Dragon Writer
"Covert Distress Code" could probably be vetoed from the crowner entirely because it's currently the working title for the YKTTW sister trope.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
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Not necessarily; the YKTTW could also pick a different name than whatever we decide upon here.
Votes needed. C'mon, people, this needs to end.
I think the Distress Code part of that name implies it's not improvised.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.
Dragon Writer
Agree.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Is anyone else worried that Out-of-Character Alert could be mistaken for a writer trick in which they alert the viewers/readers that someone is acting OOC? (Hope that wasn't too confusing.)
You mean essentially a meta-version of the trope? Alerting the audience instead of another character?
Something like that.
Ravenous Sophovore
Bumping for votes.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Ravenous Sophovore
Calling crowner in favor of Out-of-Character Alert. Please do the rename.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Ravenous Sophovore
146 wicks left to do here.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
I hate to bring up a new problem with a presumably resolved thread, but I have this comment re: this Trope:
How is Not Himself not an Out-of-Character Alert?
Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.
Ravenous Sophovore
145 wicks left.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
143 wicks left to be moved in the new name. Volunteers?
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Dragon Writer
Wait. If the new title is meant only for the improvised distress signal, nobody adjusted the new page's description to reflect that. Shouldn't that get done first?
My thinking:
Clues may include not responding to a well-known Berserk Button, doing things they're normally afraid of (or have a similar excuse for never doing), or insisting to be called by a nickname they actually hate. In the many cases where this clue is improvised on the spot, it may actually work almost too well, with the detail being dismissed at first and only realized later, hopefully not too late to plan a rescue or call some Big Damn Heroes.
Permission to swap in?
I wouldn't yet. The second paragraph seems off to me - feels more like the trope that this one was being mistaken for. When does a person who's being secretly held captive get to respond (or not) to a Berserk Button? I think that entire paragraph applies a lot more to Spot the Imposter than this trope.
BTW, Bluff the Imposter still has a pointer to this trope defining it as an intentional or unintentional giveaway that one is an imposter. That should be fixed, shouldn't it?
Dragon Writer
^ It's linking to Something Only They Would Say, not Something They Would Never Say.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Bumping this, since the wicks were done. I do not agree with Leaper - Stratadrake's description works for Spot the Impostor, but also here.
Also retagged the article since we are talking about the description on the new page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dragon Writer
Methinks Dr. Freud called and he wants his Safe Word back. Seriously,note it's all about sex.
edited 28th Jan '13 6:48:30 PM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
OK, so this has been lagging again for two months. Does anybody agree with launching the YKTTW with only 11 examples? Despite all the bumping, this is all we got there.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Crown Description:
Not all options are mutually exclusive. Something They Would Never Say is losing the battle against Trope Decay — misuse has increased from 35% to 45% between June and October 2011.- Actual definition: A character can't directly tell their friends that they're in danger, so they send a message with a deliberately out of character remark added that the bad guys won't even be aware of, but the friends will pick up on and identify that they're in trouble.
- Prevelant misuse: Any time a character appears to say something out of character. May be a case of Spotting The Thread or OOC Is Serious Business.
Stapled it to the thread.
Also reclocked as requested because why not
edited 8th Apr '12 3:46:10 PM by BobbyG
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