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HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
2020-08-02 08:09:20

I'm also noticing problems with the page being light on context and heavy on speculative tone, with entries like,

  • Truer to the Text: The movie would be closer to the comics compared to the previous two films.

We are not, to my understanding, troping what would have happened in an alternate universe where the script was produced into a movie. We are troping a script that, as I understand it, exists but was never produced. Is the script closer to the comics, and if so, how?

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
2020-08-02 08:44:00

"Yet, other sites say that Joel Schumacher wanted Nicolas Cage for the role."

Who better than a Wicker Man, I guess.

ImmiThrax Since: Apr, 2020
2020-08-02 09:05:59

Mix of unverifiable, low context, and speculation about what it might have been if it got made... I think it should be cut.

Covered in Star Wars Cleanup, Deadpool, and Web Video sand. I'm not coarse and rough, but I get everywhere.
Tomodachi Since: Aug, 2012
2020-08-02 10:37:00

I think we should lock the page and edit out the bad examples. Unchained does exist as a concept, so it could be saved for historical purposes, but, since there is no script available, then tropping it would be sort of pointless.

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
2020-08-02 11:04:19

I mean, "what if instead of Batman Begins they'd gotten Adam West and Burt Ward back after Forever" exists as a concept, but that doesn't mean it should get a page.

If there's no publicly-available work to draw tropes from, what is the purpose of a work page? Without that, all the examples are "bad examples."

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