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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
@ AsrulGuza Page 811
- Everything about the Elemental Forms during the cooking competition against Qually: (remove space before colon)
- Knowing that Thorn can be chaotic in his own way and not wanting him to ruin the cooking competition, Quake orders Thorn to create some beverages instead of helping the other Elemental Forms with the cooking. Quake is relieved after seeing Thorn happily accept his "order".
- Thunderstorm tries hard to be as stoic as possible especially when he faces accusations from Championlang for stealing their golden chili while keeping himself focused on cutting up the ingredients.
- Ice almost ruins the Tom Yum by putting the whole of the Salt Stone on the frying pan. When Quake takes the Salt Stone and scolds him, Ice only responds (superfluous word - cut) with his stoic Never My Fault expression.
- Quake's role as the Team Mom of the Elemental Forms during the cooking competition is quite amusing, (comma) especially when Quake is scolding Blaze for ruining their dish and hitting his head with his rock gauntlet.
Dicey Dungeon
- Shout-Out: In the French translation, the Rotten Apple enemy is called "Pom' pas pote" (Roughly meaning "No pal apple"), which is a reference to the French apple compote brand called "Pom' Potes".
Epic Pixel Battle
- Evil vs. Evil: "Team Rocket VS The Daltons" is a battle between two groups of criminals.
Madness Combat
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Sanford and Deimos have a a bit of a "serious guy and comedic guy" dynamic. This is mostly notable in a scene where Deimos makes a prank at Sanford and Sanford gives him a Dope Slap while sporting an annoyed expression.
Le Chat
- "Meet the Celebrity" Contest: One strip is about The Cat and his wife being invited by a family of fans who won a "Dinner with The Cat" contest.
From page 811 @March To 49
South Park was banned due to a scene where the Buddha...
...in a Dark...video (such as "Coronavirus...American Dream") <- no comma is...the viewers after...Bart", <- comma where...up being] a Karma...end of that video. In short order: Mr....away with raping...
Since the show didn't receive...the first official appearance in China of the characters from the series was...
...Smurfette announce that...Smurfs laugh as if they think it is a joke. Polaris responds that he assumes that...this, <- comma while the two look at the other Smurfs in distaste. However, the other Smurfs stop laughing when Empath calls out...
Polaris already knew that...approve of as natural. <- period other than Parental Incest
...between the two, but...it as a secret <- no comma as Papa Smurf would force him to do what he said, which Polaris secretly refused but still does it for him anyways. This results in Polaris also getting exiled from the village along with Papa Smurf, Smurfette and their daughter. He finally admits that...Smurf have allowed...daringly saying that...
...such as "Coronavirus...Dream", it's satisfying for the viewers who watched "Mr....
Bart takes control, <- comma and becomes the man of the house and beats Homer because he has had enough of Homer being a lousy dad...When Homer purposely leaves Bart in the street forest...and turn it into a wall trophy.
^ What is a "street forest"?
- "Everybody Dies" Ending
- In the comic strip "Grade School Massacre", which the...Bart is stopped...
- ...two astronauts on a spaceship
while in spacein...back on Earth and explodes.
^ These are Not an Example because in order to be an example, the entire main cast has to die. If they died and you didn't say so, they're Zero Context Examples.
"Deep Space Homergeddon" could've been better written as...
Edited by Arivne on Sep 17th 2022 at 7:55:56 AM
From page 811 @Melinda
Red Claw's Lieutenant
A prominent yet unnamed member of the Red Claw's terrorist group who recurs throughout her two-part debut.
^ Who does the "her" refer to, the Red Claw or their Lieutenant? As written, it could be either of them.
Badass Driver: He...
^ So the Lieutenant is male? Then add the words "He is" before the word "A" above and de-capitalize the "A".
...and undertakes several important jobs for the Red Claw.
...hijack a truckload of weapons, he scrambles out...escapes down a manhole cover (leaving...
^ You can't escape down a manhole cover
because it's a solid piece of metal.
...a crowd of students lifts her up...
...uttering a sarcastic and unfazed "like, eek."
The Ashleys' playground...system with that traps intruders...
...junior novel, the Fratellis...with them.
@jOSEFdelaville
...(roughly meaning...brand called "Pom' Potes".
This is most notable in a scene where Deimos pulls a prank on Sanford...
One strip is about The Cat and his wife being invited by a family of fans who won a "Dinner with The Cat" contest.
^ Being invited to do what? It can't be having dinner with them, because the family already won that in the contest.
