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openOverly Long Notes In Quotes
These are from Quotes.Game Breaker. Should the notes be trimmed down, since they're hard to read even if they do prevent a Zero Context Example?
openEdit warring troper Web Original
Dr Mc P has repeatedly removed two Shipper on Deck entries from the Critical Role: Wildemount Campaign page on the claim that Shipper on Deck is a YMMV trope (notably both are about the same ship). Vorpoler tried to explain that it isn't but Dr Mc P deleted them again anyway. Dr Mc P eventually added one of the entries back themself but the other is still gone.
open ? titles Film
There are two series I'm trying to name/find.
1. Possible time of relase2003-2008 An English/Irish murder series where the guy/murderer of young school girls; moves in next door to the detective that is investigating the murders (that his neighbour is conducting). Not sure if either knew the other moved in next door. Caught 1 episode several years ago....and didn't think to write the name down
2. An Australian tv series possible 1999-2004 release; that features something about witches, the word "Black" I think.. is in the title. one scene has them running through the forest away from something. there was talk in the episode I caught, about a trait/powers that are passed down through the generations.
Edited by annskivonkranskiopenIs having the same quote for more than one trope okay?
Was working on Mundane Object, Advanced AI in TLP when I noticed it has the same quote as Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!. It makes sense for both tropes. Do I need to find a different quote?
Edited by FGHIKopenSpoilers tags in quotes
I know that spoiler tags are not allowed above the examples line. I'm assuming that page quotes count as being above the examples line? Because the quote for NightmareFuel.Get Out 2017 has a spoiler tag in it.
Edited by jandn2014openEdit War on CTR Videogame
YMMV page for CTR Nitro Fueled
Tale On 113 added an example to Uncanny Valley. fasoman1996 removed it. compactwave added it back. Personally, I think it's a valid example, but...
openNo Title
Is it okay to delete redirects in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/It/ElencoProvvisorioP-R
Edited by lugia1openPreempting an edit war over TheProtagonist.
Preempting an edit war over The Protagonist.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.KillingStalking
I'm removing The Protagonist wicks since such an Omnipresent, No Straight Examples, Please! trope, shouldn't get over 2000 wicks.
If there's anything important to say about someone being a protagonist, we should have the trope to get into the specifics.
And its potholes are usually irrelevant, since most tropes don't change even if a participant is The Protagonist.
...
Villain Protagonist is rarer, so the "[[Villain Protagonist deuteragonist]]" on the page should stay... And possibly be un-potholed, to "Villain Protagonist deuteragonist", so all the info is clear...
Edited by MaladyopenFridge horror on Arthur Western Animation
Found this on Arthur:
- D.W. becomes much more disturbing as a character when you realize that her treatment of Arthur and her behavior in general, despite her being only 4, is actually eerily consistent with a sociopath. She tends to see anything she wants as good and anything she doesn't want as bad, believes she is entitled to whatever she wants, is a Manipulative Bitch (often tricks others to get her way), is known to have outbursts, and seems to be learning to do what is socially expected of her even when she herself doesn't think she needs to do it but shows a complete lack of genuine empathy (for example, her Backhanded Apology in "Arthur's Big Hit", where she apologizes to Arthur for breaking his model plane when ordered to do so but doesn't actually feel guilty for it and still sees it as Arthur's fault for building the model wrong, therefore seeing anything "bad" as the fault of anyone but herself), and in general actually seems to enjoy making Arthur's life a living hell. So if she's already this sociopathic at four, what is she going to turn out like as a teen and adult!? Not to mention how this easily makes her one of the, if not the, most disturbingly fucked up characters to ever grace an Edutainment Show.
- While it's not canon, the You Tube video series Adult Arthur by AOK takes the "what will she be like as an adult" part and runs with it. It's not pretty.
Is this allowed here or no?
Edited by fraggleloveropenFiveManBand correct usage? Anime
I'm not sure whether this entry in Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. is legit:
(Maple Tree Guild > In General)
- Five-Man Band: Maple Tree has this both as a social dynamic and in battle.
