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Write down what you wish to edit on the wiki. If you have been suspended from editing, another troper might be kind enough to edit for you after your suggestions have been corrected.

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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

EeveeGirlChey Not stupid or expendable. from the Liberator Since: Jun, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Not stupid or expendable.
#2101: Jul 15th 2015 at 11:30:58 AM

I finally created a page for Jonathan Harris but I need some help with my grammar. Usually, I write very well.

But I guess I do have problems with grammar when it comes to writing a page. I stayed up most of the night writing and researching on Mr. Harris.

"My light shall be the moon, and my path the ocean, my guide the morning star as I sail home to you...."
Hawaii_Knut The Dark Lord of Hawaiian Shirts from Norway Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: On the prowl
The Dark Lord of Hawaiian Shirts
#2102: Jul 18th 2015 at 3:12:59 AM

If you don't use it already, I recommend writing in Microsoft Word and then Copy-Paste instead of directly writing in the edit box, unless your browser can detect misspelling and grammatical errors (mine don't). It isn't perfect, but it has helped me alot.

Srg. Dornan: Troper, what are you doing here?! Get back to your post!!!
Minmus The Fool from Hell Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
The Fool
#2103: Jul 18th 2015 at 9:23:40 PM

Going to ask for assistance here as per a suggestion.

I decided to add this bullet point to the Chickification Playing With page:

  • Alice's team manages to rescue her and still win the mission, but at a large cost, having to extend the mission's duration threefold and resulting in the death of secret agent Charles. Not only her teammates blame her for his death, Alice is a subject of ridicularization across the team's base, and few look at her without making fun of how easily captured she was, or questioning her fitness for missions. Devastated, Alice too believes she's unfit for her role, and thinks that Eve would be a much better substitute for her. Her boss agrees with her. Alice is fired from her job.

Sick of everything.
ConservativePip Since: Feb, 2015
#2104: Jul 19th 2015 at 7:14:46 AM

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

  • Lad-ette Panty while feminine in dress, is also a slob, has been observed picking her nose, and has slept with many guys.

Kingofsouls Kingofsouls from EVERYWHERE Since: Jun, 2010
Kingofsouls
#2105: Jul 21st 2015 at 9:42:46 AM

For the Characters.Sentinels Of The Multiverse page:

K.N.Y.F.E

  • Brave Scot: Has a Scottish Accent, and K.N.Y.F.E is not afraid to get in the middle of a fight to dish out the damage.
  • Fun with Acronyms: K.N.Y.F.E stands for Kinetic Neutralizer Yielding Flawless Execution

edited 21st Jul '15 9:46:21 AM by Kingofsouls

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#2106: Jul 21st 2015 at 1:29:20 PM

(propositions from a suspended troper)

For Manga.Hanayamata, an additional second-level bullet to existing trope example.

<...>
  • Anime opening theme. Its name translates into "Dancing in the Scent of Flowers," while its lyrics have the singer(s) set out to bloom like flowers, dance, move forward and have fun.

For Alma Mater Song

  • Manabi Straight!:
    • In the first episode, school gathering takes place to try and pick a student council president. Manabi is a sole and eager candidate, but people are too apathetic and wary of a newcomer. She appeals by singing a song revealed to be the school anthem, captivates everyone, and says that hearing it for the first time the day before made her strongly feel like coming to love her new school.
    • When another school is set for imminnent absorption of the protagonists' Seioh Academy, the anthem of that other school gets a broadcast at Seioh as teaser. A benefactor in Paper-Thin Disguise hijacks the broadcast part way through and puts Seioh anthem on instead. Manabi and friends get invigorated by the event to further their plan opposing the merge.

For Eyes Always Shut

  • Manabi Straight!: Shimojima, the teacher in charge of heroines' class and advisor to Student Council. In addition to shut eyes, he is scruffy in appearance, proves to be not too cheerful, not too sociable and not too respected, yet in obfuscated ways he does look out for his students. Early on, he conveniently happens to cause a mess in teachers' staff room, thus diverting teachers' attention to himself and from the students' flea market. Soon after, money he passes along as funds for Student Council room renovation are hinted to have come out of his own lunch.

