General Page Quote Discussion:

I agree that it doesn't illustrate it either.

Perky Female Minion's quote doesn't really illustrate anything but the "perky."

EDIT: As for Glorified Sperm Donor, the "high school girlfriends are all single parents" part implies part of the trope, but not the "coming back into the kid's life" part. Nothing on the quotes page really stands out (a couple are too complainy) except maybe the Mamma Mia one, so I dug around for a Steven Universe quote to see if it fits:

Sour Cream: Dad?!
Marty: Sour Cream?
Sour Cream: W-What are you doing here?
Marty: Uh... S.C. Oof! Just look at you. When did you get so tall?
Sour Cream: Uh, like nine years ago.
Marty: Whoa! Ahem, sorry I've been gone so long, but you know how the music biz can be, riiight?

— Steven Universe, "Drop Beat Dad"

Edited by mightymewtron on Mar 13th 2023 at 9:43:45 AM

To be fair, Ty Lee is a good example of this trope, but I admit that particular quote is a bit random.

EDIT: Thanks, I will change it now.

Edited by SoyValdo7 on Mar 13th 2023 at 7:47:30 AM

The new trope Nerds Are Pervs has the same page quote as Give Geeks a Chance. The quote works well for both (the first part better for Give Geeks a Chance, the second part better for Nerds Are Pervs). Give Geeks a Chance has a Quotes page, but I don't think any work as well as the current quote. The best (in my opinion) is:

What do people think of this one? Any other suggestions for either trope?

I'd rather keep the RotN exchange on the new page and make the change to your suggested quote for GGaC. While on this topic, the reason I popped in to ask a couple days ago about repeat quotes was due to Casablanca's "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." topping two pages: It's a Small World, After All and Womanliness as Pathos. It illustrates the first one more directly, imo, but there's a page of Small World quotes and no page for Womanliness. Thoughts?

I found this quote in the examples of Men Are Generic, Women Are Special, which seems like it would be an improvement on Casablanca for Womanliness as Pathos.

I like the Star Trek quote, but is there a line previous to Kirk's that might give this a bit more context?

Edited by ShaiPa on Mar 14th 2023 at 9:24:39 AM

The context is that Kirk and Spock are attempting to find out why an energy being has a human prisoner, and because their experimental translator assigned it a woman's voice they immediately concluded it was yandere. (Correctly, apparently, thanks to exceptional screenwriting.) The energy being's vocal qualities aren't explicit in the transcript I found, though, and at least to me it seems like any more than those two lines would be more distracting than helpful.

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Mar 15th 2023 at 6:48:13 PM

Yeah, I see your point. There's no simple line previous to the quote to succinctly contextualize the quote. Given that, I vote for changing Womanliness as Pathos for the two-line Star Trek quote. (And thanks for putting the work in for the longer transcript!)

Edited by ShaiPa on Mar 15th 2023 at 7:49:05 AM

Suggestion for TheAce.Live Action Films:

Edited by SkyCat32 on Mar 15th 2023 at 9:45:20 AM

Maybe be a bit of personal bias because Hot Fuzz is one of my favourite films ever Sky but I think that quote nails it IMO.

Way too long.

That’s much too long for a page topper. It’d be a great fit on Quotes.The Ace, though.

Edited by loserswithwifi on Mar 16th 2023 at 11:03:10 AM

Suggestion for NotSoDifferentRemark.Live Action Films:

Normally I wouldn't propose a quote with a slur, but this one is very succinct.

For BondOneLiner.Live Action Films:

This one may be too long.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Mar 16th 2023 at 11:33:53 AM

Which do you like better for Monster: Avatar: The Last Airbender?

Or...

I like the first better myself.

Edited by ACW on Mar 16th 2023 at 11:46:46 AM

First one works.

Any thoughts on my Unchained quotes?

I actually like the second.

I prefer the 2nd Ozai quote it has that scale IMO.

The first Ozai quote just seems like a form of Prepare to Die

Edited by WetFlannels on Mar 16th 2023 at 4:37:37 PM

Any thoughts on my Unchained quotes?

I unfortunately don't think either are good fits. The second one is too long, and the first one doesn't represent the trope well. A "Not So Different" Remark is typically the villain pointing out that they and the hero are more similar than the hero is willing to admit. The Django quote is more about Django pointing out Leonide's Internalized Categorism.

For NotSoDifferentRemark.LiveActionFilms, what about:

Except a "Not So Different" Remark can be between any two parties, not just a villain taunting a hero. That's literally how TRS has agreed to define it. (And speaking has someone who did a massive bulk of the TRS cleanup, I can promise you that the villain examples aren't "more common" at all)

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 16th 2023 at 3:51:56 PM

Quote on Sea Mine is unsourced.

That seems like one of those "classic jokes" that gets passed around so much that nobody can remember the source.

The same vein as "everything is edible at least once." I'd just cite it as "humorous saying."

Regarding the Django quotes, I don't think the first one was particularly indicative. (Can't tell the significance of who Calvin is or how that relates to the second line at all, given I haven't seen the movie.) The second quote looks fine for Quotes.Bond One Liner.

I recently added this to the quotes page of Popularity Polynomial but I'm starting to wonder if it would fit better under Vindicated by History. Let me know which trope you think the quote fits better with

Edited by Mariofan99 on Mar 17th 2023 at 9:00:52 AM