Anime. All of it. To the point that I sometimes skim over sections on websites (even wikis!) that seem to vaguely be about it. It took until last year for someone to convince me to sit through ''Princess Mononoke'' and- yeah. The animation style ruined it for me. *This is basically because the half of the internet that isn't about porn is about it.* Too much hype.

Anything by Valve and WorldOfWarcraft I try to avert this by avoiding new game's reviews and other sites where people may start to hype it so I don't feel extremely underwhelmed like I did when I listened to them and played Half Life.

This Troper has yet to watch KillBill. I've watched PulpFiction and ReservoirDogs, and I enjoyed them both, but Kill Bill got so much fucking hype that I wondered if God was gonna attend the premiere.

I saw God there at the second-week run. He said He enjoyed it, but, frankly, the hype was a little off-putting, even for Him.

This Troper does his best to avert this. I'll give plenty of things a chance, and if weren't for hype, I wouldn't have experienced {{Firefly}}, BuffyTheVampireSlayer, {{Dollhouse}}, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, {{Angel}}, GurrenLagann, GhostInTheShell (movie and Stand Alone Complex), MassEffect, {{Prototype}}, SaintsRow 2, and more. The sheer fact that you could be missing out on something life changing (seriously, alot of those things literally changed my life) because you want to commit some childish act of attempting to spite people seems so foolish.

I Actually avoided CounterStrike and every FPS because people won't stop saying it was the ultimate videogame genre.

FPS is a pretty wide spectrum. This Troper can't stand Counter-Strike, but after a little resistance managed to enjoy ''TeamFortress2'' and ''Left4Dead''.

This troper has his own method of buying things in this equation: #QUOTE#((the overall hype + the ****** of recommendations by others + how much I just ''hate'' it) - (my personal preferences and opinion + my steadily decreasing patience and tolerance)) x 2 = X (+5 if it's a video game) weeks after it's been released. (only applies to home video releases and video games;any theatrical movie release will be classified into either "watch", "don't watch", "wait until dvd comes out", or any combination of these three)

This is a big part of this troper's aversion to many things; ''Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, Silent Hill, Heroes, House, Naruto'', about 40 assorted bands... and most damningly, '''''{{Portal}}'''''. Yes, I know it's supposed to be perfection in a game, even Yahtzee said so, ''no I haven't played it '''leave me alone'''.'' It does "help" that all the people that tell me to play it ''recite the good quotes ad infinitum so they're not funny anymore''.

Upon seeing that lovely comment about "smarter, more adult anime", this troper suddenly lost the desire to see said anime for any motivation other than mockery. That eventually wore off, but his snarky rebuttal did not.

This troper and the confusion of 'Adult' with "''Adult''". Wangst, whores and gore aren't adult, they're adolescent. Even if those shows aren't being hyped for it, I can't even stand to hear them praised for it.

Agreed - a lot of those works are praised on basis of being "Adult" and not whether or not they handle it maturely.

This tropette and ''most'' of the films that are either BasedOnATrueStory, considered "OMG Best Movie of the Year!" by the critics in any year, or both. Keyword "most". You can find my favourite movies on my page.

This Troper is a fan of Finnish hip-hop, and obsessed with the minutiae of the career of Steen1. However, refuses to buy his first album, which is a perennial favourite of rebellious teenagers, who apparently never even heard of his later work.

Most ''AzumangaDaioh'' fans were all abuzz about how ''kawaii'' the characters and the plots were - basically everything that the average Internet kid hates about anime. This, along with a complete aversion to the theme song, led this troper to steadfastly refuse to watch it for years. I'm only now starting to and I guess I like it. Yay Sakaki

This troper turns away from ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' for one particularly stupid reason: He's seen that silly-looking name on TV Tropes one too many times.

After having watched it explode all over the Internet, this troper never wants to see ''AxisPowersHetalia'' mentioned anywhere ever again.

"Have you ever seen The Dark Knight?" Nope, I haven't seen and thanks to the movie being hyped to cosmic proportions I'm afraid of being disappointed.

Hype Aversion is much more likely to occur if the hype is served with Take Thats. The apparent inability of Sony fans up to and during the [=PlayStation2=]'s launch to bring up the topic without smugly raining down anvils left and right about How Much They Hate Sega And Nintendo is the main reason this editor is even today reluctant to spend any money on the [=PlayStation=] brand. Yes, ''ValkyriaChronicles'' and ''LittleBigPlanet'' sound like stuff right up my alley, but ''what if I become one of '''them?!'''''

This troper knows a boarderline [=E-celebrity=] who hyped LittleBigPlanet to hell to the point where I got sick of hearing about Sackboy before the game even came out. And this troper's philosophy about this stuff is to '''wait until playing the game before judging it.'''

