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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15401: Oct 7th 2021 at 3:49:33 AM

From page 616 @Melinda

...and is arguably more worldly and practical than their leader, Father Chris.

He is happy to provide a safe place for Eli's Bible, while...

^ If you're talking about the Christian holy book, it's always capitalized. If you're using it as a common noun, like the "bible" of a TV show, it isn't.

Sam's popularity comes from...and Jimmy's comes from being a hilarious Lovable Coward.

...pretty popular despite being an imposing and suspicious guy, but makes some...

Decades later <- no comma they have a steadily-growing community <- no comma led...

...the Postman's first recruit, drowns while trying to recover a mailbag that falls into...

Bethlem decides to level the town of Benning after it defies him, <- comma due...but Bethlehem rejects...

^ Is it Bethlem or Bethlehem?

Edited by Arivne on Oct 7th 2021 at 3:55:24 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15402: Oct 7th 2021 at 3:54:38 AM

From page 616 @Minorica

...wrestler (she donates her pay to the...obviously) with surprisingly ...with an Evil Laugh...mom's wrestling dress), <- comma which has an Absolute...Nuns), <- comma and her wrestling name, <- comma which is "Fallen Angel".

Edited by Arivne on Oct 7th 2021 at 3:55:32 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#15403: Oct 7th 2021 at 5:40:21 AM

Thanks. One other minor change I'd like to make (for Short Circuit) is go from saying that Oscar tries to run him over with a car to "repeatedly tries to kill him in brutal ways."

Minorica Rhythm Heroine from Earth Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
Rhythm Heroine
#15404: Oct 7th 2021 at 7:59:46 AM

For YMMV.Wrestle Angels:

Edited by Minorica on Oct 9th 2021 at 9:42:33 PM

"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."
Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#15405: Oct 7th 2021 at 8:33:59 AM

@ Burke's Law

  • Disability Alibi: An animal version occurs in "Who Killed the Highest Bidder." The victim is fatally clawed with a jaguar's paw. The detectives are initially unsure if the claws belongs to a live jaguar or was taken from a taxidermy exhibit. They accuse an animal trainer who is sleeping with the victim's widow of using his jaguar as an Animal Assassin, but it turns out that the animal was declawed two years ago.
@ Wasteland Elder
  • The Day After: Fifty-ish farmer Jim Dahlberg is seen voicing reasonable concerns and being taken seriously when the people in his rural community who survive the nuclear exchange get together to discuss the future. However, he's killed not long afterward, before really getting an opportunity to take a leadership role.
  • Waterworld: A small cabal of elderly and middle-aged Jerkasses run the coral atoll where Helen and Enola live after almost all of Earth's land is flooded.

@ The Ghost In The Noonday Sun A new page.

A 1965 Ocean of Adventure, Middle Grade Literature story by Sid Fleischman. Young Oliver Finch is abducted by pirates who believe that, because he was born on the stroke of midnight, he has the power to see ghosts and can get their deceased former captain to lead him to their buried Pirate Booty. An In Name Only film adaptation starring Peter Sellers came out in 1974.

Tropes:

