History Administrivia / PeopleSitOnChairs

[[caption-width-right:350:[-'''Tropes''': SlouchOfVillainy, SharpDressedMan, DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster\\

If a character of the ground-sitter class doesn't grok chairs — not understanding what they're for, perhaps, or adopting a peculiar sitting position in them because they get the idea of what a chair is for but haven't got the practise of using them down — ''and'' the failure to grok carries meaning within the story, ''and'' this motif becomes widely- and consistently-used enough that sufficient examples can be enumerated, then ''perhaps'' the naming of a trope like '''Doesn't Grok Chairs''' could be justified. (Please note the important point that such a hypothetical trope would be focussed on a ''meaningful deviation'' from the universally standard behaviour.)

[[caption-width-right:350:[-'''Tropes''': CoolChair, SlouchOfVillainy, SharpDressedMan, DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster\\

-->'''Example from the now-deleted page "Everyone Is Right Handed" about ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'''''[[note]]If it had some bearing on the plot, then it would be TheSouthPaw.[[/note]]

-->'''Example from the now-deleted page "Everyone Is Right Handed" about ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'''''

->''While this has no plot bearing, Nanoha from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' is left-handed.''
-->'''Example from the now-deleted page "Everyone Is Right Handed"'''

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[[caption-width-right:300:[-'''Tropes''': CoolChair, SlouchOfVillainy, SharpDressedMan, DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster\\

-->'''Example from the now-deleted page, "Everyone Is Right Handed"'''

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful (which doesn't necessarily have to be a plot; it can work if the trope counts as NarrativeFiligree or GarnishingTheStory). Or if you can identify several narrative purposes for an element, you can propose it as an index, like SeatedTropes. If not, you just need to accept that [[TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooUniversal this trope page will never happen.]]

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful (which can work if the trope counts as NarrativeFiligree or GarnishingTheStory). Or if you can identify several narrative purposes for an element, you can propose it as an index, like SeatedTropes. If not, you just need to accept that [[TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooUniversal this trope page will never happen.]]

-->--Example from the now-deleted page Everyone Is Right Handed

Conversely, a trope suggestion can still be guilty of People Sit On Chairs even if it doesn't literally appear all the time. Even if it is relatively rare, it can still be used without a narrative purpose.

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful (which can work if the trope counts as NarrativeFiligree or GarnishingTheStory). Or if you can identify several narrative purposes for an element, you can propose it as an index, like SeatedTropes. If not, you just need to accept that [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen this trope page will never happen.]]

No examples, please. No, really, they're not necessary.

The whole point of a chair, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_890820&feature=iv&src_vid=-2vfxnfWGRA&v=c7SjvLceXgU as Facebook so eloquently explains,]] is to give people something to sit on, but this by itself doesn't convey meaning. On the other hand, there '''are''' ways in which chairs can be used for a trope; perhaps we're talking about an [[CoolChair impossibly awesome-looking chair]] (or a more functional SuperWheelchair); maybe it gets used for a ChairReveal, or for the BigBad to express his SlouchOfVillainy. And maybe the chair is [[EmptyChairMemorial conspicuous by its emptiness]]. All these add some sort of meaning to the "chair" in question, which makes them legitimate tropes.

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful (which can work if the trope counts as NarrativeFiligree or GarnishingTheStory). If not, you just need to accept that [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen this trope page will never happen.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:'''Tropes''': CoolChair, SlouchOfVillainy, SharpDressedMan, DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster\\
'''Not a trope''': Sitting on a Chair]]

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful (even if it's just NarrativeFiligree or GarnishingTheStory). If not, you just need to accept that [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen this trope page will never happen.]]

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful. If not, you just need to accept that [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen this trope page will never happen.]]

'''Not Tropes''': Sitting on a Chair]]

{{Trope}}s are conventions used in storytelling to convey some sort of information to the audience. People Sit On Chairs don't convey any meaning -- they aren't storytelling conventions at all, they're just things that happen normally or incidentally during the storytelling. So if somebody is calling your YKTTW "Chairs", or PSOC, this means they think your idea is about as meaningful as the discovery that various different shows portray [[TitleDrop people sitting on chairs]]: It doesn't matter how commonly it occurs, this is something that never carried any meaning to begin with, making it Administrivia/NotATrope.

If you are really, really, ''really'' sure that we need this one, try to connect it to something meaningful. If not, you just need to accept that [[TropesThatWillNeverHappen this trope page will never happen.]]

-->--Example from the former page EveryoneIsRightHanded

'''Not Tropes''': A Person Sitting on a Chair]]

-->--Example from EveryoneIsRightHanded

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->While this has no plot bearing, Nanoha from LyricalNanoha is left-handed.

{{Trope}}s are conventions used in storytelling to convey some sort of information to the audience. People Sit On Chairs don't convey any meaning -- they aren't storytelling conventions at all, they're just things that happen normally or incidentally during the storytelling. So if somebody is calling your YKTTW "Chairs", or PSOC, this means they think your idea is about as meaningful as the discovery that various different shows portray [[TitleDrop people sitting on chairs]]: It doesn't matter how commonly it occurs, this is something that never carried any meaning to begin with, making it NotATrope.