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AKA; "in hindsight" is causing problems again.
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...Can we please just kill the hindsight "tropes" already? Pretty please with cherry on top?
^ I've never understood the appeal of these either. Seems like anything is anything in hindsight.
Speaking of the spoiler — some people hate being spoiled with passion. It does not describe the event in concrete terms, but it does spoil the endgame of the episode and it's a pretty big reveal. I'd suggest commenting it out with %% markup for a while. Edited by XFllo
^^ & ^: the Hindsight "tropes" are not tropes. They're Audience Reactions.
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In theory. In practice, they're "I noticed a meaningless, coincidental surface-level similarity between two unrelated things and for some reason that makes me feel clever."
I think there should just be a Hindsight/ namespace (similar to Fridge/) for those things which is Spoilers Off.
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Or maybe they join the "fridge" tropes?
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That would probably result in many Fridge/ pages getting too long, and overall I wouldn't quite group them in the same category (Fridge examples usually only need the work they come from, while Hindsight requires a comparison between two things).
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That's why we've been categorizing them separately under trivia and ymmv, but both are an "understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed."
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Anyway, I say spoiler tag it. YMMV.Coco does the same thing.
If we start a "in hindsight" discussion thread, let me start it.
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I'm tempted to argue in favor of killing everything involving a cross-work comparison. Shout-Out and Mythology Gag, Expy, all of it. I know it's extreme (and even I'm not sure that we'd really want to go that far), but the abuses on all of those are sadly far more common than the legitimate examples.
I agree that something needs to be done.
At the very least we should start a cleanup effort, because this is ridiculous.
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Cross-work references are absolutely a thing, but to count they need to be deliberate, as in there's not a shadow of a doubt that it's a reference and not just two shows using similar tropes or whatever.
^ An Audience Reaction like Hilarious in Hindsight means that the audience sees a similarity between two works. It doesn't have to be intentional (in fact, if it is intentional, that might disqualify it from HiH).
Personally, I wouldn't mind making an exception to Spoilers Off when spoiling a different work is inevitable. But ideally, the best solution would be to word the example in a way that doesn't require spoilers.
^ I was more responding to the idea that we need to kill Shout-Out and the like
Let's focus on the original topic at hand.
References to other works on Spoilers Off pages: use spoiler tags for other works, but not this one.
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I fear the entry on The LEGO Movie 2 also spoils too much of that film's third act.
Can spoilers for one work be on a spoiler-free page for another work?
I ask this because YMMV.Avengers Endgame has an entry that spoils the newest episode of Game of Thrones (I don't watch GoT though, so I don't know how big of a spoiler it is).