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* [[Captain Obvious]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Captain_Obvious “Captain Obvious”]
* [[Captain Obvious]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Captain_Obvious “Captain Obvious”]
** And his arch-nemesis is [[Captain Oblivious]]!
** And his arch-nemesis is [[Captain Oblivious]]!
*[[Censorship Bureau]]: Wikia staff frequently deleted content that violated their terms of use, even if it was acceptable by the local community's standards. Eventually they decided this wasn't enough and [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom shut Uncyclopedia down entirely].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Fuck_fucking_fucked_fucker_fucking_fuckups_fuck_fucking_fucked_fucking_fuckup_fucking_fucker%27s_fuck This article] analyses a grammatically correct sentence consisting entirely of variations on the word “fuck”, in the same vein as [[wikipedia:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo|“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Fuck_fucking_fucked_fucker_fucking_fuckups_fuck_fucking_fucked_fucking_fuckup_fucking_fucker%27s_fuck This article] analyses a grammatically correct sentence consisting entirely of variations on the word “fuck”, in the same vein as [[wikipedia:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo|“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”]].
* [[Confusing Multiple Negatives]]: [http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Double_negative “Double negative”]
* [[Confusing Multiple Negatives]]: [http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Double_negative “Double negative”]
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Articles frequently show a biting, snide wit.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Articles frequently show a biting, snide wit.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Encyclopedia Dramatica makes these guys look like frickin' boy scouts.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Encyclopedia Dramatica makes these guys look like frickin' boy scouts.
*[[Fanon Discontinuity]]: The 2013 fork was created in order to move Uncyclopedia to different hosting. Many editors stayed with the original Wikia site, but that didn't stop fork supporters from claiming that "the community" had "moved" to the fork and it was [[No True Scotsman|the real Uncyclopedia]].
* [[Finger Gun]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Handgun Handgun]
* [[Finger Gun]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Handgun Handgun]
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]s: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/No_More_Room_In_Hell_Act “‘No More Room In Hell’ Act”]
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]s: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/No_More_Room_In_Hell_Act “‘No More Room In Hell’ Act”]

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The poor meme-ridden "comedy" website Uncyclopedia is the stuff of internet legend and infamy. The site which originated in 1860 is now a multi-national effort and is viewed as best the best of its kind by some. Uncyclopedia currently specializes in tedious mockery of perceived competitors and petty in-fighting, with much of the content viewed as mass-produced junk, however there remains a peculiar fondness for some of its articles by fanatics. The site has however been viewed as a waste of server space by its host the evil Wikia Empire.

The Other Wiki. No, the Other Other Wiki.

Affectionate Parody of Wikipedia that would like to be to wikis what The Onion is to newspapers. It advertises itself as the “content-free encyclopedia”.

Can be found here. The “good” articles (so judged by Uncyclopedia users) are listed here. It was originally hosted on Wikia (now Fandom) but moved to independent hosting in May 2019 when it was closed for violating Wikia policy. Some editors created a second independent version in January 2013, which can be found here.

The site's guidelines and rules are written in a truthful and non-satirical, but still humorous tone, the best example of which is “How To Be Funny and Not Just Stupid”.

International editions are notorious for sometimes creating new puns for their titles. Désencyclopedie (“discyclopedia”), the French version, has a pair of dice (“dés” in French) as logo, the Norwegian version is called Ikkepedia (“notpedia”), the Russian versions are Absurdopedia (here and here), the Spanish version is Inciclopedia [1] and the Danish version is called “Spademanns Leksikon”, a pun between respected Danish encyclopedia Lademanns Leksikon and “spade”, Danish slang for “retard”. In the Mandarin version, the name is still transliterated from Wikipedia, but the first word used here also means “fake”. Necyclopaedia, the Latin version, simply transposes the first two letters of “encyclopaedia”[2] to form the Latin word ne, “not”. The Italian version is called Nonciclopedia, basically the same pun as the original one. The Japanese version is called Ansaikuropedia, from the katakana rendering of Uncyclopedia and is notorious for such bashing of Seiyuu and Anime that in some occasions surpasses that of Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Let it be noted that TV Tropes listed them before they listed TV Tropes. And as far as we know, All The Tropes has so far escaped their notice.

Tropes used in Uncyclopedia include:
  1. (It was Frikipedia until a certain Spanish copyright organization did a massive legal bullying upon it, and its mantle was passed to Inciclopedia. For a while since then, both existed, but each one catered to different audiences.)
  2. archaic alternate spelling