Fan-Speak

Basic Information

Fan-Speak is terminology which, while not officially accepted by dictionaries or scientific works, is nevertheless well understood by the fandom of a specific genre.

List of Fan-Speak Terms

• Adaptation Displacement
• ADCD
• Airport Fantasy
• Alternate Character Interpretation
• Animation Age Ghetto
• Anthropomorphic Shift
• Anvilicious
  • Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped
• Arcanist
• Artifact Title
• Art Imitates Art
• Ass Pull
• Attention Whore
• Author Appeal
• Author Catchphrase
• Author Existence Failure
• Author Filibuster
• Author Tract
• Awesome Yet Practical
• Bad Ass
• Bad Bad Acting
• Beam Me Up Scotty
• Bellisarios Maxim
• Better On DVD
• Big Name Fan (BNF)
• Big Occasions
• Bile Fascination
• Billing Displacement
• Black And Gray Morality
• Born Of Clay
• Brain Bleach
• Broken Base
• Camp
• Canon Defilement
• Canon Fodder
• Canon Sue
• Canon Wank
• Character Filibuster
• The Chris Carter Effect
• Claremont Coefficient
• Cliché Storm
• Colon Cancer
• Commitment Anxiety
• Common Knowledge
• Communitied Out
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome
• Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch
• Contested Sequel
• Continuity Drift
• Continuity Lock Out
• Continuity Porn
• Contractual Genre Blindness
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Cosmic Retcon
• Crack Is Cheaper
• Creativity Leash
• Creator Backlash
• Cross Cultural Kerfluffle
• Crowning Moment Of Awesome
• The CSI Effect
• Cuckoo Case
• Cue Cullen
• Cue Irony
• Cult Classic
• Darker And Edgier
• Deader Than Disco
• Deconstructor Fleet
• Die For Our Ship
• Dis Continuity
  • Canon Dis Continuity
• Doing It For The Art
• Doorstopper
• Dork Age
• Downer Ending
• Draco In Leather Pants
• Drinking Game
• Drinking The Kool Aid
• Dubtitle
• Dull Surprise
• Dumb Is Good
• Edited For Syndication
• Eighties Hair
• Ending Fatigue
• Engaging Chevrons
• Epic Fail
• Epileptic Trees
  • Poison Oak Epileptic Trees
• Estrogen Brigade
• Executive Meddling
  • Executive Veto
• Expansion Pack Past
• Explanatory Disappointment
• Fan Boy
• Fan Character
• Fan Community Nicknames
• Fan Girl
• Fandom Nod
• Fan Dumb
• Fan Haters
• Fan Nickname
• Fanon
• Fan Service
• Fan Verse
• Fanwank
• Feed Me
• Feghoot
• Fen
• Ficdom
• Ficton
• Filler
• The Firefly Effect
• First Installment Wins
• The First Six Dont Count
• Fleeting Demographic
• Flip Flop Of God
• Follow The Leader
  • Cloning Gold
• Friday Night Death Slot
• Fridge Run
• Funny Aneurysm Moment
• Furry Fandom
• Gannon Banned
• Gateway Series
• Geek
• Genre Blindness
  • Genre Savvy
• Genre Roulette
• Genre Turning Point
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff
• Getting Crap Past The Radar
• Gimmick
• Glurge
• Good Troi Episode
• Gorn
• The Great Politics Mess Up
• Growing The Beard
• Guilty Pleasures
• Gunman With Three Names
• Hammerspace
• Hand Wave
• Hatedom
• He's Just Hiding
• Hilarity Ensues
• Hollywood History
• Holy Shit Quotient (Aka the HSQ)
• Hotter And Sexier
• Ho Yay
  • Foe Yay
• Hype Aversion
• Hype Backlash
• I Am Not Making This Up
• If You Thought That Was Bad
• Implonkus
• Infinite Canvas
• Import Filter
• In Name Only
• It's Easy, So It Sucks
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks
• It Was His Sled
• I Want My Jetpack
• Jossed
• Jumping The Shark
• Just Here For Godzilla
• Keep Circulating The Tapes
• Kibbles And Bits
• Lampshade Hanging
• The Law Of Fan Jackassery
• Left Hanging
• Level Breaker
• Leno Device
• Let's See YOU Do Better!
• Lighter And Softer
• Like You Would Really Do It
• Long Runners
• Print Long Runners
• Lostalgia
• Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)
• Magazine Decay
• Magic Franchise Word
• McLeaned
• Media Watchdog
  • Moral Guardians
• Megaton Announcement
• Memetic Mutation
• Merchandise Driven
  • Misaimed Marketing
• Mid Season Upgrade
• Misaimed Fandom
• Mis Blamed
• Missing Episode
• Missing White Woman Syndrome
• Moral Event Horizon
• Most Writers Are Male
• Ms Fanservice
