This troper's friend and her cat ears are very serious business. They once got insulted, and it resulted in the offender's teeth getting punched through.

Here in Los Angeles (where This Troper lives), the Los Angeles Lakers are very serious business from about January to June. We also take food trucks (or food in general), the entertainment business, our status as a very famous {{World Class City}}, In-N-Out, fashion, and parties very seriously.

This troper is a major metalhead, and if someone dares to call it screamo, or when his mother blames something he's done on his music... Let's just say I go on the offensive.

This troper, regarding her school orchestra. Heaven help you if you show up late for orchestra practice - and if you miss it altogether, you'd better not show your face around the music wing until you can be bothered to come to rehearsal. This goes double for her section members.

This troper has had death glares shot at me on many an occasion because of the fact that I'm kinda hard to beat at ''Scene It?''.

Join the club. This troper's family refuses to play most trivia games with her. Or argues about which team gets her.

This troper experiences the same thing,but with a lot of "good-natured" ribbing. The same thing happens during Boggle.

After reading the Playing With article for this page, I have concluded that somebody absolutely MUST make a Hopscotch Rap. If it exists already, post a link to it. If it doesn't... MAKE IT. NOW.

This troper's father can often be found swearing and cursing violently at the computer as he plays his game. Is he playing an FPS? A strategy game? Some buggy free MMORPG? No, he is playing {{Bridge}}. Just playing bridge. Not for money, not for any overall score, just playing games with random online people. Yet you think he's playing for his life's blood against his hated enemies. It's not just the fictional card games that are serious business.

At least one murder has been known to have been committed due to a bad bridge hand. While most bridge federations put rules about politeness into effect (with the option to ban repeat offenders - this troper knows a woman who was banned for a year from competitive bridge), there are enough people that will belittle opponents and berate partners that SeriousBusiness trumps rules.

On a fan site for a particular D-List celebrity, one fan said, with complete seriousness, that anyone who didn't like said celebrity were mentally ill. Another one declared that this celebrity's detractors all deserved to be shot in the face. What the hell is wrong with people??

I want...nay, NEED that link. The urge to bait is rising considerably...

Unfortunately it was a message board that has since shut down, IIRC. The celebrity was Kate Bosworth, though, if you want to go Googling. All that wank for ''Kate Freaking Bosworth.'' Oy. Has she even ''done'' anything since Superman Returns?

"21." In which the "sexy" backless dress she wore only revealed her protruding shoulder bones, starkly outlined vertebra, and every. single. freaking. rib. This female troper, watching with a group of girlfriends, concurred that she needs to rediscover the joys of carbohydrates, posthaste.

"The urge to bait is rising considerably..." Christ, do you not see what's wrong with that sentence?

SomethingElseAlsoRises?

I've been fiddling with this site for ''how'' long now? I must go outside.

This troper and his friends have turned {{Monopoly}} into serious business. We bargain and exchange properties, agree to pacts, and redistribute money and properties according to the last winner. Admittedly, Monopoly was meant to be serious business, but this has become life or death.

This tropette and... well, EVERYTHING. Especially movies and T.V. There are some shows and movies that, while a lot of people like (for what I think are the wrong reasons), I utterly despise, but haven't seen, however, '''I DON'T WATCH ''CRAP''.''' Specifically, anything that's pure drama over the PG rating and anything that is startling.

''GuitarHero'' players... my GOD ''Guitar Hero'' players... This Troper, who plays at a very high Expert level, as in schools most of his ''Guitar Hero'' Expert playing friends, finds it EXTREMELY grating that there are people who play the game MUTED because the music is DISTRACTING! WHAT THE FUCK?!

Probably not helped by the fact that the XBox360 version of either Rock Band or Guitar Hero (this troper can't remember at the moment) has an Achievement requiring that you play an expert song with the in-game music volume at zero.

The same could likely be said for Rock Band. By the way, never go on the Rock Band forums and check out the DLC request/discussion section. People get very, very angry when certain songs/bands don't show up. Regardless of genre.

And, apparently, Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band. This troper's friend is the only one, to said troper's knowledge, to take part in it, but he takes it deadly serious.

Sounds to me like you're taking this way too seriously.

This Troper has two tales: 1. Sports. Just about any sport on the planet is considered Serious Business, but I think American football might just take the grand prize. As big a challenge as that is. Also, I am a gamer, and I can safely say that the self-styled "Hardcore" crowd no longer care about playing games that are actually FUN. I can't go on a single gaming forum without finding at least a dozen people who refuse to play any games with bright colors in them. Or any games that don't feature guns. Because those games are "kiddie games" (which are apparently a terrible thing) or "casual games" (which apparently, for some reason, are even worse).

Most hardcore gamers are, in the world of customer service, called "Entitlement whores". Especially the Nintendo types who say "WE STUCK WITH YOU DURING YOUR DARK YEARS SO BEND OVER BACKWARDS AND CATER TO A MINORITY BASE!!!!" '''''NOW!!!'''''

Hey, games that feature guns ARE fun.

''{{Daikatana}}''.

This troper read a story on [=GameSpot=] about how M-rated games sell better. Many of the comments for the article were along the lines of:

"Games that DON'T have blood when people die make me squeamish!"

"Thanks for stating the obvious: that better games sell better! What's next, the sky is blue?"

"I cannot stand the idea of an E-rated game. I want to blow up people and see them explode in gory messes, not stupid kiddy graphics or people bleeding flowers or some shit." \\ And this is how he feels: *headdesk* *headdesk* *headwall* *and i must scream*

This is why Male-Centric-Power-Fantasies that scorn emotion And Colour and reward cock-measuring multiplayer and blood and gore are choking the market while games like TheElderScrolls and Bioshock must have an action quota lest they be flagged as "gay" and everyone who plays them is automatically gay for not playing a real gmae.

This troper has found that whenever a game is played in class, it becomes SeriousBusiness. Recently, he saw a game where people had to race to the overhead projector to write something down. Soon enough, people were practically body-slamming each other, and even taking the transparency and/or pen away so the other team couldn't do anything. You might expect this from grade-schoolers, but this is a ''high-school class'' doing this.

My - also high school - class once played a game where we were grouped into countries and had to get the supplies we needed to survive. People quickly made alliances and stole from each other, eventually leading to left vs. right side of the room. Needless to say, if someone was caught stealing, chasing and tackling ensued. Our teacher was amazed that, sadly, we hadn't really considered trading as an option. Next semester, my friend's class actually drew blood during the game. Needless to say, the game is no longer played, but it was the best day of class all year.

Same with this troper's class, except it was a redo of LordOfTheFlies, one group got the food and the other the water, and the year before we played, the kids ''took the crutches from a boy with a broken leg'' to fight with, telling him they needed it more than he did and that he should just sit there... they draw blood every year, but it's an incredible experience.

You'd think that after reading LordOfTheFlies they'd know better than to be violent. Unless that's the point...? And seriously, taking someone's crutches? That's just cruel.

High School? Try college. This troper has seen blood drawn as people run, push, trip, kick and fight their way to the front of a classroom to decline Latin nouns and adjectives. The reward? ''One'' Hershey kiss.

Hmm... "'''CHOCOLAAATE!!! CHOCOLAAAATE!!!'''" Mayhaps this describes their mental state?

High school: no reward, blood-drawing Password.

This troper fell out with her crush over facebook due to a L VERSUS Light discussion. Anime is serious business.

Deadliest sport in the world? Pictionary. Two white boards, two teams of panicky college students, winner takes all, and contesting decisions all the way. We should tape it this year's competition and put it up on YouTube. Actually, we shouldn't: it's mostly a screaming competition.

Oh, true. I remember this game we had at college. It began with the girl who organised it saying "Okay, you can be Team 1 and you can be Team 2," to which we instantly replied, "...We don't want to be ''Team 2''." So we were Team 1 and Team A and the rivalry only escalated from there.

Hell, even tests that were taken electronically on a large projector (the students answer with remotes, the screen displays which remotes have answered the question yet) can get stupidly competitive. The real kicker, however, are the class jeopardy games, which usually culminate in screaming matches between teams.

Oh dear LORD, class Jeopardy. I remember one incident in which I nearly opted not to play, because the topic was something I was particularly interested in. Everyone knew I was particularly interested in the topic, so there was a huge fight over which team I was going to be on.

