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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
I think the point of Pretty Boy as a trope is to gush about actors. Gushing about people that aren't actors doesn't seem that strange in the context of the trope. Maybe the whole trope needs to go?
Apollo was a Pretty Boy. So was Narcissus. I could probably dig up half a dozen other legendary or mythological examples from before the Renaissance if I bothered.
It might need a TRS or Example Repair/Removal Work, but no cutting. Cutting where tropes are involved mean they can not -cannot- be saved. At all. Those are usually ones posted without going through YKTTW and just tossed up, like Hyper Mode a few weeks back. (It was Same, but More, and had only two examples, which those familiar with the works said at least one was wrong.)
Broken Ace: It's literally half a villain trope, and it's real life section... well, it needs work. At the very least the general examples need booting, plus there's the discussion/wall of text on Hollywood stars that seem to be doing great, then bam!
Tyra Banks is mentioned, and her description seems to point to type 1. (RL person probably called a villain). Patton's entry is arguing (and I'm not touching that one -cautious editing). Tiger Woods seems more of a fallen hero then a broken ace.
Hamilton, Walker, Jackson, Hemingway might qualify for type 2.
edited 18th Oct '13 10:49:03 PM by Candi
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettRight-Wing Militia Fanatic is a double NRLEP. Has quite a bit of natter, a villain trope,, and a political trope.
David Bowie 1947-2016Pretty Boy needs the contextless RL examples excised - the only examples I would consider worth noting there are for actors that often play them. As for @1952, that's just wrong.
Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Eh, I could go either way.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanMay as well declare Russia Iran Disco Suck called, now that it's been cut entirely.
ETA: Changed my vote on Right-Wing Militia Fanatic, it's a bit off-topic, but as long as it's kept to
- organizations
- that are overtly and explicitly within the trope
- I think it can stay, though the trope itself may need clarification.
That said, I can't say I'd miss the RL section all that much if it were lopped off.
edited 19th Oct '13 2:20:04 PM by HersheleOstropoler
The child is father to the man —OedipusThought I posted this already, but while I could maybe see a case being made for Right-Wing Militia Fanatic keeping its section if the problems were only hypothetical, there's already tons of natter.
ValuesDissonance.Real Life is a long, long … long list of things that are judged differently between different places or time periods. As with all Values Dissonance example pages, Conversation In The Main Page abounds. Demonstration of relevance in fiction, media or storytelling: None.
I suggest a cut. A list of cultural value differences between any two places or time periods on the planet not only has by its nature the potential to grow infinitely, it also has nothing to do with the wiki's mission.
As a side note, many of the entries are not actually instances of Values Dissonance, but Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle (or occasionally Cross Temporal Kerfluffle, if we had such a trope). For example, that swastikas evoke different associations post-Nazis than they did pre-Nazis, or that they continue to be considered symbols of luck in India even today, is not evidence of Values Dissonance.
Values Dissonance is inherently a media-only concept. Listing RL examples is utterly wrong. I'm willing to mod fiat this if it doesn't get properly voted up.
edited 20th Oct '13 8:17:19 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Calling Pretty Boy - Added 17th Oct '13 at 05:19:43 PM, 13:1 (14)
All your safe space are belong to TrumpExample was added about George Zimmerman. Race being a factor is something that will rage on for years (the judge specifically barred the use of the term "racially profiled Trayvon Martin") and being in the article serves as flame bait.
Today I went to have my mouth cleaned, and out of curiosity looked around to see if there were tropes about dentists. I found that Depraved Dentist had Real Life examples.
Needless to say, I added it to the crowner. Calling dentists sadists that enjoy causing pain to their patients is a no no in This Wiki.
"Suffer a vicious person and you will fear vice. Suffer a virtuous one and you will soon loathe virtue itself." Tony DuvertStupid Sacrifice has a Real Life section containing one incorrect example, and it's kind of an insulting trope to apply to real people anyway. Should it be cut?
Strangely, there is already a NRLEP tag, but not in the source.
Also, a question pertinent to this topic - shall we go through all pages that link No Real Life Examples, Please! and replace their ontext mentions with the [[noreallife]] tag? I would say so, since it's an editor note (even if it becomes only on-page this way).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWas Berserk Button ever judged in this thread? It has an entire RL page about how people are reputed to go off at the drop of a hat, despite us supposedly not troping RL people.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It even has a politics section. I say cut BerserkButton.Real Life.
EDIT PS
BTW, in case no one noticed, someone added Depraved Dentist to the crowner. I also support cutting that Real Life section.
edited 21st Oct '13 2:53:49 PM by Catbert
I added Berserk Button to the crowner, to make sure we follow the procedures.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"1968
: I don't know about replacing, unless such warnings are considered too much wiki inside baseball to be shown to the casual reader. I'd rather let people who are about to hit the edit button know not to bother than for them to find out only after the fact.
I believe Eddie has categorically stated in the past that instructions geared towards editors, which NRLEP falls under, are not supposed to be visible to casual readers, which makes the edit screen the only place to put them. (Hm... it would be nice if we could get a code that would display the marked text only if the reader is logged in... maybe I'll start a tech wishlist thread for that.)
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Check out Fighteer's post 1945 in this thread. It's probably the clearest analysis of that pretend-to-be-a-trope mess that's possible.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett