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Trope Report is a monthly newsletter that intends to showcase works and tropes from all corners of this website. It also aims to keep the troper hivemind updated with pertinent trope changes and discussions.

It's July and Trope Report's 31st issue! We have decided to give our mascot, Trope Reporter, a summery makeover to add some seasonal flair to the article. We have also added entries based on summer, US Independence Day, and Canada Day (July 1st) as part of our monthly theme.

This summer has been shaping up to be quite a productive time for us. There's a big upcoming tech update for the site that will be rolled out in the coming weeks. The Badge Shop is getting fixed and will be free for everyone to use once the site has been updated. Certain user information such as an account age display and online status will be publicly visible as well.

Another thing we would like to announce is that three new moderators (Bisected 8, Parable and wingedcatgirl) have been added to the staff and that the admins are currently recruiting users to moderate our social media platforms. More information on the latter can be found on this Wiki Talk thread

Happy troping!

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Tropes and Works

    Trope Spotlight 

Obscure Tropes

This section highlights older tropes that need a boost.
  • This summer, you best be wearing your sunblock — at all times of the day. You don't want to get a Moonburn, do you? This trope has been around since 2015, but could use some help to burn a little more brightly.
  • We are All-Cheering All the Time, woot woot woot! Everyone shout it loud and clear: we're the Troper Pep Squad! We're always uniformed and speak in cheer, 'cause we're serious about our job! Uh. ...Ahem. This trope is for cheerleaders in inappropriate situations or those so into their craft that it creeps into other, unrelated activities (because it's funny). 55 wicks for a 12-year-old trope is a bit low. Maybe you can invigorate it with a good shake of the pompoms.

New Tropes

This section brings attention to recently-launched tropes that could use a little help to really get rolling.
  • The 1st of July is Canada Day, and every Canadian is reveling for the celebration with Molson beer, poutine, maple syrup drizzled Tim Horton's and tuning in to ice hockey and lacrosse. With all this revelry and enjoying things without a care, expect less of that Canadian politeness that they're stereotypically known for. Careful not to interact with a drunk, Crass Canuck on the way. Launched on the 16th of June, expect more of them once Canada Day rolls in.
  • Oh look, you found a dead body! What are you gonna do about it? How about investigating it? Hmm, but touching a corpse is pretty icky... Better fetch a stick and prod it from a safe distance! Poking Dead Things with a Stick is a common act people do when they encounter carcasses... hopefully it really is dead and not actually sleeping! A common gag with a surprisingly recent launch on May 11, this trope could use some more prodding to not drop dead.

    Work Spotlight 

New Work Page Spotlight

This section covers newer work pages that could use a little help.
  • You may know F. Scott Fitzgerald for writing The Great Gatsby, an American classic and a good summer read, but did you know that book wasn't the one that made him famous? That honour belongs to This Side of Paradise, his very first novel! This Coming of Age Story is all about Amory Blaine, a Princeton student who ends up in romances with Flappers, as it explores themes relating to disillusion and self-identity. Despite it being crucial to the understanding of the developing morality of society in the early Jazz Age, a page for the novel was only recently created on May 13th of this year. While the page is in a decent state, it wouldn't hurt to give it extra love.
  • Developed by Dreamworks Interactive and written by Steven Spielberg, Medal of Honor (1999) is the very first entry in the series of the same name. It is best known for popularizing Military and Warfare Video Games, particularly those set in World War II. The game itself has players strapped into the boots of OSS operative Lt. Jimmy Patterson, who must carry out increasingly dangerous missions while Trapped Behind Enemy Lines.
  • Written by Kendall Kulper, Murder for the Modern Girl tells the story of Ruby Newhouse, an 18-year-old who parades as a partying flapper to hide the fact that she's a mind-reading vigilante who murders heinous men that abuse vulnerable women, bringing justice that otherwise wouldn't have been given. After a chance encounter with the shapeshifting morgue employee Guy Rosewood, she and Guy work together to thwart corruption in 1920s Chicago while ending up falling in love. First plugged on the April 2023 issue under the Works Needing Pages section, it finally got a page on June 9th!
  • Chances are that you heard of the classic arcade game, Frogger, where you play as a frog trying to cross a road and a river to get home. But did you know that there are numerous Frogger games? One of them is Frogger's Journey: The Forgotten Relic, a Game Boy Advance game released in 2003, notable for being the only game in the series to have Action-Adventure elements. The plot is about the titular Frogger going to his grandfather's dig site, only to find that he went missing and discover a magical relic named OPART. With OPART's help, Frogger sets out to find his grandfather and stop the nefarious Eric von Viesel, who'd taken over the dig site. The page was made on June 20th of this year, showing that the game is far from forgotten.
  • The deep calls with Monad Studios' second game, Deepwoken, an unforgiving game made in Roblox where you can explore the secrets of the various Luminants and delve deep into the Depths. A Roguelike RPG, Deepwoken takes what Rogue Lineage did and refines it further, with fully-functional boss fights and a separate PVP mode to test your skills. With the release of the game's first expansion, Verse 2, it received a new wave of players interested in the game, and along with it, major quality of life updates to freshen up the game. With a continuously-changing metagame and expanding world, Deepwoken is very likely to keep you hooked for a long time. The page was created on Feb. 16th, 2023, showing that the deep calls in this very wiki.

Older/Obscure Work Spotlight

This section is intended to highlight works that may no longer be in the zeitgeist — but that doesn't mean they're any less tropable.
  • July marks the start of the Dog Days of Summer. Why not cool off with one famous pooch? Marmaduke is a single-panel comic following the titular Great Dane who's always into mischief, even dragging his owner along on walks. The page is lacking in tropes and has 72 wicks, so why not sniff around for more?
  • First published in 1998, Cranium is a board game marketed as "The Game For Your Whole Brain". Teams roll the colored die and advance to the corresponding square and, based on the color that they rolled, they will have to play an activity: blue are trivia, red are word games, green are art-based and yellow require performance skills. Featuring art by Gary Baseman, who later went on to create Teacher's Pet, the game was a huge success upon release, spawning a ton of alternate versions and variants. Despite its popularity, our page for it is lacking in trope examples.
  • Rooty Toot Toot is a 1951 animated short by UPA. Told as a jazzy performance, the short serves as a sequel to the classic song "Frankie and Johnny". It focuses on the murder trial that follows, with Frankie as the defendant, and the contradicting testimonies of the eyewitnesses and the defense. Will Frankie get away with her crime? Featuring some of the best music of any cartoon and UPA's signature animation style, it was nominated for the Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film.

Works That Need a Page

This section takes a page from the List of Shows That Need Summary. It is intended to spotlight works that people have been talking about enough to link around the site, but don't have a page yet. If the work page link turns blue after this, then we know we've done our job!
  • Pictionary is a simplistic, classic game where players move a piece on a game board made up of squares that have a letter or shape on them to indicate what picture they should draw. Then, the drawer picks out a card from a deck and draws whatever the word represents, and the other players have to guess what they're drawing. The first player to reach the final square on the board and correctly guess a drawing wins! As of this writing, Pictionary has 177 wicks, yet doesn't have a page. Works don't need a story to be troped as long they possess other tropable aspects such as gameplay, which Pictionary has. So, who's going to draw up a page for Pictionary?

Non-English Work Spotlight

The wiki may be in English, but that doesn't mean non-English media are any less important! This section focuses on works that may have a language barrier to deal with — but are worth it if you do.
  • Last Window: The Secret of Cape West is a 2010 Visual Novel by Cing for the Nintendo DS, and the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215. Taking place a year after the first game, it starts with main character Kyle Hyde being fired from his job, discovering that his apartment building is going to close down, and receiving an anonymous letter telling him to find something called "The Scarlet Star". From there, it plays out like a detective novel, with Kyle investigating the building as he realizes that it may be connected to his father's death. It's considered an Even Better Sequel to the original, winning Adventure Gamers' top prize. Yet, outside of its original release in Japan, it only managed to get a limited release in Europe due to the studio's closure for bankruptcy.

Creator Page Spotlight

Works would be nothing without the people who make them. This section highlights authors, artists, actors, musicians, and everyone else responsible for trope creation and proliferation.
  • nana825763, also known as PiroPito, is a Japanese YouTuber and filmmaker. Originally known for his short horror movies, such as Username 666, he later rose to international prominence thanks to his Minecraft Let's Play series. In it, he plays through the game without consulting any guides or walkthroughs, something that caught the attention of the game's developers as a way to gauge its user-friendliness. As of late, he's been working on making his own horror game. Unfortunately, due to the language barrier and general caveats when making pages for let's players, his page is in need of some cleanup.
  • The Fourth of July celebrates the US becoming a democracy, but that doesn't mean there can't be kings. As a key figure in expanding the blues, B.B. King is one such king, dubbed "King of the Blues", and fans of the genre consider him the best to this very day. Though undoubtably influential, the thrill here is gone, as his entire catalogue only has single digit examples. Rather than worry our lives, let's see how blue his page can get — you can never make that move too soon.

    Image of the Month 
This section brings you the best selections of the past month from Image Pickin'.
This issue's featured image is from The Bad Guys (2022), and illustrates Criminal Found Family.

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"Say robbery!"

We've mentioned before how, to illustrate a trope, some pics may rely on subtler details, and one way this can happen is by utilizing other tropes to their advantages.

This trope is about a Family of Choice made up of a group of criminals and, much like the pic for that trope, demonstrates this aspect by placing the characters on a Family Portrait of Characterization—with the added bonus that it also gives the image an interesting, unique composition. The "criminal" part, in turn, is illustrated by the way they are carrying Stock Money Bags while smiling to the camera. More eagle-eyed viewers will also notice the way the characters are all traditionally scary animals: a wolf, a snake, a shark, a tarantula and a piranha. Finally, we can also gleam some extra information on the relationship between the characters through the way that they treat each other, giving off a sense that they're Vitriolic Best Buds. And so, despite the work having the word "bad" in its title, this image succeeds in being anything but.

Projects and Discussions

    Forumwatch 
Hey guys! Welcome back to Forumwatch! In this section, we'll be telling you about what's going on in the forums — interesting discussions that may be going on in Wiki Talk, some fun forum games, or lively debates going on in On-Topic Conversations, you name it!
  • July 17 is World Emoji Day! To celebrate the day of these cute little symbols, we would like to suggest a few forum games, including Use emojis to illustrate tropes! In the thread, you can get creative with what you think the trope would look like if emojis represented it, like 🏆🙎‍♀️ for Alpha Bitch, or 🥾💪 for Boots of Toughness. If that's not to your taste, we also have Guess the work with emojis, a game similar to ITT: We Make Obscure References and Poorly describe a work's plot, where you are to make a post consisting of emojis that together illustrate a work of your choice, while tropers below your post try to guess what the work is.
  • Every July, artists are able to participate in ArtFight, an annual art event where they join teams and make drawings of each other's Original Characters to earn points, with the team that has the most points by the end of the month declared the winner. Over at TV Tropes, we have a dedicated thread for ArtFight in the obscure Visual Arts section, where you can talk about the site as a whole, what characters you will be drawing, and so on!
  • On TV Tropes, we love a good pun. We also love to groan at bad puns. (Let's be real, though, they can be rather pun-ishing). If you want to flex your intentionally bad comedy muscles, then pop in to The Official Bad Puns Topic. Just remember — Trope Report is not responsible for any groans, facepalms, or any other severe Lame Pun Reactions you may face or be forced to enact.
  • Here on TV Tropes, we like to trope lots of different things—movies, video games, books, music, and so on. However, there are some things that we generally shouldn't trope, such as real people's lives or opinions, non-creative works, and so on. A proposed policy page — titled Notability, Verifiability, Tropability — is being discussed in Wiki Talk. If you'd like to offer your opinions on such a page, head on over to the thread!

    Trope/Article Changelog 
This section covers renames, removals, redefinitions, hard-splits, merges, and wick cleaning. We'll try to keep you alerted to any major changes to the site, including perpetual projects and Wiki Talk decisions that you may have missed, but if you want to be a part of the process that affects so much of our wiki, then head over to the Trope Repair Shop on the left-hand side of the forum.

