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If it's not in the actual work, then we don't put it on the character page. What Could Have Been is a Trivia trope, and goes on the Trivia page.
Love Triangle isn't really a character trope so much as a plot trope anyway, IMO.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
I think it should just be removed from the character page in favor of being listed under What Could Have Been on the Trivia subpage.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Before removing them, I've seen Monster.Scripts covers unpublished versions of works. Is there a reason their What Could Have Been is allowed but the example I brought up isn't (they're considered standalone works)?
^ A publicly accessible draft of a script is a form of a published work, hence why we trope them on the main wiki at all.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
So author notes about how the story would have gone don't count as they aren't in a published form like scripts?
I think the point here is that the scripts page is troping the script as a work in itself, whereas the given example is troping the work as it was released. If a work ends prematurely and the creator gives notes about what would have happened had it continued, that's not something that can be considered to have happened in the actual work as released, it's just What Could Have Been. But if the notes are substantial enough that they're considered a work in their own right, then the notes themselves could be troped as their own work (but would still just be What Could Have Been for the original work).
I have a question about this I found on a characters page.
Is What Could Have Been not allowed under character pages or non-Trivia tropes as it doesn't happen in the actual work? Or is it allowed if the series never reached the point to contradict it (the notes the author revealed it in are effectively the continuation of the work as opposed to something they changed their mind about, or does it not count as they might have changed it in the final product?) and/or only allowed if it provides important context for what is there (like what it was building to)?
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught