"It Makes Sense In Content"

I support adding "It Makes Sense In Content" as trope. Precisely, it is kind of a meta-trope, since I only know it from lots of times read on tvtropes itself, when some weird stuff about show X or character Y of show Z is told, with the (It Makes Sense In Content) added.

Does tvtropes allow meta-tropes like so? I hope it does! Since tvtropes became a media of itself, and the trope "tvt will ruin your life" is also a kind of meta-trope...

I am worried that this meta-trope will encourage Zero Context Examples.

Proposing new tropes goes in TKTTW. Are you sure you're not talking about It Makes Sense in Context?

It Makes Sense in Context was banned from wicks precisely because of its overuse as a wiki meme. That is not going to change.

Now, if you want to make a trope with a name that isn't a catchy stock phrase about explanations that only make sense if you know the context behind them and characters being confused In-Universe even if the viewer isn't, then you can. But it needs to go through YKTTW and it needs to be done carefully.

^^ Pardon a potential brain fart, but "banned from wicks" as in a trope entry in and of itself in a list of tropes?

[edit] As in:

[FakeFolder: "I" tropes]

• [...]
• It Makes Sense in Context
• [...]

edited 21st Aug '15 4:12:52 AM by Nohbody

In the sense that people were using it in much the same way as I Am Not Making This Up.

Oh.

I asked because I thought it was a useful shortcut when a trope example needed to breeze past the lack of original source context when it wasn't relevant to the trope, but I suppose that's not really a great idea given the abuse of "I'm not making this up".

Well, it is useful in the right situation, even on the wiki, but tropers have this tendency to not see the difference between "use", "overuse", and "misuse".