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TV Tropes (2004)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2004
A wiki, written by volunteers known as Tropers, cataloguing recurring storytelling devices and examples from films, TV, games and books.
It began with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and grew to cover almost any medium, with no notability rule for the works it lists. Its founder sold it in 2014, and the new owners ran a Kickstarter to rebuild it.
In 2004: Founded this year by a programmer under a pseudonym, with its first tropes drawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run TV Tropes, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want TV Tropes in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
