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
Alright, since Calamity Mary seems to be beloved, here's her write-up.
- Magical Girl Raising Project: Even before Calamity Mary was chosen to become a magical girl, she was an alcoholic who abused her daughter in order to make herself feel powerful. Upon receiving her powers she set about using her abilities to torment others for her own amusement. She forced her way into the yakuza as a way to help out bad people and had no issue abusing and shooting her fellow magical girls when they didn't act submissive. When the magical girls were forced into a killing game she embraced the conflict with glee. Eventually she escalated into attacking a highway and shooting dozens of civilians to watch the explosions and lure in her rivals, threatening to keep on killing unless she's stopped.
Edited by Sterok on Mar 19th 2019 at 7:03:49 AM
An early screenplay of The Last Boy Scout is listed under Other Media.
I guess that could be some kind of precedent.
to Voicu and Drucilla.
Alright, I have another one, maybe two Batman villains to discuss. Written by one of my favorite comic book writers Ed Brubaker, Batman Gotham Noir is an Elseworlds story of James Gordon as a Private Investigator in a pulpy Noir-esque story.
Who is Mayor Artie Dehaven? What has he done?
Artie Dehaven is the mayor of Gotham City and the Big Bad of the comic.
A corrupt politician known citywide for blackmail, extortion, and murder, Dehaven was a friend to the wealthy Hollingsworth family, so much so that the young daughter Rachel referred to him as "Uncle Artie." When Rachel turned 13, Dehaven began molesting and raping her, and eventually began passing her around the socialites of Gotham, forcing her to be his personal prostitute.
Dehaven would secretly photograph and document Rachel's rapes with each politician, wealthy rich boy, and anyone else with influence in Gotham, thus supplying himself with endless blackmail material.
When, after years of this forced prostitution, a Gotham judge named Pitt tried to save Rachel and expose Dehaven, Dehaven had the man killed. Later, when Dehaven realizes Rachel herself is trying to expose his crimes, Dehaven has her killed. After Gordon investigates Dehaven, Dehaven has him framed for Rachel's murder, and threatens to kill his wife and child if he tries to implicate Dehaven.
When Gordon lets slip that attorney Harvey Dent is using one of Dehaven's goons, Jack Napier, as a mole, Dehaven has him beaten, his cheeks slashed from ear to ear, and leaves him to die in an alley.
With the help of the Batman, Gordon manages to take down Dehaven for his crimes, but not before Dehaven ignites a shootout in a popular dance club in an attempt to kill his final rival in the criminal underworld, Tony Zucco.
Does Dehaven have a Freudian Excuse or other mitigating factors?
None. Dehaven has no reason for being so corrupt or evil, and has zero care for anyone but himself. He only wants power, and used an innocent teenage girl to climb the ladder.
Is Dehaven sufficiently heinous?
If this was mainstream DC, I'd say no, but given it is an Elseworlds with its own heinous standard, Dehaven definitely is. He has rape, forced prostitution, and murder of a young woman on his hands, along with killing or framing anyone in his way and threatening their families.
The only other villain who stands up to Dehaven is Napier, but Dehaven has his own uniqueness about him and his crimes against Rachel are a very vile touch.
Final Verdict?
Edited by AgeOfTropeEmpire on Mar 19th 2019 at 8:44:35 AM
@mir: Personally, Dehaven threatening/blackmailing Gordon into taking the fall for a girl’s murder reminded me of Senator Roark, though I don’t know if that’s what you’re thinking of.
to him, Voicu and Drucilla I guess.

Yes to Voicu and Drucilla
Things are really about to get Fun around here