tvtropes.org

[Delhomeboy]

Anybody been on this site? It is frackin' amazing. It's basically a gigantic wiki of everything that goes into creating creative projects: movies, books, music, etc. If you have any interest whatsoever in how stories are constructed, or just want to see how a particular movie/book got so dang awesome/terrible, then you'd really like it. It points out the patterns in stories, the archetypes, and how many characters have the same attributes even if you don't realize it. It's so in depth that it's quite possible to spend hours on it.

Here's the trope page for Star Wars, for example:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarWars

And here is an example of a specific trope, with examples at the bottom:

Magnificent Bastard

And another, this one more funny:

So Bad it's horrible