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In the X-Men films, Wolverine is clearly portrayed as a protagonist, but he can be, in a word, an asshole, and tends not to care about being a jerk to almost everyone around him. He tells a young girl (Rogue) to get out of his truck where she was hiding because she had no other means of transportation, having run away from home (keep in mind they're in Canada, it's snowing, and she doesn't have winter clothes). He tells her he doesn't know where she's supposed to go, and when asked if he doesn't know or doesn't care, he impatiently and abrasively replies "Pick one!"
He also tells Magneto and Professor X to "Go fuck [themselves]" when they approach him in a bar and introduce themselves like gentlemen, without antagonizing him at all.
This is justified though, since he's spent over 100 years on the run from people who want to kill or capture him, and has learned not to trust anyone.
Does this make him a Jerkass Woobie?
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Uh, what's with the image on this page? Of course, ignoring that Examples Are Not Recent in the description and a good chunk of the tropes are Zero Context Examples.
Edited by valozzyopenNo Title Film
In the film Lucy, the title character is shown to have an substantial appetite after unlocking 20% of her brain's capacity. The movie never outright states it, but this presumably relates to the fact that humans need large amounts of food because of our abnormally large brains. Lucy is using twice as much brain power as the average human, so she would, in theory, need even more sustenance to feed her brain.
Does this qualify as fridge brilliance?
Edited by RayAP9openNo Title Film
Is there a guideline on when, or if, to make new pages for works of literature? Many times, I see work pages under the Theatre or Film namespace even if the adaptation is better known than the source material. I would bet a lot more people have seen the film version of Harvey, but it's under the Theatre namespace.
But other times you see separate pages created for works. I saw that a separate page was made for the Paul Thomas Anderson film of Inherent Vice, even though it, as I understand, is a highly faithful adaptation.
Original namespace? Separate namespace? Up to the individual?
Edited by galliumopenNo Title Film
Are there certain events in a given work that are technically spoilers, but don't really have to be tagged as such on the wiki?
For example, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The fact that The Winter Soldier is Bucky Barnes. His actor is listed as Sebastian Stan (and was before the movie hit theaters), and anyone who's even semi-interested in Captain America comics probably knows this. Anyone who's looking up the film on here and reading the different pages (WMG, Headscratchers, Fridge, etc.) probably falls into one of the aforementioned groups or has simply seen the movie already. This "spoiler" in particular could almost be the codifier for It Was His Sled.
Do we really have to even bother with tagging things like this as spoilers?
Edited by RayAP9openNo Title Film
Should I add a commented out message at the start of Guardians of the Galaxy reminding tropers to refrain from adding potholes to quotes? I removed them in two edits but now another troper is not only adding a new quote with potholes but also covering it all in a spoiler mark.
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Where do you report a work page that has obvious problems, but you don't know enough about the work to fix some of them or fill them out? (And I have a doctor's appt today, and I refuse to edit from my phone. Regular forum posting is hard enough.)
Film.Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey. I was just scanning the page looking to see if it had a trope someone asked about on Trope Finder. It doesn't seem to, but man, does that page have problems.
Edited by CandiopenNo Title Film
Why does the note in Girl-Show Ghetto next to the entry in the Live Action Film folder about the Hunger Games movies stay open?
openNo Title Film
So I just heard that Ron the Death Eater now requires citations, like Unfortunate Implications (which is still the face of TV Tropes citations to this day, as far as I'm aware). Why's that? And having previously added an example to Frozen Disney upon witnessing certain events here involving the demonization of the character listed in said example (before I had heard about the new citations requirement, mind you), I feel obliged to ask, would a citation from here regarding those events be considered valid? Or would I be better served to look elsewhere for citations?
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At least two examples on Beauty And The Beast which I'm unsure how they're played:
- Evil Plan: Double Subverted. Gaston's initial plan to make the most beautiful girl in town, I.E. Belle, his Housewife isn't really diabolical. It's the plan that involves unjustly locking a man away just so he can achieve his goal that is evil.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: An interesting aversion. The seasons change throughout the film, leaving the time Belle spends in the castle with the Beast indeterminable from weeks to months prior to their marriage. In addition, it is not shown that they actually married during the film, although it is heavily implied that they did some time after.
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There's apparently a film called Crossing Over, but while it doesn't have a work page here, there is an Awesome.Crossing Over. Shouldn't that one entry just be moved to the Awesome.Other Film page and then cutlist ACO, or is there a reason to keep a "rootless" subpage with only one entry?
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title Film
There's a contested "Funny Aneurysm" Moment example from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It was deleted once, then I added it back once with an alternative reasoning than what was reasoned, if you will, by the guy who originally put it in. It got deleted again, so I decided to bring it here for opinions:
- In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bones (DeForest Kelley) tries to chat up Spock (Leonard Nimoy) about the experience of being dead. Spock replies that the conversation wouldn't work because they have no common frame of reference—Bones had never died. Kelley ended up beating Nimoy to our great reward in real life.
Is it really an example on the grounds I suggested? Or does the other guy have a point? I'm not about to engage in any edit warring, since I know what that's been known to cause in the past; rather, I should like to see the question of whether the above is an example on any grounds settled as quickly as possible.
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I was thinking about adding Borat to the Unfortunate Implications page, but I wanted to know if this article is authentic enough for the information on the criticisms this film had.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/17/sacha-baron-cohen-dictator-sterotype
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309866,00.html
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Hello, I was wondering if it would be frowned upon to move the first opus of the Spider-Man Trilogy to Film/SpiderMan1, rather than the current Film/SpiderMan (with a custom title still spelling it "Spider-Man").
This would allow the movie to have its own subpages (Awesome, YMMV, Trivia, etc.) disengaged from those of the main Franchise, which can get tedious at time.
Or is it something that the planned overall of the website is going to make obsolete soon, and thus I should not bother yet?
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Is there a page for the movie "+1" or "Plus One" yet? It's the one where all the college-age people are at a party then because of some sci-fi electrical thing there's a clone of every single one, or like parallel universe selves.
I'm having trouble searching for it cuz its name is weird.
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I just created Singin' in the Rain and added it to the Headscratchers/Film index, but the index back/forward arrows aren't appearing on the bottom of the page yet. Could someone fix this, please?

In The Waterboy, Bobby Boucher refers to his job of waterboy as "Water distribution engineer." Does this qualify as Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness?