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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
^ Well, for some people their lives aren't ruined enough...
/joke
Anyway...
Calling:
- Axe-Crazy - Added 23rd Mar '13 at 08:44:45 AM, 12:0
- Yellow Peril - Added 26th Mar '13 at 10:15:02 PM, 11:0
Self-Deprecation has a lot of general entries that doesn't explain themselves and honestly seems like in-jokes. The ones attributed to specific person are generally okay, but can I cut the non-specific ones?
My secondary account for (mainly) non-serious forum activity.okay, I was supposed to post
in my other account, but for some reason the server refuses to acknowledge that it was posted by me and I can't edit it, so let me just say that I'm not sockpuppeting.
Edit: and I can edit this post? Hmm, weird.
edited 13th Apr '13 9:39:08 PM by Chelzero
My secondary account for (mainly) non-serious forum activity.Getting back to the purpose of this thread, which isn't account issues...
Self-Deprecation does need some cleaning of its RL section (I just glanced at it, but it looked like some missed the "self" part, and others are too generic to count as examples), but as the Take That! of the entries that actually count for the trope is aimed at the speaker (hence the "self"), it doesn't have the problems of a plain old Take That!, which is usually aimed at someone other than the speaker.
In short: I don't think it needs to be NRLEP.
And while I'm here, calling Jumping Off the Slippery Slope - Added 11th Apr '13 at 10:08:38 PM, 11:0
edited 14th Apr '13 5:46:46 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpNominating Draco in Leather Pants and Not Evil, Just Misunderstood for NRLEP. Here's why:
Draco in Leather Pants: Despite this is a fanfic/fanwork only trope, I feel that adding real life examples to this page is just asking for trouble. It's also a way of calling a real life person a villain.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Villain/Evil trope. Putting a real life person as this would be Flame Bait for political and other reasons.
^ FYI, you can add entries yourself if you want, just drop a line on this thread that you have added them, so people know what to look for.
Like the entries I just added for those two.
edited 21st Apr '13 9:31:43 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpAnd on another note, am I just being overly sensitive, or should Take That! and its subtropes be considered for NRLEP? I had thought that Take That! was NRLEP, but apparently it isn't. Just as this wiki isn't for calling people evil/villains, it seems to me to be inappropriate to use it for potshots at RL people, either directly or indirectly ("X said Y, which I just happen to agree with", basically).
All your safe space are belong to TrumpCourtesy link: TakeThat.Real Life. I see it mostly being used as "This item makes a jab at this other thing".
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanCalling:
- Draco in Leather Pants - Added 21st Apr '13 at 09:27:57 AM, 11:0
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood - Added 21st Apr '13 at 09:29:06 AM, 11:0
And while I do have a trope to propose, now that the above are done should we consider making a new crowner? There's only 12 items total (four not clearing the listing hurdle), but the crowner has been up for 2 months now (part of that with crowners shut down, granted).
edited 26th Apr '13 12:47:58 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpInspirationally Disadvantaged has a Real Life folder despite being on the No Real Life Examples Please index. It was added to the index by Moguie on January the 3rd '13.
It seems the decision hasn't been called in this thread, and the crowner has been swapped since. I am going to delete the RL section, on the understanding that there was a vote and Moguie just forgot to remove the folder.
I just checked the crowners. It was never voted on. (For future reference, the list of crowners can be found on Keep Real Life Examples.)
edited 27th Apr '13 1:13:40 AM by Nocturna
^ At the risk of making things too long, perhaps that page should be wicked in the crowner description for easy reference?
If not, I'll cope (hello, Mr. Watchlist
), but it seems to me that would be helpful.
What crowner are we using? Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor is an evil trope with Real Life examples. Does it need more explaining?
Check out my fanfiction!^ Just made a new crowner, found here
, with that as an entry.
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Yeah, thought of that. Not entirely sure of how to handle it since things are b0rked.
edited 29th Apr '13 4:09:35 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpThe current hooked crowner's options aren't shown, so I think it's fine to leave it hooked. I have changed the link in its description to the current actual crowner. Should be fine, though if anyone has an alternate arrangement to suggest, go for it.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.^ I can't think of any other option, off the top of my head. I did holler to have the thread title updated with the new date, though, [edit]and updated the Keep Real Life Examples page to reflect the just-finished crowner[/edit].
edited 29th Apr '13 8:17:29 AM by Nohbody
All your safe space are belong to TrumpHappily Married bothers me a bit. The description says this: Despite some fiction likening this to a Discredited Trope, a lot of people out there would call this Truth in Television, which is why we won't list all those examples. (Congrats to you!)
I thought that meant No Real Life Examples Please as there are too many of them, and honestly, not that interesting like from fiction. However, the page doesn't have no-reall-life mark-up and now it has its own sub-page.
Should that sub-page be cut? Or do you want to keep it?
I can't imagine how a listing of well known people who are "happily married" is in any way relevant to the wiki's mission, nor is it particularly interesting.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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- Should the vote fail, the trope should be indexed on KRLE page

Nominating Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. It seems like every single evil trope we have has been in this thread at some point.