BerserkButton NO IT FUCKING ISN'T!]] An alien ship passes by and magically heals her! Read the goddamn lyrics! *** Alien ship? Magical healing? What are you smoking and can I have some? In no way can the song itself support such a hypothesis. *** Although the lyrics aren't the happiest Jimi wrote, the part about the girl actually has the happy ending: -->But then a sight shed never seen made her jump and say -->Look a golden winged ship is passing my way -->And it really didn't have to stop, it just kept on going... * This troper's mother rarely misses the opportunity to inform her that she wants Green Day's "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)" played at her funeral. Um...okay. ** As does this troper's sister, except ''she knows what the song is really about''. *** It's like they hear "I hope you had the time of your life" and nothing else. ** This troper was at a Green Day concert and when Billie Joe started "Good Riddance," the woman behind her said, "This was my wedding song." Missed the point, indeed. ** Folks, [[DeathOfTheAuthor nobody has a monopoly on how to interpret a song]], and it's not like the lyrics can't easily be fitted to many non-breakup-oriented situations. Although "tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial" is cryptic no matter ''what'' you assume the song to be about. ** Pfft. This lurker/troper's father has asked for "Ha Ha You're Dead" to be played at ''his'' funeral. *** This troper is fully aware of the trope and has a whole list of songs he could decide from. It's too bad he can't bring himself to put on some JonathanCoulton in there. **** See, I knew I wasn't alone...I want "Ha Ha You're Dead" played at

my funeral as well... ** This troper thinks it would be funny if someone said they wanted "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" played at their funeral. *** Now that's putting the fun in funeral. *** This troper is tempted to do just that. She's Pagan. **** This troper wants ''Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'' to be played in his funeral. ***** This troper's father did have ''Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'' played at his funeral. It ruined the song for my sister, and I didn't understand the relevance at the time. *** Not that's it's a Troper Tale, but worth mentioning it was played at [[MontyPython Graham Chapman]]'s funeral too. ****** While we are talking about Spamalot, wouldn't it be funnier to play "Not Dead Yet" at a funeral? At the very least, it would be stranger. ******* [[OlderThanTheyThink Who said anything about Spamalot?]] ******** This troper wants ''Another one bites the dust'' to be played at his funeral. ******** This troper's father has made this troper promise to play "Another one bites the dust" at his funeral. Liking the idea, this troper plans to make his offspring make the same promise. ********* The vicar who organised this troper's grandmother's funeral informed us of someone who actually did this. Apparently the congregation found it rather tasteless ********* This troper wants Welcome to the black parade played at her funreal. ********** [[@/{{Gabel}} This troper]] wants ''Highway To Hell'' played at his funeral. [[TheBigLebowski He also wants his ashes to be scattered from a coffee jar.]] ********* [[@/{{Duckay}} This troper]] knows a young man who wants ''Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go'' played at his funeral. Strange bloke. ***** [[@/{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] thinks it would be awesome to have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI this song]] played at her funeral. Alternately, [[{{Portal}} Still Alive]], just to fuck with people from beyond the grave. ****** This Troper would also LOVE to have [[{{Portal}} Still Alive]] played at her funeral, mostly for the opening lines: "This was a triumph!/I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS!"" Alternatively, [[AntiLoveSong Every Breath]] [[ThePolice You Take]], just to warn friends, family, and mortal enemies that being a ghost will only make it easier for me to keep an eye on them. Be afraid... Be very afraid... ********* The Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God". ********** I'd go with "The Sickbed of Cuchulainn" myself ********* The "Game Over" music from Sonic The Hedgehog. ********* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI Total Distortion 's end game music.]] ********* Just about all of TheBlackParade, as well as Today by Smashing Pumpkins, I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas, and Right On Time by Red Hot Chili Peppers ********* Perhaps not as humorous (or even as ironic) as other examples, but this troper would like the end credits theme from MST3K

to play at her funeral. ********** I want "Where Is The Love" played at my funeral, just because I want to leave an impression on the listeners (plus, I have a wide view on the universe, so...yeah). Bonus points when you consider I normally hate The Black Eyed Peas (actually, any rap music). *** I would like to have "Knocking on Heaven's Door" played at my funeral if I decide to have one. The Guns 'N Roses version. *** Cheek To Cheek by Fred Astaire. "Heaven... I'm in Heaven..." *** If I have to arrange my dad's funeral when I'm 20 (which is, admittedly, pretty unlikely: none of the men in my family seem to die until they are in their 90's), I'm going to request that one of the songs they play is "Wake Me Up When September Ends". For those who don't get it, the last chorus goes "Like my father's come to pass/twenty years has gone so fast". He personally wants "Call Me" by Shinedown. "Fiction" by Avenged Sevenfold [[RuleOfThree and]] "A Tout Le Monde" by Megadeth. ** This troper and a friend listened to the Decemberists' song "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)" together. It's a duet between a Confederate soldier and his sweetheart. The friend then gushed, "What a romantic song!" Roughly half the song's lines can be interpreted as yearning for a lover and eagerly anticipating a reunion. ("O my love, though our bodies may be parted/Though our skin may not touch skin/Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow/I will come on the breath of the wind.") The other half make it evident that the soldier is already dead. ("But you are in the ground with the worms and the weevils/As they chew on your bones so dry.") *** [[{{YMMV}} I think that that makes the song all the more romantic.]] ** A lot of Decemberists songs are like that, really. Similarly, this troper has seen fellow roleplaying partners use the song ''"Barricade"'' by Stars as describing a grand, nigh on ''LesMiserables''-level love affair between two brave revolutionaries who eventually are forced to part by the very intensity of their [[TrueLove Twu Wuv]]. It's about destructive, drunken football hooligans having sex, then parting ways awkwardly and meeting again once one of them has actually cleaned up and gotten a job. Romantic music does not equate to romantic lyrics, or romantic meaning. 'The love died, but the hate can't fade,' when referring to hatred for polite society as a whole, isn't exactly the stuff of ballads. ** This troper is planning to use the Decemberists' "Bandit Queen" for his wedding's first dance. After hearing Freebird, of all things, at a friend's wedding, he went over the lyrics very carefully. They don't seem to be about anything other than that an initial listening would suggest - a man's love for a battle-scarred, hard-drinking train robber. ** At [[Tropers/HopelessRomance This troper's]] grandmother's funeral, they played "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard simply because she loved Merle Haggard. ** [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] was at a friend's wedding where the song was played as their first dance. *blink* * Invoked by this troper for a graduation slideshow i played getting better by TheBeatles. A song about a douchebag who was rude to his

teachers and abused his girlfriend I really hated that we had to do a slideshow and there was enough genuine meaning behind the song that they let it pass. * This troper has heard "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones at a wedding; presumably someone was either not paying attention to the words at all, or noticed the lyric "love, sister, it's just a kiss away" but ''not'' "War, children, it's just a shot away" or "Rape, murder, it's just a shot away". ** Come on, who ever has any idea what Mick Jagger is singing?? It could just as easily be "hey children, it's just a shadow play" or, "Oh kill them, it's just a shard away". I'm still not fully convinced all the Stones' lyrics are in English. (And don't start linking us to lyrics sites: those are almost always just transcriptions of what the people at the site ''think'' the lyrics are and they're frequently wrong.) ** Maybe they just liked the song? This troper would have LinkinPark playing at her wedding simply for the reason she likes the music. *** [[SoundtrackDissonance That would be awesome.]] **** Yes, although it wouldn't be SoundtrackDissonance if it were "Leave Out All the Rest". ** This troper is unlikely to get married, making it a moot point, but would derive plenty of twisted amusement from playing "[[Music/TalkingHeads Psycho Killer]]" at her wedding. (Not ''just'' for the MindScrew. It's one of my favourite songs.) [[LeftFielder Getting back to the actual trope under discussion]], this troper is also quite fond of "Once in a Lifetime"... ** This troper wants "Ha Ha Your Wife Left You" by AnalCunt played at his wedding soley for irony, despite having an obscene hatred for the music. ** This troper quite fancies having Depeche Mode's "Master And Servant" played at her wedding. I couldn't marry anyone who didn't find that funny. * This troper's younger sister had a friend whose boyfriend claimed that Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" was their song. He asked why she was still dating him. (Turns out they later broke up because he was cheating on her. Big shock.) ** This troper's best friend once pined for a boy who already had a girlfriend, and claimed that "Lips of an Angel" personified her feelings towards him. Yeah. ** Ditto for this troper, quite exactly (which made me have to check and see if that was ''my'' addition or not)--and the boy her best friend was after found her affections a little creepy. * This troper knew a couple that played the song ''Marble House'' by The Knife for their wedding. The song, besides sounding complete odd at a marriage ceremony, is about dead-end marriages. * This troper has seen happy, cheerful high school videos set to Bowling For Soup's "High School Never Ends." The song is about how high school wasn't any good and once you leave, life ''still'' sucks, not about ''wanting'' high school to never end. ** Though the song seems to be kinda right doesn't it? Doesn't the world seem like one HUGE highschool at times? It sure does to me... *** Sounds like these schools are trying to invoke a

DespairEventHorizon, but what is the gain. . . * This troper did a deliberate case of this by inserting Hinder's Homecoming Queen into a montage of his high school's homecoming that year for the graduation video. Some need to understand it's a song about the homecoming queen becoming ''addicted to drugs, alcohol, and dead-end relationships.'' I'm still waiting for someone to catch this. ** This troper has also had a gay friend describe his...lewd interpretation of Flyleaf's All Around Me. Turns out the song's about ''Jesus''. *** Wait really? That songs so depressing sound though! **** It's hard to believe, but the guy 2 lines above me is right. I'm usually good at averting this trope, but even I didn't know that until I was told by my brother. * This editor went on a school skitrip to the Italian Alps going all the way from England by coach via the SaintBernardPass. (The Mont Blanc Tunnel was still closed to large vehicles, they were still rebuilding after the fire.) What video did this editor bring to watch on the coach: TheItalianJob (1969). Coincidentally, our coach did throw a JLine whilst on the SaintBernardPass. * This troper once went to see a horrible junior high school "history play", which was a load of songs ganked from real musicals with a few lines in-between explaining which historical event they related to. The song chosen for Women's Lib? ''Cell Block Tango'', of all things, from Chicago. Clearly someone wasn't paying attention. * This troper once heard "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman played in his local grocery store. The depressing little ditty is about, among other things, working a dead-end job in a grocery store. * This troper knows a depressing amount of people who believe "Better Man" by Pearl Jam is a love song. For the uninitiated, the chorus goes like this: "She lies and says she's in love with him; can't find a better man. She dreams in color, she dreams in red--can't find a better man." The verses themselves strongly suggest that the woman's husband is abusive or at the very least neglectful. * This troper's very strait-laced mother thinks that the "Pissing the night away" part of Chumbawumba's song "Tubthumping" is actually "Kissing the night away," and likes to sing it. This troper has not the heart to correct her. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]]'s parents unintentionally invoked this trope with they chose their song (''Total Eclipse of the Heart'', by Bonnie Tyler); realizing 20 years later that the song they first danced to was, in fact, a breakup song. * At this troper's graduation, there was a very long speech about following your own path and making life what you want it to be. The graduation song then played. The graduation song was Bittersweet Symphony. * [[@/TheGunheart This troper]], having first heard it in the sequel to the mecha action game PhantomCrash, often associates Welbilt's ''Evrything's Alright'' as a ''battle theme'', despite the lyrics being about a guy having a mental breakdown over his girlfriend and even having the lyrics "I'm giving up without a fight". * This troper's elementary school gym teacher had us do 10 minutes of aerobics per class...to "Let's Get Physical"...

** But...but...but...they did aerobics in the video! So that's totally what it's about. Please, do tell. Was the soundtrack of the afterworkout stretching session the soothing sounds of Mr. Barry White? I'd love to think the teacher was being subversive, but I doubt it. * This troper's videography teacher was discussing the songs being discussed for use at the school's graduation ceremony. One of them was Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop." I had to point out to him that the song is about divorce. * This troper's mother liked going to dances and often requested "Mambo No. 5" from the DJ. She was appalled when I played it for her at home and made her listen to the lyrics again. * This troper went to a cousin's wedding where there were a few...''odd'' musical choices during the reception. For instance, I couldn't help but boggle at the fact that the DJ played [[LadyGaga "Bad Romance"]] (Good song, but is that kind of occasion really the time and place for it?). Also, when said DJ played Rick James' "Superfreak", one of my uncles wondered out loud why a song about a drug-addled hooker was playing at a wedding. * I always say that I want Freebird and/or Ramblin' Man to be played at my wedding. Unfortunately, my SO has made it quite clear it would be a rather short union if my wishes are fulfilled. * This Troper Went To A Wedding That Had "Please Don't Tell Her I Have A Girlfriend" By Reel Big Fish Playing, Lets just say the Bride Wasn't too happy... * This troper went to a Metric concert, where the band played "Stadium Love". Which is basically a song deriding people who think they're too cool to get involved and who just watch. The troper was out on the floor, in among hundreds of others...many of whom evidently considered dancing (at a concert where they paid extra to be on the floor instead of in the seats) to be deeply unhip. * This troper knows a couple whose song is [[NoJustNo Love The Way You Lie]]. The story goes that they slow danced to Rihanna's part, then Eminem began screaming and they realised it wasn't a positive romantic song. Regardless, they still insist it's their song and quote lyrics to one another, which means they're basically saying "You abuse me you bastard." * I didn't witness this for myself, but a former co-worker told me a story about a post-9/11 telethon he said he watched shortly after the attacks occurred. It must have been pretty hastily thrown together and the organizers were a bunch of overworked interns who just chose the songs based on their titles, because he said one of the songs chosen to "honor" the first responders (i.e., the police, firefighters and paramedics for those not familiar with the term) was "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon. I still think he was pulling my leg, because I really don't want to believe that people would really be this clueless and insensitive. Some sample lyrics: -->Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV -->You think you're so clever and classless and free -->But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see -->A working class hero is something to be * I never cease to be baffled when I see couples dancing and lovingly gazing into each others' eyes while "I Will Always Love You" plays.

It's like all they hear is "blah blah blah blah I will always love youuuuuuuuu blah blah blah blah I will always love youuuuuuuuu blah blah blah." * [[Tropers.FishOfLightning I]] want to have a three six second funeral consisting of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0pNPmgBh8w this song alone.]] * This isn't so much about the application of the trope but the Trope Namer and my experience of ''that''. I have to laugh whenever anyone gets apoplectic over the song's misuse of the word "ironic" because I was a high schooler back when Alanis Morrisette released that single/album and I can recall many English teachers back then using this as a great opportunity to discuss the true meaning of irony and, in my class at least, we got to spend a whole class period talking about various examples of irony and applications of irony in our own lives, a class discussion we probably would've never had in the first place. All this as a result of Alanis's "Ironic" song, and I'm sure quite a few other high school English classes had that same experience at around the same time. So it's rather ironic that a song that gave a misperception of the concept of "irony" led to quite a few high school students in the '90s getting a very thorough education on the proper definition of "irony". * My dad claims he gave up on mankind the day he heard the Muzak version of ''Look What They've Done To My Song''. ---Return to [=~Isn't It Ironic~=]. By the way, did you know it's [[CaptainObvious really about people using ironic songs unironically?]] ---<<|TroperTales|>> ----

Ptitle1v8ushf5 * This trope was created by [[{{Sluimers}} This Troper]] as he was looking for a delete button for his previous [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/ykttw.php?interval=1 YKTTW]] prompting him to say: --> '''Sluimers''': "Where's an X in the top right corner when you really need one?"

ptitle1yvo8o1a5ltl * You think [[StarWars George Lucas]] might have a sand fetish? The film he was ''least'' involved in didn't have any scenes on Tatooine. ** No no, he [[{{Narm}} hates sand]], remember? ** No, he has an [[http://www.runleiarun.com/choppedoffhands/ amputation fetish]]. He even wrecked a ship ''named'' "the Invisible Hand". * Since I suggested ErmineCapeEffect, I wanted to make a crack that royalty has [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a thing]] for [[PrettyInMink ermine]] [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia capes]], but I couldn't fit it in there. * You think a lot Superheroes like spandex for all the wrong reasons?

I mean other than the MostCommonSuperpower? ** Or what if some of {{Batman}}'s foes were just really into their shticks. I mean, does The Riddler ''enjoy'' leaving puzzles for people to solve? *** No. He's crazy. Seriously, he even tries to have therapy for it. ** Oh, but they [[{{Watchmen}} do]] . * SquareEnix artists apparently really like metrosexuals. ** And Tetsuya Nomura has a [[EverythingsBetterWithZippers zipper fetish]]. Both ''KingdomHearts'' games had them in spades, although they became especially obtrusive in II. ** More zipper fetishes can be found in TheWorldEndsWithYou and Disidia... *** And belts. [[TooManyBelts Don't forget the belts.]] * TerryPratchett loves to play around with [[FootFocus foot]][[FootnoteFever notes]]. * ''MetalGearSolid'' - not only does Snake have a well-documented fondness for cardboard boxes (The lecture he gives Raiden in MGS 2 if you call him while wearing a cardboard box is particularly memorable), he apparently inherited it, along with many other things, from Big Boss, who demonstrates a similar fondness for the box back during 'Operation Snake Eater'... even going so far as claiming that it's his DESTINY to be in the box. * Old Nancy and his hat in ''Anansi Boys.'' Why yes, that is a positively [[MeaningfulName puntastic name]], isn't it? ** Brings a whole new dimension to the phrase "NiceHat". *** And YouCanLeaveYourHatOn. * [[OnePiece Oda]] has boundless love for [[NerdsAreSexy bookish/smart women]], you know it...wait, it seems like he actually ''did'' marry one. * [[JojosBizarreAdventure Hirohiko Araki]] loves Italy, as evidenced by the Italian Zeppelli family in Parts 1, 2, and 7 of ''JojosBizarreAdventure'', and the fact that all of Part 5 takes place in the country. * Tim Burton has an obsession with spirals. Spiral plants, spiral wheels, spiral feathers, spiral tattoos, spiral cogs... maybe he eats a lot of curly fries or something. ** Then he must get off on reading {{Uzumaki}}. * PaulDini and {{Zatanna}}. Even the other writers have joked about his affection for his favorite character (and naturally, guess who's going to work on her new ongoing series? He must be in fanboy heaven.) Maybe he should marry her... oh, wait, [[http://www.mistylee.com/ he practically did]]. * Why doesn't MichaelBay just marry [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]? And this is coming from one of his fans. * I have a friend that loves a weird frappe-tea that for some reason taste good, and the other day we were joking about this trope. ---> Friend: no, I can't marry it. I would drink it and be a widow after three minutes... * I prefer the variation "Why dont you just lick it when you like it that much?" ---If you want to go back to the main page for this so much,

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ptitle27wsaewjf1ss * In an odd example of ComeForTheXStayForTheY, a friend of this troper decided to take up judo so that he could simulate it in a film he was making. He's now a black belt. * This Troper tends to do research (i.e. reading Wikipedia articles on various musicals, reading books, etc) whenever she works on a fanfic so she can get a feel as to what she is working with (or parodying). ** Same here, mostly because I've seen the results of what happens when you don't research what you're writing about. My sister once did a short series of vampire fics years ago (in other words, they're pretty mediocre), and the main vampire girl was an albino. Cue a massive rant from an albino going on about how not all albinos have pink eyes. So yeah, even if it's not hours of research, I do a little bit. If I'd NEED to do masses of research, I give up the idea. * [[Tropers/LatwPIAT LatwPIAT]] has asked a few times. Like, how would you best kill someone with a newspaper? How to best hide a corpse? How to make chlorine gas in your house? He usually reasons his questions with "useful to know" I've also answered these questions from time to time. However, I usually give more specific answers that most people ask. If anyone asks me how easily it is to build a nuclear weapon ("Why would you want to know that?") I'll tell them exactly ''how'' to make one, prompting "Why do you know that?" ** I learned how to build a single stage nuke in ninth grade. It's not hard. I'm not sure why my ROTC commander explained it to us, but he did. *** I ([[Tropers/LatwPIAT LatwPIAT]]) have a rather suspicious bookmarks tab too, with folders like "Chemical Warfare" and "Biological Warfare" filled with links to various articles on the production, delivery and effects of such weapons, as well as links on DNA sequencing. My "My Pictures" folder has prompted questions in the essence of "Why do you have a picture of the effects of pistol-caliber firearms on ballistics gel?" (The actual question was "Why do you have that?") and "Why do you have a picture on how to build an EMP proof room?" *** Some of the older cadets at Air Cadets once gave us a huge lesson on how mobile-triggered bombs, shrapnel bombs and snipers will kill you, along with all the gory details. I didn't absorb any of it, but to this day I have no clue how they knew all that. * This troper often writes bizarre superhero fiction, and has an obsession with making his stories at least plausible enough for a HandWave. He has logged at least 100 calls to local experts, scientists, and professors to ask intensely bizarre questions about things like gravity, how to broadcast pirate radio signals, how heavy a million dollars is, and so on and so forth. He has had police visit

at least twice in his life, who have laughed off his 'It's for a book' explanation. ** ...is any of this bizzare superhero fiction published? Because I would love to read some of that. * This troper got quite an odd look from her brother when she was looking up the effects of inbreeding and again when she was looking up how much an abortion would cost. [[{{Tropers/Crimson Rider}} This Troper's]] brother is a Judge candidate, so it's only natural that two friends asked him last night wether it is illegal to steal the clothing of a corpse. ** well is it? * Once did a school assignment 'How To' thing on 'How to blow up the local mall'. Once asked for a map of a millitary weapon museum because my artistic creativity was inspired. Both before Columbine and 9-11 or this troper would probably have a bigger FBI file then he has (he's posted some dumb-ass things to Usenet). * Like the first entry, This Troper inverts this trope frequently. Friends will often bring up questions for books they're writing: what kind of household items could you use to make someone sick with specific desired side effects, what exactly it would take to snap someone's neck, etc. This Troper is happy to offer information regarding the subject, always prompting a delayed reaction of, "Wait, how do YOU know that?" ** Those people should assume you know these things ''because'' they ask you of all people. * [[Tropers/JohnnyBGoode This troper]] has never asked anything as extreme as that, but I did once ask "What's German for boobs?" with this explanation. * Librarians see this a lot. I was once approached by a sweet little old lady who asked me to help her find the names of "five untraceable poisons." It was, she assured me, for a writing class. * [[Tropers/DanielLC This troper]] has asked on the {{OtherWiki}}'s reference desk a few questions he needed to figure out how hard a certain method of destroying the Earth would be. It's not actually for a book. He wants to convince the creator of [[http://qntm.org/?moving this list]] that his method is better, or at least good. * [[Tropers/AstraKiseki This troper]] has badgered her guy friends about sexual techniques and virginity for stories she has written. * This troper's personal favourite? Calling up a bank and asking "What exactly would it take to get an $80 million loan, and roughly what would the interest and minimum payments be?" The customer service person responded admirably, with only a brief pause before asking "What would this be for?" "A tank." The insurance company I called for THAT side of the research flat-out refused to disucss the matter. * This troper once asked her chemistry teacher how many thermonuclear bombs would be neccesary to destroy five sixths of the world, but not leave it so crippled/contaminated that humanity wouldn't be able to recover one day. THEN she mentioned that it was for a novel. ** On a similar note, this (same) troper said, apropos of nothing in a conversation with a classmate, "Oh, I can destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust! *beam*". NaNoWriMo is fun! * This troper does this a lot. He asks his friends constantly for new

ways to make weapons from household equipment, which means that he'll be invaluable in the Zombie Apocalypse. Not only that, but when he was recently asking a forum he frequents about ways to smuggle guns through customs, someone claimed that it, as well as doing things like Ever mentioning Osama Bin Laden on the internet would get me put on the US terror watchlist and anything vaguely illegal I did, ever, would be punished. I laughed at him not only because of the stupidity but also because I'm British and the US has no jurisdiction over me, and it's rather unlikely they'd extradite someone for, you know, enquiring purely academically how to smuggle one gun through customs. * This troper uses this as an excuse for all ''sorts'' of odd questions, usually asked of her parents. In her defense, some of it ''is'' for a book. Or a fanfic. Yes, this troper is a devotee of the "accurate enough for a handwave at ''least''" school of writing. She really freaked out a teacher once when she made an idle comment about guitar strings making a good garotte (which was a plot point in a fanfic of hers). * Why do I have a dictionary of 18th century thieves slang? Why do I have a 100 pages printed on the Thuggee cult in pre-British occupation India? Why do I have books of magical herbs and the magical uses of gemstones and metals? Why am I currently searching through my fathers medical books to figure out the relative strength of the windpipe? Why do I carry a thesaurus with me? I'm a writer, damnit! * This troper has made a habit of this, in between actual writing, some slightly esoteric flight simulator tinkering, and an odd sense of curiosity. I once started a fifty page (when printed) discussion on proper weapons and tactics for hunting a Tyrannosaurus Rex on a [[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/ certain reference site.]] That was not the weirdest thing that's been brought up there, or the last. * [[{{Tropers/Laburnum}} This troper]] once asked her mother, who is a doctor, how deep under the skin a human's veins would be and if you could see them if you stripped off the skin. She had to assure her mother that this was for a short story before she got an answer. Same for asking if a person could remain alive with the top of his head sawed of and the membrane surrounding his brain destroyed (Of course, now she can't remember either of the answers *eye roll*.) ** Well, superficial veins are, as the name implies, right up there near the surface. Depending on your skin type, age, etc., you can easily see them without stripping off the skin. I don't know the answer to the brain question, but I suspect the answer would be 'no.' I imagine a person could survive having a bit of their brain exposed to the open air for a moment, but those membranes aren't just for protection, they're also responsible for getting blood to the brain. That said, my room mate (creative writing major) and I (biology major) are tailored-to-fit this trope. * This Troper is another avid writer who is adamant about doing the research, especially because she gets fed up with seeing dumb cliches. However, having the explanation doesn't make being a 17-year-old female sitting in a bookstore reading "What to Expect When You're Expecting" any less awkward. ** This is a bit of a LeftFielder, but related: This troper liked to read about pregnancy when she was about ''ten'' years old. I'm sure I

freaked out a few people. (I also read a lot of books and magazines about parenting when I was a kid, and own baby name books -- a particular pair of authors', which I'd previously taken out from the library all the time -- for use in character naming.) *** Yep, me too on the baby name books. Imagine a seven-year-old girl sitting at her five-year-old sister's soccer game, reading ''The Best Baby Name Book Ever'' and writing in a notebook labeled Top Name Choices. (Mother: Um, just be careful of who sees what you're reading, sweetie...) **** I can relate. I was reading a book on baby names, and my best friend saw me, thought I was pregnant... **** Wow, I read baby name books ''all the time'' when I was eight or so. I always thought I was the only one. It irked my stepmom for some reason. Now I just stick to thinkbabynames.com and other such sites. * Among other things, [[Tropers/JesseCS this troper]] has asked the following questions: What's the timeline for decomp of a human body wrapped in aluminum? Can I see the service corridors for this mall? Where would I find schematics for the tunnel system at Disney World? What's the estimated life span of a Utahraptor, and where is the most complete skeleton kept? Just how much force would be required to kill someone with a hotel-sized bible? How much sugar would have to be ingested by a 5'9" man of 150 pounds to kill him? and my very favorite: What is your store's policy in the case of a zombie outbreak? Why is it my favorite? I asked it of a craft store manager, and got an actual answer! Three Words: [[spoiler:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Crocheted Zombie Nets]].]] * Earlier today in our biology class one of my friends asked if it was possible to create a virus with no antigens. In other words a virus that can get into the body without alerting the immune system. Our teacher then said that should be said friend's pet project. * This troper has looked for some translations of some very, very odd things for novels. What kind of quality Japanese translator can't tell you how to say "There's a tiger in my hotel room!"? ** Also, how could somebody hide a bomb on the space shuttle and not have it found before launch? What would I see when I looked at the night sky if I saw in x-ray? What about infrared? Has anybody ever reported anything to suggest the Kennedy Space Center is haunted? Did lime Jello exist in 1958? Did people say "Stick tight" in the 80s? Could you spacewalk from a spinning station without a tether? * I play with it. I'm 18 and like reading Mother and Baby magazines so I can go 'Awww' at the cute pictures. If I get funny looks, I invoke this trope. * Let's just say this troper is probably on a few watchlists. Also, "Nuclear plot to blow up President at 2pm tomorrow. Hi to all my friends at Menwith hill." * I wish I had a picture of my parish priest's face when I asked him what would happen if a woman were to disguise herself as a man and enter the priesthood. Admittedly, it ''was'' for a short story. * This troper has consulted ''little_details'' about what would happen if you flushed an egg down the toilet, the best way (medically speaking) to implement a version of lycanthropy that [[DoingInTheWizard wasn't supernatural aside from the part where

catching it turned you into a werewolf]], whether two prepubescent kids moving from the UK to North America would lose their accents, whether it was common practice for adoptive parents to rename 18month-old babies, and if there were any actual orphanages operating in the present day or if the practice had completely died out. * Not for a book, but for La Cosa Nostra Alliance online roleplaying. This troper was informed that he had to remove a body himself, so he actually looked up the exact way to dispose of a corpse and wrote it out to a T in disgusting detail. * [[Tropers/AllanAokage This troper]] not only asks questions; he performs acts to which this excuse is given. Possibly the weirdest would be to tape (with masking tape) is sister's arm to a wall to see what her reaction would be and how long it would take her to get her arm off the wall. * To avoid the majority of the uncomfortable issues of asking around for matters regarding firearms, this troper has already memorized multiple lists of firearms in common, and uncommon use with most of the world's nations' militaries, along with common explosives, improvisable explosives, and methods to break and enter, and how to create an effective suppressor with a length of steel pipe, cotton wadding, and a cocktail shaker. These are some of the ''tamer'' things that he can recite off-hand for anyone in need of this particular brand of knowledge. There's a reason why one of my nicknames is the "Gunpowder Catechist"... * While This Troper has never been bold enough to ask such a thing to a person, I have had to look up a few odd things, like the maximum spread of shot from a SawedOffShotgun, for a story I'm [[strike:writing]] [[BrilliantButLazy planning on writing]]. Ironically, I'll actually have to read up on pipebombs for the story, just like the Main Page. * Why did I buy pig bones from the butcher and start beating them with blunt objects? Because testing that theory with actual human bones would be illegal darling. * Averted with this troper. Most of his odder ItsForABook questions are researched on the internet specifically to avoid these situations. He's also found that when you have a scientific adviser on hand, he normally advises that the things that make your story fantastic are impossible. He did attend a seminar on computer safety that began with months worth of AOL search strings to conclude where people lived and interests. He figures his would be really weird and could only be explained by "It's for a book". On that note, this troper did learn how to hot wire any pre-2005 car for a book. ** Note: No scientific adviser should ever say "it's impossible" but "It is considered impossible given our current understanding". [[ScienceMarchesOn Why?]] ** No longer averted. This troper had to explain to his mother that he was on a website advising Bisexual men how to accept themselves and come out to the people they care about because one of his characters is bi and I wanted handle this aspect with respect. * Slightly less gruesome than most of these entries: This troper once spent an hour on the phone with the owner of his favorite wine shop, deciding what wines to go with the courses in a fictional meal for a

short story. It was probably a lot more interesting for the wine seller than answering "what goes with fish?" for the 1,284th time. * This troper, who has a "it better be accurate or someone will snap at you" mindset, sometimes wants to write a story that involves...various things, from details on how the Alcubierre drive works (google it) to "Can you really snap someone's neck just by turning his head really fast and hard" to "can a [[KidHero twelve year-old kid]] handle this or that?" to "Does an orphan not have a last name if he doesn't know his parents, and does he get a new last name or a new first name if he's adopted" to "can someone go berserk from wondering throughout town without food?" But despite wanting to [[DidNotDoTheResearch do the research]] so badly, he KNOWS that they can draw suspicion or they would be shot down by his parents with "You're wasting time thinking about these things", therefore, he has no choice but to just shut up. Even worse is that acting them out to see what happens would mean the subject shouldn't know what it's for. On the bright side, a good chunk of the questions are stuff the {{Mythbusters}} could be asked to tackle. He thinks the "it will raise suspicion" part of this trope could be the reason why some writers flub on [[HollywoodPsych psychology]] ** If you have parents, this is the BEST time to use ItsForABook, especially if you're polite. People will give kids the flat truth (or at least a sufficiently varnished version of the flat truth) when they won't give writers, reporters, etc. the time of day. * This Troper manages to avoid most of the Terrorist Watchlist-pinging questions by having friends who are gun enthusiasts, have learned actual martial arts, and studied psychology, though she did get a slight raised eyebrow when she asked a male buddy: "So, uh, is [[RagingStiffie morning wood]] a real phenomenon?" * This creative writing major Troper is actually in the process of having business cards made up for this very reason. * [[{{Tropers/Thnikkafan}} This troper]] uses a variant on this phrase ("It's for a fanfic") often - and it sometimes [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi is]]. Like, for example, if it was possible to rip out someone's throat with their fingernails (less of knowing macable things than cleaning up FridgeLogic), if there was a blood vessel in the throat that could be slit non-fatally, and how many razor blades can fit across the palm of one's hand. * A subversion. [[{{Tropers/Iriswings}} This troper]] is wondering how to ask someone if they know a painless, blood-related way to kill someone since her blood-manipulating character needs to at one point in her book This troper is presumed to be a {{Yangire}} by most of her classmates. Therefore she still doesn't know how the heck she will write that scene. ** Yes. Step One: Apply anesthesia. Step Two: Slit throat. (I just came up with that on the spot, yes. I suspect it's not what you were looking for, but it might work depending on the context.) ** A stroke or aneurism should do, although I don't know how fast it would be. Pretty much anything on the inside of your body will be painless. People aren't built to feel pain there. * Subverted: "Do you know the most unnoticable poisin that one could slip into someone else's food that you could produce during high and

slip in at precisely 11:03 Central Time on a slightly humid Tuesday? No? Oh, well..." "WTF was that about?" "Oh, by the way, don't eat food after 11:03 on Tuesday...." * This troper was working on a paper about bio terrorism and how easy it is to modify DNA in a kitchen sink with normal household products. She was looking up how it could be done and got some funny looks from the people at the library. * [[{{Tropers/Max}} This troper]] is, perhaps unsurprisingly, an amateur writer. He is not looking forward to some of the questions he'll have to ask in order to finish his first book. "Hey, how much blood is in the human body?" is innocent (and easy) enough, but the follow up question, "How much blood can you drain from someone before they die?" is...slightly less so. And that's the least horrible one I can think of. I'm terribly afraid that in the act of writing my book, I'll end up on every FBI watchlist ever. ** [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank Between 10-12 pints, and you can lose 40% of that.]] Of course, there are situations where people have lost more and lived, but that's kinda to be expected with human variation and such. Google+Wikipedia is your best friend, Madear. * For an espionage story, [[{{Tropers/MiraShio}} this troper]] talked to her mother about these: "What's the best way to crash a car?" and "I'm trying to come up with an elaborate murder..." ** Inverted by this troper's good friend, who asked her about the best way to kill someone unnoticed. Troper thought said friend was merely being her usual psychotic self, until she actually asked this troper where she could get her hands on the untraceable poison this troper had told her about. (By the way, everyone in this troper's class is still alive, and it looks like her friend has gotten over her murderous grudge.) * One of the teachers in [[{{Tropers/ZootyCutie}} This Troper's]] sophmore high school Society Block class (it's a class where you have English for one period, then Social Studies for the next in the exact same room, and the subjects connect with each other) also teaches a Military Education class. He told us that he bought a book on how to make bombs. He also told us that he has a record for the FBI because of it. * Funnily enough, I am sometimes actually afraid to ask about things that actually ARE for a book, such as rape laws and rather nasty things like that. This leads to me having to do some creative googling. * This troper gives the helpful librarian a book about penguins, a book about nuclear war and a book about the history of aircraft. She gave me a strange look and I gave the appropriate response. (I also would've needed a sex education book, but I decided that penguins, aircraft and nuclear war was awkward enough.) ** This troper had a similar reaction when taking out a book about the Apollo program, a book about how to draw superheroes, a book of true ghost stories and a travel guide to Disney World. (And yes, all for the same story) * This troper has a bookmark folder entitled "[[ItsForABook It's For A Book]], Dammit!" It currently contains (among other things) pages on the physical damage inflicted by gunshot wounds, the progression of

untreated infections, nineteenth-century mourning customs, symptoms of depression, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking how to waltz]]. * [[{{Tropers/dotchan}} This Troper]] got yelled by a hostile woman for idling a bit too long in front of a restaurant while attempting to shoot footage for a class project and was threatened with police action. As I didn't really feel like testing the patience of the local police department, I left. * [[{{Tropers/Quodo}} I]] once got into a long discussion with friends about what an angel's bra would look like. It wasn't even in the text I just couldn't visualise it. I eventually solved it by looking at pictures of Hawk Girl but my friends still bring it up every now and then. * {{Tropers/VioletAura1009}} uses this excuse a lot. From the numerous chemical dictionaries, poisonous plants and herbs books, and a crazy amount of knowledge about warefare and weaponry...it's all for a book! I swear! * [[Tropers/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] has a rather...interesting search history for this reason, and he really hopes that the counseling center at his college doesn't try to bother him because of it. Some things are a little odd (the etymology of various profanity), suspicious (how to make pipe bombs, child pornography laws, how to construct a bong) or just plain ''out there'' (how many smart cars would fit in a bus if you removed the seats?). * This troper uses baby-name books to name her characters. She gets dirty looks in bookstores. ** You too? [[{{Tropers/Takwin}} This troper]] has gotten so many weird glances while checking out books on baby names, as well as various medical books. * Me and my friend have discussed some very weird things for a story we are writing ** Would someone's head explode if you ran them over with a steamroller ** Which objects in the house would be most effective in killing a zombie ** What would happen if you shoved something very hot up someones ass, and how long would it take them to die from it * I bought the comic book adaptation of the Catwoman film. Yes, the Catwoman film with Halle Berry. I was writing a fanfiction screenplay about Catwoman and wanted to avoid the mistakes made by that film. Also, an additional story included with the adaptation was the origins of the modern Catwoman, which I was basing my screenplay on. Never finished the screenplay. * This troper learnt how to mix explosives from household chemicals, proxies, reactive armor, EMP, anthrax poison, and the effects of acoustic weapons on the human body. All for a fictional nation he had in a RP thread. He's most probably flagged in half a dozen governmental databases. The more graphic questions, like what would happen if you stuffed [[TeamFortress2 The Heavy's]] [[GatlingGood minigun]] up someone's buttcrack and fired, or whether it's possible to rewrite a computer virus to destroy hardware, and by extension, whether it's possible for a virus to infect a human brain. The answer for the questions is, you'll get a fountain of blood and a humongous

bill for the bullets, possible, and highly unlikely, but it's possible for the virus to create a network of neurons, but it wouldn't be able reproduce unless it turns into a [[SCPFoundation memetic hazard]]. Respectively. * In trying to look up the best way to send money from Japan to the US, I came across [[http://blog.greggman.com/blog/transferring_money_from_japan/commentpage-1/#comment-53491 this textbook example of the trope]]. I'm sure the commenter's on the level and it really is for a movie, but it made me laugh anyway. * Again, this Troper's twin is a librarian. One of the questions that constantly came up in her MLS classes was "if someone asks for instructions for a bomb, do you give it to them. Why or why not?" While ''most of her classmates'' said they would refuse to hand that person the data, my twin and another classmate said "Yes." My twin's answer: "I know too many [[PrecisionFStrike goddamn]] comic book writers!" The other lady's answer, "Yes, because the ''bomb squad academy'' is next door to the library!" ** Another story from Troper's twin. The prompting for her going back to school to get her MLS was a fanfic writer asking her if TheFlash could get drunk. After poring through a large stack of comic books, Scans Daily archives, and the toxicity of ethanol, she concluded that the Flash can get "tipsy, but not plastered." ** A third example was the twin explaining to a Patriot Act supporter why subpoenaing library records was a bad idea. "If someone looked over my sister's [The Troper's] library records, they'd find ''The Communist Manifesto,'' ''Mein Kamph,'' the Koran, Jung's philosophy, ''Myths to Live By,'' ''Guide to Cults and New Religions,'' several books on forensics, several more on brainwashing, a half-dozen more that flag every banned-book list ever created...and ''392 Keys to Writing Powerful Fiction''" * [[Tropers/{{Enchanter468}} This Troper]] just invoked it about an hour ago. My friend and I are working on a ''D20 Modern'' campaign, and he was recording his character's possessions and wondered about the weight of ammo. Unable to find the answer in the rulebook, I promptly phoned my uncle and asked how much a box of 50 [=9mm=] bullets weighed (he works in a prison armory, so I figured he'd know). Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds. The second case of this, and one that's proving a lot more difficult, is finding reasonably detailed maps of LAX Terminal 1 (where the campaign's first adventure takes place). These are proving somewhat difficult to come by in the post 9/11 world... * [[Tropers/{{Ferrard}} This Troper]] has a tendency to end up with very troubling Google search-histories after GMing roleplaying sessions. Especially so when one of the [=PCs=] was a demolitions expert, and thus needed to know a lot of things about how to make home-made bombs. ** This troper does the same sort of thing, except for fanfiction. Google must think I'm some sort of psychopath by now, after asking how to properly prepare absinthe, build a rail gun and/or Tesla coil, pop the lock on a car and the time it takes to dig a grave, among other things.

* This Troper once spent a day asking her friends which would be a more effective way to blind oneself - ripping your eyeballs out with rather blunt fingernails or stabbing them out with one's glasses (it's for a class project, honestly). Several days later, she nearly did the latter while putting her glasses on when she was barely awake. ** Also for the same project, this Troper currently has open a webpage of Italian swears and a LGBTQ Tumblr community. * This is the reason for this Troper's recent expansion of knowledge on European mythologies/folklore,as well as the distribution of Celtic peoples. * [[Tropers/{{LadyAmi}} This troper]] has asked about medical teqniques & advances since the 1650's, how to propose in old german, General Sherman's march, and how long it takes for someone to asphyxiate. It's all for the same book. * I had a history teacher who once got an email notice from Homeland Security that she was being monitored, because she had been searching for "nuclear weapons", "nuclear bombs" and the like in preparation for a lesson. * Today I asked my friend what the main fluid was (besides blood) that will erupt from an eye when bitten by a snake. Have a guess why I needed it. Also, when they couldn't answer me, I looked it up on the internet. Cue funny looks as I type in stabbed eye into Google Images. * I was working on a Necromancer character and I decided to ask some friends on irc -> Me: I'm working on a necromancer character. Would it be possible to make a sword hilt using a human femur as a base? -> Other person: prolly. I've seen cambodian temple knives with human arm bones as handles. -> Other person: only problem I see would be the size; human femur may not be large enough; tho it could be wrapped * I once asked my lawyer sister the kind of trouble one could get in if they faked their death. After a very worried phone call, she informed me that she wasn't that kind of lawyer, so she didn't know. It's just as well, I dropped the story because it seemed too implausible anyway. * I used this excuse to deflect suspicion about questions on the effects of chlorophyll. A gf had an abduction fantasy involving it, but after I [[{{SSC}} learned and informed]] her of the medical hazards that was laid to rest. I suppose anyone curious enough to follow up would not be reassured to know I went with good old fashioned brute force and rope. ** Chlorophyll? Your girlfriend had sexy, sexy fantasies of being abducted by plants? Were tentacles involved, by any chance? * My research for my book went smoothly until when dad came to my room one day and see multiple taps such as "Genocide throughout history," extremely gory car and other accidents' victims, headshot victims, and assorted war crimes and such. He told me that I'm taking things too far and take it easy before it mess up my head. * A variation of this frequently occurs when this Troper mentions a random fact that, while relevant to the conversation at hand, would probably have been best left unmentioned due to NightmareFuel, Squick, or other undesirable reactions. Let me just say, for the record, that

ending up on a WikiWalk on Snopes.com can teach you some strange things. * This shy, quiet unpopular-in-school troper once got her school librarians franticly calling her parents after they caught her reading up on suicide, its methods and prevention. She explained that a character she was writing was suicidal and wanted to write the topic sensitively and realistically. ---Why I want to know about suspicious behavior in fiction? [[Main/ItsForABook It's for a book!]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Ptitle29f5h6jb * As a child, [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] frequently fell asleep listening to an old tape recorder in my room. One night, I fell asleep to an audiobook version of ''TheScrewtapeLetters''. Partway through the night, I woke up and the tape was still going. I hit the stop button and it kept going. I pulled the plug and it kept going. I threw the machine across the room and threw my covers over my head and suddenly there was silence. When I next dared to get up to check the machine, it showed the tape had stopped at the end. To this day, I don't know whether it was a creepily realistic nightmare, a waking dream or auditory hallucination, or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane something more]]. * Hands up--who here has had this happen with a Furby?

Ptitle2td6va92 * This Troper's friend is always cast as sadistic, insane or just plain evil characters, because she can nail all the madman expressions perfectly (complete with an EvilLaughter). Outside the plays, she's joyful, loves telling jokes and decorates her hair with fresh flowers. * You see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpBALarwIw this man?]] He played MacBeth spectacularly, utilizing both EvilIsSexy and EvilSoundsDeep - and would have nightmares about the horrible things his character did. * As an actor, this troper runs into this alot. For example: a friend who is the human equivalent of a teddy bear plays a terrifying, abusive father a little TOO well. * This troper was cast as one of the poor in his school's production of Urinetown. He is an extremely nice and funny person, yet during the final "UR. INE. TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNNNNNN" during the act one finale, he ran down the aisle shouting it raspily and making people in his sight shit their pants. his own dad was even scared of him after the show! He kept this all throughout the second act too. And he is really the opposite in real life. He had also been told by his girlfriend that He has a baby face and she thought he would not pull it off. Looks like she was wrong!

* This troper witnessed a fantastic example when he was the props master for a stage production of ToKillAMockingbird. The actor playing Bob Ewell was not just a genuinely nice guy, but he was also the best friend of the actor playing Tom Robinson (who was also a very nice fellow). The two both had wicked senses of humor, and so would play their character's mutual animosity off-stage for laughs in the most over-the-top, [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossed The Line Twice]], RefugeInAudacity fashion possible. * This troper played (genderswapped) [[AMidsummerNightsDream Egeus]] as the most posessive, neglectful when not just plain cruel mother she could, having been directed to do so, and was apparently rather terrifying... but this troper has no spine whatsoever, and offstage was tidying up the green room and mending everyone's costumes and lacing all the ladies' corsets for them and bringing food and... yeah. * This troper's aunt is an actress, and her favourite roles are bitchy characters. Jarringly, she's sweet and kind, and nothing like the characters she plays. * When my school did TheWizardOfOz as our musical, the girl who played the Wicked Witch was one of the sweetest, kindest girls in the school. But you'd never tell that from the excellent performance she gave as the evil, cackling witch. Similarly, the kid who played Inspector Javert in LesMiserables, Thuy in MissSaigon,and the leader of the Sharks (I forget his name) in WestSideStory is really a nice kid, despite always getting cast as the villain, and doing an awesome job of it. He was even the valedictorian of his year. ** This (extremely shy, bookish, nigh on to invisible sometimes) troper also played the Wicked Witch of the West. This troper, as she came out from backstage after the show, was informed by her little sister that she had made little kids in the audience cry. This troper then felt like crying herself. * So far, this troper has played an arrogant childish sociopath bent on ruining his brother's life in a practical exam, and Chauvelin in TheScarletPimpernel, which consisted of verbal abuse, offering many a SadisticChoice, and being a ManipulativeBastard to the leading lady, who happened to be one of my best friends. This troper's friends commented it was weird seeing me like this since I'm nothing like any of these characters. * This troper met someone on an online community who had a VERY friendly personality, but who liked to RP as characters who were much less friendly. It felt almost jarring to see her even ACT so unfriendly. * While this tropette/writer can have an occasional short handle, she's otherwise very hard to make angry and enjoys being nice and trying to make friends. Give her a nasty role and she'll milk it for all it's worth; or even better let her write one and watch as her antagonist kills their enemy with nary a word. She is also a master of the DeathGlare, and queen of cruel (and occasionally unusual) punishments. * This troper once played a witch, the head of all of the generally cynical, sour witches there, turning another witch into a toad, all while wearing the most distasteful skimpy dress the costumers could find. Oh, and there was yelling. ( [[OhGodWithTheVerbing Oy, with the

screaming and the yelling!]] ) which left me mute for weeks after and permanently ruined my voice. But, uh, normally, I'm modestly dressed, shy and polite to a fault, and not nearly as evil as I had to act. * This troper was involved in a production of ''The Trip to Bountiful'' in college. One night, the actress who'd played [[HenpeckedHusband Jessie Mae]] invited her family to watch. Her mother was apparently horrified at the sight of her sweet daughter playing such a mean lady. She even sought out a few other actors, just to tell them that her daughter wasn't really like that. * This Troper took Fundamentals of Acting at university last semester. For my final project, I delivered a monologue as Catherine from the play "Proof." During one rehearsal, my instructor stopped me and said, "I really want you to focus on making Hal feel like s**t. You're one of the nicest people in this classroom, and you're being too nice here. You're allowed to be a jerk here!" * Ridiculously sweet shy boy playing the Evil Stepmum in Snow White it was disturbing watching how convincingly he can order a hitman to cut out a girls heart * this troper's parents are musicians, and sometimes play for musicals. when Beauty and The Beast was showing in her city last year, this troper got to meet some of the cast afterward- the guy who played Gaston was really funny, and nice. it was pretty cool. * Yours Truly (Philipnova798) is often cast as playing mean (or villainous) characters (Jack the Ripper in a Soul Earter Abridged episode, Starscream in Transformers the Movie Abridged *Not yet released*, Dr. Madness, Tren Krom and several other villains in the yet to be made Attack of Dr. Madness *Based on my web comics*, you get the point), but is normally a nice person in real life (mostly on the internet though), Usually subverted because of how... odd my mother can get. * This troper managed this in an audition for a school play. I'm generally a quiet, hard-working guy... then I got the part of [[OliverTwist Bill Sykes]] because the casting director was ''terrified'' of me. * Everyone who knows this troper will tell you that she's a shy, kind wallflower of a girl. And at school, I loved playing villains. My homemade monologe about being an insane childkiller caused people on the first row to whimper when I did a Slasher Smile. The best role I ever did was as Psycho Lesbian Ines in 'No Exit' by Jean-Paul Sartre. My two classmates playing with me asked me not to be in character unless we were playing, because they were terrified of me. A year later, one of the students told me that the teachers still talked about how creepy I was. * I (@/{{Madrugada}}) had the pleasure of waiting on GeorgeKennedy back when I was just out of college. He was a delight, and a good tipper. * This was very common in this troper's high school theater department. One girl who was particularly mothering and sweet (she once comforted this troper who was crying after flubbing a monologue (I was eleven, OK?)) tended to get cast as nasty Libby characters, like Josie Pie from Anne of Green Gables. It also happened to this troper herself when she performed the part of Miss Minchin in "A

Little Princess." None of the little kids in the audience would come close to her during the meet and greet afterwards, and her own mother said she felt like slapping me for being so nasty to "Sarah" (who was played by my little sister's very sweet best friend, so she had some legitimate reasons ;) ). However, offstage, this troper spent her time getting yanked around and teased by the first-through fifth graders that made up the younger members of the boarding school, who weren't afraid of her at all by the end of the run (thankfully). * This troper has played her share of nasty characters, but one particular example that still stands out is a touring production of ''TheWizardOfOz'', in which I played the Wicked Witch of the West and actually made children in the audience cry. There's nothing like having a parent nudging their six-year-old toward you and watching the kid cower behind their mom's leg. I had a similar experience playing Miss Hannigan in ''Annie'' (and it was just fun when I got to play GenderFlip versions of Iago in ''Othello'' and Tupolski in ''The Pillowman''). The catch is, of course, that I'm a tiny 5'2" redhead who actually ''loves'' kids and is pretty easygoing in reality. * I have a friend who was cast as the White Witch in the school play, but is one of the nicest people in the cast. (She got the role because she's tall) * This troper is known as one of the nicest guys at his school, so a few of the actresses playing missionaries were literally frightened during rehearsal when he played Scrooge in ''AChristmasCarol''. * During my last year in high school, I performed a monologue from Biloxi Blues at a special theatre related event held over the weekend at a campus. After I finished, a friend of mine begged me ''not to kill him'' as he was scared by my character's angry outburst near the end of the performance. While I did use to have some anger issues in my youth, I've always been quite gentle, never lashing out at others (at least physicall) unless I was really provoked. * My ex-boyfriend once worked with a troupe where his stage persona was cruel, sadistic, sick, and manipulative. Not to mention a love for HellBentForLeather and EvilLaugh. Offstage, he was essentially a teddy-bear of a man and one of the sweetest people in our group. * A girl this troper knows once played the Queen of Hearts for the school's performances of Alice in Wonderland. Outside of that, she never says a bad thing about anyone and is very friendly. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} My]] high school crush was one of the nicest people I ever knew (though he and [[DoggedNiceGuy I]] were always JustFriends), but in almost every theater production our drama department did, he played the villain. * I'm generally a kind and respectable person, but recently I played Lady Macbeth for the first half of our school's production of Macbeth. I played it up as much as I could and people said that the other Lady Macbeth didn't even compare to my nasty, evil, over-the-top (in a good way) acting. I love playing evil characters now. >:3 * This troper once acted out part of a story that she'd written, and she was the villain (who was a sadistic and insane murderer). I played the part almost perfectly. * This troper was discharged from the US Army's Basic Combat Training due to some anxiety issues. Just before he was due to depart the base,

one of his drill sergeants called him over. The drill sergeant in question was one of the, if not the meanest, most demanding DS's in the company. Because of the circumstances of this troper's discharge, this troper was expecting to get even more abuse piled on. Instead, the conversation went like this --->'''DS:''' You're the one going home? --->'''TT:''' Yes, Drill Sergeant. --->'''DS:''' Are you disappointed in yourself, your performance here? --->'''TT:''' Of course I am, Drill Sergeant. I let you down, I let the other Drill Sergeants down, I let the Company Commander down, and I let myself down. I know I am better than this. --->'''DS:''' I want you too know, warrior, that I respect you. You are not a bad soldier, you would be a great soldier, and a great officer. You just need to get what you know here *points at head*, and make it get here *points at chest*. Don't look at yourself as a failure. You have already done more than most people ever will by signing up, coming out here, and trying. Take whatever you can from this place, and be a better civilian for it, or get whatever issues there are with you have sorted out, and come back in a few years and you'll be the best soldier in the brigade. --->'''TT:''' *stunned silence* Thank you, Drill Sergeant. * I myself end up doing this quite alot, In real life I'm a dry mellow sacrastic kind of person, but when I act and write scripts I tend to make myself the most awefull monsterous beings imaginable. For example, for a prison drama we did in high school I played the warden of a prison who's a complete sadist who enjoys having his prisioners in complete fear of him and even has one beaten to death for stealing a bottle of whiskey from his cabinet to give to the main character for his birthday. And in the next play we did, I was the devil who had someone sell me their soul then convince them to commit sucide to end the pain and make them go to hell quicker.

ptitle315nmtwnjpe4 * Every time @/RadioactiveZombie tries to do something naughty, he ''always'' gets caught. Sneaking around at night? Caught. Trying to lie? Caught, because he's the always one who gets checked on and not others who try the same lie, or someone else blows it by telling the truth. Stealing? Someone barges in. Porn? Seen when the window refuses to close due to pop-up ad. Cheating on an online game? First to be kicked. Hiding things in clever positions? People find it by chance since they're searching in that area for another object. Swift karma, indeed. ** Grr, this ALWAYS happens to me. Minus the porn, because I don't watch it. * This troper's grew up watching so much of this trope on tv, that the biggest fear every time he acts out is not of the more serious consequences such as getting hurt, killed, etc, but that he will always, and somehow, get caught and get in trouble. Given that his parents are one of the few around his area that aren't idiots and are

able to tell easily if something is going done, that probably as contributed to this mindset. ** This Troper has the same fear, compounded by the fact that I actually couldn't get away with anything when I was younger. Even after developing my powers of deception, A(I still hold a deep fear of getting in trouble (Which annoys my parents now that I'm older and should take initiative) and B(Still get caught at things. * This trope really loves to torture me. Almost always, someone, through some unexplainable miracle, will find out that I've done... nothing wrong, and then bitch at me for something that must've happened in the alterenate world that only they know of and can see. I somehow manage to avert this ''hard'' when I actually am doing something that I don't want to get caught doing. * The number of times @/FalconPain has thrown a rock at a moving vehicle: one. The number of times he has been forced to pay the full cost of a replacement car window, despite being in a group of children who were also throwing rocks: one. This would become a pattern in his life, to the point that he never even tries to break the rules (or law) anymore. And becomes bitter whenever people act like they can do whatever they want, as long as they're not caught. * On those days when the majority of the class was gone (Senior Skip Day, some large sporting event, etc.) the teachers would often have a fun or free day, such as the chemistry lab where the class made ice cream. ** This troper's much-depleted science class blew stuff up. Beats camp any day. ** Part of the reason I love senior skip day is because this troper managed to get his ''entire'' freshman-sophomore section of his mostly-senior algebra class, as well as the teacher, to say we sat around in class and watched ESPN. Someone was going to spill the beans... yeah, he got smacked before he could. ** This troper's final English class (which the teacher even said was not mandatory) was spent watching his teacher's favorite TV show; he is still surprised that his teacher was such a die-hard BattlestarGalactica fan. Best. Class. Ever. ** This troper's teachers (multiple as in, like, three or four, can't remember) gave tests that day - as well as offering special extra credit for all those taking the test that day as they couldn't, technically, take credit from those not at school. *** I once had a chem teacher that assigned a 15 page paper on our fav scientists (not as cool as it sounds - you couldn't use any on her "Too Cool For Class" list and no two papers could be on the same one, so she wouldn't have to read 3 papers on Glenn Seaborg or the like). Everyone that showed up for class that day with their papers got an automatic 10% added to their final grade and had the option of taking it home and revising any last minute things without fear of being marked down. Talk about instant karma. ** Twice in This Troper's Maths C class, once when most of the class was doing a Chemistry test and again when we had a substitute. So, instead of learning about Newtonian Dynamics, we played classroom cricket with a textbook for a bat and the bin for the wickets. Surprisingly, the class next door didn't mind the sound of a tennis

ball being hit into the wall. * @/DoomTay doesn't necessarily do BAD stuff rather than just stuff: ** I decide to look something up for a few seconds and COMPLETELY miss the chance to lick from a brownie bowl ** I get snapped at for ''sitting'' while doing work '''too many times''' * A high school classmate of this troper's parents drove drunk exactly ''once.'' On a country road. With wide, open fields on both sides--and a single tree. Guess what happened? * One of this troper's classmates is a jerk. She had been bothering him for hours, and the teacher had called her attention more than once. But when this troper called her a bitch, he got suspended. This troper now believes the principal is a sexist bastard. ** @/{{Taco}} sees one problem with all situations like this: *** SPEAK *** THE FUCK *** UP. This Troper has gotten into many cases like this. The simple solution to this whole ''Trope'' is to simply speak up. In the above situation, simply say, "Well, bitchface was bothering me and had been for hours, she hasn't been punished at all, and I think that verbal abuse is undeserving of a suspension. Sure, punish me if you want, but this punishment seems sexist and disproportionate. * My brother and I couldn't get away with anything, because our dad and ''his'' brothers already ''did'' it all! They got better. * The one time I forgot to display my parking placard I get a ticket. * Happened to a friend of this troper. The one time her phone rang in class, it was the final exam. The uni's policy for dealing with this is to put it outside the room, with the warning that it may get picked up by the Control Centre. When she went out, the bag was gone, but it turned out to be stolen! Make sure your phone is turned off/on silent, indeed! * [[{{Death-Messenger}} I]] could go on on about the constant bullying problems I have in which all times I decide to react agressively, I get punished, but that's [[OncePerEpisode a painfully daily thing]]. Recently, my dad has bought a XBOX 360 and asked me not to tell my mom he has it, reasons being allowance issues or something like that. The Ditz ends up telling my mom, 2 months later, without knowing it. My mom, being [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy the]] [[EvilMatriarch charming]] [[CompleteMonster creature]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown she]] [[DisproportionateRetribution is]], proceeded to eat my bowels off with a spoon and sauce. Mind you, this isn't because my dad bought the XBOX, but because I didn't tell her or, as she said, lied to her. Yeah, this coming from a ConsumateLiar. And despite the fact she agreed with me that it is a STUPID issue to be angry at, [[FridgeLogic she's still mad at me!!!]] Also, the amount of this trope in the cartoons I watched as a kid left with with a VERY cynical view on morality. * [[TequilaSunrise2011 This troper]] has a friend she has accidentally subjected to this trope more than once. He's usually the first one to point out that [[MaleGaze someone is staring at my breasts]] by reminding them that [[MyEyesAreUpHere my eyes are up here.]] What happens when he looks once? He promptly gets caught. People have

grabbed my ass and never been caught because the room is crowded, except for one person at a beachfront party. What happens when my poor friend does it as a joke? He gets slapped. Hard. * I've had some moments of this, but I did have a specific notable aversion. In my state, people with a learner's permit or a provisional license (the latter being a license with some restrictions to be held until age 18) must affix a red sticker to their license plate for reasons of the entirety of the state legislature thinking it's perfectly alright to profile teenagers. I never once used that sticker in all the time I had my provisional license, and I never once got in trouble or pulled over for it. (The fact that I'm a very cautious driver kind of helped.) ---[=~Can't Get Away With Nuthin'~=], mang! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Ptitle3aa6c4mw * This is why this troper will not recommend ''{{Coraline}}'' to his friend (who gets disturbing mental images at times -- really, I don't want her to freak out about people impaling her eyes with sewing needles). * This troper was reading Coraline in school which was really thin compared to what everyone else was reading. To make things worse, I had the book cover that had the movie stuff on it. The person sitting near me noticed me reading and asked why I was reading something so "kiddie" as Coraline. Luckily, I flipped to the page with the most disturbing picture at the right time. * Back during its original run in theaters, [[@/FoominBlue my]] father took me to see ''[[BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm]]''. Judging from his reaction afterwards, he'd run headlong into this trope. Things that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar flew right over my little head]], ''he'' got, resulting in my dad looking rather ''shellshocked'' when it was over. * [[@/{{Midna}} This'un]] was forbidden from playing ''DonkeyKong64'' as a child, for reasons I'm still not entirely sure of - either the DK Rap calling Chunky one hell of a guy, the use of cartoony firearms, or the word "butt" considering I had one of ''those'' childhoods despite the fact that it's rated E and pretty kid-friendly. * This troper has had to explain to his parents (''repeatedly'') that, yes, ''{{Bionicle}}'' is marketed towards kids. No, I'm not going to sell my collection, or leave it at home when I go to college. Also, no, I'm not going to stop playing ''CityOfHeroes'' and other video games. No, none of them are ''[[BerserkButton just for kids]]!!'' * Oh thank God, This Troper thought she wasn't the only one. Especially the Bionicles. * When this Troper (@/{{KKDW}}) was a kid I thought that ''RenAndStimpy'' and ''RockosModernLife'' were for grown ups (and thus didn't watch them... and yet I still watched the Simpsons, even though

I wasn't allowed to!) so I was rather surprised when I discovered that they were actually aimed at kids. * [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showpost.php?p=2043391&postcount=6 This post]] by a ''WinxClub'' fan essentially cites this trope (with a dash of ViewersAreMorons) as a reason for minor flaws in the writing. [[http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=164507 This page]] features a bit of back-and-forth about this. * Here's another ''{{Coraline}}'' example for you, upon seeing the movie adaption in theaters, there were at least 10 families with kids, one including a baby. Upon reaching the extremely unexpected [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Spink vs. Forcible theater scene]], we burst out laughing knowing most of the current audience believing it was a genuine kids movie, with a couple a few rows above us laughing as well. * On [[Tropers/GamerFromJump this troper's]] college campus, possession of a NintendoDS has a near 100% correlation to having one of the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games. * This troper introduced her roommate to ''AvatarTheLastAirbender.'' Since then, "gross creepy bloodbendingsquish" has become a phrase used to mean "particularly disturbing violence." * This troper has a hard time understanding how anyone below their teen years could enjoy ''PhineasAndFerb'', given how overloaded it is with [[ParentalBonus parental bonuses]] to the detriment of any other sort of content. Of course, I know kids love it, the reason I discovered it and became addicted was because I happened to be in the room when a kindergartener was watching it. I just find the phenomenon baffling. Maybe I'm just really out of the loop when it comes to children's television, but I did not think a cartoon like ''Phineas and Ferb'' existed, or could conceivably exist. * A [[http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/news/release/2006/0302.asp news article on a study of violence in children's programming]] even dubbed the ''[[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]], '' edit of ''{{Shaman King}}'' too violent for kids. ** It's the [[{{Moral Guardians}} Parents']] [[{{Thought Police}} Television Council]]. Are we surprised? ** They also think TeenTitans is too violent. Okay, let the evil villain take over the city... This is why [[{{Rosebud64}} this troper]] will not recommend ''Who Were The Beatles?'' to her little sister (who is autistic) even though she loves the Beatles (or at least I want her to like them.) Because it describes [[JohnLennon John Lennon's]] death and how Mark David Chapman was mentally ill. I certainly don't want my little sister's autism to connect to Chapman's mental disability. The fact that my sister gets sensitive when people die, and the fact that I have [[AspergersSyndrome Asperger's]]. The real problem? They only described [[GeorgeHarrison George Harrison's]] death is that he died of cancer! [[http://www.amazon.com/Who-Were-Beatles-Was/productreviews/0448439069/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_2?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filter By=addTwoStar Want proof?]] * This troper is not sure if this counts but he was once called on this by a friend when he allowed her to read over a manuscript he wrote. It was originally meant to be a Tolkienish children's comedy

but quickly evolved into a tale where mass slaughter is comsidered an everyday thing and rape is constantly implied to be the origin of the heroes/villains. It got worse when she realized who it was originally meant for. "What do you mean it's for your neices!" she practically shouted. The youngest of which was eight. That earned a few stares and what was worse, the conversation was in Bible as Literature class which was actually where all the violence came from to begin with. The story got so warped that the original lead got reduced to some guy who got killed in the background. * Someone showed me a magazine aimed for preteens. There was a shot of Rihanna in a bikini in it. I couldn't help but to burst out, "This is what they're aiming at thirteen-year olds?!" * This troper wouldn't reccomend watching Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith with young children. Even though George Lucas says the films are kid friendly, It has very good reasons for being a 12A in the UK. [[spoiler: For Example, Anakin leading clone troopers into the jedi temple and COLD BLOODEDLY MURDERING CHILDREN, the whole order 66 scene is disturbing and Anakin gets burnt with molten lava near the end of the film, complete with close ups of his burnt face.]] * This troper just reread TheHobbit. It was better than he remembered, because when Oxford Dons who spend their lives studying mythology sit down to write children's stories, the book gets better every time you read it. And then he reaches the part where [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Beorn]] [[RatedMForManly plants a goblin head on a pike and nails a wolf pelt to the door, after mentioning that he had interrogated them last night...]]. The first thought that popped into my mind was [[SoCoolItsAwesome "Holy crap, Beorn's a frickin' badass.]] The second was [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "Wait, I read this when I was five?"]] * This troper's parents have a very, ''very'', hard time understanding that Series/DoctorWho is a show watched by children. One of them freaked out and cried upon watching The Doctor's Wife, so being told that kids watch it was a massive culture shock for them. ** This troper wasn't allowed to watch ''Series/DoctorWho'' (the more adult-oriented pre-2005 incarnation) when he was young, leaving him to assume it contained a sizable amount of explicit violence and sexuality. Such content proved to be few and far between. * I once gave a presentation in school in which I discussed ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. When I said that it was originally intended for 12-year-olds, everyone stopped dead in their tracks. ----

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ptitle3w5au79hb9tv * The library this troper worked at would, every year, have a library sale where we'd sell library books ''for keeps'' to raise money for a charity or to make repair(s) to the library. (Many times it's to get better equipment or computers) We even used a "name your price"

system...except eventually, people realized that it's name your price and would walk off with about $50 of books after giving us a couple of dimes or a quarter, and that's the people who ''paid''. We raised a total of $23. The sale will ''not'' be happening anymore, after over ten years.

ptitle3zaap0y7ym6o * This troper does it constantly. "What should I wear this shirt with?" "Pants." "How do you do...?" "Carefully/With skill/style" * Chat bots can be so picky. Given a Choose command of "A or B" the bot chose "or." * Now a running gag in my family, my sister will often answer questions like "how was school?" with mathematician's answers such as, "school-y." hilarious when one time my father texted her inquiring what was for dinner and she replied "Food." ** Very common in my family too. As is the reply "the sky" to the question "What's up?" * Huh. I always thought that answering 'yes' to an either/or question universally meant 'both of them.' * This Troper has Asperger's Syndrome (and doubts she's the only one...), as does This Troper's father. It is incredibly likely that a question posed to either will be answered in this manner. If it's not the 'are we (verb)ing X or Y?''Yes' exchange, it's -->A: What are we eating for dinner?\\ B: Food.\\ A: What's for food, then?\\ B: Dinner. Something edible. ** This Troper's friend does the same thing, ''deliberately''. He gets really tiresome sometimes. -->'''Me:''' What did you get for Christmas? -->'''Him:''' Presents. -->'''Me:''' What presents? -->'''Him:''' Nice presents. -->''And so on...' * this troper does it on purpose to annoy her parents, and to gain time and/ or withstand interrogation. -->'''Mom:''' What did you eat yesterday? -->'''Me:''' ...food. -->'''Mom:''' What kind of food? -->'''Me:''' The kind of food I ate yesterday. * And: -->'''Dad:''' What did you do today? -->'''Me:''' Stuff. -->'''Dad:''' Can you be more specific? -->'''Me:''' Yes. -->'''Him:''' I am telling you to be more specific now. -->'''Me:''' Yes, you are. -->''' Dad:''' *Death Glare* -->''' Me:''' Ok, ok, I inhaled oxygen, I exhaled carbon dioxide, I digested food, my heart beat at an average rate. I had blood pass through my veins and arteries, I had mild electrical impulses go

through my brain, I had pieces of bodily tissue cover my retinas repeatedly when they got dry, I... -->''And so on...'' ** This tropette will have to remember that one next time her mom pressures her for an answer to "What did you do today?" * IHOP not only stands for International House of Pancakes, but also the International House of Prayer, two very separate things. This troper's friend wishes for them to be combined, and set up this kind of scenario to show how awesome it would be: -->A: I'm going to IHOP this summer!\\ B: Prayer or pancakes?\\ A: ''Yes!'' * [[{{Haven}} I]] frequently answer questions along the lines of "how did you do that?" with "with style!" ** [[TheWeirdo Me]] too! Only, in Portuguese: "Como voc fez isso?" "Com estilo!" ** Me too, although my line is usually "carefully." ** I usually respond "with hard work and discipline." * [[BlackHumor This troper]] often gives answers like this just for the lulz. For example: -->Me:[Talking to myself]\\ Friend1:You talk to yourself?\\ Me: Yeah, sorry.\\ Friend1: Don't be ashamed, talking to yourself is a sign of genius!\\ Friend2: Or schizophrenia.\\ Me: ''Yes!''\\ (Naturally, this was promptly misinterpreted as me saying I actually had schizophrenia) * This troper likes to use these as a way of saying "I don't know". Very few people catch on to that though. ** Brooks, is that you!? * This troper loves to use these. Usually, if I say yes, it means both are correct/choices/similar. If I say no, it means the opposite. Of course, sometimes I like to say things [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} completely out of left field]]. For instance, -->[=McDonald's=] worker (that I knew): What would you like today? -->Me: Yes. ** So you wanted everything he could give you? ** How does that answer the question? You can't answer a "what" question with "yes." * A frequent exchange in [[{{Cameoflage}} this troper's]] family: "How do you [do something implausible or downright impossible]?" "Very carefully." * [[Tropers/{{Max}} This troper]] delights in answering questions like this with a simple "Yes." But then, he finds being irritating highly amusing. ** I do that sometimes before the person has even finished answering the question. "Do you..." "Yes." * [[Tropers/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] does it for the fun of screwing with the minds of his friends. Using an instant messenger he sometimes forms his sentences in valid C or C++ statements. Like: "Q: Do you want to drink some beers this weekend? A: bool

answer=(moneyRemaining()>=5*PRICE_OF_BEER);" * [[Tropers/MikeRosoft This troper]] had an opportunity to use this kind of answer when some Mr. T-Mobile or Mr. Vodafone or another mobile phone agent stopped me at a subway: -->Agent: Good afternoon, can I ask you which mobile phone operator you use? -->Me: Yes, you can. In fact, you just did. (And I went on.) * This troper, who has a relatively mild case of Asperger syndrome, does this all the time - often to the chagrin of his family and friends. * [[Tropers/SonicLover This Troper]] absolutely ''hates'' it when his mother does the "A or B?" "Yes" variant. On the other hand, the following exchange has taken place between myself and my mother many times, although usually I just do it to try to cut the line of questioning short (it doesn't work anymore): -->Her: What are you reading? -->Me: A book. * [[Tropers/{{Seanette}} My]] husband does this to an infuriating degree. In fact, every example on this page sounds like conversations I've had with him. I have yet to decide (after knowing him for fifteen years) whether it's that he used to be a computer programmer, he's suspected to have a bit of Asperger's, he's a congenital smartass, or some combination of the above. ** Yes. * This is constantly done in my home, with the 'yes' meaning an affirmative to the latter choice, typically. * [=~S.A.B.~=] does this pretty often, sometimes as a joke, sometimes I just don't get the question. On the phone: -->'''Friend''': ...and what are you doing now? -->'''Me''': I'm talking to you. Or -->'''Friend''': Where are you now? -->'''Me''': I'm here. And you? * This Troper, while [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]] for Halloween, decided to answer "Yes" if anyone asked if they were a man or a woman. Unfortunately, the question never came up. * Two female acquaintances of [[GalenDev this troper]] both moved to Australia at around the same time. I wanted each one to keep tabs on the other, to make sure they were okay. -->'''Lucas''': So do you want Amy to spy on Maggie or Maggie to spy on Amy? -->'''[[Tropers/GalenDev This Troper]]''': Yes. * [[Tropers/{{Quillpaw}} This troper]] and her parents all love this trope. The typical "Are we [verb]ing X or Y" "Yes" format is common, but this troper likes to cause this conversation when asked what she wants to eat: -->Parent: What do you want for lunch/for dinner/from the store? -->Troper: Food. -->Parent: What kind of food? -->Troper: Good food. (Alternatively: Something I'll want to eat.) ** A famous exchange occured when her mother told about having to

dissect a grasshopper for anatomy class in highschool. "How do you dissect a grasshopper?" you ask. "Very carefully." * [[Tropers/{{Kinitawowi}} This mathematically-inclined troper]] objects very strongly to this trope being called Mathematician's Answer, because it drives him nuts whenever anybody does it; in his experience, they're not being clever, just plain lazy. "Yes" is NOT a valid answer to a multiple choice question unless it was one of the choices in the first place! ** Actually, it is, if set out like the question originally used as an example (i.e. For "Is the pig breed A or breed B?", "Yes." is a valid answer, if the pig is in fact one of those two breeds, because the question doesn't ask which of the two breeds it is, only if the pig is one of those breeds.). * Example: --->Me: What should I wear today? Long or short? --->My Mom: Clothes. * This troper is in an open relationship and enjoys confusing people. As a result she's had this conversation a number of times: --> Other person: I don't understand. Is your boyfriend Alan or Bob? --> Troper: Yes. (In purely logical terms, in fact, 'yes' would still be a truthful answer even if she were only dating one of them.) * My mum and I, all the time: -> Me: [[AskAStupidQuestion What's dinner?]] -> My mum: [[GetAStupidAnswer A meal.]] ->Or: -> Me: What's for dinner? -> My mum: Food. ** She's not a mathematician, she's just almost terminally sarcastic. Also, when she goes grocery shopping and asks whether there's anything I'd like her to get, I usually just reply, "Yummy things." I'm not trying to have attitude, I'm just not that choosy. * Whenever someone asks this Troper how to do something, the answer is almost invariably "with difficulty". ** This troper has progressed beyond that. Whenever someone asks this troper how questions, he tends to respond "With great ease and satisfaction." But only if saying that is appropriate, and he hasn't said that in a while. It looses its oomph if you use it too often. * [[Tropers/{{Ziggerfreud}} This Troper's]] Dad gives these answers, typically associated with the latter when presented with two options. * I don't get "small talk," and so I do this to an exaggerated extent. ("How are you?" "Yes," which I consider as honest and useful an answer as "I'm fine" or the like.) I'm also extremely easygoing, but "I don't care" seems to annoy people, so I actively try to use this kind of answer instead, which gets the point across just as well. And sometimes I do it because it amuses me. -->Customer: What are you doing?\\ Me: Reading.\\ Customer: Reading what?\\ Me: A book. * This Troper's mother always does this. The worst was when I asked her, in a written e-mail asking her what time something important is, she answered "yes." Also very common when I ask her an "is it X or Y"

question and she says "yes" or "no." Not very helpful, Mom. * I often give one of these answers when asked for the time. If you are too stupid to get a watch, that's not my fault. * My family and friends would often ask something along the lines of "Remind me to order tickets tomorrow," to which I would invariably respond "Order tickets tomorrow." Most of them eventually grew wise enough to rephrase it "Tomorrow, remind me to order tickets." * This gem from a free period in school, where I was reading TheKaneChronicles: -->'''Peer''': So what do people find in books? -->'''Me''': Words. ** Earlier that day, on the subject of a teacher's golfing son: -->'''Golfer''': So what does he normally shoot? -->'''Teacher''': Golf balls. * This troper's math teacher adores this trope, especially on test days. -->Student: Is the answer to this problem in inches, or in feet? --> Teacher: Yes. ** Or another variation: -->Student:Did this problem have a solution? -->Teacher: That is an excellent question. * [[Tropers/{{Roxor}} This Troper]] has a deep loathing for the question "How are you?" because he can never come up with an accurate answer. Of course, he makes use of this trope to give answers along the lines of computer error messages. Common examples: -->This program has performed and illegal operation and will be shut down. (Windows 98) -->Segmentation Fault. (Linux) -->Bad command or file name. (DOS) -->404 Not Found. (Most web servers) * This troper answers "Yes" to either/or questions a lot. However, This Troper considers that to mean "Both". * One morning, [[Tropers/{{Lime}} this troper]]'s mom asked her a question: -->'''Mom:''' Do you want to wear black pants or white pants?[[hottip:*:Not the exact wording, but something like that.]] -->'''Me:''' Yes. Admittedly, I was still groggy (and in bed). * Usually [[Tropers/{{Nerdspringer}} this troper]] is asked "what's up?", my response is "Up is the direction away from the center of gravity affecting you." ** Actually, that would be away from the center of the local supercluster. You're looking for "Up is the direction opposite the net force generated by the conservative field in my frame of reference." (this way, gravity simulated by electromagnetism, acceleration or rotation is also accounted for). * I do this all the time; I get it from my parents, but I do it the most. In particular, a family catchphrase is to respond to questions along the lines of "how are you supposed to X" with "Very carefully". * Vague answers have become such a reccuring thing between this Troper and her sister (I give vague answers when I don't know something) that we've come up with a running joke: Whenever a "who" question is asked,

either of us will reply with "Mr. Vague." Mr. Vague is that one guy, in that one movie, who did that thing and sang that song to that girl, who's that other guy from that band's daughter (and so on and so forth). Surprisingly enough, it took my sister a good couple of months to understand the joke. * This Troper's dad usually responds like this. Typically, when you ask him if he wants tea or coffee, he will respond "Yes". This is followed by "Which one?" Unfortunately, I've developed this habit as well: when asked how to do something, he has to fight not to say "With difficulty" or "Carefully", depending on the question. He has failed about once every day. * This Troper, who is now in the ninth grade, remembers a fifth grade math test when the question said: "Mr. Jones wants to but new carpet for his living room. In order to buy the correct amount, does Mr. Jones need to know the perimeter or the area of his living room?" and a classmate answered "Yes". Although he was correct, he did not get the points. * Thanks to being TheScrappy, whenever this troper asks the time, he gets a snippy answer, such as "time to get a watch." He responds with [[DeathGlare Doom Gaze]]. * [[Tropers/{{Umbee}} My]] favorite way to answer questions. --> "What do you hope to be doing in ten years?" --> "Breathing." * This: --> Other kid: "What are you laughing at?" --> [[@/StongRad This Troper]]: "Yes." * "What are you doing?" "Answering your question." ** And, of course: "What are you reading?" "A book." "What book?" "An interesting one." "What is it about?" "Stuff." * This Troper has a tendency to do this: --> "How did you manage to do ''that?''" --> "Carefully." * When I took my 4-year-old daughter to her first eye doctor appointment, this dialogue occurred: --> Eye Doctor: My name is Dr. Monahan. Can you say "Dr. Monahan"? --> My daughter: Yes. * This troper's ninth-grade world history teacher had this as his veritable catch-phrase: --> Student: "Was that a good thing or a bad thing?" --> Teacher: "Yes." * Me and My Dad: -->Dad: A couple of idiots -->Me: The radio jockeys or the people they're talking about -->Dad: *Beat* Yes * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] doesn't answer like that if sentences are combined with an or, but if there are two seperate questions... -->Friend: The anime? -->Friend: The manga? -->Troper: Yes. -->Friend: ? * "What's up?" "The opposite of down"

* This troper once heard the following exchange in her science class: --> Student: "Is it one over two or two over one?" --> Teacher: "Yes." * Any "or" statement around this troper gets a reply of "Yes", always. Because fuck clear statements. * [[Tropers.{{Akiba}} This troper]] works at a store where he's required to ask the customer if they would like the receipt with them or in the bag. He's frequently met with "Yes." * What's my answer whenever I'm at Chipotle Mexican Grill and they ask me whether I want sour cream or cheese in my burrito? "Yes." * This troper once saw a word problem in a statistics textbook like this. The premise was something along the lines of "In a study, 1000 Americans were asked whether it was likely or unlikely that the Holocaust was a hoax. 23% of those surveyed answered 'yes'." The memory of it haunts me to this day, because I was never able to figure out what the question was trying to prove. * Asian Americans can end up being the mathematician without planning it, as follows: --> "Where are you from?" --> "Seattle." --> "No, where were you born?" --> "Portland, Oregon." --> "What country are you from?" --> "The United States." --> "Where are your parents from?" --> "My dad's from San Francisco, my mom's from Eugene, Oregon." As far as I can tell, the intended question is, "What particular subgroup of Asian are you?" However, I've never had anybody actually ask that or anything similar; most people give up around the third question. ** I always ask that question by saying "Where is your family from?" It works fairly well. * My dad has been doing this with food for as long as I could remember. It's getting kind of annoying. --> Me: What's for dinner? --> Dad: Good food to eat. * This troper has had this exchange far too often: --> Me: How far off's dinner? --> Dad: About 4 meters When this troper was purchasing an item at a store, the cashier wanted to check his purchase history. -->Cashier: Do you have an email address? -->Me: Yes. -->*Beat* -->Cashier: Tell me what it is?

* ** This troper also frequently does this (usually with his dad): (Roles could be either way around) --> Dad: What do you want for dinner? --> Me: Food would be nice.

--> Dad: What sort of food? --> Me: Something edible preferably. (Although with our cooking skills, this should not necessarily be assumed...) ** Another example was a particularly obnoxious boy at this troper's school, who was frequently a bit of a bully and trying to borrow money (with probably no intention of paying it back): --> Boy: Can you borrow me some money? (Poor grammar repeated verbatim) --> Me: I probably could...do you mean "lend"? --> Boy: *sigh* OK, can you ''lend'' me some money? --> Me: Yes. *walks away* --> Boy: *walks after me, stops me* I said, can you lend me some money? --> Me: And I said yes. *walks away again* --> Boy: *Now exasperated, stops me again* Well, are you gonna?? --> Me: No. ** Another funny example, when I once went to a branch of PC World. --> Store assistant (as I walked towards him): Can I help you sir? --> Me: I hope so... ** Once, when I came home significantly later than usual from work: --> Dad: Where were you? --> Me: Um...out. ** Also frequently heard in my house... (sometimes with swapped roles) --> Me: What's on the TV? (As in, what programme could I currently be watching?) --> Dad: Three stacks of videotapes and an aerial. ** When my bank asked for further contact details for me: --> Bank clerk: Do you have an email address? --> Me: Yes. --> Bank clerk: What is it then? --> Me: Oh, I don't want to give it to you. ** During a power cut many years ago: --> What's happened, I can't see anything! Why's it gone so dark? --> Because all the lights have gone out, duh! ** Another common one: --> How long's dinner gonna be? --> About *holds hands typically about 9ins apart* this long. (or alternatively) It's not long, it's round. ** A slight variant: --> How's dinner? --> It's cooking. ** Said by the troper's sister with regards to a TV show she didn't like: --> Sister: How can you watch that rubbish? --> Me: By keeping my eyes open and face towards the screen, usually. ** Not quite the same type of answer, but fairly close... --> Me: Would you like me to put the dinner on? --> Dad: No, put it in the oven instead, you'd look silly wearing it! ** And finally (for now at least), one I frequently use when starting a conversation with friends... --> Friend: Hi mate, how are you today? --> Me: I'm me; how are you?

* Like some of the above examples this troper has asperger syndrome so when asked something like "what would you like for dinner" I always reply with "food" or when offered between two choices would just reply with "yes" which once resulted in my mother giving me both a pizza and stirfry and chips on one plate, thinking it would stop me... it didn't I ate it all to her disguist * Another Aspie here. I enjoy both the 'What are you reading? Book' and 'What's up? Ceiling/sky/whatever' variations. * This troper is well-known to reply to "or" questions with the logically correct answer "yes" or "no." Furthermore, he only recently had the following exchange at work: --> '''Customer:''' Can you tell me where dog food is? --> '''Me:''' Of course. It's in Pets. --> [''beat''] --> '''Customer:''' And where is Pets? Admittedly, I was deliberately being a [[DeadpanSnarker smartass]], and immediately thereafter, I apologized for the remark and gave the customer the proper directions. * [[{{Horngeek}} This Troper]] loves to deliver the following line when looking for a book of the Bible: --> It's after Genesis and before Revelation. * This german troper's english teacher provided this one. --> The teacher asks a question. --> '''Student:''' Can I hear the question again? --> '''Teacher:''' [[{{ptitle3zaap0y7ym6o}} Yes.]] --> '''Student:''' ... --> '''Teacher:''' ... --> '''Student:''' ... --> '''Teacher:''' ... --> '''Student:''' I did not understand the question. Could you repeat it, please? * This troper works in the only Domino's call centre in the world (every other Domino's has calls going to the store). This is a frequent occurence when taking calls: --> '''Troper:''' Sir/Ma'am, would you like a bottle of Coke or Sprite? --> '''Customer:''' Yes. --> '''Troper:''' Sir/Ma'am, you need to choose your drink: either Coke or Sprite. --> '''Customer:''' Yes. --> [''beat''] --> '''Troper:''' (Sigh and facepalm) Sir/Ma'am, you have the option of Coke, ''or'' Sprite. You must choose one or the other, you cannot have both. --> '''Customer:''' [[RunningGag Yes]]. (Okay, so it's not a ''funny'' running gag, but my life is pretty much like this. * One day this troper got tired of his uncle asking him the same question every time he visited. The result: --> '''Uncle:''' What's new? --> '''Me:''' The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet, but that's not

important right now. * As an answer to "paper or plastic?" at the grocery store, it causes more consternation than necessary, don't you think? If someone would just grab the first bag at hand and carry on, they'd know whether I was trying to be difficult or easy in a lot less time. * I work at a fast food place, which I shall call Burrito Gong. I ring up orders. Often a customer starts out an order with "Can I get a ..." I sometimes answer, "That is likely to be within your powers." ** I also have a mom who likes to tell long rambling tales about events in her life. Then she asks how I am and I give a one word answer, like fine, okay, or good. She finds this frustrating. * This troper's professor. "Can I ask for clarification, in the sentence "When spinning perfect transport...." does the perfect belong to the spinning or transport?" "Yes." -.-; * When asked what she's reading, this troper will usually say "A book" or what she's listening to, "My iPod". To her annoyance, this has been called "a typical philosopher's answer", when half the reason she got into philosophy was to find answers that any normal human being considers utterly beyond the pale of exactitude (consider the question, "What is good?"). She just doesn't like being interrupted when she's reading or listening to music. * This troper's then-first-grade daughter counted the box in which one writes the correct answer among "the rectangles on this page". Her answer was incorrect when going by the intent of the question (which was to remember that squares are also rectangles) but it was so creative that the teacher gave her a point of extra credit for it anyway. * This troper asked his parents and aunt (on separate occasions) "When do they hold high school reunions?" and got the answer "Ten years? Twenty years?", when a better question would have been "When ''in the year'' do they hold high school reunions?" (I was attempting to figure out how my upcoming ten-year would fit my schedule). * I do this a lot. And I love math, too, so... Examples: ** One of my teachers and me: --> Teacher: Can you do X? --> Me: Yes. --> *beat* --> Teacher: Oh, right. Would you please do X? ** Another one, this between me and my friend. --> Friend: What do you have drumsticks for? (Asking why I have drumsticks when I'm not a percussionist.) --> Me: Hitting things. (It's a long story that I'm usually too lazy to tell.) ** Lastly, my parents and me: --> Parent: Do you want to do (chore)? --> Me: Not really, no. But I will anyway. * During a long train journey a friend of this troper's asked a conductor: -->"Excuse me. What station is this?" -->"A railway station." * This troper and her father commonly pull the 'food' variant on her mum along with the "What kind of food?" "The edible/delicious kind."

response, but she had one happen at her place of employment the other day: -->Coworker: How's work? -->Troper: Work-like. Turns out she misheard him, he were asking about her cat, whose name is [[StarTrek Worf]]. He is cat-like, if you were wondering. * This troper's father does it constantly with the "X or Y?" variant. Oddly, enough, my mother doesn't, despite being a maths teacher. * This troper habitually answers "Yes" to questions of the form "X or Y?", after deciding whether or not that answer could be interpreted meaningfully. If so, he either answers honestly or says "perhaps". Also, there's a (presumably) restaurant in town which has a fifty-foot tall sign that says EAT. It scares him, to be honest. Nothing else about the building gives any hints as to what food they serve. "We have food! ... What kind of food? Why, does it matter? EAT!" * When I'm the GM, I have a player who is very fond of voicing "assumptions" instead of outright asking questions he knows I'm not going to answer, in the hopes that I'll make a half-answer (such as, "I'm assuming I don't actually have to worship a specific god if I'm using the Chameleon class to fake being a cleric" or "I assume I can have metal equipment if my background says I plane-shifted here instead of being a native"). My response will usually be "You're free to assume whatever you like." He's beginning to catch on that the unvoiced addition is "...but it won't make it true." * I work retail and get this at least a dozen times every day. "Would you like your receipt with you or in the bag?" "Yes, please." Eh, okay, I'll just hand it to you and let you decide where to put it, then... * This troper has a habit of cutting her own hair. Most people who know me pretty well don't question it. Anyone who does question how I can cut my own hair gets treated to a confused look and told "With scissors?". * I once did this just to annoy a friend's mom: -->'''Friend's Mom:''' ''Where are you guys going?'' -->'''Me:''' ''Out.'' -->'''Friend's Mom:''' ''Out where?'' -->'''Me:''' ''Side.'' * Happened once with [[Tropers/KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper's]] mother: -->'''Troper's Dad:''' Tea or coffe, love? -->'''Troper's Mum:''' Yes. * -->'''Mum''': Was that sarcasm or did you actually ''mean'' it? -->'''Me''': I believe the best answer to this question is "yes". ** I also sometimes answer this sort of questions with something like "About 65 percent". In my defence, sometimes even I'm really not sure if I'm serious or not. ----Could I or could I not think of a clever way to phrase "Go back to [[{{ptitle3zaap0y7ym6o}} Mathematician's Answer]]"? Yes. -----

Ptitle4djgezz9 * During a (sadly small) zombie walk I organized, I was adding more fake blood to my (already pretty bloody) outfit. I decided to put some in my mouth, causing me to speak like this due to speaking through a layer of liquidy fake blood. * TruthInTelevision, as any troper with braces/retainers/orthodontics of any kind can tell you. After a while, you learn to talk your way around problematic phonics. ** This troper had a tendency to mumble before getting a retainer, but developed very clear diction thereafter. ** This troper as actually had a problem talking after her braces came ''off'', since she'd spent four years compensating for both a very bad overbite and later her braces. She got used to the feeling of normal teeth (it helped that her jaw started hurting whenever she kept it so tightly shut that her now-straightened teeth pressed against other) and now has such good diction that people comment on it during performances. * When I was quite young, I thought Nightcrawler's German accent in XMenEvolution was a speech impediment due to his CuteLittleFangs, mostly as he seemed to me to be over-pronouncing his words. I still have no ear for accents. * This Troper had a student talk like this after ingesting hand sanitizer. He was all right after about ten minutes. * [[Tropers.Homestar09Mario08 Thith troper]] and her good friend, Lithie, uthed to play a make-believe game where one of the characterth talked like thith, ethcept it wath a lot more ekthagerated. * This troper develops a lisp every time she chews a gumball, so she tends to just stick with sticks of gum. * This troper happens to be deaf in one ear, and has trouble hearing higher-pitch frequencies. Like "s" sounds. Tho I talk like dis unleth I focuS on it to the point of ridiculouSneSS. It'S raS- er- rather annoying. * This troper has some plastic werewolf fangs from a past Halloween costume. Nobody took her seriously when she had them in, because she talked like this the whole time. * This Troper was told once that he talks like this I actually enjoy talking like that intentionally, if only because it's fun to annoy people like that. ---Thith way back to [[{{Ptitle4djgezz9}} Whedon'th Thyndrome]] ----

ptitle4mnuvch9oyjr * Raise your hand if your mother told you that TheLibby or {{Jerkass}} who was picking on you in school was just jealous of you. ** [[Tropers/LittleSerge This Troper]]'s mother played it straight and for mega laughs - when she insisted they were picking on this Troper because "They all had such small penises". ^_^ *** This troper thinks your mother should get a parenting award. *** Second.

