This is a sandbox page created from "Removing Gushing from the Wiki" thread
to keep track of "The Trope" type of description in pages.
Has a cleanup thread on Projects: Short Term
To-do
- Expand the "The Trope" into a proper explanation about the work's impact
- Sentences like "the other trope" are a Sinkhole and should be cleaned up
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Work pages
WIP — Work pages
Blog
- Blog.Boatmurdered: Perhaps the Let's Play for Dwarf Fortress
Comic Book
- ComicBook.Batman: The Dark Knight. The Caped Crusader. The World's Greatest Detective. The Most Dangerous Man on Earth. One half of The Dynamic Duo. The Cowl of The DCU. The Badass Normal Superhero.
- ComicBook.Captain America: The Captain Patriotic.
- ComicBook.Green Lantern: The Emerald Knights. The Ring-Slingers. The Cosmic Cops. The Space Police. Outer space isn't as dark as you think.
- ComicBook.Venom: The other 90's Anti-Hero. — The "other" sinkhole issue
- ComicBook.Wolverine: The '90s Anti-Hero.
- ComicBook.X Men: The Heroic Outcasts.
Franchise
- Franchise.Five Nights At Freddys: The Trope Maker/Trope Codifier for Mascot Horror. — Its claim to fame is reasonable, but it could use a proper paragraph about how it codified things. This was brought up in Removing Gushing from the Wiki thread
Literature
Live-Action TV
Music
Video Game
Complete
Anime & Manga
- Manga.Berserk: The Seinen Dark Fantasy manga. — Added into the description
- Anime.Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Mecha Show Genre Deconstruction.
- Anime.Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction. — Made it into a new paragraph
Comic Book
- ComicBook.Daredevil: The Disability Superpower Hero.
- ComicBook.Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Heroes. The Fabulous Foursome. The Greatest Team Ever. Marvel Comics' First Family. The Superhero Family. — Cut down some of the description
- ComicBook.The Flash: The Scarlet Speedster. The Fastest Man Alive. The Speedster. — Created a new preface per discussion
- ComicBook.Lobo: THE '90s Anti-Hero ...IN SPACE!
- ComicBook.SpiderMan: The Wallcrawler, the Webhead and the Webslinger. The King of Taunts and Snark. The Everyman Hero. The (non-sidekick) Teen Superhero, The Heart of the Marvel Universe and Company. — Too long, removed everything besides his famous introduction: "He's Amazing! He's Sensational! He's Spectacular! He's just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!" (discussion)
- ComicBook.Superman: The Man of Steel. The Last Son of Krypton. Champion of the Oppressed. The Metropolis Marvel. The Man of Tomorrow. The Big Good and iconic Cape of The DCU. The Superhero. — Rewrote it into a shorter recap of the work.
- ComicBook.The Mighty Thor: The Superhero God.
- ComicBook.Watchmen: The deconstruction of the superhero genre.
- ComicBook.X Men: The Uncanny Misfits. The Children of the Atom. The Strangest Superheroes Of Them All. The Heroic Outcasts. — Cut down "The" and unofficial nicknames. thread
Creator
- Creator.Chuck Norris: The Memetic Badass. — Chuck Norris meme has fallen into obscurity since 2010s and YMMV is not a trope
Film
- Film.Dollars Trilogy: The Spaghetti Westerns. — Someone deleted this before cleanup
- Film.The Good The Bad And The Ugly: The Spaghetti Western film. — Cleaned up the page and added it into the new paragraph (discussion)
- Film.A New Hope: The Space Opera movie.
Franchise
- Franchise.Devilman: The Genre Turning Point for Japanese media.
- Franchise.Dragon Ball: The Shōnen Fighting Series. — Added more description about being Trope Codifier in an existing paragraph
- Franchise.Godzilla: THE kaiju.
- Franchise.Indiana Jones: The Two-Fisted Tale. — Added into an existing paragraph
- Franchise.Pokemon: The Mons Series.
- Franchise.Transformers: The Transforming Mecha.
Literature
- Literature.Left Behind: The one that made the Rapture common knowledge.
- Literature.My Next Life As A Villainess All Routes Lead To Doom: The "Reborn as Villainess" Story.
Live-Action TV
- Series.The Boys 2019: The other deconstruction of the superhero genre.
