Soft split?: Cut Lex Luthor A Check

The examples are a mess of both "You could make more money legitimately," and "You actually make more money legitimately".

Do we need a soft split?

Or we could hard split one to Selling Super Science or something.

Or Mad Science Inc. (Which admittedly may sound too narrow.)

Bump.

Created a Page Action Crowner Here.

-Bump-

-bump-

Come on guys, This should be easy.

Edit: Is 4:0 enough to call a consensus?

edited 4th Jun '11 6:22:00 PM by pokedude10

Bump.

Tangential question: What relevance does the trope title "Cut Lex Luthor A Check" have to the definition? Maybe that's part of the reason for the apparent Trope Decay?

^^ Yes. So is 3:1. Locking the crowner and calling this one.

Soft Split the examples for now. Revisit whether it needs or merits a hard split at least a couple months from now.

edited 5th Aug '11 5:02:15 PM by Madrugada

So was the work done on this? Can we close?

*checks* Nope, hasn't been soft-split yet.

edited 8th Oct '11 5:01:26 PM by troacctid

Is there an asterisk on this thread yet? If not, there should be.

ETA: Nope. How can one be added?

edited 27th Nov '11 2:23:34 AM by Leaper

Holler?

Added an asterix.

What exactly is a soft split, how do you make it and can I go ahead and do it?

A "split" is when a trope's examples are divided into two or more groups over an equal number of pages.

A "soft split" sees examples divided into groups, but the groups stay cataloged on one page (usually divided as "Types 1, 2, A, B, etc.")

Like, say, Alternative Character Interpretation?

"Hard split" (or just "split") means dividing an article into multiple pages.

"Soft split" means dividing an article within that one page.

Your link to ACI is an example of an article that was hard split (for a much more common reason than splitting off different meanings: its many examples were divided into subpages).

edited 15th Jan '12 4:11:25 PM by rodneyAnonymous

See How To Split A Page. Basically you divide the examples under two headers, one for each category.

Thank you. Should the two categories have names of their own or is "You could make more money legally" enough?

Hard split usually means separate names, soft split usually means same name.

According to this thread, "You could make more money legitimately" and "You actually make more money legitimately" are two flavors of Cut Lex Luthor a Check. Different spins on a similar premise, separate examples.

An example of a soft-split page is Chess with Death.

edited 16th Jan '12 1:27:08 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Could we change the page quotes too?

Done. (Swapped with Quotes page.)

It's actually the same trope. If the villain could make more money legitimately but doesn't, that's playing the trope straight. If the villain actually does go legit and make money off his inventions, that's a subversion of the trope. So they don't need to be separated.

edited 21st Feb '12 1:32:24 PM by WarriorEowyn

That doesn't cut it. Take Lex Luthor. A lot of the time, he's shown as having made himself rich off his own genius before even having met Superman.

edited 21st Feb '12 1:37:11 PM by abk0100