Whois & Analysis for tvtropes.org

TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and expands descriptions and examples on various conventions and devices (tropes) found within creative works.

Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from only television and film tropes to cover those in other types of media such as literature, comics, video games, advertisements, and toys.

The nature of the site as commentary on pop culture and fiction has attracted attention and critique from several web personalities and blogs.

Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.

A wiki is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser.

In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup") and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.

A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine.

There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems.

Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary.

Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material.

Others may permit access without enforcing access control.

Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.

A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.

An archetype can be:

A plot device (or plot mechanism) is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.

A or arbitrary plot device may annoy or confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension of disbelief.

However a well-crafted plot device, or one that emerges naturally from the setting or characters of the story, may be entirely accepted, or may even be unnoticed by the audience.