Do you have trouble remembering the difference between Deathbringer the Adorable and Fluffy the Terrible?
Do you have trouble recognizing when you've written a Zero-Context Example?
Not sure if you really have a Badass Bookworm or just a guy who likes to read?
Well, this is the thread for you. We're here to help you will all the finer points of example writing. If you have any questions, we can answer them. Don't be afraid. We don't bite. We all just want to make the wiki a better place for everyone.
Useful Tips:
- Make sure that the example makes sense to both people who don't know the work AND don't know the trope.
- Wrong: The Mentor: Kevin is this to Bob in the first episode.
- Right: The Mentor: Kevin takes Bob under his wing in the first episode and teaches him the ropes of being a were-chinchilla.
- Never just put the trope title and leave it at that.
- Wrong: Badass Adorable
- Right: Badass Adorable: Xavier, the group's cute little mascot, defeats three raging elephants with both hands tied behind his back using only an uncooked spaghetti noodle.
- When is normally far less important than How.
- A character name is not an explanation.
- Wrong: Full Moon Silhouette: Diana
- Right: Full Moon Silhouette: At the end of her transformation sequence into Moon Princess Misty, Diana is shown flying across the full moon riding a rutabaga.
Other Resources:
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) and Fan-Preferred Couple (here). Tropers are better able to give feedback on examples you bring up to specific threads.
For cleaning up examples of Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard, you must use their dedicated threads: Complete Monster Cleanup, Magnificent Bastard Cleanup.
Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 18th 2023 at 11:42:55 AM
Everybody, Everybody!
number9robotic: It would need more consensus than just a trope talk, but I think NFT-focused games have come and gone, even if I don't think you can include an entire format as a turn-off (unless it's already precedented with something like loot-boxes).
gjjones: The Faceless (in my opinion) is more about a character who is continually unseen. If their face is shown later, it's more of a Reveal, or a sub trope of that.
LordJaric: Family is an emphasized part of the trope, but maybe in those circumstances.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Apr 9th 2024 at 10:52:08 AM
Everybody loves the me! I’m a great athlete!
Sonic the Hedgehog has this:
- Aluminum Christmas Trees: Though they don't have most of Knuckles' abilities, nor do they look anything like him, echidnas are a real animal.
This trope is when a story element that exists in real life is assumed to be fictional by the audience. Are echidnas really that unknown?
the Retromancer
cut it, if someone thinks echidnas aren't real animals it's their problem
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
he/him
Yeah, Australia would like a word...
Cut.
I hate spoilers
Regarding Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, I've been pondering if Nezuko becoming immune to the Sun is an Ass Pull since it's not listed as one on the YMMV page. Thinking about it, we clearly see her start to disintegrate as she's exposed to the Sun, and there's even a Good-Times Montage to make us think that she's going to die. Her final gesture towards Tanjiro suggests that she's prepared to Face Death with Dignity.
I've heard some people say that the reason for this is the Blue Spider Lily that makes you a demon grew in the Kamado's neighborhood, which means Nezuko might've eaten it in some fashion at some point. The problem with this is the location of the flower wasn't revealed until the epilogue.
Everyone look at my sandbox
I’m thinking of adding this to The Holdovers. Does it fit?
- Blank Book: When Paul is packing up after having been let go, Mary shows up to his door. She gifts him a book, just like Paul did earlier in the movie. But when Paul flips through it, confused, Mary explains that it’s for him to write his monograph in.
Edited by CSS1 on Apr 10th 2024 at 12:07:42 PM
Captain of USS Bajor
Just wrote this example but I'm having second thoughts about where to put it.
- The Kept Man of the Princess Knight: Matthew's female friend Vanessa, the Adventure Guild's appraiser, is an otherwise-intelligent woman who has had a string of worthless boyfriends that mooch off her income and frequently cheat on her, without her ever seeming to learn anything from each relationship. Watkin was a violent drunk who finally punched the wrong guy and was disappeared by a mobster, Tiny had a gambling habit that ended with him getting his arms cut off, Olaf cheated on her until he died of an STD, Oscar was a drug dealer who was trying to extort sex from Arwin when Matthew first met her and was then killed off by a rival gang, and her current squeeze Sterling is a Giftedly Bad Starving Artist who found Oscar's stash and has been selling it.
I have it under Fool for Love but I'm wondering if it ought to be on Love Makes You Dumb instead. The description for the former is more than a little confusing.
Am I a weirdo?
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I think that's an accurate example. The distinction seems to be that she's someone who refuses to acknowledge the red flags that she probably should have learned by now, and that she keeps on trying after every failed romance.
I'm not seeing any issues.
Does Adaptational Nationality apply to different versions of books? In Alex Rider the villain of the first book is Lebanese in the original British release but in the American release he's Egyptian
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Lots of coffee
Re: #31251: I thought cultural pressure to get married before you have a kid also fell under the scope of Shotgun Wedding? it outright says in the description:
Captain of USS Bajor
All right, I'll leave it then. I think the Laconic needs to be taken to the improvement thread, though, and I might run a wick check this weekend.
The issue is, I don’t know whether Blank Book applies to things like unused notebooks, i.e., books which are intentionally sold blank, to be written in.
Everybody, Everybody!
AgentOfChaos: I don't see a problem with it, even if it's an unusual use of the trope.
Al McWhiggin's character profile lists this trope.
- Unwitting Pawn: Stinky Pete awakens him to prevent Woody's escape.
Does this really count as an example? Even if Stinky Pete did it for his own reasons, Al and Stinky Pete both want the entire Woody's Roundup Collection to be taken to the Toy Museum, and when Al fails to deliver them, he is seen weeping on TV. They both want the same thing for their own reasons, and both need Woody to stay in the apartment.
Everybody, Everybody!
Yeah, Al and Stinky Pete are working for the same goal, just separate from each other.
The series Wings has a zero-context example for Tomboyish Name for a character named Alex. Is Alex a usually masculine name?
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Apr 10th 2024 at 7:26:35 AM
Everybody loves the me! I’m a great athlete!
Lots of coffee
I think Alex might count depending on how it's played, i.e. if the character actually is tomboyish. The page lists it as a Real Life example of a name that became more gender-neutral with time.
Re: Al and Stinky Pete: Do we have a trope for "characters aide each other working for the same goal but at least one of them is unaware of it"?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Found this on Characters.Fire Emblem Three Houses Ashen Wolves which I'm unsure of.
- Has a Type: Over half of her romantic paired endings are with explicitly bisexual men (Male Byleth, Jeritza, Yuri) and two out of three of her (platonic) same-sex endings are with explicitly bisexual women (Edelgard, Mercedes).
Unsure if this trope fits cause I saw an example of it that is just like this example, but the description of the trope makes me a bit uncertain. From To Serve In Hell
- Put Them All Out of My Misery: Cheese Sandwich believes that the world is so fundamentally broken that nothing can fix it, and his overarching plan is to unleash a great monster to just destroy it all because he thinks it's preferable to living in a broken world.
^^ that could fit if their bisexuality is played as part of the appeal for the person. Although if there was evidence for that, they would probably have included it.
Insufficient context and unconvincing as written, so I think it can be cut.
Edited by IronAnimation on Apr 11th 2024 at 8:53:20 AM
Purposefully Untitled
Annoying Background Event only has this line as a description:
A repetitive event in the background slowly drives characters up the wall.
I'm copy-pasting this because I want to know if the neighbors having an argument during an important scene could count as an "annoying background event". Because by the name of the trope alone it should, but it says repetitive...
SpaceBattles.com fanworks (unnoficial) index in my Sandbox.
Is Spider-Woman a damsel in distress in this scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lFKjI2zi4
I want to add this comic
◊ as a listed example to Cheap Gold Coins, but I’m not sure if I should list it as an Inversion, or a Deconstruction.
What do y’all think?
Edited by CSS1 on Apr 12th 2024 at 3:19:13 AM
Everybody, Everybody!
Technically, even if it’s not the focus of the scene and she’s only imprisoned for thirty seconds.
Unless it's an image link, you should probably ask the Image Suggestion thread over on Image Pickin'.
If it’s just an image link, than I think it works.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Apr 12th 2024 at 4:17:04 AM
Everybody loves the me! I’m a great athlete!
The Topic Slayer
On the page for Ellen and Otis, the example for Gone Horribly Wrong reads as follows:
However, she isn't shown being written up, and she does get to clap erasers during recess, which is why she brought the beet to school in the first place. So, does this really count as an example of GHW, or is it some other trope?
Edited by Kahran042 on Apr 12th 2024 at 7:49:08 AM
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
@#31249
: no, familial pressure is required.
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