Not Tropeworthy: Puffer Fish

Five years ago, we had this thread, which died out. It gathered more wicks/inbounds since then.

However, there's a problem: It's basically a list of times a puffer fish appears. Some overlap with other tropes (for example, Spikes of Doom), while some have no context, mainly boiling down to "they exist".

I propose that this be cut if we cannot find a better place to put this.

Edit: Here's a tally of the examples on the page, sorted in folders:

edited 13th Jul '16 1:40:47 PM by Berrenta

+1 to cut.

Choppy choppy.

Kill it and use its corpse to make some sushi.

I think "Popped Puffer Fish" (which would include the other kind of blowing up) is an unique, improbable enough attribute to warrant its own trope, to anyone interested. The concept not being limited to puffer fish.

Puffer Fish on its own, +1 to cut.

edited 13th Jul '16 11:31:34 AM by Ferot_Dreadnaught

It has more inbounds than I expected - 270. Is that enough to save it?

If we rename the trope and focus on their improbable aspects (Stuff Blowing Up, Balloonacy, Spike Shooter) like I proposed, it might be worth fixing.

Should we have a catch-all cleanup for tropes that are essentially "This animal exists" akin to the Appearance Clean-Up Thread?

I wouldn't mind. Anyone else?

+1 dedicated "This animal exists" clean-up thread.

edited 13th Jul '16 12:54:33 PM by Ferot_Dreadnaught

to cut. Only hesitation would be if this would make a good useful notes?

edited 13th Jul '16 3:07:05 PM by pokedude10

Having a dedicated animal trope cleanup thread's a good idea.

Without reading the trope, exactly one of those uses is tropable: Served as a dish and mentioned to be dangerous/potentially poisonous. Narrow the trope to that. The rest of the uses don't sound tropable to be.

A fish that puffs up is a rare visual gag, but that is by no means limited to puffers. The rest are not even close to being tropable.

After reading the trope: That description needs to go. That's not a trope, that's a useful note. Someone over in the exotic species fanclub is free to create a pufferfish useful notes page afterwards.

I want to replace this with an actual trope: Poisonous Puffer Fish.

edited 17th Jul '16 6:53:41 AM by war877

I don't see "potentially poisonous animal dish" being at all specific to puffer fish. +1 to cut; any new ideas should go to YKTTW.

Also support the idea for a dedicated "Animal Tropes Repair thread".

Okay, seeing as any tropes related to puffer fish should end up with different trope names and the description matches none of them, there is no reason not to cut.

I don't think there is any restriction preventing anyone from actually creating an animal tropes cleanup thread if they want to.

All wicks removed, permission to cut?

Okay, go ahead and cutlist. I'll leave a note on the discussion page if one's not there already.

Cutlisted. Will go and close this.