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Gym tribune closes over a girl Live Action TV
There is a TV show when in a scene, a bully girl(if I remember well) goes under a tribune and someone pushes the button that closes the tribune and traps her there , she after gets a cast on her body
King or lord something (Generic boy name) Live Action TV
Its about a normal high school boy who meets a middle princess or knight (she had armor on) she had a old man as a companion. They time traveled or came form another world I dont know. But he had to put up with showing her modern day things and life style. They had to fight what looked like an evil wizard or witch more on the witch side I think. The main characters name was in the name of the show. King or lord something with a modern generic name.
Failure hero and Batwoman Question Live Action TV
I've recently tried to add the following trope to Batwoman:
- Failure Hero: Batwoman is actually fairly terrible at being a superhero. Her only real unqualified success was against Magpie.
- Jacob technically took down the Executioner.
- Alice took down Tommy Eliot.
- A scientist Kate was trying to save dies because she and Julia Pennyworth were fighting over who had the right to take down an assassin instead of protecting the man.
- Kate almost kills a prisoner because she had tortured him to the point that his wounds went septic and he could have died from an infection.
- A lot of this could be excused as Kate being a rookie hero still learning the ropes, but her major failure is with Alice. Kate has multiple moments where she has Alice captured, could easily capture her, had a method to track her and capture her, but willingly let her go or didn't go after her. Alice not only has killed multiple people at the point Kate lets her go, but Alice is personally responsible for multiple deaths after Kate refuses to stop her. With Batman, there's a question as to whether he has any responsibility for the deaths his villains cause because he turns them over to the police instead of killing them, just giving them the opportunity to escape and kill again. With Kate, there's absolutely no question that she is responsible for the deaths Alice causes because Kate willing let Alice go or refused to track her down.
I feel this fits well within the use of Failure Hero, as the comic section specifically lists superheroes as having a problem with this in general, and lists heroes such as Spider-Man, Daredevil and Batman who suffer failures in their careers. Batman's entry even specifically brings up the point about the Joker escaping to kill again despite Batman going out of his way to recapture him.
With Batwoman, all of this applies and more. Before the Crisis crossover event, she had managed to capture a single supervillain out of multiple episodes, and chooses to let Alice go or not act on information to capture her, with it being acknowledge that Batwoman has had multiple opportunities to do so. And while Kate willing let Alice go, more people died.
Between a lack of success in general and meeting the same criteria that is applied to several other heroes, I feel this trope applies.
Yet one troper has deleted my attempts to insert this twice. Once when I erroneously put it on the YMMV page, which I acknowledge as a mistake. The second time it was deleted after it was put on the main page, which is where it would belong. It was deleted the second time for "Misuse of the Failure Hero Trope".
I feel the edit I wished to make was well within the scope of the Failure Hero trope. I'd be interested in knowing what everyone else thinks and if there's anyone I can bring this to.
Arrowverse openings Live Action TV
Recent events suggest to me that I use this tool for questions, so here it is. The current Arrowverse shows have no opening narrations whatsover. What's wrong with removing them to update the pages accordingly?
TV show scene Live Action TV
A spoiler to show I don't remeber a thing, but this scene. I only remember a scene that not really related to what actually happened in the show. There was a group of young people, don't know if high school or college had a secret I don't remember if it was superpowers or something else. one of them is gay and been with alot of guys. For the sake of their mission(needed to hack to sites for I don't remember) he sleep with a computer geek only later to find out he really love him. The computer geek guy slept with another guy and got hiv from it. in the end the two are togther dealing with it, but that's really not the main plot of the show. I can only remember this.
Someone knows maybe? I remember how they look like, but don't know if it any help.
What to do with review left by repeated ban-evader Live Action TV
Waggish Pony is a user that got suspended for biased edits against the show 7th Heaven, and subsequently also has ban-evaded at least three times under various other user names.
They are currently banned from editing the wiki, of course. However they also left a review about this tv show here
. Seeing this user was known for their bias against this work, and for vandalizing its wiki page, is it kosher to keep this review up? Of course everybody is entitled to express a negative opinion of a work in a review, but since this a known ban-evader?
Fixing Spelling Live Action TV
I did a page for Anna Deavere Smith and it was accidentally put as Anna Deveare Smith, is there any way to fix spelling?
Locked Pages Live Action TV
When I was looking at Wil Wheaton's page, I noticed it was locked but his name isn't on locked pages, so I was wondering if it was related to his work on Star Trek or a different controversy?
Arrowverse descriptions Live Action TV
Over the last couple months, goldenroad has made major changes to the descriptions of Series.Arrow, Series.The Flash 2014, Series.Supergirl 2015, Series.Legends Of Tomorrow, and Series.Batwoman 2019. The descriptions are changed to start with references to the wider DC universe and comics; instead of just starting with a simple explanation of the show and its cast, each descriptions starts with a weird history of what DC was up to at the time, which is mostly irrelevant and certainly shouldn't be the very first thing on the page. For example, the before for Legends:
And the after:
As far as I can tell, there was no discussion of this anywhere, and this isn't the first time goldenroad has made major changes to various Arrowverse pages without speaking to anyone else.
