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openDoes a Disney Special about Donald Duck count as Filmography? Western Animation
In 1987, Donald Duck was the central character of an animated TV special created by Disney called "Down and Out with Donald Duck", a parody of 60 Minutes charting the in-universe rise and fall of Donald due to his infamous temper. Would it be a legitimate addition to the Donald Duck filmography table on his T Vtropes page? I figured it would be, but wanted to make sure it was before I added it.
openResentfulGuardian or ChildHater? Western Animation
On Characters.The Sea Beast, we have a female character who doesn't take well to children, but she's listed as Maternally Challenged rather than just Resentful Guardian or any other trope?
The entry for Sarah Sharpe:
- Maternally Challenged: Crow assigns Sharpe to be Maisie's keeper. She takes this to mean giving the little girl a knife and a warning against stepping out of line.
I don't think this is correct? I thought it was more of a joke about how a Child Hater was just talking about how children were such "horrible things", only for the captain to basically make her roommates with Maisie the day(?) after.
The warning and knife seems mandatory given the actual rough life that monster hunters have. She just doesn't want some random starry-eyed kid causing any problems for the captain during a high-stakes mission (a race to kill a monster or else lose their jobs). So I don't think the focus is on how unmotherly she is, but more how much of a brutal monster hunter she is instead? I guess you could make an argument that part of the joke IS how rare it is to see female characters not act soft to children, but I'm not sure?
If I replace it, Child Hater seems too restricted to villains, and I'm not sure if she really counts as Maisie's guardian for Resentful Guardian. They share a bunk bed and living quarters, but she isn't a guardian figure either because Jacob ends up being the father figure and actual guardian by the end of the movie instead.
So which trope does this actually fit?
openUnfinished episodes Western Animation
What qualifies as an unfinished episode? Does it have to make it into production or can it just be an outline that was rejected and didn't go far?
openDastardly & Mutley franchise? Western Animation
Two questions:
Are Wacky Races and its various spin-offs (Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Wacky Races (2000), Wacky Races (2017), Dastardly & Muttley, Wacky Raceland...) known under any kind of -Verse or franchise-wide name?
And if there isn't already a Franchise/ page for them, should we create it?
openRestoring a Deleted Entry Western Animation
When I found out a character in The Dragon Prince was inspired by C-3PO, I added an Expy entry to their folder which was deleted soon after by another troper.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.TheDragonPrinceXadia#edit33992672
I messaged them with a link to the interview that states C-3PO was an influence but they haven't replied or reversed the edit themselves. What should be done? Do I just restore it myself, or should another, since I'm unsure if that might qualify as an edit war?
open overturn page image Western Animation
This thread explains the reason the current page image is what it is. However as someone who has watched the show there really shouldn't be an image on the page (at least not the one that is currently up there). Because 1) Molly is far closer with Libby and they are actually friends that are very sweet with each other. 2) Molly and Andrea two don't get along a lot and Molly has tried sabotaging Andrea multiple times. 3) the argument that the previous image, which was a screenshot of the show, was fanart doesn't make sense as so is the current image. 4) Many other HoYay pages have used pages of people holding hands, hugging, and gently looking at each other so the argument that a kissy face means more than a smile or cuddle isn't consistent 5) there are no official romances in the show yet between the girls, and plenty of pages don't have images when that is the case. I went to Image Pickin and it said "This Topic is archived, it gets no new conversations".
Edited by ArcticGrillopenSafe to recreate a cut page? Western Animation
Is it safe to recreate the Quotes subpage for The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3, while adding some Super Mario World quotes there as well in a separate folder?
openStandard Hero Reward-does Thief and the Cobbler count? Western Animation
Perhaps an invoked case, but still. Princess Yum Yum whispers to her father that she wants to marry Tack at the end.
openYMMV Moment of Awesome Western Animation
Ok, I kinda want to add a very special moment of awesome on the YMMV page for Dead End: Paranormal Park. Do I put Moment of Awesome or is there something else?
openPlagiarism Western Animation
pythagoras has created two Miraculous Ladybug episodes recap pages ("Determination" and "Passion") copy pasted from offical sources.
