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What to do with Film.Hellboy Film
Film.Hellboy previously covered both Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I split those into separate articles earlier today, and I was just wondering what I should do with the original page.
Cut List it? Make it a redirect for Film.Hellboy 2004 or Franchise.Hellboy?
Edited by Primis
More modern "Prisoner" style movie Film
Over 10 years ago I saw this movie that I have been trying to track down. It was kind of a modern take on that old show the prisoner. The guy was a spy or something and gets injured on a mission and when he wakes up is on an island where they can't leave. They have to check in with a blood sample every morning. Ultimately he recovers from his wounds ans starts planning his escape. I remember this one scene where he is using cigarettes burning beside the tube to train him self to hold his breath longer. Ultimately he escape on one of the supply airplane drop/pickups...
Overly protective of the DCEU. Film
Somewhat preemptive, but Deeed is being way protective of the DCEU and edit-warring to do so.
The worst example so far is on IdiotPlot.Live Action Film, where they pulled an entry without an edit reason. A discussion post was made by someone else asking for an explanation, and then it was restored after I pointed out that it was deleted without explanation (which, you know, is vandalism). They did then participate in the discussion... after re-deleting the movie, and rather than give an explanation, they linked a bunch of youtube links and said "no, it's totally explained." So they are using the discussion... but upon further thought, that might be worse since they're ignoring it.
Also unacceptable:
- Deleting link to a narm subpage
- Again, deleting an entire movie without explanation. When it was restored, they then neutered an example into what's at best a ZCE, despite being near-universally considered laughable.
Now again, this is preemptive as though he's edit-warring, he's at least checking discussion pages and responding, even though his responses are unsatisfactory.
Edited by Larkmarn
Photoflood Lighting Film
How does Photoflood Lighting relate to Nuclear Candle? Is it the same, except with electric lights? A subtrope?
90's - 2000's TV show Film
Hello!
I'm trying to find a really old TV series possibly German. I don't know what was it about I just recall a girl having a real life bunny named Anita.
I don't have much info about it. Here goes nothing.
- Tv series NOT animatedHappening on the countrysidePossibly German. It could be synchronized in German. That's just not a fact.A girl had a brown RABBIT NAMED ANITA! The rabbit was real and somehow performed miracles.
Pages for Documentaries that Trope RL? Film
The page we have for Fyre includes troping events that are not brought up in the documentary, and also some tropes that are generally NRLEP (e.g. Chronic Villainy) being applied to real people. It seems like a gray area to me, and I don't want to unilaterally make a bunch of changes.
As documentary pages generally blur the lines between troping the documentary and troping RL people/events, should we make an active effort to clean them up or just make short-term efforts for specific problematic pages?
Edited by WaterBlap
What Could Have Been for an unreleased work? Film
I know the question about having YMMV pages for unreleased works has come up before, but I want to get feedback on a Trivia page made for a work. Specifically, one made for the just announced Batman movie.
I may just be paranoid, but does anyone else find this...weird? The movie is so far out, and I find it odd to call a What Could Have Been for something that's at minimum 2+ years out. Yet, I don't want to unilaterally cut it.
Opinions?
User threatening to delete YMMV entry Film
At YMMV.Space Jam, User TV Lubber had been deleting notes from Harsher in Hindsight about R. Kelly's music which stated that it was more difficult to enjoy t he movie's songs after the recent documentary 'Surviving R. Kelly' where multiple women alleged sexual abuse and predatory by the musician.
I added an example back once and wish to avoid an edit war, but received a PM from TV Lubber starting that I am only 'assuming R. Kelly is a criminal' and everything against him is merely hearsay and that he 'has to change it.'
Anything that can be done here? As said, I don't want to edit war here, but this appears very agenda driven.
HTTYD: Hidden World Tearjerker Film
So I added an entry under Tearjerker, a person called phylos chopped it up, and their edit reason was "Not only this was an incorrect detailing of what happened, it's also a weird attempt to anthromorphosize Toothless, who's never been portrayed as anything more than an animal."
Like, okay, fine, I got it. This person and I have different thoughts on the movie. However, they have an odd agenda against any edits portraying Toothless as anything but a nonsentient animal, which is patently wrong. It's getting annoying.
Edited by Spacecoyote
Stranged By the Red String, HTTYD: Hidden World Film
"Not only is applying this to a couple of animals weird on itself but a solid third of the movie is dedicated to the courtship. If you don't like it, put it in broken base, but this does not fit SBTRS"
So I added this example because, while the movie's about Toothless and the Light fury, it's not about their courtship; they have one scene dedicated to their courtship. They pretty much fall in love at first sight, have their four minute "first date", and the rest of the movie is about their relationship taking precedence over literally every other character, relationship, priority, and theme HTTYD has ever presented to us. Thoughts?
