Ambiguous Name: Oh Wait

I think this is a valid trope, but the name doesn't help. The term is quite often used in this trope, but it's not only used for it. It's non indicative. Or if it is, it causes troper potholes.

Now for a wick check, 15 out of 41, with 99 inbounds (which might qualify for not thriving as well).

Correct

• Atop The Fourth Wall: Although mentioning it happens a lot only barely escapes a Zero Context Example.
• Recap.Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 3 E 20 The Prom
• Awesome.Justice League
• Awesome.Lemmys Land
• Mythbusters
• TakeThat.Western Animation
• Why Didnt You Just Say So: Although just one use of it, when this trope is a fairly common response to that trope.

Troper Pothole

• Bag of Spilling
• Roleplay.Bioshock Above The Sea: Only directly wicked instead of potholed.
• Fridge.Bulletstorm
• NightmareFuel.Metroid
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
• YMMV.Valkyria Chronicles

Misuse

• FunnyAneurysmMoment.Web Original: Okay, the use is correct, but the page it's on is misuse. That joke failed due to something that happened before the joke, not after. It more fits Too Soon if anything.

Not Sure

• Victorious: Might be another similar trope.

Well, at least some of the potholes are actually used correctly.

It does seem like the trope is far more common than it appears here, though.

It's also dialogue.

Speaking of which, not to be confused with Hey, Wait!, another Stock Phrase name.

Potholes are still potholes. Most potholes of understatement were correct, but that didn't make them proper uses of the trope.

My point was that that they don't confuse the meaning of the trope so much, which means the name isn't ambiguous. If you say they're not using the trope correctly, it's not for that reason. That has to do with potholing policy, which I'm not particularly clear on.

Potholing is bad if it's just a troper making an example, instead of noting that it happened in a work (in a way that's still a little relevant to the example*).

If it's shoehorned in, then it's a bad example, which is what the wicks in that section are.

And that can be due to a name, since they think the name is a license to snark, not a trope about something In-Universe.

* Like there is Stuff Blowing Up and a character makes a genuine Understatement comment related to the explosions. Any example noting that the character said it can pothole that trope legitimately.

edited 23rd Mar '12 1:08:13 PM by DragonQuestZ

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