This thread collates all requestsFor example regarding videos for moderators and engineersHow to... .
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Please keep in mind that moderators are likely not familiar with the work/s the video/s is/are from. As such:
- Mention the video's name.
- If you want a trope added or removed from a video, please explain how the video fits/doesn't fit the trope or link to other discussions supporting your proposal.
- If you want the description changed, please write up a draft for the description.
- Videos that lack a media source go to Videos Without a Source and shouldn't be reported here. If a source has been found, feel free to submit a request for it to be added to the video.
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Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jan 3rd 2024 at 9:20:14 AM
Oh okay. It's a lot and I wrote all of that on mobile which can be tricky to write so it's easy to miss stuff.
Speaking of stuff I missed, "One Track Lover" and "How Do You Like Me Now?" are two more Big-Lipped Alligator Moment videos to remove as they don't show an audience reaction and couldn't find an alternate trope to replace them with.
Also turns out that "Witchfinder General vs. Klaus" video that was moved from BLAM to Hollywood Exorcism is a duplicate of the another video of the same name also under Hollywood Exorcism. Remove the earlier one as the one that was moved is longer.
Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 3rd 2025 at 4:17:54 AM
Currently semi-active.The only example on VideoExamples.Artistic License Religion seems to be more accurately an example of Sadly Mythtaken.
The video discusses about Classical Mythology which doesn't really fall under religion (at least in modern terms).
Also looking at the description shows this:
- As Percy Jackson Film implies that children of The Big Three are rare, Krimson Rogue shows that Hollywood didn't seem to remember that The ruler of Mount Olympus was a God that had fathered too many children among both Gods, Mortals, and Monsters alike.
The current description doesn't exactly mention the fact that the film was based on a book (also, probably just a personal gripe as someone who does know about the books, the video kinda lacks in context of what the "Big Three" quote actually meant so it's kinda hard to describe the video without that context).
Possibly rewrite it to this:
- As the Percy Jackson film implies that children of The Big Three are rare, Krimson Rogue shows that unlike the book, the film didn't seem to point out that the ruler of Mount Olympus was a God that had fathered too many children among both Gods, Mortals, and Monsters alike.
Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 3rd 2025 at 11:25:54 PM
Currently semi-active.For the video, "Mickey Mousing: The Movie", please do the following:
- Please rename to "Egyptian Reggae", the video is a little too short to show how the movie does this.
- There's a bit of gushing in the description:
Please add "end of Emperor Belos" (Undignified Death) to Post-Climax Confrontation since it's Luz and Belos facing one last time before the former's death after he's already defeated. Also please add "the Death of Snatcher (Karmic Death) to "Pop!" Goes the Human since that's how he dies.
Edited by The-Omniscient-Dex on Jun 5th 2025 at 8:06:14 AM
I'm much too lazy to come up with a caption.
Did the first request (someone else did the second, since it already had "Pop!" Goes the Human).
May I request the Motive Rant example called “Senator Armstrong” be removed and the trope be added as a secondary one in the Magnificent Bastard example called “Senator Armstrong”, because two video examples are 95% identical and the latter trope is more fitting for the video in my opinion
For the video "Like a Surgeon's Heartbeat" with the primary trope Heartbeat Soundtrack, and the media source "Weird Al" Yankovic, please add Percussive Maintenance as a secondary trope, as Al tries to fix a flatline by pounding on the heart monitor, before realizing that the problem is actually with the patient, and solving it by pounding on the patient's chest.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.The Lilo & Stitch (2002) video "Here, educate yourself" under Protected by a Child should have Plasma Cannon as a secondary because Jumba attempted to fire one, only to be stopped by Pleakley.
Video: “Crispy’s Sundae Challenge”, Big City Greens, Big City Greens S 2 E 11
Main Trope: Mega Meal Challenge
Additional Trope Suggestions:
- Brain Freeze: Tilly attempts to eat the ice cream fast, causing her to get a brain freeze and crash out.
- Epic Fail: Within a minute, the whole family (minus Cricket in this scene) gives up on the challenge, after stuffing themselves with too much ice cream.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Before the major reveal that Cricket is making the family eat a big sundae, he gives off a line warning about this.
