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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.


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

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#526: May 20th 2021 at 7:56:32 PM

Characters.Wonder Pets is a hot mess. I tried to clean it up, but it still needs attention.

For every low there is a high.
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#527: May 21st 2021 at 12:58:27 AM

Characters.With Pearl And Ruby Glowing has a ZCE problem (in that "I made a character page for a fanfic I liked but it's the first character page I ever made" way) as well as issues with trope-slashing. I tried to take care of some of it, but there are a lot of characters and I am tired. (Warning: the fic has a lot of triggering content and some of it is described on that page)

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#528: May 24th 2021 at 6:17:51 PM

NVM

Edited by dsneybuf on May 24th 2021 at 8:18:42 AM

YourIdeas Since: Mar, 2014
#529: May 25th 2021 at 10:00:42 AM

Characters.Astral Chain is a bit of a mess. 60+ folders, many of which have 3 or fewer tropes (or are just empty), some ZCE here and there, etc.

Is there any general guidelines for dumping out folders with barely any tropes in them? I'm planning to do that with some of the minor NPC folders, will probably also just merge all of the enemy Chimera folders together.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#530: May 25th 2021 at 12:50:52 PM

Agreed that the enemies can probably be grouped into a single folder.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
GeneralGigan Godzilla from A New Empire Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Godzilla
#532: May 27th 2021 at 12:39:16 PM

So Winter Guard was created a few days ago, and it launched with a record-breaking zero tropes. The characters themselves were listed on Marvel Comics: Heroic Organizations beforehand, which incidentally also had zero examples, so the creation of that page was purely arbitrary, permission to cut?

SKREEEEEEEONK!
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#533: May 27th 2021 at 1:22:35 PM

[up] It's an orphaned characters page which isn't allowed anyway, as far as I know. (Though I know comic book characters are kind of weird with that right now.)

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (10,238/50,000)
#534: May 27th 2021 at 5:37:33 PM

Can someone take a look at Characters.Battlarts? I had to edit it for Dummied Out cleanup and fixed some potholed trope names, but there's a lot of issues on the page I couldn't tackle. It might just be best to cut it.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#535: May 27th 2021 at 5:48:48 PM

Tried commenting out some examples but I did not want to spend time doing the entire page. I sent the creator a ZCE notifier.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Adept (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#536: Jun 2nd 2021 at 7:47:58 PM

Someone just recently created Characters.Miss Marple that consists of nothing but blank folders.

WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#537: Jun 2nd 2021 at 7:52:37 PM

Characters.Rugrats 2021 was created some days ago, and it is unfinished and almost entirely empty. I thought it had been abandoned, but apparently it was edited yesterday. But even then, it was just to add a single trope under one folder. The others remain empty.

Edited by WackyPancake on Jun 2nd 2021 at 4:52:47 PM

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#538: Jun 2nd 2021 at 8:24:47 PM

[up][up] Creator messaged, page cut.

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 2nd 2021 at 10:24:54 AM

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!
#539: Jun 3rd 2021 at 5:34:52 AM

In addition to being misspelled, Characters.Australian Survivr 2016 is completely empty. (This leaves Characters.Australian Survivor as an index pointing to nothing, so it should be cut as well.)

2025: the year it all ends?
Shadow8411 Since: Jul, 2019
#540: Jun 3rd 2021 at 8:27:12 AM

I'll add them to the cutlist.

wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#541: Jun 3rd 2021 at 2:54:35 PM

Characters.Miitopia has a big problem with Zero-Context Examples and tropeless character folders...

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
IkeaHan Franchouchou Sponsor from Kamurocho, Tokyo Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Franchouchou Sponsor
#542: Jun 5th 2021 at 3:30:08 PM

Im going through some character pages that I think are overstuffed and creating individual pages for them. Right now Im doing so with several Danganronpa characters. Someone already did a page for Danganronpa — Junko Enoshima, and then I copied that format to make Danganronpa — Makoto Naegi. I could really use some help with these, in particular sorting the character's tropes into both a general folder and folders for corresponding game appearances.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaByakuyaTogami https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaKyokoKirigiri https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaTokoFukawa https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaHajimeHinata

Edited by IkeaHan on Jun 5th 2021 at 4:30:03 AM

Character Specific Page cleanup
IkeaHan Franchouchou Sponsor from Kamurocho, Tokyo Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#544: Jun 5th 2021 at 3:40:58 PM

If there are a lot of tropes for a character (typically for main characters), having a character sheet just for them is fine.

GeneralGigan Godzilla from A New Empire Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Godzilla
#545: Jun 9th 2021 at 11:25:10 AM

Should the Variant be moved from MCU: Others to MCU: Loki? He is a version of Loki after all.

SKREEEEEEEONK!
GeneralGigan Godzilla from A New Empire Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Godzilla
#546: Jun 14th 2021 at 5:09:47 PM

Bump.

SKREEEEEEEONK!
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!
#547: Jun 14th 2021 at 7:12:33 PM

[up][up] I guess so.

2025: the year it all ends?
naturalironist from The Information Superhighway Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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!
#549: Jun 20th 2021 at 9:58:48 AM

Characters.Wario And Waluigi is heavily influenced by fan portrayals of Waluigi rather than what he gets in canon.

2025: the year it all ends?
IkeaHan Franchouchou Sponsor from Kamurocho, Tokyo Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Franchouchou Sponsor
#550: Jun 21st 2021 at 10:06:52 AM

Tekken 3: I think it'd be good if Jin and Devil Jin were either separate folders or one folder split between two sets of tropes, since they are treated as separate playable characters in the Tekken series

Character Specific Page cleanup

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