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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2025 at 6:31:00 AM
A Rival has its own set of tropes of its own and so does The Underdog and others. A RL example would have to be in one of those but not for Tropes with a Protagonist or Antagonist requirement.
Though going with the debate that started this, I still maintain though that The Globetrotters vs The Generals is not a Real Life thing its a performance art type show that shouldn't be in the Real Life section.
So are there any more new comments on Team Rocket Wins? Because it's been holding at 2.4:1 for about a day now, I believe.
edited 20th Mar '15 6:51:32 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpHrm... Looks like a villain trope to me. The description says as much.
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.If you're talking about The Antagonist, you need a narrative. If you're just talking about someone who's acting in an antagonistic manner in relation to someone else, then you don't need a narrative, but you do need that comparison.
Check out my fanfiction!We have a problem. People are trying to bypass NRLEP by adding real life examples to the quote pages.
I just removed a real life folder from the quote page for Even Evil Has Standards. I checked and several NRLEP tropes have real life folders on their quote pages.
Which tropers are doing this?
Also, I suspect that happens because the flag has a far too narrow range. It only shows up on the trope edit page and doesn't propagate anywhere.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think those are relevant quotes from real-life sources, not real-life examples.
The child is father to the man —OedipusWell, Even Evil Has Standards included:
->The Ku Klux Klan, LLC. has not or EVER will have ANY connection with The "Westboro Baptist Church." We absolutely repudiate their tactics. —>— Press release from the Ku Klux Klan's website, circa September 2003
A few months ago this was on Dumb Blonde:
->“I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.” —>—Britney Spears
And Affably Evil has these:
->The Master said, "Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with virtue." —>— Confucius
->When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. —>— Winston Churchill
->I have to say, that I quite liked the man. I am ashamed to say such a thing. But had I not been able to see what was happening outside the window I would have said he was very civilised. Odd, isn't it? —>— Carl Giles on Josef Kramer, commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
edited 20th Mar '15 4:16:46 PM by TVRulezAgain
The Confucius and Churchill are probably okay (although the latter is a little much broader than the trope). Basically general statements about the trope. The others are basically saying that the people are examples of the tropes, or implying as much. I'd say those are deletable.
Check out my fanfiction!I seem as fine quotes that could be kept. But the first one was debatable, Churchill and Confucius are 100% fine.
edited 20th Mar '15 5:55:57 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The Confucius and Churchill quotes are merely discussing the trope and is not ousting any specific groups or individuals as either evil/dumb, so I'm okay with keeping those. The other three quotes? Not so.
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Well, perhaps not with the KKK, but that quote rather clearly paints the Westboro Baptist Church, which is also a RL organization, a "darker shade of black" than the former, and therefore evil.
edited 22nd Mar '15 5:27:34 AM by Adept
OK, so this wiki forbids the labelling of RL people as "evil". Does it share the same view on "Jerkass" labels? Because that seems to be what's happening in the RL section of We Want Our Jerk Back! (of the entries that aren't obvious shoehorning anyway).
As usual, shoehorns and generics (removed). But other than that, yes, we don't call real people jerks. I would make exceptions for when they call themselves jerks, but in these cases it's about two people, and both of them don't call themselves jerks.
Check out my fanfiction!"Jerks" falls under the flame bait category, as one person's "jerk" is another's "righteous person".
Team Rocket Wins has been holding steady at 2.8:1 for the past few days, so calling it. Added 13th Mar '15 at 10:07:52 AM, 19 total votes.
Now, of course, comes the fun bit: what category of NRLEP to apply. It was initially added to the crowner as a villain trope, but later discussion brought up the issue whether or not there are antagonists in real life.
I may have just missed it, but I don't think there was a definitive decision as to which applies. So which folder on NRLEP should it be listed under?
Once that's straightened out, I'll holler to hook Crowner 30
to this thread, as TRW was the last pending issue.
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Yeah it seems like allowing Antagonist RL examples would just open the flood gates for some Opinion Myopia and the hatedoms to vent/flame on their the targets of their hate.