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Just because a trope doesn't garner any straight examples on the wiki doesn't mean its not a trope.
A trope is a recurring convention in fiction that serves a purpose. Having each character have a unique name despite overlapping names being common in real life is a near-ubiquitous convention in fiction, used to differentiate characters more easily.
Edited by Anarchist2 on Jan 26th 2022 at 7:13:04 PM
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This is a Trope in Aggregate that is really hard to reasonably list straight examples.
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It's considered a trope because in real life people often share the same name. The author is deliberately trying to keep the audience from being confused by giving every character a different name. The problem is if we listed every straight example, there would be too many examples. As such we only list the exceptions.
To demonstrate, let's say a book has a cast of only six characters: Kyle, Nina, Salvador, Yumi, Uzo, and Abishek. A "straight" example of One-Steve Limit would look like:
- None of the novel's characters (Kyle, Nina, Salvador, Yumi, Uzo, and Abishek) have names that sound similar, allowing the readers to easily distinguish them.
You might imagine how this could be inconvenient and clunky as the cast gets larger. So it would be more convenient to list exceptions to the rule:
- Protagonist Nina Lopez shares a name with the minor character, the bartender Nina Smith, which they joke about.
This thing seems solely to always be listed as an exception when I see it on pages. It really seems a pointless trope if you ask me.