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Yeah. Flame Bait can only be used on other Flame Bait pages (or In-Universe).
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallThough, linking to Flame Bait on a Darth Wiki page does give a warning, but I think that's a bug.
IIRC, you're not supposed to use them anywhere because they are bound to cause a flame war (or Edit War). The page even says "Please don't list them anywhere, not even in YMMV tabs," and the implication is to not use them even on Darth Wiki.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they prettyIt's OK to use Flame Bait on Darth Wiki and other Flame Bait pages. It gives the flame icon, but it does that even on indexes like Image Source where it's obviously OK to link.
Keet cleanupI don't think it's a settled question whether you could link, say, So Bad, It's Horrible from a Dethroning Moment of Suck page. In practice, I suspect many links would be sinkholes and worthy of removal for that reason.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWe can settle the question about So Bad, It's Horrible now. I checked and found these dethroning moments with SBIH in them.Page Links
- hydrix: If asked what would be my most hated commercial of all time I would reply with "The Theater of The Eye"
. It admittedly has some decent cinematography, but it implies that the anyone who watches it will think that the advertisers think that True Art Is Incomprehensible. If you would see this ad the first time you probably would not be able to guess what it is about (it's about the Sega Saturn), but upon further inspection you might actually realize that it is indeed advertisement for the product and that it has a message, which can be summed up as this: "Our system has the best graphics out of any system out there." Keep in mind that this is by the same guy who actually likes this
Atari Jaguar commercial (for anyone wondering why I bring this up look at the Advertising subpage of the "trope" So Bad, It's Horrible). As such I would have preferred that this ad was listed on that subpage instead, but alas.
- Cerotech Omega: I'm a decent enough fan of the BlazBlue series, so I was looking forward to the Alter Memory anime like most of the others. It turned out to be So Bad Its Good with the various animation errors and overcompressed plot (some folks believe it's So Bad, It's Horrible instead), but I still believe, so long after watching it, that Episode 10 is absolutely indefensible. The biggest part of the episode, and the reason it's here in the first place, is the "fight" Hazama has against Noel and Makoto (the latter of which only fights this once, I should inform you), which includes such highlights as the girls choking on Worf draught and Terumi coming across as a thin-skinned douchebag (the girls only manage to hit him once before the fight goes downhill at meteoric speeds); Makoto's role in the entire story meaning absolutely squat in the end (which is likely to enrage newcomers, since veterans know her plan to save Noel wasn't going to work out); new heights of Fan Disservice (underboob isn't titillating when the girl they're attached to is being slammed around explicitly for the sake of torturing her); Noel degenerating to Taokaka levels of stupidity (Makoto's warning not to trust Hazama came in the previous episode, which was technically minutes ago compared to a whole arc like in the games), which led to Makoto being dropped off the edge of a 100-story building; even more Fan Disservice as the Kusanagi cocoon ensnares a catatonic Noel with tentacle-like restraints (that it just pops in through a portal is deranged enough); and all of this just so the plot could stay on course. The fight between Ragna and Jin felt like an afterthought to this debacle, which turned me off to the point I never saw the last two episodes; even though Makoto survived the fall somehow, it's probably for the best they never elaborated on that. Grotesque bias towards the villain, blatant abuse of the Ensemble Dark Horse (the 25th Arcsys Anniversary poll had Makoto ranking below Noel and Dizzy alone in terms of popularity amongst the girls, and she's popular for a myriad of reasons on both sides of the Pacific), and little of quality to distract from this disasterpiece all come together to create an abomination towards an otherwise respectable series. I personally hope that if Arc System Works ever decides to do another anime based on one of its franchises, they use Alter Memory, and this episode in particular, as an example of what not to do.
