@/IncarnadineZebra: In a college film-history class last year, I was explaining how, in TheGodfather, if Michael had just shot the corrupt cop, that would be like kicking the dog--but because the cop punched Michael in the face and tossed in a few racial slurs, which was like the dog was shooting first...and then realized that that extension just sounds idiotic unless you're a Troper....

@/SeanyGenovese: I occasionally reference tropes like Lampshading, SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, AsLongAsItSoundsForeign, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic, and ClusterFBomb(often in its coarser, uncensored form). I've yet to become a master of tossing around trope names, but I hope to someday.

@/NeoEevee has officially joined the ranks of tropers who use Troperese in real life. One such instance: when we were discussing Pyrrhus in world history class, I said, "So ''that's'' where the term PyrrhicVictory comes from." I later went on to bring up both tropes and TVTropes itself, and considering giving my history teacher the link to the wiki. God only knows how ''that'' would've ended.

This troper sometimes, when mentally narrating her life, slips into TV Tropes style third person.

The same troper Conversational Troped in a dream. YES A FREAKING DREAM.

@/{{Seraphania}} is having an increasingly hard time not using Narm when talking about bathos in theatre class. I'm slipping.

Same problem here. In an English essay I accidentally used 'Narm' prompting a large question mark from my teacher.

When this troper's British Lit professor first explained 'bathos' the first thing I though was: IT'S NARM!

@/{{Seraphania}} here again - we just had a test on terms, including bathos, and I explained what narm was on the page. My teacher's comment: "Have you ever heard of a website called TVTropes?" HOLY CRAP HE KNOWS.

This Troper wrote a paper about TV violence in FamilyGuy. Upon doing so, he used the phrase ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A trope that in all seriousness sounds pretty self-explanatory. The English professor did not know what it meant. But, to give credit, he knows what DeusExMachina means.

If an English teacher *doesnt* know what DeusExMachina means he needs to get out of the gene pool.

This Troper now speaks a curious blend of norwegian and Tvtropes in casual conversation. I shall name that language... Tropewegian! Too bad there's only one speaker. I should petition for government funding in order to preserve my precious language. And by "precious language" I mean "growing videogame collection."

Then I shall name my blend of Swedish and Troperese ... Tropedish!

Hey, this troper speaks Tropedish too! :D

I suppose that a mix of Polish and Tropey would be Tropolish?

This Troper's Tropolish would be much less awkward if her friends spoke English and she didn't have to first translate the exact meaning of the words to Polish and ''only then'' go into explaining what the hell did she just say.

And French + Tropish is Trench.

In this little boy's English class, he was able to pick out a fellow Troper when he used the term DeadpanSnarker.

As expected of someone who actually created the EvilOverlordList, it should be expected that @/JackButler constantly refers to tropes in common conversation. Just this morning, he asked if his son was really trying to generate a KickTheDog moment, and noted that his seven year old was too young to attempt a XanatosGambit.

@/{{Mousewolf}} made the mistake of yelling 'HoYay!' at the screen while she and her father were watching Heroes - then made the second mistake of starting her explanation with 'Well, it's a trope...' and wound up spending the next ten minutes explaining exactly what a trope is to her confused parent figure. Luckily, her best friend understands troperese perfectly, especially in the context of fiction.

This troper made the same mistake except with a different show.

This troper once called his teacher snarky because he (meaning the troper) couldn't for the life of him remember the word sarcasm or its derivatives.

An update: snarky has complete replaced that other s word in this troper's vocabulary.

Oh really? I couldn't tell [/snarkasm]

Somewhat of a subversion since Snarky is hardly a TVtropes-Only word. This troper (a different one than the above) used it long before finding Tvtropes.

NotASubversion.

Ace of Shadows once referred to her brother as a KavorkaMan. Neither her brother or her mom had any idea what she was talking about.

One day in Afghanistan, when a coworker made a comment and @/{{Hipployta}}'s snappy comeback immediately destroyed, it was remarked how they couldn't understand how I could so into charity work and so liberal (progressive) and be so mean. My response, "I'm a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a MagnificentBastard, and a DeadpanSnarker so what do you expect?" The entire office stopped and everyone agreed it was the perfect description of me... I have since added it to my wiki page.

@/{{Seanette}} has a hard-to-control closet in her apartment, which has been dubbed the Cavern of Doom. Her husband has even begun using this name for it. She also just found herself using the phrase RummageFail to a non-troper co-worker when talking about cleaning out wallets/purses (if he noticed an odd phrase, he didn't react noticeably). On a trip to the library recently, the librarian had some trouble locating her hold materials (he did find them). She told him, "Don't feel bad, I fail spot checks all the time". He even seemed to understand this remark.

Probably a DungeonsAndDragons nerd =P

'Spot Check' is also business speak for a particular kind of assessment by a supervisor.

This troper's rather LargeHam teacher forced him to describe what tropers were and a number of them after he described the first few chapters of Siddhartha as "A GenreSavvy MarySue goes into the woods with his friend, TheScrappy, and hangs out with hippies."

@/CosmicOsmo reports using the phrase "TruthInTelevision" in ordinary conversation.

@/{{Meems}}, who is a writer, uses trope-speak in conversations with her co-writer about their project.

Other tropers reporting using trope-speak in general conversation include @/{{Ronfar}}, @/HarpieSiren, @/{{Alkthash}}, @/YeOldeLuke and @/{{stm177}}.

@/UnitOmega, @/{{Meiriona}} and @/InsanityPrelude report thinking in tropes and WikiWords.

@/{{Pro-Mole}} too, and his brain uses them ''in English''.

@/LokiFenrisulfIV does so too.

Because there's no Portuguese version of TVTropes, I know.

@/UnitOmega now has another troper they talk regularly with, and they usually skip into sentences with their entire ''structure'' made of Tropes.

@/AckSed too.

@/{{Gendoikari1}} as well.

@/{{Nola}} thinks in partial Troperese. She's used it in her diary. She found TV Tropes what, a month ago?

@/{{Katsuhagi}} confused the hell out of her mother when she recently used the phrase "BunnyEarsLawyer" to describe a mutual friend. She's also now sure that no one will be able to understand the little notes she's been putting in a current project since they mention things like "PetTheDog" and "{{Tsundere}}" on a regular basis.

@/{{Sparkysharps}} has confused the bejesus out of her Literature class many times when she included terms such as TheWesley, AppliedPhlebotinum, DeadpanSnarker and BeyondTheImpossible in class discussion, and has long ago given up trying to explain them. They were, however, very amused to hear about RuleThirtyFour. She's not sure how she should feel about that fact.

Every time @/DaNuke hears something ridiculously unbelievable, he answers with "It's like saying EpilepticTrees exist!".

@/ManCalledTrue has taken to dissecting his own FanFic work and that of others by continuously citing tropes from this wiki. Thankfully, his closest friend is also a reader and can follow along with him.

The same could be said of @/{{SpiriTsunami}}, who has also at least once used a trope reference out loud and had to explain himself, and once to use used RealityIsUnrealistic as the topic of a research paper (sort of...there was some topical drift by the time it was finished).

This troper has abbreviated {{Everybody is Jesus in Purgatory}} to E.J.P and used it in class, followed by a lengthy explanation of what it means.

This one had to write a paper on the formation of Germany. He spent most of the time spent on it trying to work around the obvious inability to directly refer to the XanatosGambit.

@/{{Daviot}} not only speaks using trope-speak, but corrects his friends when they malaprop a trope, citing examples from the Wiki from memory.

@/{{Red-Hatted Plumber}} has had this happen several times - he knew MarySue, but it's just recently he's begun to use the term DeadpanSnarker for himself and check his original work for tropes on which to hang a lampshade.

@/{{Scooter007}} drives his friend Spencer to distraction by routinely invoking trope names in conversations. Spencer just smiles, perhaps a bit condescendingly, while Scooter007 marvels at the large void in his friend's life...

@/{{Zephid}} had to describe the XanatosGambit to a bunch of friends after accidentally referring to a villain's plans by that name. He'll often mutter trope names beneath his breath as he notices them, which annoys the crap out of some people.

@/{{Moogi}} is also guilty of this. He has also begun imagining what entries on this site would look like if his fantasy epic gets published (i.e., there would be a very large series of examples from it on the XanatosGambit page).

@/AK47x2 has had conversations over MSN with somebody he knows while playing them at chess. At the end of one game, he summed it up by providing a link to XanatosRoulette.

@/{{Indigo}} has at least three Tropers as acquaintances or close friends, so ConversationalTroping is not weird for her at all ...so far.

@/{{Lumbargo}} is currently studying Ancient Rome, and can't stop referring to Augustus as a MagnificentBastard. He likewise puts XanatosGambit in formal essays (but his teacher's cool, so she doesn't mind).

@/{{Otempora}} found it very hard to describe SailorNothing to her friends without using the word {{Deconstruction}}.

At least deconstruction is a real word, and actually means something quite similar.

Which is why I have moved onto words such as {{Narm}} and {{Flanderization}}, which are less explainable.

@/{{Noaqiyeum}} strongly recommends talking in trope titles in English class. If you're going to learn "Stychomythia", you might as well learn "DeadHorseTrope"...

