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resolved Restoring parts of an entry (somewhat NSFW) Videogame
For some context: A while back, I reported a troper
(Halberd Stop Crashing) regarding some entries they added on The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak. In particular, they wrote portions of the Hotter and Sexier to make mention of homoerotic subtext. I removed since we still don't have much information and the game wasn't out in English, since having gay subtext doesn't automatically make a scene sexual. After a while, I got DM from the troper, stating that, "It's a fanservice scene". When I asked for further clarification and evidence, they sent me a .rar folder with screenshots from I can presume is the Fan Translation. At first, I thought it was a sex jokes added to spice things up, but after seeing the scene and using Google Translate, it was confirmed to be somewhat accurate. So I'm asking if parts of the old entry can be restored.
Further links:
- The files they sent me
(the linked ATT also has some screenshots of it but not all of them)
- The trooper's edit
- The Japanese version of the clip
and the English version
(note that I haven't watched the latter because, while I spoiled myself on some aspects of the game, I want to experience the other scenes as blind as possible)
resolved where to send page that has improper capitalization
Sorry, been a while since I've been here + I've in general been tired, thought it would just be easier to go to ATT to ask where to send something to be fixed.
Found this page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheShowStoppers
and made a couple edits to it (hid zces, fixed wording in some places, added punctuation) but the capitalization of the page itself shows up wrong (shows up as The Show stoppers rather than The Show Stoppers.) Where do I go to get that fixed? Thanks
resolved Figuring out how to alphabetize strange example Literature
So, the work Orson Scott Card's Empire is listed on the work page as Orson Scott Card's Empire, however, every source I can find lists the title as simply Empire. I presume this was originally done to prevent confusion with other works of literature with the title Empire, however, currently, there are no other works in the Literature namespace with that title; Empire currently redirects to Empire which is itself a disambiguation page.
The reason I ask is because I was attempting to alphabetize a page and wasn't sure if this page should be put under "O" for Orson or "E" for Empire, which is, as far as I can tell, the proper title for the novel.
Thank you in advance for your help!
resolved Is it a free action to adopt or overhaul "abandoned" works?
What does one do when a page looked like it was edited by only one troper all throughout its edit history, but said troper doesn't seem to be active anymore, thus the page became abandoned and it's likely difficult to PM that troper for permission or questions due to their inactivity... Can another troper easily "adopt" it or "take over" in editing it significantly to the point where it results in a massive overhaul? Or do I still need to ask specific forums? I'm making this ATT just to be safe.
Specifically, I'd like to add a lot of tropes, examples, or content to a Chinese visual novel titled The Hungry Lamb. Unfortunately, the current TV Tropes page covering it (VisualNovel.Epiao Ming Mo Qianli Xing), has a lot of issues currently (such as the page not using the official English localization, improper formatting, and most importantly, it's currently a stub and still unindexed). Right now, I want to salvage that page instead of letting it be sent to the cutlist for being a stub.
Looking at the edit history
(or its grand total of two edits, specifically), it was only troper Georgankar who made and edited the page, but their last activity on this wiki was 7 weeks ago
.
Initially, I would've wanted to PM Georgankar saying that the Visual Novel's TV Tropes page they created needs several fixes, but at some point, I'm also unsure if it's just better to do all the fixing myself, which includes trying to pass it through the English Localization Cleanup
thread.
Apart from VisualNovel.Epiao Ming Mo Qianli Xing, I had a lot of free time yesterday and found out other works and pages (mostly Referenced by… subpages) that also seemed to be abandoned now but were previously edited by mostly just one troper. Edited by DanteVin
resolved BaseBreakingCharacter EditWar on FFXIV Page. Videogame
Recently Final Fantasy XIV released it's newest expansion, and there has been division about the main focal point character for it, Wuk Lamat. Already people have jumped to adding her as a Base-Breaking Character (someone even put her on The Scrappy about two weeks after the expansion came out before it was removed), despite the expansion only being out for barely a month as of now despite the rules stating otherwise.
Walker B Riley recently added the entry after it was already removed, so I removed it and mentioned how the expansion was new and even if true needs to be discussed first because of how polarizing the subject is, but instead he went ahead and readded it to the YMMV page with the following: "Stop removing her from the list. Wuk Lamat is the single most basebreaking character introduced since Zenos."
Even if the BBC entry is not needing the 6 month period cause its an expansion, they still readded a removed entry without going to discussion. The entry itself is doesn't work well even if it is okay to add her as it is short and barely explains anything: "Wuk Lamat has divided the fanbase in two with her portrayal either praised or hated. The consensus on both sides is she did receive more story involvement that was potentially necessary."