For Power Walk

  • Manabi Straight!: In montage that makes up anime opening, a quintet of proper high school girls grabs spray paint cans and proceeds to thoroughly vandalize their empty school. First of Power Walk moments there is marked by wind instruments dominating the background song. Reasons behind vandalism are explained later in story.

edited 21st Jul '15 2:22:45 PM by SetsunasaNiWa

Kingofsouls Kingofsouls from EVERYWHERE Since: Jun, 2010
Kingofsouls
#2107: Jul 22nd 2015 at 9:51:55 AM

For TabletopGames.Fun With Acronyms

  • Sentinels of the Multiverse has the heroine K.N.Y.F.E, which stands for Kinetic Neutralizer Yielding Flawless Execution.
    • In addition there is the Federal Initiative to Limit Terrorism by Extraterrestrial Races, or F.I.L.T.E.R.

For Badass Israeli

    Tabletop Games 
  • Unity, heroine from Sentinels Of The Multiverse was born in Israel, and is a techopathic robots genius superhero who battles supervillains with a small army of them. Because of her skills, she joined the Freedom Five, a very prolific superhero group, as their intern and is well on her way being a full-time member as of Sentinels Tactics.

—-EDIT: June 23rd—-

For the Characters.Sentinels Of The Multiverse. Included are tropes already there to help tie things together.

Parse

After Omnitron's defeat, Kim Howell was they member of the team charged with analyzing it's coding to determine what went wrong. As she was looking at the code, the cosmic event that reactive Omnitron and turned it into Cosmic Omnitron. The cosmic energy that turned Omnitron on again affected Kim as well, boosting her already impressive focus and analytical skills to superhuman limits. Now, she could analyze events to the point where her skills at perceiving and dissecting information became superhuman.

In game, Parse plays as a support character by making it easier to the heroes to damage the villain, or by using her analytical prowess to manipulate the villain deck.

  • Arch-Enemy: Miss Information and Highbrow
  • Awesome Aussie: Born Australian and fights super villains with nothing but a bow and arrow and data crunching in real time.
  • Armor Piercing: Many of Parse's damage cards cause her to deal Irreducible damage, or can allow her allies to deal Irreducible damage. This is justified as Parse's analytical powers lets her see where her marks' weak point so she can hit them, no matter how difficult the shot is.
  • Aspergers Syndrome: One of the reason's Parse was a skilled data analyst before her super powers.
  • Common Character Classes: Parse is definitely a Ranger mixed with Support. Parse is good at inflicting irreducible damage to get past Damage Reduction and can manipulate the Villain Deck to get hazardous threats to go away before they come into play.
    • Parse also has a small niche as a Nuker with Critical Multiplier. With it, Parse can choose a hero target everytime she discards, and that hero target does 1 more damage the next time it does damage. And the bonuses stack. And Critical Multiplier is not limited. Since Parse has a several ways to discard her own cards, she can simply use her control powers to keep things from getting out of hand while Critical Multiplier builds up her next attack. Combo it with Irreducible damage and she can unleash a powerful finisher.
  • Damage-Increasing Debuff: Targeting Arrows deals a small amount of damage to a target and increases the damage that target takes by 1 until Parse's next turn. Likewise Exploit Vulnerability does the same to any non-hero when they enter play until the enviroment's turn.
  • Discard and Draw: Snap Decision lets Parse dicard a card every turn to draw a new one. Recompile lets her disard up tot three, but in turn allows her draw twice as many as she discards.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: She can make some pretty difficult, shown in game in the form of her fondness of dealing Irreducible damage. This is demonstrated in the art for Impossible shot: Ambuscade is holding his sniper rifle, and an arrow is lodged inside his scope.
  • The Smart Guy: If she's on a team, she's the one thinking up of the plans. Justified as her Awesomeness by Analysis powers makes her the best suited for the job as she can make logical connections others can't see.
  • Squishy Wizard: Parse as no armor and cannot heal without outside assistance.
  • The Straight and Arrow Path: Paired with her Awesomeness by Analysis powers, she's a very good shot.

Sky-Scraper

  • Arch-Enemy: Kaargra Warfang and Tantrum.
  • Aliens Speaking English: Played With. While Sky-Scrapper can skehe can speak english just fine, she tends to be malaproper about it.
  • Baleful Polymorph: Her Tiny Incapacitated art has her turned into a doll.
  • Expy: Of Ant-Man, a fellow size-shifting superhero who has nifty gadgets while he is small.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief: Huge is the Fighter, as Sky-Scrapper's most consistent damage has her become gigantic to do so. Tiny is the Thief, letting her sneak around and play several Links at once in addition to getting destroyed Links back from the trash. Normal is the Mage, which features several support cards that can sweep the field of villain equipments, ongoings, and their minions, but on it's own has no real defenses.
  • Friendly Fire: Huge form tends to result in sometimes hitting the heroes for damage as Sky-Scapper is chokeslamming someone. This is usually averted for her Huge base power: It hits the heroes for 0 damage unless she has a damage buff or an ally has a Damage-Increasing Debuff
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: Her skin is a reddish color, but it fits.
  • Glowing Eyes: Sky-Scrapper's eyes are always glowing a light neon blue. They transition to [1] if you're on the receiving end of her beatdowns.
  • Shout-Out: Catch a Ride's art has Sky-Scraper riding one of Parse's arrows. Hawkeye and Ant-Man do that trick often.
  • Stance System: Sky-Scraper has three character cards, one for each size: Normal, Tiny, and Huge. She starts the game Normal sized, and each size grants her a different innate power. Depending on what cards she plays, she'll changes sizes, and thus change her base power.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Averted. The spikes on Sky-Scraper is a Thorathian trait, not one exclusive to Voss.

edited 26th Jul '15 5:15:07 PM by Kingofsouls

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#2108: Jul 24th 2015 at 10:28:42 AM

^ Whenever you end up with fragment of some article looking like this...

... it's a sure sign that part with Trope Name 2 is done wrong (it's Common Character Classes in your case). Example Indentation page talks about it in detail.

You've also got a paragraph with the word "discard" written in three different ways. And "Sky-Scrapper" is misspelled into "Sky-Scraper" more than once.

Arch-Enemy example under Parse is Zero Context Example. I could type more on that, but I'm probably a bad source of ideas on this front. My way of contexting examples is probably bad (I'm banned for inability to contribute well and ways of discussion that seem to unsettle people). Maybe someone else would like to give clear directions to contexting an example of Arch-Enemy trope before I risk it.

For Improvised Lockpick ykttw:

edited 24th Jul '15 10:32:25 AM by SetsunasaNiWa

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#2109: Jul 26th 2015 at 6:14:55 AM

For Loving Detail YKTTW Discussion:

  • WORKING!!: As overprotective former delinquent going way back to Yachio+Kyouko gang period, Mizuki forces tests of knowledge on restaurant cook Satou who has just made some progress in mutual (if awkward) relationship with senior waitress Yachio. Satou can't answer a thing about Yachio, but knows all about Kyouko from endless obsessed speeches Yachio made in front of him. Mizuki immediately questions if Satou actually loves Kyouko.

Hmm, what a nice bug. If there is a non-namespaced single-word Wiki Word on the page, a namespaced one gets customized as well. But otherwise, a namespaced thing doesn't catch up. I've seen the same with M*A*S*H. Like, Series/{{MASH}} appears as M*A*S*H in links, only if there's at least one instance of just {{MASH}}, without namespacing, on the page. Otherwise just like in this example Manga/{{Working}} doesn't get exclamation marks that are part of proper title.

edited 26th Jul '15 6:22:31 AM by SetsunasaNiWa

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#2110: Jul 26th 2015 at 4:00:55 PM

For LightNovel.The Irregular At Magic High School (change a typo "Syaka" to "Sayaka" while at it):

  • As You Know: At start of episode 10, one named character scolds another for bad decision to just cast some magic during the just-averted car crash crisis. Because, as she knows, randomly thrown spells could have caused disruption of all magic and would have invited disaster.
  • Cliffhanger: Anime adaptation episodes are not spread across Blu-rays evenly, each volume holds two or three episodes. Some clifhangers resolve on the next BD released in order (whether that gave sales a boost is anyone's guess).
    • Episode 9 (last of BD Vol. 4) ends when a car crashes on its own, catches fire and gets thrown across highway median barrier straight toward the 1st High School coach full of flustered students.
    • Episode 15 (last of BD Vol. 6) finishes build up for the ultimate showdown in Nine School Competition. The final match of Rookie team (in a game akin to Capture the Flag) with protagonists as underdogs.

