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You'd need to make a Wick Check and post in the Trope Repair Shop if you feel like this is not a valid trope.
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From what I know, Duct Tape for Everything is about absurd or highly unusual uses of duct tape. For example, in Assassin's Creed Origins, a character uses duct tape to secure an ancient hidden blade on their arm, or in Underverse a person uses duct tape to repair a golden necklace, and later a fence.
Edited by Lermis Space Battles Dot Com fanworks (unnoficial) index in my Sandbox.
Discussion regarding what the definition is and what counts would probably be better suited to Trope Talk, and a proposal to clean up or even cut the trope would have to go through the Trope Repair Shop (with a wick check for the case of a TRS thread).
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
This is reminding me of back when Broken-Window Warning was titled Window Pain and was defined as "literally any time a window breaks for any reason whatsoever" (including such examples as "accidentally hitting the window with a bag" and "a helicopter crashes into a building").
I think a similar thing could be done here, changing the description and possibly title to restrict it to meaningful examples.
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Does anyone else find that Duct Tape for Everything has a mild problem with people using it as 'duct tape exists'?
While there are plenty of examples of duct tape being used for unusual/comedic purposes, there's quite a bit that I've noted that just seems to be listing the appearance of duct tape in a work.
It doesn't help that the description is a bit vague on what the trope actually is. Just from reading it, it mainly just seems to be saying 'duct tape is useful'. Which kind of makes me leery if using duct tape for mundane purposes (such as patching up a costume, a hole in something, ect) should really count as a trope.
There are plenty of specific examples on the page that could be their own trope given the number of them (using duct tape to hold a wound together, using it to restrain someone) and duct tape being used to comedic effect of fixes some sort of overly complicated technology could be a trope.
But as this trope is, it feels very, very vague as to what it's an example of, other than 'people use duct tape a lot'.