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resolved Reporting Plush2012321 Western Animation
I would like to report a user known as Plush2012321. This user is vandalizing the Rugrats character page and the The Rugrats Movie page by adding fanfiction-based content to them. For the former page, Plush2012321 keeps adding folders for animals that weren't in the movie, and for the latter, Plush2012321 keeps referring to the Wolf as a "Vasto Wolf" and the forest the babies get lost in as "Skull Territory". I've reverted the edits to the latter page, but someone else had to revert this Plush2012321 to the former page. That wasn't enough, as Plush2012321 re-added the fanfiction-based content. I'd like to have Plush2012321 reported as soon as possible to ensure that this vandalism doesn't continue.
(By the way, I hadn't meant to post this twice. When I clicked the save button, it gave me two copies.)
Edited by FlyingDuckManGenesisopenWhat An Idiot Monster Buster Club YMMV Western Animation
I have 2 examples of What An Idiot for the show Monster Buster Club and want to place them on the YMMV page, but I was wondering if I should ask permission.
openLooking for something Western Animation
It's a gag used in old cartoons, say a character has crashed a vehicle of some kind, an ambulance turns up and the ambulance workers come out with a stretcher, but then they put the vehicle on the stretcher and leave the character on the ground. Is there a name for this?
resolved Regarding "My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip" in Banned In China page Western Animation
Just went into Banned in China page and "My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip" is on the page again for the third time.
- Hasbro’s decision to renew their contract with Discovery Family through 2025 has resulted in a tantamount ban on My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip in many countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey, thus preventing the film from getting dubs in any of the languages spoken in those regions.
It was written on Teen Titans Go! example on the page. It was written by a troper named JHC1990. However, as there's no objectable content found in the MLP film, and I think that Hasbro's decision to renew their contract with Discovery Family through 2025 is not a reason for a tantamount ban on some European countries, and I don't think it's a tantamount ban. I think the example should be on No Export for You instead. What did you guys think?
open What constitutes an Ass Pull? Western Animation
Essentially, I was thinking of adding the trope in Hazbin Hotel in regards to the whole 'angels can only be hurt by angelic steel'.
Not in the concept itself but the fact that no demon in the 1000 years the exterminations happened had never figured it out, that no demons ever thought to try this.
And the fact that Vaggie would not know this, despite having being maimed by angelic steel.
Would this constitute an Ass Pull or is there another trope that would fit this?
resolved Is NoPoliceOption in Trolls Band Together? Western Animation
A couple of times in Trolls Band Together, when a character hears that one or more members of a boy band have been kidnapped, that character suggests alerting the authorities. That idea gets shot down each time it's suggested, not due to a lack of evidence or any rules tying the authorities' hands, but because the band members are being kept in diamond bottles, and only a special harmony can break diamond, i.e. they aren't expecting the authorities to be able to rescue the band member.
I have to admit that this runs into some Fridge Logic on a few different levels (not least of which is the fact that the police do take the villains away in the end), but that aside, does this count as an example of No "Police" Option?
resolved Can someone please add this video to this page I created? Western Animation
Can someone please the video example for Transformation Discretion Shot of Spider-Man: The Animated Series to a recap page for an episode I created a while ago? The episode is Enter the Punisher
resolved Vandal Western Animation
Please report Morty 336 Steve 909. They've vandalized the Ollie's Pack and Harvey Street Kids character pages with inappropriate and inaccurate info.
resolved Replacing trope when the one who added it seemingly hasn't been active in months Western Animation
Good day.
So I was browsing a character page of a cartoon (I won't name it since this question involves spoilers for the show) and saw the trope "Defeat Means Friendship" used in an instance where "Heel Realization" works better since following their defeat, the character in question had broken down in a "My God, What Have I Done?"-moment realizing they have been the villain the whole time but was then carried away by their loyal henchman without any indication of becoming friends with the hero.
I messaged the one who added the example about it. The problem is that the person has not edited anything since September 2023. Therefore, it is not unlikely they haven't been online since and won't respond.
I would wait a week for them to response. But in case they don't respond, as well as for future reference, would it be alright for me to change the trope if they don't respond in that week repeating my reasoning for why "Heel Realization" works better as the edit reason?
openDownerEnding Western Animation
I have discovered that animated series created by FOX Animation studio are listed in the folder along with Disney. I have researched that not all of FOX's assets are owned by Disney and the company's series are mostly broadcasted by Adult Swim (well except for Simpsons. So I want to ask, should we remove the examples into Adult Swim folder or keep the series at Disney if you find proof that all (or more technically most of) the series are owned truly by Disney
openIffy example on The Jungle Book 2 page Western Animation
So uh, while idly surfing the site I found this entry on the page for The Jungle Book 2:
- G-Rated Sex: It is implied that in the beginning and, mostly, the end, Mowgli and Shanti have been hanging out, and not just platonically, but also romantically and sometimes sexually, much to their parents' support.
