This page is for maintaining tropes with problematic Real Life sections or are potential candidates for No Real Life Examples, Please!. at the "Real Life section maintenance thread"
NRLEP candidates
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Morality
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
- Cain and Abel: One brother is portrayed as "evil" while the other is portrayed as "good".
- Creating Life Is Bad: Subtrope of Science Is Bad
- Eat the Rich: A morality trope, also too controversial.
- Good Samaritan: Someone who provides benevolent assistance to strangers. Opposite of Bad Samaritan.
- Reformed, but Rejected: First suggested on July 30.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Someone who is tired of constantly having to do the right thing.
- Lawman Gone Bad
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Someone who accidentally destroys things because they are incompetent.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Should only be applied to alien or monstrous species in fiction, not real-life animals we are familiar with.
- Orphanage of Love
- Primary-Color Champion: A color scheme for heroes.
- Restrained Revenge: Opposite of Disproportionate Retribution, also misused.
- A Sinister Clue: Evil people who are left-handed.
Sex
- Biker Babe: Attractiveness trope, all three examples are Zero Context Examples.
- Fair Cop: Gushing about people's appearance, or describing media that do.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
- My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Sexuality trope.
- Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Stock phrase in a sexual context.
- Right-Hand Hottie: Attractiveness trope
- Sexy Man, Instant Harem
Narrative
- Beach Episode: An episode set at the beach.
- Recycled IN SPACE!: Adaptation trope. Real Life section is full of Square Peg, Round Trope.
- Ring Around the Collar: Specific to animated characters.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Characters who gain more focus than the protagonists; some examples misclassified.
- Unknown Character: An unseen character has a major impact on the plot. The Real Life section consisted mostly of Zero-Context Examples.
Impossible
- Aliens Speaking English: It is unlikely that aliens would speak human languages. The Real Life example obviously belongs under an "Other" tab.
- All of Time at Once: Dubious examples, or belong under "Other".
- Chemistry Can Do Anything: Suspected misuse.
- Coincidence Magnet: Probability math cannot be manipulated.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Involves an Eldritch Abomination or some other supernatural being.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Exaggerated descriptions.
- Game-Breaking Bug: Dubious examples. Real life is not (as far as we know) a computer program.
- Hanahaki Disease: Unrequited love does not lead to plant matter in your respiratory system.
- Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Too speculative, before considering that many psychic powers are already impossible in their own right.
- Impossible Theft
- Light 'em Up: Superhuman power over light.
- Lunacy: NOT Truth in Television, just a myth.
- Magnetism Manipulation: Dubious example.
- Making a Splash: Superhuman control over water.
- One-Neighbor Neighborhood: A house with only one neighbor, even if there is more than one adjacent house.
- Pure Energy: The existence of a Real Life section is incongruent with the trope description.
- Spinosaurus vs. T. rex: Only example is pure natter that has nothing to do with the trope.
- Time Crash: Entry doesn't sound like this trope.
- World of Ham
Too Common
- Billions of Buttons: A necessary feature of anything complex. Note that the page image comes from real life.
- Black Box
- Blatant Lies: Because 2+2=5. The subpage for political examples is in the Permanent Red Link Club due to flame bait.
- Cement Shoes
- Child of Two Worlds: Multi-ethnic person.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: All social constructs behave like this.
- Computer Equals Monitor: Most computers today have built-in monitors.
- Death by Falling Over
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Something is defeated by many small attacks.
- Didn't See That Coming: Supertrope of Didn't Think This Through.
- Failsafe Failure: The Real Life section is longer than all the fictional on-page examples combined.
- Fingore: Examples Are Not General; similar to Agony of the Feet.
- Gag Nose: Just a list of people who happen to have funny noses.
- Last of His Kind: Examples are too broad or are sorted into broad categories.
- More Deadly Than the Male
- Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future: Most heavy-duty military firearms have a boxy design.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Lots of examples which don't fit the trope.
- Technicolor Science: Despite being an Artistic License – Chemistry trope, such compounds are actually very common in real life.
- We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Just a long list of WikiWord expressions.
Too Controversial
- Apathetic Citizens: Too controversial for the same reason as Bystander Syndrome.
- AstroTurf: Rhetoric technique.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Too creepy
- Gravity Is Only a Theory: Claiming that a scientific theory is false.
Gossip and Stereotypes
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Stereotypes of mental disorders, RL sections already cut in a previous post.
- The Idiot from Osaka: Also invites calling people idiots.
- The Lad-ette: Gossip about people's party lives. The Real Life section also consists mostly of Zero Context Examples.
- Too Dumb to Fool: That's still calling real people dumb.
Multiple/Uncertain
- Fat Idiot: Stereotype, invites calling real people stupid; don't need aversions either.
- George Jetson Job Security: Too common in real life, and attracts complaining.
- Misplaced Vegetation: I'm not sure if invasive species are a correct interpretation of this trope. It's either too common in real life, or impossible.
- Sadist Teacher: Morality trope, also seems too common in real life.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Examples Are Not General, also a sexuality trope and attracts gossip.
- Sore Loser: Controversial, attracts gossip, and too common.
- There Should Be a Law: Too common, too controversial.
Probably shouldn't be NRLEP
- Awful British Sex Comedy: Genre page, belongs on No On-Page Examples.
- Mister Seahorse: Examples involving non-human animals should be okay, though examples involving humans are a definite no. The same restrictions are already in place for Mate or Die.
Not quite an NRLEP candidate, but has problems
- Awesome, but Impractical: Serious Wall of Text problem.
- Morton's Fork: Originally pitched for being common, but some suggest that the subpage needs a cleanup instead.
- Worst News Judgment Ever: Kept at least twice at the thread; needs cleanup for complaining.