For my French class, it was Concentration. HOMG WE HAVE TO GET MORE MATCHES THAN THE OTHER TEAM OR ELSE WE WON'T GET FIVE EXTRA POINTS ON OUR NEXT QUIZ!!! Pictionary was also a big one--the stakes are upped even MORE when you have to name the picture in your non-native language. Also, we had a tendency to keep everyone insanely quiet. "Don't talk so loud--they'll steal our answer!" (after person loses the turn because s/he couldn't hear) "WHY DIDN'T YOU SPEAK MORE CLEARLY?!"

Caribbean people, or those of Caribbean descent know that a game of Spades can get mega-intense. Games can last upwards of four hours; 1 hour playing and 3 arguing. If people are drinking, it only gets worse.

What makes a game of Spades especially deadly is if people start partnering up by ethnicity. This troper has witnessed few things as funny, (or horrific; take your pick) than two Haitians playing two Jamaicans in a game of Spades, cursing in Creole and Patois. You'd have to see it to believe it.

Dominoes falls under this as well, especially for Jamaicans. My father has splintered wooden tables with little ivory pieces. And don't get me started on Ludie (Jamaican for Parcheesi)

You are SO right! Dominoes really should come with a Surgeon's warning.

I totally agree. St. Croix, Sunday, anywhere in Fredriksted- you can hear the banging A BLOCK AWAY. My parents don't play it, thankfully, but jesus murphy they take the seriousness to a whole new level.

This troper's mother plays on an online gaming site and runs a small tournament league there. In his opinion, it had a less than admirable start. The first game they adopted was bingo. Perhaps too luck-based for tournament purposes, but that's no big deal. The problem is that this league had a rule against ''calling Bingo once you had it'', and instead waiting until the end of the game. And this rule was enforced, to the point of telling people to leave if they called Bingo. The site eventually decided to create rooms designed for these kinds of players, but before that happened, this troper had to inform her that she was playing a game consisting of 75 numbers being called in random order, at which point everyone won. And holding ''tournaments'' of this. And ''yelling at the screen when people tried to play the game normally''.

''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is SeriousBusiness to this troper's friends. To me, it is SnarkBait. And I can't even make fun of it...

This troper knows how you feel.

As does this one, especially since said friends keep saying "You need to read these, they're SOOOOOOOO good, you'll LOVE them!!!" with that pathetic look of earnestness. There needs to be some sort of "My Friends All Love Something Stupid, and I Can't Tell Them It Sucks" support group online, I think.

Ooh, I like that idea (as the original poster). But I think it would be sort of hypocritical, as I love Avatar and most of my female friends think "Cartoons are for kids".

Cartoons, and the hate or love of them is Serious Business in this troper's household.

''Hating'' ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is also SeriousBusiness to many people. As in, if you enjoy this book in any way and do not participate in actively bashing it, you are inferior genetic scum that cannot actually read, and you are only intelligent if you help examine the book and pick out every little detail to assure how terrible it is to others. (This troper, for the record, doesn't have an opinion on Twilight either way.)

This Troper was forced to read the ''whole Mewing series'' by her obsessed-fan cousin. After reading them all, she came to a conclusion: she was wrong. were actually quite a bit worse than she expected them to be.

This troper also had to read the entire series in order to communicate with her favorite cousin on her visit. I read the first two books and didn't get completely finished with either of them. When I saw my cousin, who takes it personally when everything isn't "just so" for her, I foolishly broke it to her that I thought it was the worst thing I had ever read. Despite this, it was all she could talk about for the whole visit. Over the next six months, I grew vehemently anti-Twilight, and my Twihard mother was even worse than my cousin about trying to force me to read them, only adding to the vitriol. Come time for my summer visit to my family's place, my cousin and I got into this huge fight over the quality of those four. Stupid. Books. We both learned a good lesson after that trip: Don't take Twilight, loving it or hating it, so seriously. We have both long since stopped being so obsessive.

''Pokemon'', ''Magic: the Gathering'', and ''Tower Defence'' are SeriousBusiness to this troper.

This troper's favorite band is somewhat SeriousBusiness - don't snark them in front of me, or you will regret it.

In this troper's family, college football takes on all the aspects of a holy war. It may be germane to mention that Dad and two of his three brothers went to Ohio State, while Mom is faculty at Michigan; my brother went to Miami of Ohio, I went to U of M, and my sister dodged the whole question and went out of state. Needless to say, family Thanksgiving usually turns into a cage match by about mid-afternoon.

Some peeople think that people in Columbus treat football like a religion. Those of us who have lived in Columbus know this is not true, we take it MUCH more seriously.

Even if one's favored team doesn't have a nationally noted rivalry, team fanaticism can frequently reach absurd levels. This troper once had a devoutly Catholic friend who believed, with all sincerity, that since the Blessed Virgin Mary was the patron of Notre Dame, she would never allow the team to lose a game. This troper, being both an atheist and a Michigan alumna, took great glee in watching the Wolverines thrash the Irish year after year.

A scary but true story involved this troper talking to a ''highly'' autistic 19-year-old who turned angry and even violent whenever anyone mentioned the death of a fictional character he liked. This troper deeply regretted mentioning ''StarWars'' to him, as the recent death of Mara Jade was one such BerserkButton. That incident, in addition to another kid hitting my own personal BerserkButton about an hour later, made that one of the worst days of my life.

This troper hasn't gone back to the SW Expanded Universe since Anakin Solo was killed off at about the same time as a coworker's son the same age was killed in a drunk-driving accicent.

Since the book licence changed, and the New Jedi Order started, for me. Zhan's stuff was the best, and would have been a good, final high note for the ExpandedUniverse (on that end of the timeline), for a time at least. I hear he's written a few [=SW=] novels since then, though, so I may check out some of them eventually. It's not really SeriousBusiness to me though, I just think [=SW=] survives best as an escapist fantasy, and not as something where people die all the time.

The reaction of people to this site getting hacked qualifies as SeriousBusiness. The site goes down for a few hours and people call for the hacker to be killed: for hacking a site that amounts to little more than a fansite and is barely relevant outside the Internet.

It's an overreaction to demand than an action that is malicious, inconvenient (if not harmful) ''and illegal'' be punished?

Definitely for the inconvenient part, as people acted like they couldn't go on living without this site. But I guess I did use the wrong choice of words, and indeed, to be fair, the asking for e-mail thing was pushing it.

For this troper it was more the ''reason'' he hacked the site and the link he placed. Hacking a site is really not the way to make me help starving children/support Islamic radicalism. ''There are better ways to go about this'' (well the radicalism not so much).

This troper is more of the opinion that the hacking itself was SeriousBusiness. I mean, come on, this is TVTropes, not the Pentagon or an international bank. Do you ''really'' get some sort of sense of ''achievement'' out of hacking it?

Do ''not'' try to talk about how ''ReBoot'' could have turned out to the guy who started the Revival. Just... ''don't.''

This troper's friend was nearly evicted as a result of his roommate's Hanson obsession. Yes, ''that'' Hanson, the one that hasn't been relevant in ten years.

This troper's LARP group thinks a bunch of grown (or at least college-age) people running around with PVC (or fiberglass) and foam "swords" is SeriousBusiness. He thinks it's fantastic, goofy fun. He's had to think fast in literature classes to avoid bad-mouthing a verbose, convoluted story that goes nowhere, because TrueArt is {{SeriousBusiness}}, too. Basically, this troper is the antithesis of SeriousBusiness.

This troper is of a endangered species of gamers: the kind who plays for points. If he can score fairly well in a game (usually a Shoot Em Up), but there's many others who are better than him, he'll go into a depression, thinking that he is the worst player of that game ever. The same applies to his endeavours in the racing games ''Initial D Arcade Stage'' and ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune'', and it doesn't help that players of those games will HATE you if you're not within 1-2 seconds of a world record.

THE FOLLOWING IS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - If you know somebody who is a ''24'' fan. P-L-E-A-S-E follow these instructions for dealing with them....carefully #QUOTE#1) 24 is the greatest television series on the air and is one of the top 10 series ever made. Do NOT suggest otherwise. #QUOTE#2) Do NOT interrupt any episode while it is airing. Do NOT interrupt an episode that is playing on DVD. Do NOT interrupt a commericial for an upcoming episode. Non-compliance will not be treated lightly. #QUOTE#3) NEVER suggest that 24 is unrealistic. It stretches the edges of realism, yes, but it is NOT unrealistic. Do NOT suggest otherwise. #QUOTE#4) Never make a statement like 24 is fake because it has a Black president." This is will not be looked upon kindly. Also, during an episode, NEVER....ever refer to the President as "Pedro Cerrano" or "The Allstate Guy".

4a) Rendered obsolete by Real Life.

