Practitioners of this troping, or “anyone who contributes to [TV Tropes],” are called “Tropers.” [2022, Esther Grace Witte, Transfigurative Access and Journal-Keeping Practice: Theorizing Anti-Oppressive Rhetorical Scholarship, dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2025, page 53:
This Troper finds himself using Gintama “Zura ja nai, Katsurada!” as a swear, does this also count as a Gosh Darn It to Heck? 2019, Rowan Elizabeth Arbuthnott Gardiner, quoting Troper Tales, “Positive and Neutral Attitudes”, in ‘Weeaboo Japanese’: Exploring English-Japanese Language-Mixing in Online Japanese Popular Culture Fandom, thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Philosophy in Linguistics, Auckland: Massey University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2025, chapter 4 (Results), section 2 (Language Attitudes), page 53:
Using substantial crowdsourced material, ‘Tropers’ on the popular fan wiki site, TV Tropes (2022), identify the ‘Amoral Afrikaner’ as a trope that traces back to apartheid-era South Africa, for example Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989. 2022, Rachel Lara van der Merwe, “Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 25, number 5, London: Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 595:
As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!" 2011 November 17, Suzan, “"Copacabana" TV Tropes page is up”, in alt.fan.barry-manilow (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025: