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open kids cartoon with a cute monster family
okay so the tv show I am looking for is a kids cartoon, it is fairly new as far as from what i can remember- made around 2013 or so. i can literally not think of the name of this tv show however whenever i think of it the words grug or humfrey, george or henry come to mind(it snot henry hugglemonster ) the animal itself looks like the gruffalo (from the tv show) but the showi am thinking of is more cartoon toned if that makes sence. ive been searching for agesss!! oh and the bears/ monsters/ I dont even know have a major underbite. there is a father a mother and 2 kids-maybe. Im not sure if anny of this makes sense but someone pleaseeee help :))))) i would appreciate it so much, also this tv show is aimed towards a kindergarden level and it is either from australia, canada or great Britain- again i'm pretty sure
openHateSink
tropers tend to add Hate Sink to Mr. Krabs of SpongeBob SquarePants, even if it contradicts the other tropes associated with him like Designated Hero and The Scrappy. Now the example is "Hate Sink: According to writers and the creator himself, Krabs is supposed to look as bad (if not worse) than Plankton himself. It's just the matter of letting him get away with it that they and the audience seem split over." IMO the trope overall is being misused for many characters. Is Mr. Krabs a Hate Sink?
openPossible Edit War
The troper Solfeggietto vandalising the Arrowverse Characters page in the Iris West entry, and this isn't the first time they've done it. After Barry proposed to Iris during the third season, they deleted anything that referenced Iris being intelligent, a part of Team Flash, nice, or being loved by Barry, and replaced them with lies (you'll have to click on the history of the page to see this) and a LOT of subjective opinion. I put them back and asked them not to use subjective opinion. A few weeks ago, they did the same thing, but again, I changed it back by pointing to examples on the show. The user has just done it once more, again without real justification and ignoring the show and the narrative itself. It's clear that for whatever reason they don't like Iris because they're ignoring examples that are on the show. I don't want to start an edit war and I've contacted them privately to see if they want to discuss it (they haven't responded yet), but I wanted to ask whether I should do anything else? I didn't put the example back because I feel we'd just get into an argument, but they're using the page incorrectly.
EDIT: here's the page
. Also, I apologise if I ALREADY contributed to the Edit War, and I'm fine if need to be suspended for it. I just want the page to be used correctly and I was aware that I was close to making the problem worse.
openSPV3 Incendiary Weapons: Fire-Breathing Weapons or Kill It with Fire? Videogame
In SPV 3 (A mod for Halo: CE which re-imagines the first game's campaign), there are several weapons that possess incendiary properties. I'm unsure which of these fall under the above tropes, so I'll list each weapon and their incendiary properties to see if anyone can help me out.
Brute Plasma Pistol: Fires 3 plasma bolts with each trigger pull. Overcharge shot splits into globs of burning plasma upon impact, dealing damage to anyone standing on them while cooking off any grenades they land on.
Flamethrower: Self-explanatory. This one I feel would obviously fall under FB Weapon.
Sentinel Beam: Fires a continuous orange beam which sets unshielded enemies on fire.
Sentinel Sniper Beam: Rapidly fires multiple blue beams which quickly set unshielded enemies on fire. It also has two modes of fire: "Shotgun" mode (Beams are fired in a cone pattern while unscoped) and "Sniper" mode (Beams are focused on a single point while scoped).
Pulse-Laser Suppressor: Only used by Sentinel Enforcers. Fires small homing bolts which set unshielded enemies on fire after a few hits.
Incineration Cannon: Only used by Sentinel Enforcers. Fires globs of incendiary material which leave a burning residue wherever said globs land.
Edited by Enderguy059open Old t.v show Anime
So their is this show, not sure if it was exactly anime, but it was an animation. Just ur average animation action fighting show. Only 2 scenes I remember was a part, where a guy was in some gear type suit, puts out a card in front of him and then just floats and gets inserted into him through his chest. Another scene was i think about the same guy fights his future self, but he is stronger and black hair. That's all I remember :(
openDoes anyone know what game this example is from?
It was on Stranger Behind the Mask, and doesn't mention at all what game it's from, though apparently it's something to do with Star Wars. I'm commenting it out for now.
