Sandbox / Comic Character Cleanup

The Comprehensive Comic Character Cleanup

There are a large number of pages in the ComicBook/ namespace that either double as a work page and character page or are simply a de facto character page. In some cases, a character has both an actual Characters page/folder and a ComicBook/ page doubling as a character page, leading to duplicate entries and confusion.

Most of these pages can be found under Characters.Marvel Comics or Characters.DC Comics, in their "pages for individual characters" section. Every page from those two indices are presently listed on Sandbox.Gigan Kills The Marvel Universe and Sandbox.Crisis On Infinite Pages.

It has been brought to the forums and Ask The Tropers several times before, and there seems to be a weak consensus that character tropes should be moved to a Characters/ page. See this Wiki Talk topic, this and this ATT, and several others that can be found via the search function.

Before we proceed, we need to decide exactly what to do, as there are a few questions to be answered.

1. Is this even a problem to begin with? Should we allow ComicBook/ pages to continue to double as character pages?
2. What to do with the ComicBook/ pages?
   1. Do we cut the pages without an associated work, e.g. Gentleman Ghost and Monet St. Croix?
   2. Do we only cut the smaller ones and let the ones with a large number of wicks stick around? (The most egregious example: The Joker has >3000 wicks and >12000 inbounds.)
   3. Do we continue to allow long biographies and lists of actors (see The Joker for examples of both)?
3. What happens to the tropes from adaptations? The Characters entry is only for a single version of the character, usually the one from the "main" continuity.
4. What about characters who appear in many works? TV Tropes isn't particular about distinguishing between, for example, Superman's actions in Superman, Action Comics, and various team books and cameo appearances, as they are all in the same universe, essentially as smaller parts of one giant work. It only becomes a problem when the character has no clear "primary" work.
5. For the characters who still need an entire page for themselves, where do we put that page? I think this one is already answered: Do the same thing we already do. It becomes a subpage of its work's Characters page, and is titled as such. (Characters.X Men Cyclops, Characters.Batman The Joker, Characters.Wolverine The Character, Characters.Marvel Thanos, etc.)

This sandbox is intended for use with the cleanup of comic book character pages. When adding a page to one of the top two categories, state where character tropes and wicks should be moved to.

When determining if a page is associated with a work, a character merely having a self-titled series is not enough. There must be at least three trope examples from that work. A page can cover multiple related works, even if they do not have the same title.

List of Character cleanup pages:

• All New, All Different Marvel Universe: A restructuring of the Marvel Comics and Marvel Universe Characters to be more like Characters.Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • All New, All Different Marvel Universe - Index Guide.

• Crisis on Infinite Pages: The DC Comics characters cleanup page.
  • Tropers, Go!: DC Character pages to be merged into a larger group page.

• Gigan Kills the Marvel Universe: The Marvel Comics characters cleanup page.
  • Tropers, Assemble!: Marvel Character pages to be merged into a larger group page.

  • Marvel Characters Needing Examples: Marvel Characters that need examples.

• Remaking the Comic Book Universe: Page to keep track of new Comic Book pages that need to be created.

Other Comics in need of attention

• Lady Rawhide
• Tomboy (Sterling)