Please see Trope Renaming Guidelines. That is by far insufficient reason to change the title.
(BTW, many trope titles do not include all possible applications of the trope; the broadness or narrowness of the title is not really important, unless it causes misuse and/or is outright misleading.)
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
I see the Awesomeness.
That's a really broad title for such a specific trope. I could swear we have the name under something else though.
Fight smart, not fair.
Well, I for one thought that it was Exactly What It Says on the Tin, which it most definitely is not.
Check for misuse?
I see the Awesomeness.
Stats:
Narrow Escape found in: 25
articles, excluding discussions.
This title has brought 14 people to the wiki from non-search engine links since 20th FEB '09.
We could actually check the individual examples.
Fight smart, not fair.
I see the Awesomeness.
punctuated titles
- Bar'd - parodied (not used)
unpunctuated titles
- Alice Comedies - X Just X
- Animated Trope - Index
- Attack of the Killer Whatever - seems accurate (reference in example)
- Behind the Black - correct: reference in description
- Calvin And Hobbes - X Just X
- Convenient Cranny - comparison between tropes
- Escape Tropes - index
- Get A Stupid Answer - correct (however, it's a Just for Fun page)
- Hammerspace - reference in description
- Hammerspace Hideaway - reference in description
- Jimmy Two Shoes - X Just X
- Troper Works/Medallion- null page
- Literature/Medallion - X Just X
- Myst - unclear, leaning toward wrong
- Narrow Escape - doesn't count
- Northwest Hounded Police - correct
- Propp's Functions of Folktales - wrong
- Scooby Stack - reference in description
- Seth - null page
- Tropers/Seth - apparently, this person game up with the name, previously named Hammer Post
- The Lion King - correct
- Tree Cover - reference in descpition
- Tropes N-Z - correct
- Zany Cartoon - index
edited 22nd Jan '11 2:52:28 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.
I see the Awesomeness.
It seems to be on more indexes and related tropes than correctly used on works pages.
Fight smart, not fair.
Zzzzzzzzzz
My objection is that Narrow Escape is a pre-existing term, but not for this trope (much like Going Down with the Ship was before it was changed), it needs to be changed. I've written to an animation site and asked, since most of the available online animation glossaries are computer animation terms rather than shot-description terms. Let's see what they say...
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
That's my objection to Narrow Escape is that it sounds like Exactly What It Says on the Tin but isn't.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
I see the Awesomeness.
Yeah, I figured as much. It's one of those instances where somebody took a pre-existing term and just made it into a trope, without changing anything about it. Those tend to get confusing.
Fight smart, not fair.
This one is particularly confusing: a Narrow Escape is usually part of a narrow escape.
I still say we should change this, even a month later. Tropes named after common phrases that have nothing to do with said phrase are a scourge, and I don't see any good reason to keep them.
I see the Awesomeness.
Suggestions?
Fight smart, not fair.
Support renaming. Hiding Behind Narrow Object for exactness?
edited 6th Mar '11 10:07:45 PM by peccantis
Dragon Writer
Narrow Hiding Place? Hmm, not quite....
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Since this is a horrid name and I'm still high off of doing my first, I'm going to bump this and suggest Behind The Stick, by analogy with Behind the Black.
Dragon Writer
Long as we're here, let's do a diff.
This title has brought 18 people to the wiki
This is +5 wikilinks and +4 inbounds in six months.
edited 20th Jul '11 6:09:44 AM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Loser
There is now a single proposition rename crowner for this trope here
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So long as this is not a pre-existing term for what the tropes describes, I think there should be a rename since the trope title refers to something much broader than what the actual trope is about.
"irhgT nm0w tehre might b ea lotof th1nmgs i dont udarstannd, ubt oim ujst goinjg to keepfollowing this pazth i belieove iN !!!!!1 d
Dragon Writer
"Narrow escape" is a pre-existing phrase in similar vein to "close call", and this trope is misusing the phrase.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Given extremely poor usage, I am comfortable renaming this. It's trying to be clever and ending up being opaque instead.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
World's Toughest Milkman
Maybe another word: Thin Cover, Skinny Cover, Skinny Screen.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Loser
Given the overwhelming support for a rename in the single proposition crowner, there is now an alternative titles crowner for this trope here. Feel free to add titles if you would like to do that.
edited 28th Jul '11 3:41:21 PM by LouieW
"irhgT nm0w tehre might b ea lotof th1nmgs i dont udarstannd, ubt oim ujst goinjg to keepfollowing this pazth i belieove iN !!!!!1 d
For some reason "Hiding Behind A Line" sounds awfully appealing to me, but I can't say why it would be better than these options already given.
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I really don't like that one. It sounds like it's something about lies.
edited 2nd Sep '11 4:54:35 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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I suggest renaming Narrow Escape due to the fact that hiding behind objects smaller than them is not only used for escaping, but also lurking for someone.