Tabletop Game
Useful Notes
Video Game
- VideoGame.Doom: The archetypal First-Person Shooter. The Violent Video Game. — Added into the description
- VideoGame.Final Fantasy VII: The JRPG. — Added into an existing paragraph
- VideoGame.The Legend Of Zelda I: The Action-Adventure Game. — Wrote a new paragraph
- VideoGame.Mario Kart: The Mascot Racer. — Added into an existing paragraph
- VideoGame.Mario Party: The Party Game.
- VideoGame.Spec Ops The Line: The anti-shooter.
- VideoGame.Street Fighter II: THE Fighting Game. — This has been in discussion since this cleanup started
- VideoGame.Super Mario Bros 1: The Platform Game. — Added into an existing paragraph
- VideoGame.Super Smash Bros: The Mascot and Platform Fighter. The Massive Multiplayer Crossover. — Expanded into a paragraph
Webcomic
Web Video
- WebVideo.The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Video Review Show. — Cut. thread
- WebVideo.Backstroke Of The West: The Translation Train Wreck.
- WebVideo.Dragon Ball Z Abridged: The Abridged Series.
Western Animation
- WesternAnimation.A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Christmas Special.
- WesternAnimation.The Simpsons: The adult cartoon.
- WesternAnimation.Steamboat Willie: The sound cartoon. - Rest of page already does a good job of explaining the short's legacy.
- WesternAnimation.Mickey Mouse: The cartoon character. — Genre is not a trope. This was cut by someone before cleanup is done
- WesternAnimation.Bugs Bunny: The (other) cartoon character. — Genre is not a trope, sinkhole. This was also cut by someone before cleanup is done
Character pages
WIP — Character pages
- Characters.Astro Boy: THE Robot Superhero
- Characters.The Boys 2019 Homelander: The evil Superman expy.
- Characters.Castlevania Dracula: The other Eternal Villain. — Sinkhole
- Characters.Cutey Honey: The Soldier of Love. The Transhuman Robot Girl. The Bane of Panther Claw. The Magical Girl Warrior.
- Characters.Doctor Who Doctors: Theta Sigma. The Renegade Time Lord. The Traveler from Beyond Time. John Smith. The Madman with a Box. The Sandman. The Bringer of Darkness. The Oncoming Storm. The Predator of the Daleks. The Ka Faraq Gatri.note The Time Travelling Human Alien, who also inspired plenty of copies. The cross-actor character. And no, their name isn't "Doctor Who".note
- Characters.Dragon Ball Son Goku: THE modern Shōnen hero.
- Characters.Dragon Ball Vegeta: The Prince of All Saiyans. The Super Elite Warrior. The last of the Saiyan royalty, and fourth of his name. THE Shōnen Rival.
- Characters.Indiana Jones: The Adventurer Archaeologist.
- Characters.James Bond The Character: The secret agent.
- Characters.Kirby Kirby: The Badass Adorable Hero of Video Games.
- Characters.Marvel Comics Galactus: The Planet Eater.
- Characters.Metroid Samus Aran: The Video Game Action Girl.
- Characters.Ninja Gaiden: The Video Game Ninja.
- Characters.Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (Snow White): The Disney Princess.
- Characters.Star Wars Anakin Skywalker: The Fallen Hero. — This seems appropriate because his entrie character arc is defined by it in-universe, and it doesn't have Sinkhole issues, but suggestions for improvement are welcome
- Characters.Street Fighter Ryu: The Fighting Game character.
- Characters.Super Mario Bros The Princesses: The Damsel in Distress (that is, unless she's not).
- Characters.Tomb Raider Lara Croft: The other Video Game Action Girl. The other Adventurer Archaeologist. — Sinkhole
Complete
- Characters.Doctor Who Doctors: The Time Travelling Human Alien, who also inspired plenty of copies. The cross-actor character. And no, their name isn't "Doctor Who".note — Rewritten into a new paragraph
- Characters.Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Jotaro Kujo (Star Platinum's folder): The Bare-Fisted Puncher. The Strongest Stand in his Era. The Time Stopper. The First Guardian Entity and Fighting Spirit.
- Characters.Sailor Moon Usagi Tsukino: The Shoujo heroine. The Magical Girl Warrior. Fights evil by moonlight. Wins love by daylight. Never runs from a real fight. She is the one named Sailor Moon.
- Characters.The Simpsons Homer Simpson: The Bumbling Dad
- Characters.Sponge Bob Square Pants Mr Krabs: The Penny-Pinching Crab.
- Characters.Super Mario Bros Bowser: The Big Bad of gaming. THE Final Boss.
