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Author: WackyMeetsPractical

Jan 30th 2012 at 10:06:46 AM

^ But if we make the index too strict and only allow tropes that are "required" to be a climax, then a lot of tropes would be excluded, even one's that do belong, simply because someone's seen an example where the trope was used in act 1 instead of during the climax, even if it's an unusual example.

But I can see how "Strong Potential" could be a bad choice of words. I didn't mean to imply that tropes should be included if they could hypothetically be applied to a climax, whether legitimate examples exist or not. I simply meant that the trope could and has several times been featured as a climax because it has the natural tendency to be climactic, and examples certainly must exist whether or not examples of it not being a climax also exist. The idea being that if a trope has a "strong potential" to be used in a climax, that it has been used as a climax because it is naturally a climactic trope, even if it has other applications as well.

Basically, to be included in the index, it must have been featured prominently in a climax regardless of whether the trope could exist outside of a climax.