So first of all, rewatching the scenes in question, I'm not getting the implication that Mowgli and Shanti's interactions are anything more than just them teasing each other like kids do. When Mowgli returns to Shanti and Ranjan in the end, the most he does is grab Shanti's hand and playfully say that he'll race her back to the Man-Village. At most, it feels like a Ship Tease, "maybe they'll fall in love when they grow up" kind of moment, if anything (but it comes off more like two kids just goofing around).
And secondly, maybe I might be reading too much into it, but the entry is worded in such a way that it just comes off like whoever wrote it believes that Mowgli and Shanti are meant to be doing illicit things out in the jungle when they go out to get water for the Man-Village (or that "getting the water" is some kind of innuendo) and that their parents are encouraging it, which is just...ew. The characters are kids who are somewhere in the 10-12 range for Pete's sake, the words "romantically and sometimes sexually" shouldn't be in the same sentence as them.
Am I just reading too much into this or does this entry sincerely need to go or at the very least be reworded?
resolved No Title Western Animation
MagicallyMe keeps on removing a certain example on the Protagonist-Centered Morality page for the show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. I really don't want to start an edit war, so I came her first.
Here's the example that keeps getting deleted
- In "Boast Busters" Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack take issue with Trixie's magic show and boasting, despite all three doing plenty of boasting themselves and begin heckling her for little if any reason. By the end of the episode Trixie's home and possessions are destroyed by an Ursa Minor and the main culprits of the bear being brought there, Snips and Snails, get mustaches as 'punishment'. While Twilight is the one to (indirect) humiliate her, Twilight's friends were practically gloating at the ruination of someone else's livelihood and home for behavior less problematic they themselves have and would do.
resolved Edit Warring Western Animation
Over a recap page, no less. Troper Juan 000 made an edit, it got slashed due to trope misuse, yet near-identical version was re-added
openHigh quality Mojo Jojo vector Western Animation
Hey, everybody, I have just found a higher-quality picture of Mojo Jojo's pre-movie design. If you have a moment, I will show you:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superpoderosa/images/1/18/Mojo_jojo.png/revision/latest?cb=20230917234850&path-prefix=es Maybe we could use it for the The Powerpuff Girls / Main Antagonists page, on Mojo Jojo's folder.
resolved Start of an Edit War/Possible Sockpuppet? Western Animation
Hello! So I recently posted this in the "Is this an Example?" thread, and haven't really got replies, though they have been leaning to my side.
I found something that screams shoehorning from a biased source.
From the YMMV page of The Owl House:
- Broken Aesop: The Series Finale has two major ones;
- Earlier in the series, the show railed against the concept of a Chosen One, and said that people should carve out their own paths. Just before the climax however, it's revealed that the remnants of the dead Titan has been actively helping Luz in learning Magic and has picked her to be the one to stand up against Belos. Guess what? That makes her a fucking CHOSEN ONE!!!
- After Belos is defeated and no longer a threat, he starts begging for Luz to save him from death, saying that is she doesn't, she'll be just as "evil" as the witches, and "We're Human, we're better than this!", only for Eda and friends to push Luz aside, smugly say to Belos "Well we ain't!" and then gleefully stomp him to death and laugh, proving that despite everything the show preached, in his final moments, they proved that everything Belos said had some merit of truth to it.
Two huge problems with this. First, it's very clearly overly hostile and biased against the show judging by it's language, and attempting to whitewash Belos by suggesting he has a point. Secondly, both examples are taken completely out of context to form a rhetorical strawman. The first one isn't an example because she wasn't born with any special destiny. She only got the Titan's approval due to being her kind and loving self, especially to his son. The second is just plainly absurd. It's attempting to play moral judgement on some of the people who have suffered the most under the genocidal psychopath, when he had just made his second attempt to commit genocide against their species.
I took the liberty of removing the example from the YMMV page. Now that would be fine on it's own, even if I heavily disagree with it... If it weren't for this entry literally being a copy paste of something that was posted on the main page of the show which the troper Gamermaster removed. The weird part is that it was copy pasted onto the YMMV page by an entirely different user, and the first user has a total of two edits on their entire edit history, both of which are super hostile to modern Disney properties. Later on the person who posted it on the main Owl House page posted it right back on the YMMV page exactly as is without going to the "Is this an Example?" thread, and added further shoehorning. I removed those too... but now I am wondering if this is some sort of sockpuppeting situation due to the reasons listed above. At the very least it could warp into an Edit War.
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my first query on "Ask The Tropers".
I noticed that Madagascar fridge page is actually about first movie and not franchise in general. Given that Ice Age fridge page was once the same but got split into first movie and series in general, I think the same thing should happen here. So I'm asking you for your feedback and support in helping me in the cleanup of Madagascar fridge page.
Edited by Filip04