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A series can fall under two tropes at the same time. It can be a Widget Series while also falling under What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?.
Okay but explain how 1. Flash Step = Teleport Spam despite that being dismissed on the page and 2. Why isn’t something like jojo listed under what do you mean it isn’t in drugs then?
Jojo isn't listed because you haven't listed it there yet, and neither has anybody else. That something qualifies for a trope doesn't mean it's automatically listed there. Surely you must have known this already?
Okay then how does flash step spam = teleport spam when the page says “Compare Speed Blitz, a similar effect that is achieved by spamming Flash Step, and thus a form of Super Speed rather than actual teleportation. ”
Flash Step apparently isn't teleportation, but speed.
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So why are flash step spammers listed? Like everyone from dragon ball z?
Because some people misunderstand what tropes are about.
To answer the original question:
What determines if a work fits a trope is if a work fits the criteria of the trope. That's it. If there's a trope about people using ranch dressing as soap, and a work has that as a plot-line, it fits the trope.
Misuse exists, but it doesn't mean the criteria is somehow wrong; it means the tropers are.
Edited by WarJay77 Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
To put it another way...
This is a wiki. Anyone can edit it, and sometimes people get things wrong, and sometimes that wrong information stays up for way longer than it should. Maybe just no one who's knowledgeable enough in the source to know it's wrong has noticed it yet. Maybe people are just too lazy to edit it, or don't realize they can, or don't want to "step on another troper's toes" even though they know they should remove it. There's lots of potential reasons why it happens.
You don't need to come ask us why it counts. If the answer is that it doesn't count, then go ahead and remove it. (For example, all those examples of Flash Step listed under Teleport Spam that you mentioned, you can safely remove.)
However, if you remove them and someone else re-adds them, THEN come here. Because if you remove them, they re-add them, and you remove them again, then that's an Edit War.
Edited by Mimic1990
I'm confused about some tropes like Teleport Spam and Widget Series with teleport spam flash step users are listed there despite the page saying that falls under Speed Blitz and the Widget Series has The Amazing World of Gumball in it despite that falling under {{What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs}}?
So exactly when is the parameters for an example of a trope? like is it trope and related tropes? or trope and variants?
(Also posted this in Forums)