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{{quote|''"[[Hello]]. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]. [[You Killed My Father]]. [[Prepare to Die]]."''|'''Inigo Montoya''', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}
Various shows are [[Trope Overdosed|popular]] or [[Trope Maker|influential]] when it comes to [[trope]]s. One measure is how readily we name tropes from shows or other works.
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'''This should not be done lightly''' and is not a badge of honor. Using trope namers lightly or as a badge of honor is [[Trope Namer Syndrome]] and leads to confusion, renames, and possible deletion of tropes.
A series usually gets to name a trope if it's ''so'' widely known for the trope (even outside the
Also, we at All The Tropes don't want tropes named directly after a trope namer, since the trope namer may always get its own page. If they ''are'' the Trope Namer, the trope name should reflect the difference, for example [[Rashomon Style]]. This is doubly true for characters, who must [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|embody the trope so well]] that one could point to them and say [[Iconic Characters|"Yeah, kinda like him"]] and other [[troper]]s will immediately agree ([[One Mario Limit|without having to consult Google]] in the process).
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Sometimes we don't quite get it right the first time.
* [[Renamed Tropes]]
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