Misused: Belly Buttonless

Belly Buttonless is a trope specifically about a human character lacking a belly button as a visual cue that they were created by artificial means, usually as a clone. I was a little concerned the trope was being used in a way that was broader than the definition.

Wick check here, breakdown as follows:

• Correct usage: 18/50 or 36%
• Artistic style: 3/50 or 6%
• Unusual birth: 5/50 or 10%
• Non-mammalian birth: 4/50 or 8%
• Other reason: 3/50 or 6%
• No explanation: 5/50 or 10%
• Other misuse: 10/50 or 20%
• ZCE: 2/50 or 4%

With the 30% of other usage^note Categories 2-5, I think we can expand the trope to include some of this misuse. Namely the unusual and non-mammalian^note e.g. a human hatching from an egg birth categories. I don't really believe the artistic style and other reason categories to be tropeworthy so those, alongside the 20% misuse, no explanation (which I theorize to be mostly artistic style or error), and ZCEs should be deleted in cleanup.
Proposal: Expand trope to be defined as a human character lacking a belly button as a visual cue that they had an unusual birth, including artificial creation and non-mammalian birth. Clean up all other examples.

Edited by Hello83433 on Aug 2nd 2023 at 2:42:36 PM

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Psst, your math is off. You have 5/50 listed as 10% but 4/50 listed as .08%; it should be 8%. Properly calculated, your "other use" supercategory is more like 30%.

Expanded or no, I suspect this may need a rename or else it'll continue to attract chairs-y examples. Even expanded and properly calculated, correct use under the expanded definition would only be 54%.

Edited by MorganWick on Aug 2nd 2023 at 11:07:56 AM

Starter suggestion: No Navel Means Unusual Birth

Thank you for pointing that out. Should be fixed now, also note to not do math when tired.

I do see the sense in also renaming the trope along with expansion, given the misuse. Something that has a bit more context in it.

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No Belly Button Equals Artificial Birth

A Navelless Artificial Creation

Odd Birth? No Navel For You!

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Aug 4th 2023 at 3:15:59 AM

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Umbilicalless Unorthodox Birth

Umbilicusless Unorthodox Birth

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Aug 4th 2023 at 3:17:58 AM

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Missing Belly Button?

Anti-Omphalos Hypothesis

Ukrainian Red Cross

Both your suggestions are decent, but don't really emphasize the "artificial creation" part of the trope.

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Naveless Notification Of Non Standard Natal Method

Bit long though

So I can't think of anything right now... meh.

Navelless Construct?

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Navelessness Non Standard Natal Notice

So I can't think of anything right now... meh.

Navellessness Signifies Artificiality

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"No Belly Button? Not Birthed."

Since eggs and decanting and stuff aren't being "born".

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That feels like a Stock Phrase.

This deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.

Manufactured Mammal, Oops! No Navel

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Navellessness From Odd Birth

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No one's said that ever.

Navelless Artificial Being? Navelless Clone?

Leaning on the "Artificial Being" one.

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Artificial Being Without Navel

Renaming is fine. I'll go through the names later to see if there's one I prefer.

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

In favor of either Artificial Being suggestions but I'm going to ahead and add some of my own because why not:

MustHaveBeenWhile''U''mbilicalingMe

Artificial Coal From My Stocking

Silver and gold, silver and gold

No Navel Means Unnatural Creation?

Swap "unnatural" for "novel".

that suggestion works

So I can't think of anything right now... meh.