You've just launched a trope,
it may or may not have a good title, you
may or may not know what index it fits in, but you can't think of a good description. The one you had on
YKTTW was
too short, too dry, not clear, etc.
Alternatively, maybe you have simply come upon a page with a truly bad trope description — one that you feel unable or unwilling to fix up on your own.
To get help: (1) add a link to the offending trope to one of the categories at the bottom of this page (try to be specific), (2) put a link to "
Needs a Better Description" on the offending trope's main page, and (3) put a note on the offending trope's discussion page explaining what the problem with the description is. When you've done all of these three things, others will bless you with their
Wiki Magic.
Note that there are three action items in the previous paragraph. For best results, please complete all of them.
Please do not mark tropes whose description is merely less-than-perfect. We're looking here for tropes whose descriptions are defective enough that they cannot just be left alone. See the categories below for some of the reasons you might list a page.
If, instead, you are one of those people who wants to help clean up the stuff on this list, here are a few pointers:
- You don't have to be cute, just understandable. When in doubt, be Boring, but Practical.
- We have Indexes for related tropes, you don't need to reference every similar trope within the article.
- Page quotes are optional, but should be helpful to the description, not merely cool or funny.
- Unless the trope is an index and has dozens of different connotations, there is no need to make the description a thesis paper. Simpler and shorter descriptions help keep the examples clear.
- Examples go in the example list, the description should be free of them. The only exception may be the Trope Namer or an Older than They Think example.
For the convenience of those working on this list, it is divided into a number of subcategories. Please try to keep these up to date by correcting categorizations as needed. Obviously, some of the categorization is subjective, so feel free to move something that seems to be in the wrong place. If you put a page on the list of defective pages, please also put a note in the discussion for that page as to what seems to be the problem.
Please both remove a trope from this list and remove the link from that trope's page to here once a better description has been given. In general, please remember to delete items from these lists as you move or complete them. The list tends to pile up, so please try to help keep it clean.
Put pages here for others to sort:
Description needs tweaking:
Works needing a rewrite:
Works with too short a description:
Works best described by their fans:
- Bad Machinery
- The Blademourner Trilogy
- Bowling For Soup
- The Boys from Brazil
- Brain Scratch Commentaries
- Buck Tick
- Butt-Ugly Martians
- VideoGame.Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
- The Comic Adventures of Left & Right
- The Crush
- Crystal Towers 2
- Death And The Maiden
- Digimon Savers
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Dorothy Of Oz
- Ethan Frome
- Gantz Abridged
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Groznyj Grad Living Novel
- Guin Saga
- Gundam Abridged
- Hard Rain
- Hibiki No Mahou
- Hipster Hitler
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Hunchback The Lurching
- Hurt - I love their music, but I don't know enough about the band to write a good description. - Insanity Prelude
- Id
- Incognito Cinema Warriors XP
- Inherit The Earth
- Initial D Arcade Stage
- Innocent Venus - Could use some love from someone less biased.
- Jazz: specifically, I created the page because I thought we should have it, but don't really like the manga myself. Revision by fan would really help it out. -whereismytea
- Johannes Cabal The Detective
- Kiss
- Kurogane - copied directly from Wikipedia.
- The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
- Lorna Doone
- The Mac Guffin Doesnt Exist Here
- The Massive Multi Fandom RPG
- Mike, Lu & Og
- Miko - specifically, could someone explain what exactly shrine maidens are supposed to do?
- Necroscope
- Outsourced
- Pepper Ann
- Pretty In Pink
- Quantum Gravity
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- Sabre Wulf — needs better intro, a picture (or two, one from each version), and descriptions of the similarities and differences between the 1984 Speccy version and the 2004 GBA version. Also plenty of tropes.
- Scent of a Woman
- SD Snatcher
- The Smoking Room
- Stardoc
- Steel Magnolias
- The Supernaturalist
- Taking Lives
- Tomboy And Girly Guy
- Tommy Tallarico
- The Trenches (has four sentences, one of which is actually descriptive at all)
- Truth Series - I didn't read it in English, I simply don't know the correct terms.
- Vampire Kisses Blood Relatives
- Warhawk - needs information on the PS1 game especially.
- Warrior Cats RPG
- The Warriors
- The Way
- What the #$*! Do We Know!?
- World Of Tiers
Anyone could write this.
