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
You'll have to update me on Reed, btw. Is it true he's succeeded in actually creating utopia?
Y'know that reminds me of an entry who I don't think we've really discussed like he deserves in Western Animation...Jenner from The Secret of NIMH
Rolling it over,I have to say, I think he's a pretty obvious keeper. His actions include playing The Starscream of the Rats of NIMH and murdering their leader Nicodemus simply because he disagrees with the plan to move them to a safe area called Thorn Valley. While one could rationalize this as Jenner having the best interests of the rats at heart, the movie, very early on, spells out his only desire is power, and Jenner later declares his creed is Take what you can when you can.
What boots him over the edge (beyond his also slashing his right hand man's throat when the guy tries to stop him from the coming act) is his plan involves sabotaging an attempt to move a house of innocent mice to crush Nicodemus, which will leave said mice (including multiple children) to sink in and drown in mud, and he clearly attempts to murder their mother when he sees she has a gem Nicodemus left to her.
All in all, the guy is pure slime, has zero redeeming qualities and has no idea killing a group of kids as a byproduct of killing his perfectly benevolent, kind and wise boss solely so he can snatch more power for himself. Nicodemus and Sullivan's deaths on their own are probably standard villainy. Otherwise, though the fact he intentionally sabotages the house moving to kill Nicodemus in a move that he is well aware will kill the four children inside in a rather nasty way is what pushes him over the edge to CM territory for me.
edited 2nd Oct '13 11:43:42 PM by Lightysnake
With Doom I'm fine with cutting that part about Bambi's mom (maybe put it in the Trivia thread under What Might Have Been?) but that bit about the Toon Physics seems to me it should be included.
EDIT: And seriously, WTF's with these Ultimate Marvel villains? Ultimate Reed looks like an alien, and Ultimate Skull's almost TOO evil.
edited 2nd Oct '13 11:53:51 PM by ACW
You talking about ImageLinks.Complete Monster?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman![]()
Turning the likes of Mark Millar, Orson Scott Card, and sundry other madmen loose, that's WTF is wrong with these Ultimate Marvel villains. This is the team that thought the Skull should be Cap's evil son who skinned his own face after all. Who thought Wolverine should an ephebophile. Who made Ant-Man a Domestic Abuser, which he never was in-canonnote . Who decided Cap subscribed to Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys. Who made Iron Man a hateable douche with a healing factor and brain matter under his skin. Nothing they do shocks me anymore.
edited 3rd Oct '13 12:03:43 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Don't forget Ultimate Magneto, who is a cannibal, kills Charles Xavier and doesn`t even have the Holocaust background as an excuse. Or the Hulk, who has been turned into a sociopathic hedonist who has RAPED people to death and delivers lines on par with Superboy Prime in terms of cheesyness ("Puny hammer just makes Hulk horny").
As far as I know though, Ultimate Reed has improved in his intetions in comparism from the previous arc, he placed the mutants (who have it even worse in the UU) under his protection for example.
And I'm late for the Breaking Bad debate, but I'm gonna vote yes on Jack and no on Todd. But if Jack is kept the Affably Evil in his character entry needs to be changed to Faux Affably Evil.
edited 3rd Oct '13 5:20:14 AM by Forenperser
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI've seen many in favor of Jack from Breaking Bad now. So does anyone have an entry I can eventually put on the YMMV page? Plus, I don't see how he's just that bad.
An entry for Jack was already submitted to the Edit Requests
thread.
There's a difference between writing Tony as a jerk the way he often is in regular Marvel, and writing him as a guy who enjoys picking up teenage girls ("You are eighteen, right?"). Not to mention that the truly punchable Iron Man moments in regular Marvel are, for the most part, post-Civil War.
@despoa
When you say you don't see how he's just that bad, are you saying you don't think Jack should go up?
edited 3rd Oct '13 9:44:21 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
I haven't been following this conversation in detail, but is someone actually seriously proposing Tony Stark as a complete monster? Or am I misreading?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And I was joking because Tony Stark being a huge jerk tends to be true in most media (I understand that the Ultimate verse takes it Up To Eleven though).
Edit, edit, edit, edit the wikiIsn't him being a jerk one of the core elements of his character?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"According to Marvel's December Solicits Ultimate Reed is going to try to seek redemption. It hasn't happened yet, so we don't know if he'll actually succeed, but at least trying sounds like a somewhat redeeming quality.
I never read Ultimate Marvel, and from the things I hear about it I don't really want to start. There's pretty good money the entire line probably won't be around much longer, anyway.
That's the guess. He got shunted into that universe by the timeline-screwage in Age of Ultron and supercharged himself by merging with his counterpart there. I'm told sales have been pretty dreary ever since all the A-list characters died (thanks, Mr. Loeb!) so it might as well be a Mercy Kill.
@Ambar Sonof Deshar
What I'm trying to say is that I don't see how Jack Welker in Breaking Bad is such a horrifying villain compared to the Salamanca Cousins. The Cousins indiscriminately kill with no emotions or signs or remorse, even if it's completely unnecessary. Jack seems to just do what every other villain has done in the series. He slavery part was Todd's idea with the threats being there for a reason and he decides to kill Walter because he really doesn't need him anymore.

yeah, those are great examples of someone being an evil prick