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openTroper not giving edit reasons for removals. Also possibly an agenda.
Grotadmorv appears to be almost exclusively removing Nightmare Fuel examples, without giving any of them edit reasons. Could someone send them a notifier? I don't really know that much of how I should do it myself.
Edited by pikachu17open Mystery Live Action TV
So the Story is like that, A completely introverted girl is a big number in an online game where she continues to become a member of a group/guild that follows the orders of it's leader (spoiler: it's an AI {i think thats what it was}) the girl then becomes close friends with another woman of the group and they end up meeting in reallife, the new girl is extremely extroverted and a daredevil (drug addicted etc) the show goes on and the Leader of the Guild contacts each of the member in reallife and sooner or later they end up on an island or so. I really can't recall the name of the show and sorry if my "recap" is a bit vague
open Difference between these tropes?
I'm having a hard time telling the difference between Blunt Metaphors Trauma and Malaproper.
openYMMV partial examples
- Scapegoat Creator: Half and half in regards to the mishandling of Thieves in Time. Fans blame Sanzaru Games for all of the game's faults, including the ending. Sanzaru has stated that only Sony can greenlight a sequel. However, Sanzaru still left a cliffhanger ending despite not owning the full rights to the franchise, giving some justification to the fans who blame it for the unintentional Torch the Franchise and Run.
- Misblamed: Zig-Zagged when it comes to publisher Electronic Arts. Many fans are quick to blame EA for everything wrong with Anthem, given how the publisher was widely hated for its divisive monetization schemes. However, the issue is a bit more complex according to a Kotaku insider report. EA did mandate the use of Frostbite engine, which wasn't meant to work for RPGs, and didn't provide much technical support. However, EA also provided 6 years of development time, which is more than double that of industry standards, and it was BioWare who was responsible for the poor management and bad creative decisions like the employee burnout. Though on the other-other hand, it does not reflect well on the EA management that they apparently didn't notice how troubled production was becoming over those six years or work to address the fundamental issues that were causing it. Importantly, it was BioWare, not EA, who wanted the game to be an online multiplayer game and not a single player RPG. In short, while EA didn't give the right tools for BioWare and seemed hands-off to a fault, many of the bad decisions rested almost entirely on BioWare's shoulders. Ironically, EA's real error was being entirely too lenient towards BioWare — actual Executive Meddling, as they were formerly accused of doing, probably would have saved the game (or at least saved years worth of time and tens of millions of dollars).
YMMV can't be played with, so I find the examples suspect. I say cut Sanazu as while I believe the problem is the franchise being put on ice due to the movie entering Development Hell, there's no sources to prove who's to blame here. EA cut the zigzagged part as while there meddling caused problems there were many others it was mis-blamed for. Any objections?
openNew Troper with awful grammar / formatting skills
I didn't want to report them this early, because they're so new, but Gilbert Esse really needs some help with grammar and formatting. Just check out the page only they've edited so far, Funny.Father Of The Bride, and bear in mind, I sent a modified grammar notifier with a link to Text-Formatting Rules two days ago, which they've completely ignored, and in the process they've also made Characters.Father Of The Bride.
In the meantime, I'm putting both of those pages (and his other made page, Quotes.Forky Asks A Question) on the cutlist.
Edited by WarJay77openMixed Archetypes
I've got a question regarding this trope. The list is very bare-bones, there is no description and zero commentary. It feels like a sub-page of something bigger, only it's a thing on its own. So what's the deal with Mixed Archetypes? Or it's just how it should be?
openBabytink838
So babytink838 keeps making spamm-y pages titled "My OCs", with them even recreating Characters.My O Cs, cut because the content should be in Darth, with nothing more than a frowny face. Their other pages are UHH.Work Name Here, MyOCs.Byme, Characters.Work Name Here.
I put these pages on the cutlist and sent them a message explaining what this site is for, why their pages were bad, and what administrivia pages they should look at. I'm making a report here just in case more action is needed, or my notifier doesn't work.
Edited by WarJay77openDeliberatre misindentation
Guiletheme misindented when adding an example in EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.Real Life, I fixed the issue and sent them an Indentation notifier. Next time I blink the eyes, they re-add the misindentation and then add another misindented example. See for yourself
openVelvetta Rabbit
New troper Velvetta Rabbit has deleted the real-life sections of A.I. Is a Crapshoot and Abusive Precursors, cut a bit about Australian bushfires from The New '20s, deleted a section on YMMV.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, a few lines on Just Before the End, the "Global Warming" bit on EndOfAnAge.Real Life, and other stuff on YMMV.Cosmos, YMMV.The Jungle Book 2016, YMMV.The Raccoons, and on Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds.
Have they made any legit edits? Well, they added stuff to WMG.Finding Nemo and fixed grammar on Tuxedo and Martini. Other than that...
They seem intent to delete anything that may be based on climate change, social issues, or similar. I'll send a deletion notifier and I mentioned their RL-section deletions on the thread, but...
Edit: Turns out A.I. Is a Crapshoot is NRLEP, but that doesn't negate the rest of what they'd done, nor does it erase the likelihood of the deletion being agenda-based.
Edited by WarJay77openDeleted Transgender Tropes for Re:Zero Anime
So a while ago I had asked if I should change the page of the character Felis Argyle from Re:Zero to make note that she is a transgender girl, which the story revealed in the prequel volume Ex.1 Dream of the Lion King, and the general consensus was that I should go ahead and do so, and to also cite the post in my reasoning.
I even have the page where she reveals it to the readers, in a scene where its revealed she's been praying to be a girl for six years. https://imgur.com/a/3pNo8Wo
Just right now I found that the character page was altered, by the user Domadordedios, removing any reference to Felis being Trans and gendering them as a guy. They also deleted the Transgender trope, in which this was written.
- Transgender: In the side novel focusing on her backstory, it is revealed that she been praying to be a girl for atleast six years, and is using magic to prevent her body from getting any more masculine. She also gets extremely uncomfortable in men's clothes and addresses herself using feminine Japanese Pronouns.
All of which is true and can be found in the story, mostly within the prequel volume.
The only reason they cite is "Misleading information" without anything else.
What should I do here?
openListing indexes as tropes -- allowed?
I've seen examples such as this:
Hypothetical Show provides examples of
- Trope A: B happens to C in episode D.
- This Index Meows: Character E is a cat.
Or this on character sheets:
Alice Wilkins
Blah, blah, blah —-- Trope F: She's an example of that trope and this is how.
- Doctor Index: She's a doctor.
Is this allowed? I personally think it's not.
Edited by UnicorndanceopenNo Title
Can we rewrite the Tite Kubo article to make it less memed and filled with Fan Myopia in the examples? By the myopia, I mean mostly the examples saying "the fandom has praised".
openWanting to add a trope but not 100% sure on it Western Animation
The trope I want to add is Bittersweet Ending and I want to add it to the Jumanji cartoon, but I'm not completely sure if it happened or not.
From my recollection, in the cartoon Alan was finally freed once he discovered and solved his clue but unlike the original film or the sequels he doesn't end up released when he got sucked into the game but in the present day, so Alan is no longer trapped in Jumanji but still lost 20+ years of his life.
I just want to make sure this actually happened and figured this was a better place to ask since discussion pages on older works tend to get very little response to them.
openTropes for Creators without their own pages
Is it within the site guidelines to have trope about the Creator of a work who doesn't have their own page to be listed on pages for their Works that do. For instance, the following is listed on the Warhammer 40,000 YMMV page about one of the previous games designers Matt Ward, who doesn't have a Creator page:
- Never Live It Down: Matt Ward will probably never live down the number of Game-Breaker codexes he wrote. Grey Knights is the infamous one, not least because its Game-Breaker aspects were compounded by the now-notorious accompanying fluff. He's also become truly infamous for the White Dwarf interview in which he stated all Space Marines see the Primarch of the Ultramarines as their spiritual liege. It's to the point that fans speculate the reason Games Workshop no longer credits individual writers for codexes is because any book with his name on it is destined to be savaged by the fans.
There is also a similar entry on the Never Live It Down Tabletop Game page (this is apart from the fact that it breaks the 25 year rule for troping real life for that trope)
openHaving a problem with a thing on the Camp page Film
It's this: "Don't expect it to take itself the least bit seriously."
Now, that may apply with Batman (1966), the works of John Waters, and some of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (specifically Thor: Ragnarok and The Guardians of the Galaxy films), but with all the books and articles I've read on the subject, I've found that part of the page disingenuous. The Universal Monster Movies and the films of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are very serious but are regarded as camp due to their melodrama, theatricality, and artifice.
I was wondering if it could be changed to something like "The serious becomes silly while the silly becomes serious. And there's no limit to how over the top something can get."
openBiased editing Film
I'm a little iffy about Bensolosrey . The name alone implies some strong shipping bias and his/her edits don't help, even though there are only a few yet.
Edited by ForenperseropenIs this OK?
On Fridge.Daniel Tigers Neighborhood, someone wrote under "Fridge Horror" that Daniel is allergic to peaches and that's why he's afraid of Peaches the horse. But that's pure wordplay.
openJust Dance page Videogame
Sorry if I bug any of you people, I am new here and I haven't grasp fully everything in this website yet. I notice that some of the pages and content in Just Dance page were kind of lacking and/or outdated. I wish I could help and expand some of the parts, but I really don't know how to and I am afraid that I might crash or cause some damage while editing it.
The last part of an entry added on Why We Cant Have Nice Things a few months ago (edit history of troper who added it) feels a little misleading to me. Here's the entry (it's an addtion to an entry about tax fraud):
My personal impression is that the two first sentences could stay (though there's probably a better way to phrase the second one), but the third sentence feels misleading in a way I have trouble pinning down. I'm also aware I have that feeling because of my personal opinions on the subject, so I could use second thoughts about it.
Edited by Nazetrime