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openUnilateral Image Changes in Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsRecurringCharacters
Troper Grojfan has unilaterally changed the images on Characters.Sponge Bob Square Pants Recurring Characters without going on the Image Pickin' threads for a discussion first. I already PMed them about it earlier today and they agreed to stop (only adding new images for characters who don't have them), but now I would like someone to revert the new images back into the old ones please? I tried doing it myself, but the original image URLs were lost in their other slew of edits, making them confusing to find.
Courtesy link here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.SpongebobSquarepantsRecurringCharacters
Edited by DivineFlame100open Why isnt my slash-link working on an index page?
Series/Gerbert is a new page I made and I'm afraid it isn't linking properly on the Puppet Shows index in the Hand Puppets folder. I do not know what is wrong as I formatted it properly...
openPage cut Film
Uhhh ... so, I just found out that there's a page for The Ranger 2018, but I made a separate page earlier, The Ranger. I'd like to get it cut.
resolved recap page not being made Western Animation
I've been working on making recap pages for episodes of The Emperor's New School. However, when I make one for The Emperors New School S 1 E 20 The Yzma The Stole Kuzcoween Monster Masquerade, it doesn't appear even after I hit save. the link becomes blue on the recap home, but the page itself says the article doesn't exist. Anybody else having this problem?
openPublic domain animation page Western Animation
On the PD Animation page some of the folders include lost cartoons that can't be linked to, and because of how old they are it's very unlikely copies of them will ever turn up. Is it okay to delete most of these lost works from the folders since they take up too much space in an overall large page?
openState of Sonic CD 2011 port? Videogame
I was having a bit of a back and forth between Dere in the P Ms because he thinks the 2011 port of Sonic CD is objectively a Porting Disaster, and deleted Polished Port section a couple of months back from its YMMV, even though it was an opinion that it was better. He was citing the amount of bugs in the game to be a Porting Disaster, but from what I’ve experienced in the Sonic community, barely anyone I’ve seen seems to have been hindered by these bugs (including my own personal experience). In fact, they seem to prefer the 2011 version for its widescreen and extra features. I’ve decided to bring this here because I just wanted opinions on what item to put it in.
Btw, how do you pothole a troper’s name?
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenIs this tropable or should I just add examples to BiggerIsBetter?
I'm bringing this here from the Trope Finder because there's a debate developing.
I was thinking of a possible new trope: large body parts used as a visual shorthand for a character's ability (e.g. large eyes —> acute vision, large ears —> Super-Hearing, and the like. My Brain Is Big and Bigger Is Better in Bed would be subtropes).
I asked the Trope Finder if we already have this (page here), and one side is saying "That's just Bigger Is Better, add your examples there" and the other says "Bigger Is Better is an index, not a trope. It should not contain examples".
I've been told the Trope Finder is not the place to debate whether Bigger Is Better doubles as a trope or not, so I came here to ask the hive mind. What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance!
openLily Orchard - Overshadowed by Controversy Web Original
Someone has added an "Overshadowed by Controversy" sub page to Lily Orchard which contains political ramblings, real life drama, and an entry that would be more suited to "Broken Base" on the YMMV page. Most of these entries are things that have been removed from her page in the past for being against TV Tropes rules as well as the reason the main pages were locked to begin with.
And the Trope is being used rather liberally to begin with
Edited by morpmorpopenDifferent uses of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation
So I've seen two different uses of Alternative Character Interpretation: How a character is often seen by fans, and how a fanwork depicts a character. For example, an entry for the first meaning might look like this:
- Some fans think that Bob is a Casanova Wannabe, due to his status as a Chick Magnet mostly being an Informed Ability.
And for the second meaning:
- Bob is reimagined is a hopeless Casanova Wannabe here rather than the Chick Magnet he is in canon.
In the case of the second meaning, does the entry go under the main page (since it's an invoked example), or does it remain on the YMMV page?
openHow do I change a page's title now that the offical release is out Literature
Common Sense Of A Dukes Daughter was localized in the United States as Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter by Seven Seas from which I was introduced to the series from. How do I change the name? I almost thought the series didn't have a trope page when I tried to look for it under its localization name.
openMisleading statement on Why We Can't Have Nice Things?
The last part of an entry added on Why We Can't Have Nice Things a few months ago (edit history of troper who added it) feels a little misleading to me. Here's the entry (it's an addtion to an entry about tax fraud):
- And while we're at it, welfare fraud. Not only does it suck government aid from people who might need it, it's also one of, if not the leading, reason people fight against government aid and taxes. To boot welfare exploiters tend to be some of the most regular voters so it's very difficult to patch.
My personal impression is that the two first sentences could stay (though there's probably a better way to phrase the second one), but the third sentence feels misleading in a way I have trouble pinning down. I'm also aware I have that feeling because of my personal opinions on the subject, so I could use second thoughts about it.
Edited by NazetrimeopenTroper not giving edit reasons for removals. Also possibly an agenda.
Grotadmorv appears to be almost exclusively removing Nightmare Fuel examples, without giving any of them edit reasons. Could someone send them a notifier? I don't really know that much of how I should do it myself.
Edited by pikachu17open Mystery Live Action TV
So the Story is like that, A completely introverted girl is a big number in an online game where she continues to become a member of a group/guild that follows the orders of it's leader (spoiler: it's an AI {i think thats what it was}) the girl then becomes close friends with another woman of the group and they end up meeting in reallife, the new girl is extremely extroverted and a daredevil (drug addicted etc) the show goes on and the Leader of the Guild contacts each of the member in reallife and sooner or later they end up on an island or so. I really can't recall the name of the show and sorry if my "recap" is a bit vague
open Difference between these tropes?
I'm having a hard time telling the difference between Blunt Metaphors Trauma and Malaproper.
openYMMV partial examples
- Scapegoat Creator: Half and half in regards to the mishandling of Thieves in Time. Fans blame Sanzaru Games for all of the game's faults, including the ending. Sanzaru has stated that only Sony can greenlight a sequel. However, Sanzaru still left a cliffhanger ending despite not owning the full rights to the franchise, giving some justification to the fans who blame it for the unintentional Torch the Franchise and Run.
- Misblamed: Zig-Zagged when it comes to publisher Electronic Arts. Many fans are quick to blame EA for everything wrong with Anthem, given how the publisher was widely hated for its divisive monetization schemes. However, the issue is a bit more complex according to a Kotaku insider report. EA did mandate the use of Frostbite engine, which wasn't meant to work for RPGs, and didn't provide much technical support. However, EA also provided 6 years of development time, which is more than double that of industry standards, and it was BioWare who was responsible for the poor management and bad creative decisions like the employee burnout. Though on the other-other hand, it does not reflect well on the EA management that they apparently didn't notice how troubled production was becoming over those six years or work to address the fundamental issues that were causing it. Importantly, it was BioWare, not EA, who wanted the game to be an online multiplayer game and not a single player RPG. In short, while EA didn't give the right tools for BioWare and seemed hands-off to a fault, many of the bad decisions rested almost entirely on BioWare's shoulders. Ironically, EA's real error was being entirely too lenient towards BioWare — actual Executive Meddling, as they were formerly accused of doing, probably would have saved the game (or at least saved years worth of time and tens of millions of dollars).
YMMV can't be played with, so I find the examples suspect. I say cut Sanazu as while I believe the problem is the franchise being put on ice due to the movie entering Development Hell, there's no sources to prove who's to blame here. EA cut the zigzagged part as while there meddling caused problems there were many others it was mis-blamed for. Any objections?
Some indexes have Laconic-esque short summaries of the tropes on them, like Costume Tropes for instance.
Laws and Formulas has all of these in italics, unlike any other I've seen. Is there a reason for this, or should it be changed? Kinda annoying to read.