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supernintendo128 Weeaboo extraordinare from My desk Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
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#1: Feb 20th 2023 at 9:31:14 AM

Issue: This is a very confused and misused trope. All Guitars Are Stratocasters is simultaneously for works that strictly depict the Fender Stratocaster as the only electric guitar ever made and for works that inaccurately depict musical instruments (such as when a character plays an unplugged electric guitar and it sounds like it's plugged in).

The trope is also supposed to apply to works that depict the Gibson Les Paul (the other only electric guitar ever made) in the same manner, but usage of the Les Paul, confusingly, are sometimes cited as aversions.

It also has a real life section, even though this trope really shouldn't apply to real life, and aside from Yngwie Malmsteen, all it does is list variations of the trope that can be lumped in with the description.

Wick Check Analysis: A sizable portion of works are listed for simply depicting a Strat in the story, even if other guitars are depicted. I get that the Stratocaster (and to a lesser extent, the Les Paul) is so ubiquitous that seeing it in a work has become a cliché, but a character who happens to play a Strat as their main axe in it of itself is not tropeworthy, especially if other guitar models are depicted in the work.

I also found that the trope is rarely used for inaccurate depictions of musical instruments, possibly due to the confusing name and the laconic page only describing the "guitars depicted as Strats" definition of the trope.

This trope is also being used on real life artists who are known for playing Stratocasters or Strat-style guitars, which again is not what this trope is.

In addition, there is a large body of examples that use the trope as an excuse to talk about what kind of guitars the characters in the work plays and talking about how the work averts the trope as a result. Not only does this cast doubt over whether this trope is tropeworthy, but these examples can fall under Shown Their Work.

To summarize:

Total Examples: 66
Correct (Guitars generically depicted as Strats): 7 (11%)
Correct (Artistic License - Musical Instruments): 3 (4.5%)
ZCE: 3 (4.5%)
Sinkholes: 4 (6%)
Used to point out that a character plays a Stratocaster: 8 (12%)
Character playing an instrument that isn't a Stratocaster: 13 (19%)
Real life examples - Strat players: 10 (15%)
Real life examples - Non-Strat players: 5 (8%)
General Misuse/Incorrectly Written Examples: 5 (8%)
Other/Index: 8 (12%)

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     Correct (Guitars generically depicted as Strats) - 7/66 
  • Characters.Superbook 2011:
    • As seen in the image, Chris's guitar is reminiscent of a superstrat. Bizarrely, it seems to lack any visible pickups, the bridge has no saddles with which to grip the strings, and the tremolo arm is fixed directly inside the body rather than on the bridge (which makes it completely useless as a tremolo).
    • In "A Giant Adventure," Todd rocks a blue and white Stratocaster-like guitar while trying out to become the school band's guitarist.
  • DarthWiki.Skum Faux: Dave and his collection of guitars.
  • Recap.Community S 3 E 10 Regional Holiday Music: Abed and Troy's song about Santa in the study room has them both miming on electric guitars of the default kind. The default kind? I assume the writer meant Strats?
  • Recap.Gravity Falls S 1 E 7 Double Dipper: Robbie's guitar resembles one.
  • VideoGame.The Legend Of Heroes Trails Of Cold Steel: The guitars Rean, Alisa, and the bass Gaius uses look like Strats.
  • WesternAnimation.Mr Peabody And Sherman: At least, the guitar Mr. Peabody plays resembles one.
  • Series.Big Time Rush: "Big Time Rocker" features Kendall playing a Gibson Les Paul and Gustavo the Gibson Flying V, though Lucy does not play the iconic Stratocaster; lampshaded when Kelly says she doesn't know how to play the guitar, and Gustavo and Kendall respond that it doesn't matter, you just have to be loud. I thought this was incorrect at first because of the Flying V but the trope page counts depictions of the Flying V as being this trope.

     Correct (Artistic License - Musical Instruments) - 3/66 
  • Film.Little Man Tate: Dede tries to compensate for having to sell Fred's piano by painting one on the wall. Fred points out that she didn't paint the right number of keys.
  • Series.Drake And Josh: Said episode, "Guitar", also humorously averts the "electric guitar working without an amp" part of the trope when Megan strums the Stratocaster for it to make only a quiet sound to Megan's confusion. Josh then demonstrates that it needs to be plugged into an amp for it to sound right. Said amp bursts into flames when turned on, while somehow causing the guitar to burst into flames as well.
  • Characters.Mixels: His brand is a "Frender Mixocaster", but he looks more like a Flying V. mismatched name

     ZCE - 3/66 

     Sinkholes - 4/66 

     Used to point out that a character plays a Stratocaster - 8/66 
  • Characters.Aggretsuko Main Characters: The design of his guitar is clearly modelled on a Fender Jazz Bass. Other guitars of varying shapes are depicted in the show.
  • Characters.Psycho Soldier Sie Kensou: Kensou is in fact a guitarist, and every once in a blue moon can be seen rocking out on a red stratocaster, as he did in the credits of the original Psycho Soldier game. In King of Fighters, he's only seen playing guitar in the Team Psycho Soldier special credits for KOF 95, but he briefly cameos with Chin in Athena's Dream Sequence from SNK Heroines doing the same. Imo this shouldn't be a character trope. Like I said, playing a Stratocaster in it of itself is not tropeworthy. If no other models of guitars are depicted in a work, it should be applied to the work itself. That being said, I don't know enough about Psycho Soldier to know if Kensou is depicted playing other guitars. UPDATE: I checked footage of the original Psycho Soldier game, and he's actually playing a Flying V. In his other appearances he is indeed playing a red Strat.
  • Characters.Sing Moon Theatre: Including the one she plays. Also a ZCE, are all guitars depicted in the work Stratocasters? If so, this usage would actually be correct. But this trope is being applied to a character specifically, so there's that.
  • Literature.Falcon Quinn: And a classic Strat at that. If it's a classic Strat specifically, wouldn't this be an aversion since that implies the author knows about guitars?
  • Manhwa.Dark Heaven: Conor uses one during his rock band days. Other scenes have him play a simple guitar instead. What simple guitar? Did the author mean acoustic?
  • VideoGame.Rock Band: Which is really saying something, because the official guitar controllers are Stratocasters. And before 3, you always start with a Stratocaster. Though you can buy other models like Telecasters, Jaguars, and those offered by Fender subsidiaries like Squier, Gretsch and Jackson. This isn't an example of the devs being clueless but more due to the fact that Fender has an endorsement deal with the game
  • WesternAnimation.Rock Dog: Subverted. While Angus' main guitar is a modified "Scattercaster", he has a huge collection that includes many different models.
  • Recap.Mashin Sentai Kiramager Ep 28 Crying Shiguru: Juru this time has a red Stratocaster guitar, as opposed to his pale pink Telecaster from #24. The fact that a Tele was depicted in a previous episode means this trope should not apply

     Character playing an instrument that isn't a Stratocaster - 13/66 
  • Characters.Destiny Drive Third: Averted. Seth's preferred guitar is a Telecaster.
  • Characters.Project Sekai School Sekai: Averted Trope. Like the instruments Leo/need uses, the guitars the Virtual Singers use are based on real instruments and thus have unique models. Miku is currently the only Virtual Singer to use a Stratocaster in 3DMV's.
  • Characters.The Black Sand Bar: averted; Aveline's guitar is a Fender Jaguar.
  • Fanfic.Still Waters Series: Averted. Ayumi plays a Gibson SG, Kara plays a Rickenbacker bass, and the members of Dekopin Rocket are shown to own a wide, wide, WIDE variety of guitars and basses.
  • Podcast.Nitro Game Injection: Promotional images and art (such as at the top of this page) feature Ariane, a character created by Kyle and based heavily on Capcom's "reploid" concept from Mega Man X. She plays guitar (a Gibson SG, averting All Guitars Are Stratocasters), has really long hair, and has a motherfuckin' gun for a hand.
  • Roleplay.The Black Sand Bar: Averted.
    • Aveline's guitar is a Fender Jaguar.
    • Rhoslyn's guitar is a Morgan C-Series made of koa wood.
  • Series.Drake And Josh: Surprisingly Averted. Drake plays a variety of guitars, including a Stratocaster. They even mention a Fender Stratocaster by name in one episode (which unfortunately led to licensing issues for mentioning the Fender brand name and Stratocaster (a trademarked term) and is thus not available on streaming). However, the actual guitar is a Squier (Fender's budget brand, you can tell because it's printed on the headstock).
  • VideoGame.Guitar Hero: Averted. In the first three games, which were endorsed by Gibson, you could have Les Pauls, SGs, Explorers, Flying Vs, and so on and on (even an EDS-1275, that double-necked one Jimmy Page played sometimes). Starting with World Tour, when Activision lost Gibson license, you could construct your instrument out of parts from others (5 had brand names like Ibanez and Paul Reed Smith to choose from). Plenty of options, but no pure Stratocasters here (especially because only Rock Band had a license for Fender instruments), just similars (and you didn't even have that until Rocks the 80s). Should honestly fall under Product Placement since it mentions that Gibson endorsed the game
  • WebAnimation.My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks Shorts (Guitar Centered): Averted — Rainbow Dash used to play a semi-acoustic (but her new guitar is an Ibanez similar to a Strat) and the shop itself is stocked with all sorts of electric guitars and other instruments with recognizable real-life counterparts, even if their depictions are somewhat stylized.
  • WesternAnimation.My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks: Averted both in the "Guitar Centered" short and the movie itself. Trixie and Sunset Shimmer in the movie play Flying Vs, Rainbow Dash used to play a semi-acoustic (but her new guitar is an Ibanez similar to a Strat), Flash Sentry plays a non-reverse Gibson Firebird, and the shop itself is stocked with all sorts of electric guitars and other instruments with recognizable real-life counterparts, even if their depictions are somewhat stylized.
  • Recap.Mashin Sentai Kiramager Ep 24 Lets Start A Band: Subverted. Juru has a Telecaster, which ironically happens to be another Fender guitar. Sayo's bandmate looks to have a Les Paul Gibson-type of guitar. Is it really a subversion when a character plays a guitar that was also made by Fender?
  • Characters.Infinite Stratos Our Darkest Days: Maria plays a Gibson Les Paul, among other things. Among other things? Also, worth noting that this example is commented out
  • MenageA3.Tropes A To F: Simultaneously averted and played straight. Zii's guitar is a Telecaster ... with a Stratocaster neck. This would actually make sense, since Telecaster necks are famously chubby and Zii is quite petite; it's also feasible, since Fender necks are bolt-on. There's even big-name precedent for it, since Eric Clapton played a Tele with a Strat neck while he was in Blind Faith. You can maybe tell that Giz is a musician. Shown Their Work

     Real life examples - Strat players - 10/66 
  • Music.Akira Yamaoka: He greatly prefers the longer string scale of the Strat-style (typically 25.5 inches vs. a Les Paul-style's 24.5), and his most iconic guitar is a black Ibanez U777P seven-string with a mirrored pickguard.
  • Music.Deep Purple: Played straight with Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin. Blackmore did primarily use an ES-335 up to In Rock.
  • Music.Jean Michel Jarre: At least up to 1993. Jarre used to play a Fiesta red Strat Hank Marvin-style in his youth. Later on, he had several encounters with the real Hank Marvin and his Fiesta red Strat, first by the Shadows covering him back ("Equinoxe 5", 1979), then by Hank Marvin joining him ("London Kid", 1988), then by Hank Marvin covering him again ("Oxygène 4", 1993). The combo breaker was Patrick Rondat who did not play a Strat when he played for Jarre from 1993 on.
  • Music.Kurt Cobain: Though Kurt's main guitars were either a Fender Jaguar or Fender Mustang, he would also play a Stratocaster at the end of a concert to either smash or give away to fans.
  • Music.Laurie Anderson: In Home of the Brave, Adrian Belew plays both a regular Stratocaster and a fake guitar that's Stratocaster-shaped.
  • Music.Metal Church: In this band's case, Gibson Les Pauls.
  • Music.Screaming Females: Subverted. Marissa's guitar looks like a Strat, but is actually made by G&L, the company co-founded by former Fender Guitars honcho Leo Fender. If it looks like a Strat then it shouldn't matter who made it, the trope image depicts Strat-style Ibanez guitars
  • Music.The77s: At least Mike Roe's primary guitar is.
  • Music.Tyler Bryant And The Shakedown: Bryant owns several stratocaster models, and it is the only model of electric that he plays. Averted by Graham Whitford, who is a Gibson player. Also somewhat averted by Bryant in his acoustic tracks, in which he plays a Mule-brand resonator guitar.
  • Music.Yngwie Malmsteen: Up to the Triple-Digits.

     Real life examples - Non-Strat players - 5/66 
  • Music.Animals As Leaders: A prog band, so seemingly by law they avert this. Tosin and Javier often use headstockless guitars as well as seven/eight string guitars
  • Music.Eric Bogle: Averted in "Eric and the Informers" by Eric Bogle, which is about his first ever band. In the chorus, in which he names the band members, he mentions both the Stratocaster and the seldom acknowledged Fender Telecaster: Example copy-pasted (poorly) from trope page
    Teddy played the Telecaster,
    Tom played the Srat
  • Music.Fleetwood Mac: Famously averted by Lindsey. Early in his career, he did play a Fender Stratocaster (even on Mac's self-titled 1975 album), switching to a Gibson Les Paul Custom around this time. In 1978, he partnered with luthier Rick Turner to design the Model One, a smaller-bodied guitar with a (for the time) highly advanced built-in EQ system which let Lindsey alter the guitar's tone to his exacting standards on the fly. He's used these guitars ever since, with the exception of when he plays acoustic, with his typical choices there being Taylor or Gibson nylon-stringed guitars.
  • Music.Jean Michel Jarre: Eventually averted by Jarre himself during the concerts connected to Electronica: At the end of "Conquistador", for the first time in decades, he was seen on a stage playing a guitar. But it was a Les Paul.
  • Music.Screaming Females: (Mike, on the other hand, will be a candidate for "All Basses are Rickenbacker 4001s" when that trope is finally created…)

     General Misuse/Incorrectly Written Examples - 5/66 
  • VideoGame.Alida The Enigmatic Giant: Averted. The huge guitar is modeled on a Gibson Les Paul. This trope is supposed to apply to depictions of Les Pauls as well
  • WesternAnimation.Metalocalypse: Zigzagged. On the one hand, Skwisgaar only plays Gibson Explorers and Toki only plays Gibson Flying V's. On the other hand, every other "regular jack-off" in the show uses a variety of more common models like Stratocasters, Les Pauls and SG's. Note that Dethklok isn't completely immune to this trope: it's specifically noted that Pickles used a Gibson Les Paul in his Snakes 'n' Barrels days, and a DVD extra reveals Offdensen owns a mint condition '59 Les Paul. Then again, the show is sponsored by multiple companies producing guitar-gear, and Brendon Small is a guitarist, so if they just used mainstream gear instead of gear designed for Metal, it would be anywhere near as satisfying.
  • VideoGame.Sim Tunes: The fittingly-named Strats. Averted by Ace, who's a Flying V, though.
  • Rock Band: Subverted in regards to peripherals as of October 2016, when Rock Band 4 Rivals released with a new official Fender Jaguar controller produced by PDP.
  • Series.The Beach Boys An American Family: Ironically, the film plays this trope straight by trying to avert the name. The guitarists in the band are depicted as playing models that they've never played in real life nor were associated with the Surf Rock genre. Early in the film, Carl is seen playing a Danelectro Shorthorn instead of his Fender Stratocaster or Jaguar, and Al/David is seen playing an unknown model that is decisively not a Stratocaster, which is what they were always seen playing. Semi-averted later in the film, where we finally see Carl and Al playing a Jaguar and a Stratocaster respectively during a performance of "Little Deuce Coupe" (their axes of choice at the time), yet David is playing a Gibson ES-335. Artistic License – History
    • Semi-averted with Brian. He's always seen playing a Fender Precision Bass, but in earlier scenes, he's seen playing a 1950s model, when he is usually seen in real life playing a later late 50s-60s model. Completely averted in the aforementioned "Little Deuce Coupe" segment, where he's playing a 60s Precision Bass like in real life.