  • 13 Is Unlucky: When three of the sixteen people aboard the Bloody Hand are washed overboard in a storm, everyone except Oliver and Second Mate Jack o' Lantern is so alarmed at the prospect of sailing on a ship with thirteen men that they agree to maroon one of their number. They draw doubloons (one of which is marked with an x) to determine who will be marooned, while making sure to keep seven doubloons in one bag and six in the other so they don't have thirteen coins together Captain Scratch cheats by palming his coin before the drawing starts. Jack draws the unlucky doubloon, but bribes the men assigned to maroon him to sneak him back onboard.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: Captain Scratch is a murderous Jerkass who Would Hurt a Child, but Oliver feels a bit of pity for him after the crew tricks Scratch into thinking that he's been killed and come back as a ghost who's been Barred from the Afterlife, and then leaves him marooned.
    ''Captain Scratch grew smaller and smaller. Even though no one had shed a tear for him he gave us a last forlorn wave of his hand. Despite myself, I waved back.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Billy Bombay, another pirate who was also born at the stroke of midnight and can supposedly see ghosts, buried his treasure on the same island where Gentleman Jack's treasure is buried. He comes looking for it at the exact same time Scratch and his crew are trying to find Jack's treasure while using Oliver as a supposed ghost-finder.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: The pirate crew includes a Fiji islander and a Muslim man (although both are portrayed rather stereotypically).
  • Guile Hero: Jack o' Lantern, the Token Good Teammate of the pirates, is pretty clever and sneaky. When Scratch has him marooned, he bribes three other pirates into marooning a scarecrow in his place and hiding him aboard the ship. He uses various methods of trickery to fake ghost sightings, and he tricks Scratch into thinking that he's died and turned into a ghost.
  • Names to Run Away From: One of the pirates, a Fiji islander, is called Cannibal and is said to be a Scarily Competent Tracker who can trail someone by the smell of meat.
  • Nephewism: At the beginning of the book, Oliver is being raised by his aunt while his uncle is away on a three-year whaling trip.
  • Non-Protagonist Resolver: Oliver is the narrator, but Jack o' Lantern is the one who figures out a way to trick Captain Scratch into thinking he's died and turned into a ghost so he won't resist being marooned. He also saves Oliver's life when the pirate ship sinks soon afterward.
  • "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The pirates kidnap Oliver because they superstitiously believe he can see ghosts. However, the only ghost sightings in the movie turn out to be faked by the ship's mates, John Ringrose and Jack o' Lantern, as part of their efforts to depose Captain Scratch and keep Oliver safe.
  • The Starscream: First Mate Ringrose feels emboldened once Captain Scratch suggests he might make a good captain if Scratch is the unlucky man while they're Drawing Straws to determine who will be marooned. He tries to depose Scratch in a mutiny and later plots with Jack o' Lantern to undermine him during the treasure hunt. Since Scratch is a Pointy-Haired Boss and a multiple-murderer and Ringnose is more of a Punch-Clock Villain, Ringrose is a rare sympathetic Starscream.
  • Torture Technician: When the pirates think Oliver is withholding information from them, they hang him upside from a vine and have Haji (who seems to be an experienced interrogator) beat his bare feet with a stick until "I thought one more lam of the stick would shatter my feet like glass."
  • Worthless Yellow Rocks: The pirates seeking Captain Scratch's three chests of buried gold uncover a chest filled with cannonballs, which they dump into the ocean out of frustration. When rival pirate Billy Bombay arrives on the island and learns about this, he furiously reveals that the cannonballs were really melted down silver, painted black to fool thieves.
@ Abominable
  • Never Found the Body: CJ's body disappears soon after the main monster apparently kills her with a Finishing Stomp, although it's likely that the monsters merely spirited it away to hide the evidence or for food.
@ Hufflepuff House
  • Star Wars: Knight Errant: Vilia Calimondra has about two dozen grandchildren fighting each other to prove themselves to her, each of whom commands a powerful Cult of Personality. Only eight of these grandchildren are named, and two of them are twins who jointly run a faction. Daiman and Odion have prominent roles in every story arc. Arkadia, the twins, and Malakite appear less frequently, but still have plenty of page time and characterization. Trevayne is only mentioned once in the final issue, but his personality is hinted at. The eighth, Lioko, is only mentioned in passing on two occasions.
  • Short Circuit:
  • Opportunistic Bastard: When Sandy tries to make a lucrative deal to buy toys from Ben, Frank (who is just introducing himself to Ben) quickly cuts himself into the deal and talks up the price before Ben can figure out what's going on. On the other hand, it's only because of Frank that Ben gets the start-up money (albeit by visiting a Loan Shark) and factory space necessary to start production.
@ The Scholomance

The salutatorian of the class ahead of El's.


  • Red Shirt: He dies in the chapter he's introduced in, while accompanying El and Orion on a dangerous mission.
  • Second Place Is for Losers: David spends three years bragging to anyone who will listen about how he's at the top of his class and will be the valedictorian and is rather sullen about how Clarita beats him for the position when he barely even knew she existed.

Edited by Melinda on Oct 8th 2021 at 8:43:48 AM

neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#15406: Oct 7th 2021 at 9:35:33 AM

Is this grammatical correct?

The Finisher An assassin working for the Russian Red Skull. He arranged the plane accident that killed Spider-Man's parents.

