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openSpeculation Character files Film
Long story but recently I discovered in Peter Rabbit Flim Charater page that there was a spoiler Charater file. So I check it out and found out it was the Charater that didn't exist but it claims that they were in the sequel. The thing is that the sequel of Peter Rabbit hasn't been released yet. Then I check who made it, her name is Dreamkwami 20. I don't know if she made it up on purpose or she was just guessing. So I deleted the character file for speculating something that wasn't there in the first place.
Am I doing it right or not? Here's the history of the page I found and edit.: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.PeterRabbitFilmTheRabbits
openDisturbing Headscratchers answer Film
Is any answer allowed in Headscratchers? Because I found a disturbingly sociopathic one in Headscratchers.A Quiet Place that basically says it's perfectly logical and acceptable to use your own children as bait, and they can be easily replaced by having another child with no real loss.
- Actually, it makes perfect sense. You put the smallest in the back, because "To evade a predator you only have to out-run the slowest group member." As the movie proved, the loss of the youngest was one pregnancy away from being a non-issue.
I would just delete it, but I want to check with everyone else if that's okay.
openCannot edit proposed trope on Trope Launch Pad Film
I placed a proposed trope on the Trope Launch Pad. Tropers can see it and offer suggestions, but when I try to go in and add their suggestions/edit the page, my edits don't save. I put them in, click save, but when I come back to the page, the new edits aren't there. I know it's all on me and I'm doing something wrong, but have no idea what it is! Help!
open Questioning strangeness Film
Trying to think of the trope where a character notices something strange and they are informed by another character of their already strange situation to which the first character will usually reply with something like "Oh. I guess you're right."
openWasted plots and characters Film
So, I found these entries in the YMMV page for Wonder Woman (2017).
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- In the backstory the Greek Gods (especially Diana's patron goddess Athena) are all dead save for Ares, who by his own admission destroyed them. A common complaint among Wonder Woman fans is that while she is an excellent character herself, her stories generally don't have the same density of Worldbuilding and Rogues Gallery that Batman and Superman have, and that DC rarely does heavy lifting in integrating the richness of Classical Mythology to its superhero lore the way Marvel does with Norse Mythology, and that arbitrarily wiping out the Pantheon, for the sake of simplifying Diana's origin, potentially limited the scope of her stories going forward.
- Some viewers were disappointed more wasn't done with Dr. Poison. For starters, she's a female scientist during World War 1, a period of time where someone such as herself would be looked out with confusion or disdain from her allies. One youtuber discussed this by pointing out how she acts as the perfect Foil to Diana: Diana had the ability to choose her destiny, while Dr. Poison essentially didn't, but the choice was made to make her a straight up villain in the end and not a Tragic Villain. Others think it may have been more interesting if she was Ares.
- The choice to kill off Ares. Not only is he Wonder Woman's most powerful and iconic villain, but he has so much backstory and potential that lends him to being one of the biggest villains in the DCU. He easily could have been a villain the Justice League could have had to face, and with how small Wonder Woman's Rogues Gallery is, he makes for a good long term villain. Instead he gets killed shortly after appearing, which calls into question now what they can do with Wonder Woman since her first solo-film has her beating a literal God of War.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Quite a few people considered it a wasted opportunity that the movie did not stick to the idea that Ares was not behind the war and that the people fighting in it were fighting purely because they wanted to, particularly since it would have provided a great reason for Diana to seclude herself from humanity. This is especially strange given that up until that point in the movie, Diana's entire character arc was about learning how humans are both capable of evil and good, but the choice for Ares to appear throws all of it under the bus. Its such a sore spot for people that many feel it damages the films quality.
Do they really qualify for these tropes or not? I'm asking because sometimes, the inclusion of these tropes in YMMV pages are less "This plot/character wasn't properly developed or explored" and more "I didn't like the way this plot/character was handled."
open Tick tock fish please help!! Film
My siblings and I had this vhs when we were little with various random stories on it. One of the stories was, an empty room, really loud tick tock. Rain chucking down outside and there is a fish in a fishbowl on the counter. Then a woman walks in, talking to the camera. Possibly an old bbc production. Pretty sure the vhs titles used to say VCI? Please help!!!
openAlternative Character Interpretation Film
Recently, I found this entry on the Fridge page for The Faculty:
- About midway through the film, two of Zeke's longtime customers come up to him and start demanding his drugs. There's not one, but two explanations for their behavior that make sense: either those two guys figured out on their own that Zeke's drugs can protect them from the aliens, or they've been puppetized themselves and are trying to stop him.
The thing is that this sounds like it could be an example of Alternate Character Interpretation. Should it be moved or copied to the film's YMMV page or left alone?
openChanging "Characters/GodzillaTheGodzillas" as Characters/Godzilla The Character Film
I want to know if it's okay to change Godzilla: The Godzillas as "Godzilla The Character", since while it's a page designed to show multiple versions of the character, the title itself makes it sound like they in the same continuity when there's 10 different versions of the same character while adding other media-related characters.
openHow should shows within shows get namespaced and indexed? Film
Should they go in Just for Fun and be indexed there? Asking this as "works" like The Adventures of Captain Proton, a fictional work within Star Trek: Voyager, is in Film/ (not indexed in JFF) and The Itchy & Scratchy Show (from The Simpsons) is in WA/ (indexed in JFF), while others like Darkwing Duck (from Ducktales 2017) is in JFF.
Edited by SynchronicityopenUsage of Shout Out Film
Found this for Shout-Out on Knives Out:
- Perhaps unintentionally, but the first thing Lt. Elliot says to Marta and Ransom after the car chase is "Get Out".
This seems like a huge stretch to me; should I just cut it?
openIssues Creating Page on Mobile Film
I'm trying to set up a page for Aquaslash, a movie that came out last year. Problem is I'm stuck using my phone instead of my laptop, and for some reason every time I try to get the Namespace/Title, it crashes my browser.
openNot sure I have indexed correctly Film
Hi tropers, I made a trope page for a Star Wars fanfic "Landscape with A Blur of Conquerors", and made an entry for it on the Fanfic Recommendations index page. The link I put on the index page takes me to the fanfic's trope page just fine. However, it still says down the bottom that it has not been indexed. What do I need to do to fix this?
open Police cars and sirens Film
Is there a trope where every time police arrive at a scene a siren goes off to announce their presence even when it’s not an emergency? For example, a scene that takes place outside a restaurant and police show up off screen, the siren will go off prompting the actors to turn around and notice a police car. The officers are probably just going to get food.
open Things that haven't happened yet or didn't actually happen Film
ryanasaurus0077 has made these edits on Star Wars pages:
- Killed Offscreen: Ahsoka Tano is heard as one of the voices speaking to Rey when the spirits of all the Jedi manifest in her to help defeat Palpatine, suggesting that she may have perished sometime between Season 2 of The Mandalorian and this film since all the other voices are of the deceased.
- Asshole Victim: The luckless gamorrean mook who was standing too close to Luke and fell in the rancor pit with him, as well as Boba Fett and the various mooks who fell into the sarlaac. Only Fett lives to see the light of another day.
- Precision F-Strike: The strongest profanity ever heard in canon is uttered by a random Rebel just before the Executor crashes into the Death Star.
Rebel: Die, dickheads!
openEdit War Film
ritzoreo has sullied the name of two delicious snacks by restoring an example they wrote of Fandom Rivalry on Trivia.Sonic The Hedgehog 2020 that was deleted half a day ago, concerning a rivalry with Birds of Prey (2020), which we've established doesn't count. They also just didn't put the Fandom Rivalry wick in, as if that was the main problem.
open No Man's Land as Setting Trope Film
Do We Have This One? An area that thwarts any attempt to colonize or inhabit. Something like a wasteland or desert or frozen north or rocks galore. It's not evil per se nor purposefully resisting visitors; it's just not a place that welcomes settlers and rarely sustains them. Might be home to a strange old hermit and a pair of vultures, tops. Worth a YKTTW, or a pointless duplication?
resolved Full Metal Jacket: UnbuiltTrope for DrillSergeantNasty? Film
As the entry on the Drill Sergeant Nasty page notes, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is the Trope Codifier, but at the same time he also deconstructs the trope, because he is actually a genuinely bad example of how a Drill Sergeant should perform his duties, and even his own actor — a retired real-life Drill Sergeant — noted that he'd have been in serious trouble if he'd ever acted like that. So, doesn't this make Full Metal Jacket an example of the Unbuilt Trope when it comes to Drill Sergeant Nasty? In fact, double-checking, it's actually listed on the Unbuilt Trope page for live-action film, so shouldn't it be edited to address that connection on the Drill Sergeant Nasty page?
Edited by WanderingBrowseropenWhy is "The Platform" locked? Film
I was looking forwards to adding a dozen tropes to the spanish film "the platform" but for whatever reason the page is edit locked. Is this just what happens with really new entries? Or was the original creator just too defensive over his/her work?
I've noticed that keyblade333 recently deleted the entirety of the Hilarious in Hindsight entry from the Megamind page.
After I talked to them about it, they claimed that it was because of misuse.
I think they're a mixed bag. Things like Jonah Hill's and Will Ferrell's roles in The Lego Movie count, given that Jonah Hill was voicing a character who was heavily inspired by Jimmy Olsen, with the names of two Green Lanterns, only to later voice Green Lantern himself who has an obsession with Superman. Same thing with both Will Ferrell characters having a tendency to mispronounce things and also being parodies of over-the-top supervillains.
Some of the entries really were borderline examples, but that's no reason to delete the entire entry.
Edited by tropineasily