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openValid They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character example? Print Comic
Sarcasm Kid added this to Justice League Incarnate, a comic about a multiversal Justice League traversing and policing the multiverse:
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Earth-13 is toted as a magic based universe inspired from more superheroic versions of characters seen in the Grant Morrison Doom Patrol era and The Books of Magic. However, when Earth-13 is given a full glimpse in Justice League Incarnate #2 its hero community seems to only be made up of preexisting magic characters from the main DC Universe such as Raven and Black Orchid but with no attempt at making them seem unique or different from their regular counterparts.
This doesn't feel like an example to me. First off, I don't know where they're getting that first sentence from (the team members are the same as listed by Grant Morrison themselves in The Multiversity), and this isn't so much that they wasted a character as they didn't create characters this troper wanted.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarianopenComics section on trope pages Print Comic
I've noticed that on trope pages that are divided into sections by medium, there's sometimes both a "Comic Strips" and a "Comic Books" section. This corresponds directly to the name spaces Comic Strip and Comic Book, of course, so it's entirely reasonable.
Sometimes there's a section called "Comics" that combines these two. And sometimes there's just a "Comic Books" section that contains examples both from Comic Book and Comic Strip.
What's the preferred organization here? In the last case above, should the "Comic Books" section be split and the strip examples moved to a new section?
openSplitting Off the Animal Man Page Print Comic
I'd like to split the current Animal Man to create a new work page devoted solely to the Jeff Lemire run, as it is very different from the classic Morrison and Delano runs. Should the new page be labelled Jeff Lemires Animal Man, or Animal Man (2011)? I'm currently leaning towards the former, as Lemire seems to have been the sole writer for the entire run, but I figured I should probably ask for input first.
Edited by StrixObscuroopenComicBook/GenderQueerAMemoir Print Comic
I see this was cut for listing too few non-ZCE examples. That page says I might want to ask if it's okay to recreate it, so here goes. What do you think? I've got a whole list of examples to add, and they'll be full ones.
openEdit warring Print Comic
The Swordsman edited the Venom: Main Hosts page so that Eddie Brock's folder listed Sleeper and Carnage as identities he's had. I removed them because these aren't names the character ever officially adopted — they're symbiotes he's worn, but that doesn't mean he takes on the name.
The Swordsman added them back without discussion, with an edit reason saying that doesn't matter, even though I'm fairly certain it does, since otherwise, anyone who's ever worn a symbiote with a name for even an issue gets the name (Eddie wore Sleeper for like two issues and it also once possessed a corpse).
Edited by FuzzyBarbarianopenIs it okay to make a self demonstrating page for Superman? Print Comic
I've been thinking about creating a self-demonstrating page for Superman but it's been said that it's been cut because it's "redundant". I mean, Most of Superman's supporting cast has a couple, so why not him? Is it okay to re-create one?
openEgo Print Comic
Does anyone know what character page has the comic version of Ego the Living Planet, I found the the MCU version but not the comic version?
openSandbox pages Print Comic
Are we allowed to change the images on sandbox pages without Image Pickin’?
I question this because I want to give Characters.Earth 2 Green Lantern Solomon Grundy (which is in a sandbox state despite the namespace the image, caption, and quote on ComicBook.Solomon Grundy, but I am hesitant about such rule-skirting.
Edited by GeneralGiganopenConsidering making adaptation subpages Print Comic
I'm considering making Comic Book subpages for Animorphs and/or Wings of Fire that cover tropes exclusive to their graphic novel adaptations (as part of Scholastic's Graphix line), but I can't think of enough tropes for either. Is there a minimum number of tropes recommended for a work page?
openLobo Self-Demonstrating Page Print Comic
Lobo is a thing, but Lobo isn't. Should the latter also be a thing, like we did for Deadpool?
openTrope Question Print Comic
I was curious... would Deadpool and his two voices (White Box, Yellow Box) count as a Freudian Trio, counting 'pool as a separate, distinct personality in the "conversations" and "arguments" he usually gets involved with them? And, if so, what roles of the Freudian Trio would 'pool and each of his voices fulfil?
openYMMV/TheJoker Print Comic
I was looking at the The Joker page and I noticed that the entire thing is writing in the Joker's voice like a Self-Demonstrating page. Is it because the main page for the Joker and his Self-Demonstrating page share the same YMMV page?
openToo Tired To Index this Comic Book work's page But it's Up - any takers while I take a break? Print Comic
Guh, I'm so tired my eyes are swimming and I need to get some sleep, but Green Lanterns (covering the DC Rebirth series of that name) is up and running, with at least a proper description, a number of its tropes cataloged (by no means all, but hey, it's a Wiki and we can always add the rest later)...and, I am proud to say, no red links! I'll happily add a page image tomorrow when I'm conscious again and online, and probably a quote as well, since I have all three issues and can pick from those pretty easily (there's some good ones, particularly in the opening one-shot).
However, I will say this: this is the first time I've created a whole new page for a work and I have no idea how index it. For some reason (this is my clue to go to sleep) I cannot even make sense of the How Indexing Works thing, so I figured I'd leave a note here to draw attention to the fact that the page needs proper indexing, since I'll be offline for a number of hours (possibly most of tomorrow)?
openAppropriate Indices - Photography and Illustration, for example - for this article? Print Comic
Hey there! We recently successfully launched Variant Cover. I added it to some of the most obvious index choices but now I'm trying to be as thorough as possible and want to know if there's some others it could/should be in? My first thought for instance is that, particularly as Variant Cover as an article discusses in its introduction some of general different kinds of covers you might commonly find as Variants - such as parody covers, Deliberately Monochrome "sketch/pen and ink" style, and deliberately-left-mostly-blank (It Makes Sense in Context - read the article for more information), it might be a good fit for the Photography and Illustration index? Or is it fine where it is, since it's been indexed to "Cover Tropes" and "Comic Book Tropes" and a couple of other, like I said, really obvious ones on that front?
Thoughts?
ETA: nevermind on Graphical Tropes, as I just noticed that BOTH Cover Tropes AND Comic Book Tropes are among its sub-index list and it explicitly says to only put tropes on the sub-index in those cases. I would still like to hear if anyone thinks it's suitable for another index though! :)
Edited by vorpalgirlopenMarvel Comics and Marvel Universe? Print Comic
is there any reason why, say, Awesome.Marvel Comics is in one section, but NIghtmareFuel.Marvel Universe is another section? They even have two separate Funny pages! Funny.Marvel Comics and Funny.Marvel Universe.
Edited by lalalei2001openrequest moving a page Print Comic
Request to move the page of Gentleman Ghost, a minor Dc character with few tropes, to Jsa characters page.
openBatman character page edits Print Comic
In Batman: Supporting Cast, the trope Butch Lesbian was removed from Harper Row/Bluebird's folder for some reason. The trope accurately describes the character (canonically lesbian, has masculine traits and appearance, etc), so I feel it should stay in her folder.
openCreator in ComicStrip/ namespace. Print Comic
Any particular reason for Quino using the ComicStrip/ namespace rather than Creator/? It's clearly a creator page. Sure, it mainly tropes his works, but that's nothing new for creator pages.
openUnapproved Massive Overhaul Print Comic
FuzzyBarbarian
just turned the character pages for Batman: Rogues Gallery into an alphabetical list; the previous iteration divided them into Batman's main villains and the other rogues. From what I've found, they have no permission to do this, and asked before with no response
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I was just at YMMV.Doctor Fate, and I noticed Dork Age and Audience-Alienating Era are listed in two separate entries, but they're supposed to be the same exact trope due to Renamed Tropes. What should be done about this?