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openSoggy Bottom USA Film
There isn’t a page for this movie and I can’t seem to figure out how to make one. Could someone make a page for it?
openHow to add creators? Or tropes/pages that don't existed before? Film
Hello! This is my 1st time here editing something. I was editing one page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBrokenHeartsGallery
and wanted to add people to the creator's list. How can I do it? Or it is necessary a mod to give the permission? (I created the other because someone already created a link). Also, I'm not sure how to add pictures...
Thanks!
open Can this Film Page be cut? Film
So I was wondering if A Serbian Film can be cut since this is a controversial flim and this page is no examples allow by the mod for some reason. The last time it was edited was about 8 years ago.
Edited by BubblepigopenA new page created, Custom Uniform Film
Created a new page for the film Rommel and an in-progress character page.
Can the example for Custom Uniform on that film page be a Downplayed Example. German uniforms in World War II were slightly different among officer as they were privately tailor-made and not sourced in-house. Different number of buttons, different colour plackets and so on. Is that possible?
open I can't remember this movie/show Film
Trying to find this tv show/movie i was watching but can't remember the title. It was a medieval time period. There is this specific scene i remember.People defending a city/castle from attackers and the enemy tries to dig tunnels to get inside.So the defenders hire a Scottish or Irish tunnel expert an he uses buckets of water to detect where the tunnels are. The water moves and he finds the location of tunnels. Then he orders the soliders to dig where the buckets of water were. The hole dug opens right above the enemies tunnel as they look up they pour oil and light them on fire. It could've been a show/movie or maybe a documentary series. I feel like it was either Netflix or Hbo/showtime something of that sort. It was definitely a city or some sort of fortification they were defending.
openWicking Help Film
I need help trying to wick Spring Breakdown. I tried wicking it to Films of the 2000s and it didn't pop up when I went back to the page.
Edited by JumboJ99openGreat Muppet Caper Baseball finale Film
I'm looking for a trope for the climax of the Great Muppet Caper, where the Muppets and thieves suddenly go into an impromptu game of baseball for a valuable diamond. Any ideas?
open Slow-motion grocery items dropping Film
What do you call this trope: The unsuspecting character, ofttimes a mafioso, is innocently carrying his groceries out of the store, or into his home, etc and is then ambushed by a gun-wielding assailant. The assault itself is typically off-screen while the camera instead goes into slow-motion, focuses on the groceries (fruit, produce, raw pasta, etc) slowly tumbling and rolling away on the ground, and which might be followed up by a puddle of blood then pooling near the spilled groceries. The music accompanying the slow-motion trope is operatic or classical music coming to a crescendo as this little scene plays out.
Edited by icebergopenMarking images as spoilers Film
How do you do it? Specifically, I'm trying to do it for John Doe.
Edited by StellarvoreopenWhat do you call it when you claim that you forgot instead of answering for the example? Film
So I been wanting to change an example of Dick Tracy because in The Reveal someone didn't answered about who is The Blank instead they said they forgot with The Un-Reveal trope. So I decided to edit it
because the movie explain who is The Blank.
So what do you call that behavior in this wiki? Natter?
openWhere do I go? Film
Where do I go if I want to know why these ghosts of Asian horror films prey upon perfectly innocent people whom they do not know and had NOTHING to do with their deaths?
openWill This Film Have It's Own Page? Film
Will Nature Unleashed: Volcano (The Volcano Disaster 2005) have it's own page like most films? I've always wondered and originally I wanted to make the page myself, but I'm not that great with tropes and have only have done small additions and edits to a few films so far (even though I come to Tvtropes almost everyday to view tropes, pages, and films that I like so I can have some good laughs and make some stories and novels of my own with those tropes).
openDoes this qualify as a TropeBreaker Film
Upon rewatching The Mist, I've realised something. The entire premise of the evil cult that forms through the story and preaching of their leader hinge almost entirely on the fact the story is set in place with Protestant majority and the concept of predestination is not only a tenant, but actively used, both for the story itself and the in-story cult. If the story was set in any other background, the entire premise of the cult as "God will only save a handful of chosen ones, and everyone not worthy will go straight to hell, so prove your worth" falls flat on its face, because it just won't work out if you don't, say, have the story set in Maine.
But does it qualify if the location or social background of the story was changed as a Trope Breaker? I was thinking about this exact same story playing out in my own country, which is Catholic, and the type of person that's best described as a local equivalent of a fundie. And they would preach completely different things - assuming they wouldn't just blame it on Jews, then simply pray in the corner to pass time, which would be far more likely than anything else.
openCut List Error Film
So I was putting Nightmare Fuel page of The Company of Wolves on the cut list and see the Recent cut page. It says Article was cut but somehow the page is still here. I tried to put it the cut list to fix it (I've make sure I put correct spelling of the namespace and movie name) but it didn't work. Should I go to bug report?
open“Role model becomes the villain” in animated films Film
In at least six major computer-animated films (Up, Big Hero 6, Boss Baby, Coco and Turbo), the protagonist idolizes some kind of public figure, but their role model is eventually revealed to be the antagonist. It’s usually a plot device in which the protagonist overcomes the disappointment to become more confident in themselves and their own abilities.
Any insight as to why this plot twist is so prevalent in computer-animated films? Much appreciated, thanks
Edited by Kyleneu

Why doesn't the Video Source page for Star Wars show up in the indexing list
Edited by Hjhorton21