- Will B Good: (Note: I'm just moving this entry over from So Bad, It's Horrible— I have not read this book, but the Horrible page recommends putting individual books from otherwise well-regarded series on this page; if the original author of this wants to come and replace my name with theirs I'm fine with it.) The Wheel of Time series has Crossroads of Twilight, a Doorstopper without content which generally takes place at the same time as Winter's Heart (the previous book). Most of Crossroads consists of Purple Prose about food and clothing — the book has 822 pages, but you could condense it into 100 and not miss anything. The Big Bad in this book is grain weevils. The series has Loads And Loads Of Characters, but very few of them appear in what passes for the main plot; the book needs a 50-page prologue to explain what everybody's doing, and it doesn't help. Rand, the driving force of the series as a whole, only appears in the last few pages; he has the long-awaited confrontation with Loghain, but nothing comes of it. Every female character is identical, and they're all unlikable stuck-up bitches. The series had been heading this way for a while, but this is the nadir. But the later books are better, and you don't have to read this to understand them.
- Will B Good: (Note: again, not my opinion but another entry moved from So Bad, It's Horrible) As Crossroads of Twilight is to The Wheel of Time, Naked Empire represents the bottom-of-the-barrel for Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. This book, even more than the others before it, is mostly one gigantic sermon against communism and pacifism, containing the infamous "evil-pacifist" plot of Bandakar. Even outside the conflict, Richard's dialogue is constantly saturated with Goodkind's views when he's talking to his friends (including an idiotic side conversation where Richard and his half-sister discuss the "right" of hair to live on a person's head). The main plot of the series is advanced barely an inch by the end of this book, there are speeches that go on for pages or even whole chapters, and the plot's resolved in one of the most blatant Deus Ex Machinas in literature. Go look at the reviews on Amazon.com
if you want more proof.
- CJ Croen 1393: Ben and Arthur can barely even be called a movie, but probably the worst moment would be a point somewhere in the middle wherein Ben and Arthur (who are married) get into an argument culminating in Ben punching Arthur so hard he gets knocked unconscious and wakes up with a nosebleed. Ben's response? "Well, that'll teach you not to say stupid things." ... What? No seriously, what? What kind of lesson is that? That if you argue with your spouse the best solution is to punch them until they're unconscious and bloody and then tell them it's their fault for saying something stupid!?
- Mystic Eclectic: While the Phil Collins-led Genesis has always had its ups and downs, the major dethroning moment was their 1997 album Calling All Stations. This was a slow, derivative, plodding shell of an album where Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, going it without Phil, had plucked Ray Wilson, formerly of Stiltskin, and a few session players to make one of the most critically savaged albums of The '90s. While mainly inoffensive, the whole album sounds like a dreary mess of jam sessions that exemplify the worst of prog rock and a band minus the face. A truly shameful effort that may unfortunately be the band's final studio album, provided the many rumored reunions never happen.
- Tropers/saltyoven: The 2015 Royal Rumble was already a terrible PPV with only the triple threat championship match standing out as a good match, but the big dethroning moment occured at the actual royal rumble. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people realized quickly that Roman Reigns was going to win it. Okay this is going to need bullet points on why this was a terrible idea from the get go. 1. This would mean that Wrestlemania 31 will only be Roman Reigns 2nd singles match in a PPV and he's already in a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, it makes Brock Lesnar Look like a complete and utter chump with his push to being the champion. 2. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people still kept chanting for him and were booing every other entrant afterwards. 3. Towards the end of the match, there were "We want Rusev!" Chants. Yes, people would rather see an anti-american Heel win than the babyface. 4. By sheer location at which the royal rumble was held: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To give an idea, that is pretty much smark HQ. And because everyone was booing there, casual fans will buy into the booing and dislike the result as well. This also has the potential to be filed under the So Bad, It's Horrible page because after that night, within 24 hours WWE Network lost 300,000 subscribers, the #1 trending Hashtag on Twitter was #CancelWWENetwork, and they lost subs so quickly, the website actually crashed trying to keep up with the cancellations.
