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Are there certain events in a given work that are technically spoilers, but don't really have to be tagged as such on the wiki?
For example, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The fact that The Winter Soldier is Bucky Barnes. His actor is listed as Sebastian Stan (and was before the movie hit theaters), and anyone who's even semi-interested in Captain America comics probably knows this. Anyone who's looking up the film on here and reading the different pages (WMG, Headscratchers, Fridge, etc.) probably falls into one of the aforementioned groups or has simply seen the movie already. This "spoiler" in particular could almost be the codifier for It Was His Sled.
Do we really have to even bother with tagging things like this as spoilers?
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Is there a guideline on when, or if, to make new pages for works of literature? Many times, I see work pages under the Theatre or Film namespace even if the adaptation is better known than the source material. I would bet a lot more people have seen the film version of Harvey, but it's under the Theatre namespace.
But other times you see separate pages created for works. I saw that a separate page was made for the Paul Thomas Anderson film of Inherent Vice, even though it, as I understand, is a highly faithful adaptation.
Original namespace? Separate namespace? Up to the individual?
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In the film Lucy, the title character is shown to have an substantial appetite after unlocking 20% of her brain's capacity. The movie never outright states it, but this presumably relates to the fact that humans need large amounts of food because of our abnormally large brains. Lucy is using twice as much brain power as the average human, so she would, in theory, need even more sustenance to feed her brain.
Does this qualify as fridge brilliance?
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Uh, what's with the image on this page? Of course, ignoring that Examples Are Not Recent in the description and a good chunk of the tropes are Zero Context Examples.
Edited by valozzyopenNo Title Film
In the X-Men films, Wolverine is clearly portrayed as a protagonist, but he can be, in a word, an asshole, and tends not to care about being a jerk to almost everyone around him. He tells a young girl (Rogue) to get out of his truck where she was hiding because she had no other means of transportation, having run away from home (keep in mind they're in Canada, it's snowing, and she doesn't have winter clothes). He tells her he doesn't know where she's supposed to go, and when asked if he doesn't know or doesn't care, he impatiently and abrasively replies "Pick one!"
He also tells Magneto and Professor X to "Go fuck [themselves]" when they approach him in a bar and introduce themselves like gentlemen, without antagonizing him at all.
This is justified though, since he's spent over 100 years on the run from people who want to kill or capture him, and has learned not to trust anyone.
Does this make him a Jerkass Woobie?
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In The Waterboy, Bobby Boucher refers to his job of waterboy as "Water distribution engineer." Does this qualify as Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness?
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So, on May 24th, 2013 user notahandle blanked the page Funny.Invasion Of The Neptune Men. I get WHY it was blanked - the only examples it listed were actually from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode devoted to the movie, and not the movie itself. But the thing is, now the page is just sitting there, empty.
What should be done about this? Should I Cut List the page? Leave it? What?
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Mdumas43073 moved a lot of the articles listed on Creator.Shout Factory down to the "Scream Factory" section, even though Shout! didn't release them through that label. Could someone please revert this?
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So Moulin Rouge! appears to be hosting information on two movies that are completely unrelated except for their titles and the fact that they take place in and/or are about the same theatre, the Moulin Rouge. Am I mistaken? Can this page be split? This doesn't look like a film and its remake, this looks like two different, unrelated films.
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Film.Agent For HARM lists both of the following tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: Adam manages to prevent the villain from dusting American crops with the poisonous spores, thereby saving millions of lives, but that's about all that goes right. He fails to find an antidote to the spore and fails to protect Stefanik, the only scientist in the world who is even close to developing an antidote. He also fails to notice that Ava is The Mole, despite her being really bad at it. He doesn't even manage to take the villain down properly; the critically wounded Stefanik is the one who kills the villain, getting himself dusted with spores in the process.
- Downer Ending: The Doctor is killed by the spore despite claiming he gave himself the antidote, and Adam makes out with Ava while arresting her of a capital crime. It's hard to feel anything happy at the end, not even a Bittersweet Ending.
Aren't these mutually exclusive? Should one of these be removed?
EDIT: I think the problem is that on a personal level it is totally a downer ending. Sure the good guy wins and saves millions of lives, but A Million Is a Statistic, and in the process the only likeable character in the movie dies and the cute girl is exposed as a villain and arrested. I think what needs to be done is Downer Ending should be removed, and Bittersweet Ending should be altered to reflect how bad the ending really is.
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Didn't bother clicking the link, but I'm assuming this is spam: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Film.AvengersAgeOfUltron&id=92984#92984
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Would anyone mind if I move some entries on Fridge.Guardians Of The Galaxy about the Awesome Mix to the currently-shrimpy AwesomeMusic.Guardians Of The Galaxy page?
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Does the Frozen portion of AndTheFandomRejoiced.Film look long enough for its own page?
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Hello tropers and beyond! My name is Micah, I'm new to this website, and as a film enthusiast, I love it. I've noticed that many of my favorite films have been properly troped and then some (Leon the Professional, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Audition, Memento Mori etc). I however have not found a trope page for the live action Japanese film "Casshern" and would love to see one. This would be for the full uncut 140 minutes version from Japan and not the butchered widely disliked by fans 120 minute version created for the US. I've started accumulating some tropes but it's slow going since I don't know that many yet. That and it's a really complicated film. I'd love some help on it if any of you would like to. If you come up with some tropes to mind, please by all means shoot away! So far I've written down the following tropes. I'll have to review them to make sure I'm not mistaken about them. Obviously there's spoilers, so beware!:
Mind Screw, Bittersweet Ending, Chekhov's Gunman - Casshern the Guardian God never appears onscreen but his miracles (or lightning bolts do) and are what has a domino effect on the plot. The God's character is briefly explained halfway through in a story., Fantastic Racism, Space Whale Aesop, Anyone can Die, Everybody's dead Dave, Kill 'Em All, The End of the World as we Know It, The Aloner (Burai), Misanthrope Supreme (Burai), Big Bad (Burai), Bigger Bad (Dr. Azuma), Anti Villain (Burai), Designated Villain (Although Burai ends up with intentions for genocide, he was originally killed for no reason and once he was resurrected, him and his people again were hunted down for just existing), Immortality Seeker (Dr. Azuma and the Government), Grey and Gray Morality, Black and Gray Morality, Cynicism Catalyst (Burai and his fellow neo sapiens were hunted down to be killed. He then takes it upon himself to murder the entire human race as rightful justice), Famous last words, The hero dies, Kubrick Stare
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AwesomeMusic.Guardians Of The Galaxy has gone four months with only two examples, and I don't know how to add more Zero Context Examples that don't repeat Fridge Brilliance entries about the songs. Should it go on the cutlist, or is there a place where I can ask other people to add entries?
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Was there a consensus somewhere that I am not aware of to move The Avengers to Film.The Avengers 1? Because it strikes me as a completely unnecessary move that is only going to complicate things further.
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Fridge that demands an answer goes on the Headscratchers tab.
If you want to add a fridge example that needs an answer, or see a fridge example you want to answer, move it over to Headscratchers.
Why wouldn't this type of thing just go under WMG?