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
Speaking about Stryker and him being cut about his wife.
- Freudian Excuse: Apparently his son Jason blamed his parents for his "condition," so he used his powers of illusion to torture them with nightmares and visions—leading to Stryker's wife killing herself with a power drill. Of course, given that Stryker's not exactly the most reliable witness, how much of this information is accurate is debatable at best.
Is it ever confirmed he's an Unreliable Narrator? If that's the case, could we do a re-evaluation on whether he counted.
Has the Entity from Wes Craven's New Nightmare been discussed, or do you guys not consider him to be a separate entity from Freddy Krueger?
There's no proof that the Entity isn't Made of Evil. Agency also further gets complicated as I think they implied that it thinks it is Fredddy. I considered bringing it up myself years ago.
"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."Yes to Bryce,Johnny and Bill. I have thought on it for awhile and yeah just cut the Dead by Daylight characters and have this discussion be done. No to Monty, this is why I was unsure and it was why the Irreversible villain was cut. It is an explicit scene but that is about it, and it seems like an example where he might have been meant to count but actually doesn't.
edited 1st Jun '18 10:39:28 AM by Knack
Bryce, Johnny, Fan Fic!Bill all get
for me. Monty's a nasty asshole but I'm gonna have to give him a
for flunking the heinous standard.
Bravely Default has Airy the evil one.
edited 1st Jun '18 11:11:00 AM by miraculous
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."![]()
There's Opal Koboi from the Artemis Fowl series.
edited 1st Jun '18 11:11:01 AM by Clown-Face
Why so serious?Somewhat off topic, my sister found out about this thread and she agrees on Bryce counting (she's a fan of 13 Reasons...also made me watch the bathroom scene). She's also got surpised that Hal from Riverdale doesn't count.
"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."So what are we doing with Patrick Lloyd and the Dead by Daylight entries? For the record, I'm abstaining on the first, and lean towards just keeping the Doctor for the second.
I still say burn the DbD candidates with fire... I don't care how edgy the background text tells us they are, there's way too much being read into the fact their onscreen actions amount to trying to kill the heroes.
As promised, Mir:
- Once Upon a Time:
- Stripped of the redeeming qualities of his original counterpart, Peter Pan is a demon who has children kidnapped and forced to become his eternal servants in Neverland. Having his shadow kill any who try to escape by removing their souls, Pan is also a hedonistic psychopath who tortures and breaks others, solely to amuse himself. Dying along with Neverland's magic, Pan plans to absorb the heart of a child, his own great-grandson, who is the truest believer in magic, making himself all-powerful and immortal, while the innocent child dies in his place. Also the Abusive Parent of Rumpelstiltskin, Pan abandoned his son for power, selfishly neglecting the responsibilities of adulthood. Killing his own supporter to complete a magical curse, Pan cares nothing for anyone and tries to murder Rumpelstiltskin's family just to torment his son.
- Appearing in both Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Season 6, Jafar is an Evil Sorcerer who plans to enslave three people and use their combined magic to grant his wish to become the all-powerful ruler of Wonderland. Cruelly transforming the woman who loved him into his iconic serpent staff, Jafar also murders a young woman just to watch the reaction of her lover, before resurrecting her and magically making her fall in love with him to spite her lover yet again. Though having the excuse of a neglectful father, Jafar is revealed to want to use magic to make his father love him just to hurt him more when he torments him. Upon becoming Royal Vizier of Agrabah, Jafar tortures and kills people at his whim with his dark powers and deceives Princess Jasmine into giving him a magical ring, then threatening to destroy Agrabah if she did not accept his marriage proposal. Threatening to use the ring to disintegrate Agrabah, Jafar means to create a ghostly version of the land and seal all the souls within in limbo for eternity. Cruel and selfish, Jafar is a wicked man who cares only for his own ambition and sadistically tormenting anyone he can.
Beast: Well in regards to Hal, as I said whilst he's easily heinous enough I just feel the guy has to many issues to qualify.
He was raised by a pair of sociopaths who got him to murder somebody when he was only six years old, and raised him to believe that it was a good thing to murder sinners.
Its been heavily implied numerous times that mental illness runs in his family.
And his actors confirmed he'll be back next season, so there might be more to the story.
I'm honestly kind of disappointed he turned out to be the Black Hood, him being revealed to be a dangerous psycho borders on out of nowhere. I'm not exactly sure if this means his previous displays of care towards his daughters are rendered false or not.
So overall I don't think he counts, I'm happy to hear any counter arguments anyone wishes to make though.
edited 1st Jun '18 11:54:53 AM by MGD107
MDG, I'm 100% with you there, while he's easily bad enough his background is so ambiguously agency compromising I wouldn't be comfortable with him going up either. I have to say, Riverdale is now two for two on obvious end-of-season "whodunit" reveals, so hopefully they get their shit together in terms of mystery for the next one.
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Wow, those are like three (maybe four) different Freudian Excuses.
edited 1st Jun '18 12:23:30 PM by KazuyaProta
Watch me destroying my country43, please add those Once Upon a Time rewrites to the Drafts. I think for the spin-off YMMV page, I'll just say "Jafar debuted here, before appearing in season 6 of the main series. See that page for details."
Kazuya, FYI, to pluralize a trope it's {{ Freudian Excuse }}s (without the spaces before the F and after the E).
edited 1st Jun '18 12:04:17 PM by ACW

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Struckers a NSWIE, we actually cut him becuase he genuinely loved his wife.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."