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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

Willowleaf24 Hog in a frog from Somewhere buried in snow Since: Nov, 2020 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Hog in a frog
#876: May 19th 2022 at 6:25:52 PM

The various character pages of We Are All Pokémon Trainers are pretty messy. Tropeless sections/characters, images that aren't right-aligned, trope names with spoiler tags or potholes, ZCEs all over the place. If anyone's able to chip in with a bit of cleaning, any and all help is appreciated!

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#877: May 19th 2022 at 9:01:11 PM

[up][up]Well, I cataloged all the pages. The only thing left to do is re-sort all the characters. Since a lot of the characters pages are only usually a couple of tropes it would just take a couple of people to really go through it.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
DustSnitch Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#878: May 20th 2022 at 6:47:06 AM

Looking at the pages again you got a point, I didn't realize how similar these pages were to the OG. There's stuff I like in here (consolidating tiny sub-pages like Blue Marvel's character page or the Avengers ones under one banner), but I'm not sure getting "Marvel Universe" in the URL is worth re-naming half the comic book character namespace.

Plus, all of these pages have the same issue I have with a lot of these large comics pages, namely that there are can be a hundred folders on a page and only a handful actually have a trope list. Why do we need a folder for a link? Do what's done on the MCU: Avengers and Allies page, just put 'em in a list before listing the characters actually on the page.

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#879: May 20th 2022 at 8:24:21 AM

See. If we go like that a lot of pages can be merged together. I was thinking that a lot of folder don’t need a huge blurb just for a redirect. So that would cut down on some. And other pages could probably be merged into others like you said.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
STARCRUSHER99 The Moron from one of my unhealthy obsessions (Captain) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Moron
#880: May 20th 2022 at 9:00:25 AM

Hate to interrupt, but thanks to a combination of getting rid of Earth-838 and some wonderful work from Doctor Sleep, Sandbox.Characters MCU Multiverse is now only at about 167,000 bytes, meaning that while we could further split it up, it's also safe to just go up now and we can worry about splits later on. Is there any objections to me doing that and making all the required info cuts and moves so we can finally get this over with?

Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on May 20th 2022 at 12:00:43 PM

EmeraldEmperor Lies and Violence! Since: Oct, 2020
Lies and Violence!
#881: May 20th 2022 at 9:02:11 AM

No issues here.

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#882: May 20th 2022 at 10:10:44 AM

I think it looks good. The only thing I would add is a disclaimer under each universe saying that the linked characters have their own pages, similar to MCU: Avengers – Allies.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#883: May 21st 2022 at 8:25:30 AM

Just found Characters.Dislyte (was thinking of potential useful notes pages, decided to look for references to Pharaoh Djoser), and I can see a lot of empty folders. Should they be commented out or deleted?


Was patrolling Edit Reasons and found Characters.Afterlife SMP. This table format cannot be a suitable replacement for a written-out description, can it?

Edited by GoldenCityBird on May 21st 2022 at 6:03:34 PM

TRS Wick Cleaning
Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#885: May 22nd 2022 at 6:47:29 AM

Re: Afterlife:

Judging by how terrible tables look like on mobile, it would help to write them out.


Re: Dislyte:

Comment them out in case someone wants to fill them in.

Edited by Berrenta on May 22nd 2022 at 8:48:48 AM

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#886: May 23rd 2022 at 4:42:29 AM

Characters.Tokyo Ghoul has some characters hard-split between events in Tokyo Ghoul and events in the sequel, is this normal?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Anddrix Since: Oct, 2014
#887: May 23rd 2022 at 10:01:59 AM

Characters.Spider Man Bloodline has only one character, no description for said character, and most of the trope examples have very little context.

Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Amateur Veteran
#888: May 23rd 2022 at 10:41:29 AM

^Personally, I'd move the content back to the main page and cut the character page.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#889: May 24th 2022 at 12:59:50 AM

Tl;dr, I found the character page for Sol Cresta. I also realized it doesn't have very many tropes and it has several Zero-Context Examples, complete with some folders just having the latter or having no Tropes at all.

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!
#890: May 26th 2022 at 6:32:17 PM

Characters.Monopoly is a stub-fest.

2025: the year it all ends?
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#891: May 26th 2022 at 6:34:43 PM

It's a party board game, it does not have characters besides the mascot. What's possible should be moved to the main page and page cut.

Edited by Amonimus on May 26th 2022 at 4:35:06 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#893: May 27th 2022 at 12:07:28 PM

I checked, and it definitely does.

Theriocephalus Amateur Veteran from gimme a map and a moment and I can tell you Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Amateur Veteran
#894: May 27th 2022 at 12:35:37 PM

It's a party board game, it does not have characters besides the mascot. What's possible should be moved to the main page and page cut.

Seconded. Move and cut.

Malady (X-Troper)
#895: May 27th 2022 at 6:05:54 PM

    Nevermind, Self Demonstrating was for Mortal Kombat. 
ComicBook.Scorpion is a redirect to Characters.Marvel Comics Mac Gargan, and we need to disambig Scorpion at some point.

What do we do with the Scorpion subpages that relate to the Comic Book character?

Edited by Malady on May 27th 2022 at 6:07:22 AM

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#896: May 27th 2022 at 6:28:50 PM

With Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, Din Djarin the Mandalorian, and Grogu receiving meet-and-greets at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, could I add links to their bios to the character sheet?

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#897: May 27th 2022 at 10:24:44 PM

[up][up]Make Scorpion a disambiguation, then either create a redirect for ComicBook.Scorpion Marvel Comics or just link it through the character page. I'd go with the second one since I don't think Scorpion has had a solo comic before, atleast not while as Scorpion. Maybe as Venom, but that would be a different title.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#898: May 27th 2022 at 10:32:09 PM

Moved tropes and cutlisted Characters.Monopoly as unnecessary stub.

Edited by Amonimus on May 27th 2022 at 8:50:24 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#899: May 27th 2022 at 10:48:40 PM

[up][up][up] I don't have much of an opinion but I guess there's no harm to linking the bios.

So, it's come to my attention that someone tried to move some of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul character sheet subpages to pages like Characters.Breaking Bad Universe Walter White buut they didn't do the moves properly as they mistakenly thought that they had to essentially blank pages before cutlisting them + didn't bring up the move proposal beforehand. I already talked to them about this (and they apologized) and I also restored the blanked pages. However, I'm not sure if these moves were needed or not, so I decided to bring the matter here.

Edited by MacronNotes on May 27th 2022 at 1:50:01 PM

Macron's notes
GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#900: May 28th 2022 at 12:33:50 AM

[up]I recently brought it up here. I still don't know how to link to specific sections so its at the top of the page. Anyways unless everyone wants to put in the effort to do a Cobra Kai style cleanup, its probably not happening. I'd be up for it happening, but I'd need help.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!

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