It has almost 1700 inbounds and 103 wicks.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPrevious thread. Given the high inbounds, we need to show a strong case of misuse if this is going to get renamed. So, I'll conduct a wick to see how well this is used. If we are going to rename it, I like Name In The Manual and No Name Mentioned from the previous thread.
edited 15th Aug '13 6:22:55 AM by MacronNotes
Macron's notesClicking related links at random, I was finding a fair amount of misuse. Almost always as The Nondescript or just someone other characters constantly forget.
There a way to find out where all those inbounds are coming from? Because that is a comically absurd number of inbounds... and I'd venture a guess they're likely trying to find the misused version of the trope, not that actual one.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Analyzing Inbounds is the page you are looking for.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThanks to both of you.
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the vast majority of the inbounds are from this Darths And Droids comic.
Which also is misuse, since it's referring to the audience forgetting a minor character entirely. It has nothing to do with a character only being named in supplementary materials/late in the series.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.If the character names appears only once, and is never shown or mentioned again, would that count as an example?
Anyways, here's a wick check for 50 wicks!
Correct (8)
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
- Twelfth Night
- Satellite Character
- Hamlet
- Bubble Bobble
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Senyuu.
- Prom
Misuse (33)
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- State Tan Project
- American Idol: The example said they got little screen time, which is not what this trope is about. These contestant's names have been mentioned several times during their seasons, so it's not an example.
- Disgaea Dimension 2
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Harper's Island
- Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru
- Upotte!!
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
- Soul Chess - The Thirteen Court Guard Squads
- Oh! Edo Rocket
- Jinji Zaiaku
- Mario & Luigi
- Tropes T To Z
- The Amazing Race 7
- Adventure Time: Minor
- The Runaway Guys
- The Amazing Race 21
- The Amazing Race 12
- Hana to Akuma
- Mad Men
- Love Hina
- The Jonas Brothers
- Warriors The Abridged Series
- The Year of Luigi
- The Graveyard Book
- Mindcrack Server
- Being Watched
- Stuck in Their Shadow
- Everyman HYBRID
- Ookami San
- Masou Kishin
- Send To Siberia
Zero Context Examples and unclear context (9)
- Sailor Moon Abridged
- Fire Emblem: Awakening
- Kappa Mikey
- Atop the Fourth Wall
- Half-Human Hybrid
- Caméra Café
- The Spanish Empire
- The Covenant
- Nanaka 6/17
edited 15th Aug '13 10:25:14 AM by MacronNotes
Macron's notesThe Fire Emblem Awakening examples are among the misuse I saw. Kallum is the Ridiculously Average Guy who keeps blending into the background that characters keep forgetting.
Question: Do we have tropes for "character that people often forget about" and "character returns and the audience has since forgotten about him"? The latter would be YMMV, I'd imagine.
edited 15th Aug '13 8:25:18 AM by Larkmarn
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I don't think we have either but we should to prevent misuse. If I have time, I'll make a YKTTW for "Character who's name is forgotten constantly". If only I could find a good name...
Macron's notesAlso, I think we are at the stage where a Single Prop rename crowner is indicated.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think this may have to become a disambig; there are several tropes that can be described as "Who is this guy again".
Such as The Nondescript, and Name In The Manual, and Accidental Misnaming, and NPCWeForgotAbout.
edited 15th Aug '13 11:07:41 AM by Spark9
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!A good point. It also means we won't lose the inbounds.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Agree with Sparky's proposal.
for 12 as well.
I never noticed that Analyzing Inbounds page before. I don't think it gets considered as often as it does.
Because the link to the latest inbound page isn't part of the Related To page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBecause the first impression is like, "Oh, this has 12,500 inbounds or whatever, so it's not worth a rename." That a site that gets 12,500 visitors a day misused a trope never seems to be considered. And I've seen plenty of threads locked just because of the trope's inbounds.
edited 15th Aug '13 12:59:15 PM by MikuruFan
Page action crowner. I also created two YKTTW's; Forgettable Character and Forgettable Name.
edited 15th Aug '13 5:23:21 PM by MacronNotes
Macron's notesCrowner's hooked.
Bump for votes.
Image Source. Please update whenever an image is changed.Bumping this to note that My Name Is Not Durwood is often used for "Can't remember this guy's name", which seems to overlap with one of the misuses of this trope, but I am not actually sure if it belongs to Accidental Misnaming.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanVotes! Disambig is at 13-1 now.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanCalling for the disambiguation motion.
The disambiguation is to be made between the YKTTW tropes above and other tropes. Which ones?
Forgettable Character and Forgettable Name are the YKTTWs. Who Is This Guy Again (after it gets its examples looked through) needs be moved to Name In The Manual or whatever we decide to call it.
The Nondescript and No Name Given are two tropes that could be in the disambiguation.
edited 2nd Dec '13 5:59:12 PM by MacronNotes
Macron's notes
Crown Description:
What would be the best way to fix the page?
Try to guess what this trope is about from the name. If you thought it's what a character says about another character's name that they can't remember, you'd be wrong. In fact, this page's previous image illustrated that. This trope is actuallt about when a character's name isn't made sufficiently clear, and the audience is unclear about the name. This name suffers from Stock Phrase syndrome.
Image Source. Please update whenever an image is changed.