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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

R3Ked uwu'd too hard from Under there! Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
uwu'd too hard
#10326: Jan 19th 2023 at 5:29:45 PM

[up][up][up][up]It's in, and if someone doesn't like it, you can take it down.

Edited by R3Ked on Jan 19th 2023 at 5:29:54 AM

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
R3Ked uwu'd too hard from Under there! Since: Mar, 2020 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
uwu'd too hard
#10328: Jan 19th 2023 at 5:36:20 PM

Just got rid of it.

Anura from England Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#10329: Jan 20th 2023 at 2:57:19 PM

Card Games and Collectible Card Game have the same quote. In context I think it works better for the latter, and I'd suggest this replacement for the former:

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

Edited by Anura on Jan 20th 2023 at 10:58:14 AM

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
nw09 Since: Apr, 2018
#10330: Jan 20th 2023 at 8:37:25 PM

The quote on Bat Scare isn't what the trope is about.

Alfred Pennyworth: Why bats, Master Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

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
#10331: Jan 20th 2023 at 8:42:43 PM

It reads like someone websearched "bat scare quote" and picked the first thing that came up without reading it.

... which is to say yeah we're voting delete that.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#10332: Jan 21st 2023 at 1:30:49 AM

Agreed. Cut the Bat Scare quote.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
daudiffa SOIYA! from My Room Since: Nov, 2013
SOIYA!
#10334: Jan 21st 2023 at 5:38:10 AM

Does the page quote for Pooping Where You Shouldn't have to be in all caps?

"Your father was an average fighter, Kal-El, but he was a brilliant scientist!"
Malady (X-Troper)
#10335: Jan 21st 2023 at 7:46:57 AM

SD Gundam Force and Super-Deformed have the same quote?

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#10336: Jan 22nd 2023 at 5:12:50 PM

Wild Card's quote doesn't seem to illustrate.

"Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Some possible replacements from Quotes.Wild Card:

Mgr. Strasser: I'm not entirely sure which side you're on.
Cpn. Renault: I have no conviction, if that's what you mean. I blow with the wind — and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.
Strasser: And if it should change?

Elizabeth: Whose side is Jack on?
Will: At the moment?

"Aargh! I don't get it! Is he against us or on our side? Which is it?"
Arata Sanada, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth


I also like this one I just added, but I feel like I'm too biased to be a good judge of it:

Sailors pray for my good favor, but I am a fickle wyrm. The storm winds aid or scuttle ships to match my mercurial moods.

Edited by Twiddler on Jan 22nd 2023 at 5:13:07 AM

HotelCalifornia Since: Jan, 2011
#10337: Jan 22nd 2023 at 8:25:51 PM

On Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game, someone a few days ago changed the quote from

"The strangest thing about it is, from a cold, critical, non-gushy standpoint, the actual gameplay aspect of Silent Hill is kinda shitty... No, intuitive gameplay isn't Silent Hill's strong point; we're here to get our story on."
to
"Shadowrun: A setting everyone loves, in a game nobody particularly likes, owned by a company everyone hates."
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I prefer the original quote since it more explicitly criticizes the gameplay (while the new one is more vague; what about it makes it "nobody particularly likes") and the new one seems to fall more under They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot (and comes off as a bit complainy). Thoughts?

badtothebaritone (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Snooping as usual
#10338: Jan 22nd 2023 at 8:52:14 PM

The quote for Slain in Their Sleep is about the same event depicted by the page image (Jael's murder of Sisera in The Bible). Anyone have ideas for a replacement?

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#10339: Jan 22nd 2023 at 9:18:45 PM

[up][up][up] I like the Pirates of the Caribbean one.

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Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#10340: Jan 22nd 2023 at 9:25:58 PM

[up]Same

[up][up]I can think of the Death of Ish-Bosheth, also from The Bible. Don't know if that counts as the same "source" as the page image given that it's a completely different story.

"Ish-Bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom. Then Recab and Baanah stabbed him in the stomach, killed him, cut off his head, and took it with them." — 2 Samuel 4:7

Edited by Adept on Jan 23rd 2023 at 12:29:33 AM

MisterApes-a-lot Since: Mar, 2018
#10341: Jan 22nd 2023 at 9:43:57 PM

[up]x4 Yeah, the old quote for Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game is more illustrative. You can change it back.

AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#10342: Jan 23rd 2023 at 9:45:26 AM

The quote page for https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/CreamyMamiTheMagicAngel has the last part of the theme song first in unromanized Japanese and then in English. I dont think this is kosher.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
ShaiPa Since: Aug, 2013
#10343: Jan 23rd 2023 at 1:01:59 PM

[up]x7 (Wild Card): I also vote for the Pirates of the Caribbean quote


[up]x5 (Slain in Their Sleep): Is there a rule against a trope's pic & quote coming from the same source? I feel like there's been a lot of inconsistency about this.

Edited by ShaiPa on Jan 23rd 2023 at 3:03:20 AM

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
#10344: Jan 23rd 2023 at 1:16:28 PM

re Slain in Their Sleep, it's not required for a page's quote and image to come from different sources, but it's preferred.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#10345: Jan 23rd 2023 at 2:11:45 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean quote swapped in for Wild Card.

selkies TOO serious! from Guess, guess, guess Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
TOO serious!
#10346: Jan 23rd 2023 at 2:27:22 PM

Can a work's page have a link (not a pothole) to a trope that's mentioned in name? Like a character talks about greed or pride, can we link to the part where they mention these words?

Edited by selkies on Jan 23rd 2023 at 12:28:01 PM

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Everyone's friend Malamar
#10347: Jan 23rd 2023 at 3:55:33 PM

[up]No, especially since the concepts in a vacuum are not the same as them as tropes.

My musician page
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#10348: Jan 23rd 2023 at 8:36:05 PM

The current quote on WesternAnimation.Poohs Grand Adventure is a bit long in length. Might I suggest proposing the Arc Words from the film?

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
Christopher Robin.

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#10349: Jan 23rd 2023 at 9:13:08 PM

[up] I think the length of the current is fine, but I like the suggestion and would be fine with swapping it in.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#10350: Jan 23rd 2023 at 11:13:40 PM

[up][up]I agree with replacing the current with that one because the former is kinda long.


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