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This thread is for general discussion of page quotes, whether to change, move or remove them.

Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/).

Image captions are discussed elsewhere and have their own thread in the Image Pickin' forum.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM

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Everyone's friend Malamar
#6726: Aug 31st 2020 at 5:44:54 PM

Mad Artist and Art Attacker have the same quote. Personally, knowing The Joker, I’d say Mad Artist should be the page to keep it.

My musician page
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#6727: Aug 31st 2020 at 9:35:31 PM

Found when wick cleaning; The Heroic Tale of Heroically Heroic Heroes has a quote that's about a screen-length long.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
DivineFlame100 Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#6729: Aug 31st 2020 at 10:25:13 PM

Reposting this so it doesn't get buried.

Mobile City and Literature.Mortal Engines have the same exact quote.


"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."

I vote to keep the quote for the work page itself since it's significant to it, while cutting it from the trope page until a better one is found.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#6731: Sep 1st 2020 at 3:48:36 AM

Any further thoughts on the Merchant of Venice quote on Fair for Its Day?

What's precedent ever done for us?
ccorb from A very hot place Since: May, 2020 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
#6733: Sep 2nd 2020 at 1:42:28 PM

The quote on Trollpasta Wiki is very long. It's basically a parody of the song "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

Rock'n'roll never dies!
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#6734: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:47:57 PM

I’m not a fan on the quote on Food Fight. In addition, it seems the trope shares a custom title with the film.

We have these lines for the beginning of a food fight in RWBY:

Fleeing students: Noooo! Food fight! FOOD FIGHT!!
Nora: I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!
Ruby: Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful! It will be DELICIOUS!
RWBY, Best Day Ever

I've quoted all three lines because I don't know if the third line stands by itself as a quote. If it does, the other two lines can go.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Sep 2nd 2020 at 11:48:34 AM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
antenna_ears from California Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#6736: Sep 2nd 2020 at 4:29:07 PM

I added this quote to Bequeathed Power since the page didn't have any:

"JoJo, this is the last of my Hamon, TAKE IT FROM ME!"

I've never added a page quote before, and I know this quote is a spoiler, but the trope is a death trope and inherently spoillerific, so should I change anything?

And spoiler stuff aside, does it get the trope across?

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6737: Sep 2nd 2020 at 5:53:30 PM

[up] Definitely not a good idea to put spoilery material above the Examples line.

Even if the trope is inherently spoilery, people might not know that before clicking on the page.

You can’t spoiler tag it, so it’s best to just not have it.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Sep 2nd 2020 at 8:54:24 AM

antenna_ears from California Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#6738: Sep 2nd 2020 at 6:09:30 PM

Gotcha, I'll just make a separate quotes page and put it there.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#6739: Sep 2nd 2020 at 7:00:02 PM

I don't know if this is one option for Bequeathed Power. It's not a spoiler because it's actually what sets the plot of the story in motion, so it happens at the beginning. I don't know if it's a typical example of the trope in action, however.

"Then let me be the first and last wizard in the history of the world to pass on his staff to his eighth son," he said slowly and sonorously. " And I charge him to use it to—"
I SHOULD HURRY UP IF I WERE YOU...
"—the full," said Ipslore, "becoming the mightiest—"
The lightning screamed from the heart of the cloud, hit Ipslore on the point of his hat, crackled down his arm, flashed along the staff and struck the child.
The wizard vanished in a wisp of smoke. The staff glowed green, then white, then merely red-hot. The child smiled in his sleep.
When the thunder had died away Death reached down slowly and picked up the boy, who opened his eyes.
They glowed golden, from the inside. For the first time in what, for what of any better word, must be called his life, Death found himself looking at a stare that he found hard to return. The eyes seemed to be focused on a point several inches inside his skull.
I did not mean for that to happen, said the voice of Ipslore, from out of the empty air. Is he harmed?
NO. Death tore his gaze away from that fresh, knowing smile. HE CONTAINED THE POWER. HE IS A SOURCERER. NO DOUBT HE WILL SURVIVE MUCH WORSE. AND NOW—YOU WILL COME WITH ME.

If this full quote is too long, it could be cut down to this:

"Then let me be the first and last wizard in the history of the world to pass on his staff to his eighth son," he said slowly and sonorously. " And I charge him to use it to ... the full," said Ipslore, "becoming the mightiest—"
The lightning screamed from the heart of the cloud, hit Ipslore on the point of his hat, crackled down his arm, flashed along the staff and struck the child.
The wizard vanished in a wisp of smoke. The staff glowed green, then white, then merely red-hot. The child smiled in his sleep.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#6740: Sep 3rd 2020 at 12:22:03 PM

I don't understand the quote on Bias Steamroller.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Serac she/her (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
she/her
#6741: Sep 3rd 2020 at 12:47:24 PM

I think the critic is supposed to be biased against stock market simulation games, but, uhhh... is that really a real genre that exists in enough of a capacity to have critics who are well known for hating it?

Malady (X-Troper)
#6742: Sep 3rd 2020 at 8:22:19 PM

Is Ambiguous Syntax's quote more Double Meaning?

Wesley: I'm a rogue demon hunter now.
Cordelia: Wow... so, what's a rogue demon?

The Problem with Pen Island says:

If what words they're supposed to be are clear, but the way they're supposed to go together isn't (eg. Does "big blue and red dog" mean a big dog that is red and blue, or two characters named "Big Blue" and "Red Dog"?), that's Ambiguous Syntax. If the words and the way they're supposed to go together is clear, but the meaning isn't (eg. Does "bright blue ball" mean a ball that is bright blue, or a ball that is blue and glowing bright?), that's Double Meaning.

Edited by Malady on Sep 3rd 2020 at 8:23:30 AM

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#6743: Sep 3rd 2020 at 10:28:55 PM

No that's correct, the confusion in the quote comes from how the words go together. Char 1 means "rogue (demon hunter)", char 2 thinks he's saying "(rogue demon) hunter".

wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#6744: Sep 4th 2020 at 2:07:47 AM

Double Meaning lists Ambiguous Syntax as one of its subtropes.

So yes, the example of Ambiguous Syntax is, necessarily, also an example of Double Meaning.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Sep 4th 2020 at 2:08:02 AM

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#6745: Sep 4th 2020 at 10:32:13 AM

For Blasphemous Boast. How about this one. Gets the comparing yourself as greater then a deity better then the current.

Eugene Hoff: All these men have come to kill me!
Olivia Benson: Shut your mouth, Eugene!
Eugene: Why?! Because they know! They know that I am greater than man! I am greater than God! And they're afraid of what I can do

Edited by miraculous on Sep 4th 2020 at 10:35:59 AM

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Anddrix Since: Oct, 2014
#6746: Sep 4th 2020 at 5:44:27 PM

The page quote for Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) (which also the work's theme song) is potholed to a youtube video of said theme song:

I removed the pothole on the 20th of August, but Eagle70 who potholed it in the first place, re-added it the next day.

Kayube (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6747: Sep 5th 2020 at 8:47:40 AM

I think Mario Kart needs a better quote. The current one is just "Welcome to Mario Kart!" That doesn't say anything more than the title really.

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Bejeweled (she/her)
#6748: Sep 5th 2020 at 10:02:45 AM

Suspending Eagle for that double whammy (edit war + potholing violation).

PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#6749: Sep 5th 2020 at 1:46:16 PM

People should just read the rules. It’s not that hard.

wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#6750: Sep 6th 2020 at 12:21:40 PM

The page quote on Two Decades Behind seems to be far too reliant on its illegal potholes:

"Hi is looking stunned in the second panel here because his teenage son's act of disrespectful rebellion: rocking out to a song released in 1975."
The Comics Curmudgeon, on a song which was over three decades old at the time.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.

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