Personally, I do not like to have tropes being subbullets of other tropes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPerhaps, but I think it's easier to keep track of related tropes associated to the character. Without the sub-bullets, the examples would go all over the place, and I personally think it's not very convenient.
Per official wiki policy, tropes are not supposed to be put as sub-bullets of other tropes, in the same way that examples are not supposed to be put as sub-bullets of other examples. Generally speaking, you want to use the most specific subtrope applicable, and only the subtrope (as opposed to both the super- and sub-trope).
Yes, but what if there's multiple sub-tropes? Should the subtropes be split, and the supertrope removed? If the character undergoes Character Development, or have a Beneath the Mask situation or whatever, he or she is bound to have more than one Anti-Hero label that can be attributed.
edited 28th Sep '13 11:10:38 PM by theAdeptRogue
I would cite the subtropes and the supertrope at the same time.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanOfficial policy is that all the tropes should be listed on their own, single-bullet, correctly alphabetized line. So yes, officially, the supertrope and all the subtropes should be split.
Just came across this thread. Seeing as this other one has a clearer title and less distracting "already-done" stuff, I moved information about the cleanup there and will lock this.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Crown Description:
The Pragmatic Hero YKTTW is suffering from a problematic description. Here are some options to consider. These options are not mutually exclusive.
Mostly cleaning up the entries from Character pages with Zero Context Examples, or re-labeling the types, depending on the context. Is it okay to leave the entry, if they have multiple labels assigned to it?
For example, Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index is labelled as such: