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For YMMV.MGCM:

• Accidental Innuendo: The magic beads (both SR and UR rarity) has point ends on both sides (top and bottom), which some players, especially dirty minded ones, think those beads look like butt plugs or condoms.

When you say "rarity," do you mean "variety"?

EDIT: No, wait, I get it. UR stands for "ultra rare" and "SR" for "super rare."

Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Oct 16th 2020 at 3:00:58 PM

YMMV.Pixar:

• Memetic Psychopath: Luxo Jr. is commonly thought of as a murderer who every time on the Pixar Vanity Plate stomps that "I" to death and then looks at the audience, silently telling them they're next. This has led to parodies of the logo such as this one in which the point of view is of the "I" and the whole situation is Played for Horror.

Some people think of Luxo Jr. is commonly thought of as a murderer who every time stomps that "I" on the Pixar Vanity Plate to death and then looks at the audience, silently telling them they're next. This has led to parodies of the logo such as this one, <- comma in which the point of view is of the "I" and the whole situation is Played for Horror.

^ I changed "commonly thought of" to "Some people think" because as far as I know, this isn't a commonly held belief. This is mainly because none of the letters, including the I, is portrayed as being alive.

Edited by Arivne on Oct 16th 2020 at 11:07:32 AM

Extruded Book Product:

• The Geronimo Stilton series boasts many books and many Spin-Off series since 2000, primarily due to many ghostwriters and freelance artists employed to write and illustrate the books published under the fictional protagonist's name.

Edited by PrincessPandaTrope on Oct 16th 2020 at 12:21:51 PM

Welp, got suspended due to grammar issues. Guess I'll have to start using this thread.

Crusader Kings III

• Talking the Monster to Death: A literal version of this trope: it is possible to cause a person to die from heart attack via literalist debates.

In this case, is it ok to use "heart attack" like this? Or do I have to use "a heart attack"?

Edited by onyhow on Oct 17th 2020 at 3:16:29 AM

Yeah, "a heart attack" would be correct in this context

So, things like disease name and such needs articles? Damn, no wonder I have issues with articles.

A question: in general, will anyone here help edit those examples into articles we mentioned if we're suspended?

"The Geronimo Stilton series boasts many books and Spin-Off series since 2000, primarily due to all the ghostwriters and freelance artists employed to write and illustrate the books—all of which are published under the fictional protagonist's name."

By the way, are you sure that they're written by ghost writers, and not just one writer using a pseudonym? I looked online, but could find no info about them actually being ghost-written... Granted, my Italian is at such a low level that an ant could trip on it, but still...

Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Oct 17th 2020 at 3:36:13 PM

onyhow: Depends. I do it sometimes, but not regularly. In general, it's best to assume that you'll have to edit them in yourself, once you're unsuspended.

Oh, and while you're usually only unsuspended after improving your English, I've seen people get unsuspended by promising that they'll post every one of their examples here first, and only edit them into an actual page once they've been corrected by somebody.

It seems very likely. Because, how can Elisabetta Dami write all those books in 20 years, and she is only credited for the original idea, not the text, in the copyright section?

Yeah, you're right. I should only add it in if it's confirmed.

Edited by PrincessPandaTrope on Oct 17th 2020 at 9:29:49 AM

It might seem very likely, but it's still Speculative Troping.

Twisted Wonderland Characters

• Berserk Button: Grim really hates people mistaken him for a raccoon even though he doesn't look like one.
• Disappeared Dad: Deuce's father is never seen nor mentioned once within the game. In Chapter 1-12, he only mention to Yuu and Grim he's the only guy in the family and often help his mother with heavy loads. It is unknown whether his father's died when he was young or he left his mother before he was born.
• Formerly Fat: Azul used to be chubby in his early childhood and young merfolk made up of him of his weight. It was one of his determination to lose a lot of weight in order to forget his shameful and dark past.

Edited by Stardust120 on Oct 17th 2020 at 9:49:27 AM

Question: Is there anybody in the game saying that Grim doesn't actually look like a raccoon?

For Berserk Button, can you define "really hates"? The trope requires a blatantly disproportionate reaction to the enraging stimulus — the page image shows a guy violently flipping out over being called "short".

For Disappeared Dad: "He" is an ambiguous pronoun here and could refer to either Deuce or his father. I'd rewrite it like this:

• Disappeared Dad: Deuce's father is never seen nor mentioned once within the game. In Chapter 1-12, Deuce only mentions to Yuu and Grim that he's the only guy in the family, and often helps his mother with heavy loads. It is unknown whether hisDeuce's father's died when he was young or he left his mother before he was born.

* DisappearedDad: Deuce's father is never seen nor mentioned once within the game. In Chapter 1-12, Deuce mentions to Yuu and Grim that he's the only guy in the family, and often helps his mother with heavy loads. It is unknown whether Deuce's father died when he was young or left his mother before he was born.

Also, I'm not sure what "In chapter 1-12" is meant to refer to. Does something change after chapter 12, or is this a serial work which has yet to progress past that point?

