Fixing zero context examples

Can The Man Who Saves The World be saved?

It's been 8 years since the last edit, doubt anyone will miss it

Just cut that.

Do the following examples from The B-Movie Comic look like they have enough context?:

• Obvious Stunt Double: The central joke is that it's recreating B Movies in all their cheesy, low-budget glory. Part of this is the variety of behind-the-scenes bonus comics, explaining how they accomplished the numerous stunts and special effects. Turns out that Snuka's underpaid Chew Toy actor Lee does his own stunts, and everyone else's stunts, regardless of how little he looks like them.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Professor Dr.
  Rant: But cybernetics/paleontology is also the ideal combination for Professor Dr. of course, who just happens to be an expert in both of these fields! Mostly because he always happens to be an expert in whatever field is relevant to the plot, or because a scriptwriter isn’t even aware that there are different fields in science.
• Stock Footage: Whenever the director thinks he can get away with it.
  • The "Professor Dr. discovers a dead body" scene has become such too (though the third time it's another character played by the same actor).
• Stripperific: Snuka spends most of the story arc wearing what amounts to a workout bra and jeans that are so baggy they might as well just be leg warmers.
• You Don't Look Like You: In this chapter, many of the characters like Mopey and Buff look noticeably completely different. This can usually be expected from a B-movie sequel.
• Fake–Real Turn: The good guys set up a fake poll to get information from the henchmen, and when Prof. Dr. notices they have almost enough data to make it a real poll (and get credit for the university), he decides it would be a waste to stop now.
• Gag Boobs: Busty's chest is her most important feature (and gets more screentime — and lines — than her head).
• Artistic License – Ships: A small boat becomes a WWI battleship
• Nested Story: Professor Dr. recalling his first contact with Admiral Watanabe, who recalls his arrival on the island, where he recalled his childhood...

I just discovered Deaths Child, which mostly consists of ZCEs and has a few grammatical errors, too.

I found these on Live-Action TV:

• The Vampire Diaries:
  • Damon Salvatore from has a very vocal fanbase despite the fact that he is a rapist, serial killer and unapologetic jerk.
  • Klaus Mikaelson fits the bill as well.

These are zero context. Correct?

Yep.

Someone please comment out the Metal Scream example on VS Sunday - I did it once but someone uncommented it, and I don't want to risk an edit war, so

At least they have the courtesy of pulling the deprecated "Type X" part as well. I'll send a notifier.

Sailor Nothing has a ton of ZCEs. I commented them out, but I'm not at all familiar with the series, so I couldn't add context or anything. Is someone able to flesh out the entries more?

Blog.Cake Wrecks has plenty of ZCE's, most of which rely on weblinks (they still work, but you never know when they won't).

From the Real Life folder of From the Mouths of Babes:

• This video
• This letter a child sent to a soldier for Valentine's Day.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Sep 12th 2021 at 9:09:30 AM

Someone needs to check on Rolling Bomber Special. Not only they have ZCE, they also have spoiler tagged trope names. Which is not allowed in this wiki.

Edited by Bubblepig on Sep 13th 2021 at 2:23:13 AM

Tried to fix as much as I could. But I didn’t see any spoiler-tagged trope names.

Opps, I forgot that I already in spoiler tagged it. I was just reporting that and I don't know what to do now there's less zero context examples that is not comment out.

Someone please comment out the Brick Break and City of Adventure examples on CN City, I did it once but someone uncommented them and I don't want to risk an edit war.

Done. Also sent them a notifier for ignoring the comment.

YMMV.Drumline:

ZCE, ZCE, dubious, and not sure.

Edited by Berrenta on Sep 16th 2021 at 4:55:39 AM

Fairly English Story

Forget ZCE(s); try counting how many Trivia and YMMV items made it on the main page!

The Onion is almost nothing but ZCEs and violations of Weblinks Are Not Examples. The entire page needs an extensive rewrite.

So Brains and Brawn is just....filled to the brim with ZCE. I can comment them out, but it would lead to me commenting out anywhere between 40-70% of examples, just looking at the page. I do think many of these examples may actually be good, there's just not enough info given for me to know. Thoughts?

I just marked a lot of ZC Es on Pepper Ann.

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

Happy scrubbing, not even going to comment on the comic's art quality (although the description itself admits its meant to be that bad)

Edited by RobertTYL on Sep 23rd 2021 at 12:07:26 AM

Oh yeah it is absolutely Stylistic Suck (it is Andrew Hussie's forte), but it's also from 2009 so that explains why the page is ZCE-ful.

Edited by mightymewtron on Sep 22nd 2021 at 10:56:04 AM

Monoworld is unindexed and at least half of the page is zero-context.

Edited by Walkinshadows on Sep 23rd 2021 at 4:48:28 AM

VideoGame.Monoworld is the only readily visible evidence the game exists at all. it needs to be moved to Darth; if yall agree, i will get it over there and give it a cleanup pass while im at it.