YourMileageMayVary: This Troper pretty much blurted out "Hey! It's the guy from the Allstate commercials!" the first time he saw 24 in front of some 24 fans, and all they did was agree and say that that was what they said, too. We all had a good laugh about it. #QUOTE#5) Extremely important: If for any reason you see an episode before a fan, DO NOT -- under ANY circumstances reveal spoilers or other details. This cannot be stressed enough; failure to follow this instruction can result in deadly harm up to and including death. If for some unavoidable reason you do reveal plot details, contact your local Witness Protection Program IMMEDIATELY.

#QUOTE# 5a) Before going to the WPP, take a trip to the local gun store. But remember, taking down a spoiled 24 fan requires a high-powered rifle with FMJ ammunition. Aim for the heart, the skull is too hard to pierce with commercially available weaponry.

Speaking of spoilers, it seems that no one wants to be spoiled except this troper and her brother. They find spoilers make them want to watch/read/play something more, not spoil the fun. Which makes things annoying when people don't want to talk about what's happening lately in ''{{Naruto}}'' or ''{{Bleach}}'' because they aren't that far yet, but somewhat fun when you threaten to spoil something.

Not only you guys. This Troper gets the same effect sometimes, especially if its a comedy series, since it makes him want to know how the characters even ''got'' to that situation.

This troper used to have a slight variation of this - he used to like opening the last page of the book and reading the last sentence. Usually it just indicates the mood of the book's conclusion without revealing any twists or details about how we got there. He learned that even the mood itself can be a spoiler the hard way, after reading the last two sentences of 1984 - He [Winston] had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

This Troper has a somewhat unique case. When it comes to art, I draw for the fun of it and it is more of a hobby to me. However, some people out there do not see this and give critiques in an almost snark matter. While I agree that there are some things I can improve in, the comments I get are not worth the time due to the whole SeriousBusiness attitude behind it. Apparently, drawing in MS Paint is unacceptable, copying/pasting certain parts a few times isn't OK either, shading MUST be done, drawings are done on paper only, etc. I'm still amazed on how people take drawing as serious as playing ''SuperSmashBros'' in a tournament.

You also are '''NOT''' allowed to draw in any style bult ultra-realistic.

They're not silly cartoons made to sell toys, they're BASTIONS OF SWEET MANLY JUSTICE. WORSHIP THEM.

By contrast, any ''{{Transformers}}'' fan will tell you that any television block for Transformers cartoons are infact the network's 30 minute commercial break (of which, 22 minutes has plot). However if the toys are bad...

When the local PBS affiliate aired ''EastEnders'' back in the 80s, this troper's parents were insistent on catching every syllable of every episode, forbidding anyone in the room to talk. (This, despite the fact that they regularly annoyed this troper with amused or angry asides--including ''talking to the characters''--during every ''other'' show or movie the family watched together.) And God help this troper or his siblings if they ever messed up taping an episode for them. He was surprised when they ''didn't'' go into a catatonic depression after the station finally pulled the show.

This Troper's mother is like that with ''TheArchers''.

This troper '''''thought''''' he was a pretty big ''StarTrek'' fan. Until.... he actually met other Trekkies who really do speak fluent Klingon, Romulanese, and Vulcanese; own the blueprints for every class of Starfleet ship; and have memorized the stardates on which every StarTrek adventure takes place. It's a bit humbling.

College theater clubs. Holy crap. Most, if not all, of the members will be able to name all of the cast members for all productions of their favorite show, will probably have seen it as many times as their distance from the theater permits, and will know all the lyrics to all the songs from all the musicals they know. And heaven help you if you're not an actor; if you're a techie or, god forbid, just a theater fan, you will ''not make any friends'' with the acting kids. Period. Even if the club isn't performance based. For some reason, high school theater kids are a lot more accepting.

Oh, high school theater can be just as crazy. The techies and acting kids got along just fine in this troper's high school group - but WOE TO YOU if you don't take part in every single production of the year, or if you don't actually mind too much if you don't become a thespian....obviously that means you do not care enough about THEATER and therefore do not deserve to be part of THEATER at all anymore.

I hope you both fall off stage and break your necks. It's spelled THEATRE, you blasphemers.

The question of which of the leading men of ''DeathNote'', L or Light, is 'the true embodiment of justice', is definitely SeriousBusiness. It would be easier for this troper to laugh it all off if the series didn't examine vital questions of where to draw the line; ridiculous as it may sound, she honestly could never love someone completely if they were a Kira-supporter. Of course, this debate is sadly nowhere near as rabid as that comparing their respective hotness-levels...

I think I'd feel uncomfortable with a Kira supporter as well.

It's almost like an anime-based version of the death penalty debate... I'll just say that I enjoyed watching the series and won't reveal who he rooted for.

Ironically the black and white view you present is exactly the sort of thing Kira stands for.

If I had to live with a Kira supporter... I'd probably end up a)not talking to them at all, or b) enjoying the situation and roleplaying Death Note forever.

This troper fell out with her crush over facebook due to a L VERSUS Light discussion.

This troper was kicked off a popular humour website (if it is named, you would know it and no, not naming it). This troper suspects serious mental issues on the part of the other guy but the straw that broke the camel's back? "I don't think that passing humour bit you did was nice". This troper was followed online, off and on, for YEARS after that happened. In many quite illogical ways. And then of course, was the inevitable 'ban the people who liked the people who got banned'.

A certain mostly-female group of Eminem fans got this way after a while. An interview with an ex-girlfriend turns up in which she says their idol is a terrible lover? Death unto you, wench! He shall be my husband! Doom to the non-believer!

I had two Siamese fighting fish in different tanks. They had a Staring Contest OfDoom. They spent three days looking at each other, not even eating. One of them died. I swear the other one was doing a HumiliationConga.

Fighting fish do that. You're supposed to put a bit of paper or something between the tanks, so they can't see each other.

Wanna have fun messing with someone? Talk to an indie (or any type, really) music geek who takes their music collection verrrrrrry seriously and mention some fake band. They'll wrack their brains trying to find something to say about it. Being a music geek myself, I know how serious people can get. You don't have the Japanese limited-edition version of your favourite band's second EP? '''You're not a real fan.''' It gets ridiculous when you like bands from Sweden or Iceland or whatnot and can't get albums, and people react with disdain because apparently you're supposed to go on ebay or whatnot to find that ultra-rare out-of-print vinyl. And heaven forbid you haven't been to a concert and gotten merch! Ugh, it's too hardcore for me. I'll stick to my easily-accquired [=CDs=], thanks. It's not worth the money, for me.

Go to http://www.rpg.net. Log onto their forums. Ask about Ron Edwards' "Brain Damage" essay. HilarityEnsues.

This troper was as happy as the next troper that Senator Obama won the presidency. But...if you saw some of the celebrations and the shouting, screaming, and crying that took place elsewhere; you seriously would've thought Christ himself was elected.

Not to mention all the people who quite literally believe that the ''Anti-Christ'' was elected.

DouglasAdams was a BRILLIANT author, and if somebody doesn't like him, there is something seriously wrong with that person. Also, science is the greatest discipline ever. No arguments.

Not necessarily to the super-extreme of, say, ''everything else on this page'' but this troper takes his job pretty seriously. What do I do, you ask? I'm a mid-level employee at a Dairy Queen. I still, however, tap into my Rage Meter when I have to do [[strike:something]] everything that should've been done the previous night.

{{Anime}}, in general, is ''really'' SeriousBusiness for a lot of people. Whether you love it or hate it you should be careful about who you share your opinions on it with, as you might just get your head bitten off. Just look at all the ridiculous "Anime Sucks" videos on YouTube (And the equally ridiculous retorts).

Check out the SeriousBusiness trope. See that part where it says "Meta"? That used to have two different running gags involving TemporalParadox, DataVampires, and general silliness. Note how it's gone now - it truly is SeriousBusiness.

I remember attending a Pokemon event to get the creature Darkrai downloaded onto my game. While there, I met a kid who took Pokemon very, very, VERY seriously. He was semifinalist in the national tournament, and get this. He refused to trade with anyone because he'd heard that Nintendo could ban him from a tournament if his game had ever communicated with one that used cheat codes. As I left, I saw him checking his Darkrai's stats and resetting. He was trying to get the ideal nature and statistics for a Pokemon that is usually banned in tournament play. It boggles my mind.

This troper's cell phone game about a group of high schoolers trying to survive their four years. She will snarl in frustration when the minigames are lost. Also ''{{Tetris}}''. Damn I-blocks never show up when I need them and the squiggles are the root of all evil.

This troper can understand the Tetris thing. She plays it on Facebook and it made her day when she surpassed all her friends' high scores

Try playing ''Tetris: The Grand Master 2'' 's Death mode. You will come to loathe I-blocks very quickly. Even moreso than S- and Z-blocks.

Subtrope of "internet is serious business": this troper saw flamewars regarding comments he left in photos. Some people just love overreaction.

This could actually be justified depending on what kind of comments they were and how they expressed their "love" of overreaction. Trying to provoke people for the fun of it and/or hurt their feelings is serious business.

This troper and his friends play all manner of board games as if we were in some sort of bad anime.

Try actually ''playing'' the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' card game the way the anime does. I once did so with {{Nixon}}; when he lost I punished him with a friendship speech.

If you want , try mixing ''AnimalCrossing'' with SeriousBusiness. This troper recently visited someone's town in ''City Folk'' and was scolded by the host for ''talking to the neighbors''! Why was it a big deal? The person was paranoid that if this troper or anyone else were to talk to everyone, he would lose his neighbors since he liked them that much. It doesn't help the fact that the host could simply just not invite anyone over if he was that afraid of the outcome, but even then, the animals will still move away on their own. Don't forget that the animals, while diverse in looks, are limited in personality, so you could have a dog and a cat that speak the same lines, thus this troper does not understand valuing a character if there is an identical one living next door. After this troper left the paranoid host's town, the person instant messaged me just to say he blocked me from his town. Fine, no big deal, but it gets even more silly; ''The person went out of his way to make a blog about the incident'' on this forum we both attend to and called this troper several nasty names in it as well. SeriousBusiness indeed.

This troper would just like to say that for him, HumongousMecha are ''very'' SeriousBusiness.

One of this troper's old roommates never seemed to get angry at anything ''except'' frustrating video games.

This Troper decided to stop playing ''{{Risk}}'' when he realized that the anger and frustration were sapping away what is supposed to be a fun game. Of course, any game where one measly army can hold off your Legions of Doom through lucky die-rolling can cause a great deal of irritation.

The FurryFandom itself could be considered SeriousBusiness. This troper has seen many furries flame other furries for fetishes that creep them out when their own stuff could easily cause {{Squick}} to others. Then there are furries who will flame some other furry for simply ''being or liking a particular species''! Easily similar to StopHavingFunGuys.

A good portion of furries, however, are very self aware about this. When people try to troll them about their weirdness, they just go "yep, I'm a freak. Whaddya gonna do about it?" For some reason, this usually ends the trolling pretty quickly.

People love to take the furry fandom way too fucking seriously to be healthy and love to feel better when they hate other species and claim themselves as automatically superior for being a better species/ Now notice that they associate ''all'' forms of stereotypes with you if you happen to like a particular species or are one, and attach the word "fag" to '''''EVERY BLOODY THING'''''.

My rules for making a fursona:

Don't add wings because god forbid you be creative.

Don't use any form of colouration, normal or non-normal.

Don't have them be asian because then you will be called a weeaboofag.

Don't be a wolf. You will then be called a newfag.

Don't be a fox. You will then be called a newfag or have all sorts of insults.

Don't be a kitsune. You will then be called a weeaboofag.

Don't be a raccoon. You will then be called a fag.

Don't be a dragon. You will then be called a vorefag.

Don't be a snake. You will then be called a vorefag.

Don't be an otter. You will then be called a watersportsfag

Don't be a feline. You will then be called a dominatrix fag.

Don't be a Kangaroo. You will then be called a footpawfag.

Don't be a scalie. You will then be called a scaliefag.

Don't be an equine. You will then be called a hyperfag.

Don't be a pokemon, Digimon, or winddragon. You will then be called a weeaboofag.

For that matter, don't be '''anything'''. You will be called a fag anyway.

This troper is truly devoted to most things including comedy. Art isn't just a passion for him it's a way of life.

This troper recently saw someone bullying a newbie on ''SecondLife'' simply because the newbie hadn't set up his profile yet. The aggressor ranted on and on against the newbie, saying not having a profile makes him lame and makes other people sick. Sounds like someone takes SecondLife waaay too seriously.

... DavidGonterman???

The act of '''Loading the Dishwasher''' is Serious Business. This troper at first thought he was overreacting at times when he got annoyed at his family members were loading the dishwasher in ways that would prevent water from cleaning the dishes fully. When asking his mother about this, she told him that she had heard of '''whole relationships being ruined by disagreements on how the dishwasher should be loaded'''. This troper doesn't worry so much anymore.

It is, sort of. On average, 4 Americans every year die due to improperly loaded dishwashers. For the record, make sure all the pointy things are facing downward.

This troper's mother-in-law loads his family's dishwasher in a crappy manner. But he likes the old lady so much that he clamps his mouth shut and instead reruns the plates that did not get properly cleaned when she is not watching.

This troper once asked a friend why she is fastidious about doing most chores for her parents but never loads the dishwasher - just piles up the dirty dishes on the table. Apparently her dad freaks out if anyone but him dares to load the dishwasher, because only he can do it right.

This troper washes dishes by hand... which is SERIOUS BUSINESS! My Mom will also turn cooking... into SERIOUS BUSINESS! Heaven help you if you so much as touch my radio when I'm in there. Seriously. If I'm washing while Mom's Cooking... well... bad stuff happens.

Stacking cupboards. It MUST be done properly.

This troper has a wireless, rechargeable mouse, several wireless, rechargeable phones and a great big wireless, rechargeable keyboard. If ANY of these are not put back into the chargers when you're done...

It's not particularly unusual to treat comic books like SeriousBusiness. But apparently (I've been told) my writing is more eloquent to describe why GrantMorrison is a hack than to do anything else.

This topic is truly an exemplary example of SeriousBusiness in action. What's more, the guy actually claims to be a businessman, specifically a collections agent, and thinks this is a JustifiedTrope. There's a term for that line of thinking.

The person on the spore forum maybe had just posted that to {{Troll}} and get the whole forum jumping. I mean SERIOUSLY, suing a company because "HE DIDN'T LIKE THE GAME THEY MADE!?"

In ''Cyber Nations'', a browser-based MMO, there was a series of events in autumn of 2008, among which would be known as the Great War IV. At one point around this time, one player threatened to contact the FBI because someone found out where he lived IRL and threatened property damage or something. I don't remember that well.

Some people use where exactly where they live as their nation's capital. Gee, I wonder what that could lead to?

Certamen. It's a high-school level ''Latin'' competition, which primarily centers around competitor's knowledge of relatively useless trivia about Roman times. But good God, is it SeriousBusiness for one of the schools in this troper's division.

Fuck, Certamen is '''HARDCORE'''. Man, those fucking wine trees that Posidon offered Athens? Backle Hamilcar would be impressed. ... And no one has any idea what I'm talking about, but thats okay.

This is precisely the reason why this troper is terrified of going to the NJCL con as part of the Certamen team. It's a fun game but some people take it to ridiculous extremes.

ThisTroper and a few friends once discussed what an anime based on ''StarCraft'' tournaments would be like. Suffice to say, it ended up making ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' look tame in comparison.

That would be so awesome. It could be a two part anime with the super-hard core players and then each episode could also be an epic from the units [=PoV=].

This troper knew a kid who would break out in tears whenever someone mentioned that Data died.

This Tropette hates gym class for this very reason. It culminated with her chucking a giant foam pad at a kid screaming at her about honor, self-sacrifice, and dedication.

SonicTheHedgehog is definitely serious business but the worst part is Series/SonicTheHedgehog. I've met people who are actually RACIST against Japanese because Sega of Japan is currently in charge of Sonic. They claim the Japanese are emotionless, because in Sonic 06, he tells Elise to "Just smile". They claim the Japanese are greedy and selfish, because they refuse to allow Series/SonicTheHedgehog to come back on air, or to completely change the storyline of the games to match Series/SonicTheHedgehog (The fact that Series/SonicTheHedgehog has been dead for 15 years, and that it had a short and unpopular run has nothing to do with it; its because they are Japanese). Not only that, but don't EVER say Series/SonicTheHedgehog isn't that good. And the worst thing you could do is not support a resurrection. Its not a matter of opinion, its a matter of "right and wrong". "Just because something is more popular doesn't make it right, and just because something is unpopular doesn't make it wrong."

If this troper gets too into a game she's playing, and she dies or loses, she'll turn off the game and pack it away for a while, getting mad at it.

SquirrelGirl. The fact that a character who can just talk to squirrels wins over Thanos and Dr. Doom makes her into a real controversial character, to put it mildly.