*** [[UnfortunateImplications I would like to know how your mom knows you don't have a small penis.]] **** She changed his diapers? She bathed him as a child? **** Oh yes, infants are notoriously well-hung... not. **** Actually, my mom's joke is based more on the fact that the bullies were known to be extremely insecure, and thus tended to make fun of a lot of people. Most of them ended up getting [[LaserGuidedKarma their just deserts in the end]], however. My own well-endowed awesomeness had no part to play in that exchange. :P ** {{Tropers/Callahan}} was picked on for her sexuality from fifth grade into high school (she had never dated anyone and was in the closet, but, well, it ''was'' a rather TransparentCloset). When her father came to pick her up from school one day in the ninth grade, she complained about being called "dyke" by the same jackass every day. Her father responded, "''He's just pissed you get more pussy than him''." *** Now ''that'' is some {{badass}} parenting. *** Your dad is bloody awesome. * If this troper gets flamed, his friends dismiss it as jealousy, no matter why the flaming happened in the first place. * On one forum this troper frequents, there are waves of Jonas Brothers fans who liberally apply this trope to argue any opposition to the band's "musical genius". * [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] said something to this effect after (finally!) beating her brother several times in a row in SuperSmashBros Brawl. The exact line was likely "Aw, you're just jealous that I'm kicking your ass." ** This Troper relishes the day when he can say the exact same thing to his friends after a round of ''Brawl''. As it currently stands. Both friends own the game (This Troper doesn't), and they simply state "you're just jealous" whenever I point out that they're using Sonic or Meta Knight and using the moves cheaply. This Troper is actually proud of himself for being able to keep up at all, all things considered. *** Sorry, but you are a ''{{scrub}},'' and completely in the wrong. The point of a game is to win. If you choose to handicap yourself, fine, but do not whine when other people play smarter than you in an attempt to win. ''Good day.'' *** Objection! If this ain't living proof of StopHavingFunGuys, I dunno what is. The person saying how the people were sore winners was complaining about just that and barely went into detail on why he thought Sonic or someone else was cheap. Just because someone says something is cheap doesn't immediately label them as a scrub. It is possible to say something is cheap and accept it at the same time. Games isn't always about playing purely to win. *** Find a character you're good with. Then fight, fight, fight without a care for how often your using an attack or whatever, because it's Brawl darnit, and you're supposed to beat the crud outta each other! Who cares if it's cheap; it's a strategy! **** I can most definitely assure you that a scrub, I am not. My statements were not me complaining, merely that they gloated over every victory - there ''is'' such thing as being a sore winner - and constantly spammed the same moves. Indeed, they complained just as

often. This Troper finally settled on a character and began forming his own strategy. Sonic and Meta Knight no longer bother him - he can beat them on a good day, now. In all, between the character and strategy I chose, and the one that my friends chose, we stopped complaining about being cheap. And to respond to the guy who suggested I pick a character I'm good with, I say thank you... and learn to fear the power of... TOON LINK! (Seriously, his forward smash is ''scary''.) *** ...Let's just stop now so non-SSB examples can get a fair share of this page. * Not really knowing the correct usage of the word jealous, I had called a student who said, "There's no rule againt double freezing!" after I had told her, despite her [[{{Scrub}} protests]] that there was no rule against guarding the "flags" in a game that was similar to capture the flag jealous. * [[{{Tropers/Nomic}} This troper]] says this a lot. When his brother comments on his choise of clothing his answer usually is "you're just jealous of my NiceHat". * Probably wasn't the nicest thing this troper ever did, but this [female] troper finally got a chance to use this on an old and hated [male] acquaintance of hers when they both happened to bump into each other at a church event with respective girlfriends in tow, and this troper's girlfriend possesses the MostCommonSuperpower. Her old "friend"'s girlfriend... did not. He was not pleased. * This troper - after being accused of being pretentious - will often reply with "You're just jealous that I'm better than you". ** That sounds extremely annoying. * On the receiving side, [[Tropers/DokEnkephalin this troper]] has been accused of it when it was true. But there's no point in admitting it since they seem to think it makes the entire critique invalid. 'Jealousy' doesn't explain much; it may not be over the same thing you're so proud of. * Being unimpressed and critical of the then-girlfriend of this troper's favorite actor was immediately met with a chorus of "you're just jealous" on many forums a few years ago. Every single time. I think his current girlfriend is a doll and have said so, which confounds the hell out of them. Apparently I'm supposed to hate any female he touches simply because I disliked the first one, because of course that would validate their opinion. * This troper and her brother have made up a set of characters for a soon-to-be Flash animated series. One of the character's catch phrases is the name of this trope. * I had a girlfriend that would say this when I called one of her friends a stalker. He texted her good night using the term "noellekins". * Inverted on this troper. This troper has never gotten along with her cousin, two years her junior. This intensified when this troper was around 12, and her cousin was ten and started babysitting her nephews (this troper's second cousins). The cousin was especially critical of how this troper thought the kids were fun, telling her she would eventually find them annoying. When this troper was 16, and her cousin was 14, they took a walk through the field outside the second cousins'

house. Her cousin told her that she had always been jealous of this troper's relationship with those kids because even though she was closer in blood to them, this troper was always better-received by them (mostly due to a common love of Pokemon). It never actually fixed her cousins's relationship with the kids, but it did lead to a ceasefire between her and this troper, culminating in this troper being the only photographer who could get her cousin to smile for the camera at her baby shower. * [[Tropers/PurplePantherGirl This Troper]] wrote a short article about Hannah Montana- about how ''shit'' it was, and got several comments that were basiclly 'OMG U SUK U R JUST JELOUS OF HER TALNT.' (That spelling exactly) to which I would reply 'No. I'm not. I hate her.' * One of my friends said this exact line about his 'leet supa haxor' skills. I asked, "What leet supa haxor skills?" He then said, "You're right. I'm pretty bad at it." I laughed. * This male troper often tells his female friends that they're just jealous because he's prettier than they are. It's just a joke, though. Maybe. ** In a similar vein, this (different) troper's friend will often respond to insults by saying, "You're just jealous because mine are real and yours are fake!" in an absurdly effeminate manner, in reference to his man-boobs. * I was told this once due to my fiery-bloody-hatred of a bloke who was going out briefly with my current {{Tsundere}}-fuel. I hated him because he was a smarmy cunt who treated her like shit and I'm overprotective and generally thought "I've seen venereal diseases with more charisma than this twat." whenever I saw him. Needless to say, I'm built like a brick privy, so when threats of broken legs were made against the perpetrator, they shut up rather rapidly. I suppose being known as a psychologically unhinged nazi has its advantages, even if it does cost you any chance of positive human physical contact. ever. * A lot of ''{{Twilight}}'' fans will tell this to haters. "You're just jealous you can't write like [=SMeyer=]!" WRONG. If I wrote like [=SMeyer=], I'd shoot myself. ** If I could write like SMeyer, I'd do the same thing she did: sell total crap for a shitload of money. ** A similar example happened when StephenKing said that [=SMeyer=] 'couldn't write worth a darn'. Someone ''actually'' said that he was jealous because none of his books were made into movies. Ummm, [[CriticalResearchFailure WHAT?]] * Steventheman here. Said by a girl in my maths class: "YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS OF JUSTIN BIEBER!" *** Conversation: *** Me: Name three things I'd be jealous of. *** Her: His money, his fame and his biebelievers! *** Me: I'm happy with what I've got, I don't want to be followed by the press and they only worship him because they haven't heard of the Rolling Stones *** Her: Who? *** Me: Exactly. * Invoked against any body who dares hate on BritneySpears by this

troper, for eternity. Peeps are just jealous! ** I don't hate Britney Spears (I'm indifferent), but name three things you think I'd be jealous of that she has. For reference, this troper is from a rich family, has been told she's pretty, has a good singing voice, wants to go into science, and is a ButchLesbian. Good luck. * This trope is the reason why This Troper's current girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend [[{{Understatement}} don't get along so well.]] It gets ''really'' awkward since I have to [[LanguageOfLove translate for my current girlfriend]] when they start arguing, even though they both are people I enjoy being around. * This troper really notices that some of the HateDumb for ''{{Eragon}}'' and ''{{Twilight}}'' actually fit this trope...heck, I see this a lot. Someone gets published, and they get mad at them because they think "But ''MY'' story is better, why don't '''''I''''' get published?!?" ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint But I didn't even start writing when they first came out...]] * [[Tropers/TacoNinja This one]] was watching a program about lottery winners. I soon became aware that most of the people they interviewed were complete assholes, not because they all won millions in the lottery, because ''all but two couples seemed like total pricks.'' especially one guy at the end who pretty much said: "if you want [[NoKillLikeOverkill 7 Lamborghinis]] like me, why don't you go out and buy some lottery tickets instead of [[YoureJustJealous sitting there being jealous?! AHAHAHA!"]]. Understand why my reaction was a quiet "''priiiiiiiiick.''". ** Somewhat related: This troper has been accused of that for having the same (above) reaction to People Magazine articles. Seems that rich people can't be asses, we're all just jealous! We just seek to reign on their parades! ---Return to [=~You're Just Jealous~=] here. Oh wait, you want a funny joke for the link back? At least this page HAS a Troper Tales section. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle4yh5d50x * This troper was fed a horrendous tasting traditional medicine when she was sick with chicken pox. She went down stairs one day to find her dad grating a HORN into a soup that look suspiciously faimilar. Prizes to those that guess what her medicine turned out to be. * This Troper... erm, tried, to eat Brie while over in Paris. It tasted so bad I couldn't even swallow it. I had to run to the toilet and spit it out, * A close call: This troper, on a recent trip to China was about 2 seconds away from eating a deep fried chicken head...luckily as I brought it up to my head, I saw it was looking back at me and freaked

the hell out. * This troper's mother once accidentally drank from a glass of bleach thinking it was water as a child. She was more upset about having to drink the milk Grandma gave her to counteract the bleach until they could get to the hospital. ** OK, who leaves a glass of bleach on the counter in kid's reach? Please elaborate on this. * This troper has a buddy who worked at a restaurant as a waiter. He had an elderly Jewish couple who would come in every week after Synagogue service together to get the fish chowder. They went to the restaurant for years, and then they were telling him how much they love the fish chowder, since they can't eat the clam chowder for Jewish dietary reasons. Then he realized something about the fish chowder... it was prepared with pork salt. He confessed this to the elderly couple, and they looked up to him with horror, and left the restaurant. He never saw them again. * Back when [[@/McJeff This Troper]] played in a game called efedding, he came up against a horrible case of writers block. And instead of writing something useful and relevant, he wrote an RP (roleplay) in which his character ate the most spicy sandwich ever. Jalapeno-cheddar bread, asian spicy mustard, tabasco sauce, shredded habanero cheddar cheese, super-hot italian sausage, crushed red pepper, and more tabasco. (Incidentally, the RP in question was actually one of the most popular [=RPs=] he ever wrote, and he won the match). ** Except for the Tabasco sauce, that actually sounds pretty good. It's making me drool. * [[@/MrInitialMan This troper]] once saw a glass of what he thought was chocolate milk, and downed it. His sister had forgotten to dump out the water she was using for her paint brushes. ** Happened to this troper's dad when she accidentally rinsed off her (yellow) paint brushes in his lemonade. * This troper used to love eating Hush Puppies until he found out they were * shudder* ''onions.'' ** Well... cornmeal balls ''containing'' onions. ** Onion's aren't icky... they're a ''food group,'' right next to garlic! (I'm the one that thinks the absurdly hot efedding sandwich above sounds good.) * This troper once took a huge swig from a bottle of what he thought was lemonade. Turned out to be vinegar. Guhhhh... * One time this troper drank a Coke and left the empty can on the coffee table. My roommate at the time used chewing tobacco. [[VomitDiscretionShot I'm sure you can see where this is going.]] ** Variation of this happened to this troper's brother's fourth-grade teacher. She had been out running, and her husband chewed, and he had left his spit jar on the counter. The teacher swigged it thinking it was iced tea. ** This troper's mother used to smoke when I was five, and put her cigarettes in a Pepsi can. I accidentally drank it. That is mainly what caused her to quit. * This troper accidentally drank beer, thinking Bud Light was a soda. My best friend's parents (the ones who had brought the beer to go tailgating) thought this was insanely hilarious. So did my best

friend. * Many years ago, [[Tropers/DarkSoldier I]] went to Chinatown with his class. The other students went to [=McDonald's=] for lunch while I decided to stick with the teachers and went to a local restaurant. The lady behind the counter had an impenetrable accent, so she identified what I pointed at as "beef * unintelligible* " (the lunch crowd was noisy, too). So I sit down with my meal and start eating. When I get to the beef ???, I find it sour and rubbery. My teacher asks if I knew what it was (I didn't), so he identified it: "beef tripe." I wasn't disgusted, just disappointed that I ordered something I couldn't eat. I finished everything else, though. ** What's wrong with beef tripe? That stuff's awesome! *** I believe it counts as ForeignQueasine to some. * Once upon a time, while dining at a restaurant, [[Tropers/SoWeAteThem my]] uncle got a plate which featured a green, dough-like substance. He popped the whole thing in his mouth, shouting "Oh, boy, guacamole!" I believe now is the time to tell you he was eating at a sushi joint. My only regret is that I was not there to see it. ** Okay, okay, earlier than this, I had been hauled into the hospital twice: once for drinking a whole bottle of perfume, once for downing a boxful of aspirin. I think I was three at the time. * Similar to the Caddyshack example, my friend and her sister once poured Mountain Dew in the snow and then ate it in front of their aunt and mother (they quickly informed them it was a joke). They thought about sticking tampons in cherry sauce and licking them but realized it was a bit much. * This troper had a cookie that he found out was made from mayonaise. He had to wash his mouth out immediately, even though the cookie tasted fine, just the though was terrible. ** This troper's mother had a similar experience when Grandma made the same kind of cookie for her. Except Mom tasted the mayonnaise immediately, and didn't like the taste. Grandma [[AbusiveParents wasn't happy]]. It turned out later that Mom was actually allergic to egg whites, and her distaste for them saved her a lot of grief growing up. Tell that to Grandma, though. * This troper was eating at his aunt and uncle's when I was offered a plate of some kind of pork in red sauce. I accepted and enjoyed it, then this exchange went by. -->'''Me:''' This is good... what is this? -->'''Uncle:''' Pig's feet. -->'''Me:''' .......... Okay. * This Troper heard from her friend, that some college kid always drank his and his friend's beers when they were on the toilet or ordered new drinks while being in a bar. One day they got so annoyed to the punk's behavior that they took a huge, about a 3 or 4 gallon pint to the bathroom and all five guys pissed onto it. After that they left the pint to the table and went to their own errands for ten minutes. When they came back the pint was empty, so someone fell for it (Though it isn't sure was it the same guy.) * This troper once drank three bottles of what she thought were soda pops. Turns out they were Vodka Cruisers.

* more than once this vegetarian troper has made it halfway through a Chinese meal before noticing bits of beef in it. Now she makes a point to carefully check such meals for meats ([[FailedASpotCheck and still misses a few pieces at times]]) ** same troper: after she became a vegetarian, she still loved eating Jell-o until she learned where the gelatin in it came from: [[spoiler: animal hooves]] ** Gelatin is not made from animal hooves. It comes from animal skin and bones. I have seen gelatin being made at home. Still not vegetarian though. * This Troper's brother once went to a corner stall in Hong Kong to eat crabs. He proceeded to pour some tea out of the nearby teapot and drank it, only to realize that it tasted unlike tea. Turns out it is [[spoiler: vinegar for the crabs]]. ** Earlier on, he went to Germany and had breakfast in a hotel. He saw a food labeled "Margarine" and tried some. Somehow this troper thinks those strange blue lines in the "margarine" should have tipped his brother off about the fact that it is not margarine. * This Troper once went to a store that sold dried fruit by the pound. There were many sample bowls out, so he began to try some of the interesting looking foods. After eating a rather salty sample, he read the label. Dried squid and cuttlefish cubes. This probably isn't particularly horrifying to most people, but this troper is a vegetarian who has always found [[UglyCute Squids and Cuttlefish cute since he was a young child]]. * This troper has eaten dog. It's a little greasy, but otherwise unremarkable. ** This troper has eaten snake. It's like eating a chicken with the bones of a fish. ** [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] had chicken foot once. Not enough meat. ** How about fish testicles? (They were HUGE.) ** Wait, were they actual testicles, or "fish balls"? Cause if it's the second one it just means it was made with fish meat. (Like a fishstick, but in ball form.) And I've made that same mistake myself. Turns out that waiters simply aren't prepared if a 10 year old says, "Holy shit how big was the fish??" Cause ours nearly passed out from laughing. ** Dog, frog, snake, lizard, snails, field mice, pig's blood sausage, roasted offal, chicken beaten to death... ** This troper has tried scorpions and cicadas, they were crunchy and somewhat salty, but otherwise unremarkable. ** fried grasshoppers, hard to describe kind of a cross between ([[TastesLikeChicken fried chicken]]) and peanuts, also chocolate covered ants, tastes like a Nestle's Crunch ** I recommend sheep brain, it's delicious but really fatty. It tastes just like a omelet. * One time, [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper's]] grandma decided to do something out of the ordinary with her usual beef stew (Which was usually very good). She wouldn't tell us what she did, but the first thing I noticed was that the meat wasn't quite right; it had a weird texture and tasted just as weird as well. A little later, as I finished the bowl, she finally revealed the "mystery meat" of her

stew: cow tongue. Let's just say, I rushed to the bathroom very quickly after that; the {{Squick}}y nature of what I had finished eating was t

Ptitle5fz4u602 * This editor once had a rather frustrating (if entertaining in retrospect) interchange of this sort with a friend who wanted to know [[CoveredUp who had originally performed]] the song "Behind Blue Eyes." ("The Who." "Yeah, that's what I was asking...") ** Similar conversation had here. Tried to make a joke when I mentioned a band that a friend hadn't heard of (Opeth) and they were confused: ".....the who?" "No, Opeth!" Didn't get a reaction. : ( * This editor had a rather frustrating exchange with a Romanian housemate because neither of us realized that the word "pudding" has different meanings in Romania and Ireland. * When ordering from a Panera Bread restaurant, this troper once gave his name as "Everyone". When the cashier gave him a funny look, he said, "I want them to say 'Everyone, your order is ready.'" Sure enough, they said, "Everyone, your order is ready. Everyone." When this troper went to the counter to collect his meal, a woman was standing there explaining to two elderly people that their food wasn't ready yet because someone had used a name to confuse them. * The worst TA that this troper had during college was a Chinese graduate student named Rong. * This troper had a problem with that, in the anime ''{{Noein}}'', there are characters named both Yuu and Ai, and thought that that would be the place for a {{Woolseyism}} if there ever was one. ** The same thing happened in ''FinalFantasyUnlimited''. The names weren't changed in the dub, but one of the DVD commentaries had the dub voice actors remarking on how confusing it was. * This editor had a high school classmate named Sixiang, nicknamed "Six." One day, in math class, the answer was seven, but the teacher said, "and what's the answer, Six?" The entire class responded, "no, seven!" * While playing {{Star Fox}} Assault with a friend, this exchange occurred: -->'''Me''': Hey, how do you jump? -->'''Friend''': Why -->'''Me''': Because I'd like to know. -->'''Friend''': No, Why -->'''Me''': Because you just jumped, and I'd like to know how! -->'''Friend''': YOU PRESS Y! ** A similar thing happened when this guy wanted to learn how to spawn something in {{Halo}} 3's Forge mode * When this troper (who is from Sweden, if you want to know) was first learning English, she asked her mother what 'I don't know' means. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] * This troper had two lab partners in college, a couple of Asian kids named Hung and Wang. When getting their attention, he said "Hung! Wang! Over here!" His girlfriend shouted "you can say that again!" * This troper's father, when he was a kid, wanted to name one of his

cats You. This idea was vetoed by his parents to prevent this trope. * I've had this. A friend and I were listening to Weird Al Yankovic. -->'''Friend: What's the next song called?''' -->'''Me: Don't Download This Song''' -->'''Friend: Alright. So what's the song called?''' * This Troper's father had a Who's On First t-shirt that was a baseball diamond with cartoon caricatures of baseball players. Each player was properly labeled with the corresponding name from the actual Who's on First sketch. And for the record: ** "Who" in on first. ** "What" on second. ** "Tomorrow" is pitching to "Today" ** "I don't Know" is on third. ** "I don't give a darn!" is the shortstop. *** Also known as "I don't care". *** Another version of this poster this troper saw: "I don't give a damn." ** "Why" is left field. ** "Because" is centrefield. ** I don't know who's plays right field. *** Third base. **** If you say "third base" '''''[[BerserkButton one more time]]'''''... *** Nobody plays right field. Or, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_on_First%3F_(board_game) in the board game]], "Nobody" plays right field. ** Oh, and "Naturally" was the team manager, but he missed the photo op. *** Naturally. * Nickname of "Hello." Makes for some funny introductions when someone says "Hello!" and you'll suddenly hear "Huh? Did someone say my name?" * [[PoochyEXE This troper]] combined this with HelloInsertNameHere when naming his ''KingdomOfLoathing'' familiars. He has a Levitating Potato named "Sabre-Toothed Lime", a Sabre-Toothed Lime named "Mosquito", a Mosquito named "Angry Goat", an Angry Goat named "Barrrnacle", and a Barrrnacle named "Levitating Potato". * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] tried to pull this joke on a friend of mine when we where about to play ''Won't Get Fooled Again'' on RockBand, although it backfired when he though I honestly had never heard of TheWho. * When asked the question "Does anyone know what the word 'manna' translates to?" during Sunday School, the few of us who knew had fun messing with the rest of the class. "What is it?" "Yes." "Seriously, what is it?" * I have family who lives on a road called That Road. I shit you not. * Did you know that in German the name Judith is pronounced very like "You did"? Hilarity can ensue easily when speaking English among Germans. * This troper has lots of... fun discussions whenever his wife is navigating and he's driving... because he has a tendency to use the word "Right" to mean "communication received and interpreted". Which is just dandy when she tells him "turn left at the light". "Right",

comes the response, and HilarityEnsues. Sadly, the aforementioned wife has a rather heavy-handed sense of humour, leading the troper into sense of humour failure as she won't damned well shut up with the poking at it even though it quit being funny several bloody MONTHS ago! * This troper is a huge fan of TheQuestion. Purchasing Question merch can be a major hassle, and can devolve into this very fast: -->Looking for something? -->TheQuestion -->Yes? -->Yes what? -->The question? -->That's what I want. -->What do you want? -->TheQuestion -->Well, go ahead and ask! -->What? -->The question! -->Do you have it? -->Have what? -->TheQuestion. -->I thought you had one. -->No, I don't, that's why I'm here. -->Etc. * I remember the following conversation happening between myself and a cousin once. Oddly neither of us were intentionally trying to invoke the trope: -->Oh yeah, can we listen to my {{Nirvana}} album in the car? -->Which one? -->Nevermind. -->Why, did you forget to bring it? * This german Troper knows a Woman, who had married and changed her name because of that. When asked what her surname is now she had to respond "Anders" (German surname, but also the word "different"). * This trope always comes up in this troper's discussion about age: "How old are you?" "20, what about you?" "I'm twenty too!" * An AMV by the name of What?. My girlfriend missed it. Cue long AIM chat leading me to hyperlinking this page... * There is a Watt road near this troper's house. It was fun to purposefully misunderstand that one. * [[{{Tropers/Bwburke94}} This troper]]'s just happy he's a fan of an American League team, considering the Los Angeles Dodgers have a shortstop named Chin-Lung Hu. Needless to say, ESPN makes the same joke every single time Hu gets a hit. ** Update: Hu is now with the Mets, which makes me happy I'm not a Yankees fan. * Going to see an outdoor halloween movie special. Headless horsemen and Ghostbusters are on the list. -->Me: Are we seeing Ghostbusters too? -->Brother: No, it's Ghostbusters the first one. * This troper had two Vietnamese students in high school. They were named My (pronounced "me") and Hieu (pronounced "h-you"). Needless to

say, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]] ** This other troper also knows a My (as well as an Amy, the latter of which is his enemy. GAH!) * This troper once saw a production of ''TwelfthNight'' with this exchange: --> Sir Andrew Aguecheek: What means "pourquoi"? --> Sir Toby Belch: "Why?". --> Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Because I want to know! * This troper works at a public library, and was attempting to tell a customer that they had an overdue book on their account. The following exchange took place: --> Me: There is an overdue book on your account. --> Customer: Oh no! What's it called? --> Me: "The Name Of This Book Is Secret." --> Customer: What? --> Me: "The Name Of This Book Is Secret." --> Customer: Oh. *writes down "Secret" on a bit of paper* --> Me: *suddenly realizing what's happening* Oh, no! The book is called, "The Name Of This Book Is Secret!" * A friend and I were on AIM discussing old Nickelodeon shows. I mentioned AreYouAfraidOfTheDark, and, obviously not remembering that one, she responded as though I was changing the subject and asking her the titular question. * My aunt (named Kay) went to Mexico where someone asked her name... * This tropers sister had german in school. One day she asked our mother "What does "etwas" mean?" "Something" "Come on, just tell me". This went on for about a minute... * This Troper ironically fell into this while trying to explain to a friend the ''RobotChicken'' "[[Series/DoctorWho Do you get it?!]]" bit. He wasn't familiar with the Abbot and Costello routine, so when I tried to spell it out for him, saying "Who's on First", he replied, "TomBaker. Seriously, I haven't a clue." * This troper once got paired to work on a Spanish project with a guy she had never met or heard of before. This is what happened: -->Me: Hi, I'm Rosie. What's your name? --> What he said: I'm Wyatt. -->What I heard: I'm What. -->Me: What?! -->Wyatt: Wyatt! --> Me (hearing "what" again): Your name is What? --> Wyatt: My name is WYATT! -->Me: Oh...Wyatt... ** Bit of a aversion, actually. * I used to go to a high school called The Academy. That's it: just those two words. Trying to get people to understand that was the full title was an exercise in utter futility, no matter ''how'' clearly and repeatedly I put it. They just weren't listening (or maybe they deliberately wanted to piss me off). And it didn't help ''at all'' that The Academy was located in a section of Little Rock called Pulaski Heights--the location of a certain Pulaski Heights Academy. It would usually go something like this: -->Other guy: Where do you go to school?

-->Me: The Academy. -->Other guy: Which academy? -->Me: Just "The Academy". That's it. That's the whole title of the school. -->Other guy: ''What's'' the whole title of the school?? -->Me: [[ThisIsSparta THE. ACADEMY!]] Just those two words!! That's it! First word "the", last word "academy". -->Other guy: "The Academy"?? -->Me: Yes! -->Other guy: Where's The Academy? -->Me: The Heights. -->Other guy: Oh, Pulaski Heights Academy?? -->Me: WHAT DID I JUST SAY??!! * We got this Neopets fanfic called [[http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=503980&issue=470 A Play About Nobody and Nothing]], which is about an Invsible Neopet named Nobody and her Invisible Petpet Nothing. It also features her (visible) friend named Cavillace who serves as the "Abbott" of the sequence, and the visitor Krawkawk, who is the "Costello". * In a game of Battleship: "I-1." "What!?! We just started!" ---Okay, WhosOnFirst

ptitle5r4ta85h * Me myself am def in this predicament right now. I met this girl about 4 years ago who has become my best friend in the whole world. it is no secret to either of us that we are LikeBrotherAndSister but im starting to notice a pattern: everytime i find myself seriously crushing on a girl, i find her drifting from my mind halfway through the day in exchange for thinking about my best friend. My crushs never last long because i cant picture me caring about a girl more then i do her, and im really starting to think i like her as more then what we are now, but the thing is, when i first met her, i was one of the only guys she met who wasnt trying to get with her. I think thats one of the major reasons she trusts me, and i really really dont want to lose that. dear god what do i do * This was my reasoning for turning down (what I thought was) a close, long-time friend of mine. Unfortunately, that ended up ruining our friendship as badly as I'm sure any relationship would have. * I had a friend for 5 years, who I got a crush on after two years of knowing her, who started dating my friend the year after, and moved at the end of that year. I was considering this trope as an excuse for not at least telling her how I felt, but in the end it turned out she knew for pretty much the whole time I had a crush on her. Yeah. * This troper had this happen. Somehow I kept being friends with her. * This troper is a weird case, in that he's both the person who crushes on someone ''and'' the person who falls under this trope. ** This troper is also that weird case, however she's been contemplating that for near 3 years. *** Same. I initiated the questioning, but she and I are both like this. I don't think she's "reluctant," so much as she simply doesn't

have time right now. As for me, I'm making sure that this is what I really want. * I am so afraid that confessing would ruin my friendship with a guy that I get chills just thinking about it. * This has happened to me so many times, that I have lost count (true story) * This troper was on the receiving side of this... After the "friendship ruining"-part had already been done. ** :-( * I've already decided that the asexual best girl friend (*only* best girl friend) I have is off-limits, as I value our friendship more than the desire to try and see if there's anything deeper than that (other than the 'experiment' I have in mind to make her more, well, "girly". Don't tell her I said that, she'll kill me). In addition, I've worked out the pros and cons, and I'm sure I'll never be able to live with her mother as my in-law. Finally, she throws a right straight better than I do, and I don't think she's ever had formal martial arts training. Still, I'd rather get hit by her than hit on her. ** Dont worry buddy i wont tell her you said that.......after all.....i dont know her......or you * Applying this trope thoroughly to one or two people right now. ** Now this troper is doubting him as a friend so now she has nothing. ** Now sure they are friends and they hang out, but he seems to want more. F him! * The first girl I really fell in love with was also one of my best friends. I was almost sure she didn't return my feelings and I was very nervous about telling her since I was afraid it would ruin our friendship, especially since she was one of the few friends I had. Luckily when I finally did, she assured me that this wouldn't happen and things are fine between us now. * as a kid, this troper always said that she'd never beat around the bush, she'd tell someone if she liked them. When she was sixteen, however, she realized that she really liked her guy friend. She didn't want to create awkwardness about it, so kept silent, until a big church dance was announced. gathering her courage, she went to her friend...who asked her if she'd like to go with him. two years later, going strong. * Happaned to me recently. On a night out with a bunch of friends, I spent most of the evening flirting/dancing with a rather attractive girl who was a friend of a friend. I was entirely convinced things were going well, but when I finally made my move, she told me she didn't see me that way, and she didn't want to mess up our friendship. Not a particularly fun way to end an evening. * Oh dear God, I hate this trope. I've been forced to use it about three times now. The first two times, it was genuine "No seriously, I just want to stay friends with you." The third time was a bit more complicated, in that a part of me ''did'' just want to stay friend...but that was partly because I was scared of the idea of ''actually being in a relationship''. It really bit me in the ass later, as, over the years, I began to realise that I really '''did''' love the guy, and I only told him this when he actually had a girlfriend. He'd had girlfriends since, but according to him, he'd

stayed in love with me for a long time...but we've sorted it out, and we are still friends. * Somewhat Subverted/Re-directed in this Tropers case, This troper was part of a real life love triangle...sort of...lemme explain, About 3 Years ago I met a girl who had just moved in next door, she was a year younger than me, she was an orphan and she had moved here to get a new start, we got off to a shaky start (Kinda like love interests in a Manga, I got kick-to-the-shins-a-plenty) before we became friends, around 5 months later we're hanging out constantly and then we get news that a guy she was in the orphanage with moved into town and she takes me to welcome him, The guy was older than both of us and quite buff while I was barely scratching the 6 foot mark at this point. I discovered that the two of them were like brother and sister, or at least, that's how it sounded when they told me their story, I got off to a shaky start with him too, it even evolved to a fist fight at one point where this troper ended up having to get stitches for a busted lip. She found out this and told us to get our acts together, eventually the hate died down and we became friends, and I soon figured out why we both got along so well after she had told us to do so, we both loved her. Cut to about a year later and I found out that they even work in the same building now (I was in college at this point while they were office workers), Part of me was jealous and part of me just wanted to assure that their relationship was purely sibling. At one point they both left for a conference in New Jersey, I was jealous as I could be, I was 23 and had fully accepted that I was in love with her, I smacked myself as I looked at the plane take off (I had to drive them to the airport) and shouted at myself that I should of told her since she was going to be alone with this guy who loved her just as much as I did for a week, I eventually calmed myself down and drove home...That's when my worst nightmare came true. A week later I arrived to pick her up but she was no where in sight, the guy showed up and explained that she had taken a cab home, I was confused so I just dropped him off and made my way home, That's when I found her at my door, she hadn't even gone into her own home by the looks of it as she still had her luggage on her and she was still wearing her business suit, I parked my car and walked up to her, I went to hug her, I was finally gonna tell her that I loved her since I realised that her heart could've been stolen from me at any point. Just as I'm about to hug her, He pushes me away slightly, and asks "Can we talk?", I see the look in her eyes, it's like she was scared of me or something, I nod and invite her into my home, we sit down, drink coffee (Tea in my case, hey, I hate to invoke a stereotype but I AM British) but that look never leaves her eyes, I eventually ask her "You look kinda...on edge, something wrong?" She looks up to me and asks the most out of the blue question I've ever heard; "Have you even been in love?". I was shocked at that question, I waited a few moments before I scoffed, Chuckled, laughed, I was trying to put on a macho tone for some reason, perhaps because I didn't want to look sappy in front of her, even I didn't know. I asked why she asked that and she just shrugged. I finally ask her why she's so shell shocked, she says "You Know *****" (I'm not giving out his name on the internet, duh), I nod. "He asked me to marry him". I pretty much died inside at soon as

she said that, my face matched that a child as his entire toy collection was thrown into a fire. She looked up to me and saw my shocked look, she asked me "Do...you have anything to say?" I Sit there, exhale, and put my cup of tea down. "No...Nothing at all" I said, she hung her head low before saying "I see...goodbye then". I watched her leave my house, as soon as she leaves I slam my fist down into the cup, My hand is bleeding badly at his point but I don't care, I didn't scream in agony over losing her, but then I realised that she was never was mine in the first place, the more I started to think about it, I started to realise something, Why WOULDN'T she marry him? they had been friends for years and had known each longer than I had known both of them combined, I wanted to run my fist through a wall, but I settled on just silently crying. A few hours later there's a knock on my door, I answer it and it was Him, He asks if he can come in, I nod, he's brought some whiskey with him, he offers me some but I don't drink so he pretty much just guzzles the bottle down while he sits on my couch, I sit down next to him and we begin to talk, he begins to tell me something along the lines of "I always was close to her, I always liked her...Hell, Loved her even, That's why I moved into this town after she did, I wanted to tell her...and I finally got the courage to tell her...as that plane took off...I asked her to marry me", A few minutes passed before anything happens, he mentions that he notices I'm not surprised, I tell him that she already told me...and then he says "I'm surprised you're not strangling me to death, You love her too, don't you?", I'm pretty damn shocked that he just said that, my shocked face only remains for a moment before the melancholy one returned, I stated that "It doesn't matter, you and her are-" And then he cuts me off with "She rejected me". I immediately ask him what he means, he states that she rejected him only about an hour ago and that's why he's come over, to tell me. He told me that she said "I'm sorry, but I can't marry you...You and I are like brother and sister from my view...It's one of the closest things to love I've even known...I'm sorry for not telling you sooner...I was afraid that telling you this would '''ruin our friendship'''" He then told me that he just accepted her answer and then asked her "Is there someone you already like?". he told me that she said yes, and then told me that the person she loved was me...It hit me like a ton of bricks, She rejected him ''because she loved me''...He gets off the couch and places his hands on my shoulders before saying something along the lines of "I hate myself sometimes, Don't make the same mistakes I did kid and treat her well", and then he left. The next morning, I knock on her door and ask if I can come in, she nods, we get to talking and drinking Coffee/Tea. After we finish our drinks, it's silent for a few moments before she breaks the ice. "I rejected his proposal" she says. I tell her I know, she looks shocked at that but then I tell her that he already told me, it's silent again before I speak up -->"Hey" -->"Yeah?" -->"You know yesterday, when you asked me if there's someone I love?" -->"Yeah?" -->"I think I'm ready to give you an answer..."

** One year has passed and we're still going strong *** The above story is one of the better things this troper has ever read, particularly the happy ending. *** Same here. Good on you, guy *** Forgive me if my sentiment is misplaced but i kinda feel worse for the other guy. I mean he DID have the minerals to ask and was shot down. If that isnt an emotional drop-kick in the groin then i dont know what is. *** (Same Troper who wrote the tale above) I went back to fix some [[RougeAnglesofSatin spelling mistakes]]. And I figured that I Should share some stuff that's happened since. -->1. There's no grudges between me and the guy, all three of us are still good friends, in fact, he's currently dating an old college buddy of mine. ** I'm glad he's doing well. I did feel bad that his own romantic desires were shot down, even on your behalf (no offense, I'm happy for you and yours as well). -->2. It was actually her idea to post our tale (Don't want to say story since this isn't fictional) on TVTropes. -->3. All three of us are actually different nationalities, I'm British, She's Japanese-American and he was American, this doesn't really mean anything, it's just a little factoid for you. -->4. We're now engaged and expecting our first child, According to the scan, it's a girl and we've decided to name her "Haruhi", as according to her Birth certificate, that was her mothers name. ''(That...and we're both really big fans of [[{{HaruhiSuzumiya}} The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]].)'' *** You honestly should write this story into a book dude, its such a happy tale, the world should hear it *** Want more good news? turns out we're having '''twins''', we're ''very'' tempted to name the other one [[{{HaruhiSuzumiya}} either Mikuru or Yuki]]. *** At least one MASSIVE [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming CMOH]] to the two of you. (^_^)b *** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming This is the]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome greatest ever]]. I hope you have an amazing life together. **** Can somebody add this to the CMOH page? **** (OP Here) [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TroperTales/HeartwarmingMoment s11 DONE]]. ** OP Here again with 3 things, First of all, We are now HappilyMarried and [[BabiesEverAfter Please welcome our lovely daughters Haruhi and Michelle into the world]]. and this brings up Thing #2...or rather Problem #1, At first, The other guy gave off "IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy" tendencies...but now it's more like "GreenEyedMonster" tendencies, I found out he broke up with my college friend and when I asked her why, she told me ''"Because he's still obsessed with your fucking wife"''. After our daughters were born, he was clearly [[UnbalancedByRivalsKid unnerved when he saw them in the nursery]] and a few minutes later there was banging in the hallway which we're almost certain was him going apeshit on a wall at the

relisation that [[RomanticRunnerUp he lost]]. I fear this may [[{{UnrequitedLoveLastsForever}} ruin him]]. But either way he has to accept that she isn't his, which brings up Thing #3, there's something I wanna say to all the people in a similar situation to my own, And that is simply this; If you like her and you think she likes you but you think she also likes someone else, '''ASK HER BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE BEATS YOU TOO IT'''. * This troper was told this by her flatmate. This was after he kissed me a few days before. I'm still not sure whether he was saving my feelings or whether he just thought it was a dreadful idea to date someone he's living with. In general we've managed to maintain our friendship, minus the fact we now no longer hug, touch or hang out alone together. Yeah it sucks. * This Troper turned down his best fried 3 times, got close once, then eventually did it, all without ruining what we had, then she dun goofed and we don't talk anymore. * This Troper has this situation on both sides of the fence. He is in love with his best friend, but she sees him only as a friend. When I first confessed to her, I was told that we were BetterAsFriends and a relationship would just ruin what we had. Cut to three years later, and we're ungodly close, and she hinted at the possibility of a friends with benefits situation. My turn to decide that a lifetime of friendship is worth more than one night of fun. * I'd probably be able to tell girls how I feel more easily if it weren't for this trope. I'm too pussy to want to make her think weirdly of me, and so it gets very self-destructive and causes me major problems - to the point where I begin to ''fear'' falling for someone, because it's usually a friend. This also leads to my friends getting closer to the female friend I have feelings for, making me even more miserable. * I've been friends with this girl for years. We have our own code between us, love the same things, and can spend hours talking about things. We've also been there for each other for almost every personal battle in highschool. After one hug this Trooper realised... I loved her. Problem: I'm a chick. She's not gay. Crap. A year passes, and she offhandly comments on not being attracted to men. YES. Then she said she thought she might be asexual. NO. But, little window of opportunity because she said she wasn't sure. So, one night I walk her back to her car... and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She stares at me.And stares. And... I awkwardly walked back to my car and drove away. I apologized furiously to her then next day and she said it was ok... but we haven't talked about it since and I've cut down on us touching in fear of this trope. But... I still love her. However, I'm a grade ahead of her and moving away soon to collage. I don't think I will ever be able to tell her because I don't want to ruin our friendship.... :( * I've liked this one guy for eight years. We weren't friends at the start but we slowly got along really well. I never told him I loved him to his face coz I didn't want to ruin the fragile friendship. Finally though I spat it out in his yearbook coz I was leaving him behind for college. I probably ruined it.

ptitle5w3hc6z54tky Have stories about how you or someone you know is just too beautiful to stand? Share them here. If you nominate yourself, you will be mocked. ---* Kind of a strange subversion for this troper...as an American expatriate ([[ViewersAreMorons someone residing in a country that's not their own]]) with pale skin, bright blue eyes and honey-gold hair, I get a lot of stares. I live in China. It's not so prevalent in cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong, but in tourist areas, or more rural towns, I'm usually asked to have my picture taken with a family, or with their child. When I was younger (I'm 17 now) they would pat my cheeks and give me candy - which doesn't have the same connotations in Asia. Even now, I'll get the occasional comment in either Mandarin or English about how "beautiful" I am. I'm used to it by now, and I always strive to be kind and polite in return, in an effort to give all the Chinese people I meet a good impression of America. :) ** I'm an expatriate in China as well. After almost 5 years of living here (I'm 16 now), I still am a little bit weirded out by the stares some people give me. It's not even that I look beautiful (I'm quite plain), it's because I'm half-Caucasian, half-Asian and most people have to debate on whether I'm just an odd-looking Chinese girl or a genuine foreigner. While I'm actually pretty average-looking, most of the attention I get here about my appearance is quite positive, so at least there's that going for my ego. ** This Troper may be nominating herself, but she's not being vain or anything, considering she was five years old at the time, but a similar thing that happened to the OP happened to this troper. I lived in Cyprus in a non-tourist area and locals would kneel down in front of my pushchair and touch the top of my head because I had bright blonde hair. Something to do with luck, I dunno. This is all what my mother has told me. ** As a little military kid in Japan, when I would go walking with my mom in the streets off base, Japanese women would come over and fuss over my blonde hair. * While this troper doesn't see it, she has been described as having an amazing hourglass and pretty face. She has body issues, and most guys seem to find her attractive for her, ahem, assets. It doesn't help that it's either shirts that are a bit too small up top, or too big on the tummy, so the bosom area is emphasized. No, I don't want to go out with you, creepy old guys at the mall or various pervy stoners! * This troper was roommates with a guy who was friends with one of the most attractive girls at his university. He told me that she was irritated that guys would either hit on her for her looks and not try to get to know her, or would avoid her because they assumed she was a shallow bitch. This troper got to know her and found that she was in fact a very nice, intelligent person. * This troper had a friend in high school who had that problem. People made so many cracks about her because of her boobs that she developed an eating disorder and had a nervous breakdown halfway through junior year. It made this troper herself ''really glad'' she's flat-chested.

** [[{{Smerf}} This]] troper would like to take that a step further and state that no particular breast size is inherently beautiful. *** This Troper knows someone who had a similar problem. She had GagBoobs so enormous it was the only thing people noticed about her- a shame, since she was an extremely intelligent and very talented girl (she was a musician). Years later, I still meet kids who were with her in ''the same class' who don't even know her name and simply refer to her as the "watermelons girl". * Males like to follow this troper around, and sometimes flirt with her. It is extremely disturbing, as [[{{Lolicon}} few are below twenty-three-ish]], [[OlderThanTheyLook she is still offered children's menus]], and she likes girls. This has led to frequent hiding in clothing racks. * This troper knows someone who is really, modelling pretty. She is smart to boot. But, being pretty means, for her, being underestimated. She studies at the highest niveau at this tropers country and wants to be a docter. She truly has had to fight her way in these ranks, which this troper admires. * This Troper would describe herself as quite attractive. Couple this with a love for [[GeekyTurnOn all things geek]] and what do you get? [[StalkerWithACrush Creepy stalkers]]. Lots and lots of them. * This troper had a friend who was very pretty, so some jealous girls started rumors that the friend had slept with the entire football and basketball teams and photoshopped her head onto a picture of another naked teenage girl's body. Cue a high-school-long VERY untrue reputation of sluthood, all thanks to a couple of vindictive bitches. Made me glad I'm plain-ish... * This troper is not right in the head. Whenever people flirt with her, especially strangers, her mind is engulfed in a sinking sensation that can only be approximated as, "Go away please go away I don't want to sleep with you please leave me alone you're scaring me is it the low-cut shirt I'm only wearing that because it's a hot day my breasts are not a welcome mat please leave me alone small talk is boring and you're boring I can't become attracted to someone when they're passive-aggressively looming over me and thinking that my reticence makes me look cute please leave me alone I want to be by myself that's why I'm by myself I want to hit you now please don't make me hit you I don't want to be prosecuted for assault leave me alone don't use that tone of voice it doesn't sound friendly it sounds forced and desperate and your nervousness is making me nervous GO THE FUCK AWAY!" She's not sure whether this means that she's hyper-perceptive or just paranoid. ** This virgin geek troper participated once in a "Mystery Method" seminar (psychology applied to the ''noble art'' of picking up girls). One part of the seminar had us roleplay boys and girls so that we may put in practice what we had just learned. Once, I had to play the girl to one of the more experienced students. It was terrifying. He was really good at it. The worst part was he was so freaking ''nice'' about it. Genuinely. He acted like he had no doubts in the world I was going to sleep with him that very night. Since then, I have never tried to flirt with girls again, for fear of giving them that sensation of being a toy in the hands of someone else. I hope I will find a way to get a girlfriend without making her feel she's being

manipulated, what with me being a {{Love Freak}}... *** Daaawww!:D * I am annoyed when people compliment my looks, but for some reason, I've never figured out ''why'' I get annoyed, I just...do. Could be because I always get them from people I wouldn't want, like, say, ''my teacher''. * [[DesertDragon This gay troper]] feels this way sometimes; it's easy for him to find a man for the night, but seldom meets guys who want to know the real him. He also feels a bit of survivor's guilt since some of his friends have been overweight their entire lives and another has a visibly-deformed back, while this troper is tall with an overactive metabolism, athletic build, and six-pack abs despite never exercising. * This troper has long blonde hair, a conventionally pretty face, and a figure which is the result of a lot of hard work. She has no problem getting guys, and actually enjoys the attention. The problem? Girls don't seem to be quite so interested, and whenever she comes out to anyone, she gets the usual 'too pretty to be a lesbian' crap, to the point where she's been labelled an attention whore who says she's into girls to make guys like her more. * This troper has a male friend who grows his hair out long. Said hair happens to be really pretty. Although this usually only leads to compliments such as, "I want your hair, it's so pretty! I'm so jealous!" it also leads to comments from people who are... creepy. One time, while this troper was in the library, she had been cleaning out her inbox when she stumble across a picture he had sent her of him, the old guy sitting next to her leaned over and said, "That boy has very pretty hair. Is he your friend?" Troper nodded, unnerved, and the old man replied, "Then you're a very lucky girl." When she told her pretty-haired friend about the incident, he mentioned that was not the first time something like that had happened. ** [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] with [[GwenStacyWannabe me]]...your friend is not alone. Long hair apparently means it's okay to just randomly come up and start stroking it? [[strike:Never had a creepy old man compliment me]], but pretty much everyone else under the sun has. [[ShrinkingViolet I do not like this much.]] ** Short fuzzy hair is apparently also an invitation for people to walk up and feel it. At least in [[{{Smerf}} my]] case, they had the common sense to ask first. ** [[{{Divra}}This troper]] has had the same thing happen with his beard. Apparently, having a 6-inch beard means it's perfectly OK to feel up a person you do not know's face. This also happens to be said troper's BerserkButton, and causes him to go on long rants about personal privacy and sexual harassment not being limited to men groping T&A. Said rants are normally met with stunned disbelief or accusations of impoliteness. ** [[SpamWarrior3000 I]] have the same problem. I've worn my hair long most of my life, and especially when I was a child, random strangers would come up and touch it--it used to freak me out so bad I'd sometimes tuck my hair under my coat when I went out. I'm not exceptionally attractive, but I do have nice hair, and I'd like to be able to wear it down without having people violate my personal space to touch it. On what planet is that okay, anyway? (I also have the

problem of being [[TheNapoleon very short]] and a complete {{Pettanko}}, and I've learned the hard way that the combination makes a lot of people not take you seriously.) My inner [[ArmchairPsychology armchair psychologist]] thinks it might be because many people unconsciously think of smaller, slighter people--especially women--as children. ** Oh good God, I can't imagine what I'd do if people started ''touching'' my hair. All I ever get is harmless older people reminiscing about people they knew who used to have long hair and the occasional "nice hair" from random men. ** This troper too has had long hair for her entire life and refuses to cut it. Subverted (?) in that it never really bothered her when people would compliment/suddenly touch it - probably because it started when she was little with old people and they were always so nice, and she just got used to it. It happens way less these days anyway.(Note - my hair is not a lovely cascade of chocolate locks. It's brown, with a little red and blond that can be seen if the lighting is right, and easily tangles so I keep it clipped up in a neat little bun.) * Believe me, there's more TruthInTelevision here then it sounds. Having [[EstrogenBrigade fangirls]] loses its appeal very, very quickly. Especially when they're [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi fangirls]]. ** At conventions, it's even worse. I happen to have an attractive, male friend who was cosplaying [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] and he found a fangirl. "Found" as in, "she caught sight of him, screamed, ran up to him, stared at him with a creepy smile on her face for a good five minutes and refused to let go of his arm." * A former classmate was this. Notes with a phone number scribbled on it in his pockets when he came home sounds nice... until you realized he had refused them. Repeatedly. Saying he had a girlfriend. Sometimes with said girlfriend being right there. And ''still'' got those notes because the girls sneaked them into his pockets or bags when no one was looking. Because, clearly, if you're that handsome you ''must'' be a {{Casanova}}! Did I mention this freaked him out and happened almost daily? ** Sounds like an ex of my sister's friend. The most extreme case was when they went to a fast food joint and he ended up with a note in his ''hamburger''. (Sadly enough none of them thought of complaining to the manager.) * While I hate putting myself here, there seems to be something about me that attracts old, creepy men. I don't want you leering at me, I don't want to meet you for coffee and I don't want to give you my number. Now would you please go away and die? ** This troper feels your pain. I am underage, and wouldn't exactly describe myself as beautiful. However, my neighbor is a creepy, single, old man who constantly tells me I'm pretty. Once he told me that my long brown hair was just like his deceased wife's. I try to avoid him, but he is always out watering his flowers when I come home from school. His behavior freaked me out so much, I got friends to escort me home. I've learned that if a guy walks me to my house, my neighbor won't acknowledge my presence. ** Did I write this and forget about it? Within the past year I've had

more older guys hit on me than people my age ever have. Like that 40ish guy at the train station who just walked up out of nowhere and started very intensely questioning me and requesting a hug, or the old man who REALLY wanted us to sleep in the same bed... It's actually really frightening for me whenever it happens. I don't find myself pretty, and age-appropriate people apparently agree. But I'd sure fit the So Beautiful To Older Men Only, It's A Curse trope. ** This troper absolutely feels you guys' pain. Some of my friends say that a few guys have told them that they think I'm hot, yet I have ''never'' been asked out by anyone my age. However, creepy old guys flock to me all the time and absolutely adore hitting on me. Honestly, you're like 30, what the hell are you doing hitting on a 16 year old?? * This troper's cousin has beautiful feature and a great figure. She is also quite intelligent and funny, but has a horrible time finding guys who appreciate her for the latter two. It also led to her being date-raped at ''thirteen''. ** Um,.. Wow. This is going to sound stupid but, is she okay now? * This troper never thought of herself as particularly attractive, but she developed early. Really early. As in, wearing an A-cup bra at the age of nine early. This led, over the course of the next several years, to all sorts of uncomfortable staring and innuendo. From her classmates it was amusing at best, annoying at worst. From strangers it was unsettling. From her ''stepfather'' it was NightmareFuel (which, thankfully, never materialized into reality). To this day (early thirties and married), she has body issues and doesn't like to wear anything revealing. * [[{{QueenOfSwords}} This troper]] doesn't consider herself exceptionally attractive, but has had to deal with (several, often during the same day!) random jackasses following her around (leading to me screaming at them to get the ClusterFBomb away from me before I beat the crap out of them), offering money, calling me names when I refuse them... * In third grade, (and still occurring) this Troper's class would ask out this girl who I must say fits this trope quiet well. I'm about the only guy she hasn't turned down, because I'm about the only guy who didn't ask. This troper is now probably the only guy who knows anything about her personality, which makes her even more attractive in the fact that she's just as intelligent as this I am. * Often a problem for women who just want platonic male friends. This troper has found things don't go so well when they find you're not interested in them romantically. ** Indeed. This troper had two close male friends throughout high school, but when she started dating someone different in her senior year, ''they both'' started ignoring her. Also, a couple of different male friends have let slip that they've had [[{{Squick}} sexual fantasies of her.]] ** This male troper worked a moonlight job with a college age waitress who was a typical blonde bombshell. No lies, I'd have gone after her if I'd been single when we met. She ended up with one of the other guy waiters, and when then hit the rocks a few months later, she overheard our boss [[{{Squick}} laughing about how he wanted 'his turn' with her.]] She told me this in tears one day at work, and I actually mused

out loud that it must be tough for her -- she doesn't have a single male friend who's not interested in getting her into bed. By now, I was single, and had to include myself in this catagory. Platonic friendships with drop-dead gorgeous women can often be way more trouble then they're worth. * [[{{brodyaga}} This troper]], who's a former prostitute and currently a model, has this problem. He's never in his life had any offline friends, just boyfriends, whenever he gets to spend time with another human being it's because he agreed to a date, and he doesn't know how to get a job that doesn't involve his looks. He's never been to a party or had a best friend or really had any non-sexual relationships at all, including with his own relatives. He also has an eating disorder. It's less because of this trope though and more like his own fault, being so socially fucked up he doesn't know how to get people to pay attention to him or interact with him without the promise of sex. Well, at least he's kind of grateful that he's decentlooking, which seems to make his being a complete shut-in with no social skills fascinating and tragic instead of just geeky and pathetic. (Well, hypothetically, anyway.) ** I feel your pain. While I was never a gentleman of the night, most of my friends are or were the "-with-benefits" variety. * This troper's sister is checked out by nearly everyone she meets, prompting our mother to fret over the "homeless sleazebags" who are interested in her. At one point she was walking and a car full of slightly older teenagers yelled, "Love yo ass!" at her. It's very strange when so many people are attracted to your sister and you still think of her as a little girl. * This troper has a gorgeous friend who fits this to a t (at age 14!). She is half-Portuguese (very exotic in an Irish secondary school), has a very unusually pretty name (Nice names strive people forward) and has SO MANY FANBOYS. I've counted at least seven frequent obsessors not counting those I don't know personally. One follows her around everywhere, asked her out at least five times, and has told her of the dreams he's had of her. Another serial dater mysteriously hadn't dated since eyeing her, boys have broken into her locker to get her attention and one boy I know enjoys spreading rumours about her has she has unintentionally nicked all his friends! In order to get people to join chess club once, I told people she was attending and five boys mysteriously turned up...! Out of interest, she is very flat-chested. And has an equally attractive similar younger sister. XD * [[AXavierB This troper]] doesn't consider himself very attractive ''at all''. But his mom is constantly telling him that her friends often mention how "fine" he is. [[{{Squick}} Said friends are apparently close to his mother's age, and one of them apparently told his parents they'd have a problem with her if this troper was legal]]. * This troper knows a girl, she's not "traditionally" attractive, but she does end up in this trope. She's short, flat-chested, with a very young-looking face, glasses, and short hair. Pretty much she looks like a young boy despite being a college girl. This attracts a [[DirtyOldMan VERY disturbing crowd]]. * This troper knows quite a few very lovely and intelligent women who

regularly put up with being condescended to by men who think that pretty girls cannot be smarter than they are. Examples include a good friend being patronised by a high school dropout - said friend is a grad student in theoretical physics. * Having hung out with the mostly-male nerd crowd since forever, this troper has noticed that she has collected a base of vaguely creepy male followers. While not particularly beautiful per se, she is, well, reasonably endowed; apparently, having noticeable boobs, technologyrelated interests, and such makes one incredibly attractive to some guys. Problem is, said guys don't tend to pay any attention to massive incompatibilities (like non-trivial psychological issues, particular aversion to being touched, expressed irritation at various of their habits, a habit of kicking those who particularly irritate, etc), and don't understand attempts to convince them to go away. This troper's single female friends in technical fields have reported similar issues. * This troper, every once in a while, gets hit on by a girl--if not "hit on him", then at least it's "be playful towards him". This wouldn't be a problem if every girl that did that ''already had boyfriends,'' which tends to negate the crush he starts to develop on whoever just flirted with him. * I hate even commenting on here, because I personally don't see myself as an attractive person. Though many a person has told me that I am insanely pretty, to the point you have to do a double take. But my appearance does give me issues. I am tiny and short, and people usually describe me as "like a china doll" with a pale complextion, dark curly hair, and big blue eyes. And I have a nice figure. I give off a very [[ShrinkingViolet fragile and shy]] appearance to some people, considering I'm always seen drowning in books, and I am well behaved. But in reality I'm a [[LittleMissSnarker deadpan snarker]] liberal with the mouth of a sailor, and I have always had a majority of male friends. Oh and add a lot of geek to that mix. I've had several stalkers, and to this day I'll be patronized by people thinking I'm "just a pretty little girl" or flirting with me because I look like "a girl who needs a strong man". ** Ditto on the china doll thing. I'm short and way too skinny to be healthy (or so I'm told) with wide eyes, long lashes, round face, all that cutesy stuff. It sucks, I'm a college student and get no respect at work or school because everyone assumes me to be a child or a weak, cute girl. I've never been told I'm beautiful, though. Just cute(think koala or teddy bear). * Not sure if this counts, but here we go. This troper is a straight female and almost never gets attention from the opposite sex, but for some reason tends to attract a lot of attention from other girls. * This troper's best friend has this problem. Her male friends often fall in love with her and when she can't return their feelings, she gets distressed and feel awful. I want to sympathize with her and I often comfort her, but trying to feel sorry for the girl who one's crush loves is awfully hard sometimes. ** Now This Troper feels bad for having a crush. *** I'm terribly sorry, that wasn't my intention. It is only a matter of bad luck on our behalf, no need to feel bad for being in love.

