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I feel that if we do this, example writeups on work pages should note why the aversion is notable.
Generally speaking, though, I feel aversions are worth noting if useful context can be given to them; for example:
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: aversions are notable if characters go to space without protective gear and end up dying, but not if they never go to space.
- Going Down with the Ship: aversions are notable if the captain leaves the ship before everyone else has left, but not if the ship doesn't sink (or there is no ship to begin with).
^ and what if the captain leaves the ship with everyone else?
And if we do this, I suggest it get taken to Outdated Pages
to make it easier on us. That thread is good for hashing out issues like this.
On behalf of MaLady and nombretomado, I table a motion to relax the current restriction that Aversions are only notable for Omnipresent Tropes and to declare aversions of Necessary Weasels notable, as well. The reasoning is that Necessary Weasels are functionally omnipresent in their respective media and genres, and their aversions specifically in works of those genres and media are therefore notable for deliberately toying with the audience's expectations.
I also propose a personal amendment, to be debated independently of the main motion, that the deliberation of an aversion's notability be made relative to the time frame of a specific work's publication. In other words, if a trope isn't omnipresent or a necessary weasel today, but was considered such when the work was published, its aversion is notable in that work because it contributed to the medium or genre's historical shift away from the trope in question.
Edited by Koveras