    Pages Needing Help 
This section highlights articles indexed on the Pages Needing Wiki Magic policy page and sub-pages. Such articles are, at best, under-performing and below wiki standards. At worst, these pages are in violation of the wiki's rules against stubs. If you're an editor, try checking out some of these under-performing trope and work articles to see what improvements you can make to the page.
  • July's birthday is George Dzundza, who is known for his multiple voice acting roles in the DC Animated Universe. Our page on Dzundza is currently lacking a trope list for his roles and acting work.
  • Many people have some sort of dream, whether for wealth, happiness, or any other sort of ideal thing. Most people (hopefully), however, won't kill to achieve these desires. The 2010 film Dream Home deals with one of these outliers, determined to get a place of her own, no matter who dies in the process. The page itself, however, is nothing less than a nightmare, with low- or no-context examples, excessive spoilering, and a very stubby description. Who wants to renovate this broken-down page?
  • A Magical Guide is a being that appears in a hero's time of need and aids the hero with magical powers. For all the help these characters have given us, perhaps it's time to return the favor. Its description needs to be refined, and some more examples could be unveiled. Some wicks and crosswicking would also be appreciated.

    Project Spotlight 
Looking for a project to dedicate some time to, but not comfortable jumping into large threads? Here are some smaller projects, or more recent discussions, in need of a few more hands.

    Know the Contributors 
  • FernandoLemon writes for Work Spotlight and Image of the Month. He finds July to be the least interesting month to talk about.
  • War Jay 77 contributed to the Trope Spotlight and Forumwatch sections.
  • gjjones writes for the Project Spotlight section. He also frequently spends his time working on projects whenever they are necessary, cleaning up wiki entries and participating in the ATT and Trope Repair Shop threads.
  • 𝕋𝕒𝕓𝕤 writes for the Obscure Trope Spotlight and Changelog sections.
  • plakythebirb, excited to see how fireworks scare other people, usually writes for Works That Need a Page.
  • Excessive-Menace, ready for their birthday, writes for the New Tropes section. They mainly spend their time lurking and editing the wiki, as well as participating in ATT and writing for the Trope Pantheons project.
  • The Mayor of Simpleton wrote for Projects Spotlight and Forumwatch this edition. He mostly participates in the Project Threads, TRS, Trope and Wiki Talk, sometimes Image Pickin', and occasionally ATT. As he is American, he will also be celebrating the Fourth of July this year.
  • callmeamuffin wrote for this month's Forumwatch and Project Spotlight. Outside of Trope Report, you can find him participating in forum games.
  • MacronNotes contributed to the description and the Pages Needing Help section this month. She spends most of her time on Wiki Talk, TRS, and other parts of the site.
  • Berrenta assisted with the Article Changelog, and often finds other pages worth covering when doing TRS work. This month, she contributed to Projects and Obscure Works.
  • GastonRabbit contributes to the Changelog, since he mostly moderates TRS, and adds changes after giving the go-ahead to make them.
  • Cutegirl920fire wrote her obligatory F. Scott Fitzgerald-adjacent entry alongside some unrelated entries in the New Work Pages Spotlight, Works That Need a Page and Forumwatch sections.
  • Cardboard Bot drew the image of this issue.
  • Twiddler makes sure our grammar is in order.
  • A Nonagon 9 wrote the Creator spotlight. He requests you wear sunscreen for UV Safety Awareness Month.
  • Rmpdc mainly contributes to the Trope Launch Pad and Trope Pantheons. He specializes in Works Set in World War II, and has written more than a few pages for works under this category.
  • Siegfried 1337 wrote for the New Work Page Spotlight.
  • alnair20aug93 wrote for the New Tropes section.
  • wingedcatgirl wrote for the Changelog.
  • Trope Reporter (real name Taylor Von Trope) is the mascot for Trope Report whose TV head is used as this edition's image.
This edition of Trope Report is brought to you by Mary's Lamburgers! This grilling season, enjoy a lamburger as seen on your favorite teen reality show!

Interested in becoming a contributor, or have suggestions for works or tropes to feature? Pop by the thread and let us know! We don't bite. (Much.)

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