TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug/Tropers S To Z

User:Saieras

 * Advance Wars
 * Adventure Time. Haven't watched it for a while, but it was still fun.
 * Fire Emblem
 * Golden Sun
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Mahou Sensei Negima
 * Moetan
 * Super Robot Wars, which got me to appreciate Humongous Mecha and convinced me to watch...
 * Brain Powerd
 * Full Metal Panic
 * G Gundam, now one of my favorite shows.
 * Gundam Seed
 * Kurogane no Linebarrel
 * Martian Successor Nadesico
 * Mobile Suit Gundam
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Zeorymer, which I looked into due to this site's apparent disdain for it. Aside from anticlimactic battles and the manga's Gratuitous Rape, it's actually not that bad.
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * Watchmen
 * And about half the items on the Horrible pages.

User:sanfranman 91:

 * Amnesia the Dark Descent: Thanks to TV Tropes' references to this game, I still have nightmares of Mr. Face stalking me. Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY.
 * The Angry Video Game Nerd: As a fan of The Nostalgia Critic, I wondered if his rival was any good. After reading TV Tropes, I watched a few episodes. Since that day, I've converted into a member of the AVGN fandom and would probably root for him if he ever battled The Nostalgia Critic again (even though I still watch the latter).
 * Any movie with Brian Blessed!!!
 * Gantz: And boy, did the manga take off after volume 10. Thanks fellow tropers for the recommendation!
 * JAM Project would not be on my iPhone if it weren't for the Crowning Music of Awesome page.
 * Kamen Rider: Nothing like good Tokusatsu to make you feel like a kid again. HENSHIN!
 * Let the Right One In: Who knew a Toy Ship between a boy and a vampire would make such an amazing love (and horror) story?
 * Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team: Seriously, after reading the review and examples from this OVA, I gave this short series a try. BEST. GUNDAM. OVA. EVER. (Well... the twelfth episode was kind of unnecessary. I could see why Toonami kept it out of their broadcasts.)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion: A timeless classic that I would have otherwise overlooked.
 * Vision of Escaflowne: Again, another timeless classic that shouldn't be forgotten.
 * Wolf's Rain: This is one of my favorite shows of all time, in any genre. And I would've never heard of it if it wasn't for TV Tropes.

User:Sapphire Flame:

 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: I only started watching it because the wiki kept constantly talking about it and I wanted to see it for myself. I was not disappointed.
 * Order of the Stick: Again, a great decision.
 * Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
 * Zero Punctuation
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * I'm not sure if this counts, but quite a few songs on my Ipod would not be there if it weren't for the Crowning Music of Awesome page.

User:Scialen

 * Watchmen finally built the bridge between damn fine writing and comics (yes, I know it is a Graphic Novel, but for me, this blend of comic-style art and fiction led me to have Watchmen as the very definition of Graphic Novel).
 * Planescape: Torment. Seriously. I am a fan of RPGs but this is just blowing my mind.
 * Suzumiya Haruhi

User:Sen

 * Earthbound
 * FLCL
 * Good Omens
 * Nextwave
 * Runaways
 * Screenwipe
 * The Last Starfighter

User:Serperoth

 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * My Immortal
 * Rekindled my interest in Discworld

User:Shaon
I have weird tastes, don't hate.
 * Narutaru
 * Sailor Nothing
 * YU+ME: dream

User:Shotgun Ninja

 * That Guy With The Glasses, and everyone involved
 * Mahou Sensei Negima
 * Suzumiya Haruhi
 * Soul Eater
 * Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi
 * Keychain of Creation
 * Brawl in the Family
 * Irregular Webcomic and Darths and Droids
 * AMV Hell, and through it, Azumanga Daioh and One Piece

User:sgtangua 4

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Bleach
 * Doctor Who
 * Firefly
 * Sandman
 * Watchmen
 * Read or Die
 * Code Geass - I have the first two light novels.
 * Vision of Escaflowne hbi2k certainly helped.
 * Metal Gear Solid
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * Good Omens

User:Sijo

 * Webcomics: Order of the Stick,The Gods of Arr-Kelaan, Girl Genius
 * In fact I check TVT regularly just to discover series I've never heard of (in any media.)

