Have you perused Trope Overdosed and wondered what the page would look like if all works within a franchise were combined? Then you've come to the right place.
As on the main Trope Overdosed page, being Trope Overdosed indicates how popular a franchise is among The Contributors. However, how long a franchise has been around also has an effect; it's not hard to use a lot of tropes when you're a Long Runner.
See also Trope Kilowicked Franchises, for those franchises with 1000 to 1999 wicks.
The wick counts for anything comprising multiple works are the total number of wicks for that page, as seen in the "Related" tab, and each of its sub-works, all added together. The main page for a franchise (often in the "Franchise" namespace) will usually list all of the relevant works, so just add them all up.
Sub-works that are Trope Overdosed in their own right are listed in bullets a level lower than the primary works.
Listings here are alphabetical.
The ranking categories, summarized:
- Omnitroped — 64000+ wicks
- Trope Supersaturated — 32000-63999 wicks
- Trope Saturated — 16000-31999 wicks
- Trope Smothered — 8000-15999 wicks
- Trope Overloaded — 4000-7999 wicks
- Trope Overdosed — 2000-3999 wicks
- Trope Kilowicked — 1000-1999 wicks
Not to Be Confused with Cliché Storm or Troperiffic.
The list:
- Batman - Long Runner franchise about a Badass Normal superhero; spans multiple comic books, television series, movies, video games, etc.
- Robin: Overdosed.
- Robin: Overdosed. Tim Drake's ongoing series prior to Flashpoint.
- The Joker: Overloaded. Batman's iconic Monster Clown Arch-Enemy who has also been widely homaged and parodied.
- Batgirl: Overdosed.
- Batman (1966): Overdosed. Campy, comedic live-action 60s series; defined Batman for a generation.
- Batman Film Series: Overloaded. A series of four live-action films released from 1989 to 1997.
- The DC Animated Universe version: Smothered.
- Batman: The Animated Series: Overloaded. Defined Batman in the eyes of many, paved the road for many more mature Saturday Morning Cartoons, and helped start the DC Animated Universe.
- Batman Beyond: Overdosed. Sequel series to Batman: The Animated Series. Manages to cover completely separate sets of tropes thanks to the futuristic setting, younger character roster, and an almost completely new Rogues Gallery.
- Harley Quinn: Overdosed.
- The Dark Knight Trilogy: Overloaded. Highly regarded film series based on the character.
- The Dark Knight: Overdosed. The second film in the trilogy. Widely considered the greatest superhero film of all time and especially praised for its portrayal of the series' most iconic villain, The Joker.
- Batman: Arkham Series: Overloaded. Notable example of No Problem with Licensed Games.
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Overdosed.
- Robin: Overdosed.
- Star Trek - Long Runner sci-fi franchise about space exploration. Twelve series—three of which ran for seven seasons eachnote ; thirteen movies; and one of the most massive and internally consistent Expanded Universes in history, second only to Star Wars. The original series was a Trope Maker many times over, and the franchise as a whole is responsible for an astonishing number of trope titles. The Trekkie subculture is considered the first example of the modern Fandom. And it invented slash.
- Star Trek: The Original Series: Smothered. The show that started it all, segued into a film series which eventually got rebooted in 2009 with a younger cast.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: Smothered. One of TV's most well-regarded sci-fi series and arguably the one responsible for turning Star Trek into a bona fide cultural phenomenon.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Overloaded. The Oddball in the Series, it helped popularize more arc-based plots in later science fiction TV shows.
- Star Trek: Voyager: Overloaded.
- Star Trek: Enterprise: Overdosed.
- Kelvin Timeline Films: Overdosed. A Continuity Reboot of the Original Series set in an Alternate Timeline.
- Star Trek Expanded Universe Overloaded.
- Star Trek Novel 'Verse: Overdosed.
- Star Wars - One of the biggest media franchises of all time. Eleven movies made in Anachronic Order, an animated full-length feature and the Star Wars Expanded Universe all detailing the warfare of a galaxy far, far away, with hundreds of pages devoted to this one franchise.
- The film series: Saturated.
- A New Hope: Overloaded. The film that started it all, both the franchise and The Blockbuster Age of Hollywood.
- The Empire Strikes Back: Overdosed. The first sequel to A New Hope, and widely considered to be the pinnacle of the original trilogy.
- Return of the Jedi: Overdosed. The second sequel to A New Hope.
- The Phantom Menace: Overdosed.
- Revenge of the Sith: Overdosed.
- The Force Awakens: Overdosed.
- Star Wars Expanded Universe: Smothered. The current Expanded Universe that replaced Legends.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Overloaded. A popular CGI series covering the timegap between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith and averted the Animation Age Ghetto.
- Star Wars Rebels: Overdosed.
- Star Wars Legends: Saturated. A past Expanded Universe composed of two thousand different pieces of material fleshing out elements from the six films prior to Disney buying the rights to Star Wars.
- Knights of the Old Republic series: Overloaded.
- Knights of the Old Republic, the first game: Overdosed.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Overdosed.
- The film series: Saturated.
- Whoniverse: 35-season-long and consummate Trope Maker Doctor Who, and its adult-themed spinoff Torchwood and more child-friendly spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures, all of which spawned a whole expanded universe of material. Doctor Who in particular has novels, comic books, stage plays and audio plays on radio and CD, to ensure that some iteration of Doctor Who can cover all the tropes missed by the TV show. Additionally, tropers collectively speculate on the Time Lord nature of one or more characters in everything, ever.
- Doctor Who: Supersaturated. Being the longest-running TV science fiction series ever, as well as having the premise of a Human Alien and his companions travelling across all of time and space, has allowed the show to explore a vast variety of tropes.
- Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Overloaded.
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Overdosed. A vast, long-running series of Audio Plays that has surpassed the television series in total runtime.
- Torchwood: Overdosed.
- Final Fantasy - Trope-bustingly popular Eastern RPG series, with over a dozen games in the main series, each with a separate world and cast of characters.
- Final Fantasy IV: Overdosed.
- Final Fantasy VI: Overdosed. Considered the best 2D game in the series whose villain is often called the franchise's best.
- Compilation of Final Fantasy VII: Smothered.
- Final Fantasy VII: Overloaded. One of the most famous games ever made, playing a huge role in popularizing RPGs in the West. It also took the series into the Science Fantasy direction it has become best known for.
- Final Fantasy VIII: Overdosed.
- Final Fantasy X: Overdosed.
- Ivalice Alliance sub-series: Overloaded.
- Final Fantasy Tactics series: Overdosed.
- Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy sub-series: Overloaded.
- Final Fantasy XIII: Overdosed.
- Final Fantasy XIV: Overloaded.
- The Legend of Zelda - A long-running and very popular Video Game series about a young man's adventures in a magical European-styled fantasy world, with over a dozen titles, containing at least one Alternate Continuity, several manga as well, and is Trope Maker for many Video Game (especially game puzzle) tropes.
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Overdosed. The series' Video Game 3D Leap. The fact that it holds the Guinness World Record for the most well-reviewed video game in history should say something. Got a Video Game Remake for the Nintendo 3DS which, apart from updating the graphics and controls, slightly improving That One Level, and fixing a few Game Breaking Bugs, keeps the whole experience intact.
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Overdosed. Direct sequel to Ocarina of Time. Generally considered the darkest game in the series due primarily to its Just Before the End setting. Also has a different trope focus from the other games due to its more sidequest-heavy gameplay and its surreal Bizarro Universe setting.
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Overdosed. The game best remembered for its Cel Shading, its oceanic setting, and a plot that is much darker than its cheery aesthetics would lead one to believe. Its in-game backstory also set the stage for the "Split Timeline" that inspired so much Wild Mass Guessing for years.
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Overdosed. The game with perhaps the most intricate plot of any other in the series, designed as a trope-heavy refining of every aspect common to the series before. Was also one of the first games to make use of the unique controls of the Wii.
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Overdosed. Distant prequel to all the other games and the 25th anniversary Milestone Celebration that is packed with Call Forwards to its predecessors.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Overdosed. First fully open world game in the series taking place in an After the End version of Hyrule that lets you do anything in any order you want, including the Final Boss. It was also the very first game released for the Nintendo Switch.
- My Little Pony - A three decade-old Merchandise-Driven franchise about colorful talking ponies, aimed at little girls.
- My Little Pony (Generation 4): Supersaturated.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Saturated. The latest incarnation of the franchise, spearheaded by Lauren Faust. It has a notably large internet following that even influenced This Very Wiki.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Overdosed.
- My Little Pony (Generation 4): Supersaturated.
- Pokémon - Billion-dollar media franchise about a world filled with over 900 super-powered creatures, with multiple games and a long-running show (with over 20 movies and counting) and numerous manga.
- Pokémon Red and Blue: Overdosed. The first games in the series.
- The anime: Smothered. The Anime of the Game in which a boy and his Pikachu wanna be the very best like no one ever was. Most likely what put the franchise on the map.
- Pokémon Black and White: Overdosed. The 5th pair of games, notable for a plot involving a Decon-Recon Switch on many staple tropes of the series.
- Pokémon Sun and Moon: Overdosed.
- Sonic the Hedgehog - A long-running game series, several different animated series of varying degrees of success, a movie, and three comic book series about a free-spirited anthropomorphic hedgehog with Super-Speed.
- The comics: Overdosed.
- The Archie comics: Overdosed.
- The comics: Overdosed.
- Spider-Man - Franchise about a teenage superhero who gains spider-like powers. Multiple comic books, cartoons, movies and video games; Long Runner.
- The Comic: Overloaded.
- Venom: Overdosed.
- Spider-Man Trilogy: Overdosed.
- Superman - Really Long Runner, since he's one of the first superheroes, and one of the most profitable franchises in genre history; multiple comic books, television series and movies.
- The comics: Smothered.
- Lex Luthor: Overdosed.
- Supergirl: Smothered. Superman's Distaff Counterpart.
- Supergirl, the comics: Overloaded.
- Superman Film Series: Overdosed.
- Superman: The Animated Series: Overdosed.
- Smallville: Overloaded.
- Super Mario Bros. - Long-running, trope-making, popular platform game franchise about a short, mustachioed, Italian guy and his brother in the bizarre, magical world of the Mushroom Kingdom. Also has various spin offs that range across almost all the Video Game Genres you can call to mind.
- Donkey Kong: Overloaded. Video game series that is in a Shared Universe with the above Super Mario Bros., starring a gorilla in a tie. Consists of popular Platform Games and various Spin Offs.
- Donkey Kong Country series: Overdosed. Revival of the Donkey Kong brand that introduced unique allies, villains, and locations for DK, all depicted with detailed pre-rendered graphics. Helped put Rare on the map globally.
- Mario Kart: Overdosed. A spin-off series of racing games featuring the Mario characters.
- Wario Series: Overdosed. Video game franchise that shines a light on Mario's evil, fat and greedy counterpart. Consists of two subseries: a platformer and a party game collection.
- Paper Mario: Overloaded. Role-Playing Game Spin-Off titles known for their unique artstyle and more humorous Better than a Bare Bulb interpretation of the Mario universe, as well as two games that are much Darker and Edgier than any other Mario games.
- Mario & Luigi: Overdosed. A separate set of Role-Playing Game Spin-Off titles known for their wacky humor, a memorable recurring villain, giving the younger Mario Bro. a greater focus, and for one game that gave A Day in the Limelight to the overall franchise's Big Bad
- Super Mario Galaxy series: Overdosed. A pair of games that use their gravity-bending levels to produce wild new variations on many classic platforming tropes. They also have a surprisingly nuanced plot for a series of platformers best known for Excuse Plots.
- Donkey Kong: Overloaded. Video game series that is in a Shared Universe with the above Super Mario Bros., starring a gorilla in a tie. Consists of popular Platform Games and various Spin Offs.
- X-Men — multiple comic books, a film series, and three animated series about superpowered mutants, a Long Runner.
- The Comic: Overloaded.
- Wolverine: Overloaded.
- The animated series: Overdosed.
- Deadpool: Overloaded.
- Deadpool's comics: Overdosed.
- The Film Series: Smothered.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Franchise taking place in a Constructed World where some of the people have Elemental Powers. Pretty impressive for something started with a 3-season, 61-episode Nickelodeon TV show without that much in the way of supplementary material. Has a live-action adaptation, The Last Airbender; a Sequel Series, The Legend of Korra; and three concurrently published ongoing Interquel graphic novel trilogies: The Promise, The Search, and The Rift.
- The Original Show: Smothered.
- The Legend of Korra: Overloaded.
- The Avengers - Marvel's crossover Super Team.
- The Comic: Overloaded.
- The Avengers (2012): Overdosed. Hit superhero crossover film that popularized the idea of the heavily pre-planned Shared Universe in big budget cinema.
- Avengers: Infinity War: Overdosed.
- Avengers: Endgame: Overdosed. Second highest-grossing film of all time.
- Buffyverse - TV show about a teenage girl fighting all sorts of monsters. Notably influential in this website, which makes sense considering TV Tropes has its roots in Buffistas.org, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel community. Two shows, lasting from 1997-2004, each with a comic book continuation and the limited series Fray as well as a Spike spinoff comic.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Smothered.
- Angel: Overloaded.
- Classic Disney Shorts - One of the most well-known series of cartoons to take off from The Golden Age of Animation.
- Mickey Mouse: Overloaded.
- Mickey's cartoons: Overdosed.
- Donald Duck: Smothered.
- Donald's cartoons: Overdosed.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Overloaded.
- DuckTales: Overloaded. Popular animated series loosely based on the Duck comic books by Carl Barks and Don Rosa, starring Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
- DuckTales (1987): Overdosed.
- DuckTales (2017): Overdosed.
- Darkwing Duck: Overdosed.
- Goofy: Overdosed.
- Mickey Mouse: Overloaded.
- Discworld - Tons of books in a setting where Stories (and thus many tropes) are a law of nature.
- Dragon Ball - Old-school martial arts Science Fantasy manga. 500 episodes and manga chapters (not counting its Recut with 60+ more episodes), 16 animated theatrical films, 3 TV specials and a live action movie, with dozens of video games along with an MMO in the works.
- The manga: Smothered.
- Dragon Ball Z: Smothered.
- Dragon Ball Super: Overdosed.
- The manga: Smothered.
- Dungeons & Dragons - Ubiquitous Tabletop Game. A key Trope Maker with a lot of supplemental material.
- Forgotten Realms: Overloaded. The most popular setting for the game, partly due to the large amount of supplemental material created for it, partly due to the popularity of the character of Drizzt, and partly due to the two games below.
- Baldur's Gate: Overdosed.
- Neverwinter Nights: Overdosed.
- Forgotten Realms: Overloaded. The most popular setting for the game, partly due to the large amount of supplemental material created for it, partly due to the popularity of the character of Drizzt, and partly due to the two games below.
- Fire Emblem - Long running cult Turn-Based Strategy game by Nintendo featuring tactical war in a medieval setting; fourteen games spanning seven continuitiesnote , including a crossover with Shin Megami Tensei.
- Fire Emblem Elibe: Overdosed. The first continuity to be released outside Japan.
- Fire Emblem Tellius: Overdosed.
- Fire Emblem: Awakening: Overdosed.
- Fire Emblem Fates: Overdosed.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Overdosed.
- Gundam - Quintessential Humongous Mecha series. About forty years old at this point, running on and off that entire time. Multiple separate series as well, one of which hits an almost entirely separate set of tropes from all of the other ones.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Smothered.
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Overdosed.
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Overloaded.
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Overdosed.
- Harry Potter - Franchise about a boy wizard who attends a prestigious magic academy while searching for the man behind his parents' death. Seven books, eight films, some in-universe supplementary material and enough fans to make a billionaire out of their author. Revitalized the children's fiction market and codified 21st century fandom.
- James Bond - 24 official films, some books and video games dealing with a British special agent who has become the face of Spy Fiction.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - 8-Part manga that started in 1987 about a man named Jonathan Joestar and his descendants (whose names can all be abbreviated as JoJo) and their superpower-fueled adventures and struggles against a vampire named Dio Brando and his retinue. The third and most popular part, Stardust Crusaders, introduced the concept of Stands to the series, which has become a franchise mainstay. Two Ova adaptations of Part 3, an Anime covering Parts 1 and 2, and video game adaptations of Parts 3 and 5 as well as a pan-series game are also included.
- The manga: Smothered.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Overdosed.
- The manga: Smothered.
- Kamen Rider - Influential Tokusatsu series about a masked, vehicle-riding fighter. 40 years worth of shows and movies with only a break in the 90s.
- Looney Tunes - Iconic series of cartoon shorts. Over 1000 short subjects lasting from 1930 to 1969, tons of characters, dozens of TV projects, Long Runner, Cash-Cow Franchise, and nine feature length movies.
- The Original Shorts: Smothered.
- Bugs Bunny: Overdosed.
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Overdosed.
- The Original Shorts: Smothered.
- Mass Effect - A critically acclaimed and commercially successful Reconstructor Fleet of 70s and 80s sci-fi space operas, it merrily throws in tropes from outside the genre as well and has become incredibly popular over the past three years. Three main games, one spin-off game, three books, a comic series, and OVER 30 SUBPAGES before the third game was even released.
- Mass Effect 2: Overdosed.
- Mass Effect 3: Overdosed.
- Mega Man - Capcom's hit franchise about a blue humanoid robot. Multiple series and spinoffs, that like Transformers, have received separate pages for each continuity.
- The "Classic" series: Overloaded.
- The Mega Man X series: Overloaded.
- Metal Gear - (Metal Gear?) Multiple long, story-heavy games and oodles of spin-offs about military stealth operations featuring over-the-top characters, philosophical debates about war and a bunch of Mind Screw.
- Metal Gear Solid: Overdosed.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Overdosed.
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Overdosed.
- Nasuverse - A long-running Urban Fantasy Multiverse franchise of Visual Novels, Light Novels and their animated adaptations. Consists of Tsukihime and its spin-off fighting game; Fate/stay night, its prequel, sequel, and spin-offs; The Garden of Sinners; Angel Notes; and a couple of novels, remakes and adaptations.
- Fate Series: Smothered.
- Fate/stay night: Overloaded.
- Fate/Grand Order: Overloaded.
- Fate Series: Smothered.
- Power Rangers - Long Runner children's Sentai series. Costumed heroes fight different monsters every week. Helped by its nature. Each year, the cast, story, props, sets, and costumes (and all associated tropes) are scrapped and they start clean the next season, making it less like "one show" and more like "20+ separate but closely related shows". And yes, each of the seasons from Zeo on has its own individual page.
- Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Overdosed. The first season of the show and also the most iconic, adapted from the Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
- Pretty Cure - Troperiffic Magical Girl Warrior action series, with (thus far) 18 separate continuities over 20 seasons running since 2004, plus a series of crossover movies.
- Resident Evil - Survival Horror/Action Horror video game series involving bioengineered undead, originating on the PlayStation. Twelve main titles and more spinoffs.
