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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2025 at 6:31:00 AM
I have some more suggestions: Fingerless Hands (artist-controlled trope, eliminating its real-life possibilities), Toxic Friend Influence (morality trope), Too Hungry to Be Polite (stereotyping), Wide-Eyed Idealist / Grumpy Bear (narratives and characterization).
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy@Mitchell Productions, only one of those pages (Fingerless Hands) even has a Real Life section and that section has only one entry and that's not a problem. We really don't like pre-emptively adding pages to the NRLEP list, or adding it just because.
I saw that example, and thought that it was a shoehorn. I mean "artist-controlled" as in Super-Deformed, Deranged Animation, and other tropes that were NRLEP for this reason.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boySuper-Deformed and Deranged Animation are both impossible in RL no matter how you color it. It isn't that they are "artist controlled" as much as they are literally impossible. The example in Fingerless Hands indicates that the trope is not literally impossible in RL (thanks to science), just not naturally possible for humans.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyThis is for pages that have Real Life sections that are a problem. One example, that may or may not be a shoehorn (because that device looks pretty much just like an animated mitten-hand, and if it's incorporated into medical prosthetics, will give people "Fingerless Hands") is not a problem.
We don't change pages just to change them.
That particular example is a specific example that's interesting and relevant to the trope. And it's an artificially created construct, so there has been some artistry involved in its making. It's a good case for why I would vote to keep Real Life examples if that was put in the crowner.
You can try to clean Witch Hunt if you want. I'm usually not that good when it comes to politically sensitive examples.
edited 28th Apr '17 8:22:00 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!With enough trimming, these tropes may not need a run through the crowner unless the trimmed-out violations are persistent. I only remember Asbestos-Free Cereal having that effect, while it was on the crowner for "complaining and natter".
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boySmiting Evil Feels Good is a component to the NRLEP Pay Evil unto Evil, which are both about calling people heroes. Should it have a run through the crowner?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boyNot ''Types". Individual tropes, which have a Real Life section that is problematic. We are not trying to see how many pages we can put this tag on. This project has been going on for 5 years and 51 crowners ( that's 500+ tropes voted on at a minimum, assuming 10 items per crowner.) We've probably got most of them by now, especially since the tag is now added to newly made tropes that fall into a category that has already been tagged.
edited 28th Apr '17 8:28:48 PM by Madrugada
I have an idea: Innocent Bigot, for being a bigotry trope, which several of them were banned from having real life examples, such as Boomerang and Tragic Bigot, Some of My Best Friends Are X, etc..
edited 30th Apr '17 7:14:28 AM by MitchellProductions
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boyThere is no RL folder on Innocent Bigot. Has Innocent Bigot been used on works pages, creator pages, or trope pages in such a way as to necessitate it being brought up to this thread? Serious question.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyEven though Made Out to Be a Jerkass only has a few real life examples, it still is a political tinderbox, especially by the first and third examples. Should it go through the crowner again, or will it go horribly wrong like last time?
edited 1st May '17 5:54:06 AM by MitchellProductions
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes Jack a mere boyI want to suggest Formerly Fit. As its been mentioned plenty of times before, this isn't a gossip column/tabloid and even if it were, fat-shaming isn't cool. Plus, many of the RL examples on the page are of older celebrities which I find to be pretty unfair, as factors like age and illness are common.
Are you adding to the discussion on this site, or just taking away from someone else's contributions?Formerly Fit does have general examples (which I believe indicates that it's "too common"). It also is just logically very common.
Alongside that, Formerly Fat seems to have a ZCE problem, and it is likewise very common.
edited 1st May '17 8:39:45 AM by WaterBlap
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyCleaned out the non-examples from Made Out to Be a Jerkass. Turns out all of them were generic "examples", so the whole folder got axed.
If someone calls something a political tinderbox without showing any flames, I'm calling nothing to see there.
Formerly Fit is gossip, and what's there is gossip and generic "examples". There's not much there, but I also think it's plainly pointless to note it for real people, considering how common it is with age and illness. Wouldn't object to adding that to the crowner.
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Was the trope cleaned from troblesome entries when it was brought up last time?
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