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openImages Live Action TV
I want to know how I can suggest a new image change. For example the image used in Cobra Kai for awesome… I think it should be changed. There are plenty and much more fitting moments that fit awesome for this show. Of course… I wish we could go back to every season having its own awesome image.
openTV show's movie adaptation should have its own page Live Action TV
I'm a fan of Corner Gas and have been contributing to its page and its recaps, but the Big Damn Movie adaptation is a page in the Recaps and not its own thing. Can/should this be changed or should I just leave it be?
openShoehorning trope as a reaction at the end of an example Live Action TV
I couldn't find the forum about pothole or shoehorning trope so I go here instead. So I saw an example of Cordon Bleugh Chef about Hell's Kitchen where the op called out the Cordon Bleugh Chef and pothole Deadpan Snarker on the last sentence. I was about to bring it to Natter Alert forum but I think the problem is the pothole and the misused potholed trope. Here's the example
- Hell's Kitchen:
- Some of the contestant's signature dishes fall into this (Seth's ratatouille with honey), but one of the worst was "Matt's Exotic Tartare". Scallops, raw venison, capers, caviar and white chocolate. The dish was apparently so disgusting that it made Gordon Ramsay vomit into a bin. Not a good start, Matt.
What to do with it? And should I pm the op named Tropers/Yukianesa about it?
Edited by BubblepigopenWhy won't an entry show up on the series index? Live Action TV
I just added this recap page for the show Amazing Stories (2020). It doesn't show up on the show's recap index, but The Heat, another entry that I also created, does. Any idea what the issue is?
openWhy won't my entry show up on the index? Live Action TV
I added an entry to the recap index for Into the Dark, and on some other indexes. Checking later however, it doesn't show up on any of them. I don't see what the issue is. Could it be because there's no other entry on the recap page yet?
openFanDisservice Misuse Live Action TV
I noticed on the Recap pages for Breaking Bad that Fan Disservice is listed any time we see Walt naked.
If I'm correct, Fan Disservice is for sexual situations deliberately played up to be disturbing or uncomfortable (like the show's infamous "Happy Birthday, Ted" scene, which ironically wasn't listed anywhere until I added it myself), not "character gets naked in this scene and they're unattractive". The examples don't list why the trope counts, it just says "Walt was naked in this scene." It even lists it for a serious moment where Walt undresses to get in the shower only to pass out on the floor while Skyler tries to talk to him.
Examples:
- "Pilot": Bryan Cranston makes the first of many appearances in his tighty whitey briefs, and it is not pleasant...
- "The Cat's In the Bag": In the opening scene, we see Walt's bottom as he walks naked to the bathroom after sex with Skyler.
- "Bit By a Dead Bee": Once again, Bryan Cranston shows some skin, this time going fully naked (albeit from the back).
- "I See You": Fanservice: Opening scene. For once, it’s Jesse that’s topless, not Walt.
- "Buried": Walt stripping in silence to take a shower, before collapsing on the bathroom floor.
- Walt's character page: Walt sometimes strips down to his tighty whities in order to cook (usually in the first season) or for other reasons, but neither for comedy nor to look pretty. I don't know about that, the scene with Walt naked in the supermarket was pretty funny...
The page for the episode "Peekaboo" lists the trope because of Spooge and his girlfriend (two ugly meth-heads) even though neither are seen naked or in an otherwise sexual situation.
I ran a wick check and couldn't find enough misuse otherwise to justify a TRS thread or a clean-up thread so that's why I'm presenting it here. Cut these examples?
Edited by supernintendo128openAntivirus alert on one page. Live Action TV
There's something weird happening with the Murdoch Mysteries page lately. Every time I try to edit it, it gets blocked by my antivirus (AVG), warning that it is a phishing site.
I don't get such an alert from editing any other page of the wiki. Anybody has an idea what could be causing this?
open In Seinfeld and other 90s shows, no one uses the internet Live Action TV
I feel like watching Seinfeld is a world virtually like the one I grew up in except for the fact that no one in the entire however many seasons of the show ever used the internet (also people used taxis instead of ubers). As a result the show feels highly dated. It's kind of weird. What do you call that phenomenon?
Alternatively there's a show called My Name is Earl where one character is kind of unique in that he used the internet in all sorts of ways....video conferencing book clubs or chess matches or wine dates, this was mid-2000s, so he was ahead of the curve. This kind of looks prescient in hindsight.
Edited by nilheadopenLate Night Liars Live Action TV
It seems the page was deleted recently, but looking at the latest-available version on Internet Archive, there was nothing wrong with it. (With the exception of not really describing the main game, which is a very easy fix.) Also, "I could not find any full episodes anywhere online, only 30 second clips which do not give enough content to judge trope-worthiness" is...honestly, very stupid reasoning for deleting it.
