TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug/Tropers D To K

User:Deathsquirrel

 * Darths and Droids
 * Dr McNinja
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Let's Play
 * Sir Ron Lionheart
 * Chuggaaconroy
 * Okami by extension.
 * The Princess Bride
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * The Spoony Experiment
 * The Angry Video Game Nerd

User:Deckard

 * Anime, which he did not like before (unless watching Pokémon as a kid counts) but got into after watching:
 * Akira
 * Alien
 * Blade Runner, which got him into the Cyberpunk genre as a whole
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * The Dark Knight and other superhero movies
 * Firefly, and the movie sequel Serenity
 * Ghost in the Shell and the spinoff series Stand Alone Complex
 * Questionable Content
 * Star Trek
 * Watchmen
 * On the other hand, suffered severe Hype Backlash about Doctor Who, which he considers possibly the stupidest show ever made.

User:Dragon Khorse

 * Daemon
 * Discworld
 * Firefly
 * FLCL
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * Kiss X Sis
 * Lucky Star
 * My Immortal
 * Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei
 * SCP Foundation
 * Snow Crash
 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: YOSHI!
 * Time Cube: I actually read through the whole mind-numbing 2 pages of ranting.

User:deeman 45

 * Cave Story
 * Darths and Droids
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Order of the Stick
 * Tabletop Games
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

User:Delta One

 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer - mainly because I felt like without watching this I wasn't a real Troper.
 * Angel - logically.
 * Ciaphas Cain - Because he is the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
 * Dollhouse - The first season, anyway
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Irregular Webcomic
 * Crimson Dark
 * However, this wiki has solidified a mild dislike for anime and manga into a raging hatred. I guess it cuts both ways.

User:Dialga X

 * Latias' Journey
 * Pokï¿½mon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance

User:Don Zabu

 * Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Clannad
 * Dwarf Fortress
 * Knytt
 * Sufjan Stevens
 * Minus
 * Achewood
 * RahXephon
 * The Big Lebowski
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Walk Hard
 * Moral Orel
 * Watchmen

User:Dvandemon

 * I arrived here due to an inexplicable link in an page describing Absalom's powers on OnePiece Wiki. One Wiki Walk later, I shall never be bored

User:dxman

 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * F.A.T.A.L.

User:Earl Of Sandvich

 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Dragon Ball Abridged
 * Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (that's right, it's through here that I've become a brony)
 * Scandinavia and The World
 * SCP Foundation

User:Echo Ballard 13

 * Star Trek

User:Eisenherz

 * Deadman Wonderland was one of the first mangas I started reading because of here.
 * Toradora! is a bit full of Narm at times, but it was rather touching near the end.
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion. Still no idea what was going on, other than Shinji was a whiny little bitch.
 * Dick Figures was surprisingly entertaining.
 * Discworld was absolutely hilarious. I think I died laughing once or twice.
 * Bakemonogatari was a rather interesting show. I liked the spin on the oddities.
 * Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? Even though I never finished it, I liked it. Should go back and watch the rest of it.
 * Keychain of Creation I really hope they update, soon.

User:Electric_Sheep
I came here, quite by chance, from an Axis Powers Hetalia site
 * Sailor Nothing
 * Something Positive
 * Paradise Kiss
 * Questionable Content
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni as well as Umineko no Naku Koro ni

User:Elodie Hiras
Well, I came here from the FFJDR (the french ferderation for Role Playing Game), and it lead me to...
 * Brawl in the Family
 * Collar 6
 * Darths and Droids
 * Kingdom of Loathing
 * TV Tropes sings protest songs to Elodie Hiras! Elodie Hiras turned Liberal! We need a slogan!
 * Misfile
 * Persona 4 (never played, watched let's play) and the animated adaptation.
 * No, he didn't imagined that!
 * The custumer is Not Always Right.
 * Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
 * Spinnerette
 * Strawberry Death Cake
 * Weregeek
 * X-COM.

