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:
openNo Title Live Action TV
What's up with the (presumably) Custom Title Tōru Ōhira?
EDIT: The page quote too.
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
On Nov 1st, Epithumia added a mis-indented example to Space: 1999. I PMed her and corrected the entry. Today she added another example with incorrect indentation, and added a Trivia trope to the main page. I've corrected this, too, and PMed her again, but I'd like to mention it here in case her problems are persistent.
Edited by GnomeTitanresolved No Title Live Action TV
Series/NorthAndSouthUS is in flagrant violation of the custom title policy, displaying as "North and South (Trilogy)".
openNo Title Live Action TV
on https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/ScreamQueens2015
, there's an Edit War between two tropers over wether or not Chanel #2 is a Scrappy. I don't know if the page must be locked or if the tropers must be warned.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There's what looks to be a bit of an Edit War happening on the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. page, on the subject of Grant Ward. NEX7
added something, someone deleted it, NEX7 added it again, someone else deleted it...this looks like it has the potential to go on for a while.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There are a few tropes indexed under Networks that aren't networks. I suspect it is because a few of the networks listed on Networks don't have pages here so aren't linked to; so the first link after the top level bullet is being indexed. Flanderization and Cultural Cringe and Captain Obvious are the three I specifically know of.
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
Any reason why Our Friends in the North is locked for editing? I'd quite like to start a page on this classic British drama series- and even if it hadn't starred a future Doctor and a future Bond it would be deserving of one! Could someone with the power to do so please unlock it? Thanks!
openNo Title Live Action TV
On Save the Villain, the last two examples given for Xena Warrior Princess in Live Action TV, are, well, wrong. (Did not happen in the series at all.) I hesitate to delete it, however. (Not sure if I'm supposed to.)
openNo Title Live Action TV
For some reason, Doctor Who Revival Series Doctors Eleven Twelve And War has a trouble with the folders. The twelfth Doctor isn't in one, despite the formatting saying otherwise.
openNo Title Live Action TV
This was brought up a while ago in the discussion for Kamen Rider but can we update the image to something more recent? Perhaps this image? https://www.google.com/search?q=showa+vs+heisei&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIsKnEtsChxwIVgUc-Ch3PIgqB&biw=1920&bih=923#imgrc=RPrx3VvJkWx-gM%3A
openNo Title Live Action TV
Quick question that I don't know where to ask: I want to start up a page for Charles Soule's Daredevil comic run that started in 2015. But since the Netflix show also started in 2015 (and is called Series/Daredevil2015) would it be preferable for me to call it Charles Soule's Daredevil as opposed to sectioning off the sub-pages for Series/Daredevil2015 with folders?
I ask because some people seem to use the author's name in the work title if it's part of a larger franchise, like with ''Jonathan Hickman's Avengers. But it seems clunkier and reserved for works where there were various series under one banner.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Okay, in the Supergirl page edit a Whatthehellhero trope was added for Kara when Wynn chewed her out for hugging James. I was puzzled by that as I thought it did not match and removed it. It was reinstated with that the reasoning that a) the person giving the speech does not have to be fully justified and b) Wynn rant was justified because Kara was obviously flirting with James and that puts her in the wrong. I have put it to discussion as the definition of the trope is an unheroic or henious act which Kara did not do. Also the reasoning that Kara was in the wrong was flawed because a hug does not constitute flirting especially when the person making the accusation has feelings for her and acting more on his hurt emotions then any moral high ground. In the discussion I have found no reason to think the trope applies and thinking about removing it. Do I need to wait for a moderator or do I need to check for a second opinion or confirmation from another party?
openNo Title Live Action TV
Me and another troper are currently in disagreement over an edit to the Contrived Coincidence trope on the Jessica Jones (2015) page regarding an incident towards the end of the series. I'm going to put most of this post in spoiler tags, since it covers a lot of the back half of the show, particularly the final episodes and climax.
