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openWeird Example on YMMV/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Anime
This was under the Moe entry.
- Many fans claim that Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a feminist series, when in fact, Gen Urobochi had conceptualized the series through comparisons of girls' "hubris" and "self-righteousness" to Al-Qaeda, not to mention that the intended demographic was for an older, male audience.
I'm not sure what the point of the entry was (well besides the last part). But the point about its relationship to feminism is already mentioned elsewhere on the page (word for word in fact) and for some reason i see this entry as out of place. Should it stay?
openSo bad it's horrible entry
Posting this here for more visibility.
There was a recent entry on the SoBadItsHorrible.Literature page about Orson Scott Card's Hamlet's Father, which while morally questionable probably isn't terrible enough in terms of quality to be included there.
I mentioned why I think it doesn't belong on the discussion page. The troper who added it then removed it themself (but without leaving an edit reason). It was then readded by another troper. Should it stay or should it go?
Edited by supergodopenEdit War Western Animation
NWolfman
added the following example to Trivia.Toy Story:
- Old Shame: Not the film itself by any means, but the creators have acknowledged just how poorly the computer graphics have aged, going as far as to call it their "ugliest film."
Later JameyGamer
added an additional sentence to it containing a Circular Link within the example:
- Old Shame: Not the film itself by any means, but the creators have acknowledged just how poorly the computer graphics have aged, going as far as to call it their "ugliest film." Elsewhere, the infamous "Black Friday" reel that Lasseter screened for Katzenberg of course became an instant Old Shame to John.
N Wolfman later re-wrote the example like so:
- Old Shame: Not the film itself by any means, but the creators have acknowledged just how poorly the computer graphics have aged, going as far as to call it their "ugliest film." As for the actual film, there's the norotious "Black Friday" cut John Lasserer and co. made to appease Jeff Katzenberg.
And recently Jamey Gamer has changed it back:
- Old Shame: Not the film itself by any means, but the creators have acknowledged just how poorly the computer graphics have aged, going as far as to call it their "ugliest film. "" Elsewhere, the infamous "Black Friday" reel that Lasseter screened for Katzenberg of course became an instant Old Shame to John.
openCowboy Wizard In Space Film
I recently deleted a Small Reference Pools example from YMMV.Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, since Small Reference Pools is not a YMMV items. And I left behind an edit-reason explaining so.
Cowboy Wizard in Space
has re-added the example leaving this as his edit-reason:
"Although the trope itself is not specifically coded as YMMV, the entries are too subjective for the main page. I went through the entire YMMV index and was unable to find a YMMV trope that fit the opinions described, and so have added Small Reference Pools back in. If anyone finds a YMMV trope that fits the opinions below, feel free to change it; but for the time being, deleting opinions is against YMMV policy."
Edited by Anddrixopen A Helpful Suggestion
I would like to see a way to look at only YOUR Trope Finder, YKTTW, or YKTS entries- but I can't do something like that myself. It's really annoying that I can't check replies on my posts.
open''Fantastic Beasts'' character or ''Harry Potter'' character? Film
A major character from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was moved from the film's character page to a miscellaneous sub-page for the Harry Potter books because he was a part of the backstory for those books. Where does this character belong? For those that have seen the film, I'm talking about Grindelwald, who disguises himself and then acts as the film's main villain while being portrayed by the biggest name in the movie.
open Are there words for different formats of TV shows?
Most shows are like Seinfeld in that they focus on the plot of each episode instead of an overall narrative. This focus may vary in degree, but I find that in most cases, you don't necessarily need to watch the previous episode to understand most of a current one because it will probably have a self-contained plot that can be enjoyed as is. In contrast, a show like Game of Thrones is much more focused on the connective tissue between episodes and on arcs that span multiple episodes (or even seasons), while singular episodes rarely have any self-contained plot.
