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This site used to be a lot more lenient about naming tropes after examples in specific works. The tropes you see have probably retained their names due to the Grandfather Clause.
^ Or specifically, per Trope Renaming Guidelines, if the name doesn't cause confusion it's fine.
Even if YMMV is not a "main" page, casual readers still need to understand what the non-Trope linked to is about without clicking on it.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup^In my experience, that is pretty well known due to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, and I'm fairly sure we already have a couple of Schrödinger's tropes.
There's plenty of tropes alluding to Schrödinger (Schrödinger's Butterfly, Schrödinger's Cast, Schrödinger's Question, etc).
EDIT: Ninja'd!
Edited by Excessive-Menace SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYThank you all for the replies!
Doctorvon Eurotrash, I didn't know about the Grandparent Clause. Now that you mentioned it, I added it to the trope page of one of my favourite movies. A nice trope, by the way.
There's quite a number of Schrodinger tropes on the site indeed. But then again, what if they are ALL under a Grandparent Clause? just joking
Edited by Kisujjat least with regards to OP, i feel like big-lipped alligator moment doesn't suffer too much from trope namer syndrome because even if you don't know the specific reference, it's easy enough to make a connection that it's a moment so out-of-place it's like a big-lipped alligator could have shown up instead and it wouldn't change anything. it helps that the acronym is BLAM which describes the feeling you usually get when seeing one
^ If you ask me, the first thought of this trope title would be "some kind of a jump-scare". And in reality the trope turns out to describe "an out-of-place moment". It could be titled just like this - "Out-Of-Place Moment", why invent an alligator with, eh, big lips. Is it a trope about kisses, or some awkward make-up?
Edited by KisujjI don't think BLAM is a bad name for what it is even taking into account the lack of context, because given the point of the trope of "really randomly weird moments", having no prior knowledge of what the "big-lipped alligator" could really accentuate the uncharacteristic bizarre-ness of the situation. I think it similar to something like Noodle Incident — it's specifically a Calvin and Hobbes reference, but the fact it's basically a nonsense phrase out of context might actually work in its favor of highlighting the point the trope is supposed to make.
Thanks for playing Kings Quest V!Discussions on trope names belongs at Trope Talk; this is beyond the original question.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallBecause Ask The Tropers isn't a chatroom. If the OP question has been answered, there shouldn't be any further replies.
The topic has started to switch to specific tropes instead if it's okay for YMMV items to have pop-culture names in general.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

Does the rule about trope namers apply to YMMV pages? I know that, on one hand, tropes should not have in their name a homage to some series or movie or whatever, because this name might be not universally known and create a confusion. On the other hand, there is a lot of tropes in the YMMV section that have this syndrome, for instance, Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. I am sure most people do not know what alligator is meant and what is its source. Anyway, I am not trying to file complaints here. What I am curious about is whether the rule applies to YMMV or not. Because these pages are not meant to be even mentioned on main pages, and more or less they are for a closer circle of people with alternative opinions, I guess, this syndrome does not play a big role there. Or am I wrong? Can a new trope draft be created, labeled YMMV only (because of alternative character interpretation) and have a trope namer syndrome? Will it be passable?