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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
Uhm hi, I know Naughty Tentacles was cut because of reasons, so I figure I should mention this: A lot I see All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles being used as a replacement for the cut Naught Tentacles trope (Like this from Mx0 All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: Mizuki encounters some in the cave where Lucy is from.)
Who should I report that to: do I need to start a TRS? (I dont know how to do that)
i have no problem with Naughty Tentacles myself, but I figure if you cut it you probably want it to stay cut
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I was planning to make a page for the Tsubasa Chronicle fanfic Shatterheart
but then I saw the No Lewdness, No Prudishness page and I want some clarification. The pairing is Kurogane and Syaoran, who in story are 27 and 21 but Syaoran has the appearance of a 15-16 year old, which is stated in story. I want to know if it violates the rule or not because he borders on the no Older Than They Look Rule of No Lewdness. If he violates the rule I will not make the page and get rid of the Fan Fic Rec I made for it. If doesn't can I make the page?
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OolonColluphid
is edit warring over Complete Monster on YMMV.Freezing and keeps readding it.
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Someone just recently created a Nightmare Fuel subpage for Shokugeki no Soma with only one entry. Since, IIRC, a Subpage requires a minimum of 3 examples, is it okay to cutlist the page and move the entry to the YMMV subpage, or should I wait for the page to grow? (Because this being a cooking manga, I doubt that it would have many Nightmare Fuel entries)
Edited by theAdeptRogueopenNo Title Anime
On the Black Butler character page, there seems to be some disagreement on whether to use male or female pronouns when referring to Grell Sutcliff. In the manga and the anime, Grell is referred to with male pronouns. I corrected this in the entries, and vividgrim changed it back. To avoid an edit war, we need a moderator to be the judge of this apparently.
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Fire Shadow pulled a moment from DethroningMoment.Dragon Ball Z saying that because the character was never top-tier, his Butt-Monkey status in the series is fine. Isn't Dethroning Moment Of Suck personal?
That said, the Moment was actually two (him getting a bridge dropped on him and later him losing his girlfriend), so it deserves to be pulled. I was just wondering if the reason was kosher.
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On the entry for I'm Here to Help, Anon Biblophile keeps deleting or editing valid tropes for the entry (among other things, he deleted the main character making snide comments about a brainwashed character being raped and then trying to kill said character being unsympathetic on the grounds that the main character didn't like him and was bantering). In general, they seem to be removing or justifying anything negative that's put in about the fanfiction.
I'm not sure if this constitutes an edit war or not, but the troper in question seems to be hovering around that page and editing most of the things added in (the YMMV entries, which were the most recent edits, were added in a few days ago). If it doesn't though, I would like to know how to best bring things to the page's discussion board to talk about the edits, since we clearly aren't seeing eye to eye on this.
Edit: In regards to a new issue that's arisen, while Anon and I have been reaching some middle ground on the YMMV page, there's some debate on what ought to go under the entry for Unintentionally Unsympathetic. There are a number of specific examples that I feel should be mentioned because I and quite a few other readers found them VERY distasteful and big reasons why we saw the character as unsympathetic, however Anon and I are in disagreement over whether or not they justifiably fall under the trope.
The specific points we're sorting out can be seen at the discussion board (apologies for how long-winded we both got about this) - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=FanFic.ImHereToHelp#83293
Since Unintentionally Unsympathetic is a YMMV trope, I know that leaves things a bit less concrete, but I was wondering if there was some guideline that could be followed for what sorts of examples are acceptable for this trope?
Edited by ZeldaQueenopenNo Title Anime
arielrocks is making weird edits to Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea and especially its discussion page. Not sure what their deal is.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Anime.PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Anime.PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea&id=85289#85289
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Bit of a question if a certain character from Nanatsu No Taizai counts as a Satellite Character or not which me and a fellow troper are discussing. Some spoilers though.
Griamor is a Holy Knight who serves Princess Veronica. He is the knight to her lady. Most of his motivations revolve around serving her as it seems that he has a bit of a Bodyguard Crush on her. Unfortunately she dies, and out of shock breaks down and disobeys Veronica's last order to protect her sister from the surrounding chaos at the time. He leaves for a time only to return much later to save Veronica's sister. He saves Elizabeth from making a Heroic Sacrifice/ committing suicide and even gives the reason that doing so would make Veronica sad. Currently, he is about to fight one of the manga's Big Bad Duumvirate.
Griamor is also the son of the manga's other Big Bad. In fact he is a major motivation for the other Big Bad, as Dreyfus is a "Well Done, Dad!" Guy who just wanted his son to be proud of him. When Griamor is reported as K.I.A., Dreyfus experiences I guess the villainous version of Heroic BSoD. When the previously mentioned first Big Bad tells Dreyfus that he was the one who killed Griamor, Dreyfus goes Papa Wolf. When Dreyfus is told Griamor is alive, Dreyfus is breaks down in Tears of Joy.
Now with all this information, does this make Griamor a Satellite Character? I personally think that all these makes him not one but can't seem to convey a concrete explanation in my discussion with my fellow troper on the matter. So some other opinions would be welcome.
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I found several pages like this: Fall 2012 Anime and I was wondering if that was really a think we needed? Seems kind of pointless.
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Per this discussion on the Yu-gi-Oh chaarcter pages:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Characters.YuGiOhMainCharacters&id=86400#86400
"Okay, somebody changed all of the pictures. When I added the old pictures back but kept the new ones, that same person got rid of them."

Edit warring and tetchy edit reasons on Kill la Kill.