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The entry they removed.
- Designated Hero: Mary Bailey, Mr. Burns's opponent is essentially a cipher. It can be safely presumed she's a better person than Burns because he's Mr. Burns and she is supported by Marge but we never hear anything about Bailey's actual policies.
I actually lean toward the removal, that the entry was misused.
Designated Hero is a character that the narrative treats them as heroic despite how they act.
The entry make no sense to me why being "a cipher" would make her better person than "Mr. Burns" since I'm not familiar with the show (I looked up, cipher as a person is "a person or thing of no importance, especially a person who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own.", not very heroic IMO). So at very least, it's ZCE.
Worse, the entry say "presumed she's a better person" so it look like the narrative isn't really treat the character as heroic either. This is reinforced by how the troper who uncommented it claimed "she literally doesn't DO anything beyond sending the inspection team. A good decision, but not something that fleshes her out all that much." So the narrative doesn't frame her as hero and the one thing she does is actually good.
So really, I think Brian is right here (and Pyro's rudeness plus the lack of understanding about ZCE is more worthy of concern).
Edited by KuruniOk, so I suspended Brian KT for edit warring and announced it here but then I realized the time stamps and that everything happened February 2021. So, I undid the suspension and deleted my comment.
Brian KT's edit warring were already discussed last time they in EB in November
so we can't retroactively suspend them for this. Also, Pryomania was already sent a rudeness notifier for their edit reason last year so there wasn't anything that needed to be done here

On this page, Brian KT commented out an example
, and when another troper uncommented it out with a justified (if somewhat rude) edit reason, they re-commented it out
before deleting it entirely later on
. This troper has also been brought up in ATT several times before for edit warring and commenting out/ removing tropes like Designated Hero and Unintentionally Sympathetic/Unsympathetic.
Edited by UFOYeah