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Edited by Berrenta on Oct 2nd 2025 at 9:41:48 AM
i did a couple before falling asleep (they're on my notepad, as it's easier to do it that way and batch add because im on mobile). literally the first one i saw was a Five-Man Band bullet of the type that lists all the character tropes underneath it, which i thought had been fully purged. i just cut it.
x4 Heck, alright. I'll let you take the lead on purging/dealing with what wicks I've gathered so far before continuing on.
There are. I've run into like 8 of them, and I cut all of them. Cleanup is slow because we're also trying to rewrite stuff. Just cut them and go, lol.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI will say that I'm not sure what examples you're looking for for the first folder. As in, I don't know what a "non overlapping" example would even look like since the tropes are literally defined the same.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall~El Rise for reference, if The Chick is misused to just mean "only girl on the team", that's Smurfette Principle. there's a lot of that.
with the misuse patterns, im thinking the best move is probably going to be disambiguation between The Heart and Smurfette Principle, and maybe also The Load; not a lot of those have come up in the check, but im pretty sure ive seen it misused that way in the wild pretty frequently.
Going to check Everythings Better With Plushies, the on-page examples are already confused if the trope is supposed to be "Plushies have been made as merchandise for this show" (with the anime folder being a long list of ZCE) or "Character X is often associated to their favourite plush".
~Tropers/Yindee i moved those two examples you put under "not a woman but The Heart" back to the misuse folder because The Chick as written has to be a woman. sure, they should be under The Heart, but we don't have a separate folder for the ones that should be under Smurfette Principle.
finished up the check. all six of the last wicks were FMB misuse. joy.
maybe disambiguation of The Chick will help get that fuckery taken care of.
I'm glad we're finally tackling this. It's been annoying me for years, but we couldn't do it until FMB was tackled first, and then other projects got in the way... Point is, I'm all for burning The Chick.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI finally got around to drafting an OP for Off-Model, so it's on the queue.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallAnd I'm going to do one for Precision F-Strike very soon. It's been a thorn on this website's side for way too long.
