During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Triumvirate is my own candidate, but yeah, that image doesn't work for me.
papyru: Drafts please.
Partridge, Thawne, Phoenix, the Evil Diva, Bogeyman (I found the issue; looks like even Boogeymen aren't immune to bullets
).
As for why the played/fought Sandbox is live-action...I guess we COULD include animated, but that would expand the size exponentially.
So hahaha bad news.
My wifi is down (I'm using my data at the momet) so the charmed rewatch and final ep will probably be delayed by a few days as they fix it. Everyone fine with this.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."@ACW That's the exact reason, otherwise the list would be enormous.
"I'll show you the Dark Side." CM actors and kills
Bogeyman, Courtney, Otto, Sancho, Aristotle, Talagbusao, Thawne.
I re-did the Hitcher tree:
- The Hitcher films have hostile hitchhikers who kill many, families, children, and cops included:
- First film: John Ryder is a mysterious vagabond who gains a twisted obsession with the young hero Jim Halsey and begins hunting him down in an attempt to hurt and corrupt him. After terrifying him once, Ryder is given a ride by a family of four and murders them all gruesomely, including the little children. Ryder sets up Jim as the murderer as he continues racking up a body count. Ryder's most infamous act is to tie Jim's Love Interest, a waitress named Nash, between two trucks and tear her in half. Twisted and monstrous, Ryder is only interested in turning Jim into as much a monster as he is and killing as many people as possible.
- I've Been Waiting: Jack is yet another sadistic hitchhiker who kills to alleviate his boredom. Having killed others before encountering Jim and Maggie, Jack at one point kills a trucker to take his truck, scalping the man to use his hair as a wig. Murdering Maggie's parents and blaming her and Jim for the murders, Jack fatally wounds Jim and later captures Maggie, putting her in a water tower that will kill her should she make any erratic movements. Once Maggie escapes, Jack follows suit, killing several innocents and cops in an attempt to frame Maggie, stopping at nothing to have her arrested.
- 2007 remake: John Ryder here lacks the mystique and cold refinement of the original. Instead a vicious misogynist, Ryder slaughters a family to prove a point, children included, before arriving at a police station to massacre everyone there. Trying to rape heroine Grace, Ryder instead forces her to watch her boyfriend Jim pulled in half before slaughtering the cops arresting him while delighting in trying to turn Grace into a killer.

Yes to the Bogeyman