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openChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget spoilers Film
Someone removed the spoiler tags regarding Mrs. Tweedy's presence in the film on the grounds that their appearance wasn't kept secret and was revealed in the trailers and such. Is the removal correct here?
resolved CreatorKiller entry on The Book of Henry Film
The trivia page for The Book of Henry has a Creator Killer entry for Collin Trevorrow. This had been added before in the past, first about his involvement on Episode 9 of the new Star Wars trilogy and then expanded with speculation about the Jurassic World trilogy. The final entry red as such:
- Creator Killer: The critical disparaging of this film, alongside Colin Trevorrow's allegedly egotistical behavior on the set of this film and Jurassic World, have been credited as what led to him and Lucasfilm mutually going their separate ways during The Rise of Skywalker. The critical reception of Jurassic World Dominion (which, as of this writing, has the lowest score in the franchise's history) hasn't been able to redeem him.
Which I deleted citing that I felt people were jumping the gun on how damaged Trevorrow's carreer was. Yes, Dominion has a middling reviews, but it still did an absurd amount of money at the box office in spite of the negative reception among critics and even some longtime fans.
Since then the entry has been re-added rewritten to be just about the speculation surrounding Episode 9 again.
- Creator Killer: Some suspect the failure of this film and its negative reception may have cost Trevorrow the chance to direct the third film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which he was originally lined up to helm before Lucasfilm gave it to J. J. Abrams instead.
My question is aint Trevorrow's future as a creator still up in the air, making the entry still speculatory? Trevorrow is seemingly still attached to the Jurassic franchise going forward, serving as executive executive producer the way Spielberg did before him after The Lost World.
Anyone has any input on this particular case? I'd rather not do anything since I could potentially edit war by editing without input from other tropers.
Edited by MrSeykeropenPan's Labyrinth description Film
The main page for Pan's Labyrinth has a paragraph that seems better fitted for the trivia page, if anything. It was originally even more melodramatic by giving a "trigger warning" about how disturbing the film is, but currently reads: Â
Do you think this should be moved somewhere else or just cut? It's also a misuse of R-Rated Opening since the opening scene of the film isn't unusually violent or disturbing.
Edited by Javertshark13resolved the hyphen in Jean-Luc Godard Film
I started making the Jean-Jacques Annaud page. While linking to it I have been typing some heavy [[ Creator / Jean Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud ]] syntax.
However I just noticed that when you link to Jean-Luc Godard the hyphen in Jean-Luc appears naturally. It also appears in the pages's title.
How can I do the same for Jean-Jacques Annaud?
Edited by gropcbfresolved Any other instances of this trope? (Songs in the key of panic) Film
I don't know if this is really the same thing but I'm looking for examples of music speeding up... usually when something malfunctions or there's a situation where something goes wrong/becomes more intense. Like when the remote for the tickle belt gets destroyed in spongebob or when smithers tries to destroy robotic richard simmons but that makes it end up going berserk in the simpsons. Not like an orchestral score increasing in tempo, I'm talking diagetic/non-diagetic music's pitch and tempo (speed) increasing that isn't part of the actual song.
openCan an {{WMG}} be removed for excess text? Film
Regarding https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill2008 a couple of WMG where removed for " excess text"
I reviewed the text in question they did not seem excessive. It is possible the person who removed them Global Coalition 20 did so due to not agreeing with them. I admit one of the "excess text" is one of my own . While I understand disagreeing with an WMG , removing for "excess text" seems unwarranted.
openYMMV Edit War Film
~Boman 803 and ~Fearless Rabbit are edit warring over a Designated Villain entry on YMMV.Rat Race and apparently have been going back and forth over it for months, going back to at least May.
resolved Edit war prevention for a problematic edit Film
madorosh removed this example from Lady Ballers
- Broken Aesop: While a common conservative justification for the type of transphobia seen in Lady Ballers is to protect women's spaces, the film also promotes the idea that women are always physically inferior to men including at sports, which is both misogynistic and condescending and undermines the alleged "pro-woman" bent.
with the edit reason: "doesn't make sense, the characters in the film mention the biological fact that men have specific advantages over women, which in general is true. Not sure what 'transphobia' is being displayed - everything in the film is played for laughs"
I don't wanna cause an edit war, but the example was valid. The film tries to present itself as pro-women but the film very much plays on the supposed belief that men, even the weakest men apparently who are out of shape and washed out and haven't exercised in years, are more physically abled and skilled at sports than the most trained female athletes. Which very much does go against the film's supposed "feminist" message.
Again, I want to cause no edit war so I brought it here.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2openWhat is the minimum requirements for a page? Film
I'm creating a page for the Danish film Antboy, since none exists here.
I want to eventually get to a point where other tropers are able to edit it far beyond what I'm able to publish. The question is, what are the minimum requirements for my page to pass in this site?
If a question like this isn't appropriate for this particular page, let me know.
openPhantom Menace Recap Film
I noticed the original recap for Phantom Menace was removed due to being written by a ban evader. I've written up one of my own; mind if I add it?
Edited by jaydudeopenComplaining and maybe speculative example Film
On The Suicide Squad, there is an example that, besides its complaining tone, may be speculative:
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: After Bloodsport retrieves the hard drive containing information that links the American government with Project Starfish, he hides it in his uniform, behind one of his armguards. After Starro is defeated, we learn that his uniform was able to upload the data in the drive to a secure server and he uses that to blackmail Waller into releasing the remaining Squad members. This does not fit his motif and was never even implied before, being pure script magic to help the "heroes" have a true happy ending (unlike in the first film, where only after the mission they get to know their prize is nothing more than a 10-year reduction in their sentences).
In fact, it's also repeated on the Headscratchers subpage, where another troper suggest Bloodsport may have found a working computer and made the download from there.
Which makes me wonder, does the movie even clearly establish that the download was made from Bloodsport's armbands? If it isn't the case, then the whole example is speculative.
To be clear, I've watched the movie, but I don't remember this specific point.
Should the example be kept, or is it a shoehorning?
openDie Hard and Infraction Distraction Film
The page on Infraction Distraction lists Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance as examples of the trope. Thing is, while in both instances, the bad guys are committing one crime to conceal another crime, the trope implies that the crimes the bad guy appears to be committing are minor compared to the one they are actually committing. In Die Hard, the bad guys pretend to be terrorists while really robbing a skyscraper, and in With a Vengeance they claim to have planted bombs around the city, including in a school, to distract from them robbing the Federal Reserve Bank. I'm pretty sure these are actually examples of Smokescreen Crime.
resolved Icicle Thief development Film
The Icicle Thief is my very first work article that I worked on for a while, before other priorities got in my way. I would like to ask how many more tropes we need for the article, before it can be graduated to the mainspace. I also invite more editors to help improve the article further.
openIron Man 1 Film
Can someone please explain to me why we have Film.Iron Man 1, Film.Thor, and Film.Ant Man 1 instead of Film.Iron Man 2008, Film.Thor 2011, and Film.Ant Man 2015? The former trio doesn't match Film.The Incredible Hulk 2008, Film.The Avengers 2012, Film.Guardians Of The Galaxy 2014, Film.Doctor Strange 2016, Film.Black Panther 2018, Film.Captain Marvel 2019, Film.Black Widow 2021, or Film.Eternals 2021.
Edited by dsneybufopenGrammar and indentation Film
These edits—https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.TerrorDactyl#edit38971181 & https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.TerrorDactyl#edit38970891--to the Terror-dactyl page regarding Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs remove the italicization of the scientific names, make some questionable grammatical alterations, and do some things with indentation that might go against TV Tropes' administrivia rules. What should be done?
openMovie scenes Film
Hello, I need suggestions on two movie scenes: one in which a Black person is represented negatively but non-stereotypically (being sarcastic or cold but collected, an upper-class villain), and one in which a Black person is represented positively and stereotypically ("magical negro" or "black best friend" tropes, but with no references to a fantasy world, Lucius Fox for example). I need these clips for my master's thesis. Thank you very much.
resolved Sleeping Beauty Film
On Trivia.Sleeping Beauty, Mr Matthew Hedrich keeps adding words like "possibly" and "allegedly" to entries crediting Verna Felton to Queen Leah, even after I shared a video from Disney themselves crediting her. Does this really sound necessary?
Edited by dsneybufopenExample of a Broken Aesop? Film
A while back, I added Black Adam (2022) to Broken Aesop due to the movie emphasising how special and necessary his killing and anti-heroic behaviour is, despite it never once actually helping the situation other than solving a problem his killing created to begin with. ~Doctor Sleep commented it out with the edit reason "Black Adam's aesop can probably be written off as him being an anti-hero rather than indecisive story-telling. ", which doesn't really make sense? Him being an anti-hero and that being a good thing is the broken aesop.
Is it okay for me to add it back?
openFlypaper (2011) not on TvTropes Film
Note: I don't fully know how TV Tropes works, so I am not 100% sure if I am at the correct location for this question.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Flypaper from 2011; It's about a bank being robbed by 2 separate groups, and everything goes wrong.
I cannot find this movie on the website, but I am sure that it contains a lot of tropes, seeing as the movie is heavily comedy based and doesn't take itself seriously.
How can I [or, preferably, with the help of other people] create a page for the movie on this website?
So I may have found a potential edit war in Star Wars – Count Dooku:
Is this an edit war?
Edited by MaxyGregoryyyy