• MST3K Mantra
• Murder Simulators
• My Real Daddy
• Narm
• Needs More Love
• Nerd
• Nerdgasm
• Network Decay
• Newer Than They Think
• Nightmare Fuel
• Nightmare Retardant
• Ninja Looting
• Nohamotyo
• No Hoper Repeat
• No Hugging No Kissing
• Nostalgia Filter
• No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
• Not So Crazy Anymore
• Not So Fast Bucko
• Off The Shelf FX
• Older Than They Think
• Old Guard Versus New Blood
• Old Shame
• One Of Us
• One Season Wonder
• The One With
• Only Barely Renewed
• The Original Series
• Out Of Focus
• Overtook The Series
• Pandering To The Base
• Parent Service
• Perverse Sexual Lust
• Plot Coupon
• Plot Hole
• Plot Induced Stupidity
• The Pond
• Popular History
• Possession Sue
• Postscript Season
  • Past Its Sell By Date
• The Powers That Be
• Preaching To The Choir
• Print Long Runners
• Prisoners Of Pollyanna
• Product Placement
• Protection From Editors
• Purple Prose
• Quality By Popular Vote
• Ratings
• Ratings Stunt
• Recursive Acronym
• Recursive Canon
• Recycled Script
• Recycled Premise
• Red Skies Crossover
• The Resolution Will Not Be Televised
• Ret Con
• Reverse Funny Aneurysm
• Revival
• Ruined FOREVER
• The Roddenberry Line
• Rule Of Perception
• Rule Thirty Four
• Running The Asylum
• Safe Harbor
• Scenery Porn
• Sci-Fi (Skiffy)
• Scifi Ghetto
• The Scrappy
  • Replacement Scrappy
• Screwed By The Network
• Seasonal Rot
  • Sophomore Slump
• Sein Language
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny
• Selective Squick
• Sending Stuff To Save The Show
• Sequel Displacement
• Series Fauxnale
• Shared Universe
• Shipping
  • Little Black Dress
  • One True Pairing (often abbreviated OTP)
  • Portmanteau Couple Name
  • Shipping Bed Death
  • Ship Tease
• Shit Flies From The Fans
• Shoot The Money
• Shown Their Work
• Single Target Sexuality
• Signature Style
• Sliding Scale Of Social Satisfaction
• Smart Mark
• Snark Bait
• So Bad Its Good
• So Bad It's Horrible
• Sonic Syndrome
• Special Effect Failure
• Spiritual Successor
• Spoil At Your Own Risk
• Spoiler
  • Spoiler Hound
• Spork
• Spotlight Stealing Squad
• Squee
• Squib
• Squick
• Start To Corpse
• Strangled By The Red String
• Studio Audience
• Stylistic Suck
• Subbing Versus Dubbing
• Sure Why Not
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel
• Sweeps
• Swiss Moment
• Tainted By The Preview
• Tastes Like Diabetes
• Television Geography
• Television Tie In Magazines
• Theiss Titillation Theory
• That Damn Ken
• They Changed It Now It Sucks
• They Copied It So It Sucks
• They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot
• This Is Your Premise On Drugs
• Title Please
• Tom Hanks Syndrome
• Too Good For That Bastard
• Too Good To Last
• Too Sexy For This Timeslot
• Too Soon
• Totally Radical
• Tough Act To Follow
• Trans Atlantic Co Production
• Trapped By Mountain Lions
• True Art
  • True Art Is Ancient
  • True Art Is Angsty
  • True Art Is Foreign
  • True Art Is Incomprehensible
  • True Art Is Offensive
• Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny
• Ultimate Universe
• Un Canceled
• Unpleasable Fanbase
• Unpopular Popular Character
• The Untwist
• Unresolved Sexual Tension (UST)
• Values Dissonance
• Vindicated By History
  • Vindicated By Cable
• Vocal Minority
• Voodoo Shark
• Wall Banger
• Wangst
• Wartime Cartoon
• Watershed
• Weird Al Effect
• The West
• What An Idiot
• What If
• Where Is Deado
• Why Dont You Marry It
• A Wizard Did It
• Woolseyism
• Word Of Dante
• Word Of God
  • Shrug Of God
• Wrap It Up
• Writer On Board
• Writer Revolt
• Writing Around Trademarks
• X Meets Y
• Yank the Dog's Chain
• Your Mileage May Vary
• You Should Know This Already
• Zettai Ryouiki

See Also

• Fan Communities
• Fan Work
  • Fan Fic
    • Fanfic Tropes
• Subjective Tropes
• The Catalogue
• The Verse
• Viewer Stock Phrases
• What Do You Mean Its Not An Index

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• As most gaming groups share similar interests, fan-speak will develop automatically over time in them.