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They Fight Crime! requires both a mismatched pair (not a group), and they must be fighting crime (not simply working together to accomplish something.) They don't have to be formal policemen, in many cases, one (or both) isn't a formal policeman.
It looks like it's been hijacked into a game of "Let's try to make this show fit the description even if it doesn't really."
Go ahead and example-prune. Leave an edit reason pointing out that they don't fit the definition, and that it's a trope, not a game.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:46:52 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Okay, got it. Let the pruning begin!
Isn't the "mismatched pair" part covered by Wunza Plot? ("Wunza x. Wunza y. They Fight Crime!.)
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Wunza Plot is "Wunza X, Wunza Y, Together they Z." Z could be anything, although "fight crime" is really popular.
The mismatched-in-temperament pair thing is Odd Couple.
They Fight Crime! has to be a Wunza Plot, featuring an Odd Couple, with Z being "fight crime".
edited 16th Jun '11 12:15:37 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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Then Wunza Plot has the same problem. As many, if not MOST of the examples are about groups, or premises not defined as "One's a X, One's a Y, they Z"
To be fair, the definition is TERRIBLE. Before Foxxy Mod explained it, I had no idea this is what it was supposed to mean.
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I just cleaned up the definition of Wunza Plot and cut several of the examples I knew were bad. There are probably some more that need to be cut. Take a look, please.
edited 16th Jun '11 5:27:45 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Perpetually Confused
Wow, that is alot of examples cut. And a better description
Not seeing some outright bad ones, though some are kind of reaching (Metal Wolf Chaos, for one)
edited 16th Jun '11 5:35:24 PM by Ghilz
I took a chainsaw to it and Madrugada did the description. It's much clearer now.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Seems like the bad examples have been cut and the description is clearer. I'm calling for a lock
From my understanding of the summary, They Fight Crime! is supposed to be about two diametrically opposed individuals paired together to accomplish some goal, usually, well, fighting crime.
Many of the examples (the Darker Than Black, Watchmen, and Yu Gi Oh entries, for example) don't seem to reflect this. Instead, they read as, "Here is group of oddball characters. They do something," which I'm pretty sure if not this trope.
I've got two concerns on the table.
1. Do I have the go-ahead for example pruning, or am I just reading the trope wrong (i.e. it's a Just for Fun thing like Better Than It Sounds)
2. Does there need to be any sort of changes to the title or summary to clarify the trope to people adding examples?
edited 16th Jun '11 10:09:47 AM by Sparkysharps