- The Leader: The Badass Adorable guild master Maple, the resident Mighty Glacier and part time Kaiju.
- The Lancer: Sally who is a genius gamer and Kasumi, collectively the guild's greatest offensive threat.
- The Smart Guy: Kanade, a talented puzzle solver and their source of Standard Status Effects.
- The Big Guy: Kuromu, one of the best conventional Shielders in the game as well as Mai and Yui; pintsized powerhouses who specialize in one hit kills.
- The Chick: Iz, the guild's crafter.
I was about to erase this, but I'm not sure whether this is the case of tropes being flexible and the band can apply to the team of more than 5, and it just need a revision.
open Do anyone know what is the name of this series
There was this one series about I belive priest who was solving mysteries like crimes but with touch of supernatural. And there is one particular episode where girl can burn things when she look at them.Also when that priest was young his mother died because she tried to save him from falling from roof.Series was on Fox crime in 2013/2014/2015. Sorry for my bad English
Edited by BoziopenDivided TV folder on Dastardly Whiplash
On Dastardly Whiplash, the Live-Action TV folder is split into two sections, one for Series and one for TV movies (the latter has one example.) I've never seen this before, and I'm sure it's not standard, but should it be allowed?
openFamily Unfriendly Aesop misuse
FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.Western Animation:
** Alternately, the lesson could be seen as "drugs will ruin your life....unless you're rich and famous, then everything will work out"
I deleted this as all the Aesop cleanups previously agreed Alternate Aesop Interpretation isn't this trope as it's not the intended Aesop that's unfriendly. QueenMarine, the troper who first added it, immediately added it back without explanation. Any reason not to re-cut it?
The Aesop cleanup threats are slow enough I'm asking here first.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenI need help cleaning up these mess (SCP Foundation characters sheet) Web Original
Just to make it clear how bad it is, this is from Characters.SCP Foundation SC Ps 5000 To 5999
- And Then John Was a Zombie: In SCP-5000, The Foundation itself is the Monster of the Week.
- Alternate Universe: The SCP comes from either this, a previous iteration of the universe or the past before it was changed via Reset Button. In any case, the Foundation found no ties between the SCP and their still-living version of the employee that died inside the suit.
- Always Chaotic Evil: The cured Foundation personnel are unable to feel pain or sympathy and are nearly emotionless. The hidden dialogue hints that this is the natural state of the human race.
- Apocalyptic Log: The majority of the article features one, with data logs being the only thing still functioning from the SCP, that detail a Foundation employee's cross country trek in a world where the SCP Foundation declared war on humanity.
- Bittersweet Ending: Despite near-impossible odds, Pietro manages to reset the timeline at the cost of his own life. But since it's never revealed what the secret that caused the Foundation's Face–Heel Turn was there's no way to tell if it will happen again.
- Also since the Eldritch Abomination inside humanity's collective unconsciousness hasn't been stopped it's still able to continue its unknown goals. At least in the new timeline humanity may have a chance of stopping it without resorting to genocide as now they know what happened last time.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The SCP Foundation believe that the extermination of humanity is the right thing to do. Scant references imply that it's thanks to a discovery that humanity itself is abhorrent and anomalous. And if the revelation that a foreign entity gave emotions to humanity's collective unconscious in the past is correct, then humans as a whole are originally inclined to this kind of morality before the entity stepped in.
- Body Horror: Pietro tries to bury the corpse of a young boy, only for hundreds of worms with the child's face to burst out of it.
- Brown Note: Whatever the Foundation learned that made them declare war on humanity, it's something very dangerous for the uninitiated to learn. When an interrogated MTF member revealed it to his interrogators, it caused them to essentially be put in a state of perpetual screaming.
- Call-Back: To 2998. "Can't fit round pegs in square holes", can you?
- Clingy Costume: Pietro is forced to wear SCP-5000 throughout his entire trip. Not because he can't remove it but because it is keeping him as The Needless and invisible for his walk across the country in a world where humanity is getting systematically exterminated.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: As his on-foot trek continues Pietro becomes more and more desensitized to the constant genocide happening around him. This doesn't help his self-image.
- Continuity Cavalcade: Over a dozen different SCPs get referenced in this article, mostly with reports explaining how the Foundation is unleashing them on humanity for maximum casualties. In addition, Pietro's goal, though he can't remember it, is putting SCP-055 in contact with SCP-579, the "square peg in round hole" scenario a couple of other articles reference.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: While the Foundation are eventually defeated by Pietro reseting the timelime their attack on humanity is an absolute slaughter. They easily destroy entire cities overnight, crush the GOC and Church of the Broken God's alliance and force the Serpent's Hand to abandon the universe.
- Death by Irony: Not literal death but the Foundation has their apocalypse reversed just like they had previously used a Reset Button to overwrite the apocalypses caused by all the other world-ending horrors.
- Eldritch Abomination: Late in his travels, Pietro comes across several Foundation soldiers fighting against a weird entity that resembles a human stretched across the sky. It is assumed to be the the foreign entity that invaded humanity's collective unconscious in the past and gave emotions to humanity as a whole for unknown reasons, and since the humanity that it controls is dying, it attempts to materialize itself to defeat the Foundation and to (perhaps ironically) defend the humanity that it controls at the time.
- Enemy Mine: The Global Occult Coalition and The Church of the Broken God are normally hated by the Foundation, but neither wanted humanity to be wiped out and occasionally cooperated as the biggest forces opposing the corrupted Foundation. Ultimately, it wasn't enough, with the GOC being wiped out and the Church crippled.
- The Extremist Was Right: After discovering a horrible secret regarding the truth behind humanity's collective unconscious, the Foundation ends up agreeing with SCP-682 that there is something inherently wrong with humanity...and deciding that eradicating humanity is the only logical step to spare them from this fate.
- Face–Heel Turn: The Foundation as a whole undergoes one of these after discovering something horrible.
- Feel No Pain: While conducting purges of uncorrupted SCP soldiers, the Foundation would test them by stabbing them. Most had no reaction, while those who did were promptly killed.
- One Foundation scientist claims that humanity as a whole is not supposed to feel pain.
- Foreshadowing: This line from the interrogated MTF member might seem nothing at first glance but it hints at what the Foundation of SCP-5000's universe learned. It is the same line SCP-682 expresses when talking about humanity
Samuel Ross: …disgusting.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Pietro manages to create a Reality-Breaking Paradox that restores the world, but in order to do so he has to jump into the pit containing SCP-579, dying on impact with the ground.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Three of these occur. The Foundation, which was created to protect humanity from world-destroying horrors, end up exterminating the human race. But then Pietro combines SCP-055 and SCP-579 to create a Reset Button that restores the world just as the Foundation had previously used the same method to stop an Alien Invasion. Even better, in order to do it Pietro needed the aid of an advanced armour suit the Foundation itself had created.
- Living Statue: Eventually Pietro starts finding statues of SCP soldiers except they have blades for hands, a permanent grimace on their face, and ability like SCP-173. They turn out to be frighteningly effective in killing people too.
- Oh, Crap!: Pietro could only utter a "Fuck me" when the Foundation released a global message revealing their existence and their intent to exterminate mankind.
- The Purge: The first people the Foundation killed were those of its own membership that had not been hit by whatever "cured" them.
- Reset Button: As in SCP-2998, combining SCP-055 with SCP-579 accomplishes this.
- The Reveal: Hidden text in the last image implies that what the Foundation learned to make them want to exterminate humanity made them essentially see humanity the same way SCP-682 sees humanity.
- It gets better! The hidden dialogue in the blank space between the final journal entry and the footnotes and the hidden implications in the article depicts that in the past, a foreign entity entered humanity's collective unconscious and gave humanity the ability to feel emotions like empathy...emotions which humans aren't supposed to be able to experience at all.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Unfortunately even though Pietro eventually reached his goal humanity was essentially exterminated by this point, he is left with no answers, and he could only make SCP-055 come into contact with SCP-579 by dropping from a fatal height, causing him to die before his remains were transported to the main SCP universe.
