Things that were omnipresent on TvTropes that you never saw or read or played

Odradek

Survival of the Fittest

The Webfiction Whateley Universe

Shlock Mercenary

Sluggy Freelance

Crystal

I legit don't even remember the first one, nor do I remember any others aside from what you listed, aside from Homestuck, or MLP (watched all of three episodes of it).

Salix Babylonika

All of those things.

Also Homestuck, MLP.

Tachyon

i read a little of the last 2

could never really get into either though, wasn't really a fan of the art

MetaFour

Shlock Mercenary and Sluggy Freelance were both series that I binged or attempted to binge, then fell off and never felt like getting back into, well before I discovered TVT.

Tachyon

Shlock Mercenary and Sluggy Freelance i mean

MLP was fun and Homestuck was awesome

Tachyon

MetaFour said:

Shlock Mercenary and Sluggy Freelance were both series that I binged or attempted to binge, then fell off and never felt like getting back into, well before I discovered TVT.

i did the same

i used to read a lot of webcomics, whereas these days i seldom pick up new ones

i also did this with Misfile, which was fairly horrible with hindsight

Imipolex G

most of what people talked about there, especially [name of popular anime series]

Tachyon

i will say though, Hazelton could probably have written a decent story about cars

manga was a bad influence on him i suspect

Tachyon

Imipolex G-cup said:

most of what people talked about there, especially [name of popular anime series]

Nanoha

Odradek

Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised if less than 25% of the people who talked about Warhammer 40k on Tvtropes never played the wargame.

This is not a criticism, it's an observation.

Salix Babylonika

Somewhere out there is a weeb rapper who came up with the phrase "as lyrical as Nanoha" and thinks they're the cleverest motherfucker on the planet

Odradek

Elfen Lied

those Total Drama things

Calvin And Hobbes: The Series

Obā-san

warhammer is exactly like touhou but with beefy guys instead of ladies and armor instead of hats

Tachyon

TWEWY

Tachyon

City of Heroes

Magic: The Gathering

Crystal

naney said:

warhammer is exactly like touhou but with beefy guys instead of ladies and armor instead of hats

Sounds my style. Well, okay, I know it is.

Tachyon said:

TWEWY

Still fun, even if I don't like it as much now and consider it a little overrated.

Tachyon

i tried to get into warhammer at one point but i was a total noob about it

i wanted to paint my own figures but after one sloppy attempt i gave up

then i realized how expensive the whole hobby was and gave up on the idea

Odradek

Warhammer is over-expensive, and Games Workshop is made up of self-destructive grognards.

Tre

Discworld and Touhou

(I know there are folks here who like both but still)

glennmagusharvey

Discworld
Erfworld
Sluggy Freelance
Schlock Mercenary
El Goonish Shive
Homestuck
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Fate/Stay NIght (or the rest of the Fate/ series)
Firefly/Serenity
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek
Star Wars (most of it)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Avatar the Last Airbender
Avatar: the Legend of Korra
Bleach (most of it)
Naruto (most of it)
One Piece
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (most of it)
everything by Tolkien (except the three big movies)
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Twilight
Nanoha BetrayerS
Samurai Champloo
Akira
Warhammer 40000
Half-Life series
Girl Genius
Order of the Stick (most of it)
VGCatz
DM of the Rings
Knights of the Old Republic
Shin Megami Tensei / Digital Devil Saga / Persona series
etc.

Tachyon

oh yeah, Persona was a major one

also When The Cicadas/Seagulls Cry

Salix Babylonika

Tachyon said:

also When The Cicadas/Seagulls Cry

I don't think I even know what this is

Tachyon

planet JANE said:

Tachyon said:

also When The Cicadas/Seagulls Cry

I don't think I even know what this is

i mean higurashi and umineko

Section42L

I'm still convinced that the Whateley Universe was an elaborate hoax played on tropers by a couple of bored editors.

Tachyon

that would be kind of funny if true

Obā-san

the discorld books are legit very good, and not just by troper standards

Anonus

Odradek said:

Calvin And Hobbes: The Series

Michael Eisner's exploitation of IP even went beyond stuff Disney owned, huh

Klinotaxis

Odradek said:

The Webfiction Whateley Universe

i still associate this with pornography about golems, for some reason, not that it comes up much

Obā-san

I still have no clue what whateley is

Anonus

Apparently it's a really bad rip of X-Men

Odradek

Klinotaxis said:

Odradek said:

The Webfiction Whateley Universe

i still associate this with pornography about golems, for some reason, not that it comes up much

It was something to do with transpeople and Lovecraft mythos I think.

Yarrun XIX

I never thought that Schlock Mercenary was over-hyped in TvTropes. But I've successfully binged the entire comic, so my perspective may be falwed.

TWEWY

Most of the anime stuff

Sluggy Freelance/EGS/Erfworld

Obā-san

I also don't know what twewy is

Yarrun XIX

Whateley Universe still doesn't feel like a thing to me.

My mind refuses to acknowledge it as something that exists. Did a similar thing with Homestuck back in the day.

Odradek

naney said:

I still have no clue what whateley is

There is a character in The Dunwich Horror named Wilbur Whateley, which I assume is part of the inspiration.

Obā-san

I know that but

Tachyon

naney said:

the discorld books are legit very good, and not just by troper standards

Yes, i have read some of them and they are worth reading.

Section42L

naney said:

I also don't know what twewy is

The World Ends With You

Tachyon

i actually used to read EGS and with hindsight i don't know how i put up with the art

Tachyon

or the bad jokes

or the bad characterization

Obā-san

ooohhhhhh

I played some of that

fun mechanics but the dialogue killed it for me

Tachyon

i do know part of the appeal was the gender swap stuff, and part of it was the novelty of a free online comic

Odradek

naney said:

the discorld books are legit very good, and not just by troper standards

"You really can't blame him for that. Besides, I'd place far more of the blame on Whedon. It's not like Tropers actually sit down and take the time to read Hitchhiker's Guide or any of the Discworld books, they just know as nerds they should like/pretend to have read them."

Tachyon

No see Discworld is EXTREMELY troperish

it's just also very, very good

Klinotaxis

as I recall whately had this whple thing with author self promotion that the rest of these mainly did not

Section42L

naney said:

ooohhhhhh

I played some of that

fun mechanics but the dialogue killed it for me

Yeah, I remembered that.

That was why I was amused that you forgot what it was. :P

Tachyon

Klinotaxis said:

as I recall whately had this whple thing with author self promotion that the rest of these mainly did not

yeah i think that was it

survival of the fittest, too

Tachyon

Hitchhiker's Guide is probably less troperish than Discworld, but it tends to appeal to SF nerds and TVT had a lot of those

glennmagusharvey

The World Ends With You
Whateley Universe
Halo
all the Lovecraft stuff
X-Men
Spider-Man
Fantastic Four
Green Lantern Corps
Superman
Batman
Cardcaptor Sakura
Sailor Moon (most of it)
Revolutionary Girl Utena
The Tatami Galaxy
Fullmetal Alchemist (most of it)
Full Metal Panic!
Touhou (most of it)
GURPS
Teen Titans (most of it)
Dexter's Laboratory
Powerpuff Girls
CSI
NCIS
The Legend of Zelda (most of it)
Samurai Jack
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Frozen
Higurashi/Umineko
Cars
Space Jam <-- I watched this but I have little attachment to it and have mostly forgotten it
Kill la Kill
Attack on Titan
Sword Art Online (most of it)
Space Dandy
Command and Conquer
Starcraft
Sonic '06
Sonic the Hedgehog series (msot of it)

Tachyon

a number of those are legitimately excellent