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openNo Title Film
So, apparently Film.Any Which Way You Can is a redirect to Film.Every Which Way But Loose, even though they're distinct movies (Any Which Way is a sequel to Every Which Way).
I have no real intention of creating a page for Any but this still seems wrong to me. Do I have permission to break the redirect?
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In Faust, Mephisto deposits a magic necklace in The Ingenue's room, which causes her to fall under the power of the devil, and eventually fall in love with and have sex with Faust.
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While checking wicks, I came across One Hundred Scariest Movie Moments, which is currently in Main/, and I'm certain it doesn't go there. Which namespace does it belong?
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This was on Film.Agent For HARM.
- Sacrificial Lamb of Another Story: Adam's first meeting with Da Chief is suddenly interrupted by a distress call from another agent, who is swiftly killed. Adam's ready to go, but his boss already has him assigned to the spore case; he tells his secretary to assign another agent to clean up after the dead one.
I know that's a sinkhole and not allowed, what I'm curious about is what it SHOULD be listed as. Subverted Sacrificial Lamb? Hero of Another Story, mentioning that it's actually the Sacrificial Lamb Of Another Story?
openNo Title Film
Gotta Have Faith uncommented out a bunch of Zero Context Examples on Cinderella (2015), without expanding them or providing more context.
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I finally went through with commenting out Zero Context Examples from Film.The Shaggy Dog and YMMV.The Shaggy Dog. Should I also do the same for the Trivia page? My beef with that page doesn't concern a lack of descriptions for the tropes, but rather, the fact that the descriptions sound too vague for people who haven't become experts on Spencer Breslin.
Edited by dsneybufopenNo Title Film
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.AdaptationExplanationExtrication
Not sure what to make of those X-Men entries.
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If you look at the history for Parvum Opus, a certain "vexer" inexplicably removed a lot of information, and in some cases, entire entries. Could someone please revert whichever of these edits seem worth reverting? Thanks.
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Alright, so a few months ago I made a page for a classic film called Midnight. The only problem is that there is a fanfic page for a manga of the same name (the fanfic of the manga is called Midnight, but the actual manga is Inu Yasha). Obviously, these two (the film and fanfic) are unrelated, but they appear on the same page. Could it be possible to separate them, so people don't get confused?
Edited by LongTallShorty64openNo Title Film
Hello, Is Shere Khan in Disney's Jungle Book a Anti-Villain? Despite being a brutal killer, he doesn't come off as evil as many other Disney villains and his hatred for men, fear of gunshot and fire and backstory from Baghera that he wants to kill Mowgli because he doesn't want him to grow up to become a hunter strogly implies that he hates men for hunting tigers for their furs. By Disney villain standards it sounds like he's having some good intentions (from his point of view) even if he's a Knight Templar about it.
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Manw0name keeps trying to add natter to the The 6th Day page. Other than being Natter and Example Indentation issues, he hasn't been trying to readd the same entries so there's no Edit War yet, but he does keep trying to readd the same info under different tropes.
Going back in his history, I'm finding more. Natter-fying him now, just thinking other people might want to keep an eye out.
EDIT: Oh, then there's this which doesn't seem kosher.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Film
Okay, this might be a bit silly, but recently I've been trying to edit The Martian (Film) page's Precision F Strike trope, and one of the examples I want to give is 'Fucking Mars' because that's what I heard in the movie, but someone from somewhere always change it back to 'Fuck you, Mars' and I have to change it back and try to give my reasons of doing so into the edit reasons box. The thing is, it doesn't work. I checked the history, and the editing reasons aren't showing up at all. I try putting my reasons into a new Discussion page, but so far none reply back. And then they keep changing it back to 'Fuck you, Mars'! Okay, it is a silly topic, but the big problem here is the editing reasons box not working in edit mode. How am I supposed to edit someone else's trope if I can't give reasons of doing so to convince them not to change it back? Help is appreciated.
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I know the rules about American vs. British English is "first serve", but there's a bit of weird thing going on with the graphic novel and movie titled Blue Is the Warmest Color.
Both work page titles use BlueIsTheWarmestColour, but it is corrected by a custom title to "Blue Is The Warmest Color". Again, this is not a legit use of custom titling as I understand it.
The actual title seen on both illustration is always "Blue Is the Warmest Color", and also the one used for the movie on IMdB, and for the comic on Wikipedia (though it flip-flop on the movie title).
So, is it worth moving the pages to the correct Wiki Words, or will I get a slap on the wrist for privileging one spelling over the other?
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Is there a guideline for making Characters pages and moving tropes to Characters pages?
A while back I made a work page for a Korean movie, The President's Last Bang (excellent, BTW). As is my habit I went back later to reread it and see if anyone else had edited it. I found that someone had, which is fine—and that they had built a Character page, and taken great swaths of tropes off the work page and put them on the Character page.
I hate this. I hate Character pages in general; IMHO the tropes in a work should be on the page for that work and not hidden away in a separate page or, worse, multiple pages for multiple characters. At least until the point where a work page grows too long, when you should make different pages alphabetically for tropes, Game of Thrones style.
But I own neither TV Tropes nor the work page for The President's Last Bang, so I'd like to know the guidelines and what freedom I may or may not have to put tropes back on the main work page for this movie.
Edited by galliumopenNo Title Film
For those who have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron:
At one point during the film, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark argue about whether or not it's morally acceptable to try ending a war before it begins. Stark mentions that the reason they fight is so they can end it and no longer have to fight. Rogers disagrees.
Would it be considered Fridge Brilliance to say that Rogers might have an ulterior motive (perhaps subconsciously) in not agreeing with Stark, since one of the themes of the film is that he's fearful of a world where there's no war for him to participate in?
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Inside Out has the following entry:
- Odd Name Out: Joy and Sadness are the only emotions whose names aren't verbs as well as nouns.
I deleted this entry. Another poster restored the entry on the grounds that "Anger" is a verb—ok, I was wrong about this, although I still think that it isn't used as a verb that commonly, folks say "That makes me angry" a lot more than they say "That angers me."
But in any case I still don't think the trope is applicable. First, two names out of five seems like a questionable case of Odd Name Out—the trope description says one that "doesn't fit the pattern". Here we have two out of five, 40% of the total.
Second, the example as given has no storytelling significance. Joy and Sadness aren't verbs. What does that have to do with anything? How does that mark Joy and Sadness out as significant? They all have names of emotions.
But since deleting that entry again would get me accused of an Edit War I am coming here.
Jewelia13, before the lockdown, managed to add a good deal of spoilers to The Force Awakens (see Contrasting Sequel Main Character and David Versus Goliath). Their spoiler edits were removed from YMMV before the lockdown. They also added spoilers to The Force Awakens.
Edited by LargoQuagmire