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openGushy description that bashes other series in the same genre
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/LittleHouseWithAnOrangeRoof
A manga by Yamahana Noriyuki, the author of If I See You In My Dreams, it follows the gradual knitting together of two half-families, and the growing sparks between Natsumi and Shoutarou, along with his attempts to readjust from a workaholic to a family man. A good read for anyone old enough to feel the usual high school romance fare isn't really relevant to them anymore.
openCan villains be La Résistance?
Is this trope about "Heroic rebel fighting The Empire" or just "Rebel"? I know that morality can be tricky thing, but at very least the narration should make the audience think they're heroic when introduce them, or I'm wrong here?
For a more specific issue at hand, can an Eviler than Thou splinter group count as one?
Edited by KuruniopenAre these Loophole Abuse?
These were just added to ComicBook.Immortal Hulk, and I'm not sure if they're finding loopholes in rules or just using powers in a different way. Thoughts?
- Loophole Abuse: Gradually becomes an important part of the series as the semi-magical nature of gamma powers is revealed.
- The Aborbing Man has a flash of insight that there is no rule limiting how much he can absorb with his power, not even even if it is all the gamma radition in Hell.
- As The Leader discovers there is no rule that says you have to go through your green door once its open.
- Because The Leader is too busy gloating about taking advantage of this fact he fails to realize that Doc Sampson has figured out it means that there's no rule saying you can only go back through your own door.
- Joe Fixit notices that no rule requires Hulk and Banner to smoothly transition between sizes (and indeed with the horror theme of the series the transformations are now often more grotesque) and escapes containment by transforming by bursting out of Savage Hulk's belly.
openLong-Winded? Western Animation
I came across this line on the Bob's Burgers page:
"Bob's Burgers gains most of its humor through quirky, yet realistic characters and situations, contrasting it from most modern episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy, which have grown to become disliked by a fair amount of animation consumers, many on this website, for being overly reliant on vulgarity for their humor and for the characters in their family units behaving too mean-spiritedly towards one another to be believable as families."
This seems a little too long-winded and, frankly, a bit bashy as well. Thoughts?
openBaldi’s Basics Videogame
Troper Real Escape 99 has been repeatedly editing the pages related to Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning. During these edits, he has repeatedly used tropes that imply Filename2 is an Omnicidal Maniac, even though there is no evidence to indicate this is the case. I bring this up because I feel we need to stop Escape from starting an issue.
openDoes a Robot Dog have to be a Dog?
Just found this on 20XX, under the folder for Dally, a robot cat that appears in the game:
- Robot Dog: Well, she's a cat rather than a dog, but still.
I'm already planning to cut it on the basis of the "it's not an example, but still!" wording. But I wanted to ask for clarification on something before I did.
The Robot Dog trope as described is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: it's either a dog that is robot, or a robot that is dog. But the description doesn't say anything about cats or other household pets. Are those included with the trope, or is it supposed to stay exclusive to dogs?
openBroken headscratchers page
For some reason on https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ManOfSteel, the folder "Daylight is Everywhere" seems to have gobbled up several other folders which aren't displaying properly, and I can't see why.
openWhat cleanup forum should I go? Film
14 Blades page is a mess. There two images on a main page. One is the page image and one is in the middle. Apparently there was a few before they were deleted. So I was planning to go on a cleanup page but idk which one fits. So can you help me? Thank you
openMisused Trope? Videogame
Much of Joey Drew’s character page talks about how he’s revealed to be The Atoner in the ending, but this seems misused to me. He blames someone else for his actions in that same speech, as well as sending said someone to fix joey’s mistakes for him with no way out afterwards and trapping them in an apparent loop with no escape. That doesn’t seem worthy of an atoner. He’s the equivalent of faux affably evil for the atoner trope, is what I’m saying. He ostensibly wants to atone but the minute you take a deeper look it’s evident he doesn’t actually atone at all. Is there an equivalent of this trope that would fit better? Link to page: Bendy and the Ink Machine
Edited by TheLuckOfTheClawsopen"Examples Are Not Recent" for future events?
this isn't an "example" per se, but on Play Station 3 i wrote a bit about the console's impending online store closure this July as if it already happened, keeping Examples Are Not Recent in mind. however, someone else recently changed it from "Sony closed..." to "Sony announced the closure of...", which is... well, going to be outdated in three months. thing is, that Administrivia page is about examples that "just happened", so i'm wondering if this is even off-style at all. if it is, does fixing it back to what it was count as an edit war?
maybe this isn't as big of a deal as i think - again, it's a passage on a Useful Notes page and not really an "example" - but i can't help but think about it.
openColbert Bump Live Action TV
Must Colbert Bump entries always go on the Trivia pages of works getting bumped, or can they also go on the pages for the works doing the bumping? Trivia.The Mandalorian has an entry crediting the show for boosting Ahsoka Tano's popularity.
openFranchise Zombie "Pro Tips"
A week ago, WDS made a strange set of edits on Franchise Zombie. On a half-dozen examples, much of what was there before was cut out, and all of the them have a sentence with the format "Pro tip: when a franchise [does X] (see also: [other movies that have done X]), it's officially a zombie." Maybe the original entries could or should have been updated and trimmed down, but using the same line for everything is setting off red flags for me.
openIs this an Edit War?
So I'm doing some wick checks right now and I see that on the Protagonist-Centered Wick Check, a troper named johnnysevens7 randomly edited it, tweaking some wording in an example (not sure why, since the point is to grab and present the wicks as they are on the page without alterations), and then changing the format of the wick from:
to:
- TabletopGame/MutantYearZero
Which not only clashes with the format of the page and of every other wick check (we like to see the namespace), but is also super arbitrary since this is the only one changed.
I want to change it back, but is that technically edit warring since I'm the one who put the wick there in the first place?
openWhat's the deal with this?
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but I stumbled upon this "trope", which is one heck of a mess. What's up with it?
openZack fading away: Harsher or Hilarious in Hindsight? Live Action TV
So I'm currently going through Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and there's a scene in "Island of Illusion: Part 2" (S 1 BE 9) where right before Zack the Black Ranger is about to fade away due to his lack of confidence brought on by a snake illuson, he says "I don't feel so good.... Now we all know what a hilarious meme this line ended up being mutated into 3 years ago. That said, given the seriousness of both the original MMPR scene and the corresponding one in Infinity War in their respective universes, I'm not sure whether this comes off as Harsher in Hindsight or Hilarious. Someone mind giving their two cents please?
openIncredibly long back-and-forth in review comments
megagutsman and Jettythe Sunfish are going at it in the comments section of this review, leaving Wall of Text after Wall of Text, back and forth and back and forth despite both being very set in their beliefs regarding Undertale. They did the same thing in Jetty's own review back in October that went on for eighty five comments; they both have the exact same beliefs they did back then and are just going in circles, and considering the review is from an unrelated third party, I'm requesting someone to please step in before the comments get more bloated than they already are.
mojojojo is using poor indentation HERE even after I sent him a notifier about the same issue occurring HERE.