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Downer Ending is absolutely not the trope for these situations. There must be an explicit ending written into an arc or other discrete narrative unit to count (and even then being killed does not by itself a Downer Ending make).
- "every wrestler who died young": The Character Died with Him if the death is explicitly acknowledged in the promotions etc., Author Existence Failure otherwise.
- "or had a career cut short due to injury": Career-Ending Injury
- "or politics." Don't know how exactly to handle this one.
No, that's blatantly troping real life.
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Downer Ending is a narrative trope and explicitly NRLEP. Any such examples should be deleted on sight.
He ban evaded once anyway, so we can revert his edits on that basis alone.
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Wrestling pages in general have a bad habit of troping real life people and situations, no doubt due to the blurred lines between fiction and reality.
I've seen examples of Downer Ending describing real life wrestler deaths and I agree that they should be removed. Too Cool to Live is also often seen on their YMMV entries.
Aye, this is not correct use of Downer Ending. Use The Character Died with Him, Character Outlives Actor and The Other Darrin if necessary.
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Am I allowed to have the names of JIKTV's ban-evading accounts? I'm specifically curious as to whether KJ Tropes was JIKTV.
Russell... likes to hurt people... for PEACE.
We're all mortals, so if someone dies young, use a more appropriate trope. Downer Ending is for situations, not people.
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Okay, another question - how should we go about cleaning up his messes?
JIKTV liked to create pages about wrestlers with little apparent rhyme or reason. For example, Blind Rage has 17 total tropes, at least a few of which are misused. Crossbones The Wrestler, aside from not being located at Crossbones for some reason, is an absolute mess of incorrect formatting and misused tropes. He linked Tournament Arc to every single tournament a wrestler participated in, Bash Brothers to every single tag team a wrestler ever participated in regardless of whether it was accurate or not (for example, with Crossbones above, his relationship with Ultramantis Black was more along the lines of abused loyal servant and ungrateful master, plus they didn't even team often - absolutely not Bash Brothers).
Is there an easy way to find a list of pages created by JIKTV/KJtropes?? Every single one of them is going to have issues - and because they're often about obscure wrestlers even a lot of wrestling fans haven't heard of, they aren't going to be easily noticed.
Russell... likes to hurt people... for PEACE.
I'm just looking to get this question answered once and for all. Some years ago, we had a troper named JIKTV who was notoriously sloppy in his use of tropes (for example, when I renamed a page he'd been working on he accused me of Hijacking Him By Ganon) and was eventually site banned for it.
He added Downer Ending to the individual page of every wrestler who died young or had a career cut short due to injury or politics.
I've usually removed that trope from those pages everywhere I've seen it, but at least a couple other people think it's an appropriate use for the trope, so rather than continuing to just remove it I'm bringing it up here.
Edited by McJeff