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These are definitely not characters but where does one put tropes related to recurring Plot Coupons in a franchise instead?
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.For the MCU, they can go on the pages of the films in which they featured and under the trope section of Franchise.Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Lots of people have this really obnoxious habit of treating anything that isn't literally just a piece of scenery as a character.
Video game pages seem to be especially bad about this, with random enemy units being treated with equal significance to the protagonists and antagonists.
I started a thread about the Sonic the Hedgehog character pages
, and even had a mod weigh-in, but it stalled out.
Yeah, we do have main articles. It's not like there's any requirement for Characters subpages, but if we're going to have them, they should be about characters, not plot devices.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Sounds good to me. They aren't characters. Even random enemies can potentially have some kind of characterization, though most if not all of that can be noted in the main page(like Boss in Mook's Clothing).
Shadow?Inanimate objects shouldn't be on character pages unless they're treated like a character (for instance, the Companion Cube has a profile on Characters.Portal, which I think is OK, especially since it does talk in the Lab Rat comic). As for random enemy units, I see no problem with including them, considering There Is No Such Thing as Notability.
Edited by rjd1922 Keet cleanupActually, TINSTAN is more for works in general.
There's been some discussion on if mooks should get a character page or not before. I don't think a consensus was made. The only important part was "it still needs real context" regardless. A lot of the issues came from the huge amount of ZCE problem with the Pokemon pages. Not that I wouldn't love fleshing out some neat mooks in one of my favorite games(Quest 64), but many don't have anything that aren't "sit on chairs" issues, as they lack most characterization beyond a decent animation. There's some actual fun trivia, but they're not important to this wiki either(stuff like animation swaps, hidden details in their designs, stuff they really doesn't add anything).
Shadow?All of this just makes me wish there was a namespace meant for items/creatures to be troped. Having all the tropes regarding some important artifact (like the Infinity Stones) is quite convenient, though listing them on a character page is an obvious case of misuse.
Apathy is Death. Worse than Death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds beasts and insects.Also, the TARDIS is on the character sheet for Doctor Who (essentially the Doctor's time machine). Is this allowed?
For every low there is a high.^ x7 — There Is No Such Thing as Notability means that any work can have a page on the wiki, regardless of how obscure it is. It does not mean "put whatever you want, wherever you want."

I notice that Characters.MCU Others has sheets for inanimate objects as if they were characters namely The Infinity Stones, The Infinity Gauntlet and The Darkhold.
It seems a bit odd to me but I don't know whether it's allowed or not.