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openCut YMMV page for the Bluffers? Western Animation
The tropes page for The Bluffers used to have a YMMV page, but it's been cut, with the reason given being only "Sonic satam fan myopia". Can anyone tell me why the page was cut, and if maybe it should be brought back?
openHazbin hotel fan works page move Western Animation
The page is detailed since it was a leftover redict it said but where does it redirect to?
openRe create The recap for Wolverine and the X-Men Western Animation
May recreate the recap page for Wolverine and the X-Men? I am already prepared to create a recap page for an episode or two when I know it’s okay.
Edited by Greglarocca095openIs there a way to add more media sources like an episode Western Animation
I wanted to add the episode The Boondocks - S1 E4: "Granddad's Fight" to avideo example of Conflict Ball (A Nigga Moment), but i can't add it. Do i have to reupload it and add the source?
openEdit War over natter, complaining entry Western Animation
On the Base-Breaking Character page of Miraculous Ladybug:
- This sub-entry was initially added by Kingslayer 38.
- Because it came off as a mix of Natter and complaining, as well as the fact it didn't really belong on a Base Breaking Character page, I deleted it.
- Kingslayer38 re-added a few days later with no edit reason.
openTroping EarlyBirdRelease Western Animation
What is TV Tropes' policy regarding troping works that have been released early in some parts of the world? To be more specific, season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy has been made legally available in France before its international release on Netflix (apparently because of some miscommunication due to the series' Channel Hop). Is it acceptable to create Recap pages for Season 2 episodes now (and possibly add tropes to the other pages), or is it advised to wait for the international release before doing so?
Edited by C105openBuzz Lightyear Adventure Begins Western Animation
Hello. I have made a standalone page for Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure begins, since I do not necessarily want to call it an episode of BLOSC:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommandTheAdventureBegins I have done this to replace this page:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommandE1TheAdventureBegins Is this okay?
openCut Pages (further clean-up) Western Animation
One final query about my two Disney fanfics (and the tropes pages for them which I acknowledge were purely self-promotional). Will the cut tropes pages become invisible on the search are at some point if someone were to type "Cinderella: The TRUE Sequel" or "Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0"? I'd just like to ask just to make absolutely sure that nobody can gain access to the cut pages, because I'm well aware this time that TV Tropes advises against self-promotion.
don't worry though if you don't think there is a way to stop any cut pages from appearing in search areas
openShould we make a separate tab for Alternative Character Interpretation? Western Animation
So I'm editing the YMMV page for King of the Hill and I was wondering if there were enough entries to make an Alternative Character Interpretation page? And if yes, how would I go about it?
openAdding Broken Base to YMMV Sonic Prime Page? Western Animation
So, since Sonic Prime had just wrapped up, is it time to make a Broken Base section for the YMMV page? Some of the suggestions for the Broken Base section are:
1) The characterization of Sonic himself has caused a split in the fanbase. Some fans find Sonic being characterized as being too immature found it to be completely alienated from his more laid back yet sensible portrayal in the games. Other fans however, think that having Sonic have more flaws in this version makes him more interesting as a character.
2) The canon of this series has also been divided in the fandom as some fans questioned about when this series exactly took place in the game canon and why does Sonic act way more differently in this series in comparison to how he was portrayed in Sonic Frontiers?
Edited by RabbitearsblogopenPossible Single Issue Wonk/Partial Plagiarism Western Animation
The Precision Driver repeatedly posts on the Complete Monster proposal thread characters from The Simpsons, a show completely unconductive to having CMs because it’s too comedic.
- They did this three times in the past few months.
- The first time they did this they proposed two unrelated characters from unrelated episodes of the show: Kostas Becker from the non-cannon episode "A Serious Flanders" (a parody of Fargo) who isn’t played seriously enough with comedic moments like telling a story that gets interrupted and his death being an Overly Long Gag were he the ice rolls over a bunch of times before he drowns, and Russ Cargill from The Simpsons Movie who is Played for Laughs with he says comedic stuff like “people should listen to him because he’s a big man on TV” and after he’s defeated he is comforted by Cletus who says “don’t worry, I once lost a game of tic tac toe to a chicken” and is potentially a Well-Intentioned Extremist. (This on its own wouldn’t be enough for a query but the next one is more of concern)
- the second time they presented "more arguments" for just Becker (they admitted that Cargill has redeeming qualities) but the arguments were just repeating the same points in the earlier post along with proposing an image for the image links pagethat was just Becker holding a pen and a book in ominous light (they edited out the image since then) and later a different image that’s also just Becker in ominous lighting.
- The third time was earlier today when, again, they just repeated the same arguments with repeated statements that Becker has no redeeming qualities (including that as an argument that he’s heinous). They also compared him to Randall Boggs who does have some funny moments but not in the same way as Becker.
- Now that isn’t the only reason I’m bringing this up, I also think parts of their EP was largely lifted from Kosta Becker’s entry on NightmareFuel.The Simpsons (which wasn’t added by them)
- "A Serious Flanders" has Kostas Becker, aka the debt collector, who basically walks right out of a serious drama and acts as a Knight of Cerebus throughout the entire two-parter. After violently murdering the Rich Texan, chopping him to pieces and ripping his face off, he single-handedly kills Fat Tony's crew in a bloody shoot-out, before killing Fat Tony by putting his head in a donut maker. He also forces Ned into hiding for three years, only to shoot him once Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot. He has almost no funny scenes or jokes, and is probably the most serious villain to step foot in Springfield.