Bill: What'd you order, son?
Cricket: Oh, just a... li'l ice cream.
Tilly: That sounds excellent, brother. I hope you enjoy it.
Cricket: Well, I hope we all enjoy it. [We're gonna have to.]
Bill: What do you mean by that?
- Jabba Table Manners, Food Coma and Instantly Proven Wrong: Alice Green attempts to force through the challenge by scarfing the ice cream with her hands, causing a mess, but she eventually passes out from a food coma.
- Simple Solution Won't Work and Out-Gambitted: After the family finds out about Cricket’s crazy plan to pay for dinner, Bill tries to pay the food himself, that’s until he finds out that Cricket swapped all of their money with “Cricket Bucks” in case any of them would back out.
Edited by Stouca on Jun 6th 2025 at 4:43:57 AM
The Cutting Back to Reality video "Meet the Pyro" shows part of the same footage as the Through the Eyes of Madness video "Pyroland". Since the latter video is longer and contains more examples of Cutting Back to Reality, I think "Meet the Pyro" should be deleted and Cutting Back to Reality added to "Pyroland" as a secondary trope.
Similarly, the More Dakka video "Use more gun." shows the same footage as the longer The Engineer video "Meet the Engineer". The former video should be deleted and More Dakka added to the latter video as a secondary trope. However, "Meet the Engineer" also has Tuxedo and Martini, Master of Disguise and Eye Scream as secondary tropes, despite the video not having any examples of these tropes; these should be removed.
Conversely, the Mad Doctor video "The Medic" is shorter than The Medic video "Meet the Medic", but it shows the essence of the Medic's personality and doesn't overlap with the short Glove Snap video "Meet The Medic". Thus, I think "Meet the Medic" (small 't') should be deleted, and The Medic and Herr Doktor added as secondary tropes to "The Medic".
Finally, WebAnimation.Team Fortress 2 should be added to "Pyroland" and "The Medic" as a media source, since both videos are of the official Valve-made machinima covered in that page.
Trope Editor (he/him)"Polly Plantar" (for the trope Cunning Linguist), has Characters.Amphibia Main Characters as a media source. Please remove that, since that's a character page.
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Stuff like this usually goes in the Video Uploading thread. In fact, the answer you seek is right there
. I would just tell you here right away but I'm no mod or engineer and they do a better job describing it (and we've had this question asked plenty of times already).
Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 7th 2025 at 4:44:04 AM
Currently semi-active.For the videos "War Amongst The Teachers" (Apple of Discord) and "Janine's Perfect Party" (Improbably Predictable), please add Abbott Elementary as media sources (only their episode pages have been listed).
Currently semi-active.Just as promised, I'll being processing the requests, minus Eddy's because it was already done by the uploader of the video in question.
The Senator Armstrong video tagged under Motive Rant is one year old, so I removed the more recent one (tagged under Magnificent Bastard) which was approved only three days ago (though I added MB to the other video as a secondary trope).
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311- For the video "Sebastian Michaelis" (Our Demons Are Different) please change the media source from Manga.Black Butler to Anime.Black Butler 2008 (the video is from this version of the series)
- For the video "Inside Pinkie's Mind" (Mental World), please add Cloudcuckoolander as Pinkie's thoughts are shown to be insanely weird.
I didn't add the Jabba Table Manners and Out-Gambitted tropes to that Big City Greens video, as I felt their presence wasn't prominent enough even in comparison to other secondary tropes (besides, there's already a huge bloat of secondary tropes).
Before adding WebAnimation.Team Fortress 2 to those other videos, I had to remove VideoGame.Team Fortress 2 first as not doing so would have turned said videos into duplicates in VideoExamples.Team Fortress 2
Done to here otherwise. Please make me know if I missed something!
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I'll proceed to do these right now, but afterwards I'll call it a day. I have to start crosswicking examples to my next targeted page, and I already lost a lot of time due to some very difficult RL factors.
EDIT: Ruckus, Starfish Alien is a redirect to Starfish Aliens. I had to edit the profile of the Monty Pythin video twice for that reason. For future reference, please double-check the items you want to add to existing videos.
Edited by MyFinalEdits on Jun 2nd 2025 at 9:52:09 AM
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