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
We appear to have a consensus on this one. No one has voted up Hair And Heart Of Gold and no one has voted down Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold. We've had at least 16 people vote.
It's been just one day, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
...True, but it has been an overwhelming push for one and against the other.
There's a reason I have a crowner section in the first post. Go ahead and make crowners that we need and I'll link them all there.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
I want a Page Action for Shiny Midnight Black, but my only thought is to kill it with extreme prejudice. I've only seen one other alternative so far, and I'm not sure it works.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Make the crowners. They can gather votes in the first post and then I'll stick them on the thread to finish, but it will serve as a record of what we're working on.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
We could shorten Appearance As Plot Device to Appearance As Device, like we do for Characters as Device.
And Green Eyes needs to die. Obvious chairs.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:28:37 PM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Should we go thru the Shiny Midnight Black examples and see if there are any actual meaning tropes that show up repeatedly? There might be one.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:40:49 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
@60: Yes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI gave it a skim. Pretty much all X Just X. I don't think there's anything worth saving. Or if there is a tropable something-or-other, there's nothing on the current page that could be salvaged for it.
The visual representation of hair-shine might qualify as a type of Briffits and Squeans, I guess.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:34:44 PM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
With 202 inbounds, we might consider redirecting it if we can't cut it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Meaningful Appearance? ... Traits? I'm not good with naming.
Let me see...nope, nothing. At most I'd say it's a visual trope in which blue or purple is used to distinguish black hair from merely dark brown hair. But if that's going to stay it should be example-less.
The really silly part is where some examples that do have context refer vaguely to "the" personality or stereotype, as though the description mentioned one.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:43:02 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
I think we can keep it as an exampleless definition for an animation convention.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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Shall I add that option to the crowner?
Go ahead
What to do with wicks though? They are always the worst kind of ZCE because, well, there's really nothing to say.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:55:05 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Delete?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I'd rather not see the new name be specific to "Plot Device", since many appearance tropes are really characterization devices, rather than plot devices.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Was splitting off a Predatory Gold Eyes trope shot down in the other thread, or just forgotten? Because I've noted a few Gold Eyes wicks have been deleted that would fit fine for that.
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Ah, yes, that works. Thanks.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:58:47 PM by Discar
It was shot down in YKTTW as too close to Animal Eyes.
Looks As Device then? Since it's both plot and characterization and there's no reason to separate the two. Or Significant Appearance.
edited 7th Dec '12 12:58:58 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
I wonder if we'll get an eye colour meso-trope along with the one you are proposing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanInstead of Predatory Gold Eyes, couldn't that just be an Internal Subtrope of the trope for catlike eyes being used that way? The association comes from cats, right? May as well include the different ways you can evoke cat eyes.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
We can't have more than one crowner on the same thread. We first need to do this one.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman