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1	A popular type of Administrivia/TheSameButMoreSpecific.
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3	Essentially, this is when a trope can be summed up as "the same as Article X, but pumped up to eleven". While the temptation to start these sort of articles is evidently irresistible -- hardly a day goes by that one doesn't show up in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/tlp_activity.php TLP]] -- they are almost always a bad idea for a number of reasons, not the least of which is [[Administrivia/LumperVsSplitter where to draw the dividing line]] between "Trope X" and "Trope [[XtremeKoolLetterz Xtreme]]".
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5	A common variant is when someone wants to write pages like "Trope X, but done well" or "Trope X, but done poorly". Remember that tropes are [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools neither good nor bad]] -- tropes are value-neutral, and whether they come across as positive or negative depends on how an individual work uses them. Besides, attempting to split tropes by their execution can be [[FanMyopia extremely subjective]], since fans of a given work will argue that it belongs in the "good" pile while detractors constantly move it back into the "bad" pile. [[Administrivia/EditWar This continues]], probably interminably.
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7	Remember, Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible. There's enough untapped content to go around already -- there's really no point in rehashing what we've already got. Sometimes you might think there is a [[SubTrope quantitative difference]] in a new trope, but if the examples are mostly the same as the earlier trope, then you're basically just duplicating the one that already exists.
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9	Now if the difference actually ''is clear'', the result may be a SubTrope, SuperTrope, or SisterTrope of another.
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11	If you think your extreme trope has the distinction worthy of a SubTrope, please [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/tlp_activity.php check with the other Tropers first]] and to get opinions; if ''other people'' agree that the SubTrope label applies, it probably does; likewise, if they're all calling it "the same, but more", they're probably right.
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13	See also ExaggeratedTrope, which covers tropes being played up to eleven ''in-universe'', and DownplayedTrope, which covers the opposite.
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