I remember advocating this in some thread or another. Can't recall offhand what it was, but I haven't changed my mind.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.Mostly agree. Biopic isn't necessarily a Character Title, though, and The Namesake isn't necessarily about any character. On the other hand, Job Title might fit if the definition is expanded a little.
edited 9th Oct '14 11:00:36 AM by AnotherDuck
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, would also go on the index.
How's this as the rewrite for the definition?
Compare Job Title, which is where the work is named after a character's occupation; and The Place, in which it is named after a location. It may change over time due to Spotlight-Stealing Title. Contrast I Am Not Shazam, where people assume the series' name is the character's name. See the Protagonist Title Fallacy for the false assumption that only protagonists' names are used in Character Titles. In literary circles this is called an eponym, a term also used to refer to The Namesake. Also note that you won't see Cowboy BeBop at His Computer.
Occasionally overlaps with Biopic and The Namesake.
Super-Trope to:
edited 21st Oct '14 6:29:35 AM by Willbyr
If examples of the subtropes don't always follow the definition of the supertrope, they're not subtropes. Then they're just tropes that occasionally overlap.
Check out my fanfiction!I think Duck is saying that Mononymous Biopic Title counts, but not Biopic, which is character focused, but not always character named.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.Fair point. I've moved Biopic and The Namesake to their own statement...the others seem to fit, is there something else I'm missing?
edited 21st Oct '14 6:29:48 AM by Willbyr
I looked over Title Tropes, and found a few others that are probably subtropes as well.
Protagonist and Friends, The Full Name Adventures, Family Title, and The Talk Show with Host Name are fairly straightforward. They're specifically about the names of the characters (or talk show host, which I wouldn't separate for this purpose).
I also looked over The Adjectival Superhero, Enter Eponymous, and I, Noun, but I don't think they qualify. The first two can be Job Titles, and the last is a pronoun rather than a name, and something that can be any descriptor of the character.
Check out my fanfiction!So, for clarification, we should remove all examples from Character Title that are also on one of the subtropes, as well as move the ones on Character Title to a subtrope if they fit and they're not already there?
One exception to that I'm thinking of is if a title fits multiple tropes, or if there are other special concerns. Something like the third example on Protagonist Title is a spoiler on that trope, but wouldn't be one if it's placed on the supertrope, with some spoiler text clarifying which subtrope it belongs to.
edited 20th Nov '14 7:21:25 AM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!I got started on the anime section, and it seems like people have their example, then they go and find one title trope that may or may not actually fit, and plop it down there. The tropes are a bit of a mess. Doesn't really help that pretty much all examples lack any context whatsoever (well, for duplicate cleaning it doesn't matter much). Probably going to need a lot of shuffling back and forth to get all cleaned up.
Check out my fanfiction!They're tropes where the context can often be inferred just from the title. However, when deciding which subtrope to move them to it becomes a little more problematic, since then the context is what would determine which subtrope they belong to.
Anyway, anime section is done, with one exception. There are a bunch of mecha anime, most of which are on Role Called, that I'm not sure about. The robot in the title tends to be the main one, but the protagonists are usually the human pilots. What trope would those fit under?
There might be some that should still be moved, but none that I recognise or could determine for certain by checking the work pages.
edited 20th Nov '14 1:33:01 PM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!All (or most; I probably missed some) duplicates are removed. What remains is moving examples to the appropriate subtropes. I suspect most that fit under a subtrope fit under Protagonist Title, since that's what Character Title was mainly used as.
Also moved Self-Titled Album up to the description from the example list.
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Simple proposition - make Character Title a supertrope to Antagonist Title, Biopic, Character Name and the Noun Phrase, Mononymous Biopic Title, Name and Name, The Namesake, Protagonist Title, Role Called, and Secondary Character Title, then move all examples on its page that fit the subtropes to those pages, removing those that are already on those pages outright.
Thoughts?
edited 8th Oct '14 8:09:08 AM by Willbyr