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They are both definitely IUEO, but MCNA still has a Real Life section for some reason.
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 nrjxllI 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.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyThe 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

From Mean Character Nice Actor Live Action TV
But from Wikipedia:
Did someone pull the bit about him being a Christian out of their ass, or has renounced faith at some point?
Edited by shoboni