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, started by GoodNewsEvry1 on May 11th 2019 at 4:29:42 AM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by Cineking on Apr 21st 2020 at 9:23:42 PM
I'm not a big fan of this trope's title. It makes it sound like the character only walks around shirtless for one scene, but they're described as walking around shirtless 24/7. Perhaps we should rename it to something like Always Shirtless.
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I agree! And people always get confused at what it is about, they keep adding many examples that belong to Shirtless Scene and not here. I remove them whenever I can, but then the add more.
Does the category have to specifically be about Fanservice examples? The Smurfs themselves are prime examples of this trope, and they're just humanoid creatures that aren't made to be Fanservice-type characters.
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The disclaimer that this is an Always Male trope is a bit odd. Why can't this trope apply if a female character does this in, for example, a work from a culture without the Nipple and Dimed taboo (not that I have a specific example)? Seems like a case of We All Live in America.
EDIT: There are female examples on the page, which is good, but I think the trope description and disclaimer should be altered to account for that. I'd like the hear what others think first rather than just doing it, though, since it'd be a somewhat significant change.
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You may want to raise the issue in Trope Talk. You'd get more feedback there; in my experience, hardly anyone looks at discussion pages for most trope articles.
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Could it be said that Indian actor Sabu (who was Abu in The Thief Of Bagdad) had something of a Walking Shirtless career?
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How does Sonic not qualify?
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There's something else entirely for characters like him.
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
So what do you call a guy whose Shirtless "Scene" encompasses a whole episode uninterrupted?
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So he doesn't count as a Walking Shirtless Scene within the scope of that episode, then?
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Walking Shirtless Scene is a Costume Trope. If the shirtlessness isn't incorporated into the character's costume (ie. A fighting game character with a default or alt costume that has him exposed), it's not this.
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So, if the character has one costume among several that has shirtlessness (or at least complete chest and abdomen exposure) as an intrinsic component, does he still count? That's what I get from the Playing With article's Zig-Zagged Trope entry.
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
You know, a woman who wears nothing but pasties on her chest * technically qualifies as a Walking Shirtless Scene. I don't know of any actual examples, but the point still stands.
Comments?
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Wait, what?
, started by Stratadrake on Oct 11th 2010 at 9:02:53 PM
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