* This troper. I'm thankful that I'm really pretty, but sometimes it's hard. I got hit on SO MUCH when I was twelve, TWELVE! By older people who thought that I was older. And that's continued until present day, where I'm just lucky enough to somehow be 6-foot-tall and have G-cups at 15. I've been stalked, harassed, randomly felt up and flirted with more times than I've cared to count. I can't wear jeans or shorts out because people always stare at my ass when I walk away, and I never noticed until my dad pointed it out when I was thirteen. Random people tell me I'm pretty, and there was even one person on the internet who constantly flamed me and made me cry. Later, on another forum, he recognized me, pulled the 'sorry' card, seen a picture of me and then went on how beautiful I was/am. If that isn't creepy enough, he was seventeen/eighteen and I was thirteen/fourteen (Don't remember ^^;). One of my friends pointed it out and he quickly shut up. Here's the kicker: I'm scared shitless of people because not only do I have horrible anxiety, I'm insane, so I almost never go out. Also, my four sisters are like this. Big sister seems to attract any guy she meets and somehow only knows guys who have crushes on her, first little sister somehow manages to be a smokin' redhead flatty who has stalkers, second little sister is expected to be a babe when she grows up because she's a very, VERY cute and pretty blonde, and third little sister is just incredibly pretty. Again, grateful that I and my sisters got an awesome spot in the gene pool, but it really sucks when everyone assumes we're stupid and unfunny because we're pretty. Which is wrong, because we're pretty smart and they're the funniest people I know. And, people ALWAYS try to convince me that I'm not asexual, just because I happen to be 'the definition of steaming hot awesome'. Um, no. Just because I happen to have a nice personality and I'm pretty doesn't mean I can't be a boarder-line aromantic asexual. Also, my mom tends to get hit on a lot. Must be the purple mohawk... * This troper has been hit on repeatedly by girls at her school (allgirls school, for the record). My friend informed me after I asked that I've basically been MistakenForGay due to the fact that I used to be something of a StrawFeminist- I'm actually an aromantic asexual. People also tend to obsess over my hair. [[HatesBeingTouched I do not like this.]] * There is a guy on this troper's Debate team that fits this quite nicely. He's tall, muscular, and quite attractive. He's also quite intelligent. All of this has lead to many girls on the team (this troper included) crushing on him, although this guy is probably the most asexual guy she has ever met. ** Cripes, that sounds like a guy on this troper's Debate team. Must be a Debate thing - all those attractive guys in suits. * This troper doesn't see it, but for some reason is frequently described as the most beautiful girl in the world by nearly everyone she meets and every guy she befriends inevitably falls in love with her(she always ends up feeling bad when she has to turn them down, especially because she [[DoesNotLikeMen Does Not Like Men]]). A [[TallDarkandBishoujo Tall Dark And Bishoujo]] [[{{Tsundere}} Type B Tsundere]] as well as a PerkyGoth is bound to get all that attention, especially alongside her [[CloudCuckoolander Cloud Cuckoolander]] [[PerkyGoth Perky Goth]] who possesses a [[MostCommonSuperpower Most

Common Superpower]] best friend, who also happens to attract the attention of everyone she meets. Unfortunately, the two are often swarmed with fangirls and fanboys alike, both almost always branded as quite [[{{Moe}} moe]], even by total strangers. * This troper actually falls into the category of "So Busty it's a Curse" - which it actually is. Those things ''hurt'', people. And being five feet tall and wearing an F cup screws a)anything clingier than a potato sack; b) swimsuits bought at regular stores; and c) the ability to wear anything off-the-shoulder or halter-style, because the necessary support would be very visible. Not to mention the old "my eyes are up here!" syndrome. While I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoy playing them up on occasion, going down a cup size or three would be lovely, thank you. ** That reminds me of a friend that ended up going into surgery because her boobs were so big they were hurting her tiny back! Yep, the girls can be dangerous! ** This troper can empathize. Some say "[[GagBoobs gag boobs]]," I say "[[BodyHorror body horror]]." ** Man, I hear you. Being asked by strangers if they're real and both men and women thinking that me having large breasts gives them the right to grope me whenever they feel like it is [[SarcasmMode always a pleasure, too]]. * This troper is not what you'd call a ravishing beauty, being by my own assessment a squishy size 12 with nothing special in the boob department and soon to be even less [[{{Transsexual}} hooray!]]) But I am apparently {{adorkable}} enough that I have become desirable, particularly to girls. This would be a total windfall if a.) I liked girls, b.) I liked [[{{Asexuality}} anyone]] (yes, aromantic too) and c.) I did not have major trust issues. Being constantly told what a striking ''girl'' you are and what a beautiful young woman you're shaping up to be kind of blows when you're ''not a woman''. * My friend honestly thinks herself as unattractive, though me and her boyfriend really mean it when we say otherwise. That said, you'd think all the times she's been hit on would clue her in on something. * This Troper has a friend of his, a girl. She's a small, beautiful girl who is also the most charming person you'll ever meet. As a result, [[UnwantedHarem everyone she meets falls for her]]. This includes, but is not limited to: almost all of her friends, guys she just met, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer some girls she just met]], [[LesYay her ostensibly straight female best friend]], more than one StalkerWithACrush and in once case this troper recalls, [[BeyondTheImpossible a guy who had]] [[FallingForSomeoneNeverMet never met her but had heard her described]]. It's not unheard of for couples she knows to both like her. Unfortunately this mess has left her with [[SoBeautifulItsACurse years' worth of relationship neuroses]] which has rendered her [[BrokenBird fairly messed up]] and pretty much asexual. * This troper has experienced this in her working life. I am [[LonersAreFreaks deeply introverted]], and work best when allowed to work alone. But temp agencies look at me and try to send me out for receptionist assignments. Once when I asked that they not do this, I was told "But you have a [[BeautyEqualsGoodness front-office]]

[[PositiveDiscrimination appearance]]!" * This is the case for my friend Val: long black hair, big brown eyes, great smile, tight body, giant tits, and killer hips. Even better, though, is that she's a true-blue nerd - [[UpToEleven she even LARPs]]. Because of these qualities, especially her beauty, she's approached by every guy in the world and his grandpa. But she doesn't like to get attention from anyone at all unless it's the guy she's after herself. Thus, she hates her looks intensely. * This troper gets lots of attention. Mostly for his hair. It's long and (naturally) curly, falling into ringlets, and has ended up a semi blonde/brownish colour and shiny from frequent washing and conditioning, as well as having some simple styling and layering done by a friend's sister. This leads to people asking how this troper gets it like that (simple maintenance to avoid it turning into a greasy, matted clump), and at the few anime cons he's attended, random girls approaching, virtually squee-ing, and exclaiming something along the lines of 'omg I love your hair can I play with it'. While it's not entirely unwelcome, it does get slightly wearing at times. Especially when he's recognised after a period of months and they expect him to remember things precisely. * I'm a {{Bishonen}} who used to be the token fat kid of any group I hung around with. I appreciate how attractive I am, really I do. But some there's some shit that I hate about it, besides how uncomfortable I feel about all the stares I get from strangers. More than one friendship has been destroyed because people think I'd do AnythingThatMoves. Now not everyone knows about [[BiTheWay my orientation]], but apparently I give that kind of vibe. I was on a trip with a few friends and got many panic attacks from the amount of blatant stares and comments I heard. One night during the trip I wanted to leave and go back to the hostel, and one of the guys who I was always uncomfortable with wanted to go with me. I said I just wanted to be alone. He whispered "I don't think you do" very suggestively. This wasn't the first time he said something like that to me and I always made a point to let him know I wasn't comfortable with shit like that. That combined with how I was already incredibly stressed about everything that weekend caused me to scream at him about everything. After the trip I tried to make amends, but he just pretended that he didn't remember anything that happened. It wasn't the first time I lost a friend like that, but I hope it's the last. Don't get me wrong; I have a lot of close friends, guys and girls, who joke about trying to get with me and I joke right back. But there's a line that I prefer to never be crossed. * This troper [[DefiedTrope defied]] this trope. Fed up with attracting male attention, she started wearing unattractive, loosefitting clothing and became invisible to men, allowing her to live out her ShrinkingViolet lifestyle in peace. * This troper was told by a woman I was drinking with, "Never trust anyone who's too good-looking." I had to mull over the kind of compliment implied. * This seems to be the case for most of this troper's model-looking friends/classmates. They usually either stick with one or two people, hang around a group (not exactly with), or they'll sit alone.

* [[Tropers/TacoNinja This one]] didn't consider herself attractive at all... until she started taking better care of herself and lost weight. Then this male friend of hers (amoung others) started hitting on her ''constantly''. And alas, he and I are of height, he is scrawny, has Aspergers and has no idea how to romance a girl (he asked me if I wanted to get a hotel room and... you know). I'm almost glad that I put on a stone... or two... ** Okay past-self, maybe that was an exaggeration. But really, I'm boy and people-shy and I don't like this kind of thing much. * This troper's best friend is olive skinned, with very long auburn hair and KaleidoscopeEyes that go from gold to green to blue to grey. Add in the fact that she is half Indian, half British with vaguely Italianish features, and the fact that ShesGotLegs result in something that looks too gorgeous to be real. It also results in numerous obsessive stalkers who are mostly sane, normal people who just turn into psychos when she's around. * My mother is beautiful and charming. It really hurts to see how women are always jealous and hate her. She had to quit a job because of it. To this day, she's unemployed and hasn't had a female friend in years. * I've known this to happen to people in FurryFandom, of all places. One lovely young lady artist almost fled the fandom in disgust when, after posting pictures of her real-life self on FurAffinity, she got gifts from an admirer. [[{{Squick}} The 'gifts' were containers of his own semen.]] And a rather Bishonen young lad who was quite straight also left in disgust after attending a convention where he had 300pound fanboys [[LeisureSuitLarry rub their crotches against him and lick their lips.]] * This plain-to-ugly troper has little sympathy for those of you who are actually telling the truth. ** This ugly-to-horrid looking troper has seen extremely beautiful girls (and women) be sexually harassed because of their great looks. For example, one of my friends, who looks like a goddess, once had three boys stalk her for months on end. These boys would come to her house late at night, wait for her outside, constantly call and text her and invade her personal space at school to feel her up. Sorry, but I don't think sexual harassment is a compliment to ''anybody''. * This troper is called pretty a lot by boys, and it makes her a bit uncomfortable. She's not even sure what they see in her. She has large eyebrows, acne, and braces. What is it that they see? * I've had plenty of guys act like this towards me...[[ForTheEvulz for a joke.]] Seriously, during my last day of high school, when we got to sign everyone's shirts, this one guy basically forced me to let him sign my shirt...and while he signed it, he used it as an excuse to grope my ass while his friends took pictures. I always had boys going "You're SO fit!" and "Hey sexy!" whilst their friends would try and stop laughing. And as it goes, anyone I actually wanted to date wouldn't be interested. I'd like to think that I'm good looking, but the only guys who've ever "flirted" with me are the ones I've just described, and the only boys who've ever "loved" me are friends...and even then, part of me has a feeling that someone is just messing with me. Two of the friends who've fancied me got pressganged into asking

me out by someone else who thinks it'd be funny, and the third didn't even ask me out - it was more a case of another friend saying "Hey, guess what? So-and-so fancies you!" Because apparently, messing with someone's feelings because they're apparently a troll is just SO OMG FUNNY, right? ** Are you [[{{FairyDreamer}} this troper]]? I have basically the same problem. While no guys have ever touched me (which is good because I'd gladly give them a fist to the face), I've had some guys flirt with me just to tease me. So many times, somebody (usually a girl) would randomly say, "Excuse me. He likes you." These people don't even know my name nor do I know theirs! Messing with someone's feelings must be a sport or something. ** [[BerserkButton What. Fucking.]] [[ThisIsSparta Assholes.]] ** Original Troper here, and I kind of have to update here. Thing is, none of this was helped by the fact that I'm [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]], something I only realised fairly recently. I've gotten enough confidence, and am in a different environment (college), where I'm sure people aren't that cruel anymore. So now, on the rare occasion that someone tells me they like me without getting to know me (like this boy in my law class), I do get the feeling that they're being honest, and that they just like how I look...but I guess the damage was done, because I still can't bring myself to believe anything other than "They're just joking with me". This one person who keeps telling me that he "loves me" (those being his literal words), is quite the fun case, almost - people keep telling me that he's GORGEOUS, but I just can't see it. He looks okay, just not my type. I'm a bit less bitter about the whole thing (a LOT less bitter about the friends of mine who've liked me - people can't help their feelings, and they only ever admitted it under duress, the poor boys), but it's great that you guys have gotten angry about it for me. :D * [[{{Komorebi}} This troper]], a glamor/erotica model, would LOVE to be able to walk down the street without numerous people disrespecting her time and space by honking/shouting at her, following her, or shoving phone numbers at her. (And sometimes her photographer clients are no better, ugh!) * @/FarseerLolotea was an early bloomer, and caught all of the usual guff that kids that age seem to believe that merits. * I'm not particularly beautiful, and no skin color is inherently beautiful, either. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I must explain: in the black community, there is a rather irritating (and pointless) hang-up on skintone and its relation to beauty (it has none, in reality, but some people think it does). I have gotten so much crap from other people for being a light-skinned black female that it's not funny. It really isn't: I've had people tell me I wasn't fit to be anything but being a video vixen; I've had people tell me I was a waste of light skin because my "nose is too wide" and I didn't get "that good hair" (what the hell does that mean, anyway?); I've had people tell me I would never be good at anything because I'd just coast on skintone (despite the fact that I studied hard and worked my butt off because I was a perfectionist). The absolute worst experience I've had with this was when I was in grade school and the other kids were molesting me, telling me I deserved it for being born light-

skinned, and that this was my purpose (I blame the rap music). I reported it to the recess supervisor and she told me "You must've done something to bring it on yourself." Yes, I realize all black people have it hard, I realize some colorist/racist people do give darkskinned black people a hard time and that they are not given as much exposure as light-skinned black people, even when they really deserve it. But it's not all rainbows and sunshine on the other side, either. And for the record, yes, I have experienced racism from white people; some do not consider us "closer to white," as some people like to think. * The women in my best friend family are extremely lucky with genetics. So lucky that her mother prayed the whole time she was pregnant to have a boy. They are from Slavic descent and look like all your best clichs about Slavic women. Her mother is a very competent international jurist at the same firm my father works at. He never worked with her but still knows her, the same way every male in the tower knows her: as the hottest piece of ass in the whole tower. It can get really awkward. Her daughter-my best friend-was followed home almost every night when she was still in junior high. It is partly explained by the fact that she went to a school where she was one of the only blonde girl, so at thirteen she dyed her pretty blond hair a very dark shade of black. It only attract an other form of unwanted attention, from way older guys or goths, so she went back to her original color. It was really, really creepy when she was young. And even now (we're both twenty) she has trouble being friend with anyone who isn't aromantic asexual. More than once her female friends boyfriends/love interest would ignore them to spend time with her at parties or her male friends girlfriend would assume he's cheating on them with her. She's pretty much the impersonation of this trope. Worst part is, she really is beautiful but often people at first in awe with her start treating her like a slut when they learn that she's russian. * When I was in school, I was mercilessly bullied by a clique of girls who systematically tore me down to nothing. By the time I got away from them, my self-esteem was non-existent and I was convinced that I was utterly worthless and unlovable. Many years later, my mom ran into one of these women and the subject of me came up. She proceeded to tell my mom about how oh so very ''pretty'' she thought I was. I truly hope she was only saying it to be polite because the idea that she and her little bitch friends tore me to pieces out of resentment fills me with rage. The worst part is, self-esteem issues aside, I'm objectively not all that great looking and never was, so all of the abuse was for nothing anyway. * I tend to lampshade this trope in real life by jokingly saying to my friends, "Everybody wants to put it in me!" The sad thing is, it tends to be true...especially of married men. I can think of at least five separate instances of men doing something sexual to me (kissing, groping, etc.) that I didn't want them to do, and two of those instances were with married men. * I can understand the constant perverts hitting on and even sexually harassing you for being "so beautiful", but this [[{{Gonk}} ugly, fat and flat-chested]] troper doesn't understand why it would be so

traumatizing to be bullied because of envy from others (unless they were to go as far as stab you or something, but that's a different story). Yes, they're assholes, but they're ''jealous''. That sounds rather easy to brush off when you learn it. When you get teased for being ugly, you know they're right. * This troper's best friend is a 6'3 latino quarterback with a god's body. He's very dedicated and in love with his girlfriend, and as a result, has to continually turn down daily offers for sexual favors. Girls throw themselves at him to the point of near harrassment, and he doesn't care as long as he has his girlfriend. ---Quick, back to [=~So Beautiful, It's A Curse~=]! We'll keep the roaming hordes of {{fanboy}}s and {{fangirl}}s off of you! (PS, this whole page is useless without pics! *ducks*) ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle6pqgwgev7ipd * Example from [[@/NoSoup4Me this tropers]] life: I went to college with a girl who, through birth defect, had been born with no toes on her right foot. This was obviously not very obvious and was usually ignorable. But once you knew about it you occasionally found yourself saying things that were.. well... like this example shortly after valentines day --> '''Girl:''' I can't believe my boyfriend. He got me THE worst possible gift you could get me for valentines day --> '''Me:''' Toenail clippers? -->''shocked expressions all round'' --> '''Me:''' Oh god! I'm sorry! I can't belive I said that. God I'm always putting my foot in ... ''(facepalm)'' * This Troper's mother had both legs amputated. We had some fun watching people squirm as they struggled to avoid saying 'leg' or 'foot' etc. ** Amputees really don't care if you use idioms or figures of speech concerning the missing limb(s). By avoiding saying :leg" or "foot" for example, you are just insulting him/her by defining him/her as "the person who is missing one or more limbs". * When [[@/TromboneChild this troper]] befriended a blind girl during her senior year of high school, she tried mot to mention anything related to it for a couple of months. When she finally did, her friend was actually really relaxed about it and didn't mind talking about it, so said troper felt a lot less tense about it. * One of this troper's professors had a condition with her hands that is very hard to describe, with some fingers terminating in stumps and others not seeming fully developed, but with a few normal fingers. One of his classmates who had seen her before noted in another class that it was very easy to notice and very hard to avoid asking about it. * This troper's high school friend has a prosthetic leg from a childhood accident. Averted because many people don't even realize the disability, then subverted in that the friend is the person most

likely to talk/joke about it. In one instance, he even unscrewed the prosthetic and jokingly ''beat someone over the head with it.'' * This troper has steel rods fused to her spine because of having been hit by a car when she was little. She isn't visibly hindered in any way, though she experiences a fair bit more pain than most people, and is usually capable of being quite humorous about it. ("I have a reputation for being incredibly inflexible, you know.") One of her middle school classmates, however, ended up with detention when it was discovered that he was planning to follow her around with refrigerator magnets to see if they stuck to her body. ** Do they? *** Nope. I also don't set off metal detectors in airports or government buildings. The rods are surgical steel, which is apparently different from regular metal on some chemical level. *** Metallurgically speaking, yes they are different. * Subverted: This troper had a life-drawing teacher who had a very disfigured hand. (He had blown it to near smithereens in a gun accident. Carrying shotgun, slipped on ice, gun went off, blew hand to near gone. They took one of his big toes off to make him a thumb.) He started the very first class by introducing himself, then telling everybody the story about his hand and the surgery he had to go through. What's even crazier about him, though? He's a professional sculpture artist. * This troper was roleplaying with a young woman (as in, RPG, not as in, whips and chains) with the first name "Heart". Yes. Heart. As in, the organ. There was a story as to why, and I hadn't thought much of it, until I found myself disturbingly drawn to using the "<3" emote-and saying that I'd send her my heart in a lead-lined box-- and saying that I (heart) her-- and that in my heart of hearts I really didn't believe a certain something. It was awkward. * One of this troper's college friends has only one hand due to a birth defect (her other arm ends at the elbow). One day when shopping for winter gloves, I came across a single glove in the bargain bin; apparently the other half of the pair had gotten lost at some point. It was the correct glove for my friend's single hand -- so I bought it and gave it to her as a gift. She was quite amused. * This troper tends to simply ignore people's disabilities when it comes to figures of speech, assuming they're arent recent, since it seems to him to be ''more'' offensive to go out of your way to avoid speaking about it, than simply to treat them like everyone else. * A variation on the theme: my grandmother took her aunt to see a couple called the Guildensterns. All the way there in the car, she kept telling her aunt not to mistakenly call them Rosencrantz. Out of sheer contrariness, the aunt called them Mr and Mrs Frankenstein for the whole evening. * This troper once tried to flirt with a very nice pre-op transsexual girl at a party while drunk. After a relatively harmless opening line, "I love your hair", it quickly devolved into "When I saw it, I thought it was a wig! I mean - not like that! It's just really pretty! You know, a lot of girls here, they have fake... hair... things. Lovely party! Nice outfits. ... padding. Oh fuck it, I'll go stand over there til I'm sober."

* This troper's aunt takes quite a bit of advantage out of this trope. She was born with a malformed hand so that it's basically a stump with nubs for fingers. She's been known to put this hand in her mouth and miming taking a big bite out of it, pulling back a stump, just to freak people out. * This troper has a friend who has a large and highly visible scar on her arm. Aside looking mildly disturbing due to sheer size, it's also shaped vaguely like a vulva. People who have known her for some time pay it no mind, but according to her pretty much everyone is a bit freaked out for a while when they first see it and try not to stare at it or talk about it. * This troper has congenital anosmia, the condition of being born without a sense of smell. This condition is apparently rare enough that it sets off spell checkers and always draws a "Huh?" expression when telling people about it. People around me constantly avoid mentioning it, which results in the amusing fact that smell related topics seem to come into conversation when I'm around. The "offender" always gets really embarrassed that it came up, when generally I'm just trying to explain that I very legitimately have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Also Christmas can't possibly have a smell, regardless of what olfies (affectionate slang for people who can smell) say. ** You're not missing much. Good food is never as strong as cat piss. * A few years back, in high school, I sat next to a girl in my drama class with '''massive''' scars all over her arms and hands from a childhood accident where she accidentally fell into a campfire. Everyone avoided talking about them and after a few months the whole class got used to them and didn't even bother talking about them or anything. Unfortunately this meant that some of us let our guard down...One day she came into class with a band-aid on her finger, which led to this little moment: -->'''Me:''' Oh, hey, what happened to your hand? --> ''Whole class enters into a stunned silence.'' --> ''She faces me with an unreadable expression.'' --> ''{{Beat}}'' --> ''I facepalm.'' * Averted by some of this troper's High School teachers. Despite one of them being in a wheelchair, and another one being blind, no one told anyone not to say anything about their disabilities (there were even MemeticMutation jokes about them, which were spread by other teachers and themselves). The blind one (not completely blind, though: he has less than 5% of his left eye's vision, and none of his right) from the World History classes always joked about his blindness, insisted that no one told him the time when he checked his watch and even mocked some of the students who said one of his drawings looked like Captain Hook. --> The one in the left looks more like Captain Hook. This one's beard and clothes do not resemble him. And I'm the one who's blind... * This Tropette has two stories: ** I was once friends with an ''absolutely hilarious'' blind kid (and his sister as well, but that's besides the point). To be fair, he wasn't truly blind in the sense that he couldn't see ANYTHING - he

could sense changes in light, but that was it. Anyway, this kid was also a HUGE PungeonMaster and actually pointed out his blindness and made light of it. For example, once a teacher asked him where his sister had gone. He responded with, "I don't know, I haven't seen her." I also go to college with his sister. ** In my psychology class my first semester of college, there was a very sweet girl who was born with only her index finger and thumb on her left hand (her right had was completely normal though). I didn't even notice it until she pointed the deformity out during an in-class discussion, and after that I always felt really bad for wondering what it would be like to shake hands with her, how she managed her disability, etc. ---Back to [=~Sammy's Glass Eye~=]. There. Didn't say anything about the eye. ----

Ptitle6twp4p86 * Has no one ever returned a dog, looked to the owner and said "The poster up there said there was a reward,"? * This troper was promised a bicycle if she got good grades when she was seven. She is fourteen now, and one of the top students in class, and the bicycle is still nonexistent. ---What, you wanted a reward? Fine, here's [[DudeWheresMyReward a link back to the main page]]. Ya happy now?

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Ptitle7dma8aj8 * I returned from the dojo a little later than usual, and my uncle Bob asked me how did the training session go "Nothing special: warm-up, forms, semi-contact sparring... and then a couple of students and I did the overtime; full-contact sparring" "Oh, so that's what they call it now. Very interesting." The funny thing is he was right... it was very embarrassing. * This troper was watching a DVD with a date when his flatmates decided to go out for the evening. On catching up with them a couple of hours later, one of them snarkily observed "[[DidYouJustHaveSex that was a long movie]]", and I replied "Uh, yeah, there were... [[DVDBonusContent Special Features]]..." * Once on an RP chatbox, someone was using the stork story and said that their character would be praying for the stork to come for years. Then this was added: *needs a praying partner*. This troper's response was the trope name. * This Troper's cousin was in a University drama production. The drama instructor had cast a girl to play a boy's part, and said "And since

you'll be playing a boy, you'll have to wear a muscle suit to get rid of your...ah, what are the kids calling them now? Oh, yes. Your 'lovely lady lumps'." * Remember the story about [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7608214/Sc antily-dressed-women-cause-earthquakes-Iranian-cleric-says.html an Iranian cleric claiming scantily-clad women cause earthquakes?]] I mentioned it to my dad and he said, "''... earthquakes? Is THAT what they're calling it nowadays?''" * Part of a conversation I overheard while waiting for my order at a restaurant: -->'''Girl:''' Yeah, she said she traded her cupcake for his dumpster muffins... -->'''Guy:''' So you're saying she went home with him? * this troper has a thing for canids, and years ago when Monster Rancher was first airing in the US she decided Tiger of the Wind was about the coolest thing in the series and in a moment of extreme caffeination (and aftereffects from orthodontic work and the meds given after it) started gushing about Tiger, to the point she mentioned she really wanted to "floofle his kawaii floofy fur" - cue a random person in the chatroom going "'floofle'... so that's what they're calling it these days..." this troper meant it very innocently, but for several days after that any comments made about the furry fandom and yiff involved the word "floofle." * This troper pulled this on a teacher. The teacher in question had left the classroom in order to copy some stencils we would use during the lesson, and she took some time. When she returned she said something along the lines of "the printer was jammed by paper". Cue me answering: "Jamming the printer? Is that what they call it now?" * During math class, [[@/OhNoes my]] friend commented on the rip in my jeans, which I acquired when my ex-girlfriend attacked me whilst I was riding a bike [I ended up running into another kid and giving him a tire-shaped bruise and falling off the bike, obliterating the fabric on my knee]: -->'''C''': *points at rip* "How'd that get there?" --> '''Me''': "It was [Girl]'s fault." --> '''C''': "Oh, really, now? I think you've been up to some inappropriate activities, [Troper]. And by that, I mean... intercourse." -->'''Me''': "NO! I was riding her bike and--->'''C''': Oh, is ''that'' what the kids call it nowadays?

ptitle7prxoc8m614g * [[ManWithoutABody This guy]] was in a student-made series of short films in which pineapples (and the aforementioned guy's [[LargeHam exaggerated]] delivery of the word) were a running joke. -->"You've '''NEVER''' had '''PINE''' ''apple''?!?!" * Pineapples are, hands down, [[{{SAMAS}} This Troper's]] favorite fruit. ** Same here, and they're even better grilled.... *Drools*

* Amongst this troper's circle of friends, saying 'Pineapple' or 'Pineapples' signifies that you just lost TheGame. ** I lost the game * Pineapples are, officially, FRICKEN AWESOME. * one of the IRC channels I use to frequent had a regular who was fond of mentioning things he had and what he knew how to do with it. more often than not he would mention pineapples, which eventually wound up with a crowning moment of funny where he declared "I have a pineapple and know how to use it... AS A SEX TOY!" * I was at a celebration for my chorus teacher because she won music teacher of the year and the punch had pineapple juice in it. That's not the good part though, my friend was there and he was about to take a sip of the punch, not knowing what was in it, and I stopped him fist, and said "You'll like it if you like pineapple." He got the funniest look on his face and replied, "I LOVE pineapple." * One of this troper's relatives makes the most wonderful cake in the world...pineapple upside-down cake! * Inverted with this troper, who absolutely can't stand those spiky abominations, and will never get along anyone who likes it on pizza. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle7r6bpxd93qsz * 8th grade. Her: widely considered to be the hottest girl in the grade, tall, slender, straight blonde hair. Me: pop-culture geek who in winter wore sweaters and in summer wore t-shirts with obscure Star Trek references on them. Awesome. * This troper had awfully low self-esteem and was very suspicious when a boy showed interest in her because she thought there were other intentions in mind. She's not that much of a looker either. ** Preaching to the choir. I had very similar reactions, and denials for at least 4 years before I realised, [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe guys like them do notice me]] * I know several couples wherein one person said it to the other when they got together or both did. * [[@/AcrossTheStars This troper]] and her LoveInterest. We didn't stay together, though, since we both have ''major'' psychological damage. ** Sounds like me and my ex-girlfriend, though my habit of being a clingy, obsessive, yandere-ish wannabe battle-butler coupled with long distance amplified everything tenfold. I just got so hyped about an eventual meeting with the girl I saw as an image of perfection that before we could arrange anything she'd moved on. * Replace "guy" with "girl" and you have this troper. Habits of being a nerd don't wear off [[SheIsAllGrownUp even after the important bit]], I guess. ** Amen to that. * He married me. Tall, slender, highly intelligent man with angelic good looks... marries geeky female hobbit. However, it's a vital point that ''he'' doesn't consider himself a particularly impressive person.

* This troper has had nearly every significant relationship start with one of these, which just utterly confuses the ever-lovin' blueeyed hell out of him. * Happened to this troper (he might've even used the phrase, replacing "guy" with "girl", of course). Sadly there was no romantic involvement, although we did become friends. * It's mutual for this troper and her boyfriend. [[GeekyTurnOn We're both nerds]]. * This troper has seen several beautiful couples say it. Low self esteem is apparently common. * [[@/MeganPhntmGrl This troper ]] is a chubby, plain, American, lower-middle-class, foreign-musical-theater geek of a girl. So she's still in a bit of shock as to how she managed to land an absolutely gorgeous British boyfriend from a wealthy family. * This troper had a girlfriend who had this. It ended up making the relationship fail as she just didn't have the self-confidence to accept that she had positive aspects, and would say things like "Oh wait... I get it! You must think I'm easy! [to get into bed]". Umm... * This troper's current girlfriend did this when they started going out, which led to "I can't believe you can't believe", then "I can't believe you can't believe I can't believe"... and so on. It's become kind of a game between us now. * Happened mutually in this troper's last relationship. Ignoring the fact that our relationship was initiated primarily through the efforts of our mutual friends. * Neither of us are perhaps that spectacular, but this troper definitely knows that when we first met--during rehearsals for ''Cabaret''--that we had no idea in a month's time we'd drunkenly hook up at the cast party. I sort of wondered if anything was going to go past that stage...and to my delight, [[RelationshipUpgrade it did]]. To my very great surprise, when I said this phrase to her, she caught it and threw it right back at me. Funny how that works, doesn't it? * Not sure if this counts seeing as how I don't ''want'' people to notice me, but I have gotten compliments on hair, which I do nothing with in hopes that people will avoid me because of it. However one day my brother said, "Seriously brother, chicks don't dig long hair". I was quite dissapointed to see that some people dissagreed with my brother. ** This troper's brother has waist-length ash-blond hair, and girls seem to love it. He lets them play with it at parties. When we went to Italy the girls there couldn't keep their eyes off him. *** I have long-ish curly hair, and often a girl who I don't even know very well will just lightly pull on a curl and let it bounce back. It's become quite a conversation starter. * This troper and her girlfriend fit the spirit of this trope, only it was a moment of extreme awkwardness followed by learning that her now-girlfriend was also gay. Self esteem was an issue enough for a shy, geeky, and very modestly endowed female engineering student as it was. * Story of this troper's life, except that the guy never actually ''does''. ** Are you a female version of me?

* This troper is a member of a group for young adults with autism, and one of the guys there, this really nice and fairly big guy actually asked me, a shy, quiet, average-looking glasses-wearing otaku, to be his girlfriend. We're just friends now, but he's still a great guy to hang out with. * This troper and her boyfriend, though slightly subverted - we were already friends until I broke down and told him how I ''really'' feel, so it was more like "I can't believe a guy/girl like you would like me like that". ** Yeah, [[@/{{Be}} this troper]] tried that with his friend. [[{{Understatement}} It didn't work]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited so well.]] *** * hugs* * Actually, psychological studies show that "She/he is way too good for the poor little me!" is a common reaction when an introverted person discovers that someone is attracted to him/her, especially if it's an extroverted person (as we all know, OppositesAttract). A canonical story is that of this troper and his significant other, with whom he keeps getting into fights over who is ''really'' the awesome one of us two. The answer is obvious but we don't wanna spoil our fun... ** This troper has had exactly two boys admit they were attracted to her, ''ever''. The first she didn't really take seriously because he was two years younger and lived down the street from her, while the second she actually hung out with. It's not that she doesn't think she's good enough for either of them, it's more that she can't fathom the idea of ''anyone'' being attracted to her in any way whatsoever. Her low self-esteem may be a part of this. But then, both boys were ones I hung out with a lot, so I guess it was [[{{Otaku}} my]] [[DeadpanSnarker personality]], which is even ''more'' confusing. * Probably what doomed this troper and her first love. It's a bitch, people. * This guy can't believe any girl would notice him. [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer So far, he's been proven right.]] ** This troper believes that someday you'll find that one person who will...and it'll be worth the wait...:) * This troper is still amazed that the one girl who he fancies asked to be his friend on Facebook in the first three days of his page being made (full story on the Crowning Moment of Heartwarming 10 troper tales page). Unfortunately, she already has a boyfriend, but, hey, you can't have everything in life, can you? To visualise: I have hair that is often compared to a birds nest, an almost inability to show any emotion in public, glasses, low self esteem and more bad jokes than is good for anyone. She has long curly hair, a nice smile, quite a high self esteem and quite good jokes. Opposites atract, it seems. ** ...If you were interested in guys and this troper were single, I'd definitely try to contact you. Presumably you aren't, and I'm definitely not, but still. Someone who may just appreciate my humor would be a welcome relief. * Every time...every single time I find out some guy actually is interested in me in that way. Of course it doesn't happen too often, but it happens enough I guess. * This is what this troper's first girlfriend said to him. An exact

quote would be, "Why would a guy like you like a girl like me?" I thought it was adorable. * This troper has probably said this straight out to her boyfriend, a very good looking guitarist/bassist who is so high up on the "intimidating and cool" scale his head is in the fucking clouds to her mousy hopeless nerd with no "cool" qualities. Although he is a total closet nerd as well, but that's far beside the point. I literally didn't want to tell anyone about it the first day because I was convinced that he would change his mind the next day. To top it off he tells me constantly he can't believe how lucky he got. I'm wondering the same damn thing ^w^ He constantly complains that the first day I met him, I wouldn't talk to him, mostly because I was sitting in shocked silence at the thought that someone as cool as him would approach me with something other than "Heey... so I forgot to do my homework last night, and you're like, the smartest one in the class, so I was wondering if..." * This tropette and her Master. (We're into D/s) He's handsome, incredibly kind and intelligent, and never seems to get angry. I have scars all over my face, get outbursts of psychotic rage when provoked, can be really nasty to people I dislike, am very screwed up from near life long abuse, am transsexual, and other things. I have to have given Him at least 1000 examples of this trope since we met. * [[Tropers/DrMcP This troper]] and her boyfriend. Led to her initial dismissal of him as a potential [[LoveInterest Love Interest]] until, months later, he suddenly asked her out. * This 5'6" troper, who is compact, tactiturn, and ecentric somehow ended up marrying a 5'9" HotAmazon Marine. We both have a love of MoreDakka, although we don't bring up certain topics, as these are flamewar tinder (AK-47 vs M-16, Big Hole Theory versus fragmentation, bayonet versus extra ammo, and many other things). * I hate when guys have this attitude. Even if I do think you're far cuter and more interesting than you give yourself credit for, low self-esteem is a MAJOR turn-off. * This troper never had low self-esteem. I just have low esteem for everyone else. All through high school, because I didn't care to take the opinions of others as an indication of how I should behave, I was the [[LonersAreFreaks psycho bookworm]]. When my year level's resident HandsomeDevil started being nice to me, I thought, "Jesus Christ, they think I'm such a huge freak even the school jerks are nice to me." I was quickly disabused of that notion when he asked me out and eventually proved to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. And to this day, I still wonder what it was in me that appealed to him. * [[Tropers/TeamYamiFTW This troper]] didn't think that guys even glance out the corner of their eyes for her. Plans changed after finding out her crush on a totally sweet, awesome guy was requited. * [[Tropers/{{Katecarey}} This troper]] had a pretty lousy experience with this trope a couple years ago. The guy in question was smart and we had a lot in common (we were both politically progressive film buff atheists from Jewish families, just to name a few points). However, he was also really, really ridiculously good-looking, while I'm... not, to put it honestly. We started dating anyway, and I was kind of surprised that I'd managed to get with someone I considered so far out

out of my "league," a point which was reinforced every time we'd go to a party and other girls would either react with mildly condescending shock when they found we were together or else just ignore me entirely and hit on him in front of me. He took more than one up on their offers behind my back. Since then, I've pretty much resigned myself to having to date guys I'm not attracted to - because honestly, if you're cute, you can probably do better than a short redhead who can quote entire episodes of ''ArrestedDevelopment'' from memory. So this would be a subversion, I guess. * Non-romantic example: I first see a really cool, popular guy that I think I have no chances of befriending. Cue to the next day where he starts talking to me and offering to share his photo paper with me (it was in Photography class). Now we're nearly inseparable. * This troper experienced it briefly - the geeky, snarky coffee girl getting flirted with by the tall, muscular security guard, no way! Then it turned out she'd had more intelligent conversations with the espresso grinder. Mr. Security was slightly put out when the troper dumped his handsome butt and dated a chemistry major. * I have a gender fliped example, but this example dosnt involve a legit crush, just the shock that this girl noticed me. I am a straight up nerd, whose a virgin and not exactly the thinest guy ever. At my first high school there was a hot girl who was bi, was a polyigamist(meaning she belived in marriage between multiple people, not just two) and was probably the bigest slut at that school, based on storys of sexual escapades she talked about. She left the school after her sophmore year. A few years later i found myself chating with her on facebook. You can imagine my utter shock when she eventually(dont remember how this was brought up) stated the fact that she always thought i was extremly atractive O_o * Me(Uke) A socially insecure young gamer. Him(Seme) A socially secure up and coming young athelete. Hilarity insues. * While not on the lowest rung of the social ladder, this thoroughly unremarkable troper was quite surprised when the BigManOnCampus asked her to prom. Turns out her very cute prom date is an even bigger ClosetGeek. * Gender Flip: This troper didn't know he was attractive until he was 17. * This Troper was writing a story where one main character (the mains all suffered TropeOverdoesed due to...something) said this line while looking at Generic Popular guy. Her other friend promptly hit her on the back of the head, causing the first character to snap out of it. ---I-I never thought a reader like you would go back to [=~I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!~=] * Sniffle* ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle7vljslfu * The [[DinosaurComics Truth And Beauty Bombs]] forum once had an epic, on-topic thread debating Objective Morality vs. Subjective

Morality. After the thread had run its course, ''all'' of the participants were burned out on debating the subject for good--thus "Objective Morality" became their version of Godwin's Law. Any philosophical debate that derailed into an Objective Morality debate would elicit a response of [[AC:THREAD OVER]], and anyone who felt that a debate had dragged on for too long would attempt to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this law by asking, "So what do you guys think of objective morality?" ** Rather humorously, the original debate thread was itself affected by the normal version of Godwin's Law--except that the debate continued, civil and on-topic, for several pages after the subject of Nazis was introduced and debated. ** FandomWank has the similar "what are your thoughts on {{yaoi}}?" *** Similarly, for SmackJeeves, complaining how popular BoysLove or SpriteComics ends in a locked thread. But it's discussed so much that few mention them [[DeadHorseTrope unironically]] anymore. * This Troper apparently has some innate ability to make others invoke this. Falsely, at that matter. For instance, I am pro-choice as far as abortion goes, and others would call this anti-life. So, the person sitting next to me says, "So, now you're killing babies? You're like Hitler!" To which I responded, "GodwinsLaw, you lose." He didn't get it. ** Nonetheless, this was humorous because, get this, one of the first things Hitler did in power: Shut down abortion clinics. Ah, students and their misplaced Hitler Analogies. *** Well that's simply untrue. Hitler supported abortion... for the right people. The Nazis didn't allow "good" Aryan women get abortions. The "unfit Aryans" (feeblemindedness, inherited diseases) and nonAryans on the other hand had forced abortions. Taken from Abortion in the New Europe, p.114 **** Even the definition of "Aryan" isn't quite what most Americans think it is, hence how Hitler could ally with the Japanese. (Goebbels even declared the Sioux Aryan.) But we're used to those blond, blueeyed natives of the UncannyValley. *** While I don't agree with the pro-lifer who was talking with you, he wasn't saying you were "like Hitler" in the way that a democrat is like Obama, but in the way that a pianist is like a violinist. They do similar things (produce music, in this case), you support (in that individual's mind) a kind of killing that can be likened in scale, industry, and dehumanization of it victims to Hitler's kind of killing. That's all of my being a devil's advocate for now. *** That would make an excellent HitlerAteSugar argument. "You know who else is anti-abortion? HITLER!". Teehee. * This troper and his whole world (i.e. neighborhood, school, teachers, classmates, family, etc.) avert the law constantly. For us an argument is not complete without a Hitler reference. Here are two examples: ** Exhibit A: -> [While on a school field trip to a farm that makes cheese]Teacher (after cheese factory worker said cheese starts to rot): That fungus you see on cheese is normally greenish-blue. X number of people throw it away, Y number of people reuse it. and Z number of people eat it.