I Enjoy Acid Pops

 * Glee. One insanely popular show I didn't know what the fuss was about until I watched the pilot while home sick from school after browsing Tropes...and I'm glad I did.
 * Like many tropers on this page, I discovered Xkcd through this site.
 * The friggin Percy Jackson and The Olympians books, man. I'm insanely addicted.

User:Epic Ebi
I may not have as many things I've found like everyone else, but here're the ones I can think of.


 * Code Geass Lelouch of Britannia One of the best fan-fics I've read.
 * Soul Chess One of my favourites.
 * Guilty Crown Since I love Code Geass...
 * Cowboy Bebop Thank Superlative Dubbing for this.

User:The Evil Oboist

 * Claymore Actually it was the page ads that got me into this one...
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Girl Genius I was already reading this before, but I wasn't obsessed until I read about all its tropes.
 * Y: The Last Man
 * Grave of the Fireflies (Curse you TV Troooopesss!)
 * My Immortal
 * Temeraire
 * That Guy With The Glasses, first the Nostalgia Chick, and then the Critic.
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion (Curse you again!!!)
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender Thanks for this. Seriously. <3
 * Death Note
 * Rose of Versailles
 * On a more general note, anime in general. I never watched it before, but now I have a tentative, very casual appreciation for the stuff.

User:Fallen Leaf

 * Last Exile: Cool Ship. Full Stop. Glorious Steampunk-y goodness.
 * Haruhi Suzumiya: Really only a matter of When rather than If I would watch this once I started coming here. Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life.

User:Fashionist State

 * E.S. Posthumus
 * Mary Sue Academy
 * Mike Patton
 * Portal: It was this site that directed me to Steam to download it while it was free.
 * Psychonauts
 * The Huemn Ceniped 2 The Humen Milipede: Which became a general gateway to Troll Fic.
 * VG Cats

User:Fighteer

 * TV Tropes proved to be my gateway drug to a whole host of Web Comics. It's fitting that I arrived here from Order of the Stick.

User:Findthefourth

 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Not yet. But I want to.
 * Gargoyles: Only the first four episodes... I didn't really like it.
 * James Dean: I wouldn't have watched Rebel Without a Cause if it weren't for TV Tropes.
 * ninjawords.com: I don't know if this counts.
 * The Nostalgia Critic
 * William Shakespeare: No joke. I was reading the page for Much Ado About Nothing and thought "This sounds interesting". And here I am, 15 plays later.

User:Finlay
There are a few... this can't be everything, but they're the ones that spring to mind...
 * Aquaria: that reminds me, I still need to beat the game properly.
 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Chainsawsuit: via the little image at the top when I went to complain about Seltzer and Friedberg.
 * Death Note: I saw its name so many times on here that when my friend offered me a choice of anime I went for that one because it was one of the few titles I recognised. Incidentally, it's still the only full anime series I've watched. Haven't had time for anything else except Studio Ghibli...
 * Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: A friend told me about how it had the highest trope:length ratio or something. And then I eventually got around to watching it.
 * The Middle: Sorta. I watched one episode and it was alright. Can't be bothered watching any more -- anyway, someone is clearly pimping it on the Malcolm in the Middle article.
 * Scott Pilgrim: Saw it on here first, then went to see the film having realised that it was the same thing. Something like that. Anyway, it was here that persuaded me... and now I have to work my way through the books.
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * The Usual Suspects: The article for Primer (which I discovered via Xkcd but read about on here before watching) had a link to Usual Suspects Ending, so I had to find this film to understand what the title of the trope meant... and now whenever I see "Kevin Spacey Is Keyzer Soze" I actually understand what the hell it means!
 * A Very Potter Musical
 * Zero Punctuation: again, saw it come up so much that when someone recommended it to me I decided it was probably a good idea to watch it.