Of course, it should be noted that at least the writers of said SquirrelGirl article takes her too seriously, but on the other way around.

This troper was permabanned from the [=WorldOfWar.net=] forums for ''being less than impressed with the fanfic forum mod's stories''. Really.

Devil May Cry 3? Hardcore serious business. To see a big display of both Fan Dumb and What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic, ask someone who "knows" what the deal is with Sparda having stripped away demons' names as revealed in the [=DMC3=] manga, and you'll get a wall of text similar to the one on this page. Bonus points if every ''other'' piece of trivia seen either in the game or manga is passed off as "random" or "to make it look cool", by the ''same person'', although not on the same page.

This troper's friend recently shattered one of his records in ''Texmaster'', a clone of ''{{Tetris}}: The Grand Master''. A mutual friend of theirs becomes quite traumatized, as he had been playing for years longer to get to his level of skill.

This troper had the same thing happen to his obsessive friend (now ex friend) in Super Smash Bros Melee. The guy was way more skilled than I was and I'd usually lose, but one day, when I happen to beat him 3 times in a row, he just sat down and was in total shock and loss. He even put himself down for losing against me.

This troper's friend is waay too obsessed with Taylor Swift for his own good. He was one of many who got upset at an April Fool's joke about Taylor Swift releasing a new song.

My food is Serious Business.I have actually, when my brother stole a chip(fry to you americans), I grabbed his wrist and told him to drop it.

You're not the only one. I get ''pissed'' if people so much as ''ask'' for some of my food - unless it's something I've offered. Unauthorized taking of food = {{Death Glare}} and graphic threats of maiming - if not taking some of their food in retaliation. Even if it's my mom (who was not the parent doing the control-starvation, among other things). Seriously. I may have been {{Denied Food As Punishment}} (yes, it was a control thing with a parent - a ''very'' '''bad''' control thing) as a child and tween, but still...Oy.

This troper has gone beyond mundane Serious Business; he's started writing a series of essays on the inaccuracies contained within people's impressions of various media. A realistic portrayal of space warfare can be very Serious Business indeed.

People take Left4Dead too seriously. Teamwork is a requirement, but if one person doesn't do exactly what the other players want them to do or if they screw up even slightly, that person is automatically a n00b and will be kicked from the group. VS mode is just as bad where getting killed by a survivor means you suck in their eyes.

With the release of the new Survival mode, more RAAAAGGEEE is spewed. In survival mode, the enemies do not stop coming and if there are gaps between the spawns, you barely have time to heal. This troper, who only played Survival mode three times, was yelled at by the other players ''just for trying to heal''. In my defense, there were no enemies near me at the time and it was probably a dumb mistake on my part, but at the same time, I was not one of the many people who spent hours playing Survival on day 1.

It got worse when Valve made the game open to anyone for one day and then followed it with a 40% off sale. Many veteran players pissed and moaned that the wave of new players pisses them off because either A) they don't know how to play properly and B) they ask stupid questions like how to heal someone.

Versus mode is practically made up of this in the majority of public games. There is always at least one person who will be in it to win it and will start bitching the minute that something goes wrong and will also be the first to yell at someone who screws up.

This troper cannot help but laugh at everyone who does a RageQuit in VS mode whenever their teammate controlling the Tank fails to down or kill any survivor. In Left 4 Dead 2, this troper's survivor team had a Tank right in the start of the map and the player controlling the Tank went into the safe room and tried to smash all of us, but instead, we beat the shit out of it with baseball bats and the Tank couldn't even down a single survivor. When the Tank player died, at least two people on the infected side rage quitted and another called the Tank player a "fail tank."

Up here in Canada, we have this thing called the "gifted program" where kids who are percieved to have special talents (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) are put in special classes with other gifties. This troper quickly learned that, contrary to what he was told, the program is identical to the regular curriculum, only with slightly harder work. All the gifted students take school work so seriously that it borders on disturbing. Some of them willfully subject themselves to over 4 hours of homework a night! Me and a friend, both of us former "gifted students" have gone on to label these people as gifttards, and are constantly baffled by the way they treat menial busywork as Serious Business. And god forbid you make them compete for anything...

We have that here in the US too. As an eight-year veteran of the insanity, this troper can informedly declare that the only thing that program is good for is to turn completely normal children into insane, overly-competitive, lifeless drones. This troper is quite thankful she escaped. Oh, by the way - this went through the program after it was retooled due to the high suicide rate of students. Final disturbing point: the high school level of this particular program is set up similarly to the ''special-needs program.''

As another gifted kid in the US, I can say that this, for my school district, is utterly ridiculous. Gifted programs here are basically study halls for smart people, with grades (but it's basically impossible to get a B). The real burdens are the honors courses, which anyone can choose to take. Those have extra homework, but nothing like four hours a night. It's not all that competitive. But yeah, we fall under the "Special Needs" umbrella, which is utterly ridiculous. We even have to have our schedules signed by our Gifted Teacher before we turn them in as if we couldn't make such decisions ourselves.

It's hwy I never wanted to do AP, because of those kind of pricks who turned academia into a method to feel suprior to others.

4th year in gifted program here, that's age 13, 8th grade. The teachers claim it's all sorts of different, and I don't really have grounds to argue. But, I got to learn grade 9 math in grade 6, so I'm not complaining. Also, my projects get done in trope-speak, for hilarity.

My special needs experience was a wild ride. I went in, realized the insanity ("Homework is for proving that we grasped the school work! I don't want to be ''punished'' for being smart!" It didn't help that this troper is a but BrilliantButLazy) and then began to constantly challenge the program. The other drones thought I was annoying, mainly because I could do just as well as or better than they could without shoving my nose to the paper. Eventually I left the program because I was sick of being treated with like a five year old with Mojo Jojo's blown up brain and left. Now I skateboard right outside their window while they study. They must see me, because an eraser hit me in the head last week...

Hm, I got lucky. In my gifted program, we did fun things like make kites, ping-pong ball launchers, learn chess, figure out mind puzzles, and all other sorts of fun stuff.

This troper has the same thing. Currently, I have to make a persuasive infomercial about a product I made up to help people survive a national disaster. Academia is Serious Business for me, so of course I'm making it in Blender and Minecraft.

This troper joined an AP United States History class for fun. Reason being I was bored in my regular track and wanted to learn more. I realize now that I could have saved myself the headaches and insanity from the teachers to other students. Here is a quote from my teacher on the importance of AP testing and placement. This test is the most important thing you will ever do. Forget getting married, or having children. This is the single-important thing you will do. You will not sleep or eat until you kow you can pass this exam with a grade no lower than a 4 (equivalent to a B, which in that class is more or less like getting a D.)

Play-by-post, whether it's on Livejournal or on a forum? Can turn ridicoulusly serious. At one point I had a ''lot'' going on in real life. I told the other players this, warning that I'd probably post less. Cue a anon comment that basically boiled down to "forget about real life, post more!" O_o And this is ignoring how some games have an unofficial rule of "keep track of everything going on, even if there's twenty different plots going on".

What's this? You didn't like watchmen? Commit suicide. '''NOW.''' Because you will meet a bloodier death from the fanboys.

This Troper, back when he was alot younger and dumber, used to take the {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} card game very seriously, and went to tournaments every week. Only ever won two matches at those things. And sometimes broke down crying after the deck he worked so hard on failed to win. Also, I talked in a very elevated way, almost like the guys on the show. Rather embarrassing in retrospect. Come to think of it, I still have my old cards... maybe I should start playing again. The old card shop still hosts tournaments, I think.

This Troper once sent an outline on for fiction submissions for a half-baked idea of a magazine to a friend. When told that the rules were a little strict, I replied in these exact words; "Writing is serious business."

To a lot of Texans, high school football is serious business.

As is high school cheerleading, at least to Wanda Holloway.

This troper treats his packed lunch at school as serious business. Because bagels ARE important, dang it.

This Troper used to take Oblivion seriously, to the point of agreeing that oblivion was better than god, and mouthing an insult to a classmate for saying "Oblivion is gay."

This troper gets odd looks when he says he plays games for fun....and not '''just''' PC games, not '''just''' 360 games, not '''just''' Valve games...because when people think games are extremely SeriousBusiness and cuss him out or flat-out-call him a fucking moron because he wasn't playing their preferred way...Then the game ceases to be fun and he leaves the people with the quadruple digit blood pressure to eventually keel over because they take their games and their gaming platforms '''''WAY TOO FUCKING SERIOUSLY''''' to be healthy.

