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
Where Is Your X Now? has its speaker in spoilers. That's not allowed, right?
To me, the current page quote for Skull for a Head could be talking about anything.
I found two quotes I thought could work from the quotes page.
Man-At-Arms: I think that skull is his face.
He-Man: Uncle Keldor?
Skeletor: Please, call me Skeletor.
He-Man: ...Why?
Skeletor: "Why"? Because— The bones. My face. I'm a living skull.
Battle Cat: Then shouldn't you be "Skull-etor"?
Personally, I’d prefer the first quote for brevity’s sake as well as not wanting to double-dip Skeletor as both the page image and page quote. But I definitely think either of these are better than current.
Film.Road House's is not from the work, and it's negative criticism of it. Should it be changed / removed?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576I don't really get the quote on Robotic Assembly Lines.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallIt doesn't make sense out of context. (The context is that a robot assembly line is the answer to Homer's question.) Delete it.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Yeah, that requires a lot of context to understand the quote. I vote pull.
Edited by ShaiPa on Jul 10th 2022 at 11:04:03 AM
The quote on Last Breath Bullet is the "from Hell's Heart" line from Moby Dick.
This is the same quote used for Taking You with Me, a very closely related trope. I don't know if there's any official policy on the matter, but I don't really like using the same quote for two tropes, and certainly not for two closely related tropes.
Also, I haven't read Moby Dick, so I don't know if he uses a gun during a last desperate strike before dying or even if this speech is given at a dying moment at all. The page does mention it doesn't necessarily need to be a gun, but still, it's not ideal.
I'd like to replace it with the following passage from Disco Elysium:
Edited by HingabeSieben on Jul 10th 2022 at 11:50:13 AM
Actually, Last Breath Bullet don't necessarily involve gun or bullets. It's about a villain whom others assume to be dead but unexpectedly still has enough in them to launch a last-second attack to seriously injure or kill the hero or their friends when their backs are turned. Whether or not the villain actually dies afterwards is actually optional.
Hence the suggested quote don't work because it's still just Taking You with Me, and it doesn't show that the attacker was previously assumed dead, or that the last-second attack was unexpected. I'd say just pull the quote from Last Breath Bullet for being a duplicate and not actually illustrative of the trope.
Edited by Adept on Jul 11th 2022 at 5:05:51 PM
The Scrappy had it's page quote changed from this:
To this without edit reason:
It seems inappropriate for this wiki to quote itself. Thoughts?
The wiki can quote itself, as seen on QuoteSource.Internet, but quoting the discussion that launched the trope just feels circular and unillustrative. That sort of pre-launch talk ends up in the description.
Actually, speaking of TV Tropes quotes on articles, let's look at them.
- The Bard on Board doesn't seem very illustrative. The trope's about Shakespeare plots inspiring works, and Shakespeare using many tropes in his works isn't the same as describing the plots he invented.
- Battle Theme Music, Surprise Difficulty, and Vitriolic Best Buds aren't too bad but could use an actual source for where the tropers said this. A forum thread maybe? Anywhere public at least?
- Event Flag is sourced to "Cave Story's entry for this trope " which, again, feels circular — in that not a quote from the game itself? It also doesn't feel very clear without context.
Edited by mightymewtron on Jul 12th 2022 at 11:23:20 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I don't feel very comfortable using troper quotes on trope pages, because it smells like citogenesis. I would support removing them, with suitable replacements if they're brought into suggestion (for example, for Battle Theme Music, I would suggest one of DJ Octavio's lines from his Final Boss battle in Splatoon 2: "It's time to d-d-d-drop the sea bass!").
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311I noticed the quote on The Scrappy. I was wondering about that.
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallI also agree with replacing redundant Tv tropes quotes when possible. It's like an author quoting themselves.
Does the quote in Posthumous Narration have spoilers for the movies mentioned? If so, I wanted to suggest the opening of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, as the fact that the novel is set after the protagonist's death is the main premise. It is already in the quotes page.
Edited by good-morning on Jul 13th 2022 at 12:13:25 PM
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According to quotes.net, it is apparently from Green Lantern (2011), by a character called Kilowog.

Attributing made-up quotes to "X, probably" is a long-standing meme, so yes those were made up and yes remove them.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.