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...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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I think that, for starters, we can switch the description for the YKTTW's, which is much better.
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Here's what I suggested in the other thread:
To expand, right now, The Glasses Come Off is a very narrowly defined trope, where a nerd or bookworm takes off his glasses before displaying physical ability in a fight. It only applies to glasses, it only applies to nerdish/bookish characters, and using the strictest reading as it's written, it only applies the first time they get in a fight, because after that, the audience knows that they're a Badass Bookworm, and there's no "revealing that they are physically capable" anymore.
I stand by my suggestion: Transplant that name (The Glasses Come Off) to the broader supertrope currently covered by Hold My Glasses, expand it to include other accessories besides Glasses (but not coats, jackets, or capes — that's already covered by The Coats Are Off), and cut the stub Hold My Glasses.
edited 5th Aug '14 10:20:12 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Only worry about the transplant is that The Glasses Come Off has so many inbounds that it may be a subtrope already with its current definition. I see other sites using it as well with that definition.
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Maybe we can rename Hold My Glasses and use it as the supertrope and let The Glasses Comes Off become one of its subtropes (as the definition is quite thriving on its own), related to The Coats Are Off. Especially since the YKTTW description of the former doesn't actually limit the trope to spectacles.
Clock is set.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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I agree with 6; leave The Glasses Come Off where it is and rename Hold My Glasses to make its broader nature clear.
Not right away, not right away
Clock expired and stale; locking.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
A follow-up to the discussion here forward in Trope Description Improvement Drive
. Two (or three) problems were noted:
This trope is about someone getting rid of certain objects that can act as an obstacle before a fight.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman