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openPossible misuse of narm Live Action TV
The YMMV page of Superman & Lois has two entries of Narm, both from the pilot, which read:
- The dramatic intensity with which Clark confesses his origin story to Jon and Jordan can be so over-the-top in a "well, when you say it like that, this whole thing is actually pretty silly" kind of way. With the way it's played out, you'd almost expect for Clark to laugh and yell "just kidding!" instead of proving himself by lifting the truck.
- Nobody at the party noticing Jordan using his heat vision during the brawl, even though he's surrounded by dozens of people, some of whom are filming the brawl. Makes the emotional and shocking scene seem unintentionally comedic.
I have to ask, is this valid? Narm only applies for moments that are meant to be taken seriously but instead come off as hilarious, not moments that either fall flat or just don't have the intended effect.
openTVT Timeline question regarding namespaces
Does anyone know/remember when we started no longer using the Main namespace for media pages?
openIs "Faint In Shock" a stock phrase?
I think that my TLP is just about ready for launch, but I realized that I've heard the current title about a million times.
Would Faint in Shock run afoul of the No New Stock Phrases rule, or is it just a sequence of words that show up on a semi-regular basis because they're Exactly What It Says on the Tin?
openEdit war, or no?
I think the page for The Last Kingdom is dealing with an edit war, but I really can't tell...
oreida added a caption to the page image: "And in that picture every color in the series is shown. The sun never seems to shine."
With the edit reason, "I got fed up with how colorless and dark the palette is. Delete at will."
Thorion deleted it with the reason, "Inaccurate, as the sun shines often."
oreida then added a new caption, "Those blueish hues say it all." with the reason, "True, the sun does shine, so that was inaccurate. But bright colors are notably absent. Just watch."
I can't tell if this is an edit war or not, because the exact same phrasing hasn't been re-added twice, but it is the same Troper. It also seems that their only reason for adding this caption is "the show has a dark color palette that I don't like and I need to say so," which I don't think is kosher. Before I send a notifier for edit warring, does this count as one?
openSubjective pages by work's creators Webcomic
I've only just recently realised that the only non-cleanup/maintenance edits to the YMMV/, Awesome/, AwesomeMusic/, Funny/, Heartwarming/, and NightmareFuel/ subpages of Webcomic.White Dark Life have been made by either Luigifan or PrinnyOverlord... who are identified on the main page as the work's co-creators.
Should they be cutlisted?
Edited by mlsmithcaopen Vampire anime Anime
Its an anime that has this like vampire theme... There is a doctor? (brown hair) i remember he has like stubbles but he wears a long white coat... The main character has blue hair and they live in like a small town... there are vampires... It has this specific style with the hair of the characters being ribbon like and by that i mean the ends of their hair is like the tips of ribbons (W shaped)... I think the town is trying to get rid of the vampires and stuff
openHow does the site calculate visitors?
I noticed that Related pages say "this article has brought X people to the wiki from non-search engine links." What exactly does this mean and how does it find this number?
openColonia Contra Ataca Web Original
Web Video / Colonia Contra Ataca
Edit Page
Note: This page was cut for reason: Stub work page with no tropes for two years.
Except the fact that I was adding tropes since yesterday, and mod Berrenta DELETED EVERYTHING I MADE on it, just because of an inactive troper who made the page before me, and his edit was a stub, not mine.
Edited by CenourinhaopenPokemon The Series divisions
Just out of academic curiosity, who split the Pokemon anime pages up according to season/series? It's something I'd actually been thinking about doing myself for months but never got around to it. I want to give major props to whoever did so, especially since they did it all on Pokemon Day.
openBan-evader
Leiks seems to be a ban-evading account for Leikster18.
Also, their grammar is bad, even though they've been warned about it and gone to the Help With English thread once (but never posted anything there).
openTLP Crowner Conundrum.
My TLP draft, Disco Sucks, has a title crowner. There's one problem: the crowner with the highest consensus range, Disco is dead, is a Stock Phrase, which violates No New Stock Phrases. Am I supposed to go with the second highest result so I don't violate wiki policy?
Edit: Someone downvoted Disco is dead, so it's no longer the crowner result with the highest consensus range. I still think the topic warrants an answer in case this happens again though.
Edited by Kevjro7openComplaining and speculation of the Holy Terror trivia page
I was looking at the trivia page for Holy Terror and noticed some examples that struck me as questionable:
- Divorced Installment: The story was originally meant to be a Batman story set in the "Millerverse" called Holy Terror, Batman!, a nod to Robin's "Holy (whatever!)" Mad Libs Catch Phrase from the '60s Batman series. (Miller was probably not aware of an Elseworlds tale already called Batman: Holy Terror.) Supposedly, Frank Miller decided to take the book to Legendary because he realized it was "not a Batman story" and the hero was "much closer to Dirty Harry than Batman". A much more popular theory is that DC Comics refused to let this be an actual Batman story, partially due to the fact that Bob Schreik (who had been pushing for Miller) had been laid off by DC and went over to Legendary. The last part is pure speculation. At the very least it could be rewritten to be less snarky.
- Lying Creator: Frank Miller stated he took Holy Terror to Legendary because it was "not a Batman story" (See Divorced Installment) However, when reading Holy Terror, it still shares much in common with Frank Miller's Batman works, from similar costume designs to characters resembling said works and even recurring tropes from his previous works. When the characters' outfits are basically Batman and Catwoman minus the ears, not-Catwoman even saves herself from a fall with claws in her gloves and talks about having nine lives, Donegal is a totally unaltered Jim Gordon, and we get post-meme-ASBAR-style spamming of the word "Goddamn," it's obvious that the Batman serial numbers were filed off very late in production. And again, throw in the fact that Miller moved when (and where) the guy pushing for the story did. This has led to the theory that Frank Miller lied and that DC refused to make it a Batman story. Again, this is speculation and comes off as creator bashing.
I get that Holy Terror is controversial, but that stuff is supposed to stay off the trivia page.
openTroper with poor grammar
Faar added the Old Shame example to Trivia.Summoning Salt with a number of grammar errors. I fixed the example and sent a notifier.
Today, they edited the example again, in the process making a mistake they also made when first adding it ("...wouldn't became such an icon..." instead of "wouldn't have become such an icon..."). I sent another notifier, making it clearer what they did wrong, but it is concerning that they made the same mistake twice, even after being corrected.
A quick look at their history reveals that there are grammar errors in most of their edits. Thankfully, these edits are not very frequent and got corrected quickly afterwards. But this is a concerning trend, since it creates more problems for others to fix.
Edited by Zuxtronopen Please give me a few more chances
Look, I'm sorry of what you guys saw who I am even though I've been on here since March 05, 2019. but I just want to help and do things on TV Tropes. so please just give me some chances. I'll try to buy Grammarly for my Grammar.
openHow much context does The Reveal need?
On Series.Wanda Vision, I found these examples of The Reveal.
- The Reveal:
- Episode four, "We Interrupt This Program", marks the change in format from episodes that are full sitcom episodes and provides more context to the events seen in Episodes 1 - 3 that went otherwise unexplained.
- Episode seven, "Breaking the Fourth Wall" reveals that a character in the series is not whom they seem to be and is much more aware of what's going on in Westview.
- Episode eight, "Previously On", due to having Agatha force Wanda to relive her memories, winds up answering many unanswered questions from even outside the show's events and sets up the players for the season finale.
They used to have more content to them, albeit spoiled out, but Rva 98014 edited down to this with this edit reason:
I know that we strive to use as little spoiler tags as possible, but this feels like cutting out context to me. Am I wrong?
open Fan favorite problems? Print Comic
Someone keeps changing an actual fact to a common fanfic set up and now just claims "word of God" but it's not even close. I even made a review explaining why they were wrong and people flagged it saying I was just ranting. Isn't that what reviews are for?
Edit for clarity: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Daken
The same person keeps changing facts and even claiming the current author made it canon, it isn't. They even added flair to make it sound good. I found zero proof of it. There's one very active author who likes the idea he's ace and a sociopath, etc, but it isn't canon fact.
Edited by night_goddess666
Troper NFSF1McLaren went into the page for The La's and removed several redlinks I had inserted into the page back several months ago. In some cases, it's okay to do, such as for the pothole I had created for the group's self-titled album. I had reverted some of these examples after ill-advisedly putting them in under circumstances like this one, but didn't catch them all.
But they also did so for a pop group name and ones I had done for three band members names and the album's producer, which I'm less sure about — especially given that they gave the edit reason as "Removed unused links." My understanding is that it's not okay to systematically strip out redlinks just because they're redlinks. Then again, I could be too fussy here on these specific examples.
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Would appreciate some feedback on this. Thanks!
Edited by BoltDMC