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- The default rule should be to discard them. Someone would have to make a damned convincing reason otherwise.
- I'm not aware of any ruling in this regard. It makes sense: listing tropes where things don't happen is just silly unless the converse is omnipresent, and even then it has to be defined enough for people to observe it as a distinct phenomenon.
Is there nothing in the forums about cleaning up aversion-only tropes? Maybe that should be added into Projects.
Edited by Pichu-kun
"Thing doesn't happen" is different than "stereotype isn't used." Just because it's defined in the negative does not mean it is defined by something not happening.
Edited by WaterBlap Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
And at least sometimes something that seems like an "aversion-only" trope is (or can be reworked as) a positive trope. For example, there's the trope Nipple and Dimed, which may at first seem like "women's nipples are never shown on TV", but is actually written as "The creators take active measures to avoid showing female nipples".
EDITED: That also makes it possible to add both straight examples ("the show did this to avoid showing...") as well as aversions (cases where female frontal nudity is shown).
Edited by GnomeTitan
1. I've read in the forums that appearance tropes aren't allowed through TLP anymore. Is this true? Do all appearance tropes get discarded?
2. What about aversion-only tropes? I remember several years ago I created one but it was discarded because apparently there was an effort to clean-up/remove aversion-only tropes like Nobody Over Fifty Is Gay. I have not noticed any evidence of this.
Edited by Pichu-kun