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Deadlock Clock: Jul 2nd 2014 at 11:59:00 PM
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#1: May 2nd 2014 at 12:11:07 PM

Honestly, I've noticed a lot of issues with Three Amigos (I still want to know where that name comes from) and Two Guys and a Girl as well, but this has the most blatant misuse. This tends to get used whenever there's a group of three people but one of them happens to be a guy (and the inverse is true for Two Guys and a Girl), which seems to be pretty not tropeworthy in of itself. That said, the pages do suggest that there's ill-defined "drama" brought on by the pairing, which is more tropeable. But that gets largely ignored.

Two Girls and a Guy is especially bad because it specifies that one of the girls is the lead, with another girl being her foil, and then the Token Guy. However, a lot of the examples on the page (what few actually have context) describe scenarios where the male is the lead, as well as Betty and Veronica situations.

Just take a look at the examples on the page. Firstly, almost all of them are Zero Context Examples, just listing the three people. Some of them specify that the guy is the protagonist, which is misuse. Almost none of them reference drama brought on by the dynamic, but if they do it's usually mentioning that the male is the main character, not one of the girls.

edited 2nd May '14 6:27:08 PM by Larkmarn

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#2: May 6th 2014 at 7:19:25 AM

FYI, this is the Trope Namer for Three Amigos. Either that or it got custom titled the same way because of the film.

edited 6th May '14 7:20:05 AM by Fighteer

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#3: May 6th 2014 at 7:37:49 AM

If that's the trope namer, then there's an issue there since it's comically not an example.

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#4: May 6th 2014 at 7:39:15 AM

... No kidding. The film page even says that. I'm tempted to facepalm.

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#5: May 6th 2014 at 1:03:48 PM

Interestingly, the most recent edit to Three Amigos claims that Film.Three Amigos is the trope namer and codifier for the trope Three Amigos which... yeah.

But anyway, this is technically off-topic, unless we think dealing with Three Amigos must be done to fix Two Girls and a Guy.

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#6: May 8th 2014 at 1:25:33 AM

The obvious answer is that there's misuse on account of the name being incredibly broad.

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#7: May 8th 2014 at 4:12:57 AM

Indeed, considering how some editors don't actually read descriptions before adding examples, it's probably safe to assume that they're just taking the trope name literally and that's that.

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#8: May 9th 2014 at 11:43:31 AM

I think part of the issue is that "drama" is very ill-defined here. "The girl is the lead" misuse aside, I'm not exactly sure what exactly that means.

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#9: May 29th 2014 at 8:25:02 AM

Bump.

I just think as a whole all three of these are pretty vague.

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#11: Jul 3rd 2014 at 5:49:13 AM

Clock's up; locking for inactivity.

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