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I've asked about it before and was told that deleted scenes don't count as being tropeable.
But deleted scenes are often included on home media, yeah? If other things about DVD releases can be troped, why not deleted scenes?
Unless the reasoning is that because Deleted Scenes is trivia, info about them shouldn't go on the main page?
Have a section for it on the trivia page, then? If the work is classified as trivia, then any tropes that apply to it should also go on trivia?
^Where were you told that?
There's a lot of other times I've seen stuff from deleted scene mentioned, as long as it fits. It's a larger problem if so.
I couldn't find my ATT's on the matter but I found a similar one from 2014
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The general answer at the time is Trivia under What Could Have Been. It fits the trope perfectly, after all.
The example in question though is on the trope page Racist Grandma, not the work page Zootopia.
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Many times said deleted scenes are often included as home-media bonuses or even re-instated in director's cuts.
So it would be kind of dumb to exclude to them from troping.
I remember posting about a Cut Song on Lessons in Sophistication. The example was deleted and this was the edit reason: "What Could Have Been is trivia; trope examples should be from published works. Trope examples should give specific instance"
That makes zero sense because deleted scenes that are on the DVD/BR ARE published works.
If you want to open that can of worms regarding deleted/alternate scenes how about movies with multiple cuts like Army of Darkness? That movie has FOUR versions (TV Cut, Theatrical Version, Director's Cut, International Cut.) that are all slightly different including the Director's Cut having a totally different ending.
So what the hell would the protocol even be for that?
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Since there's no consensus, I'd like to add the example back to Racist Grandma, and Lessons in Sophistication too.
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Deleted Scenes should be on the Trivia tab.
I don't know the exact rules on how you're supposed to mention the tropes otherwise, that would appear in those. Like if you do wicks and such. I presume so, as that'd make sense.
Maybe this topic will help a bit?
Are examples from Deleted Scenes allowed on trope pages? Pichu-kun deleted the Zootopia example from Racist Grandma with the edit reason "Removed a deleted scene example for being What Could Have Been." I think it's fine to keep, but don't want to start an edit war.