Bob believes that tropes can be identified and categorized through examples from movies and games.

“well in the world of TV Tropes and in the world of movie tropes and game tropes we're going to explore them and tap into your knowledge of pop culture and movies and games and we're going to try to isolate some examples of tropes”

Mark considers tropes to be interesting recurring themes in media.

“it's the detailed dissection of recurring themes with the best buzzers in the business”

Wade suggests that identifying tropes requires more specific knowledge than he currently possesses.

“it was a fun honorable game and I enjoyed myself very much and apparently I need to learn a lot more about horror tropes than I thought”