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openAcademic Paper on Cosmic Horror Story
Friends, I'm currently working on an academic paper myself and as much as I wish they'd allow me to cite this very wiki, they don't. Do you guys know of an academic paper that defines (or at least mentions, really) what a cosmic horror story is, so that I can cite it? Many thanks.
openRWBY recap page Web Original
I was about to add an example in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/RWBYV7E3AceOperatives
page but first I need someone to check if my example and my grammar is wrong. Here is my example.
- Important Haircut: Implied. During Lock-and-Load Montage, Blake was shown looking at herself touching her hair. The next scene we see Blake with Bob-style hair (and a new outfit) symbolizing her freedom from White Flag.
openIs use of personal technological skills to create safe upgrades also a case of Professor Guniea Pig?
Ex- Thanos gave himself Bionics while Apocalypse used Celestial tech to argument himself. Mr. Sinister integrated mutant dna into himself.
Is any upgrades done by a character via methods they developed themselves an example? They all knew what they were doing. And it was perfectly safe. It's just that only they can do it. Do they count ?
Also, Chinese MC inventing pills to speed up training that works perfectly, where should it go ?
Thanks
Edited by FullmetalRenkinjutsushiopen Adventure kinda Anime
There was this guy who wanted to defeat some evil. So, for that he needed to train himself so he used to go to different different people who taught him how to fight and concentrate to defeat the guy. I remember one seen where he was with his master and the master asked him to focus and listen to the water drops falling somewhere. That was the place where they used to train. If anyone knows what I am talking about them please please please let me know.
openFlanderization cleanup?
Is there any forum entry to fix Flanderization entries? I noticed that multiple entries are less about flanderization itself, but adaptations. For example, "Oh yeah, Shadow was totally flanderized"... except he wasn't, this is a different interpretation of the character.
This is also a question how exactly flanderization works in adaptations like anime filler, since there is no source material to adapt for the writers.
This is also a problem I have with Character Exaggeration, as the difference between both appears to be blurry.
Edited by Tomodachiopen Cleaning up and Updating of the Red Hood related YMMV pages Print Comic
Hey everyone, I wanted to ask for help/feedback about what it should be done about the YMMV pages of both Red Hood and the Outlaws and Red Hood YMMV pages. The pages have been ignored for a long while with only a few tropers showing interest in keeping the entries up to date. One of the tropers that have, unfortunately, shows an obvious negative bias against the series and its writer, Scott Lobdell. I find the current state of the pages to be not only unhelpful for anyone interested in checking the series and/or the character and the personal views expressed to be somewhat out of place. I tried to fix the pages a little a while back, trying to be as objective as possible with my edits but I only succeeded in getting myself tangled in an Edit War with the aforementioned troper. Since I don't want the situation to repeat itself, and I'm still not satisfied with the pages' current status, I ask you for some help in improving those pages.
openSomething that bugs me...is it kosher?
So I don't contribute on the Complete Monster or Magnificent Bastard threads, but I do lurk on them from time to time out of curiosity. And I've noticed a lot of times where the Complete Monster thread will start...discussing page images amongst themselves, and then adding the ones they like. This means they're effectively skipping the Image Pickin' process and doing it on their own, and right now they're apparently discussing changing an image
that was already kept by an IP thread.
I don't want to say anything on the thread itself, like I said, I don't post there and I'd rather not go and stir up drama on a thread my biggest contribution to has been to point out when an example was randomly removed by someone. But this doesn't sit well with me, and I'm not sure this thread...as popular and as good at getting consensus as it is... should be able to just skip Image Pickin' and discuss images on their thread itself.
Granted, in this most recent discussion they're acknowledging that the image they want to change has already been voted on and seem willing to get IP consensus as well... it's just unsettling to me that this discussion is happening there at all.
Again, I'm not trying to stir up drama, nor do I want people to get in trouble. It's just been bothering me for a while and I want to know if this is...okay. All love and respect to the people at the thread, ya'll are great, I'm just not sure this image thing you guys are doing is kosher. IP exists for a reason and no other cleanup thread ever just discusses images without the IP process, so...
openQuick question: Self Made Superpowers
Can Self-Made Superpowers include making yourself a Powered Armor or turning yourself into a Cyborg?
openCharacters with multiple profiles
What are the rules for characters who have multiple character profiles across different works set in the same timeline?
For example, Saber has three pages for her main timeline self: for the main visual novel, the direct sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia, and Fate/Zero, which takes place ten years before the VN.
On the other hand, Zero from Mega Man has two profiles: one for his appearance in Mega Man X, and one for Mega Man Zero, which takes place centuries after the X series.
Edited by JRads47openNon-Trope Launching
So, I've wanted to make a new Self-Demonstrating article for a while now, but I haven't found any concrete way to do it. Anyone got any advice for making and launching a page that isn't for tropes?
openNote mark up covered with spoiler
I think it should be forbidden since it's impossible to show it, clicking on "Note" simply cover text again.
Try it yourself, the first entry on Glass (2019) has note markup in the middle of spoiler.
But Handling Spoilers say nothing about this issue.
Edited by KuruniopenHandling adaptation spoilers Live Action TV
At the The Witcher (2019) page someone just added a spoiler from the books the show is based on to the main page. It is under spoiler tags, but it is a twist that hasn't been revealed or hinted at in the show itself, so a person who has seen the entire first season and thinks it safe to look at the spoiler tags will have the surprise ruined.
Before removing it I wanted to ask if there was any Administrivia source I could quote to add a warning about doing this sort of thing in the future.
ETA: The spoiler in question was added at the end of the Leave No Survivors entry.
Edited by AzureOwlopenDarkness Induced Audience Apathy in TROS?
On YMMV.The Rise Of Skywalker, I deleted an example of Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy, citing that it was misuse of the trope. A different example of Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy was added with no edit reason. Both entries are just complaining about Happy Ending Override and Esoteric Happy Ending, without citing any hopelessness of setting or any characters being unsympathetic.
The only thing that suffers from Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy is the YMMV page itself.
openDeliberatre misindentation
Guiletheme misindented when adding an example in EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.Real Life, I fixed the issue and sent them an Indentation notifier. Next time I blink the eyes, they re-add the misindentation and then add another misindented example. See for yourself
open Can't Take Compliments
Is there a trope for this? Someone who just can't accept any sort of compliment no matter how deserved it is. I don't think it is quite Heroic Self-Deprecation since that implies that they feel they are inherently worthless. It's just not being able to take a compliment by either deflecting credit elsewhere when they are fully responsible for the achievement or trying to downplay it. Basically just thinking they're not as great as they really are.
It would be more of a direct inversion to Can't Take Criticism. Instead of not being able to accept any form of criticism, they can't accept any form of compliment.
openThe Lobo problem Print Comic
The page SelfDemonstrating.Lobo exists.
The page ComicBook.Lobo doesn't. Once upon a time, it was a redirect to the self-demonstrating page, but it was cutlisted with the following reason "Redirect to SelfDemonstrating.Lobo, causing people to treat the page as a legitimate work page rather than a Just For Fun page. [Anddrix]"
Beyond the fact that ComicBook.Lobo should exist as it is a genuine work, trope examples shouldn't be linking to a self-demonstrating page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that it was clearly stated by mods that any such link (like SelfDemonstrating.Deadpool or SelfDemonstrating.The Joker to only name common ones) should be corrected to the ComicBook/ namespace.
However, in the case of Lobo, the result would be a red link. (There is currently 259 wicks.) What shall we do? Re-creating the redirect would seem to me the absolute minimum, until someone knowledgeable and/or courageous enough create an actual work page...
Edited by StFanopen ROCEJ Potholes?
Something I've noticed time and time again on this wiki is people punctuating entries on dicey topics with condescending remarks like "and that's all that will be said about that" potholed to the ROCEJ page.
I feel like it's kind of awkard and in violation of ROCEJ in and of itself because of the slightly arrogant tone that adds to the text and because it comes off almost like it's daring some idiot to start an edit war over the entry in question
It's a habit I almost think should be banned and an effort started to clean it off the wiki.
openNever Life it Down misuse?
- Among critics of the trilogy, that Disney didn't have a set plan for how the trilogy would go and that the directors basically had a blank slate to do whatever they wanted lead to a lot of the major problems beginning in Force Awakens that would go on to haunt the series going onward for years.
- The movie as a whole will likely never live down it's "subverting viewer expectations" approach. While subverting expectations isn't bad in itself, the fact that a number of things fans speculated about were given wildly unexpected results contributed to making TLJ a very divisive Star Wars movie. Whats more, the subverted plotlines would go on to create issues that would affect the franchise in the years following the movies' release, issues mostly fixed through supplementary material.
- This film is also notorious for many fans as the entry which confirmed and reinforced what TFA strongly implied: nothing the Original Trilogy heroes did mattered in the long run since their accomplishments were nipped in the bud or undone, and Luke dies anticlimactically this time. Even Mark Hamill voiced his misgivings until he issued a retraction, the sincerity of which some of these fans doubt.
- Fans will never live down The Reveal that Luke Skywalker almost went through with killing his nephew just because he had bad dreams about him turning evil, when he was willing to save his already evil father despite him killing or trying to kill Luke's loved ones and chopping his arm off. Following on that, said fans especially won't let live down that when Kylo did go evil partially as a result, Luke decided to go into exile as a grumpy hermit drinking milk out of animals instead of confronting the First Order.
- Fans will never live down that Rose stopped Finn from doing a Heroic Sacrifice which he thought would've saved the Resistance. Rose's kiss with Finn at the end did not help at all.
The first two I think cross into RL example which need 25 years, the claim "will likely never live" sounds like major Weasel Words and a red flag for cutting. The rest I find suspect per prior ATT
which state NLIP requires explaining how fans are exaggerating that aspect, otherwise it's just complaining about something that objectively happened as opposed to how it's this trope. I don't desire the latter one are valid, just not as written. Thoughts?

So, I'm working on a work page for a fanfic and there is a bit of information I don't know how to handle.
A character that died in canon is alive in this story. I asked the author in a PM if this was the case and they told me yes but the incident that killed them in canon instead left them paralyzed from the waist down. However, this isn't stated anywhere in the story itself, as the character hasn't made an appearance, only been mentioned.
How should I handle putting this information in the work page?