I refuse to even try the WorldOfWarcraft 14 day Free trial for fear that it will completely take over my life like I know it will if what everyone else says about its supposed awesomeness is true.

Thanks to the overwhelming and near-universal praise they constantly receive, this editor avoids The White Stripes and Sex Pistols as though they were some kind of flesh-eating scrotal disease. It doesn't help at all that anyone who trashes rock I ''do'' like (i.e. the kind that actually uses lead guitar) invariably ends up praising these two bands right afterward. I'm glad you like 'em, snobs, that's why I'm letting you keep 'em all to yourselves.

The hype around {{WALL-E}} made this editor decide that she didn't want to see it. I don't ''care'' if it's cute or high-quality or made by Pixar. ''I don't want to see it.'' (And I refuse to start writing my will.)

I'm afraid to watch any of 2008's Best Picture nominees for fear that it will blunt my righteous anger at {{WALL-E}} and {{The Dark Knight}} being left out.

Often, this troper succumbs to HypeAversion and doesn't watch something until it's been out on video or DVD for several months. Then he gives it a go, based on "what the hell". Then he immediately becomes a rampaging fan. You'd think eventually he'd learn.

This troper spent years avoiding ''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'', initially because he thought it was a silly show but then he avoided it because everybody on the internet praised the show (and Joss Whedon in general). Recently, this troper decided to give the show a chance and actually enjoyed it.

This troper has yet to watch CodeGeass. Or DeathNote. And has only read the manga version of Evangelion (but that's because this way he can pretend the writer breakdown never happened.) To a lesser extent, Ranma.

This troper has a friend who has avoided reading the HarryPotter books on account of thinking that they're over-hyped.

This troper has essentially had ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Torchwood'' ruined for her by friends who would not shut up about them. It's better now than it was, but whole conversations have been hijacked and turned to this subject. The worst incident was an IM chat which was ''supposed'' to be a log for an RPG, but was abruptly derailed by her RP partner suddenly veering off on the topic of Jack Harkness.

I can feel your pain, at least as far as Doctor Who is concerned. ''One'' of my friends, who is usually Texan to the bone, suddenly grew a hard-on for everything England within about two months of discovering the show. At least most of my group has come to terms about a few subjects that someone will respectfully stop caring about.

Subverted with me and ''EliteBeatAgents''. "Jeez, Nintendo Power! What's with you and this game? Why did three secret agents win Best Character?" Then, I got the game and played it, since I needed a game to kill time on a long road trip, having nothing else and then immediately decided, "Ohgeezthisisthebestgameever."

ThisTroper may never be able to see TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya because of TVTropes.

ThisTroper wanted to see FightClub simple seeing the guy in the trailer hosing random passers by... then her boyfriend at the time decided it was the BestMovieEver and would not stop talking about it... when she finally watched it with him ThisTroper was not interested and became easily distracted and barely remembers watching it at all... and has no desire to try and watch it again.

This also happened with Death Note when I was half way through... I still have not read/watched past a certain point due to the Hype

Myspace and Facebook. This troper, keeper of a sci-fi action/comedy fiction blog that may have to move to its THIRD site since starting, has a total aversion to aforementioned "big name" blog sites due to the "big name." May surrender to the hype for the sake of a presumably stable site with actual responsive Tech support.

This troper avoids Gurren Lagann like the plague after seeing Viral everywhere on /cm/.

{{Jonn}} had a variant; after seeing people rant about how awesome the series was, he figured it was very good. He actually ''scaled back'' his expectations so he wouldn't be disappointed if it was anything less than perfect. turned out to be pretty gorram close.

This troper hated Kamina with a passion. Everytime Kamina made one of his so called 'epic' speeches and catchphrases, this troper was very tempted to punch the TV/Computer screen just to shut Kamina up.

I would pay money if people would just shut the hell up about ArrestedDevelopment. It's at the point where I don't even want to fucking even watch the damn show anymore because everyone circlejerks over how amazing it was.

I spent my college career avoiding Dave Matthews Band, Phish, The Pogues, and TheBigLebowski because they were all things seemingly everyone on campus was obsessed with. Of those, I now find I like The Pogues and The Big Lebowski (despite the latter being even ''more'' popular than it was at the time). I also avoided Pearl Jam for the longest time due to a combination of being overplayed and having seemingly creepily obsessive fans (the latter reason is admittedly kind of hypocritical because I like both Radiohead and Mike Patton). Now, ironically enough, I just bought their most hyped album, ''Ten'', in even more hyped 2-disc reissue form, having never previously heard the whole thing.