- The members of the Star Cabal, the ultimate antagonist of the Imperial Agent's storyline and really, of the entire game, are revealed in the IA's ultimate mission as a bunch of individuals never hitherto seen by the players (though obviously recognizable by some supporting NPCs). The only person you can recognize is the Cabal's chief enforcer, who turns out to be wearing a holographic mask herself—over another complete stranger's face.
- Subverted if you've played the other class stories, and remember them well. That matronly Twi'lek leading the peaceful villagers on the Jedi starter world? The crime lord from the Smuggler's story? The droid that won the Great Hunt? Yup, all of them are members of the Star Cabal.
openCreating a Profile Picture
I've tried to upload a profile image for myself. I've managed to upload a bunch of images but I can't get any of them to be my profile image.
open A complaint about the LGBT Tropes page
Hi. I’ve been reading through your info on bad LGBT tropes As a butch lesbian, the info on the Butch Lesbians trope is honestly incredibly lesbophobic. I get what the author of that trope entry was trying to say. But their impression is entirely false. There’s literally no way for a lesbian relationship to appear heterosexual. A butch lesbian is a lesbian, regardless of how the lesbian who she dates and how she presents herself. Please change that. All that trope entry does is harm lesbians making future media that want to include butch lesbians more. Accepting lesbians fully doesn’t involve only respecting the conventionally pretty femme lesbian couples. It also involves respecting butch lesbians and butch lesbians who date femme lesbians. We don’t need more people spreading the lesbophobic stereotype that butch lesbians are secretly straight men. Can you please remove that?
openTropes about replication
Me's a Crowd and Self-Duplication are both about the same thing—that is, self-replication. Would a TRS article about this work?
open Complain-y edit on Twitter Web Original
With Twitter now doubled their character count to some users (I havn't have that yet as of 2017/10/01), as I was editing the page to tweak out the recent edit from a user named reterusu, I left out this part out of reluctance to remove it and had to consult to you guys about it first:
I think it's more of a Broken Base than a metaphorical shark jump for having 280 characters, (I myself kinda like that idea. 280 is more than enough to add more tags.) but I'll let you think about it more. I intentionally left that sentence because I thought to myself that removing that might start a potential Edit War.
EDIT: Changed some instances of "this troper" to "I to avoid confusion.
EDIT 2: I wasn't being clear here. My bad. The 'this troper' to 'I' edit" was for this thread only.
Edited by alnair20aug93openAn Artical Possibly in a Wrong Namespace Webcomic
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Victory Fire
I recently had come across this comic on the internet, but since I'm a new reader, I have no idea if this webcomic has any history pre-2012 (like if it started as a Fan Fic and then became a webcomic). So my question is this: Is this article possibly in the wrong namespace? If it is, then this article belongs the Webcomics namespace. Also I'm a novice, so I'm not comfortable trying to move pages by myself currently.
open616 Print Comic
In several pages, when people talk about comics from Marvel Comics, there's a usual need to set apart the stuff from alternate universes from the "main", non-alternate, universe. And so, they use "Earth-616" to make reference to the main universe. There are 2 problems with that. First, it is a terminology that is not self-evident in the meaning, and only hardcore fans would understand. And second, it is only used by the fandom, the actual creators despise it and very rarely use it. So even a devoted fan of Marvel Comics, who reads all the comics but does not go around forums and online discussions, would find the term "Earth 616" a bit weird. Tom Brevoort, who despises the term, even used the Secret Wars crossover to give creators some last months to use it if they wanted, and then established the term "The Prime Earth". See here
.
“I can tell you for sure that those of us actually working on the books virtually never use the term — and I kind of wince inside whenever I hear somebody use it. It just sounds so stupid to my ear, and so counter to the kind of mindset we try to foster in regard to the stories we create and the thinking we try to employ.” – Marvel Executive Editor, Tom Brevoort
“I never use it, I hate the term pure and simple and agree with Tom’s assessment of it. I can’t remember ever hearing it in the office and only really see it used online for the most part. I think the term really came into vogue when the Ultimate Universe came into prominence, but in my world, the language and distinctions are simple, there is the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Anything other than that reeks of all that DC Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth Prime stuff which I’ve never really taken to, but then again, I got into DC when they got rid of all that stuff so it was from and for a different era than my own.” – Marvel Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada
So, what if we remove the references to "Earth-616" and replace them with more natural terms?
openLinking on the Wiki to Archives of Cut Pages
I'm not sure about whether this is kosher or not (or addressed in policy somewhere), so I'm bringing it here.
Augusto added an archive link to Rational Wiki that leads to an archive of our old Conservapedia page. (Courtesy Links: Rational Wiki history,
archived page,
and Augusto's history
)
The page was cut via the Website clean-up project (link to the call to cut
).
I would think that this is circumventing the cut.
To be clear, I'm saying that:
- A page was cut via consensus of the websites clean-up thread.
- The page was archived.
(Not itself an issue, imo.)
- The archive is linked to on this Wiki, despite this Wiki having consensus to cut the page.
- This seems to be equivalent to restoring the page, since it's available through a page on the Wiki proper. (Hence my saying it seems to "circumvent the cut.")
idk what do y'all think. Is that kosher or otherwise okay?
Edited by WaterBlapopenFolder Numbers
What's the wiki's approach to the naming of folders that use numbers: for example, "Folder 1" or "Folder One"?
The reason I asked is because, on the RWBY Nightmare Fuel page
a while back, Running_Gag suddenly changed a group of folders from spelling out the number ("One") to the number itself ("1"). There was no edit reason, so the edit was reverted by Zaptech, using the following edit reason:
General English grammar rule: Unless its an official or technical document, numerical amounts under the value of 100 should be spelled out. Under 1,000 can use numbers or be spelled out depending on how formal and/or technical you're being. Once you get past 1,000, then you can use the numbers.
The12th Doctor has just reverted the folders back to the numerical style (Folder 1), without an edit reason.
Since this seems to be an issue, what's the correct approach?
openDifficulty Figuring Out a Trope Web Original
I have an entry I want to add to In Spite of a Nail but I wasn't sure it counted, due to having a bit of an Entry Pimp habit when it's a series I like a lot, so I'm trying to get it vetted. I haven't had any luck in Trope Talk, either with the Is This an Example Thread or a dedicated thread
on the matter, so I thought I'd try here.
I've only gotten one response on the matter, from Fighteer
, who said that the two worlds/timelines involved seemed to different than was normally allowed under the trope. The question I've been pondering since is, isn't that the point? My understanding of the trope is that despite the differences involved between two universes or real life and the fictional setting, certain significant events still occur more or less the same? I've gone through a few versions, but this is the most recent version of the entry.
Any and all help is appreciated.
- In the Red Panda Adventures episode "The World Next Door" and its Sequel Episode, "A Dish Best Served Cold" a time traveler from an Alternate Timeline's World War II named Baboon McSmoothie convinces the Depression era Red Panda to help him steal the prototype of an invention that would one day become a major part of the Nazi war effort by offering him the case file of a Villain Team-Up that killed his Red Panda's Flying Squirrel. It's noted in-universe that there are enough differences between the two worlds, such as the Red Panda's costume being different, the alternate Flying Squirrel being a teenage boy instead of an adult woman, and three out of five members of the Villain Team-Up being either Gender Flipped or having different identities entirely, that neither the Red Panda nor McSmoothie are sure how much, if any, of the file's information will be relevant. Despite these differences, the conference the prototype was to be displayed at, the Villain Team-Up, and eventually World War II itself, all occur across both timelines. The conference in particular is part of the reason the main universe was picked for McSmoothie's heist in the first place, besides avoiding a Temporal Paradox.
openName changing Web Original
Dravencour changed all spellings of "Freeza" to "Frieza" in Characters.Dragon Ball Z Abridged Movies. His name is officially spelled "Freeza" in this series, a point stressed multiple times. There are far too many examples for me to correct myself, can a mod please revert the changes?
openMy Hero Academia Recap Anime
The anime My Hero Academia, in spite of being an anime that follows a detailed plot lacks a recap page. Can someone construct the page itself with other's adding to it progressively?

Just asking. The play itself is certainly controversial, but I am not sure if the controversy has overlapped the play itself.