This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Trope Namers: From YKTTW
Fire Walk: I will keep at this one, but that's kind of all for now. I may alphabetise, and keep looking.
Lale: Didn't Charlies Angels name Lovely Angels.
Zeke: According to Wikipedia, the name was a play on contemporary wrestling teams with names like "Queen Angels". Charlie's Angels may also have been an inspiration, but either way, it doesn't matter. The trope got its name from Dirty Pair, so that's where credit is due.
Tanto: You're just making it easier for Citizen, people.
Pk Mario: It's Been Done would go in The Simpsons or in South Park? >_> Also, did the Mario series named Wall Jump or did the name come from elsewhere?
Tanto: Wall Jump's just a generic term, methinks. Metroid is maybe the originator of the concept, but I think players provided the name. (Super Mario 64 used "Wall kicks", incidentally.)
Zeke: Not the originator of the concept, though maybe the best-known case. Mega Man X had wall kicks earlier, and the NES Batman game earlier still. The term is probably too obvious to have a single source.
Sci Vo: I think that we'll have to split it soon. Live-Action TV is the biggest subcategory. Something like Trope Namers In Live Action TV?
Sci Vo: I think that we should limit this to tropes whose names are a reference to a particular media work or creator. I think that tropes that merely originated in a specific genre (such as Face–Heel Turn) or refer to one (such as Vaudeville Hook) don't belong here. I'm on the fence about tropes that at least refer to a specific real person (like Lamarck Was Right), and leaning toward "no".
Lale: I would say, limit it to:
- Tropes that use the title of the work
- Tropes that use a line directly from the work (Luke, I Am Your Father, Birnam Wood To Dunsinane)
- Tropes literally named in a work (Fake-Out Make-Out from Danny Phantom)
Tropes "that merely originated in a work" go in Trope Makers. Or just, well, tropes. Real Life is really stretching it.
Yoshi348: I would add to that list "tropes that use the name of a character from the work", as well.
Yoshi348: Interestingly, we're starting to get cases where you can claim that tropes named after other tropes, sometimes in ways that make categorization confusing. For instance, the Xanatos line of tropes is pretty straight forward; they're all tightly related to the same trope so they were given related names, and Gargoyles can be rightly be called the trope namer of all of them. Eagleland Osmosis, however, doesn't really have much to do with the Eagleland of Earthbound fame, and more to do with the trope Eagleland. So does Earthbound count as its namer or not?
