Note: If a newly launched trope was already given a No Real Life Examples, Please! or Limited Real Life Examples Only designation while it was being drafted on the Trope Launch Pad, additions to the proper index do not need to go through this thread. Instead, simply ask the staff to add the trope via this thread
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This is the thread to report tropes with problematic Real Life sections.
Common problems include:
- Conversation on the Main Page
- Flame Bait
- Squicky content
- Impossible in Real Life
Real Life sections on the wiki are kept as long as they don't become a problem. If you find an article with such problems, report it here. Please note that the purpose of this thread is to clean up and maintain real life sections, not raze them. Cutting should be treated as a last resort, so please only suggest cutting RL sections or a subset thereof you think the examples in question are completely unsalvageable.
If historical RL examples are not causing any problems, consider whether it would be better to propose a No Recent Examples, Please! (via this forum thread
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If you think a trope should be No Real Life Examples, Please! or Limited Real Life Examples Only, then this thread is the place to discuss it. However, please check Keep Real Life Examples first to see if it has already been brought up in the past. If not, state the reasons and add it to the crowner.
Before adding to the crowner:
- The trope should be proposed in the thread, along with reasons for why a crowner is necessary instead of a cleanup.
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- Allow a minimum of 24 hours for discussion.
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- An ATT advert should be made as well (batch items together if more than one trope goes up in a day).
In order for a crowner to pass:
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- There must be a 2:1 ratio
- If the vote is exactly 2:1 or +/- 1 vote from that, give it a couple extra days to see if any more votes come in
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- Should the vote fail, the trope should be indexed on KRLE page
Sex Tropes, Rape and Sexual Harassment Tropes, and Morality Tropes are banned from having RL sections so tropes under those indexes don't need a crowner vote.
As per Real Life Troping, we never trope unscripted real life sports — so sports tropes where RL examples would only apply to those scenarios don't need a crowner vote.
Crowner entries that have already been called will have "(CLOSED)" appended to them — and are no longer open for discussion.
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Notes:
- This thread is not for general discussion regarding policies for Real Life sections or crowners. Please take those conversations to this Wiki Talk thread
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- Do not try to overturn previous No Real Life Examples, Please! or Limited Real Life Examples Only decisions without a convincing argument.
- As mentioned here
, the consensus is that NRLEP warnings in trope page descriptions can use bold text so that they stand out.
- The [[noreallife]] tag no longer works. This is a deprecated tag that was introduced many years ago — originally, it would have displayed a NRLEP warning banner when you edited the page. Per word of admin
as of 2025, any replacement for this system will not use markup, so these tags can be removed.
- If a newly launched trope was already given a No Real Life Examples, Please! or Limited Real Life Examples Only designation while it was being drafted on the Trope Launch Pad, additions to the proper index do not need to go through this thread. Instead, simply ask the staff to add the trope via this thread
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2025 at 6:31:00 AM
Yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say it doesn't qualify for NRLEP...
Added 28th June 2017 11:50:39 AM, 1:13.
[edit] Also, calling it and adding to the keep page is fine, but it helps to strike through the crowner entry afterward, as I did a moment ago.
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Nothing currently pending.
edited 4th Jul '17 12:24:03 PM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpAdding Mean Character, Nice Actor to the crowner for gossiping, being too common in RL, troping RL persons, and already being In Universe Examples Only.
edited 4th Jul '17 1:23:56 PM by WaterBlap
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyWhile the RL examples are entertaining, Poke the Poodle is a morality trope related to Kick the Dog, which is already NRLEP. Some of them probably also qualify as misuse. The trope is about trying to be evil and failing, so I don't think things like stealing lawn gnomes as a humorous prank or pirates who steal relatively mundane items qualify.
I agree. Most of the Real Life examples on that page fail the "trying to be evil" part of the trope.
Despite the trope already being NRLEP, I nonetheless found a folder for such examples on Top-Heavy Guy. I'm requesting for it to be cut.
Sorry, mean to put More Dakka in the above comment. (EDIT: Please ignore and delete this comment, as I found the edit tool to fix the typo.)
edited 6th Jul '17 9:58:13 PM by MrScout101
I don't think the "noreallife" markup has worked for a while now. I think there was an update somewhere explaining it'll eventually start working again with the next couple of updates to the software.
Actually, yes, it's in this post
under "Wiki Editing." I don't remember why I read the announcement, but
edited 6th Jul '17 10:13:35 PM by WaterBlap
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyHey question
if something is tagged No Real Life Examples Please, does that necessarily also imply In Universe Examples Only? I know there's a relationship between these two things but I don't recall anyone spelling it out in plain text.
(In case anyone's wondering, I'm thinking of Oh, Crap! here and how people keep potholing it to mean "I had an Oh, Crap! reaction while experiencing this work".)
she her hers hOI!!! i'm tempeRE: More Dakka - its made it on the list in a somewhat questionable manner, imho. Though having read through what was deleted I would probably vote to keep it gone.
In Feb 2012 there was a TRS cleanup effort : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1327804766076785100
That was 2 months before the creation of this thread, so NRLEP decisions were done in TRS.
In that thread there was NO discussion at all of making it NRLEP. The person who did the example cleanup (Martello) took it upon himself to nuke the folder.
On 9 Apr 2012, user Lachann restored it. Less than an hour later shimaspawn took it back out, added the No Real Life Examples tag, and added it to the No Real Life page, declaring that it was a TRS decision.
I think Cultural Cringe should be made NRLEP. There's this ridiculously large section about "Cultural Cringe by country." It all seems to just be speculation and plainly off-mission. That's the stuff that seems better suited for Wikipedia.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyThose sections are at best generic "examples" and should be cut for that reason. "People in general have this opinion" is not an example.
Check out my fanfiction!Deal with the Devil has two aspects to its trope. The first is impossible in real life, while the other one is calling RL people evil. As it so happens, the RL section has a general examples problem. I think it could at least go on the crowner.
I meant that the first aspect is "literally makes deal with a magical demon creature." But I guess for our purposes the distinction's moot since they're both the trope anyway.
edited 9th Jul '17 10:04:36 PM by WaterBlap
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyI agree with that. Any way you spin it seems to be problematic. It's actually possible in real life, though, since it can be with currupt people. But then, calling people corrupt isn't something we should do either.
Check out my fanfiction!"This trope includes both literal Magically Binding Contracts with a literal devil, and crooked deals between any corrupt exploiter (the Mephistopheles role) and a desperate pawn (the Faust role)."
Check out my fanfiction!Does that mean we should then cut all examples that don't fit the description? Mainly:
"Many performers will actively cultivate a Jerkass persona, feeling this makes them more marketable."
"This page is not for listing actors just because they've played both villains and nice guys."
Check out my fanfiction!I Did What I Had to Do has a pretty lengthy RL section. I'm surprised this one isn't already NRLEP due to it being a morality trope and inviting ROCEJ violations.
Crown Description:
Vote UP to cut real life examples; vote DOWN to keep. Anything marked DONE has been resolved. In order for a crowner to pass:- Must have been up for a minimum of a week
- There must be a 2:1 ratio
- If the vote is exactly 2:1 or +/- 1 vote from that, give it a couple extra days to see if any more votes come in
- Once passed, tropes must be indexed on the appropriate NRLEP or LRLEO index
- Should the vote fail, the trope should be indexed on KRLE page

Calling Beam Me Up, Scotty! in favor of keeping RL examples.