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I highly think not, seeing how it's a No Real Life trope.
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^The two aren't mutually exclusive. No Real Life just means we can't list real life examples, not necessarily that real life instances are impossible.
I'd say theoretically a person could in exist in real life who is a Chick Magnet, but I've never encountered one. Probably mostly athletes and other celebrities.
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Truth in Television is not a category, so a trope can't "be" a Truth in Television. Examples can.
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^ I’ve actually seen several trope descriptions say they’re Truth in Television. Maybe they’re not supposed to, but I’ve definitely seen this before.
Well, I've seen that as well, but it's still not an official trope category, and we don't usually talk about "truth in television tropes" here.
I guess there can be a point to mentioning it in the description: "This trope may seem unrealistic, but it actually happens in real life", but often it seems misaimed, as if whoever wrote that thought that realistic tropes are somehow better than unrealistic ones.
I think that in most cases we could do better without invoking Truth in Television in trope descriptions. If it's important that the trope is realistic, it can be mentioned in less artifical-sounding ways. Besides, if the trope has Real Life examples, it will be obvious from them.
The Truth in Television literally has a long list of tropes on it. So that defacto seems like a category to me.
^ And it's also an index.
As the page itself clarifies in its description, a trope can be TIT but still be NRLEP. The tropes listed merely describe that the conceptual instances are plausible and/or have happened historically.
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The real question is, can this trope occur IRL? I mean, almost every character trope can, right? It seems kind of pointless to even mention, since... I'm sure this has happened to some guy out there.
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I would think no, this is not Truth in Television. In real life, magnets attract a specific class of materials (ferromagnetic materials, such as iron). They cannot be used on poultry.
^This is, by a long shot, the best comment on this thread. :)
Is Chick Magnet a Truth in Television trope?