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openLikeASonToMe
Does Like a Son to Me go under the "son", or the character who considers them their child?
openFiveManBand
So on Characters.DC Super Hero Girls 2019 someone commented out Five-Man Band for having zero content. So someone else filled it in expect it doesn't given much more content and honestly I can't help but feel like it's shoedin (I think that's the word) anyway.
- Six Girl Band:
- The Hero: Wonder Woman is the leader of the team and The Ace.
- The Lancer: Batgirl forms and motivates the team and gives them a hideout, but defers to Wonder Woman's leadership.
- The Big Girl: Supergirl is a tomboyish Boisterous Bruiser who has all of Superman's powers and not a lot of book smarts.
- The Smart Girl: Bumblebee is a Science Hero who made her own suit.
- The Heart: Green Lantern is a Badass Pacifist who tries to find a nonviolent solution to every problem.
- The Chick: Zatanna is The Fashionista
openJun Watarase. Transgender girl or crossdressing boy?
The Happiness page states that Jun is a crossdressing boy. However, the Transgender page states that Jun is a transgender girl. I watched a review of the OVA and it showed Jun declaring themselves to be a girl and they are overjoyed when they transform into a female body, which makes me think Jun is a transgender girl.
openDuplicate links at the bottom of pages
What's up with the long lists of duplicates at the bottom of pages like Dishonored 2?
Edited by eroock
openForumSupport namespace
Found three pages under the namespace ForumSupport. Is this a legitimate namespace?
openAdaptation examples
If a work is adapted in two (or more) different mediums, and share certain tropes, only the original medium need to be listed in the trope page, right?
openIs HSQ going to be removed? Anime
This page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShockingMoments/LoveLive) is a copy of this page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HolyShitQuotient/LoveLive).
As far as I know, HSQ isn't being removed or renamed. Or is there a difference?
openVideoGame.RPGMaker mentioning H-Games at the end... Cut that?
VideoGame.RPG Maker mentioning H-Games at the end... Cut that?
"Along with Ren'Py, it is one of the most popular engines for H-Games in the west."
From a basic check, UsefulNotes.Ren Py makes no mention of such popularity...
Edited by MaladyopenRequest to recreate page
I recently launched the index Being the Hero Sucks and it was quickly taken down by a mod for not having examples and using other tropes to summarize the trope. I don't think they realized it was an index.
openmystery wick on existing pages
I took out the Ear Worm link from Awesome.Still Crazy and Heartwarming.Behind The Waterfall, but the pages are still on the Related page for Ear Worm, so I assume it's a ghost wick or something similar. Usually, I'd request recreate-and-cut on the locked pages thread to get rid of nonexistent wicks, but these pages don't need to be recreated.
Edited by TabsopenUnusual Request
I've a thing to ask: recently I've worked on Inktober, and, rather than make independent pictures, I've used the prompts to work in a single story, keeping in mind this site among various things as a source of tropes. I was thinking if I could make a page about it here, though I'm afraid that: 1): Being submitted on Deviant Art and Instagram isn't enough to make it a Webcomic, and I've no idea on how to classify it otherwise. 2): This would be a serious abuse of There Is No Such Thing as Notability 3): As much as I like my work, I probably shouldn't be the one to suggest a page. I do not expect a positive result, but I'd like to know if there's a chance.
openWesternAnimation.{{Primal}} was just turned into a disambig...
EDIT: Mods... Can one of you move WesternAnimation.Primal to Main.Primal, please?
WesternAnimation.Primal was just turned into a disambig...
But there's only one Western Animation with that name...
And policy is not to make Disambigs unless two works share a namespace and title?
Or it conficts with a trope?
I guess we keep the WesternAnimation.Primal 2019, because there are at least title clashes...
I guess turn plain WesternAnimation.Primal into a simple redirect to the work?
Edited by MaladyopenPossible edit wars Videogame
Characters.Super Mario Bros Bowser has had a couple entries added by some tropers and then deleted by others, and the history page has some shoehorned examples as well as speculation. I feel like edit wars may happen soon, if not already.
openSpoiled Sweet Live Action TV
I've noticed some examples of Spoiled Sweet were removed from Degrassi: The Next Generation's character page. I looked at the Clean Up page and while there is noted misuse, there does seem to be some stinginess on the part of the cleaning though I will say a lot of the context is in the character descriptions. These are the examples:
- Spoiled Sweet: She's very genial and actually tries to work hard to earn her due, despite being spoiled.
- This was for Tori Santamaria. I'll accept that one being nuked as it's unclear whether or not she was upper class, she was just a pageant girl.
- Spoiled Sweet: After therapy she becomes a lot more relaxed and friendly, at least to Holly J.
- This was for character Fiona Coyne, an upper-class girl with old money and is the daughter of a diplomat, who starts off as aloof and bitchy but after getting treatment for her mental issues and alcoholism, she becomes a lot more confident and friendlier and uses her money to help her friends and cares less about social standing. She even gets a job after running into money issues, though it was an adjustment. I can accept that one being nuked as I do feel the character is Spoiled Sweet, but it came after character development.
- Spoiled Sweet: Frankie isn't at all mean or catty or an Alpha Bitch, despite her wealthy parents.
This is for Frankie, rich girl, daughter of the mayor. This was removed in unfairness, as Frankie fits this trope to a T. She's very nice to all students of Degrassi until they're mean to her, but she's sheltered as well in terms of how the world works not in her rich white girl bubble.
So thoughts?
open Why do some Character pages have character images with borders?
Something I've noticed with Character pages like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars is that, unlike a lot of other works, their characters have bordered profile shots? As in, black frames covering a lot if not all character photos.
Why is that, exactly? It's really jarring when coming from other articles and frankly speaking clashes with the site's UI.
openTroper changing other users' edits on X Meets Y pages.
Troper tvtropesZeroSeven has been recently doing several edits on X Meets Y pages and essentially changing examples that other users have put up into their own, without edit reasons. I feel that this troper is unilaterally judging each example as incorrect, even though by the page's very nature, users are free to post their own views about what makes the work similar to others.
openBan Evader
So, today after the ATT report about the Laconic.The Sociopath page, I took a look into the history and discovered the sinkhole problem was the fault of one E Dav 1994. What really struck me as suspicious was that, a few months earlier, another person had posted on that page- Dav 1994.
Dav was suspended for uploading an image in defiance of a commented-out-note, and disappeared from Edit Banned after only a few posts. Apparently, they'd decided to make a new account instead of appealing. It's a little strange how they managed to fly under the radar which such a unique and new username, but hey.
opensinkhole filled laconic
Laconic.The Sociopath needs to be rewritten because it is currently full of sinkholes. To be specific:
A social predator who exercises [[FauxAffablyEvil cha]][[TheCharmer rm]] and/or [[BloodKnight vio]][[AxCrazy lence]] to [[LackOfEmpathy rut]][[TheUnfettered hle]][[ButForMeItWasTuesday ssly]] [[TheChessmaster ex]][[ManipulativeBastard pl]][[AllTakeAndNoGive oi]][[ConsummateLiar t]] others for [[ItsAllAboutMe their own]] [[SmugSnake be]][[TheHedonist ne]][[ForTheEvulz fit]].
open Edit War on Trivia/TwelveForever
The Remedy 91 and LTM 402 seem to be having an argument on Twelve Forever over whether Julia Vickerman is a pedophile. To their credit, they do seem to be communicating with each other... in the edit reasons, as they keep changing the example back and forth. (Personally, I have no idea who Julia Vickerman is; I stumbled on the edit war purely by accident while reviewing The Remedy 91's edits to decide whether or not to PM them explaining the difference between "it's" and "its.")
Edited by MrL1193
The My Hero Academia thread agreed in June to merge My Hero Academia Top Ten Ranked Heroes with My Hero Academia - Other Heroes due to the potential for spoilers and the fact that it'd have to be reorganized if the ranks change. But it looks like Aukefi split it off again in August, apparently without consulting anybody. Shouldn't it be re-merged, possibly giving Endeavor his own page?