As a form of plagiarism, I sent them a notifier. But I wanted to know I should cut the description or wait for further action?
openRecap pages not being indexed Western Animation
I'm trying to create actual episode recap pages for the Celebrity Deathmatch show, and I've created five of them so far. The problem is that, while I'm linking each episode in Celebrity Deathmatch (which other Recap pages have done, from what I've seen), the episodes are not being indexed back to the base recap page. Am I doing something wrong?
openAnalysis/Dinotrux Western Animation
The page is very poorly written, and I'm not sure what to do with it. It was written by aqueen.
The grammar is poor, the formatting is bad as well, it contains images that shouldn't be there, and the page doesn't seem to do much analysis. Do I just cut this?
openmaking spinoff character page? Western Animation
im editing the spin-off StoryBots: Answer Time and was wondering how i could link the character page together with Ask the StoryBots (since the main cast is still in the spin-off show)
Edited by gluestickthingzopenRecap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold episodes not being indexed? Western Animation
I've tried the usual solutions - doing a null edit, null-editing the page type, removing and then re-adding the and formatting (the page type is "index" anyway)...I even tried turning all the episodes without pages into redlinks. What am I missing?
open Amity Blight demoted to satellite love interest? Western Animation
I've been surfing the net regarding some Owl House videos, mostly on You Tube, and I often come across people either mentioning how they feel Amity was Demoted to Satellite Love Interest, or if not, then that the Lumity pairing has taken up a lot of her focus.
I'm no expert, so I want second opinions from people with More experience: could Amity Fit the trope? Is this potential Broken Base stuff? Or are people just making stuff up?
open Does this match up? Western Animation
For the new The Owl House episode page, The Owl House S3E2 "For the Future", someone wrote this:
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: Seemingly in a jab at the Disney Company for cutting this show's third season short, the villainous Kikimora goes by the alias "Miki", which is pronounced identically to "Mickey". Mattholomule states that every time they try to change things, "Miki" shoots down their ideas and forces things to remain the same. Luz also accuses them of never having had an original idea in their life.
I personally think it's a bit of a stretch, a fan complaining about the show being cut short, that Miki, (which actually get's pronounced as Meek-ee) was more likely just meant to be an Atrocious Alias, since it's literally just one letter off her usual nickname of "Kiki", and she was established as a jerk long before the season was shortened.
What does everyone else think?
Edited by Avenger09openA Scene in Rugrats Go Wild That Never Actually Happened(?) Western Animation
So I was rechecking the page for Rugrats Go Wild! and noticed Little Master Points's entries regarding some stuff, particularily:
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks: When the coconuts fall out of the net during the rescue scene, as the first attempt at rescuing the bathysphere fails, it is symbolic of the adults messing themselves like Angelica does when they cut to the underwater scene.
- Bring My Brown Pants: A flying bird, Siri the Clouded Leopard, Angelica, and the giant squid either poop or release a cloud of ink (the squid) when frightened or defeated. This is her comeuppance, in the case of Angelica, for her mean-spirited song, in which she repeatedly told the babies not to make any smells.
And under the Continuity Nod entry...
- Angelica gets her comeuppance for her Island Princess song and all the mean things she said and did in the form of something very similar to what happened to Siri the Clouded Leopard right before Spike told her to examine her diet. Angelitiki ends up messing herself, which she told the babies not to do in her song, in the submarine around 65-70 minutes. She is the only character seen wearing entirely different clothes on the cruise and not interacting with the others.
This is also brought on so-on-and-so-forth by the same troper.
A reason I want to bring this up is because I recently rewatched the movie and while there are toilet jokes, I never saw Angelica messing herself. Did I miss something, or do I have a valid reason to see this as highly concerning?
Edited by RedBerryBlueCherry
Yup: I remembered of the trope of Blowing the thumb. That trope that cause the character inflated, with another variations.