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openBan evader? Western Animation
Jackson Joshua 23 re-added the Series Hiatus to the Bob the Builder page. They are also vehemently denying that they are a ban evader despite the fact that the culprit in question always does this.
Can we get an IP check?
open Is there a name for this trope? Western Animation
when a character pretends to be innocent and a halo appears above their head, I've seen this is multiple cartoons and I'm wondering if their is a name for it
openGrammar error made in Early-Installment Weirdness.The Loud House Western Animation
A few months ago, martinskof did a single edit on Early-Installment Weirdness.The Loud House that simply left a grammar error that went unnoticed. Below is a before and after with the change labelled in bold.
Before:
- The series started out as the adventures of a boy with ten sisters. Eventual episodes gave the sisters and the rest of the family more focus, with numerous stories in which they're the main characters. In some episodes, Lincoln doesn't even appear at all.
After (martinskof changed the bolded period into a comma while leaving "Eventual" capitalized):
- The series started out as the adventures of a boy with ten sisters, Eventual episodes gave the sisters and the rest of the family more focus, with numerous stories in which they're the main characters. In some episodes, Lincoln doesn't even appear at all.
Can I revert the edit?
openLGBTQ-Phobic Agenda-Based Editing Western Animation
Ry Rodrigo deleted LGBT Fanbase from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse without an edit reason
twice
, including after someone restored it
with a note telling them to provide an edit reason for it. This is an unambiguous edit war.
They have also gotten in trouble here
for deleting LGBT-related entries without an edit reason so they are definitely troping with an agenda.
Do I have permission to restore the entry?
openToo Much on The Millennium Age of Animation? Western Animation
On the UsefulNotes.The Millennium Age Of Animation page, TimonAndPumbaa623
has been adding numerous series/movies/specials to the page's list of "Series/Films associated with this era", since 2021 and especially recently, treating it like an index of anything that's come out since the Turn of the Millennium. While the folder itself admits the list is incomplete, it's added a lot of bloat to an already long page, approaching 400,000 . And while "associated with the era" is a somewhat nebulous and subjective term, I'm questioning if such works as CJ the DJ or Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas are notable enough for such a list if it intends to inform people.
All that said, I'm not comfortable with just making a unilateral page change all by myself, so are there any further opinions on this?
open Does this "controversy" exist or is it artificial/one-sided fanwank? Western Animation
On the YMMV pages for the 1980s She-Ra: Princess of Power and reboot She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, it says that the fandoms for the show don't get along? Some time ago, Tropers/anthonyjr343 and Tropers/need2reed added these to the original She-Ra YMMV page:
- Fandom Rivalry: Many fans of original She-Ra and current She-Ra do not get along at all. This is likely due to controversial remarks made by Noelle Stevenson with further rivalry fueled by Melendy Britt's vocal criticisms of the new series.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The show's popularity with the LGBT fanbase, in regards to Melendy Britt's criticism of the Netflix series containing rants that could be taken as homophobic simply because the new series has lesbian characters, which she vocally disapproved of.
As someone in the reboot's fandom (though not a closely dedicated follower, though I'm friends with people who are and I know most of the discourse), the YMMV pages were the first I'd ever heard of Britt having a negative opinion on the reboot.
Even after doing research on itTL;DR She wrote a Facebook post saying the reboot crew aren't real fans because of the insults they made to the original in promotional articles and she wrote another hoping the Masters of the Universe: Revelation crew wouldn't act the same. The reboot crew is known for poking fun at the original in a similar way that later Transformers media pokes fun at Transformers: Generation 1 or later DC Comics pokes fun at something like Super Friends, also considering Britt doesn't seem to use social media much (her FB is mostly just the occasional "She-Ra loves you" type of post) and most of the fans she's ever interacted with are '80s-'90s kids, so it honestly seems like a generational misunderstanding to me., I still can't find any discourse about her views on the reboot outside of a few original-only fans weaponizing her word against it.
I also can't find anything about Melendy Britt saying anything remotely homophobic (the only thing I've found of her talking about the LGBT community is a post she made on Facebook saying she and She-Ra support Pride).
Keeping in mind that the reboot has been a huge target of rampant racism, sexism, and homophobia, I have suspicions that these entries about minimal and nonexistent incidents are just there to cause drama and frame a poor light on the people involved.
I've previously edited anything about these subjects on the reboot's YMMV and Trivia page to clarify them (they originally resembled what the original show's pages looked like), but now I'm bringing this here before I edit the OG show's in case I've been missing something the whole time.
openQuestion about Fic Recs Western Animation
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but am I allowed to recommend a fic I myself have written? I've always thought it was no and thought it said that somewhere on the fic page, but I can't find it.
openMoments page got removed spoiler tag re-added. Want to avoid edit warring. Western Animation
On Fridge.My Adventures With Superman, I removed a spoiler tag (because Moments pages are Spoilers Off). The spoiler tag was re-added with no edit reason given. I want to re-remove it, but I'm worried that would count as edit warring. I already sent a message to the person who put the spoiler tag back in there.
Edited by Saturn500openTrying to avoid an Edit War on the Velma Page before it starts. Western Animation
So someone recently edited the Velma page to take this example off from the Arc Fatigue entry
- Related to that, the fact that the whole season is supposedly building up to the formation of the Mystery Gang but by the time the season ends they are still not friends, much less the Mystery Incorporated we know from the rest of the franchise. It's enough to make some fans feel like the whole season's build up was pointless.
The reason they removed the entry was cited as "Um the finale does hint they are becoming friends so this is misleading"
But I don't think it is though since the final scene with the main characters is them fighting with each other and pretty clearly still hating each other's guts.
Normally I'd just add it back but said user has engaged in some minor apologism of the show in the past so I'm worried this is more of that same attitude and I don't wanna kick off an edit war with them.
