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Amonimus the Retromancer from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the Retromancer
#1: Oct 26th 2021 at 1:20:55 PM

1. Love Interests is a Supertrope, but it's structurally (and trope-wise) indistiguishable from Love Tropes, Attraction Tropes and Index of Romantic Couples. It doesn't need to be a trope, there are so many subtropes, surely any uses of Love Interests could be replaced with one of them. Or it could have a bigger description than just 2 sentences. Does this need to be added to Tropes Needing TRS?

While at it, Index of Romantic Couples has "trope" pagetype, shouldn't it be "index"?

2. Regardless if left as Supertrope, the tropes listed on page seem to be pegged in haphazardly. About half of them have a comment "X: A love interest who is also X." which are not what these tropes are about, with X being literally any characterization or appearance trope. Should we cull the tropes that aren't actually related to love interests?

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#2: Oct 26th 2021 at 3:48:06 PM

Regarding 2, I agree that tropes that aren't explicitly about a love interest should be cut from the index. Using the first two tropes as example, The Ace should be cut, while Action Girlfriend can stay.

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Amonimus the Retromancer from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the Retromancer
#3: Oct 31st 2021 at 3:29:35 PM

Let me break this down (I may have missed a few that belong soley to Marriage Tropes and Index of Romantic Couples since they lose the interest part from Love Interest):

    Likable appearance and personality tropes, not love tropes (Attraction Tropes?) 

    Circumstantial or not typically related 

Edited by Amonimus on Oct 31st 2021 at 1:46:48 PM

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#4: Nov 1st 2021 at 2:42:52 PM

We have The Beautiful Tropes for "likeable appearance" tropes.

Amonimus the Retromancer from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the Retromancer
#5: Feb 3rd 2024 at 4:59:45 AM

I know it's been a while, but would like to leave citation of this post for future reference.

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