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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

DoctorSleep Since: Nov, 2013
#2052: Oct 14th 2024 at 3:43:07 AM

I've just made a Super Marios Bros Movie Jungle Kingdom sandbox since their folders have just passed the byte minimum.

animuacid The girl of the window from Astyr residence in Lilysthia's grounds Since: Jan, 2024 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
The girl of the window
#2053: Oct 14th 2024 at 3:46:25 AM

[up] SMBM Everyone Else is about 92k characters long, the split is not necessary.

CanuckMcDuck1 PEPSIMAN from Japan Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
PEPSIMAN
#2054: Oct 18th 2024 at 4:20:23 PM

~Random Troper 89 re-merged all of the characters subpages on Characters.The Blacklist. Was there any discussion about this anywhere, because it seems like an unilateral change, and the page now displays the "too-long" suggestion during editing.

Plus, the character pages still exist, and haven’t even been cut-listed.

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Oct 18th 2024 at 5:24:11 AM

Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.
ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#2055: Oct 19th 2024 at 4:10:16 PM

Back in 2023, I made a proposal for Black★Rock Shooter's character sub-pages reusing the same three or so characters (Dead Master, Strength, and BRS herself) over in every installment, and while it makes sense given each work is an Alternate Continuity, this leads to character tropes being repeated with little difference. However, being barraged with outside work, coupled with a lack of interest in me and other people as well as realizing that the BRS franchise as a whole is a Universal-Adaptor Cast for huke's characters, led to me abandoning the project prematurely.

That said, I refuse to let this project go to waste. Even as ubiquitous as a franchise BRS is, there's still issues regarding its character pages (the poor formatting, the abundance of ZCE and Word Cruft, misuse of certain tropes, etc.). I'll restart this project sometime by the end of this month and finish it before the end of this year. I'll mostly be doing this by myself this time around, but I wouldn't mind if I had a little help with this.

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#2056: Oct 19th 2024 at 4:55:01 PM

New proposed/potential character sub-pages:

  • Huke's characters/original creations (Black Rock Shooter, Dead Master, Strength, Black Gold Saw, Chariot; the latter two appear in Arcana and the last one in Fragment) - Note that this only applies to their incarnations in media, not their original concepts, nor does this include the other creations who lack narrative counterparts
  • TV/OVA characters (Mato, Yomi, Yuu, Saya, Kagari, Arata, Mato's mother, Hiro, Taku, Yomi's mother, the Incomplete girls, Arata's implied "other self", Insane BRS since she technically appeared only in the anime)
  • Innocent Soul (Ron, Ram, Jack Ollie, Leto, Io, Hanako, Acta, Nico, Cecil, Kaede, Ouru, Tiger, Cecil's mother, Jiou)
  • The Game (Nana, Primary Support Service, Apostles, Wyler/Weiler, White Rock Shooter, Alexei, Dully) - includes versions featured in the manga
  • Dawn Fall (Monica, Black Trike, Peacebuilding Forces, Education Institution, Isana, Jessica) - includes characters in the prequel novel Before Dawn
  • Other Media characters (Rock-chan (Kuro, Shiro, Grandma, Stea), Arcana (Elder Caster, Farside Bunny, Loveness, Tightmare Elly), Fragment (Armaments, Mia, Sumina, Hilke, Collaboration characters))

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
AmbivalenceOfAGreyhat Since: Aug, 2024
#2057: Oct 23rd 2024 at 3:41:56 PM

I'd like to propose a partial re-working of the Tsukihime characters page.

At the moment, the pages treat characters who appear in both the original game and its remake as the same. This mostly works ok, but in one particular case, Big Bad Michael Roa Valdamjong, it's resulted in a -very- messy section. While the original Roa and the remake Roa are built from the same parts and share motivations, they're *very* different characters, and treating them as one results in a consistently contradictory page. For example, in the original game, Roa's undergone Death of Personality, and there's very little left of the man he once was. In the remake, Roa explicitly notes that his current incarnation is the closest he's been to his original self in a long time. Moreover, his motivations differ dramatically between the two versions.

One option would be to outright move tropes for Remake Roa to the page for characters added to later games in the series (including the remake). The other would be to split Roa's folder with a divider and separate the tropes specific to each version of the character that way.

Your thoughts?

Arawn999 Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#2058: Oct 23rd 2024 at 7:21:41 PM

Splitting Rao's folder and having a section for Rao (Original) and Rao (Remake) would be simplest, IMO.

ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#2059: Oct 24th 2024 at 6:53:18 AM

Bumping

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
SpaceKABOOM Since: Jul, 2016
#2060: Oct 24th 2024 at 7:29:24 AM

[up]I think it might be better to disambig the media with the same name first, which would make the clean up handy. Aren't some of them in different continuities?

Disambig thread is here

ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#2061: Oct 24th 2024 at 10:19:18 AM

[up] I am aware. My original draft for huke's characters (Black Rock Shooter Hukes Original Characters) was supposed to be a draft to collect all information for the OG character's iterations in different media (e.g. Black Rock Shooter has variations in the anime, the game, Innocent Soul, Dawn Fall, etc.) in a similar vein to the CPUs of Neptunia, who also have variations across different media in addition to canon dimensions. I scrapped it because, as you said, they are Alternate Continuities with a Universal-Adaptor Cast, which would make combining all iterations into a single page time consuming. The 'huke's original characters' draft might be reworked into a page for huke's drawings under the Art namespace, but that's for another thread.

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#2062: Oct 24th 2024 at 9:03:25 PM

Paradise PD Other Characters is only 10k. Should we move the contents back to the main character page?

Rainbo6 Hey Painty!!! from wouldn’t you like to know? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Hey Painty!!!
#2063: Oct 25th 2024 at 6:03:54 AM

[up] I think so.

Working to help keep TV Tropes in tip-top shape (she/her).
RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#2064: Nov 1st 2024 at 12:58:25 AM

Characters.Lemmys Land

Made in 2012. Apparently it's a CP for a fan-website of the Mario games...but not about the games itself.

Can it be saved?

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!
#2065: Nov 2nd 2024 at 12:50:12 PM

In theory it's no different from any other fan work Characters page. The question is whether it's salvageable, not whether it's a valid page.

2025: the year it all ends?
NicMasterTrope (Troper in training)
#2066: Nov 3rd 2024 at 9:07:56 AM

Reporting a cleanup suggestion on Fairy Tail pages:

  • merge Fairy Tail (in general, 17 133 characters), Fairy Tail’s Founders (55 477 characters) and Other Fairy Tail Members pages (61 853 characters) into one (134 463 characters)

  • add Blue Pegasus (38 003 characters) and Lamia Scale (46 446 characters) pages to Official Guilds pages (122 191 characters; with the added one it will be 206 640 characters), and add Oracion Seis (85 547 characters) and Grimoire Heart (81 454 characters) pages to Dark Guilds pages (39 989; with the added it will be 206 990 characters)

FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2067: Nov 3rd 2024 at 9:37:53 AM

[tup] both Fairy Tail merges

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they
ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#2068: Nov 3rd 2024 at 10:16:31 AM

Any suggestions on this?

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
Echidna from Ontario, Canada (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Two-timing
NicMasterTrope (Troper in training)
#2071: Nov 3rd 2024 at 1:59:53 PM

Fairy Tail pages update (again): Fuse all five Anime-original character pages into one (in total it would be 159 547)

FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2073: Nov 3rd 2024 at 4:38:51 PM

[tup] the anime-only Fairy Tail merge

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they
NicMasterTrope (Troper in training)
#2074: Nov 4th 2024 at 9:19:57 AM

Posting this because the Character Specific Page thread stays silent:

My Hero Academia Students 1-10 page is over 251 000 characters long, the warning has been triggered, and (for the last time) there’s no excessive content in there. When Ochaco Uraraka’s CSP shall be re-created (it would be 83 000 characters long)?

Why is everyone ignoring that question? Also, there’s some serious issues I have with spoiler-tagging in Fairy Tail character pages, because there little to no spoiler tagging at all. I suggest to leave all pre-Sirius Island Arc spoilers unmarked, and all following spoilers marked if they’re deemed necessary. Who supports that?

Edited by NicMasterTrope on Nov 6th 2024 at 6:36:21 PM

DukePresley Since: Dec, 2016
#2075: Nov 8th 2024 at 9:45:01 AM

So I found a quote to add to Big Smoke's entry on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas character page.

""YOU PICK THE WRONG HOUSE,FOOL""!

The quote is more famous and character descriptive than the one occupying the page. Which is why I move to for this quote to be added to his entry.

EDIT: I'll just assume silence means support and cut the entry if I don't hear back in a couple days.


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