Some of the pages can be reverted manually, but in some the history is confused enough that they'd require a mod rollback.
Edited by Discar
The Wiki Rule Live Action TV
I was wondering if I did something wrong on the wiki rule page when I put in one for NUMB3RS, because when I clicked the link, the page was not found. Let me know thanks.
Edited by Dinogal95
alley oop Live Action TV
can you update the hollyoaks page because of the breda mcqueen being revealed as a serial killer storyline.
Edited by slicervanguard28
A whole lot of complaining edits Live Action TV
I just saw iamnoone's edit on the ymmv page of the Arrowverse and was mildly irritated by the blatant complaining and/or half-truths or outright falsehoods in that single edit alone.
Then I found this. And then this and this and this and I'm sure its not even the end of it.
I mean, don't get me wrong, these shows have attracted a fair bit of controversy, but his edits seem to basically boil down to overly long walls of texts complaining about "It's not like in the comics!"
Permission to (at least partially) delete?
EDIT: Yeah, found this one too complaining.
Namespace Issues Live Action TV
I was going to make a page for the new Netflix show Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, but the Namespace Page said I needed to ask if it was safe first.
How soon is too soon for spoilers? Live Action TV
Avenue 5 is a show that started airing two days ago, and it features a First-Episode Spoiler. Is it OK that I added it to the trope's example list already? Is there a minimum time to add spoiler to Spoiler Tropes?
No Title Live Action TV
from what I remember it was basically about with these group of people who had special assignments which to had to touched victims in order to save their soul or something but there are these little creatures that hang out around the people are about to die and those people can see those creatures which gives them the special ability and knowing when someone about to die so there was a scene that took place on a airplane where the special people with abilities we're on a mission or on a task you can say there was a married couple and the special ability people have to touch the husband and a flight attendant which means those two were about to die the husband headed to the bathroom who has a peanut allergy. flight attendance headed to the bathroom as well with peanuts in her mouth then husband and the flight attendants were making out when the husband walks out from the bathroom and collapsed and dies from the peanut allergy the wife noticed that it was the flight attendants fault so she chokes the flight attendants to death.
Idiot Hero example Live Action TV
caivu deleted this example of Idiot Hero by Guy01 here.
- Idiot Hero: She repeatedly lets Alice slip through her fingers rather than beat her down and throw her in prison, has outright revealed her identity to Alice, and walks in and out of her evil lair while asking Alice to turn good, despite Alice continuing to be a psychotic terrorist running rampant around Gotham. At some point, it crosses the line from being sisterly love to outright idiocy on Kate's part. At one point, she even goes on a road trip with Alice and is surprised when Alice drugs her! What did she expect to happen?!
While I admit that said example was written in a kinda.....inflammatory way, there is some truth to it imO and caivu does have a slight tendency to delete things critical of the show in general. How to proceed?
Edited by Forenperser
Unnecessary cutlist Live Action TV
Series.Queens Of Mystery has been resubmitted to the cutlist even though it was already cut and re-created earlier today. I sent a message to the person who resubmitted it since I remade the page (so they don't have to do anything about that), but could someone please take that off the list since it no longer has the incorrect capitalizing that necessitated the initial cutting?
Edited by SeptimusHeap
One Word Title-Zero Content Live Action TV
Here's a weird question. So I noticed that on the Friends tropes K to O, One-Word Title is a zero content entry. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Friends/TropesKToO However on the main page of One-Word Title where it gives use a handy guide on how to give actual content to entries, it uses Friends as an example. So I was wondering could I use that example for the One-Word Title entry on the Friends K to O page or would that be cheating?
Also the entirety of the One-Word Title page is nothing but zero content is there a cleanup thread?
Girl who sees people that humans cant? Live Action TV
So basically the show starts off with this woman walking down a street and this guy bumbs into her and she gets angry saying "exuse me!?" the guy get confused because normal humans cant see him and asks "Can you see me?" The girl replies with "um yea?!" I dont know the name of the show and its bugging me out
How long leave in discussion... Live Action TV
If an edit has been removed. And you want to question the removal to see if should be put back you take it to discussion. If there is no follow up or input in discussion how long before you take it to ATT? A few days or a week?
Potential Edit War on The Witcher 2019 YMMV Live Action TV
There's been some back and fourth and Justifying Edits over an "Author's Saving Throw" entry on YMMV.The Witcher 2019 that mentions the more diverse cast of the Netflix series (the lack of which was a criticism of the games, which were less diverse than the original books).
Much of the complaints seemed to be footstomping over the original criticism, so I tried taking it to discussion, but there's just been yet another unilateral deletion.
Perhaps a mod could step in?
Edited by Bisected8
Long description, only one trope, three YMMVs Live Action TV
Match of the Day has a single trope (about the length of the show), under the three-trope minimum. Should it be cut?
Power Rangers Live Action TV
The logo no longer has "Saban's" attached to it. Should the logo on the Power Rangers page be updated to reflect that?