User:Flametail Von Karma

 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Discworld
 * Futurama
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * My Immortal
 * The Abridged Series in general

User:Fourth Derivative

 * Cave Story
 * Clannad
 * The Dandelion Girl, via a Shout-Out in Clannad; enjoyed the story so much I ended up creating the page for it.
 * 5 Centimeters Per Second, and Makoto Shinkai in general.
 * Narcissu: I wanted to find games similar to Kana: Little Sister, which had left me an emotional wreck in all the best ways. That game's page led me to Utsuge, which led me to this. And I am so much better a person for it.
 * Planetarian
 * True Remembrance
 * Yume Nikki

User:Fueryn

 * Anime and Manga: Seriously, before TV Tropes, anime and manga were something very weird and geeky that some total weirdoes did. Now it's something more like:
 * Code Geass, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Death Note, FLCL, Mahou Sensei Negima just to name a few. And it is fun to corrupt other people.
 * Cracked.com
 * Countless Web Comics

User:Game Chainsaw
Well aside from introducing me to several fine webcomics...


 * Order of the Stick: Always good for a laugh, and with a good, if quirky story.
 * Drowtales: Only read a bit of it but it looks like a good read.
 * Gunnerkrigg Court: Another thing discovered on the site, its an interesting combination of Fantasy and Sci Fi.
 * VG Cats: Worth an archive binge, though it doesn't update much.

The site also got me interested in Manga and Anime. I got into...


 * Bleach
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Azumanga Daioh

Through the site. And that's without mentioning the excellent Ciaphas Cain Warhammer 40000 novels. As a bonus, anyone interested in doing a Let's Play? The Live Bloginations section of the forum is a fun place to do one.]

And the list just goes on and on and on and on...

Frankiefoster:
 * Sinfest, also addicted to the Forum. It also enriched me to Toy Story and made me ache to see the second and third one.
 * Once enriched me to El Goonish Shive and Sister Claire as well as Eerie Cuties and other awesome stuff.

Girl In Glasses:
 * Star Trek: And, also...K/S. Never shipped slash before this site glued the Shipping Goggles to my face.
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer (even though I had most of the plot twists ruined for me before I even started watching the show. Use spoiler tags, guys!)
 * Fanfiction: Still not sure if that one is "Tv Tropes Will Enhance Your Life" or "TV Tropes will have you reaching for the brain bleach and wailing for your eye virginity". The Fanfic Recs, however, are amazing. Even though they got me into...
 * Kink Memes
 * Glee: Again, guilty pleasure.
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Venus Envy
 * Skins
 * Daria

User:getmemygun

 * My Immortal
 * Dwarf Fortress
 * Erfworld
 * Spelunky
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Katawa Shoujo
 * Eversion

User:Godnat

 * Abridged Series in general
 * Berserk
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and by extension Double K
 * Vagabond

User:Goldenpelt

 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
 * Serial Experiments Lain

User:guyy

 * Order of the Stick: Despite having never played DnD...
 * Shortpacked: ...or collected toys, for that matter.
 * Anime in general, and also:
 * Gurren Lagann: Yes.
 * Haruhi Suzumiya: I could hardly believe it wasn't overhyped. Underhyped, if anything.
 * Read or Die: James Bond the Meganekko!
 * Kashimashi: That first episode...
 * Vocaloid: The concert, and lots of songs.

User:Gwen Stacy Wannabe

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender, which kind of rekindled my love of cartoons as well.
 * Discworld. Also managed to convert two of my friends to Pterry.
 * Firefly. I just, I don't even have words. You can't stop the signal, tropers.
 * Pushing Daisies
 * The Sarah Connor Chronicles; it seems I am destined to love dead shows. And all those starring Summer Glau.

