Sorting out tropes for FATAL

A couple of years ago, I scoured the wiki for pages that still had trope examples for F.A.T.A.L. and made a sandbox for them, so that they could be evaluated to see which ones merited putting on the page so it wasn't an example-less stub, and which ones were best left off. Here's the link: Sandbox.FATAL With Tropes

Recently, I moved several of the examples to the page, but there are still quite a few left, broken down into two categories: entries that could be included without too much trouble, but have problems like being ZCEs, and entries that really need to be examined with a magnifying glass to see if they're too complainy or dicey in nature to even mess with putting on the page.

I'd appreciate any assistance that can be provided with at least the entries in the top section.

Edited by Willbyr on Apr 18th 2022 at 2:40:43 PM

Before putting hands on this: tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm understanding that TV Tropes is officialy moving away from the rule that the more "controversial" works musn't have tropes, thus we all now have to put them back, am I right?

I don't have the time to do the mining of the appropriate discussions, but I believe it's more of an effort to not have pages that are example-less stubs, even for more controversial works. F.A.T.A.L. certain falls into that latter descriptor, but it has non-prurient tropes that can be cited. Even some of the more prurient content can be troped in a neutral fashion, although I believe there's a limit to that—hence, the items in the latter section on the sandbox page.

^ Got it.

I did some research on FATAL out of bile fascination, so these days I'll look them up again and see what I can do. Though I can confirm that the manual is, simply put, atrocious. I'm talking about two-digits-pages long charts, among the rest.

Yeah, I've been pestering people for about a decade about these stubs. That we don't normally tolerate exampleless work pages is a big reason.