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
Durant comes back as akin to something like a Spiderdemon. Basically. And Eddie Black comes back with guns for hands now. God, I love 90s comics.
@futuremoviewriter Go ahead. Hopefully, life gets back to normal somehow for me. And thank you for the well-wishes.
Edited by TBNY on Jul 16th 2021 at 9:13:41 AM
Had this baby for a long time and definitely looked forward to putting it to bed.
Let's see…that's the comic/novel Strack, the novel Smiley, Durant, Hathaway, potentially another Durant, probably Rooker, one other possible keeper after that. Sheesh. That's seven-eight from the looks of it!
Darkman might get its own page after all…
I mean I am surprised that Darkman might get a page before say Harry Potter.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadDon't expect a keeper in the crossover with Evil Dead, the Big Bad is Jessie, Darkman's lover who got herself possessed and Durant (who comes back from the dead by Jessie) doesn't do much beyond transforming two or four people into deadites, but even with low resources, I think Jessie (Known as Queen of Darkness) outclass him by turning the city into a Deadite infested hellhole. Unless someone wants to read the comic themselves to prove me wrong go ahead because I'm not sure if anyone counts.
Edited by Powermaster201 on Jul 16th 2021 at 9:35:15 AM
Frolaytia X Qwenthur of Heavy Object
Been suggested another quote:
Scar: So predictable. Janja has joined the Pride Landers.
Ushari: And... you're okay with that? I mean, of course you're okay with that.
Scar: Kion may have the power to defeat me. But, not the way I told Janja. If Kion uses his most powerful Roar here in the caldera, it won't destroy me. Instead, he'll cause an eruption so huge, it will destroy the Lion Guard, and turn the Pride Lands into a wasteland.
~ Scar explaining his final plan to kill the Lion Guard at Ushari, The Lion Guard, "Batlle for the Pride Lands"
'Yes' to Hathaway, also sticking with 'No' on Verone.
Alright, here's my last batch of image attempts for Monster.Ben 10. If none of these hit well for us, then I'm good with no image for now, lol
I don't particularly care for any of these but they're the best I could find and I would really rather the page not have zero pic lol but let's see what we all think.
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!

I'm not feeling it with the Vilgax image really, it's basically like Ravok's image of him but with him grabbing someone instead.
Edited by Powermaster201 on Jul 16th 2021 at 9:02:00 AM