Age of Empires III Characters

• Adapted Out: As part of the revisions to Shadow campaign in the Definitive Edition, Ameila Black's voice over, as well as her cameo, no longer appear. She is merely referenced Instead. Chayton subsequently takes over the narration allowing the story to further focus on him and his struggle.

• Adaptational Villainy: Billy Holme was always a piece of work, but in the Definitive Edition, he's made into a old war buddy of Chayton's making his betrayal of his trust even worse. What's more, during the Civil War, there where rumours he would sneak onto battlefields after the fighting and loot the dead, which Chayton always defended him from.

For Opening a Can of Clones or Expendable Clone Video Game section:

• Averted in MGCM, where the heroines' deaths get undone, thanks to player character's avatar Omnis' ability to create a new universe with wanted possibilities and then merges the previously screwed-up universe with the new one. Unfortunately plays straight for ones who are slain and subsequently corrupted into demons, since the corrupted ones are immune to merging. Instead, they're replaced by copies from his newly created universe.

Edited by Minorica on Oct 18th 2020 at 12:14:42 AM

Minorica: I think you need to decide which one of the tropes it's meant to be. If you use the exact same example text for two different tropes, it indicates that your example text isn't clear enough.

(Also, I'm not sure if you can call it an aversion if the trope does happen at least some of the time.)

x 6 @Stardust 120

Grim really hates people mistaking him for a raccoon, <- comma even though he doesn't look like one.

Deuce's father is never seen or mentioned once within the game. In Chapter 1-12, Deuce mentions to Yuu and Grim that he's the only guy in the family and often helps his mother with heavy loads. It is unknown whether his father died when he was young or he left his mother before he was born.

^ The "never seen or mentioned" could be written as "neither seen nor mentioned".

Azul used to be chubby in his early childhood and young merfolk made fun of him because of his weight. He became determined to lose a lot of weight in order to forget his shameful and dark past.

Edited by Arivne on Oct 17th 2020 at 11:27:10 AM

I understand, Michael Katsuro. Thanks.

Recap.Sonic The Hedgehog IDW Chao Races And Badnik Bases Arc:

• The Cameo: An animal based on Bobby Schroeder's (aka ponettplus), a Sonic Big Name Fan, avatar appears in #33.

I meant #33, not #31.

Edited by PrincessPandaTrope on Oct 18th 2020 at 9:05:12 AM

• The Cameo: An animal based on Big Name Fan Bobby Schroeder's — aka ponettplus — avatar appears in issue #33.

Putting the "adjective" (in this case Big Name Fan) in front of the noun makes the sentence flow better. Using dashes to separate an antecedent is a personal preference, though words in parenthesis are discouraged in examples anyway.

Fixed

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Oct 18th 2020 at 4:30:49 AM

Henry Stickmin - Character

Henry:

• Extra-ore-dinary: At the begining of the "Bounty/Ghost" route of Mission, he can wear a metal hat to turn himself into metal. This make him strong enough to break a door and makes him resistant to bullets.
• Human Popsicle:
  • His attempt to open a door with ice magic ends up with him freezing himself in a chunk of ice.
  • If he and Ellie surrender to the Wall at the end of the "Thief/Allies" route of Mission, they will be incased in blocks of ice to make sure they never escape again.
• An Ice Person: In the "grapple gun" route of Airship, he can try to use ice magic to open the vault's door. He just freezes himself.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: In the "Thief/Ghost" route of Mission, he can eject the Right Hand Mand and Wilhelm Krieghaus out of the Toppat airship by yelling "Ra do foos" at them.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: He sometime gains special powers out of nowhere depending of the situation and never use the same power again after.
• Nice Hat:
  • If he's the Toppat leader, he gets Reginald's black top hat with the dollar gold chain wrapped around it.
  • If he's just a Toppat recruit, he gets a navy blue top hat with a golden "H" broch on it.
• Playing with Fire: In Airship, if he fights the Right Hand Man with the "dirk" option, he can try to attack with fire magic.
• Psychotic Smirk: In the intro of the Government/Ghost route of Mission, he gives the audience a very smug smile when he hears abput the Toppats' rocketship filled with treasures. This expression is also used to represent his last bio card.
• Shock and Awe: At the begining of the "Bounty/Ghost" route of Mission, he can uses thunder magic to free himself from his cuffs.

Ellie:

• Human Popsicle: If she and Henry surrender to the Wall at the end of the "Thief/Allies" route of Mission, they will be incased in blocks of ice to make sure they never escape again.
• Nice Hat: If she joins the Toppat clan, she gets a pale pink top hat. If she's as simple recruit, the hat will have a single purple tulip on the brim but if she's the leader, she gets a crown of purple tulips around her hat.

Paper Mario The Origami King

• Gratuitous English: In the Chinese translation of the game, toads in the audience may sometime say English phrases during the Hole Punch fight. The reason is because this boss is associated with disco and disco is associated with the US around the world.

Characters.Sonic The Hedgehog Groups

• No Biological Sex: Chao are genderless and supposed to be referred to with "they/them" pronouns, though some games refer to some Chao with gendered pronouns.

Edited by PrincessPandaTrope on Oct 18th 2020 at 9:36:52 AM

Is Chao a species race?