Hence why I'm asking here if it should be safe to add this example back before doing anything.
open What's a good trope to describe a dated joke that the writers should have known was dated. Western Animation
I'm specifically talking about a joke in Western Animation/Velma. At one point someone is holding up a sign saying "Lock her up but by her we mean him".
It's a Hillary Clinton reference but the problem is the joke is horribly dated because 2016 was years ago.
I'm trying to find a good trope this would fall under. Unintentional Period Piece wouldn't count because this would have been in production long after the 2016 election.
Can someone help me figure this out?
openTroper removing content they don't like from a show. Western Animation
(Deleted query after examining the issue I wanted to talk about and seeing it was already solved, please ignore.)
Edited by Inky100openEdit War prevention, FakeMixedRace Entry Deleted Twice. Western Animation
Despite it being confirmed
that the brothers on The Dragon Prince, Callum and Ezran are both biracial, (but not their voice actors) there seems to be some disbelief going on when it comes to Callum.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Trivia.TheDragonPrince#edit37668055
Should the entry be restored? (maybe include Ezran this time) I did so once before and don't wish for this to erupt into an edit war.
Edited by Avenger09open New Tropes Western Animation
Can you guys add these new Tropes that I invented?
- 1: "Unnamed Short Tempered Trope" It's Like "Hair-Trigger Temper" but downplayed and "Fiery Redhead" but for all types of characters with different types of hair colors.
- 2: "Question Not Answered" I know, Pretty cool name, It's self-explanatory and Nickelodeon is notorious for using this cliché in their sitcoms.
- 3: "Doesn't Say Sorry" It's basically when a character doesn't say sorry for their Jerkass behaviour say: "Bob scolds Alice for focusing more on school than her job after a fight Alice apologizes but Bob Doesn't apologizes for not leting her do her school duty." Double Subverted In The "We Baby Bears" Episode "Triple T Tigers" Where Near The Ending TK Apologizes for his bossy nature toward his brothers but is interrupted by the bears.
- 4: "Oblivious Twist" (You can change the name, don't worry about it.) It's basically a plot twist where... let's say "Alice is jealous of Bob doing killer skateboard tricks that he learned from a book only to do one more and the skateboard snaps in half which causes Alice to laugh in his face and revales that it was all a plan to get revenge at Bob for making lasagna instead of meatloaf with him knowing that if she eats lasagna it gives her acid reflux. Example: "ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks" Episode "Simon the Superb" Simon wants Alvin to give him his book but turns out the book was part of a plan to trick Alvin.
- 5: "Big "HEY!"" And "Big "DO IT!"" Come on, Why not?
- 6: And Finally "Common Sense Isn't Allowed" It's "Forgot About His Powers" But it's not power related let me put a scenario for you: "Bob and Alice can drink water safely but Bridgette (A Fire Girl) can't so Bob and Alice accuse Bridgette of being an evil creature that is poisonous to water but they forgot and Bridgette doesn't say that she can't drink water. (because of plot reasons.)
And that's all the tropes i want you to add so please mods add them thank you and ciao for now.
Edited by BlimperBraveopenCaption changed without permission Western Animation
A week ago, the image and caption for Awesome.The Super Mario Bros Movie had been selected thanks to the appropriate Image Pickin' thread
. However, ASJ's first edit after Synchronicity added the caption is to change the caption
despite the commented-out warning not to. Twice, even.
openEdit War on the Wild Thornberrys Movie page. Western Animation
I was going to add back the deleted examples on the subpage, but Wretched Dog keeps deleting them. I came here because I didn’t want to start an edit war.
openEdit War? Western Animation
On this page:
- Master-Geass added the plot summary for The Ghost and Molly McGee episode "All in the Mind" with an unnecessary note
.
- I deleted it
and incorporated the entry in its own trope to fit it better.
- Yet, Master-Geass still found it fit to re-add the note
.
Am I in an Edit War situation? And what to do about the note?
Edited by skan123openBiting the Hand Humor split Western Animation
BitingTheHandHumor.Fox Animated Shows is split off from BitingTheHandHumor.Western Animation due to length. However, some of the shows listed, like Animaniacs and Futurama, underwent a Channel Hop and have examples pertaining to those other networks or streamers.
Would such examples be listed on the Fox page despite not being targeted towards Fox anymore, or would they be listed on the main Western Animation page? So far the Animaniacs examples have been split between the pages (I think I did that myself?) but going forward I want to double check to avoid duplication.
openTotal Drama wonk and edit war Western Animation
Alfan 226 clearly has a wonk about the 2023 season of Total Drama, particularly the friendship between Priya and Millie. Their only edits have been removing entries that speak positively about the relationship, not just on YMMV pages, but also changing any mention of their friendship on Characters.Total Drama Ferocious Trout to be "friendship" in Scare Quotes.
Originally I just sent "deleting YMMV" notifiers, but the Scare Quotes thing actually seems to have crossed into edit warring, as they added them
, Whatevra put them back
, and then Alfan re-added them in the same day
. Though they did eventually go back and remove the quotations themselves, it's still an edit war and they never use edit reasons when deleting YMMV.
openAppropriate rewick? Western Animation
I was cleaning some wicks for WesternAnimation.Duck Tales yesterday, and while many of the wicks were straightforward changes to changing them to wicks to either the franchise, or one of the two DuckTales shows, occasionally the link will just be a character's name with a link to the series (For example, Scrooge McDuck). In a case like that, would it make more sense to link to ComicBook.Disney Ducks Comic Universe, since some of the show's characters debuted there?
Edited by JankyKong

Some pages like "The Dudliest Catch" were cut for several red and abandoned links.
I've watched the show and have time. Is it okay to recreate the pages?.
Edited by MysterionFan