I see the Awesomeness.
Meh on the title. I think it would be better as Super Trophy Rack, and think it's doable. Also, the page is ancient, the real life section hasn't even been moved to the bottom.
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What's the difference between this and The Collector?
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The Collector is an antagonistic figure, and Super Trophy Super Rack applies to heroic protagonists. That seems to be the difference.
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We also seem to have Trophy Room, and according to the links between the two tropes, STSR is just The Same But More of that.
Trophy Room: "If they have had an adventurous and eventful life it may become a full blown museum, taking up not just a wall or room but an entire wing of their mansion as it verges on becoming (or surpassing) a Super Trophy Super Rack"
STSR: "These collections might be all over their base, have their own room in the base, or be only a modest trophy rack with all the keys to different cities they saved from destruction."
These tropes still need to be sorted out.
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I Thought It Meant Most Common Superpower. Well, I guess that that's already in the page.
I don't see what 'Super Rack' means, though, aside from that.
^ AFAICT, it's "Trophy Rack" plus a joke about stuff to do with superheroes being called "Super-X". So a superhero's Trophy Rack becomes a Super-Trophy Super-Rack. But yeah, Most Common Superpower does spring more readily to mind.
So, any ideas?
Dragon Writer
This thread should have been called "Super misleading: Super Trophy Super Rack". Other than that, no, no ideas.
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Cure Candy
I wast to say something like "The Superhero's Museum".
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I'd say move all examples of Super Trophy Super Rack to Trophy Room and have done with it.
That One Guy
That would work.
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Loser
I apologize for being late to this thread, but there is now a page action crowner for this trope here
. Feel free to add options as you see fit.
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I think there's room enough for both tropes. Super Trophy has a detailed definition and almost as many wicks as Trophy Room so it seems healthy. Most importantly, Super Trophy talks a lot about the use of the room in visual media to avoid Wall of Text and Purple Prose. I see it as a subtrope.
The Other Troper
God, rename it. And this isn't quite trophies as much as memorabilia in general.
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Calling crowner in favor of a rename.
Names crowner here.
Hammer of the Pervs
Bump for votes. Right now 5-0 in favor of Super Trophy Rack with no other options, and probably no other options necessary.
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The Other Troper
Not too fond of that, as I keep thinking of... the other definition of rack.
EDIT: Added a couple more options.
edited 31st Jan '12 3:32:12 PM by DragonQuestZ
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Ha, thought I was the only one.
Fixed spelling of "memento," then downvoted the name.
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Hammer of the Pervs
Anyone else want to vote on this?
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I'd like a couple more votes before I call this. I'd rather at least 15 min.
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I added Super Tropy Case. We generally call it a trophy case, right, not a trophy rack?
"Trophy Case" gets 13,000,000 ghits. "Trophy Rack" gets 130,000 and "Trophy Shelf" 250,000.
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What would be the best way to fix the page?
So presumably the name is meant to reflect "superheroes put "super-" in front of everything, so their Trophy Rack would be a Super Trophy Super Rack!", but it sounds clunky and obstructs the meaning. Just Super Trophy Rack would be an improvement.