Crowner

Projects: Long Term/Perpetual: 01/06/2023

6th Jan '23 5:24:18 PM

Crown Description:

Vote up to forbid real life examples; vote down to Keep Real Life Examples. To add a trope to a No Real Life Examples Please index, its crowner option must meet the following criteria:

2:1 ratio needed for NRLEP
Must have been up for a minimum of a week
If the vote is exactly 2:1 or +/- 1 vote from that, give it a couple extra days to see if any more votes come in

After you bring up a trope for discussion, please try to wait at least a day or so for feedback before you add the trope to the crowner. Entries that have been called are marked with "(CLOSED)" and are no longer up for discussion.

37 (Yeas:42 Nays:5) 8.40 : 1

Gasshole - Characterization

, also Morality seeing as it equates bodily gas with being an asshole. (Added Jan. 15th) (CLOSED)

33 (Yeas:37 Nays:4) 9.25 : 1

The Corruption - Impossible in real life

, this trope is about fantastical superpowers that cannot exist, current RL examples are all misuse - Added Jan. 20 (CLOSED)

32 (Yeas:40 Nays:8) 5.00 : 1

Shell-Shocked Veteran - Too Common and prone to misuse

(Added Jan. 7th) CLOSED

24 (Yeas:35 Nays:11) 3.18 : 1

DeathWorld.Real Life - Too Common

, any environment is deadly without precautions. (Added Jan. 15th) CLOSED

23 (Yeas:32 Nays:9) 3.56 : 1

Taxidermy Is Creepy - Characterization and Morality

, the trope is used in fiction to mark a character as potentially evil (Added Jan. 22) (CLOSED)

21 (Yeas:33 Nays:12) 2.75 : 1

Place Worse Than Death - Gossip & Stereotype

, labelling real life places as worse than death (Added Jan. 7th) (CLOSED)

20 (Yeas:25 Nays:5) 5.00 : 1

Multiple Endings - Narrative, Impossible in Real Life

since the trope is only possible in interactive media - Added Jan. 28 (CLOSED)

20 (Yeas:37 Nays:17) 2.18 : 1

Sore Loser - Too Controversial

, Too Common

- Added Jan. 20 (CLOSED)

20 (Yeas:24 Nays:4) 6.00 : 1

Would Hit a Girl - Morality

since the trope is often used to signify a character is evil and/or misogynistic - Added Feb. 12 (CLOSED)

12 (Yeas:16 Nays:4) 4.00 : 1

Bizarre Alien Biology - Impossible in Real Life

, trope is only for alien species and shouldn\'t be used for real-world animals - Added Feb. 15 CLOSED

9 (Yeas:17 Nays:8) 2.13 : 1

Troubling Unchildlike Behavior - Morality and Characterization

(since the trope is used to signify that a child is/will be evil) - Added Feb. 2 (CLOSED)

8 (Yeas:13 Nays:5) 2.60 : 1

Bizarre Human Biology - Impossible in Real Life

, should only be used for speculative fiction examples, calling people\'s real life medical conditions \"bizarre\" is cruel - Added Feb. 15 (CLOSED)

0 (Yeas:10 Nays:10)

Succession Crisis - Too Common

, subpage is bloated, would perhaps be better served by a link to the Wikipedia list on the subject - Added Feb. 15 (CLOSED)

-4 (Yeas:13 Nays:17)

Natural End of Time - Narrative/Future Speculation Trope

- has never happened in real life and will not happen in the foreseeable (as in the next billions of years) future - Added Jan. 28 (CLOSED)