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
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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 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 I'll just call Vocal Minority, considering that it is being dealt with elsewhere, and it is at the point where it would be called anyway.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Dystopian Edict doesn't have a real life section currently, but since such a thing could only draw complaining and incautiously judged edits, I'd like to keep it that way.
The child is father to the man —OedipusThe Dark Side has only two examples, one of which involves sniping at religion.
We really don't need that.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerI just noticed the other day that somebody scrubbed an attempt at a Real Life section from Involuntary Shapeshifter (and rightly so, dammit).
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Do I really need to explain why Psycho Lesbian should be included here?
There are a couple there that have apparently been called and are under 2:1
The child is father to the man —OedipusUnfortunate Implications was never above 2:1. While I do not mourn the loss of its real life section, that was an incorrect call.
Previous pages were all above 2:1 when they were called. If they are not so now, it's probably because some halfwit showed up after voting was closed.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.Please consider making these No Real Life Examples Please:
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking/RealLife
- Religion and politics, such a wonderful brew!
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BalloonBelly/RealLife
- We don't need to know everything with a balloon belly in real life.
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BewareTheNiceOnes/RealLife
- Gossip problem, overlapping examples.
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BeyondTheImpossible/RealLife
- Acknowledges itself it should not logically exist.
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BigEater/RealLife
- We don't need real-life examples of overeating and fat people.
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BreakTheCutie/RealLife
- Do we really need to know how real-life "cuties" were "broken"
These probably are okay but need cleaning/watching:
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Badass/RealLife
- yeah, there are real-life Badasses and recognizing them does no harm. But it needs to be watched for the intrusion of politics and religion, and there's an NSFW link there which I've removed.
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BerserkButton/RealLife
- Possibly clean up to historical examples and general ones (e.g. "don't use racist or sexist terminology" rather than going into depth about specifics)
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BodyHorror/RealLife
- Natter problem.
Cleaned up myself but may need more cleaning:
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BlessedWithSuck/RealLife
- Removed section on "big breasts" and "big penises." And sorry for indulging a bit of juvenile and NSFW humor, but that anything related to penises was on Blessed with Suck...
Done from A to B now... will do more later.
?Suggesting some more.
//edit. I apparently broke the crowner. Anyway, here are the rest of my suggestions once we get a new crowner in play.
- Abusive Parents — "no specific real life examples please"
- Axe-Crazy — a trope about mental instability, so the "no gossip" guideline should be followed
- Bad Liar — flamebait
- The Ditz — we aren't here to call people stupid
- Cloud Cuckoolander — we aren't here to call people airheaded
(Yes, I'm going through Character Flaws.)
edited 15th May '12 11:17:41 AM by peccantis
Also, I cleaned out FridgeHorror.Real Life and will keep it clean.
I think that that's why Strawman News Media keeps the RL examples.
edited 15th May '12 10:18:56 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBig Eater is People Sit On Chairs in real life, I should think.
The child is father to the man —OedipusCalling Abusive Parents, Obfuscating Stupidity and Break the Cutie
edited 15th May '12 8:36:57 PM by MagBas
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

Think of the Children!'s real life folder needs to be cleaned, but I don't think it draws incautious edits or square peg examples.
edited 9th May '12 4:47:35 PM by HersheleOstropoler
The child is father to the man —Oedipus