TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug/Tropers L To R

Lady Mitsuko

 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * Lucky Star

User:Lale

 * Sailor Nothing
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
 * Gargoyles
 * Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics, including The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
 * Pride and Prejudice And Zombies

There's also media that I haven't read or watched but TV Tropes has told me so much about it, I feel like I know it as well as any hardcore fan:
 * Runaways
 * Naruto
 * Wicked

User:Lawnmowergirl

 * Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei I would never have discovered this hilariously bizarre series without TV Tropes.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series, which was actually what got me back into Yu-Gi-Oh!.
 * Yume Nikki

Lemont Elwood
Most every awesome video game and a couple video game comics (such as Penny Arcade). I was introduced to Victoria II, then Tropico, and then Just Cause. And I only learned about Victoria from reading Troper Tales (RIP).

User:Liberated Liberater
(The rest... I get from a certain geeky classmate of mine.)
 * Amagami SS
 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Bakemonogatari
 * Katawa Shoujo
 * Lyrical Nanoha
 * Mahou Sensei Negima
 * Mirai Nikki
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Thank you so much for this!)
 * To Aru Majutsu no Index
 * Tsukihime (and the rest of the Nasuverse)
 * Yuria 100 Shiki

Lucifedes

 * Death Note
 * A Song of Ice and Fire
 * Discworld (I'm not very far through yet though, to be fair)
 * The wonders of fanfiction. All fanfiction. Quite a lot of Death Note slash, which may not be a good thing...
 * Xkcd
 * There are definitely more, but I just attempted the Drinking Game for Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen and am feeling too sick to remember them right now. I have a waiting list of movies I found on here too. Lots of movies.

User:Mack

 * Darths and Droids
 * DM of the Rings
 * Farscape (I remember watching the first episode and not bothering again, tvtropes brought me back to it.)
 * The Prisoner
 * Half Life: Full Life Consequences
 * Anime:
 * Suzumiya Haruhi
 * Planetes (and for this I am eternally grateful.)
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Zipang
 * Excel Saga
 * Irresponsible Captain Tylor
 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * Kid Com (the entire genre, mostly via Getting Crap Past the Radar):
 * iCarly (along with adding dozens and dozens of tropes to the article)
 * Drake and Josh
 * Zoey101
 * Wizards of Waverly Place (which introduced me to the wonderful world of Brother-Sister Incest)
 * Life with Derek
 * Sonny With a Chance
 * The Suite Life On Deck
 * Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
 * Good Luck Charlie
 * Western Animation:
 * Kim Possible (along with adding hundreds of tropes to the article)
 * Clerks the Animated Series
 * Danny Phantom
 * Metalocalypse
 * Phineas and Ferb

User:Madness

 * The Belgariad
 * Discworld
 * The Dresden Files, and by extension Codex Alera
 * Good Omens, and by extension everything by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (including Discworld, as mentioned above)
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000, and by extension Riff Trax
 * That Guy With The Glasses - first The Nostalgia Critic, then Atop the Fourth Wall and The Spoony Experiment.
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Many webcomics, including:
 * A Miracle of Science
 * Folly and Innovation
 * Narbonic
 * No Rest for The Wicked
 * Slightly Damned
 * Zebra Girl

User:Major Tom

 * I first found Higurashi no Naku Koro ni through here.
 * As did Bunny Must Die
 * And I Wanna Be the Guy. (Still haven't beaten The Guy yet!)
 * Also several Web Comics most recently Brawl in the Family.

