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Merseyuser1 Since: Sep, 2011
#1: Jan 20th 2019 at 2:21:26 PM

I was advised to come her per this discussion on Ask The Tropers

i've been wick-checking Broad Strokes, slowly, and have seen some examples which are misused, and one zero-context example.

This post gives a definition of the trope.

Also, from my discussion on the trope. As stated:

Broad Strokes is when the current canon story cannot be fully reconciled with a past story, evidence suggesting that something DID happen, just not in the specific way as originally seen.

Some examples which should be looked over:

From The New Edition Story:

  • Broad Strokes: A necessity for both mini series. The New Edition Story downplays or flat out ignores some of Bobby Brown's more infamous incidents and his marriage in order to give equal screen time to the rest of New Edition. On the flipside, many of Bobby's issues with New Edition were glossed over in The Bobby Brown Story since most of it was already covered in the prior series.

From Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes:

  • Broad Strokes: The side ops in Ground Zeroes are set a few months before the main mission, but they're "pseudo-historical recreations", implying they might have happened differently, and — most importantly — in another place, than what is actually depicted in the game.

From Arpeggio of Blue Steel (tropes exclusive to the anime):

  • Broad Strokes: The anime isn't really following the manga faithfully, to say the least.

This looks more like a zero-context example.

Wouldn't this be another Derivative Works trope?

From Straight Outta Compton (not sure if this even fits Broad Strokes):

  • Broad Strokes: Generally, the movie is stated to be this by the people involved in the real-life events with a few notable exceptions. Several of the more unbelievable scenes, however, actually did occur.

I have seen discussions on this trope in Trope Talk, and I think we need to try and ensure this trope is used correctly, and not used where similar tropes from Continuity Tropes or Media Adaptation Tropes would fit better.

Also, the other trope for this short-term project is The Stations of the Canon (which sometimes is mentioned alongside Broad Strokes on trope pages), which I want to make sure doesn't get misused.

That trope has 383 wicks so far.

Some work pages are good at defining the trope, others don't give much detail on how they follow The Stations of the Canon and where they diverge and examples are minimal, e.g. Twice Upon an Age which doesn't give much examples of how it diverges from canon, unlike other examples in Fan Fic.

I would appreciate it if people could check that examples of both these tropes are used correctly.

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