Trope candidates? We don’t vote on what should become a trope, it’s not a zero-sum game.
Anyways, I think most of these have potential, but I highly doubt Worm and its sequel codified or made most of these. It seems to be rather well-known for a web novel (from what I can tell at least), but it’s far from mainstream. And a fair number of these suffer from Trope Namer Syndrome—without context, I’d have zero idea what “Simurgh Bomb”, “Madcap Gambit” and “Fugly Bob’s Challenger” were about.
I’ll also preemptively give the nix to Butt Dialing Cthulu and Skitter Stand In—the former is The Same, but More Specific to Butt-Dialing Mordor, and the latter is unlikely to get far because we’ve cracked down greatly on new Fountain of Expies subtropes; see here
for more info.
I gotta be honest, I think you have a bad case of Trope Namer Syndrome here. You're treating troping these books and the terms Trope Namer and Trope Codifier like badges of honor, and you shouldn't be.
Trope Namers are disused nowadays because for a long time we've had a rule called Clear, Concise, Witty. In other words, a trope name should clearly and concisely describe the trope without needing to know the work it's derived from, if any. I've managed to get a couple Trope Namers through in my time on the Trope Launch Pad—Fowl-Mouthed Parrot is a pun I stole from Neverwinter Nights 2, and Taught to Hate is named after the musical South Pacific—but your first priority needs to be Describe Topic Here. Off of your list:
- Master/Stranger Protocols flatly fails the criteria. I've seen that trope in Stargate SG-1 and the X-Wing Series, but "Master/Stranger Protocols" makes me think of something more like a slavery trope.
- Simurgh Bomb is completely opaque. Compare to Invented Invalid, which began life
as a draft titled "Bunbury Syndrome" because the creator was determined to name a trope after an Oscar Wilde novel basically because they were jealous that Firefly got so many Trope Namers in the wiki's early days when practically anybody could name a trope anything.
- Skitter Stand-In is an Expy trope which would likely just be a list of qualities that characters have in common, and those have been getting cut by the Trope Repair Shop frequently as of late to enforce the proper definition of Expy: a character who is unambiguously and explicitly based on a character from another work. Char Clone and Shana Clone both got the ax in the past year, and I once started a draft called "Glenn Bexpy" that was about send-ups of right-wing pundits that ended up being called Pompous Political Pundit instead to describe the trope properly.
Trope Codifier, meanwhile, is a term with a specific definition: it's the example of the trope that media creators most commonly think of and try to imitate. For example, A New Hope's final battle is the Trope Codifier for Airstrike Impossible: if somebody describes a scenario of flying down a difficult path to lob a bomb or missile at a difficult target, you're almost guaranteed to think of Star Wars first. (It is not, however, the Trope Maker: that whole sequence was an homage to The Dam Busters and 633 Squadron.)
- Worm is emphatically not a Trope Codifier for Containment Foam: that's shown up all over the place for decades. Off the top of my head, Ang Lee's Hulk used it eight years before Worm was even published.
The Unwritten Rules one is pretty much already covered, albeit more in their breach than their execution, by Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!, and Endbringer Truce is pretty much Evil Versus Oblivion.
Butt Dialing Cthulhu could work, though: it'd be a subtrope of Accidental Incantation and Summon Magic, and I can already think of a couple of other examples you could use. If you want to learn how to use the Trope Launch Pad properly, that's the one I'd start with: it's got a clear definition, and the proposed title is short and funny, though admittedly it's a bit of a Snowclone.
Edited by StarSword on Sep 6th 2024 at 11:34:43 AM
Trust me, I'm an engineer!So based on feedback, the following prospective Tropes have been eliminated.
- "Master/ Stranger Protocols"- too ambiguous/undescriptive (rename to "Anti-Brainwashing"? "Deprogramming the Manchurian Agent"?).
- "Simurgh Bomb"- too undescriptive.
- "Endbringer Truce"- Enemy Mine is already a Trope.
- "Fugly Bob's Challenger"- Mega Meal Challenge is already a Trope.
- "Unwritten Rules"- The whole premise of the Unwritten Rules was basically a lampshading of how Superhero fiction typically imposes or enforces The Masquerade regarding the secret identity of Heroes and Villains (and how said Masquerade is frequently Broken).
- "Madcap Gambit"- too undescriptive ("Jailbreak from a Prison Transport" is a better description).
- Skitter Stand-In- Fountain of Expies sub-trope.
So that leaves only "Containment Foam" and "Path to Victory" as prospective Tropes for which Worm would be the Trope Namer.
As for "Empowering Abomination", "Butt-Dialling Cthulhu", "Percentage-Based Precognition", "Nomadic Supervillain", "Super-"Hero" Bully", "Legal Counsel for Superman", "Super Lawyer", and "Forcefield Failure", those are not prospective Trope Namers, but they haven't been eliminated either.
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. Sic Semper Omnes.Remember a trope namer is not supposed to be a badge of honor, you create tropes due to their prevalence in media on the trope launch pad and choose a name that succinctly and if possible cleverly describes the trope, if that happens to overlap with something from a piece of media that's great but you shouldn't go looking for it, if you believe something is a trope but isn't on the wiki yet you should create it for its own sake.
Don't forget to read Fan Myopia. Not everyone is passionate about Worm or Ward. In fact, before this thread was created, I had never heard of these works.
Edited by Nen_desharu on Sep 7th 2024 at 5:54:50 AM
Kirby is awesome.

A couple years ago, I asked on Reddit if Worm and/or Ward should have the distinction of being a
Trope Maker, Trope Namer, and/or Trope Codifier for one or more Tropes. Some of the Tropes I could think of were:
Which of these Trope Candidates do you think should become a Trope? If any of these are particularly well-received, I might submit one or more of them to the Trope Launch Pad before the end of the month.
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. Sic Semper Omnes.