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openStrikethrough Text
You can't do the [[strike:]] anymore, but you can still do striked text with "̶" o̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶. Is that intentional, and if not, can it be removed?
Edited by MegaMarioManopen Nothing Is Scarier
Editor Knight 20 has reverted the page Nothing Is Scarier to the state it was before a move of all the content of the "Video Games" folders to the subpage NothingIsScarier.Video Games, which was made precisely because this page was getting too big, thus reinstating the warning "This article is too long." when you edit the page.
Given the amount of content that was moved, I would prefer the mod to revert this rather than trying to correct it myself. (Don't mind my edit above his, I realized the problem afterward).
openMagnum Opus Dissonance? Videogame
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Trivia.PaperMarioStickerStar
I thought that since Magnum Opus and Parvum Opus were In-universe examples only now so was magnum opus dissonance.
I mean, i get that people are angry, but Color Splash was just revealed yesterday.
Edited by lalalei2001openUsefulNotes./Tenses
It automatically redirects to Useful Notes. Are we just supposed to cut namespaces with punctuation in them like that one?
Edit: Courtesy link to UsefulNotes/Tenses.
Edited by MegaMarioManopenFor Keeps? Film
Is it safe to recreate the page and add tropes from this site onto page?
openTF2 TearJerkers
I was going to make a page for all the Tear Jerker moments in Team Fortress 2, but it won't let me. Can you help me with this?
openExample Indentation: problem editor
Editor TheWolfBoy007 has been repeatedly un-correcting the indentation of an example on AwesomeMusic.Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (courtesy link to article history) to be a single second-level bullet, contravening the rules on Example Indentation in Trope Lists.
openProblem Troper
Maverick00 does understand how example writing works, and he just reverted an edit I made to clean up his mess (thus starting an Edit War) in Characters.Pokemon Elite Four.
Edited by KarxridaopenStandardization of Japanese Names/Phrases
There have been a few edits in Project × Zone and other pages related to that series where quotes and names are changed from the translation/spelling as they appear in the game itself to either reflect a more direct translation or how the names appear in their home series.
Wanting to make sure: Is the standard practice to stick with the official translation and spelling for that work within the work's page even if the character's name is spelled slightly differently in other official appearances?
opendoted lines on pages...
I meant to ask for a while already: for a long while, adding a full line (with ----) at the bottom of a page and above the examples/tropes line was the standard. However, since the switch to the new TV Tropes format, said line now just appears as a doted line, barely visible and hardly aesthetic. So I'm wondering whether we should start removing those lines, or instead add to to the wishlist that they'd be made more visible.
openNon-Fatal Explosions dangeruous?
Reading the Real Life section of Non-Fatal Explosions I get the impression that 50 mm mortars are non lethal or at least unlikely to kill someone. I get that the author of the examples means they are unsufficiently lethal for military use but the possibility for misunderstandings is still there.
I hope no one is using T Vtropes for advise on handling explosives but still. Should I remove the examples just to be safe?
openDoes it still count as RonTheDeathEater...
So, let's say a character is turned into a villain in fan fics, but rather than being done by haters as an excuse to kill them off, it's done by fans because Evil Is Cool, or Evil Is Sexy, or because they had a Superpowered Evil Side that the writer wants to see more of.
Does that still count as Ron the Death Eater, or does that trope have to be negative?
Edited by wrm5open On adult swim
Its about a man who is has different body parts of animals and part human was on adult swim its a cartoons he has a destiny and there's 2 roads and ylthey both lead to death he dies on both then I fell asleep
openIndexing help Web Original
For those familiar with the Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument (Touhou EWI) videos, I just finished drafting a page for the series, but I'm a little confused on which indexes it would fall under since it's a Web Video series based on a video game series.
Touhou Electronic Wind Instrument
Input and help on where to index it is much appreciated. I'll work on Crosswicking after lunch.
EDIT: Found the Touhou Fan Works index. If there are any others, please let me know. Looks like I should have put the page under Web Animation instead. Where do I put in a request to get that moved?
Edited by GunarmDyneopen Do we have Snark Armor/Snark Shield?
I was trying to find if we had a trope for when characters use humour defensively. For example, someone pays a compliment or expresses gratitude and the recipient makes a joke to downplay things. This would of course be a supertrope to Black Comedy and its ilk (Gallows Humor and such), with characters using jokes to cope with dark matters like death. I'm hesitant to add to the long list of YKTTWs if it's already here and I just can't find it, but if it is a Missing Supertrope, I want to catalogue it.
I tend to think of such things as "snark armor" (hence the title question), but perhaps the alliteration is better than the assonance.
Edited by 69BookWorM69open Easter Egg or Freeze-Frame Bonus Live Action TV
So I was watching an episode of Murdoch Mysteries and saw a prop box of dynamite with the brand name "Big Bang". Of course I'm thinking it's a science joke. The thing is, I didn't actually freeze the frame to catch it, though I'm sure it would help. So where should I put the citation?
Edited by 69BookWorM69openSpoiler policy
Can someone clarify spoiler policy for me? Specifically, which is preferred: large block spoilers, or just spoiler-tagging the relevant part of the example? eg, The Mole: Alice turns out to be working for the the villainous Bob, despite her trusted position within the protagonists' organization vs The Mole: Alice turns out to be working for the Big Bad, despite their trusted position within the protagonists' organization.
The reason I ask is that I always thought the latter was preferred, given that you can still get a sense of the example and how it fits the trope even with the specific details covered. However, on Handling Spoilers, it says "Now we can talk about something that bugs tropers who have an interest in making things look good: Swiss-cheese entries, entries where single words and short phrases are cut out and other text is left visible. Face it, it looks like crap to people who have the spoiler font blanking effect turned on, which is the vast majority of the readers." That page used to have examples pointing out that spoilering an entire example and leaving no context is bad for a variety of reasons, but that all got axed a while ago when the page was made much shorter, and now the bit about "swiss-cheese entries" is the only guidance on the subject.
Obviously having an example where every third word is spoilered is no good, but I don't think "spoiler tag everything" is a good thing, either. Am I wrong?
qazx23 and dermatiq are putting links on random reviews. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=8416 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/review_comments.php?id=991