- From their first post
- Kostas Becker from The Simpsons two-part one-off episode "A Serious Flanders" is a notorious debt collector and gangster who, along with his associates Seamus and Collette, are introduced by having the Rich Texan captured and killed before having him chopped up and has his face ripped off at the start of the episode. Later on, Becker and his associates capture Homer so he can act as leverage against his neighbour Ned Flanders and after that, Becker takes the lives of Fat Tony and his crew during a shootout at the Lard Lad donut shop, with Disco Stu and Charles Montgomery Burns getting caught in the crossfire during the shootout. To showcase how monstrous he really is, he forces Ned and his sons Rod and Todd to go into hiding in Wyoming for three years and tries to have him killed when Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot. Throughout the two-parter, Becker has almost no funny scenes or jokes compared to previous villains such as Mr. Burns, Robert Terwilliger Jr./Sideshow Bob, Fat Tony or even Russ Cargill, helping to make him the most serious and vile villain to set foot in the city of Springfield, thanks in part to Brian Cox's spine-chilling voice-over performance throughout the two-part episode.
- From their second post
- Firstly, while Russ Cargill does have a few gueninely funny moments throughout The Simpsons Movie despite being a vile character, the same cannot be said about the monstrous Kostas Becker from "A Serious Flanders", who basically walks right out of a serious drama and acts as a Knight of Cerebus throughout the entire two-parter. His vile deeds include brutally murdering the Rich Texan at the beginning of the episode, having Homer captured so he can act as leverage against his neighbour Ned Flanders, murdering Fat Tony, Legs, Louie and Johnny Tightlips during a shootout at Lard Lad Donuts and forcing Ned and his sons to go into hiding in Wyoming for three years and tries to kill him when Marge unintentionally reveals his hiding spot.
Maybe I’m just overthinking things, but since their only forum activity appears to consist of trying to get characters from the simpsons on the Complete Monster page with stuff that’s not relevant to the discussion and what appears to be partial copying from the Nightmare Fuel page. To clarify I’m not officially reporting them, I just want to clarify somethings. Thoughts?
openSplitting Madagascar fridge page Western Animation
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my first query on "Ask The Tropers".
I noticed that Madagascar fridge page is actually about first movie and not franchise in general. Given that Ice Age fridge page was once the same but got split into first movie and series in general, I think the same thing should happen here. So I'm asking you for your feedback and support in helping me in the cleanup of Madagascar fridge page.
Edited by Filip04openWhat An Idiot Monster Buster Club YMMV Western Animation
I have 2 examples of What An Idiot for the show Monster Buster Club and want to place them on the YMMV page, but I was wondering if I should ask permission.
openLooking for something Western Animation
It's a gag used in old cartoons, say a character has crashed a vehicle of some kind, an ambulance turns up and the ambulance workers come out with a stretcher, but then they put the vehicle on the stretcher and leave the character on the ground. Is there a name for this?
open What constitutes an Ass Pull? Western Animation
Essentially, I was thinking of adding the trope in Hazbin Hotel in regards to the whole 'angels can only be hurt by angelic steel'.
Not in the concept itself but the fact that no demon in the 1000 years the exterminations happened had never figured it out, that no demons ever thought to try this.
And the fact that Vaggie would not know this, despite having being maimed by angelic steel.
Would this constitute an Ass Pull or is there another trope that would fit this?
openDownerEnding Western Animation
I have discovered that animated series created by FOX Animation studio are listed in the folder along with Disney. I have researched that not all of FOX's assets are owned by Disney and the company's series are mostly broadcasted by Adult Swim (well except for Simpsons. So I want to ask, should we remove the examples into Adult Swim folder or keep the series at Disney if you find proof that all (or more technically most of) the series are owned truly by Disney
openIffy example on The Jungle Book 2 page Western Animation
So uh, while idly surfing the site I found this entry on the page for The Jungle Book 2:
- G-Rated Sex: It is implied that in the beginning and, mostly, the end, Mowgli and Shanti have been hanging out, and not just platonically, but also romantically and sometimes sexually, much to their parents' support.
So first of all, rewatching the scenes in question, I'm not getting the implication that Mowgli and Shanti's interactions are anything more than just them teasing each other like kids do. When Mowgli returns to Shanti and Ranjan in the end, the most he does is grab Shanti's hand and playfully say that he'll race her back to the Man-Village. At most, it feels like a Ship Tease, "maybe they'll fall in love when they grow up" kind of moment, if anything (but it comes off more like two kids just goofing around).
And secondly, maybe I might be reading too much into it, but the entry is worded in such a way that it just comes off like whoever wrote it believes that Mowgli and Shanti are meant to be doing illicit things out in the jungle when they go out to get water for the Man-Village (or that "getting the water" is some kind of innuendo) and that their parents are encouraging it, which is just...ew. The characters are kids who are somewhere in the 10-12 range for Pete's sake, the words "romantically and sometimes sexually" shouldn't be in the same sentence as them.
Am I just reading too much into this or does this entry sincerely need to go or at the very least be reworded?
openHigh quality Mojo Jojo vector Western Animation
Hey, everybody, I have just found a higher-quality picture of Mojo Jojo's pre-movie design. If you have a moment, I will show you:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superpoderosa/images/1/18/Mojo_jojo.png/revision/latest?cb=20230917234850&path-prefix=es Maybe we could use it for the The Powerpuff Girls / Main Antagonists page, on Mojo Jojo's folder.
Troper M00ny4rzu keeps on adding back An Aesop for this recap page for the Bluey show, despite there being a cleanup for the wick. I had added the reason it was removed and the troper put the example back. The second time, I added much more details.