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openMaking Fun of a Tear Jerker = Dude, Not Funny!
Would it count as an example of Dude, Not Funny! if someone were to play around with a Tear Jerker moment? (i.e. if someone were to take the scene from My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) where Twilight attempts to steal the pearl and add in the Palpatine "Do it!" meme from Revenge of the Sith, would that evoke a Dude, Not Funny! reaction? Something like this:
- (Twilight looks up at where the pearl is, just before attempting to steal it.)Palpatine: Do it!Twilight: No.Palpatine: Do it!Twilight: I can't.Palpatine: Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it!(The alarm goes off, and Twilight is caught by the security system.)
openDarth Wiki on image links
ImageLinks.Shes Got Legs has character images from DarthWiki.Popugirls on it. Just wanted to double check to make sure that's not allowed before I delete it
Edited by LibraryseraphopenI mistakenly created a page with a space in the name
I was aware that pages don't have spaces in their names here, but I must've spaced out (ha) because I created this page and didn't notice I messed that up until today: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/Sagan_4
I don't see any option to move or rename it, how do I do so?
openBroken deliberate redlinks
As you may know, deliberate redlinks (such as This Troper) bugged months ago and now appear blue. Is there any way to fix this?
openTroper with severe grammar issues, unwilling to improve Videogame
jikoh has been editing several pages pertaining to Honkai Impact 3rd for months on end now, but most, if not all, of their edits are littered with horrendous grammar and pothole abuse. I have sent them several notifiers over the months in hopes of redirecting them to the "Get Help With English Here" thread, but they obviously aren't listening.
I don't care if they're not a native English speaker, nor if they contribute to a lot of entries. There is a standard to meet, and jikoh certainly doesn't meet that. It's unfair for tropers like 4tell0life4 to always clean up after their mess, and one of their latest edit reasons, "Edit it greater, please.", doesn't endear them.
openToo soon to call?
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna:
- Retcon: There was never any indication in any of the previous installments in the Adventure continuity that suggests only kids can be DigiDestined and have to part ways with their partners as they grow up. While this is somewhat justified in that the only ones ever seen were kids themselves, it still goes against how Maki Himekawa was considered one despite being a young adult, and that the 02 Epilogue depicted all of the DigiDestined as adults and still with their partners.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The promotional material has so far made little mention of anything directly related to tri. outside of taking place after a five-year timeskip. As such its still unknown where Meiko is in all this, and what happened to Maki Himekawa, Alphamon, the Mysterious Man, and Jesmon after the former two just vanished in Coexistence, the Mysterious Man went to claim Diablomon and Demon's data, and Jesmon vanished in Our Future.
- Author's Saving Throw: After the infamous treatment of the Digimon Adventure 02 cast in tri., this movie puts them in a far more active and helpful role. The very first trailer even focuses on them specifically.
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The reasoning behind why the Digimon partners have to leave upon the humans growing up, which is the loss of idealism and potential to shape the future is seen to imply this for some.
- It enforces a message of Growing Up Sucks, which is more likely to make people be more fearful of their incoming adulthood despite it taking majority of their lives therefore ensuring that they will have a crappy adult life.
- It also means that as adults, you will be nothing more than cogs in a machine and be unable to bring change to the world. Despite the fact unless you are one of the exceptions, you need to be an adult to actually realize your childhood dreams. Leaving them stuck in your head isn't exactly better. That's how progress as a whole is made in the first place.
- It's essentially saying that Digimon and what you liked in your youth as a whole can only be best enjoyed by their corresponding age group. Just the act of liking it makes you a Manchild.
The first two should wait as it might be explained in work. Author's Saving Throw I'd be inclined to cut as they Might be Advertised Extras (thought on formalizing a AST ban on pre-release?). Family-Unfriendly Aesop sounds way to soon to judge and like the complaint there's a cleanup thread on the trope over. Cut?
openIs this actually a useful note?
Sus Law is a tiny trope page with virtually no activity. It also looks to be more a useful note than anything. With only 7 wicks, I'm probably sending it off to the TRS, but I'd like some tropers' opinions on whether I should send it in under the standard "Not thriving" that pages with very low wick count usually get sent in under, or send it in under "Really a Useful Note."
openTropers/Healinfine Anime
I found Healinfine's passive-aggressive response to nombretomado's request to improve their proposed addition to Double Standard a bit concerning, so I checked out their recent edits. There's not many, but it shows a like for the Pretty Cure series and complaining about Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Their edit for BrokenAesop.Anime And Manga is incorrectly indented, and I'm not so sure their edit for UnintentionallyUnsympathetic.Anime And Manga is okay either. Does this fit the behaviour of anyone that's been recently banned?
Edited by homogenizedopenMongol Mythology
I think Mongol Mythology should be moved to Altaic Mythology because it covers not only the Mongolian lore but "the mythology of the Altaic people which also includes Siberians, Turks and Central Asian peoples like the Huns and Xiongnu".
Go or no?
Edited by IukaSylvieopenCompletely Missing the Point, as a disambig page?
So Completely Missing The Point, which is now Comically Missing the Point, still has 1200+ wicks. I bring this up in ATT because someone made Sandbox.Completely Missing The Point as a disambig page back in July 2019 but for some reason it was never moved to the Main/ page.
So, my question is whether we should move the sandbox to the Main/ page, breaking the redirect.
Also while on this topic, I was wondering if we could make Completely Missing The Point into a faux-redlink like they wanted in the TRS effort.
Edited by WaterBlapopenLocked 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?
openEditWar on Trivia.StarTrekPicard and Trivia.TheMandalorian
Troper Batman1016 is persistently adding and re-adding entries on Trivia.Star Trek Picard, YMMV.Star Trek Picard, Trivia.The Mandalorian, and YMMV.The Mandalorian.
They're all basically the same entry with different wording, sometimes under Dueling Shows, sometimes under Fandom Rivalry, sometimes under Hilarious in Hindsight, always using some rather specious reasoning to try to point out broad-level conceptual similarities between the shows in order to shoehorn it into... something.
When I first deleted the entries under YMMV.Star Trek Picard, the troper sent me a long, rambling Wall of Text PM in which they took exception and promised to continue to re-add the entry if I deleted it again (which I have not).
The clearest add -> delete -> re-add pattern is on Trivia.The Mandalorian.
Paging the appropriate tropers (other involved tropers are Round Robin and Ambaryerno, although they've only done one deletion apiece, so only Batman 1016 is technically edit-warring) to hash it out.
Edited by HighCrateopenBadly formatted Characters page
Characters.War Thunder isn't formatted like an actual Characters page, with most folders lacking tropes.
openDeleting entries without given reason on RealityEnsues.AnimatedFilms
slordoshoes keeps deleting the entry for Teen Titans Go! To the Movies on RealityEnsues.Animated Films and does not give a reason as to why they think it doesn't qualify. They have done this several times in the past despite being told that you have to give a reason why it doesn't fall under reality ensues.
History of deletions (most recent at the top):
Edited by KToonzopenCyanide and Happiness moments pages are full off Zero Context Examples... Webcomic
Its literally nothing but "This" and links. This isnt kosher is it?
I've noticed that some entries that include She's a Man in Japan and the main page for that trope include examples that are trans women which quite bluntly comes across as Transphobic and this wiki declaring that trans people aren't who they say they are which quite nasty (the character I noticed this with was Poison from Final Fight/Street Fighter where I edited some of that out).
Even if you want to argue that it's about the localisation changing them from trans to cis, that really feel like it feels like it fits that trope and more one of the tropes about the erasure of LGBTQ+ people in media.
Or if we have to put them there, change the name of the trope not to include the transphobic implications.
Edited by Gretnablue