It's penicilium: the Peniciline fungus. When Jews were mistreated in the concentration camps, the Nazis were so bad they just gave them rotten bread. Surprisingly, they survived better because the bread was "infected" with penicilium. ** Exhibit B: -> History Teacher: The U.S.A. had a policy called "Manifest Destiny", which stated God gave them the divine right to invade and civilize any country they wanted. Eventually this came to Germany and Hitler used it for his benefit, later calling it "Lebensraum". * This troper's classmates were on an inflamate discussion on the importance of journalists (our college subject) and medics during a class. A (Jewish) classmate ended the discussion by reminding that Hitler rose to power because Goebbels made the media support him (could count as CMOA as well). * Averted with this troper: I'm very aware of the Godwin's law, and I avoid all use of the following words: "Nazis", "Hitler", "Fascist / Fascism", and "Holocaust": The arguments must stand by themselves, and never depend on bad associations or so-called links to discredited concepts (And because, since I'm a jew, the last thing I want to do is trivialize the evil of the Nazis talking about gun control or taxes...) * This troper, in an attempt to take this trope to the extreme, calls every petty thing "international conspiracy set by Jews and communists". * Justified when recently invoked by MacPhisto. A local redneck had the message "DEMOCRATS (SOCIALISTS) SHOULD JUST GET OUT" written on the back of his [[strike: compensation for a small penis]] pick-up truck. Seeing this in a parking lot, without breaking my stride, said "You know who else wanted to ban ever political party but his own? Hitler." [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And just kept on walking.]] ** More like {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}, whether you agree or not. * The "What [[CharacterAlignment alignment]] are you?" quiz on Facebook has quite possibly the most hilarious way to coerce you to take it imaginable. If you try to compare your results to your friends' before actually taking the quiz, it defaults you to LawfulEvil and gives a picture of Hitler. * ''If'' someone is arguing (probably unwittingly, but...) in favor of totalitarianism, genocide, etc., this troper's found that pointing out parallels to Stalin or Mao usually gets the job done, without looking as cheap kneejerk as the Ad Hitlerum. Although it's apparently not common knowledge that said gentlemen were [[BeyondTheImpossible worse]] than Hitler, in terms of body count at the very least, they are at least known for mass murder. Someone who argues for amoral ethnocentrism/nationalism can be compared to Tojo Hideki, insteadhe had half as many mass-murders as Hitler, but more war-dead and ''much'' worse terror-tactics. Hitler wasn't unique; he wasn't even the worst. That's your cheery thought for the day. * This troper used to be accused of being a (neo or otherwise)nazi on quite a refular basis, so I played it for laughs a bit. Apparently people get antsy if you break out into "Springtime for hitler" in the middle of a Business studies class. * This Troper once heard an animal rights activist speaking on NPR (it

may have been on the BBC news program specifically, but I don't remember for sure) explicitly compare the meat industry to the holocaust. * [[MattyChanHazel This Troper's]] father will, during an argument, call my mother and I facists. This means that he's lost and has nothing else to say. * I'm starting to annoy my mom with this. She had a problem with my weight, and every time she starts in on it I do the Hitler salute and say "Heil weightloss!" or something in a bad fake caricature of a German accent. She used to be rather large herself, and remember those rumors that Hitler feared having Jewish blood in him? * [[{{Fakeangelbr}} Me]] and my friends were playing KillingFloor when one of them complained there the game don't have a crosshair to aim and have to use a second function to know where you shooting. For God knows the reason, I said "you know who else aimed? Nazis1". Then my other friend said "you know who else had fun? Hitler!". Then we laughed. * This troper uses Godwin's Law a little too much but he doesn't really accuse people of being like Hitler, he just compares something to things Hitler did to make people think more about it. For example, in a discussion about how important good intentions are compared to "good actions" this troper said that Hitler wanted the good of Germany wich is technically a good intention but the things he did drag him into CompleteMonster territory and he'd be even more of a monster than a serial killer with the same number of victims and atrocities. The discussion was about about a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who was technically helping someone but bordering on ChaoticEvil with his jerkness so it was kind of a stretch and this troper admits it. * For [[Tropers/K9Thefirst1 this troper]], there is a simple rule when debating: The first person to call the other side a Nazi, loses. Now, I try to avoid arguments and debate as much as I can, but I long for the day when I am able to stay [[IShallTauntYou so level-headed in an arguement, and be so eloquent at it, that the other guy becomes so cross, that he incites Godwin's Law]], when I can just smile, and take my victory trophy. Naturally, I get tickled to death when a certain political party calls the other(or certain Grassroots movements) Nazis. * My list of things that now fall under Godwin's Law bait (aka you say any of these and people will discredit you in no time flat): Hitler, {{GameFAQs}}, 4chan, {{Touhou}}, any NintendoHard Japan-only game, ''Guitar Freaks'' and ''Drummania'', ''{{Twilight}}'', DatingSim, {{Hentai}}. ** ''{{Twilight}}'' has a pale-skinned MasterRace. You know who else believed in a pale-skinned MasterRace? Hitler! * This troper was talking with her friends about {{Pokmon}}. Someone mentioned that most problems in the series are solved with Pokmon battles, causing this troper to say, "Know what we didn't solve with Pokmon? HITLER!" * This troper was in a school debate about politics, sitting next to a turned-off computer and fiddling with the keys out of boredom. After plenty of minutes in a trance, he caught someone suggesting that "some votes should be worth more than other votes", to which one of his

classmates angrily replied, eventually mentioning that "Hitler thought that way...". Just then, this troper instinctively lunged for the Esc key, then stopped paying attention again. * U.S. politician Newt Gingrich just played the Nazi card during the "debate" over the Islamic Community Center to be built two blocks from the World Trade Center site in NYC. Gingrich, You Lose. -->"Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in Washington." --->-- '''Newt Gingrich''' ** Not just Newt, the [[FunWithAcronyms Tea Party]] regularly calls Obama Hitler. *** [[FlatWhat What]] *** Read some of the signs they show at the rallies. You'll see multiple comparisons of Obama Administration policies to Nazi Germany. That said, Democrats got a jump on Godwin's Law against Bush. So therefore, both the hard right and hard left have lost. Moderates, take positions! *** You know who had the support of moderates at one point in time? That's right, Hitler. *** That's bullshit! [[InsultToRocks Hitler made the trains]] [[NoDelaysForTheWicked run on time]]! * This Troper's group of friends have a similar law, "Haddock's Law". Just replace "Nazis/Hilter" with sexual innuendo. * I was once helping my mum packaging fish and we came across this giant long fishie with only half of it from the tail was visible. It looked kinda prehistoric and I was refusing to touch it and my mum said 'It's a creation of God!' so I said 'Yeah well, Hitler was a creation of God but I don't have to like ''him''!' * My highschool has an English class that gives College credit, and at least half the course is listening to BS from the teacher. one thing that sticks in my mind is one paper we read, where it said that the united states was like Nazi Germany and the teacher was backing it up. You have no idea how much I wanted to say "Godwin's law, you lost the debate." to the teacher, if for the sole reason that she would stop talking. ** [[HitlerAteSuger USA ''is'' kind of like Nazi Germany.]] Nazi Germany was country, so is the USA. * [[Tropers/VF1SValkyrie This Troper]] had a run in with this during the run up to the U.S. 2010 elections. He was speaking with someone who was a very loyal supporter of the Tea Party, basically saying that there should be no compromises in politics, falling to the Fallacy. This Troper said that politics was the art of compromise, while keeping in mind the GoldenMeanFallacy. The other person then shot back saying "That's what NevilleChamberlain said to appease Hitler!" This Troper then did a {{facepalm}}. * ''You're all Nazis!'' ** No, IAmSpartacus! ** [[{{Walkyverse}} I'm Batman]] * Knockback is a common subject for argument on the CityOfHeroes boards, in one such thread this troper posted "Both [[PuttingOnTheReich Council and 5th Column]] use Knockback, are they really the role models we want for [[ThinkOfTheChildren young

heroes?]]" as an oblique invocation of Godwin's Law. * Mao Zedong is pretty much the Chinese equalivant of Godwin's Law now. [[Tropers/CrystalSuicune This Troper]] had a great time laughing at the people who keep invoking this law when arguing whether to criticize a recently deceased politician.Something along the words of "If we're not allowed to criticize a dead politician, we cannot criticize Hitler and Mao because they're dead and should be respected!" * Tropers/EponymousKid has, in his time, done his share of trolling. One of his favored tactics is busting out this little gem: "Cool historical revisionism, bro. What else never happened, Fritz?" Again, note that this is intentional, and not truly for the sake of holding a serious argument, but a deliberate invocation is still a use of the trope. * This troper was having an argument with their friend about which was the better ending of {{Fallout New Vegas}}, siding with the NCR or [[spoiler: working against all the major factions and taking Vegas for yourself]]. I was allowed the last word, so obviously I went with "Well you know who also wore brown? HITLER" * This troper took a History seminar on Hitler last semester and HATED it. Consequently, she constantly complained about Hitler's very existence in an overdramatic protestation of having to take the class, and welcomed Hitler jokes during the depression of writing her gigantic final paper. Her troper boyfriend now calls her on accidentally invoking Godwin's Law whenever she brings up the class. * Once again fueled with the recent Madison, WI protests against conservative governor Scott Walker, not because he bears much resemblance to Hitler, but because he's [[FacePalm 'evil']]. [[http://slapblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gov-scott-walkerhitler-e1298212333853.jpg Take a look for yourselves]]. ** To be absolutely fair, Martin Niemller actually ''did'' list trade unionists in his "First they came for..." speech. *** The above troper is right. Walker is '''not''' Hitler. I mean sure, [[{{Understatement}} I hate the guy's policies]], but that dosen't make him any more Hitler than does, say, a WBC member, whom I also hate. Sure, their agendas have been interpreted as persecution, but they still believe in democracy and the Bill of Rights, which Hitler was not. Just because of a simple interpretation doesn't mean he's Hitler and a Nazi comparison just flat out isn't worth it. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Now a comparison to Joe McCarthy, on the other hand,]] [[DiggingYourselfDeeper that's a different story.]] * This troper uses this to try to get out of showering or bathing. ->'''Me''': All who support my lack of showering and/or bathing, say "I like mud!"\\ (no response)\\ '''Me''': All who oppose, say "Heil Hitler!"\\ (still no response) * The NoSwastikas trope in a nutshell is this. Because you know who had the swastika as an emblem? Hitler! * This Troper thinks GodwinsLaw should be extended to all [[{{Dystopia}} Dystopian works]]. I remember being into Dystopian literature during high school and when I tried to write a research

paper on ''It Can't Happen Here'' there were few academic papers on the book and 95% of everything online just compared Buzz Windrip (the EvilOverlord) to GeorgeWBush. But my top two candidates for Godwinning would be ''NineteenEightyFour'' and ''{{Idiocracy}}''. * One of This german Troper's friends is polish. Said friends got a present. A right-leaning German friend then proclaimed that he'd like to have that present, which lead to Godwin's Law being played for laughs. -->German friend: "I'd like to have that." -->Polish friend: "You can't have it, that's mine." -->German friend: "But what if I really want that?" -->Me: "You know, you're not the first person in German history to want things from Poland that don't belong to them." * This troper was eating a sandwich in 12th Grade English and a member of [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]], at the end of class, says this Narmy Gem, "You know, by eating meat, its like your Holocausting animals, you goddamn Nazi." In between chuckles, me and the rest of the class took out a meaty item from our lunch boxes, and pointed it in one hand in mock Nazi salute, "Zieg Heil Meat!" The Peta Member stormed out of there. She proceeded to boycott the class for a few days until her parents made her return. ---You know who else read [[GodwinsLaw the original article]]? ''Hitler!'' * [[ThatLiarLies YOU LIE!]] * Hitler was a troper? ** And a time-traveler, apparently. *** That explains [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel two]] [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct laws]] of Nazi Germany. * This troper just ran into an anti-psychiatrist group that had set up a display in the mall. Their display included many of the things that psychiatrists had come up with over the centuries, including lobotomies, electroshock therapy, chemical sledgehammers such as Thorazine, you get the idea--all with the apparent idea that the best way to deal with a patient is to pacify and destroy. But their FIRST panel, well, "Know who got a whole lot of his ideas about eugenics from psychiatrists? Know who underwent psychiatric treatment?" (such a pity, perhaps, that unlike later featured patients in the show, Adolf was NOT reduced to a drooling, shivering meat puppet...but I digress) I then told the curator about Godwin's Law. * The NintendoWii. Look at the Miis - Those who were lucky enough to get a Nintendo Wii in between 2006-2008 had a mii based off of Hitler. * You know who ''else'' puts examples underneath the link to the original article?! ''HITLER!!'' [[spoiler:And myself, apparently.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

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* Playing a one-shot taken from the ''CallOfCthulhu'' main rulebook, this troper and his party were caught at mr. Merriweather's property by his bratty son, who proceeded to tell us we had "1 hour to leave before he returned with the sheriff", and that our lawyer character could expect a lawsuit. Debating the issue, we decided we had no choice, but I didn't feel like letting him off scot-free after his behaviour, and so decided to fill a bucket with a mixture of hard liquor - bought in case we needed to torch the place - and water, and perch it on top of the main entrance door. An hour later, the guy returns with the sheriff, and, being rather cowardly, sends the sheriff in first. Long story short, the sheriff decides the guy was playing a prank on him. Net result: The brat got 24 hours in jail, and by the time he got out, any chance of lawsuit was long gone. The GM quoted the trope name verbatim. * Being voted prom queen by your peers. it was a massive didn't see it coming. Nerdy, strange, quiet computer freak me was voted the bloody PROM QUEEN. and apparently, HEAPS of people voted for me. The surprised face was what everyone wanted to see and trust me, I was surprised. (I was told everyone loved the dress I was wearing and helped me stand out a lot.) ** NerdsAreSexy. * This troper's friends boyfriend. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Nothing else to say]]. It was just suprising. ** Wait, so [[IncrediblyLamePun is she pregnant?]] * After this troper's female friend had a falling-out with her mutual crush (long story), they didn't speak for a week, and everyone got the impression that they were furious with each other. Then they decided to randomly make out in secluded corners of the school. Yeah. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle82m7tjc5w1a7 * [[MonsterDog This troper]] loves to play with this trope in various ways. ** At school: "I don't plan on studying for the test. I figure I've showed up at class, taken notes, either I know the material or I don't. Don't try this at home, though." ** On the job as a bank teller: "You notice I can make anyone laugh, even that guy who runs the collection agency. It's quite simple. I combine a severe lack of professionalism with expertise and some RefugeInAudacity, stir, and then either someone laughs or the branch blows up. Don't try this at home." ** When giving relationship advice: "Don't try this at home. Asking a girl out using your insanity as a selling point may cause [[YesButWhatDoesZataproximetacineDO unwanted side effects.]]" * This troper's aunt lives at the top of a pretty steep hill, so in the winter it's a nice place to go sledding. My cousins often prefaced their runs down the hill by saying, "Don't try this at home!", to which I would respond, "yeah, do it at your cousins' place instead."

* This troper says "Don't try this in my home. I don't want to scrape you off the walls." It works, especially if something explodes in the process. * I have actually tried something that the {{Mythbusters}} tested. [[spoiler:Pirate Eye Patch night vision really does work! Arr!]] * This troper'friend sometimes makes games in Scratch (a free program) based on various things. Most don't need this, but he just puts them on random ones anyway: ** In ''Astartes Eunt Domus'' (based on {{Warhammer 40000}}), the message is: ->The ImperialGuard are highly trained proffesionals (or so they tell us). Don't piss off the Space Marines at home! ** ''Ultrameerkats: Ruinous Powers'' ({{Warhammer 40000}} combined with CompareTheMeerkat), we have this gem: ->Blowing up demons is best left to your local SpaceMarine. ** AliensVsPredator Vs [[HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]: -> HRGiger never intended Xenomorphs to be vulnerable to crowbars. * In a slight rewording of this trope, this troper's older brother used to tell him "I do stupid stuff, so you know not to" * This Troper has plans to create a Flash-Animated web series after the Adobe Master Collection he ordered finally comes in. Due to the content of the series, it will most likely have the following disclaimer at beginning of each episode:\\ '''WARNING:''' CHARACTERS PORTRAYED IN THIS WEB ANIMATION SERIES FREQUENTLY ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED IMMORAL, ILLEGAL, DANGEROUS, AND IN SOME CASES, PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. ATTEMPTING TO EMULATE THEIR BEHAVIOR CAN AND WILL RESULT IN TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: EXPULSION FROM SCHOOL, TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT, CIVIL LITIGATION AND/OR CRIMINAL CHARGES, INCARCERATION, SERIOUS INJURY, DEATH, AND QUITE POSSIBLY ETERNAL DAMNATION. IN SHORT: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, YOU DIPSHIT. * This troper has his own version of this. "don't try this at home, even I'm not that stupid why do you think I'm doing it here" usually before doing some crazy and very dangerous stunt (including swinging over a 50ft drop on an old rope, jumping into a flooded river to save someone's dog, and rappelling down the side of a cliff with a makeshift rig, among other things) ---...and that's how you get back to [[{{ptitle82m7tjc5w1a7}} the main page]]. Don't try this at home!

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ptitle8px80d2wm3pd RealLife examples MADE EPIC. ---* Anything. To [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anw6b4Eo6ww This song!]] ** [[FlatWhat What.]]

* This troper is reading this page....[++ WHILE LISTENING TO DragonForce! ++] * This troper just wrote a personal narrative about riding the subway. Not just riding the subway, though. Riding the subway with fear of death. * From [[Tropers.ReikoKazama this troper]]: Browsing the web? Meh. Browsing the web while listening to your very own radio program? [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=] * This troper just walked up the stairs to her room backwards while talking to her mum about some painter working on our house. * Running laps around the track? Boring. Running laps around the track while listening to "In a House, In a Heart Beat" from 28 Days Later and pretending to be chased by rage zombies? Now that's awesome! * This troper's HS's football team was playing one of the best in the division, we had a bit of {{TheCaseyEffect}} happen, the Freshman team crushed, the JV team tied, and the Varsity team one by a very close number. I was on the Freshman team, and after the game was over, I did a kneeslide into the endzone. It hurt. A lot. * This troper was doing homework, waiting for her study group/Nakama to show up. My windows media player was on and Evanescence ''Whisper'' was playing pretty loudly. Also, for some reason, whenever I would finish a page of math problems, I would toss it aside really dramatically. Homework's not awesome? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Sez who?]] * Walk down the street, loudly playing the theme song from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAa5rP64YbQ Shaft]]. Ya damn right it's awesome. * All these examples below are boring... or at least, they WERE, but now I'm reading it in Gilbert Gottfried's voice! FAN-TASTIC! * This troper was on vacation in South Carolina years ago when, while at a pizza joint, he saw the waiter cleaning the tables. He was ridiculously fast and often jumped over stuff and swiped plates off the table unusually fast to get the table sufficiently spic and span for the next customer(s) to eat there, it went by in such a ridiculously speedy-yet-efficient manner that it fell into NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer territory. * This troper makes mundane tasks such as riding the bus, taking a walk, or doing homework feel epic by doing it to the tune of a [=DragonForce=] song. ** This troper has yet to find anything that cannot be made [[ThemeMusicPowerUp more]] [[ThePowerOfRock epic]] with the addition of [=DragonForce=]. ** Or ''Explosions in the Sky'', in fact any modern post-rock. ** This troper does the same, but to Hall of the Mountain King, as done by Apocalyptica, not to mention a lot of movie themes, especially the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks. Try the end theme from the first movie, and Everything, right down to doing the dishes, becomes a high seas swashbucklin' adventure! ** Ironing? Tedious. Ironing ''to Phantom of the Opera?'' '''Awesome.''' Just loop the bit with the organ. ** Along with those two, the "Raiders March" from ''IndianaJones'' makes everything more exciting; "Princess Leia's Theme" from

''StarWars'', "Rose's Theme," and "Martha's Theme" (both from ''Series/DoctorWho'') make everything more romantic; and "Hedwig's Theme" from ''HarryPotter'' and the opening theme from ''Series/DoctorWho'' make everything more mysterious and magical. ** To borrow from [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]], walking home from school; mrenh. Walking home from school while playing [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann "Libera me from Hell"]]; mmmMMRENHhhhh! *** Another ''Gurren Lagann' example: [[CrowningMusicOfAwesomeAnime "Omae no XXX de Ten wo Tsuke!"]] can make ''anything'' epic. This editor has already tried playing said track while cooking dinner, typing an SMS message on his mobile phone, playing LAN games, washing the dishes, doing the laundry, scrubbing the bathroom floor, walking down the street to buy sliced bread... Almost always, the results are...impressive. ** You can make ''eating toast'' awesome if you play "[[TheLordOfTheRings The Bridge of Khazad-Dum]]" while doing so. ** The "Storming the Halberd" music from [[{{Kirby}} Revenge of Meta Knight]] makes cramming on schoolwork and running to places into an epic race against time. ** Brand New Day plus braiding hair = my weekend dose of epic. Weekdays, I settle for walking with it. Sufficient ThemeMusicPowerUp to deal with the fact that classes start at 8. (In ''college''. What was I ''thinking''?) ** "Tank!" from Cowboy Bebop makes everything awesome. *** "Bad Dog No Biscuit" is a particularly awesome song for running anywhere. ** Walking down a hallway at school or work is normally rather boring. Walking down a hallway while marching along to the Imperial March? AWESOME. *** This troper has developed a way to conceal small computer speaker under, say, a long, black cloak. He is planning on going full on Sith for his next con going, and playing the March as he takes an epic walk. ** Try marching to the bus stop with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnBnU4KA7c this]]. ** Try listening to the Chicago Bulls theme while walking to your final digital electronics exam... "Battle Song" by Ensiferum works just as fine, considering this song is ''very'' Main/HotBlooded, as in, ''Main/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''-Main/HotBlooded. ** [[Main/TwoWordsObviousTrope Two Words]]: L's Theme. *** ''That'', but when on your way to an anime convention... cosplaying as L. ** Driving to work? Yawn. Driving to work blasting ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvC7j8HA7XA The Asteroid Field]]'', or ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KY8bBdVh4 Come in 007, Your Time is Up]]''? EPIC. I'm going to start blaming my speeding tickets on John Williams. *** Try driving to work while listening to "DOGFIGHT" by Move, the opening of ''InitialD'''s second season. *** You mean fourth season, right? "Blazin Beat" is the second season's actual opening. *** This troper listens to a classical radio station on his morning

commute, and has discovered that the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkymTHSbWe0 finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture]] is directly connected to his truck's gas pedal. Seriously, if that opening fanfare doesn't have you breaking a few traffic laws, you are dead inside. **** Good to know this troper isn't alone in doing this. Every time that piece comes on it's like I have Jeremy Clarkson riding shotgun yelling "POOOOOOWEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!" *** This troper once drove to work. In a thunderstorm and hurricaneintense winds. In pitch dark. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8H7nezeGw Playing]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8 these]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DSq-LhOyU songs]] *** Likewise with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJD0wPMqZ5Q Final Countdown]] from ''InitialD''. ** This troper has ''Requiem for a Tower'' on her iPod. After an incident where it came on while she was tying her shoes, she now considers it the only necessary ingredient to up a situation's epic quotient [[UpToEleven to eleven]]. ** An unintentional example, but I was making a peanut-butter sandwich while my sister was listening to [[TouhouProject "Bad Apple"]] In the background. [[ThrowItIn I just went along with it]] and ate it to the beat of the music. I just realized how [[CrazyAwesome bizarrely awesome]] that sounded. ** ''Project Gotham Racing 3'' lets you do this ''in-game'',with its classical playlist. Driving around Shinjuku or London to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0h6H_vcSKc Night on the Bare Mountain]]" or "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFFHaz9GsY Requiem Dies irae]]" is so awesome,it makes up for the times you get bhangra music instead. ** [[@/TheTallOne This Tropette]] would like to administer stern glances to the above tropers who got her hooked on playing EPIC music during mundane tasks. On a related note, I would like to apologize to the residents of St. Paul, Minnesota for marching around their fine city with a dopey grin. * Walking to school? Boring. Walking to school while listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xRCjjiTR7I "Someday the dream will end"]]? Epic. * This troper was trapped in a severe traffic jam with [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth's]] One Winged Angel theme playing. She wasn't sure whether to burst out laughing at how awesome the nonmoving traffic had become or to slump over crying tears of frustration. ** This Troper prepared for a major test by listening to that song minutes before the examination. The results are still pending, but this troper is confident. * Walking [[RebusBubble +]] [[ShadowHearts "Ladder to Heaven"]] [[RebusBubble =]] AWESOMESAUCE * This troper has found that walking somewhere slowly with "battle ignition" from {{Bleach}} playing makes it a very good walk indeed. ** For something a little more recent, try [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYUa6ilRfU8 HOLLOWED]] from the third

soundtrack. It is enough to give anyone their own personal CrowningMusicOfAwesome. On an unrelated note, This Troper owns a replica of [[FanNickname Captain Broken]]'s sword. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome How awesome is that?]] * We would like to point out that reading otherwise boring articles in the most dramatic voice possible will make them incredibly exciting, and is in fact an invaluable study technique. ** Seconded. It's a fact of nature that the human brain remembers things ''associated with '''EMOTION''''' far better than mundane facts it happens to come across. That you can at times manufacture this emotion via act of will speaks to something about... something. Something something. * It was an ordinary dining experience at White Castle until I decided to quote TheTick on the way out of the door. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I do remember it was epic. * You know how you can get custom ringtones, including, say, the theme of some decades-old TV show? You know how you can [[CosPlay dress up]] to go to anime expos such as Sakura-con? You want to know how to combine these separate capabilities into a shining ball of '''''sheer awesome?''''' Dress up as a soldier, and, coincidentally, have [[spoiler:the theme of TheATeam]] as your ringtone. Now be walking down the halls when someone, anyone, decides to phone you. No wonder my friend didn't answer his phone that day.... ** Unlike most of the examples on this page, that actually IS awesome. * This troper occasionally does dramatic poses while making important dice throws in Warhammer 40k. May also be accompanied by [[CallingYourAttacks calling out attacks]] ("Daemon Weapon!" "Armour Save!"). He also has a habit of pulling his wallet out in a dramatic fashion when paying for groceries. ** This Troper thinks that the Troper above is full of win. ** This Troper has something similar. {{Warhammer 40k}} [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs ON ACID]] 'nuff said. ** Daemon weapons do not ALLOW an armor save.*raises eyebrow* * This troper likes to treat whatever comes up on Shuffle Songs as real-life BGM. Sometimes [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic it fits,]] and sometimes the OminousLatinChanting kicks in while he's walking to collect his laundry... ** I do this ''all the time''. * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] finds that the rate and way in which she walks changes depending on the song that appears on her mp3 player (this is merely an observation of herself, and has yet to be officially proven). When ''Checker Knights'' plays, walking home from school suddenly seems a lot more exciting and adventurous. * This troper once convinced a friend to walk behind him with a set of those huge iPod speakers blasting the "Turks Theme" from FFVII on the way to lunch for precisely this effect. Combined with dramatic walk. * Non-musical example: When this troper was a child playing Protect The Pins (think dodgeball but you're not supposed to hit people), she would sometimes get a little odd while guarding her pin, jumping and walking hunched over with her legs bent. She thought she was moving faster, and she certainly ''felt'' cool, but... well, she was strutting and bobbing her head and doing "raptor arms". This ''never''

looks cool. * A key part of this troper's activities. Some notable instances include Ninja Olympics, with events such as the 1 meter dash and the Low Jump. For me the highlight was ''losing'' the final challenge: see who could last the longest against a level 122 Gogeta when playing as a level 8(the lowest level) Hercule on DBZ Budokai Tenka'ichi 2. The kicker was my sister had only played the game ''ONCE''. * This troper was heading to the convenience store across the street from his dorm room. The store usually has music from a local radio station playing over the speakers. On a whim, he dramatically shoved open both of the double doors leading into the store... just as the speakers started playing "Bad to the Bone" at full volume. ** Ya know, this trope is called 'What Do You Mean It's ''Not'' Awesome'. I believe this comes under the definition of actually really friggin' awesome. * This troper, when approaching an automatic door, likes to make a dramatic sweeping gesture and pretend the door is opening in response to her psychic command. ** Unfortunately, this backfires when the power is out. You feel rather non-epic when it doesn't happen and your friends are watching. ** I thought I was all alone in this world! ** This troper does the exact same thing, only he pretends it's the force at work. It's an awesome feeling. ** It's so much fun to pretend you're Force Pushing them open,isn't it? *** This troper does as well, using the sort of casual hand gesture/wave that should be accompanied by the words "These are not the droids you're looking for". Meanwhile, this troper's friend, after watching Airplane II, spent years going "shhhhhsh" at automatic doors to make them open, ''a la'' the Star Trek parody. ** This troper used to do that sort of thing a lot as a kid, but I stopped when I grew up. Well, mostly. There's still occasional finger snapping, although I haven't quite got the timing down pat yet. ** [[@/{{Comonad}} This troper]] does a similar thing with arriving trains, stopping them with immense psychic effort as they enter the station. ** This troper will point at the door as he approaches (on a related note, he always points with two fingers nowadays), then sweep his arm to the side as it opens. ** This troper started doing that after seeing Magneto do something similar in the XMen movie. ** This troper has done both the door thing and occasionally the train thing, as well making fluorescent lamps work (you know, the kind that usually take a few seconds to light up) by pointing at them. ** This troper is nearly 20 and still likes to pretend she's opening automatic doors with her Jedi powers. Rather embarrassing though when she does it in one of her university's elevators and one of her professors happen to see... ** I've taken to doing this, not with a dramatic gesture, but with the negligent wave of one who possesses such power as to make that a moment's thought. It makes me feel awesome. So now, we just need to find a nice leather BadassLongcoat for my retroactive 18th birthday

present... * This is why this troper and his friends used "The Final Countdown" as their theme when doing a charity walk. ** Relevant: http://bash.org/?377931 ** This troper was at the dollar store the other day when "The Final Countdown" started playing over the intercom. Cue me grabbing a cart and dramatically throwing things into it in slow motion, even though all I had come in for was a box of tissues and some gum. * Try running for a bus - and catching it! - while listening to the Superman theme at full volume some time. This troper has never felt more like a superhero. * This troper is a bit afraid of peoples' crappy bacteria on door handles, and so tries not to touch them. This leads to him kicking open doors with his feet. He likes catching them before they click shut after the previous person went out, just in the nick of time. It makes him feel like such an action hero. ''*blush*'' ** Oh my gosh, I'm not alone. This troper does that all the time-- she feels like such a badass when she kicks open a door, especially at the movies when you can usually hear some sort of symphony swelling in the background. ** This troper has a hilarious story from his youth regarding this way of opening doors. He once [[CrowningMomentOfFunny broke the glass door of his elementary school when he missed the door latch]] and ''didn't get stopped and was never talked to or reprimanded for said action''. Might be a case of [[AdultsAreUseless Adults Are Morons]], but then again this troper was not physically strong enough to do anything worse than a spiderweb crack in the glass. *** A door opening related mix of both CrowningMomentOfAwesome and CrowningMomentOfFunny: This troper's high school doors were all push handle, no turning involved. So, her friend wanted to kick them open which is not unusual in this school. Except it was a door to the outside which had a wipe-your-feet mat that just happened to be sitting on a sand covered floor. When she went to kick the door, her momentum moved the mat and landed her flat on her back - with the door still closed. * This troper has a friend whose reaction to cars with particularly loud bass lines coming out of them is to turn the volume all the way up and blast the opening song from LoveHina -- while we may arguably be the least cool people on the planet for doing so, the reactions of those nearby to this utter lack of cool is awe-inspiring. ** Our next trick will involve a yellow moped and FLCL. *** If you manage to do the 'stoppie' whilst "Ride On Shooting Star" plays,please submit your well-earned [[TroperTales/CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]]. ** This troper did this as well, but the song was "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". I swear, I have never two people laugh so hard as the people in the car who forced me to respond with that song. * [[@/{{igordebraga}} This troper]] has created a nasty habit: while doing college works in his computer, he puts a playlist full of JamesBond themes. He also discovered {{Metroid}} music turns walking in the university into an awesome thing (and the boss theme prior to a test turns it into the most scary thing ever).

** Also: while the troper was studying Video Editing, the class divided into groups, each had to make a video. Every group tried to put a unique story, except for one (consisting of this troper's freshmen), which went with "a day of boredom at college". And they turned this into [[http://vimeo.com/11011156 a great production]] because of extensive usage of What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome? (from editing tricks to Rage Against The Machine as the BGM). * At the end of school barbecue in this troper's year, four guys were doing an extremely athletic water fight, ducking, rolling and diving through the air and firing. The best part was when one of them got shot in the chest and collapsed to the ground. His partner shouted out "No" then ripped off the guy's shirt, revealing a waterproof vest and laughing in relief. It was obviously planned but hilarious. * While cooking a sandwich with spatulas (which is this troper's day job), as there were no other customers, this troper said, in as dramatic a voice as possible: "With steel in hand, and a fire in my heart, I will... COOK THIS SANDWHICH!" Then again, considering what [[HotBlooded kind]] [[LargeHam of]] a [[NoIndoorVoice person]] he is... * This troper once made shopping awesome by stealing the robot-arm from a {{WALL-E}} display at his local cinema, and sliding it into his sleeve to replace his arm. He then proceeded to talk like Machine Man/Aaron Stack of Nextwave for the rest of the trip. Suddenly buying groceries became amusing, and it was interesting to see how many people played along. * Here's one this troper liked: one of his friends had busted his knee (old basketball injury) and had to use a cane. It took this troper and his other friends a while to think of it, but when we left the restaurant where we'd just eaten dinner, an iPod cranked up to high, a pair of Bose headphones, and some nice beatboxing skills made it possible for {{House}} to walk out of that shopping mall. * At one point after having taken a shower, I was using a red towel. I shrugged, put it on me like a cape, pointed upwards and shouted "[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann I am Kamina of the Gurren Lagann!]]" ** Win for idea, fail for implementation. *** What ''should'' I have done, [[Main/RefugeInAudacity leapt out of the window wearing only the towel]] [[Main/CoolShades and a pair of sunglasses]] [[Main/IncendiaryExponent whilst on fire?]] *** Yes. * This troper had to watch a short film on frog reproduction the other day. Boring? Not when the background music is Stravinsky's ''Rite of Spring.'' Even better, this troper's brain got straight to work juxtaposing the frogs with [[{{Fantasia}} erupting volcanoes and dinosaurs killing each other.]] ** In my non-third-person opinion, anything's epic when accompanied by the Infernal Dance of King Kashchei from Stravinsky's Firebird suite. Writing, sharpening pencils, making a sandwich, writing this example, and ESPECIALLY FIDDLING WITH A CALCULATOR. So wow, what other Stravinsky works make anything awe-inspiring? * Me and my friend were using these boards on wheels. (Like skateboards, but with rotating wheels.) We were swordfighting on them. He sent me spinning, and I stuck out my sword. At the same time, a

thunderstorm started. He got hit hard, and went spinning into the grass while it was raining, and lightning struck a pond behind him at the same time he hit the grass. Epic defeat in the rain, thunderstorming even. Movie-like dramatic. Oh, and I had just reached the heavy metal part of Bohemian Rhapsody on my MP3. Which only made it that much more awesome. * This troper starred in a play/performance art piece that combined the King Arthur legend and David Bowie lyrics. * It can be really, really fun to tell people that "[[AvatarTheLastAirbender I'm going to spend my vacation AT THE LIBRARY!]]" Sadly, few of them understand it. * This troper once did his chemistry homework to ''O Fortuna'' at nearly full volume. Epicality. * Listening to the song Handlebars while doing anything is awesome. At first I start out by doing everything neatly and lovingly, and when it gets to the part where one friend becomes an evil dictator, I start doing things quickly, precisely, and with force... and then at the very end I fix all my mistakes to the final repeat of the opening verse. Yes, it's creepy, but it's also cool (Or at least I think). * [[@/{{Pinkbaron}} This troper]] writes all of her poetry to {{Rush}}. ** Another example in my life: Baking Christmas cookies? Meh. Baking Christmas cookies to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"? HELL YEAH. ** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Libera Me From Hell]] + [[BestLevelEver Rainbow Road]] = FUCK YEAH. * This Troper has been playing ''{{Kirby}} 64: The Crystal Shards'' recently. Whenever you have the song that plays when Kirby [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPDGVKO3OYc picks up a lollipop]] (which grants invincibility) stuck in your head, ''everything'' is awesome, including biology homework. * This has a tendency to happen during rainy seasons. [[@/{{althechi}} This troper]] was in a talkative class when the teacher yelled: '''"QUIET!!!''', immediately followed by a very loud crack of thunder. The class promptly shut up. * Today I went to a professor's inaugural lecture on Pore modelling. He came in wearing a full anti-biological agent environmental suit and gas mask to ''I like the way you move.'' I almost expected dry ice. * This troper has discovered that SSBB's version of the Love theme from [[MetalGearSolid MGS4]] makes algebra homework INTENSELY awesome. ** Similar, every phone call becomes a matter of national security when your ringtone is set to the Codec beep. For added epic win, be sure to dash to a semi-hidden spot and crouch down Snake-style before taking the call. ** ''LINK. TO DOWNLOAD. NOW.'' * This troper and his mate were joking about saying if we got hot looking clothes and girlfriends then all there would be left to do is strut. Then before I could suggest it my mate said of course we'd need some funky background music and I said to him "You know that would be awesome". * Before giving speeches in front of his classmates, this troper likes to listen to "The Touch" from Transformers (the animated movie) soundtrack. It really helps.

** 'Course it does! ''Dare'' is also good if you're running to catch a bus. * This conversation this troper had with a friend: -->me: they should make an action movie about laundry. -->friend: laundry + ride of the valkyries/danse macabre/in the hall of the mountain king/etc... -->me: ride of the valkyries. *nods* I'M FOLDING MY T-SHIIIRT FOLDING MY T-SHIIRT FOLDING MY T--SHIIIIRT FOLDING ALL DAYYYYYYYYYYYYY * This troper's group of friends is playing through EternalDarkness , and he always reads the onscreen text as Sean Connery. (Or sometimes a stereotypical movie announcer.) ** I'll do something similar for pretty much anything I want to mock; I'll read it in the Full-Life Consequences voice. * Running for a bus is ALWAYS better with "Wheel of Fortune" from the second PiratesOfTheCaribbean film. ** It would probably devolve into a [[CrowningMomentofFunny CMOF]] if you did Jack's "lizard run" while doing it. * [[@/JethroQWalrustitty This Troper]] was doing his [[NonActionGuy Civillain Service]] at a kindegarden, washing laundry. Can be made epic. Folding towels to Rage Against The Machine, treating ironing like a martial art, and copious amounts of coffee. INTENSE. * Whenever this troper pulls out his wallet, his mobile phone or just a pencil out of his pocket, he can't resist making a big show out of it. Even reaching for pocket change can be made of epic win! * When this troper's browser froze, she reloaded it and restored the pages, and first on her Rhapsody playlist was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afz0k75wusE Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso #1 movement 1]]. The piece began playing and the browser began downloading an update. Watching the download bar fill was made epic. * Come on, does noone else [[DeathNote eat chips epically]]? ** On a similar note, using utensils in the same manner as L for this Troper just feels ''so'' right. * This Troper once received a text message in the instant she finished a rather difficult exam (and had obviously forgotten to turn the thing off). My SMS ringtone happens to be the Victory Fanfare from Final Fantasy. ** The same thing happened to me when I finally threw down a winning hand in a card game. ** I once got a text when I opened a piece of mail. My SMS tone is the "open treasure" sound from Twilight Princess. SMS used to be awesome all the time when my phone chimed "Message for you, sir." * Doing bills, balancing your checkbook, and trying to figure out how to live on a limited budget? Boring. Doing bills, balancing your checkbook, and trying to figure out how to live on a limited budget while belting out Bon Jovi's "Living On a Prayer?" Epic Troper Maneuver! * I listen to music on my Osu! beatmap list during some stuff, yet I never seem to get any songs that make stuff epic so much as wonder why I haven't deleted the I Love Egg song yet. Though lately I've just used it [[HeadPhonesEqualIsolation to just drone out people who are incapable of comprehending the concept of shutting the fuck up.]] * This Troper was surprised when L-Block won the character battle on

GameFAQS. I mean, usually its Link or Mario or some other high-tier character. The very idea of a piece from a universally-beloved game called Tetris winning is amazing! But then again, some angry fan boys and girls said "But L-Block is not a character, it is a ''L block!!''". Poor chaps, they have never let the small guy win the big boy's battle in this troper's opinion. Facists! * Boulevard of Broken Dreams works when you're walking anywhere, really. Alone, of course. * This troper has been known to sing "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from ''Mulan'' to herself at work, in order to mentally prepare for ... upcoming one-day sales. * This troper and his friend did steal a crate of beer. Yeah yeah, i know, morally dubious. As we entered the room of this trooper the Media Player played ... the theme of Indiana Jones. We laughed our asses off. * Picture the situation: a group of people playing a card game as a teamwork exercise. It's one of those games were the aim was to get rid of all the cards in your hand, and there were different kinds of cards and combinations. Most of the people were fairly enthusiastic whenever they got/used a combo. ''This one'', on the other hand, went completely over the top, complete with [[CallingYourAttacks calling the cards used]] and ''HotBlooded yelling''. * The very second this troper finished a piece of ''{{Portal}}'' fanart, the song "Still Alive" started playing on his iPod. * This troper found cleaning, cooking and other such activities incredibly boring, if useful. And then he figured he'd awesomize it up a little. Now he cleans his room while brandishing the mop like a sword, [[CallingYourAttacks calling his attacks]] and {{Flynning}} to an epic soundtrack of [[OminousLatinChanting kickass music]]. He has vowed to start doing other things in a similar manner. * There's a hallway in this troper's house that's lined with very reflective glass doors. This troper is physically incapable of walking the entire length of that hallway without [[JamesBond turning towards my reflection and shooting an imaginary gun]]. Sometimes if there's nobody else home, I'll even put the music on. * This troper just made dinner while playing Take The Wave- aka the Golgo 13 opening theme. Twas most awesome. * Do everything while listening to [[HeavyMithril Metal]], and you'll get the following epic moments... ** Winning a final battle in Zelda as soon as an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome song ends]]. ** Epic symphonic parts emphasize [[CrowningMomentOfSadness sadness]]. ** Poppy/hooky metal for [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Brothers]]. Kirby vs. Jigglypuff = Time to put on Bend It Like Bender! ** Brutal Death Metal while reading about gene therapy? [[SureWhyNot Sure, why not?]] ** Stopping your morning routine to headbang or make screaming faces. ** [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] or [[SpeedMetal Speed]] Metal while playing racing games is what those genres were [[WhatdoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic MADE]] for. ** [[BlackMetal Black Metal]] while walking through snow? You better pack your Epic Pants.

** Metalcore is a one-size-fits-all. * This troper went somewhere with swinging double doors. When she left, she pushed them both dramatically open at the same time and [[UnflinchingWalk strode]] across the parking lot. Next time she goes, she's wearing her BadassLongcoat. * While this troper was eating sandwich, he looked at the clock and found out it was 20:52 (for those who don't know, 8:52 is widely considered the "hour of awesome" by some Gurren-Lagann fans). He then picked up the yogurt that was lying next to him and ''ate it along with the sandwich''. This troper have never felt such a badass before. * At ATM's from time to time this troper will raise his debit card towards his face with the magnetic strip facing out then dramatically turn it around to show the numbers on the front of the card before quickly slashing it through the magnetic reader. At least once he has been known to yell "CARD SLASH" while swiping it. * [[@/SapphireFlame This troper]] has, at some point: ** Plugged in various objects in the style of Megaman NT warrior ** Swiped cards through [=ATMs=] in a needlessly dramatic fashion ** Played games of chess in a manner dramatic enough to make Yu-Gi-Oh look like they aren't trying hard enough. ** Ran on a treadmill to [[SonicTheHedgehog His World]] ** Played ''Pokemon'' to Metallica ** Browsed the web and programmed in MUGEN to both the TengenToppaGurrenLagann soundtrack and Dragonforce. ** And recently, I've gotten in the habit of doing math homework while listening to the TengenToppaGurrenLagann soundtrack. It turns a necessary evil into an EPIC battle of wits. *** Running on a treadmill to Sonic? Ye gods, man, are you mad? * When he needs a bit of luck while playing cards, this troper prefers to draw the top card of a deck Yu-Gi-Oh style: grab the card, fling your arm out away from your body, flip the card, and slowly bring it back to your hand. If it works, expect the additional "I play...the Ace of Spades!!" complete with dramatic throwdown. * This troper can't bring a (non-disposable) plastic cup to the kitchen without throwing it upwards and catching it like a bartender. ** This Troper does the same thing. He also gives it spin, and switches hands frequently. If nothing else, he's got a hell of a lot of showmanship. * This troper does several. ** Making drinks as fast as he possibly can even though he knows it doesn't actually look cool. ** Mentally playing random songs while walking ANYWHERE. (I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM... TO "ONE WINGED ANGEL") ** Saying random words in dramatic ways. *** The best one was when he needed to grab something for a friend because their hands were full. Rather than pick up the thing and continue normally I went- "GO MEGAMAN SUPER AAARM!!" and lifted the thing in one hand. IT WAS FUCKING EPIC. Runner up is screaming "SANDWICH" at the top of my voice in the middle of a huge crowd of people because I had eated one. ** His friend has an MP3 which he is allowed to bring into school. Commence headbanging revision.

** His other friend also has an MP3. He listens to it all the time unless the teacher says otherwise. Random headbanging is now a measurement of time. Especially funny during art, which currently consists of sticking bits of maps on paper to get art. * This Troper just clicked on the link to [=TTs=] of CrowningMomentOfAwesome while listening to iPod on shuffle. Immediately, O Fortuna started playing. * This troper just ate a cheeseburger. ''During a storm''. Eating while the window flashes and thunders scream at you is nothing short of awesome. * I browse the internet to the theme from the Miracle Matter fight from Kirby 64 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATYvOCQSr8&feature=related) * Everything gets cooler if you do it while wearing a BadassLongcoat. * Whenever it storms, [[@/JesseCS this troper]] stands on the balcony of his apartment, stares into the distance, and whistles nursery rhymes all ominous like. * This troper lives this trope. Everything must be treated as if it's 1) A life or Death situation, 2) a musical, or 3) the most tragic thing in the universe. I'm sorry to those I annoy but if I'm gonna live life...I'M GONNA LIVE IT IN AWESOME MODE! Even talking to my self must be loud and with music based on the subject. You should see me cook eggs, truely epic and deep...one mistake could mean the end of the world. (I would play music, but I haven't been able to find the right song yet....) ** Congratulations. You've just given me my new life philosophy. ** And I as well. * I have a series of excercise videos, where the logo scene has this loud, booming "woosh" sound. I repeat, those are exercise videos, that use relaxing music in the actual workouts. * This troper invokes this trope regularly. Such as gasping at inappropriate times, saying something completely mundane as something EARTH-SHATTERING, or adding "THAT BASTARD!" to the end of someone else's sentence. Yes, even when it doesn't make sense. Life is more fun that way. * At one point, I was listening to ''Knights of Cydonia'' while browsing TV Tropes. I came across the page on Main/HeavySleeper when it was a gif of a girl being shaken (to no effect), and it looked like she was headbanging to the music. Awesomesauce. * This troper listens to his digital audio player while working. Once, I had just finished up with everything that I needed to do. Almost right on cue, the credits music to ''[[MegaMan Mega Man 5]]'' started playing. I couldn't help but to smile. * [[@/{{Magus}} This troper]] enjoys EPIC SCRABBLE PLAYING. He'll hold a scrabble tile in midair and slam it down onto a normal word, usually incanting Nightwish's ''Ghost Love Score''. * [[@/{{pagad}} This troper]] regularly does Tesco shopping with epic guitar solos howling in his ears. * This troper pulled out a 12 page paper out of her ass the night before it was due (not surprising, she's a procrastinator), and went off to print it. On the way to printer, her iPod's shuffle cued up "We Are the Champions." Cue rocking out back to the dorms at six in the

morning. * This Troper says "damn you! Damn you all to hell!" very easily, for example when his friend mentions a slight annoyance. It's ''GratuitousEnglish'' though, as I'm not native English speaker. * Xtreme Laundry Folding! This troper got a pair of SAP gloves and wore them out for a day to stretch the leather and break them in. If you don't know, that's leather gloves weighted with steel shot in the fingers, and can punch through concrete. Everything you do with them on will work out your wrists to shoulders, and this troper has found it difficult ''not'' to make whiplashing sound effects with every movement. Xtreme sock sorting, woh-paw! * Doing any every day task to the tune of "You're the Best Around", the song from Karate Kid, makes it UNSPEAKABLY AWESOME. * As of May 2009, this troper thinks that [[CueTheFlyingPigs flying pigs]] [[TheVirus with swine flu]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome flying to the sound of ]] [[OminousLatinChanting Mozart or Verdi's rendition]] [[StandardSnippet of Dies Irae]] would be extremely awesome. The awesomeness meter would be somewhere [[MemeticMutation OVER 9000]] only if they were [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]] like the war pigs used by the Ancient Romans. * There's a variety of ways I like to open door, both that I'm about to explain, and both I'm not quite sure how to explain. The first only works when the door is opened by pushing it, I first stop when I get near the door, then lunge forward with an open palm and push it open, and while I don't actually shout it, I do sometimes imagine myself shouting "SHINING FINGER!" when doing it. The second only works if the door is opened by pulling it, I start with opening the door quickly, then slow down the opening and slowly slide on my feet to get out of the way of the door, sometimes imagining wind flowing through my hair while doing so. * This troper can make playing nearly any song ridiculously epic thanks to her Yamaha keyboard and its [[OminousPipeOrgan "Church Organ"]] voice setting. * This troper has several of them that are unintentional: ** While I was trying out for a long jump event, the stadium speakers started playing some heavy techno beats with drums in them the moment I started my run. My friends claim that it was a truly epic moment to behold. I claim that I could have made the try-out if it hadn't messed with my timing. ** That same day I was also trying out for the 100m dash. I tried to make for a final burst of speed 5m away from the finish. I failed, tripped over and ended up in 4th place causing two people behind me to trip on my leg. What was the epic part? The physic teachers watching congratulated me for getting the momentum right for a last second forward roll I didn't even realise I was doing when I crashed. ** A few years ago I also somehow tripped on set of steps going down while running to my registration class with a heavy backpack on me. There was an assembly that morning so all those people heading to the auditorium saw me fly about 5 meters away from where I tripped before I hit the ground. I think the fact that I immediately got back up after landing contributed to the Superman nickname I was known by for the next month.

