Trope Description Improvement Drive

I thought Growing Up Sucks was about characters struggling through puberty or things getting worse a they move into adolescence. I don't think any sort of supernatural or powers aspect is necessary to it.

You sure none of them are merely overlapping tropes?

Power loss at puberty is merely one specific aspect of it, and (obviously) only occurs in a supernatural series.

This bit was added in Greater-Scope Villain:

• A Predecessor Villain who's directly responsible for the current Big Bad's existence, but is long dead by the time the story begins.

Opinions?

Pretty sure you need to be alive /or at least get brought back to life during the story to qualify as a GSV.

That there would go under Villainous Legacy since there dead and totally non-functional.

Edited by miraculous on Jul 21st 2018 at 12:56:55 PM

I'm pretty sure it actually falls in line with the definition. For example, the guy in Lord of the Rings who used to be Sauron's boss and is a major figure of the world's lore.

Edited by Karxrida on Jul 21st 2018 at 2:32:00 AM

Except Morgoth is simply imprisoned, and even destined to break out of his jail at the End Times and make one last attempt at conquering Arda... which is also destined to fail like his previous attempts were. Plus, his influence is still felt in Arda after he corrupted it with his own evil (at the cost of downgarding his overall power from his heyday as Melkor).

Edited by MarqFJA on Jul 21st 2018 at 1:48:59 PM

Verbed Title: Planning to add a bit saying:

"Usually, the title refers to some state of the protagonist. If not that, then usually could be applied to something else important to the story."

That sounds like it's saying "either used for X, or for anything else". You could try to rephrase it, because I'm guessing that's not what you're trying to say. But is it needed?

- It's easier context than trying to define "comedic and/or edgy" as context for the title being chosen.

But yes, it could be phrased better.

Ah. I overused "Usually". I'm trying to say.

Or

But the latter lacks the specificity I want, but which might be unneeded.

Edited by Malady on Jul 25th 2018 at 7:34:18 AM

Does anyone have opinions about proposed changes to Knight of Cerebus? It's been a while... Re-write here: Sandbox.Knight Of Cerebus

I'd vote the first option but starting "The verb in the title..."

I'll read that later

- I'll change if it no one else says anything.

Shout-Out says that As the Good Book Says... is for any biblical reference, but Laconic.As The Good Book Says and Biblical Motifs, says that it's quotes only...

Which is right?

Edited by Malady on Jul 25th 2018 at 9:56:56 AM

Well, I’ve always known it as being neither of those. I thought it was when someone quotes the Bible to invoke a message, whether accurate or not (often not)

Is it just me, or is the "list of possible traits" on Loser Protagonist so long it's essentially useless?

Yes.

Again, requesting feedback on Sandbox.Knight Of Cerebus.

The first sentence of the second paragraph, I might say “so the audience knows that this one means business”, but apart from that it’s good to go.

Thanks, will move changes over if soon if no one objects.

Made the changes to Knight of Cerebus; will revert if anyone objects.

Edited by naturalironist on Aug 2nd 2018 at 1:09:45 PM

Should One-Word Title explain that it's not as informative as a title with more words?

Such a title is also sorta mysterious, since there's only the one word for information?

Should Door Focus mention House Amnesia, because sometimes they go together, like in the Series.iCarly example??

Edited by Malady on Aug 8th 2018 at 8:29:56 AM

For some reason, the description of Last Girl Wins indicates it is specifically about harem anime, but the examples list contains mostly non-Harem Genre works. The sister trope, First Girl Wins, also makes no reference to being specific to harem anime.

Edited by TheMountainKing on Aug 8th 2018 at 1:02:00 PM

^ Sometimes on this wiki, anime fans make everything about anime. Clean-up usually required.

Gravity Screw is written as a gameplay mechanic, but has several non-game examples. Should it be rewritten to be more general, or split?

- Also should wick to Gravity Master?