Really a Useful Note: Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain looks like a simple case of namespace migration and inbound wicks.

First, it's a terrible trope, but it's a good Useful Note page.

Second, there are only four examples on the page, but is referenced in over 40 other pages. It'd help the page a bit if someone went through those references and added some of them to the page, possibly as part of an "Examples in Works" section.

—R.J.

I always thought that all these discussion threads with only one post hadn't been opened, and I never looked at them.

Now it turns out that some of them have been opened. Seems like it's time to look at all fifty-plus one-post threads on the page.

Topic: agree that this should be a Useful Note.

Yeah, I think the examples need to go, since the page's content is better suited for a Useful Note page.

Agreed, it should be a Useful Notes page.

As written it is a lot like a Useful Note, though I can easily imagine there being an Iron Curtain setting trope. Though I suppose the latter would just be Commie Land.

I concur with making this Useful Notes.

It'd be a good Useful Note, especially since the current Cold War-themed pages right now only seem to briefly mention the topic.

Now, as for the examples themselves: they don't fall under Commie Land (which is about a setting), since they're about physically getting past Iron Curtain security. Do we have an "escaping literal country borders" trope that they could be moved to?

edited 13th Oct '15 1:45:15 PM by Exagge

Run for the Border covers that trope—which I think should really be split, since "refugees escaping a bad place" carries very different connotations from "criminals looking for a place to hide out".

Awesome. I vote move examples there (and fix in-bound links if need be), then make Iron Curtain a Useful Note.

edited 13th Oct '15 3:44:02 PM by Exagge

Is this a go, or what?

Not sure whether this is a go. That's the problem with TRS, discussions tend to die at the worst times.

for making it a Useful Note.

Anyone up to fix the 51 wicks?

Sure thing.

...And done. There were a couple of examples that I deleted which used the now-Useful Note as a trope:

From Line of Delirium:

• At the end of the Vague War, the Psilons have retreated to their space and have maintained complete isolation since then. Nobody knows what's going on in Psilon territory.

From Rocky And Bullwinkle:

• Fearless Leader, Boris, and Natashya were standing behind it... and when it fell, it fell on them.

Now, anyone care to crosswick depictions?

edited 3rd Nov '15 5:26:26 PM by Josef5678

Good stuff.

Your first example could go under Run for the Border, no?

I think it qualifies.

edited 3rd Nov '15 5:29:16 PM by Josef5678

Last wick is taken care of. Ended up dewicking, due to lack of context that relates to the Iron Curtain itself.

Added the discussion page note, locking now.