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Troper

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FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: TV Tropes VocabularyCLUSTER: fandom_trope_terms

A contributor to, or regular reader of, the wiki TV Tropes, which catalogs storytelling tropes across media. The word also has an older sense of someone who uses or analyzes tropes.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Every troper in the thread had a page ready for the plot twist before the credits rolled.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary lists the fandom sense as a contributor to the wiki TV Tropes, with quotations from 2010 to 2024. TV Tropes' own page on the word, as quoted in search results, says the term dates to 2003, about a month after the site launched.

FIRST SEEN

2003 (per TV Tropes' own description in search results)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2010s-2020s

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

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TREND STATUS

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EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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RELATED TERMS

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2003 (per TV Tropes' own description in search results)

NOW

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