These entries could probably be wicked as is, onto respective trope pages.

Kingofsouls Kingofsouls from EVERYWHERE Since: Jun, 2010
Kingofsouls
#2111: Jul 26th 2015 at 5:18:03 PM

@Setsunasa Ni Wa: In Sentinels, Arch-Enemy is a mechanic: If you hit someone with the same symbol as yours you do extra damage. Parse's relation to her Arch-Enemy - Miss Information - is a little tricky to point out since it's not 100% straightforward to why they hate each other.

Also for Sky-Scraper her relation to her Arch-Enemy was in the one part I didn't copy/paste to this page. Just putting that out there.

edited 26th Jul '15 5:20:02 PM by Kingofsouls

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#2112: Jul 27th 2015 at 1:53:32 PM

Very well, part with "Common Character Classes" isn't your doing. But your proposed addition for "TabletopGames.Fun With Acronyms" shows the same problem with example indentation (and actually you should have linked "FunWithAcronyms.Tabletop Games", didn't you check?).

You left numerous typos (see bold parts): "After Omnitron's defeat, Kim Howell was they member of the team charged with analyzing it's coding to determine what went wrong. As she was looking at the code, the cosmic event that reactive Omnitron and turned it into Cosmic Omnitron. The cosmic energy that turned Omnitron on again affected Kim as well, boosting her already impressive focus and analytical skills to superhuman limits. Now, she could analyze events to the point where her skills at perceiving and dissecting information became superhuman."

"they" should be "the"; "it's" should be "its". You have several more mistakes with [s]/['s] usage (In Asperger Syndrome for Parse, "reason's" should be "reasons" instead for example.). Check Tips on Grammar part about apostrophe and fix these.

Italicized part above needs to be changed. It doesn't make sense right now, something important should be added there. For example, does it mean that "a cosmic event occured and reactivated Omnitron and turned it into Cosmic Omnitron"? If you meant to say that, then the very important word, "occured", is missing. If you meant something else, then some other word or words are needed in that part.

edited 27th Jul '15 1:55:06 PM by SetsunasaNiWa

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#2113: Aug 2nd 2015 at 4:44:56 AM

For Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence ykttw discussion

Live-Action TV

  • Nash Bridges: In "Sniper", crime of the week is terrorist shooting at civilians in broad daylight. As part of early investigation effort, new recruit in protagonist cop team Michelle Chan ends up checking out one tall building rooftop, then sees a man on a nearby one. When accosted, the guy aims a sniper rifle at her and gets shot. Down one building and up another, official investigation finds no rifle at the scene, only a dead body of a clean record young janitor. Chan's words are questioned, and she's suspended from duty, until Nash does find proper leads.

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#2114: Aug 12th 2015 at 9:27:35 AM

If I may take a stab at that example,

Live-Action TV

  • Nash Bridges: In the episode "Sniper", the Mystery of the Week is finding and stopping a terrorist who is shooting civilians in broad daylight. As an early part of the investigation effort, new recruit Michelle Chan checks the rooftop of a tall building, and sees a man on a nearby rooftop. When accosted, the man aims a sniper rifle at her, but gets shot before he can shoot her. When they arrive, the official investigation finds no rifle at the scene, only the dead body of a young janitor with a clean record. Chan's story is questioned, and she's suspended from duty, until Nash finds proper leads.

The original version was, at least as far as MS Word is concerned, technically grammatically valid, but it was awkwardly written, in part due to a shortage of articles and unusual word order. Also, you shouldn't pothole to an index, but rather a trope on that index.

edited 12th Aug '15 9:28:50 AM by Balmung

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#2115: Aug 13th 2015 at 12:07:29 PM

^ I very much welcome any criticism.

To what ends could you say you're confident in the "Of the Week" bit? "Mystery..." feels off enough for me to deliberately prefer to link to that index instead. Things like Columbo consistently deal in mysteries, Cop Shows deal in various one-episode-long crimes, not only murders with murderers in sight. To link to a trope, I'd want at least a Missing Supertrope clause... which I do not see there.

That "unusual" word order is likely due to me trying to cram in more and more nuances. How Chan is working under Nash, cue trust issues. How The Audience wouldn't be expected to have much sympathy for the dead guy, because if a cop has you at a gunpoint and tells you to freeze, you will be shot the moment you're seen trying to cock a rifle in their direction. How in the short time it takes to reach the (not-adjacent) rooftop, no one sees what goes on on that rooftop, so someone could've, say, nabbed the gun. How eponymous sniper did hit some people, but didn't kill (at least haven't killed many, not sure I remember).

A different way to construct the phrase could work better for this example. I hope I'll get better at getting those with practice.

edited 13th Aug '15 12:13:02 PM by SetsunasaNiWa

Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#2116: Aug 13th 2015 at 3:19:41 PM

I can't say I'm completely confident in which "of the week" it is, since I haven't personally seen the episode, but for the kind of show, it seemed closest. It would also be possible to simply use an unlinked "crime of the week". However, at least some of that information isn't terribly important to the example. For instance, how fatally the terrorist is shooting the civilians doesn't really have a bearing on the rest of the example. To a reader who hasn't seen the episode or the show, Chan being a new recruit would seem more important why her story is being questioned than the fact that she's subordinate to the title character.

To clarify something, did Chan actually shoot him, or did someone else? Because it wasn't actually clear from the original example. If she took the shot, then the example might look more like this:

Live-Action TV

  • Nash Bridges: In the episode "Sniper", the Mystery of the Week is finding and stopping a terrorist who is shooting civilians in broad daylight. In an early part of the investigation effort, new recruit Michelle Chan checks the rooftop of a tall building, and sees a man on a nearby rooftop. When accosted, the man aims a sniper rifle at her and Chan shoots him. When they arrive shortly after, the official investigation finds no rifle at the scene, only the dead body of a young janitor with a clean record. Chan's story is questioned, and she's suspended from duty, until Nash finds proper leads.

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#2117: Aug 16th 2015 at 2:40:28 AM

Just saying that Chan is a new/fresh recruit leaves strong impression of her being a fresh academy graduate or trainee or something. She's not, she's a competent inspector, apparently scouted by Nash off-screen after their run-in, a trans-jurisdictional police case several episodes before.

How's this for a change?

  • For a good half of Nash Bridges episode "Sniper," Inspector Michelle Chan is suspended from duty, suspected of shooting an innocent young janitor. Apart from viewers, she alone saw the guy aiming at her from a rooftop, and the rifle disappears by the time good guys reach the dead body. Being a recent transfer to Nash's unit doesn't help Michelle's credibility.

edited 16th Aug '15 2:47:34 AM by SetsunasaNiWa

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#2118: Aug 17th 2015 at 8:08:12 AM

That works a good bit better than the original.

Kingofsouls Kingofsouls from EVERYWHERE Since: Jun, 2010
Kingofsouls
#2119: Aug 18th 2015 at 10:59:43 PM

I have a few tropes to add to the relatively new Dinotrux page. Here they are:

  • Absurd Cutting Power: Revvit's drill bits are capable of this. With them he can make cut out shapes in solid rock just by drilling into the top of the rock.
  • Always Chaotic Evil: Scrapadactyls and Scraptors hunt scrap to collect and will capture Dinotrux and take them apart to get that scrap.
  • An Arm and a Leg: George got caught by Scraptors, and they took off two of his legs. They were reattached to aid in his rescue.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: The Dinotrux are dinosaur/trucks hybrids while the Reptools are reptile/tools.
  • The Bully: D-Structs, whom only cares for himself and refuses to share the crater's vast quantities of ore with anyone.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Dinotrux species comes in a specific shade.
    • Anklyodumps comes in shades of blue.
    • Dozeratops are generally yellow, or in Georges case a brownish color.
    • Craneosaurs are orange.
    • Averted with the T-Trux: Ty is red while D-Structs is silver.
    • Scraptors are black.
  • Doomed Hometown: Ty's home is destroyed by a volcanic eruption, causing him to move to his new home in the crater.
  • Epic Flail: All T-Trux have a wrecking ball for a tail. D-Structs has spikes on his.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: D-Structs has a deep voice, which fits the bully well.
  • The Hero: Ty in spades. At the beginning of the series, when a volcano near his home erupts, he wastes no time saving a young Anklyodump during the escape.
  • Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Skya is titanic when compared to the other Dinotrux. Justified as she is a Craneosaur, whom are already quite tall.
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: Skya, and by extension Craneosaurs, have a hook they can fire out of their mouths that they use to lift things. Scraptors on the other hand have grappling hook hands.
  • Mr Fix It: Revvit, and Reptools in general, are very good at fixing and making things.
  • My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Ty is at first seen as an oddity: He is a T-Trux, and thus already feared, but in reality he's a Nice Guy who wants to work together with the different species of Dino Trux and Reptools, seeing them as friends and equals.
  • Red Is Heroic: Ty, which is fitting given that he is The Hero.
  • Stock Dinosaurs: The usual suspects are present:
    • Tyrannosaurus Trux — Tyrannosaurus rex
    • Anklyodump — Ankylosaurus
    • Craneosaur — Brachiosaurus
    • Dozeratops — Triceratops
    • Stegarbasaurus – Stegosaurus
    • Scrapadactyls - Pterodactyl
    • Scraptor – Raptor
  • Surfer Dude: Ton-Ton loves to perform big air jumps, and uses the word 'dude' regularly.
  • This Is a Drill: Revvit, and some of the Reptools, have drill bits on their heads, and a small collecton of other drill bits on their backs that can be swapped out.
  • There Can Be Only One: In general, there is only one T-Trux in any given area as they are territorial. Ty averts this, seeing no problem sharing the area and it's ore, much to D-Struct's ire.

edited 19th Aug '15 9:36:08 AM by Kingofsouls

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#2120: Aug 19th 2015 at 2:07:41 PM

[up] Some basic mistakes. You have "its" and "it's" mixed up again. "Who" and "whom," too. Probably "Georges" and "George's" as well.

An Arm and a Leg goes alphabetically after Animate Inanimate Object, because starting "An" is a starting article that should be ignored for alphabetization purposes.

An Arm and a Leg is written in past tense. Usually, present tense should be used (How to Write an Example).

Your Always Chaotic Evil example describes something that looks like a natural predator behavior of certain species. If it's just a feeding chain kind of thing, then it's not this trope. This trope appears in cases where social interactions between sentient beings are upset by malicious behavior of one of them, I think.


for Jerk-O-Lantern ykttw discussion:

Light Novel

  • Problem Children Are Coming From Another World Arent They: Jack-O-Lantern is a flying sentient caped pumpkin monster, as if a Halloween poster child, who breaks heroine Kasukabe's winning streak in Salamandra Festival battle tournament by ruthlessly cornering her with his Playing with Fire powers. Goal of the event is entertainment though, and both parties are on the same side in the hostile invasion that happens afterwards. They're tending to civilians in need of aid together.
(That link is legit and would work in wiki. Forums are bugging at the resulting URL length. Mondaiji Tachi Ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu Yo is a redirect)

edited 20th Aug '15 10:59:36 AM by SetsunasaNiWa

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#2121: Aug 19th 2015 at 2:11:11 PM

Also some examples are severely lacking in context especially: Red Is Heroic: Ty, which is fitting given that he is The Hero.

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#2122: Aug 19th 2015 at 8:08:02 PM

@Setsunasa Ni Wa If they ate the scrap, you're probably right. But the three scraping speices - the Scrapadchtyls, Scraptors, and Scraptools aren't seen actually eating the scrap. Probably not enough to help my case but I thought it was worth mentioning.

@lexicon: "Ty is The Hero, a Nice Guy, and someone that the other Dinotrux look up to". Would that expand it a bit?

I added a few more tropes and fixed a few things so lets try this: —

Dino Trux

  • Absurd Cutting Power: Revvit's drill bits are capable of this. With them he can make cut out shapes in solid rock just by drilling into the top of the rock.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: The Dinotrux are dinosaur/trucks hybrids while the Reptools are reptile/tools.
  • An Arm and a Leg: George is introduced this way, missing two of his legs. They were reattached to aid in his rescue from the Scraptors that captured him..
  • The Bully: D-Structs, whom only cares for himself and refuses to share the crater's vast quantities of ore with anyone.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Dinotrux species comes in a specific shade:
    • Anklyodumps comes in shades of blue.
    • Dozeratops are generally yellow, or in George's case a brownish color.
    • Craneosaurs are orange.
    • Stegarbasaurus are green.
    • Averted with the T-Trux: Ty is red while D-Structs is silver.
    • Scraptors are black.
  • Doomed Hometown: Ty's home is destroyed by a volcanic eruption, causing him to move to his new home in the crater.
  • Epic Flail: All T-Trux have a wrecking ball for a tail. D-Structs has spikes on his.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: D-Structs has a deep voice, which fits the bully well.
  • Gasshole: Garby the Stegarbasaurus farts a lot, especially after eating a lot.
  • The Hero: Ty in spades. At the beginning of the series, when a volcano near his home erupts, he wastes no time saving a young Anklyodump during the escape.
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: In order to save the mother of several freshly hatched Tortools from Scrapadatcyls, Ty has the babies use their paint to paint himself in dark colors. That way he could sneak towards the Tortool without being noticed.
  • Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Skya is titanic when compared to the other Dinotrux. Justified as she is a Craneosaur, whom are already quite tall.
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: Skya, and by extension Craneosaurs, have a hook they can fire out of their mouths that they use to lift things. Scraptors on the other hand have grappling hook hands.
  • Mr Fix It: Revvit, and Reptools in general, are very good at fixing and making things.
  • My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Ty is at first seen as an oddity: He is a T-Trux, and thus already feared, but in reality he's a Nice Guy who wants to work together with the different species of Dino Trux and Reptools, seeing them as friends and equals.
  • Red Is Heroic: Ty, which is fitting given that he is The Hero.
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: D-Structs Scraptool minion Scrap-it.
  • Stock Dinosaurs: The usual suspects are present:
    • Tyrannosaurus Trux — Tyrannosaurus rex
    • Anklyodump — Ankylosaurus
    • Craneosaur — Brachiosaurus
    • Dozeratops — Triceratops
    • Stegarbasaurus – Stegosaurus
    • Scrapadactyls - Pterodactyl
    • Scraptor – Raptor
  • Primal Fear: Skya is afraid of heights, which crosses over into Ironic Fear given how tall she is.
  • Surfer Dude: Ton-Ton loves to perform big air jumps, and uses the word 'dude' regularly.
  • This Is a Drill: Revvit, and some of the Reptools, have drill bits on their heads, and a small collecton of other drill bits on their backs that can be swapped out.
  • There Can Be Only One: In general, there is only one T-Trux in any given area as they are territorial. Ty averts this, seeing no problem sharing the area and its ore, much to D-Struct's ire.

edited 20th Aug '15 11:01:30 AM by Kingofsouls

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killamanjaro53 Since: Nov, 2014
#2123: Aug 23rd 2015 at 1:33:45 PM

For https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Shimoneta

  • Near the end of Episode 8, with the new character Kosuri was demanding the MC to get her an Ice Cream in three minutes while she's lounging around like she owns the place, it only gets darker when she revealed how she infiltrated the other school, she entered as a transfer student and manipulated the Student Council there by taking advantage of the fact there was three boys and two girls, she talked of how she used her Moe appearance to manipulate the two boys who liked the other two girls, ending up with her going for the third boy and using him to get the pictures in, effectively ruining any chance of a relationship between the two boys and two girls, Kosuri revealed her Manipulative Sadistic streak and even calling the MC her slave.

SetsunasaNiWa Parole Model Since: Apr, 2015
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#2124: Aug 27th 2015 at 11:06:24 AM

[up] Did you try to "Write in present tense"? How To Write An Example has a section about it.

edited 27th Aug '15 11:20:09 AM by SetsunasaNiWa

killamanjaro53 Since: Nov, 2014
#2125: Aug 28th 2015 at 12:19:53 PM

For https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Destiny

  • The Implication that the Cabal would be willing to sacrifice themselves and the Entire Solar System to Destroy the Dreadnought and Oryx, and perhaps the Shield Brothers was given false information that their Commander was Taken and used their anger and loyalty to send them on what amounts to a Suicide Mission and to take care of some loose ends by the Empire.


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