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Zarina Since: Aug, 2014
2022-05-03 08:57:42

Seems like it's intended to be an Adult Fear subpage split from the regular Nightmare Fuel page for the franchise, but Adult Fear is now and index and not a trope, and it's misnamed.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2022-05-03 09:02:52

I assumed that to be the case from the name but neither the description nor the examples fit... basically any definition of Adult Fear ever, unless you count the misuse of Adultfear as "anything scary ever" which probably led to the aforementioned detropification.

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Zarina Since: Aug, 2014
2022-05-03 09:08:09

An argument could possibly be made for the killing of the mother Marowak that leaves her child orphaned as an Adult Fear under the old trope definition and... that's about it, from what I see. I would probably take this to the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread and see if any of the entries can be moved to the appropriate game/media Nightmare Fuel pages and then send it to the cut list.

Amonimus (Sergeant)
2022-05-03 09:20:17

It's a subpage of NightmareFuel.Pokemon, which splits Nightmare Fuel into named categories. It's not related to Adult Fear by the looks of it.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2022-05-03 09:30:39

But my point is whatever this category is is... utterly undefined. There's no description and examples are completely random, it seems.

There's no rhyme or reason as to what goes on the page, whether it's from a specific game or work, what the horror is, or whether it's Nightmare Fuel or Fridge Horror or what have you. Honestly, at this point I'm leaning towards just cutting it.

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Piterpicher (Series 2)
2022-05-03 09:47:34

Based on the examples, I think it's What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? with Nightmare Fuel. Most of the examples involve death or war. Though I'll admit mixing multiple works and media types on the same page is prbably not the best.

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homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
2022-05-03 14:56:24

The page creator, Wandering Browser, is still active, maybe ask them what their intent was?

Piterpicher (Series 2)
2022-05-03 14:57:19

Sure, feel free to try. If they don't remember, I'm probably right.

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Zuxtron (On A Trope Odyssey)
2022-05-03 15:12:56

In general, I feel like the Pokemon Nightmare Fuel pages are severely bloated with exaggerations.

homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
2022-05-03 15:28:43

Sent Wandering Browser a message and included a link to this query.

WanderingBrowser Since: Jan, 2001
2022-05-03 15:45:58

Hi there. I haven't thought of this page in years. Digging back into the History on the main Pokemon Nightmare Fuel page, I found that the page in question was created to house the contents of a now-deleted folder that was titled "Canon adult horrors (that aren't the Pokédex entries)". I'm not sure WHAT qualified those entries for that folder, I just created the shortest name I could think of that would still reference that original folder title and then moved the entries. I think from the context of the respective archives it's more Adult Fear orientated Nightmare Fuel, but I couldn't really tell you - I just moved the entries to their own page, I didn't create the entries in the first place.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020
2022-05-03 18:26:36

it was definitely a folder on the main Nightmare Fuel.Pokemon page for a long time before it was split off. i remember seeing it there in 2012 or 2013.

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