Isn't about having Common Sense: Common Sense

Common Sense would tell you, that this trope would be Exactly What It Says on the Tin, but it's not. Instead it's about a "simple" character saying something intelligent.

Wik check:

• Chain Letter: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Cyrano de Bergerac: X Just X
• Don Quixote: X Just X
• Fate/Nuovo Guerra: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Hachimitsu No Kissu: X Just X
• Gear Saints: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Karmic Trickster: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Kung-Fu Clairvoyance: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Love Potion: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Needle in a Stack of Needles: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Pinky And The Brain: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Sidekick Ex Machina: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Characters/Superman: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• The Scarlet Pimpernel: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Things Mr Welch Is No Longer Allowed To Do In An RPG: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect
• Toad Patrol: Refers to actual common sense - incorrect

17 wiks checked. 3 X Just X. 14 Incorrect. 100% misuse.

Yeah...

edited 24th Jul '11 2:41:54 PM by shimaspawn

>100% misuse

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So...do we redefine or do we cut?

I think we could really use a trope for actual common sense. We have a lot of people using it like it's the trope they expect and it's not that uncommon a character trait in fiction. A lot of those are character pages.

I like the idea of a Trope Transplant - redefine Common Sense to mean "common sense" and then move this one to something like Simple Wisdom. (That's an overly broad name, though, so it's not very good.)

^ Would Simpleminded Wisdom work better?

In favor of a trope transplant.

Simpleminded Wisdom is nice. I'm in favor of a transplant.

edited 24th Jul '11 3:15:29 PM by INUH

A transplant would work well.

How do we want to define Common Sense?

There is now a page action crowner here which includes the trope transplant option that Jack Alsworth mentioned.

edited 24th Jul '11 3:20:49 PM by LouieW

Simpleminded Wisdom.

Well, we have 13 votes for a trope transplant. I'm going to take actual Common Sense to the YKTTW and swap this crowner for an alt names crowner.

Bumping for more votes. I see a new option was added. The characters generally used for this aren't stupid. They're more average.

There is now a page for Simpleminded Wisdom. I moved the wicks from Common Sense that were actually about the trope as described and left the ones that were just about general common sense. I figure that those can stay until the trope transplant is finished.

In any event, I would appreciate it if someone would check the remaining wicks in case I misinterpreted them. I think it was kind of tough to differentiate between Common Sense and Simpleminded Wisdom for some of them, especially the examples for works I did not know.

I am unsure about making a note in the Renamed Tropes page. I imagine it would make more sense to do that once the trope transplant is complete.

edited 21st Aug '11 12:52:47 PM by LouieW

Trope Transplant is the page. That means that we can run the actual trope for common sense through the YKTTW.