Obligatory mentioning to Merge.
Though there's probably more than enough votes now.
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While we're on the subject, can we discuss Heel Face Mole as well? Its trope description spells out that it's the same thing as The Mole; this is very obviously a duplicate trope.
Looking over the examples, most of them are "<character> is The Mole", or "<character> is a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent"; and numerous examples are from works without clear-and-obvious "good" and "bad" sides. I could start a new thread on it, but that feels kind of redundant at this point, and Heel Face Mole isn't that long. Shall we merge that as well?
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
Probably better to make a new thread when this is done. Reverse Mole has a fair amount of wicks that will take some cleanup effort.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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As I said earlier, Heel Face Mole appears to be the "morality-inverted" counterpart to Fake Defector. Whether the two should be merged for the same reason as Reverse Mole is a topic for another thread.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
It's now Tuesday and no-one has disputed the suggestion
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Consensus is for merging Reverse Mole into The Mole. Make it so!
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Incidentally, do people feel Evil All Along is sufficiently different from The Mole? If not, I may have to write a thread for that.
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
It is. You can be Evil All Along without being a planted spy.
Double
Edited by Synchronicity on Nov 19th 2020 at 2:59:46 PM
How sweet it is
Video example has been handled.
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Rules Lawyer
I always thought this trope was bizarre & superfluous. I vote merge!
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There's already consensus to merge. You can merge the examples yourself!
Maintenance?
There are currently 1675 wicks to this page. At least this time it's something where we need to clear all the wicks.
YMMV and Wrestling sections are handled. Down to 1637.
Working up from the bottom, and someone knocked out the As,Bs, and some of the Cs from the top. Currently down to 1570.
I now officialy despise trope names that start with 'The'.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
That's why I always vote against them in crowners.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Human Bean
Cleaned up some Ws and other minor categories. Cleaning up the WMG will take some more time, I have to read everything and reword correctly instead of just replacing wicks.
Couldn't we turn Reverse Mole into a redirect already, and cut its laconic?
Edited by gc10 on Nov 24th 2020 at 10:21:07 AM
Gentleman Troper!
Did some 450 pages. Count is 1039 .
Edited by Spark9 on Nov 30th 2020 at 12:55:48 PM
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
How sweet it is
Laconic can be cut. As for the page, we still need to migrate examples. I was going to do that but got sidetracked.
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Finally below 1000!
Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
Down to 900.
Maintenance?
Regarding OP: For A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, we do have an evil-specific (and wick-healthier) subtrope, Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, but Wolf is not good-specific. That does not bear relevance to anything else, though.
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750 and counting.
Merge. I don't think we need separate tropes for bad moles (villains spying on heroes) and good moles (heroes spying on villains).
Edited by ADrago on Nov 15th 2020 at 2:54:52 PM