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Skagit Magus from The Other Rainforest Since: Mar, 2017 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#1: May 25th 2017 at 8:03:56 PM

I've always found Black Vikings to be one of the most interesting tropes, and I loved the Real Life section because it gave several factual examples of the trope in Real Life and was quite educational. Does anybody know why such a useful and informative section was deleted?

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#2: May 25th 2017 at 8:23:30 PM

One, it's a casting trope, which means any real life example is going to be a shoehorn by definition, since real life doesn't have characters played by actors.

Second, any example is something that actually happened, and wouldn't actually be wrong.

Third, I think pretty much all examples were generic, which we don't allow.

But mostly, in my opinion, it was a list of minorities. It's not really what the trope is about.

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Fighteer MOD Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#3: May 25th 2017 at 8:25:46 PM

Please see this topic for the ongoing discussion about removing RL trope sections.

Also: we aren't Wikipedia. Historical documentation is not what we're here for.

edited 25th May '17 8:26:09 PM by Fighteer

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