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resolved Another disambiguation question Web Original
RWBY received three manga adaptations in a four-year span, so I'm iffy on using years to disambiguate. Would disambiguation by author make more sense in this specific case?
(Keep in mind that this will be the third media type for RWBY once the pages are created, so we'll also have a Franchise/ page to serve as an index for all this stuff.)
resolved Cut list
I previously put YMMV.The Loud House S 3 E 22 Predict Ability Driving Ambition on the cut list because they only examples were poorly formatted, but the entries have since been corrected, so it doesn’t need to be cut on that basis.
Edited by costanton11resolved Never Live It Down
It says on NeverLiveItDown.Real Life that real life examples of the trope should be at least 25 years old but Super Bowl has more than half of its entires taking place less than 25 years ago. For example, it includes examples from the most recent Super Bowl.
Edited by costanton11resolved Cloud to butt
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resolved Edit War alert
On Feb 28th 2019, Yonggary 2011 change image of Kaiju to this
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Some time later Cookie Monster 69 change it back to original image (this
◊) with "yongary sucks" as edit reason.
Today, Yonggary 2011 change it back with "Yonggary is really underrated." as edit reason.
Personally, I would like to change it back on the ground that Godzilla is most well-known example of the trope, but the Edit War has to be dealt with first.
Edited by Kuruniresolved TearJerker / Film
The Tear Jerker subpages for films labeled Film: A to B, Film C to G, Film H to M, Film N to S, and Film: T to Z have many entires for films that have separate pages and quite of few of the examples are duplicated on those films subpages? There's quite a lot to go through, so should anything be done about them?
resolved Which namespace these things belong to?
WebOriginal.Orions Arm WebOriginal.Thrilling Intent WebOriginal.Shell
Found them while cleaning up EldritchAbomination.Web Original.
Edited by Kuruniresolved Does every Fandom Berserk Button covered by Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment?
Here's the second entry of Castlevania from FranchiseKiller.Video Games. The relevant part is bolded by me.
- This first Lords of Shadow proved to be a surprising success, but a combination of middling review scores for Lords of Shadow 2 and complaints of Executive Meddling within MercurySteam (developers of the Lords of Shadow games) halted that sub-series in its tracks, and Konami has expressed little to no interest in making any new games in the series. And the less said of the slot machines, the better.
I can see that it is Fandom Berserk Button to Castlevania's or Konami's fanbase in the West (I'm still curious about its reception in Japan), but to invoke Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment seems a little off IMO.
resolved Home Nudist
I'd like to know why the recently-created Home Nudist trope was cut (and not just because I am one).
resolved Where should I add this trope? Film
Hi everyone!
I noticed that the trope If I Can Only Move heavily applies to a scene about 10 minutes into The Last Jedi; however, I'm not sure whether to add it to the page for The Last Jedi or if I should instead add it to the Resistance Starfighter Corps page, as this trope applies to one of the Corps' members (specifically Paige Tico, the one whose movement or lack thereof is pivotal). If someone could help me figure out which trope listing to tack this onto, that would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Edited by Wikikineticresolved How do I follow a discussion?
After posting a couple of items on the forums here, I've wanted to know when things happen in relation to those forum posts (e.g. if someone comments on them), but I don't have any idea if there is a way to get notifications for such things in the same way that one would for normal site pages (I assume that clicking the Follow button on a normal article does this, but forum posts don't seem to have these). If this isn't too bothersome and someone could explain this to me, that would be greatly appreciated!
resolved Can't access the cutlist
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this.
When I try to access the cutlist, I get a "Sorry, The cutlist is not available to new tropers. Stick around for a few weeks." I've been on this site for quite a while now, but I'm wondering if I'm seeing the message because I registered the email earlier this month.
Is the cutlist not available if you've only recently registered an email despite being a longtime member, or is it bugged right now?
resolved No Title Web Original
What's the difference between New Media and Web Original?
resolved Trope for showing a live-action actor resembles animated counterpart
Example that I'll give is that in the Library War movies, Chiaki Kuriyama was casted as Asako Shibasaki.