Edited by Spacecoyote
No Title Film
(Bad english youll surviv) 90s or 2000. A guy that his brother (cop) was killd by some mafia(i think) join the polic fores to reveng his death. Problomatic. Allways brake the 4th wall. Ther was somthing with his girlfreind she left him cus hie was un mechor ro somthing and in the and thay are togrther with a baby. Its kindda funny. Action. Called american somthing but i mite be wrong. Thenks in advans.
Soldier jerking off in cubicle Film
It was an older kind if movie. I'm just guessin but I think it aired (In Sweden, channel 6) between 2000-2012... What I remember is, that a guy had to join the marines/navy or such, and he had to leave his wife/girlfriend behind. The only scene I remember is when he went into a bathroom cubicle and TRIED jerking off to his wifes/gfs photograph. For some reason, he couldn't get off to it. I think he was afraid she was cheating on him. That's just my theory. I also remember that while he was at it, someone knocked on the cubicle and asked if he was alright. He didn't get caught cause they left after he replied. He just said yeah, and they told him to hurry up. Also, he wasn't sitting he was leaning on the door. Please help me find this movie. It's so frustration to remember it so clearly, and yet I can't find it. I've already checked Jarhead 1-3 and none of them are right.
Captain Marvel YMMV Recreation Film
I think Captain Marvel should be unlocked. Sure, there was some bad stuff there, but not enough to justify deleting the whole page. All superhero movies get YMMMV pages before release. Who can unlock the pages.
What Next? Film
Is there an option on the T Vtropes site where you can view progressive tropes? Say I'm looking at the trope of "You said you'd let her go!" Trope, and I wanted to see possible trope outcomes that can come about to resolve the trope.
I'm plotting a scene similar to the "You Said you'd let her go!" trope, but I wrote myself in a corner on how to get out of it. I don't know the names of the tropes that would be good outcomes. Is there a section of the trope's page of trope outcomes to select and look up?
Disney Channel Movie about kids in desert Film
Aired on Disney Channel I’d guess around 2010. Has sequels. A couple of kids were in a village in a desert. A truck rams through a house, they escape. Are eventually in an inventor’s lab. Get “attacked” by a machine that they figure out is made to take off your coat
Edited by ZacharyMaryles
New WDHV Database Film
In November, MrServoRetro added some info about 1980 VHS tapes to Creator.Walt Disney Home Video, despite the deletion of all of the pages holding such detail. Did he have permission to do so? The sight of an empty 1981 folder — not to mention the absence of any other years — makes me fear that still, not enough Tropers have enough interest in the subject to justify such a database here.
The Matter of Spoilers on Characters/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse Film
Okay, people, let's talk about this some.
As you can see here, we're having some trouble deciding what exactly justifies the use of spoiler tags on the Into the Spider-Verse character page. It's not an edit war per sé but it could easily cause one. I'm not sure exactly what should be done about any of it, except for one thing: I feel like the Dr. Octopus entry needs to become an Unmarked Spoilers folder because there's no way to trope this movie's Doc Ock in any meaningful way without discussing information that constitutes spoilers.
Let's discuss it.
Aquaman as a DesignatedHero Film
According to Forenperser, Aquaman from the movie of the same name is a Designated Hero because because he leaves Black Manta's father to drown in front of his son even though he could have easily saved him and just have him imprisoned was definitely an un-heroic thing to do. He states that the standard procedure for criminals is not being left to drown, but to be taken into custody in our justice system. A Designated Hero is a character in a story who, despite being presented as heroic, is actually a Jerkass at best and an arguable villain at worst. This is not the same as the deliberately morally ambiguous Anti-Hero. From the praise they receive from other characters, the narrative, and perhaps Word of God, it is plain that the audience is expected to like and root for the Designated Hero; instead, they have problems that can even inspire pity or, on rare occasions, disgust. They are often mean people with no redeeming qualities aside from some superficial virtues. They do not undergo appreciable character development and they're generally given a pass by the writers, freeing them from the consequences of their actions.
Edited by MasterHero
Indicating a page is a stub? Film
Hello, I just created a new page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/OnceUponATimeInHighSchool
But I was wondering if there's any way to indicate that it's a stub like in Wikipedia so other people can contribute to it. Because I doubt I'm the only one who's seen this movie.
Link to a YouTube Comment that I want to put up Film
I want to put a link to a comment I did on a You Tube Video of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World TV Spot #4 on the Trivia Page for How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, but I am having trouble with it. Can you help me with this please? Thank You. :)
Is this page troping real people or not? Film
The WMG page for Boys Don't Cry feels more like it's troping the actual people rather than their portrayal in the bio-pic. Is this okay?
Edited by Pichu-kun
Character Death in the Star Wars character sheets Film
One thing I've discovered while working on the Star Wars character sheets is that there are some Character Death entries. As some of us know, Character Death is an omnipresent trope and is a super trope to Karmic Death, Redemption Equals Death, Dropped a Bridge on Him, etc.
As such, I have a question for fellow tropers: should just keep the Character Death entries or remove them altogether?
Edited by gjjones
How on earth do I create a subpage TearJerker for the Smallfoot Page? Film
I don’t know how do do it???