Tiny subpages for DC and Marvel

A recent pet peeve of mine is opening a trope to find out that Franchise.The DCU and Franchise.Marvel Universe have their own subpages split from the Comic Books page with less than 10 examples apiece. In one case (Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome), this left the parent Comic Book subpage with a whopping one example.

Perhaps in an effort to make them longer, sometimes they also have works from adaptations like the Arrowverse or What If…? (2021). However, this is antithetical to the way we organize things, and "being adapted from the same source" doesn't make them worthy of their own subpage (because that doesn't necessarily mean the tropes are 'franchise-wide' or will be played the same way). It's also not the way we split things either, which should be when "the parent page gets too long", not "the subpage you want to make gets long enough".

So the intent of this project is to go down the "General Trope Examples" sections of The DCU and Marvel Universe to weed out any overly small subpages, and cut and merge them back into their parent subpages (mostly Comic Books).

Edited by Synchronicity on Mar 23rd 2022 at 11:08:22 AM

Most of the subpages appear to have been created by one troper: Spectacular Troper. They've been reported for doing this kind of thing before, but they've still continued on regardless.

Just merged MoodWhiplash.Comic Books and UnexplainedRecovery.Comic Books back. I’ll work on compiling a list when I have time

Spectacular Troper is busy over on ATT arguing to keep these pages, FYI.

I can help out with merging if someone drops a list.

A few, just to start.

• Franchise.The DCU
  • Actually Pretty Funny
  • Adorkable
  • Alliterative Name
  • Super Weight (Also has a Type Labels Are Not Examples problem)

I just moved the Actually Pretty Funny examples from ActuallyPrettyFunny.The DCU to their respective pages, many were already on the pages, meaning there is alot of duplication going on already.

I guess ActuallyPrettyFunny.The DCU can be cutlisted now. I'll get to the Marvel examples after dinner.