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There are Zero-Context Examples (ZCEs), and then there are these. The kind where there are so many of them, you could put a lot of advertising at the bottom of each page that has them. These are the pages so polluted by ZCEs, they need some big-time Wiki Magic Love.

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Trope pages

The Abridged History
Adorkable subpages
Alice Allusion
All Guys Want Sorority Women
Bag of Kidnapping: Some of the examples are "X captured Y" with no mention of bags.
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Most of the examples have been commented out, to the point where some folders are simply empty.
Beta Couple
Big Bad: Most of the examples list the name of the Big Bad, or, in character pages, simply state that the character is "the main antagonist of the series" (often with that exact wording), but without bothering to explain what the character is doing to cause the conflict.
Big Good: Similar problem with the previous trope.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Braids of Action
Bright Castle
Bumbling Dad
Casino Park
Cheerful Child: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Childhood Friend Romance
The Church
Cloudcuckoolander (subpages)
Concept Art Gallery: Needs to explain where the gallery is, how pieces are unlocked, and what it shows. Art books might be a separate trope.
Cowardly Sidekick
Cringe Comedy
Crime Time Soap
Cute Witch
Cyberpunk
Deranged Animation: Most examples simply say that the work uses the style without saying how that is, at most saying that the work looks like it was made under the influence.
Dope Slap: Too many examples are "character does this" or "character gets this" or "X does this to Y" without saying what "this" is.
Eat My Dust: Some examples are "Character says this" without saying what "this" is.
Edutainment Show: Needs more explanations are to what the shows are about, who they're aimed at, and what topics they specifically teach.
Everyone Loves Blondes
Evil Is Sexy
Evil Overlooker: Some examples have been commented out due to no context.
Fake-Out Opening: Explain the plot and tone of the work, and what the beginning sets it up as.
Fiction 500: Various examples don't have context, or simply compares them to other characters without any in-universe context for them to apply.
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: The trope is about anthropomorphic characters within particular works walking on either four or two legs and how walking on two legs is generally a shorthand for more human-like characters. However, many of the examples simply state that a certain character or characters walk on two legs, without any explanation of the significance of this within the work.
Four-Man Band
Four-Philosophy Ensemble
Four-Temperament Ensemble
Fractured Fairy Tale
Gasp!
Genki Girl (including medium subpages)
Good Hair, Evil Hair
Hair-Contrast Duo
Handsome Lech
Happily Married
Helmet-Mounted Sight
Heroic Fantasy
Hime Cut: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Hot Gypsy Woman: Some examples simply say that a character is Romani and attractive with no mention of how their sexuality relates to their ethnicity.
Hot Witch
Housewife
Hunk
Impossibly-Low Neckline
Insane Equals Violent
Irrelevant Act Opener: Examples should explain what the plot is and what the song is about, to show the irrelevance. Many examples just include the song title, or some variation on "[song title] has nothing to do with the plot."
Keet.Film
The Lad-ette: Real life examples have no context.
Law of Inverse Fertility: In the Film section, 4-5 different movies are listed in one bullet with no context except "The whole point of the movie".
Leitmotif subpages
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
Lipstick Lesbian
Little Black Dress: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Little Miss Snarker
Lovable Nerd
Magical Land: Many of the examples are just "X" or "X has Y." ignoring mentioning how the examples qualify.
Making the Masterpiece
Man of Wealth and Taste
Military Brat
Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness
Musical Slapstick Montage
Mysterious Cube of Rubik
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Net Gun: Some of the examples are "Alice uses one" or "Alice uses one to capture Bob" with no mention of nets or guns.
New Weird: Half of the page's examples (including practically the entire Literature and Film-Live Action folders) are contextless work titles.
Ninja Brat
Odango Hair: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Oddly Visible Eyebrows: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Ominous Opera Cape
Only So Many Canadian Actors
Performance Artist
Philosophical Parable
Pitbull Dates Puppy
Pivotal Boss
Plucky Girl
Post-Cyberpunk
Pretty Boy
Quirky Miniboss Squad
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
Rebellious Princess
Red-and-White Comedy Poster: All examples lack context, and the ones that list more than the work's name still don't provide the necessary context for the trope itself.
Roar Before Beating
Romantic Vampire Boy
Royal Brat
Say My Name
Scary Black Man
Sharp-Dressed Man
Signature Line
Sitcom Character Archetypes
Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Something about a Rose - Many of the examples are just a character and the work that they come from, without anything other than that. Still others are barely better, just saying something like "This character has a rose between his teeth" and nothing else.
"Somewhere" Song: Many of the examples just list a song title and work. Who's singing the song, where do they want to go, and why?
Spirited Young Lady
Spoiled Sweet
Sphere Eyes
Stab the Sky: Many examples just say "this is done" or "character does this" instead of actually describing what is happening.
The Stoic
Straight Man and Wise Guy
Supporting Leader
Surfer Dude
Table Space
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Many of the examples have been commented out due to no context.
Together We Are X: The majority of examples are just quotes and no context.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Tomboyish Ponytail
Town Girls: Most of the examples don't explain how three characters are butch, femme, and neither respectively.
Trickster Twins: Very, very few examples with context, commented-out or not.
Twisted Echo Cut
The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter
Ultimate Universe: Most examples simply say it is an Ultimate Universe (implying it's a rebooted adaptation), but not how.
Umbrella of Togetherness
Unscrewed Salt Shaker: Most of the examples are along the lines of "X did this" or "X pulled this prank" without mentioning salt or pepper shakers at all, or whose meal was ruined.
Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born
Unwanted Assistance
Viewer-Friendly Interface: Outstanding examples under Film - Live Action, Literature, Live Action TV, and Webcomics.
Villainous Cheekbones
Visible Sigh
Young Entrepreneur
Youthful Freckles