On TV Tropes, it's very common for editors to misuse appearance tropes, as well as tropes whose names make them sound like they could be appearance tropes.
Meaningful Appearance tropes are often misused in ways that overlook the "Meaningful" aspect, resulting in Zero Context Examples and misuse in the form of examples that have no meaning even if the tropes themselves are not People Sit on Chairs.
The Appearance Tropes Cleanup sandbox covers tropes with potential issues. Tropes that simply require cleanup will go through this thread, while tropes that require more significant action will have to go through the Trope Repair Shop.
April 2, 2023 update: This thread is no longer for making changes to tropes, and was brought back from the Projects Morgue solely for cleanup. Making changes to tropes is still a job for the Trope Repair Shop.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:18:26 AM
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Empowered Blonde might be a little more specific to what you're describing.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
On Naming A Trope it says to, "Check for pre-established terms... ...but don't use just any pre-existing term." I would have no problem with Empowered Blonde. If the idea is there then maybe Bailey should write a sandbox for it.
The crowner looks set.
I like the "Empowered Blonde" option. I've seen to too many cliches in movies where The Hero or The Leader of whatever is the blond character. If it's not a Dumb Blonde then the blond one is the the person with the most power or central to the story (kind of like a Bald Black Leader Guy but caucasian).
Right now I'm thinking Prince/King Leif from the Deltora Quest series or Wren from The Pirates of Dark Water and Naruto as examples. If he is blonde, he must be the protagonist or leader guy. Maybe Power Blonde is too vague and it's the actual trope title that needs to be more specific.
edited 6th Jan '13 11:24:05 AM by VeritasVierge
I'm having real trouble finding a trope in Show The Forehead. It's about keeping bangs off your face...for a number of vague and usually unrelated reasons.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Most examples have no context either. Next cut candidate?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Sure, why not? I agree that if there's a trope there at all, it's very well hidden. Like most of the Personal Appearance tropes that are problematic, it's [personal appearance characteristic] + [possible reason 1] + [possible unrelated reason 2] + [possible unrelated reason 3]... and so on.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Sure, why not?
We need to cut Power Blonde first.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWell, this is a more clear-cut case, since it's far worse than Power Blonde. Gonna make a crowner now....
edited 6th Jan '13 2:49:38 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Power Blonde has been up since the 12. That's several weeks and it's been stable for and clear for a while. I think we can go ahead and call it.
We might want to redirect Show The Forehead to Forehead of Doom because that's an actual trope.
edited 6th Jan '13 4:08:09 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
There is support for Empowered Blonde. If Power Blonde gets cut could Empowered Blonde still go through YKTTW?
I think that name is just going to decay honestly. It sounds like it's either about blondes have super powers or blonde women are given more responsibilities or something. It's not a clear name nor is the trope you're going for defined by hair colour. Blonde, brunette, red head, they can all get that same treatment.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Bringing up White-Haired Pretty Boy on the queue. Most of the on-page examples are Zero Context, so it needs a cleaning if anything.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanSince this is part of the effort, we need hands on the Tall, Dark and Bishoujo thread.
I can write detailed instructions if you want.
Crowner has been up since the 29th and is stable. Calling in favour. New one coming soon.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Wicks purged.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
...Show The Forehead seems to me like it's just an example of People Sit on Chairs.
edited 9th Jan '13 8:28:09 AM by deathpigeon
I think with all the inbounds it has, we're better off redirecting it to Forehead of Doom which needs some work but is at least approaching an actual trope.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
37 inbounds is not much.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I would have thought it would have had more with all the years it's been around. Guess that's the true sign of how unhealthy it is.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickWell, for all intents and purposes cut or redirect both mean it's going away. Bad page is bad.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Only valid anything I can see on that page is Forehead of Doom and some ponytails are practical (Tomboyish Ponytail, basically, just more-so) / severe hairstyle = severe personality (male version of Power Hair = slicked back maybe?) sort of stuff. I doubt it is worth trying to save.
Slicked back hair = ambitious, kinda evilish guy with some other characteristics is a trope, but it needs to be started from scratch.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
It might not have enough examples to need to be split off of the supertrope anyway. (There's a folder for it there already.)
Although that Onion article is pretty funny.
More alarming, Swartz said, is that certain subsets of slicked-back-hair Americans endure even worse prejudices. He cited men with slicked-back hair who also talk with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths, wear blue button-down shirts with white collars, or place toothpicks behind their right ears as the most victimized.
edited 9th Jan '13 11:35:10 AM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Still, it's cropped up in books and in The New York Times and in various other places in political reporting and fashion writing to describe the exact concept we're going for. The description is unclear, but I was under the impression we systematically preferred pre-existing names.
Also, looking at the description, it seems as if it's at least attempting to get after that very idea, with all the talk of ambition and confidence the "how she looks is just to bring attention to what she does" bit. It's messy, maybe as a result of a subsequent editor missing the point, but the idea is thereish. The trope originally came out of a cleanup effort of some sort, where I rather offhandedly suggested that certain examples from another ill-defined trope fit this idea; I was not the one to write it up or YKTTW it, and I may have not been clear enough at the time.