"May your heart be your guiding key"
miraculous Goku Black (Apprentice)
Goku Black
#15407: Oct 7th 2021 at 11:52:05 AM

For

There's Someone Inside Your House

  • Adaptation Personality Change: The masked killer is a vile monster in both the book and film but his personality varies between mediums. In the book, he is a cold and detached sociopath while the film adaptation makes him more emotional and openly psychotic.

  • Daddy Issues: Zackary Sandford has issues with his father who views him as a disappointment. It drives him to become a Serial Killer and murder his dad in cold blood.

  • Faux Affably Evil: The masked killer acts like a pretty cool and affable dude. But is revealed to be a psychopath who would even murder good friends for petty reasons.

  • Malevolent Masked Man: The Serial Killer wears a special plastic mask modeled after the face of the victim he's about to kill.

Edited by miraculous on Oct 7th 2021 at 11:53:59 AM

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Bubblepig Rei from Tokyo (Apprentice) Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
#15408: Oct 7th 2021 at 9:33:58 PM

Thanks, Arvine.

@Squid Game

@Wildflower (2017)
  • Ambiguous Situation: Near the end, Julio appears to wake up in the red room with an IV bag where he later gets tortured by Helena's adopted daughter Venus after he was seemly shot to death by Emila and his body was carried away. Which lead us to ask the question: Did he really die and in his Ironic Hell where he gets tortured by Venus (who resemble his ex-wife Helena) or did he actually survive getting shot at and was rescued by Venus so that she can torture him for killing her adopted mother? Either that, it was left unclear. [Note for troper who will fix my grammar: I'm not sure if I used this right or it should be Ambiguous Ending instead]
  • Good People Have Good Sex: Lily and Diego finally have sex during their honeymoon. Their love scene is portrayed as romantic and passionate unlike Raul's (Who is a serial-cheater) and Natalie's (Her relationship with Jepoy is non-consensual due to fact that she is forcing him to be in a relationship with her).

About Natalie Alcantara's character file.

Arnaldo's ex-fiance, her father's power base was used by the Ardientes. She holds grudge against Lily/Ivy because Arnaldo breaks up with her to be with Ivy and later the Ardientes when they killed her father. [Note for the troper who will fix my grammar: I mean she hold the grudge against Lily and the Ardiente for different reasons each. How to punctuate it correctly?]]
  • Femme Fatale: She's highly seductive and easily used men like Raul and later Jepoy to get what she wants and need.
  • Pair the Spares: In the end, it implied that she will enter a relationship with Diego's best friend Marlon after she lets Jepoy go to be with Ana.
  • Villainesses Want Heroes: Villainess is a bit of stretch but she had one towards Jepoy. She forced him to be with her while she knows that he is still with Ana.
  • You Killed My Father: She turned against the Ardientes for killing her father later on in the series.
  • Wild Card: After her father is killed by the Ardientes later on, she sometimes works with Lily's team and Jaguar's team to stop the Ardientes while she still holds grudge against Lily. Until the end, where she finally joins Lily's side to raid Emilia and Julio's safe house.

Edited by Bubblepig on Oct 8th 2021 at 12:32:19 PM

"Now it's starting to feel like a game!"
ElJuaco Since: Aug, 2019
#15409: Oct 7th 2021 at 9:35:09 PM

Hi fellas. It's me again. Let's have another try.

A Tear Jerker moment for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie:

  • SpongeBob's horror upon learning from Dennis that he has been paid by Plankton to kill them becomes terrifying and sad after seeing Sponge Out of Water: in that movie, SpongeBob became friends with Plankton and Plankton was even shown to not be totally bad. SpongeBob's reaction indicates very well that he would not have expected that someone whom he regarded as a friend now wants to see him dead.

Edited by ElJuaco on Oct 8th 2021 at 5:57:59 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15410: Oct 8th 2021 at 6:01:22 AM

[up] @Minorica

Yui Naruse is often made fun of by viewers thanks to her greedy and hilarious nature (especially in her vacation event). Even This becomes (somewhat) a Fan Nickname for her every time she appears.