** Ever had done a "sleeper" combined with a "dog bite" with a yo-yo? I've only managed that once and me and my friends regret not whipping out our phones to record my yo-yo spinning while clinging onto the crotch region of a good friend of ours who's a magnet for groin attacks for a full ten seconds. ** Not my own but several of my friends claim that my best friend did a successful rain dance and almost killed one of them with lightning when he did a move that looked like he was diving under in a pool. I am convinced that his rain dance abilities are real but I have yet to see him cause a lightning bolt to strike nearby whenever he does that move. * Nightwish or Sonata Arctica can make things like walking home from the bus stop, riding in a car, editing Troper Tales, and, hell, going to sleep epic. "Well, the bus isn't here, guess I'll walk home... TO GHOST LOVE SCORE AND FULLMOON!!!!" * [[@/ARandomSerf This troper]] was pitching some softballs to a friend during warm-up before a game between two math classes, and somebody had music playing in the background. The batter had been rather erratic in his form so far. After a couple of minutes, I noticed that the BGM was the conclusion to the 1812 Overture, and it hadn't quite reached the [[VForVendetta blowing-up-Parliament]] finish, so I held off my next toss until a second or two before that first great downbeat. I tossed, he swung, and he connected with perfect musical timing to launch the ball into the stratosphere. * After months of working on a portfolio to get into a highly rated private art school (focusing in comics, no less!), I became very nervous on the day of my application interview. I had 10 minutes before I had to arrive, so I sat in a nearby park, listening to music and trying to calm down. The second I stood up and brushed off my clothes to begin my walk to the interview, "I'm Shipping out to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys started playing. It was AWESOME. Also, I was accepted into the school. ** Congrats! * Traveling through Moscow while listening to the BattlestarGalactica soundtrack has yielded some pretty cool results. For example, I was waiting for a subway train and, just as the train pulled into the station, "Colonial Anthem" (the old BSG fanfare) began playing on my iPod. It almost felt like the train was coming just for me. The taiko drums on the battle cues are very good for trying to cross a 16-lane boulevard. But the most awesome was when I was riding up an escalator into [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KomsomolskayaKoltsevaya_2007.jpg Komsomolskaya metro station]] to the tune of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tII1DSHPU80 "The Shape of Things to Come"]]. Try clicking on the links and listening to the music as you see the station. I half expected Number Six to show up at my shoulder. * [[@/{{this-guy}} I]] slide across the floor [[{{Seinfeld}} Kramerstyle]]. * This troper likes to play "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" while she makes breakfast. ** For this troper, it's "That's the Way (I Like It)" by KC & the Sunshine Band. Cereal has never been funkier. * Any of you ever open a combo lock with {{Stargate}} noises? It's

exactly as awesome as it sounds. * This severely arachnophobic troper has found that it's a lot easier for her to kill spiders with an epic soundtrack. Thanks, TV Tropes! * This troper just took a bathroom break with the ''{{Halo}}'' theme playing on loud. It's... kinda [[{{Narm}} silly]]. ** This Troper used the bathroom to the Trololo song It's the most epic thing ever. * This troper owns a plastic bag labeled "Spider Relocation Chamber". Before using it, he says "Prepare to be relocated!" As dramatically as he can. He is considering changing to to "Fear not. For I wield the Spider Relocation Chamber." Unfortunately, he has trouble saying it well. * In high school, this troper had friends over all night for new years: they were showing a fireworks display on TV set to "O Fortuna", which led to one person filming as everyone else tried to make drinking soda or eating nachos or pretzel sticks seem as awesome as possible (no [[DeathNote potato chips]] were involved, sadly). Oh, and I'm thinking of putting together a playlist for my ipod consisting of nothing but CrowningMusicOfAwesome, just to see if I can make commuting feel more epic. ** This troper has done that and it IS awesome. * This troper's science teacher loved this trope. In the begining of the year he taught the class how to light a bunsen burner with "O Fortuna" playing in the back ground. * This troper was heading out for groceries and brought his mp3 player along. Just as I walked out of the front door, the first chorus from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZH3mT82vU Team Dai-Gurren's theme]] started. I felt like I'd just single-handedly saved the world by opening that one door. * [[@/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] and his friends play epic music whenever we get stuck in traffic. It makes the traffic jams awesome. ** Recently, this troper was also taking a walk while listening to Nightwish when he stopped at the bathroom. It was the ''most epic piss EVER''. * This troper was recently coming back from a school trip on the school bus when her and her friends (along with some people she didn't even know) started singing/screaming Bohemian Rhapsody and Don't Stop Believing. In short, it was epic. * @/{{Excel-2009}}. In Public Speaking class, one of the group assignments was an award acceptance speech. Our group decided on an award for "Super Bagger" at Ukrops. Apparently I set the record of speed bagging at 0.16 sec/item bagged from counter to bag, breaking the previous record of 0.23 sec/item. I made it a point to thank the class (common consumers), the lifeblood of the grocery market industry, for allowing me to contribute to the stability of the local economy. * This troper is actually gearing up for this, on the grounds that one of his finals (For a class on detective fiction) will likely involve a mystery. He's still trying to figure out how to get a properly epic theme to play over the classrooms speakers. * This troper usually has to use a cane to walk due to leg cramping. After finding out you could get a [[HouseMD certain doctor's flame

cane]] via the internet, and having a tendency to use said cane at hand for things such as opening mechanical doors and whatnot by waving the cane at it...twenty dollars well spent, I'd say. * This Troper was once stuck at a traffic stop because of a lot of cars zooming around her. The music playing? Bohemian Rhapsody, right at the 'let me go' part. * Once in my school cafeteria, I slipped forward because there was no 'warning wet floor' sign. My plate was full of food. Somehow, I managed to land on one knee with my plate thrust foward, not spilling anything. Once I realized that my face didn't meet the tile ground and my body wasn't pierced with ceramic shards and pasta, I felt AWESOME. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] was listening to his custom mix of music while playing [[BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]] on his 360 one day; trying to beat [[FinalBoss Gruntilda]]. During the first few phases of the fight, ''[[IronMaiden Be Quick or Be Dead]]'' played in the background, while ''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Libra Me From Hell]]'' started played as the final phase began (The one I was having some problems beating quick enough). It just took an already cool fight, if mostly easy, and pushed it on into being incredibly epic. * 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/SoundtrackDissonance . ** Mom always wanted to do that - have a loud stereo so she could blast Pavarotti singing Puccini when a "boom car" came up beside her at a stoplight. I personally would have kept Verdi's ''Requiem'' on tap, but that's just me... * [[@/CorporealWolf This Troper]], upon being asked whether or not he wanted some juice by someone behind, turned around, slowly of course, waited a second, then answered. ''"Yes, I do want juice."'' In the most epic voice possible. It was awesome, and I didn't even intend to invoke the trope. When asked which cup I wanted though... * This troper was once playing with her remote controlled fighter jet while blasting "Highway to the Danger Zone" and other songs from the Top Gun soundtrack on her speakers. It was awesome. * I have found listening to music doing work helps block things out. So in order to focus during a final I played Kamen Rider themes in my head and am very optimistic about my final score(the others, not so much). * This troper was once playing Yu-Gi-Oh with his brother. He has a card in his deck, "Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast", that is a Machine-archetype card. Whenever we duel in our den, we put our computer on Youtube and take turns playing songs. I put on the revamped theme to Terminator Salvation, without knowing when Fusilier Dragon would be the card I drew. I drew it and got a smile on my face, a plan already forming in my mind. A few seconds before the end of the song, I took the two monsters I had on the field off. Then, came the drumbeats. The sequence came kind of like this: ---> '''Music''': Dundundun DUNDUN. *This troper grabs card* Dundundun

DUNDUN *this troper holds card in the air, as if about to play an Egyptian God* Dundundun DUNDUN *flips the card around so my brother can see it* DUNDUNDUN DUNDUN! *plays card* * This troper feels awesome doing ANYTHING humming, no, not a power ballad, Don't Stop me Now, by Queen. Don't you look at me like that! ** I agree with you, but try the guitar part of Paranoid by Black Sabbath instead sometime. * This troper uses his iPod as his personal alarm clock, making the first day of school/college/work EPIC AS HELL!!! imagine listening to any song saying "here we go again!". Also, imagine yourself lifting weights while listening to Invinsible by pat benatar... * This troper's found two different ones. Walking home without his Ipod from his high school? Quiet and normally somewhat boring. Walking home while listening to songs like "One Winged Angel" and the Indiana Jones theme, with his feet perfectly in time with the tempo? AWESOME. * This troper is in the process of creating a playlist of epic music for his Ipod. * I recently wrote and performed in a short skit for spanish class. Said skit contains the following: the class [[MemeticMutation meme]] of "Planchar el gato"(to iron the cat), a BrickJoke of said meme, and signs for me to hold up saying things like "WhatAnIdiot" in spanish. this was more or less the teacher's reaction... * My first RPG session. Deadland Reloaded. The character? Helen 'OneEyed Damnation' Hatrap. My Sisters? Issac Emerson. What happens. My sister steals my characters good booze. Rolls to get drunk. Is drunk. I'm shooting magical knife like playing cards at zombies and totally owning. My sister stumbles around drunk, shooting and occasionly hitting a zombie. My last finishing move? Punching through a zombies skull and ripping it's brains out. HELL YEAH! *** Marry Me? * This troper typed on his keyboard to the beat of Another Brick In The Wall Part 2. Can that be considered What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome? * [[@/TheTallOne I]] was playing Portal and [[strike: listening]] rocking out to Pink, when "Please Don't Leave Me" came up. It was so awesome, my mind was nearly blown. And if you don't believe me, listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-XLvUpvjZo this]] and tell me it doesn't seem like something GLaDOS would sing/say to Chelle. * This Troper's residence hall has a hall cup, and houses can challenge each other over ownership. This troper helped her house successfully win it for the first time in history. Through the most epic, energetic, adrenaline-filled Rock Paper Scissors battle ever. * Listening to any sort of epic music while you are walking. It doesn't matter when or where, you will immediately PowerWalk. I frequently employ this for self-motivation. * This troper makes studying EPIC by adding [[GratuitousForeignLanguage GratuitousLatin]]. It also means only people who read Latin can copy from her notes, but... * [[@/ABadDriver This Troper]] plays [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei RINGO]] [[ThisIsSPARTA MOGIRE]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCEZMyTMaiw BEAAAAM]] whenever he uses the computer to type a five page assignment.

* As part of an astronomy project, I had to create a computer program that would create a simulated galaxy, and calculate velocities and masses of all of the stars. When we were done, I asked my teacher "Is it finished? Can I create a galaxy?" "Yes" "(Runs the program, stands on the table with arms outspread) A GOD AM I!" * This troper has a playlist of epic songs just for making epic entries on classrooms and the like. Some of the songs aren't even epic (yeah, troper happily marches to the MemeticMutation Ievan Polkka), but it's impossible to walk normally when you're wearing your coolest outfit in the most important avenue of a global city. * [[@/ARandomserf This troper]] had to make an advertisement for his university seminar class. The result? Espousing framed quotations and pithiness to the strains of [[ConanTheBarbarian Riders]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Of]] [[OminousLatinChanting Doom.]] * [[@/LongLiveHumour This troper]]'s route home from flute lessons takes her past a park where the town band practices. Picture a downhill slope lit up by a spectacular sunset, pre-medieaval walls and dramatic procession music, and you've pretty much got it. Never has walking been so ''epic''. * [[DeathNote This is great]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTw2eHt5dY study music...]] * [[Tropers/DialgaX This Troper]]'s friend had this to say about trailer music. ---> '''Friend:''' Audiomachine, Immediate Music and Two Steps From Hell produce music that is so [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] it makes taking a dump epic. * [[@/{{Gorank}} This troper]] just removed some malware from his computer-while playing [[KirbySuperStar Marx's theme]]. I even played the victory music when I finished! * Eating pancakes to the JAM Project cover of Okkusenman, That is all. * In a bizarre coincidence, I opened up the main TVTropes page for TheMatrix...and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtoIBrBAYE Navras]] started playing on my iPod in its speaker. I feel BadAss. * This Troper once brushes his teeth and ate potato chips to the tune of Low of Solipsism (aka. OminousLatinChanting) from Death Note, because he was inspired by the internet meme. He also wrote and finished essays and in this tune. The next time, he brought his school materials while imagining that the camera was doing it in slow-mo with angle shots. He also cleaned the house, washed the dishes, took a bath, etc. while uttering these words: "[[{{Warhammer 40000}} WAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!]]" He was generally lazy at house chores, but that was the most epic house-cleaning that he has ever done before....... * Put Led Zeppelin's ''Kashmir'' in this troper's ears, and the whole world suddenly becomes a much more epic place. * C programming to metal music (especialy to Apocalyptica or Therion) is this to [[{{Tropers/Herczy}} this troper]]. It makes you wonder why techno is associated with IT. * This Troper just finished the first step in an evil plan that will let him keep a library book a bit longer than you're allowed to without getting found out by the librarians. He did so while playing bombastic music from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at

full volume. * This Troper just finished his summer assignment on the 31st of August at the dead of midnight. To Medal of Honor music, specifically, the Tiger Tank theme from Allied Assault. It worked, gloriously. * This Troper had to write her English assignment about the best day of her life. She wrote about when she completed {{Super Mario Galaxy 2}}, with plenty of {{Purple Prose}} and embellishments to make it seem as though I really did save the galaxies. I hope my teacher likes it. * This troper was testing out a Chaos Lord I'd recently painted by having him fight a unit of dwarf warriors. He slew a whole rank of them and ran them down...to "Supermassive Black Hole", which I'd forgotton was on the CD (putting it on random also helped). Cue me feeling awesome for a few minutes and mentally picturing it in time to the song (which I put on repeat purely for that). To this day, although I've not used the Lord for a while, I can still remember that moment as if it was yesterday. Also, for those of you who know Ralph McTell, try singing "Streets of London" and have EVERYONE join in with the chorus. [[TearJerker You will be moved to tears]]. I had to fight not to cry the first time I did this at a folk club, although it is not particularly surprising when you consider I was born in London and don't have many friends. * In this play I took part in, i was suppose to be a Mook that turned into one of the main heroes. To get the feel, me and my opponent fought each other with rubber swords(which was basically a stick with rubber wrapped around them). We fought furiously; I even jumped off the wall. When it was my cue to win, my opponet tried to jump on me(he was jumping off a table; it was suppose to be a rock). I had to think of some flashy way to defeat him, so I tossed my sword air into the air, and dodged. When he landed, I grabbed by sword, and "Beheaded" him. Seconds pass. Then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7tbddRS8lQ This played.]] What do you mean It's not awesome? * Doing anything to [[Series/DoctorWho Eleven's]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme.]] *** I once had it stuck in my head during an hour-long chemistry lecture. It was the most epic explanation of how to calculate the pH of a weak acid ever. ** [[@/{{Pastylover2}} The above troper]] that suggested Eleven's theme, also was writing a sword fighting scene for my book, using [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor Forever]] as BGM. Greatest. Swordfight. Ever. ** Another example thanks to TheBigBangTheory: I know now that anything can be awesome when set to Eye of the Tiger. ''Anything''. * This troper's partner, a lover of vegetables, recently uttered this: "I'm gonna get...some fuckin' KALE!" * I tend to browse the web with music playing, and my hard drive is full of symphonic metal, electronica, and video game soundtracks. There's nothing quite like reading some article on {{Cracked}} about [[{{XKCD}} the 17 Worst Haircuts of the Ottoman Empire]] with [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi The Executioner]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fp8mYC5abE&feature=related Mona Lisa Overdrive]], or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6vC8yeJ4QI the

instrumental version of]] [[{{Nightwish}} Master Passion Greed]] blaring. * This troper would like to submit browsing the internet and eating chips, while listening to Duel of the Fates. * Vacuuming. While singing {{Vocaloid}} songs untranslated and ''sort of hitting the high notes''. * [[Troper/AdelePotter This Tropette]] would like to say: Singing [[TheBigBangTheory Soft Kitty]] with friends? [[SoOkayItsAverage Meh.]] Singing Soft Kitty with friends in harmony? Okay, better. Singing Soft Kitty with friends in harmony, in a round? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What do you mean, it's not awesome?]] * Rock God makes walking awesome. (By Selena Gomez + The Scene) I dance and wiggle and walk with style to that song. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What do you mean, it's not awesome?]] (This also works with Can't Be Tamed by her fellow disney graduating class of 2010, Miley Cyrus) * There's few everyday events that [[{{KennyMan666}} I]] have not treated like this. I'll start rapidly clapping my hands and put on a face of absolute bliss... because the food I had in the oven was done. The grandest example, however, is definitely when I'm playing videogames, as I'll treat most successes with a very exaggerated reaction. I... really get into games. ''Really'' into. * This troper has never felt more epic than when he gets to write QED at the end of a calculus problem. I know I'm not the only one. * Come on, who else has played Timesplitters Future Perfect with their music on...and had Seek and Destroy come up while playing annihalation on the Mars Prison map? PURE. AWESOME. INCARNATE! * This troper was was recently walking home from school with her still-bound umbrella extended and slung over her shoulder, and the pose seemed to suggest that it was a lethal weapon. And I was listening to "Another Brick in the Wall" (part II) while doing so. While walking to the beat. Most badass feeling ever. * This troper took a potato chip...AND ATE IT! * Playing Tetris to a metal version of Korobeinki? ''Awesome.'' * This troper has played Pokemon to {{Death}}. And it was awesome. Moreover, there are a couple songs he realized can make ANYTHING epic. The Beast II from {{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}, Magus' Battle Theme from {{Chrono Trigger}}, and Tank! from {{Cowboy Bebop}} come to mind. Also, he plans on making a short film, entitled "The Hallway", that consists of about ten minutes of him walking up and down a hallway. This will be a {{Deliberately Monochrome}} film, set to "Ride Of The Valkyries", "The Beast II", and "Chariots Of Fire". * [[{{Tropers/Faytann}} This Troper]] has realized that when you write {{Fable}} fanfiction with "The Final Countdown" blasting through your computer speakers, the result is quite a feeling of epic. * Step one: Run three anti-virus scans at one. Step two: Play [[{{Homestuck}} Sburban Jungle]] as background music. Step three: No ???. You profit immediately. * Looking back at her college essays, this troper realized that she had written three different essays about tvtropes.com, penguins, and Dumbledore's Army, respectively. She was accepted to all three colleges.

* Sometimes, Tropers/WaxingName will not be able to think of a word to say in the middle of a sentence. When he does, he screams: "WHAT WORD AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY?" before returning to normal tone of voice. * The boy who sits next to me in Algebra class has recently told me that I hum "One Winged Angel" to myself more than once while we were taking a test. He doesn't mind though. Neither does the teacher. * This troper, for some reason, began humming "Ace Of Spades" in front of a friend. The friend came up with the idea that his brother would probably get some skis, go to a mountain with an electric guitar and a mini-amplifier attached to his back, play a power chord until an avalanche happened and then ski to safety playing "Ace Of Spades" all the way down. My first thought about that? "Holy *beep*, that sounds epic!" ** Similarly, I particuarly like listening to music while playing a computer version of SpaceHulk. My favourite song when I'm stuck on a level is "The Final Countdown" by Europe. * This Troper played Starcraft II and finished the final mission "All In." on Hard Difficulty, while listening to Muse's "Apocalypse Please." The rhythm, setting, and action mixed so perfectly. By the end of the mission, my entire base was destroyed, my last few units were being overwhelmed, and just when my last marine died? The Artifact went NOVA. * Me and my sister were cleaning our room. My sister INSISTED on having some epic music blast whenever she opened the door after getting a broom or whatever. The cleaning took a while. ** Also, we have this teacher. He's OneofUs. We imagine that [[DeathNote he'll take our papers...]]'''[[MemeticMutation AAAND GRAAAAADE THEM!!!]]''' *epic writing motions* * I once posted this on a "Tiny Blog" section of a forum. ** My mom gave me an egg burrito for breakfast. If I did not make myself clear, '''guys I am eating an egg burrito.''' *** I thought it was pretty awesome at the time. * Our high school plays [=DVDs=] from a PS3. FROM A GAME CONSOLE. :D * The things me and a Internet friend get up to in MSN chat, a sort of RP-ish series named "Awesomesauce". It started with someone had stolen our Awesomesauce, and we went to get it back... and it got better from there. Recently, we went on vacation, and suddenly found out {{Cleverbot}} was up to suspicious things by singing the Trololo song to him, including torture of some innocent guy. He had other people working for him to, and they were all involved with "the [[CanadaEh Canada]] project". We later found a letter from Cleverbot to one of his friends, and found out the Canada project was, in fact, in Canada. ("Why hadn't we thought of that before? It's so obvious now!") So we went to Canada, and asked random people off the streets if they knew anything about that weird building over there. We later went in there, and found Cleverbot. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome? * Me and my brother sometimes play Brawl... where instead of the background music, we use songs form my cellphone. Which mostly consists of J-rock, Hetalia songs(I have EVERY SINGLE Maru Kaite Chikyuu on there, for a start) and game soundtracks. Some pretty epicsounding for Brawl, actually. * [[{{Tropers/ARabbitFilledNightmare}} This Troper]] has the tendency

to read her homework aloud to the tune of Death is the Road to Awe. * Writing? Meh. Writing to a [[BioShock BIOSHOCK]] [[LargeHam FAN-MADE MACHINIMA RAP?]] Beyond awesome. * Everything is epic while listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=cOEQ7u55t-U this.]] * This troper has played ping pong with paper plates instead of paddles with 8 people while listening to Touhou BGM. It was epic. * While playing Mario Party 3, I landed on a game guy space with only a small ammount of 175 coins. Sarcasm. Then I played the game with the toad and Bowser box. I doubled my coins from 175 to 999! I won all of the rounds! I HAVE PERFECT LUCK! * This tropette has a strange habit of collecting music that fits all situations. She finds songs here and there, and whenever she claims to have the PERFECT song for a plot/time of day/sting/event/whatever, her friends have never disagreed. Her favorite memory: hitting the Shuffle option on her iPod while working on a major essay and immediately being treated to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMZfXT3r0ck this]]. * This Troper won NaNoWriMo 2010. After typing the last word (#51,813) I stood up on my chair, screamed, "WINNER!" and proceeded to play "We Are The Champions" by Queen, at full blast, as I went downstairs to get a fresh cup of tea. ** This Troper also hates grocery shopping. While riding the bus to Wal-Mart, I play pump-up songs at full volume on my iPod as I write up my shopping list. "Let's see...I need some butter. '''BOOM! HERE COMES THE BOOM!''' And eggs. ''''READY OR NOT, HAHA, ''HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?!'''''" * Spring break just ended, and now I am at '''SCHOOL''' doing '''SCHOLARLY THINGS''' like '''EATING A SANDWICH''' and '''CHECKING MY FACEBOOK PAGE'''. ** *The NFL theme plays in the background.* * Each time [[{{Tropers/TaiCat}} This Troper]] takes elevators to get to work (station subway) she subconsciously puts her MP3 player on Eye of the Tiger,and a simple door slide and lift movement becomes an epic cage fight entrance.Also when she passes stations (on train) she often listen to fast power metal (like Dragonforce or Blind Guardian) which makes boring landscape look like some kind of awesome {{Cool Horse}} run,or something. * Once when bored during break at karate, this Troper had an elbow duel with his friend. It lasted 10 minutes and got intest to the point of climbing on furniture and ariel striking eachother, dodging and sucker attacking. Did I mention we only used our elbows? * At [[{{Tropers/Penzy}} This Tropers]] first tennis game, she wasn't paying attention. When her coach yelled something at her, she turned around just as the ball was served. Since this troper is....strange, she was holding her racket a bit strangely behind her back. The ball collided with the racket and sent her sprawling onto her face. The ball bounced back and we scored. * In my Geology Lab (Earth Through Time), my TA opened one of her lectures on dinosaurs with ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'', while dramatically "conducting" every instrument (i.e. she'd point to one side of the room as if cuing an instrument group, while also being super dramatic for dynamics and such). As a percussionist, I felt

inclined to "play" the timpani part when she cued it. It was epic. * [[{{Tropers/Gneissisnice}} This Troper]] does this a lot when telling stories. I make them sound super intense and important when they're generally mundange. My favorite is the story from the National Science Olympiad competition, when I got disqualified from the Food Science trial event (it's below, if you're interested, though not nearly as epic sounding without my delivery and hand motions).: ** So my partner and I studied like crazy for this event, doing the single practice event available online and just studying everything. We start heading to the event, and we can't find the room! We end up coming in late just as the event starts, and the very first thing we do is the written part. The test is EXACTLY THE SAME as the one online! Like exactly! I fill out the test in no time and I know I got everything right. So then we move to the lab part, starting with the banana station. Now, the very first question is "Taste the two bananas. Which is sweeter, the ripe or unripe?" And we're like "HUWHAAAAAT?" cause eating the sample seems like a bad idea. So we ask the judge, who ''literally stops the whole event'' and rudely asks the entire room if we're supposed to eat the banana (the answer is no). So fine, we get back to the event. We're going along, when we're asked to test the banana with Benedict's Solution to find sugar content. Ok fine, we stuff the banana slice in the tiny test tube and add the solution...and there's no hot water bath! So I go up to the judge and say "Excuse me, where's the hot water bath?" and get this, he says "You don't need to heat it up"! WHAAAAAT? Of COURSE you need to heat it up, it's BENEDICT'S SOLUTION. I argue with him because he has NO clue what he's talking about, but finally I just go back and answer the questions. So we get to the other lab station with ground up cereal. The directions say to add water, so I did, and things weren't working well, so I ask the judge again. He very rudely says "You're supposed to add THIS much water, DUH" and he was just so rude and obnoxious. I had enough of him, so I just said "Dude, you didn't say that in your directions, this event SUCKS". He got really offended and walked off. We finish the event, and we're confident we did well because while the event was AWFUL, we still knew most of the stuff. So we get the results back...AND WE GOT 61ST PLACE... OUT OF 60 TEAMS. * this troper like doing it WHILE PUSHING BUTTONS!!! * [[Tropers/AdelePotter I've]] found that everything can be made awesome while listening to TheTudors theme song. * Not this troper, but a friend of hers - recently got a new watch after six months of pulling out his iPhone every time he wanted to check the time. The new watch not only lights up, but tells the time IN BINARY CODE!! * [[{{Osakachan12}} This tropette]] has made normally mundane things like folding laundry, eating, and making coffee really awesome by listening to {{Touhou}} themes. Best one so far is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAvLYgq5m0 listening to these arranges.]] * I once drove my lawnmower with my feet while listening to "Haifisch" by Rammstein. I thought it was pretty awesome. * A friend and I were once discussing a bad forum community in the shape of an ActionFilmQuietDramaScene. I felt it was

[[http://i.imgur.com/TBNQx.png pretty awesome.]] * This troper once went for a soda and was attacked by a bee. I killed it. While it was on midair. With a side kick. And found two dollars below the soda machine. * A few classmates of this troper were talking about an amazing, hilarious, awesome TV show. Called Extreme Couponing. It's about...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin extreme couponing]]. * While watching ''As Far As My Feet Can Carry Me'', the MC was halfway across Siberia and feeling very despondent when he saw a lone tree in the middle of nowhere. When he's hugging the tree and assuring himself, I said, "See? You'll make it. Just keep on going and you'll be fine." The movie made the act of ''hugging a tree'' so awesome that this Troper imagines that scene when he's in a difficult spot himself. Just have to find that lone tree in the middle of nowhere. * Listening to the Inception soundtrack while doing dishes, cleaning house, doing ANYTHING! Makes it awesome. Heck, even the King Arthur soundtrack, (also by Hans Zimmer) is pretty awesome to do stuff along with. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music of awesome]] entry as well? * Playing the flute? Not really awesome, per say. Playing Hedwig's Theme of Harry Potter fame on a flute, by ear, not having touched a flute for nine years? BUYAH! Also phenomenally nerdy! * I just had a dream that was made out of What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome, in my dream the earth was going through a grey goo scenario, but it wasnt going as fast as the nanites were hoping so they decided to disguise themselves pastries and infiltrate our supermarkets, the humans countered by using magic to make our own walking talking pastries to act as spies, until one group was caught, which culminated in a chase scene in slow motion as the good pastries are running for a helecoptor with the evil robot pastries hot on their heels, complete with one of them tripping over a fallen tree branch and splitting itself open and shouting LEAVE ME! and another carrying it "no we wont leave anyone behind!" and action music * This Troper has a tendency to use {{Homestuck}} music to liven up her boring day. Cleaning my room to At the Price of Oblivion? Algebra homework to Dreamers and the Dead? Playing {{Pokemon}} (and beating the champion!) to Rex Duodecim Angelus? Working on an English project to [=BL1ND=] [=JUST1C3=]:1NV3ST1G4T1ON? Running across a parking lot in the rain to Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)? I'm incredibly nerdy for having all these loaded on my iPod, but they always show up at the most convenient of moments... ---Travel back to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]...to the strains of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8GOHJAnVh4 Ghost Love Score]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitle956r32ys * I'm very much a feminist, and once scolded my little brother after he was caught looking at porn. Not because he was demeaning women, but because the idiot didn't clear his browser history.

* My mother does this a lot to me. One time, she yelled at me for not doing my homework. You'd think it was because I was being lazy, right (which I was)? Wrong. She yelled at me because I left it scattered on my bed undone. * My great-grandfather used to brew his own beer and root beer in different bottles. My grandfather one time had a root beer bottle filled with beer and took it to school. He got caught by the teacher who sent a note home to his parents. My great-grandfather's reaction to the note? "Next time don't get caught." * [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette's]] neighbors fight a lot, and the walls are very thin... My dad caught me with my ear against the wall, and he said "[Tropette]!! Use a cup next time!" * [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] once scolded someone which was downloading warez... not because DigitalPiracyIsEvil, but because he was doing it from some crappy virus-filled web page. * One man I know is fond of saying that if your going to throw your life away for crime, then don't rob a convenience store. Throwing your life away at least merits robbing a bank. * Back when I was eight, I flicked a very vulgar hand gesture to a group of kids I did not like. My mom saw me and...proceeded to teach me how it is done properly. My father was understandably upset when he found out. My mother's response: "Would you prefer your son doing it wrong and be humiliated for it?" ** ...your Mom is AWESOME. * This troperette, back in her awkward pre-teen years, had a girl in junior high who became a personal [[TheLibby Libby]] to her, always putting her down and starting vicious rumors. Being a sweet kid, I had a great deal of trouble coming up with insults to fire back at her when she would start in on me, but did my best to defend myself. It landed me in trouble with the teacher when she heard what I was saying, while the Libby got away [[KarmaHoudini scot-free.]] When my mother found out, she said that no, I shouldn't call someone who was being rude to me names.....I should punch them in the nose instead. * This troperette always got along with her mom. One day she dragged me to go shopping with her and her friend and her friend's daughter, a girl I loathed. The girl was even more of a stuck-up snob than I could have ever thought possible, but she crossed the line when my mom asked her a question and she responded, quote verbatim "None of your f*ck*ng business, fat c*nt.". Let's just say that even though the girl came off that with a ''slightly'' broken nose, and I was banned from that store for a year, my mom praised my left hook for weeks. ---You went back to DoWrongRight? How did it handle? ---<<|TroperTale|>>

ptitle9mewz68v * This Troper visited the DMZ in Korea. The marine giving the tour said something along the lines of "The event of an attack is very unlikely but if you notice that I've suddenly started running for whatever reason... just follow."

* This troper had it happen on the way to Lollapalooza 2010 via the bus. A fight had began, the driver had slammed on his brakes heading off a Colorado mountain freeway exit to deal with the fight, lighting the brakes on fire. As the bus screeched to a stop, this was what the expert bus traveler in the seat across the aisle yelled. * This troper learned from very, very unfortunate experience that if you ever see beekeepers running for their car... yeah, you know. * My brother got told this by a camp counselor, during a hike when his hat blew off and he went to go retrieve it. Good thing he didn't go get it then, because sitting on a cliff just right above the hat was a Bald Eagle that was giving him a ''VERY'' menacing look. ---[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle9mewz68v No questions... RUN!]]

ptitlea50k2rj99g16 * This troper's sister has a remarkably powerful [=SEP=] field, able to extend, at times, to cover things that actually ''are'' her problem. He has seen her watch an entire episode of AmericanIdol while sitting in the kitchen. In front of a sinkful of dishes, during her week to wash up. ** Sounds fairly typical of most siblings, actually. * This troper had a roommate in college related to many cops. One of his favorite stories to tell was that of some officers who came upon a dead body in a river snagged on some rocks. The officers freed the body and let the current take it into the next county because they didn't want the paperwork. * One of the rooms in this troper's dorm caught fire once, and he found several people standing around looking at a fire extinguisher discussing how someone should probably grab the fire extinguisher and put out the fire before it spreads too far. So he did. * A couple years ago DesertDragon said this and cut off his more drama-prone friends (namely, the ones who think the whole universe revolves around them yet never have spare time or money when you're the one who needs help), and has enjoyed a relatively stress-free life ever since. * A kid was being mugged right by my school, so his friend ran back to tell the security guards. Guess what they said? * This troper was at a bookstore, trying to make friends, when she tripped over a particularly large volume of {{GilbertAndSullivan}} libretti. She made a small "eep" noise as she fell, and a thump as she hit the floor, whereupon several people glanced over... only to look away just as quickly. They all became suddenly and powerfully occupied by something other than the girl on the floor or the small mess of books around her. * This troper's MO basically. White mage from 8-bit summed it up perfectly: ** White mage: Allow me to file that under 'none of my concern'. Wow, that's a big file. * This troper, so very much. If it does not directly and immediately concern him, it might as well not exist. No stress, no worries.

* This troper heard a story about this trope that happened in a Pizza place near where he lives. There was a kid who was bloodied and bruised badly. He came to the place, ordered his Pizza, and left once he got it. '''Nobody''' in the place asked why and/or how he was bloodied and bruised like he was. ** Their rationale being, "If he can order a pizza and doesn't look like he'll pass out anytime soon, it can't be that serious." Another thing worth considering is if a customer does not bring up an issue (more than likely the case in the story), customer service is often not obligated to help unless it's clearly related to the service the establishment provides. The fact that the guy was bruised and bloodied badly and didn't bring it up with the athorities means he was probably better off than you'd think. * The security guards in my school are willing to ignore spotting students carrying packs of cigarettes, saying horribly prejudice things, and even ''drug exchanges'', but one thing they won't stand for? People wearing bandannas while dressed as a cowboy. * This troper works at a huge retail department store, where an assistant manager always closes 'up front' (meaning closing the registers, cleaning up, emptying trash, etc.) because it's a huge job. This troper was called into work because one of the assistant managers was a no-show and the assistant manager that was there was about to leave. Her parting words to the poor, inexperienced cashier about to be doing an assistant manager's job? "So she's a no show. Well, I'm leaving, so it's not my problem. It's yours." Gee. Thanks, Boss. * This troper tends to follow this, but if he's feeling gracious, he'll stop and help someone, ''maybe'' even go out of his way to do so. For the most part though, I just let the people who know what to do do their jobs without getting in their way. * To this Tropers eternal shame, he once saw a man being mugged by two guys on bikes with masks. He stayed out of it, and worse, ''watched''. The victim fought them off, and this Troper made sure he was alright, but he to this day feels guilty (even if he was only 13 at the time). * I once saw a horrible news story about a child who fell off a tall building. He was laying on the asphalt for an hour, although several adults called the ambulance, and the 911 people actually started hanging up on callers. The ambulance came eventually, but the child died in the hospital. This made me want to throw up a little. ---No need to bother going [[{{ptitlea50k2rj99g16}} Somebody Else's Problem]]... I'm sure someone else'll got there soon. Or eventually. Or whatever. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitleazv5ra2d * My father: insanely smart structural engineer and masonry contractor. Simple terms, he likes building things and making them stay around forever. This troper? Bad at math, wants to be an archaeologist, where my job would REQUIRE building styles to fall out

of style. * This Troper's psychology teacher had a pretty bad relationship with his son. ** This Troper's father is a psychologist who has [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji-esque]] daddy issues. ** This troper's mother was a therapist (now specializing in families) whose own issues with her mother lead her to have a poor relationship with her daughter (me), who has been in and out of therapy for eating, panic, and anxiety disorders since her teen years. The same mother used to specialize in the military, but my father, a Vietnam veteran, still hid in the bathroom for three hours when nail guns went off next door. * This agnostic troper's father is a pastor. ** You've got nothing on me. My father's a doctor and a Libertarian. I'm studying to be a lawyer and work for the federal government. * This Troper's father sold cars for most of his life. This Troper didn't actually learn to drive until he was 23 (which was about 6 years after his father passed away). * This troper's grandfather is a ranchhand and was a semi-regular Rodeo participant - her youngest Aunt from that side of the family, is hippophobic. ** [[TooDumbToLive What does horse riding have to do with hippos?]] * One of his troper's former classmates was very much a pacifist. His father is a soldier. (Although to be fair, his pacifistic views may have come about because of his father's line of work, since they do say that soldiers hate war more than anyone.) ** This troper has been told in no uncertain terms by his parents (both of whom are in the military) that if he was to join the military... let's just say he'd be getting an immediate medical discharge. This was before he developed a medical condition that would prevent him from joining anyway. *** Same for this troper. None of my father's three adult children (including myself), have shown any interest in the military, but the youngest, who's currently fifteen, enjoys war games. However, he might also go under this trope, as our father was a pacifist for many years after the war. (Vietnam.) * This Troper's father is a Master Control Operator at the local ABC Affiliate, and this troper used this phrase verbatim when asked by his electronics teacher as the next chapter was on television. Only the teacher got the reference. * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] has known several kids whose parents were teachers. They were hardly model students. ** Guilty! ** Similarly this troper has known a number of children of teachers (including himself) who have vowed never to become teachers. ** My mother is a (Middle School) teacher, and I have also decided to never become one (maybe a college professor, though). I am very good student, however. * [[@/FyreNWater This troper's]] college has an art professor/student advisor and his son. The son chose a math major, then got kicked out for failing grades and doing MANY stupid things while drunk. * [[@/FoiledFencer This troper's]] parents are both engineers, and

even met during their education to be just that. He only manages to scrape a passing grade in math, yet somehow does well in linguistics and other "wordy" classes - which his parents both decry as their least favourite ones. ** Ha! [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] can top that; her parents met in university, with them both living in the French House and majoring in science (specifically Biology). Neither of their kids like science (they especially hate biology), and have lost all interest in French in persuit of Japanese. Not to mention this troper's father loves entimology, and said troper hates bugs with a passion, and that both kids are proficient/enjoy writing prose and poetry, while the parents aren't fans. ** [[@/{{Geoduck}} This troper]]'s parents were a CPA and an engineer, and he can barely do long division. * [[@/BooBooBob This Troper]] grew up in a military-centric household and is RABIDLY anti-military (but recognizes the armed forces as a necessary evil). * My father is a science teacher. Guess what my weakest subject is. ** Art? ** Western Civ? * [[@/{{onyhow}} This troper's]] mother owns business, guess what he doesn't want to be. Also, she's right-winged and highly religious, I'm centric-leftish and irreligious (can't say atheist because my original religion is Buddhism). ** Not to get off-topic, but an awful lot of Buddhists are atheists. They're not mutually exclusive. * [[@/GalenDev This Troper]]'s mother was the Worst Jew Ever: she never kept kosher, celebrated Christmas and Easter (despite being raised in an all-Jewish household, and never having converted to any form of Christianity), ignored Jewish holidays, and on top of that, spent the latter years of her life sitting around her room depressed and without ambition. Whereas This Troper has spent his life trying to reclaim his traditions, and at the same time is hyper-ambitious; to the point where at the age of 25, he has already purchased his first house, and is considering buying a second property in another state. * The parents of this troper were both athletes in high school--the dad played basketball and ran track, as did the mom. The troper can only shoot accurate baskets if she's using a crumpled sheet of paper and a trash can, and is a famously slowish, flaily runner. * [[@/LittleSerge This Troper]]'s mother is an NDP'er (New Democratic Party = Canada's equivalent to the Labour/Labor parties and ultra-left Democrats). His father is a conservative (he supported the Alliance party, which merged with the PC's to become the Conservative Party). While his mother preached civil liberties and governments programs, and his father was oldschool when it came to the free market and national values. This Troper took great joy in both subverting their beliefs and expectations of him, while still playing them relatively straight. This Troper has become a libertarian, preaching the values of the free market and civil liberties. Although both are happy he follows some aspects of their beliefs, they were surprised that he insisted on being classified as either "Neutral Good" or "Chaotic Good". He even quotes V for Vendetta's "Governments should be afraid

of their people" and Optimus Prime's "Freedom is the right of ALL sentient beings"! They find his utter distrust of governments, big business, unions, school establishments, social programs, and the organized military a little disconcerting, however... ** So your parents are moderate collectivists, with different emphases on the government's role, while you're a strong individualist? *** Pretty much, yeah. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] to a certain degree, however, since most of the authority figure's I've come across have been [[AdultsAreUseless less]] [[KnightTemplar than]] [[SadistTeacher inspirational]]. Also, although I distrust the establishment, I recognize the need for it in civil society. Besides, almost everyone in my family agrees on the need for grassroots support in government, so we can usually stop things from getting awkward at the dinner table. ** Interesting. I thought I had you [[ABitOfFryAndLaurie pegged as a]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoglB5NRxTo Nazi]]. ** [[@/{{Mikado}} This Troper]]'s parents are both quite left-wing but this troper turned out to be quasi-libertarian. They are liberal catholics but This Troper turned out to be agnostic * This tropers father works at the Toronto Star (A large Canadian newspaper company) yet rarly gets the newspaper at all. * At this troper's old school, the school therapist had an exchange student staying with his family who killed herself - and he had no idea that anything was wrong. May not fit into this category since he was terrible at his job, too. * This troper's mother is a dentist. This troper's lower front teeth, despite the myriad of orthodontic devices she went through growing up, are very misaligned. Fortunately, her upper front teeth and lower lip cover the lower front row pretty efficiently. * My last name is Coffin, and my whole deceased family members have been- you guessed it, Cremated. Hang on a second, something doesn't sound right... * This troper's father is something of a genius in math and science, guess my two worst subjects. * This would go on GenerationXerox, but it is much more accurate to say that I live in a complete inversion of this. Both my parents are math professors, and even met in grad school. I skipped a year in an accelerated math program (7th grade: Algebra, 8th grade: Geometry, 9th grade: Calculus. Perfectly logical progression in my mind). My mother started joking (if I say sort of, I look like I'm stroking my ego, but that looks like its happening anyways) that I was better than her in math around my senior year of high school. I was dead set on becoming a math professor, and it looks like that will still happen (what else will I be able to do with a math undergrad degree?). * This troper's uncle is a civil engineer. His wife is a chemical engineer. Their son hates math with a passion. * Despite being the daughter of two computer scientists, this troper's sister is computer illiterate. Subverted with this troper, who learned everything she could from said parents, but then again, she's adopted. Nature vs. Nurture, eh? * Subverted with [[@/CaptHayfever my]] father being a (now-retired) videographer; he taught me camerawork, lighting, tape editing, audio

dubbing,.... * Inverted with [[@/{{Sharysa}} this troper's]] best friend, whose father was one of the high-school drama directors and was himself one of the best actors in our year. He's also going to acting school. Regrettably, I myself play this straight as a less-than-stellar teacher's daughter. * This troper's father designs missiles, and still his requests for artillery have been ignored. * This troper knows someone whose parents were pot-smoking hippies and all that entailed - feminism, multiculturalism, etc. The guy grew up to be a racist and a self-identified fascist. * Two examples. One guy I know is a contractor who's had a room with a missing door for years. The other guy is our auto mechanic. He drives over to fix our stuff, and then he says "ok, you know what I do for a living, right? Now check this." Guess how long the car took to turn on? * This troper has an electrician dad. We are constantly getting inexplicably blown fuses, and lightbulbs rarely last as long as they should. * [[@/GalenDev This Troper's]] mother was a die hard democrat. She constantly rammed her values down his throat. His response was... [[SemperFi unique.]] * Averted by this troper's grandfather, who is a professional mechanic and has generally done all of the work on his car himself (except that time when a tree fell on it, but we all have our limits). His eldest son (my father), on the other hand, is also a mechanic, and our car is nicknamed the Rustbucket for a reason. * This Troper's father was once a maths teacher. She hates maths with a passion. * This troper's mother is a nurse yet she has an irrational fear of sick people and hates the science and math that goes along with being a nurse. * My father used to work finding people jobs. He now has two unemployed grown children and one underemployed dissatisfied daughter. * This troper's aunt was a divorce lawyer/mediation expert. She had been divorced three times. Eventually the irony got the best of her and she became a speech therapist. (She didn't have a speech impediment, but her younger brother, my father, did.) * This [[@/VocabWord troper's]] classmate would constantly ask to have the board read to him until the teacher finally made him sit in the front row because he could not see a thing. Five months of this and we find out what his dad does for a living. He's an optician. The class collectively facepalmed. * This troper's parents are both musicians in bands. I couldn't pick up and play any instrument if you held a gun to my head. * After we had our windows replaced, the only outlet in my bedroom didn't work. My father's an electrician. Well, I guess there was another outlet but it was one plug, coming out of my lightbulb. It's still the only outlet that works in that room. * This troper's father was a math major in college, his mother used to do bookkeeping, and ''her'' father is a CPA. This troper avoids math wherever possible. (also, on one occasion, after this troper had a

really confusing stay in a hospital, my father quoted the Bible verse which is the page quote, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't using it right). * This Tropers father owns a fish market we rarely eat fish. * My mother is a midwife. My older sister never wants to have kids. * My Dad's a pastor, and I'm fairly conservative. However, this means I haven't gone to any pastor or deacon in my church for several personal issues with my faith, since I was illogically afraid Daddy will find out. I currently live far away from home, and now I'm just plain embarrassed to talk about said issues with the pastors at my current church. Maybe I could become Catholic. * [[@/MysticOne This Troper's]] father is a contractor and there are more than a dozen half-finished or barely-started projects around the house. * [[@/{{katecarey}} This troper's]] father is a world-class ice hockey player who nearly went to the Olympics for the USSR in 1980. (Yeah, the year of the "Miracle on Ice." We don't talk about that at our house.) I, on the other hand, could not be any worse at sports if I ''tried.'' (During a softball team tryout in high school, I managed to foul the ball into the parking lot and dent a car. That's pretty indicative of my skill level.) * This troper knows a kid in his middle school who was the son of two of the computer science teachers. Naturally, he hated computer science, but that just may be because he got enough of it at home. * A recently-retired judge in this troper's hometown has a daughter who is currently in prison for home invasion and grand larceny, and a son who is on probation for armed robbery and assault. I went to middle school with the above-mentioned son, and he would threaten me with bodily harm practically every day in the science class we shared. * One of my classmates has really bad (untreated) ADHD, and he thinks that my depression is a result of something traumatic that I must have forgotten about. His mother is a psychologist. * This troper's dad is a math whiz, and her grandfather wrote several math textbooks in his time. This troper's least favorite subject is math. Numbers are just so...so black and white; you make one little mistake and your entire answer is wrong. Words are much better, because it's so much fun to figure out all the little nuances of language and then use them when writing - and yet, this is precisely why this troper's dad has an aversion to all things word-related. * [[Tropers/OriginalHobbit This Troper's]] parents are devout Christians, both with conservative values (although I believe my mother is a Democrat while my father is a Republican). They aren't exactly homophobic, but still are against gay marriage, and are both pro life. This troper is bisexual, a Democrat, pro choice (although I believe abortion should only be chosen as a last resort, if at all), and agnostic. Plus, I want to be a writer, while both my parents have more traditional jobs. ** Wow...While [[Tropers/{{Morgie}} my]] parents don't share your parent's views, your description of yourself nearly matches mine (I'm a lesbian eclectic pagan, but aside from that...) * My father was a math teacher for almost ten years after being a Spanish teacher. I learned the hard way not to say "I hate math!"

because it really pisses him off. Also, I cannot understand Spanish for the life of me and instead am taking German. * both of this troper's parents, plus most of her family on her mother's side, play musical instruments( her parents are professional classical musicians.) This troper is musically illiterate, despite years of trying to take music theory, and has failed miserably at every instrument she's tried( and that's moat of them). * This troper's mother is a nurse, so as a teen, you'd think I'd get accurate information about sex and birth control, right? WRONG! My mom is a very conservative Christian, so it was okay to talk about that to her patients, it wasn't okay to talk about it with her own daughter. Luckily, I read lots of her nursing books, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and Judy Blume's Forever, so I wasn't a complete idiot on those subjects. Now I'm a social worker who does nothing but butt heads with her job because they keep pushing the abstinence-only agenda despite the fact that we work with pregnant teenagers. ---Go back to [=~The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes~=], unless you work in IT and clicking wiki links keeps crashing your computer. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Ptitleazynmzv9 * It happened to [[Tropers/DRoy me]] when I went camping trip from school few years ago. It was night, and I figured that I wanted to walk and strayed away from the camping site and after few minutes, all the wildlife...it went down. I started to hyperventilate and ran back to the site. * this troper's parents are musicians and work nights, so this troper is often home alone. this troper reads way too many mystery/adventure novels, and is fittingly easy to freak out. cue troper locking herself in her room with the cordless phone and sword( yes, a sword) whenever her parents are out past 10.

ptitleba4e2b2g * When {{this troper}} wears a dress, her cell phone goes in the cleavage. * This troper has seen a female friend making use of the Compartment for her cell phone. There was a brief [[HilarityEnsues moment of amusement]] for the rest of us when she got a call. The phone was on vibrate. * ThisTroper has started doing this (for money and keys) and almost all the girls at her school do this for phones and such- this has led to many games of 'keep away' and one strange math class where [[ThisTroper this troper's]](male) friend attempted to do this sans bra with his moobs... * ThisTroper does that when she has to wear dresses. Since dresses don't usually have pockets and ThisTroper ''can't'' live without

pockets she stores the most important things in her bra, including an MP3 player and a flick knife. * [[ThisTroper This (female) troper's]] parents don't approve of her smoking, so she does it on the sly. I've hidden cartons in my room and slipped the occassional smoke between my cleavage. Thank god for mammaries I suppose. * [[ThisTroper This female troper]] often puts things in her bra, and her breasts aren't that big. She's put her MP3 player inside there many times. As well as the GBA KingdomHearts game. Friend's response, "That game is no longer innocent.." She also stores food there, be careful though... [[FetishFuel it melts.]] * {{This troper}} once had a friend who stole something from him and put it down her cleavage and then said "Ha, it's mine now cause you can't go down there." I pointed out that since I was taller then her and she wasn't wearing a dress, it would be no problem for me to turn her upside down and shake her until the stolen item fell out. She gave it back instantly. ** {{This troper}} witnessed a similar situation. Friend A(female) stole Friend B(male)'s iPod and placed it down her cleavage. Friend B's response was to call over Friend C (male), who would be more than happy to retrieve it anyway. Friend A quickly returned the iPod. * {{This troper}} carries money in her bra all the time (and other items too, either in the bra or in her (admittedly not very impressive) cleavage). Carrying coins that way is a very interesting experience, since they're cold and they tend to fall out (you try explaining why quarters are raining out of your shirt). Most of her female friends do the same. We try to be discreet, though. It has a logic to it too: if you're being mugged, they won't think of the bra, or if they do, then by that point you won't be so worried about the money anymore. ** [[ThisTroper This troper's]] mother regularly carries her keys and cell phone in her bra, which can be rather disturbing in public when the cell starts ringing and everyone looks - this is why we need portable holes. *** Are you insane? That's the perfect set up for the line (said deadpan) "Excuse me, but my cleavage is ringing." ** Actually, coins in the bra aren't so bad. They warm up to body temperature pretty fast. So fast that they'd be forgotten until I'm getting undressed and wonder why there's a shower of quarters and pennies falling on my feet. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] (well-endowed) first girlfriend often carried things in her cleavage and bra due to lack of pockets. She once emptied out enough to fill a small purse. * Is {{this troper}} the only one who has ever stolen the last cookie and stowed it away in there, not wanting to get caught? ** Nope. {{This troper}} still does it. * {{This troper}} once worked with a young woman who would carry her cell phone in her cleavage... at a day-camp. Every half-hour she would dig in there to find out the time. This all came to a head when some of the girls tried to imitate her. So yeah, mind your surroundings when pulling crap like this. ** [[@/GwenStacyWannabe My]] friend did that one day, on the way to

the (public) park. And she took it out and replaced it frequently while walking down the street, ''in plain view of the houses''. I will never understand how some girls can do things like that. * [[@/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] has a friend who pulls stuff like this. She once stored a ''frisbee'' in there. She was quite well endowed, and the frisbee was rubber, allowing her to bend it in half first. This particular frisbee was quite resilient, it got run over by a truck and was completely undamaged. ** Probably made of silicon. Er--the frisbee that is, not...ah, forget it. * {{This troper}} has essentially no male friends, and all the girls he knows do this. However the funniest subversion I have ever seen was a {{Pettanko}} girl trying to fit her cellphone in her "cleavage." Needless to say, the phone fell through the gaping area of separation and smashed to pieces on the floor. This was, me being me, followed by my snickering, "Pfft, women." * {{This troper}} witnessed a girl smuggling a kitten (live!) over a border by hiding it... right. ** Why the emphasis on the kitten being alive when she smuggled him? I'd find it a lot more disturbing if you said it otherwise. ** Well, kittens ''do'' [[CaptainObvious tend to scratch...]] ** More importantly, why would one want to ''smuggle'' a kitten? Can't you just... carry it over the border? I mean, while it's true the internets just can't have enough of kittens, I still doubt they are considered narcotics. Yet, anyway. * In hot weather, {{this troper}} will use her bra as an ice pack holder. She also does the money thing when she doesn't have another carrier, since she hates purses. * {{This troper}} often keeps her MP3 player in her bra (with the earphones hidden under her hair - it's a rough area). The logic being that most casual muggers don't want to add sexual assault to their charges if caught. ** Does this often lead to "Oh hey, can I borrow your MP3 or a day or two, I- OH MY GOD!" * {{This troper}} recently went to a nerd convention with a lady friend, wearing costumes with no pockets. In said lady friend's very impressive bodice she carried our cash, credit cards and ID, room keys, pen and paper, a stack of business cards, and both of our cell phones. * "Pixaud's Practical Grimoire", a supplement for the late, muchlamented and recently-resurrected TORG tabletop RPG, includes a wellwritten bit of introductory fiction about a non-native magic-user trying to teach magic to native 20th Century Earth residents. During a class break, she made disparaging comments about the female students' clothing, noting the absence of any pockets or pouches. {{This troper}} would dearly love to read a sequence in which said teacher was introduced to the presence and capacity of the two 'cargo compartments' that she could see but didn't understand... * {{This troper}} was warned repeatedly about keeping one eye on your bag at all times while she was visiting New York. To alleviate her fear of having her money picked right out of her bag, she crammed her money into her bra.

