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resolved Character standing in front of a gradient background (for dramatic effect) Anime
This usually happens in anime when a character strikes a pose. They'll generally be standing alone with the gradient behind them as they stand in a power pose
openEdit War on Ass Pull entry Anime
On YMMV.Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom, ~drillizer has re-added
two Ass Pull entries that they once added back in May, but were eventually culled out by consensus in the general Gundam thread
after repeated manic tweaking and refusal to argue for their restoration in the forum despite being prompted so by Omega Nemesis 13.
openIs there a trope for a reprinting/dub/similar same-medium adaptation accidentally changing the plot? Anime
I'm trying to figure out an appropriate ymmv/trivia quote for an occurence -
In "Book of the Long Sun", the Orb reprinting (by far the easiest one to find now), it changes a major reveal by replacing "I" with "Horn", deleting the reveal that the third person narrative was actually a first person one.
Edited by EpochPirateresolved Should we add actors next to characters in the main page? Anime
I've been seeing some anime/manga pages like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, and Fairy Tail listing their actors next to characters. Is this necessary?
Also, in the case of the last one, the page lists both English and Japanese voice actors. Is this also necessary?
Edited by RuckusHeartsopenProblematic edits Anime
JuniorOgun
has recently made some
biased edits
relating to Elfen Lied, one of which is heavily sarcastic and doesn't try to sound objective, and another that is heavily misleading, claiming Lucy decides to kill humanity in response to being “hit in the face by a kid’s soccer ball” as opposed to her dog being killed by the orphanage bullies.
openEdit War Alert Anime
In Characters.Chainsaw Man Chainsaw Man Church:
- Voyd211 added a Family-Unfriendly Death example in this edit
.
- There Aint No Mountain removed the example in this edit
with the edit reason "Hybrids are literally immortal".
- Voyd211 placed the example back in this edit
with the edit reason "Weapons may be immortal, but they can (temporarily) be killed so I'd say it still counts."
Given the edit reasons, I doubt that there was a discussion whether the Family-Unfriendly Death example actually fits if the character is capable of coming back from the dead before the third edit. The description of the trope seems to imply that it doesn't disallow examples of temporary deaths.
Edited by Excessive-MenaceopenRestore deleted TLP Draft Anime
I'd like to restore a discarded TLP draft (this one
) because another user D Med me and asked to adopt it. Is this allowed?
openTroping Leaked Content Anime
In Characters.Jujutsu Kaisen Ryomen Sukuna, there have been multiple edits today troping a leaked chapter that will release on Sunday (Content Leak says that troping leaks is forbidden on this website). Specifically, the edits were made by There Aint No Mountain here
, Phantom Heartless 5 here
, and Thursdays Gregor here
. This has been a recurring problem in the JJK character pages for a while where people post trope examples relating to leaks before the chapters officially release, so would it be fine for me to add a commented out note in the beginning of the character pages telling others to not trope leaked content and wait for the official release? I'll also remove the leaked examples when I do so.
resolved How to add Custom Subpages? Anime
I'm Trying to make a Drinking game for this anime;
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline
But there's no option for it in the "Create Subpage" tab.
openAdding Foil to Ranma 1/2 page for Genma and Soun Anime
So, I was wondering for anyone who is familiar with Ranma ½. I was thinking about adding a foil trope example for both Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome since they have several things in common and different with each other.
Like, both characters are the fathers of the main characters Ranma and Akane and both characters were students of Happosai. However, Soun Tendo is a bit more caring for his three daughters and is much more emotional in any situation, while Genma Saotome is a bit abusive towards Ranma and seems to rarely show emotion in many situations.
resolved That Anime Anime
There was an Anime that has aired Saturday Morning on Cartoon Network. I forget the name of it but there was one episode where they resurrected a pterodactyl.
resolved Gushing and Fan Myopia the main pages. Should they be removed? Anime
Recently I've been reading the main page for Haruhi Suzumiya and I noticed that it has this paragraph in the main description:
- "As you might be able to tell from the length of this page, the anime in its first season became a smash hit both domestically and internationally, where it's been compared to similar ensemble absurdist comedies like Monty Python's Flying Circus. It spawned unthinkable levels of praise, with resulting amounts of Hype Backlash, a globe-spanning Cash-Cow Franchise, with fans from Japan to America to Britain to Russia to Palestine,
probably the largest body of backlash in the history of all anime, and made Kyoto Animation a household name."
I feel that there's a lot of Fan Myopia and probably some complaining which I think shouldn't be in the main page (there's also the fact that the character page and the laconic page claiming how insanely Trope Overdosed the series is and how that make the pages "long" even when it isn't compared to other Trope Overdosed pages). I am aware that the series was quite popular back in its heyday (resulting into a lot of entry pimping in this site back then), but I wouldn't say the same in this day and age.
There's also a bit of gushing as well in another paragraph:
- "The books vary between several short stories and one novel, and have their differences from the anime. Usually because of the time limit the anime has, it compresses Kyon's narration process as well as the romantic focus and the character insight one would usually get from the novels, at the cost of saving comedy and the plot. While the plot alone is interesting, it leaves many actions and motives to the interpretation of the reader (often triggered by Kyon being an Unreliable Narrator), which makes you think about it long after you finish the book. However, the realistic Character Development of the Brigade members is also impressive."
Speaking of gushing, I also remember reading the Vinland Saga description which also falls into it:
- "Ultimately the series has a lot of brutal (but fun!) battles. It's also fairly accurate about viking culture, so it teaches you stuff while you read (yes, it's that awesome). It's also got some pretty snappy dialogue and humorous little exchanges between characters both major and minor."
