It's now up to four examples (one anime example, one comic book example, and one bullet point on another level to go with each of them), but they all seem to fit elsewhere just as well if not better. The Lex Luthor example is Good Feels Good. The Digimon example is Heroic Bystander (it may seem tenuous, but it fits that trope as well as the examples from the Spider-Man movies, at least). The pre-Crisis Superman example is an enforced Zero-Approval Gambit or a Hate Plague or some other Mind Manipulation trope. And in any event, it's only listed here as an inversion, which is always marginal.
I vote to delete the Civilian Power trope entirely.
edited 18th May '15 12:55:32 PM by Cybishop
So, based on the description, the trope is about civilians cheering for the heroes and booing the villains. I'm not sure how tropeworthy is that, so I don't mind cutlisting it either.
How sweet it is
Checked out the page, and... I don't see how we could salvage this. The lack of examples make it Too Rare To Trope.
I second cutlisting it.
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I've accepted the cut request. Stub trope and serious questions about the applicability of the current examples. It may be worth YKTTW'ing, in which case YKTTW will have to decide on restoration.
Closing this.
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