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openWork pages or recap pages?
The Murderverse — it's a shared universe of roleplay threads, which raises a question about troping individual entries.
Is something like this more like a series of works, and individual entries get their own work page? Or more like a single episodic work, so individual entries get a recap page?
openLowest Cosmic Denominator crowner
There is currently a TRS thread for the Lowest Cosmic Denominator trope with an active crowner. Should anyone wish to vote on the crowner or otherwise participate, now is the time.
Please do not reply to this post. This is an attempt to draw attention to an important crowner.
openWays to enter another world
How would I find a list of all the ways to enter another world like the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland etc? Thanks.
openIs this troper with agenda? Music
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: The ending of the video seems to take a great amount of glee showing the giant Pam/Vallery eating the all-male band. With lots of shots of each terrified man begging for his life before showing Pam/Val eat him entirely on screen with no cutting away or Gory Discretion Shot for any of them. And by the end, not only is every single man dead, but the Giant Woman gets off scott free, suffering no repercussions for what she did. It's hard to imagine an all-female band getting eaten one by one would ever end with all of them killed off, or be portrayed in such a cavalier way.
Uhhhh…what? Am I getting agenda vibes here? For describing a silly fetish-y music video involving a giantess.
resolved Should we add a page for the Neverending Story cartoon? Western Animation
Whilst the Neverending Story is best known for its original novel format and the 80s film adaptation, there was a late 90s/early 2000s animated series called, simply "The Neverending Story" - although one source I've found names it "The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux". As the question title asks, should we add a The Never Ending Story page to cover tropes unique to the animaed depiction of Fantastia?
openExactly HOW can you make a a personal sandbox?
I am new here and very overwhelmed by the sheer size of this site. I am not sure how I'm suppose to make a personal sandbox page and if can I add it to the Pending Page of the Tropes Pantheon. Can someone explain the process to me or at least add a link to the instructions. I would greatly appreciate it.
open Fan Nickname
Can it be used to list nicknames given by haters, as it has been seen being used like that throughout the site, and a couple of people have said that it can be used that way?
open Fanfic
Can I share something and you tell me what do you think?
openArt Shifted Sequel or Art Evolution Western Animation
Hello, I have a question regarding trope entries on the character pages that present how certain characters have altered designs in a new season/series that make them look different from their appearances in a previous work or season. When creating an entry about how a character looks different in a new season or series, should we use the trope Art-Shifted Sequel or Art Evolution? The reason why I am asking is due to the fact that the Art Evolution page has several entries that present how the characters and/or the animation of a series changes overtime and discuss how they look different. There is also the fact that the Art-Shifted Sequel focuses on the differences between the art styles of a series and their sequel/new season. Regardless, it appears that certain character pages like some of the ones associated with Star Wars (some examples being these particular character pages) use Art-Shifted Sequel instead of Art Evolution to describe how certain characters look different in The Clone Wars and Rebels, while other character pages (such as the ones associated with Batman: The Animated Series) use Art Evolution. As a result, I feel confused about the trope that I should include to describe how a character changes in their appearance. I also personally do not believe that Rebels' art style is an evolution of The Clone Wars' art style, which only adds to my confusion. What trope should I use?
Edited by Thetropemaster101openUnexpected Character misuse?
- Unexpected Character
- Ash's capture of Dracovish took many by surprise, not just because Ash never caught a Fossil Pokémon before or already had a Dragon Type on his team, but also because said Pokémon is just a really unconventional choice for Ash, in general.
I intend to delete as once promotional materials revealed Dracovish was going to appear practically every fan was guessing Ash would catch it, so not unexpected. (How long a character is unexpected to count might be up for debate.) Any objections?
openPossible editing with an agenda? Videogame
So I'm a bit worried about this entry, since the issue it's discussing is only around 7 months old, and I don't want to come across as if I'm taking sides.
The troper Chrononaut70 appears to have made a few edits on the YMMV pages for Mafia III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, both of which seem to have some sort of agenda in regards to BLM.
On December 11th 2020, he edited a (now deleted) entry for Harsher in Hindsight, changing it from:
- "The re-release of Mafia III as the Definitive Edition in 2020 comes during a time of Civil Rights protests, protests against Police Brutality, and intense backlash against white nationalism (particularly Neo-Confederate)."
To, with the reason "Since there is a lot of rioting, looting and vandalism in addition to protests, I think it's appropriate to bring these things up":
- The re-release of Mafia III as the Definitive Edition in 2020 comes during a time of riots, protests, unrest, and intense backlash against racism (perceived or not).
