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RallyBot2 (Elder Troper)
2017-07-23 10:55:18

Can't find a source to say he is or has ever been a Christian. The Other Wiki's source is an hour-long Youtube video which I'm not going to watch, but it's held up long enough (the edit was June 4, 2016) that I'll assume it's accurate.

Madrugada MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2017-07-23 11:35:42

In this case, cut the examples as disputed. neither side provided a concise evidence of their assertion. Besides, "being a Christian" doesn't make you automatically a nice person, and "being an Objectivist" or an atheist doesn't automatically make you not one.

Karxrida Since: May, 2012
2017-07-23 13:07:46

Isn't this trope supposed to be IUEO?

shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
2017-07-23 15:41:39

No, that's Nice Character, Mean Actor that's In-Universe only.

TheNerfGuy Since: Mar, 2011
2017-07-23 15:49:41

I thought it was both of them that were IUEO.

Karxrida Since: May, 2012
2017-07-23 16:08:27

They are both definitely IUEO, but MCNA still has a Real Life section for some reason.

shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
2017-07-23 16:43:51

I think the main page is just on the index so people don't post examples there instead of the real-life sub-page.

Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2017-07-23 20:03:52

That's not how it works. If a trope is NRLEP, that means no RL examples. Including subpages.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
shoboni Since: Oct, 2010
2017-07-24 00:02:44

This trope isn't laid out like a standard trope, though.

The real life page is it's own sub-page with it's own folders and even deeper sub-pages.

Thus there may have been an exception made for the bizarre circumstances and it was flagged so people wouldn't put real life on the main page.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2017-07-24 03:17:43

Not sure why that would really come into it. If there's a difference - and I'd note that it's possible the RL examples were just never cut like they were supposed to be - I'd guess it's more that Nice Character, Mean Actor insults real people, whereas Mean Character, Nice Actor... well, obviously, doesn't (though it's sort of meaningless). It seems really unlikely that there'd be a one-off unintuitive exception just because of structuring.

Edited by nrjxll
WaterBlap Since: May, 2014
2017-07-24 09:44:34

I recently brought up Mean Character, Nice Actor to the RL maintenance thread and there wasn't consensus to make it NRLEP. Note that Mean Actor Nice Character (or whatever it's called; the other one) is both IUEO and NRLEP.

I'm not sure of the differences, but they seem to be different enough for the other trope to be both.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2017-07-24 18:40:07

The RL thread was discussing that the trope definition for the RL section seemed to be functionally different from the trope definition for the fictional examples. That is a problem in and of itself, but a fix would need to be discussed in a dedicated thread.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
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