Troper

See also: troper

English

Noun

Troper (plural Tropers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of troper (a contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes).
    • 2011 November 17, Suzan, “"Copacabana" TV Tropes page is up”, in alt.fan.barry-manilow[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 June 2025:
      As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!"
    • 2019, Rowan Elizabeth Arbuthnott Gardiner, quoting Troper Tales, “Positive and Neutral Attitudes”, in ‘Weeaboo Japanese’: Exploring English-Japanese Language-Mixing in Online Japanese Popular Culture Fandom[2], thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Philosophy in Linguistics, Auckland: Massey University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2025, chapter 4 (Results), section 2 (Language Attitudes), page 53:
      This Troper finds himself using [[Gintama]] “Zura ja nai, Katsurada!” as a swear, does this also count as a [[Gosh Darn It to Heck]]?
    • 2022, Rachel Lara van der Merwe, “Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 25, number 5, London: Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 595:
      Using substantial crowdsourced material, ‘Tropers’ on the popular fan wiki site, TV Tropes (2022), identify the ‘Amoral Afrikaner’ as a trope that traces back to apartheid-era South Africa, for example Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989.
    • [2022, Esther Grace Witte, Transfigurative Access and Journal-Keeping Practice: Theorizing Anti-Oppressive Rhetorical Scholarship[3], dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, archived from the original on 26 March 2025, page 53:
      Practitioners of this troping, or “anyone who contributes to [TV Tropes],” are called “Tropers.”]