Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help.
It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread
for ongoing cleanup projects.
Ask the Tropers is for:
- General questions about the wiki, how it works, and how to do things.
- Reports of problems with wiki articles, or requests for help with wiki articles.
- Reports of misbehavior or abuse by other tropers.
Ask the Tropers is not for:
- Help identifying a trope. See TropeFinder.
- Help identifying a work. See MediaFinder.
- Asking if a trope example is valid. See the Trope Talk forum.
- Proposing new tropes. See TropeLaunchPad.
- Making bug reports. See QueryBugs.
- Asking for new wiki features. See QueryWishlist.
- Chatting with other tropers. See our forums.
- Reporting problems with advertisements. See this forum topic.
- Reporting issues on the forums. Send a Holler instead.
Ask the Tropers:
openIs this an insufficient edit reason for removal?
Hero The Brine removed an Ambiguously Bi entry I added to the character Kyoka Jiro, but their only edit reason was "The reasons provided of there being sings of her attraction/relationship with Momo were false.", yet they don't elaborate further nor do they provide any evidence.
Is that a sufficient enough edit reason for removal, or is it insufficient meaning I can restore it without enacting an Edit War?
The entry in question:
- Ambiguously Bi: While Jiro receives plenty of Ship Tease with Kaminari to the point Sero asks if they're dating in Chapter 431 which Jiro denies, her bond with Yaoyorozu at times comes across as romantic too. She is very defensive of Yaoyorozu and regularly expresses concern for when she exposes her body even if Yaoyorozu herself doesn't; plenty of supplementary material like promotional art, sketches from Horikoshi, and depictions in ED's cast the two of them together; and info released after the series conclusion all but says the two now live together, with Midoriya's photo of the two of them having them coming from grocery shopping, making it look like they're a sapphic couple living together.
openMultiple images
There’s two different image picking threads that I saw that have more than one image/duplicate images.
In this thread
, moment pages allow only 1 image and this other thread
says that an image used for a trope page and recap page is okay.
My question is: should recap pages with 2 episode segments into 1 episode have multiple images? Examples include SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, The Fairly OddParents!, etc.
Edited by LarrytheKingopenValid removals?
Literature.Division By Zero had ascentiondetention delete many examples citing "tropes aren't canon anymore with several new chapters releasing and being rewritten :)"
My impression is that that's not grounds for removing the old tropes, we just note that they are no longer canon, maybe move to separate place. Correct?
openSubpage’s check up
I just need to test things out before I pitch another picture for a subpage.
Do any of these subpages meet the text limit?
Edited by StoucaopenNo idea how to phrase this ADogNamedPerro entry Live Action TV
For context, I was rewatching episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive, and I came across the episode "Alone in the Amazon." In it, the survivor says he had a dog with him, and he says that he named it Cashew because it was the "Indian" word for "dog." Which language he means by that isn't elaborated on, but I assume it's one of the indigenous languages from the Amazon rainforest, since that's where the story takes place. As for the dog's name, I have no idea how to spell it, but it's pronounced like Cashew. It's even spelled that way in the YMMV section on this very wiki. What do I do here?
openMemetic mutation on Aztec Batman
The Aztec Batman Clash Of Empires has a Memetic Mutation entry calling the Joker based for slaughtering the natives. I cannot find anything about this on Google — I find memes for DCAU Joker and the protagonist from Persona 5, but not this version of Joker. There was already an edit war about this, so can I get consensus about this?
openShould I change a recap page's link format or leave it be? Anime
I was creating the episode links for the recap page of the Beastars anime when I noticed that someone had already created an episode link for a recap page for the first episode. The entire episode recap seems to have been created by one person judging by the history.
The problem I have is that they just put “episode 1” instead of S 1 E 1 or something similar which doesn’t fit with the format of the rest of the episodes which do have the S 1 E 1 structure.
