Misused: Broken Streak

Now that the Broken Streak entry under Recap.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 7 E 1 Celestial Advice has been deleted three times now for misuse, I think it is time for a review of the misuse of this trope (used as any break in trend as opposed to winning/losing streaks).

Wick check: 235 (meaning it would be a fairly easy clean-up) and 506 inbounds:

• 1. YMMV.Ace Combat Assault Horizon: misuse
• 2. LetsPlay.Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series: correct if you count not dying in-game as wining, misuse otherwise
• 3. Music.Alabama: correct
• 4. Trivia.Alice Through The Looking Glass: deleted for not being trivia, but refers to financial streaks, iffy if correct
• 5. Always Second Best: correct
• 6. Series.American Horror Story Hotel: misuse
• 7. Characters.Americas Next Top Model The Panel: misuse
• 8. Characters.Arrowverse Future Characters: misuse
• 9. Characters.Arrowverse Metahumans: misuse
• 10. Characters.Arrowverse Past And Future: misuse
• 11. FanFic.Ashes Of The Past: correct
• 12. Awesome.Ashes Of The Past: very questionable use
• 13. Characters.Assassins Creed Unity The Assassins: misuse
• 14. A Taste of Defeat: correct
• 15. ToddInTheShadows.A To C: correct
• 16. Trivia.Attack Of The Clones: financially correct
• 17. Film.Avengers Age Of Ultron: misuse
• 18. Wrestling.Backlash: correct
• 19. Theatre.Banana Shpeel: financially correct
• 20. Characters.Bojack Horseman Gekko Rabbinowitz Agencies: questionable
• 21. Characters.Bojack Horseman Historical Characters: correct
• 22. Series.Britains Got Talent: misuse
• 23. Film.Captain America Civil War: misuse
• 24. LetsPlay.Chorocojo: misuse
• 25. Heartwarming.Chorocojo: possible correct
• 26. WesternAnimation.Codename Kids Next Door: one correct, one questionable
• 27. Comically Lopsided Rivalry: correct
• 28. Characters.Daily Life With Monster Girl Main Characters: misuse
• 29. YMMV.Dan Bull: misuse
• 30. Series.Dancing With The Stars: correct

Out out 1/8th of all the examples, half are misuses.

here is an old crowner calling for cutting misuse. If they did that, that this new and continued misuse shows it needs more drastic action. Here is is all old clean-up thread locked as a general purge.

I say this trope needs a clearer name ("Broken Win/Loss Streak")

Wick check looks fine. Opened.

Previous thread: here (closed due to purge)

As the third to delete the entry in the recap page referenced in this thread's opening post, I'll third the motion.

There seems to be quite an interest in finding or creating a trope for broken trends. I suppose that's a matter for another thread or for a new trope launch; I see the idea was disregarded a couple of years ago, yet the interest persists...maybe something for the Trivia domain?

edited 16th Apr '17 12:56:34 AM by pvsage

I, too, agree on renaming Broken Streak. Perhaps there could also be a trope for a series breaking something that's typical for the series (but wholly distinct from Nothing Is the Same Anymore) like the Friendship is Magic examples.

Someone tried added back the MLP example. I've added a commented out explanation for why. One of the reasons for deletion, from Josef5678 is "Broken Streak is about win/loss streaks, rather than broken formulas."

"Broken Formula" is the best trope name I can think of for what these examples are supposed to be, subversions of Strictly Formula.

But with the misuse of Broken Streak we should get that renamed first. I propose "Broken Win/Loss Streak". Any other name Ideas?

edited 16th Apr '17 9:13:20 AM by Ferot_Dreadnaught

Clearer is better. I'm down with it.

"Going against your formula every once in a while" sounds like a common trope that we already have...

Meta Twist (where either a twist doesn't happen when it did a lot before, or a different kind of twist happens) sounds like a subtrope of it.

edited 16th Apr '17 3:40:35 PM by Getta

I also like "broken win/loss streak" as a replacement name.

What about "pattern break" for the misuse? "First season premiere that isn't a two-parter" doesn't exactly sound like a break from Strictly Formula to me, since the episode(s) still follow the same "somebody learns a lesson about friendship and magic" formula.

The given example could also be a subversion of Spoiled by the Format if the viewer goes in expecting a two-parter with a cliffhanger at the break.

I have another suggestion—why not rename this "21-1" after the moment when Brock Lesnar ended the undefeated streak of The Undertaker at WrestleMania?

Because nobody who is unfamiliar with what is being referenced would understand the name and what it refers to. Trope names should be indicative of what they are without outside reference. Broken Streak has already been deemed insufficiently clear.

I agree with. A title like that makes it sound more like winning by a landslide than a broken streak.

@9:

A name like that could eliminate the misuse that's there, but it will invite a different type of misuse, as explained in 11.

Since we're contemplating renames, shall we set up a crowner?

We're unanimous for some sort of rename, so lets get a crowner up.

I voted up my own suggestion; also, I would suggest an image of the "21-1" appearing on the screens.

edited 18th Apr '17 8:38:57 PM by AmourMitts

The Undertaker's streak ending isn't even an example. Check the description; the trope is a lot more narrow than it sounds.

Broken Win/Loss Streak is up, let's get to the clean-up.

All wicks cleaned-up. Only 2 ghost wicks and 1 foreign language page remain. If someone can take care of those, great. Either way, our work here is done. Good job everyone. We can end this thread anytime now.

Those three are dealt with. The ghost wick with content had a pothole added to fix the glitch.

Got the rename noted in the appropriate spots, so we can close this.