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- Ms. Fanservice: All three of them, but Adagio especially. While their actual designs aren't much different from other humans (although their outfits do show off their bodies more), they way they act is all over this; they have slinky movements, sultry voices, and alluring gazes. While it's kind of jarring considering the target audience, this is fully in-line with them being based on mythological sirens; when Twilight tells the group their origins, she specifically notes they were said to be beautiful.
- Karma Houdini: After placing the entire school under mind control, attempting to kill Twilight, Sunset, and the Humane 5, and trying to take over the human world, their only punishments are losing their singing voices and being shunned as outcasts by the rest of the school. In real life they would have been locked up for the rest of their lives. At least Sunset's case was somewhat justified by her having a Heel–Face Turn. These three remain evil, and as far as we know are still on the loose. However, being they obviously hate being in the human world and, depending on your interpretation, need their amulets to survive, they would probably argue they got punished very harshly.
- Females Are More Innocent: Sonata gives off more of a sweet, innocent little girl vibe than the abrasive Aria and the evil mastermind Adagio. These examples were deleted from the Characters Friendship Is Magic Expanded Universe for these reasons:
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I don't know if this example from The Boxtrolls is appropriate, so I decided to run it by here before doing anything with it.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lord Portley-Rind's reaction to realizing that Madame Frou Frou, on whom he'd had a crush up to that point, was actually the conniving and lying Jerkass Archibald Snatcher. And no, it's not because he had found out that "she" was a he.
FTW I remember a discussion here earlier about whether a certain UI citation was valid (it was apparently judged invalid as an SJW rant), and for the record I saw through the writer of that rant from the word "go". Lord Portley-Rind regretting his relationship with "Madame Frou Frou" wasn't because "she" was actually a he, it was because Snatcher had just acted like a conniving and entitled jerk to him (and this is coming from someone who had just seen the film).
Just checking to see if that example's appropriate, is all; "when in doubt", after all.
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The-Literary-Lord is doing some mass deleting on all pages related to My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks without any proper explanation, and several of the entries he deleted were completely fine.
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"They then stroll free, leaving the portal open for other prisoners to escape."
Why was this bit removed from the Winx Club entry for The Alcatraz?
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A very problematic dilemma on The Magic Roundabout:
- Gag Dub: In the English version, launching it to popularity.
- Redubbing: In the American version, plummeting it back into obscurity.
These two examples look like they're supposed to go together, but I don't know how it can be done, so I commented both out until I knew what to do with them.
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Under the Parental Abandonment example for Anastasia, is it OK to use this wording for the last part?
"It's the driving force behind her journey throughout the film, which is a nice change of pace for a trope that in animation is often just tacked on for the sake of it."
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Kinda worrisome edit here
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The edit reason is worrisome because it feels a bit possessive and doesn't seem to have any idea of what Knight of Cerebus actually is. I can't be certain because the edit itself is entirely without context. Plus they added a... banner? I don't know what to call it but a random hunk of text in irregular format telling people not to add any more (which is odd because I'm not even finding any entries in the history).
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Hi,
I've been working on a page for a 1980s animated series and I'm about to work on pages for episodes, comic books and characters and I have a couple of questions:
1. There are 14 comic books in a series, but there is one that was published last year, as in sixteen and a half years after those 14. How do I list it?
2. How do I list some ambiguously canon comic books and canon short stories?
3. What is an acceptable format for an episode or a comic book? Do I write some sort of a plot summary (3-5 rows or so) and then add the tropes or..?
4. Also, how about images for episodes and comic books?
5. How do I index all of the above pages?
Thank you in advance.
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Heads up, most if not all of the shorts from The 50 Greatest Cartoons have had statements like, "This short ranks number X on The 50 Greatest Cartoons" on their respective TV Tropes pages for maybe years now, and I might need some help deleting all of those statements.
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What is the policy for potholes in page quotes, such as that on Pinky and the Brain, for instance?
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bambispamer777
's only edit so far is to add a very badly written and spelled example to GrowlingGut.Animated Films.
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The Total Drama Characters page has a number of pseudo-canonical (i.e. frequently contradicted by the episodes) text bios on the original cast subpages, specifically Total Drama Killer Bass and Total Drama Screaming Gophers. These bios were lifted verbatim from the show's Season 1 website, possibly via Wikipedia.
I seem to recall hearing that this kind of copypasta is not allowed here, but I can't find a statement to that effect. I need confirmation before deleting these bios, if they need to be deleted.
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Is this moment from Lady And The Tramp funny enough for its Funny Moments subpage?
- From the beaver scene:
Tramp: What you need is a log puller... (The beaver continues chewing on the log, ignoring him) I said "a LOG PULLER"!!!!! (voice rumbles)
Also, is this scene from One Hundred And One Dalmatians enough of a Tear Jerker?
- The scene where Pongo comforts a frightened Perdita, who was hiding from Cruella under a kitchen stove and worrying over the idea of having puppies (since Cruella was desiring to take them away, to say the least). This becomes even more heartwrenching when Perdita sadly laments that she wishes she wasn’t having any puppies and then breaks into tears as Pongo gives her a calm kiss. "Poor Perdita. Of course, she had no choice," said Pongo in narration afterwards.
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- Evil Plan: Jafar's Batman Gambit. Upon his release, he immediately comes up with a plan to retake Agrabah and kill all of his old enemies, relying on two people to help him accomplish this task: Abis Mal, and Iago. Both serve him out of utter fear, and Jafar almost gets away with all he has done. This includes having Iago lead Aladdin and the Sultan astray while Jafar imprisons the Genie, Abu, and Jasmine; chasing Aladdin down a waterfall and having him live so that he can return to Agrabah and be arrested for the 'murder of the sultan' - after which he would be humiliated by Jafar disguised as Jasmine right before his death. Had Iago not interfered, Jafar would have won.
Is it an Evil Plan or a Batman Gambit?
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If, for instance, the Chipmunks from Alvin and the Chipmunks were all examples, and not just one of them, would {{Doorstep Bab}y}}ies, for example, be the proper way to write the trope name? (Note that this is another formatting-related question, so I decided to show the source code for the example.)
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Just browsing around for some funny episodes of shoes coming to life and talking.
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melissinos123 removed Prince Hans from the Dangerously Genre-Savvy page for no stated reason. I'd say he qualifies as such. :
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.DangerouslyGenreSavvy
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.TheLEGOMovie
People not knowing what tropes are YMMV and what aren't seems really prevalent on the LEGO Movie YMMV page. Frozen too, for that matter.
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While I personally don't think these examples are strong, Sara Jaye is edit warring about two Avatar: The Last Airbender examples on Strangled by the Red String.

Is what Carface goes through during the course of the All Dogs Go to Heaven franchise Villain Decay or Diminishing Villain Threat?