Are these kinds of descriptions allowed in the main page?
Edited by RuckusHeartsresolved Making sure to follow the rules Anime
From what I read from the rule of TLP, you can't hat your drafts on the TLP, right? I want to make sure since I haven't done that at all, and I want to ensure that I follow the rules correctly.
resolved Naming a page for a manga with two names? Anime
I want to make a trope page for a series that was created as a spin-off to Sorcerer Hunters, but there's a problem; in Japan, the manga and its OAV adaptation were originally called Chivas 1-2-3, but trademark/copyright infringement (Chivas being a Western brand of Whiskey at the time) forced it (or at least the OAV) to be renamed to Sorcerer on the Rocks. So what would be the correct page to set up here? Chivas 123, or Sorcerer on the Rocks?
resolved Jujutsu Kaisen Content Leak edit war Anime
There is currently an edit war at Characters.Jujutsu Kaisen First Years product of a Content Leak; chapter 267 of the manga was leaked on the internet this week. The chapter will be officially released on monday.
Tropers/309216364 first added
content related to the leak on August 22, which was promptly deleted
by Excessive-Menace citing our rules against troping leaked content.
Later that day, Andy Mouse added
more content based on the leaks, which Excessive-Menace also deleted
later.
Today, Sullytofu added some new entries
referencing the leaks.
openDoes this page need a cleanup? (HeartwarmingInHindsight) Anime
The bottom of the page has this note:
IMPORTANT: Do not include examples that are Foreshadowing, nor moments that came just a handful of episodes later. Those are clearly intended heartwarming moments later in the same work.
However, some users have bluntly disregarded this, the vast majority of the anime folder examples consist of stuff that is obviously foreshadowed.
Should it all be removed? I mean, disregarding the entries about voice actors, the blind photographer and the ones relating to Real Life people. I wanted to manually remove it myself but I fear it would start an edit war.
openPossible reverting of page Anime
There's been some odd edits made to the character folder of Emperor Charles zi Brittania on Code Geass - Britannian Imperial Family that I'm not sure I agree with. A single user by the name of Reddish Guy 1 went down the page
and edited various entries to paint Charles—who, while a villain, has nuance and positive qualities to him—in a more negative light, to such a point I worry there's maybe some kind of agenda at play against the character. For just some of the edits:
- They changed Charles's Noble Demon entry entirely, removing the (correct) description that he cares about humanity and wants to erase lies to instead say he's only "somewhat" the trope and then spend the entire entry noting his negative qualities.
- They added an addition to his Smug Snake entry to change "Charles largely gets away with his plans because he has access to a great amount of resources." into "Charles largely gets away with his plans because he just happens to have access to a great amount of resources."
- They edited his Evil Plan entry to make it seem like his opponent Lelouch easily overcame him when the original entry noted that Lelouch only barely won.
- They edited his Do Not Go Gentle entry to make it less about that trope—ie, "fighting to the last breath"—and instead bring up that he's "futilely" struggling and "spitefully" tries to choke someone.
The fact that this was all done in one batch and seems to be specifically targeting Charles' positive qualities to seemingly try to paint him as poorly as possible makes me wonder if this is worth a reversion. Charles is a villain but the editing of both his positive tropes (Noble Demon; Do Not Go Gentle) to make him look bad, and his negative tropes (Smug Snake) to make him look worse has me concerned the edits are perhaps based on a personal bias rather than what the work rightly showcases.
Edited by Ravokresolved Troper removed image notice Anime
On Characters.Delicious In Dungeon Monsters, troper Smeagol 17 changed
the image of the humanoid mermaid to one in the anime. The things is, the image was reverted per this IP thread
since the image they suggested had bare breasts (albeit somewhat hard to see). What worse is that they also remove the tag and in the edit reason, they only cited the aforementioned but no one gave their approval. The only one responding to it is me, and even then, I was simply telling them to make an IP thread if they wish to change the images (and yet long after the thread they still changed the images without making a thread).
Any thoughts on this?
resolved Troper with a Fairy Tail shipping fanaticism issue. Anime
First off this is my first ATT on here so please be patient as I’m rather nervous.
Ok on to the topic at hand. For the past few days Bradford46
has fallen into shipping fanaticism by claiming Lisanna Strauss is Natsu’s girlfriend/former girlfriend such as here
and here
.
What makes this concerning is because while the anime does ship tease Natsu and Lisanna early on as kids, it’s just ship tease as any sort of romance between them upon her return from Edolas is promptly ignored and she has never been shown being in an actual relationship with Natsu at all, in other words Lisanna has never been Natsu’s girlfriend at any point in the series.
Another concern from this already for mentioned post here
is that they claim that Lucy is Natsu’s second girlfriend as of the 100 years quest, this is glaring especially since Natsu and Lucy aren’t even in any kind of romantic relationship yet so I have no idea where their getting this from.
Lastly, they have committed an edit war, the process can be seen here
, here
and here
which not only did they give no edit reason for reverting whatsoever but also never bothered to even contact me to talk about it which I would have been more then willing to do.
Simply put it doesn’t seem likely that Bradford46
will listen to reason so I brought the issue up here.

A while ago I made this query
concerning an entry regarding Awesome Music. When I mentioned it in the "Get Help With English Here" thread, someone pointed out
that this user is self-inserting their own opinions (except for the commas, that were a necessary addition). They also removed the %% notice I added about ZC Es and grammar.
The edit
.