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open unknown show Film
This show had a red haired girl an Asian dude and a spacecraft.....
I think it may have came on BBC around 1980-2000 ( please don’t quote me on that)
—————————————————————————— And episode on the show had this girl land on a planet after hitchicking a ride there was a malfunction of the spacecraft/ time machine
And she sees these children dressed in Versailles French outfits playing ball but when they turn around she sees they are robots"....... The adults were so excited to find a real girl “child” and take her home to show off to their friends (all children died of a disease but not by the disease itself but the vaccine) one side affect of vaccine let the adults live forever but makes them sterile) so when a child is found they are so happy
The kid ends up trying to escape to get home her mother “mother” the one who found her then consults books on child rearing to see how to raise a child and make sure she is not getting sick or something to try and understand her behavior in a world that has everything
The girl explains she has a mother etc...... and wants to go home the “parents” help her get home despite the town folks arguments.
———————————————————————————- Can someone tell me the name of this show or the episode....... I watched many many years ago
I found it on You Tube at one time I think it was split into 2-3 parts ————————————————— The only reason I want to watch it again is it has many similarities to dr. Who and one Of the Dalek episodes
Edited by CvicopenComplainy entry of ArcFatigue Anime
Eternity Of Spirits added several entries to the YMMV page of Boruto, several of these were misuses which I removed explaining why in the comments. But this one in particular stroke me as overtly complainy:
- The manga in general is infamous for its very slow pacing, generally stretching out rather simple storylines out into multi-chapter arcs that last several months, often reiterating the same bits of information multiple times with little variance. Perhaps the most infamous example is Naruto's fight with Delta, where a single fight was stretched out for three months of real time despite relatively little actually happening in the fight itself, capped off by Delta self-destructing as a means of escape after being defeated, rendering basically the entire fight largely pointless. Many have said that the manga is still written under the idea of it being a weekly, even though the monthly release schedule means that the format and reader expectations are vastly different.
I originally reworded the entry to address that most of these issues are due to a monthly release, since if you read the manga back to back without waiting for the next chapter the pacing becomes better and many fans have said that the manga would be better if it had a weekly release. But they reverted it claiming that "I fail to see how being monthly excuses the poor pacing."
Any thoughts on this or is this just me?
openWhy is this still an index?
The page TurnOfTheMillennium/ProfessionalWrestling no longer exists, having been replaced by Professional Wrestling of the 2000s . However, pages that were added to the first one still have it as an index (e.g, Mike Quackenbush). Why is TurnOfTheMilennium/ProfessionalWrestling still an index when the page itself no longer exists? Thank you.
Edited by KJTropesopenNo Title
I had deleted some "meta" moments from Awesome.Pokemon Detective Pikachu under the impression they weren't allowed/were overly gushy, but they were reinstated with another troper citing their prevalence on MCU pages. I don't want to edit war, so what should be done about them?
- When the trailer was released, it completely overshadowed the teaser trailer for Toy Story 4, which was released a few hours earlier and had gotten plenty of attention in itself. It's also beaten the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) trailer and that came out in July 21st, almost 4 months ago when the Detective Pikachu trailer was released. It also got over 1 million likes and is the only non-superhero Hollywood film to do so until the trailer for The Lion King 2019 came out. The other films to do over 1 million likes before the film's trailer are Avengers: Infinity War, Venom, and Captain Marvel. After the trailers got released, the only other movies that achieved 1 million likes was The Lion King, Spider-Man: Far From Home, both trailers for Avengers: Endgame and Joker. To say this movie got a lot of attention compared to most films of 2019 would be an understatement.
- Jordan Vogt-Roberts concluded that the film has similar amounts of charisma and quality
to Iron Man 1.
- While critical consensus doesn't mirror the idea of putting Detective Pikachu on par with the film that started the most successful movie franchise in history, this movie still gets to claim the title of first wide-release video game film adaptation to avert the video game movie curse. That's nothing to sneeze at.
- It made number two in its first week at the box office right behind Endgame. Granted many figured it wasn't going to knock Endgame off its throne, but coming that damn close. Yeah, nothing to sneeze at indeed and a testament to the staying power of this series.
- While worldwide it may have come in second to Endgame, in China it came in at number one.
- Props to the visual effects team and director in that Mr. Mime's inclusion is this. Rob Letterman revealed in an interview
they almost didn't get to have Mr. Mime in the film because of its creep-factor notoriety and Uncanny Valley design. He hired an actual mime to rehearse the scene with, and also had to pitch the interrogation scene in person to the president of The Pokémon Company and he gave them the go-ahead, and then they still had to come up with a realistic design. Many people he talked to still weren't sure it could be pulled off, then when they filmed the scene, he described it as "the most awkward, weird thing to shoot", and he considered cutting it since he didn't think it would work. Given the fan reception of the end product, it's a cinematic marvel that they succeeded.
