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openAmbiguity Index pages that are indexed from the main wiki too...
Ambiguity Index pages aren't supposed to be wicked from basically anywhere else...
So, are these exceptions, not disambigs, or what?
And yes, there is the one wicked from Example Sectionectomy, but that's not the main wiki.
Some of them have images... Which lead to being indexed on Image Source pages. ... Disambigs shouldn't have images, right?
- Avalon
- Black Eyes
- Camelot
- Dead Air: Also doesn't seem like a disambig...
- Diplomatic Immunity
- Dunning Kruger Effect
- Excalibur: Also doesn't seem like a Disambig...
- Foe Yay: Is this a disambig? It's got subpages which seem to hold examples...
- Fridge
- Golden Age
- Film.Hercules
- Intelligence: Doesn't seem to be disambig-ing between anything...
- VideoGame.The Legend Of Zelda
- Mismatched Eyes
- Mulan: We don't have a page on the original mythological figure that I can point the wick to.
- WesternAnimation.Pound Puppies
- Film.Revenge: It seems to get indexed 'cause we don't have pages for either film...
openUser with grammar problems
User Steeltron
has grammar, punctuation / run-on sentence and (quote) formatting problems, plus a bizarre habit of consistently mis-spelling the the word "have" as either "halved" or "havled"(?).
I sent them a grammar/spelling notifier a month ago to which they never responded, but they still have been making sloppy edits since. See BojackHorseman
, Sixteen
, Ben10
and especially Mulan
.
open Headscratchers/Mulan2020 - rude edit
The proposed 2020 remake of Mulan has a Headscratchers page made for it, which I agree does seem really superfluous and egregious. And I do agree with Damneddifiant
's sentiment, but it is a pretty rude way to go about saying it.
Is it okay for a movie that is two years out from release to have such a page? Also, a mod might want to keep an eye on Damneddifiant's edits too. I've sent a notifier and deleted the comment.
open Mulan evader
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Disney.Mulan
Looks like there's a guy with a gibberish user name posting some weirdness. Given that it's been reverted before, pretty sure it's an evader.
Edited by bitemytailopenCan Expy apply to an entire race? (re: The Orville) Live Action TV
Since "The Orville" is essentially an homage to Star Trek, over on the main page the Expy trope is getting hit hard and heavy. Many of the parallels between the Orville crew and their Star Trek counterparts are credible. But of late, examples are popping up about how entire races in The Orville are expies to races in Star Trek (ie Krill are Klingons/Romulans, Alara's race kinda resembles the Bajorans, Darulio's sexually open race is reminiscent of the Deltans, etc).
I don't think these are appropriate examples of the Expy which, to my understanding, focuses on a specific character not an entire race.
I'm looking for confirmation of my understanding on the Expy and if there is a more appropriate trope for collecting the similarities of races between two works.
openThe Army Coming Over the Ridge Film
I don't see this trope covered in your website.
It happens all the time when one army is staring down another. To demonstrate the steep odds facing the one army, the ominous music (or sound effects) plays, the camera cuts to a vacant ridge, then we see the whole of the opposing army slowly emerge until they darken the entire ridge.
EXAMPLES
Mulan = the Huns charge the Imperial Army through The Tung Xiao Pass.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace = the Droid Army's tanks slowly approach the Gungan force fields.
The Return of the King = the Riders of Rohan arrive at the gates of Minas Tirith.
Game of Thrones, S 07 E 04 = We hear the Dothraki screamers for a long while before they charge the Lannister Supply Train.
I'm sure there are dozens, if not scores, if not hundreds of additional examples.
Edited by Hughmsweeneyopenquotes page question
In the quotes page for Drill Sergeant Nasty someone has added the full lyrics to Mulan's "Make a Man Out of You", I'm not sure it entirely fits the trope nor that it is entirely kosher just to put the full song lyrics there. Can a mod advise, please?
openHuh?
I don't understand this example on YMMV.Moana, under Broken Base.
- The title originally caused this. Many Disney fans have been peeved at the trend of One Word Titles that Tangled started (and according to Gigantic the trend is still sticking around). Others don't mind and like the title. It also helps that Moana is a Character Title instead of something vaguely related to the film such as "Ocean".