- Shin Megami Tensei - Video game franchise that kicked off on the NES, as the video game adaptation of a novel, centering mostly on recruiting mythological figures to fight representatives of either order or chaos (or even both). Currently has multiple main games and countless spin-offs, with their own merchandise, sub-spin-offs, comic books, novels, TV shows, OVAs, and stage plays, including the Persona games. Also predated Pokémon as the creator of the Mons genre.
- The Base Series: Overdosed.
- Persona sub-series: Saturated.
- The Simpsons - The animated sitcom, created by Matt Groening. 31 seasons, 600+ episodes, a movie, comic books, some shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show and a lot of games and other merchandise.
- The Animated Series: Saturated.
- A Song of Ice and Fire - Doorstopper fantasy series. Focuses on a continental power struggle between several families. Five books released and seven planned in total. Now has two HBO adaptations.
- The book series: Overloaded.
- Game of Thrones: Smothered. A hit TV series based upon the books. What brought the franchise into mainstream pop culture.
- Super Sentai - Sentai show which Power Rangers borrows footage from.
- Tolkien's Legendarium - An important fantasy Trope Maker, published over a span of 70 years.
- The Hobbit - Overdosed.
- The Lord of the Rings: Smothered. One of the most important works of fantasy of all time, featuring a quest to destroy a powerful ring. Has a popular series of movies based on it and a TV show adapting its Appendices.
- The Film Trilogy: Overloaded.
- Transformers - Long Runner franchise about giant Transforming Mecha in an eons-long war. So many series that there is a Die Cast Herd used to divide continuities that have their own separate, unique pages.
- Transformers: Generation 1: Overloaded. The very first version of the franchise and the one with the biggest grip on pop culture. Subject to many adaptations, but the 1980s cartoon is the most fondly remembered.
- The Transformers: Overdosed. The first Animated Adaptation of the franchise; ran from 1984 to 1987 and also got a theatrical film in 1986.
- Beast Wars: Overdosed. One of the first examples of an All-CGI Cartoon TV series, it brought back the franchise after a long hiatus with a more thematically complex approach.
- Unicron Trilogy: Overdosed. A continuity consisting of three consecutive animated series: Armada, Energon, and Cybertron.
- Transformers Film Series: Overloaded. One of many Continuity Reboots, this one directed by Michael Bay. Famous for its visual effects and bringing the Transformers brand back in the public eye, though it was and remains controversial for being what many considered a mindless summer blockbuster filled with explosions and humans.
- Transformers: Animated: Overdosed. The Continuity Reboot after the first film. Despite initially causing cries of "Ruined Forever" for its stylized visual design, fans quickly grew to love it for its mature writing and numerous Continuity Nods.
- Transformers Aligned Universe: Overdosed.
- Transformers: Prime: Overdosed.
- Transformers: Generation 1: Overloaded. The very first version of the franchise and the one with the biggest grip on pop culture. Subject to many adaptations, but the 1980s cartoon is the most fondly remembered.
- Warhammer - A fantasy tabletop game that spawned a massive media franchise.
- Warhammer: Overloaded. The original, fantasy universe.
- Warhammer 40,000: Saturated. The Science Fantasy More Popular Spin Off franchise taking place in a grimdark universe where everybody is in war with each other. Including spinoff novels, tabletop and video games, no fewer than 30 of which have their own pages, and a character page. All of it trying to kill you in some fashion.
- Wonder Woman - The quintessential comic book female superhero with a long running oft retooled series of Comics, a TV series and several films to her name. Considered one of the "Big Three" for DC Comics alongside Superman and Batman.
- The Comics: Overloaded.
- Wonder Woman (1942): Overdosed.
- The Comics: Overloaded.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! - Card game marketed franchise that includes anime, manga, video games, and several spinoffs.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime: Overdosed. The Anime of the Game that like its rival, Pokemon, put the franchise on the map. Inspired the first Abridged Series.
- Ace Attorney - Courtroom Antics in Video Game form. 8 games and 2 musicals that have lots of Lampshading, Shout Outs, and general Mundane Made Awesome for a series about FRIKKING LAWYERS.
- Alien - Sci-fi franchise about killer alien monsters that were parodied and homaged in many later works. Five films, and among the related material a spinoff franchise.
- Aliens: Overdosed. The second film in the series.
- Assassin's Creed - Sci-Fi/Historical Fiction Conspiracy Thriller series of Wide-Open Sandbox third person stealth-based action games with numerous entries taking place in various time periods, normally involving of the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order.
- The Beatles - Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr sing many kinds of songs.
- The Bible - Older Than Feudalism religious text, the main text of the world's largest religion, and has inspired many Shout Outs, symbolism and Faux Symbolism in other works.
- Captain America - Another Golden Age superhero that's still going strong, with a long-awaited film adaptation.
- Castlevania - A long-running franchise about whip-wielding vampire slayers fighting Dracula and his armies that helped shape up the Metroidvania genre. Includes a reboot subseries and an animated Netflix adaptation.
- Classical Mythology - What we would call Greek, and eventually Roman mythology.
- Danganronpa - A series of Visual Novel murder mysteries centering on a group of students locked inside their high school by a sadistic teddy bear.
- Digimon - Franchise featuring digital Mons. Seven anime series and a separate film, five manga and at least thirty video games, almost all within their own Alternate Continuity, and all spawned from the Spear Counterpart of Tamagotchi.
- Digimon Adventure: Overloaded.
- Dragon Age - A computer RPG equivalent of a Doorstopper set in a Darker and Edgier (Deconstruction of the) Standard Fantasy Setting.
- Dragon Age: Origins - Overdosed.
- Dragon Age II - Overdosed.
- Dragon Age: Inquisition - Overdosed.
- The Elder Scrolls - A long-running Western RPG franchise renowned for its open-ended worlds and meticulous Worldbuilding. Has five official titles, numerous spinoffs, and a devoted modding community the creators have been very accommodating of.
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Overdosed. The Breakthrough Hit for the series and for Bethesda itself. Also the first game in the series (and the first Western RPG in a long time) to receive a Multi-Platform release (PC and XBox).
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Overdosed. One of the first games released in The Seventh Generation of Console Video Games, it marked a turning point in the popularity of Downloadable Content for big-budget games.
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Overloaded. Perhaps the most popular single-player game of the New Tens, it originally came out for The Seventh Generation of Console Video Games and later received an Updated Re-release to the Eighth Generation.
- Fallout - Long-running post-apocalyptic video game series. Four main games, two spinoffs, somehow lighthearted and dark all at once, and plenty of humor to spare.
- Fallout 3: Overdosed.
- Fallout: New Vegas: Overloaded.
- Fallout 4: Overdosed.
- Family Guy - Seth MacFarlane-created Un-Cancelled Long Runner Dom Com, and its plots go all over the place, with a hefty dose of Black Comedy and Cutaway Gags. Has a spin-off.
- The show: Smothered.
- Friday the 13th - Widely influential slasher movie series featuring a hockey mask-wearing, machete-wielding killer, includes 12 films, an unrelated TV series, some comics and games.
- Futurama - A satirical series taking place 1,000 years into the future. Lasted seven seasons, Uncancelled and picked up by another network ending in 2013 with hopes of coming back again, released four Direct-to-DVD films which also serve as the series fifth season, and made by the same guys behind The Simpsons.
- The series: Smothered.
- Godzilla - Long series of films about a gigantic, destructive monster (with some animated and comic book spinoffs), quintessential example of Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, both Trope Codifier and best-known work of the kaiju and tokusatsu genres, and one of the very first Japanese fiction franchises to become an international hit.
- MonsterVerse - Overdosed; American version of the franchise, which also brought in King Kong.
- Grand Theft Auto - Rockstar's long-running open world game series about American gang life, consisting of five main games and several spinoffs.
- Grand Theft Auto V: Overdosed.
- Half-Life - Valve's popular debut series, featuring a physicist fighting off alien creatures and revolutionary first-person gameplay. Also the basis for many mods, some of which have launched their own franchises.
- Half-Life 2: Overdosed. Critically-acclaimed sequel with two episodic expansions (and one more getting delayed AGAIN!note )
- Portal series: Overloaded. 2007 hit game and its sequel. Part of the Half-Life universe.
- Halo - Video game series about Space Marines facing an alliance of aliens in an interstellar war. One of the definitive first-person shooters of the new millennium, and the flagship series for Xbox Game Studios. Currently ten games (including the non-FPS ones) and counting, plus a vast Expanded Universe.
- The Incredible Hulk - Comic book character from Marvel Comics best known for his Super-Strength and Unstoppable Rage when pushed too far. Has several comic book series, two animated series, a live-action adaption, and some movies.
- The Comic: Overdosed.
- Iron Man - Tech billionaire builds a robotic suit to fight crime. Multiple comic books, animated series and movies; Long Runner.
- The Comic: Overdosed.
- The Film trilogy: Overloaded.
- Justice League of America - DC Universe's crossover Super Team series composed of some animated adaptations, some video games and a movie.
- The Animated Series: Overloaded.
- Kingdom Hearts - Disney Animated Canon/Square Enix mega crossover video game series featuring several Disney stars and Square Enix originals battling the forces of evil. Currently consists of ten video games (including three numbered entries and seven supplementary titles; almost all of which have been remastered or re-released at least once) and nearly a dozen manga adaptations.
- Kingdom Hearts II: Overdosed.
- Kirby - A Badass Adorable Waddling Head swallows his foes, screws things up, and defeats untold horrors before the day is over.
- Land of Oz - Works dealing with a fantastical world of talking scarecrows, tin men, lions and witches, among other incredible things. A franchise that began as a book series by L. Frank Baum, originating at the turn of the 20th century. The first book is more remembered as a classic 1939 film.