This troper is this way toward anything, ANYTHING, that has been recommended by one of his acquaintances. It all started when he told me I should watch ''BattlestarGalactica'', but didn't really mention anything I found all that interesting, and then did it again the next day, and the next, and the next... Three months and a block later he was still at it and couldn't understand why I was mad. Another friend is almost as bad about Bob Seger. I think I need new friends.

It's been, what, five days and this troper is already feeling this crop up whenever that movie is mentioned. Which is All The Time. I'll watch it the next time I come down with the common cold, since apparently watching the movie cures it.

This troper will not watch ''{{Film/Avatar}}'' thanks to all the hyping on this website.

Seconded by this troper, though it's not so much TV Tropes as it is the whole internet buzzing about this James Cameron CGI project that came out of nowhere and sounds like an artsy JRPG premise. I'm not against the movie itself (since I like artsy [=JRPG=]s), it's the sheer mindless craze over it from people I know who would otherwise ''hate'' this kind of movie, for apparently no reason other than the fact that everyone else is hyped about it too, that's turned me completely off.

Thirded for this troper, who has decided that she will only watch the movie if it's showing on TV, for free. And even then, it's not a given.

What did it for this troper was the fact that even some raving critics and fans admitted that the film's premise was stupid and naive, but apparently pretty pictures '''(in 3D!)''' make it all right.

While this troper thought ''{{Juno}}'' was an okay film, she doubts that she will EVER be able to sit through anything written by Diablo Cody ever again. Seriously, can we say "most overrated screenwriter in Hollywood...for one film"??? Apparently it's real easy to win an Oscar in screenwriting these days. All you have to have to do is sit near a bunch of quirky teenage losers and pick up on their quirk-speak!

This troper has done this so many times with items that her mother has recommended that her mother has actually created a list.

This troper is a ''cause'' of HypeBacklash. Several people have told him that yes, maybe they ''would'' like the ''{{Discworld}}'' novels, but his constant evangelizing puts too much pressure on them.

For this troper I really have no interest in playing/reading/etc ''Psychonauts'' (or any other Schafer games), ''Evangelion'', ''Claymore'', ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', ''AzumangaDaioh'', ShadowOfTheColossus (I found ICO to be rather dull, and ''Colossus'' doesn't seem that much better).

And further on the subject, I have yet to play ''ChronoTrigger''. No, I'm not really caring for beating something up for 15 silver points, and yeah I '''liked''' ''ChronoCross''. Please just let me enjoy my over-the-top zombie shoot-em-up and demon detective RPG in peace, please.

Flashforward to now--I'm watching both ''Claymore'' and ''Monster'' On Demand. I freaking love ''Claymore'' while ''Monster'' is...merely okay. I'm not wowed by it, but it's watchable...

This troper has avoided {{Slumdog Millionare}} so far, but he knows he must see it soon.

This troper won't watch {{Firefly}} because of this.

This troper avoided Firefly for ''years'' because of the hype, and how pretentious her friends made it sound. Her boyfriend finally convinced her to watch an episode, and it's actually quite good and not at all pretentious...however, she still refuses to ''tell'' anyone that she's finally watched Firefly.

This troper refuses to watch {{Dollhouse}} because of this.

With the exception of StudioGhibli, I had this attitude towards anime for a long while, then I saw CowboyBebop...

This lurker refuses to play Final Fantasy for this very reason.

This troper doesn't experience much HypeAversion firsthand, but is very aware of it and terrified of recommending things to his friends because of it. They must have caught on though, since if he says something is "deeply flawed, but sort of interesting, in a way" they'll act as if it's definitely worth checking out.

I have never and '''will''' never watch ''The Princess Bride'' for just this reason. Same with ''300''.

This troper refuses to watch/read ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

I can assure you that you're not missing anything.

I'm completely immune to big blockbusters movies, no matter how much I watch the trailers on TV, I don't care how much my friends tell me about the awesome action and big explosions, the more I hear about how cool these movies are, the less I want to watch them.

I never wanted to watch HaruhiSuzumiya I knew it could never live up to the hype.

This troper is resolved to never watch {{Naruto}} and refrain from using the Pokemon Lucario where possible on this principle.

Variation: I avoid getting into cultural "phenomena" at the time they're happening, but after the hype dies down and the trend-world moves on I may try it. It's probably another year or so before I'll watch The Dark Knight.

Oh wow, are you me? I didn't watch any of the highly popular anime of 2006 until very recently (and I liked them a lot, but I digress). The hype aversion happens to recent movies a lot, though. Yes, Heath Ledger, you were a good Joker but personally I don't care.

One of my friends objects to the name HarryPotter even being mentioned in his presence. He'll forgive it from me because he knows I've been a fan since 1997 rather than a bandwagon-jumper, but anyone else...

The more that certain people in the TroperIRCChannel tell me to play ''DwarfFortress'', the less desire I have to play it.

''Portal''. ''Portal''. Also, ''Portal''. I do not like [=FPS=]es. ([''Metroid'' excepted, but they're not ''real'' [=FPS=]es, and are thus okay. Adventure/exploration games, I like.) I do not like puzzle games. Clearly I am not going to like a puzzle-based FPS. ''Please stop telling me how great it is. '''I don't give a damn.'''''

I haven't seen ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Now it seems fairly entertaining to me and I don't have extremely high expectations either - I might even see it some day, I'm not totally excluding it...at the time the films came out though, esp. the 2nd & 3rd ones, I was completely turned off by all the hype.

My friends have been hyping ''TheVentureBros'' to me for months, over other WesternAnimation shows I'd like to see or catch back up on such as {{Avatar}} and {{ReBoot}}. I've watched a few episodes of the first season and I agree it's funny and interesting, but their sheer fervor is putting me off from seeing the rest of it when, again, there are other shows I'd like to catch up on.

When this troper was in primary school, all the girls had been big fans of BuffyTheVampireSlayer... And {{Charmed}}. At the time, she'd wanted to watch them, but wasn't allowed to because her mother, not having watched either, thought they were horror shows like {{Supernatural}} is now. When she was older, she did watch some {{Charmed}}... And realized it sucked. She then decided not to bother with BuffyTheVampireSlayer, thinking it would be equally as bad. Luckily, her father started watching reruns on the SciFiChannel, and what she saw from that slowly enticed her into becoming a regular viewer. She now owns the {{DVD}}s, has a nice big Buffy poster up in her room, worships JossWhedon, and considers Anya possibly her favorite ever TV character.

I'm not playing Left4Dead2 simply because I'll wind up making the mistake of thinking it's anything like what people will say it is.

To be honest, this troper does enjoy things only if he naturally decides to play them, ''not'' if someone else shoves it down my throat.

This troper had never seen a Tarantino movie, for both excessive hype and excessive violence (seeing the "injection in the heart" in Pulp Fiction was enough to turn him off on that movie). Then, as his father was going to watch it, he saw Inglourious Basterds. He thought it was OK, but not as exceptional as some people said, and certainly not enough to stop his disinterest in the director.

It's hugely popular musicals for this troper. She avoided Phantom of the Opera and RENT for a long time and still hasn't seen Les Miserables. (Which probably means she fails as a theater nerd, but oh well.) It's not that they're bad shows, because the ones she eventually saw (admittedly, as movies, but still!) were pretty good, but she doesn't get the rabid screaming obsession.

This troper avoids {{Twitter}} like the plague for this very reason. It's an interesting idea, I guess, but I really don't need to know what Kevin Nealon is doing at any given moment, nor do I care, really.

This troper goes through this if there are certain things mentioned a bajillion times in the media. Part of the reason why this troper doesn't have a {{Myspace}}, {{Facebook}}, or {{Twitter}} account. This also applies when somebody recommends a movie to me. I don't watch movies very often and it'll take me a long time before I actually watch the entirety of said movies. Usually applies to movies my guy friend recommended to me. I still have yet to watch TheGodfather, AClockworkOrange, TheDarkKnight, BlazingSaddles, and many other movies that he's recommended to me, but I never got around to. He's practically doing the same to me since I recommended that he should watch the first two Film/{{Superman}} movies, since I was surprised that he hasn't watched those yet. Especially for the fact that TheGodfather is his all-time favorite movie and Mario Puzo did the screenwriting for both.

This troper is being looked at as insane because he wants to see ''PrincessAndTheFrog'' instead of ''{{Avatar}}'', because he wants to be able to actually ''get'' a decent seat, what with how everyone's squeeing and readying to swarm the theaters next Friday. (It doesn't help that we won't even have Finals sequestering the college students...who're doing the most Squeeing)

DokEnkephalin: In spite of all the anime I've given a chance and genuinely appreciated, I still suffer HypeAversion before I give any new ones a chance.

It's alcohol to this troper. When everybody tells you how wonderful getting drunk is and how awesome alcohol is, it quickly becomes redundant and the more they talked about it, the less I cared. After the fifteenth person ranting about how I should totally try getting plastered, I shrugged and ordered milk.

