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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.AvengersAgeOfUltron
People still keep adding anti-Man of Steel stuff to this page. I don't care about either movie but it's getting ridiculous. I think another example is/was on the Awesome page, too.
Edited by lalalei2001openNo Title Film
I just discovered a work page in main and was going to add it to the index Work Pages In Main but it's not an index any more I guess? So what to do about it?
The page in question is Women Of The Prehistoric Planet.
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Can Informed Attractiveness apply to a live-action movie? The wording of the trope seems to imply it's about animated works and books, but I'm seeing it used in regards to films, where it seems to be used primarily as Complaining About Characters You Dont Find Hot.
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Does a Busby Berkeley Number refer to any elaborately staged musical number, or does it have to have the trademark overhead "kaleidoscope" shots, as in the page image for the trope? (I don't know enough of the examples on the page to tell whether they all have the overhead thing.)
For example, does "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee qualify?
EDIT: If a BBN does have to have the kaleidoscope shot, is there another trope for elaborately staged musical numbers?
Edited by jayoungropenNo Title Film
Academy Award got made into a Useful Notes page. Which is fine, I guess, but it doesn't appear to be indexing anymore. It used to be an indexed list of all the films that have ever been nominated for Best Picture. Now the index is not showing up on the films listed. I think this used to be on the "Set Page Type" tool but that's no longer available.
openNo Title Film
Was there a consensus somewhere that I am not aware of to move The Avengers to Film.The Avengers 1? Because it strikes me as a completely unnecessary move that is only going to complicate things further.
Edited by TuckerscreatoropenNo Title Film
Hey! Well, yesterday, I got a private message from a mod, I think, telling me that my recent edit for Kindergarten Cop had Zero Content Example. The only two tropes I added for that movie were Have You Told Anyone Else? and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. He said they needed context so that anyone who hasn't seen the movie can understand it. Well, what do you guys think? Any ideas on how to add more detail? Here's the link.
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AwesomeMusic.Guardians Of The Galaxy has gone four months with only two examples, and I don't know how to add more Zero Context Examples that don't repeat Fridge Brilliance entries about the songs. Should it go on the cutlist, or is there a place where I can ask other people to add entries?
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Hello tropers and beyond! My name is Micah, I'm new to this website, and as a film enthusiast, I love it. I've noticed that many of my favorite films have been properly troped and then some (Leon the Professional, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Audition, Memento Mori etc). I however have not found a trope page for the live action Japanese film "Casshern" and would love to see one. This would be for the full uncut 140 minutes version from Japan and not the butchered widely disliked by fans 120 minute version created for the US. I've started accumulating some tropes but it's slow going since I don't know that many yet. That and it's a really complicated film. I'd love some help on it if any of you would like to. If you come up with some tropes to mind, please by all means shoot away! So far I've written down the following tropes. I'll have to review them to make sure I'm not mistaken about them. Obviously there's spoilers, so beware!:
Mind Screw, Bittersweet Ending, Chekhov's Gunman - Casshern the Guardian God never appears onscreen but his miracles (or lightning bolts do) and are what has a domino effect on the plot. The God's character is briefly explained halfway through in a story., Fantastic Racism, Space Whale Aesop, Anyone can Die, Everybody's dead Dave, Kill 'Em All, The End of the World as we Know It, The Aloner (Burai), Misanthrope Supreme (Burai), Big Bad (Burai), Bigger Bad (Dr. Azuma), Anti Villain (Burai), Designated Villain (Although Burai ends up with intentions for genocide, he was originally killed for no reason and once he was resurrected, him and his people again were hunted down for just existing), Immortality Seeker (Dr. Azuma and the Government), Grey and Gray Morality, Black and Gray Morality, Cynicism Catalyst (Burai and his fellow neo sapiens were hunted down to be killed. He then takes it upon himself to murder the entire human race as rightful justice), Famous last words, The hero dies, Kubrick Stare
Edited by micahblowersopenNo Title Film
Does the Frozen portion of AndTheFandomRejoiced.Film look long enough for its own page?
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Considering the ban on potholing trope names in example lists, should we make a separate self-demonstrating page for Attack of the The Eye Creatures in order to maintain the "the the" joke?
We have precedent, as Gadsby received a self-demonstrating page for this reason.
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Would anyone mind if I move some entries on Fridge.Guardians Of The Galaxy about the Awesome Mix to the currently-shrimpy AwesomeMusic.Guardians Of The Galaxy page?
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Didn't bother clicking the link, but I'm assuming this is spam: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Film.AvengersAgeOfUltron&id=92984#92984
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Film.Agent For HARM lists both of the following tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: Adam manages to prevent the villain from dusting American crops with the poisonous spores, thereby saving millions of lives, but that's about all that goes right. He fails to find an antidote to the spore and fails to protect Stefanik, the only scientist in the world who is even close to developing an antidote. He also fails to notice that Ava is The Mole, despite her being really bad at it. He doesn't even manage to take the villain down properly; the critically wounded Stefanik is the one who kills the villain, getting himself dusted with spores in the process.
- Downer Ending: The Doctor is killed by the spore despite claiming he gave himself the antidote, and Adam makes out with Ava while arresting her of a capital crime. It's hard to feel anything happy at the end, not even a Bittersweet Ending.
Aren't these mutually exclusive? Should one of these be removed?
EDIT: I think the problem is that on a personal level it is totally a downer ending. Sure the good guy wins and saves millions of lives, but A Million Is a Statistic, and in the process the only likeable character in the movie dies and the cute girl is exposed as a villain and arrested. I think what needs to be done is Downer Ending should be removed, and Bittersweet Ending should be altered to reflect how bad the ending really is.
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So Moulin Rouge! appears to be hosting information on two movies that are completely unrelated except for their titles and the fact that they take place in and/or are about the same theatre, the Moulin Rouge. Am I mistaken? Can this page be split? This doesn't look like a film and its remake, this looks like two different, unrelated films.
Edited by SolipSchismopenNo Title Film
Mdumas43073 moved a lot of the articles listed on Creator.Shout Factory down to the "Scream Factory" section, even though Shout! didn't release them through that label. Could someone please revert this?
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So, on May 24th, 2013 user notahandle blanked the page Funny.Invasion Of The Neptune Men. I get WHY it was blanked - the only examples it listed were actually from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode devoted to the movie, and not the movie itself. But the thing is, now the page is just sitting there, empty.
What should be done about this? Should I Cut List the page? Leave it? What?

Namespace Question: Came across Main.Hey Cinderella while typing a subpage I made elsewhere. Obviously, it doesn't go in the Main namespace, but my question is where does it go. From what I've found it looks like it was a one hour TV Muppets special. Does that mean it goes under Series since it was TV? Another such special, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, is listed in Series so that makes me think yes but I want to ask before I move it.
Edited by sgamer82