- KingLyger: "Hardy vs. Hardy: The Final Deletion" has been said to be So Bad, It's Good by half of the people who watch it, and So Bad, It's Horrible by the other half. This troper personally feels the latter category is more justified. Beyond just using Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy to recreate spots that were way past their prime, the editing was so bad that it was impossible to follow along. The Special Effects Failure of using holograms from drones just looked flat-out ridiculous, even by the standards of professional wrestling. There are so many Ass Pulls, Shocking Swerves, and random costume changes that the match simply had no basis in reality anymore. The flat-out Narm of lines like "it's a dilapidated boat!" killed the credibility even further. Also, as Crazy Awesome as Matt Hardy's character is supposed to be, his constant bleating of "Brother Nero!" quickly became the most annoying sound of the whole video. Finally, the audio quality was just terrible, with noticeable popping and scratching every time either wrestler hits the mat. It's already being called "The Room of pro wrestling matches," and it's not hard to see why. It has this troper convinced that TNA won't live to see 2017.
- Senor Cornholio: Since I am allowed to put one moment per work, I feel it only fitting that I give my two cents on something I recently decided to marathon. I actually bothered with the entirety of My Little Pony's 3rd generation and found myself... not as hateful towards it, at first. I'm definitely not a fan of this generation, but they at least seemed to have their own continuity for a time, and even had some somewhat likeable characters (Thistle Whistle, Rarity, Lily Lightly, Kimono, and especially Minty come to mind). All in all, G3 was harmless. Then the Core 7 shorts were introduced and I finally began to understand why G3 has such a bad rep (Generation 3.5's "Twinkle Wish Adventures" notwithstanding). These shorts did nothing but pander, showing the ponies either getting ready for a party, or having said party, on top of making some really major changes (Rainbow Dash doesn't have her trademark pseudo-British accent, Cheerilee's an earth pony instead of a unicorn, etc). However, what I'm mentioning is the absolute low point of Generation 3 (and after careful consideration, the entire My Little Pony franchise aside from the dreaded Newborn Cuties) is the "Special Day" series. There are two of these, but I decided to add both of them because they're equally terrible. These shorts centered around a special day for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash that is never really explained. They mainly consisted of a still background with nothing but a waving rainbow and either Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash's official G3 artwork plastered on it before basically giving us a Whole Episode Flashback. The flashbacks were basically just the earlier Generation 3 specials, from "Dancing in the Clouds" to "Positively Pink", with no editing done except having Rainbow Dash's voice actress redo all of the older one's lines, sometimes even with new (re: worse) dialogue. It's especially notable when Fiesta Flair, a pony who was cut and replaced for her supposed Unfortunate Implications, keeps her speaking role in the "Ladybug Jamboree" flashback. Even if we count G3.5, that just makes it worse; what little continuity there may be is completely thrown out of whack, since G3.5 shows the Core 7 as fillies hanging out together, before either Butterfly Island (pegasi) or Unicornia (unicorns) were discovered. Because of this, Starsong and Sweetie Belle, two Core 7 members who are a pegasus and unicorn respectively, are now living plotholes because their races had not yet unified, yet here they are acting as though these conflicts never existed. Not only that, but as previously mentioned, Cheerilee did a complete race change inbetween continuities, so none of this should even be in the same universe. These are mainly on here because they're just flashback episodes, but the other big reason is that now it can't decide which continuity it wants to have: the pre-Core 7 canon or the post-Core 7 canon. I know I'm getting worked up over what's considered the Dork Age of My Little Pony, but the amount of laziness in these specials is just mind-boggling. I'd have put Newborn Cuties on here, but those belong on the So Bad, It's Horrible page as much as this belongs on the Dethroning Moment of Suck page because NC was always horrible; this is where Generation 3 went from "meh" status to outright deserving some of the flak it gets. It could be seen as Jumping the Shark, but I'd say it was more like jumping the goldfish to be honest. All I have to say after that is thank Celestia for Generation 4.

Dethroning Moment of Suck itself is Flame Bait, some moments include Flame Bait tropes, and none of the guidelines on the main page forbid examples from including Flame Bait tropes, so I'm not sure.