User:Sir Mega Towel

 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Vinland Saga
 * SCP Foundation
 * Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog
 * Billy vs. SNAKEMAN

User:Skazka

 * Watchmen
 * Sandman (well, got me back into it)
 * Tanz der Vampire
 * Elisabeth
 * Bite Me!
 * The Vampire Chronicles
 * Kim Newman
 * Sweeney Todd
 * Star Trek
 * Dumbledores Army and The Year of Darkness
 * Labyrinth (again)

User:Skrim

 * Orion's Arm: Saw it first on the No Transhumanism Allowed page (the one work which averted the trope, mocked it, shot at it with antimatter missiles and threw it into a black hole). I already had some transhumanist vibes, so I naturally explored the work and got hooked.
 * Battle for Wesnoth: Looking for freeware games.
 * Ground Control: Same.
 * Order of the Stick: How can you not run into that here?
 * Gunnerkrigg Court: Not sure how I found this.
 * Darths and Droids: The image on Min-Maxing.
 * DM of the Rings: The image on Call That a Formation.
 * The Silmarillion: Got there from the Lord of the Rings page.
 * The Princess Bride: Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die.
 * QI: Again not sure.

User:Sneebs

 * Anime
 * RahXephon - This series reintroduced me to the series I once noticed in the movie store but I was too afraid to rent in front of my dad. I'm glad it did.
 * Princess Tutu - A series I'd brush off as frivolous fluff, the good word of many a troper won me over.

User:Solandra

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender: After experiencing Hype Aversion, I finally got around to checking it out. It really is one of the best Western Animation series ever. Maybe not 100% perfect, but much better and more entertaining than 90% of TV shows out there.
 * Axis Powers Hetalia: I'm not ashamed to admit that I like the series, and it was pretty much curiosity about where all these cool-sounding references to anthropomorphic personifications of countries were coming from that drew me into it.
 * Bridge of Birds: I am eternally grateful to the troper who put it on the Gush page for Literature, because that was what made me decide to check it out and find out that it isn't as epic as s/he made it sound...it's even more epic.
 * Good Omens: The page for the book made it sound like a fun and quirky book, so I borrowed it from the library. And of course, it turned out to be exactly the kind of book I love. Not to mention that it introduced me to...
 * Neil Gaiman: I wouldn't even have heard of him if it were not for this website. He's now one of my favorite authors.
 * And a ton of webcomics (El Goonish Shive, Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, Khaos Komix...), thanks to tropers Entry Pimping the hell out of them.

User:Space Jawa

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Justice League
 * Any Abridged Series I watch, though I may have gotten into those through a different source.

User:Specialist 290
I can blame TV Tropes for getting me interested in:
 * Touhou
 * Discworld
 * Firefly
 * They Might Be Giants
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * Gunslinger Girl
 * Countless other anime that I doubtless never would have seen if I hadn't heard of them here. To a lesser extent, Anime in general, although I had watched a few of my friend's before finding this site.

User:Spiri Tsunami
Just about every webcomic I've ever checked out (and there are a lot of them), either directly or through links provided by those Project Wonderful ads on so many of the comics' sites. Also...
 * Firefly (and also Dollhouse, sort of -- I've watched that show from the beginning, but only got so hyped up about it before it debuted due to the rave reviews here for Whedon's earlier work)
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Lucky Star
 * Code Geass
 * Touhou
 * Kodomo No Jikan
 * Hayate the Combat Butler
 * Shakugan no Shana
 * Empowered
 * Runaways
 * This.
 * This, too.

User:Stardust Rain

 * Adventure Time
 * Freaks and Geeks
 * Scribblenauts
 * Dead Like Me
 * Summer Wars
 * Otherworld
 * Snow Crash
 * ARIA
 * Dennou Coil
 * Scandinavia and The World
 * The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing
 * Improv Everywhere

User:Sunny V

 * Xkcd
 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Yotsubato
 * Gunslinger Girl
 * Serial Experiments Lain
 * Cowboy Bebop

User:Sweet Madness

 * Fire Emblem (The series that convinced me that turn-based strategy RPG's can be awesome.)
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (I really cannot thank this wiki enough for convincing me to watch this series.)
 * Bleach
 * Girl Genius
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Order of the Stick
 * Sandman (and really, comic books in general)
 * Discworld (As with Gurren Lagann, I cannot thank you all enough for introducing me to these books)
 * Warhammer 40000 and multiple other RPG settings/systems
 * The Dresden Files

@/Taneb
I arrived from Irregular Webcomic and Darths and Droids (which, for those curious, I got via Murderous Maths) and from here went all over the place
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Freefall
 * MS Paint Adventures
 * From MS Paint Adventures I got into:
 * Firefly
 * Marble Hornets
 * Minecraft
 * Scribblenauts
 * The Wotch
 * Cheer
 * And a whole bunch of other stuff

User:Tandra 88
Believe it or not, I found TV Tropes from...TheOtherWiki. Yep, all because I hit the random article button. After that, the rest was history. Here are my addictions:
 * Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: Oh yes. I was searching about Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's on the site when I ran across the title. I clicked it, followed the link to Little Kuriboh's channel. However, it was blocked, so I watched the series on the official page and fell in love with it. It also lead me to...
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yep. I got into the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom in 5Ds and knew absolutely nothing about the original. Combined with the Abridged Series and TV Tropes, it's one of the things I can recite from memory!
 * Axis Powers Hetalia: Hetalia...sweet, sweet, Hetalia...
 * My Immortal: Wishing I could get that time back...
 * Dragon Ball Abridged: Half to this site, half to Yu-Gi-Oh!.
 * The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing: Please, whatever you do, if you want to keep your view of Animal Crossing carefree and happy--as it should be--don't ever read this. Then lie down. You. Will. Regret. It.
 * Hyakujitsu no Bara: Stumbled upon it and decided to read the manga online. Best couple of hours of my life.

User:Telcontar

 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * Darths and Droids
 * Star Wars (Well, I knew about this one already of course, but TVT convinced me to watch those six films.)
 * NaNoWriMo (Not technically a work, but still something I first found on here.)
 * Oh God Not Again (Does this page exist? I found that fanfic on a recommendations page.)

User:The Stray
Came here through Google looking for information on the term Series Bible. Since that time I've been introduced to:
 * Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
 * Darths and Droids
 * DM of the Rings
 * Girl Genius
 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
 * El Goonish Shive
 * The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
 * Scrubs
 * Zero Punctuation
 * Sought out Doctor Who (I was aware of it, but hadn't seen more than a few episodes of the new series)
 * And, in a roundabout way (TV Tropes introduced me to Girl Genius, which introduced me to Othar's Twitter) inspired me to write The Tale of Gaven Morren.

User:The Tall One

 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * Order of the Stick
 * XKCD
 * Star Trek (I'd heard of it, just never seen it...)
 * Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Which I now have memorized)
 * TONS of music. Just tons.

User:Tina Banina 96
Tv Tropes has dragged me into a few fandoms, and by extension of that, into others. It's also made me more interested in them than I was before, and relive and re-watch old series or things I only had a passing interest in.


 * Axis Powers Hetalia (This actually became my biggest fandom. Honestly, I love it so much. Without TV Tropes, I never ever ever ever would have gotten into it. Now I'm a really active member of the community, and even on a bunch o some of the Hetalia Trope pages :D)
 * Dragonball Z Abridged
 * Justice League
 * Naruto (Reignited my devotion to this!)
 * Order of the Stick
 * Wolverine and the X-Men
 * X-Men: Evolution
 * X Men the Animated Series

User:Toa Novu
This site acted as my gateway drug into anime and manga. It started with innocent little Fruits Basket around three years ago. Since then, either directly or inderectly because of this site, I have watched and/or read the entirety of (or what is out to this point in the case of ongoing series):


 * Twentieth Century Boys
 * Akira
 * ARAGO
 * Baccano
 * Basquash
 * Bleach
 * Bunny Drop
 * Code Geass
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * Deadman Wonderland
 * Death Note
 * Dennou Coil
 * Dragon Ball
 * Durarara
 * Fruits Basket
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
 * Full Metal Panic
 * Interstella5555
 * Jyu-Oh-Sei
 * Kino's Journey
 * Mobile Suit Gundam
 * My Neighbor Totoro
 * Monster
 * Naruto
 * One Piece}
 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * Pandora Hearts
 * Pet Shop of Horrors
 * Ponyo On a Cliff By The Sea
 * Princess Jellyfish
 * Princess Tutu
 * Pumpkin Scissors
 * Rurouni Kenshin
 * Soul Eater
 * Spirited Away
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Trigun
 * Vision of Escaflowne
 * Wolf's Rain
 * Yotsuba&!
 * Yu Yu Hakusho

