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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 3rd 2025 at 6:31:00 AM
Well, the description itself says that anything above 1000 metres counts.
Edited by MacronNotes on Mar 12th 2022 at 8:44:32 AM
Macron's notesShould Rousseau Was Right and Hobbes Was Right be No Real Life Examples, Please! for being morality tropes? Thanks.
I’ll toss support for crowners for Star Scraper (none of these exist except as pipe dreams for now), Rousseau Was Right and Hobbes Was Right and Cosmic Plaything (morality tropes), and Silly Reason for War. Several of these have examples that violate Examples Are Not General, in some cases many of them.
Silly Reason for War also has a slur under the “Cracked” sub-entry.
Edited by BoltDMC on Mar 13th 2022 at 7:02:57 AM
I actually downvoted Popularity Polynomial. I think if Condemned by History can have RL examples, so can Popularity Polynomial. I think we may just need to clean up the page/sent the trope itself to TRS. I don't think banning RL examples will help much here.
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallAt the very least should I go and cut the entry that lists Jews as a Cosmic Plaything? That seems a tad disrespectful methinks. The other example is also general so I’ll cut it as well. Also I’d argue Cosmic Plaything should be NRLEP for being impossible in real life.
Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Mar 13th 2022 at 12:43:02 PM
Once Upon A Time.
Very much so. That entry can definitely go IMO.
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallOpinions on NoNameGiven.Real Life? The Ishi, Juana Maria, and Eishton examples look like they count but overall this seems like a narrative trope.
I would say just Ishi and Juana Maria count, Eishton has a name, we just don't know it and can be cut. The rest is the usual natter and general examples that litter RL sections and can likewise be cut.
As far as crowner ... it's not inherently a narrative trope, I don't think it needs to be made NRLEP as long as the natter can be cut on sight.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meFor Almighty Janitor we can keep the Joseph Stalin and Haakon Lie examples and cut the rest.
The only other specific example is this one
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The example states that a janitor helped out the customer but does not say how.
Actually following the link has a comment state that a janitor was able to get a complaint heard by passing a note to the company president, the implication being that he has access to the entire building.
It might count as an example, but random comments are hard to prove, only the other examples which have historical evidence.
That's not an example. We would need more than some vague story about an unnamed employee of an unnamed company that had an unnamed janitor that handled an unnamed complaint with an unnamed president.
You need to point to specific people who did specific things in order to qualify as an example.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meCan Official Couple be moved from Too Common to the Narrative section? The trope is about a work designating a couple as such, isn't it?
Yes, it should be.
Also, Young Future Famous People is in Impossible In Real Life but it seems to fit better in Narrative Characterization And Plot Tropes since of course those people were young once.
Edited by nw09 on Mar 19th 2022 at 7:40:59 AM
I don't understand the need to move items from one sub page of NRLEP to another, at the end of the day it's still NRLEP.
Anyways, think it's time to call the remainder of the tropes on the crowner (hour and a half shy for two of them, but by the time a mod arrives ...).
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose meCalling the X Was Right tropes as NRLEP and Popularity Polynomial as keep.
Cassandra Truth will need a few more days (12:5).
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Question, do any of the RL examples on Star Scraper seem valid? The description says the trope is for buildings so tall that physics as we understand them deem them impossible.
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