Needs Help: Broken Masquerade

...why doesn't this page have a normal example list? Is there a reason for that, or can we start migrating them in?

Also, the description is a bit too self-demonstrating and long.

edited 16th May '12 11:44:03 PM by Discar

Bump.

Bump again.

C'mon guys, I know this isn't exactly high priority, but no one has anything to say about this?

it's weird that the examples are in the description.

It's okay to note one or two well-known examples in the description (or type list), but this isn't a replacement for a proper example section. However, in-page examples should also be limited to things that do not fall fully underneath the various Sub Tropes.

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

Yeah, it would be good to put some examples in as they do happen.

Also, I have a bit of a problem with the title. It sounds more like the Masquerade breaking overall (which is The Unmasqued World trope) rather than one person realising about the masquerade.

Some people say I'm lazy. It's hard to disagree.

You're right, it does. And better yet, we can check that...

Complete 'A' range (total 20 links)

Seems correct usage

• (8 articles)

Obviously "masquerade gets broken at large" (The Unmasqued World)

• A Girl And Her Fed (REMOVED; Zero Context Example)
• Alphas: "Rosen outs the existence of Alphas in the season 1 finale to spite Parish, whose plans hinge on Alphas being a secret, and to stop the government from sticking Alphas into secret jails and forcibly recruiting them to use their powers."
  • Headscratchers.Alphas: "how do shared universes handle a Broken Masquerade from a single storyline? "
  • YMMV.Alphas: "an end to secrets"
• A Magical Roommate: "While there have been kinks on a small scale, our world as a whole remained mostly unaware of the other world... then GORGONS and DRAGONS and TALK SHOWS oh my!"

Ambiguous cases

Too difficult to tell whether this refers to a single character learning about it or the world at large.

• Characters.Aaahh Real Monsters: "what would happen if monsterkind was revealed to humanity"
• Aetolia: "The Grand Artifice: The world is a lie, and the lie has been unraveling."
• After the End: "a Death Note AU which explores the Fridge Horror of having an entire realm of Death Gods that only need your name and face to kill you and what would happen once the Masquerade Broke"
• All Part of the Show: "vampire hitmen bust onto stage to take out Lestat, sick of his Masquerade-breaking ways"
• Always Save the Girl: "Joe Pitt ... starts a war between vampires, other vampires, and eventually the human world..."
• Amnesia Missed a Spot (lead paragraph): "Uh-oh. The Masquerade that you've worked so hard to build and maintain has suddenly been broken"
• Anagram Bin: "The Truman Show -> Ahem, Truths Now"

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Well, it's not conclusive, but it's not promising either.

edited 21st May '12 8:45:55 AM by Stratadrake

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

A Girl And Her Fed is incorrect use; its definitely The Unmasqued World.

Thanks. So I'm going to note it as misuse and remove it on grounds of being zero context.

Some of the ambiguous cases: Ahh Real Monsters for example, says "monsterkind" revealed to humanity (implying The Unmasqued World), but the surrounding dialogue makes clear that it's only being spoken hypothetically, as a warning to one character in specific. May still qualify as a Discussed application considering how it's linked.

edited 21st May '12 8:50:56 AM by Stratadrake

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

Clocking as inactive.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

I don't even get what this trope is supposed to be about. It seems to be about a protagonist discovering a masquerade or a hidden world in general, and this is broken into cases for no discernible reason - and only one case is an actual masquarade. I get that a character discovering some hidden truth about his/her world is a trope, but I don't think this is the best title for it, nor the best description.

As far as I can tell, this is just a list of Revelation Tropes written up in a fancy but impractical way. But fundamentally, it's just an index. I say we either convert this into a plain index (and rename), or in the likely event that we already have this index, just redirect it there.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

Oddly, at one point this used to have an example section. Also, it was apparently YKTTW'd, but not only is its archived discussion blank, its YKTTW is no longer in the database.

Expired clock and stale again. Locking.

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