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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

underCoverSailsman Peeks from Under Rocks from State of Flux Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Peeks from Under Rocks
#926: Jun 16th 2022 at 11:29:50 AM

Given some of the phrasing in the heading indices, they may have been intending to rework this into a combined set of Franchise.Aladdin character sheets. I can see that it might need cleanup (Characters from "The Return Of Jafar" are troped on the same pages as characters from "Aladdin: The Series", for one) But I question where they drew the line for splitting, and how they titled pages - Aladdin Titular Protagonists for... Aladdin himself?

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!
#927: Jun 17th 2022 at 11:32:31 PM

Characters.The Joe Schmo Show is completely tropeless.

2025: the year it all ends?
Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
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!
#929: Jun 18th 2022 at 11:47:08 AM

No idea. Page is cutworthy anyway.

2025: the year it all ends?
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Hfxjfrvnn Since: Jan, 2021
#932: Jun 18th 2022 at 2:05:15 PM

Characters.Cobra Kai is currently identical to Characters.The Karate Kid, should it just be made into a redirect?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#933: Jun 18th 2022 at 2:17:31 PM

Really should be.

Edited by Amonimus on Jun 18th 2022 at 12:29:00 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
STARCRUSHER99 The Moron from one of my unhealthy obsessions (Captain) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Moron
#934: Jun 18th 2022 at 2:23:15 PM

I don't think that's quite necessary. The former page is a page for the franchise, and the only work in the franchise that includes every page happens to be Cobra Kai. They look similar because they happen to overlap, but one's for the franchise as a whole and links to the indivdual work pages in the process, so I don't think a redirect is quite needed here.

Hfxjfrvnn Since: Jan, 2021
#935: Jun 19th 2022 at 5:56:47 AM

[up]The other work pages are all redirects too, except for the reboot which is a different continuity.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#936: Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:36:31 AM

Tales of the Gold Monkey has several zero-context examples.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#937: Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:38:45 AM

By several meaning the majority don't have context and a few have "X is this".

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#938: Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:42:01 AM

Exactly; I guess I was rushing that comment out lol.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#939: Jun 23rd 2022 at 12:33:52 AM

I was going through pages with Rant Inducing Slight and I found Pokémon and Digimon RP, which has zero-context examples and several folders without Tropes.

Albert3105 Since: Jun, 2013
#940: Jun 24th 2022 at 11:34:11 AM

Some groups of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters have their character tropes hard-split between the two series, such as the Cartel and Los Pollos Hermanos. Meanwhile other Character Specific Pages for the franchise get away with hosting tropes from both shows via just a soft split.

Also Breaking Bad: Madrigal Electromotive seems to be too small to exist on its own.

So I am going to propose the following reorganizations to resolve the inconsistencies:

Edited by Albert3105 on Jun 24th 2022 at 2:36:10 PM

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#941: Jun 24th 2022 at 10:00:11 PM

Many folders in Death Of Heroes just have "* trope" being listed instead of actual Tropes. Also, instead of character descriptions, all the folders just have "blurb" listed. No, I'm not making this up.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#942: Jun 25th 2022 at 6:37:40 AM

[up] Move anything salvageable to the main work page and send the character sheet to the cutlist.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#943: Jun 25th 2022 at 6:49:02 AM

Ok, I'll do that. Thanks.

Willowleaf24 Hog in a frog from Somewhere buried in snow Since: Nov, 2020 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Hog in a frog
#944: Jun 25th 2022 at 5:41:22 PM

Lots of pages in Characters.Survival Of The Fittest and Characters.Survival Of The Fittest Mini have either no or very few characters with tropes. For example, of the 6 subpages and 276 characters listed for Survival of the Fittest v4, it looks like maybe 22 have any tropes with context.

Is it okay to do some major merges and cutlist what's left?

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!
#945: Jun 26th 2022 at 2:20:07 AM

Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex is already problematic when listed on the parents' end, but there's no reason to list it on the character entry for the child, correct?

2025: the year it all ends?
RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#946: Jun 26th 2022 at 5:26:17 AM

[up]It should definitely be cut.

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Jun 30th 2022 at 4:57:54 AM

Willowleaf24 Hog in a frog from Somewhere buried in snow Since: Nov, 2020 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Hog in a frog
#947: Jun 28th 2022 at 4:51:05 PM

Characters.Ellipsis has 13 subpages, most of which only comprise one or two characters. I combined the 10 "Reprobate X Division" pages into 1 sandbox at Sandbox.Characters Ellipsis. Does it look alright? I was thinking of transplanting the sandbox into a new page, probably something along the lines of "Characters.Ellipsis Reprobate Divisions".

Edited by Willowleaf24 on Jul 12th 2022 at 5:57:52 AM

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#948: Jun 28th 2022 at 8:20:22 PM

Is it okay to split Haruhi Suzumiya? It's long enough that the title character has her own page now.

I split off a page for the main character group

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#949: Jul 8th 2022 at 9:32:34 AM

I think Characters.Money Heist Korea Joint Economic Area was prematurely made. It's been a few days since the page was made; all the folders except two are empty, and of the tropes in those two folders a few are duplicated from the main work page. That shouldn't be the case, but if we remove the character-exclusive tropes from the Series/ page, it'd fall into Works Needing Tropes territory.

I think it should be cut at the moment.

Tagging ~Inky 100 who made the page.

Inky100 Ragdoll used for creepy stuff from The virtual horror factory Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Ragdoll used for creepy stuff
#950: Jul 8th 2022 at 9:51:57 AM

[up] Looks like it still needs plenty of work. I didn't expect to be only one contributor besides me on the pages, and even still their work is pretty minor.

Edited by Inky100 on Jul 8th 2022 at 6:52:09 PM

Waiting to have my head disfigured and mounted on a wall.

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