It'll be YMMV if she almost resembles her... But in terms of the hair only though... -_-''
resolved Internet Backdraft/Marvel Cinematic Universe has a stupid entry Film
On Marvel Cinematic Universe there's this entry:
- A theory has been springing up that Marvel are sabotaging the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises in order to weaken Fox's success with their films, noting their reduced presence in the comicsnote which isn't true; the X-Men are currently one of the biggest lines they're producing, with more spin-offs than ever, Wolverine and Deadpool dying note which is no different than any other 'big shocking deaths', and is being used to launch several miniseries attracting tons of publicity to the X-Men line as it is, the Fantastic Four comic being cancellednote which has been underselling for a while, and while not the worst seller, it's still been pretty bad and doesn't have the cult following that their other books have, lack of merchandise produced for X-Men: Days of Future Pastnote which wasn't true; there weren't any children's toys produced, which is largely down to licensing issues; they still sold Hot Toys collectibles for them though, are still selling toys for the franchise in general, and sold toys for the film before that, their reduced appearances in recent animated seriesnote ignoring that Wolverine did get an animated movie and has appeared in their other cartoons, and a memo apparently sent out asking for artists to not send them Fantastic Four artworknote the validity of this memo is questionable at best. The theory itself makes little sense, but hasn't stopped people buying into it, including Rob Liefeld note Liefeld's creations are tied with Fox's licenses, so of course he'd be on their side over this.
- Disney's acquisition of Fox. Beyond the "Yay, X-Men and the Fantastic Four can be in the MCU!" cheering, fans were concerned about how Disney continued to acquire a huge amount of popular IPs to the point of becoming a near monopoly.
The first one is iffy in its own right, but the second bullet is my concern today. A couple of things:
1. This isn't about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's about Disney. The only connection the MCU really has to this is that Marvel Studios, the guys who oversee it, are owned by Disney. Unless the entry is alleging that Disney spent $71.3 billion acquiring the Fox film assets primarily to get the film rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises, in which case... yeah, I totally believe that. TOTALLY.
2. In all seriousness, Disney didn't do this because they thought Marvel Studios needed two more franchises. They did it because they want to bulk up their collective film library in preparation for going into the streaming market. Remember, Disney+ launches later this year, and Disney wants to leverage their majority control of Hulu to push for an international release around the same time, with the stated goal of being a place to put their adult-leaning content. That's why this happened.
3. For the record, this entry is heavily biased, mentioning the backlash to the decision to greenlight the acquisition while dismissing ANY praise or excitement as just people being excited for certain franchises; call me crazy but I don't think it's as bad as this entry makes it out to be.
4. This is a minor complaint compared to the preceding three, but it's also an example of bad indentation. It's got nothing to do with the preceding entry other than that they both involve Fox. I mean, seriously?
Look, my vote is to just delete it, but I wanted to at least make sure I consulted the community to see if that's the only workable solution, because I get the feeling that SOMEONE is going to want to talk about it on the wiki SOMEWHERE and it's worth figuring out where, if anywhere, is an appropriate place to do so.
Edited by MinisterOfSinisterresolved Avengers Endgame Unfortunate Implications
From YMMV.Avengers Endgame under Unfortunate Implications:
- The fact that society seems mostly functional from what we see of it after the Time Skip (reliable electricity, food available in sufficient quantities to supply restaurants, Cassie feeling safe enough to live in her old house) gives the "Thanos was Right" crowd a lot of ammo, especially after videos makers like Dorkly
and Renegade Cut
made videos explaining how his plan wasn't just evil, but thoughtlessly counterproductive for solving problems mistakenly associated with "overpopulation." The implication is that overpopulation was really the problem and not various issues like Corporate Greed and mismanagement and that the only reason to resurrect those lost was strictly sentimental value.
Are these sources credible enough to serve as citations? The Dorkly one is a comedy video, so I'm not sure it counts.

ComicBook.Superboy Prime is currently a redirect to SelfDemonstrating.Superboy Prime. Is this allowed?