- Luckily reading SCP-2998 makes it more of a Bittersweet Ending. It's implied that Pietro really did reset the timeline to save humanity.
- ...but then potentially Double Subverted when one realizes that, thanks to this timeline reset, whatever entity the alternate Foundation found within the collective unconscious and was trying to fight by exterminating humanity is still out there, and now there's nothing stopping it from pursuing whatever its goals are in granting humanity empathy. Though since the Foundation has SCP-5000 now they may be able to rediscover it.
- Technically-Living Zombie: The "cured" Foundation members are still alive, but feel no pain or fear and refer to those who do as "live ones". It's implied that they sacrificed some core element of their humanity itself thanks to discovering it to be unnatural and repulsive since it is assumed that humans originally do not have emotions at all (or at least not certain ones such as empathy).
- Was Once a Man: The Foundation as a whole. They still look human but definitely aren't. Even the personifications of Death can't recognize them as humans anymore.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The first thing the newly insane Foundation does is execute most of its staff with gunfire.
Obvious mistake like bad Administrivia.Example Indentation In Trope Lists and ZCE aside, I think the problem is how this is more like a work's trope page despite being in a character sheet (even the header named after the article, not a character or faction or something). And as such it troping several characters at once (mostly Pietro Wilson and the altered Foundation, despite how they don't work together), and include plot/narrative tropes. Seriously, if it has proper summary I would just move this to its own work page. But no, all it has is link to article and trope list.
This isn't just one case (please check the page's history, as well as other character sheets'), sometime they're bad enough that the folder say one name but all tropes belong to a completely different character or the writing gimmick of the article. And as a wiki, you can bet that this kind of thing will keep coming.
Edited by KuruniopenContrasting Spelling and pronouncing
I was watching the official release of Beastars on Netflix, and one of the character's name is spell Rouis but is pronounced Louis. The page itself use Louis but should it be changed to Rouis despite how its pronounced?
Edited by WhirlRXopenIs this an okay BrokenBase entry?
I was looking at the YMMV page for Monty Python's Life of Brian here and after reading the Broken Base entry, I can't help but feel that there's something just a little off about it.
- Broken Base: This is a film that still remains controversial. Some people assume it's a parody of Jesus, who is actually just a very minor character in the film (and himself played completely straight). Others claim the film mocks Christianity, while it can also be interpreted as mocking religion or blindly fanatical followers in general, for that matter. In a sense it also spoofs the typically heavy handed and deadly serious Bible epics. Some very devout religious people condemn the film for being blasphemous without having seen it. Some religious people who did watch it act as if this movie doesn't mock Jesus, Christianity or religion at all, which is again not totally true either. There are several very outrageous heretical scenes that could easily offend people who take their faith too seriously, but religious people with a sense of humour can enjoy the film just fine. The movie is also more than just a shocking comedy. It raises excellent points about blindly following leaders, misinterpreting so-called signs and messages and not thinking for yourself.
I don't know, but it seems like the entry is going off-topic a little bit in trying to talk about every stance on the film, and the last two sentences don't seem relevant. Also, this:
- easily offend people who take their faith too seriously, but religious people with a sense of humour can enjoy the film just fine.
Seems needlessly insulting, bordering on breaking the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
openCan't link videos to media source Videogame
I realized that the page for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers didn't have video examples linked to it, but videos for Ret-Gone and Player Personality Quiz had examples from that same game anyway. On closer inspection I noticed that the name of the media source given by the videos on each of the trope pages is not completely the same as the title given by the media page. Is there anyway for me to fix this myself?
Edited by TheGrayShadow
Logan Paul discusses his controversies. The YMMV page is even worse; it's filled with complaining and imported drama. As far as I can tell, none of that is kosher, right?