- The original book series: Overdosed.
- The Wizard of Oz: Overdosed. The 1939 film that everyone's seen.
- Metroid - Science fiction adventure game series which both made and codified the Metroidvania genre. Famous for that person in the Powered Armor being a girl, which was quite the twist back then. Consists of eleven games.
- Metroid Prime Trilogy - Overdosed. Video Game 3D Leap and Gaiden Game subseries of the franchise that combines Action-Adventure with First-Person Shooter.
- The Mighty Thor- Long-running comic book character based on the Norse god of Thunder, has a film series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- The comics: Overdosed.
- The film series: Overloaded.
- Mortal Kombat - Fighting game known for its brutality, use of Xtreme Kool Letterz and running neck-to-neck with Street Fighter in America.
- The Muppets - Long-running puppet franchise, with many, many, many, many, many TV series, and several film adaptations.
- Sesame Street: Overloaded. An educational show that has been running for 45+ years.
- The original show: Overloaded.
- The movies: Overdosed.
- Sesame Street: Overloaded. An educational show that has been running for 45+ years.
- Naruto - Shonen manga about a Highly-Visible Ninja trying to become the leader of his village.
- The Manga: Smothered.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion - The Deconstructor Fleet of Humongous Mecha anime. Most of them are from the original 26 episode series and the End of Evangelion movie. There's also a long-running manga and four planned Rebuild movies. And lots of other adaptations.
- The Original Anime Overloaded.
- One Piece - Shonen manga about adventuring pirates. Over 900 manga chapters, 800 TV episodes, and thirteen movies as of this writing. Long Runner, since its first publication on Shonen Jump was in 1997.
- The Manga: Smothered.
- Sailor Moon - Probably the best-known Magical Girl series in the West. Schoolgirls transform into planet-themed warriors to fight against aliens and the innocent humans they corrupt into monsters every week. Its anime adaptation ran for five seasons (spanning 6 arcs), though not everyone got to see all five. Also 3 movies and 6 specials. Also the original manga spanning 5 arcs. Also adapted into a live-action series and 29 different stage musicals and a number of video games including an RPG. Also the prequel manga, Codename: Sailor V.
- The original anime: Overdosed.
- Scooby-Doo - Long-running franchise featuring four teenagers and their dog investigating mystery cases.
- Sherlock Holmes - The Trope Codifier for the Great Detective.
- The original stories: Overdosed.
- Sherlock: Overdosed.
- South Park - Famously rude and offensive adult cartoon Long Runner initially animated with paper cutouts starring foul-mouthed 8-year-olds.
- The original cartoon: Overloaded.
- Spongebob Squarepants - Long Runner children's show about a fast food frycook sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea. Nickelodeon's Cash-Cow Franchise that drew a sizable Periphery Demographic and had a hit film, a second and equally-popular one in 2015, and is still going strong despite complaints of Seasonal Rot.
- The original cartoon series: Overloaded.
- Stargate-verse - Science Fiction series about humanity utilizing an ancient alien device for intergalactic travel. Consists of four series and three movies.
- Stargate SG-1: Overloaded. Ran for 10 seasons, the longest-running sci-fi show in US history.
- Stargate Atlantis: Overdosed.
- Steven Universe - A Cartoon Network original created by Rebecca Sugar about the adventures of the titular character, a half-human, half gem along with his three guardians known as the Crystal Gems, Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst.
- The original cartoon: Smothered.
- Street Fighter - Famous fighting game series involving National Stereotypes, best known for the second game and its various additions. Important Trope Maker and Codifier.
- Supernatural - Cult hit TV show about a pair of supernatural event-investigating brothers with fifteen seasons and two series of supplemental comics, about eleven tie-in novels, and a monster guide.
- Super Robot Wars - Turn Based Strategy Game Crossover series of many a Mecha anime, with original characters thrown in. Long Runner but with licensing problems in the US.
- Super Smash Bros. - Video Game Massive Multiplayer Crossover of numerous Nintendo franchises (and later, Sega, Konami, Bandai Namco, Square Enix (and Disney), Platinum Games, Atlus, Microsoft, Capcom and SNK). Paved the way for future Mascot Fighters and codified the Platform Fighter.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Overdosed. The sixth game in the series (fifth if you don't count Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U as two separate games) and the one with the most content; notable for bringing back all the fighters that were featured in previous games.
- The Tales Series - JRPG series that always starts off with a massive list of cliches before dismantling them all in the most brutal and downright terrifying ways possible. The colourful graphics mean they're for kids!
- Tales of Symphonia: Overdosed.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - A long-running comic-turned-multimedia empire about a quartet of crime-fighting mutant turtles, consisting of the several comics series, three animated cartoon shows, seven films, a live-action TV series that neither the creators nor the fans like to talk about, and a series of Video Games.
- Teen Titans - Comic book series about teenage superheroes that was adapted as an Animesque animated series, which was in turn adapted twice: as a movie and a comic book of its own.
- The Teen Titans (2003) Animated Series: Overloaded.
- The Young Justice (2010) Animated Series: Overdosed.
- Terminator - Six films and a short-lived TV spinoff focusing on the time travelling battles of humans against SkeleBot 9000 machines. Notable for featuring the most iconic role for action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Overdosed. The even-more-successful second film in the series.
- Warcraft - A franchise of three strategy games, the MMORPG and other stuff. Involves a fantastical war between humans and orcs, with several other fantasy races being involved as well. Has a total of twenty-four articles about official works set in the universe on the wiki right now.
- The original games: Overdosed. A trilogy of popular Real-Time Strategy games from which the franchise was born.
- World of Warcraft: Overloaded. The 800-pound gorilla of the MMORPG scene, and by far the most popular one out there today.
- The World of Darkness — White Wolf's flagship series of Horror themed Tabletop Games.
- The World of Darkness (aka "Old" or "Classic" World of Darkness): Overloaded. A long-running series of Tabletop Games with two computer game spinoffs.
- Vampire: The Masquerade: Overdosed.
- Chronicles of Darkness (aka "New" World of Darkness): Overloaded. A series of horror-themed Tabletop Games, loosely similar to but separate from the Old World of Darkness.
- The World of Darkness (aka "Old" or "Classic" World of Darkness): Overloaded. A long-running series of Tabletop Games with two computer game spinoffs.
- WWE - Company that brought Professional Wrestling to the masses through its TV shows, including Raw, SmackDown and NXT, and its annual Pay Per Views such as WrestleMania.
- YouTube - The most popular video-sharing site on the web.
- Adventure Time - Troperiffic Cartoon Network original with a rather big cult following about two heroes named Jake the Dog and Finn the Human going on wacky, yet sometimes deep and disturbing adventures; was on the air from 2010 to 2018 with ten seasons. Also has a sequel miniseries in Adventure Time: Distant Lands and a comic book series published by KaBOOM! Comics.
- The Animated Series: Overloaded.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Classic novel about a girl and her adventures through the land of Mind Screw. Has countless adaptations and reinterpretations, including an animated feature film, two live-action ones, two Darker and Edgier games, among others.
- The original novels: Overdosed.
- Animaniacs - A popular 1990s throwback to the likes of the Looney Tunes.
- Arabian Nights - Collection of stories and Fairy Tales drawn mostly from Middle-Eastern sources.
- Aladdin: Overloaded. Classic tale about a Street Urchin who finds a Genie in a Bottle.
- Aladdin: Overloaded. Disney's take on an Older Than Radio fairy tale from the Arabian Nights became a box-office hit in 1992. Spawned two sequels, The Return of Jafar and The King of Thieves, as well as an animated series, and a live-action remake.
- The first Disney film: Overdosed.
- Aladdin: Overloaded. Classic tale about a Street Urchin who finds a Genie in a Bottle.
- Archie Comics - Comic series about a teenage boy and his friends.
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Overdosed.
- Arthurian Legend: Most famous example of Chivalric Romance, and a major influence on later Medieval European Fantasy.
- Attack on Titan - Popular manga and anime series about a group of humans battling against monstrous giants with significant analysis of human struggle. Initially had fairly meager success until 2011.
- The manga: Overdosed.
- Babylon 5 - A 90s Sci-Fi show that ran for five seasons, took the use of the Story Arc to a new level and is the Trope Namer for Wham Episode.
- Back to the Future - Successful '80s Time Travel franchise, with three movies, an Animated Adaptation and an adventure game series.
- Battlestar Galactica - Three different series about a fleet of human survivors in space, the third of which ran for over four seasons; also has a prequel series.
- Battlestar Galactica (2003): Overdosed.
- Ben 10 - A story about a young boy who finds himself with the Omnitrix, a watch that just happens to be able to turn him into different aliens. Has spawned numerous movies and three sequel series about the now teenage Ben.
- BioShock - A popular First-Person Shooter series in which concepts of certain ideologies get dissected.
- BlazBlue - Spiritual Successor to the almost as popular Guilty Gear-Fighting Game series, featuring characters that are just as over-the-top, if not more.
- Bleach - Shonen manga about a teenager who becomes a Shinigami. More than 500 chapters of manga, 366 episodes of anime, several movies, and more or less every character trope in existence.
- The Manga: Overloaded.
- Borderlands - A series of humorous sci-fi First Person Shooters with over a bazillion guns.
- Borderlands 2: Overdosed.
- Breaking Bad - TV Drama about drug trafficking that redefined the Anti-Hero and is cited by many to be one of the best shows of all time. Through its five-season run, it utilized, deconstructed, exploited, and subverted every trope it could.
- The show: Overloaded.
