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These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV:
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Your Mileage May Vary on any of the articles listed below. What that means could be a couple of different things:
The article might call for a value judgement and your judgement call could be different from another troper 's.
Example — The article claims that a character is completely lacking in redeeming features . Your idea of "irredeemable" and another's idea of it might (almost certainly will) differ. Each of you is making a judgment call. Great! Have fun with that. It just doesn't go on the work's main page. We want the tropes listed there to be one hundred percent present in the work without coming down to personal opinion.
The article might be about differences of opinion or audience reaction .
Example — Everybody who doesn't like the work have gotten together, formed a Hatedom and as such share a certain view of the work. As sure as the Sun will rise tomorrow, there will also be a Fandom and there will be wars and rumors of wars. These wars are stories of a sort, they are constructed from tropes like Revenge Fics , Fan Fics , trolling ... the list is pretty long.
Evidently the fans and the haters enjoy these battles. Okay. Best of luck to them. The point is that there is no accounting for taste. Entries about this kind of story, though, don't go in a work's page; that is a place for storytelling tropes. Audience Reactions are a part of the conflict, not the story the conflict is about.
See
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Don't add these in the main page. Not as "played", straight or otherwise. They go on the YMMV page. The rule against "
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The only way this can be allowed on the main page, is if one of these tropes happens in the show, and gets that reaction from the characters that these tropes often get from the audience. This is what we call an
In-Universe example. But
make sure to use the "InUniverse" or "[[invoked]]" markup so that the bullet point will not get tagged red.
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Please note that instead of adding or removing pages from this index directly, you should post to this thread , and gather consensus for your addition or removal.
See also
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Trivia .
Abandon Shipping
Acceptable Ethnic Targets
Acceptable Hard Luck Targets
Acceptable Hobby Targets
Acceptable Inevitable Targets
Acceptable Lifestyle Targets
Acceptable Political Targets
Acceptable Professional Targets
Acceptable Religious Targets
Acceptable Targets
Accidental Aesop
Accidental Innuendo
Accidental Nightmare Fuel
Actor Shipping
Adaptation Displacement
Alas, Poor Scrappy
Alas, Poor Villain
Alternative Character Interpretation
Americans Hate Tingle
And the Fandom Rejoiced
And You Thought It Would Fail
Angst Aversion
Angst Dissonance
Angst? What Angst?
Animation Age Ghetto
Anti-Climax Boss
Anti-Sue
Anvilicious
Applicability
Arc Fatigue
Archive Binge
Archive Panic
Ass Pull
Audience Alienating Premise
Author's Saving Throw
Award Snub
Awesome Ego
Awesome Music
Awesomeness Withdrawal
Badass Decay
Base Breaker
Bellisario's Maxim
Better on DVD
Big Lipped Alligator Moment
Bile Fascination
Breather Boss
Breather Level
Broken Base
Browser Narcotic
Black Hole Sue
Canon Defilement
Canon Fodder
Canon Sue
Canon Wank
Can't Un Hear It
Cargo Ship
Catharsis Factor
Chaotic Evil
Chaotic Good
Chaotic Neutral
Character Derailment
Character Rerailment
Character Tiers
The Chris Carter Effect
Cliché Storm
Comedy Ghetto
Come for the X, Stay for the Y
Communitied Out
Complacent Gaming Syndrome
Complaining about People Not Liking the Show
Complaining about Shows You Don't Watch
Complete Monster
Confirmation Bias
Consolation Award
Contested Sequel
Continuity Lock-Out
Copy Cat Sue
Counterpart Comparison
Couple Bomb
Covered Up
Crack is Cheaper
Crack Pairing
Crazy Awesome
Creator's Pet
Creepy Awesome
Critical Backlash
Critical Research Failure
Crosses the Line Twice
Crossover Ship
Cue Irony
Cult Actor
Damsel Scrappy
Dancing Bear
Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy
Deader than Disco
Dead Horse Genre
Death of the Author
Default Setting Syndrome
Demonic Spiders
Designated Evil
Designated Hero
Designated Protagonist Syndrome
Designated Villain
Die for Our Ship
Director Displacement
Don't Shoot the Message
Dork Age
Draco in Leather Pants
Dry Docked Ship
Dry Docking
Dude, Not Funny!
