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openNarm subpages
I noticed the subpages of Narm mark it as flame bait, but the page itself is only YMMV. Is this a mistake?
openBolivianArmyEnding
Can I delete The Familiar of Zero example on Bolivian Army Ending, which seems to be based on Fanon not Canon? (it says "ignore the last five minutes") Fighteer summarised the trope in Edit Banned and it seems that this is clearly misuse.
Some of the examples on Bolivian Army Ending fit better on Bolivian Army Cliffhanger instead, as well.
Edited by TheOneWhoTropesopenNarm/WebOriginal
How is this any different from the PRLC'd New Media page? Seems like it's asking for stealth examples to be added (and one already has by the looks of it; Facebook falls smack into RL troping.
open Excessive realism of teenage life makes adult viewers feel uncomfortable. Anime
If teenage experiences in anime are so innocent and realistic that a viewer over 25 years old will simply feel uncomfortable because of the feeling that he is watching the living innocent children, that is it closer to Narm or Squick?
openMass deletions on Narm/GameOfThrones
The troper https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=ArgonianLorekeeper
is deleting en masse multiple entries on the Narm page for Game of Thrones. He keeps citing ZCE as an excuse when some of the entries are an entire paragraph.
I sent him a deleting ymmv warning via PM but he is continuing.
Can someone send him a message and restore what he had deleted?
open YMMV equivelent of Dude Not Funny
Since Dude Not Funny was changed to In Universe Examples Only due to most of the examples listed on the trope page being in universe, I want to know what trope would work to replace Dude Not Funny for YMMV. What trope should be listed when referring to a scene in a movie or something that is supposed to be funny that the real life audience gets offended by? Do you list an inversion of Narm or what? There better be one, how else are we supposed to complain about offensive scenes like that?
Edited by bobgopen Is this Narm?
From YMMV.Blaz Blue Cross Tag Battle.
- Much like Jump Force, the very idea of these franchises crossing fates can be this in some circles of the internet. Due to the massive power gap between BlazBlue and the other three series, many find the idea that any of these characters realistically taking on the BlazBlue protagonists and antagonists to be laughable. This video
sums it up pretty nicely. There pretty much seems to be an agreement that the other franchises would get decimated if this were realistically played out.
Don't think it's being unintentionally funny by accident.
Edited by WhirlRXopenWhat to do with Film.Hellboy Film
Film.Hellboy previously covered both Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I split those into separate articles earlier today, and I was just wondering what I should do with the original page.
Cut List it? Make it a redirect for Film.Hellboy 2004 or Franchise.Hellboy?
Edited by Primisopen Captain Marvel Edit War
Okay so the title may be an exaggeration but I have been finding some examples for Captain Marvel which I feel would fit. However since I don't want to Edit War I am looking for some second opinions. The examples deleted are as follows:
- Artistic License – Military: Women weren't able to serve as fighter pilots until 1993 so Carol and Maria wouldn't be able to fly around in fighter jets. They would be flying in Tankers. (Reason, The Film said they weren't flying in combat, except we still they were flying combat aircraft and I never mentioned if they were flying in combat or not just bringing they shouldn't be flying jets at all.)
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Yon-Rogg decides to challenge to a fist fight instead of just shooting her for no particular reason. (not mine but was removed with no edit reason given.)
- Narm (on the YMMV page)
- Carol's constant use of her energy as The All-Solving Hammer becomes this after all while. Particularly in the bar where she uses to destroy a Jukebox to "prove" she was not Skrull to someone who she knew heard about them less than a few hours ago.
- Talos drinking from a soda cup when confronting Carol and Fury at the Rambeau's house robs most of the tension from the scene. (both remove they were meant to funny when Narm but the fact remains deliberate or not they make no sense and in the latter the scene continues like the moment didn't happen at all.)
- Vanilla Protagonist: One criticism leveled towards the film is that the titular Captain Marvel comes across as very plain and boring compared to many of the other protagonists in their origin movie. She isn't terrible mind you, but to some she feels very plain and less compelling, which given how she is supposed to become the face of the MCU after the next Avengers film, has left some feeling concerned what direction her character will go. (a puedo-reason was saying she wasn't one in this movie but no elaboration)
openVideo Examples
Hey there, I thought of some ideas for good video examples, but I might need help with trying to upload just that specific scene and not the whole work.
Work: My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) Example of: Wham Line
Work: The Phantom Menace Example of: Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Work: "Lesson Zero" Example of: Nightmare Face
Work: "Heroes and Monsters" Example of: An Arm and a Leg
Work: Return of the Jedi Example of: Shock and Awe
Work: Spaceballs Example of: Luke, I Am Your Father
Work: Attack of the Clones Example of: Big Badass Battle Sequence
Think anyone can either help me or upload these video examples themselves?
openVideo showing odd thumbnail
I recently uploaded a video to the site, but for some reason it showed a thumbnail of color bars (which did not appear at all in the video I uploaded). Is there any way to fix this? (The video I uploaded was Jax's Arm Rip Fatality from Mortal Kombat 2 for the trope An Arm and a Leg. It can be found here
.)
openRejected Trope Titles
Any chance I’m the first person to suggest a humorous Darth Wiki page full of rejected titles for real tropes?
e.g. Skywalker Syndrome.
openLegless object show characters
So, this problem retains to character sheets for object shows. Me and Whaterva have decided on what to do last night, but I'm just going to ask right now. So Whaterva has been putting the trope "An Arm and a Leg" in sections for characters who lack legs. Now, the trope in question actually relates to the mutilation of limbs. If the character in question lost their legs to an injury, that's fine. However, to bring you a couple cases, Slurpy's lack of legs is an unknown case, and Nabla's case makes zero sense if you know that she was given Sudden Anatomy by Oodle. We've decided to just replace the trope with an inversion case of Armless Biped until a new trope launches for legless characters, but what do you guys think?
Edited by RabbitTopeBallopenQuestionable YMMV Wording Film
YMMV.Jason And The Argonauts has some complainy entries for Narm and Took the Bad Film Seriously. I don't know if it's accurate or not, but should they be commented out or removed (haven't seen the movie so I can't reword them)?
openNarm & Bathos Film
I've got a problem figuring out which one to use. I know what those tropes are and what they do, so it's not the problem with definition - is to figure out which one "fits". But first, a bit of explaination.
Spoor, a movie I've just finished, has a Hysterical Woman as the main character and she has few very, very grating rants throughout the film. It's not only annoying in-universe, but it's just hard to watch her increasingly inane ranting, too. The character, due to such behaviour being her norm, is considered to be the "typical crazy grandma" in-universe... only that in the finale it is revealed it was for the most part (she's still insane) a play and deliberate mislead, both in- and out-of-universe: in reality, her rants were done as a cover-up for the fact she's a murderous lunatic and misdirect the people around her. Lucid enough to perform elaborate murders, yet still very insane Eco-Terrorist, living in her own imaginary world.
So with that covered, I'm thinking if the scenes with her ranting fall under Narm or Bathos. Prior to the reveal, it's just extremely narmalicious (and even after it's still eye-rolling), but with the reveal, the ranting was in fact deliberate and intentional, so the initial reaction it generates from audience can't fall under the definition of narm... but does it qualify under Bathos, given it's not exactly comedic?
I guess I'm explaining it poorly, but it's one of those situations that's not exactly about fitting pegs to the right holes.
openCrossing must be intentional?
This was deleted from CrossesTheLineTwice.Western Animation:
- "Tanks for the Memories": Rainbow Dash's entire Wangst at her pet tortoise having to hibernate in the winter.
Cleanup
argued it wasn't supposed to be funny so is Narm instead. My questions:
- Does Crosses the Line Twice have to be intentional? (And is this misuse as it fails to explain how it crossed it a first time?)
- Was it supposed to be 100% serious? It was an allegory for death, but that it only last the winter suggestion they didn't want to go all in on the subject. The episode also had more comedy, including moments juxtaposed with Rainbow's Wangst, than "The Perfect Pear", which treated the subject of death 100% seriously.(Asked MLP cleanup.
)

Its all about how now Sesame Street has sold out and is now on the evil clutches of comercialism and that it should have ended this year. I was wanting to have people people look at that page before but didnt because it was just Narmy for me (SESAME STREET IS NOW ON HBO BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW) but I know that this time it really isnt kosher.