Is it possible to restore it as it was? If it needs more examples or specific facts I'll be very happy to beef it up; I have all eight episodes I can use as reference. (Its trivia page was not preserved on Archive, so if that's not recoverable I'll be happy to try and re-do that too.)
Edited by supersaver87openUploading Image Live Action TV
I love how the Tales From The Crypt recap pages have the Comic Page illustrations from the Cryptkeeper's book before the episode starts proper. I'm trying to do that but I have never done it before. Do I just put the cursor where I want to add it and then upload? How do I put a caption? Does it need approval? Thanks!
openMy fanfic has the same title as a pre-existing TV show Live Action TV
Hi, someone made a page for my fanfic (called Are You Afraid of the Dark?) and it's dropped into the middle of the page for a TV show of the same name.
How do I separate them out, please?
Edited by ack1308openDoes 'One Tree Hill' qualify as a Trope Maker? Live Action TV
After the fourth season of Teen Drama One Tree Hill, the show utilises a Time Skip of 4 years to get around a variety of issues - characters going to different colleges, the use of Comic-Book Time meaning the age gap between actor and character growing with each season, and a few arising from the narrative.
With Gossip Girl and Riverdale both instituting similar time skips - with Riverdale's occuring at the same point in the series to boot - is it fair to consider One Tree Hill the Trope Maker (Or at least Trope Codifier) of a Teen Drama using a Time Skip to shift from being a high school based Teen Drama?
Edited by ChrisDVopenArrowverse Earth-1 Live Action TV
In the Characters.Arrowverse Other Earths sheet for the Arrowverse, the DC Extended Universe is listed as the post-Crisis Earth-1 at the top, based off of the Serving Up Justice tie-in for Wonder Woman 1984 labeling the DCEU as Earth-1, especially since the Arrowverse is now Earth-Prime. Is that a stretch?
openConcern about new YMMV example in Wednesday Live Action TV
It's been about a day (soon) since this show called Wednesday just arrived and already someone decide to conclude that this show character is Ron the Death Eater.
- Ron the Death Eater: Xavier is a nice guy who seems to genuinely care for Wednesday, but you wouldn't be able to tell that by the amount of hate he gets from the fandom. A lot of fans like to protray as an creepy stalker who doesn't get the hint that Wednesday isn't interested. This is also mixed with Die for Our Ship, as he gets a lot of hate for getting in the way of the much more popular Wednesday/Enid ship.
I'm not sure is that's true that this character gets a hate from fandoms since this show arrived today. Is it too early to conclude that this character is Ron the Death Eater or not?
Edited by Bubblepigopen Lives Like a Pig Live Action TV
Is there a trope for people who not only live in squalid conditions or in repulsive ways but actively refuse to improve those conditions or change those even when they have the means and opportunity? Not people like the Clampetts, who were quite well-off by the standards they knew at series start, or the crew of the Black Lagoon, for whom criminality is at least arguably one of their better options, but people like the three petty criminals from Grimm Fairy Tales #15, or the common depiction of gangsters and addicts.
openRemoval of Ensemble Darkhorse pages for reality shows Live Action TV
Recently, a number of Ensemble Dark Horse entries related to reality shows (RuPaul's Drag Race and Survivor are two I've noticed) have been deleted. This was based on a very short
discussion in the Ensemble Dark Horse Cleanup page, which had nothing to do with the idea that its impossible to have Ensemble Dark Horses in reality shows, an idea that I think is very dubious when you consider the casting and editing process of these shows. Should the pages be restored?
openProblem in the Mahou Sentai Magiranger Characters page Live Action TV
So in the Isamu part, when I tried to click the spoiler part there's no image, someone knows why ?
Edited by MacronNotesopenEdit War on Characters.HouseOfTheDragonHouseTargaryen Live Action TV
There's been an edit war on Edit war on Characters.House Of The Dragon House Targaryen
1 Troper Opheliac added this entry for Viserys
- Adaptational Villainy: ...and the death of his wife in childbirth is changed to him killing her through a forced C-section. (This seems to be taken from the actions of Rogar Baratheon towards his wife Alyssa Velaryon in the book.)
2 So I removed it because it's misuse, it's written as if he murdered her on purpose, and it's also a bit nattery, digressing inside parenthesis and such. Also, the trope is for characterization as whole, not a single event where he is moved to risk a life to save another. The event doesn't make him a villain at all, which as I pointed out is a Sadistic Choice
3 Editor Opheliac added it again verbatim.
Edited by TrollBrutal

In an episode of The F.B.I. (the '60's-'70's series, not to be confused with the current one) entitled "The Detonator", a hit man who specializes in explosives to take out his victims feeds a squirrel some walnuts he has, right after he has almost killed a man in a boat explosion. I've seen all these tropes like 'Even Evil Has Standards', 'Even Evil Has Loved Ones', etc....what I'm wondering is, is there a trope for an evil character who does nice things like feed wild animals? Thanks in advance for any insight.