* After {{this troper}} got pick-pocketed once, his girlfriend took the liberty of carrying my money in her bra whenever we go out together. She carries some of her own valuables either there or in her panties, though there was one time [[FetishFuel I saw her take longer than usual in extracting her ID card from... down there.]] * {{This troper}} owns a formal gown also lacking pockets. She keeps a pack of cigarettes in this very place when wearing it. * {{This troper}} occasionally has reason to wear clothing with no pockets. She has at times carried some combination of: money, her cigarettes, a lighter, her ID, her cellphone, her keys, and yes, on one occasion, a pistol in her bra. ** Also something many corset-wearing girls at conventions such as Dragon* con do, including {{this troper}}. Cellphones work better with bigger cleavage. * [[@/{{Zordauch}} This troper]] has spent several years working graveyard shift at quickie-marts, and [[ItJustBugsMe always got annoyed]] when some customer would pull her money out of her bra. It made his [[http://www.angelfire.com/trek/zordauch/rules.html personal list]] ** This list is SO TruthInTelevision (I spent two years working night shift in a 7-11). *** Think that is bad? Try going to a restaurant where the ''staff'' does this. **** That's...just wrong. Don't they have aprons? * Subverted with {{this troper}}. She was going to place a piece of paper with her locker combo in her bra, but found it too uncomfortable, and put it in her shoe instead. * {{This troper}} has the perfect cup size for this, and the right degree of- ahem- lift and separation to easily keep an iPhone, her regular cell, and an iPod all nestled in there shall we say, close to my heart. Also, spare change. Lots of it. However, she does know several young women at her high school who, due to the cell phone ban, have resorted to keeping theirs in a far more intimate place than merely in their pockets. The genius of it is that you'll always know when it's ringing, and any teacher who out and out notices, or attempts to check, is, in the eyes of your classmates, just a sick pervert. ** A friend of {{this troper}} used to do just that, until {{this troper}} and her other friends decided it would be funny to call her during class. [[HilarityEnsues And it was.]] * {{This troper}} used to carry her cell phone in her bra, but stopped because it always startled her when it rang. * Subversion: This editor reflects on a night when she prepared to go to her [[HighSchoolDance school dance]]. She did not have a matching purse for her gown, and had no where to place her money. Her mother told her simply to fold her cash and tuck it in her bra. Despite [[{{Pettanko}} not being the most voluptuous]] of girls, this editor [[HilarityEnsues took her mother's advice]]...only to have the money slip through her dress, past her bra and land next to her foot on the floor. Cue the [[LaughTrack laughter]]. * While in an outfit that had no pockets one {{troper}} resorted to this at a hotel, and ended up with the room key, cell phone, a USB

device, her keys, and $5 in there at the same time. She's also only a B-cup, if you can believe it. * ThisTroper and her friends find this very useful for going to bars, since most dresses and skirts conspicuously (and annoyingly) lack pockets, and bags can be easily lost or stolen. Card down one side, cash down the other, and maybe your phone in between. Not hard to pull off if you're wearing the right bra. * ThisTroper attends a {{LARP}} group where most female players keep their character sheets here. * {{This troper}} has actually made a habit of using the [[VictoriasSecretCompartment Victoria's Secret Compartment]] to make up for the annoying lack of pockets on most modern dress designs, when she only needs to quickly stow something small like a folded bill or a ticket stub and doesn't feel like lugging a purse around. (For the record, it's easier to tuck things into the meeting of cup and strap than into the actual cleavage, which is hard to access and often sweaty.) The only downside is the difficulty of discreetly extracting the object when it's time to use it... * {{This troper}} had an unusual variation when [[GenderBender he dressed in drag]] for a party. * Subverted during a D&D session. A friend of {{this troper}} who had just received a note in-character mimed tucking the note into her cleavage and was then reminded that she was playing a guy. * {{This troper}} has made this into a game: try to throw coins or pop tabs into the cleavage of his female friends. One time, a penny made it into one of his friend's shirt... and didn't come out until she got home, apparently. ** It's more fun with food! Also a fun place to hide surprise notes. ** Glad I'm not the only one who threw change like that in high school. Bonus points: managed to pull it off on a friend of mine who's rather strict Chinese mother made her wear a ''turtleneck'' every day. * Hell, {{this troper}} has (on multiple occasions) tucked away twenty or ten-dollar bills in her cleavage and then forgotten about them. It makes it rather fun when you freak out at "losing your money" in the middle of, say, a crowded sales room at an anime convention-- only to realise and have to cram a hand down your bra and do what amounts to thoroughly groping yourself to retrieve it. It's also warm. Not exactly buying anything for a while with that ten... * Due to a last-minute change of plans, {{this troper}} ended up driving to her graduation ceremony herself, instead of taking the same car as her parents. This left her in possession of car keys and no pockets in her dress or a purse to put them in. Cue a quick trip to the bathroom to hide the keys into her bra. * {{This troper}} once had to briefly leave a gig she was at. She knew she would be coming back, but didn't know if they'd let her in without her ticket and her outfit had no pockets, so put her ticket into her bra. It was very uncomfortable, I might add. * {{This troper}}, bearing D-cups, has been known to store just about everything in her bra. She always keeps her non-clippable MP3 player in there, as well as USB drives, flash cards, pens, a pendulum and some crystals. Not all at once of course. Just the MP3 player. ** Speaking of, {{this troper}} had to retrieve her MP3 player from

under the seat of her car today. Before leaning down she stuffed the earbuds in her cleavage. She did not find them again until she was preparing for a shower. * {{This troper}} once hid a board game piece from her younger sister in this spot. Though, given how her younger sister tends to act, she wouldn't put it past her to reach in there, anyway. ** Similarly, the mother of the above poster's friend once hid the TV remote, there... right in front of the friend and the friend's siblings. The friend complained, but her mom pointed out that she could have hid it [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean somewhere else]] and made it look worse than it already was. * ThisTroper often carries a small packet of lip balm, and a pen in her bra. Due to a rather strange turn of events, she once ended up storing her ''DS lite'' in there, along with above mentioned items, and some money. Due to {{this troper}} having a taste for largefitting clothes, it went unnoticed. * Sports bras make good totes... though {{this troper}} usually pins a small pouch to one strap if she knows she'll need to use it. More comfortable, and she's not quite endowed enough for more than ID and some cash. * In a subversion, {{This troper}} once had a girlfriend who tried to hide something of his in her bra. We both had a fun time in my attempt to get it out. * {{This troper}} and her friends often store away small objects... a particular example comes to mind: our keys for getting into dorms are these little plastic chips you wave in front of a sensor to unlock doors. When it eventually becomes too much trouble to dig the keys out at every door, you see these girls doing strange wiggly dances in front of doors and rubbing their... against the sensors. Though it looks more silly than sexy. * {{This troper}} has never really used her cleavage as storage space, having a deep and abiding love of pockets. However, she did have a friend in high school who came to class with a pet lizard stashed down the front of her shirt a few times. * Most of [[@/CheshireGrinne this]] [[{{Troper}} troper's]] chorus class in high school learned very quickly to hide their cellphones in their cleavage during performances, since our mandatory dress code for the recitals all lacked pockets. The same applied during dances. A rather busty friend managed to fit three cell phones, a camera, and a wad of cash in her cleavage. Interesting {{aversion}}, however, in that {{this troper}} didn't start doing this herself until junior year. Before that she used the pocket-like, tight elastic-cuffed sleeves of her over-sized sweatshirt to hide her writing utensils. Worked well as long as she kept her arms low, which wasn't a problem as she never raised her hand to answer questions. * {{This troper}} had a drama teacher (who was also directing the school play Mulan) that taught the girls of the production this trick. During our run-through week, we were writing critique and whenever a girl got one about them they liked, they would stuff it in their bra. (Yeah, she was pretty awesome.) * [[@/{{choir}} This Troper]] is in Ren fair, and that's the standard holding place for non-period essentials, especially when playing a

noble. Also, almost every girl in my school's choir use this to conceal cell phones. I have [[MostCommonSuperpower ...attributes]] most of my acquaintances are appalled at the size of (under 16, DD cup), but I can only fit money in there. * In a bit of a subversion, [[@/{{Kaizykat}} this Troper]] always texts her friend's cell when his girlfriend hides it in her bra. It's even better when he has it on vibrate. Said {{Troper}} has done it several times, so the girlfriend should at least ''expect'' it by now... * While not female, {{this troper}} has used it in D&D to pass secure messages to other characters. Most guards neglect to search it. Naturally the GM prevents such with female guards. Or at least attempts to. * [[ThisTroper This Troper's]] BottleFairy friend once won a hip flask in a pub raffle, and because she wasn't wearing trousers with a back pocket she stuck it down her bra for safe keeping. And so the legend of the Boob Flask began... * There is a legend round my (all-girls') high school that, in the days before cellphones when kids actually passed notes instead of texting them, one girl was caught passing a note in Literature class. The teacher (who is infamously awkward around women) demanded the note from her. In a stroke of brilliance, she stuffed it down her cleavage. No word on whether it was ever fished out. * ThisTroper once had a friend who carried money in her bra. * Cell phone, wallet, keys, digital camera, mint extract...{{this troper}} has met several girls who appear to have {{hammerspace}} in there. ** You've just now noticed this? As best said here (mildly: http://www.crfh.net/d/20060124.html ) and here (more: on crfh, just can't find it ) - all girls are impossible. ** {{This troper}} can fit her digital camera, hairbrush, compact mirror, cell phone, wallet, keys, gum, and iPod in her bra without any real noticeable bulges. *** ...[[BeyondTheImpossible You're joking,]] [[ClownCarBase right?]] * {{This troper}} hangs around with 17th centaury re-enactors, no pockets on the bodiced dresses, he recalls one amply endowed associate who decided she liked the otter pattern on a beer glass, hid it completely in the compartment and walked out the pub with it. ** On a similar note, {{this troper}} attends Renaissance faires and, while too embarassed to try it herself, notes that most women (generally of the lower-middle class, rarely upper class) who don't carry belt bags use it to hold bobby pins, flowers, vials, and other small items. It's frequently used by female vendors to stash their earnings, as well. * {{This troper}} certainly uses this "compartment" to carry lipstick, her licence, and money/card when out for the night in an outfit without pockets. * A co-worker was found to have been concealing money from the store tills in this compartment. Because of the personal nature, the (allmale) security staff had to make very sure before making the accusation. * [[ThisTroper This (male) troper]] works at a Taco Bell as a cashier.

It wouldn't be so bad if women would put their money *between* their breasts, but I tend to get frustrated when they have to reach into the cup to retrieve it. Of course, I'm not allowed to look. * [[VictoriasSecretCompartment Victoria's Secret Compartment]] is [[ThisTroper this troper's]] favorite place to carry things, especially when she was working at a bookshop cafe while pregnant. Most of her maternity work pants had no pockets and so she was forced to stash her cash there. It turned into a game when one of her coworkers was a bit [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out about it. IIRC the most she ever managed was driver's license, credit card, cash, lip gloss, a sharpie, her car's electronic key fob, cell phone and the list of that night's projects. Even though she can fit into pants with pockets again, she still tends to stash things in her bra. * A friend of {{this troper}} once stole his pencil, stuffed it in her bra and told him he couldn't have it back. Said {{troper}} simply raised his eyebrows and asked if she was certain I wouldn't reach in. The pencil was quickly returned. * ThisTroper does that, too, sometimes. I usually retrieve to from ''underneath'', which is rather less noticable than sticking your hand down your collar. * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdzojT4NLU this]] ([[SincerityMode link is Safe For Work]]) * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] well-endowed friend does it all the time, mostly to keep the stuff away from muggers. She normally keeps her money, keys and cell phone in her cleavage (rather than her cup: it would expose a lot to take it out. She also doesn't keep coins because muggers wouldn't care for coins and they're cold.) all for safe-keeping, but one time she kept peanut M&Ms (which are 2x bigger than regular M&Ms) for fun and ate them. It's pretty much the equivalent to eating them out of your hands (although, your hands are most likely dirtier than your breasts.) * The same [[{{Troper}} troper's]] sister also does this with her phone. She's not totally well-endowed and she keeps it in her cup. ** My own sister does this. When her phone isn't in use, she prefers to carry it in her shirt, although I never see where exactly it goes because I get too {{squick}}ed out to notice. (She's my ''sister'', dammit!) * The former president of [[ThisTroper this Troper's]] {{anime}} club could store an entire manga in her cleavage completely unnoticed as well. * A friend once came over to pay back some money. ''She'' attempted to stuff the bill into ''my'' bra. Needless to say, that was...awkward. * {{This troper}} has a habit of stuffing money into her bra when she has no pockets. It culminated in sharing a change room with a friend one day, taking the bra off to a sound of change falling to the floor and a quick remark about what my night job was. The $5 note stuck to my breast. * ThisTroper and her friend constantly use this as a way of hiding stuff from each other. One time, I snatched her cell phone and stuck it down my shirt so she would stop taking pictures of me with it. She was too awkward about retrieving it in the middle of lunch, seeing as we were surrounded by people who were shocked enough to see me tuck

her cell phone neatly into my bra. Although, when my friend tried to pull the same thing on me when she stole my favorite pen, {{this Troper}} was probably far too shameless and practically groped her to get it back. Being bi didn't hurt my lack of shyness about it either. I didn't really care who saw, and dammit, it was my favorite pen! She has since learned that if she does stuff something down her shirt in an attempt to hide it from me, I WILL take it back. She has yet to do the same against me, though. * When at home alone, {{this troper}} tends to keep the caps for her USB sticks in there so she doesn't lose them as easily. Also occasionally does so when not home alone, but only places them there and takes them out when no one is looking. The caps are small and lightweight, she has enough space for them not be a huge bother while also keeping her aware that they're there, and it's not as if she's going to be moving much from the spot she's sitting in if she's using the USB sticks anyway. * [[@/{{Mabus}} This Troper]] once witnessed a hypnotist act in which the subjects were told they had a lottery ticket, which they needed to hide somewhere lest it be stolen. One of them promptly stuffed it down her bra. The hypnotist then informed them that the ticket had turned to ice, and the subject using her [[VictoriasSecretCompartment Victoria's Secret Compartment]] for it practically yanked her shirt off getting it out. Since {{this troper}} was attending a Christian college, the act, otherwise unchanged, omitted the lottery ticket segment each year thereafter. * I know someone who keeps her [=iPhone=] in her bra. You'd never notice it, even though she isn't particularly large-breasted. Highly mysterious. I also once took tickets at a party, wearing a black waistcoat with pockets over a matching black dress, and kept the tickets in my waistcoat pockets. One guy was already drunk as a lord and told me, laughing and looking confused, "That's a good place to put it," as if his Drunk-O-Vision made it look like this {{trope}}. * [[ThisTroper This Troper's]] mother does not allow food upstairs, but {{Troper}} likes to nosh on clementines (small, easily-peeled oranges) while working in her room. Since she is [[{{Pettanko}} not particularly well-endowed]], they fit nicely in her anti-cleavage; aforementioned mother is still none the wiser. * It's possible to fit a surprising amount of junk inside this compartment. My very large chested best friend regularly puts so much in her bra and cleaveage we've started calling it 'Boob Narnia' after a comment made by another friend. Once she pulled her phone, wallet and Nintendo DS from her cleaveage at once. Turned out later she also had other junk in different areas of the bra too. She's been doing this for years and it's still a mindfuck to see her remove each item one by one at the end of the day. ** [[CallBack Once again,]] that's just BeyondTheImpossible. * ThisTroper discovered that it really is possible to enact {{this trope}} with small animals. She was wearing a low cut shirt and had a pet budgie riding on her shoulder. The budgie decided to go exploring and went headfirst down her cleavage. HilarityEnsued as the {{Troper}} tried to pull the budgie out without hurting it. ** One of [[ThisTroper this troper's]] mom's sun conure's favorite

pasttimes is going down her (38Cish)shirt. She once tried it with {{this troper}} and ended up perched between her (30E) cleavage with one foot on each cup. No one would have known, save for the adorable clucking noises. * {{This troper}} had to do laundry the other night, but my pajama pants didn't have pockets for my money or my cell phone. Before I changed my $5 for quarters, I felt like a stripper. With a squarethird-cell-phone-boob. * During her wedding ceremony, {{this troper}} hid a cue card with her (personalized) vows down the front of her dress. She was able to remove it at the appropriate time without anyone catching on. In front of a ''church full of people'', no less. (She still isn't quite sure how she pulled it off...) ** More likely at least a few people saw it, but didn't say anything. * {{This troper}}, and her sisters, do this all the time! My sister fondly refers to hers as The Pocket Dimension, while mine is the Cleavage of Holding. The record so far is a cell phone, a wallet, and a rather bulky camera, none of which were visible in a low-cut dress. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] girlfriend doesn't do this intentionally; she has a bag and pockets for her stuff. However, our pet rat (female) seems to love hiding there. * [[Tropers/KennyMan666 I]]'ve seen a friend of mine take out her cellphone from there a number of times. * I've got a female friend who occasionally does this. One day it was terribly obvious that this was where she was storing various things, and after trying not to look for an entire day, I just told her: "Dammit, I'm just going to stare now when you do that, okay?" She was alright with that. I guess I'm a lucky bastard. * Girls in [[ThisTroper this troper's]] county do a variation where the cellphone is kept on the side of the bra, not in the front. Like in the wide part of the strap in the middle so the boob functions as a cellphone bed. * While this isn't typically something a male could do, {{this troper}} manages to store relatively flat objects between an undershirt and overshirt. Most recently an entire hat and some software for his laptop. Top that. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] large assets make it very easy to hide money (you know, for when I forget my wallet and am wearing pants sans pockets). * A couple of girls at [[ThisTroper this troper's]] school like to store their [=BlackBerries=] in this compartment. {{This troper}} prefers her shoe. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] friend does this, too. Tickets, cellphones, jewelry, and even a small (covered) knife. * An airport security guard once told me his dog caught a woman trying to smuggle a live monkey into the country. No points for guessing as to where the monkey was. * One of my old teachers and some of my old classmates do this. * When {{this troper}} was roleplaying Almalexia in a Morrowind {{LARP}}, she kept her character sheet and resource chips in her [[{{Stripperiffic}} armor-bra-whatever]]. * One time, [[{{Tropers/Frimaire}} I]] dropped my flash drive while

heading into the locker room to change for gym and a teacher gave it back after I had changed. My gym shorts had no pockets and I couldn't go back into the locker room to put it back in my bookbag. So where do I hide it? In my bra. It felt weird while I was jogging, oh God. * {{This troper}} has done this a few times with her [[PokemonGoldAndSilver PokeWalker]] whenever she wears a dress. It also helps that my right breast is smaller than my left due to surgery several years back. * {{This troper}} first experimented with cleavage storage when going to a concert that didn't allow cameras. My sister is considerably less well endowed than I, and the camera wasn't exactly little. Over time I've started putting money and my ID there when going anywhere that a purse would be a nuisance, and my wallet is far too bulky even if I have pockets. Recently, a friend decided that a standard measurement would be helpful, and we decided on cell phones. She has a capacity of two cell phones, while mine is four (two in the cleavage and one in each cup.) I also stick my iPod in my bra when I'm doing housework, since I prefer sweats for that task, and none of mine have pockets. * {{This troper}} recently broke her ankle and had to walk everywhere on crutches, so she had to carry everything in her cleavage when she wasn't using her purse. Nobody actually noticed because everything was so well hidden. * In art class, due to the strict rule of no cell phone (caught and you get it back at the end of the ''semester.''), a girl stashes it in her bra and takes it out when the teacher isn't looking. I mentioned to her that I can't help but look when she does this and she says she doesn't mind whatsoever. * E cups plus [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]] plus {{anime}} conventions and not wanting to leave valuables in her bag means that [[Tropers/ProdigalDaughter this troper]] does this fairly often. Usually with her cell phone and money; it's quite comfortable. Of course, she also loves pulling things out of there when her easilyflusterable girlfriend is looking in her direction~ * Wearing jewelry is strictly forbidden in [[ThisTroper this troper's]] high school. The other day she realized too late that she still had her earrings in. As a last resort, she stuffed them in her bra. Nobody noticed. And the earrings survived. * I keep some stuff in my bra, and some stuff in the secret pocket at the front of my skirt * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] sister likes to put her phone between her cleavage. * A student I knew used this to keep her (male) teacher from taking her cell phone, and in quite a taunting manner. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It backfired in epic fashion when the teacher paid someone to dial her number]]...[[NeverLiveItDown and she was forever known as "Betty BuzzBoobs"]]. * A friend of mine uses the {{trope}} all the time. She kept her cellphone, money, credit cards, and snacks in there. While with me I have D-cup breasts kept trying to hide my cell phone in there but keeps falling through the clevage. I guess the clevage is too wide in trying to grip the cellphone. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] mother often puts her cell phone in

there * {{This troper}} wears a necklace that sheilds her from harmful rays her computer and cell phone send out (really[[EverythingTryingToKillYou Everything]] '''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou is]]''' [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill you!]]) Because she keeps it near her heart, and her bra space is perfect for the slim card, she puts it there. ** She also doesn't understand why its such a bad DoubleStandard for a woman to put something out of her clevage, but a man can't. [[CaptainObvious Most men don't]] ''[[CaptainObvious have]]'' [[CaptainObvious boobs in the first place!]] [[{{Anvilicious}} Some double standards are there for a reason, y'know!]] * {{This troper}} has a bad habit of ending up with things down her shirt without knowing it. I've found popcorn, pieces of paper and coins, usually at night while undressing but sometimes awkwardly in public. Once, I put a handwarmer under a scarf (sitting at a soccer game in 30-degree weather), and somehow it fell down into my cami, and then I forgot about it. Cue ten hours later, and me wondering why my chest is suddenly very hot. My roommate watched in horror as I pulled what appeared to be a small package of powder from between my assets. * {{This troper}} was at a swim meet when her best friend received money from her mother. Because others were trying to get to the money, she put it in her swimsuit. After five heats she noticed she left her money in her suit. When she took the bill out, it was perfectly dry. * Am I (male) the only person on this page who thought girls putting things in there cleavage was completely normal? I did not expect everyone to treat it like it was such an awkward topic, after all, i know tons of girls who would pull something out of their boobs in public and not care who noticed...ya know...cuz its not really that uncommon. * I, a teenage male, have a good reason for not being able to pull this off, but several female friends take great enjoyment from taking stuff out of my pencil-case and putting it amongst their, well, y'know. They find my uncomfortableness hilarious, apparently. It has also resulted in my USB stick getting closer to boobs than I have, depressingly. ** My girlfriend does the same thing, instead stealing money from me and my friend. (who usually carries a lot on hand so it wouldn't bother him, he gets it back anyway) At one point she stole my iPod while we were listening to it together, and continued to listen to it. Later when I was about to leave, I asked for it back, and we both forgot where it was. * ThisTroper was surprised at how well this works for her. I put my mailbox key down there once. (I lose things with surprising frequency, and it was extremely important that I hang on to that key at the time, so...) * ThisTroper has a friend who, when she wants to remember something, will keep a note to herself here. She will actually forget about it and then find it later. * {{This troper}} had a well-endowed aunt who stuffed both keys, wallet and ''dentures'' down there. He also once experienced a female friend snatching one of his socks and stuffing down the front of her

shirt. However, due to the [[{{Troper}} troper's]] quite special relationship with this girl, he snatched it back. She was annoyed because it didn't work, but a nearby teacher accused me of sexual harassment. * {{This troper}} and his [[FiveManBand friends]] were playing a game of keep away, when the girl of our group decided to stuff the object of everyone's desire, and stuffed it between her boobs. I looked at her, completely deadpan, and said : "That's just encouragement" and promptly reached into her cleavage to pull it out. She was completely flabbergasted for 10 minutes. * {{This troper}}, as an average 14-year-old (read- seven years ago) once, while riding a bicycle, came across a good-size live snake. The snake made it home safe and happy. ** [[FlatWhat what.]] You put a live snake between your breasts? [[FridgeLogic And this never seemed like a bad idea to you?]] *** I knew it was a harmless species that wouldn't bite. Probably less dangerous than a few items mentioned on this page... * {{This troper}} has found that carrying around her Kershaw scallion (a type of manual switchblade) attaches to the center of the bra quite well. Easiest way to carry it around school ever. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] friend usually keeps her phone inside her bra. She was faced with laughter and mocking from their other friends when this was revealed. * [[{{Trkzsoup}} This troper]] has done this since her breasts were large enough to realistically accommodate various things. I've carried candy, ID cards, cell phones, keys, money, a butterfly knife, hair ties, lipstick/chapstick, books, mirrors, notes, sunglasses and dozens of other sundry items when the need has arisen. It doesn't help that a majority of modern dresses don't have pockets. * A friend of [[ThisTroper this (female) troper]] once tried to do this with something she stole from me, assuming I would not reach down her shirt to get it. I did. This event transpired in school. * {{This troper}} swims a lot and sometimes wears socks in and out of the pool to prevent catching any icky foot conditions. Once sufficiently soaked with chlorine, she waits until no one is looking (it's a gym pool and rarely has more than three people around) and stashes them in her bikini top. Her E-cups hide 'em perfectly. Also, when her mom figures out in the car that she needs more money than she brought, {{this troper}} sneaks to her extra stash (meaning her mom's; {{this troper}} r flat broke), stuffs a Benjamin into her bra, and gets it past her greedy, nagging dad that way. ** Oh, and the only way that she can keep her MP3 player on her personage while jumping rope is to stash it the far side of her bra cups. (Her usual jumprope song is one of [[MemeticMolestor Gilbert's]] from AxisPowersHetalia. Thus, it is fairly awkward, but in fun way.) * ThisTroper, a marching band member, often stows her cell phone in her bra for parades and whatnot, since she has a [[{{Pettanko}} bit of extra room in there]]. She also stores her iPod like this when her clothing lacks pockets. * ThisTroper had a very well-endowed female friend that often teased him by stealing his stuff, hiding it in her cleavage and saying how I couldn't get it back, sometimes it'd be in there for a full day.

Getting it back became less of an issue after she became my girlfriend, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean If you know what I mean]]. * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] school doesn't allow cellphones, but most students still bring them on the sly because they really don't understand all that "no cellphones allowed" panic coming from the adults. Since the student council is on our side, they give us warnings on suprise bag/pocket inspections and such. Guess where {{this troper}} hid hers? * This troper's friend once shoplifted a thimble by hiding it in her VSC. (I know it's not an excuse for stealing, but she ''was'' drunk at the time.) She called it "shopping with her bra," and I referred to it as a "[[FiveFingerDiscount Double-D Discount]]." * [[@/OhNoes This troper]] often gets his posessions stolen and shoved into VSC's. [First person switch, go!] The girls will usually take my iPod [which I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT for more than five minutes. Seriously] or my phone and shove it down their cleavage, taunting me by having enough of it show for me to know that it's there, but not enough for me to grab without being a pervert. * This troper, after reading all of this, has just tried to fit several things in her bra. This troper finds that push up bras inhibit this and her cell phone is way too big. However money and lipstick are still concealed with relative. * This troper goes to a school where a uniform is mandatory on some days. On these days, she often finds herself with no pockets, as her skirt doesn't have one and her blouse doesn't either. So, convenient keeping of her cellphone, lunch money, pen, and iPod touch is utilized by stuffing all these things down her front. I'm curious, though: when I put larger, flatter objects (such as my iPod), I don't keep it in my cleavage but rather sandwiched between the side of one breast and the bra-cup. I find there's more space there... where in your bra you my fellow tropers keep their belongings? * This Troper once had to work with a girl who kept ''cookies'' in her bra. Crumbly, hot cookies with melty chocolate chips. She offered some to people. The vast majority denied. * This small-chested troper likes to wear a bra that is usually too big for her...that way I can easily store items in it. What items you ask? Well...there's my Ipod (so I can listen to in class without getting [[IncrediblyLamePun busted]] ), wallet, and sometimes my glasses and/or glasses case. ---Go back to VictoriasSecretCompartment (but only with the lady's permission). ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Ptitlebb330lv9nf12 * Everyone here whose Latin teacher effected a British accent while translating, please stand up. ** This is with the exception of the Catullus's poem making fun of the accent of Arrius. It was performed in a mocking Redneck accent.

** This troper had a Latin teacher who was VERY fond of doing this, doubly hilarious as this troper doesn't live in an English speaking country. ** This troper once asked their Latin teacher what accent Latin was supposed to be read out in. The teacher replied that as no-one really knows what ancient Romans sounded like, the answer is "any accent you like". Perhaps this is the real reason why The Queen's Latin prevails. *** Catullus 16 should be read in an Italian accent in order to carry across the theme of casual insult, though either a 'posh' voice or a 'chav' voice can be assumed for comedy value. **** This troper always reads it in an impression of [[RepoTheGeneticOpera Pavi Largo]]. *** This troper's Latin teacher did many translations either imitating characters from ''TheGodfather'' or imitating Sylvester Stallone, depending on the day. Sometimes he would branch out into ''StarWars'' characters. Still, he tended to use American stereotypes (with a side of UpperClassTwit/EvilBrit when necessary) to get the point across better. Along with pop cultural allusion. He'd make a good troper. ** This troper is British and had a British Latin teacher. ** This troper's Latin teacher was also the German teacher, as she was from Austria. Thus, we learned latin with a thick Austrian Accent. * Of all the people who read parts when we did ''Macbeth'' in English, I was the only one to even attempt a Scottish accent - and I was then immediately banned from doing so again. (But I got to read [[DoubleEntendre the Porter]], so it's all good.) * I was reading the page for ''JesusChristSuperstar'' and saw that Pilate is used as an example of this trope. I laughed, since in the American production of the show that I was in, Pilate was played by a Scotsman, the only non-American in the cast. ---Veni vidi TheQueensLatin. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitlebcvjiokg * An interesting way [[Tropers.ArcVaranus this troper]] learned from my father to look at this is "Things shouldn't be like this. But they are. Now what do I do to move forward?" Just because life often seems unfair doesn't mean you can't get what you want or need, it just means your original plan for getting it changes, hence the importance of the XanatosGambit - all routes lead to victory! Simply put, it's easier to accept problems and find solutions than to fight against them. * As a good KnightInSourArmor / TheSnarkKnight this is my CatchPhrase although more like "Life is neither equal,fair or simple". [[Tropers.{{terlwyth}} * One of this troper's CatchPhrases whenever someone says this is "That doesn't mean it shouldn't be." ** Agreed. This phrase is one of my pet peeves. * This troper's father tells her that "Life's a bitch" on a daily basis. * My best friend (pretty much a mother to me) always tells me this,

whenever I get over excited about something then something happened to mess it all up. This is pretty much whenever I want to do something. * This troper tends to count that phrase with "Life, in itself, is not unfair or fair. We people are any of them, and only us make heck of the fellow man or woman." * This is [[Tropers.{{Nani}} this troper's]] mother's CatchPhrase. She says it all the time, and never changes her wording. --> '''Mom:''' No one of any consequence ever said life was fair. * [[BerserkButton I hate this saying so much]] that I only use it when I want to be a {{Jerkass}}.

ptitlebeohy6n8 * Whenever this troper's acquaintances say something unbelievably dumb, meaningless, stupid, crazy or annoying, and they insist it isn't, this troper can feel strong headaches and ''eye-aches''. She also lets out an extremely loud deep-breath/sigh. It's probably normal stress-behavior, but it's like she can feel her soul being ripped out and her understanding of how we got to this point in technology dying inside her. * My shoulders freeze up after running and my eyes sting if I sit in a lighted room for too long and then stand up and walk somewhere darker. * This editor is not a skilled programmer, so he resorted to cut and paste programming to finish his final project. Looking through it a year later, I found a comment I'd made in that hellish rush to finish it: -->I actually threw up in my soul at the thought of having to write another block of if statements. I can FEEL it. * [[{{Tropers.RAMChYLD}} This troper]] being denied access to CBeebies because it's only available on a FIOS service that doesn't serve his area. It has resulted in depression fits, paranoia and a suicide attempt. It has even resulted in the following post to Facebook: --> Shit has happened to me. [[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Happiness have been destroyed]]. [[SquareEnix The World Is Square]]. [[{{Unix}} Will to live rm -rf 'ed]]. etc. ** Weren't you overreacting [[{{Understatement}} a little]]? It's only CBeebies. *** Name me one other channel available in Malaysia that carries {{Humf}} or SpotTheDog. I've gotten into infinite arguments with other Pay TV providers in the country because they do not have channels that carry the shows. * [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot I]] get sore and achey whenever I'm depressed and/or stressed. Which is to say, all the time. It's generally my ankles that hurt, and sometimes I can't walk, which is REALLY difficult to explain. ** It's actually not, being depressed may cause your immune system to shut down, among other things, that can cause: Muscle, joint and head pain. It can also make you more prone to getting sick. * This troper has random, unexplained shooting pains that can occur anytime and anywhere, usually felt in the legs, arms, and lower torso, and usually on the left side of his body. They often catch him by surprise and cause him to grimace to no explainable reason to

onlookers. [[BlatantLies "Yeah, I'm just thinking painfully stupid thoughts right now, don't mind me."]] ** That happens to me randomly, but mostly in my chest area, and it's very random; I don't even have to be thinking anything stressful. Turns out I have costochondritis. * This troper has this as a personality fault. If he notices anyone doing or saying anything incorrectly, no matter how inconsequential it is, he has to choose between correcting that person (and probably being seen as petty/obnoxious), or feeling himself die a little. This leads to a reputation for pedantry and a nigh-constant slew of headaches. ** ...okay, I KNOW I've never visited this page before. And yet I find a perfect description of myself here. What the hell. *** Crap, there's three of me. I've actually had people block me from Facebook for this exact reason. * TDTL suffers from deranged twitcing if she sits too still for too long. This created an interesting situation in her office where she jerked her keyboard off her desk, hit her head on the desk and fell on the floor. Not so much soul pains as such, but still, got some funny looks... * This troper feels the emotions of people around her (I know it sounds crazy, but it's true). When someone near me is sad, angry, or frustrated, I usually feel pain that's not quite physical, but not entirely mental either. My family usually calls the pain "soul aches." * This troper remembers several accounts of feeling searing pain in her soul without any reason, and often has to stifle the urge to cry out. It's a ripping sensation, so bad that her mind can only take the "after-shocks". ** This troper has felt that exact same "ripping sensation". It got to the point that, while she was totally silent, she was crying her eyes out and her mind was screaming in agony. Just thinking about it now makes her chest ache. * When ever I read a story that involves one of the characters having their own soul ripped from them, I start to feel this strange ache in my chest. The ache itself seems to originate in the center of my chest. * This troper read My Immortal-- by chapter fifteen, they were blacking in and out of consciousness, and shuddering uncontrollably for no reason other than "Oh God, this is so bad I can feel my soul going crazy". * This Troper gets pain. Literally, just pain. It's sensation changes, it's location varies (literally anywhere on his body, almost always internal) and it's intensity can be anywhere from "annoyance" to "holy shit why do I feel like I got stabbed". He suspects MS, but has yet to receive his recent MRI's results. * I have felt such a variety of these, at times I wonder how I'm still alive, since my body feels like it's running a bug-filled OS with many severe hardware problems to boot. ---Go back to [[ImHavingSoulPains I'm Having Soul Pains.]] ----

ptitlebwhmt6p47cy5 * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]] wants a kitten... but the only problem is my dog would probably chase it up the nearest tree. * [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot I]] hate cats, but I once skipped my lunch hour because there were kittens! Fainting from hunger was SO. VERY. [[WorthIt WORTH IT!]] * One of my friends owns five cats. They are so cute when they mewow...until one of them kills a mouse [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel and dumps the guts by the front door.]] Oops. *hides from incoming crowd* * This troper currently is surrounded by the 3, 3 month-old kittens she hand-reared from the day they were born. One is lying tummy-up between her shoulder and the couch, and is dreaming. * One of this troper's friends got so distracted by a kitten that she stumbled down the stairs and sprained her ankle. Still, she got to cuddle a kitten while being iced up. * Someone I know has 3 small kittens. Just watching them curl up lazily on the couch... awwww. :3 * [[@/KatanaCat I]] love cats, and always wanted to have a pet one. Sadly my mom's allergic to kitties... I'm stuck drawing cats, reading about cats, writing about cats, and [[SonicTheHedgehog playing as cats]]... * Aww. This troper loves cats. Kittens, especially. They're cute and bumbly, and they sound adorable. She has had five kittens in the house. One of them was such a stubborn little git that she kept squeezing under the door and tottering out into the hallway, even when this troper closed the door as firmly as she could. And stuffed a towel under it. But kittens... ahhh, kittens are one of the joys of life. * This troper regularly goes to a cafe where one particular cat can be seen lurking the front patio. Unlike other cats he's encountered (who have a tendency to run away), this particular cat seems rather fond of customers; it's come up to him and licked his hand on more than one occasion. * Hang around in the tropers IRC channel for very long, and SOMEONE will either start talking about cats, or send you to kittenwar. * This troper wants a kitty, but doesn't want to go through the pain of his last oldest one being put down...time to get Nintendogs + Cats! ---D'awww! Go back to [=~Everything's Cuter With Kittens~=] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Ptitleck6ffwiw * Here's one that involved a PornStash: [[Tropers/KatanaCat My]] mom was helping me get rid of a computer virus on my laptop, and needed a Windows Explorer window. She saw one, so she switched to it, only to be greeted by a picture of a [[{{Yiff}} furry]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbian]] [[UpToEleven threesome]] that was attained from

[[Imageboards Fchan]]. You see, I browse the stash by setting the folder to Slideshow, as I use Windows XP. Awkwardness and excuses ensued: -->Troper: I must have downloaded that accidentally? -->Mom: I unfocused my eyes! I literally DID NOT SEE IT! (knowing my mom, this was [[OrIsIt probably]] true) ** Made even more interesting due to the fact that the Troper was, at the time, a 13 year old girl. ** May I meet you in person?

ptitlecl8xukzuauw1 * This troper is a regular poster in an Italian newsgroup about emulation, and he hates MAME with a passion for its severe flaws (every version is slower than the previous one, 3D acceleration is completely absent so a quad-core processor cannot reach full speed with a game of 3DFX-complexity, it renders the whole scene to a Direct3D texture so the display becomes even slower...) Even though during the years most of the other posters have agreed with him, some MAME fundamentalists still reply "Let's see you do better" when he criticizes the program. His response to them is usually a variation of "I'm already doing better just by doing nothing" or "you don't need to be a chef to know that a shit cake is disgusting". * This is essentially the most fun kind of project while training for design: take a horrible design and redo it. We can get pretty snarky about it, too, doing things like changing something as small as fixing the spacing of the paragraphs or color correcting it. We then post the results all over so we can collectively snicker at whatever company we know needs a better designer (i.e. easy prey). * This troper admits to being frustrated with people who dislike all modern art on the grounds that "my four-year-old could do that" or "it makes no sense" - when those people know absolutely squat about art and have never tried to learn. In her defense, this is less "only artists should criticise other artists", and more "only people who have any interest in engaging with and learning about art rather than dismissing anything that falls outside their comfort zone should criticise an entire field of human endeavour". * When someone was heavily tearing down one of my Fanfictions, one of my fans suggested that I pull this card. [[DefiedTrope I had a feeling it would make things worse, so I didn't]] [[TakeAThirdOption I just blocked the guy who was tearing me down, after all his criticism could hardly be called constructive]] * This Troper hates canons getting the shaft in crossover fanfiction. The only proper revenge is to do it myself. I've been laboring for years trying to create what amounts to a production bible for what I've been creating, and the project is still ongoing. [[{{Determinator}} I'm not giving up anytime soon]], and my work has already impressed the majority of my friends... ---What, you think it's easy making main page links? Well then, LetsSeeYOUDoBetter!

Ptitlecm2jt2w4 * This Troper beat her brother at chess with this. Her brother had played chess for years, participated in the school chess tournament, and was in the chess club at school; Troper didn't know jack shit about the game. One evening, her brother offered to play against her, saying he'd teach her as she went--half an hour later, he did a DoubleTake at the board and shouted ''"I'm in CHECK-MATE?!"'' Troper knows he didn't simply let her win because he sulked about it for hours. * This Troper and pinball. * Not sure if this counts, but this troper just deleted all of his data on SSBB, then proceeded to start a Brawl - Meta-Knight vs. Ice Climbers (CPU) on Brinstar. A pokeball showed up, and I used it to unleash...CELEBI!!!!!!!! ON THIS TROPER'S FIRST POKEBALL OF THE NEW FILE!!! * I,[[@/{{Terlwyth}}]] beat my Dad at a game of Risk on my first go,also did that with my first game of Super Smash Bros.,and Monopoly.I live this trope * The first time this Troper went to a casino, the first slot machine she sat at got 777. Only won about $40 though. * The day after this troper turned 21, he was at a casino with his family, and his grandma took him to bingo... he won the first round and got 75 bucks off of it. * This troper was once hanging out with her older cousin and his friends (which were all guys.)Being the only girl there, they were betting that I didn't know how to play video games, how they would destroy me in Halo blah, blah, blah. So I picked up the controller, and promptly proceeded to cream all of them. It was also my first time playing Halo. * I went to a rifle range with my friend and his family - first time when I was 13. My first shot with a rife was a dead-on bullseye on the target. I was never able to do it again, and have long since lost an interest in going shooting. * This troper has an interesting one. On her cousin's 10th birthday, the whole family got to go to Chuck E Cheese. Being the inner child type person I am, I was excited for all the ticket winning games, and used my knowledge of probability and math to decide the best way to make the tokens stretch more for fun. I should note that I am 6 years older than said cousin. After she wasted the majority of her tokens on that spinning light thing (the dome shaped one that has a jackpot if you line the lights up), earning only a handful of tickets in the process, she stormed away, the jackpot number quite high (I think it was like... 5000 or something...). Remembering how my older brother explained the mechanics of this machine, I decided to try it once. If I lost, I'd go else where. One token, and the lights went flashing. Count and time the time it takes for the light to cross the winners area, tapping my hand to the "beat". Wait until it was two lights away, and slam it down. Jackpot. They had to refill the ticket reel. My cousin was very annoyed, because it was HER birthday party, and I offered to share, but my mom said that it was my first big win, and I

should get the prize I wanted. I think I got matching prizes for my mom and I. First, and only time I've ever played that machine. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] won his very first game of {{Fluxx}} on his ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome first turn]]''. * This troper had never played Texas Hold'em before a group of her friends convinced her to try. A little while later, she had the entire pot in front of her. Apparently she has a decent poker face despite never playing poker. * This troper had never played quarters before and had next to no experience in tossing them. First four shots made it in perfectly with only 2 other shots going in from the other players. Unfortunately I made no other shot after that, beginner's luck indeed. * This troper once hosted a tournament in Sonic the Fighters (from the Sonic Gems ps2 game) while on holiday in the countryside. Apart from his three (male) cousins, the sister of one of them decided she'd try her luck at it. She proceeded to completely own everyone but this troper (he has much more experience than all of his relatives), who just barely won. * This troper won his first game of cards (he doesn't know the name of it) ''in the first round''. This was actual luck, since the cards you get are completely random. * When playing Munchkin with her D&D group, this troper got her butt kicked by the DM, who never played Munchkin before * This troper managed to win his second round of {{Mao}} (to the complete astonishment of everyone present), which is pretty weird, considering how unfriendly the game is to new players. He attributes it to a combination of luck and being ''extremely'' observant. Of course, he had no idea what kind of rule to make up at that point... * This troper once played Texas Hold-'Em with my step-brother, who is a very experienced Poker player and his friends. I managed to collect the whole pot and beat them all with some very lucky hands. They swore they weren't making it easy for me, it was blind luck. * This troper won her very first game of Clock Solitaire. Not very impressive, but the odds of winning is pretty low.

Ptitled1r47cq0 * [[@/{{Idler}} This troper]] has been told by people he hardly knows to hit them on multiple occasions, for no readily apparent reason. * This troper actually did hit the person who said this, then got tackled and got his right leg broken...yeah. That didn't work out well. * This troper did slap a friend who asked her to. Twice. Then again, she probably wouldn't have done it hadn't she known that her friend was a self-declared [[FetishFuel masochist.]] * This troper, after a two YEAR long argument with his dad over how massive a bitch his soon-to-be stepmother was, finally yelled to him, "IF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY, THEN F***ING HIT ME AND LET'S GET IT OVER WITH!" This troper....Now lives in an apartment, alone, about a year after the incident in question. So, that probably wasn't the best approach to the situation... * This troper was at school when someone he...strongly disliked came

up and started being a dick, culminating in him yelling "Hit me, bitch!" which I did...and broke his nose...well, I was just trying to be helpful! ** I say you did a good job. * As a kid, this troper suffered the delusion that he was far more impervious to harm than was actually the case, and would occasionally challenge grown men to hit him in the stomach, to prove that he could take it. Thankfully, none of them took him up on the offer. Additionally, in high school, I was challenged by another student to ''let'' him hit me, and accepted. And took the blow without blinking. It was a dumb thing to do, but I was a teenager dammit, and performing idiotic feats for bragging rights is practically synonymous with teenagerhood. * [[@/{{Arc9}} This troper]], while under the influence, once claimed (read: repeatedly boasted) that he couldn't feel any pain at all, and annoyed his [[{{HeterosexualLifePartners}} Heterosexual Life Partner]] into hitting him. A kick aimed straight at the balls was received (along with being pushed right off my sitting spot), but amusingly, the boast held mostly true: the bum (which broke the fall) hurt more than the family jewels. This troper isn't willing to try this a second time, though. * This troper is hit by his two-years-younger sister on a regular basis, often for almsot no reason. I sometimes ask her to hit me to confuse her, or [[RuleOfFunny for a laugh]]. * This troper - "You couldn't hurt me, I'm, like, twice your size. Go on, try and hit me." -->'''Friend:''' - "Seriously?" -->'''Troper:''' - "Yeah, do it." -->'''Friend:''' *grabs dictionary off a nearby table and slams it into the stomach of the troper* -->'''This troper:''' - "*wheeze, cough* didn't feel anything." * This troper once slapped her brother after he told her to. He thought it would wake him up. It did, but he was shocked at how easily this troper complied once she was assured she would not be attacked once said slap happened. * This troper's best friend was in a bar that had one of these "test your strength" punching bag machines. This absolutely ''enormous'' dude who's about to have a go at it turns to my friend and asks for a slap in the face. And another. And another. And then -- cue battle roar, followed by punch OfDoom, followed by broken machine. My friend gives good slaps, apparently. ** Your friend is Bright Noa? * I use variations of "Hit me, dammit!" to win in video games & such. It's amazing what you can do by simply telling somebody to waste their time attacking you. * One boy in school (who looked oddly familiar) asked me to do this. Trigger my SignatureMove one - two punch of elbow to the stomach and knee to the groin. I got suspended because I did what he wanted. The {{Aesop}}? [[BrokenAesop Never do what people tell you to do. Not even your boyfriend.]] * This troper was part of an inversion. In my early grade school years there used to be a girl bully who delighted in tormenting the boys in

various ways then taunting them by saying "You can't hit me, you can't hit me!", often after having hit them or stolen from them or whatever. Unfortunately for her, at one point she would find out that this troper took the idea of gender equality to heart at a very early age. * This troper, in a more polite version of this trope, jokingly slapped a boy she'd just met, and he said, "Thank you, ma'am, may I have another?" And so she did it again for real and got the same response, and so she did it ''again''. * [[@/AcrossTheStars This troper]], a vegetarian who still remembers the wonderful taste of bacon and hamburgers, has a standing agreement with her brother that he will smack, hard, whichever hand starts creeping toward the meat dishes at dinner. * This Troper has found Korean children to not meet his Western expectations of behavior, including being far more likely to throw punches at ''anyone''. At least they're impressed when they can't land anything on their teacher. 'Famous' line, "Hit me. You can't." Even if I didn't really learn anything else in Tae Kwon Do, dammit but I learned to block. * In This Troper's martial arts class, he kept pulling punches short on a black belt during practice, worrying that I would hurt him. Said black belt invoked the trope in question. This Troper complied, and hurt him. There's a lesson in this... ** In my karate class, we have to pull this on the white belts. Usually they can't punch too hard anyway, so it only becomes a problem when they get over their hesitation and start to get better form. * This troper once accidentally tripped a friend during a race. She felt so guilty that she followed her for 2 days pleading with her to trip her. She was actually pretty satisfied when she finally did. * This Troper had a friend who said he could take any punch or kick to the stomach, thanks to working out. To prove it, he asked me to hit him, as hard as possible. This Troper did as asked, but 'missed' and instead hit him in the face, knocking him to the floor. It was later proven that, yes, the said friend could really take any punch or kick to the stomach, though. * This troper was asked by one of his [[MightyGlacier "large" friends]] to punch him in the stomach as hard as he could. I am 5'7", 115 lbs on a good day, so I guess he was expecting the impact to be negligible. [[LightningBruiser It wasn't.]] * This troper once dispelled a massive fight, simply by standing at the head of the opposing game and screaming at them to hit me. Apparently, it was so unnerving they left... And that was not my intention. * A friend of this troper, a self-proclaimed masochist, will sometimes ask her to slap him because "it relaxes him". Being a bit of a sadist herself, this troper usually indulges him. * This troper generally bluffs this way. Being a martial artist, he simply proceeds to dodge the swing and say "you got that one for free. take another swing and you won't be so lucky." It tends to work. * [[@/{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]]'s father was teaching her how to street fight one day. She was mostly blocking whatever weak punches he threw at her. He announced that he wanted her to hit him as hard as she could and put himself on defense. She punched his forearm so hard

that for a moment he'd thought she'd broken it. The best part about this is that the Troper is 5'2'' and didn't even punch him as hard as she could. * Back in primary school, This Troper accidentally knocked a classmate of hers over in a race but didn't realise it until one of said classmate's friends came to tell her off for it- cue me almost illegimately babbling "I'msorryI'msorryI'msosorry!!!" and refusing to go until said classmate made her fall down too. Though her behind ached abit, her conscience was clear, and that was enough. * It became a joke that This Troper was an immovable rock, to the point where I was jump-tackled in the back, and didn't even realize it until I heard them swearing on the ground from the fall. Since then yelling "Tackle me and find out" was a call to battle for my clique through high school. * One day at This Troper's university, the student activities committe had hired a company to bring those padded fighting implements for student entertainment. (Sumo suits, platform jousting, giant boxing gloves) This one girl challenged me to a joust, but seemed reluctant to actually hit me, and I didn't want to hurt her, so I egged her on to give me a few free hits. * A rather horrible example of this. During my freshman year my high school had the tragedy of one of the senior class being shot and killed accidentally. He and a friend were apparently drunk and the guy dared his friend to shoot him. He did, but apparently neither of them were lucid enough to realize the folly of the dare. Until I found out the specifics, I kept hearing people asking other people "Hey, did you hear about ***** ******?" (I bleeped out his name for privacy purposes) * One time, outside a pub, whilst she was running a drunken version of [[DarkHeresy Dark Heresy]], this troper, to stop her from getting extremely angry towards one of her players (who was metagaming at the time), got another one of her players to slap her round the face. It worked, she was fine, but the guy looking outside at us was really, really worried. * This troper once tried this and failed - during a class, his classmates insisted and insisted that he should hit on a girl. He instead asked said girl to hit him - and the stupid chick did not comply. People only stopped annoying him with "hit on her"... when he tried to jump off the balcony (causing all of them to shout a BigNo). And feeling the urge to repeat: it occurred during class, ''with the teacher still in the room''! My life is weird. * This troper is in a martial arts class with 5 men who have at least 30 years on her, and when they spar, they always pull their punches. She ends up invoking this trope often (and usually to no avail). * This troper is fairly frail and unintimidating overall. He also has an excellent throwing arm, and a mischievous streak. People walk up to him with alarming frequency to invoke this trope, misguidedly hoping to demonstrate their manliness/martial arts prowess/reflexes. After having learned the hard way that this is almost always a lose/lose situation, this troper instead typically [[RuleOfFunny throws stale popcorn at the challenger and flees]]. ** Yes, people ask him why he carries stale popcorn in his backpack.