The Toon Geekette

 * Order of the Stick
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Astro City (the "Confession" storyline is now my favorite comic book story ever)
 * Zero Punctuation (even though I lost interest after the Sims 3 review)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion (even though I personally find it overrated)
 * Princess Tutu
 * AMV Hell
 * Narbonic
 * Deadpool
 * Nextwave
 * Sonichu, much to my dismay
 * Darths and Droids
 * Shortpacked
 * Kung Fu Panda - I'd been skeptical when I saw the trailer, but the praise I kept seeing here got me to finally watch it.
 * Sailor Moon Abridged
 * Discworld
 * Good Omens
 * Y: The Last Man
 * Bone
 * Kid Radd
 * Scandinavia and The World
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

User:toalordsothe

 * Ansem Retort... just Ansem Retort.
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * The World Ends With You
 * Samurai Champloo
 * Something Positive
 * Naruto
 * Deadpool

TV Tropes also turned me on to They Might Be Giants so thanks for that as well.

Trebor

 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Creature Feature
 * Daria
 * Franz Ferdinand
 * Lights
 * Suzumiya Haruhi
 * Xkcd

TwentyTwoSevenths

 * Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog
 * Penny Arcade
 * Supernatural
 * Discworld
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * And, by extension:
 * Atop the Fourth Wall
 * The Spoony Experiment
 * The Cinema Snob
 * Obscurus Lupa
 * Phelous
 * Todd in the Shadows
 * And, of course, The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick
 * Oh,and, uh, just to make it look like I didn't live under a rock at some point, I just wanted to clarify that I already knew most of these, I just didn't get into them until TV Tropes.

Twiddler

 * Order of the Stick: via Lampshade Hanging
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion: via Epiphanic Prison
 * Digger: via Offhand Backhand
 * Ruby Quest: via Escape From the Crazy Place
 * Whateley Universe: via Cool Loser
 * Loserz: same as above
 * Misfile: via Gender Bender and maybe Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male
 * Ouran High School Host Club: via Mind Screw
 * Code Geass: via the Troper Tales page for Perverse Sexual Lust (I think) >_>
 * Mark Reads Twilight: via Angrish
 * Questionable Content
 * Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life: via Infinite Canvas
 * Haruhi Suzumiya: via Genki Girl (back when it was the page image). That's how I first ran into it, anyway -- it was another couple years before I actually got into it.
 * MS Paint Adventures
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: via YKTS -- Someone wanted to know where a gif was from. It was identified as being from "the new My Little Pony series". Intrigued by the gif, I followed the link.

Twin Bird

 * Freaking Homestuck!
 * Cave Story.
 * QI. Not that... I've actually been watching more than the short promos inexplicably posted on BBC Worldwide... that would be illegal, after all... *cough*.
 * By extension, Panel Shows in general. Who knew that Whose Line Is It Anyway? was part of a genre, and a pretty bland example at that? (...other than everyone living outside, or who has ever been outside, or who is aware there is a world outside the US, or who regularly listens to NPR or one of a number of other stations...)
 * Also, A Bit of Fry and Laurie... God, what happened to Hugh?
 * Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
 * Got me back into Girl Genius after almost half a decade, having been put off in the early web days by the whole "basic material"/"advanced class" thing.
 * Excel Saga, waaay back in the day.
 * Haruhi Suzumiya... of course.

Two's Complement

 * MS Paint Adventures
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Touhou
 * Windom XP
 * I Wanna Be the Guy (Unfortunately).
 * Yume Nikki.
 * Bobobobo Bobobo
 * Ranma ½
 * Tsukihime
 * Saya no Uta

Most of the stuff I read, see, or play, I first hear about on here or on Youtube:
 * Berserk
 * Claymore
 * Death Note
 * Fate/stay night
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Mass Effect
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Touhou

User:Umbee

 * Ar tonelico. Never actually been able to play it due to not owning a PS2, but I know as much about it as I can without owning any of the games.
 * Basic Instructions
 * Emilie Autumn
 * Yume Nikki
 * Chopping Block

User:Unknown Troper

 * Dragon Age: Origins
 * X-COM
 * The Dresden Files
 * Codex Alera
 * The Last Days of Foxhound
 * Have I Got News for You
 * Blaz Blue

