Has no examples: Exposition Bomb

Well... it doesn't. It also has almost no wicks or outbounds. Examining the YKTTW archive indicates that its creator thought exposition tropes weren't supposed to have examples, which is obviously untrue.

So... what do we with it?

Wtf a stub has brought 31 people to the wiki? The thing has no history so its been around since the last purge... wtf.

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Sending the trope back to YKTTW to pick up some examples sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me. I think it would be nice to have at least a couple of examples before putting it there though.

edited 10th Oct '11 5:27:33 PM by LouieW

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Has anyone taken this to YKTTW?

Yeah, unwritten rule number one: follow all the unwritten procedures. - Camacan

No. Anyone wanna do it, or are we going to just keep passing it around?

Exposition + Anvilicious?

Whether we need that or not, looks like it doesn't have examples due to YMMV-ness.

...And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense - R.W.Wood

How is this different from As You Know?

As You Know is about a character repeating something the other character already knows, but to which the audience hasn't been clued in on yet.

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

So... Like the entire scene in the Silent Hill film were the screen turns white and about five minutes of backstory was dumped when the credits where only about 20 minutes away would be this?

Please.

More of an Infodump, I think. The current definition of this trope is Exposition Done Badly, which I'm not convinced is tropable at all.

As it stands, this is just a page for complaining: it needs a dose of Tropes Are Not Bad.

That said, we already have a neutral version of this trope anyway, i.e. Info Dump, so I don't see much of a point to this page.

Cutlist, imho.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

I don't see a trope here. I see nothing but Exposition Done Badly.

Info Dump isn't exactly neutral, but it's relatively neutral given how easy it is to that trope badly.

This trope appears to be "Exposition that breaks Willing Suspension of Disbelief". At best, that's an extremely subjective Audience Reaction since everyone's threshold for WSoD is different.

Given that it's used to complain, it's not a trope, and it has no examples, I'd vote cut.

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

, I agree. It's also the same problem I have with Drama Bomb.

edited 8th Mar '12 12:14:33 PM by DragonQuestZ

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

Redirect it to Info Dump. It has 31 inbounds after all.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I do kind of see this as a trope, if only because of how often it's done, and how obvious it is when it happens. It's a bit YMMV, but it's the kind of thing you know when you hear.

It's not a trope, though, it's a reaction to a trope.

Exposition is a trope.

"That exposition was badly placed, and broke my suspension of disbelief" is an Audience Reaction.

EDIT: Hooked up a page action crowner. Feel free to add more options.

edited 8th Mar '12 2:15:18 PM by ccoa

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

Even if we don't want this as a page, I don't see a reason to cut it when it would make such a great redirect.

Rhymes with "Protracted."

The trope isn't "badly paced" exposition. The trope is "exposition that comes out of no-where, doesn't fit naturally into the story, and then goes away just as fast. It's the non-video game version of He Knows About Timed Hits.

It's actually invoked pretty often, too. Anything with Stylistic Suck has a good chance of having it.

edited 8th Mar '12 3:11:25 PM by abk0100

He Knows About Timed Hits is about deliberately Breaking the Fourth Wall in order to give a video game tutorial. How is that related to "awkwardly placed exposition" (paraphrased from the description itself)?

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.

"exposition that comes out of no-where, doesn't fit naturally into the story, and then goes away just as fast"

So at best it's the exposition counterpart to Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. At worst, it's still exposition, but poorly executed.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

Then why doesn't it have an Audience Reaction tag?

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

Support Audience Reactions or YMMV Redirects if it gets redirected.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

How about someone put it up without putting it on that index?

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

The YMMV banner is tied to the indexes, so no.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman