Misused: Broken Streak

The trope's description denotes snapping a losing streak or a winning streak in competitive settings like sports. Yet some works pages and character sheets have used this trope for whatever or whoever breaks a recurring trend.

Should we adjust the description so the "breaking a recurring trend" is accounted for, or should we make it an entirely new trope?

Bump to implement a usage list. Looking over the examples on the page:

Does not match description:

• Pokémon - broken trend
• Pope Francis- broken trend

Uncertain (they may be used correctly, but it's up to interpretation):

• The music examples
• Pixar
• Brad Bird's involvement in Tomorrowland

The rest are correct uses, judging by the current description.

And the wicks not listed in the page:

• Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series - may be correct use.
• Characters.Americas Next Top Model The Panel - broken appearance streak
• Awesome.Ashes Of The Past - gray area
• Characters.Assassins Creed Unity The Assassins - broken trend
• ToddInTheShadows.A To C - gray area
• Banana Shpeel - likely correct use
• Chorocojo - broken trend
  • Associated heartwarming page - proper pothole
• Characters.Daily Life With Monster Girl - broken trend
• YMMV.Dan Bull - sinkhole
• Characters.Dangan Roleplay Gimmick Rounds - broken trend
• Deadliest Warrior - correct use
• SelfDemonstrating.Delightful Children From Down The Lane - Another gray area
• Heartwarming.Digimon Xros Wars The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time - sinkhole
• Characters.ERB Season 4 - broken trend
• Characters.Fire Emblem - sinkhole
• Characters.Future Card Buddyfight - correct use
• Laconic.Happiness Charge Pretty Cure - Sinkhole
• How I Met Your Mother S 4 E 13 Three Days Of Snow - broken trend (subversion)
• Characters.Inspector Spacetime - broken trend
• Justice Intermediate Gods - proper pothole
• Kamen Rider Drive - broken trend
  • All the associated recaps - broken trends
• Characters.Kamen Rider Gaim Helheim Forest - broken trend
• Characters.KND Other Characters - correct use
• Characters.Kuroko No Basuke - correct use
• Lady Jewelpet - broken trend
• Marriland - another gray area, most likely a broken trend
• Marvel: Avengers Alliance - broken trend
• Moneyball - aversion, but correct use
• Characters.Monster Hunter Main Series Monsters - just a case of "x that is not y"; won't fit even with a retool. Has been removed from trope list; trailing text migrated close by.
• My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic - leaning towards correct use
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E14 "Filli Vanilli" - correct use
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E16 "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" - broken trend
• 1941 - gray area
• Characters.Nnemonic - correct use
• Characters.One Tree Hill - broken trend
• TheRunawayGuys.Other Videos - broken trends
• Power Rangers Dino Charge - broken trend
• Recess - correct use
• Regular Show S 03 Ep 03 Skips Strikes - correct use
• Rewrite - broken trend (subversion)
• RWBY V2 E11 "No Brakes" - correct uses
• Sailor Moon Crystal Ep 18 Invasion Sailor Venus - broken trend
• TheScrappy.Super Mario Bros - sinkhole
• EnsembleDarkhorse.Super Smash Bros - sinkhole
• Characters.Survivor Marquesas - broken trend
• Characters.Survivor Worlds Apart - correct use
• Characters.The Delightful Children From Down The Lane - gray area
• Characters.The D Pad - broken trend
• The Flash (2014) S1 E13 "The Nuclear Man" - gray area
• The Flintstones - ZCE has been commented out due to being a ZCE
• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones - correct use
• The Mysterious Mr. Enter - broken trend
• Awesome.The Tenth Kingdom - proper pothole
• The Village - gray area, may be correct use
• Tipping Forties - broken trend
  • Associated funny page - sinkhole
• Characters.Touhou Subterranean Animism - broken trends
• DeathBattle.Tropes A To C - correct uses
• Characters.Twitch Plays Pokemon Omega Ruby - broken trend
• Twitch Plays Pokemon X - case of "first x", also found on character sheet.
• VeggieTales in the House, S1, E5 - correct use
• Characters.VGCW Male Wrestlers - correct use
• Viva Elvis - gray area
• Characters.Worm Worldwide Threats - broken trend
• Yogscast Minecraft Series - likely a broken trend
• Characters.Yu Gi Oh Arc V Maiami City - broken trend
• The rest are already listed in the trope page

Overall analysis: The page itself had a few strays, but looks all right. The wicks? Not so much.

edited 6th Aug '15 7:09:41 PM by Berrenta

Wait, are some of the fifty-odd topics in this forum with only one post in them actually open? Because I just assumed that when a moderator opened a topic, they added a message to indicate that it was in fact open.

Also, this is not tropeworthy and should be cut.

There are a few potential subtropes that are worth noting, like in gladiatorial combat, where the champion is touted as the most undefeatable thing ever, and the protagonists have no chance against him, but naturally that streak is ended because they are the protagonists (sort of like an invoked Worf Effect).

On the other hand, the page doesn't even mention that.

Finished the analysis on the wicks. Also purged a blatant misuse and a ZCE, both of which are struck through on the list.

Anyways, what does everyone else think should be done? I'd also like input on those examples I considered to be in the gray area.

Going to create a crowner, so we'll see what we can do with this trope.

Maybe the "broken trend" misuse could be split into its own trope?

That's one of the possibilities I was thinking of. We'll see what the others think.

Okay, finally got the crowner ready to be hooked:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/PageAction/BrokenStreak

Are there any other options that we are missing?

Went ahead and commented out the two misuses on the page, since we haven't decided on anything yet.

Locking as part of the New Year's Purge.