User:Vilui

 * Mai-HiME -- has now become my favourite anime
 * Megatokyo -- has now become my favourite webcomic
 * Red String
 * Sailor Nothing

User:Wackd

 * Multiplex
 * 1/0
 * Xkcd
 * Discworld
 * Clerks -- and, by extension, the View Askewniverse
 * Order of the Stick is an odd example, in that a somewhat annoying but well-meaning friend of mine started ranting about it over the phone to me once and to shut him up I promised I'd check it out. Months later, with that conversation long forgotten, I found TV Tropes, fell in love with Order of the Stick and was able to be honest with him when he asked me if I'd looked at it.
 * I had a similar experience with Firefly, having heard of its awesomeness all over the web but only being tempted to watch it once I came here.
 * Loserz
 * Walkyverse
 * That Guy With The Glasses -- and, by extension, Atop the Fourth Wall
 * Daria

User:Wanderingmagus

 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Misfile

User:Willy Four Eyes

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Death Note
 * Excel Saga
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

Wolf Moon Rising

 * Princess Tutu
 * Three Worlds Collide
 * One Over Zero

Yvanna Irie (in order of "whatever pops into my head")

 * El Goonish Shive - saw it mentioned, decided to check it out
 * Gunnerkrigg Court - same story, then had a friend recommend it to me
 * Angel Beats - ditto
 * Durarara - ditto
 * Cuanta Vida (and by extension pretty much the entirety of Team Fortress 2) - Abusing the "Random" button enough, then taking a Wiki Walk
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (anyone surprised?) - Well I had to find out what the whole fuss was about, didn't I?
 * Homestuck through which MS Paint Adventures - ditto
 * Last Days Of FOXHOUND (This comic here? My headcanon. Thank you for cracking up Metal Gear Solid for me, TV Tropes!) - Some way through the "related" on Metal Gear Solid
 * Half Life and the episodes. ESPECIALLY the episodes. - Binged Crowning Moment of Awesome, multiple mentions, had to play
 * Mass Effect - Spoiled parts of the plot to myself, had to find out what the hell was going on otherwise
 * Kink Meme|s in general - especially the That Guy With The Glasses Kink Meme that reindoctrinated me to the site (and as a side-effect had me making friends with a lot of awesome folk)

User:Zenning

 * Discworld: An amazing series that this troper enjoys thanks to TV Tropes.. Only half a year since his introduction, and he owns 30 of the series books.
 * Shinji and Warhammer 40 K: The series introduced this troper to the idea that yes.. Fanfiction can actually be worth reading.
 * Ciaphas Cain: This trope always been a fan of the Cowardly Lion, and Lighter and Softer. I also like Warhammer, so when he heard about the series here, he went out and bought The Hero of the Imperium. No regrets.

Zerky

 * Gunnerkrigg Court: A fortunate introduction. Less fortunate was the introduction to the infuriating written QAs with the writer.
 * Haruhi Suzumiya: Her only regret is watching it in the broadcast order.
 * A Fistful of Sky: Obscure book is obscure. zerky actually had to buy this one used from a seller in another country.
 * The Vampire Diaries: Given all its parallels to Twilight and her own militant Hype Aversion, this is a pleasure so guilty it makes zerky feel as if she is taking pleasure in sodomizing and eating someone's freshly-murdered body while watching this. That said... OMGCAROLINE

Zfish 9
"Hobgoblin: Supreme Leader, I have that lampshade you requested.
 * Antihero for Hire: Only read a few so far
 * Eight Bit Theater: also only read a few here
 * El Goonish Shive: I think it was the image on the Flat What page...
 * Haruhi Suzumiya: One of the multiple series that I've just wondered what the hell it was about and why it's so popular.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Learned about this after I got into K:BDH below. it's my current obsession.
 * Kyon: Big Damn Hero: Found this after getting into Haruhi and hitting the "random page" button a few times.
 * Lucky Star: I haven't decided yet if i'm going to watch this yet. I havn't found the time.
 * Omamori Himari: One link lead to another... the caption under the image didn't help me not read it.
 * One Over Zero: 1003 comic Archive Binge in 3 days...ish.
 * Order of the Stick: From the, of all pages, Lampshade Hanging page.

Red Cloak: Just hang it anywhere."