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There is a moratorium on merging character pages, so don't ask for that.

Character pages are a large chunk of the wiki, but they're often filled with problems that don't get resolved. These problems include:

  • Zero Context Examples
  • Indentation problems, including bulleting tropes under supertropes or tropeslashing
  • Spoiler tag misuse
  • A lack of alphabetization
  • Empty character folders
  • Plagiarized character descriptions
  • Misused tropes, or tropes that don't belong on character pages
  • Broken or incorrect formatting
  • References to Dummied Out content for video game characters.
  • YMMV / Trivia trope mentions

Per How to Create a Character Page, character pages should only include tropes that describe the characters. These tropes should fall under Characterization Tropes or one of its related indexes, Unless they're recurring character traits (distinctive things that the character does repeatedly).

If you're unsure what counts as a character trope, you can ask about that at Are These Character Tropes.

All characters must have at least one contextualized trope for their section or folder to be visible. If you find a character that has no contextualized tropes present, comment out the entire section and add this tag:

%% As per Administrivia/HowToCreateACharacterPage, every character must have at least one listed trope that's not a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. All characters who don't meet this requirement have been commented out. Add more tropes or add more context to any existing ZCE tropes before uncommenting them.

There is a moratorium on merging character pages, so don't ask for that.


Other relevant threads:

Edited by kory on Aug 31st 2025 at 3:59:59 AM

jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#351: Sep 25th 2020 at 10:18:26 PM

[up] I’d just move the good examples to the main work page and cut that page.

Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#352: Sep 26th 2020 at 7:40:12 PM

Oh god Characters.Something About is so bad

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SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
The Draftsman of Doom
#353: Sep 26th 2020 at 8:56:05 PM

[up] Send all of this to the cutlist. Any salvagable examples can go on the main page.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Sep 26th 2020 at 11:57:13 AM

Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#354: Sep 30th 2020 at 5:11:44 PM

Characters.Pingu is full of empty folders

My favorite failed console tbh
Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#355: Oct 1st 2020 at 2:57:32 PM

Characters.To Live And Die In LA is a whole mess and a half. I'm not sure if there are enough examples to keep, but I doubt it.

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jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#356: Oct 1st 2020 at 3:49:11 PM

[up] Tried cleaning that up, but there's still a lot of stray character headers.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#357: Oct 10th 2020 at 11:25:38 AM

Henshin Heroes Rangers has a mountain of ZC Es, plus entries for YMMV/trivia tropes. Also, I did spot an entry with tropes joined with a slash...

jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#358: Oct 10th 2020 at 12:01:48 PM

[up] I won’t be surprised if that one can’t be saved.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#359: Oct 10th 2020 at 12:54:43 PM

The other Henshin Heroes character sheets aren't any better.

Probably may have to scrap them all.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#360: Oct 10th 2020 at 12:55:52 PM

Sounds reasonable.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#361: Oct 10th 2020 at 1:08:19 PM

And done.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#362: Oct 10th 2020 at 2:17:41 PM

And found yet another bad character sheet. Can Magica Madoka Veneficus Puella be salvaged in any way? There are loads of ZCE's.

Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#363: Oct 11th 2020 at 11:51:44 AM

Characters.Big Brother has a fancruft problem. At least four sub-pages, if not most or all of them, are infested with redundant chains of synonym descriptors.

When Characters.Big Brother 19 The Jury was reported to the too-long pages thread, my Hedge Trimmer efforts couldn't make it short enough before I got tired and disgusted, and it got split into Characters.Big Brother 19 The Jury 01 To 03, Characters.Big Brother 19 The Jury 04 To 06 and Characters.Big Brother 19 The Jury 07 To 09, all still plagued with Wall of Text entries parroting each other.

Characters.Big Brother 11 was reported to the zero context example thread for too many gushy or bashy sounding entries along the lines of "So-and-so is (insert long list of synonym adjectives)" that tells us nothing about what so-and-so said or did to qualify for the trope. Again, I tried to cut down on the number of redundant adjectives, but no matter how many or how few adjectives there are, they're still Zero Context Examples.

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Oct 11th 2020 at 11:52:13 AM

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#364: Oct 11th 2020 at 12:16:15 PM

Characters.Slipping Between Worlds is improperly formatted. Instead of headers, characters are bulleted, with their tropes as subbullets.

Also, there are tons of ZCE's.

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#365: Oct 11th 2020 at 2:27:25 PM

[up][up] And the pages should really be under BigBrotherUS or something like that. That's one of my eventual projects.

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Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#366: Oct 13th 2020 at 4:20:08 AM

Already finished commenting out ZCE for Fighting Foodons. There were so many...

jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#367: Oct 13th 2020 at 10:52:46 PM

Characters.Night Terror is a mess. Lots of ZCEs, improper use of spoiler tags, potholed character names (with all of the links being dead anyway)...

Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#368: Oct 14th 2020 at 6:58:47 PM

As per Trope Repair Shop decisions, Your Cheating Heart has been turned into an index, Infidelity Index. We need help to remove wicks from all the Characters pages listed here and replace them with another adultery trope if applicable.

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#369: Oct 15th 2020 at 1:47:35 PM

Artifact Database needs serious help. Tons of ZCE's, tons of tropeless character listings, and I saw a case of a subbulleted trope.

antenna_ears from California Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#370: Oct 16th 2020 at 12:51:31 AM

I am currently giving Characters.Back To The Future some much needed attention. Among the issues Im fixing are Martys brother and sister (two very minor characters) having empty folders.

Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#371: Oct 17th 2020 at 3:09:49 PM

Updating my report on the Big Brother problem: Characters.Big Brother 16 The Jury has dialogue-based tropes (e.g. Deadpan Snarker) with entries along the lines of "So-and-so is clever and witty" without a hint of what so-and-so said; two tropes on the same bullet point; pothole-altered trope names (e.g. [[ActionGirl Action Guy]]); more rambling fancruft like what's on Big Brother 19; and perhaps some other problems that I overlooked via my eyes glazing over after taking a few Hedge Trimmer whacks at the aforementioned problems. I moved the Your Cheating Heart entry to Bastard Girlfriend to remove the link to the converted index.

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Oct 17th 2020 at 3:12:47 AM

If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#372: Oct 17th 2020 at 11:03:16 PM

Characters.Sendokai Champions is really weird. Much of it consists of walls upon walls of pure ZCEs, but then there’s two character entries that are in pretty good shape, and far better than anything of the others.

Edited by jandn2014 on Oct 17th 2020 at 2:04:15 PM

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#373: Oct 18th 2020 at 3:24:59 PM

Characters.Zombie Exodus has ZCE's, subbullets, subbulleted ZCE's, tropes joined with a slash that are also ZCE's...

[down] Yeah, definitely slight. [lol]

Edited by Berrenta on Oct 18th 2020 at 10:34:56 AM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#374: Oct 18th 2020 at 3:25:42 PM

Berrenta, I get the feeling the page you linked has a slight ZCE issue. [lol]

I might run through it later, at least to see if there's anything to salvage.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
ejmenendez Since: May, 2015
#375: Oct 19th 2020 at 8:12:07 AM

I have a question regarding character folders. If a folder groups together more than one character, but those characters have enough individual tropes for themselves, should they be split?


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