Needs examples: Big Brother Is Your Friend

I just stumbled on this article. It was created in November and has no examples. It probably should be cutlisted or sent to YKTTW but I thought it should see the light of day here first.

It's got one example on there. I vote to send it to YKKTW. A little maturation would not be bad.

No examples but 22 wicks? sure this isnt suppose to be a Useful Notes page or something?

22 wicks? I didn't even check that.

It's definitely not Useful Notes style. I'd suggest a new name, a better description and a week or so on Useful Notes. I'm not entirely sure what the trope is about though.

A bigger problem with this is that the trope name doesn't make much sense for a Police Procedural trope. Moreover, almost every wick uses this trope to mean different things, often involving intimidation to achieve cooperation (Max Headroom), mistaking this for a powerful authority actually being helpful and benevolent (Characters/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz, NUMB3RS), one appears to to even confuse this for Bavarian Fire Drill (Supernatural). Many others are listed without providing any explanation.

edited 12th Feb '11 9:21:43 AM by SeanMurrayI

Perhaps it should be redefined, then. When I saw the name, I thought it was about a Big Brother-like organization or government that was actually there to help people instead of oppressing them.

Name isn't particularly clear, and it Makes No More Sense In Context. If there is something worthwhile here, it's certainly beyond my grasp. I have to say cut it.

This name does not fit the trope at all.

I mean, holy crap.

Cut this and start the core idea back through YKTTW. "People who should be more protective of their records turn them over to police without any kind of warrant or court order" is definitely a trope. But the name is bad (I thought the same thing as Valiran — a benevolent Big Brother type-organization.)

I agree. Cut it.