Good LORD, does this Troper see this ever so often, being a player of {{Fire Emblem}}. She has seen near civil wars erupt over which units people use, which supports they get, and God help you if you say you like Eliwood, whom is apparently useless. (To this troper, this makes the poor guy a {{Woobie}} when it comes to the fandom. C'mere Eli, you need a hug.)

This is the exact reason why this troper left GameFAQs and rarely browses though gaming based forums. Gaming is serious business and trying to defend Nintendo or even saying something like casual gaming isn't all bad gets you branded as a retard who has never played hardcore games like Grand Theft Auto 4 or Halo 3. Of course, even Nintendo fans turn on each other, swearing at them for not liking obscure games like Earthbound or No More Heroes. This troper feels more at ease just playing games by himself and playing what he wants without worrying over some moronic fanboy foaming at the mouth over how or what I play.

This is the number one reason why I dearly ''hate'' sports and '''never''' want to play them.

Reenacting anything. Usually there are people who are sane, but there are those who go batshit if you do something "farbie".

"Hardcore" gamers VS casual gamers. Just mention Nintendo's Wii console and you're bound to get a whine fest from several gamers who proudly cry that Nintendo's casual gaming will kill off all gaming as they know it. Never say that you like casual games because then they denounce you as a non gamer. Never mind the fact that casual games have existed for god knows how long and the more recent ones have used achievements, something most gamers wanted Nintendo to copy, er adopt from Microsoft's achievement system. Apparently, only people born in the NES or SNES era are allowed to play video games.

This troper's grandparents when they play Scrabble. Full stop. I put the first word down vertically, and they got all flustered because they always put it ''horizontally'' because "it helps us when we look at the board."

This troper once got into an argument with a church official over scrabble. It had something to do with another person having put a "G" on the triple letter score and making 2 words with that G. She said That I should triple it twice. Meing more math-minded, I thought that that meant multiplying it by 9, which in that case would be complete bull. We argued for ''10 minutes'' after I'd realized my mistake and told her what I meant by explaining mathematically what "triple twice" meant.

This Troper oncce lost very, ''very'' badly at Payday. She kinda went a bit crazy for a moment, screaming about how the poor people would one day rise and take revenge on all your rich, snobby brats and make you broke BROKE DO YOU HEAR ME?!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'LL SEE WHO'S LAUGHING THEN YOU PRISSY LOAN SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...* coughs* She still...uh...hasn't gotten over it.

Bullying happens to be very, very serious business at this Troper's school, to the point where this year, a 'bullying report form' was created, a paper that you have to fill out if you have witnessed a bullying ('describe the scene as clearly as possible', 'victim's names', 'bully's names', 'what did you do?', 'witness's names', etc.).

This Troper recently had a leadership day as his year group would be entering 12th grade soon. Upon entering the room where they would recieve their lecture about the responsibilities of a leader, we each found a mintie (as in the candy) on our seats, and some of the kids proceeded to eat theirs. Que the year master taking the mike to express his disapointment at the failing of the SecretTestOfCharacter he had set up, and then proceeding to liken leadership to the fresh breath that minties give you and carrying the analogy throught his speech and the finnishing prayer, making this double as WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome.

This troper learned to ''hate'' competition after Elementary school Physical education, where he learned first-hand the difference between good competition and bad competition, and how the latter is 90% of it and utterly ''ruins'' a game. They wanted to motivate you to play the game, instead of just doing exercises and throwing a ball around. Which yeah, I can see why, except guess how they motivated you to play the game? By making it so that one game happens per class (During a specific unit). The team that ''wins'' the game gets ''more'' grade points than the team who lost. This means that if you won ''every'' game, you got an easy "A" in PE, and if you lost every game, you'd get a "C-". This troper only knows it because the coach explained it to them. (It was still a sleeper course...you couldn't "Fail" unless you just sat on your ass in the corner of the room or cut class.) So this meant that there ''was'' something at stake, since an "A" looks good at your report card. And there wasn't anyone who was playing to have fun...they were trying to ''make sure the other team couldn't win''. And they would ''constantly'' break rules to sabotage other players...In American football, you are supposed to tackle the person with ''the ball''. The way they played it? They would just wrestle with the team and give the ball to someone who can run so the other team couldn't possibly start it. During Basketball, the other team would try and knock you out with the ball. This was also a breeding ground for the {{Griefer}}. Someone could just get revenge on someone and just throw balls in the other team's goal or literally just ''stand'' there doing nothing, screwing over themselves and everyone else. So in short, Competition can turn a bunch of good natured nice-spirited children into vicious cock-measuring bastards.

This troper, too. She utterly ''despised'' Physical Education from elementary school on, because I was the class's {{Butt Monkey}}, no matter what class I got put in, or what teacher had me. I was regularly insulted (retard, cripple, bitch, slut, whore [why do those seem to be people's ''regular'' insults for me?!], and my least favorite, cripple), "accidentally" hit with various flying objects (usually in the face), and ganged-up-on because I was a "nerd" (and now am {{Proud To Be A Geek}}) and didn't ever do as well as the other kids in P.E. in most things - unless it was something entirely arm-strength-based, like ping-pong (where other students complained that I "hit the ball too hard" and made the ball go dangerously high/hard). I have '''''disabilities'''''', and my body is deteriorating further to the point where I need to use a wheelchair at times for longer periods of what were once on-foot transit. Phys. Ed. is apparently ''overly'' {{Serious Business}} for some kids. I was very sad that combat sports were never done as a unit, because, as a trained martial artist (to keep myself in shape) and possessing a disturbingly high tolerance for pain, it was something I could have easily kicked their asses in. I'm surpised I never once threw a punch, though I dearly wanted to, and constantly had people trying to bait me because I made a point of letting others know that, yes, I can actually make a grown man scared without going below the belt. Although I now have medical permission and multiple doctors' (and hospital staff) notes saying that the risk of injury in P.E. is too great to make it a valid class in which I can participate, and that an appropriate, non-injurous alternative '''''must''''' be found. (To the above troper: I was constantly ''forced'' to sit on my ass, as I'd sprained, twisted, or dislocated ''something'' almost every time in the freaking ''warmup exercises''. This apparent penchant for injury - later found to be caused by an inherited genetic condition - ''really'' didn't help me with the jerks in my classes.) "Adapted P.E." also was and is crap, not just general P.E.

This Troper and two of her friends treat school chorus as ''very'' Serious Business. She very recently witnessed one of her friends come to school looking like she was about to keel over with a fever and nausea. When I asked why she didn't just stay home, she replied with, "Oh, I'm here for choir. ''Then'' I'm going home." And when This Troper got sick about a week later, when we were having finals and voice testing, I said I'd rather go to school sick and try my best to hide it than to miss voice testing. ''Anything'' but that. We also frequently talking about wanting to make the chamber choir. This Troper talks about it constantly, ''dreams'' about it, and even ''writes stories'' based on the school's music department and everyone she knows involved in it. And let's not forget even searching up our favorite choral pieces on YouTube...

I hate pictures of me so much that when someone showed a picture of me without my permission, I briefly considered murder and suicide.

So this Troper likes to visit this site, its sort of a liad back wikipedia for all manner of entertainment. It started out only covering television, but has since branched out. The problem is, some sort of invasion is slowly taking over, sterilizing the site, purging 'offensive' content, thats' bad for its reputation'. This Troper would like to know why that site has decided to abandon its scruples and start taking itself Seriously.

Subversion: In the last tabletop rpg this editor was in, a player had an annoying habit of saying "It's not Serious Business" to any player who expressed the slightest bit frustration towards the storyteller's less well-received decisions, without doing a thing to address why the player was upset.

This troper notices SeriousBusiness attitudes toward pretty much any franchise with a sufficiently large fandom. Also, on the ItJustBugsMe for FinalFantasyVIII on this very wiki, he has noticed some tropers being rather... vehement in immediately rebutting all entries.

This troper's roommate has as a very Serious Business attitude towards life itself. When there was a Facebook meme regarding breast cancer that had girls posting their bra colors, she ranted about how dumb and pointless it was. When she found out that cosplayers meet every Thursday in the student union, she ranted about how dumb and pointless it was--and said she hated that they seemed to have so much fun. She hates whimsy of any kind. If she were a gamer, she'd be the Stop Having Fun person.

This troper loathes and fears Sports Day PT with her battalion because the dudes (and yes, it's always just the men) take sports ''way'' too seriously.

This troper was recently on the NationStates forum, one of the threads seemed to turn into an "I'm eviller and meaner than you" contest. At first, this troper nominated himself (the original point of the topic was evil nations) but actually decided that there was no way he would be associated with the wannabe nazis that kill people for no reason or justification in the slightest. After doing so, the thread turned into a massive debate/discussion on the nature of evil. For some reason. (NationStates has a habit of taking a topic and treating it completely 100% seriously.)