- Call of Duty - The archetypal military shooter video game series. Runs neck-and-neck with Halo as the defining FPS franchise of the 00s thanks to the Modern Warfare sub-series. Ten games in total.
- Modern Warfare: Overdosed.
- Capcom vs.
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Overdosed. The best-known series of Capcom vs. crossover fighting games.
- Cheers Popular Sitcom taking place entirely within a neighborhood's bar.
- Frasier: Overdosed.
- Code Geass - An exiled prince leads a revolutionary coup against the Alternate Universe version of the United Kingdom. What would you expect from a show that's best described as "Gundam + Death Note?" It's so fantastically Troperiffic that we had to give the main character a Character page all to himself!
- The anime: Overloaded.
- Command & Conquer
- Community - An Ensemble Cast Sitcom that is very self aware of tropes.
- Conan the Barbarian - The brutal adventures of a Barbarian Hero. The most iconic creation of Robert E. Howard, Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for much of Sword and Sorcery genre.
- The Cosmere
- The Stormlight Archive series: Overdosed.
- Crash Bandicoot - The platforming franchise detailing the escapades of an escaped orange mutant marsupial as he works to foil the schemes of his creator, the diabolical Dr. Neo Cortex.
- CSI-verse - CSI (a Long Runner about forensic investigations), CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and two expanded universe series (Without a Trace and Cold Case).
- Dark Souls - Dark Fantasy video game series infamous for its brutal, unforgiving difficulty that codified the Souls-like RPG genre.
- Death Note - a popular shonen manga about a teenager who finds a notebook that allows him to kill whoever he wants, its equally popular anime adaptation, and three live-action movies.
- The Manga and Anime: Overloaded.
- Devil May Cry - Hack and Slash Action-Adventure Video Game Franchise with five main installments about a half-demon demon slayer.
- Disgaea - Netherworld inhabitants have wacky adventures. Four Strategy RPGs, two Platformers, a visual novel, and an anime series that all enjoy playing with and lampshading tropes.
- Disney Channel Live-Action Universe: A shared universe of Kid Com series aired by Disney Channel that have a similar format.
- Doom - A first-person shooter series about a space marine shooting up demons after Hell invades Phobos and later Earth; often cited as the codifier of the first-person shooter genre.
- The original game: Overdosed.
- Dragon Quest - Inventor of the Eastern RPG-genre, Long Runner.
- The Dresden Files - A very consciously Troperiffic series that takes Urban Fantasy to its logical conclusion, featuring wizards, detectives and modern-day Chicago.
- El Goonish Shive - A Troperiffic Transformation Webcomic that's been running for over two decades.
- The Fairly OddParents! - Nickelodeon series about an average kid who no-one understands having misadventures with his wishing-granting Fairy Companions. A Long Runner, second only to SpongeBob as Nickelodeon's most successful franchise.
- The TV series: Overloaded.
- Fairy Tail - Highly successful, long-running manga series about a guild of magicians and their various adventures.
- The original manga: Overdosed.
- Fantastic Four - A long-running comic book about a team of four superpowered individuals that has been adapted into several films and animated series.
- The Original Comic: Overdosed.
- Firefly - A series that's only 14 episodes, a movie and a few comics.
- The Flash - Highly influential superhero best known for his Super-Speed.
- The Flash (2014): Overdosed.
- Frankenstein - Classic story about scientist giving life to an abomination. A pioneering work in what would later be called Science Fiction, the Trope Codifier for the Mad Scientist, and the Trope Maker for Frankenstein's Monster.
- Friends - Acclaimed sitcom, ran for 10 years.
- Frozen: A princess with ice powers has to One of the most highly-acclaimed and successful animated films of the past few years, let alone from Disney. Is the highest-grossing animated film of all time and the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in general, gaining $1.3 billion.
- The first film: Overdosed.
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Shonen manga set in a world where alchemy (material transmutation) is practiced. One manga, two different anime, and a few videogames for good measure.
- The Manga and Brotherhood: Overloaded.
- Garfield - Long-running newspaper comic about a snarky cat and his lose owner that has since evolved into a multimedia empire. Spawned two animated shows, two live-action movies, and a handful of games.
- The comic strip: Overdosed.
- Genshin Impact
- Ghostbusters - A group of scientists save New York by hunting for ghosts and other demonic entities. A staple of The '80s. The franchise has three movies, two cartoon adaptations and a video game.
- G.I. Joe - A long-running Merchandise-Driven franchise about a special military force, spawning some animated shows and a couple of live-action films.
- Gravity Falls - An animated series from Disney Channel and Disney XD about a pair of twins uncovering the mysteries of a small town over the summer. Noted for its large Periphery Demographic.
- The series: Overloaded.
- Green Arrow - DC superhero best known for codifying the idea of archer superheroes.
- Arrow: Overdosed.
- Green Lantern - Comic book superhero with a ring that can materialize anything through Hard Light. Has been around since the golden age (Though the characters most associated with the comic debuted in the Silver Age).
- The comics: Overdosed.
- Guardians of the Galaxy - The space adventures and battles of Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- The first movie: Overdosed.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A comedy science fiction series about space travel that has been adapted into just about every medium there is.
- The Books: Overdosed.
- Homestar Runner - Eccentric Flash animated series with famous Fourth-Wall Mail Slot spinoff show with over 200 episodes and a ton of further spinoffs from that. Created in 2000, went on hiatus between 2009 and 2014, and has sporadically updated since then.
- The Web Series: Overdosed.
- Indiana Jones - An Adventurer Archaeologist hunts for long-lost artifacts, occasionally fighting off Nazis and other evil organizations. Four films (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), a short-lived TV spinoff, several video game spinoffs and adaptations
- JAG
- NCIS: Overdosed. A very popular military-themed crime show with a lot of Recurring Characters. A Spin-Off from JAG, going strong since 2003
- Jurassic Park - Two science fiction novels that in turn resulted in a very well-known series of films and some spinoff video games. Possibly the most popular work of fiction devoted to dinosaurs.
- Kim Possible - A Fiery Redhead Action Girl, her blond male sidekick, and a Voice with an Internet Connection. They fight crime. And Lampshade everything whilst they do.
- The original show: Overdosed.
- Law & Order - Concluded crime and punishment series, lasting 20 seasons, survived by various spinoffs.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Overdosed.
- League of Legends - The most played video game in the world and one of the most well-known entries in the MOBA genre.
- The original game: Overdosed.
- LEGO - Extremely popular and Long Running Danish toy franchise of connectable bricks that have entertained three generations of children and spawned numerous Video Game and Animated adaptions.
- BIONICLE - Overdosed. LEGO's Merchandise-Driven Science Fantasy toyline, powered by Rule of Cool and surprisingly in-depth Worldbuilding. A Long Runner which spanned a good decade before passing the torch and eventually getting rebooted.
- The Lion King: Hamlet, but with lions and other African animal species. Disney's biggest box-office hit. Spawned two sequels, a remake, some games, a non-canon TV spinoff, and a Broadway musical that is still running to this day.
- The original film: Overdosed.
- The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a mermaid who falls in love with a human prince, and 1989's Disney Animated Canon adaptation that kickstarted the Disney Renaissance, which led to its own animated TV series.
- The first Disney film: Overdosed.
- Lost - Screwy genre busting show on ABC that lasted six seasons about survivors of a plane crash on a magical island, known for its flashbacks, flashforwards and flashsideways and giving psychic nosebleeds to both viewers and characters.
- Lyrical Nanoha - A long-running Magical Girl franchise with four anime installments, two manga installments and numerous side materials. Loves playing with tropes from multiple genres.
- Macross - Long-running mech anime franchise, with many successful spinoff titles to its name.
- Magic: The Gathering - Long-running Collectible Card Game that's used just about every fantasy trope in the book by now.
- The card game: Overdosed.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe - The most famous modern-day example of a Shared Universe, bridging together various Marvel characters under a single timeline. Also the highest grossing movie franchise of all time.
- The Matrix - Turns out everything is a simulation, so those who know the truth must fight for freedom against the machines enslaving them as well as their diabolical A.I agent. Three Mind Screws of movies, an animated spinoff, and some games.
- The Matrix - Overdosed.
- Mazinger Z: Classic Humongous Mecha anime show. It is Super Robot Genre Trope Namer, Trope Maker, Trope Codifier AND Genre Popularizer. Forty-year-old Long Runner.
- Monty Python
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: Overdosed. A British surrealist sketch comedy show that, although it only lasted four years, made quite an impact in humour.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Overdosed.
- Mother - Eastern RPG Cult Classic trilogy by Shigesato Itoi. Known for strange humor, simplistic cartoony graphics, and endings that range from sad to terrifying.
- EarthBound (1994): Overdosed. The first game of the series that made it out of Japan (Nintendo finally released MOTHER 1/Earthbound Beginnings in 2015), known for the aforementioned strange humor and a Final Boss battle that is so iconic that it could very well fill a whole work page by itself.
- MS Paint Adventures - Collective group of webcomics by Andrew Hussie, known for their updating schedules, creative universes and strange blends of both genre and medium. Includes Problem Sleuth and Homestuck, the latter of which already having gone through around 5,000 updates and is overdosed on its own. Is currently the Internet's largest webcomic in terms of sheer update count.
- Homestuck: Overloaded. The current, unspeakably popular installment in the franchise.
- My Hero Academia - Manga series about a powerless high-school student earning a superpower from his idol in order to get into his dream Superhero School.
- The original manga and anime: Overloaded.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Cult Classic TV Show, with its main focus on skewering bad movies. Popularized a new brand of "film criticism as entertainment." Continues to be a major influence on online video review shows.
- Negima! - Multiple series, most tropes coming from the manga, which is incredibly Troperiffic and loves playing around with almost everything.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Overdosed.
- Nick Verse
- The Order of the Stick - With over 1100 strips (not counting stories unique to the print collections), based off of D&D, with a Genre Savvy Quirky Bard in the party and a board game based on it, it has earned its position on the list.
- Peanuts - An unlucky boy and his circle of friends, including his intellectual dog. The most popular comic strip of all time, and one of the true icons of worldwide 20th century pop culture.
- The comic strip: Overdosed.
- Phineas and Ferb - Disney Channel Animated Series about two boys using their summer vacation to do the impossible, their teenage sister who runs herself ragged trying to bust them, and their pet platypus who is a secret agent repeatedly thwarting a Mad Scientist Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. Earned its fame through likable characters, a love of lampshading, and catchy Musical Numbers Once an Episode.
- Pink Floyd - Progressive Rock band that helped the Concept Album really take off.
- Pirates of the Caribbean - Five extremely popular movies starring an eccentric, roguish pirate captain. Not bad for something based on a Disney theme park ride.
- The Powerpuff Girls - One of Cartoon Network's most popular shows. Stars Cute Bruiser Flying Brick triplets created with sugar, spice, everything nice, and Chemical X who fight crime.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica - A deconstruction of the Magical Girl challenge, and the first original series by Studio SHAFT. Although with only twelve episodes, it also produced a manga adaptation and three spin-off manga. Two compilation movies were released, and a third will be released as a sequel.
- The anime: Overdosed.
- Ratchet & Clank: A lombax with a wrench joins forces with a little robot and goes around beating stuff with weapons.
- Robin Hood - Legendary heroic outlaw that has been adapted over and over.
- RWBY - An Animesque CGI series produced by Rooster Teeth starring a group of four Action Girls fighting the evil plaguing their world. Created by the late Monty Oum.
- The original series: Overloaded.
- Saturday Night Live - A long running sketch comedy show.
- Shrek - Fractured Fairy Tale franchise about an ogre that helped Dreamworks Animation become a major competitor in the feature-length animation field and also convinced Hollywood studios that the All-CGI Cartoon was the only feasible future for animation.
- Silent Hill - A series of psychological horror games that helped define Survival Horror, with some of the worst imagery the medium has ever seen.
- Splatoon - A third-person shooter where fashionable teenage anthropomorphic cephalopods known as Inklings and Octolings, who can transform into squids and octopi (respectively), participate in colorful ink-based battles for fun. The first game was a surprise hit for the otherwise commercially-unsuccessful Wii U, and has since spawned, among other things, two sequels and three manga (including one of the same name).
- StarCraft - World-renowned real time strategy game series from the creators of Warcraft, set in a science fiction world. Notable for being an early pioneer in competitive online multiplayer, for having some of the most carefully-tuned Competitive Balance in the industry, and for having a thriving Professional Gaming scene (especially in South Korea).
- StarCraft II: Overdosed.
- Team Fortress 2 - Crazy multiplayer FPS filled with over-the-top espionage assassins from the minds behind Half-Life. Updated frequently since 2007, and features quite a bit of supplemental material.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Troperiffic Reconstructor Fleet for the Super Robot genre that increases more times than it's possible to count.
- Tom Clancy: An author whose name is now owned by Ubisoft. A spate of books, films, and games have been released under his name, many of them (even in his lifetime) without his involvement.
- Total Drama - Popular Canadian animated series parodying Survivor-style reality shows and teen dramas. Has two spinoffs.
- Touhou Project - The archetypal Bullet Hell franchise. With a cast of over 80 cute girls, their relative distinctions cover all sorts of tropes.
- Toy Story - Toys have adventures, unbeknownst to their human owners. The Cash-Cow Franchise for Pixar, it ushered in a new era of computer-generated animation. The four films have almost universal acclaim, with the third one breaking box-office records.
- The Twilight Saga - Girl falls in love with a sparkling vampire. Four books and five films.
- The Twilight Zone - The Trope Codifier for the Genre Anthology, using tales of the fantastic to examine the human condition. Began with a single show in 1959 and was followed up with remakes, a movie, and several spinoffs.
- The original 1959 series: Overloaded.
- Ultra Series - Long-running Japanese Kaiju/Superhero Tokusatsu franchise from the special effects team of the Godzilla movies. Hugely popular and influential in its home country. Consists of numerous TV shows, a bunch of movies, manga, video games, and various merchandise. Has the Guinness World Record for most spinoffs.
- Undertale - A Mother-inspired RPG by Toby Fox. Notable for both its Deconstruction Game qualities and its large cast of quirky characters.
- The Walking Dead - A Zombie Apocalypse franchise notable for focusing less on the zombies and more on how their presence affects the psychological and social well-being of the survivors.
- The TV series: Overdosed.
- Watchmen - Acclaimed graphic novel that helped create The Dark Age of Comic Books, had a film adaptation and inspired a TV show.
- The graphic novel: Overdosed.
- When They Cry - A series of four Visual Novels and their various adaptations (manga for each arc, manga arcs made for the manga, multiple seasons of anime and OVAs, remakes on various consoles, new arcs on consoles, spinoff games..) which involve people dying over and over again while the protagonists figure out the driving forces behind the murders.
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Overdosed.
- Wikipedia - The Other Wiki.
- The X-Files - Long Running American Sci-Fi series. Defined The '90s. Is the Trope Namer for Shipping.
- The original series: Overloaded.
- 24 - A hit TV series notable for taking place in nearly real-time.
- Ace Combat - Combat flight video game series.
- The Amazing World of Gumball - Long-running Cartoon Network series that aired from 2011 to 2019 with six seasons, known for its extreme usage of Medium Blending.
- American Dad! - Quietly Performing Sister Show to Family Guy initially made for political satire, but eventually became more character-driven.
- Amphibia
- The Angry Video Game Nerd Famous Caustic Critic who reviews shitty video games that suck ass.
- Animal Crossing - Life simulation game series set in a small countryside town populated by various quirky Funny Animals.
- Animorphs - Popular series of children's books from the nineties, originally published from 1996 to 2001. A group of kids and their alien friend utilize guerilla tactics and animal shapeshifting powers to tackle an enemy Alien Invasion.
- The original books: Overdosed.
- Ant-Man - The most famous example of the Incredible Shrinking Man in comics.
- Aquaman - The Nature Hero, who protects his kingdom, Atlantis, from aquatic supervillains. His powers are infamously perceived as situational.
- Archive of Our Own - Website primarily for hosting fanfiction.
- Arrested Development - Cult Sitcom about a Big, Screwed-Up Family.
- Arrowverse - Live action superhero universe based on DC Comics.
- Arsène Lupin - The Gentleman Thief and his many exploits.
- Lupin III: Overdosed. Extremely influential manga series about a Gentleman Thief who is the grandson of Arsène Lupin with multiple anime and film adaptations.
- Arthur - Long-running animated Edutainment Show about an anthropomorphic aardvark named Arthur and his various experiences in life. Has 200+ episodes spread over 20+ seasons.
- The show: Overdosed.
- Asterix - Long-running Franco-Belgian comic series set in the time of the Roman Republic about the adventures of a Gaulish warrior and his Fat...er, Big-Boned Best Friend.
- Atop the Fourth Wall - Popular web series based around a snarky and eccentric nerd named Linkara reviewing terrible comics.
- Austin Powers - Trilogy of spy movie spoofs, and discussing tropes of the genre helps all the entries.
- Banjo-Kazooie - A video game series that is centered on the eponymous bear-and-bird duo's adventures to defeat the evil witch Gruntilda. The series is one of Rare's most popular properties and started with a game on the Nintendo 64 in the late 90's.
- Barbie - The world's most well-known doll. Star of 20+ movies, several TV shows, and releasing dolls since 1959.
- The movies: Overdosed.
- BattleTech
- Bayonetta
- Beauty and the Beast: Overdosed. Disney's take on the classic French fairy tale.
- Beavis and Butt-Head: MTV cartoon from the creator of King of the Hill known for its crude humor and the extreme controversy surrounding the eponymous idiot teenagers' actions. Also has a spinoff
- BEMANI
- Berserk- Long-Running Dark Fantasy manga about a warrior named Guts who seeks to kill a man named Griffith who betrayed and sacrificed their mercenary unit in order to become a Godhand. Adaptations include a 1997-98 TV anime, videogames in 1999 2004 and 2016, a 2012-13 anime Movie trilogy, another TV anime in summer 2016. The manga itself is noted for its artwork, graphic violence, and irregular updating schedule.
- The Big Bang Theory - Popular CBS sitcom about four nerds and the Girl Next Door.
- Blackadder
- Black Panther - Famous comic book superhero that protects his utopian homeland of Wakanda in Africa.
- Blade Runner - Initially unsuccessful but highly influential sci-fi adaptation, got related works and a sequel.
- Bojack Horseman - Critically acclaimed Netflix-created animated dramedy about a washed-up Funny Animal actor. Ran for 6 seasons.
- Bones
- David Bowie - British musician with a long and varied career.
- Calvin and Hobbes - Popular newspaper comic about a boy and his stuffed tiger and known for its mixing of comic episodes and philosophical musings that are surprisingly complex for something made in a medium dominated by gag-a-day works.
- The Camp Half-Blood Series - Popular fantasy series of novels by Rick Riordan featuring characters from Classical Mythology in the modern world, as well as their various demigod children.
- Cars - Film series about living automobiles.
- Case Closed - Long running series about a teenage detective transformed into a Kid Detective.
- Castle (2009)
- A Certain Magical Index - Light Novel series with an anime adaption focusing on a teenager with Anti-Magic powers. Has several Spin-Off series.