In episode 10 of the series, Jessica has villain Kilgrave physically bound in her apartment, having essentially resolved the plot of the series. However, while she is dealing with this, supporting character Robyn leads other supporting characters to physically attack Jessica in the belief that she is responsible for their problems, and winds up freeing Kilgrave. This then leads to the continuation of the plot of the series and the climax of the series. Robyn had decided to attack Jessica because, immediately prior in the episode, she had learned that her twin brother had actually been killed and his body dumped in a river, for which she blamed Jessica.
Robyn's attack coming at the same time that Jessica has Kilgrave bound up in her apartment is definitely "a coincidence" and is also a Spanner in the Works, but I do not believe this to be the Contrived Coincidence trope. Though the timing is purely coincidental, the fact that Robyn attacked at all came about because she had learned specific information. The location/being able to find Jessica was because she knew where Jessica lived and worked. There are connecting and logical internal points bringing them together. They didn't bump into each other on the street, Robyn didn't randomly discover anything, the chain of events flows directly, leaving only timing as a coincidence, and if the timing alone being odd qualifies as the trope then I don't see the trope is anything more than just "a coincidence".
Does this qualify as a Contrived Coincidence?
Edited by JBK405openNo Title Live Action TV
How do we set a page so that it is a trope that does indexing? Timey-Wimey Ball is a trope with one subpage: TimeyWimeyBall.Doctor Who. TWB.DW is unindexed - but should be indexed under Timey-Wimey Ball.
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Live Action TV
Apparently the official romanization for Dobutsu Sentai Jyuuouger
is Zyuohger, do we have to make new pages or can we change the title somehow?
openNo Title Live Action TV
This is a minor issue, but I'm questioning one of my own additions to the Jessica Jones (2015) page and wanted to have other tropers weigh in. I added Mundane Luxury to the page because the series villain, Kilgrave, in the backstory used his Compelling Voice powers for some minor and common things: He made a rich guy give him his very nice jacket, had a concert cellist perform for him, and had a woman follow him around smiling all the time. Another character, after hearing of these events, observes that Kilgrave was just obtaining clothing, good music and a pretty woman's smile, remarking that these items are so petty compared to what he can (And other times does) do with his powers.
However, I'm waffling on the trope because it's not only about when someone obtains or desires something mundane, it's thematically about when they want these things because they've been so deprived that even the mundane seems luxurious. Kilgrave doesn't limit himself to just the mundanities, at other times in the series he is shown using his powers for expensive food and housing, mountains of money, sex with women, and every other way you can think of for exploiting his Compelling Voice power.
So, he's not been deprived of the mundane luxuries of life, but he does still go out of his way to get them in a way that other characters actually comment on. Would this fit the trope, or not?
Edited by JBK405openNo Title Live Action TV
Have a problem in YMMV.The Walking Dead TV Show. There's a troper by the handle of NJE91 who's deleting entries without explanation or apparent reason. Jumped the Shark was nuked on the 14th, and then restored by another troper, and now he's deleting entries under Narm.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Expanding the DCLAU (Disney Channel Live Action Universe)
Those who either watch the DCLAU shows or even just the yellow site, may know that there was recently a mega crossover that included Girl Meets World with other DCLAU shows. When this happened, it brought its parent show (Boy Meets World) and most of the TGIF shows in with it. One of these shows, Family Matters was even bought by CBS for their own CBS Block Party, and it has a crossover with CBS original Meego Meego had an un-aired crossover with Gilligan's Island. Both Gilligan and Skipper would appear on a movie called Back to the Beach. Back to the Beach also had an appearance by Pee-wee Herman. Wouldn't then Pee-wee Herman and any other site that he's appeared on be connected to the DCLAU?
Also, both Sabrina the Teenage Witch (which is connected by way of a crossover with Boy Meets World) and Gilligan's Island were followed by animated spinoffs, Sabrina had three while Gilligan had two.

Need Recap.Supergirl 2015 turned into an index.