- In order to sell that she was actually carrying Psyduck around, Kathryn Newton had to do the chase scenes with 40 lbs of weight strapped to her back.
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu has a 65% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of May 17, 2019, making it the first live-action film adaptation of a video game to hold a "Fresh" rating. And while critical reception has been lukewarm, most chalk it up to the film being so awash in Pokémon lore that it's difficult to non-fans to fully appreciate the story and humor. In that regard, fan reception for the movie has been very, very high. After all these years, Video Game Movies Suck is finally averted.
openCancelling a Wikiword request Anime
I was looking at Creator.Funimation and found it odd that it was spelled properly, as I had always known it as FUNimation. I popped a wikiword request in but then looked down, actually read the page and saw it said previously known as FUNimation Productions and FUNimation Entertainment. Since I don't see any way to cancel the request myself, I wanted to post this so a mod would know it was a mistake on my part.
Edited by sgamer82openYMMV.KannazukiNoMiko page... kind of overly negative? Anime
This page. I get that it's a controversial show, but why is it that it looks like being written not by a neutral party but more like the detractors hamfisting what they don't like about the show? I've already made several edits about it, but I feel like I should rewrite in a more neutral manner.
Should I? Is the page negative enough?
The main page itself looked rather old, with a lot of ZCE's (I plan on fixing that too), so I was thinking that this was why a lot of its 'negativity' (if confirmed) went unfixed. What do you think?
openEntry Needs Fixing
Found this entry on Shout-Out Theme Naming:
- The Superjail! fanfic Extended Stay
does this with the Warden and the Mistress's twins Matilda and Ethan. A review gave the author suggestions that the twins be named after the star-crossed lovers in Ethan Frome. Obviously, the author took the suggestions for the names but then added in "Elizabeth" and "Victor" for their middle names. Hmm... Considering that the twins eventually become owners of Ultraprison and Superjail, almost like coming-of-age monarchs in a kingdom, could it be that they were also named for famous real-life monarchs as well and English monarchs no less? Possibly combined with Named After Somebody Famous.
- This could possibly be an in-universe example given how close the Warden and the Mistress were to becoming star-crossed lovers themselves.
- "Elizabeth" could either refer to Henry VIII's daughter, the now-deceased mother of the current Queen of England AKA the Queen Mum, or Her Majesty the Queen herself.
- "Victor" is a masculine form of "Victoria", which was the name of the English queen who reigned from 1837 to 1901.
- "Elizabeth" and "Victor" most likely came from another pair of lovers, this time from Frankenstein. These are the first names of the infamous Doctor and his wife. His parents raised them as something like adopted siblings with the intention of two marrying each other as adults.
- Their little brother Edward is probably named after the English king who succeeded Queen Victoria after she died. Either that or he could've been named for King Henry VIII's surviving son.
Lots of speculation in this entry, for a fic that only has about 25 faves and 13 follows at this time. How should I cut down this entry? Should I first trim it of speculation, leaving only the entries that seem to be explicitly confirmed or obvious enough to be a direct reference?
openVillainous Underdog Question
I'd like to ask the tropers to weigh in on a debate, because the other party I've tried to debate with is being passive-aggressively hostile in P Ms. Twice, I've presented my case and they've dimissed it. Once as me "wanking" the character in question and secondly as "Dragon Ball-esque scale speculation", which it is not.
So the dispute is on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. In the story, a demon named Gremory is one of the major villains and is partially responsible for the events therein. Part of the objective is for the player to traverse a huge sinister castle full of demons to reach Gremory and her master, Gebel, to stop them from unleashing a demon horde on mankind.
Within the game, there's another character named Zangetsu, who is a demon-hunting samurai using a sword called the Zangetsuto. At several points in the story, Miriam and Zangetsu fight with and against each other. When Miriam fights with him, Zangetsu demonstrates that he is far more powerful than Miriam (he can defend against a boss's attacks and she can't, and he deals hundreds of HP in damage to the boss while Miriam is dealing single digits). When they fight against each other, Miriam states that Zangetsu is holding back against her and could have killed her in a blink if he wanted.
Now, we enter spoiler territory.
We're told at the end that Zangetsu's sword, Zangetsuto, is the only thing that can destroy Gremory. Miriam states that Zangetsu is so strong that he should have done it already. He replies that he's been TRYING but Gremory has actively been running from him the entire story and every time he thinks she's cornered, she vanishes again. He thus gives Miriam his sword to chase her instead and this works because Gremory doesn't see it coming. However, Zangetsu also knows that since Gremory knows he's without his sword, she'll target him while he's weak. He deliberately goes off on his own to lure Gremory into the open and possibly dies as a result.