Agreed, everyone keeps telling me how alcohol is the greatest thing in the world and that I'm going to start drinking. I have no intention of ever drinking (save for at black belt testing because that's more a right of passage) but other than that, no drinking, no getting drunk. I much prefer the blackmail possibilities over being blackmailed. Also provides for excellent BigDamnHeroes moments in the future.

Oh man, yes. I hate the taste of most alcohol, and the one time I drunk enough to get tipsy I found it very unpleasant (so I don't even want to know what being totally drunk would be like). Especially when people are like "I want to get you drunk/see what you're like when you're drunk" (because I'm kinda uptight/serious). It's like, "Well, if you consider me wanting to lay down and sleep because I feel uncomfortably warm and light-headed at all interesting..." Doubly especially when drunk people are so freakin' annoying I'd never want to be seen acting like that anyway.

Pot is less damaging to your body than alcohol (and arguably better), but at least there's no hype, because anyone who starts hype will be arrested.

Sapphire Redux: I checked out the storybook tie-ins a few weeks in advance for ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', and it didn't get me particularly excited to see the film. Having been busy at work, I didn't make a beeline to see it, and frankly Disney fans complaining on message boards about how ''horrible'' it is that such a ''wonderful'' film is losing ground to lowbrow and/or action-heavy [=CGI=] fare because audiences don't appreciate ''real'' quality filmmaking -- including this essay begging Disney fans to see it and "save quality animation" (yeah, 'cuz ''Up'', ''{{Coraline}}'', ''MonstersVsAliens'', ''AChristmasCarol'', and ''PonyoOnACliffByTheSea'' were so bad) -- have made me even less compelled to head to the theater. No movie could truly be that wonderful and ''not'' have reached audiences after a heavy ad campaign.

{{Castlevania}} Symphony of the Night: I heard about how it was the best CV game EVAR from pretty much every site I went to. So I finally tried it out. I actually liked it, yeah, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was THE de facto best CV game ever.

Speaking of Richter, though, I do not want to go on about, sigh, that OTHER Richter and how I keep hearing how he's a badass whose every walking talking waking moment is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Thanks, but I liked the name "Richter" better when it ended with Belmont.

To me, it's both ''PowerRangersTimeForce'' and ''PowerRangersRPM.'' I watched two episodes of the former and thought that the series didn't deserve the hype (granted, one of them was the team-up episode that shall not be mentioned, named, or remembered, but still). In both cases, positive praise on top of positive praise and mentioning that they were good because they were "GRIMDARK OMG" made me attempt to avoid them at all costs. ''Especially'' ''RPM.''

For this troper, it's a lot of things. ''{{Avatar}}'', {{Twitter}}, hip-hop, etc. Originally, I was this way about anything done by Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams, but after seeing ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' and the new ''Star Trek'' film, my opinon is starting improve.

Whenever this troper reads yet more stuff about how ShinjiAndWarhammer40k is the best thing in the world and may actually be the second coming of Jesus he becomes more and more determined to never read it.

This tropette could not understand the hype that went along with {{Avatar}}, or pretty much any movie released in the past year or so. The only thing I know is that Pandora looks pretty, that Na'vi are freaking huge, and JamesCameron now has part of the set on display in his front yard. The fact that people have become suicidal because Pandora is soooooooo much more beautiful than our dirty filthy world does not help.

This Troper has a horrible case of this with CowboyBebop

This was the case for This Troper and many video games, like ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' and ''Persona 4'' (thankfully I was out of the country when P3 got its hype, so I played that one). This also goes for anime too, the more I see it around the less I want to see it.

Combine this trope with ArchivePanic and a fear of SeasonalRot and you have the reasons for one anonymous "troper's" refusal to give OnePiece the shot it allegedly deserves.

''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' for this troper

This troper refused to play the halo series sheerly because of all the hype and HypeBacklash for it and the fact that he wasn't big on FPS's in general. One day he was at a friends house and was offered to try halo 3. not expecting much, he tried it... and liked it enough to buy his own copy a few days later.

You and me both. I played it once randomly and was addicted. Never wanted anything Xbox before then. So I basically got the console ''solely'' for the series. Three years later, I still adore it.

Alpha}} This troper was merely indifferent to ''{{Avatar}}'' before it came out, thinking, "Oh, so it's just an environmentally-conscious film that uses a lot of new CGI techniques. Meh." Then everyone and their mother went and saw it, and started raving about how ''"This will revolutionize films FOREVER!!!"'' Hearing about the plot of the film didn't improve his opinion much, either. Fortunately for this troper, ''Sherlock Holmes'' (starring Robert Downey, Jr.) was released around the same time, as it served as his "anti-''Avatar''."