     Other/Index - 8/66 

Possible Fixes: I propose that we do one or more of the following:
  • Rework the trope into generic depictions of electric guitars that are based on either the Strat or the Les Paul.
  • Rename this trope to disassociate itself from the mere usage of the Strat (maybe something like Stock Electric Guitar Shape), I feel like the name alone attracts a ton of misuse.
  • Put any aversions under Shown Their Work or spin it off into a new trope.
  • Spin off the "inaccurate depictions of musical instruments" definition into its own trope (Artistic License - Musical Instruments). This is a phenomenon I see frequently in media and is definitely worth documenting.
    • If we can't salvage the original meaning (guitars in a work strictly being depicted as Stratocasters), we'll just rework and rename this trope instead.
  • Disallow real life examples.
  • Make a new trivia trope for when an artist is known for playing a specific guitar model (like Signature Instrument but for electric guitar models) because I noticed that when All Guitars Are Stratocasters is applied to a real life artist, it's usually to talk about what instrument they play, whether it's a Strat or not.

Edited by Berrenta on Feb 26th 2023 at 6:36:55 AM

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#2: Feb 20th 2023 at 9:51:52 AM

Opened for discussion.

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#3: Feb 20th 2023 at 10:02:18 AM

[tup] To retooling the trope into stock/generic depictions of electric guitars + rename (the name can be decided later) + banning real-life examples + merge the "Artistic License - Musical Instruments" concept with Artistic License – Music.

[tdown] Making a new trivia trope for when an artist is known for playing a specific guitar model. I don't think this is a good idea/noteworthy even as trivia.

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#4: Feb 20th 2023 at 10:08:35 AM

[up]Agree, though I feel like media depicting electric guitars being played without anything plugged into them happens enough to be its own trope. I usually see this in cartoons or shows where the guitar sounds are clearly overdubbed in post.

Edited by supernintendo128 on Feb 20th 2023 at 12:12:40 PM

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#5: Feb 20th 2023 at 12:51:01 PM

I think "all electric guitars look like a specific brand" isn't really a trope, but something like Holywood Electic Guitar when one can make a sound without being plugged in is good.

Edited by Amonimus on Feb 20th 2023 at 11:51:11 PM

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#6: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:09:24 PM

I agree with selkies on this one:

[tup] To retooling the trope into stock/generic depictions of electric guitars + rename (the name can be decided later) + banning real-life examples + merge the "Artistic License - Musical Instruments" concept with Artistic License – Music.

[tdown] Making a new trivia trope for when an artist is known for playing a specific guitar model. I don't think this is a good idea/noteworthy even as trivia.

Edit: Retracted because I now agree with the post below this one.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 20th 2023 at 5:13:29 AM

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#7: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:09:53 PM

I think "stock guitar shapes" is not tropeworthy (being Chairsy to be exact).

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#8: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:13:08 PM

[up]Actually, yeah, now that you mention it, between the high amount of misuse (only seven correct examples out of 66) and the misuse not amounting to much other than "this fictional guitar looks like this real life guitar model", the correct usage doesn't really look salvageable, or at least not worth keeping separate from Artistic License – Music. We've cut other Stock (whatever) tropes like Stock Sleepwear and Stock Underwear for being Chairs. At most, we could use the Salvage Yard if we come across anything more meaningful than what a guitar looks like.

Edit: Also, regarding other examples the wick check picked up, this is impossible in real life as previously mentioned, for pretty much the same reason as Everyone Owns a Mac (the tropes taking liberties how commonly certain products are shown in fiction compared to real life), which was added to NoRealLife.Impossible In Real Life in the past.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 20th 2023 at 5:28:51 AM

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#9: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:18:17 PM

So...merge into Artistic License – Music then? I don't think Hollywood Electric Guitar would work either as I fear such a trope would attract Zero-Context Examples and I'm not 100% convinced it's tropeworthy.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Feb 20th 2023 at 6:21:27 AM

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#10: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:19:54 PM

[up]Yeah, I think we should do that, especially since Artistic License – Music already covers inaccurate portrayals of instruments. Now that I think of it, I think that would mean All Guitars Are Stratocasters is The Same, but More Specific to Artistic License – Music, particularly due to how few correct examples there are.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 20th 2023 at 5:20:36 AM

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#11: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:24:06 PM

A complete merge with Artistic License – Music works, too.

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#12: Feb 20th 2023 at 3:44:38 PM

In favor of the merge into Artistic License – Music

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#13: Feb 20th 2023 at 4:25:07 PM

In favor of merging.

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#14: Feb 20th 2023 at 4:26:11 PM

Merging sounds like a good idea to me.

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#15: Feb 20th 2023 at 4:35:20 PM

Replying to GastonRabbit: Yeah, I didn't realize there was a precedent for stock object depictions being untropeworthy, so let's just merge what few correct examples we have that fall into the "incorrect instrument depiction" category into Artistic License – Music, which I also didn't realize covered instruments.

Edited by supernintendo128 on Feb 20th 2023 at 6:36:36 AM

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#16: Feb 20th 2023 at 5:21:12 PM

Let me pull off an epic riff:

MERGE!

WITH!

Artistic License – Music!

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#17: Feb 20th 2023 at 6:08:32 PM

I just looked at the Related page and I overlooked the fact that this has a two-digit wick count (currently 63); even though the wick check sandbox mentions this, I overlooked that between a different mod opening the thread and the fact that I was more focused on the folders containing the list of wicks than the intro (plus I hadn't been awake very long when I first looked at this thread).

Since the wick check covered every wick, that makes me more inclined to merge with Artistic License – Music because the fact that there are only seven correct wicks period instead of that amount being from a random sample means it's more of a problem.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 20th 2023 at 8:12:18 AM

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#18: Feb 20th 2023 at 8:11:50 PM

Merging is fine

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#19: Feb 21st 2023 at 12:08:41 AM

Merge.

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#20: Feb 21st 2023 at 12:34:08 AM

Merge! [tup]

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#21: Feb 21st 2023 at 10:31:08 AM

I'm good with a merge.

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#22: Feb 21st 2023 at 12:26:14 PM

Merge, provided we're only merging the unplugged guitar examples, which is the gist I got from the thread.

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#23: Feb 21st 2023 at 12:32:53 PM

Merge with Artistic License – Music. Explaining which instruments artists use is Tank the Tech's job.

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#24: Feb 21st 2023 at 12:35:52 PM

[up] Merge it

Edited by MadAboutLove97 on Feb 21st 2023 at 3:36:05 PM

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#25: Feb 21st 2023 at 1:16:53 PM

[up][up][up]Yeah, we pretty much established that playing a specific model of guitar that happens to be the most common and recognizable isn't tropeworthy.

Edited by supernintendo128 on Feb 21st 2023 at 3:17:24 AM

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Trope Repair Shop: All Guitars Are Stratocasters
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