@/AckSed has tried to stop referencing tropes in real life because you have to explain what a trope ''is'' first.

@/{{CAD}} once walked in on his mom ranting about the ending to ''Maximum Ride: Final Warning'', to which he responded "Wow, how {{Anvilicious}}..." Of course, she had no idea what that even meant.

@/LORd frequently bothers his little brother with Troperese, but as he's got a long history on websites with opaque lingo, said younger brother grew used to it years ago.

Luckily, @/LoustarJogger has hooked his best friend on this website, and he knows what I mean when I say XanatosGambit. Sadly, my school's resident MagnificentBastard doesn't know what that means, or that I mean it pseudo-positively.

@/{{Guessmyname}} has had to explain why he laughed when a Series/DoctorWho episode contained a reference to the PlanetOfHats trope. He also tends to use TvTropes lingo in his notes, planning and even the actual scripts of work, along with English language essays, confusing the hell out of anyone he gets to look through it. On a side note, he is also working to convert his English teachers into tropers.

@/IBlameCommunism is constantly referring to historical characters with tropes, although fortunately anyone who knows anything about Otto von Bismarck can make sense of "MagnificentBastard" even if they aren't a troper.

@/{{Meta4}} once described something as "{{anvilicious}}" on a forum. The other guy replied, "Did you just use that like it's an actual word?"

@/{{Deuxhero}} has an (annoying) tendency to burst into Starting Every Word With Caps, because of TVtropes Wikiword system.

The amount of times @/{{Tinted}} has used the phrases CrapsackWorld, BreakTheCutie and TheWoobie has gone well into the double-digits.

@/IggyEnigma's poor girlfriend has had to listen to him put many of her favorite {{anime}} under {{deconstruction}} due to his perusal of the website. Why she puts up with him is a mystery (though she kind of had it coming, as two of her favorite shows are ''SailorMoon'' and ''GundamWing''.) He has also used {{Anvilicious}} in casual conversation multiple times to different people, and no one has even commented on that. Then again, this probably says something about the weirdness quotient of his friends...

@/AcrossTheStars once mentioned {{Retirony}} in AP Literature, was glared at by her teacher, and shut up for the rest of the class.

Premium Irritation has a habit of angrily declaring 'GoddamnedBats!' whenever something annoys him.

Quandtuniverse started using tropespeak with her friends, but fortunately, as it turned out, they also went on Tv Tropes. And those who didn't now do. However, she has to restrain herself not to do it in Creative Writing, and when she has to she dances around the subject.

@/ZanderSchubert once had a history lesson based around the excerpt by a French 19th century writer Frantz {{Fanon}}. Guess what happened next.

@/{{Haven}} occasionally has trouble discussing DonQuixote in class without using troper-speak, or discuss Shakespeare without the phrase "HoYay". And feels the urge to substitute "lampshaded" for "pointed out".

Heh, choco just used "hanging a lampshade on it" in his blog the other day. It meant "to briefly acknowledge one's awareness of its deficiency".

@/{{iTroper}} keeps forgetting that {{Zeerust}} is not a real word.

Use "retrofuturism" instead.

Troper @/{{Drascin}} finds it more and more difficult each day to describe any kind of audiovisual media without the employ of phrasing like "KickTheDog moments", "UnReveal twist", or "Anvilicious". This is further aggravated by the fact that ''he doesn't speak English in his normal conversation'', yet feels the urge to use the (very much English) trope phrasing nonetheless.

@/LokiFenrisulfIV understands your pain...

So does The Villain. Even more painful for all parties involved are his efforts to translate Tropes (as well as other English phrases) for people who don't speak English.

This troper plans on making troperspeak common slang. SOMEHOW. For now he just uses them regularly and explains the word to whoever has no idea what they mean. Which so far, is everybody.

Racha has introduced her other half to the concept of HoYay, to the extent said girlfriend can't stop identifying it in all their favourite shows.

Not only has @/UberGeek called HoYay on himself after tying a tie on his room-mate, but has also used the ChristianityIsCatholic in his Philosophy of Religion class.

This Troper, in conjunction with his roommate, has gotten 'Ho Yay' an official term within his entire school. Even people we've never hung out with use it. Said roommate and I frequently employ other tropes in most any conversation, frequently being the only people who know what the other is talking about, leading to long one on one conversations with all of our friends staring at each other. I also make a habit of using ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tropes, such as describing a friend as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.

Puck has given an apartment mate the nickname GrumpyBear, which fortunately seems to stand on its own enough that no one has ever asked about it.

Oh @/{{Alkthash}} has run the gamut here. He once remarked that one of his coworkers was a bit of a {{Tsundere}} and had to spend ten minutes explaining the concept to his friends. Which somehow lead to me trying to explain that FanService did not involve actual fans. I have also remarked that some of my friends are coworker shippers as they all seem determined to match every employee up with the ideal match. He has also remarked that the training videos we receive every so often are highly {{Anvilicious}}.

@/VennDiagram and four of her friends like to pretend that they're a FiveManBand (Venn is TheChick), although they had to rehaul it when the supposed SmartGuy ended up acting like TheLancer. This group in general has extremely tropey conversations, including trying to figure out whether Daphne and Apollo count as an OfficialCouple.

@/ThommyH is unable to avoid using the terms lampshade or lampshading in every day life. This is compounded by the fact that there is no easy synonymous word or phrase to use to explain what it is, and it's such an incredibly ubiquitous concept once you understand it.

@/DrowLord has yet to find a substitutable word for lampshaded, speaks casually of Face turns and Heel Turns (despite never having watched pro-wrestling), and finds talking about WarpedAesop and ValuesDissonance easy. Lampshade, TruthInTelevision, and WordOfGod are the most commonly used, as has speaking of WildMassGuessing on other forums...

@/GentlemensDame883 had a lurker friend working on a paper studying tropes and related things who struggled to define his selection of tropes without resorting to TV Tropes Vocab. Eventually he found himself defining them nevertheless, but wished for a larger word limit as he could not be sufficiently comprehensive.

This troper works at a [=McDonald's=] and likes to say the Phlebotinum has broken down whenever a piece of equipment keels over and dies, a semi-regular event.

@/BlackadderTheTroper has used several (Narm a common one) Trope-isms in regular conversation in an effort to confuse others. A lot.

This Troper on a long car trip with friends exclaimed upon the wish to stop at a totally empty rest stop, "Oh Hell no. I'm GenreSavvy."

This Other Troper found himself having to scramble to describe the concept of the Woobie. Luckily, they'd been watching TheDailyShow so he could use Jon Stewart as an example...

@/{{CapnAndy}} responded to a poorly thought out rant about how Battlestar Galactica fails to show the passage of time with "spare me your EpilepticTrees about Important Haircuts". Either my friend also reads this site or he's just used to me saying weird stuff, because it wasn't challenged.

@/{{triassicranger}} once tried to write the word lampshading in one of his reports. Luckily for him the spellchecker picked up on it. On a related note, he once yelled "stupid dubbers!" when referring to an English translation of a French book.

@/{{VigorBalloon}} once received a script for a play he was going to act in. After reading through it, he found two characters going on about backstory. He could not resist writing in black ink, "INFODUMP"

That term didn't start with TV Tropes.

@/FreezairForALimitedTime has the annoying habit of pointing out tropes as she plays video games, making her gaming buddies roll their eyes. On the other hand, she's got them all talking about SchmuckBait, InfoDump-ing, and discussing whether the character of Nick from our original writings is an InsufferableGenius or not, and if he isn't, whether or not we've Flanderized him into one.

She is now on a mission to make {{Nakama}} an official loanword in English. It's an extremely useful word which English has no direct equivalent for, and it ''pains'' her to know it and yet ''not be able to use it anywhere.''

I'll join you on that. We need that word.

You have my DeviantArt journal and FaceBook page. X3

@/{{Darktalon}} was responsible for popularising the term {{Shipping}} to refer to real-life speculation about who's dating whom at his previous university, but this was before he discovered TV Tropes. He has also noticed the word "trope" appearing a lot more on the internet lately.

He also invoked JonasQuinn in reference to the realisation that the girl he had a crush on bore a few too many resemblances to his most recent ex.

Twelve once referred to a character as TheLancer in a story he was writing with his friend, who strangely didn't question it. There may also have been references to XanatosGambit and MagnificentBastard, or there probably will be.

@/{{jketchum31}} cites TV tropes in her literature classes so much that she had to link her very academic Shakespeare professor to the site. He liked it, and brought it up in class. Doesn't make her roommate and friends any less confused when she mentions SealedEvilInACan or shouts BringOutYourGayDead in the middle of the night when reading about [[spoiler:{{Torchwood}}]], though. And she had to clarify when she explained to her boyfriend that she's the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter. Well, less the beautiful part.

@/{{alliterator}}, in his Advanced Fiction Workshop, tried to explain the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.

@/{{Malimar}} now peppers his dialogue with ludicrous amounts of trope names, it would seem. However, all his conversations take place on the internet, where he can easily slip in links to the appropriate TVTropes page when he does.

@/GourdCaptain uses tropes a lot when talking about fiction. Everybody else tends to pick up the idea from context, or just assumes it's part of my occasional butchering of English grammar in conversation, especially when sarcastic. (Like, "Make it with the getting gone, and quicker.")

@/RealSlimShadowen has thus far confined using trope names outside of TVTropes to IMs with people who frequent the site -- but still [[=WikiWords=]] them.

@/{{Rissa}} has always known this stuff - as a horror movie addict it's hard not to start noticing things - but has never had nice, compact labels for it before. Thank you, TVTropes.

@/{{Bryce Bryans}} initially gained points from friends and teachers for explaining tropes like {{Pet the Dog}} and {{Race Lift}}, but got to the point where close family has gotten annoyed about tropes becoming such a popular point of discussion.

Ellen Brand has gotten to the point where she discusses the fanfics she writes and those she beta reads almost solely in Trope vocabulary. Also, she's addicted at least three people to this site, and tends to break into an EvilLaugh about it.

@/TheToonGeekette once used the term "DisneyDeath" when referring to an animated special she was watching with a few classmates. Which confused them a bit, because the program in question wasn't done by Disney. She also likes using the work NightmareFuel quite a bit.

@/JethroQWalrustitty has the added problem of living in a country where English isn't the first language, sure, everyone understands it, but it's still bit weird to throw in an English phrase in the middle of a discussion.

@/TheWanderer has made numerous references to TV Tropes on various fora, and occasionally slipped into saying it in real life too, although mostly with people aware of the existence of TV Tropes. ({{Anvilicious}} and MoralDissonance have become favorite terms to use in certain reviews I do as well). The fact that at least one of those people has referred to me as a MagnificentBastard is both tremendously flattering and somewhat odd...

This troper has had to resist the urge to write "this troper" when discussing TV shows online a time or two.

Let's just say that it could be worse.

@/{{Dalantia}} often rereads his stories looking for tropes, and jokes about them to his wench, even when said story is an in-progress thing. He's still in the process of figuring out who is who in the FiveManBand..

@/SerenYGogledd has found herself using ThisTroper on message boards etc. Also, when discussing ''The 40-year-old Virgin'' with friends, "It would have been so much better without all the {{Cluster F Bomb}}s." Cue explanation of that particular trope...

This troper was just inadvertently reminded of Kenshiro by THAT troper. Clearly too Welsh-savvy. Also thoughts of Kenshiro immediately led to thoughts of Dio Brando, and the necessity for dropping steam-rollers on people.

32_Footsteps not only has used DoomyDoomsOfDoom in casual conversation, he's convinced others that invoking the trope is a guaranteed way to make an impression... OF DOOM!!!

@/{{Skazka}} alarms her father on a regular basis by bringing up {{Anvilicious}}ness, {{Crack Pairing}}s, HoYay and the FiveManBand in situations where they ought never apply. Such as when discussing the Bible.

This of pi}} troper had to explain the concepts of {{Anvilicious}} and {{Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped}} to his girlfriend after seeing and discussing ''{{Wall-E}}''.

@/{{Robbychu}} has an unfortunate tendency to bring up trope in her writing... in addition to talking like everyone around her has the slightest idea of what she means.

@/AlterAlias tends to use tropes a good deal in daily speech however importing words from obscure sources has been a habit for so long before TV Tropes that his friends have gotten used to requesting definitions midway through a sentence.

@/{{Heleentje}} managed to pass her philosophy test by mentioning tropes from this site. The only problem: English is ''not'' her first language. Just try explaining DeadpanSnarker without actually being able to use the word.

And almost two years later, she's done it again on yet another philosophy test. Hanfeizi = LawfulNeutral!

@/TheKitchenMagician finds himself calling certain things "snarkbait" and "so bad they're horrible" at an alarming frequency.

@/{{Quillpaw}} has used the term DisneyDeath in a discussion about her roleplays. The situation pops up so frequently that nobody questions it any more. She's also convinced her friend to call Jade Curtiss a DeadpanSnarker in his character description.

@/{{Starfire}} has most recently had to explain the term DeathByNewberyMedal to friends. She converses regularly about tropes with her friends, and frequently references the site when trying to decide if the characters in her novel are too over the top. (They probably are, but since all the other major characters are and the world doesn't revolve around their absolute wonderfulness she's thinking she's avoided making a bunch of Mary Sues... Maybe. Probably. Hopefully. At least her beta readers don't want to kill any of them yet.)

Not only does @/{{FlankMclargehuge}} reference Tropes in daily conversation, he's also introduced the site to the Panel & Pixel comic creator forum, and is watching out people start using the new vocab words... with the side-effect of OTHER PEOPLE distracting HIM with trope links.

@/{{Leone}} once told her father to stop EngagingChevrons, as a memorable example, but has been known to do this on just about every occasions where a trope mention might be remotely feasible. It's a disease.

This troper and his friend have entire discussions of things in trope-speak, much to the confusion of their friends.

@/{{Earbox}} has been known to describe himself as a ButtMonkey and TheChewToy... to his psychologist.

@/{{StClair}} is part of several discussion groups (and a local social group) where the Tropes are well-known, and recently exclaimed upon finishing a synopsis of a ''very'' convoluted plot, "ThirtyGambitPileup" before realizing what he had said.

@/{{Bobfrank}} has had to explain the concept of a XanatosGambit various times to various friends, loves to point out how EveryCarIsAPinto and all the {{Mooks}} in movies are either graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy or subject to the Law of ConservationOfNinjutsu, and once played a role-playing game about alien abductions from the perspective of a self-described FlatEarthAtheist, always coming up with "rational" explanations for why people were suddenly disappearing, no matter how obvious it became that aliens were behind it. Oh, and he is immensely flattered that a trope he invented ended up used by @/{{StClair}} in RealLife. He also threatens to report coworkers who repeat themselves repetitively to the DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment, and recently made his mother crack up laughing when he dropped the term BreastPlate into a discussion of a movie we had both seen recently.

@/{{Spiky K}} does this on a very regular basis. Try explaining it when you start referring to somebody as Raping the Dog to your high school peers. Seriously, just try it.

The Affable Paranoiac (a.k.a. Joebob) sometimes refers to himself as ThisTroper in his head, it kind of creeps him out.

This Troper does that as well, and yes, it is extremely disturbing. He once had to stop himself from using the term in an English paper.

After @/{{Zelnor}} quoted Tropes in class his Scottish teacher proceeded to happily question him about it, them denounce tropes as time-wasting and practically useless outside of studying literature and generally curbstomping him. His parents did the same. Isn't it sad, TV Tropes ? ;~;

Does this teacher have ViolentGlaswegian tendencies? ;-)

My mistake - I keep forgetting he's not actually Scottish, he's British. He still has the sort of personality, leading @/{{Zelnor to say "My name is [Teacher's name] and this school is roughly a third the size of my ego. WE love / hate each other.

Scotland is part of Great Britain. It's perfectly possibly to be both Scottish and British.

This Troper is trying to direct all his friends and teachers to TVtropes, so they'll understand why I keep bringing this site up in regards to everything from the comedy we're performing to Shakespeare.

This troper was GenreSavvy before he even knew that was a phrase, but could pass it off in conversations as a side-effect of taking a Film Studies class in high school. Now? After 3 months of TVTropes exposure? I'm a cursed man, damn you all very much. I can't count the number of times I've had to think of a different way to finish a sentence, just because I couldn't finish it with an oh-so-apt WikiWord. And it isn't like I can introduce ''coworkers'' to the site. Some of them might not get addicted quickly enough to not tattle...

This troper called her best friend a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, meant in fun, and got a weird look in return...

Let's just say @/{{Xiphon iii}}'s friends recieved a crash course in tvtropes. Also called, I sent them links to a random page, and now they understand me perfectly. Every evil villain should use this place as a prison. I didn't see those folks for a week. My roleplaying forum also now knows not to click on any explanatory links in my bios, such speed chess, magnificent bastard, or even scrappy. After all, they won't make it back to the roleplay. For MONTHS.

@/{{DarkInsanity13}}'s vocabulary was already ruined by anime and anime forums, but is now twice as ruined upon coming across TVTropes. Now references the site and many aspects of it to her brother and parents. They're used to it and pretty much ignore it.

This troper tried to use the concept of {{Unobtainium}} while talking to his father. He didn't get it. Incredibly ironic, as we were watching ''The Core'' at the time!

This troper uses trope names when describing games or movies, and ocasionally real life things too. Luckily his friends tend to read this site too, or are at least aware of the common terms (such as the often used amime-related terms). His brother however is not, much to his annoyance as he has to explain what terms like tsundere and bishonen mean over and over again.

@/SeanTucker is nearly incomprehensible to anyone who is not a troper.

Gecko's little sister is afraid of clowns, so explaining the UncannyValley to her wasn't that hard. Discussing ObfuscatingStupidity and whether or not it applies to our dog with my mom was a little more complicated.

Trisar was chatting with his DM (a fellow troper) about an event occurring in our second edition D&D game involving a half-angel character awakening new powers by sex (don't ask). Said DM told me that the event was just for fun and not intentional. She then proceeded to make a typo saying it wasn't a DeusSexMachina. Trisar proceeded to laugh himself to death over the obvious subconscious trope naming.

This troper capitalizes tropes she uses in everyday chat rooms, such as, when describing Twilight, "Stephenie Meyer's Vampires Are Different." And she also really wants to link to "Take That" with any witty remark she makes.

