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Pages that I created that I'm personally proud of:

• A Guide to Easy Launching of Your TLP (Originally, A Guide To Easy Launching Of Your YKTTW)
• List Of Shows That Need Summary (Inspired by the fact that I suck at writing summaries of fiction, and wanted an article for In Nomine and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (the latter because I wanted to know if it was worth seeing.))
• Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions (I didn't know what the difference between some tropes were, and wanted an article to explain such.)
• Tropey the Wonder Dog (The name wasn't mine, but I did write the description, which I am proud of)
• Playing With Wiki, along with the basic template thereof. (I figured that the old forum game was actually a better use of Wiki resources then Haiku-Wiki, after seeing Haiku-Wiki.)
• I provided the name for Grey-and-Gray Morality
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin (Inspired, IIRC, by Snakes on a Plane's strong draw of being such)
• Wrong Genre Savvy (Particularly inspired by a combination of a scene in Tales of MU and a character in The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents)
• A boatload of Laconic Wiki entries.
• Trope Codifier (Inspired by the fact that people were complaining that Dungeons & Dragons didn't qualify for the title of Trope Maker for the Standard Fantasy Setting, and yet it occupied a position equivalent to a a Trope Maker in the history of said meta-setting.)

Proud enough to take credit for having started (both YKTTW and launched), but not proud enough to feature in the list above, listed in random order:

• "What Now?" Ending (Inspired by Buffy and The Shield both having a bunch of these no-cliffhanger cliffhangers)
• Only in Florida
• Universal-Adaptor Cast (Originally, Commedia Dell Arte Troupe) (Inspired by some of the more bizarre variations in Ramna 1/2 AU fanfic I've seen)
• Fair-Play Whodunnit
• Loads and Loads of Races (Inspired by the Elder Scrolls and Warlords Battlecry series.)
• John Munch (As the trope says, it's his appearance in the French version of Law And Order Criminal Intent that tipped him over into a trope of his own.)
• Strawman Has a Point (Originally, The Strawman Strikes Back)
• Should We Have This? (I asked this frequently in my YKTT Ws.)
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
• Fashion Dissonance
• In-Universe Marketing
• So You Want To/Make A Joke About The So You Want To Namespace
• Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
• Villains Act, Heroes React
• Played for Drama
• Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
• Videogame Objectives (Originally, What Measure Is An Objective)
• Fishing Minigame
• Caustic Critic (As the original YKTTW states, the inspiration for this one was Zero Punctuation, which clearly had a parent genre of some kind.)
• Standard Fantasy Setting (Originally, ISO Standard Fantasy Setting)
• Ban on Politics
• Sympathetic Murderer (an obvious corollary to Asshole Victim)
• The Horde
• The Theorem Of Narrow Interests
• Discussed Trope (From what I recall, this was CSI's fault; in particular, their treatment of Arsenic in one episode.)
• Conspiracy Kitchen Sink (Inspired by Illuminatis and Deus Ex.)
• Video Game Difficulty Tropes (A spin-off of Classic Video Game "Screw You"s, when I realized that there wasn't an Index for difficulty.)
• Regenerating Shields, Static Health (I played Alpha Protocol and Borderlands relatively soon after one another, and realized we didn't have an article on this surprisingly common Health system.)
• The Man in the Mirror Talks Back (And yes, the name is a Michael Jackson reference.)
• Less Disturbing in Context
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context (The name came first for this one.)
• Example Sectionectomy (I had launched Pet-Peeve Trope, and noticed several other tropes that had "No Examples, Please")
• The Problem with Pen Island
• Entertainingly Wrong (Inspired by a fanfic, Inviolate, where Lex Luthor concludes that Bruce Wayne is backing Batman, but also assumes that Batman is Matches Malone)
• Decoy Trial (originally, Trial Of Somebody Besides The Defendant)
• The Gimmick
• Trope Grid
• Heel–Face Revolving Door (Inspired by Magneto.)
• Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness (In launching Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness, I noticed a gap in our sliding scales.)
• Zig-Zagging Trope (Inspired by an example in Asshole Victim that was both inverted and played straight.)
• Trans Gender Tropes (Mainly created so that there would be perfectly valid redirects at Transvestite Tropes and TG Tropes.)
• Obvious Crossover Method
• Audience Reactions (originally, Audience Reaction Tropes) (I noticed that there were tropes that weren't quite objective, and weren't quite subjective)
• Insane Troll Logic (Originally intended to act as a release valve for You Fail Logic Forever (Back when it was You Fail Logic Forever), which was preposterously large at the time.)
• Russian Roulette
• Franchise Original Sin
• Epic Riff (I noticed we were missing this. I take no responsibility for the sheer awfulness that the example section became, although in retrospect, a preemptive Example Sectionectomy would not have been amiss.)
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? (I noticed that "Did You Just Suck Off Cthulhu" in Tropes That Will Never Happen had enough examples that it could be a trope on its own, so I YKTT Wed it.)
• Difficulty Levels
• Stock Monster Symbolism
• Cool, but Stupid
• Grappling with Grappling Rules (Inspired by Darths & Droids coverage of the topic.)
• In Dex Machina
• Unreliable Expositor (Inspired in particular by the fact that the Batman Beyond example wasn't covered by Unreliable Narrator.)
• God Never Said That
• Bit-Part Bad Guys
• The Stations of the Canon (Inspired, as the description implies, by reading a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction. I think this one was particularly inspired by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and a fic called "School Spirit", both of which had very unusual Sorting Hat Scenes, and made me realize that there was a very particular formula to "different Harry Potter" fics.)
• Sliding Scale of Proactiveness
• Non-Malicious Monster (Inspired by King Kong.)
• Asshole Victim
• That One Rule (Inspired by realizing that Grappling with the Grappling Rules lacked a parent trope.)
• Adventure-Friendly World (Inspired by the realization that Warhammer is the way it is because of such considerations.)
• Audience Surrogate
• Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
• Classic Video Game "Screw You"s (Inspired by the realization that I Wanna Be The Guy was merely a listing of such developer dick moves.)
• The War on Straw (I noticed that we had a lot of tropes about Strawmen. The name is not mine.)
• Hypocrisy Nod
• Sliding Scale of Proactiveness
• Writers Suck (Inspired in particular by the CSI episode mentioned in the trope.)
  • Pot Holing of Writers Suck led to Bad Writing
• Basic Mystery Classes
• Trope Enjoyment Loophole (Inspired by the realization that As Good as It Gets was a case of Why Do You Hate The Dog, but that it avoids the usual pitfalls of that particularly Fridge Horror heavy trope.)
• Reimagining the Artifact (Not gonna lie: Inspired by the Battlestar Galactica reboot, mixed with Krypto The Superdog.)
• Vampire Detective Series (The trope was inspired by the realization that the then running show New Amsterdam qualified as such)
• Older Than the NES (I noticed we lacked an Oldest Ones in the Book index for video games, and sought to correct that.)
• Intended Audience Reaction (originally, They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste)

I've also launched but not YKTT Wed a few tropes:

• Greasy Spoon
• Orcus on His Throne
• Our Angels Are Different
• Two Dun It
• Stock Superhero Day Jobs
• Loads and Loads of Loading
• The Ishmael
• Unintentional Period Piece
• Omnicidal Neutral
• Third Movie Goes To Asia
• Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
• Long Title
• You Keep Using That Word