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openDeleted characters page Western Animation
The characters page for Angelo Rules has been recently cut and I don't understand why. I also wanted to add an example on one of the character's portofolio. Is it possible to recreate?
Edited by Dghcrhopen Reality tv show Live Action TV
So it was a american reality tv show around maybe 2005-2010. There was two islands competing against each other. I think people on the island were singles as well. Anytime a new islander came she/he was on a raft between the two islands and one from each island started swimming towards the raft and whoever was there first got the new islander. They had competitions as well and tried to make their island look as nice as possible so it would be more tempting for new islanders. Help please
Edited by nombretomadoopenThey Wasted A Perfectly Good Character misuse
Per "They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character" Cleanup, this trope requires the character in question actually appear or be mentioned in the work, otherwise it's complaining about not doing something as opposed to lack of screentime.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:There are many fans that believe that Sunset Shimmer isn't being utilized properly by the Equestria Girls series, and that she should be transplanted to the series proper instead of Starlight Glimmer joining the main cast.note While Word of God is that Starlight was not based on Sunset nor was she added to the cast as a result of Sunset's popularity, part of the fandom still thinks of her as a Replacement Scrappy for Sunset.
I intended to cut this as Sunset became the main character of her series so she has plenty of screentime and not appearing in FIM is compelling about handling. There's was still some debate as this is a gray area in lack of screentime. Now I will cut as she's never appears or is mention in FIM (save a cameo in the literal last seconds which I don't think counts as the complaints were long before that) unless anyone objects. (The Wasted would go under said last episode at best.)
I'll remove the entry on the 5th per Three-Day Rule unless I hear any objections.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenRescued from the Scrappy Heap misuse?
Question about Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
- 'Service with a Smile does this for Adam Taurus. In canon, Adam was a brutal, human-hating supremacist with Yandere tendencies. In this story, while he is still a terrorist who believes in violence, he is far more moral and restrained, recognizing that there are decent humans and reserves that violence for people who deserve it.
If they were a Hate Sink (a Love to Hate one, in fact), can they be rescued if they weren't a Scrappy to begin with? (Can Take That, Scrappy! also apply for such? I've seen it cut over this before.) It sounds like encouraging misuse os Scrappy.
I asked Scrappy Cleanup, but was ignored.
openHow to rename a work?
The Mother 4 devs (yes, it's still being worked on) have Just released a trailer for the rebranding of the game, now called Oddity. As such, how does changing the name of the page work? I've never touched on this before.
Edited by TokoWHopenThe Sociopath has been vandalised
The Main page for The Sociopath has been vandalised. All of the page's contents have been removed and replaced with a bunch of snarky comments and an ad hominem attack. Just thought I'd report that.
Edited by BasMakesGamesopenMissing Trivia tag?
Does anybody know why the Disabled Character, Disabled Actor entry on Amélie is not tagged as trivia? The source code doesn't give any indication.
open No Title Western Animation
This may be a hard one. If anyone could help I'd be super thankful. I cant remember the name of this cartoon or the channel I watched it on (the unes I used to watch like good 2000s kid were Disney Channel, Disney XD, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon) and to make things even harder I don't reckon it was a very famous one, if I remember it right, it was on kinda late into the am and always the same 5 episodes. There was this lad from earth, his name could be Jake but I'm not sure. He lived in a farm with his uncle and aunt (maybe grandparents idk) and for some reason he went to school in space, he was the only human there, everyone else were aliens. A school-bus/spaceship would pick him up to go to the school. I think there was an alien girl he had a crush on and a green jelly (kinda like Zac from League of Legends probably would've looked like before gym and steroids) Oh, this may be weird, too weird, but I'm pretty sure spaceships inside this cartoon were fuelled by cow poop. That's all I remember! Cheers! Ps: grew up in Brazil, the cartoon is not from there, but it was on (dubbed, of course)
Edited by usernamehopenListing species on character sheets?
Characters.Neopets Species exists, and Characters.Minecraft actually lists species. Is this allowed? Because if it is, I'd like to make a species sheet for Moshi Monsters and Star Trek. No special reason, just bored.
Edited by UnicorndanceopenPotential edit war going on in Simpsons S8E17? Western Animation
Okay, so a while back I was deleting some entries on The Simpsons S8 E17: "My Sister, My Sitter" that seemed like complaining as discussed here, and then marcoasalazarm came along and added some of those entries back without an edit reason, I then deleted them again asking why he deleted them, then, when I came back to the page after a while, I found he added them back again with a Wall of Text edit reason. Then someone else readded Took a Level in Jerkass to the page.
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenFanfiction
Can just any fanfiction have a trope page? Because I was wondering if one could be made for this Fanfiction Miniseries crossing over Rugrats and Girl vs Monster
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13419343/1/Rugrats-vs-Vampires
It is in progress at the moment, but could it still be made?
open can't remember this tv series title Live Action TV
Hello guys, there was a tv series that I watched around 2016 - 2018 but I can't remember what the title is. But I remember some details about it. The characters were searching for a satellite from a computer. They eventually found a working satellite at an abandoned location. Then the entered a bunker and they found zombie-like people and they ran out of the bunker and they blew up the bunker with the zombies in it. Lastly, the actors split up a bridge with explosives in order to escape their zombie enemies. The tv series shows a satellite in every episode recap.
I need the title thanks.
open Idk where to ask this honestly
The author of the infamous webcomic Sonichu is a trans woman and now goes by Christine, yet all references to her on this wiki go by her deadname and misgender her frequently. Her work is also unnecessarily bashed and should be written in a more neutral tone. Should I make a clean-up thread for this?
open "The New Twenties" launch
"The New Twenties" was supposed to be launched at midnight PST, but it's still on hold.
open Eteral make-up
Is there any trope for make-up that stays around and is always perfect regardless of anything? I'm not talking about Wakeup Makeup (inly when waking up) nor Beauty Is Never Tarnished (barely even related with the subject of make-up itself), but just make-up that survives improbable things without being just washed away, worn out or even eaten away.
openHelp me pick a page title? Web Original
So I think I'm finally ready to post an article relating to liamkylesullivan/the "Kelly" works. Should it be named Web Video/Shoes, Web Video/Kelly, or Liam Kyle Sullivan?
Should I make a separate creator page for Liam Kyle Sullivan while I'm at it?
Edited by LunaSeaopenEditing a Horrible page to defend the subject
Tropers.Davidkalssob recently edited Horrible.Game Mods in an awkward attempt to change an entry from negative to positive. I've reverted the changes, but what do we do about the troper? I guess we have to warn them somehow.
Edit: These are the troper's only edits.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersion
How to indent this? Because entries aren't supposed to refer to other entries that aren't part of its bullet chain, I think...
So the BioShock 2 multiplayer discussion would, if it talks about being a Nerf to the first game, might need to be a sub-bullet of it.
Also, BioShock 2's should get a separate entry about its single-player version too.
First-Person Snapshooter: