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open Tv show? Or movie of time travel Live Action TV
I think it was a Tv show of time travel. This organization has a timemachine and send 3 people to the past in the 1930's. It's a white male, a white female, and a black man. I think they are in NY or NJ. They look for a car and *borrow* one from a worker that worked in a hotel. The black guy drives as a driver because it would be weird for a white man to drive a black man. They are on the mission to kill this guy because he will do something very bad [something about some terrorist attack or something like that]. They can still communicate with the people in the present with the ear piece they have. Before they had like 5-6 hours to make it back to the place they are brought to the time machine but then they have less time if not they will stay in that time and have to take poison to not alter the past. They find the guy but don't kill him because he has a little sister. The white man tells him to take care of her,[they find out that in a few years the sister will die, from the present people that are helping them] the white tells him that he is an angel and if he wants to live he will need to change his life. In the end, the guy accepts. They barley make it on-time for the spot of the timemachine ripple. They comeback and it seems that they are able to change the past and present. One of the guys on the organization seems to steal or go into the time machine and causes chaos.... After that it was the end. It seemed like a season finale. Looked like the 2000's 2010's
open New Trope Request
I call it, "Pulled a Sandler". It references what modern Adam Sandler movies are known for: Acknowledging bad qualities, refusing to make improvements while showing no interest an improving, and the box office results are the only concern.
This is basically how it could work: Something that is written by the creators is received with criticism, and it is well acknowledged by the creators. But instead of trying to make improvements, they ignore the criticism, continue that poor writing while showing no concern of improvement. And the box office in films and ratings in TV being the only thing that is concerned could be an extra I guess.
Edited by crystalbeach96open4Kids Localized One Piece Because of a Package Deal
It said on the 4Kids page that due to a package deal with Toei, they couldn't pass on localizing One Piece and from that point they were being forced into localizing One Piece until they could legally drop the licensing. Is there a source for that claim?
open Issues on UsefulNotes / RMS Titanic
In other news, Aurelian will not let their pet wank on the RMS Titanic page go. I'd really like for a mod to step in here and put a stop to it, or it's just going to either be the two of us going round in circles forever, or Aurelian whining about it until the end of time.
Please?
openInformation about Vic Mignona's allegations
User marikthegunslinger has edited the Dragon Ball Super: Broly page to add that Vic Mignogna multiple allegations for sexual conduct were "false". Likewise, he edited JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable to delete lines about the #kickVic movement and instead added a line where his portrayal of a character was praised. Likewise, he erased an entry in Dragon Ball Z Abridged that mentioned Vic's character coming off as a predator being in bad taste following his case.
I haven't been following Mignona case, but other than he suing Funimation for defamation, nothing has been confirmed or denied about the case. I want to ask what should I do regarding this. I want to delete Marik's entries and put back what they took out, but I don't want to enter in a possible conflict.
openEditor with grammar problems
On and on it goes... nuclear_shmatt is the editor in question this time. They have a particular penchant for run-on sentences and/or comma splices, confusion between "its" and "it's", and Word Cruft in the form of repetition and/or redundancy. I sent them a grammar notifier two days ago and their edits since then have shown no improvement.
openCannot add Nightmare Fuel page in the correct format
I tried to add a Nightmare Fuel page for Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth but when I added the title, it does not display properly, it displays something like Nightmare Fuel/Persona Q 2 New Cinema Labyrinth instead. If I add a bracket {{}} between them, they just refuse to hyperlink.
Is there anyway to make them appear as Nightmare Fuel/Persona Q2:New Cinema Labyrinth? I cannot find a way that lets me do so.
Edited by Mr-ex777openDetetive Pikachu question
The Film.Pokemon Detective Pikachu page has a huge list of people involved, which isn't noteworthy, except it also has what movies they were recently involved in, which is kind of clogging the page. Is that okay or should something be done?
"The film is directed by Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens, Goosebumps), with a screenplay based on a story by Letterman, Tom McCarthy (Up, Spotlight), and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy)note Though she was not credited for it, and stars Justice Smith (The Get Down, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Kathryn Newton (Paranormal Activity 4, Big Little Lies, Supernatural), and Ken Watanabe (Inception), alongside Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) as Detective Pikachu."
Edited by lalalei2001openSpoilers on Spoiler-Free pages Film
Can spoilers for one work be on a spoiler-free page for another work?
I ask this because YMMV.Avengers Endgame has an entry that spoils the newest episode of Game of Thrones (I don't watch GoT though, so I don't know how big of a spoiler it is).
openYu-Gi-Oh! GX Undubbed Season 4 Anime
According to the https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_GX_-_Episode_155 Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki, the reason why there was never a dubbed season 4 was because TV Tokyo and Creator/Konami forced 4Kids Entertainment to abandon GX and focus solely on the untested Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, and this action left 4Kids very upset. What would we call this? Misblamed because 4Kids always gets the flak for not finishing GX, or The Scapegoat?
Edited by crystalbeach96openWorth fixing?
Every so often, I'll come across a page where nothing is written as a Wiki Word and is instead written with curly brackets. For example, Literature.The Stones Are Hatching. Should I worry about fixing the formatting, or just let it be since the wicks still work? Is there any real benefit to changing it all, or is my effort better spent elsewhere?
open Cowboys bury villains under rosebush Live Action TV
In a town of the old West, two retired outlaws move in. Despite their reputations, they are allowed to stay if they keep the town rosebush alive (the appalling climate of the dry town kills any rosebush brought in). Thus having a home and livelihood, they do their job successfully - by carefully noting no good fellows coming in town, slyly offing them and burying them UNDER said rosebush. Did I imagine this show? I remember seeing it as a kid.
openWMG rules?
I can't find a place where WMG rules are written, and I'm worried about a certain troper. Is it okay to delete WMG replies? Is it okay to change someone's reply/entry to put your own thoughts into it? (I.e. changing someone's addition "It's explained in chapter three" to "It's explained in chapter three, but it's really stupid.")
Edited by iamconstantineopenInfluences Music
How are the "Influences" listed on Music pages determined? Does it have to be an artist the creator has specifically stated to have influenced them to be listed?
openCreator / Work Page Confusion Web Original
The page WebVideo.Loading Ready Live currently acts as a collective works page for the shows that LoadingReadyRun streams on their Twitch channel. The problem is that "LoadingReadyLive" is no longer the name of their Twitch channel, and it hasn't been for quite some time, it's now the name of a specific show.
So what should be done with this page? I see two possible options:
- Rename the page "LoadingReadyRun Streams" and leave everything else the same.
- Overhaul the page to focus exclusively on the "LoadingReadyLIVE" show and move everything else over to WebVideo.Loading Ready Run.
There's also the issue that "LoadingReadyRun" is both the name of the group itself and also the name of their (pre-recorded) comedy sketches. Should we have WebVideo.Loading Ready Run focus just on the sketches and move everything else over to Creator.Loading Ready Run? Or should we make WebVideo.Loading Ready Run Sketches? Or is this one not that big of a deal?
openOfficial English names for manga/anime Anime
Hello all,
I know that this site has a general policy of preferring the most recently-used official English localization for foreign works.
In the case of the anime/manga One Piece, there is more than one official English version for certain words and phrases. For example, the VIZ manga uses the term "Navy", while the Funimation dubs/subs uses the term "Marines". There are more examples, but this is one of the most prominent ones. They're both technically the most recent official English translations, except one is for the manga (VIZ) and the other is the anime adaptation (Funimation).
In cases like these, which version is given precedence, the manga (VIZ) or the anime (Funimation)?
Edited by DeeeFooopenWhere to put this?
I'm going to be crosswicking for Literature.Power pretty soon and I'm not sure where to put this example:
- Panthera Awesome: The panther is incredibly important to the people in the story, especially the Taiga Clan, who consider the panther to be their older sister and revere it. Omishto is fascinated when she sees one, describing it as beautiful and calm, even while being hunted. Interestingly, the panther discussed is described as golden, making it more likely a puma.
The Panthera Awesome page is soft-split between different cats, and while there is a puma section, the book only ever refers to it as a Panther, but since it isn't a Black Panther it can't go there, either. Do I just put it into "General"?
Edited by WarJay77
drwhom has added a paragraph on Yaoi Genre about criticisms often given about it. I don't see anything particularly Flame Bait-y, but should it be on the page at all?
Edited by iamconstantine