ThisTroper refused to read HarryPotter because her grandparents insisted she should (this was way back when the second book had only just come out, and troper was too young to use the Internet). Moving halfway across the country bored her into reading it, and she ended up loving it.

Although it isn't ''that'' popular (yet), I've gotten this against {{Umineko}}.

This troper will never finish Evangelion, and will never ever watch either Series/DoctorWho or BuffyTheVampireSlayer thanks to this site's plugging. Thank god that I got to watch GurrenLagann before I heard about this site, because the same thing might have happened.

For this female Troper, some Hypes are not bad, so long as no one tries to force her into it. I slowly eased myself into AxisPowersHetalia, LuckyStar, HaruhiSuzumiya, and others, but I honest to God hate it when people insist that I should watch/hear something, simply because it'll ''change my life''.

This troper was into metal for a good few years before he started listening to {{Metallica}}, despite this being one of a fan's traditional "first stops" in the genre. For some reason, their considerable popularity among metal fans just put him off. It probably helped that, in a fandom which holds It's Popular, Now It Sucks to be a divine commandment, they're one of the few bands to have a contemporary mainstream presence; he doesn't claim to have been the most mature person at age seventeen.

After seeing how the internet is obsessed with wolves, this troper now hates the damn canines. Its sort of justified because they steal the attention away from endangered animals, and since wolves are NOT endangered everyone is wasting too much on them and ignoring animals that really need help, like sawfish.

Snow leopards.

Wolves aren't endangered? Maybe not the entire species, but certain species like the Ethiopian Wolf are certainly endangered.

This troper gets it all the time, and is constantly accused of disliking things just because they are popular. Yes, she doesn't like {{Suzumiya Haruhi}}, {{Harry Potter}}, Literature/{{Twilight}}, {{Bleach}}, {{Naruto}}, and {{The Lord of the Rings}}- but she has her reasons for that.

This Troper didn't play {{Halo}} until late 2006 for this very reason

For this troper, webcomics in general until recently. His opinion on webcomics was basically, "Web. Comics. Combined. Woop. Woop. {{Xkcd}} is what changed it. Now if only he could just find something interesting in SchlockMercenary, or EightBitTheater, or SluggyFreelance...

For this troper, anything by JossWhedon. He's actively trying to avert it with ''Harry Potter'' - he will eventually read the books, but only one year ''after'' the final movie comes out, so that he won't have random people get in his face about how amazincredible the series is. He's also mostly avoided {{XKCD}} due to how many friends insist on its brilliance.

''KickAss'' and ''ScottPilgrim''.

Not the case with this troper but with her younger brother. He's sick of hearing about (Just the mere mention, not hearing about how great they are) {{Psychonauts}}, {{Shadow of Destiny}}, {{Graffiti Kingdom}} and {{Musashi Samurai Legend}}. The strange thing is that most of these are either {{Cult Classic}}s or {{Guilty Pleasures}} and that he's only seen footage of ONE of them (Two if you count seeing people's creations in Graffiti Kingdom). A more normal example is him not wanting to like {{No More Heroes}} because I keep saying it's perfect for him with all the {{Gorn}}, swearing, girl killing and the Lightsaber {{Expy}}.

The iPad, this troper feels like its just a waste of money really. It doesn't fit in your pockets and just looks strange to carry around. It's like an overly large paperweight. I definitely will not the buy the hype that it can do everything, Apple commercials. Thats what I have a computer for. Now that can do everything.

Agree. It just looks very unhandy to carry around with its size.

Wait, what? The iPad actually has hype surrounding it? How is that even possible?

This troper tries not to induce this. If he likes a work, he may mention it, and if someone asks what it is, he'll let them know. He won't say "It's good/great/amazing," but "I like/enjoy/love it" or "I find it interesting". He realizes from reading certain of the above that the very mention may be risky, so he apologizes in advance if he manages to hit a BerserkButton in so doing.

I have a habit of falling victim to this trope. I instinctively avoid anything that has even a slight buzz, but I'm often pleasantly surprised when I do finally check out a movie/TV Show/band.

I was like this about Final Fantasy. I had never played any of the games and frequently told myself that it was overrated. Then ''{{Dissidia Final Fantasy}}'' came along. Now I'm more or less a Final Fantasy nut.

''{{Final Fantasy VI}}''. Aside from a very interesting villain and good leitmotifs, what the hell makes this game shine to everybody?

In addition, I'm like this about {{Chuck Norris}}, especially after finding out his political views. To the point that I'll embrace any facts that AREN'T Chuck Norris facts just out of spite (even more so if they're facts about someone I actually like). Ted Woolsey is another person I suffer this from. As a person who strongly values accuracy to the source material in translations, it annoys me whenever I see people complain about the translation of a game's re-release deviating from Woolsey's script revisions even though it's now more accurate to the original Japanese script. I don't care if his revisions are well remembered, I won't be shedding any tears over their absence if we're getting a translation that's closer to the source material.

