What Does This Mean?
The work, character, person or phrase from which a trope takes its name. Example: Chekhov's Gun is named after the playwright Anton Chekhov, who is credited with the advice behind it.
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""Chekhov is the Trope Namer for Chekhov's Gun, though the idea was not widely popularised by his plays.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The term is TV Tropes vocabulary, used when a trope has a title derived from a particular source. It is distinct from the Trope Codifier, the work that fixed or popularised the pattern, which may be a different work (see the existing entry for Trope Codifier). Wikipedia's TV Tropes article describes the site and its contributor community; the sources opened do not document a dated first use of "Trope Namer" itself.
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