User:Malefix
I got here from the Super Smash Bros Wiki. The Star KO page had a link to A Twinkle in the Sky. I got gatewayed to:
 * El Goonish Shive - Mr. Exposition
 * Eversion - Darth Wiki
 * You Have to Burn The Rope - It's Easy, So It Sucks

User:Max 1099

 * How Not to Write A Novel
 * Kill Bill
 * Audition
 * Victorious
 * iCarly fanfiction
 * iCarly (yes in that order)
 * Trapped in the Closet
 * American Pie
 * Riff Trax
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * How I Met Your Mother
 * A Streetcar Named Desire (Hey STELLLA!)
 * Cracked.com
 * My Immortal (Well... about half of it anyway)
 * Babysitters Club fanfiction
 * Just fanfiction in general
 * The Secret Life of the American Teenager (Snark Bait)
 * Twilight (See above)
 * The Kiely Williams song "Spectacular"
 * Encyclopedia Dramatica
 * Video Brinquedo (*shudders*)

User:Medinoc

 * My list of Web Comics is too long to be duplicated here, see my contributor page if interested.
 * I discovered Mahou Sensei Negima here.
 * I never thought I'd be interested by anything related to Warhammer 40000, especially not tie-in material. Then I read here about Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!.
 * Which also led to my subsequent acquisition of the Dawn of War complete pack..
 * And my later acquisition of the tabletop game itself in early 2010.
 * Video games like Disgaea and Iji.
 * I discovered The Dresden Files here.
 * I offered the first Honor Harrington book to a Friend as a birthday gift after reading about it here. He bought all following books. ALL OF THEM.

User:Meikyu Butterfly
I just wanted to look up the lyrics to the latin chanting in "One Winged Angel". Google came up with the page on Ominous Latin Chanting. I laughed my guts out when I read it and decided that this is the best website ever. I found:
 * Eight Bit Theater
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Ansem Retort
 * Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series
 * My Inner Life * belch*
 * My Immortal * double belch*

... and a lot of other stuff I probably forgot.

~@/Mr. W~

 * Metroid
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Invader Zim
 * Several anime, pretty much renewed my interest in Japanese animation after Toonami went under (damn you, Cartoon Network!)

MrBadAxe

 * Babylon 5
 * The Stargate Verse - This actually helped me for a class I was taking. I had to write a paper for a class entitled Radiation and Life, about a radiation-related topic. I chose to analyze the SG-1 episode "Meridian", specifically how realistic the depiction of Daniel's radiation sickness was. They seem to have Shown Their Work. My paper got a 94.
 * Sailor Nothing
 * Mass Effect
 * Questionable Content
 * SCP Foundation
 * House
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender

User:Metal Shadow X
I originally came here when I was looking up story ideas for an RPG I wanted to make. Since then, I've decided to stay and scrap the RPG for a web novel (Unfortunately, I tend to stay on this site too often to work on it or by the time I have ideas I get Writer's Block). I know I'm missing a few, but these are just some examples of what the site helped me get into or at least had a hand in helping me get into.
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000, along with...
 * Riff Trax.
 * Sonichu. Thanks a lot for this one...
 * The Nostalgia Critic and That Guy With The Glasses as well as, by association, Atop the Fourth Wall and The Spoony Experiment. (Seeing the "final" battle on Cinemassacre didn't have me very interested, Team Four Star's addition got me a little curious, then I started going here and...)
 * One Piece. Lost touch in mid 2008, helped me get back into it a year later.
 * Metroid/Metroid Prime. At least partially.
 * Reinforced my curiosity of The Spectacular Spider-Man (I was not disappointed) and, eventually, Gargoyles.
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender, I think. If not, it helped a lot.
 * Monster. After several months of curiosity.
 * Team Fortress 2
 * Slayers
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Was exactly as awesome as the site made it sound.
 * Daria, which was helped by my then-recent interest in Beavis and Butthead.
 * Ghost Stories, while looking for a Gag Dub similar to like Shin Chan or Sgt Frog''.
 * Firefly. Finally got me with this one.

User:Molotov

 * System of a Down
 * Ah! My Goddess (this brought me to the below point)
 * Manga (thanks to the AMG anime courtesy of TV Tropes)
 * Mahou Sensei Negima
 * Full Metal Jacket
 * Warhammer 40000 WAAAGH!
 * Kanokon
 * Tropes
 * Devil May Cry
 * Sociology (because Tropers are an odd bunch)

User:Morkais Chosen
Much like Fighteer above, it's the webcomics for me, and I got in from Order of the Stick. It took me a while to catch up after a week away from the Tubes...