My question is do I leave it be or do I change the format to fit with the others and just copy and paste the episode recap to the link with the proper format? I can put the name of the person who created the page in the “reasons for editing” section so they'll still receive credit for it.
openRecap Pages for Multi-Part Episodes of Ben 10 Western Animation
For Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse, all the multi-part episodes have individual recap pages for each part. Can the pages for those parts be merged into one page for the whole episode? I feel that would make things more convenient. Also, Ultimate Alien's episodes should be listed in production order, as "Ben 10,000 Returns" explicitly foreshadows the events of "The Creature from Beyond" and the ensuing story arc, and was produced before the latter, yet was aired after that episode. Can that be fixed?
Edited by AmNotMeresolved Disney Sayaka sock
disneymustdie is the latest Sayaka sock, making the exact same edit
on the same page as several of their socks, as well as having an anti-Disney handle like a previous sock (see also, Disney Sucks).
openHarem Politics
What happened to the Harem Politics page? It was such a nice page, I had barely read it.
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
openShould this page be merged back?
In this IP thread
it was revealed that ~doctordude created DumbBlonde.Western Animation and moved all Western Animation examples to there because there were a lot of examples in that namespace for Dumb Blonde. However, a concern was raised that there aren't enough examples to warrant a page split, to say nothing of how the split was done without consensus.
Thus, I'm hoping to gather consensus here on whether the subpage should be kept or if it should be merged back into the main trope page.
openSoukoku15 and his barebones Character page
Soukoku 15 is determined to create a characters page for the movie In Your Dreams (2025), but at the same time can't be bothered to actually put some effort into it. His first attempt contained just the names of the 3 main characters, but no information and no tropes whatsoever. That page was nominated for deletion by me and got cut, but now he made the exact same worthless zero context page all over again. I think it's time a mod talks with him.
openAbout WMG / Discovery Family...
Can someone please elaborate to me why WMG.Discovery Family is getting cut? The sole cut reason links to another ATT
that barely even seems to mention it, let alone mention the reasoning behind its removal.
openAsking about Image Pickin' Images
Hi! sorry if i'm in the wrong area, i don't come here often.
is there a way to suggest different images for pages that already have an established image? i don't know if this is really feasible, but it's worth a shot asking about, right? if you need context on the specific page, it's New Weird.
openRecaps don't need spoilers, yeah?
I've noticed a troper by the name of Murder Mystery Fanatic has been adding spoilers to at least Recap episodes of Castle (2009). It's my understanding that spoiler tags are redundant or unneeded for the most part, but I'm not sure how much of a problem it is that this is going on. Am I being weird?
openSomeone still believes a lie by someone who tricked them
Alice and Bob get told by Charles that if they help him with some scheme then he'll give them cake. However it becomes very clear that Charles is merely using them for his own personal gain, and when they find out they are outraged.
- Alice: You tricked us!Bob: Yeah! We'll never help you again! Now give us our cake!Charles: ...Alice: Bob...the cake is a lie, too...
What's the trope for Bob still believing the promise of cake despite all of Charles' other promises being broken?
resolved TRS crowner for Vague Age
Hello. There is an open crowner for Vague Age in this TRS thread
. The crowner will determine what to do with this trope.
If you'd like to vote, go here
. If you'd like to contribute to the thread, follow the above link.
resolved TRS crowner for Selling the Show
Hello. There is an open crowner for Selling the Show in this TRS thread
. The crowner will determine what to do with this trope.
If you'd like to vote, go here
. If you'd like to contribute to the thread, follow the above link.
openDarklightprince Western Animation
Darklightprince is still writing entries with flowery words.
For Dandadan, it's fine; the language used is colorful enough that some terms can be used with no consequences.
But today, I found
these
entries
written to take clear jabs at characters. And before anyone says it's harmless or it's nothing, Darklightprince described a bully character with... "incel"
, which clearly goes overboard.
And this isn't their first
time
, either.

How do you create a new page for a work? There’s a comic book that I’d like to add a page for.