Ear Worm
Eight Deadly Words
Einstein Sue
Elimination Houdini
Ending Aversion
Ending Fatigue
Engaging Chevrons
Ensemble Darkhorse
Epic Riff
Epileptic Trees
Escapist Character
Esoteric Happy Ending
Estrogen Brigade
Ethnic Scrappy
Even Better Sequel
Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
Everyone Is Satan in Hell
Evil is Cool
Evil Is Sexy
Expectation Lowerer
Face of the Band
Family Unfriendly Aesop
Fandom Heresy
Fandom Rivalry
Fan Dumb
Fan Hater
Fanon
Fanon Discontinuity
Fan-Disliked Explanation
Fan Myopia
Fan Preferred Couple
Fan Wank
Fan Yay
Fair for Its Day
Discontinuity
Fashion Victim Villain
Faux Symbolism
Fen
Fetish Retardant
Ficdom
Fight Scene Failure
The Firefly Effect
First and Foremost
First Installment Wins
Fixer Sue
Foe Yay
Foe Yay Shipping
Follow Up Failure
Franchise Original Sin
Freud Was Right
Fridge Brilliance — Please note that Fridge Brilliance entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
Fridge Logic — Please note that Fridge Logic entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
Fridge Horror — Please note that Fridge Horror entries should go on an article's Fridge subpage.
Fridge Run
Fun for Some
Funny Moments
Game Breaker
Gameplay Derailment
Gannon-Banned
Gateway Series
Genius Bonus
Genre Turning Point
Germans Love David Hasselhoff
Girl Show Ghetto
Girls Need Role Models
Glurge
Goddamned Bats
Goddamned Boss
God Mode Sue
Good Bad Bugs
Grand Theft Auto Effect
Growing the Beard
Ham and Cheese
Hard Core
Harsher in Hindsight
Hate Dumb
Heartwarming In Hindsight
Heartwarming Moments
Hell Is That Noise
He Panned It, Now He Sucks
Hilarious in Hindsight
Hollywood Homely
Hollywood Pudgy
Holy Shit Quotient
Ho Yay
Humor Dissonance
Hype Aversion
Hype Backlash
Hypocritical Fandom
I Am Not Shazam
Iconic Character, Forgotten Title
Idiosyncratic Ship Naming
Idiot Plot
Incest Yay Shipping
Informed Wrongness
Ink Stain Adaptation
Internet Backdraft
Iron Woobie
It's Easy, so It Sucks
It's Hard, so It Sucks
It's Popular, Now It Sucks
It's Short, so It Sucks
It's the Same, Now It Sucks
Jerkass Woobie
Jerk Sue
Jumping the Shark
Junk Rare
Just Here for Godzilla
Lady Mondegreen
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Lawful Evil
Lawful Good
Lawful Neutral
The Law of Fan Jackassery
Lemon Stu
Less Disturbing in Context
Level Breaker
Like You Would Really Do It
Love It or Hate It
Lost In Medias Res
Lowest Common Denominator
Macekre
Magazine Decay
Magic Franchise Word
Magnificent Bastard
Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus Dissonance
Marty Stu
Mary Sue
Mary Suetopia
Mary Tzu
Maturity Is Serious Business
Mind Game Ship
Misaimed Fandom
Mis-blamed
Moe
Moff’s Law
Moment Of Awesome
Moral Event Horizon
More Popular Spin-off
Most Annoying Sound
Most Wonderful Sound
MST3K Mantra
Narm
Narm Charm
Nausea Fuel
Needs More Love
Neutral Evil
Neutral Good
Neutrality Sue
Never Live It Down
Newbie Boom
Nightmare Fuel
Nightmare Retardant
No Such Thing As Bad Publicity
No Yay
Old Guard Versus New Blood
Once Acceptable Targets
One True Pairing
One True Threesome
Only The Author Can Save Them Now
Only The Creator Does It Right
Out of the Ghetto
Outgrow The Trope
Overshadowed By Controversy
Padding
Painful Rhyme
Pandering to the Base
Paranoia Fuel
Pet Peeve Trope
Player Punch
Play the Game, Skip the Story
Poison Oak Epileptic Trees
Polished Port
Polygon Ceiling
Pop Culture Isolation
Porting Disaster
Portmanteau Couple Name
Possession Sue
Player-Preferred Pattern
Praising Shows You Don't Watch
Protagonist Title Fallacy
Protection From Editors
Purity Sue
Real Women Have Curves
Relationship Sue
Relationship Writing Fumble
Replacement Scrappy
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap
Rewatch Bonus
Robo Ship
Romantic Plot Tumor
Ron the Death Eater
Rooting for the Empire
Ruined FOREVER
Rule-Abiding Rebel
Sacred Cow
Saved by the Fans
Sampled Up
Scapegoat Creator
The Scrappy
Scrappy Mechanic
Scrappy Weapon
Sein Language
Seasonal Rot
Seinfeld Is Unfunny
Selective Squick
Selfish Good, Selfish Evil
Sending Stuff To Save The Show
Sequel Displacement
Sequelitis
Serial Numbers Filed Off
Shallow Parody
Ship Mates
Shipping
Shipping Bed Death
Shipping Goggles
The Ship's Motor
Ships That Pass In The Night
Ship-to-Ship Combat
The Shipyard
Shocking Swerve
Signature Scene
Silent Majority
Sister Ship
Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal vs. Specific Appeal
Sliding Scale Of Social Satisfaction
Snark Bait
So Bad, It's Good
So Cool It's Awesome
Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped
So Okay It's Average
Sophomore Slump
Special Effect Failure
Spoil At Your Own Risk
Spokes Sue
Squick
Starboarding
Stock Footage Failure
Stoic Woobie
Strangled by the Red String
Strawman Has a Point
Stuck In Their Shadow
Subbing versus Dubbing
Suetiful All Along
Super Couple
Superfluous Solo
Surprise Difficulty
Surprisingly Improved Sequel
Sympathetic Sue
Take That, Scrappy!
Tainted by the Preview
Tastes Like Diabetes
Tear Jerker
Testosterone Brigade
That One Achievement
That One Attack
That One Boss
That One Disadvantage
That One Level
That One Puzzle
That One Sidequest
Theiss Titillation Theory
Theme Pairing
They Changed It, Now It Sucks
They Copied It, So It Sucks
They Just Didn't Care
They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character
They Wasted A Perfectly Good Line Art
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
Thirty Sue Pileup
This Is Your Premise On Drugs
Tier Induced Scrappy
Too Cool to Live
Too Good to Last
Took The Bad Film Seriously
Too Sexy For This Timeslot
Tough Act to Follow
Toy Ship
Trailer Joke Decay
Trapped By Mountain Lions
True Art
True Art Is Ancient
True Art Is Angsty
True Art Is Incomprehensible
True Neutral
Ugly Cute
Unacceptable Targets
Unfortunate Implications
Unintentionally Sympathetic
Unnecessary Makeover
Unpopular Popular Character
Unwinnable by Insanity
The Untwist
Values Dissonance
Values Resonance
Viewer Gender Confusion
Viewer Myopia
Villain Sue
Vindicated by History
Visual Effects Of Awesome
Vocal Minority
Wangst
War Ship
Weird Al Effect
We're Still Relevant, Dammit
What an Idiot
What do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?
What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?
What Do You Mean, It's Not For Little Girls?
What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?
What Measure Is a Non-Badass?
Wheelchair Woobie
Where is Deado?
Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?
Win BACK The Crowd
Win The Crowd
The Woobie
Woobie Species
Woolseyism
World Of Woobie
Writer Cop Out
What The Hell, Casting Agency?
What The Hell, Costuming Department?
X-Pac Heat
Yoko Oh No