This troper is currently going through this with {{Chuggington}}. It airs on two different networks at where he lives, and the TV stations, magazines and Internet corners that he frequent (he's a Educational Programming Connoisseur, he has to brave the depths of children sites) just won't shut up about it. Especially the local TV station that is TV3 Malaysia. They just kept plugging it when he called in to request that the station consider bringing in {{Humf}}. He nearly lashed out at Agent0042 when the latter suggested the show to him.

This Troper keeps telling himself that he should watch more quality movies (including classic and foreign movies), not just to become more knowledgeable as a moviegoer, but mostly to climb myself out of {{Viewers Are Morons}} territory (long story). But whenever I have an opportunity to watch a praised film I usually watch something else due to this trope: what if I don't 'get' or relate to the movie? What if I can't follow the story?

Usually, This troper will always give something he's interested in a fair chance before passing judgment; regardless of how much something is shoved in his face. However, there is one exception to my golden rule; I will never, ever, watch {{K-On}}.

I used to be like this for HarryPotter, RedVsBlue, and {{Twitter}} but eventually caved in and read/watched/used them anyway (and, I admit, ended up loving the two stories and thinking that while Twitter doesn't live up to the hype, it's still all right). I'm still like this for {{Facebook}}, {{Avatar}} and almost all anime.

I'm seriously getting this vibe from the ''SuckerPunch'' trailers. There. Is. No. Possible. WAY. it could be as ''half'' as awesome as it's trying to be.

This troper got burned very badly with FinalFantasyVII and TheWorldEndsWithYou, in the sense after I beat the aforementioned titles I wanted to punch out the friends who had wildly praised the games to high heaven and back. Needless to say I've become incredibly wary if a SquareEnix game gets massive amounts of hype on either side of the Pacific Ocean, especially if the game hasn't been released yet, or because of NostalgiaFilter for older games.

For me, it's AvatarTheLastAirbender and TengenToppaGurrenLagann.

This wrestling fan avoided watching Ring of Honor, mostly because he doesn't get it and won't buy a wrestling DVD if he doesn't know who the fuck they are, but also because of this.

I have not seen ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', or ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', but I feel disdain for them due to their frequent appearance on the WMG pages.

If someone pushes something onto me, I'm likely to go HypeAversion due to irritation. Like, I'm aware Inception is likely a very good film but not as good as people say, it's just I haven't got round to watching it yet... worse still, one of my friends hypes everything up he likes - it's cool sometimes in that I get introduced to many odd and unusual and obscure films I'd never watch and end up enjoying, but if he hypes up something too much I'll likely not be as keen due to the association.

I've been reading through this page and it makes me feel good that there are actually other people on this damn wiki that ''don't'' like HaruhiSuzumiya! Also, thanks to it, I have no plans to ever see/play LuckyStar, anything and everything by JossWhedon, FinalFantasyVI (''not'' VII, that actually looks kinda interesting), TeamFortress2, {{Touhou}}, OrderOfTheStick, I'm on the fence about TengenToppaGurrenLagann, {{Portal}}, Anything and everything by JamesCameron, MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, and of course DeathNote.

And yet there's a whole load of rpg-loving gamers who I've known to swear they'll never get their hands on FinalFantasyVII because its hype was WAY worse than any previous Final Fantasy game has been, or ever will be (being the only FinalFantasy having a compilation made of another 3 games, an OVA, and A MOVIE, this is undeniable), and of how dumb the hype is focusing on the game's least redeeming qualities and leaving the real interesting/important ones aside (this fact made now '''worse''' by the compilation defiling the last few good traits the original game had).

This troper (as of this edit) has yet to create a Facebook page for this very reason. I knew that this Facebook thing was getting out of hand when my dad joined up.

This troper has so far avoided anything in the Star Wars Expanded Universe other than the movies and has completely anything and everything related to Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, specifically because he's run tabletop games for people who will do nothing but sing their praises, and they're not the kind of people this troper would like to have anything in common with. Luckily, this troper no longer plays with ANY of those people, having found much cooler people in his town and on the internet to play with.

I fit this trope to a T. I am extremely limited in my interests, and if something popular pops up, chances are I would either not care, or, after a short period of IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam, would grow tired of it. So I usually stick to only what I know I would like, such as new entries of franchises I am already a fan of. This means only watching one or two new movies/shows a year (but no playing with video games, ever), which might seem absurd to some, but that's just the way I am. At times, I felt temptation to check out some things -- Evangelion, TTGL, ponies, etc -- but then I realized that reading about them on the net was already sufficient enough.

''{{Homestuck}}''. @/RobinZimm read the first few pages, lost interest, quit, and is now officially hiding from ''everyone on the Internet'', seeing as they all seem to be completely infatuated with it.

Seconded.

If there were ever a time when the use of TwoWords on this wiki was actually ''justified'', it would be when it was used to describe ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' on the main version of this page. This troper was lucky enough to catch the first couple of episodes and find them mildly enjoyable before the ''real'' hype started up, but now, after being repeatedly gushed to by a friend about how "ZOMG, SO AWESOME!!1" it is and seeing the thousands upon thousands of image macros of the characters doing wild takes festooned all over the 'net, he feels downright uncomfortable trying to watch the rest of the episodes, and is almost ''scared'' to associate himself with the greater MLP fandom.

Seconded. Trust me - it's fun when people say "Oh but you know it's by the same people who made ''PowerpuffGirls'' and ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''. Uhm...I didn't like ''EITHER'' of those shows...not helping.

Ye GODS, CallOfDuty. I heartily dislike the series, having played three of the games and liking none of them. The fact that EVERYONE thinks it's the best freaking game in the history of gaming... no, in the history of MANKIND, only makes it worse. I also invert this: I don't HATE Twilight and Justin Bieber. I haven't seen either, and so have no reason to, but I ''just don't care'' enough to try either

This Tropette finds that attempting to avert this goes both ways-- on one hand, there were several things that I initially turned off of, then ended up loving (HarryPotter, {{Glee}}, Merlin, AVeryPotterMusical, etc., if you'll forgive the zigzagging of taste, there). On the other hand... Literature/{{Twilight}}...

This troper tends to instill this in his brother. Sure, he managed to get through to him with stuff like {{Raocow}}, ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' and ''{{Mother 3}}'', and it's only because of his girlfriend that he's taking even a passing interest in ThisVeryWiki, but other things like ''RedVsBlue'' and ''{{Spelunky}}'' seem to be a no-go. On the other hand, it's partly because of him that I have no interest in ''DeathNote'', so...

I call subversion. I have a friend whose reaction to most things music-related people recommend to him is this. One friday he told me "hey, man, why don't you give me an advice of good music to listen?" and I recommended him The Reign of Kindo. It was a strange recommendation because he's somehow a purist and doesn't like modern jazz. That was in 2009. There's been 2 years after that, and I found this band's entire discography is still in his iPod. His answer to this? "They're fuckingly good. And I thank you for calling them because I was any close to start listening to that {{Radiohead}} and Muse shit, just for the fun of pointing out how much do they suck."

Let's see. The Dark Knight, Avatar (the James Cameron film, not The Last Airbender), RENT, Glee, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Black Butler, Homestuck...I think that's it currently, though in the past it was also Axis Powers Hetalia and Scott Pilgrim. I honestly get on the verge of violence when I or even other people are ignored in favor of Glee. Siiiigh.

MadokaMagica. Fucking MadokaMagica. I get it, it has a very unique concept, great soundtrack, good character design (storywise, I mean), and deconstructs popular anime tropes, I get them all, so would you people please, please, PLEASE, stop shoving it into everyone's face to watch it?!

Agreed like you wouldn't believe! Except for the "unique concept" part, as I've seen ''Bokurano'' and ''Claymore''. I was unfortunate enough to be in an anime club who fell in love with it and made me watch the first ten episodes (except 3, which I walked out of in protest), then started gushing about it after every meeting. No, it isn't a masterpiece. It's not even very ''good''. It tries far too hard to be dark, it NEVER felt scary, it's actually really badly written (Nobody ''ever'' thought there was ''anything'' wrong with their powers? Even for a second? ''Really?''), and...is there a cross between angst and a MoeBlob? Angst Blob? Because it was just as unappealing.

I actually watched it, albeit half asleep, but it was just more than "if you make a deal to do some fighting with unknown monstrous things you. Will. Be. Screwed." To be honest, I was too GenreBlind to see that...By the way, angst blob? Still, the hype surrounding it is just RIDICULOUS.

This troper refused to read ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' for the longest time, largely because her favorite cousin rather forcefully suggested them on multiple occasions. I was automatically skeptical, because the last time she made me read a book series, it didn't go so well. I ended up reading them out of boredom, and I happily devoured them all within a week.

Yeah!

Hell yes!

It's totally awesome!

IT COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE! Wait, where are you going? Come back! [-This was-] [--made for you!--] [---...damnit.---]