Fixing zero context examples

Perhaps your rules of a ZCE are more lax than mine, but the way I saw it, all of them just said "the characters look like this", without actually explaining how the characters appear within the style. If you think some of the examples were good though, you can bring them up here and we can discuss them!

Thank you! Speaking of, here's a link for those interested.

Just sharing a ZCE gem from the wiki... From Dumb Blonde.

• Tiffany Lords from Rival Schools, who mixes this with Genki Girl and Spoiled Sweet...and a huge dose of Gorgeous Gaijin.

So that's four tropes applied to one character with virtually no context. Except that the female character is called Tiffany Lords.

She has the name of a dumb blond!

That was stereotypical of me, forgive me. Delete the example.

Are you a newbie? If so, Welcome to TV Tropes. :-) It's customary to comment out Zero-Context Examples (hide them with %% markup) — anyone familiar with the work can expand it, but it's not completely deleted from the page.

Tomodachi, you may want to read the Zero-Context Example page in full to understand exactly what all the problems are and why, specifically, Inkblot Cartoon Style had to be cleared of so many examples.

I'm not exactly new, but forgive me for giving that impression. I'll help with any way I can, and I meant to hide the example.

Edit: Took multiple examples from Dumb Blond. The page is too big, it may need to be separated in subpages.

Edited by Tomodachi on Feb 20th 2020 at 4:51:38 AM

I hid tropes from So... You're a Cartoonist?. Most of the examples were weblinks, and others didn't add any context to the criticisms regarding the author.

Edited by Tomodachi on Feb 21st 2020 at 8:47:46 AM

Literature.Paperbacks From Hell seems heavy with them.

Commented 'em out. Sucks, because it's such a good book too :(

Edited by CustardAndPie on Feb 21st 2020 at 8:52:49 AM

I'm just gonna leave Their Bond here because I'm tired and don't know how to bring it up otherwise.

Also, Zelda Comic only has one good example.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Feb 22nd 2020 at 1:36:54 PM

Cutlist Zelda Comic then, if there's no chance of expanding anything.

I made the Their Bond page, so I'll clean up any zero context examples.

Teacher's Pet has a lot of examples that just list a character and/or episode.

Super Couple is a ZCE magnet.

I hid multiple tropes from Down the Rabbit Hole.

The author expect us to be familiar with Dc Comics to make the article work, but it doesn't.

Literature.Outsourced:

Commented some out. They might all be ZCE, I dunno. And I wouldn't know how to fill Verbed Title with anything, since the meaning of the title doesn't seem to be on the page.

Embarrassed Edit: Ooops sorry, wrong thread.

Edited by SebastianGray on Feb 26th 2020 at 10:58:12 AM

This is the ZCE thread. I think you meant to post this on violations of the spoiler policy. I retitled the first MAJOR SPOILERS folder to "The Boy in the Bottle".

Oh bums, sorry I have no idea what happened there.

Signature Device is like 95% or more ZCE so I can't comment them out without the page looking barren. Surely, it cant be that hard to say what the devices do? For now, I will fix, the 5-6 examples that I am familiar with Not super good with example write up but I think I did a decent job.

Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 27th 2020 at 10:27:38 AM

Nothing says a Thursday night like listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra and taking care of ZCEs on Teacher's Pet.

I have commented out the ZCEs on Characters.A Knights Devotion as part of improving Archer Archetype examples across the site. I am unfamiliar with the game, so I can't add further context to any of the examples I commented out.

One of my edits to Zero Context Examples have been questioned so I would like to put it here as well:

Called these ZCE in the first place I feel I should explain my reasoning.

The first I said is zero context because it is simply restating the trope (essentially it is saying that Aberrants are Dumb Muscle because they are dumb and have muscles) so I expanded it to:

• Dumb Muscle: Due to irregularities in their biology, Genestealer Aberrants are have devolved into hulking brutes with extraordinary strength and constitution but minimal intelligence. Rather than put down such creatures, Genestealer Cults will give them purpose tearing apart the cult's enemies.

Which adds why they are the way they are and how it effects their use in the work.

Edited by SebastianGray on Feb 29th 2020 at 6:54:33 PM

I'd go for examples of how dumb and strong they are. Use the numerical stats if they got them?

Cool thanks, I will add the bit about their stats when I get the chance. I should probably have made myself a little clearer in my last post however, what I meant was that the troper who added the original entry contacted me and said that the original entry had enough context and so I shouldn't have bothered editing it.