The door to this troper's wreck room reads DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in big letters.

That's just awesome.

This troper has found that he tends to think of any situation that doesn't go the way he expects it to as "subverted", and anything that has a not-immediately-obvious reason for being the way it is as being "justified".

Although This Troper already knew terms like MarySue and DeusExMachina because he likes to write, now that he visits TV Tropes he often uses terms like EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory, LampshadeHanging, and Narm... causing him to have to explain what TV Tropes is...leading him to have to explain what Tropes are... Also, he can not take the phrases {{Shipping}} and Handling or Free Shipping seriously anymore.

@/MissHap doesn't have a problem with speaking in tropes as such, but too much time reading and writing on this wiki has taught her to think in Pot Holes, which is affecting her writing. (The closest thing to a pothole off the Internet is a footnote, and footnotes are currently out of style in legal writing).

This troper recently used trope language in an outline for an English paper. Peer critiquers were completely confused... teacher got the jokes. Also, reviewing/betaing my best friend's novel in progress is a lot easier when I can refer to the WhiteHairedPrettyBoy and the SquishyWizard instead of having to say "You know, your evil emperor and the girl with the wing-shaped scars on her back".

@/{{Ribbons}} has dedicated herself to learning as many tropes as possible, so that one day her sentences will be indecipherable to all but a select few, allowing her to feel like she is a cut above all others, and furthering her superiority complex. Her thought process and note-taking methods are already there.

Western Mercenary Union said while his brother played {{Half Life}} 2 {{Die Chair Die}} and then had to check it out the next day on TVTropes and then explain it to him.

@/{{Theogrin}} quite competently fell out of his seat during episode 3.2 of {{Series/Heroes}}, practically shouting "{{Jossed}}!" He then had to explain this, and why he felt the BavarianFireDrill later on in the season was so perfect. He's given up counting all these...

@/{{Phartman}} never does this and he thinks you're all weirdos. Uh, he also likes HypocriticalHumor.

While having an internet argument with an ultra-reactionary, book-burning (literally) Catholic, @/{{Saboteuse}} explained her amusement at her adversary's completely unironic usage of the terms "feminazi" and "sheeple" by calling them "discredited tropes." The man promptly fired back that "cliché" would be a better choice of word and that "trope" is a word that only a "true liberal sophist" would use.

Jayngfet says this so much he's become incomprehensible to every non troper at times.

This troper was invited to come out with his grandmother to pick out Xmas presents (due to her not being here in December) I declined (aside: its really hard to write in third-person when referring to others) which prompted my sister to say they can handle it for me - "Probably something nice and pink." My response was quite obvious...

@/AirHadoken frequently links to TVTropes in IM windows in order to *not* have to explain what is meant by the trope he's naming. He has a tendency to throw obscure references (TVTropes and otherwise) into every conversation, though, so this tends to be quite helpful.

Since discovering TvTropes, Emma loves to shout 'Explodium!' when anything in a movie or show detonates.

This troper makes a practice of referring to his two (female) dogs, Yuna and Darby, as "the guys".

Prior to discovering TVTropes, @/{{Ialdabaoth}} knew the word "trope" only in the sense of "cantillation," or a system for chanting sacred texts.

@/{{Oolie}} managed to locate another troper amongst her circle of friends by noticing him use several wikiwords in conversation. Incidentally, he focuses mainly in the videogames tropes, while she in literary, so there are a few they miss. They noticed that one of their other friends had started reading TVTropes after she started scattering her conversation with them.

@/CleverPun takes a lot of Creative Writing classes, and cannot help but use the many wacky trope names he knows to describe things. His classmates didn't really call him on it until he used the term GenreBlind to describe the villain in a story he was writing. Another villain in the same story uses the term PlotCoupon. He has also managed to get some of his other friends addicted to the site by mentioning tropes in conversation once too often.

Godeskian is an energetic Amdram enthusiast, both performing and watching, and is becoming well known for describing the characters and plots in Trope terms, for example in our recent murder mystery we had the designated antagonist who was dating the hotblooded Veronica, while the unlucky everydude pined after the Betty who eventually returned his affections. My fellow Amdrammers don't always know what to make of me.

@/{{Zilo}} has caught herself using terms like RedShirt and HeelFaceTurn in real life while watching TV with her family. Her mother now knows what a RedShirt is without ever having looked it up.

Despite often decrying the overuse of the word on this site, @/{{SpiriTsunami}} has found himself using "{{squick}}" as though it were an actual verb.

Though suffering form not being a native English speaker, This Tropress often uses tropes' names in conversations. Good thing her friends know English quite well and that, duh, some tropes are SelfExplanatory or ExactlyWhatItsaysOnTheTin. Yet that habit caused her best friend to get to know some of the tropes, as she constantly uses them to describe her {{RPG}} characters and situations. She even gave him a list of tropes applicable to her character, so he could better get to know the character.

@/{{AnimeDutchess}} frequently uses this excuse not to read things about sparkly vampires: "I have a very strong {{Willing Suspention Of Disbelief}}, and all the warnings from friends and reviews in the world can't stop me from liking something then." Also, she's used {{Nakama}} in a Sociology essay when writing about {{The Breakfast Club}}.

@/HarpieSiren had a rather... mortifying experience after the name of a trope slipped out while talking with her mother about Azula's fate. Oh, it would have been fine if the trope wasn't called "WordOfGod"! Cue my mother getting freaked out, while I went into recon mode, I tried to explain why I had said that, what I actually meant by it.... Face meet your new best friend palm.

@/{{Lemurian}} had been using MadeOfWin for a long time before he found out about TVTropes. After finding out about this site, he's just been using it even more. Oh, and he laughed out loud when he saw a hyperlinked WordOfGod on TheOtherWiki. The link was to the article about TheBible, but still...

@/{{Rhiow}} frequently will use a fairly common trope in a conversation with his geeky friends/family, who do not visit this page. Often they can grasp what he means, but often it needs to be explained. He tries his very best not to mention these tropes but they just seem slip out occasionally. Curse you Poseidon!

This troper explained {{Watchmen}} to her mother as a {{Deconstruction}} of {{Superhero}} tropes, thus breaking her mother's brain.

Solitair, a troper and handler on SurvivalOfTheFittest, reports that the senior members of the board now despise TV Tropes for this (and those people who think that slapping together a few tropes is enough to make a good character).

As another member of that particular board, @/PremiumIrritation would like to clarify that ''most'' members don't literally hate TV Tropes, though they do tend to find Tropespeak annoying.

@/{{Ctrlbuild}} has sometimes driven his sister to quiet distraction by citing tropes during episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

@/{{Hunter4242}} has decided that from now on, his Tabletop RPG characters will all be based on a handful of tropes. And wants to make D&D feats out of tropes as well.

Why stop with feats - @/{{Peripatetic Penguin}} would gladly collaborate on creating an entire system of tropes.

This troper (long-time lurker only-very-recent editor) has long had a standing rule with her older brother that the only acceptable topics for conversation are video games, internet memes, sometimes movies/tv shows, and seldomly books. Since she introduced said brother to TV Tropes last summer, conversations are now, essentially, TV Tropes offline -- and of course the Wiki Words just confuse our parents to no end.

@/{{Caphi}} crossed some sort of event horizon by using trope names, particularly ThatOneBoss, in a FAQ he was writing for ''TalesOfHearts''. It's a minor act of something that the FAQ is as trope-light as it is.

This troper has used various tropes in the conversations of a secret agency of conspiracy theorists from an RP he's in and a screenplay he's writing. For example, a lower agent reports to the big boss, "He's a shifty guy though, I think he may have a XanatosGambit. Perhaps even a roulette."

This troper has this disease, and I think my brother's catching it off me - this morning, he was playing ''[=MySims=] Kingdom'' and said "LampshadeHanging!"

Argh! The question on my chemistry test "Describe the meaning of the term TheMole." should not remind me of this site!

This troper has started using ''LesYay'' to describe the only thing he actually understood about Twelfth Night. His friends are confused as hell.

This Tropette uses lampshaded, Ho yay (that went over well in my Catholic elementary school), Modesty Beesheet, Big Damn Heroes, Big No, described herself as a Crouching Moron Hidden Badass and a Genius Ditz, called a friend a Minion with an F in Evil, and actually complemented a teacher on a Xanatos Gambit, among others. Fortunately, she has been able to write off her odd lingo by saying, "Oh, it's a really obscure reference."

This Troper has attempted to explain the nuttier conspiracy theories a number of times with the phrase "The government lampshaded a red herring to cover up the truth."

This troper uses tropes to describe everything, and forgets that other people have no clue what she's talking about. The most commonly used are Ho Yay, Victoria's Secret Compartment, Well Intentioned Extremist, and Blessed With Suck. But it doesn't end there. Thanks so much TV Tropes and Idioms!

Since discovering this website, This troper, her little sister, and her older sister have not been able to ''stop'' conversing in trope names. We understand each other perfectly, but everyone else is confused. (This troper also recently described something in the form of a ''nonexistent'' trope name by combining two existing ones - "Crowning moment of completely missing the point" - and both sisters understood her perfectly.)

That should be a trope.

It is now a BerserkButton for this troper when people misuse the word "trope". I had an English teacher who consistently said "trope" when he really meant "motif"... ARGH!

And this troper would like to point out to you that your teacher was correct. Trope and motif are synonymous and both refer to "recurring literary themes". Sorry about that, buddy.

@/{{Zordauch}}: While watching AmericanIdol Hollywood Week, one of the hopefuls was gesturing broadly and contorting his face. My mother-in-law was quite amused when I said "Did somebody order a LargeHam?"

@/{{Pichu-kun}} often states trope names in casual forum, and Yahoo Answers talk... She also is starting to say it in real life, when ''talking''.

@/{{SilverGryphon}} recently found herself in a conversation with a fellow text-based RPer concerning a biological factoid. SG is a bit notorious for being the group's biology geek, and promptly won the argument with the declaration "You RP with me, I'm not gonna let {{you FailBiologyForever}}."

@/{{Lale}} has consistently thought of the Redcross Knight's state after meeting Despair in ''TheFaerieQueene'' as his HeroicBSOD, and not only did it almost slip out in a meeting with my professor today, but I couldn't think of how else to describe it!

I usually use concepts and words such as "{{Narm}}", "{{Nightmare Fuel}}", "{{Ho Yay}}", "{{Large Ham}}" and so on... In Spanish (Yeah, it gets even harder: English is a very flexible language with new terminology, but Spanish, not so much...). I only talk about tropes with my family anyway, specially with my brother (who speaks Tropespeak very fluenty) and my mother (the fact that she is a self-proclaimed nerd helps a lot in this situation), damn, I feel incredibly proud how she understands and uses Tropespeak ("{{Jumping the shark}}", "{{Growing the beard}}", "{{Put On a Bus}}" among others)

This troper just spent about 20 minutes in an English class watching the old MacBeth film, proclaiming how the guy in the helmet would be the first {{mook}} to die... *Someone insert the trope name here, I've forgotten it* He did. People later asked me if I had seen the movie before.... {{NoJustNo}}.

@/{{Pinata}} has worked the phrase SesquipedalianLoquaciousness into sentences ''twice'', and has also used NightmareFuelUnleaded, LargeHam, CompleteMonster, BerserkButton and LaserGuidedAmnesia in daily conversation. In his writing projects he has also lampshaded (complete with trope names) UnnecessaryCombatRoll, CrowningMomentOfAwesome, VictoriasSecretCompartment and probably others, and has a character named {{Squick}} who actually literally rapes a dog.

This Troper already used trope names from unrelated sources - RedShirt (not in relation to StarTrek), ChekhovsGun, {{Anvilicious}}, and even TheUnreveal (though without the "the"). Now he thinks in trope titles to such a degree that it's easier and less confusing to use makeshift WikiWords at his home forum than write around them (with at least one friend getting closer to ''accidentally'' being dragged into tropership), and almost constantly thinks in the nameless third person.

@/{{alfinchkid}} has gotten in trouble for using terms like LampshadeHanging and Subversions and similar common troping terms in evaluations of media in English class.

This troper repeatedly refers to TvTropes ''in her English essays''. This wouldn't be so bad but for the fact that she has a reputation for being a complete ignoramus on modern pop culture and for the fact that her English teacher won't touch a computer.

This troper, upon having his little brother suggest they pretend to be "Mommy" and "Daddy", said "I have a better idea; how about I be the AloofBigBrother and you be the CuteShotaroBoy?"

When this troper started ''thinking'' of one of his novel-in-progress characters as a {{Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant}} with {{Heroic Sociopath}} tendancies who quickly evolved into the {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}, he knew it was already too late.

@/{{Edge-of-Oblivion}} has only known of the site for about a month and it has already infected his entire vocabulary. Luckily, the {{RealLife}} people he uses the terms around are fairly quick to pick up on new terminology, and online acquaintances pretty much all know of {{TVTropes}} or are not averse to following a link.

I, the @/{{Omega Metroid}}, am currently working on littering my vocabulary with tropes. I'm not as good at it as the rest of you yet, though.

@/{{Sus}} catches himself saying things like "Ah, that's a '''' right there!", "So, it's basically a ''''?" or "Because of ''''." at an alarmingly increasing frequency.

@/{{Alsadius}} once caused some serious annoyance in a debate with some creationists by referring to their belief structure as "AWizardDidIt". A link to the trope page sorted it out, though.

Is it bad that this creationist still found that hilarious?

@/{{Bookhobbit}} is continualy referencing tropes in front of her not-interested sister. It has warrented many, many explanations, and usually an odd look from her sister along with the phrase, "You're '''weird''', sissy."

This troper finds the people around her continually confused as to why she's using and/or capitalizing words like BigBad and XanatosGambit; her boyfriend, luckily enough, is the one who introduced her to the website so we engage in trope-centric conversations often and with no problems.

This troper just used "NiceJobBreakingItHero" as the title of an essay on the Cold War and the genocide in Cambodia.

I nominate this for {{Made of Win}}.

Second.

You made me laugh for the first time today.

And I want to read the essay.

@/YoAdrian has caught herself using "lampshading", "Xanatos gambit" and "nightmare fuel" in an English paper worth a quarter of the semester grade. She also takes notes in trope at times - it's easier to write "Character A kicks the dog -> KarmaHoudini" than to explain in "normal-person speak" how the plot works.

This troper used the phrases {{Woobie}} and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief in RealLife. When called out on it, TV Tropes did indeed mess up her vocabulary: "Well, you know, the internet will mess with your speeching."

@/{{Arca}} regularly refers to tropes (intentionally mind you) and tends to link to them whenever possible. Frequently refers to "Disbelief Suspenders" (what you need when you can't maintain WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief), and commonly tacks "And Zoidberg!" onto the end of lists out of nowhere in IRC channels. Even when "And Zoidberg!" is a completely inappropriate addition to the list.

@/LuckyRevenant has been known to repeatedly bring up TvTropes in conversation. Mostly because he has to explain the words he's using frequently. Whether this should be stopped or not is debatable. Although he has cited it in English class, he has yet to refer to it in a paper, which is probably a good thing.

@/{{Bane}} Uses these tropes. Every. Day. In regular conversation and otherwise. They're in her games and fanfics, and now her brother knows what a deadpan snarker is (and he's 5).

@/{{LordCuthberton}} uses tropes when discussing literature or poetry in English lessons.His teacher is often bemused by the comparison of Simon Armitages 'Hitcher' and the {{MoralEventHorizon}} found in the poem.

@/TsundereLightning does not use "LevelUpAtIntimacy5" to describe relationships - but his friends, on the other hand...

This troper has several times tricked people into, among other things, rushing headlong into certain death situations in video game matches (the only way I can win, since I am not particularly good at straight up skill), and when someone finally asked how I can do it, I said "a MagnificentBastard never reveals his tricks". Cue explanation.

@/SalFishFin has had to explain tropes all the time, mostly when he yells something like "HoYay!".

This Troper, who has yet to register, has held a three-minute long conversation over MSN with @/{{Diddgery}} and Fusion that consisted solely of Trope names. He also has to frequently explain himself to friends when he giggles "Xanatos Gambit" under his breath.

This Troper has just recently started accidentally using trope names in everyday conversation. Luckily it's only the ones that are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin so no one really notices that she uses them, but she dreads the day some more...obscure ones show up in conversation. Which is why she's starting to introduce her friends to TV Tropes.

This troper and her sister make a point of using trope names when talking about TV shows, so that our overprotective mother can't understand us. Not that the shows we watch are inappropriate (Danny Phantom, Yu-Gi-Oh, Xiaolin Showdown, etc.) but our mom has a habit of finding random, innocent material objectionable, so imagine what she would think of characters like Bakura, who are mentioned on the Nightmare Fuel example pages. TV trope names really help.

This troper, who had already developed the ability to count down to climactic moments ''before'' she started reading TV Tropes, is very glad she has an understanding English teacher - who allowed her to write an essay on the use of TV Tropes as a recent assessment piece. She got full marks for that piece, too. She feels she is getting closer to turning the teacher into a troper.

This troper utilised the phrase "CrowningMomentOfAwesome" to describe a particular novel's hero's philosophical descent into despair and the resulting ScrewYou to the gods of his suicide. The teacher didn't notice, but her GenreSavvy classmates were much amused.

Queen of Dorkness has her little sister using NightmareFuel. She has her ''other'' little sister using WordOfGod, {{Anvilicious}}, MarySue, CrackFic, CrackPairing, HoYay, and probably some others that Queen of Dorkness just doesn't notice because they are so ingrained into her mind. In fact, she once wrote a paper for English class in which she asked "Is Bella a MarySue because the world revolves around her, or does the world revolve around Bella because she is a MarySue?" Her teacher didn't seem to notice.

This troper discusses tropes constantly with her best friend, a fellow troper. Another friend has completely outlawed the discussion of tropes in her house.

@/{{Rakuen}} has ran a panel at anime conventions that centers entirely on death related tropes. It was accepted rather well. He also mentions tropes in conversation, usually ones that make semantic sense in English.

@/HouraiRabbit encountered some character outlines (for [=RPG=] characters) that use tropes in lieu of actually describing a character's personalities and has had to correct this on several occasions. He is not opposed to it in principle, but the words ColdSniper do not encapsulate personality, motivations and backstory. Trope Salad Backgrounds also make him a little sad but he's not a KnightTemplar about it.

