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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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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, 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?
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I tried to make a YMMV part of the movie of the "judge" and moved the bit of Dwight being lawful neutral to the YMMV but it didn't work out the way I was accepting(ei:most YMMV are colored grey and the YMMV sign normally shows up on the page itself) also yeah this is the first time I attempted of making a YMMV page(also making my first movie page.)
Anyway yeah the question could you guys please help me out with making the YMMV page?
Edited by tvglaxopenNo Title Film
Okay, I'm just gonna ask, I've been looking at Film A To M and I came across this... is this a good entry for Wallbangers or does it just come off as complaining?
"Maleficent oh dear god Maleficent, so The self proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" and who commands all The Power of Hell turns out to not be all that bad and is actually good? And The Fairies are incompetent morons who endanger Aurora instead of being the loving and doteful caretakers? I'm gonna need an Aspirin the size of her Dragon Form to get over this headache. Walt Disney is rolling in his Grave."
I feel like it's the latter.
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title Film
Somebody please explain to the SJW who calls herself Superchristiana that we're not justifying any movie's sexism and that all we're doing is enforcing the Citations Rule for
Unfortunate Implications.
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Have a bit of a dispute between myself and Zaptech on the Battle Los Angeles film page. I've made an edit that the Marines' tactics are not quite correct, but Zaptech keeps deleting my edits, in his believe that the tactics are correct. This despite analysis that I've linked.
Not that the tactics are wrong per se, but that they're not wholly applicable to the situation, and run counter to actual US doctrine (essentially using COIN tactics in a defensive engagement).
I've tried to PM him, but he won't respond. Third opinions would be helpful.
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On the character sheet for the X-Men movies
, someone changed Deadpool's entry to make it self-demonstrating.
Now... I already hate SD pages, but that's just really, really jarring to suddenly get a page turn SD halfway through for just one entry.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Film
Edit war issue. On TheLoneRanger, there has been an ongoing issue on WTH, Casting Agency? with Depp's casting as Tonto. The claim that Depp has Native American ancestry has been repeatedly added to the trope example, only to be removing on the grounds of 1) it is purely conjecture, as Depp himself said it was a maybe and 2) it's discussion/natter. Troper Eagal is aware of its addition and removal, as I spoke to him/her over pm about it, and Eagal was the one to start the discussion on the discussion page about it. Now, after several weeks of quiet, they have reinserted a comment about the issue, with no edit reason and no conclusion made on the issue on the discussion page. In fact, Eagal dropped out of the discussion some time ago. I can only conclude that they waited this long in the hopes that no one would notice.
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Now, I'm working on a Works page for The Condemned, and I know Work Pages Are A Free Launch, but I'm thinking to myself if the work summary I've made is okay or if it has some bashing in it...
The Condemned was a 2007 American action film written and directed by Scott Wiper which takes a different look at the repeated plot of people fighting to the death for everyone to see. However, the look may not be as "perfect" as one may see, considering how they have "10 people fight, 9 people die, you get to watch!" on their poster, and yet much of the movie is filled with people complaining on how this isn't right.
I may need some help with the summary and making it seem presentable if it is.
Edited by Psyga315openNo Title Film
This was promted by the discussion in reply to Elbruno's question about external links, specifically regarding Frequent Redlinks and intentional redlinks for works that don't yet have pages.
Right now Film.Wing Commander is referring to the 1999 movie based on the videogame series, but there's also a WW2 film of the same name (or at least with that as an English translation of the title) produced in 1977
that currently has no page (and is pretty much unheard of on the internet beyond its mere existence, judging from a Google search).
Given that even no-page works should be linked, should things be reworked to give us Film.Wing Commander 1977 [custom titled to Wing Commander (1977)] and Film.Wing Commander 1999 [custom titled to Wing Commander (1999)]?
(And more as a self-note than anything else, Main.Wing Commander could use some editing to account for the 1977 film, depending on the response to my query.)
Edited by NohbodyopenNo Title Film
How about changing the name of the trope page Chop Sockey to something like Movie Kung Fu or something else?
As it stands the page itself is pathetic and I am sure a little offensive so given that this is a film genre that is being ignored and there are more then a few cult classics that would fall underneath it, how would one go about getting this done?
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Edit War ongoing on the Serenity page on the use of God-Mode Sue. Myself and another troper are arguing over the content, and I've requested that the other troper take the issue to the talk page instead of engaging in an edit war. The other troper appears to be ignoring this appeal despite the fact that I created a topic on the page in question. I've pulled the entire entry because we keep arguing over it, and requesting moderation to sort this out.
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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
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