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Author: CrypticMirror

Feb 22nd 2014 at 8:12:15 AM

My personal inclination would be to exclude Peril (Although I like the alliteration, and would have gone for it a few years back, it I think current HiveMind fashion is for [[ClearConciseWitty clarity]] over style) as the trope doesn't necessarily mean peril.

PentUpPowersMalfunction could work if we could agree on the malfunction part. It has the Powers to indicate personal abilities, the "Pent Up" bit works because we've identified that it ''is'' the bottling up of those abilities, and of course the "malfuction" part which seems to be generally agreed upon to signify that things are going to be going wrong (whether causing life-ending consequences or just Hi-Jinks, depending on the mood of the work).

Everybody gets a bit of what they want with that, and it does seem to include the various trope parts. I think we should be looking for compromise now to come to consensus rather than get caught up with being the TropeNamer. I mean we could sit here for another 175 comments thinking up ever more new names, but I think the list we already have is more than enough and we should be looking to winnow them down and come together now instead of going around and around again. Lets not let the perfect be the enemy of the good here.

The only fresh thing I'd like to put on the table would be "NoRealLifeExamples" because it is only a matter of time before a TroperTales-er edits in something about needing to go to the gym and punch bags because they are so full of rage at school-their family-etc. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned already in fact.