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Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 22nd 2024 at 8:06:39 PM
Permanent Red Link Club: There seems to be a word missing in the Westboro Baptist Church entry. Please change "almost never in any works outside of" to "almost never appearing in any works outside of".
edited 4th Oct '16 8:21:48 AM by Morgenthaler
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"- 14451: Done except for Non Action Villain, since that dilutes it being a Big Bad trope (by referring to only a "villain").
DTH.
Requesting that Evil Politician be redirected to Corrupt Politician.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.At Ace Attorney, for Dahlia's entry., please get rid of "the prosecutor" before "Mia Fey".
At DC Animation, for the caption, please get rid of the quote marks at the very beginning.
edited 5th Oct '16 2:16:09 AM by ACW
Please recreate and cutlist the following ghost wicks:
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"From here
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- Gelder goes to Comic Books.
- Hermann goes to Film A To E.
- Platoon rewrites, Killian, and Savage Messiah expansion all go to Film P To Z.
- Ogress Queen Mother and Nidrus Hellebore go to Literature M To Z.
- Pajaro and Wagner go to Live-Action TV.
- Superior duo goes to Marvel Comics, after the Nemesis entry under Icon.
- Gabriel Cain goes to Ripper Street, between Broadwick and Wilde.
- Kivas Fajo rewrite goes to Star Trek (The Next Generation).
- F.A.N.G. goes to Video Games L To Z.
- Fagin goes to Other Media, under animation.
edited 6th Oct '16 2:01:26 AM by ACW
No I think Fagin goes under Western Animation. He is from a Western European cartoon which counts as western.
edited 6th Oct '16 6:07:19 AM by emperors
Welcome to the world of greatest media!Requesting that Fight Fire with Fire and Fighting Fire with Fire be redirected to Start X to Stop X.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.From America Saves the Day, the X-COM examples at the bottom of the Video Games folder need a bit of work. Grammar in particular, with the third and fourth points missing a few "the"s. Also, the Japanese predecessor to the in-game organization was called the Kiryu-Kai, apparently.
~Marq FJA woah, slow down there, buddy. The Cheerleader is a character archetype, and not just a trope saying that cheerleaders are usually bitches. That's mentioned on it, amongst other things like: cheerleaders are usually dumb, cheerleaders are usually blonde, etc, etc.
There is more to a character archetype than the prevalent trope the character falls under. Requesting that those redirects be deleted.
Also, Pom-Pom Girl is a separate trope about the recurring character as device and social circle filler of a very peppy character. Not the same thing, as I'm pretty sure it actually says that they do not need to be a cheerleader (or have pom poms), plus there's the fact that they are basically the opposite kind of person to an Alpha Bitch anyway. I'll say the same thing in TRS if you think about trying to fix something not broken.
I'm going to look back through some of your more questionable redirect requests to see if there's anymore I'll choose to challenge (I've disagreed with several but stayed quiet).
edited 6th Oct '16 4:18:24 PM by lakingsif
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!Film A To E: In the All Superheroes Must Die entry, there is one instance of "Rickshaw" mispelled as "Rickhsaw". Please correct this.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"And if you're taking the line "the chants they tend to inspire are recognizable enough that they often appear outside of the intended cheerleading role" as meaning that the Pom-Pom Girl doesn't have to ever be depicted in a cheerleading role within the work she appears in, then I sincerely question how you came to that conclusion.
edited 6th Oct '16 4:34:39 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Take The Cheerleader discussion elsewhere, guys. Come back here when a consensus is reached elsewhere.
edited 6th Oct '16 6:15:07 PM by nombretomado
Thanks, but at Literature M To Z, please move the Ogress after Serpine.
Could Trivia be locked?
As-is, any troper can unilaterally effectively decide a trope is Trivia by adding to the page. Or maybe they can legitimately add a trope to it, but since it's too easy, it might look like someone is making a unilateral decision.
This is inspired by the fact that I cannot figure out
if someone unilaterally turned Absentee Actor into trivia. Regardless of whether it should be Trivia or not, it seems like a bad idea to just let anyone be able to do that.
For the Monster subpages, this entry needs to be moved from Western Animation to the Animation section of Other Media:
War of the Birds: Fagin, the Big Bad of this 1990 Danish animated film, is a murderous vulture responsible for terrorizing the residents of a forest he frequents. Fagin opens the film attacking and killing, for kicks, the parents of Oliver as they defend their nest, swiftly obliterating their nest in the process and destroying all but one of their seven eggs. Fagin's periodic assaults on the forest have claimed numerous lives, among them the parents of Oliver's eventual companion Olivia and the mother of the mice Frederick and Inglof. Fagin spends the rest of the movie attempting to brutally kill Oliver and his companions first for fun and later out of spite, coldly dismissing Oliver's anger at him over the murder of his parents and wrathfully killing Oliver's adoptive mother Betty after she rips out his eye. In addition to his thrill-killing, Fagin keeps a nameless dove as his personal slave, physically abusing her and traumatizing her into a stuttering wreck of a bird.
edited 7th Oct '16 10:35:46 PM by Scraggle
DTH, went for a suspension on the Trivia business rather than a lock.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
see, I'm on the fence with that one. Yes, "fight fire with fire" is in the description and there are examples matching it, but maybe that is misuse, as the solid example of the trope is starting a war to prevent wars in the future. This is a very different ideology of Fighting Fire With Fire, the example of that being that you respond to war being waged by starting another war. Of course, I'm sitting on the fence because I think this points out that the trope is a little confused, maybe could be officially broadened or needs a sister trope in FFWF.
- I would like to request that a lock be placed on the Bleach Die For Our Ship
page until further noticed. I observed that an alarming number of 'examples' were placed under the most recent post, which seem to serve no other purpose than to demean or vilify a certain part of a fandom, rather than being impartial or unbiased in regards to fan reactions. I took the liberty of removing those examples, and cited my reasons in full in the history, but I suspect that whoever put them there in the first place would likely try to put them back up.
Given the series has ended, there is really no need to keep the thread open for editing, especially if it is only going to be used as a means to post 'examples' in a manner that attacks a certain group of a fandom, which may as a result lead to editing wars.I know from personal experience how that can turn out, and would rather like to see that avoided.
As I was worried about last month, a poster named followerofcake has re-edited the biased examples I mentioned back into the thread. Here is a link to the history for the proof
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I suspect that, if I try to remove the examples again, the same poster or another will just put those examples back in.
As a result, I would like to request that Die For Our Ship/Bleach page be locked until further notice, on the grounds that keeping it open would just lead to editing wars, and people using it to attack another section of the fandom.
I will remove the demeaning and vilifying examples again, and see if the edit will stick this time. If you choose to not lock the thread for the time being, I will let you know if someone goes out of their way to edit back in (again) the "examples".

Requesting that Mix-and-Match Religion be redirected to Interfaith Smoothie, and Non-Action Arc Villain and Non Action Villain to Non-Action Big Bad.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.