User:Mort 08

 * A Monster in Paris
 * Doctor Who
 * Phineas and Ferb

User:MS Adict
Mostly videogames, as that's what I do. But some other things as well...
 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Blaz Blue
 * Disgaea
 * Devil May Cry
 * Earthbound
 * Egregious
 * Guilty Gear
 * Kaizo Mario World
 * La Pucelle
 * My Immortal. I really, appreciate it.
 * Phoenix Wright
 * Samurai Warriors
 * Sengoku Basara
 * Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds

User:Mswordx 24

 * Collar 6
 * El Goonish Shive
 * Gastrophobia
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Homestar Runner
 * Homestuck
 * Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
 * Ménage à 3
 * Xkcd

User:thenameisbean

 * Baten Kaitos
 * Cave Story
 * Earthbound
 * Eversion
 * Firefly
 * La-Mulana
 * Marble Hornets
 * Mass Effect
 * Retsupurae
 * Xkcd

@/Ncfan

 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Black Lagoon
 * Bleach: I have since given it up, but I give credit to TV Tropes for showing me something that was at least cool for a while.
 * Code Geass
 * Doctor Who
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Head Trip
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * House of Leaves: I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I have the book on my book shelf and one of these days I will get around to reading it.
 * Justice League Crisis On Two Earths
 * Marble Hornets
 * Sinfest
 * A Softer World

User:Neo Eevee

 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. It's now my favorite Magical Girl show.
 * Mai-HiME
 * Nobody Dies
 * Countless fics on the Fanfic Recs pages.
 * I was probably gonna get into it anyway, but TV Tropes gave me the final push I needed to start playing Kingdom Hearts.
 * Soul Eater

User:Nettik

 * Harry Potter: After avoiding it like the plague, was inspired to read the entire series from this wiki.
 * Death Note: Had only heard of it in passing before.
 * Paranoia Agent
 * Invader Zim
 * Lucky Star: Isn't that a change of pace from the last few listed?
 * XKCD
 * My Immortal: Her eyes still hurt.
 * Azumanga Daioh: Now her favorite anime.
 * FLCL: Took over Azumanga Daioh as her favorite anime.

User:Nox Artemis
Series that I was re-introduced to via TV Tropes:
 * Berserk
 * Claymore
 * Doctor Who
 * Ergo Proxy
 * Monty Python

General:
 * Discworld
 * The Dresden Files
 * Gantz
 * Torchwood
 * Vinland Saga
 * Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest

User:Nyarly
A friend from a big German Anime/Manga-site introduced me to TV Tropes, to explain the terms Ensemble Darkhorse and Creator's Pet. I'm thankful that he did, because this may be one of the best sites ever. After all it introduced me to:
 * Yume Nikki, a current addiction of mine. Although now I have trouble sleeping. That's one of the best things, though.
 * Eversion
 * Xkcd
 * Kodomo No Jikan
 * The World Ends With You
 * Mirai Nikki
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * Dwarf Fortress
 * Spelunky
 * Elona
 * Seiklus
 * Maid RPG, yeah...
 * Sinfest
 * Katawa Shoujo
 * Franken Fran
 * Iji
 * Saints Row 2
 * Red Dead Redemption
 * Scribblenauts
 * When They Cry
 * Red Faction: Guerrilla
 * Vocaloid
 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * The Darkness
 * Hanamaru Kindergarten
 * Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
 * Demonophobia
 * Brawl in the Family
 * My Immortal
 * Thirty Hs
 * Touhou
 * Mother3
 * Bayonetta
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Bioshock


 * Scribblenauts: When I first saw it in the store, I didn't think much of it, and passed it by. Then I read some of the things you can do in it here, and that convinced me to get it.
 * Scribblenauts: When I first saw it in the store, I didn't think much of it, and passed it by. Then I read some of the things you can do in it here, and that convinced me to get it.