Are there tropes to distinguish these formats?
open Hordes of alien locusts aren ot so different
Isn't it weird how the Horde of Alien Locusts is depicted as one of the scariest and evilest (when sapient) types of villains in fiction, and yet it's also the one humanity could most easily be accused of itself? For example, here is a copied and pasted literature entry from the Humans Through Alien Eyes Example List:
Tolkien's unfinished book The Notion Club Papers* Which can be read in The History of Middle-earth: At one point a man experimenting with astral projection techniques (which allow him to travel through time and space and see other planets) comes across a place where what seems like a giant anthill spreads across the countryside, polluting and ruining it. He's shocked to realise he's actually seeing the (sped-up) history of Oxford.
openCinemasins Deadpool Film
Can someone please update the entry on Awesome.Deadpool 2016 with the sin tally before and after the bonus round? I'd like to know how exactly it changed, but I don't want to click the video myself.
openAbout wiki(pedia) plagiarism and such
Here's one doubt that has been bothering me and may be relevant to editors of multiple wikis:
Say you added a bunch of info in another wiki about some subject or another you have knowledge of, off the top of your head etc, and one day, you come here and add it to tvtropes, VERBATIM, now that an article about it has been created (or you are the one creating it...) Think about crosswicking stuff in multiple sites.
Would that be a problem? I know that once you post something online, is not "your info" anymore, but self-plagiarism seems a bit okay to me, if somewhat hard to prove.
Edited by TrollBrutalopenUniversalPerson
Tropers.Universal Person is having issues with ZC Es, indentation, spoilers,and he's put two tropes in one line. I'm in the process of fixing some of their edits, but it's taking a while to either fill them in properly. About the spoilers; they have spoiler'd out the entire entry aside from the trope itself.
openYMMV scales on sub-bullet point
A work I enjoy has two Wham Episodes. One was already mentioned, so I was going to add the second as a sub-bullet.
However, when I previewed the page, there were scales next to my example, but not on the original bullet point (or even on the sub-bullet point above mine). Furthermore, Wham Episode isn't listed on the Home Page for YMMV, nor does the trope itself say anything in the description, so I'm not sure why there would be scales at all.
Edited by TsunobaopenA little confused about the use of fan-speak tropes
The one I specifically used in an article is Kuudere, but then I checked the page itself and saw the whole thing about fan-speak and referring to the Sugar-and-Ice Personality trope. Am I supposed to use Sugar-and-Ice Personality instead or can I keep Kuudere?
Edited by AkoSiKuya23openTroper displaying some editing problems
Tropers.One Punch has a problem with Natter. From his edit on Akame ga Kill! - The Jaegers:
They also display some minor grammar and indentation problems.
Edited by JRads47openIs Brokeback Mountain an example of Gay Cowboy?
The way both the trope itself and film page mention that they are bi and Shephards and not Cowboys seems to read they aren't. Don't know if there's a certain criteria to fit the trope.
Edited by WhirlRXopen Hey, I'm pretty much completely new here..., Literature
So where do I go to learn how to properly formatted page, because I noticed that a certain franchise, and I'm a decent fan of doesn't have a page on this wiki at all... and I would like to change that, but I don't want to break any rules or get myself in trouble simply due to being a complete newbie.
openA Review Series that Doesn't Exist and some Possible Self-Promotion Web Original
There is a review series called Movie Dorkness on Agony Booth. The page for it, however, was littered with some references to a so-called ascended fanboy called the "Professor Detective". According to the edits, this person has their own review show and is a fan of the host of Movie Dorkness, and indeed, there's a page for said show. Only the show doesn't exist. The page for Professor Detective mentions a You Tube account, but I found no videos by any user under that name. It mentions a Tumblr, but I found no such Tumblr bearing that name. And to top it all off, the edits done to both pages were done by a user named Professor Detective. I edited out some mentions of the person in the Trivia page for Movie Dorkness, but I'm wondering if this is possible some kind of self-promotion for some anonymous troper?
Edited by AdricDePsychoopenZCE issue
InterestingCarSalesman added a list of entries to AwesomeMusic.Marvel Cinematic Universe consisting solely of weblinks. I commented them out for falling afoul of the Zero-Context Example and Weblinks Are Not Examples policies. They then uncommented them without expanding them with the edit reason "Don't be a dick. Rather than blanking them out, why not just fill them in yourself?" Which rather seems to miss the point of why the ZCE policy exists.

How come there isn't a page for TV Tropes where it enlists tropes that apply to this website? Whenever I type https://tvtropes.org/Website/TVTropes
it just leads me to a message displaying "We do not have Website / TV Tropes. We do, however, have:" instead of a page with tropes that apply to the website. Does it have to do with Irony or something?
Edited by CartmanCheesyPoofs