He also changed this sentence on the same day, changing "black men" to "men of all races":
- Police Brutality is a thing that black men deal with every day. Lincoln is frequently harassed and sometimes even attacked for just being in the "wrong" neighborhood.
On the GTA:SA page, five days after the Mafia III edits, he edited this paragraph on a Harsher in Hindsight entry:
- Then came the George Floyd protests in 2020, where a fatal choking by law enforcement and several other factors lead to protests that had a tendency of turning violent and spreading to cities outside of Minnesota, one of which was Los Angeles. It also didn't help that the line "Take it off, please, I can't breathe, please!" said by CJ as he was inside Tenpenny's police cruiser sounds disturbingly similar to the one George Floyd said when he was pleading for his life.
Changing it to this entry that, in my opinion, leans on Victim Blaming:
- Then came the George Floyd unrest in 2020, where a fatal accident due to the subject's awful health, drug overdose, and several other factors lead to protests that had a tendency of turning violent and spreading to cities outside of Minneapolis, one of which was Los Angeles. It also didn't help that the line "Take it off, please, I can't breathe, please!" said by CJ as he was inside Tenpenny's police cruiser sounds disturbingly similar to the one George Floyd said when he was pleading for his life while acting very erratically and resisting arrest.
I have edited the aforementioned entry back to be a bit more neutral. I'm not the most educated when it comes to BLM, but from his entries, I get the sense that he's trying to brush out discussions about racism against African-Americans, which I find strange because the pages he's edited on are for games with African-American protagonists. I just thought I'd get others' opinions about it first because I'm not sure if this is a recurring issue or not.
openSuspicious troper?
I come to ask the tropers around to take a look at Bullman editions. I have seen this troper has a focus on shipping, and I took a look at their edits.
I feel there is something off about the troper's activity, and want to ask a discussion about their edits on Fan-Preferred Couple. I noticed a lot of edits justify themselves by saying same-sex pairings are more popular than the hetereosexual ones. I would wish to ask for proof of this statement, as if my memory serves correctly, fanfiction between same-sex characters are infamous for the slash, in communities known for thinking Het Is Ew.
If my case sounds too superficial, then I apologize for wasting your time with this concern. I just want to be sure there isn't an agenda here regarding shipping.
Edited by TomodachiopenRemoving a page and giving credit Literature
I need help deleting a page. This page is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheEnlightenedSeries. I couldn't figure out how to prove that an image I posted was to be used for fair use, and tried to delete it, but now when I look it up, it's still there. Also, the page hasn't been touched by anyone except my account, and I think it takes up space anyway since barely anyone else knows about it. If it can't be deleted, could you show me how to label the image as for fair use?
openPoor grammar and indentation
rigpig uses bad grammar and indentation and natter. Doubleplus ungood. I've sent a notifier.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenPage Vandalism Videogame
NASCA Rfan 0548 (Not sure how you link to Troper pages, especially ones with spaces. I lurk too much to need to.) has replaced the entirety of Need for Speed with the phrase 'MARIO IS THE BEST', repeated ad nauseum.
openTroper editing TLP against sponsor's wishes
Tropers.Chrononaut 70 has begun editing my TLP draft The Fantastic Faux. His first edit was to add The Incredibles as an example. When I added them previously, it was argued that because the creator did not intend for them to be mimic the FF, they did not count. When Chrononaut brought them up again, I told them as much, but they added the example anyway.
They then edited the draft to change the trope name to "The Fauxtastic Four", a name I am against mostly because parodies of the group may have a roster that is slightly higher or lower than four.
openWhy was the Scarlet Hollow video game page cut but the character page left alone? Videogame
The page error said it created red links and abandoned inbound links. Can it be remade? Why was it deleted in the first place?
openWhat to do with all the MegaCrossover pages, since that's a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover redirect?
What to do with all the Mega Crossover pages, since that's a Massive Multiplayer Crossover redirect?
See the auto disambig at Fanfic.Mega Crossover...
openHow do I start a page that's not a Main page or for a Trope entry?
Title saith it all.
Hey, so I uploaded a video example for Self-Destruct Mechanism (yes it's 3 am and I'm hyperfixating on The Final Minutes, if you want to know) and I just now realized that the video cropper I used completely cut out the entire countdown sequence and only shows the aftermath. Is there a way that the upload can be denied or something and I can re-upload a better video (with the actual sequence)?