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Useful Tips:
- Make sure that the example makes sense to both people who don't know the work AND don't know the trope.
- Wrong: The Mentor: Kevin is this to Bob in the first episode.
- Right: The Mentor: Kevin takes Bob under his wing in the first episode and teaches him the ropes of being a were-chinchilla.
- Never just put the trope title and leave it at that.
- Wrong: Badass Adorable
- Right: Badass Adorable: Xavier, the group's cute little mascot, defeats three raging elephants with both hands tied behind his back using only an uncooked spaghetti noodle.
- When is normally far less important than How.
- A character name is not an explanation.
- Wrong: Full Moon Silhouette: Diana
- Right: Full Moon Silhouette: At the end of her transformation sequence into Moon Princess Misty, Diana is shown flying across the full moon riding a rutabaga.
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Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 18th 2023 at 11:42:55 AM
You need to exchange the [[]] and {{}} around.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Also, that's misuse of Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as fish and birds are not the same as "Human or Robot".
Chick Magnet-Caitlin Cooke from 6teen had too many boyfriends to count. Many of them become whole episode plots. She has mentioned that there have even been a few women who asked her out.
- I assume that there is a trope for attraction towards both sexes.
- Sixteen needs italics and namespacing.
- The last pothole needs "the" capitalized in the link.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
You should probably use Dude Magnet instead, which redirects to the same article.
Create Your Own Villain-Walt Disney would have been a nobody if Universal Studios didn't have a falling out him with over Oswaldthe Lucky Rabbit.
That example is calling Walt Disney a villain. We don't do that.
Also, the - should be surrounded with spaces if the page uses - and substituted with : if the page uses : in the space between trope name and example text.
Oswaldthe needs to be OswaldThe
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Lost in Space
Calling anybody in Real Life a villain is a violation of the Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgement.
Edit: ninja!
edited 8th Feb '13 7:24:29 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
- What about this? In the same vein, there would be no Walt Disney Company if Universal Studios didn't have a falling out with Walt Disney over Oswald The Lucky Rabbit.
Lost in Space
What article do you want to add this example to? At least it's grammatical now.
edited 8th Feb '13 7:37:02 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I want to add it the Real Life folder in Create Your Own Villain.
Not sure if I want to add that, per the previous comment. I'll bring this section up in the RL section maintenance thread.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It is a simular example to Nintendo creating Sony's Playstation, so why not?
I think there is another trope for creating one's own antagonist. That example would be served better there.
edited 8th Feb '13 7:44:38 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
What is the trope called?
Lost in Space
I think that we should not be adding examples like that, and it's a matter for the NRLEP thread.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
For Real Life, I wish to add driving your sister insane and attatching balloons to your house to fly to South America to the list of awesome stuff.
Awesome.Real Life: That needs specific examples. I have no idea what the work potholes are doing there. The "insane" thing sounds fishy to me.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Lost in Space
I think you have absolutely no idea what Awesome.Real Life is about, dude. To begin with, those are work examples, not RL.
I ment the list of things on the actual Real Life page.
Lost in Space
Oh, you mean the intro paragraph? Don't mess with that. It's an in joke that has already gotten a bit out of hand, to judge by what's there already. In fact, I'd almost favor cutting it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Enfant Terrible 6teen has Stanley, who attacks people with a ball launcher, embarrasses and insults anyone he doesn’t like, and destroys mall property. Want to know the worst part? His mom knows what he’s doing, and lets him get away with it.
Enfant Terrible: 6teen has Stanley, who attacks people with a ball launcher, embarrasses and insults anyone he doesn’t like, and destroys mall property. And his mom knows what he’s doing, and lets him get away with it.
- Please use separators.
- Work names need namespaces and italics.
- Don't think that the "Want to know" bit is necessary.
- The example talks only about the "terrible" part.
edited 9th Feb '13 12:03:51 PM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I think Septimus' point number 4 is that the example also needs to say how old Stanley is.
Here's another one. For Viewer Gender Confusion X-play had a segment called "Guy or Girl", where the viewers were asked if some androgynous video game characters were either male or female. It was later re-used as "Robot or Human" for... {{Exactly What It Saysonthe Tin fish and birds,}} SarcasmMode obviously