* This troper once asked (when slightly singed) to get hit by his friend after the most embarrassingly stupid answer to a question in a field this troper knows very well. It was a good hit. * This troper uses to say this when he's feeling really under the weather. For some strange reason, being hit makes me... I don't know how to describe the feeling. Energized? Motivated? Well, it usually works. And if someone hits me too weakly, I snarl "I said HIT ME, [[MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou not TICKLE ME]], dammit!", and then get the desired hit. The kicker? I laugh if it hurts. Yep, I really do. No, I'm not a masochist. No, I'm (supposedly) not crazy. I just keep thinking that there are worse things than physical pain, like the "soul-pain" that usually makes me ask for a hit. * A good number of [[{{Kami84}} this Tropette's]] male friends can attest to her CuteBruiser status. Her SignatureMove is pinching their upper arm. Hard. --->Me: Ever been bitten by a goose? --->Them: ...No. --->Me: *CheshireCatGrin* --->Them: *scoff* Like you can hurt me. The pride ended there for a number of my friends. * This troper, for some reason, can't feel pain or temperature in her legs (been to plenty of doctors about it), or feel much pain in several of her fingers, will brag about this. With one finger in particular (with nerve damage from a childhood injury), I told a freshman to try and make me feel pain in it. After five minutes of pinching, jabbing, twisting, etc..., he gave up. On a slightly unrelated note, people are often surprised to see me walking oustide in negative temps with bare legs. ---[[Main/HitMeDammit Click me, dammit]] to go back to the original article. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitledr2p2k8t [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:Confessions]] * [[@/EddieVanHelsing This male troper]] was taught by his father that a man does not strike a woman under any circumstances. However, he's come to think that his father has never had a crazy woman come at him with a knife, and so has adjusted his policy accordingly. He won't hurt a woman who attacks him bare-handed. Instead, he'll dodge and block until he can escape. If the woman comes at him with a weapon, however, then this troper [[UnstoppableRage leaves mercy behind]]. ** I have so many questions right now. * This troper (@/Dirge) wouldn't hit a girl, however, I will prevent them from hitting me. It's really amazing what one can do with their little finger. (Not in the way you guys are probably thinking of

though. Pressure points.) * [[Tropers/FrodoGoofballCoTV This Troper]] grew up with two younger sisters, so this was pretty much ingrained into him at a young age. His sisters came to [[WorthIt realize]] that if he did hit them, he'd be the only one who got in trouble, no matter what they'd done to trigger it. However, [[WorthIt it cured his anger issues]]. * [[{{terlwyth}} This troper]] averts it at all costs,having a twin sister who more often than not asked for it and often managed to psychologically cause far more damage [temporarily mind you]. Besides he's said on his page he's a CombatPragmatist.Although he tries not to resort to violence in the first place,nothing will stop him.He will however,never punch one in the boobs. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] is the only daughter in her family, and I have four brothers. My mother will not even let the youngest one (8 years old at the time of this edit) hit me (never mind that I'm 3 times his size and 14 years his senior). [[/folder]] [[folder:Anonymous]] * This troper is well aware of this rule, and prefers to get back through psychological torment, though he did get pissed off enough to try and backhand a girl who was annoying the hell out of him. He apologized later, and now he and the girl are good friends now. * This troper is a severe case of this trope in (in)action. He has an ironclad, unshakable mental block against actually hurting a girl. Any girl. It's like the Three Laws of Robotics! Lately, he's been able to get around the inhibition by not actually ''hurting'' the girl provoking violent action. Most Jiu-Jitsu throws don't cause undue bodily harm, or can be adapted so as not to do so. Still, the fact that in the event of a potentially fatal encounter with a woman, he will be unable to respond with anything resembling appropriate force troubles him. * I've got the exact same problem...logically, I don't have a problem with it, at reasonable levels, but it's another thing entirely on the instinctive level that takes over in such situations - this rule is built-in to my core like a concrete foundation. I once backhanded my ex-girlfriend out of instinct and pinned her to a wall after she attempted several times to claw my eyes in the middle of school (she was extremely abusive and in retrospect, quite probably had some kind of psychological disorder) It haunted me for years and only in the last six months or so has my business partner managed to make me believe in my heart that it was perfectly justified to do so in an abusive relationship, regardless of who was doing it. * Being a gentleman (In this troper's delusions) this troper would never hit a lady. A girl attacking me or spending several months harassing me is not a lady. * This troper is a large, muscular male who was raised a gentleman. I have had an abusive girlfriend or two, and I've noticed that I'm unable to strike a girl who has just hit me. (This is somewhat rational-- if I get bruises it's deeply humiliating for me, but if she got identical bruises I expect I'd spend at least a night in jail). I've also noticed that the same applies to hurtful words: she can

really hit me where I live, and I know just what would cut her down, but I just stand there mute. I don't consider myself sexist, I can spar with females just fine in the dojo, but the idea of actually hurting a female makes me almost physically ill. (If you want to persuade me to change this, don't just tell me it's chauvanistic, stand up for the presumption of innocence the next time you hear a guy accused of Violence Against Women.) And I can tell another story or two if anyone ever creates Troper Tales for {{the Dulcinea Effect}}. * This Troper cannot hit a girl. When pressed by friends, it's a combination of 'Misguided chivalry' and 'Where do you punch them?' ** This Troper has contemplated the problem when faced by a glasseswearing girl with attitude. the only proper answer was (in theory, had to put into practice) the arm or leg, or, MAYBE, the back, although that shows that you were either attacking first or dominating the fight. In Karate (which is actually pronounced "car-ah-tey") it is a totally different story... * My policy? Don't hit people unless they pose a danger to you, or someone else. It doesn't matter what they say to you, or how badly your feelings are hurt; members of a civilized society do not use physical violence against one another. I will only break this rule if the other person does first. That said, I will do whatever is necessary to avoid hitting a woman. Women are smaller and weaker than men, and as a general rule, are not as durable. Period. Call me sexist, but it would take a lot more for me to hit a woman than another guy. * This troper IS a girl, and yet still wouldn't hit a girl. Namely because she's spent her life training and fighting with and against men and is physically capable of hanging with them, and once, in self defense, quite devastated another girl with one hit. However, the most severe beating she ever took was in an amateur boxing match against another female...who happened to be a Marine. She still maintains her policy in everyday life, though...just not in the ring. * This troper was taught as a child not to hit girls; as a very literal minded child he realised that this rule said nothing about kicking. After a period of bullying by girls a year or two older than him, he put that realisation into practice. * During a particularly bad breakup this troper was once assaulted by his ex. The episode ended with the ex on her knees sobbing something along the lines of "Why won't you hit me". * This troper once got in an argument with a guy after he was insulting her best friend. So she threatened to punch him if he didn't apologize. He said he'd never hit a girl, and refused to apologize. He got punched in the face. * This troper was once told that it's absolutely always wrong to hit a girl, even if said girl means you harm. What surprised me about this was that I was being told this by a guy who was a pretty clear redneck type that I had always had fingered as a wife-beater. Oh, PS: This troper personally believes in hitting anyone, man, woman, or anywhere in between, provided there's good reason to do so. * This troper was informed, by her grandfather, that the only violence permitted between the sexes (except if lives were threatened, obviously) was that a woman was permitted once and once only, to slap

a man with her open hand, and that a man in reply was permitted to shake her roughly by the shoulders and say "Calm down!" * This troper remembers doing partner drills in a martial-arts class, and her (male) partner saying just this, with slightly different phrasing (even though said troper was hitting him. Because she always expects it back)! * This female troper once had a boyfriend who agreed with this trope. When I took offense at his sexism, his response was along the lines of "Would you rather have a boyfriend who hit you?". (Needless to say that relationship didn't work out.) Personally, I believe that it's wrong to hit ''anyone'' unless it's for sport or a last resort for self-defense. * I know two boys, who could be classed somewhere between manipulative bastards and plain old bastards. Numerous times, they have warned me that if I was a guy, they'd have punched me already. They actually lost a whole lot of respect in my eyes, and now go out of my way to antagonise them. * If a girl hits me hard enough to hurt (even playfully), I will respond in kind, but probably with a lighter touch out of a distaste for violence, not this trope. Even if I just tap her on the shoulder with an open palm, others (often the Catholic friend who refuses to say "damn", let alone "shit" or "fuck", and refuses to play as the terrorist in COD) will call me out on this trope. My response? "I don't give a fuck." * This troper found this trope to her advantage many a time during primary school squabbles. Not only did the boys seldom hit back, they were always too embarrassed to admit they were beaten by a girl. This troper would like to point out that she never hit ''anyone'' unprovoked, and that she considers having a constant stream of verbal abuse hurled at her to be a perfectly good reason to punch the other guy in the head. * This troper's wrestling league now bans girls. Not because we beat the everloving shit or that they would refuse to fight somebody if they had won a match, but because of the following reasons; Yaoi Fangirls have enough fun watching wrestling. Guys on the sidelines are merciless about positions you get into when wrestling normal guys, but when it's a girl... * I've seen male players sent off or reprimanded by the referee in mixed tag rugby for stopping female players physically. The rules state 'reasonable force,' but the implementation is so lopsided that I (as a five foot tall skinny woman) have nearly taken guys head's off in what I knew full well was a dangerous tackle without response from the referee, but woe betide the guy that wraps me up in a relatively gentle bear hug tackle. * This troper has a tale about this being invoked by the youth club he used to help out with; Soccer was a sport that proved popular amongst the youth that went there and we (as the leaders of said group) tried as much to encourage both boys and girls to play soccer in our sports hall. We noticed that a lot of girls were hesitant in doing so for fear of physical contact. In response we came up with the following rule: No boys were allowed to tackle girls for possession of the ball. It worked, and even the boys weren't unhappy with this rule because it

gave them motivation to improve their game (by winning the ball through clever interception rather than brute force). * This female troper tends to get pissed off when guys claim this. When one did, she continually punched him until he punched her back. Hard. She was very satisfied when he finally did, very unsatisfied when someone yelled at him for hitting a "poor, innocent" girl. * Me? I wouldn't hit a girl. But I'd certainly slap one across the face if she truly deserved it. [[/folder]] [[folder:Anonymous: Stories You've Heard]] * This troper heard a story from a guy whose wife used to throw things like plates, cups, books, remotes and so on at him when she got mad. One day, he had enough, threw a recliner at her and threatened that he'd throw the TV next time. Since then, she has stopped throwing things. * Most of the guys I know wouldn't hit a girl. Like in class this one rather mean girl just walked up to this one guy slapped him across the face and he looked a bit stunned but didn't retaliate. After that though my other friend said that when some girl slapped his dad across the face in high school he slapped her back. [[/folder]] [[folder:Anonymous: Troper Works]] * This troper once tried to address this in some superhero-themed novels he was writing, just because the double standard always bothered him. Leader of the heroes deals with the second-in-command (a guy), turns to the major villain (a girl) and can't bring himself to hit her. After the female hero arrives, she promptly chews her male colleague out for his attitude, telling him that if the villainess had been holding a weapon, he could've easily been killed. In the ''next'' novel, a similar situation occurs with a different male hero fighting a female assassin. This time, though, the male escapes a fatal sword injury and punches the female villain in the face. She acts shocked until he points out she is currently trying to murder him, and he has every intention of fighting back, regardless of her gender. She accepts this, and the fight continues. ' [[/folder]] ---[[WouldntHitAGirl I wouldn't hit a return link. ]] * But I would. * click* [[DoubleStandard Jerk.]] * Moron. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ptitledu41nxkg6try * As a teen, this troper used to work with a Chinese guy with rather

longish hair. He eventually trimmed it short after getting called Ma'am several times. We still teased him about it. * Well, this tropee once was out with her little brother, who is three years younger, and her father, who is about 35 years older. Some guy made a comment to the brother about his 'mom'... Granted, I still kept my hair long at this point, which made me look older, but still. Even to this day, with my hair short(er), I still get an estimated age of at least two years older and am adressed with the Dutch 'u' which is about the same as the French 'vous' and mostly used for older people. * This never seems to happen in real life anymore; this troper, despite being consistently mistaken for several years younger than she is, started being called "ma'am" at about age 22. And it's not a southern thing unless western Pennsylvania counts as "southern". ** Outside of Philly or Pittsburgh, it probably does. A friend of mine from there describes the state as "Pittsburgh & Philly, with West Virginia in-between". *** This troper is from the Philly area and would agree with your friend, more or less. **** This troper from the Pittsburgh area concurs. *** This Philly troper always heard it phrased as Alabama in between, but yeah. * [[{{Seanette}} This editor]] has held several call center jobs, involving callers from all over the US, and finds it disconcerting to have a caller audibly at least one generation her senior address her as "ma'am", simply because being deferred to by someone that much older seems odd at best. This is more common with Southern people, of both sexes. ** On this note, here in Mexico, in order to avoid the Ma'am Shock, call center employees are trained to ''always'' address female callers as "seorita" ("young lady") regardless of their apparent age. *** This troper has implied women were young before. The horrible snottiness was awful. Can't win for trying! P.S. 'Ma'am' is required by many, many companies all over the US of A. **** When I was trying to diffuse a lady to get her to stop yelling at me about her son's Nintendo ds, i called her ma'am, which opened a whole other can of worms, took me five minutes to get her to calm down finally by repeatedly saying I'm sorry * This editor has been addressed as "ma'am" since she was sixteen, but lives nowhere near the South. * In many cases when this editor was around 16-20, would be addressed by people on the phone as "Ma'am." ''He'' was not exactly happy about it. ** My husband (now 45) isn't thrilled by this, either. He does sound quite young on the phone, but I don't think he sounds feminine. ** [[@/HersheleOstropoler This troper]] doesn't particularly like being called "ma'am." He's over 30. ** This (male, 25-year-old) troper has also been called "ma'am" on the phone on more than a few occasions. (Perhaps there should be a Troper Tales entry for ViewerGenderConfusion?) * The Republican National Convention is in this troper's hometown this year, and her sister (who is about three years older but still teenaged) has volunteered, which means a lot of phone calls to the

house. Unfortunately, even when I identify as '(big sister)'s younger sister' quite clearly, they insist on calling me 'ma'am'. It's deeply disturbing. (We're an extremely northern state, and presumably their call center is too. Perhaps I just sound old.) * This troper is not so certain it is simply a Southern thing; in California, at least, girls as young as 13 will be called Ma'am in shops and etc. And yes, it was unnerving at first. * This troper first got called "ma'am" at around age 13. And unless western Canada has become the south, she thinks that it's pretty much acceptable everywhere. ** It's the same for this troper, except she lives in southern Canada. Which is different from southern USA. She had assumed she was called ma'am mainly because she is very tall (a HugeSchoolgirl, in fact) and most people don't seem to pay much attention to appearances past height when you're as tall as she is. * For this Korean troper, bowing isn't just a sign of respect, but pretty much an acknowledgment that you are an adult. So naturally when this editor was 19 and was bowed by a younger person, she was awkward and in shock. Basically an Asian equivalent to the "Ma'am" deal. ** This non-asian troper who lived in Osaka for several formative years once hit a full out BerserkButton by bowing. This was rather disconcerting considering the eight year old had been instructed to bow to everyone when introduced, peers included. * [[{{L-chan}} This troper]] was called "Seora" (a rough equivalent of "Ma'am", on the respectful side) for the first time when she was 22, and the shock was more like "Okay, I know I look pretty homely, but still! Also, I'm still single!". This is because I am from Venezuela, where people are ''way'' more informal, and the only way you can be called "seora" is if you are in proper stores by proper salespeople (informal salespeople in popular markets tend to call you by the Spanish equivalents of "honey" and "darling"), if you are married, or, yes, after a certain age. I still think of myself as young, though, because I've not been called "Doa" (the ''real'' equivalent of "Ma'am" as dreaded old woman)... at least not yet. * Maybe Ma'am Shock is limited to certain parts of the country. Around here (the Northwest) you use "ma'am" when you are being polite. Like a clerk to a female customer. When I worked at a call center (blegh) I used "ma'am" to be polite to my female customers, just like I used "sir" to be polite to male customers. * This troper uses Ma'am naturally...to the surprise and occasional Ma'am Shock of people around him. His family was from down south, while he lives up north. ** [[NinjaMoogle This troper]] thinks all the Northerners are coming down here for... something, I dunno. Anyway, he's getting tired of women becoming ''visibly offended'' when I call them "ma'am". Once upon a time, you got slapped for not calling them such; now, [[MoralDissonance you get slapped]] [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin if you DO]]. And this troper, raised by a Philosophical {{Cowboy}}, has the rosy cheeks to prove both... "Sorry ma'am, that's just the way I'm taught" seems a CatchPhrase for him now. Though to be honest, there's just as many nice ladies out there that are just a little embarrassed to be called such, and he's [[ChivalrousPervert not afraid to use that

catchphrase as something besides an apology...]] *** This troper (female) was born and raised in Texas, and was on a competitive dance team. Ma'am is so ingrained into her speech patterns that she uses it when talking to ALL members of the female sex, regardless of age, much to the amusement of her peers at a notheastern college and the offense of her Californian horse trainer/boss (who's active on the American rodeo circuit and is even married to a ''real'' cowboy!) * Something similar occurs in Britain, the first time you're addressed as Ms rather than Miss. Also, when a child's parents refer to you as a "lady" as in, "Watch where you're going, you nearly tripped that lady up!". This Troper is a very young-looking 25 and gets that all the time. * This troper's been getting ma'am-ed since about 19. The first few times initiated frantic trips to the nearest mirror to check for wrinkles or grey hairs. * This troper was in his senior year of high school, visiting the college his sister attended as a prospective student (wound up going elsewhere, but that's not important). I was in the cafeteria in line for something or other, when one of the college students - a guy at least 1 year my senior, probably more - said "excuse me, sir," to get past me. I'd been growing out my beard for ''Fiddler on the Roof,'' but still. * This troper perceives that addressing a male of any age as 'sir' is probably OlderThanRadio, since it's much safer to assume that a male has some kind of responsibility (whether the responsibility is real or not). However, determining when to stop addressing a female as 'miss' and starting to address her as 'ma'am' is much more difficult, since it requires professionalism, judgement and sensitivity... qualities that are usually thin on the ground at most retail establishments. * This troper has been called "Ma'am" more than once, much to his surprise. * Growing up, this troper longed for the day I would be called ma'am by someone other than my family and teachers (it was common for adults to refer to well-behaved children as 'sir' and 'ma'am' in my town). The first time I was called it, I was shocked, mainly because I was around fourteen/fifteen. College student now, I still get a thrill when I'm called ma'am or Miss. * This troper does his best to *avoid* this- he takes age into consideration. a woman under twenty-seven is a 'Miss' and over is a 'Maam' unless i am cued otherwise. A younger ''man'' is even 'Young Sir'. What can I say? I'm old school. * The term "Doa" in Spanish used to be reserved only for nobles or very important people, In many countries if you try to use it now you run the risk of get your ass kicked. * Subverted with this troper. Years of karate classes (where ''all'' females are called "ma'am", regardless of age, rank, or marital status) and having a boyfriend raised by a Southern mother have broken her of this. * Being called "sir" freaks [[BooBooBob me]] out to no end. Of course, I'm 35 and still get carded for smokes, so that may be a factor. * This troper got called "Ma'am" in high school ''by her classmates''-

-but this may be because she's always been an InsufferableGenius, and therefore, the other kids presumed that she was someone not to mess with. What she finds weirder is when a child (or a child's parent) calls her "lady." ''That'' kinda weirds her out. * This troper has been getting "ma'am"d since she was 17. She also got mistaken for a teacher at her school - ''when she was thirteen.'' ** Are you a HugeSchoolgirl? ** You too? I was wearing my backpack, were you? * This troper got called "ma'am" for the first time at twelve. Worse, she looked eight. * This troper has never actually been called "ma'am" - here, it's the sort of thing you reserve for the Queen more than anything else - but still gets surprised when passers-by tell their children to let 'the lady' past. ** ...And was recently even more surprised when an elderly chap told his grandchildren to 'let the young man past'. Buh? * This troper first got called "the lady" when she was 14. She was wearing a pair of cardboard rabbit ears (given away free at the bookstore in the leadup to Easter) around the mall, and got called out on it by a very excited small child. "Mummy, look at that lady!" * Can I just say that I am ''so'' glad to be home from Egypt? Not only did everyone trying to sell me stuff call me ma'am (I'm a nineteen year old occasionally mistaken for sixteen), they also kept assuming [[RelativeError my dad was my husband]], to the point that it was fucking creepy. Even the staff at the hotels we stayed in kept trying to upgrade us from twin beds to a single king-size - one clerk put us in the honeymoon suite. * This troper worked at her former school for a week. I only graduated last year; why are you calling me ''auntie''?! * [[EddieVanHelsing This troper]] has had people call him "ma'am" or "miss" ever since he was 16, whenever somebody approaches him from behind. It's the hair. * I don't mind being called sir. And I will use sir/ma'am when the politeness of the situation requires it regardless of the age of the person I'm addressing. But I will correct anyone who calls me Mr. (my last name). Even approaching 30 I'm no where near old enough to require that kind of deference. * This Troper was shocked when she was first called Ma'am... at the age of twelve. * This troper went out to dinner with his family last night. The waiter referred to his 24-year-old sister as "miss," but to his 29year-sister as "ma'am." No one noticed until the troper pointed it out. He had a good laugh over it. * This troper is okay with being called "ma'am". It's respectful. She calls female police officers that, and doesn't mind when they do it back. Doesn't mind it from their male colleagues, either. (She works for the cops, y'see.) Yes... being called "ma'am" is okay. Being called "Mrs. [this troper's last name]" by someone plainly young enough to know that assuming any woman old enough to be working fulltime is married is just not ''DONE'' in America anymore? That is ''not'' okay. Indeed, that's kind of a BerserkButton this troper didn't know she ''had''. (And not just because the so-called Defense

Of Marriage Act has essentially ensured that she ''can't'' be called "Mrs." ''any name'', either....) * It's not always about age. This troper was raised in an area where using formal language when talking to someone outside of a strictly formal or business setting was considered impersonal, unfriendly, and rude. The first week after moving to Louisiana, her mother was mortally offended by how many people were calling her "ma'am" after she thought she'd done well in making friends. (On the flip side, this troper herself got detention her first day of school for ''not'' using "ma'am" to address her female teachers, but no one explained that; all it said on the slip was "flagrant disrespecting of authority".) * [[Tropers/NielJacoby This Troper]] is sometimes called ma'am. He's ''15''. He also has a ''moustache''. [[CaptainObvious And he's a]] ''[[CaptainObvious dude.]]'' Granted it's not much of a moustache, but still. It may be the long hair, although he's just doing it to look like FrankZappa / NeilGaiman / [[RuleOfThree another awesome longhaired man]]. * [[Tropers/MonsterDog This troper]] knew it was time to cut his hair and stop acting like the metalhead kid he'd been in high school when he got MaamShock at age 24. He also knew it was probably time to [[GrowingTheBeard do something about his babyface.]] Now 32, nobody calls him "ma'am" anymore. * This male troper, although born in Ohio, moved to Alabama at the age of eleven. Last Thanksgiving, my family went back to Ohio to visit our family; I repeatedly offended female family members by accidentally referring to the as 'Ma'am' out of habit. * This (female) Troper was called "Sir" at 13. It wasn't even in a joking manner. I was called Sir as a 13-year-old girl. *ponders* * This Troper has a male friend who was called "ma'am" ''twice'' even after he clearly stated he had the unfeminine name of "Richard". * This (British) trooper grew up in Belgium and thus got quite used to be called Madamme from about the age of 16 (as is customary). However I still got slightly weirded out being called "Ma'am" for the first time in England whilst visiting Sandhurst, not so much because of the age but because Ma'am is pretty much only used in incredibly formal (or military) settings and was as such the first time I'd actually heard it used in real life. * This (New England) Troper, who *is* just out of high school, has observed a shift in usage, and has been addressed as both "miss" and "ma'am" by people older than herself. (I was also more frequently addressed as "madame" than "mademoiselle" in France at age 16.) "Ma'am" is a safe default for females of all ages even in the North. * This Singaporean troper is sometimes confused by the practice of addressing any middle-aged person as "auntie" or "uncle" (or linguistic variations thereof), because "sir" and "ma'am" are starting to catch on in semi-formal situations, depending on the socioeconomic background of the addresser and addressee. Younger persons will be called by strangers "xiaojie" (miss; literally "little elder sister") or "xiaodi" ("little younger brother"). * Even living and growing up in the Southeast, this troper found it rather jarring at her first job when people started calling her "Ma'am" even when they were most certainly older than her.

* This other troper, despite having grown up the daughter of an officer, was still knocked for a serious loop when enlisted men switched from calling her "miss" to "ma'am" at...''15''. * This Southern troper, on the other hand, has been living in New England for about three years now, and has never once received any objections about addressing a woman as "Ma'am," regardless of her age. * This troper's dad likes to invert this one, calling an older woman "Miss" to flatter her. * This could be somewhat a case of RealityIsUnrealistic as [[TheBadWolf this troper]] works in a New England cafe and has never had any woman object to being called "ma'am" despite calling every female customer "ma'am", no matter what age. * This troper remembers causing this in a cashier of his own age at his university's textbook buyback. A nice older lady on the next register explained, "He's a Southern boy. He calls everybody 'ma'am'." * As a waitress in the South, this troper long ago decided to call all females at a table "Ma'am," and all males "Sir" - even if they're nine years old. (For the adults, there's about a 50-50 chance that they'll be flattered by your courtesy or insulted by it - but the same is true of almost any other form of address, so whatever. On the other hand, the kids usually love being treated - linguistically, at least - like adults, so statistically, you've improved your chances of winning over a table!) ** You're not the only one, though in my case it's more a universal simplification. While [[AmbiguousGender some people]] force me into an awkward silence ("Thank you, er, [[VisibleSilence ...]]"), it seems especially appreciated not just by children, but by blue-collar people who normally don't get any respect at all. * The Norwegian custom is to refer to everybody as "you" or by first name. A clerk addressing a customer is likely to just say, "May I help you?". Norwegian has a courteous pronoun ("De" instead of "du") but using it means that you are either sarcastic, a {{mental time travel}}ler from the 19th century, or addressing royalty. Students refer to their professors by first name only, often not even knowing their last names, and never use titles. As such, being called "Herr" or "Fru", the Norwegian equivalents of "Mr." and "Mrs.", is likely to trigger either this or laughter. This Norwegian had a very hard time getting used to not being called by his first name in the United States, much less being called "Sir". Many things I may be, but I'm not a knight! * Inversion-- this 39-year-old (as of this writing) troper has gotten used to being called "Ma'am" now, but when a cashier at the grocery called her "Miss" she gave him a bewildered look. * [[{{Takwin}} This troper]] had such an experience recently while shelving books at her library. A group of 11-12 year old girls approached her in the 'teen novel' section and asked, "Excuse me, ma'am, do you have (insert series here)?" The MaamShock moment lasted long enough to make old {{Takwin}} look like a mental defective. * The other sign of aging is being referred to as a "Lady" by adults to children. For instance, a parent saying "Let the Lady by," to a child blocking a sidewalk. Not as extreme, and it tends to start at or around 14 or 15, but still.

** That happened to me when I was ''12''. I did a DoubleTake, then spent the rest of the day worriedly checking my head for grey hairs. * This troper was pretty shocked at being called madame when she went to France at 16, but eventually realized it was a normal thing. Far less normal was being called ''seora'' back home, at 14, ''while wearing a school uniform''. * This 22-year-old male troper went through this today while at work. A little kid pointed to him and said to somebody, "There's a man coming!" Ironically, everyone says the troper looks younger than he is (he could pass for a high schooler), but apparently, to little kids at least, he looks like "a man." Sigh... ** I'm not sure I understand this one. Do you prefer to be mistaken for a woman? *** No, it was just a little disconcerting to be referred to as a "man" (rather than a "boy" or "guy") by someone so young. It made me feel like I was 40-something rather than 22. * The first time this troper felt old was when he was about 17 and a little kid tugged on my shirt and said 'mister mister'. He honestly did not know if this was for good or ill. * Am I the only one who inverts this trope? I've had a petite figure and baby face all my life (more than once being mistaken for a truant when I'm actually old enough to drink), so I relish being adressed as "ma'am" or "a/the/that lady." ** No. * This Troper invoked this once by calling a woman Ma'am. Said woman, who had been having a rough day, said she appreciated the polite tone, but added that she was feeling old that day. Meanwhile, this troper usually inverts this trope, since she's OlderThanTheyLook -- and got called "dear" in a restaurant instead of "Madam" like the other women who were with her! * This male Troper is from Bangladesh (in South Asia, for those scratching their heads) and here a slightly older female is called "Apu" as in "Older Sister", while older women (as in friend's moms and mom's friends) are called 'Aunty" or "Khala". This Troper was selling tickets for a film show one day. He was 20 at the time. When a woman came by, he asked her, "How many tickets, Aunty?" To this Troper's shock, the woman (he later learned she was in her late 20s) actually came around the ticket counter and started yanking on his hair, screeching about how she definitely did not look old enough to be a "Aunty". * This Troper has always used "ma'am" in the honorific sense when speaking to any woman he doesn't know the name of regardless of age. Miss and Mrs is making an assumption of the person's marital status that could be construed as even more offensive. It doesn't stop the occasional person telling me not to call them that to which I can only reply "yes ma'am sorry ma'am". * Having grown up in the South, this troper was surprised when, as a little girl, she addressed an adult woman as "ma'am" and was scolded for it. She now simply addresses everyone as ma'am and sir, regardless of relative age. * This troper, who has relished being called ma'am since she was 12,

has never understood the reasoning behind "ma'am shock." To me, being called "miss" is a ''far'' greater insult; it sounds so condescending, like the person calling you that just thinks of you a stupid little girl. Do all you women out there seriously have this much of a problem with being referred to with politeness and respect?? ** It's more like people have a problem with being talked to in a way that they're not used to. * This troper is very short and babyfaced, and I've been told more than once that I'll be carded well into my twenties, and possibly my thirties. Therefore, I think that by the time that I'm actually called ma'am for the first time, I'll be ready for it. ** Also, my little sister was once called sir. Admittedly, she is rather [[{{Pettanko}} small]], was wearing a hat that obscured her long hair, and was at a gun and knife show. * This sixth-form troper works in the school library during lunchtime, and is occasionally called 'sir' by the younger pupils. He can't resist grinning like a maniac when it happens. * I was brought up to call women "ma'am" and men "sir", regardless of age. I've also had people call me ma'am since I was at least twelve. To me, it's a compliment meaning I look like a mature adult, rather than a child. (Of course, I ''do'' live in the Deep South.) What really bugs me is when much older people call me "ma'am". Then it's more like, "No, ma'am, I'm only seventeen. ''You're'' the ma'am." * Growing up in California with a mom raised in New Jersey, this troper didn't start being taught to call people ma'am till moving to the DeepSouth, when a fourth grade teacher freaked out at her not calling her ma'am, like this troper was being deliberately disrespectful or something. This trope kicked in when, having decided to just stick with using it for everyone to avoid being yelled at like that again, this troper called her mom ma'am and she freaked out, as she was "too young to be a ma'am!" (The teacher who had insisted on it was probably 15-20 years younger than my mother; my 9 year old mind was so confused!) For the record, this troper first got called ma'am herself at 10. * Averted with this troper. Her 6th grade tech teacher was from the South, and he taught at our school in Colorado. So he explained on the first day of school that he had been raised to just habitually call everyone "sir" or "ma'am," and therefore called his students as such. * Not "ma'am" specifically, but this sixteen-year-old troper got referred to as "that lady" for the first time at McDonalds the other day. It felt weird... * This troper and another Year 12 student were leading a group activity for middle school students. Being a bit of a ShrinkingViolet, I just stayed in the background and helped quietly while [[GenkiGirl she]] took charge, telling everyone what they needed to do and controlling the hyperactive, enthusiastic kids. She projected such an air of authority that, to get her attention, they yelled out "Miss, Miss!". [[LandDownUnder Considering where we live]], this was the equivalent to being seen as a teacher. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It was hilarious.]] * This happened to me last summer, except I was only nineteen at the time. We were on vacation in Orlando, hiding under an overhang to wait

for the rain to stop, and a little boy of about seven or so bumped into me and said, "Sorry, ma'am." Cue internal freak-out. At work I get parents telling their kids to "give insert-object-here to the lady," which is just as bad. * This female troper has been getting ma'amed at work by customers since she was a teenager. I'm 22 and, now that I'm working retail, get ma'amed on a somewhat regular basis. I don't care much about being called ma'am one way or the other; it always seemd to be that "ma'am" was the feminine "sir". But being called "miss" does bother me since it seems like something you would call a child, so it comes across as being condescending. And no, this troper does not live in the American South, despite apparently having the same thoughts on "ma'am" as the South. * I can't imagine how many times this Troper has caused such a reaction. In the [[YanksWithTanks US Military]] its proper to refer to civilians by Sir or Ma'am, regardless of their apparent age. This is a habit I have purposefully not dropped, for several reasons that may only make sense to me. ---Ma'am, if you'd go back to [[{{ptitledu41nxkg6try}} Ma'am Shock]], I'd be... what? Why'd you give me that look? ----

ptitledz7rgdh9wrk1 * This Troper was rather LiteralMinded back in his high school days, and when a test question asked about the plot of ToKillAMockingbird I wrote "Its is about the sequence of events leading up to Scout's brother breaking his leg." Needless to say I didn't get that one right. * I remember using DeathNote scripts, most of it from [[AxCrazy Mikami]] [[HannibalLecture speeches]], mind you, for an essay about death penalty on High School. I got an A+ and the whole class clapped at me for ''my eloquent and very intelligent writing'' and even those who are against Death Penalty recognized that ''I'' did a very good work. I felt guilty for a little [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope but I ignored it]]. * Fellow tropers, I have a challenge. Get someone to do an analysis of Firefly. Bonus points if Tamcest is suggested. * In one of this troper's college classes, the professor actually said that some authors don't even know the true meanings they put in their own works, and that any protest from them that people have [[MisaimedFandom completely misinterpreted]] their works or are looking for meanings that aren't there in the first place shouldn't be listened to, because literature is meant to be interpreted and analyzed. He gave RobertFrost's poem "[[http://www.ketzle.com/frost/snowyeve.htm Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening]]" as an example, saying that while it's obvious to everyone else that the poem's narrator is about to welcome death, Frost complained that just because someone expresses the desire to sleep doesn't mean that he wants to die. Of course, since it's so

''obvious'' that the poem can't be read any other way (and most definitely not as a simple piece about winter's beauty), Frost's WordOfGod shouldn't be believed. Despite this troper's best efforts, she can't quite swallow this assumption. ** I have a problem with various English teachers doing this too... I was the one always speaking up with "What if the cabin was ''just'' a cabin?" or similar... The symbolism these people pull out of every single piece of... ''Anything'' seems far too deep, convoluted, and excessive to really be what was intended. It also doesn't help if there's several conflicting views on just what the symbolism is. Maybe the story was ''just a gods-damned story''. *** Seconded. You can find symbolism anywhere,and it may be justified,but dissecting it turns it from a journey into an autopsy. *** Thirded. This troper was supposed to read a book for a literary analysis, and got nothing out of the book other than a slightly entertaining story. And she was expected to write a paper and make some big argument about it. Keep in mind that the troper's teacher recommended the book, so apparently it can be done. Finally, she got so frustrated that she wrote her paper and argued that you can't analyze the story, you just have to enjoy it. The title of said paper? [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife This very trope.]] *** Fourth...ded. This troper has a lit teacher this year that dissects every book into [[EveryoneisJesusinPurgatory religion]] and [[FreudWasRight sex]]. It's gotten to the point that my friends and I try to guess what outlandish, ridiculous remark she'll say next and keep a mental tally of how many times we're right. We lost count pretty quickly. ** There's nothing quite like [[AcceptableTargets postmodernism]] to turn literature into out-and-out retardation, is there? ** In this troper's experience this sort of thing breaks down along the lines of Writers versus Analysts. If you write, you tend to view heavy literary analysis as moronic. If you don't write, or you've tried and failed at writing, you view it as highly important because, clearly, these writers are doing something you can't and you want to understand why. Even when it's painfully obvious since all your theories are based on debunked cocaine fueled ramblings by Freud. ** This Troper just outright said, "It seems to me like we're going into overzealous Didacticism here. In my opinion, simply because literary analysis is more complex does not necessitate higher quality, and, in fact, in my opinion is the inverse." He savored the blank stare he got from his (tenured) teacher before saying, "I think I screwed her mind too hard. Also, as for symbolism in {{Night}}, Auschwitz represents Penises, and Fire is symbolic of his latent homosexuality." ** [[SwiftStrike This troper]] has always quite enjoyed many an English teacher's need to over-analyse a text, because it means he can get top marks in an exam by just bulling his way through it all. As longer as you understand the basics of symbol interpetaton and essay format, it's quite literally impossible to fail an essay (at least, in this troper's experience). Of course, he's neer read a book and gone 'wow, what a wonderful use of unnecessary symbolism! I'm glad I did a high-level English course in high school, otherwise my interpretation

would have been WAY off!' * This trope is the exact reason why [[@/DarkInsanity13 this troper]] hates novel studies and similar assignments and can never enjoy the books. She wants to ''read'' the damn book, not think about the tiny little details and over-analyze the stuff later! Geez, if she wants FanDumb, she'll go on the freakin' internet (which she does, and partakes in). ** I hear you. Even though I enjoy reading, writing, and learning about grammar (I'm a bit of a linguistics nerd), I detest English classes, because the focus is inevitably on dissecting notable books looking for [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Jesus in purgatory]]. Sometimes Jesus actually ''is'' in purgatory, sure, and I don't mind his presence there; I just mind having the goal of reading a book be to find him there rather than to enjoy the story or think about the ideas it presents. I also hate having to report on what I read in general, which did the job of ruining English/Language Arts classes for me in back in elementary school before the class could be reasonably expected to participate in symbolism scavenger hunts. (I did ''understand'' that the reports were necessary in the absence of telepathic teachers, but that didn't make them any more enjoyable.) ** Same here chico. ** The solution to this problem, this troper has found, is to read the entire book ahead of time before the class gets too far into the book. You can see the foreshadowing then, which makes it much more interesting, and you have the freedom to enjoy the book. This troper also finds analyzing books a bit fun after she has enjoyed the book, and by finishing it, it becomes much easier. Unfortunately for this troper, she had to discover this solution after her English teacher had butchered the hell out of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. *** [[@/{{Taco}} This Troper]] was once asked what Boo Radley was a symbol for: "a penis." Then he gave a long, drawn out explanation as to why that is that would better belong in WMG. * [[@/TromboneChild This Troper]] is an English major, and I love analyzing stuff and looking for meaning. I like symbolism, metaphor, allegory, and all that other stuff. So sue me. Anyway, I have this one professor that brings "The Journey Motif" into everything. Granted, a lot of stuff that we've read does have "The Journey Motif" in it, but he even brought it up when we watched ''On The Waterfront'', which takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey, the whole time. He took this idea from a scene near the end where Marlon Brando looks across the harbor at Manhattan; my professor claim that that moment qualified as "crossing over," as all heroes do in stories with "The Journey Motif." I just wanted to talk about what the pigeons represented. * This troper DETESTS her wide-reading class because of this. What happened to ENJOYING a book? Most teen novels these days don't have a deeper symbolism! ** This troper would ''love'' to hear what they have to say about ''{{Twilight}}''. *** Umm... I feel a bit reluctant in posting this... but I have a friend who's studying ''Twilight'' as part of her critical literacy studies. No, I am not making this up. *** Seems simple enough. Compare and contrast the morals that you can

see the author trying to make and the morals that are made. * This troper got revenge on his English teacher by doing some EpilepticTrees analysis of a novella: ''TheEyeOfArgon'' of all things! She later told me she read the story 3 times before it sank in that it was rubbish. * This trope once wrote a story in English class about a teenager who threw a WildTeenParty while his parents were out of town, then burned the house down to cover up all the damage done. I based the story on a [[RippedFromTheHeadlines news article I read]], and the whole thing was supposed to be a parody of [[JerkJock dumbass]] [[TheLibby teenagers]] who make poor decisions. My teacher liked the story, but she thought I should have "expanded on the symbolism of my own parental rage a bit more." ** Motherfucker! This is crossing the line. When you lose points because, at its core, ''the reader,'' that is too much. * This troper had a wonderfully funny English and Media Studies teacher who (seriously) believed that EVERYTHING IS PHALLIC. Enter ''ToKillAMockingbird'' and Atticus's great skill with guns, but not having used one in a long time. Now I and many classmates cannot read or watch anything with guns without yelling "It represents a PENIS. Get it?" to great looks of shock from others in the library or movie theater. ** Did you go to my high school? Ask anyone 'What's the symbolism?' and the stock reply was "It's a phallic symbol. Everything is a phallic symbol. Yes, everything." * This troper has developed an utter hatred for English Lit. for this precise reason. She's also had it done to her own work, to a detail about someone fiddling with an ID tag that I just threw in to make it more interesting. I must admit, it ''was'' an understandable assumption and that person's reviews are otherwise exceptionally helpful. * Inversion: This troper has a university [=TA=] who apparently tried to convince some students that Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wallpaper'' could work as a straight-up ghost story, and not ''just'' an allegory for the repression of women. They didn't see it. Considering that this story was a major inspiration behind ''The King in Yellow'', and, by extension, almost every CosmicHorrorStory ever, the TA may have been right. ** Metaphors aside, you'd have to ignore a number of fairly pointed lines to read it as a literal ghost story, rather than a descent into psychosis. *** Err, why can't you have a descent into psychosis in a ghost story? ** This troper never saw any sexism metaphors in ''The Yellow Wallpaper''. Gilman was a feminist and all and it likely has at least some sexism metaphors but I never caught any of it. I do just read it as a descent into insanity. *** Really? It's not just metaphor, it's ''plot.'' A woman's life is completely controlled by her husband, whose attitude is quite clearly "Don't worry your pretty little head about anything, I know what's best for you," and he ignores her as a person to the point that he doesn't realize anything is wrong with her until she starts raving. Or so I recall.

* This troper personally walked up to a published playwright and told her what the material was [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory really about]]. It is strongly suspected she will take literary revenge somehow. * As a serial offender, this troper should point out that some literature graduates do this as a sort of right-brain crossword puzzle. This troper herself wrote a well-received master's level English essay proving that HarryPotter was female. ** This troper totally wants to read that essay. *** This troper seconds that request. **** Can you third a request? Take this as another vote that there should be a link to that essay. ***** Let's fourth it! ****** [[@/{{Almafeta}} Fifth'd!]] ******* Sixth'd. ******** [[HomestarRunner ARROW'D!]] And seventh'd. ** Allegorically female (like, because the issues he went through are comparable to those faced by women) or literally female? ** Makes sense to me. Harry has a much deeper connection with his father than with his mother, has ''love'' as his greatest power (while most men couldn't name their strongest emotions at any given time if quizzed), and while he has a long, tapered tool of office, is distinguished by other wizards by his ''hooded cloak''. *** I read that as he was gay. **** "Hooded" as in "in the closet"? ***** No. Hooded as in clitoris. **** Remember, while the internet frowns on correlations of Harry Potter with the Civil War or the story of Jesus or whatever, it's perfectly acceptable to theorize on whether any of the characters is gay. ** Similarly, [[@/JapaneseTeeth This Troper]] wrote an essay comparing the use of characterization in Macbeth to the characters in Star Wars. On another note, he wants to write a book solely to have an interesting story and characterization, and give everything names that are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic highly symbolic]]. Then when people tell me of the deep, hidden meanings in my work, I will reveal that I chose the names by picking them out of a hat. *** You mean {{Xenosaga}}? * Being an English major, [[@/{{Muselette}} this troper]] has had her fair share of being forced into studying the "hidden meanings" that the authors put in their texts, and her occasional suggestions that an object might be exactly what it says it is instead of some symbol with deeper meaning were met with scorn by the professor. The analysis of Lewis Carroll's ''Jabberwocky'' was especially painful. --> [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves; Did gyre and gimble in the wabe]]. ** If you can tell me ''what the '''''hell''''' the tin means'', then you may rest your case. When the tin is that unintelligible, you still need some analysis in lack of a literal tin to open and find out. *** If you read 'Alice Through the Looking Glass and What she Found There' Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice what the line means (so you're right about having to 'crack the tin' and read the book in which the poem appears), For the record 'Brilling' is the time before dinner

when meat is broiled, 'Slithy' is a combination of Lithe and Slimey, Tove are a type of mole or ferret, and the Wabe is the shadow cast by a sundial on the ground. Oh, and according to Humpty Dumpty, YouShouldKnowThisAlready. **** Technically speaking, all Humpty can tell you is what ''he'' thinks it all means. It's up for grabs but you'll still get the gyst with or without an explanation. That's what makes it so great. *** Hell, I've read a short story where that line was the key to time travel. Though toves were taken to mean stones, if I remember correctly. It went something like 'Before dinner, the stones must be made slithy in the wabe, in order for them to gyre and gimble.' * This troper ''enjoys'' analyzing texts (enough so that in order to avoid it for pleasure reading he has to handle {{Mind Screw}}s like ''HouseOfLeaves'' and ''FocaultsPendulum'') but has had a few teachers who... took it a little too far. His 11th-grade English teacher was an existential determinist (he doesn't get it, either), and everyone readily caught onto the idea that good grades could be guaranteed by suggesting that ''everything'' symbolized either [[FreudWasRight sex]] or [[NietzscheWannabe death]]. Oh, and starting with ''TheManWhoWasThursday'' he [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil habitually ignores all prefaces]]. * This troper once had a character named Ori in a D&D game. Ori was a jungle druid with a constrictor snake animal companion for the one reason she was level 5 to start and I didn't want a wolf because of the cliche. She proceeds to be the sole dissenting voice in a religion-central world. Snake...against the main religion...hmmm... * This troper attends regularly a Writing group, where every week everyone brings a short story to read it in front of the rest. She enjoys immensely finding sexual, or deathly, or phallic meanings on the other people's stories and watching their faces go "Huh? Did ''I'' really write something so meaningful? Oh wow I'm a great writer, really, I am." * This troper once got an A on a paper about the relationship between womb symbols and literacy in ''The English Patient''. She is still not sure how much of it was intended by Ondaatje and how much she pulled out of her second year English student butt. * I'm writing a completely straight analysis of the characters in [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Full Life Consequences]]. I wanted to submit it for an essay contest but I couldn't finish it in time. It's that big. ** ''I must read this''. Please link when it's done. *** Seconded. * I was in a class where the professor was explaining the hidden meanings in a set of art work. When someone asked if these interpretations came from the artists themselves, or if these were her personal opinions, she confessed that they were her views. When the student pointed out that he was an artist himself and sometimes painted simply for fun, her only response was "But they're Canadian". Apparently only us foolish Americans would create anything without some subtle political allegory being woven into it. ** Actually the most important thing I learn in High School as far as analysing texts is concerned is that the authors may don't even have a