User:Happy Duck
"-robot draws face on its head-
 * Blank It - Hilarious, with great art.
 * Order of the Stick - Amazing, especially when comparing the early strips to the later ones. Cerebus Syndrome actually worked in this comic's favor; they kept the humor and lampshade hanging, but the plot has gotten a lot deeper and more involved.
 * Stickman and Cube - Awesome gag-a-day (well, gag-whenever-the-author-feels-like-updating. But still).
 * My Immortal
 * Xkcd - Awesome nerdy humor.
 * Sailor Nothing - Dark, amazingly-written deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre.
 * Gunnerkrigg Court - Beautiful art, great writing, all-around awesomeness.
 * A quote that cracks me up:

Robot 1: Oh no! A sad face!

Robot 2: The saddest face!"


 * Within Temptation - Amazing band. Sharon's voice is just beautiful.

User:Hawkeye

 * The Dresden Files - I saw it mentioned on this site numerous times and finally picked up the first book. Have been constantly reading them ever since.
 * Mass Effect - I had heard good things about it from friends, but once I read the Main Page for it, I knew I needed to play it

HG131
I've discovered alot of things because of TvTropes. I doubt I could list them all.
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I have added hundreds of tropes to). I learned of this the old fashioned way, found the page.
 * Firefly: Learned of it before BTVS, learned of the BTVS page though it's page.
 * Dollhouse: Learned of because of Firefly and Buffy.
 * Angel: Same.
 * Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog: Same.
 * Kodomo No Jikan (which is my new trope pimping project, as I'd done alot for Buffy already). I have no idea how I learned of this, and I learned of it just a few days ago.
 * Prototype: Page.
 * Dead Space: Page.
 * Witchblade: Netflix, checked out it's page, decided to watch.
 * Gurren Lagann: It's page.
 * Ghost in the Shell: Same.
 * V for Vendetta: Page.
 * Batman Beyond: Page.
 * Psych: Page.
 * Doctor Who: Page.
 * Torchwood: Doctor Who.
 * Pushing Daisies: Page.
 * Repo! The Genetic Opera: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, through common link via Anthony Stewart Head.
 * Fanfiction (and it inspired me to write it, too!)
 * More, more and more.

User:H Meyer

 * The Elephant Man, which led me to be quickly an unabashed Merrick aficionado, and also developed a deep interest in the Victorian Era, medical conditions, and of course silent films, indirectly. Of course, it led me to interest in other sideshow performers, especially in the States and the UK.
 * Of course seeing this film and corresponding with another like-minded person led me to fall in love with other silent-era films (or post-silent era) featuring deformed/disfigured protagonists, The Man Who Laughs being one of them.

User:Homestar 09_Mario 08

 * The Wotch
 * Brawl in the Family
 * 8-Bit Adventure

User:Hrdcrnwo

 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Checked it out when I kept seeing it all over the site. I absolutely love it now.
 * A Very Potter Musical - I had heard about it before, but when I saw the page on this site I decided to watch it. Again, love it and its sequel.
 * Cowboy Bebop - Same as TTGL.
 * Gastrophobia - Found the page when I was using the random button. It's now one of the webcomics I regularly check.
 * Pokecapn and Co's Let's Play of Sonic 2006 - Saw it on the Let's Play page, and liked it so much I watched the other two Let's Plays
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I had already heard of it beforehand, but this site (and it being recommended to me by Netflix) persuaded me to watch it. Now I can see why people love it so much.

User:Insanity Prelude

 * Codex Alera, via poking around the Literature list for something to read
 * Raptor Red
 * Dwarf Fortress, via Boatmurdered
 * Eversion,.
 * Zero Punctuation
 * Elf Quest
 * Dino Run
 * Team Fortress 2

User:Insanity Prelude

 * Codex Alera, via poking around the Literature list for something to read
 * Raptor Red
 * Dwarf Fortress, via Boatmurdered
 * Eversion, which really didn't scare me. Except those damn HANDS.
 * Zero Punctuation
 * Most recently, Elf Quest

