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Character Alignment tropes are only allowed when the morality system is acknowledged and the character has the specific alignment explicitly given to them. If that's the case, you add [invoked] somewhere in the example, it's an invisible tag that hides the YMMV warnings.
It doesn't seem like your example would be valid since you're the one assigning the character the Chaotic Evil label, not the work.
There's a way, but the Character Alignment tropes actually have a very strong requirement to be allowed on work pages. As mentioned in bold in the Chaotic Evil page : On works pages: Character Alignment is only to be used in works where it is canonical, and only for characters who have alignments in-story.
Does the work explicitly state that the character is "Chaotic Evil" ? If not, then you can't put the trope there.
Edited by Jhiday
^ Thank you both for your replies, it makes more sense now! The work does not state the character is Chaotic Evil or indeed offer Character Alignment for any of the other characters. I'll move it to the YMMV page.
Actually, alignment doesn't even go on YMMV pages, since it's considered Flame Bait. If you want to put the example somewhere, it goes on the Chaotic Evil page itself.
Chaotic Evil doesn't have the Flame Bait banner, it has the YMMV banner.
I know it is considered flame bait, because Character Alignment does have that banner. Guess we should fix that?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
The only reason it should be added is if the work has an alignment system, and it states they're Chaotic Evil, verbatim, under it. That doesn't look like the case here.
Yeah.
For reference, we're trying to avoid The Great Character Alignment Debate.
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Was editing the page for Razia's Shadow and tried adding the Chaotic Evil trope to the list of examples, but it automatically turned into a YMMV trope instead of a normal bullet point trope. Is Chaotic Evil automatically a YMMV / subjective interpretation trope? I would have thought if the character being described never has his motivations for an evil deed explained in canon apart from "because he wants to", that would count as Chaotic Evil, no YMMV about it. (For context: the character in question is Barayas the spider, who in the song "The Spider and the Lamps" from the musical Razia's Shadow encourages another character to literally Set the World on Fire without apparently gaining anything from it himself. Lyrics of the song here: https://genius.com/Forgive-durden-the-spider-and-the-lamps-lyrics)
Is there any way to sumbit the Chaotic Evil trope to the examples list without turning into a YMMV trope? Or should I just submit it to the YMMV page?