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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2023-12-03 17:09:53

There's nothing to guess, both of them have a YMMV banner at the top.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
2023-12-03 17:54:18

The easiest way to check if something is Flame Bait is to go to the actual page; Flame Bait will have a banner at the top indicating not to put it anywhere. For example, look at the page for Mary Sue.

Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
2023-12-04 10:40:22

Relating, what are the Helluva Boss examples?

I've seen a bunch of YMMV misused on that page. And if you think the Red String and Wangst examples risk coming off as Flame Bait, I run them by to check if valid.

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Providence25 Since: Feb, 2023
2023-12-04 12:31:44

Red String: I'm not sure how to put it in word (I tried but couldn't do it) but it does feel like they are pushing Stolas and Blitzo, despite the two having little to no chemistry. I've seen others pointed out how we don't know what Blitzo actually like about Stolas or vice versa aside, or and what is shown is minimal at best. Other people would probably explain it better than me.

Wangst: Just Season 2 Stolas. Every time he's on screen, he's bemoaning for Blitzo, and just being a sad gay boi (Look My Way comes off as this hard).

But that's my opinion (and others pretty much share it as well).

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2023-12-04 12:35:34

That's not Strangled by the Red String. It's not a lack of chemistry, but rather the work pairing two characters up after minimal interaction, which isn't true of Blitzo and Stolas.

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Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
2023-12-04 13:46:58

And Wangst is when their angst is seen as so excessive it becomes annoying/unsympathetic rather than pitiful/endearing.

I'm not seeing good faith in this as written (Look My Way's been out for just 1 day so seems too knee-jerk to say if widespread, lacks explanation why it's seen as excessive).

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