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Wow. This series is awesome! Maybe it has a [[TV Tropes]] page!
 
Yeah. And-- WowAnd—Wow! Looks like everyone-- Aliceeveryone—Alice, Bob, Carol, even that Lurker Zeke has added an edit or two! And this is only a few episodes into the first season!
 
You are witnessing a show in [['''Troper Critical Mass]]'''. A whole mass of us turning to add to a show, [[Trope]] or other wiki page. This is the [[Wiki Magic]] writ large, when interest, dedication and focus all hit at once, and a page just grows.
 
This doesn't just happen to currently in progress works, either. An old book or show can ride to sudden prominence and attain the mass. A [[Vitalizing Edit]] may cause fans to realize a favourite show [[Needs More Love]] indeed. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]] might mean every detail of a ''coming'' work that gets leaked to be gobbled up and added to the mass. What counts is the burst of interest and activity that sends a work's/ trope's examples count from a short list to a suddenly comprehensive one.
 
Note that trying to ''engineer'' a [['''Troper Critical Mass]]''' is rather hard. You have to cultivate the desired interest, keep people involved, and prevent them from drifting. Given that controlling any notable group of people, let alone Tropers requires... well, [[Bizarre and Improbable Giraffe Herding Techniques]], it's best to just ride the wave.
 
However, some decent [[Troper]] attraction methods include: being [[Troperiffic]], having particularly [[Genre Savvy]] characters, or basically giving us lots and lots of material to write about. [[Averted Trope|Averted Tropes]]s and [[Subverted Trope|Subverted Tropes]]s also helps. [[Deconstruction]] helps ''greatly''. Tropers love those.
 
A sustained period under [['''Troper Critical Mass]]''' can rapidly put something in the [[Trope Overdosed]] ranks. The mass can be broken/ turned to [[Accentuate the Negative]] if things go sour in a work-- saywork—say, [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]] or you realize [[The Chris Carter Effect]] has kicked in.
 
Needless to say, it's going to have a lot of [[Wick|wickswick]]s... not to mention a massive number of [[Spoiler|spoilersspoiler]]s, to the point where we occasionally just stop hiding them because [[It Was His Sled|every Troper who visits the page has heard about them]].
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