For ActorShipping.Live Action TV:
- The 2022 TV adaptation of Darna has had a large group of fans shipping the lead actresses Jane De Leon (who plays Narda/Darna) and Janella Salvador (who plays Regina Valentina). This is mainly due to the fact that they play the most popular ship in the fandom, along with their on-screen chemistry and real life friendship. This isn't helped by their chumminess in interviews and behind the scenes stuff. They even have their own Portmanteau Couple Name, "JaneNella".
Any corrections?
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread- Bad Guys Play Pool: Teenaged Dolf is seen playing pool with his henchmen Hannes and Wannes. He's also shown playing pool once as an adult, still with them, while plotting a fascist coup. Dolf seems to then upgrade to roulette.
- Engineered Heroics: When his presidential campaign goes badly, Dolf hires thugs to breach a dyke, causing a flood that kills at least 27 people, so he can gain popularity by fixing it out of his own pocket.
- The Gambling Addict: As an adult Dolf gets hooked on roulette, and becomes heavily indebted to a casino in Morena.
- Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: In the elections two-parter, Dolf returns to Waterland to run for president and hires thugs to breach a dike so he can boost his popularity by fixing it, resulting in a flood that kills at least 27 people and almost reaches Polderstadt. Dolf's old friend/minion Wannes, who's working in his campaign and was involved in the act, becomes increasingly afraid and horrified. It drives him to drink and he eventually goes to tell Alfred, who takes him to the police.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: Dolf becomes indebted to a Morena casino, and when he returned in episode 50, he would've been killed by the owner's minion if he hadn't come with gold. However he loses the gold before he can pay, and when Dolf declines K. Rokodil's dirty work offer in the next episode, Rokodil's business partner Hippo brings up the debt. Dolf agrees to do the job for the money to pay the debts off, ultimately resulting in Dolf, Hippo, and Rokodil all being arrested.
Edited by Nukeli on Sep 17th 2022 at 9:31:14 PM
~*bleh*~@ Arvine
Don't you google "forest street?" It's basically a street road surrounded by forests. I googled it myself when trying to describe the scene where Homer leaves Bart there in my recent post here, I saw photos of street road surrounded by forests, so I write that.
- "Everyone Dies" Ending: Everyone in the Springfield dies when the meteor hits the Earth in "Deep Space Homergeddon". Earlier on, Homer killed two astronauts while on a spaceship in an attempt to stop a meteor, but the spaceship instead hits the building back on Earth and explodes.
- How Baby Smurf barely survives an bombing of Smurf Village in the UNICEF Smurfs PSA? Smurfette just running while hugging Baby Smurf before the bomb killed her and a few Smurfs.
Edited by MarchTo49 on Sep 18th 2022 at 6:55:26 PM
@ X-Men
The X-gene is dominant or recessive
Explaining why humans seem to have mutant kids all the time, but mutant couples seem incapable of producing a non-mutant child. It being dominant would make the "mutants will eventually outbreed humans" claim to make more sense.Mutants and humans are not actually separate species
If examined with real science, mutants would not qualify as a separate species or even a Human Subspecies because they're too similiar to homo sapiens, the ones who aren't are not similiar enough to each other, they can interbreed with humans, their offspring with humans aren't sterile, and most damningly, humans can randomly birth mutants. It's like with German Shepherds and White Shepherds, which are basically the same thing but decided to be separate.Presumably, somebody in the setting is aware of this, but mutants and humans keep claiming to be separate species' for different reasons.
~*bleh*~My edit for the Final Destination WMG page on September 4th.
For Do Revenge:
- Draco in Leather Pants: Eleanor is not only part of Drea's revenge plot, but also plotting an elaborate revenge plot which involves not only sending a mostly innocent woman to rehab but hitting Drea with her car. However, due to her Freudian Excuse, good looks, and Maya Hawke's compelling performance, a lot fangirls on Tumblr and Twitter have little problem excusing her actions and saying she did nothing wrong. It helps that she aids Drea in getting her revenge.
Any corrections?
Edited by Bullman on Sep 17th 2022 at 11:41:37 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI am back. Hopefully I will do the right thing and return to editing TV Tropes.
Nightmare Fuel / Saya no Uta
- Seriously, who wants to live with distorted and grotesque senses that Fuminori got after the accident? The very first shot we get is of the fleshy lumps that used to be his friends, talking with jumbled text and loud, distorted speech to boot. It is NOT pretty.
- Saya, just Saya. If Fuminori is seeing the real world as an Eldritch Location with the people there as disgusting lumps of flesh and organs or even Eldritch Abominations and Saya as a normal, cute-looking girl, what does Saya look like in the real world? It is not completely known what Saya really looks like (and it would be better off not knowing to begin with), but she looks so horrifying that those who see her would Go Mad from the Revelation.
- Oumi's fate. After she was fed up with Fuminori's odd behavior after coldly dismissing Yoh's confession, Oumi goes to his house to confront him, unaware that he wasn't at home. Thinking Fuminori is ignoring her, Oumi barges into his house and was met with a distorted voice (which happens to be Saya's) and an unpleasant smell. When exploring the house, Oumi gets caught by Saya and sees her entire appearance, losing her sanity before promptly becoming food for Saya.
- After Fuminori returns home, he finds the living room entirely green and Saya feasting on jelly-like substance, which happens to be Oumi. Fuminori then eats the globs and finds them to be delicious, unknowingly tasting human flesh.
Edited by LenoreLynchfast on Sep 18th 2022 at 11:01:56 AM
@ Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: With the exception of Duckburg and neighboring cities, old Finnish Donald Duck books (Aku Ankan Taskukirja) had a habit of changing place names to the names of real Finnish places, often quite random and question-raising. For example lake's name was "translated" as a Finnish lake's name, and a luxury resort Huey, Dewey, and Louie said they'd go at the end of one story where they got a lot of money, was "translated" to Kuopio. Later publications either use the real names for real places, or do wordplay like translate Acapulco to Ankkapulco ("Ankka" being the finnish word for "duck").
@Bullman
The 2022 TV adaptation of Darna has had a...they play the most popular ship in the fandom...and behind-the-scenes stuff.
^ The phrase "has had" requires a mention of time, such as "The 2022 TV adaptation of Darna has had <a ship> since episode 4" or something like that.
^ How can they "play" a ship? You can't mean "are a ship", because you already said that in the first sentence.
^ When used as an adjective (as you do here), "behind-the-scenes" used hyphens.
...also carrying out an elaborate revenge plot...lot of fangirls...
^ "plotting an elaborate revenge plot" violates an unwritten English rule that you shouldn't use the same words (nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.) too often.
Edited by Arivne on Sep 18th 2022 at 9:00:39 AM
- Everyone Has Standards:
- According to Zaru, they once wrote a bad end for the story that was so terrible that they immediately disowned it after they saw the backlash it received from the readers.note
- Expy: He resembles Colonel Silver in his human form and Sharptooth in his tyrannosaurus form.
Edited by bf2234 on Sep 18th 2022 at 9:11:15 AM
@Nukeli
Dolf seems to then upgrade to roulette.
^ This doesn't have anything to do with the trope. See How to Write an Example - Avoid Detail Bloat.
As an adult, <- comma Dolf gets hooked on roulette <- no comma and...
...indebted to a Morena casino, and when he returns in...However, <- comma he...
Explains why...would make the...claim to make more sense.
...too similar to homo sapiens. <- period The ones...not similar enough...but were decided to be separate.
^ The first sentence was a run-on sentence
connected together by a comma splice
.
- As written, "decided to be separate" meant that the German and White Shepherds themselves decided to be separate.
...Taskukirja) have a...quite randomly, <- comma resulting in question-raising. For example, <- comma <missing text> lake's name...go to at...money <- no comma was...places <- no comma or use wordplay like translating Acapulco...the Finnish word...
^ What was the lake's name in the English version? If you don't know, use "one lake's name..."
I meant that their characters make up the most popular ship in the fandom how is this:
- The 2022 TV adaptation of Darna has a large group of fans shipping the lead actresses Jane De Leon (who plays Narda/Darna) and Janella Salvador (who plays Regina Valentina). This is mainly due to the fact that they play characters who are shipped by a lot of fans, along with their their on-screen chemistry and real life friendship. This isn't helped by their chumminess in interviews and behind-the-scenes stuff. They even have their own Portmanteau Couple Name, "JaneNella".
Edited by Bullman on Sep 18th 2022 at 11:24:46 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread"Don't you google "forest street?" It's basically a street road surrounded by forests. I googled it myself when trying to describe the scene where Homer leaves Bart there in my recent post here, I saw photos of street road surrounded by forests, so I write that."
^ When someone is reading one of your examples, they shouldn't have to use Google to look up words and phrases you use. If you use an unusual phrase (one a native speaker of English wouldn't understand), you should briefly explain what it means so they don't have to do so.
^ For example: ...forest street (a street surrounded by forest)...
Everyone in the Springfield dies...
How does Baby...barely survive the bombing...just runs away while...bomb kills her...few other Smurfs.
Edited by Arivne on Sep 18th 2022 at 9:36:02 AM
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Edited by Arivne on Sep 18th 2022 at 9:56:06 AM

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