Holy non-indicativeness, Batman!
Why, why, why do people give general-sounding names to specific tropes?!? I would have misused it too. Support a rename 100%, and the creation of a real Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick trope as separate from... this.
I see the Awesomeness.
Support on both transplant and new trope. Possibly Pschotic Nonhuman Sidekick.
Fight smart, not fair.
Bumping. We really need to do something about this, as the name implies a completely different meaning from the description.
I still favor a Trope Transplant.
jt
agreed. trope name should be reused for something else, this trope should be renamed and examples sorted accordingly.
Okay, if nobody else is going to contribute, then I think I'm just going to go ahead and do a Trope Transplant. The title here is far broader then the trope.
I say go ahead, m'self.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
What happened to the Trope Transplant?
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Loser
While there was some support for a trope transplant, I feel like it is a good idea to make a page action crowner and try to generate some more discussion before taking action. There is a crowner for that purpose here
. Feel free to add options as you see fit.
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edited 9th Jan '12 12:20:07 PM by LouieW
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Calling the crowner with a final tally of
- 12 (yeas:13 nays:1) 13.00 : 1 in favor of "Trope transplant, rename the current Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick to something that indicates it is about sociopathic non-human sidekicks and use the Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick name for sidekicks that are snarky and non-human."
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
So, rename to what? Psycho Nonhuman Sidekick seems a bit of a mouthful, but I can't think of anything wittier.
(Also, is this a supertrope to Robotic Psychopath? As originally written, almost all examples of that trope were psychopathic robot sidekicks, although it's since suffered example drift to all psychopathic robots.)
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Loser
Given the support for a rename, there is now an alternative titles crowner for this trope here. Feel free to add names as you see fit.
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Crowner swapped and thread title changed
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Ravenous Sophovore
Bumping this for votes.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Would "sadistic" work in the name, or does that not quite describe the trope?
Ravenous Sophovore
I'd like to see a few more votes on this.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Re-bump for votes here.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ravenous Sophovore
Calling crowner in favor of naming the transplanted trope Psycho Nonhuman Sidekick.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
It looks like we forgot to close this...let's do the transplant, please.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Ravenous Sophovore
Would someone like to write up the description for the new Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick, so we can do this transplant?
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Ravenous Sophovore
Clocking this. It needs to be done or we need to shelve this.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Looks like nothing ever got done here. Locking.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Crown Description:
What would be the best way to fix the page?
The description is of uncontrollably chaotic webcomic characters like Bun-Bun and Pintsize.
The examples, understandably, are of sidekicks that are snarky and non-human, most of whom don't fit the description.
I'm not sure if we should rewrite the description, cut most of the examples, or split off Sociopathic Nonhuman Sidekick with the original description...