Brought up in the Trope Repair Shop, we need to take out the in-jokey Understatement references. People are using it to make any given example "witty" rather than actually using the trope.
It's is extremely excessive, by early calculations there is a 95% misuse rate in that regard. But don't worry, the actual number to fix seems to be less than 9,000 (about 8700).
{Note, as of 12:30 am September 19th, the tally is down to 4228; We've gotten over halfway.}
{Note 2: as of 8:37 pm September 29th, it's down to 2412}
{Note 3: as of 6:16 Am October 3, there are 1868 wicks remaining. If the original assessment of ~90% misuse turns out to be correct, there will be between 800 and 900 good wicks left when we're done.}
{Note 4: As of 2:50 pm, October 6th, there were 1079 wicks remaining.}
{Note 5: as of 8:58 am on October 10, there were 729 wicks remaining. The entire list had been scrubbed. 111 of that 729 are those that a software glitch counts even though the page it's supposedly on no longer exists.}
{Note 6: Fast Eddie has modified the wick counter so that it no longer counts the dead namespaces "JBM" or "Crowning *". This killed off 75 of the phantom wicks remaining, for a final tally of 655 good wicks remaining of 8700+ original wicks}
Cleared Punctuated titles starting with:
- Completed!!
Cleared unpunctuated titles starting with:
- A-Z!
edited 21st Oct '11 8:54:57 AM by Madrugada
They're misuse because Understatement is a trope, and it's meant to be used for understatement in a narrative, not just potholed willy-nilly every time someone thinks it'd be funny
Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?I guess that makes sense. Uptight, but makes sense.
For our sanity, let's just leave it at that.
Edited by Spidey on Nov 24th 2021 at 6:04:42 AM
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"In addition, it's listed as In-Universe Examples Only, which means that only examples pointed out in the work itself can count.
That actually explains the reason why some examples are being deleted.
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"Because there technically was a TRS way back when, I added this to TRS Wick Cleaning.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
This may sound stupid, but how are the jokes misuse? Like, show me an example of a misused understatement and a non-misused understatement.
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"