There is an excellent post here on how to avoid drama when internet role playing. The poster discribes role play as "pretendy fun time games" and reminds readers "You are playing a game where you use the impersonal magic of the Internets to pretend to be superheroes or fantasy characters or characters on a television show or goofy anime movie. YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY." The whole thing is a wonderful attempted aversion of SeriousBusiness.

My cousin and I once were the final 2 of a game of musical chairs. We were both so good that it was declared a draw. We barely talk but whenever we have a chance we always have really heated arguments about how we would have a rematch to see who was the best (which always gets postponed).

My friend and I treat hot chocolate like this in our Journalism class. At the beginning of the school year, people actually used the coffee maker (really more of a water heater/dispenser) for coffee. Ben and I used it for hot chocolate. However, there was usually only one box of hot chocolate packets in the room. We always fell into a funk after the box ran out. Finally, I ended up bringing in my own box. It ran out within three classes. Soon after, the teacher presented the two of us with a "gift" in a plastic bag. Three guesses as to what it was. Those two boxes lasted six classes. Recently, Ben brought in a family-size canister of Swiss Miss. Other members of the class ask our permission to have hot chocolate. Occasionally, we'll find out too late that someone in the previous class had used the coffee maker for coffee but hadn't removed the coffee thingy from the filter. We treat the resulting "hotcoffeechocolate" as the worst thing ever.

So it's sort of like a mocha GoneHorriblyWrong?

The fact that I am picky about brands and flavors, have actually flipped out if there is no more coffee creamer or the machine has not been properly cleaned and the filter removed after use has clearly deemed coffee to be Serious Business for this troper.

This troper was once mocked by my brother for using an overly elaborate chain breeding method just to to get a pokemon with better [=IVs=] than the one I had already raised to level 100. At least I'm self-aware about it.

This troper has a tendency to take everything as SeriousBusiness, though not to the level of some of the entries on here. It's to the point where people wonder if I can actually experience joy from an activity. I can, I just don't show it for all the world to see.

This troper has the habit of correcting anyone on anything if they get it wrong. I just treat getting it right as serious business?

Anybody else find Children Beauty Pagents stupid? From watching TheSoup, I gather that the parents and judges that take these things seriously should be locked up. (One judge said something along the lines of, "We don't allow the contestants to wear thongs. This is because the (insert age here)-year old body does not have the figure to express it correctly". What the hell? How about that wearing a thong is bad enough on it's own?!)

Not really an example, ''but''... One of my teachers is quite fond of the phrase "serious business." I have to keep myself from snickering whenever she says it, especially since it usually really is business that's, um, serious.

RPG Forums. Holy shit, RPG Forums. This troper has been part of one for the past two years, and suddenly, a shitstorm blew in because apparently I wasn't taking it seriously enough. For fuck's sake, I am not going to type out a fucking TEN PAGE CHARACTER BIO for someone who has had absolutely no development yet! They aren't even fucking BORN yet!

This troper was in a similar siutation where he'd get some odd looks from some people he was role playing with because he didn't spend five minutes typing out a huge wall of text just to describe what his character was doing or saying, something that could easily be condensed in 30 words or less.

For this troper: Computers, Leapfrog Toys featuring Dot, Scout and Violet, [=VTech=] toys featuring a particular blue puppy, Humf and Spot. The fact that one or two of his computers are acting up recently has caused many a sleepless nights, and the inablitiy to get [=CBeebies=] (and thus Humf and Spot) causes him endless soul pains.

This troper was on a {{Pokemon}} forum that didn't have anything about Pokemon. No, really. It was all about {{Shipping}}. Most of the lines consisted of:

[=ZOMG ASH IN BROCK R IN LVOE 111one!one!one!. THATS NOT TROO BROK LIEKZ MISTY. NO THAT NOT TROO3 ETER GERRY N ASH R SEX3NG. U GUIZE NEED 2 WIPE TEH CRUD OUT OF UR EYEZ MISTY AND ASH WER MENT 4 EACH OTER.=]

It escalated so badly one 16 year old girl commented: EFF ENY1 COMMENTS NYTHENG OTER THEN THAT MISTY LVOES ASH ILL COME TO UR HOUSE AND MERDER U N UR FAMLY.

After that I posted something I really think was kind of dangerous. I still worry that a sixteen year old girl will show up at my MIDDLE SCHOOL with a bat and a knife and a bag to place my severed head in.

Troper: So i cant believe nobody said brock lieks mudkipz. Oh come on nobody here lieks mudkipz? Anyone lieks mudkipz X Brock because teh mudkipz evolve into ground type Pogeymanz? Cause Brock lvoes (sic) Ground and Rock types?

The scary part was she left the chat right after I posted that message...

{{YMMV}}. That statement sounded dangerous only because it was {{Narm}}ful to this troper's health.

{{Total Drama}} is ''very'' serious business for This Troper. Shipping wars, spoiler-hunting, predictions, {{Seasonal Rot}} syndrome, you name it. As quoted by this troper, "You can make anything into serious business if you try hard enough."

You think you're bad? Over at the tv.com forums, around the time that ''Action'' was wrapping up, there was a ''twenty-page fight'' over whether Courtney or Harold was the morally superior during the two seasons. Any tiny and insignificant scene with either of them was discussed and overanalyzed to the point of beating about 9/10ths the examples on this list. And that's not even counting the shipping wars, which are legendary.

My small group leader takes her coloring VERY SERIOUSLY. Like, she'll kill you if you press down too hard.

This troper's best friend takes Pokemon very seriously (he keeps asking when I last played it. This is after telling him my Game Boy Advance had pretty much died. For the curious, I do not possess a DS). Naturally, I have my own serious business as well: Warhammer 40k (well, sort of. If it isn't written in a book, it is ignored by me, but I play for fun, not to win, so it isn't completely serious business). Oddly, my dad takes chess very seriously. I beat him three times out of four games in April and he hasn't played me again since (I'm posting in August).

ThisTroper is taking ImperiumNova WAAAAAAAY too seriously. The sad part is, I still do despite knowing better.

For this troper, its RPGs.

This troper once ''screamed'' at a contestant on ''UniversityChallenge'' that "PLATELETS AREN'T FUCKING VITAMINS, YOU ''RETARD''!". Yup, being right is serious business, especially when it comes to biology, which is also serious business, being by far the best scientific discipline (no arguments).

Belts at my Tae Kwon Do class are SeriousBusiness. You get 25 pushups for forgetting your belt on a first offense.

Let this troper give some advice; do not, I repeat, DO NOT register for a forum run by a trolling community unless you're one of their elite members. I recently made the mistake of joining a forum that's an offshoot of the CWCiki and for a few days, it seemed like a nice place to chat with others about the internet's favorite man-child. But then Clyde Cash and Jack Thaddeus (the two big guys in the trolling community) revealed their true selves, going apeshit and lamblasting anyone who might not know everything about Chris-chan or even asked simple "why" or "what if" questions. Keep in mind they're lashing out at the very same people that look up to them as legends and heroes. Yeah...observing and talking about the internet's favorite manchild is apparently ''very'' serious fucking business.

For everyone at my school, for some reason sports are serious buisness. Plus on Youtube aperatly Dinsney is serious buisness because all the highest rated comments are either "NEW DISNEY SUCKS" or "(insert number)people are/aren't(insert word)

So far this troper has taken (And still takes) the following as SeriousBusiness:

{{Bakugan}} (Also known as ''marbles that turn into '''DRAGONS!''''')

MonsterHigh dolls (As in ''Freaky just got fabulous'')

Lego's HeroFactory

Most {{Anime}} (Including but not limited to {{Bleach}}, {{Naruto}}, EurekaSeven, X'amd Lost Memories, anything else by Studio BONES and more.

RPGs. '''Especially''' KingdomHearts2, FinalFantasyX2, TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld and TalesOfVesperia.

To this troper's sister, Foursquare is SeriousBusiness. He ousted her from one of her mayorships and she treated him like it was a heinous crime.

The cupcakes in the school lunches are almost always converted into macaroons, since they are easier to eat. While some tables are content to slice them in silence, my table uses dramatic music. To be precise- four people belting out Ode to Joy. With musical accompaniment from one of our computers.

According to this troper(henceforth I/Me)'s mother, baseball was SeriousBusiness for my deceased father. Apparentely when he used to play, he would walk around depressed and angry for days after his team lost a game, and only perked up when they won. In addition, bought tickets to 13 Mets games (he was also a die-hard Met fan) one season and would refuse to leave the staduim until the game was over, no matter how many innings it went into.

For me: Coke vs. Pepsi (Coke!), HarryPotter, fanfiction (especially when it comes to pairings and slash), QueerAsFolk, Christmas, TrivialPursuit and many other things. Also, whether the cocoa powder should be put in the cup before or after the milk. I say after, my best friend says before, and we have an ongoing fight (six years and counting!) over it.

This Troper has many obsessions that can over-turn into serious business such as a certain time-traveller, Disney and Alton Towers whenever someone gets any kind of detail wrong from name spell to anything she deems unworthy. She also slightly foams at the mouth if an opinion is wholly negative and appear to be degrading to her fandoms. It gets worse when people don't do the research...

Carrying on from Alton Towers, she's also part of a forum which is mostly good fun with some bouts of seriousness. For example it's December right now and the enthusiasts are raging because it's the dreaded closed season here in Britain so that means we can't get our fix, thus posting irrevelant topics about things on park like bins needing to be changed frequently and carpets changing at the resort hotels! Seriously! We even have our own Wikipedia article on it!

Take a gander around any youtube video of something that's been dubbed into two different versions of the same language in different parts of the world (most notably Latin American Spanish vs. European Spanish), and you'll see why it is SeriousBusiness. Often, the comments degenerate into why the version you grew up with and loved will '''always''' be the best, has the most fitting translation, and anyone who claims otherwise is a butthurt bastard who cannot detach themselves from something so painfully inferior it deserves to be cast into the flames of Hades, ''goddamnit.''

This tropette treats dress codes and decency standards like serious business ever since she heard them being constantly mentioned during her middle and high school years, especially since she came across comments and rants about women, female teens, and even young girls being automatically labeled as sluts because of what they wear.

This troper doesn't do anything seriously because the second something becomes SeriousBusiness, all the people who are there to have fun vacate. This is why I don't play online, either. If any of my kids start to act like someone's ''actually at stake'' over a ''game'', then I'd come over and turn it ''right'' on off. In my opinion, 98% of players are ''not'' mature enough for multiplayer games because they turn into screaming howling babies!

For This Troper, {{Pokemon}} is serious business. Breeding/catching for nature and IVs, EV training, playing on Shoddy Battle, Netbattle, Pokemon Online, etc. and all the fun stuff. Too bad I've never been in a real-life tourney yet; I'd love to try the VGC.

This troper is a disappoint: #QUOTE# ctrl+F "tvtropes" #QUOTE# No results found

This troper tends to get this way regarding the Olympics, especially the 2010 Winter Olympics being Canadian. No word of a lie, I honestly tear up whenever I think about any aspect of it. Don't get me started on Jon Montgomery or Sidney Crosby, or Maelle Ricker. With any Olympics, no matter how much I watch, I'll always want to watch more and regret what I haven't. It's not just the Olympics either, this troper is strongly considering choosing a school in Toronto in order to be in town for the 2015 Pan American Games

For my classmates and possibly almost every teenaged boy in my country, it's DotA. Also ballers (rubber bracelets with different designs).

Unfortunately, it's those guys who have stripped DOTA and all of its spinoffs of what used to be fun. What's left? Something that, if mankind were ever on trial, would be even more damning evidence than DNA and photographic evidence proving one's guilt that HumansAreBastards, or that we at least should practice Eugenics to keep the testosterone-fueled Neanderthals from spawning.

For this troper, it's the Shin Megami Tensei series and its spinoffs.

Inverted for me. I own a New York Yankees T-shirt that my dad gave me, and I wear it just because it's comfortable. I'm not even a fan of baseball, but people scoff and stare at me when I wear the shirt in public.

Similar to this troper wearing her mother's old Newcastle United shirt. I don't do football or screaming at the TV over it, but I will be loyal and defend the team who's baby-grows I own.

This troper witnessed a riot where the police tazed a couple people (or maced them I don't know) and where several adults were escorted away to jail. This was over a Fucking. Softball. Game. And this was one of those ''kid'' softball games. Yeah, if you're wondering where those "Competition is bad, it brings out the worst in people"-type "hippies" came from, I'd say you got a FreudianExcuse right there! (You'd be surprised how many kids immediately signed up for stuff like Dance and Horseback riding after that.)

This troper has gotten his cousin to try to strangle him over {{Halo}}.

This troper used to take anything involving competition WAYYYY too seriously. Granted, it was partly do to his horrible (and still bad) self esteem, but still.... it was needlessly wangsty of me to ''run off stage and break down crying in the bathroom'' after I spelled the word "Doctor" wrong in the 4th Grade spelling bee. Not to mention my infamous reaction to video games when I was younger. I've thankfully mellowed out, and the thing that I get most SERIOUS BUSINESS about these days is Music. If you disagree with my taste and opinions on music, '''I will cut you'''. Ok, not really. I'll just think to myself "if only they listened to as wide variety of music as me...." which is still ''really'' pretentious, but whatevs. Outside from myself, this troper personally finds the Serious Business attitude towards sports utterly revolting, especially considering the institutionalized sexism and homophobia of most sports.

This troper gets angry whenever someone makes a negative comment about anything he is a fan of, and makes it even worse by writing long rants in his head about how people criticizing the design of a single Pokemon has RUINED THE ENTIRE FANDOM AND TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING I WOULD NEVER ASSOCIATE WITH!

When this troper was student body president of her middle school, she was practically the only person who considered student council Serious Business. She was known to give passionate speeches on the importance of attending a dance or voting in the next election, spend nearly all her lunch periods and time after school making posters and decorations, and occasionally yell at people who did not consider these things Serious Business. Now, theatre has mostly taken its place, though she is slightly less crazy now. But only slightly.

Bovine Bingo is serious whenever it is at play. A Village a few miles away of this troper is very fond of this bingo, and villagers and many more people go for it weekly. All of them hoping to have luck and win a shitload of money... All of them hoping that a cow takes a bowel movement on just their own marked acre of the field. Yes, Cowshit bingo.

Almost everything I do is pseudo-Serious Business. Since I have nothing better to do most of the time, I have no choice but to dedicate my consciousness to one objective.

If you make ''anything'' competitive...you will make it SeriousBusiness. People who used to have fun will be chased off with pitchforks and torches and the people left will give you proof that RousseauWasWrong. Examples include:

Children's Sports leagues. Kids are naturally terrible sports before they learn it, but if you're wondering where they learn such poor sportsmanship from...watch their parents. Numerous times I've seen people wind up banned from sporting events because of poor behaviour. I never took part in Little League after a incident at the semifinals that resulted in several assault cases and restraining orders.

MagicTheGathering. I never picked it up because nobody in school played it consistently enough and the only way to play it was to go to a card shop every friday night. Except everyone there was a terrible sport - most of them would laugh at me and call me a little kid, nobody would tell me how to play the game or offer ''any'' sort of constructive advice. Very few people would say "Good game" or the like and almost all the time, they had to have someone judge and prove that the game ''was'' legitimately played or else they'd start arguing about whether or not someone was cheating or using an "underhanded strategy". A bunch of cards and strategies were banned because the majority of the StopHavingFunGuys declared them "Underhanded" or "cheap" yet THEY were allowed to use them all they wanted. The MoralEventHorizon for me was a night were a match wound up with police called and leading three people away in handcuffs while they tried to calm down a person's hysterical twelve year old brother who was given a black eye and all he wanted to do was ''watch people play the game''. I haven't looked back since.

''Any'' game with an Online multiplayer mode '''''PERIOD'''''. I call these guys "DKPenises" and "PvPenises", but we have a trope for that: StopHavingFunGuys.

Special mention goes to DotA, Heroes of Newerth, and League of Legends, who have the absolute ''worst'' communities in ''any'' game. It is a video game, yet they way they act when playing them, you'd think peoples' lives were at stake, like half of them had their family or loved ones held at gunpoint and one of them dies every time they lose the game. My ''god''. It is a video game - is it really ''that'' important that you win a game?!

This troper has a few:

I (female) have very short hair. Defending it is pretty Serious Business for her and her brothers if someone insults it.

What food belongs to who. In a house with three teens with specific favorite foods, eating someone else's is BAD!!!

People insulting my brother for being a Bishōnen. There have been death threats.

Being a YaoiFangirl. This is SERIOUS.

Doctor Who.

Cartoons and watching them.

A-1 serious business sauce, yeah, it's that important.

Why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS?