Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
They seem irrelevant.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
I suspect they date to before we had dedicated threads to clear all CM examples and there was no such thing as too much reminding tropers of what a CM is supposed to be. (The one on A Father to His Men is even phrased as though CM is the more clearly defined trope, since it says CMs can't be fathers to their men rather than the other way around.)
So, am I good with cutting all the CM paragraphs I come across in trope descriptions?
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Actually, the additions to these two pages go back to August 2020, and were added by ~Mario 1995
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I’m curious who did it for the other trope pages that have CM potholes like this. Because I know it was more than just those two.
Edited by PlasmaPower on May 11th 2024 at 10:45:29 AM
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You can pull up the edit history for each page and search for "CompleteMonster", or preferably, specific phrases in the paragraph in question, in the "search by content" box.
Edited by MorganWick on May 12th 2024 at 3:05:19 AM
the Retromancer
As described in the OP, they aren't really potholes; OP is just using the term "pothole" overly broadly.
the Retromancer
Can shapeshift (probably)
Also found this in the description for Pragmatic Villainy:
Don't CMs thrive on being pragmatic? All of these feel really out of place.
Silver and gold, silver and gold
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Yeah, I used the wrong term there. I should’ve described them as paragraphs instead.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
The cleanup thread often cites Pragmatic Villainy to justify how a character can count as a Complete Monster despite not constantly doing the most evil possible thing. I always thought that bit of the description was weird.
the Retromancer
Anyway, these paragraphs have no purpose outside maybe Administrivia.Complete Monster
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I noticed that there are paragraphs of what a Complete Monster should and shouldn't be in the bottoms of descriptions of certain tropes like A Father to His Men and Noble Demon. Are these really nessesary? It dosen't really have anything to do with the trope at hand. Complete Monster already has rules for it listed on its main page, thread, and subpages too, so it's unessesary too imo.
Edited by PlasmaPower on May 10th 2024 at 8:07:50 AM
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