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Captain Marvel 2019 YMMV Film
Can the Captain Marvel movie's YMMV come back up the the film may be a base breaker for some despite not being out yet but Ghostbuster 2016 and other films had similar flak before their release and their YMMV pages stay up. I am not trying to take sides on where the film will be good or bad, but I still feel the that the controversy surronding the film does not warrant the page's removal.
How should we note familiar voices? Film
It used to be there was a trope called "Hey, It's That Voice," which was listed on the trivia section and was a nice way of calling out why a particular actor might sound familiar. Subsequently, the trope was changed to "Role Association."
But now I see "Role Association" is a "Just For Fun" trope, which apparently doesn't merit inclusion on any of a work's pages at all anymore. (Unless there's some way to make a "[Work]/Just For Fun" page, which I don't see anywhere in the page-creation interface.) And furthermore, going to the "Role Association" page, it's apparently all about imagining a given work had another of an actor's characters swapped in, which is not the sense in which "Hey, It's That Voice" was used.
I used to like to be able to see listings of actors from a given work who were better known for other roles, and to add such myself. But now those listings are apparently all gone. Granted that these listings are more about the particular actors than the work they starred in, it was still nice to be able to see a list of all the other well-known roles the actors had right there together.
Is there an appropriate trivia category to use, since "Role Association" apparently isn't it?
Edited by Robotech_Master
Rogue One - Headscratchers Film
On the headscratchers page for Rogue One there is a section called "Sexist Rebel Alliance" and it, to me, reads like it is just someone's personal gripe about how there ought to be more women getting killed in the movie. I admit this might just be me being over sensitive though; can I ask if someone else could take a look at the section and see if it is a valid Headscratchers entry or just complaining, please?
bugs under the skin Film
Is there a trope that specifically covers when one or more insects or other small bodily invaders are seen (or hallucinated by the character) to be moving under the character's skin? Often this is seen under the skin of the arms of the character. This typically causes the character to panic and to try to cut the insects out, which is likely to cause grave injury to the character and potentially death. I'm not sure, but I think examples of this might be in The Mummy (Brendan Fraser version), Constantine, A Scanner Darkly, and an X-Files episode. Sorry for the lack of specifics in each of those.
An alternative version (with an unusual invader) is at the end of "The Matrix" when Neo invades Agent Smith and Neo's energy pulsing under Smith's skin eventually causing Smith to explode.
Thanks for your insights in advance :)
Preemptive moments page? Film
Avengers: Endgame's title and a trailer were released today (I think), and it already has a fairly extensive Tearjerker page from the trailers. Is this okay?
Saving Private Ryan TearJerker. Film
- How about a meta example that falls into Nightmare Fuel territory? The amount of veterans from WWII seeing psychotherapists went up after this movie hit theaters.
How is veretans getting the help they need Nightmare Fuel, let alone sad and Tearjerking? I really do have to agree with the Nattery Troper this time around. This is a really flawed example AT BEST. Sure its extremely sad that they had to go to therapy but this is actually kind of HEARTWARMING instead.
Lovers first name affectionate Film
Hi I was looking through the site but I had trouble finding the following trope: Lovers or people who are flirting with each other calling the partner by their first name in an affectionate way. An example can be observed in the Netflix Sabrina trailer at 0:14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybKUX6thF8Q
Loss By Technicality/Unresolved Conflict Film
I'm looking for a trope that encapsulates the idea of the hero losing his first encounter with the villain on a technicality or due to intervening events preventing a resolution. It is typically used to build tension for the final encounter.
Examples include Rocky losing on points when the bell rings moments before the knock out or the canyon opening between Rey and Kylo Ren at the end of episode 7 to leave their fight unresolved.
Halloween cartoon I watched as a kid Film
I recall bits and pieces. The cartoon was on a dvd with a few episodes. It started off as a human family(mom,dad, brother, sister) move into a new town that is home to a variety of monsters. They don’t immediately realize this because they move in on Halloween. The children befriend a vampire, zombie, werewolf, and mummy children. One episode the vampire kid had some sort of party and in another they play hide n seek in a graveyard. Thanks in advance!
Discussion page Film
I'm trying to post on the Discussion page for something, but for some reason whenever I click post reply nothing happens.
How should we handle the character page for Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet Film
Should we create it under Ralph Breaks the Internet (which is currently a redirect into the original film's Characters page) or Wreck It Ralph Sequel Characters ? I am leaning toward the former since the redirect is probably The Artifact from before Disney announced they would be removing the subtitle in the film.
