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Are there any good starting tropes to look at if one wishes to create a fanfic page for a certain Kill La Kill Fanfiction?
Starting tropes as in to start listing.
Edited by LordHerobrineopenNo Title Anime
Alder42
is edit warring on Pantheon.Narrative and keeps removing a Puella Magi Madoka Magica entry.
They may be a sock of Reformed123 besides.
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This time, I don't think a sophisticated sockpuppet investigation is necessary.
Our Pretty Cure vandal is back with Desu Baka Ano
as the new sockpuppet.
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Gotta ask whether this counts as Fridge Horror. This concerns some plot from Nanatsu No Taizai so spoilers.
I noticed this line added by fellow troper 15sok.
- As fans ship Diane with King, after reading Side Story 2 King met Diane as she was she was a kid, King end up looking after her. Is as if they were shipping a father figure to a little girl.
To give more context and understanding, both come from Long-Lived races. Diane's a giant who is at least 700 years old and appears to have just hit puberty in the present story. King's a fairy who is at least more than 700 years old and his normal form is a perpetual child-like body. In the backstory, King meets a really younger looking Diane and they spend a few hundred years together. They actually take care of one another mutually what with Diane hunting food for them and King taking care of her when she was sick. It's pretty much Childhood Friend Romance from a certain point of view.
So here's the problem. I took the entry out and placed a slightly similar entry of it under YMMV squick. However, I'm not sure if what I did was the right thing to do, whether I should I have left the Fride Horror entry alone or not.
Edited by ElfkaiseropenNo Title Anime
Az Tech 341
returned an incorrectly used and non-YMMV trope at YMMV.Kill La Kill, despite the removal reason being pretty clear.
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There's a manga series (Koi wo Suru no ga Shigoto desu) that I would like to make a page for, but I'm not certain if it would pass the 5P — it's not classed as hentai since it has a bonafide romance story to it, but does have explicit "on-camera" sex in almost every chapter.
Can I submit a series for review if I haven't made a page? ("Go read a few chapters here" with a link.)
EDIT: Never mind, I'm 99% certain it's a pass anyway.
Edited by DracMonsteropenNo Title Anime
So this is an old issue, but there's a Spell My Name With An S disagreement on ∀ Gundam with Loran/Rolan here
. Currently the pages have been edited twice to change Loran to Rolan.
On the one hand, 90% of the time I've seen it, it's Loran, and in the one official localization of anything Turn A (thank you, Development Hell...) his name is Loran. On the other, Sinxxx points out a Retconned translation of Ple/Purus in said official source, but since that source is currently the only English translation, I'm inclined to say that we should stick with Loran. (ETA: According to the character trope page, the official site and artbooks went with Rolan, but I'm pretty sure those are in Japanese, not English.)
Personally I prefer Loran, but I know the Gundam Wiki uses Rolan. There's also an instance of the name being written Rolan in the anime itself, but L/R's have been confused before in Gundam (e.g. Mobile Fighter G Gundam's "Rock On" for "Lock On" in one episode) so I wouldn't call that hard evidence. It would probably be a good idea to settle it rather than have someone switch them all every few months.
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Could I get some Mod input on Darth Megatron's recent edits in the YMMV page for Pokemon Genesect And The Legend Awakened? I'm pretty sure Gone Horribly Wrong is not meant to be used that way, especially since it's part of the No Real Life Examples Please index. Not to mention his edits reek of Confirmation Bias, Natter, Weasel Words, Writer Bashing, and Complaining About Shows You Dont Like.
What disgusts me the most is his addition to The Scrappy, which insinuates that only 9-year-olds like the movie and that the writers intentionally wanted to piss of the fanbase.
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Tropers keep on adding back Zero Context Examples for these character sheets for the anime show Dragon Ball Z and it's starting to get tiresome. It explicitly says that ZCEs are NOT allowed on the pages, yet tropers ignore this rule and add it anyway. I think mods need to add a warning to the character sheets to solve this problem once and for all.
Edited by cake25openNo Title Anime
I'm a bit confused with the difference between The Force Is Strong with This One and Spider-Sense in regards to this situation:
Warriors are capable of sensing the power of other warriors even from a distance. They can even tell that the warriors they are sensing are extremely powerful.
I'm guessing The Force Is Strong with This One applies with probably an overlap with Spider-Sense. However, could I request some further explanation due to some examples from both pages confusing me a bit. Thank you in advance.
Edited by ElfkaiseropenNo Title Anime
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.PokemonAnime
UserX deleted some anti-Ash stuff and made some justifying edits. (While I don't think Ash is THAT bad, i can see where the other side is coming from too.)
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Another trope and me had a bit of a disagreement. Not going into the details, we had a dispute about the power of a villain. Since we were both going in circles, I saw no need to continued to PM the troper.
All I wanted to do was add a note, not change or edit, about the villain in question since there is a real debate about it among the fandom and I wanted both sides to be seen so the readers can make up their own minds. The troper I had a disagreement does not want the note at all, citing that there is no debate and list forum discussion reasons why they are right.
I do not want a flame war. I just want both sides to be seen. Should I just like this go or is there something that can be done?
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Is it possible to have The Foreign Subtitle of a Completely Different Title? I ask this because I've done some research and found the old German dub of "Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind" was named "Sternenkrieger: Warriors Of The Wind". "Warriors Of The Wind" was the title of the old English dub. Basically, is this a valid Foreign Subtitle or is this better kept under Completely Different Title?
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There;s an edit war on the anime subpage of the Too Dumb to Live trope for the show Dragon Ball Z on whether the character Bardock qualifies as being Too Dumb to Live.
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I noticed a duplicate example on the Savage Wolves page:
- In Inu Yasha, one of the youkai him and his group encounter is a giant, manipulated wolf and his normal-sized pack. Later they encounter a village where everyone has been slaughtered by wolves, lead by a humanoid wolf-youkai named Koga. Eventually Koga turns out a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and they (usually) get along fine with him.
A little later in the Anime and Manga folder:
- Inu Yasha: The wolf-youkai tribe was infamous for eating humans and destroying entire human villages in the process. Kouga's tribe destroyed three human villages (including Rin's village, killing everyone there including Rin herself) before Inuyasha's group was able to catch him. After that first encounter Kouga became enamoured enough of Kagome to that he stops his tribe from eating humans and from that point on he became Noble Wolf.
I haven't watched Inu Yasha, so my questions are:
- How to word the example (no reason to have two entries for the same thing)?
- What should be done with such duplicate examples in the future? What is the best place to ask for help if I am not familiar with the work in question?
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Was there a specific forum of mod decision to put the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game under TabletopGame/YuGiOh?
The problem it causes is that there are several specific Yu-Gi-Oh! card game subpages under YuGiOhCardGame (look here) which happen to be disconnected from the main article because of this. All the subpages accessible from TabletopGame/YuGiOh are about the whole franchise.
Would it be problematic to move the main article to TabletopGame/YuGiOhCardGame and to make TabletopGame/YuGiOh a redirect?

Series about a guy who is trying to find and kill his 'mother' (a mad scientist who wears only white, and has clone bodies). The protagonist has a twin brother who is fiercely loyal to her.