- Channel Awesome
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl's famous book about a boy who wins a trip to an unusual chocolate-making factory and meets its eccentric owner. Has a sequel and many adaptations, notably the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
- Charmed (1998) - Urban Fantasy series about a trio of witch sisters living in San Francisco while vanquishng demons. Also features personal relationship drama, Rhymes on a Dime, Fanservice, and much CGI.
- A Christmas Carol - Timeless story about a grumpy miser who's visited by ghosts during Christmas night.
- The Chronicles of Narnia - Fantasy literature series about a magical world found inside a wardrobe, with seven books. Has had a Television Serial and several film adaptations to its name.
- Chrono Trigger - A popular, critically-acclaimed RPG by Square which involves Time Travel. Produced a spinoff visual novel, and in turn a well-received, but polarizing sequel.
- Cinderella - One of the oldest known stories, with countless adaptations about the same mistreated stepdaughter who gets the chance to be a glass slipper-wearing princess for one night at the royal ball.
- Civilization - Turn-based strategy game series in which players command and develop certain historical civilizations on a macro-scale from prehistory up to the near future.
- Codename: Kids Next Door - A popular Cartoon Network show about a secret organization of children fighting for freedom against their adult oppressors. Ran from 2002 to 2008 for six seasons.
- Cowboy Bebop
- Cracked
- Criminal Minds
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Critical Role
- Cthulhu Mythos - The collective series of Cosmic Horror Stories written H. P. Lovecraft and several others often featuring horrific and incomprehensible godlike alien beings.
- The Daily Show
- Danny Phantom - Nickelodeon's first action series about a teenage boy who gains ghostly powers after a Freak Lab Accident. Lasted three seasons.
- Daredevil - Comic book superhero who fights crime in New York through his Super-Senses.
- Daredevil (2015): Overdosed.
- The DCU - A comic book superhero universe consisting of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and host of others.
- Dead Rising - Some unlucky bastard has to fight through hordes of zombies, while unearthing the truth behind said zombies.
- Dead Space - Survival Horror taking after Resident Evil 4, BUT IN SPACE.
- DEATH BATTLE! - Web series that pits popular video game, comic book, and cartoon characters against seach other to see who would win a hypothetical battle.
- Deus Ex Universe - A critically acclaimed stealth FPS series with RPG elements set in a dystopian future.
- Dexter's Laboratory - One of Cartoon Network's first original series, starring a genius boy and his annoying sister. Also had segments featuring other characters who shared the same universe.
- Diablo - A popular and influential series of action RPGs by Blizzard Entertainment.
- Die Hard - Landmark action movie franchise staring Bruce Willis and five entries with a sixth one in production.
- Disney Theme Parks
- Doctor Strange - Superhero wizard who goes into interdimensional adventures.
- Doraemon - A multimedia franchise that began as a manga and then turned into a highly-popular and long-running anime, revolving around a robot cat who gives a boy a variety of gadgets to keep his life from becoming crummy.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged - Popular online Abridged Series of Dragon Ball Z. Notable for having Call-Back heavy humor and very few cases of Breaking the Fourth Wall.
- Dragon Slayer
- Trails Series: Overdosed.
- Drakengard: Subversive RPG series, known for its dark atmosphere and multiple endings. Includes the Nier games.
- Dune - Long-running space opera novel series.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy - Cartoon Network's longest running original series focusing on the slapstick-filled misadventures of a Comic Trio of misfit boys.
- ER
- Evil Dead
- Exalted - A Troperiffic Fantasy Kitchen Sink about super-powered demigods, with a large helping of Rule of Cool.
- Far Cry
- Farscape - An Australian produced Sci-Fi series, managed to avoid getting cancelled long enough to produce a wide array of genre tropes.
- Fist of the North Star - 1983 manga and accompanying anime that serves as the Trope Maker for many Shōnen fighting series cliches. Plot concerns a martial artist named Kenshiro as he wanders about a Post Apocalyptic wasteland making people explode by striking their Pressure Points. Franchise also includes a novel, seven spinoff Manga, two spinoff Anime, six Movies, a three part OVA series, and numerous Video Games.
- Five Nights at Freddy's Widely successful franchise about evil, cursed/haunted/defective restaurant animatronics. Popular in Let's Play.
- The Flintstones - Classic 60s animated series set in prehistoric times that paved the way for Prime Time Cartoons in America. Has several spinoffs, including a live-action film, a comic series, and several other animated shows. Also the longest-running Western Animation series until The Simpsons surpassed them in 1997.
- Frank Zappa
- Gargoyles - A short-lived Disney cartoon, but its main villain had such an impact a couple of tropes were named after him.
- Ghost in the Shell - Based on the famous manga series that spawned two movies and a 52 episode anime- itself followed by another movie (and spawned another manga), with a live-action adaptation released in 2017. Codified many tropes for Cyberpunk anime. Was a big influence on The Matrix.
- Girl Genius - Gaslamp Fantasy Webcomic about Mad Scientists and the winner of three Hugo Awards
- Glee - A musical dramedy revolving around the members of a school glee club, which ran for six seasons.
- The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola's legendary 1972 adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel about a powerful Mafia family's rise and near fall from power has been referenced numerous times and has greatly influenced pop culture.
- God of War - Popular video game series for the PlayStation best described as Classical Mythology meets Rated M for Manly, dealing with the struggles of a spartan warrior as he revolts against the heavens.
- Golden Sun - An RPG with a teenager with Elemental Powers going on a quest to save the world and rescue his Damsel in Distress. Has several sequels.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Guilty Gear - Fighting game series with loads of heavy metal Shout Outs and gratuitous amounts of Rule of Cool.
- GURPS - Popular Tabletop RPG standing for Generic Universal Role Playing System, which sums it up pretty well as there is no set universe for the series.
- Halloween
- Hamlet: One of William Shakespeare's most famous plays, with dozens upon dozens of adaptations.
- Hannibal Lecter
- Happy Days
- Haruhi Suzumiya - Twelve Light Novels and an internationally-acclaimed anime; has no one clearly-defined genre and highly Genre Savvy protagonists who make a business of lampshading everything.
- Harvest Moon - Farm Life Sim series that deals with farm production and care, marriage and family-making. Later games in the series are called Story of Seasons.
- Hellaverse - the Shared Universe of Vivienne Medrano's Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. Also includes supplementary webcomics and songs.
- Hellboy - Popular comic book series about an Anti Anti Christ working for an organization of paranormal investigators. Has received several adaptations into other mediums.
- Hellsing - Manga series about an epynomous secret organization in England headed by the great-granddaughter of Arthur van Helsing that hunts vampires using an even stronger vampire. Also has a Thirteen Episode Anime and a 10 episode OVA.
- Hercule Poirot: A famous detective created by Agatha Christie.
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Heroes - Superhero show with four seasons (in the guise of five volumes), and a lot of characters to fit into 44 minutes.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers - A webcomic, manga, and anime series describing the history of the world with Anthropomorphic Personifications of various countries.
- Hey Arnold! - A popular Slice of Life cartoon with tons of characters (nearly all of which get at least one episode focusing on them), many cultural references, and interesting takes on common children's show tropes.
- Highlander - A long-running Historical and Urban Fantasy franchise about a race of immortals in a constant duel to the death with each other.
- Hitman - Video game series about a Professional Killer.
- House - Mystery show, starring a curmudgeonly, crippled doctor who investigates and solves diseases instead of crimes. Ran for 8 seasons.
- How I Met Your Mother - A late 2000s sitcom, probably the closest things to Friends since Friends.
- How to Train Your Dragon - DreamWorks Animation's loose Animated Adaptation of a series of books about Vikings who domesticate and ride various species of dragons.
- The Hunger Games - Best-selling book trilogy where youngsters have to fight to the death in a battle royale. Adapted into even more successful movies.
- The Incredibles - A superpowered family attempts to adapt to a society where superheroes were sued into illegality.
- Inuyasha - Long-running manga series about the adventures of a half-youkai, half-human boy, his human (girl)friend from modern-day Japan and their group of companions, with an equally long-running anime adaptation. The anime became infamous for overtaking the manga and being Cut Short without a proper resolution. It has since been re-aired and resolved once the manga finally finished.
- The manga: Overdosed.
- Invader Zim - Short-lived animated series from Nickelodeon that quickly gained a massive following for its twisted sense of humour. Has a comic series too.
- Jak and Daxter - Platforming games revolving around the hazardous adventures of a blond-haired boy and his formerly-human ottsel sidekick.
- Jaws - Film series about a huge shark who eats beach-goers, leaving the local authorities stumped about what to do. Popularized the concept of the summer blockbuster.
- Judge Dredd
- The Jungle Book (Disney)
- The Kedabory Verse - Series of fanfictions written by NoonboryKedabory.
- King Kong - Classic film about a giant gorilla from a prehistoric island who is brought to New York and goes on a rampage in search of the woman he loves. Has received several remakes and a few adaptations into other mediums.
- The King of Fighters
- King of the Hill - Long-running animated series from FOX created by Mike Judge about the life and times of propane salesman Hank Hill as well as his friends and family. Known for its very down-to-earth nature.
- Kung Fu Panda - Animated film series about a gluttonous panda trying to become a kung fu master.
- Left 4 Dead - From the makers of Half-Life, one of the first video games to truly capture the feel of the Zombie genre, includes co-op play and has a sequel with a host of new characters and settings.
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Leverage
- Like a Dragon
- Lilo & Stitch - Animated franchise about a Hawaiian girl who bonds with an alien experiment she adopted as ʻohana. Most of the sequels and spin-offs tend to focus more on the alien, with three major works separating him from her and having him bond with other humans elsewhere on Earth.
