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:
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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:
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- As mentioned here
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- 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
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- 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
LetsPlay.The King Of Hate has had problems with real life troping in the past, so it's best to keep an eye out on the page.
Made of Evil, as brought up here,
should be made No Real Life. I'm not sure if it's because of morality (the issue in this post was claiming people can be Made of Evil because they commit heinous acts) or impossible in real life (as there's no proof of inherently evil substances IRL, much less people physically made of them).
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It got listed under Truth in Television, meaning people are shoehorning it in Real Life scenarios, just not on the page.
Edited by mightymewtron on Nov 4th 2020 at 8:28:13 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I am not an editor, and I think this is the right place, but do we need rl examples of CruelAndUnusualDeath.Real Life and BodyHorror.Real Life?
It's disturbing, and very graphically written. I mean, do we really need examples?
Made of Evil doesn't have RL examples; no need to ban something that doesn't exist.
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The first things I see on the Body Horror subpage are AIDS and lupus. That feels like Unfortunate Implications - we're basically inviting people to gawk at sick people's bodies as horrifying. It's also inaccurate to say any horror involving the body is Body Horror.
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that reminds me: several of the examples of ImageLinks.Body Horror and the only example on ImageLinks.Fingore are gtaphic irl images. Is that... okay?
Well, I guess they at least added a warning for the former...?
Either way, I’d say Body Horror can be added for the same reason Cartoonish Companions was made NRELP (insensitive and derogatory comments about people with various physics disorders). Saying “Please bring Brain Bleach and Fire with you....Sleep Tight.” about real physical deformities feels super-wrong to me.
Edited by jandn2014 on Nov 4th 2020 at 8:41:39 AM
All of Nervous Wreck‘s RL examples violate Examples Are Not General. Should it be added to the crowner for being too common?
NRLEP status also determines whether a trope can be applied to Real Life elsewhere on the wiki, in potholes or otherwise. If a trope is frequently misused in this way around the wiki, there might be a reason to make it NRLE even when there are no Real Life examples on the trope page.
Edited by LordGro on Nov 5th 2020 at 10:10:55 AM
Should we add Sore Loser to NRLEP? I have a feeling it's very common in real life—only public events are listed.
Edited by Berrenta on Nov 5th 2020 at 4:28:58 AM
Is their any reason why Fame Through Infamy isn't NRLE. Isn't this a trope literally about getting famous through evil deeds.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Only the first one is more than speculative, being self-professed, so at the least it’d be fair to put it on the crowner.
I'll need to holler again to get the crowner swapped out with the next one
. I've added Shameful Strip, Defiant Strip, and Made of Evil.
I took a look at Human Hummingbird and I agree that it is shoehorned. Add it to the crowner. Since the Real Life folder is misplaced, I'll list it here:
- It is possible to do it with the right lighting, such as CRT displays and other strobing light sources.
EDIT: Added Body Horror to the crowner as well.
Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Nov 5th 2020 at 7:18:02 AM
I'm back!Killed the speculative entries on Fame Through Infamy. Regardless of the vote result, speculation = not an example.
Question, what do we do about the Body Horror entries that aren’t about humans? Like there was one entry about mushrooms growing out of bugs that I liked.
Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!Hmm. Maybe we can compile the non-human examples and set a standard that no real life human examples apply.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.~Berrenta: It's plausible; I see a general example about throwing the board in Go.
Can we do So Beautiful, It's a Curse? The first example is general and many of the others are rather gossipy. I get the impression is that it is too common in real life.
I'm back!I've voted against NRLEP'ing Body Horror. The animal examples are not particularly problematic and since several works of fiction were inspired by Cordyceps they are actually useful as a comparator.
Also, I'll update the thread title.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIsn't conditional NRLEP allowed? We can keep the animal examples, but listing human beings and their medical conditions as Body Horror can definitely come across as unintentionally ableist.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Humans Are Psychic in the Future is too speculative to allow Real Life examples, even if telepathy is not impossible with technology. It doesn't help that Psychic Powers are impossible in their own right...
Also, I'll add Human Hummingbird (for being an animation trope that is impossible) if nobody objects.
I'm back!I don't know if we need to NRLEP Human Hummingbird. I cut the one real-life example that was there for not fitting the trope, but there doesn't seem to be persistent misuse. Of course, I won't vote against it being NRLEP.
My musician page
Typically, one example is enough to prove shoehorning. I'll add it anyway. There is also concern that it is impossible in live-action media...
Any opinions on Humans Are Psychic in the Future and So Beautiful, It's a Curse?
Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Nov 6th 2020 at 9:58:54 AM
I'm back!
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- Should the vote fail, the trope should be indexed on KRLE page

The King Of Hate
This seems like real life troping.
Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!