Now, Sasquatch X is arguing that this is NOT a case of Villainous Underdog because: 1) it's Zangetsu with his sword Gremory was afraid of, not him or the sword alone and 2) Gremory is hiding behind an army of demons. The problem I have with both of these arguments is that it's irrelevant whether Gremory was only an "underdog" when Zangetsu was with his sword because his sword is literally the source of his identity—he named himself after it. And second, Gremory's ultimate plan (which I avoided here) hinged on Miriam being able to easily defeat said army of demons, and again...Zangetsu is flat out stated to be far more powerful than Miriam.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I wanted you to have all the facts. Like I said, talking to Sasquatch X is impossible because he's being incredibly dismissive in P Ms.
Edited by NubianSatyressopen Edit War on VideoGame.Borderlands3
Troper Discar has taken it upon himself to revert extensive cleanup on the VideoGame.Borderlands 3 page. That cleanup included, in the edit history, a link to explicit instructions from a moderator that Speculative Troping should be deleted.
Discar has shown a persistent pattern of obstructionist behavior toward cleanup of Speculative Troping. He apparently has no interest in helping with cleanup efforts by adding citations or context, which is fine, but he is quick to revert or otherwise obstruct others' cleanup efforts, which is not.
Edited by HighCrateopenWhat exactly is the difference between these two tropes?
Seems like one is the act itself and the other is the person performing it, but for the most part they reference the same scenes and seem to overlap a bit too much.
Edited by DarthWalrusopenZeldaQueen64...again
On February 14th, 2018, Tropers.Zelda Queen 64 added natter to NightmareFuel.Junji Ito. ([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=NightmareFuel.JunjiIto&more=t
Page History).
Specifically, they added this entry:
- When Mimi moves into the apartment next to the woman's, she finds a tiny hole the previous occupant had used to spy on the woman. When Mimi takes a look, she sees the woman adjusting her arm. Even worse, the woman hears Mimi gasping and extends her arm to reach through the hole to try to grab Mimi! When Mimi uses a bookcase to cover the hole and locks the door to protect herself, the woman goes outside and extends herself so that she can climb in the window to get at Mimi. Mimi faints shortly after and fortunately wakes up to find everything back to normal, but it's still terrifying to watch. Not to mention, while nothing actually does happen, the idea of being unconscious while such a terrifying being can get at you is plenty horrifying.
The info was later transferred to NightmareFuel.Mimis Ghost Stories, but the indentation remained the same. It also violates spoiler policy since Nightmare Fuel subpages are Spoilers Off.
I'm only just now reporting it because, up until literally today, I was unaware Zelda Queen 64 was active. Even then, their edit history
only shows edits going to 2018 after restarting in 2017.
That said, back in 2016, this troper had already been notified
of natter, had been suspended for it
when they didn't stop, and promised not to do so again
in the future.
openTropefying creator pages
I understand that we can tropefy the pages of creators as long as its talking about their work. For example, recurring tropes, recurring quotes, recurring themes, and so on. However, I'm seeing that for years, the page of Akira Toriyama has been more about the man personal quirks rather than the tropes he shows in his comics.
I'm sort of confused if I should clean up his page, as while talking about his real life quirks can give context on why he felt the need to write this or that the way he did, the page itself is just tropefying him, which shouldn't happen.
openpage needs cleanup
The description on Page Three Stunna needs a lot of cleanup, it's full of natter.
Yes, the description itself.
openInvoked YMMV Videogame
SasquatchX added this to Characters.Super Smash Bros Ultimate 70 To 75 in the Hero's folder:
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Invoked Trope, as the inclusion of Eight among the playables is this. Sakurai makes mention in his interview regarding the acquisition of the Heroes of Eight's status being the one that western audiences are most likely going to recognize.
This isn't proper use of Invoked Trope isn't it? Using it for YMMV items is for when said item occurs within the narrative itself, not when it is used as a reason from Word of God for including something within a work.
Edited by homogenizedopenSelf-Surgery/medication: The Prologue
Before treating themselves, a seriously gun-shot character very commonly will (painfully) make their way to a drug-store (doctor's office, hospital, even veterinary clinic—maybe after hours), and quickly locate and pilfer exactly what they need: pads, tape, bandages, alcohol, morphine... even syringes and antibiotics (they know which kind and the exact dose) if the screenwriter is feeling especially ambitious, and/or just to prove the character is especially well-rounded in practical know-stuffery, or served 2 years as a medic in Afghanistan, etc.