@/NickUzifang knows this trope by the name "TV Tropes will make you a big flippin' nerd."

This troper unconsciously used trope names for his AP English essays and somehow came out with an A.

@/AddyThePawnSlayer will these days talk almost exclusively in Trope when drunk. Squick is the normal word for, well, Squick, in any context whatsoever, and almost any discussion of any form of media includes trope talk. He also finds himself often wishing he could use Pot Holes when ''speaking'', believing it would make his life so very much easier...

This troper burst out laughing when he finally watched Firefly and Zoe said "BigDamnHeroes, sir." And then had to explain to the people he was watching with just why that line had elicited such a response.

@/{{KJMackley}}: I've managed to turn this into "faking" a certain degree of wit. Instead of spending time to describe the meaning of my word choice, I use trope names that are more or less understandable and everyone thinks I am so quick witted. For example: #QUOTE#(in a {{Shakespeare}} class talking about Twelfth Night) "There's like a... LoveDodecahedron going on!" #QUOTE#(talking to a friend about her boyfriend) "You're just enthralled by his rugged PermaStubble."

In regards to "trope" being a "not-so-common" word, @/{{SpiriTsunami}} has taken to noting when the word ''is'' used in the mainstream, and was surprised to find one magazine use it two weeks in a row.

@/{{Excel-2009}}. I'm studying film and use trope names as if they were accepted jargon in the film industry. No one has yet called me on it.

@/{{starshine}} has actually used the phrase Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra to describe her trope-and-reference-laden method of speech, mostly because she, like the Tamarians, is somewhat incomprehensible to people who haven't seen all the TV shows and movies she has. (example from a recent conversation: "I'm going all Jennifer Hudson in ''{{Dreamgirls}}'' on him" "Well, if that doesn't work you can switch to Carrie Underwood") She understands that this is detrimental to her social being, if only because it is very difficult to have a conversation when you have to explain a lot of what you were just saying. (This entry was very difficult to write.)

@/AllanAokage has this problem. One particulaur example would be; "One moment, I'm going to Kick The Dog by peeing on the ants in the bushes at the bottom of the field", when used as an excuse to look for a ball my cousin had dropped. It took longer to explain the meaning of the words then it did to find the damn ball in the first place.

This Troper and his friend found themselves needing to invent new words to shorten or videogame/tv/movie conversations. They didn't discover TVTropes until 2 years later, and were surprised to find that others had come up with terms like {{Anvilicious}}, {{Kick The Dog}}, {{Designated Hero}}, and the {{Unreveal}}. Still, now that we know of it, our conversations have gotten even more confusing to outsiders.

Linkara, particularly on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, has had terms like FaceHeelTurn and CrowningMomentOfAwesome creep into his videos as of late.

TheNostalgiaChick also does this, having devoted an entire video to TheSmurfettePrinciple and the DistaffCounterpart trope.

ThisTroper (I've never gotten known, but I read and post here all the time) finds the phrase TrashOfTheTitans to be quite useful. Basically, my housekeeping habits are significantly messier than what's considered normal, but not nearly as bad as TrashOfTheTitans. I also had a roommate once whose habits really were bad enough to fall under TrashOfTheTitans. So when I'm explaining my own habits, or contrasting myself with my former roommate, I always explain that I'm pretty messy. But not ridiculously messy, not total TrashOfTheTitans.

This Troper has noticed it starting to creep into his reviews of other's work on fanfiction.net.

This troper now use the term BigBad to describe the antagonist of a tv series/videogame/comic/whatever. Also, the term OneWingedAngel was added to his vocubulary to describe that certain habit of villains to turn into big, ugly monsters. This is useful when having a debate about JRPG, since...well, it needed a name!

@/{{Aerodactylus}} has been using tropespeak in conversation for a while now, but it was only this past summer (when he finally got a chance to hang out with an equally avid troper) that he was able to use tropespeak and not only not get weird looks, but have ''understand what he was saying.'' It was liberating!

@/SpamWarrior3000 used the term AuthorExistenceFailure to describe Robert Jordan, and [=RPs=] Nero at sixwordstories--his handle is OmnicidalManiac. She also called Sylar's acquisition of powers MegaManning, which cracked her husband up and has accused him of failing biology.

Mystery Otaku was watching the Batman movies out of nostalgia. When it came to the end of {{Batman Returns}}...she explained to Ano Sa "Catwoman shot herself with {{Chekhovs Gun}}". Yes, she is well aware of being a resident PungeonMaster and Ano Sa was kind enough to merely laugh and not boo her away.

This troper manages to include tropes in his English notes (like, say "-Maria was StalkerWithACrush for Joe, even though he's married" or "- Execution of the king and queen was MoralEventHorizon for French revolutionaries").

This troper used several terms in an essay for AP English, with the one raising the most eyebrows being {{Rape the Dog}} (the essay was written before it was replaced by {{Moral Event Horizon}}).

This C-C-C-Combo Breaker would be the first to admit to being somewhat of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, not least because he has used the phrase: "I'll Xanatos your Batman" in a fairly normal (if rather competitive) conversation while making zero attempt to explain it. Even other associates who admit to being Tropers themselves have difficulty catching the cut-down references sometimes.

This Troper was familiar with terms like RedShirt or MarySue before this. Her parents usually ignore references to it (except for when her mother got angry with her for using the term "shipping" and insisted she use a "real" word). This troper's brother is familiar with any trope associated with ThatGuyWithTheGlasses (like BigLippedAlligatorMoment) and was dragged on to look at the WhatAnIdiot page. He then asked to see the Giant Crab page and from there examined YouFailedHistoryForever. When he heard this Troper explain the concept of DroppedABridgeOnHim, he caught on rather quickly and said "You mean like Cyclops in X3".

An excerpt from an online conversation this troper had about writing: "But you could cite WordOfGod and declare it {{Justified}} because TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. (TV Tropes Ruined My Vocabulary...)" She then went on to explain to another acquaintance why she preferred Portmanteau Couple Names over IdiosyncraticShipNaming. All in title case.

This troper wrote an essay on ''KingLear'' which was peppered with references to the ValuesDissonance trope. Not a fatal flaw by any means, but weird to be using it in such a context.

This troper has developed a habit of pointing at an example of any trope and claiming it as such (e.g. *points dramatically at childhood artifact on the television* ChekhovsGun!). I've also started referring to tropes in daily conversation and schoolwork. Then again, I've already known a few tropes and started becoming GenreSavvy before discovering this site.

@/{{Wolfryuzaki}} has recently taken up the habit of referring to multiple people as either a {{Jerkass}} or {{Magnificent bastard}} which luckily no one has questioned yet as well as a brief utterance of ChekhovsGun during a episode of Danny Phantom.

This troper has become some sort of TVTropes priest. In addition to always referencing them in real life (do I get bonus points for the fact nobody seems to think it's weird or out of place despite them NOT BEING TROPERS, or even having HEARD OF this site?), I tend to link them at every possible opportunity on forums, complete with title case and everything - sure, it takes me ten times longer to write a post now but the 'Damnit! You're taking hours of my day up here! is way too satisfying. Alternately, I'll link them on MSN an effort to get more tropers in my friends list...

This Troperess confused her mom by stating that if my life were a TV show, my best friend and I would be "right behind Kirk/Spock for the most slashed couple on television." This led to a long conversation in which I had to explain the concepts of HoYay and {{Shipping}} for the 1000th time. Mom finally got fed up when I responded to a question about my relationship wit said friend with "{{Canon}}ically or in {{fanon}}?"

This poor troper was typing along on her seemingly unending essay on smoking bans and suddenly found herself discussing the way Hanna-Barberra 'retconned' older cartoons to eliminate examples of tobacco use. She found herself having to pause several minutes to try and figure out how a non-troper would say it. This troper has also introduced her mother to this site and her English class to the concept of 'The Chewbacca Defense'

@/{{Phencer42}} was once at a party with a bunch of friends and {{Eneljie}}. We watched GranTorino and at the end of the movie when Kowalski dies {{Eneljie}} points out, "That was totally {{What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic}}!" I face palmed. I knew I was the only one there not confused.

This troper has spent enough time stalking the streets of TVTropes that he has, on more than one occasion, used the phrase "I don't mean to sound like a BrattyHalfPint, but...," and once relayed a story about my supervisor to my wife, saying that he pissed someone off enough to get ReassignedToAntarctica. Not to mention referring to M* A*S* H as {{Anvilicious}} more than once. Such referencing has lead to my wife telling me that "TVTropes has made you a pretentious asswipe." Yeesh. It's why I have to force myself to take breaks every so often.

This troper has a habbit of shouting, "God damned {{Squishy Wizard}}! whenever one of her mages dies while playing a videogame. Also, she and an acquaintance spoke for several hours conversing entirely in trope names.

I described Eragon to my English class as "A {{Boring Invicible Hero}} {{Jerkass}} that deosn't get nearly as {{What The Hell Hero}} moments as he should and honestly SHOULD be described as a {{Byronic Hero}} if he wasn't such a damn {{Mary Sue}}." The rest of English class was spent on me explaining all the terms, the word "trope", an Xanatos Gambit, the Evil Overlord List, Genre Savvy... I spent an hour describing THIS SITE. I got a 124% with the note of "Way to expand our knowledge of the literary building blocks." I crossed it out and wrote tropes.