Moana isn't an adjective title like Tangled or Frozen. Disney has been using one-word character titles for a very long time. (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, and Bolt) How is it any different from those films?
Edited by MrMediaGuy2open OffTheDeepEnd
troper OffTheDeepEnd
's edits in the character page of Mulan
. He has changed many examples with proper context to badly written context ("Cool Old Lady : She's very", or "see Trope x",) or with wrong Example Indentation and natter. His edits were also very much based on his personal opinion (about Mushu "to the point that most of the time one will probably wonder if he is even necessary in the film"). Can someone revert his edits?
openNo Title Western Animation
Whizzer Mckwoff keeps addding YMMV items here
, even though he's been repeatedly told not to.
openNo Title
I want to add something to the Internet Backdraft entry of Frozen Disney, but I'm not sure whether or not it would come off as Conversation In The Main Page.
This is the part I want to add to:
- While acknowledging that Disney has made strides in including people of color in their films in the past few decades, such as Aladdin, Mulan, Pocahontas, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, and The Princess and the Frog, some have observed that Disney has featured a larger proportion of films with a Caucasian human cast than films with people of other races.
And this is what I want to add:
...though it could be mitigated by the fact that most of the countries portrayed by Disney Films (like England, Norway, Germany, France, and Greece) have historically had large Caucasian populations, while films with PoC Princesses have generally been set in places where Persons of Color are prominent (like New Orleans, Hawaii, Colonial America, and China).
...So, should I add it in, or just dump it in the Discussion Page? Thanks in advance.
Edited by PilotSolarisopenNo Title
I wanna get a second opinion about an item maylove25 added to YMMV.Frozen.
- Internet Backdraft
- People have also accused the film of being racist for having an all-Caucasian human cast instead of using a larger variety of race, believing Disney has not including enough variety of race in their movies as much as they would like (Disregarding that Disney had included a variety of other races in some of their past films like The Jungle Book, Aladdin, Mulan, Pocahontas, Lilo And Stitch, The Emperors New Groove, Atlantis The Lost Empire, Brother Bear, and more recently, The Princess And The Frog, which even adapted most of the characters as African-American, which wasn't even indicated in the original story). These people started a "This Could Have Been Frozen" project, with people submitting their own versions of the story and recasting Anna and friends as non-white northern native people.
1) I'm pretty sure no one has called the film racist 2) I think the issue about lack of diversity has to do with disney's princess line not their animation works in general.
I dunno this looks kinda overly defensive to me.
Edited by captainpatopenNo Title Radio
I think I have the right place to ask this. I thought about "Trope Talk" in the forums but that's about the tropes themselves, the alternatives given here don't match either, and there's no activity in the Discussion page for one of the two works (the other doesn't have a trope page/discussion at all). If I'm wrong I'll take it where it should go. Anywho:
Trying to figure out which trope a particular situation comes under. I originally added it in Never Learned to Read but now wonder if it's better suited to AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle.
The example refers to a character used in sketches on the Mark & Brian Radio Program / The Brian & Jill Show. The character is an out-of-work voice over artist where the gag is that, while he otherwise speaks fine, once he starts reading the scripts he mispronounces the hell out of everything. An example, quoted in Never Learned to Read, is below.
- This month, we're proud to offer the 1960 Oscar winning film Spar-tackus. Spar-tackus, from leggendary director Stanley Kubbrick, is the story of a glad-ai-ator who leads a violent revolt against the Romulan empire. Starring Kirk Deglaze, Laurence Oliviary, and Tony Curtis. It will make you stand up and say "I am Spar-tack-us."
Never Learned to Read, given the premise, seems the better fit. But the guy can read. He just stinks at it (found a version of the sketch that lampsahdes this in fact). Accent seems to fit, but at the same time seems to be about mispronouncing the word by just stressing the wrong syllable, which this character cranks up to absurd levels.
Wondering about a possible 2nd opinion.

The page for the 2020 Mulan live-action remake is currently a redlink for not having a trailer/tropeable material. With today's release of the first proper trailer and poster, do we think it's safe to recreate or not yet?