- Living Dead Series
- The Loud House - Popular Nickelodeon cartoon about the only boy in a family with 11 children. Became the network's biggest animated hit since Avatar: The Last Airbender and is known to have beaten Nickelodeon's most famous series SpongeBob SquarePants in ratings upon premiering.
- MAD
- Madagascar - Animated film series from DreamWorks about the adventures of a group of escaped zoo animals. Some of the side characters were so popular they ended up getting their own spinoffs.
- Mad Max
- Madou Monogatari
- Puyo Puyo: Overdosed.
- Marvel Universe - Long time rival of The DCU. Features Spider-Man, X-Men, The Avengers and other super hero franchises.
- M*A*S*H - A acclaimed '70s dramedy about the Korean War, the TV adaptation of which ran for eleven seasons and has enjoyed a continued shelf life via reruns.
- The TV series: Overdosed.
- Masters of the Universe - Well known toy franchise from the '80s by Mattel combining fantasy and science fiction. Has multiple cartoon adaptions as well as a live-action film.
- Men in Black - Franchise about a secret FBI-like organization that is responsible for maintaining peace and order on Earth, which is secretly inhabited by various alien migrants, good and bad.
- Michael Jackson - The King of Pop, the definitive artist of The '80s, the artist behind the bestselling album of all time, and one of the most successful and beloved artists in music history.
- The musician: Overdosed.
- Minecraft - Extremely popular indie sandbox game; the highest-selling video game of all time.
- Miraculous Ladybug - Cartoon show where ladybug-themed heroine and her cat-themed love interest/sidekick save Paris from civilians corrupted by a moth-themed supervillain.
- Mission: Impossible - Spy television show with a few remakes, along with inspiring the Tom Cruise-starring film series.
- Monkey Island - A popular 1990s comedy adventure game series by LucasArts, which has seen a 2009 revival by Telltale Games and two Updated Rereleases.
- Monsters, Inc. - Film series about the everyday lives of the monsters living in your wardrobe.
- Ms. Marvel
- The Mummy
- A Nightmare on Elm Street - One of the most iconic Slasher series, centering on a claw-wielding serial killer who can invade people's dream and kill them there.
- No More Heroes - Hack and Slash video game series. Otaku assassin wants to be the best at his job, so he has to fight other assassins.
- Norse Mythology
- The Nostalgia Critic - A Caustic Critic reviewing bad films from his and the audience's childhood; paved way for a popular website.
- The Office (UK) and The Office (US) - Famous British workplace Sitcom and its even more famous American remake.
- Once Upon a Time
- Overwatch- Literal Hero Shooter series, with a colorful cast of gun-toting heroes and villains.
- The Owl House
- Pac-Man - Maze Game wherein a circular character tries to clear the stage while avoiding ghosts. Unprecedently important to video games. Also received several platformers and two animated adaptations.
- Pathfinder - The tabletop roleplaying game rival of Dungeons & Dragons, borrowing the latter game's 3rd edition rules and creating its own unique and expansive setting.
- Person of Interest
- Peter Pan
- Phantasy Star: An iconic Long Runner Science Fantasy video game franchise.
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Planet of the Apes - Science fiction series about a world where apes rule and humans are treated as animals.
- Predator
- Elvis Presley - The King of Rock and Roll.
- Prince of Persia - An "Arabian Nights" Days video game series known as an early pioneer in the Cinematic Platformer genre.
- The Princess Bride
- The Punisher - Marvel's Darker and Edgier take on Super Heroes as well as one of their most reliable Cash Cows telling the story of a Vietnam veteran that becomes a Vigilante Man after his family dies in a Mafia hit gone wrong.
- The comics: Overdosed.
- Queen - British rock band known for their flamboyant frontman Freddie Mercury and iconic songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You". They formed in the 1970's and produced 16 albums.
- The Railway Series
- Ranma ½
- Rapunzel - Classic fairy tale about a princess who's trapped in a tower and must use her ridiculously long hair to let her hero in.
- Tangled: Overdosed.
- Red Dead
- Red Dwarf - Cult mainstream comedy show from Britain set on a mining vessel.
- The TV series: Overdosed.
- Red vs. Blue - A Halo-based comedy/dramedy machinima that helped the genre become mainstream. Created by Rooster Teeth, it has gone through 18 seasons so far.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show - Hit animated series from Nickelodeon about a psychotic chihuahua and a stupid cat responsible for popularizing the Grossout Show trent and resurrecting creator-driven animation.
- Rick and Morty - Cartoon about a genius Jerkass scientist and his stupid grandson traveling to different dimensions and galaxies in order to have subversive (and sometimes thought-provoking) adventures.
- The animated series: Overdosed.
- RoboCop - Classic Cyberpunk film about a murdered police officer who is resurrected as a crime-fighting machine trying to regain his humanity. Had two sequels, various TV series, video games, comics, and a remake in 2014.
- Robot Series
- Rocky
- The Rolling Stones - One of the definite rock n' roll bands, active since the 1960s.
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Romeo and Juliet - One of William Shakespeare's most famous plays.
- Rugrats - The adventures of the baby Tommy Pickles and his toddler gang. One of the first cartoons to come out of Nickelodeon, and quickly became one of their most famous, spawning multiple films and videos games as well as similar adaptations and merchandise.
- The original cartoon: Overdosed.
- RuPaul's Drag Race
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Saint Seiya
- Saints Row
- Samurai Jack - Popular Cartoon Network action series centering around a Samurai flung into a Bad Future. Originally ran for 4 seasons, and eventually got a Darker and Edgier fifth season in 2017.
- The animated series: Overdosed.
- The Sandman (1989)
- Saw
- Schlock Mercenary
- SCP Foundation - This wiki site serves as a collection of fictional stories about supernaturally anomalous objects in the format of quasi-scientific reports.
- Scrubs - Medical dramedy known for its Imagine Spots. Lasted nine seasons on two channels.
- Seinfeld - Sitcom about nothing, poking fun at social conventions through a selfish core cast.
- Shazam!
- The Shining
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Overdosed.
- The Sims
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Slender Man Mythos - Perhaps the most iconic Creepypasta creation of all.
- Sluggy Freelance - One of the longest of Long Runner, a Web Comic about a Five-Man Band and two animals trying to find a fulfilling life.
- Sly Cooper - A series of platformers chronicling the many heists of raccoon thief Sly Cooper and his associates.
- The Smurfs
- Snow White
- The Sopranos
- The TV series: Overdosed.
- Soul Eater - Two mangas, an anime, and three video games. Fans pushing for a second anime.
- Soul Series
- The Space Odyssey Series
- Spyro the Dragon - A series of 3D platformers about a juvenile purple dragon and his gem-collecting dragonfly sidekick Sparx.
- Star Fox - Shoot 'Em Up starring anthropomorphic animal mercenaries in space. A long-running Nintendo franchise consisting of seven games.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Cartoon starring a teenage Magical Girl princess from another dimension and her foreign exchange host.
- Suikoden
- Sword Art Online
- Tarzan
- Tekken - One of Bandai-Namco's most successful gaming franchises that helped popularize 3D fighting games.
- Tenchi Muyo!
- Tintin - Popular Franco-Belgian comic series that ran from 1929 to 1976, featuring a courageous young Belgian reporter and his various globe-trekking adventures.
- Tomb Raider - Indiana Jones-inspired video games, except starring an Action Girl.
- Tom and Jerry - Long Runner cartoon featuring plenty of Slapstick between anthropomorphized cat and mouse.
- Tortall Universe - Several sets of fantasy novels all set in the same world.
- TRON - Franchise best known for its iconic visualization of Cyberspace and for being one of the first films to make extensive use of CGI technology.
- Turning Red - Pixar animated film about a Chinese-Canadian teen who poofs into a giant red panda when she feels strong emotions. Was overdosed within a year of release and is the only film here without sequels.
- TV Tropes: This very wiki.
- Ultima - One of the earliest Role-Playing Game franchises, best known for setting the first standards for the genre.
- Uncharted
- Universal Horror
- The Vampire Chronicles
- The Venture Brothers - An [adult swim] original cartoon. Began as a Deconstruction of the "Youth Adventure" (think Jonny Quest) and "Costumed Heroes/Villains" genres, but eventually grew into something more, always keeping its Dark Humor throughout.
- The View Askewniverse
- Vocaloid
- Walkyverse
- Warrior Cats - Childrens' book series about talking cats known for its violence and gigantic amount of characters.
- The books: Overdosed.
- WCW - Now-defunct wrestling promotion which was popular in the 1990s.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic - Popular parody musician who has had a career spanning over 40 years.
- The West Wing
- The Whateley Universe - For a relatively obscure Web Serial Novel series, WU has an astounding number of wicks, mainly because most of the authors are tropers themselves. Subject of a notorious instance of entry pimping, before a page for the series was created.
- The Wheel of Time - Long Runner fantasy book series.
- Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Overdosed.
- Winnie the Pooh - Beloved children's series by A. A. Milne. It began with a single book but rapidly expanded beyond that thanks to Disney's marketing.
- The Wire
- The Witcher
- Wolfenstein
- Worm
- Wreck-It Ralph - Disney animated film duology about a video game villain who is tired of the disrespect brought on by his role. Both films feature many setpieces based on video games and later, the internet.
- X-COM - Longrunner Turn-Based Strategy game franchise about an elite military force that attempts to fight back against an Alien Invasion. Has spawned multiple spinoffs and Spiritual Successors
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series - A comedic take on the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime; popularized The Abridged Series.
- YuYu Hakusho