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Author: Omar Karindu

Jun 29th 2009 at 2:31:38 PM

Basically, a page of tropes that are usually not executed well, and under each such trope, the works where the trope actually is done well.  So for instance, you'd have RunningTheAsylum and put Ronald D. Moore's StarTrek work under it; or WriterOnBoard and, say, Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist ''It Can't Happen Here'' or somesuch.

It would go on SugarWiki as a list of oft-hated tropes done well.  It would thus demonstrate that TropesAreNotBad and provide a "bank" of examples thereof.  Additionally, the more generous standards of SugarWiki would allow some potential FlameBait or ThreadMode things to happen away from the pages for the so-called "Sturgeon Tropes."  Examples from TropeRedeemer could than be introduced to their respective tropes' pages once established on the SugarWiki page for awhile.

The wiki already has some pages that only exist because people seem to hate certain tropes.  I'm thinking, for example, of stuff like SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped (basically just a way to say: Anvilicious but not crappy).