This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.
Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/) or, if they don't have an article, on Quotes Looking for an Article.
Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread
in the Image Pickin' forum.
Edited by Tabs on Jul 15th 2023 at 2:40:54 AM
Damnably Inscrutable
The quote for Amnesiac Protagonist Catalyst is way too long- several paragraphs long. Is there a possible shorter replacement?
"Third wish?" The man was baffled. "How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?"
"You've had two wishes already," the hag said, "but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That's why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes." She cackled at the poor berk. "So it is that you have one wish left."
"All right," said the man, '"I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am."
"Funny," said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. "That was your first wish."
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I like it too (sans potholes).
I'm torn, because it's a really good quote, but yeah, too long. No ideas for a replacement.
Actually Exactly What It Says on the Tin was created as a trope about work titles. I don't like a quote that suggests the trope is about anything with a vaguely descriptive name. This smells like Trope Decay.
Let's just say and leave it at that.
Not a fan of a quote just repeating a trope name verbatim. There's no real insight into the trope's mechanics that way, and it's not clever by itself.
Can shapeshift (probably)
Oh I totally agree with you, in fact I had put that trope on the TRS Queue a little over a month and a half ago. I just instinctively assumed that the Trope Namer was an example.
...And now that you mention it I honestly don't think that it is (because it's just a regular object that happens to have its function explained in its name, like a "dryer" or a "washing machine")? Which is a whole new problem with a trope that's already riddled with problems.
Yeah, I can see that, even disregarding other issues.
Battle Angel Alita has a quote from James Cameron, who directed the live-action movie. I feel like a work's quote should be from the work itself rather than someone who wasn't involved in its creation saying how much they like it, but maybe that's just me.
Avatar: Amethio (Pokemon Horizons)
Very Spooky
It's very generic anyways. I'd be up for pulling.
back lol
For Four More Measures, from the Weird Al parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" where he starts too early, and keeps talking over the music until he gets to the right place:
- My life is brilliant-What, was I too early? Oh sorry, should I- do you want to start over, or... keep going? OK... now? now?—Weird Al's "You're Pitiful"
The page for Getting Eaten Is Harmless has no quote on its main page, yet has a quote page containing only a single example:
Okay if we delete the quote page and just move the quote to the main page?
Rookie Trope Repairer
No objections.
"Cool. Coolcoolcool."
I like that idea.
Edited by Bullman on Mar 7th 2024 at 1:52:00 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread
Okay how do you delete a page
"Cool. Coolcoolcool."
File it for cutting at Cut List
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread
The quote on Film.Death To Smoochy doesn't say much about the film.
Someone changed the quote on Series.Avatar The Last Airbender 2024. Old one (it was unsourced, but was Monk Gyatso):
New one:
For millennia, the four nations have lived in harmony, a peace made possible by the Avatar… the one person with the ability to master all four elements and protect the delicate balance between nations.
When one Avatar dies, their spirit is reborn into a new body in an eternal cycle. Since the death of the last Avatar, the new incarnation has yet to emerge.
And so Fire Lord Sozin, the ruthless leader of the Fire Nation, believes this is his moment to launch a merciless campaign to conquer the world. His first step is to eliminate the one person who could stand in his way.
The next master of all four elements, an Airbender who may not be ready for the responsibility of becoming the Avatar.
New one feels way too long to me, even if it does mirror what's on WesternAnimation.Avatar The Last Airbender.
Thoughts?
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Old one seems appropriate both as a thematic statement and for an adaptation.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
She / Her
I prefer the old too, mostly because I feel the current is too long.
I feel the page quote for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is too long, but do you all feel the same? If so, should it just be cut altogether or should part of it stay?
Angry babby
The quote on Fictional Disability seems to require a lot of context in the attribution, which is a red flag to me. The other two quotes on the subpage are a bit long but more illustrative.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
I agree with pulling the current, but the other two in the quotes page are way too long. I think it's fine to leave it blank for now.
Angry babby
I thought about whether a longer version of the Futurama quote I added in my most recent example could count since it lampshades the parallel between the The Chosen One plot and actual mental disability, but I'm not sure if that'll translate easily.
Edited by mightymewtron on Mar 11th 2024 at 1:03:28 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
This one? Yeah, I think that works.
- Nibbler: The fate of your world — perhaps all worlds — rests in his special mind.
Leela: Now, when you say "special"...
The Animorphs quote from the quote page needn't be that long, just the beginning would work as well.
- "Post-Infestation Affective Blunting Syndrome. By far the most noticeable symptom is the flat affect—the relative lack of emotional expression—which can create the illusion that the person is genuinely not emotional, but usually that is not the case."
Amateur Veteran
I like the second, at least insofar as it has the condition be due to "infestation" — there's no indication in the Futurama quote that Fry's condition is anything fantastical or fictional, or for that matter that's a negative condition or something other than a unique situation.
(I know, from context, that it is an example — but the quote doesn't indicate that or how it is, which is the issue.)
Edited by Theriocephalus on Mar 12th 2024 at 4:20:17 AM
Angry babby
There is a bit more to the quote that I had cut for context, it starts with this:
"There is but one being who can resist them— a child of destiny whose bizarre brain-wave pattern makes him immune to the Brain Spawn attack. He is the hope of the universe."
Is this enough to contextualize? As for the negative aspect, the "special" double meaning is meant to indicate that though I get if it's too vague.
Edited by mightymewtron on Mar 12th 2024 at 2:49:52 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Anime Guy
Pinkerton has two quotes, which I don’t think is normal for an article. They both read:
I think the latter fits more with the emotionally vulnerable album, but what does the rest of this forum think?
I’m sorry, but you have Stage 9 Animes.
Crown Description:
What should be the page quote for Monster.Fan Works?
This was recently added to Exactly What It Says on the Tin by F-RIFFS:
Near as I can tell, the trope didn't have a page quote before, but is this sufficiently illustrative of the concept? If we do keep it I'd obviously need to get rid of the Trope Namer and The Nudifier sinkholes, but I wouldn't necessarily mind it staying.
Silver and gold, silver and gold