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chasemaddigan Since: Oct, 2011
2022-07-16 07:43:39

You are allowed to use tropes listed on Definition-Only Pages as potholes, but not as actual examples. From the page itself:

These pages might be usable in example context , but never listed as an example within a work (with the occasional exception made for In-Universe examples; to provide concrete examples of such, a character who writes slashfic actually says "Het Is Ew", or a reviewer has a video essay about Moff’s Law).

So, in this case, it's okay to use Static Character as a pothole, you just can't have a Static Character entry because it's too common to be worth listing.

Bullman Since: Jun, 2018
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