Not Tropeworthy: To The Bat Noun

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To The Bat Noun is a Stock Phrase consisting of just a character saying "To the X!", in a Shout-Out to the 1960s Batman series. It is also misused for Hyperaffixation. See wick check.

Proposed solution: Cut or disambig.

Macron's notes

~nw09

Macron's notes

With just 1,447 inbounds, I think we can just cut.

That too.

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Feb 26th 2023 at 8:34:59 AM

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Cut and move any examples that fit Hyperaffixation to that trope.

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Cut

Edited by MadAboutLove97 on Feb 26th 2023 at 8:50:52 AM

To the Bat Hyperaffixation!

I mean cut and merge with Hyperaffixation.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Feb 26th 2023 at 9:14:19 AM

Kirby is awesome.

Chop, chop, chop!

Move examples that fit Hyperaffixation there, of course.

Cut and merge.

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Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.

On top of everything else, I'm not sure cases that don't involve Hyperaffixation can really be called Batman (1966) shoutouts, and calling it the originator of the "to the X" construction seems like Fan Myopia. There's a case to be made that the dramatic way the line is delivered, probably with pointing, makes it more of a trope and more of a shout-out, but I don't know if it makes it enough of one.

Edited by MorganWick on Feb 26th 2023 at 11:46:00 AM

I was worried, but Hyperaffixation existing solved it. Maybe Mad Libs Catch Phrase or ReferencedBy.Batman is there are issues with examples.

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The "played straight" examples from The Lord of the Rings books aren't this trope, that's just how people talk in Middle-Earth. Suggest cutting.

(Besides, can a parody trope be played straight?)

Move to Hyperaffixation sounds fine, though I agree with Amonimus that the Batman-specific ones could just be Shout-Out examples to Batman.

Edited by BlackMage43 on Feb 28th 2023 at 2:57:16 AM

A merge sounds good. I can take care of dewicking since there's enough that I can handle it in one day.

Remember: only move correct examples to Hyperaffixation. The "to the x!" examples don't go there.

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Got it. Should we go ahead and put To The Bat Noun on Wick Cleaning Projects?

Nah, there's only about 100 wicks so this should be easy and quick to clean.

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Sweet. I'll get to cleaning it up!

I assume we're also doing the on-page examples?

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I got to cleaning up all the examples except for one: Tropes Q to Z. It doesn't fit Hyperaffixation and it looks like the example fits another trope (Lampshade Hanging, maybe?) What should be done with it?

Could just file it under Shout-Out.

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Yeah, that was what I was thinking. Thanks so much!

And with that taken care of, all we have left are Sandboxes!

Edited by MadAboutLove97 on Mar 1st 2023 at 8:57:21 AM

Cut one of them, since it was in the wick check sandbox and we just forgot to update it.

Of the two remaining, one is Gaston's, it's a write-up for Trope Report; keep it. The other one is a Trope Pantheons idea, ask Phantom Fire.

All that's left is merging the two pages now.

Edited by FernandoLemon on Mar 1st 2023 at 11:30:11 AM

I'd like to apologize for all this.