Trope Description Improvement Drive

Deus Ex Homine and Deity of Human Origin both have serious description problems, due to semantics, about half of their examples don't actually qualify for the trope (mainly because the latter requires the detiy to have created a world, and the former requires the creation to be intentional). Also of note is the issue that crops up if those restrictions are removed: Are these tropes distinct enough to be two separate tropes?

A large amount of characters on both pages qualify as both...

Helios, Dr Manhattan, pretty much every case of autodeification (when a character becomes a god through their own efforts.

While you could argue that many of the examples on deity of human origin are just cases of Ascended To A Higher Place Of Existence, not all cases of the latter require that ascension to be an apotheosis, which is pretty much required here. It also intersects partially with Abstract Apotheosis, and seems to be seems to be missing large number of examples.

Window Watcher I understand what he's going for, but it needs a lot of help.

Barbie Doll Anatomy - this was renamed from Anime Anatomy at some point, but the description is still Japan-centric. I dunno that I would get rid of the references altogether but I would at least balance it out with Western equivalents. But I don't actually have time to do it, so that's not up to me.

As far as I can tell, this is trope is in fact restricted to animé and manga. I don't think it ever occurs in Western works.

Childrens Television Is Childish is all analysis and no examples. Could someone prune it?

edited 26th Apr '12 2:43:09 PM by Ackbar96

Actually, I think it needs a cut. There's what amounts to some examples, but it strikes me as much more essay than trope.

Face Hugger needs a longer description.

@330: Just from the name, it sounds like Animation Age Ghetto but done badly.

Anyway, I've been wanting to bring my EAAT scythe down upon on First Law of Gender Bending's head for some time (yes it's humorous, but really, the definition proper doesn't occur until three tweets in. That's too long). Any thoughts?

Is it possible to shrink it without getting rid of it altogether?

At a glance, a lot of [edit]First Law...[/edit] looks like it could go under the Analysis tab, perhaps with a bit of tweaking.

(Or more than just "tweaking", like I said it was just a glance.)

edited 29th Apr '12 5:38:20 AM by Nohbody

I've started a TRS for Childrens Television Is Childish. I recommended a cut in the OP.

@334: I tried that once, and another editor felt like reverting it on sight. So we discussed it on PM.

I don't know if anyone else has brought it up, but I thought I took a stab at Knight Templar before, but I guess not.

Gratuitous German is still unnecessarily Japanese-specific. Other than chopping it down to "Exactly What It Says on the Tin: German inserted into a work, whether it is necessary or not. A subtrope of Gratuitous Foreign Language," I don't really know what to do.

Gratuitous Japanese probably needs a look over too.

edited 1st May '12 4:30:51 PM by Discar

Screw it. Took out the chainsaw. Most of the cut stuff fit pretty well on analysis, though.

Commanding Coolness: The description isn't clear on whether the trope is about navy Commanders (and space navy ones, by proxy), or about "commanders" in general. Several examples assume the latter to be true, while some off-article mentions of the trope seem to indicate that it's actually the former. How do we tell?

edited 3rd May '12 6:46:22 PM by MarqFJA

Er... which trope is that?

<Face Palm> Stupid hasty me. Fixed.

I think clarifications of a definition like that actually fall under TRS since people are misusing it or the definition is unclear.

For that matter, I'm not entirely sure how "commanders" is a trope anyway.

It seems to me that it's supposed to be the naval equivalent of Four-Star Badass. Is that trope (and Colonel Badass and Majorly Awesome) limited to army officers?

edited 4th May '12 4:48:38 AM by MarqFJA

Speed Sex has about two pages of text on it.

Laxative Prank seems to be a bit too heavy in the Real Life department.

I think we have a policy of nuking real-life sections if they become too much of a problem.

^ Yep.

Mind you, "too much of a problem" isn't well defined, so wanting a method to punch rules lawyers in the nuts through the internet is understandable.