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
to William Afton, the Shadow Queen and Princess Shroob.
Yes to the Mario Duo.
Look, my personal take on C Ms By Troper and its subpages is that they serve a purpose of keeping track of discussion. If people want to keep track of who did both the EP and the writeup (assuming they were done by separate people), good for them. I wish more people cared about keeping track of discussion, but I am trying to make my peace with the fact that not everyone has the patience.
How's this for Chucky?
- Child's Play franchise: Chucky himself was originally Charles Lee Ray, aka the notorious "Lakeshore Strangler". Killed by police, he used Hollywood Voodoo to transfer his soul into a Good Guy Doll and continues to kill on both the big screen and the small screen.
- Film series: Chucky proceeds to murder his owner's babysitter because she annoys him, and hunts down, tortures and murders his old voodoo teacher to get information on how to become human again before trying to tear out his 10-year-old owner's soul and possess him. Throughout the films, Chucky commits many more murders for his own amusement and replaces blanks with real ammo at a military camp war games training solely to enjoy the chaos. Even when the films briefly turned comedic, Chucky remained heartless as ever, murdering his own wife when she tried to leave him, with no remorse. When Curse of Chucky brought the series back to horror, Chucky sends himself to unsuspecting families to destroy them and was revealed, as Charles Lee Ray, to have even stabbed a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances. Despite his sense of humor, Chucky has always remained a sadistic, murderous monster and has only grown worse over time.
- Chucky: As a boy, Charles Lee Ray killed his own mother to impress an active serial killer. Returning to Hackensack, Chucky falsely befriends Jake Wheeler and tries to corrupt him into murdering Lexi Cross, ultimately taking the matter into his own hands at the cost of inadvertently starting a house fire with several partygoers inside. Chucky murders Junior's mother and successfully perfects his Voodoo spell when he drove Junior to kill his father. He reveals his plan to massacre an audience at a charity event before distributing 72 possessed Good Guy Dolls nationwide with more bloodshed in mind, all to immortalize his depraved legacy as the worst serial killer in US history.
Snowy 66 Bowser loves his kids. That's an automatic disqualification no matter how many princesses he kidnaps or how many times he tries to take over the Mushroom Kingdom/the universe.
Edited by MinisterOfSinister on Dec 15th 2021 at 3:51:31 PM
I'll give a
to the Shadow Queen, but Princess Shroob gets a
from me due to no actual concrete proof she cares nothing for her older sister.
Edited by dragonfire5000 on Dec 15th 2021 at 8:01:18 AM
"I squirm, I struggle, ergo I am. Faced with death, I am finally, truly alive."