 * 1984, and many more Dystopia books as well.
 * Awkward Zombie
 * The Zombie Hunters
 * XKCD (though this one is a bit more murky. I knew about it beforehand, but I only started reading it regularly after I became a serious troper.
 * The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim
 * The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim

I want to see the following, but haven't gotten the chance yet:
 * Doctor Who
 * The Big Bang Theory

On a side note, after finding out I had a friend who was also a troper, we have tried getting our other friends to be tropers too. Sadly, I'm the one who has TV Tropes addiction the worst (the friend only having one year of trope addiction to my three), and as of now, the others don't get it. They don't understand...


 * Death Note
 * Dhux's Scar
 * Final Fantasy series
 * Kid Radd
 * Kingdom of Loathing
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
 * Raocow
 * The Reconstruction
 * I Miss the Sunrise
 * I Miss the Sunrise


 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Angel
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * Mass Effect
 * Thirty Hs
 * My Immortal
 * Bones
 * House of Leaves
 * Code Geass
 * Death Note
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Questionable Content
 * A Softer World
 * Anime in general.
 * Perfect Blue
 * Serial Experiments Lain
 * Fight Club
 * Fight Club


 * Daisy Is Dead
 * iCarly
 * The Maxx
 * Megas XLR
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Order of the Stick
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar
 * Ruby Gloom
 * Stubble Trouble - I actually discovered it on Deviant ART, but tvtropes got me hooked.
 * WITCH
 * WITCH


 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Angel
 * A Very Potter Musical
 * The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries
 * Skins
 * Being Human
 * The L Word
 * Forever Knight
 * Degrassi Junior High
 * Rosemary's Baby
 * A Nightmare on Elm Street
 * The Inbetweeners
 * Let the Right One In
 * Spring Awakening(haven't seen it yet, but I plan to.)
 * Dexter
 * Wizards of Waverly Place
 * Wicked
 * The Vampire Chronicles
 * Weeds
 * American Psycho
 * American Psycho


 * No Antidote: I'd heard about this fic before, and mostly about how dark it is. After finally reading it, I am happy to report that not only was it not as bad as I had thought, but it left me on a fairly optimistic note. Now I like to take some time every so often to browse the Fan Fic Recommendations page.
 * Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi: Before coming to this site, I'd never heard of this comic. It's a fun idea, and I now want to see how it ends. (Learning it was the inspiration for Fusion Fall was also a nice bonus.)
 * Sinners: A bit indirect with this one: It doesn't have its own page here, but if it hadn't been mentioned on Fetish Fuel, I never would have heard of it.
 * Sinfest: I'd never have thought a comic about succubi could warm my heart so much.
 * Sinfest: I'd never have thought a comic about succubi could warm my heart so much.

All sorts of stuff, especially webcomics, Freeware Games, and anime and manga of various flavors. But if there's one thing that makes up for the hours and hours of my life this place has sucked away, it's that it introduced me to Darker Than Black. Other highlights: And a lot more that aren't on my "All-Time Favorites" list. In return, I shall continue to spread the gospel of all of the above, as well as The Dresden Files, which despite my campaign of adding examples everywhere never seems to be on every trope list it should be.
 * ~D.Gray-man~
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Baccano
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Suzumiya Haruhi
 * When They Cry (Higurashi and Umineko no Naku Koro ni, the latter of which is now also providing at least half of my music)
 * Code Geass
 * Watchmen
 * Sandman
 * The Codex Alera
 * Warhammer 40000 stuff, particularly Ciaphas Cain
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Dwarf Fortress
 * Exit Fate and Last Scenario
 * Okami
 * Yume Nikki
 * Gunnerkrigg Court
 * Girl Genius
 * Schlock Mercenary
 * DMFA
 * Antihero for Hire
 * Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Shinji and Warhammer 40 K. As well as both the things that went into it...

User:Pokenatic

 * Doctor Who
 * Spice and Wolf
 * Aria
 * Maria Holic
 * Saki
 * Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
 * I Wanna Be the Guy

User:Princess Gwenevere

 * Yume Nikki (And a love for indy games.)
 * True Remembrance (And a love for Visual Novels)
 * That Guy With The Glasses
 * Good Omens
 * Ever 17 (Took me forever to find, download, and install that game, but totally worth it.)
 * Desu Des Brigade
 * Marble Hornets
 * The Birthday Massacre

User:Progeny Ex Machina

 * Avatar: The Last Airbender: I wasn't convinced by the commercials. I was by TV Tropes.
 * Ben Drowned: I had read the original Creepypasta, but had no idea there was more to it.
 * Fandom!Secrets
 * Firefly: After some zig-zagging.
 * The Half World
 * HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH: An inversion. As far as I'm aware, I was the first to mention this fic here on TV Tropes.
 * Marble Hornets: Erm...thanks?
 * Misfile
 * My Immortal: Which in turn got me hooked on the "genre", opening the gateway to other So Bad It's Good fics.
 * Portal
 * Questionable Content

User:Rat Of Steel

 * I Wanna Be the Guy - Curse you, Kayin, for making such an awesomely addictive game! Getting my ass repeatedly kicked torn apart, set on fire, then stomped into oblivion never felt so good.
 * My Immortal - * shudder* 
 * Questionable Content - Damn it, Faye. Just hook the hell up with Angus already!

User:Richard J

 * SCP Foundation - via the Nightmare Fuel page. Trust me, if you want to sleep anytime soon, don't start reading. You'll either be creeped out of your mind, or unable to stop reading the list (this happened to me, I even ended up writing a couple...)
 * The Salvation War - Best summed up by the tagline: 'When all Hell breaks loose on Earth, all Earth breaks loose on Hell'. If you didn't get that, the story involves a 21st Century army busting into Hell and blowing Satan and his armies apart. And then they go after the man upstairs.

User:Rpgingmaster

 * Super Robot Wars - I was already a fan. This wiki just made my passion for it go Over Nine Thousand.

User:Ryusui

 * Chrononauts: Someone posted a Chrononauts example in my Time Crash trope. I started doing my research and now I can't wait for December, when the new edition comes out. Until then, I'll have to be satisfied with Chrononauts PC.
 * Discworld: I had heard of it before TV Tropes, though I dare say TV Tropes was my incentive to start reading them. Hogfather was the last one I read, and with two more on the way in the near future, I better get back to catching up.
 * Franken Fran: I'll admit it: I usually avoid fansubs and scanslations like the plague. The words "Gratuitous Japanese" usually do not begin to describe them in my experience: by the time I'm done banging my head against all the translation notes, I begin to wonder what the point in calling it a translation was to begin with. This said, TV Tropes made me curious enough to give Franken Fran a look...plenty of Squick and Nightmare Fuel to go around, but good stuff in the absence of a translation of Pet Shop of Horrors that I can trust (that's right, Tokyopop's just as bad as the fansubbies IMHO).
 * Liar Game: Like Franken Fran, only with this series I'm silently raging at why no one's picked this excellent series up for the U.S. yet. Imagine Leverage (or perhaps more properly White Collar) meets the early volumes of Yu-Gi-Oh! with a bit of Death Note for flavor.

User:Rockonman
Music: Non-music stuffs: Things I have yet to check out, but I've heard about here:
 * E.S. Posthumus
 * Parov Stelar
 * Abney Park
 * Several others that I cannot quite recall.
 * Gone With the Blastwave
 * TV Tropes has reminded me how awesome Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was.
 * The Dionaea House
 * Metro 2033
 * Kingdom Hospital