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"Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die."
—Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
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Various shows are popular or influential when it comes to tropes. One measure is how readily we name tropes from shows or other works.
This should not be done lightly and is not a badge of honor. Using trope namers lightly or as a badge of honor is Trope Namer Syndrome and leads to confusion, renames, and possible deletion of tropes.
A series usually gets to name a trope if it's so widely known for the trope (even outside the circle of nerds) it's basically an icon of it, or if it has a term for the situation that is simply Made of Win. Or if it happens to be the Trope Maker, too. Of course, we do kinda swing closer to the Geek side of things. But whaddaya expect? This is the Internet, after all!
Also, we at All The Tropes don't want tropes named directly after a trope namer, since the trope namer may always get its own page. If they are the Trope Namer, the trope name should reflect the difference, for example Rashomon Style. This is doubly true for characters, who must embody the trope so well that one could point to them and say "Yeah, kinda like him" and other tropers will immediately agree (without having to consult Google in the process).
Keep in mind, however, that calling a work "the Trope Namer" in the initial Trope Workshop write-up simply because you took the preliminary title from it (especially if you are naming the Trope after a character) is very presumptuous: chances are high that the troper Hive Mind will disagree about whether or not the work is widely known enough to qualify. Of course, such Trope proposals aren't technically named yet; the title may be subject to change in the Trope Workshop if someone else comes up with a better title. (For the purpose of actually finding a better title, see Naming a Trope.)
Sometimes we don't quite get it right the first time.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- 24
- 8-Bit Theater
- 9
- A Christmas Carol
- A Miracle of Science
- A New Hope
- A Night at the Opera
- A Trekkie's Tale
- Aaron Sorkin
- Abbott and Costello
- Adam Baldwin
- Aerosmith
- Aesop's Fables
- Alex and Emma
- Alice in Wonderland
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
- Also Sprach Zarathustra (novel)
- AlternateHistory.com
- Amiga Power
- Ani-Mayhem
- Animal House
- Animaniacs
- Animorphs
- Anthony Trollope
- Anton Chekhov
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Aquaman
- Arabian Nights
- Aristophanes
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
- Asteroids (video game)
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Avenue Q
- Babylon 5
- Barbra Streisand
- Batman
- Batman (TV series)
- Beastie Boys
- Beauty and The Beast
- Best Student Council
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Bewitched
- Bill Bryson
- Bill and Ted (film)
- Billy Elliot
- Billy Joel
- Bionicle
- Blazing Saddles
- Bleach
- Bliss Stage
- Blogger
- Blue Devil
- Bo Diddley
- Bored of the Rings
- Bruce Lee
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Bugs Bunny
- Burn Notice
- Busby Berkeley
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- C. S. Lewis
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Care Bears
- Casey and Andy
- Cerebus
- Charlie's Angels
- Chris Carter
- Chrono Trigger
- Circus of Fear (film)
- Citizen Kane
- City of Heroes
- Classic Disney Shorts
- Classical Mythology
- Clint Eastwood
- Community
- Cowboy Bebop
- Daffy Duck
- Darths & Droids
- Diablo (series)
- Dire Straits (band)
- Discworld/Pyramids
- Doctor Who/Recap/S8/E05 The Daemons
- Doña Bárbara
- Dragon Ball
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Elvis Presley
- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
- Flashback (1992 video game)
- Flowers for Algernon
- Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)
- GURPS
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Girl Genius
- God Game (novel)
- Hamlet
- Harlan Ellison
- Harry Houdini
- Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
- Home Improvement (TV series)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)
- Jackie Gleason
- James Bond (film)
- Justice League (animation)
- Knute Rockne, All American
- Little Miss Marker
- M*A*S*H (television)
- Mass Effect 2
- Max Payne (series)
- MediaWiki
- Megas XLR
- Methuselah's Children
- Metroid
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Mortal Kombat
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
- National Geographic Society
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Pokémon (anime)
- Psychonauts
- Quake (video game)
- R.E.M.
- René Magritte
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rules of the Internet
- Sailor Moon
- Scarface (1983 film)
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Shaun of the Dead
- Shortpacked!
- Sky High (2005 film)
- St. Trinian's (franchise)
- StarCraft
- Star Trek: Generations
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek Generations
- Street Fighter (film)
- Sun Tzu
- Super Smash Bros.
- Superdickery.com
- Superman
- Team Fortress 2
- Teen Girl Squad
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- The Addams Family (1991 film)
- The Addams Family (musical)
- The Beatles (band)
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)
- The Devil's Dictionary
- The Firesign Theatre
- The Great Escape
- The Incredible Hulk (comic book)
- The Jetsons
- The Karate Kid
- The Legend of Zelda
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Manchurian Candidate (novel)
- The Mighty Thor
- The Night Gwen Stacy Died
- The Odyssey
- The Parent Trap (1961 film)
- The Princess Diaries (film)
- The Roman Empire
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Smurfs
- The Sports Guy
- The Tick (animation)
- The Tonight Show
- The Twilight Zone
- The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)
- The X-Files
- They Live!
- Tom Swift
- Trope Namers/Anime and Manga
- Trope Namers/Classical Mythology
- Trope Namers/Comic Books
- Trope Namers/Film
- Trope Namers/Internet
- Trope Namers/Laconic
- Trope Namers/Literature
- Trope Namers/Live Action TV
- Trope Namers/Music
- Trope Namers/Newspaper Comics
- Trope Namers/Oral Tradition
- Trope Namers/Other Media
- Trope Namers/Real Life
- Trope Namers/Religion and Myth
- Trope Namers/Star Wars
- Trope Namers/The Simpsons
- Trope Namers/Theater
- Trope Namers/Traditional Games
- Trope Namers/Video Games
- Trope Namers/Web Animation
- Trope Namers/Web Comics
- Trope Namers/Webcomics
- Trope Namers/Western Animation
- Twelfth Night
- Welcome Back, Kotter
- William Gibson
- William Shakespeare
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Xkcd
- Yakov Smirnoff
- Zero Punctuation
- Émile Zola