I once heard a guy in one of my classes use the term HighOctaneNightmareFuel which amused me. I've mainly used the video game tropes like ScrappyLevel, ThatOneBoss, DemonicSpiders, and of course GoddamnedBats. And I've gotten into an extensive conversation with a friend of hers about GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and AmericansHateTingle.

@/{{Animenutcase}} has gotten away with using DiabolusExMachina and LampshadeHanging in English class. The fact that my teacher just nodded makes me wonder...

@/{{thexspacexmambo}} tried to annotate her entire copy of ''JaneEyre'' for English class using only tropes. Strangely enough, her English teacher did not appreciate the term SceneryPorn in the sophomore's Victorian Literature. Also unappreciated was the mention of LesYay when Jane was in bed with Helen and HighOctaneNightmareFuel when Bertha was discovered.

This troper and her younger brother are both tropers, and although we mainly hang out in different sections of the site (I'm all ''StarTrek'', all the time, and when I'm not it's SciFi or HighFantasy, and he prefers {{Anime}} and WorldOfWarcraft}}), we have many conversations in Tropese, which results in massively confused parents. It's to the point that we will DoubleFacepalm and recite the caption from the FauxtivationalPoster - simultaneously - whenever our dad tells a particularly awful joke.

@/{{Kosherbacon}}'s girlfriend is a linguistics major, so she's a stickler for etymology and stuff. Usually I can get away with saying things like CrowningMomentOfAwesome, HighOctaneNightmareFuel, and BaitAndSwitchLesbians, but she visibly {{squick}}s whenever I say, well... {{squick}}.

@/{{Metalbane}} was taken aback when someone complimented his {{Badass Longcoat}}

@/{{Wanderingmagus}} introduced his english teacher to this site. She was on for hours.

This troper is an editor for the Vocaloidism fan-blog. Ever since she became an editor, the blog has no mercy from the terms "BrainBleach", "YourMileageMayVary", etc.

@/{{Absynthe}} has offered friends BrainBleach.

As has @/{{TortTaura}}. Then faced with the task of explaining what {{BrainBleach}} is, and why they might just need it. xD

This troper uses it enough that she's gotten two friends and three teachers hooked. She's working on some of her other friends. xD

@/{{Griffin}} has occasionally yelled out "WhatAnIdiot!", or just "WAI" when someone does something stupid. She is also slowly but surely introducing her little sister to various tropes.

@/{{DrRoy}} once stated that his ambition in life was to become a "BunnyEarsLawyer" at engineering, and then spent several minutes explaining what that is.

@/{{ConanEdogawa}} is finding it harder and harder to remember a time when he didn't have to give a 5 to 15 minute explanation of tvtropes and various other tropes to explain something he just said. He even had to make another explanation speech when he realized for the first time how much tvtropes had affected his conversations and referred to it as a verbal WikiWalk.

@/{{geek0girl0extraordinare}} found it almost impossible to write a reaction paper without thinking in tropes, and most of her time was in fact spent trying to translate it into normal language.

@/{{Skorpio}} tends throw around {{Red Shirt}} at work as of late and will often throw others out in conversation or when competing with the roommate in what's going to happen in the latest movie we are watching.

@/{{Almafeta}}'s friends have accused her of speaking with audible InterCaps.

This Troper is waiting for enough of his friends to speak troperese, so that we can play a game of Name That Trope, while watching any given movie. Unfortunately this could be a while as even {{Did Not Do The Research}} seems to confuse them.

This Troper and her best friend are borderline telepathic, yet even she needs me to stop and translate the staggering amount of tropes appearing in my speech (note that she's a fellow Troper, too, just not as advanced as yours truly). It gets even more ridiculous when we start having a conversationg with a third person involved and we have to explain four out of five terms we use.

This Troper was startled when she referred to "lampshading" something and her best friend ended up confused.

This Troper, when writing papers, will be about to use first person "I", remember that such is improper, then be about to type in "This Troper" instead before doing a double-take and remembering that isn't proper either...

This troper picked up on another student at his school being a troper as a result of this... The fact that he mentioned LudicrousGibs during a chess match of all things didn't really help his case. Not that it's a bad thing... At least it proves that we really ARE everywhere.

[=Miles To Go=] was recently writing a book report about a particularly preachy book, and had a hard time not using the word {{Anvilicious}} in there. On the plus side, she did manage to include PaintingTheFourthWall and NoFourthWall and got away with it.

Just this day, we had a rhyming challenge in class. A sort of 'rhyme after me' thing. Just at the semifinals, it was me and a classmate, which went like this (classmate going first): But then I lost an arm/so what I did was full of {{Narm}} *cue twenty minute pause to explain what {{Narm}} is* and I opened up a farm/and the animals thought I had NarmCharm *cue other twenty minute pause to explain NarmCharm*

While @/{{Belle-Mage}} was taught complex words through TV Tropes, the cost was the rest of her vocabulary.

I almost call myself "this troper" all of the time on the Internet. I also am always thinking of tropes that would apply to the various things that happen to me.

@/{{Gatekeeper_Aidan}} recently was having a discussion about AynRand with a classmate in physics class (instead of doing physics, of course) and could not find another term to describe AtlasShrugged other than {{Anvilicious}}. Thankfully, his friend has apparently had his life ruined already, so the term was understood.

In addition to the standard examples covered by most of this page, this troper seem to be exhibiting a variant: TV Tropes has conditioned me so that I can no longer say anything that would have begun with "To be fair..."

I insert trope names in my everyday conversation regularly. Surprisingly, everyone I talk to never picks me up on when I'll suddenly go "The entire thing was filled with Narm" or "And the fandom rejoices(!)", so either a) I live in a community filled with tropers, b) I'm so weird now that people just ignore it when I do insert a random trope or c) certain trope names are just easy to figure out what they mean via the contexts I use them in. Hmm.

The infection has spread. This editor's vocabulary, once famed for its breadth and long words, has degraded to the point that I can only communicate in short words and choppy sentences. Flowing prose is now extremely hard. I also find myself using American slang, which I ''totally'' hate. *{{beat}}* D'oh!

Weird example : this troper has never used a trope name in Real Life but has recently started using the word « character » in otherwise normal sentences. The problem being this troper is French, and the french word for character is « personnage » while the similar sounding « caractère » has a totally different meaning.

This troper struggled not to use various trope names in an English essay before caving in and paraphrasing NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

This troper has noticed that she keeps mentioning tropes in any and all English essays she writes. Perhaps this is the reason I didn't get top marks?

This troper uses Tropes all the time, including an email to her (troper) boyfriend that is mostly pot holes. Even got her in trouble with her mom (an avid SixFeetUnder fan) when said troper first listened to "MacArthur Park" and shouted "NARM!" at the chorus.

This troper after accidentally stumbling upon and being thoroughly traumatized the TVtropes pages for {{Anatomy of Hell}} went on a huge rant to her friends about {{Euroshlock}} films only to have everyone look at her funny and go "What the hell is Euroshlock?". Then I had to explain it. Then people started asking me why the hell I was looking at these things on the internet anyway.

This troper will often quote a trope if someone either A)places a hypothetical situation on the line, B) asks for his opinion on a work of fiction, or C)interacts with him in any way that involves editing school work.

This troper had a friend state that they "speak in [=TVTropese=]" after noticing how many references to tropes we were making in our conversation.

I actuallly use trope names as part of my slang.

My vocabulary was actually helped by the site... imagine my shock when "{{Bowdlerize}}" showed up on a vocabulary test!

But one day I made an argument to my English teacher that {{Beowulf}} was a MarySue, and had to give her a link to the wiki to explain it. She's now addicted.

This troper has started counting how many times her English professor uses the word "trope" per class. His all-time record is 5. Also, when watching GetHimToTheGreek, this troper literally yelled "DracoInLeatherPants!" at the screen when Tom Felton shows up. One more example: I was at a costume contest (not in) and one of the girls was wearing a corset in order to imitate a superheroine. I giggled and whispered "MostCommonSuperpower, indeed".

This troper has used HijackedByJesus as a reason for his reluctance to watch movies with Hades as a villain. He's also tried to explain the concept of tropes to his father, who invariably fails to understand it.

This troper has, for example, replaced the word "slash" with "ho yay" in their vocabulary and is trying to get their sister addicted for the express purpose of being able to communicate completely in Tropes in public. And, being a budding comic book artist/writer, has begun frameworking their plotlines...using tropes.

A cab driver (i.e. total stranger) was talking about how Radiohead went from an apparent OneHitWonder ("Creep") to a popular '''and''' respected band, after their second CD ''The Bends'' turned out better than hardly anyone would have expected. I concurred, "Yeah, that was when they Grew The Beard." Fortunately he had enough familiarity with ''ST:TNG'' so it didn't take hours for me to explain the expression. Still, I wondered what he thought about me (by that, I don't mean his ''visible'' reaction). I must have made an impression, as...um...well, something memorable.