^ I would not hide either of these as a note, as it makes the reader click on the "Explanation" unnecessarily.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15411: Oct 8th 2021 at 6:34:16 AM

[up] @Melinda

When three of the sixteen people aboard the Bloody Hand are washed overboard in a storm, <- comma everyone except...will be marooned, <- comma while...unlucky doubloon, <- comma but...

^ The first two sentences are actually one sentence that was improperly split apart. You can tell because the first sentence ("When three of the sixteen people aboard the Bloody Hand are washed overboard in a storm.") is a sentence fragment - it's incomplete and doesn't make any sense by itself.

...after the crew tricks Scratch...then leaves him marooned.

...is buried. <- period He comes...

^ That was one long sentence, so I split it up at a logical point.

He uses various methods of trickery to fake ghost sightings...

...a Scarily Competent Tracker who can trail someone by the smell of meat.

...while his uncle is away on a free-year whaling trip.

^ I suspect that "free-year" is not correct. If it is correct, it needs more context.

...he's died and turned into a ghost <- no comma so he won't resist being marooned.

...while they're Drawing...mutiny <- no comma and...undermine him during...

...apparently kills her by with a Finishing Stomp...

Only eight of these grandchildren...frequently, <- comma but...plenty of page time and...eighth, Lioko, <- comma is...

......how Clarita beats him when for the position when he barely even knew she existed.

Edited by Arivne on Oct 8th 2021 at 6:37:47 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15412: Oct 8th 2021 at 6:39:01 AM

[up] @neoamon

The Finisher is an assassin working for the Russian Red Skull.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15413: Oct 8th 2021 at 6:42:08 AM

[up] @miraculous

...book and film, <- comma but...between media. In...sociopath, <- comma while...

Zackary Sandford has issues with his father, <- comma who views him as...

The masked killer acts like a pretty cool and affable dude, <- comma but is revealed...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15414: Oct 8th 2021 at 7:02:29 AM

[up] @Bubblepig

This is Justified, <- comma however, as the main game room has a lot of people and bunk beds.

^ Why would the game room having a lot of bunk beds justify their using the bathroom to have sex? Did you mean to write "...in bunk beds"?

...wake up with an IV bag in...room, <- comma where...he is seemingly shot...body is carried away. Which leads us...die and end up in...(who resembles his...and end up being rescued...Either that, It was left unclear.

...passionate, <- comma unlike that of Raul (who is...and Natalie (her relationship...to the fact...

Arnaldo's ex-fiance's father's power...holds a grudge...later against the...they kill her...

She's highly seductive and easily uses men...and needs.

In the end, it is implied...

Villainess is a bit of stretch, <- comma but...She forces him...

She turned against the Ardientes for killing her father later on in the series.

^ What happened "later on in the series"? Her turning against them? Their killing her father? Both?

^ If both:

Later on in the series, she turns against the Ardientes after they kill her father.

...while she still holds a grudge against Lily. At the end, where she...

Edited by Arivne on Oct 8th 2021 at 7:04:14 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15416: Oct 8th 2021 at 7:08:02 AM

[up] @ElJuaco

...to kill him becomes...Sponge Out of Water. <- period In that ...Bob becomes friends...Plankton is even...indicates very well that...

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#15417: Oct 8th 2021 at 12:02:31 PM

@ The Scholomance

  • Small Role, Big Impact: Clarita is only mentioned once, in passing, before the last fifth of the first book, but plays a significant role in the climax.

  • Murder Is the Best Solution: When Todd gets freaked out by mals breaking into the school through a hole in the wall near his room, he reacts by murdering another kid to take his room (which is further away). He doesn't even try to alert his powerful alliance members to see if there's a less ruthless way to accomplish his goal. The others acknowledge that sleep deprivation and (justified) terror of a maw-mouth that passed his room kept Todd from thinking clearly, but his actions are still universally reviled.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Todd breaks one of the biggest taboos of the magical community by killing another student for his room, but he avoids any major punishment due to his father being a prominent member of the New York enclave.
  • Broken Bird: Sudarat barely survived an unexplained disaster that wiped out her community and is left to fend for herself by the older kids from her enclave who were already attending the Scholomance, as they try to find ways to save themselves.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: It's implied that Alfie is named after the founder of the Scholomance, Sir Alfred Cooper Browning.
  • Mouth of Sauron: The leaders of the Shanghai Enclave don't appear in person (due to being adults who have already graduated from the Scholomance), with Zixuan and Yuyan voicing their views and positions to the pov characters.

@ Leverage: Redemption S 1 E 16 "The Harry Wilson Job" new page

  • Bait-and-Switch: The climax has Elliot walk toward Hate Sink Ethan, with an ominous buildup as if he’s about to punch him. Then Elliot walks past Ethan, and Harry (who has a much more personal reason to hate Ethan) hits the guy.
@ Leverage: Redemption S 1 E 14 "The Great Train Job" new page
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Blake Whitcomb is introduced as a charming and far-thinking green energy CEO who is so respected that the team initially wonders if he’s merely being used as The Fall Guy by untrustworthy subordinates. It turns out that he’s an elitist Neo-Nazi who is willing to dump incredibly toxic car batteries on farmland to cover up how his supposed new invention is a fraud designed to bilk investors.
@ Waterworld
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • The atoll council’s enforcer doesn’t even get a name and is in less than half of the movie, but he gets a lot of love for being the film’s sole Reasonable Authority Figure and being a brave and competent fighter.
    • The smoker in charge of monitoring their remaining oil reserves is only in a few short scenes, but is pretty popular for being decently funny and the only non-malicious member of his faction.
    • The seaplane pilot and gunner, both for their Villainous Friendship and for how their attack on the main characters is sometimes seen as the last really good action sequence of the movie.
@ Murder in Coweta County
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Wallace's lawyer Huddleston makes far fewer mistakes in the movie than in the book.
  • Foreshadowing: Sheriff Collier is seen touching his heart in his first scene and taking heart pills later on. He eventually dies of a heart attack.
  • Scarily Competent Tracker:
    • Sheriff Potts once tracked a murderer from Georgia to Kansas.
    • Sheriff Potts' subordinate, Elzie Hancock finds signs of where Turner's body was disposed of (including the width of some drag marks and a loose piece of fiber) when no one else can.
    After his years of experience, Hancock could follow a trail and tel how old the tracks were, approximately what time of the day or night they had been made, and why the person who made them had gone into the woods.
  • Southern Gentleman: Lamar Potts is a blue-collar version of the trope, being a dutiful, well-spoken man who is always polite and courteous toward women, doesn't gloat about his victories and cares deeply about justice.
  • Too Dumb to Live: When John Wallace is being questioned for murder, he drives to the sheriff's office in the very car in which he killed Wilson Turner, while there are still bloodstains inside and while carrying the murder weapon.
  • Tricked into Escaping: In The Film of the Book, Turner initially thinks he's been released from jail by Dirty Cop Sheriff Collier for lack of evidence, until he runs into Wallace and his men waiting for him outside, a they make it clear that they're about to kill him under the protection of the law.
    Wallace: No boy, you got it wrong. You ain't been released. You're escaping.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Arrogant Politically Correct Villain John Wallace is a respected figure in Meriwether County, having bought the populace's loyalty with various acts of philanthropy. The people of the neighboring counties, who haven't personally benefited from his actions, are more willing to believe the worst of him, though.
  • White Sheep: Most of John Wallace's maternal relatives who appear in the story are members of his criminal empire, except one, who Wallace asks to visit while being driven to the state prison. The man is an honest farmer who views Wallace's actions as shameful, to Wallace's indignation.
@ Cult Defector
  • The John Sandford novel Bad Blood features a Religion of Evil with a generations-old culture centered around pedophilia and incest. When Flowers and his men go to arrest the cult leader, they find him being held at gunpoint and subjected to a mock trial by his daughter and granddaughters, now that his men are all dead, arrested, or on the run. The daughter of another perpetrator, despite being Conditioned to Accept Horror, is happy to confirm the detectives' suspicions and direct them to evidence as soon as they question her.

Edited by Melinda on Oct 9th 2021 at 1:57:12 AM

WileK209 Since: Jun, 2009
#15418: Oct 8th 2021 at 1:21:47 PM

Here is a post I want to eventually add to the Bait-and-Switch Character Intro page, in the Animated Films category:

  • The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street's introduction could qualify. After Dr. Dawson and Olivia Flaversham arrive at Basil's flat and wait for him to return, a large, pale stereotypically-Chinese mouse wielding a gun crazily storms into the flat. When Dawson asks the intruder who he is, the "Chinamouse" removes his Latex Perfection mask and inflatable suit to reveal he's indeed Basil, a Master of Disguise.

neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#15419: Oct 8th 2021 at 3:11:24 PM

Thank you

"May your heart be your guiding key"
ElJuaco Since: Aug, 2019
#15420: Oct 8th 2021 at 6:08:02 PM

Hi fellas. It's me again. Let's have another try.

A Heartwarming moment for The Middle:

  • In "The Wonderful World of Hecks", after a long road trip, the Hecks find themselves unable to enter into Walt Disney World because they had mistaken the tickets Sue won for the Disney park of Florida when it was for the Disney park of California. Surprisingly, the park's manager turns out to be a Nice Guy who lets them enter despite the confusion. For a family known for getting bad luck most of the time, this moment definitely cements why the Disney parks are "wonderful worlds".

Minorica Rhythm Heroine from Earth Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
Rhythm Heroine
#15421: Oct 8th 2021 at 8:22:13 PM

For Beware the Nice Ones imagelink:

I need to change it from Let's Get Dangerous! to Beware the Nice Ones in Melody Kobato's article in Wrestle Angels Ai character page.

For YMMV.Wrestle Angels:

Edited by Minorica on Oct 13th 2021 at 11:23:38 PM

"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15422: Oct 9th 2021 at 6:46:18 AM

[up] @Melinda

Clarita is only mentioned once, in passing, before the last fifth of the book, <- comma but...

...to see if there's a less ruthless way to accomplish his goal.

...of the magical community by killing another student for his room, <- comma but...

...attending the Scholomance, <- comma as they try to find ways to save themselves.

...voicing their views and positions to the poverty characters.

^ Does "poverty characters" mean "poor characters"? If so, it should be changed to that.

^ If not, you should explain what "poverty characters" means.

...monitoring their remaining oil reserves is only in a few short scenes, <- comma but...

both for their Villainous Friendship <- no comma and for how their attack...

...being a dutiful, well-spoken man who is always polite and courteous toward women...

^ In order for him to be "constantly polite and courteous toward women", he would have to be around women all of the time.

...for murder, he...car in which he...Turner in, while...inside <- no comma and while...

...evidence, <- comma until...outside <- no comma and...that they're about...

You ain't been released. You're escaping.

^ O.K., a brief recap for pronoun contractions and possessives.

  • They're is a contraction for "they are".
  • Their is a possessive. E.g. "They dropped off their laundry".

  • You're is a contraction for "you are".
  • Your is a possessive. E.g. "You need to pick up your homework."

^ This is true for other pronouns as well.

  • Who's is a contraction for "who is".
  • Whose is the possessive. "Whose dog is this?"

  • It's is a contraction for "it is".
  • Its is the possessive. "The car lost one of its wheels."

  • The rule for pronouns is: apostrophe = contraction, no apostrophe = possession.
  • Note that this is different from the rule for regular nouns.

...are more willing to believe the worst of him, <- comma though.

Edited by Arivne on Oct 9th 2021 at 6:47:24 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15423: Oct 9th 2021 at 6:52:19 AM

[up] @Wile K 209

Basil of Baker Street's introduction could qualify.

^ If something in a work only "could qualify" as an example of a trope, then adding it goes against How to Write an Example - (Good Examples Are Not Arguable and Don't Use Uncertain Language) and Examples Are Not Arguable. Please read those Blue Linked pages.

You shouldn't add it unless you're sure.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15424: Oct 9th 2021 at 7:03:23 AM

[up] @ElJuaco

...enter into Walt Disney World ...Disney park in Florida...Disney park in California.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#15425: Oct 9th 2021 at 7:10:25 AM

[up] @Minorica

...cute <- no comma until...technique whenever she...she learns that...Senka abused her, <- comma even...

...in the form...after learning that...Zero because she lost...It helps by the fact that Senka makes a hilarious facial expression...

Edited by Arivne on Oct 9th 2021 at 7:12:24 AM


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