Can't find any trope that quite matches this, but it's distinctly different in setting and process (it's a sort of mini-action addendum to a previous violent confrontation) from the more secluded patching-up procedure. And I can't think of a snappy name for it. 'Bandage burglary' ? 'Gauze-grabbing' ? 'Too big for torn-shirt and vodka' ?
openSuspicious Example on Quotes / Insult Backfire
Troper nm3youtube added a very suspicious example on the Quotes.Insult Backfire page. The following example reads...
Does this fall under Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment? The very content the example says looks very controversial.
Courtesy link here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Quotes.InsultBackfire
openjppiper Western Animation
jppiper added a non-capitalized, non-punctuated, speculative example to Steven Universe: The Movie, and then spent multiple more edits trying to Wiki Word Time Skip. After the example was rightfully removed, they posted on the discussion page
, still with the problems of their example, this time with an added self-censoring of the swear "fucking".
Page history
and Troper history
.
openDoes my entry have too much word cruft in it, or might be a bit too emotionally biased? Videogame
I've remade the Half-Quake entry over in Video Games, due to the entry I made before that being way too-run on and inconsisntent. I want to make sure I'm avoiding word-cruft and overly emotionally-charged content. Here's the entry I made so that way if there's any errors I've made, either regarding typos or not following the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment, it'll be here and not in some awkward place.
- The Half-Life mod trilogy "Halfquake", can be very difficult to sit through due to it's bleak message of "Life makes no sense, and you may as well just kill yourself" it tells you from the get-go, as well as it's murky-gray visuals after the first part. However, each of the three mods themselves carry varying degrees of overwhelming darkness that can be difficult to sit though just by themselves:
- The first mod, HalfQuake, stands as the least darkest part of the trilogy, but that really isn't saying much considering that you won't see much of anything that isn't either an enemy, concrete and/or steel, or lava. It also happens to be the only part of the trilogy that gives you a HUD, as well as the classic run/gun action of the first Half-Life game. The fact that throughout the mod, you can't escape the facility is made rather clear in a section where you sneak through the backrooms and into a house, only to be dumped right back into the trap-laden path uncerimoniously with a message aptly saying "you cannot escape, dumbass (sic)". You also end up getting killed right after you defeat the boss of the mod, Somos, which is also how the other two parts end as well.
- The second part, Halfquake: Amen, takes a swan-dive right into darkness as well as dump most of anything related to conventional FP Ses out the window. Most of the time spent throughout Amen will be either though the life or death chambers, semi-lonely atmospheric enviorments, or deadly traps/puzzles the first game uses. Whilst the captors in the first game made humourously dark remarks about the situation you're in, Amen ramps up the "dark" part, but not the "humorous", leaving you to deal with cruel and unpleasant people after cruel and unpleasant people. Amen also provides music for some of the parts you'll be going through (including an ending song, "Half-Quake Theme), the songs themselves rather downbeat, both in music and lyrical content.
- The third entry in the series, Sunrise, gameplay-wise, is where the series really starts to become an exersise in futility, the deadly puzzles and trap-laden hallways really starting to ramp up in this iteration. The few splashes of color that the previous two games had, aside from camoes near the end, are now entirely gone, save for a really, really light blue. Story-wise, aside from the final boss and a few disembodied voices, there's no NP Cs to interact with in Sunrise at all, your only form of breaking this sheer emptiness being a "Victim Message Box", which introduces to the only 3 people you'll be hearing from consistently throughout the mod: A guy voice who wants you dead and taunts you, a crazed man rambling about a cogwheel named "Mary", and getting angry at you when you're unable to find her (not that any cogwheels you can grab appear in the mod), and a lady who really hates you and wants you dead. The pitch-black atmosphere of Amen is also present as ever here, and doesn't stop for any moments of levity.
- Half Quake's spinoff, "Personal Halfquake", is directly based on Amen and a bit of the original Half_Quake, as well as having updated to support some of Sunrise, and it proves to be just as dark as the main game. Most of the game is spent stealing people from what's implied to be places that haven't done any wrong, and placing them in similarly made trap-laden hallways the Half-Quake trilogy features. Most of the places you go to are all managed by slaves, who have either been broken beyond repair, or are jerks who loathe your guts. The "Chosen Victim" mechanic involves kidnapping one of your victims, and inducing Stockholm Syndrome in them, allowing you to do paticularly cruel things to them.

Is it a no-no to leave the synopsis blank even if you're unable to come up with one yourself right away (and not take one from a different source word-for-word, much less get suspended for it)?
Edited by Tenma-Yuuki