What's tge name of the greek show on MBC4? Film
It's got a couple 'Alexadros and Ana One of their dad's is called baflo
I think its originally Greek, on MBC 4 its dubbed in Arabic. And the programme lists it as Al Washem
No Title Film
About 18 days ago a YMMV page was created for The Other Side of the Wind, but the namespace was miscapitalized as Ymmv instead of YMMV, meaning that the page is registered by the site as an un-indexed regular page instead of a YMMV page.
I've copied the contents into a Sandbox, so that I could cut-list the page and re-create it in the correct namespace.
However when I tried to cut-list the page by clicking the Doom It button it just re-directed me back to the cut-list page with out actually adding the miscapitalized page to the cut-list.
Magical Old Man? Film
I just watched the Netflix movie "The Princess Switch" and it has an old man who's maybe magical? We're not sure? He's a stranger to the characters, and keeps conveniently showing up places and seemingly knows the future. We never find out who he is, but he seems all-knowing and all-powerful, and possibly who is driving the entire plot. He's got a twinkle in his eye and winks at our character about the magic of Christmas. I know I've seen this in movies before, but I can't find a trope on here. Does one exist?
It's similar to the Magical Negro, but it's usually an old white man. Also similar to the Spirit Guide, but it's a real person everyone can see.
Edited by sarahgorman
Numbers and punctuation in a title Film
Europe '51. One word, an apostrophe, and two numbers.
How to make a work page for this work? Should it be {{ Europe 51 }} and then a custom title to get the apostrophe in there? Or should it be Europe Fifty One and a custom title? Catch-22 spells out the numbers in the URL but Apollo 13 and Super 8 do not.
HarsherInHindsight.AvengersInfinityWar Film
People keep adding Stan Lee's death in HarsherInHindsight.Avengers Infinity War even after I removed it twice because - as stated on the main page - real life people dying only count if if their death was somehow similar to how a character died onscreen which isn't the case here.
Should the page be locked or should we add a note or something?
Edited by Silverblade2
No Title Film
Nearly a decade ago i saw an animated documentary on the history channell on the future of america. It showed the life of a women who grew up in the generation z class i believe. The show touched on the border collapsing and rising prices for gas in america. She would eventually move to new york where a huricane killed her husband or something and power was lost in new york. Her and maybe her daughter and for sure a dog leave new york to find a small farming community to live on. This show came to mind recently and im really curious to see if america is on pace with the claims the show made about a decade in. Thanks
Subsections on character sheets Film
Several subsections for each suit of armor were created on the MCU: Iron Man page recently, most for 4-6 tropes. Are there any rules for creating small subsections like that on a page with hundreds of tropes?
I would merge them all and move the contents to Armors In General, keeping a separate section only for the Hulkbuster.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl Film
On Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the entries under "Film -Live-Action" for Amy Adams are listed as sub-bullets under her name, instead of by the names of the works.
I don't think we do that here, right?
The entry for Adam needs a lot of work ("both Adam and Beth have elements of this towards each other"), but I don't know the film and don't know when I'll have time. It's coming up on midterms already!
I only looked at the page because we were discussing Manic Pixie Dream Girl in English class, and the teacher wanted examples. (Yes, I'm allowed to have my laptop available in class.) :p
Recreating the Hurricanger vs Gaoranger trope page Film
Is it safe to recreate the page for the movie, that was cut for being a stub? I can add enough tropes to make it worth keeping this time around
Here's the link: Hurricaneger vs Gaoranger
Edited by nombretomado
Ownership issues/extreme deletion habbit Film
Troper Saveelich seems to have a bit of an ownership issue with everything related to the DC Extended Universe. He seems hellbent on deleting as many things as he can that are negatively towards the verse (which, admittedly is not few, but the verse isn't exactly hugely popular).
And he doesn't really take anything to disscussion first, he straight-up deletes everything.
"Custom title redirect" reason for deletion? Film
costanton11 deleted Fant4stic as a redirect to Fantastic Four (2015) with the explanation "custom title redirect". Since when are custom title redirects a reason for deletion?
Laconic.AvengersEndgame Film
The Laconic.Avengers Endgame was deleted with reason "Works don't need laconic pages". If this is so - is someone going through each work and deleting them all? If not, Let's bring it back.