Duplicate Trope: Viewer Species Confusion

Viewer Species Confusion vs. Informed Species. These seem to be almost exactly the same trope — confusion over what species a character is. The only difference is, one is YMMV and one isn't. Between the two, there are a ton of overlapping examples.

Going strictly by what is on the page:

• Informed Species: A character who belongs to a clearly-identified Real Life species ends up looking nothing like what that species actually does.
• Viewer Species Confusion: The audience thinks the character is of a different species than the one given.

Looks like it's trying to fill a hole for examples that feel really similar to Viewer Gender Confusion but don't quite belong over there. Informed Species would be the cause most of the time, so overlap isn't surprising. It would probably be a subtrope, if it were a trope.

If this were the YKTTW, Do We Need This would be a bigger concern for me than Do We Have This—but we don't really need most YMMV pages, so meh. Most of the problems here are problems with half the YMMV pages on the site. I'm inclined to brush it off as not worth worrying about.

edited 1st Nov '13 10:42:18 PM by troacctid

I think it's one of those things where that can overlap, but don't always do so(for example, Taz would be Informed Species but not Viewer Species Confusion because he doesn't look like any real animal)

For reasons mentioned above, I don't see a problem.

I don't see any problems with this trope either, just as I have no problems with Viewer Gender Confusion, in regards to Dude Looks Like a Lady and Lady Looks Like a Dude

While I recommend some example shuffling, I do not see a problem either.

eta: And now I have moved all examples that seemed to fit the other page better to these, as well as alphabetized the pages, cleaned up the Example Indentation etc.

edited 19th Nov '13 6:30:56 AM by SeptimusHeap