I want to slap every maroon on YouTube and DeviantArt I see using any TVTropes-specific phrase, especially when they use it more than once in a paragraph or in conjunction with others. Luckily for my sanity, that's been a low number so far.

Er... heheheh, ouch. But why am I purple?

This troper, Twentyfists, has used the term "Hand Wave" to describe why he felt Harry Potter really sucked towards the end and why it was overrated. It was cool, though. Everyone else totally got it (although, as Harry Potter fans, they were less than enthused).

This troper used the term "Lyrical Dissonance" to describe a friend's music composition. The friend thought it made perfect sense, and was surprised to be unable to find anyone or anywhere else using the term except TV Tropes.

@/LongLiveHumour is summarising her Astronomy notes. There being no good name for the next section, it has become "Galaxies... IN SPACE!"

This Troper's best friend probably hates him because the Troper keeps using terms from the site. For example, he described something the best friend said as Anvilicious.

This Troper has started to use tropes in conversation, and then have to hastily give condensed explanations when peoploe give me funny looks. For instance, in English, I recently introduced my class to the concepts of Tastes Like Diabetes and Everyone Is Jesus In Purgatory.

This troper calls people ButtMonkeys. Cue the confusion of everyone who thought I was speaking of a species of monkey.

I'm always getting funny looks when I watch TV/movies with non-Tropers because whenever I see an obvious one, I yell out the name of the trope (or if it happens in real life) and confuses everyone in the room. For example, during the GeneratorRex season one finale, one of the villains declines the use of an elaborate death trap. I immediately yell out "OMG HE'S GENRE SAVVY!", much to the confusion of my younger brothers.

This Tropette now speaks fluent Tropenise, and will [[strike:occasionally]] always use tropes in conversation.

For example: #QUOTE#'''Me:''' God, this show TastesLikeDiabetes #QUOTE# '''My Friends''': ...?

On another occasion: #QUOTE# '''Me:''' My new year's resolution is to get Gianna [my best friend] to chill out. #QUOTE# '''Mom:''' Good luck. Gianna is... very... um... #QUOTE# '''Me:''' {{Cloudcuckoolander}}-ish?

This record review (http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/5194/shining-blackjazz-2010 ) drops "anvilicious" in the first paragraph like it's nothing.

This troper has just realized he's been saying BeyondTheImpossible at an alarming rate. He also speaks other tropes by name, or close to it, frequently, but this one gets the most use by far.

@/Komorebi: I recently got irritated with one of my photographers (I'm an art model). He would coo "Oh, you poor baby!" at everything from a paper cut to my casual mention of having to work three sessions in one day. I eventually snapped and told him to stop Woobiefying me over every minor annoyance that befalls me. He had no clue what I was talking about.

When someone makes a pun, bad or not, I tend to say to myself: "IncrediblyLamePun".

Subverted by my mom picking up various phrases I use, such as BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

At ''least'' twice a day, this troper will have to follow something she said with the phrase "It's a trope" to deter her clueless family.

Tropers/JusticeReaper: I have officially joined the ranks of people who speak Troper-ese. I use it every so often in my normal speech, but I try to use the trope names in such a way that the entire sentence will still make sense to the person I'm talking to.

I have actually asked people if they read TvTropes, then I I continue to speak in tropese with things like Bifauxnen and HoYay. After that I turned to the person next to me and said "You didn't understand anything I just said did you?" SHe shook her head

My friend started speaking in tropes around the time I first started looking at it. At the time I thought it was kind of weird, but now... look! It's Collatinus' BigDamnHeroes moment! That means BigDamnHeroes is OlderThanFeudalism! (I actually said this in my Latin class, although I couldn't remember whether Ovid was OlderThanFeudalism or OlderThanDirt.) And earlier today that list of common themes in classical literature looked awfully similar to a description of tropes you might find with a Mary Sue...

In my drama class, we're doing monologues and I feel that there's this one part in mine that's kinda {{Narm}}-y. I tried to explain this to my drama teacher without using that term, but it didn't fare out rather well.

I'm always using tropespeak, and I get befuddled looks from all my friends. Except for one, who I found out also was a fan of this site. Found this out when, while we were talking about GoodOmens, she said, "[Crowley and Aziraphale] are so awesome, they are totally the epitome of an OddCouple." Cue me going wide-eyed and saying, "Tvtropes?" We bonded over that moment.

When my mom told me that my best friend apparently had a crush on a boy from our church, I tried to explain her that it was, like, complicated because of the attitude of my friend and the boy.

This troper and her friends (who also are tropers) are school librarians and everytime we write our librarian a note we always sign it 'your Elite Mooks' or 'Mr [=McDonald's=] Mooks'. He has yet to figure out what we mean.

This troper taught his writing teacher the phrase "asspull" when he used it, without thinking, during a workshop. Said professor was laughing so hard he completely missed the rest of my commentary about my peer's story. He later used it when commenting on my own story.

@/{{Aragorn}}: Tv tropes slip into my speech every now and again. Like today, I was telling my mom and sister about a BrickJoke. Also, I now think in tropes, like early in the school year, in my english class, we were talking about something, and it seemed like a HeelFaceTurn, and I actually wrote it in my notes.

This troper mother language is not English, but she began to speak tropenese recently. It doesn't help that sometimes she translates (yes, you read right) tropes when she sees she can do it, so people around her can understand... It doesn't work quite well. But it might be funny that my older sister understand what I'm talking about in tropenese, in English or not, and she's not a troper (for example, she knows what I'm trying to say when things like WhatHappenedToTheMouse?, AssPull, TastesLikeDiabetes, TastesLikeDirt, and sort (sometimes I translate the first, third and four into Spanish, my native language). Egregious is a fairly common word where I live, it's "atroz" in Spanish, and for some reason people in Cali love to use it.

This Tropers mother language is german, and he uses tropes withouth thinking (and sometimes not knowing if it's even a trope or just normal english) in english class, especially Zeerust, Lampshade, Narm and some others. He even used it in his english exam - and had to explain it to the teacher. She didn't understand, though, that it is something from the internet and thought it would be a normal word that she didn't knew. She gave him the point.

This Troper has had to explain DeadpanSnarker and SnarkKnight to one of her friends on multiple occasions. I use other Trope names as ordinary terms which most people understand( NightmareFuel , MarySue ), but it get's awkward when I have to explain something LapshadeHanging. or the snarkers, listed above.

This Troper is getting to the point where he uses Trope titles in regular speech, especially when watching/talking about movies or TV. Some terms I have used while discussing media: Phlebotinum, GreenRocks, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic, CrazyAwesome, ThePowerOfLove, Rock, and Friendship, LeaningOnTheFourthWall, ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, BeyondTheImpossible, DarkerAndEdgier, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, HumongousMecha and SuperRobot, LoveDodecahedron, RecycledINSPACE (which had some people confused), RuleOfCool, etc. I've also called some tropes "Inverted" without any confusion. Some concepts I understood before discovering TVTropes include: {{Unobtainium}} (by name), JumpingTheShark (everyone knows what that is), GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, PuffOfLogic (from Hitchhiker's), YourHeadAsplode (from Homestar), CaptainObvious, DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment, MacGuffin, {{Redshirt}}, NinjaPirateZombieRobot (from KoL), SuspensionOfDisbelief, SoBadItsGood, and the MST3KMantra to name a few.

This troper regularly uses {{Narm}}, and once referred to someone being a ButtMonkey. My dad thought I was talking about a gay prostitute. In fact, much of her vocabulary is frequented by this. I read an article that all but described the MarySue, and went into detail about how the Sue was PuritySue/MarySueClassic. This was for a school paper. She regularly refers to WeaksauceWeakness, DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment, and others. The only people who understand her are her friend who introduced her to this addicting site, and her other friend who inhabits the site (though less frequently). And no, I don't leave this place. I had to explain to my English teacher what this site was, since I kept using terms from it. Also, I have said "BigLippedAlligatorMoment!" in the middle of a wtf moment in class. And was forced to explain.

This troper has definitely taken to using some of the trope names and other words used here. Often getting funny looks. But due to my personality, others who do not know of Tvtropes will think that I'm using my own words. (Since I don't bother explaining it)

This happens to This Troper a lot. I think, talk, write, and yell with Tropes in my language normally. Some examples are Constantly being pestered by others at school to the point where I yelled: "THIS ENDS NOW, GUYS! SERIOUSLY, WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THE SPOT OF THE SCHOOL ButtMonkey?!" Following this was a visit to the principal's office where I explained said trope. I have referred to myself as a DeadpanSnarker, said "Oh, man, GunsAreWorthless" When I was playing SpiralKnights, And the best example was when a girl said my only friends were 3 kids, and 30 cats. Cut to one week later, where we were both at a meeting. She said I only had one friend, and I replied "No, you said about a week ago that I have 33. YOU JUST GOT BrickJoke'd!" AccidentalNightmareFuel and any of it's sub-tropes are also tossed around by me.

Oh goodness... Lets see i said "Narm" at a cheesy part of this movie we were watching in Honers English, constantly say something has been Lamp-shaded, have ALMOST said "this troper" IRL, called herself a "cloud coo-koo lander" and many, many other things

You know it's gotten bad when you have to quickly edit sections of your English GCSE paper at the end to make them understandable for the examiner! It's my own fault for annotating poems in tropespeak...