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Edit: Wasn't relevant to this ATT thing.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Tropes from a derivative work (such as adaptations) are included on the original work's trope page (or subpage, in the case of a character subpage to the work). It only describes a problem if the derivative work violates copyright (implies the derivative is official) or already has a page (redundant troping).
Edit to add: When Cross Wicking onto the trope, you'd ideally wick to the derivative work page, and make that page a redirect to the original work page. This facilities making the derivative page later on. Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Ah, okay. I've seen derivative works mentioned on the original work's page, like if the character has their own work page, such as Nightwing or Venom, but I've literally never seen it mentioned on character pages outside of when the actor is listed. Especially never in the main text. Plus, it threw me off that some of these things are also game mechanic-related. My bad for unnecessarily rocking the boat.
So I recently removed a bunch of tropes entries for adaptations of characters on the X-Men pages because those are comic pages and I haven't seen this done on any other character sheet (Venom, Naruto, Captain America, Batman or anything where the characters have a notable video game presence) and it just sort of looked weird when usually these entries are under the adaptations' own pages. E.g. "Teleport Spam: In [GAME] he does this" or something where it is explicitly said that the person isn't normally something, but in one specific adaptation they are, or Actually A Doom Bot in one instance for a videogame adaptation. This is in the comics character pages, not the character pages or trope entries for that specific adaptation. There's also their appearances in a videogame apparently warranting being in the main body of text above the examples, which I find questionable.
zealots re-added them without discussion saying there's no rule against it, but the main X-Men characters page itself says it's for the comics and some of the pages themselves state it's for the comics versions, so I'm not sure how to proceed. Thoughts?
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian