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We’re still alive! We’re still alive! Hi and hello to everyone, and thank you for taking a look at our tenth issue of Trope Report. We apologize for the prolonged delay and thank everyone who did not pronounce the newsletter dead. Trope Report is still being issued on the weekly basis every Friday. So read on and expect to see more in the future.
Forumwatch:
Meet and greet the new people time! Give a hello to:
spectrevampire, Kino, kandle, Red Spazz Menace, Dröm, Torbik, Nemo, allaboutsoul, Tsukubus, and Chlorine 2904
Welcome to the Forums guys!
In other news, an exhaustive attempt to clarify, codify, and some-other-“C”-word-that-escapes-the-mind-at-the-moment the “How-To” guidelines and “Do and Don’t” guidelines so that we might get various wiki-goers to cooperate with each other is underway. Currently being discussed in this thread.
If you have anything to say on the matter don’t hesitate to say so.
The forums are not getting a Quote button. Do not ask for it because you will not get it.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes:
It seems this week was a rather sleepy one. Only a little over half of the usual name changes, merges and cuts to report on. Not that we are complaining, it shows a well ordered wiki! What we can report on though is as follows:
- Water Gets Watchers Wet, which was basically Wet Sari Scene with a more vulgar name, has been cut.
- Seeing as how Mr Magoo And The Monster was a vague and unclear title, it has been renamed to Blind and the Beast.
- Auto CAD, which was neither a Work page nor a Trope page, has been cut. Not really sure what it was to be honest.
- Char And Amuro has been cut. Don’t worry; you didn’t miss anything that wasn’t in Char Clone anyway.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome has been cleaned up recently. Artist that made the page too unwieldy have been given their own pages. Trope Report encourages editors to that page to do the same if it becomes too large again.
- Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls has had its example section purged of all but genuine fictional (That’s sounds weird) examples. Only if the trope shows up in a work does it count as an example, whatever the fandom does with the work does not count.
- One Froggy Evening has been merged with Mime and Music-Only Cartoon. The first name was shared with a cartoon and the two tropes were the same anyway.
- Strawman U has had its insanely long Real Life section cut. It was twice as long as the rest of the page and that is not what the wiki is about. And for the record, not every Californian college is a Berzerkley!
- Jarlaxle Baenre is character from the Forgotten Realms novels who for some reason had his own first person page. This page has been cut and Jarlaxle’s description has been taken to the series’ character sheet. The Max Lord page has undergone similar treatment.
- Walk It Off has been renamed to Regenerating Health.
- Splitting protocols have begun for the Fallout series of games. Material about specific games is being shifted to the game-specific pages. We especially need someone who has actually played Fallout Brotherhood Of Steel to, well, describe it for us.
- Starcraft II has been split off from the main Starcraft page. This was a sanity-inducing measure, as keeping track of the tropes in Starcraft alone is difficult enough without having to include its sequel in the mix- a sequel which will doubtlessly become the subject of more scrutiny in the coming weeks.
- So Yeah has been cut. This was due to its constantly being referenced as a generic, unfunny joke at the end of random sentences (You too, Forum-users). Feel free to eliminate any red links of it you come across.
- Spare To The Throne Woes has been renamed to Spare to the Throne, largely for the sake of conciseness.
- Moral Dissonance has largely been eviscerated- because of the age of many of the entries, most did not fit the current, stricter anti-Natter standards, and this content reduction was necessary to insure the page did not turn into an unsalvageable mess.
- Tropers Works namespace has been taken out though it will remain as an index. All articles are now found in their respective media categories. All lot of discsuuion went in to this which we won’t bore you with. Here is Ironeye with a basic summary: “The idea behind the move is that for the purposes of namespacing, it shouldn't matter whether or not the creator has an account on TV Tropes. The index is still there for people who want to browse troper-created works, but the word from on-high is that the identity of the author does not matter.”
- As many of Tropers have do doubt already noticed, links to the website One Manga are not showing the manga pages they used too. This is due to the site no longer hosting manga scans. Editors are to remove the dead links and if possible locate another scan hoster and link there instead. More importantly, if the example that used the image doesn't make sense without it then reword the example for clarity regardless of whether a new manga scan is found or not.
Others News:
- Janitor is not currently available for PMs. For this reason, if you have wiki-related issues, please contact another staff member until she can take these messages again. In a related development-
- Fighteer has been promoted to the newly created rank of Wiki Moderator. This position grants him the ability moderate the forums, lock wiki pages, and apply edit/IP bans, so take care not to make him angry. The Trope Report editorial board congratulates him on this promotion, and wishes him luck in his new duties.
Spotlight Stealing Trope:
So Bob is waiting for Alice to finish dressing up so they can leave for the theater. Alice comes running down the stairs in a brand new hat. “How do I look?” She asks, eager for approval.
Bob likes the hat. “You look good.” Then, wanting to say more he adds, “Makes your head look big.”
The eager look on Alice’ face freezes, then turns to one of rage. “My head looks big!? You’re saying I hat a fat head!” she shrieks.
“No, I mean that as a good thing!” Bob protests. “A big head makes you look smarter!”
“You’re saying I normally look stupid then!?” Alice roars. She yanks the hat off her head and throws it at the confused Bob before storming back upstairs.
Bob has been a victim of Compliment Backfire. He meant to give a compliment, really he did. It is just that Alice didn’t take it as such. And now he can’t go to the movies because Alice was paying for the tickets.
Compliment Backfire, as shown, is when a character in a work attempts to give praise to another only for the other character to react negatively towards it. There are many reasons for this. Perhaps the compliment reflects an aspect of the character he or she sees as a flaw. Or maybe it implies some other negative connotation the complimenter did not intend. Or maybe the praise just sounded weird and the one being complimented thought it was an insult. No matter the cause expect the reaction to be hilarious, awkward, or both. Often the character who was complimented will fly into a rage, much to the confusion of the other characters.
Despite the rather short example list, this is a common trope portrayed often in all media types. And no doubt someone reading this is nodding their head muttering about how this has happened to them.
Needs More Love:
Chic and Awe needs more love! This is the trope when a person or group of people is talking about someone who they have yet to see. Usually this consists of bad mouthing the absent person until they arrive. At which point all negative thoughts and words are banished from the mind because the person who just showed up was not what they were expecting. They are a lot prettier, or handsome, or gorgeous, or whatever! The point is the people doing the trash talking were not expecting a hottie, but the there was the hottie!
This is usually a result of She Cleans Up Nicely but there are hardly any example. The most any category has is Western Animation, with a grand total of four. Tropers, you can do better than that! Lets get moving!
Edits From The Editor:
Fast Eddie explains it all…
"An officious management style quickly becomes a bigger problem than chaotic elements in terms of work-to-output ratios in a creative effort."
Only to realize how old he sounds:
"Uh, that was stuffy. How about: It is more fun to make a cool trope description than it is to bash newbies with the rulebook. Let's make as much time available for fun as possible."
Stay fresh, Eddie. Stay fresh.
Add More Here:
That’s wraps up our tenth issue. Almost can’t believe Trope Report has made it this far. Two weeks of nothing now a very slow third week, there needs to be news to justify a newsletter! Give the staff something to do! A big thanks to all our readers, new and regular alike. Remember to use the information you read here for the benefit of the wiki. See you next week!