User:Inverted Tritone
I got here from The Other Wiki doing research for a paper. It was the gateway for:
 * Doctor Who
 * Xkcd
 * Girl Genius
 * Order of the Stick
 * Penny Arcade
 * NCIS
 * Torchwood
 * Chuck
 * A Bit of Fry and Laurie
 * Blackadder
 * Jeeves and Wooster

User:Isabel

 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * The Dresden Files
 * Order of the Stick
 * Temeraire
 * Code Geass
 * Hellblazer
 * Unshelved
 * Megatokyo
 * The Acts of Caine
 * Doctor Who

User:JC Cy C

 * Cracked.com (by way of the Xkcd Alt Text in that strip)
 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
 * Empowered
 * Irredeemable
 * The Joker Blogs
 * Justice League Crisis On Two Earths
 * Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi
 * PS238

User:Jean Jacket

 * Xkcd
 * Thatguywiththeglasses.com, which in turn led me to Atop the Fourth Wall, and The Spoony Experiment.
 * And Linkara got me interested in Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, which led to a couple stacks of comics being added to my bookshelf.
 * Jeeves and Wooster
 * Which led to the rest of Wodehouse's works.
 * Dr. Horrible
 * Which led to How I Met Your Mother

User:Jomar

 * RahXephon: I was browsing the site after watching the massive mind screw that is Evangelion, and found several entries where RahXephon is described as similar to NGE, but not as much of a downer. Now I know that RahXephon is just like NGE, only better!

User:Joysweeper

 * I was first linked here from the El Goonish Shive. My tastes have changed since, and I've definitely picked up some new things. In no particular order, those are:
 * Haibane Renmei
 * Gargoyles
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Discworld
 * Soon I Will Be Invincible
 * Order of the Stick
 * Girl Genius
 * The Spectacular Spider-Man
 * and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
 * I did try One Piece and found myself bored utterly, but mostly curiosity has paid off.


 * Adventure Time
 * Regular Show
 * Doctor Who (I knew about it beforehand but I watch it more now)
 * Being Human
 * Buffy and Angel or anything by Joss Whedon.
 * Misfits
 * Cracked.com
 * Cracked.com


 * Every single of Joss Whedon's works was brought to me by this place
 * also TGWTG and most importantly TITS
 * also TGWTG and most importantly TITS

User:Kexira

 * Axis Powers Hetalia - I never would've gotten interested, despite my friends talking about it, if I hadn't heard about it on TV Tropes first.
 * Ansem Retort - Clicking on Random Page. Combine that with a growing interest in Kingdom Hearts and you have a new webcomic fan.
 * Xkcd - Another webcomic I'd never have heard of otherwise.

User:King Clark
TV Tropes got me into...
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * The Wall
 * Twin Peaks, and pretty much anything else involving David Lynch
 * The Sandman
 * The Protomen
 * My Immortal (The best bad fanfic ever)
 * Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (I haven't read much of it yet, but I like it so far)
 * Paranormal Activity
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special (Okay, so I didn't like it, but TV Tropes showed me where it was.)
 * There Will Be Brawl

User:Korodzik

 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
 * Brawl in the Family
 * The Comics Curmudgeon - After being linked there multiple times from here, I decided to sit down and read the entire damn archives. Still not finished...
 * Cowboy Bebop - Though it was Orson Scott Card's review which truly persuaded me to check it out.
 * DM of the Rings
 * Earthbound/Mother 3
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Hellboy
 * Iji
 * MS Paint Adventures - Judging from the Late Arrival Spoiler page, I should consider myself lucky for managing to read the entirety of Homestuck without knowing anything about the comic.
 * Psychonauts
 * SCP Foundation - Was linked to SCP-173 from the Nightmare Fuel page. Immediately set on an Archive Binge. Man, that was years ago...
 * Spelunky
 * Terror Island - More people should read this! One of the funniest webcomics I know.
 * Yume Nikki - Well I didn't play it myself, but it persuaded me to watch the entire Let's Play on YouTube.