Edited by keyblade333resolved Improper namespace
General.Sanctuaryverse has a General/ namespace that I’ve never seen used on any other page. Looking at the page itself, it looks like a Main/ page. EDIT: never mind, there’s already another query about this on the previous page. Disregard.
Edited by loserswithwifiresolved Cold Duke of the North trope? Literature
Since really getting into Korean webtoons in the last two years, there's a certain character archetype that shows up in like 90% of romantic fantasy novels and I'm surprised it isn't here yet so maybe I've just missed it. Its become so common that people have even made jokes memes about him and different series have started calling the trope out even when playing it straight.
That man is the Cold Duke of the North! He has short black hair cut, red or blue eyes (and if they're red its distinct to either himself or his family), and a love for black clothing with bits of jewelry hanging off. He is also known for being an *incredibly* well-built hunk of man meat and yes we the reader will always see him with his shirt undone or off at some point to make sure we know how stacked he is. Despite appearing emotionless to everyone around him, his heart will thaw usually on first sight when he sees our lovely lady protagonist, who he will remark is "interesting." The guy has a tragic past and a reputation as a cold-hearted butcher of the battlefield, and his northern domain is akin to Winterfell in both temperature and regular monster invasions which he has take point in fending off for the rest of the Empire. His cold demeanor means a significant chunk of the story involves communication problems in the central relationship with the female lead that any normal person could resolve through a five second conversation. Also it means the vast majority of stories starring one of these fellows as the male romantic lead features a contract relationship at the center of it that everyone thinks the female lead is bonkers for entering into because of his fearsome reputation.
Do we not have this a trope that already covers this specific main character archetype?
resolved Did I partially edit warred?
I'm concerned that I accidentally committed a partial edit war on Ys X: Nordics
- Here
, I made an edit regarding that game's PC port
- Another troper
reworded it as "With an additional PC port"
- I reverted
part of it so while the rest of the previous troper's edit is intact, I changed the wording back to "along with a PC port"
I have no excuse if I did something wrong so I'm self-reporting.
resolved Reporting an Edit War on the ymmv page of Fire Emblem: Three Houses
User Lord Twibill
appears to be attempting an edit war on the YMMV page of Fire Emblem: Three Houses
.
Back in late July they added an example of the game having a broken aesop. I believed their example as-written didn't satisfy the standards of a broken aesop (for one, I don't believe it breaks the aesop at all), so I deleted it, explaining my reasons why in the edit reason.
In response they sent me a VERY long private message explaining their viewpoint, but I got the impression them and I had an irreconcilable interpretation of the game (for one, they view all the characters as being horrible people when without the influence of the player avatar) and that attempting to discuss it over private messages would be a waste of time, so I encouraged them instead to bring it up to public discussion to get more viewpoints than just our own.
They did not do this, and yesterday sent me another pm asking for further discussion. This time I outright told them I thought our reads were irreconcilable and reiterated they should publicly raise a discussion to see how others felt. I then went on to disagree with some of their own interpretations of Fire Emblem: Fates. I criticized the game's morality quite harshly, but I avoided criticizing Lord Twibill themself.
In response to that, they sent me a pair of rather insulting and threatening pms, telling me I was being childish and that they were going to just re-add the example whether I liked it or not, and then threatened me not to delete it again or they'd bring the mods into it. At no point did I find any evidence that Lord Twibill raised a discussion on the accuracy of the example, so I decided to bring the situation up to folks here before things could get any more out of hand.
Edited by Raxisresolved Edit on Jesse Ventura
I noticed that somebody made quite substantial edits on the Wrestling.Jesse Ventura page. Basically, on every mention that Ventura was Governor of Minnesota, "Governor" is replaced with "Premier" (even though the name of the office is Governor) and claims without proof that Ventura is a Canadian citizen (even though he was born in Minnesota). I though about editing it myself, but the changes are so substantial that I thought it would be easier to ask a mod to take a look at it and revert it wholesale, as I don't see any proof of these claims.
resolved Fridge Brilliance with Character's AssCaps Style
Can I make a section for "Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse's fridge brilliance
's section with Character's Ass Caps style?
Note: Perhaps if it were allowed, I would give a character's Ass Caps style from another fridge's page.
In order to prevent like I've been happened before
It would look like this (as an example from Wreck-It Ralph - fridge brilliance, of course):
Ralph
- On the topic of Ralph's backstory in his game, there's some brilliance there in itself. Since Ralph is apparently only trying to destroy the apartment because its construction destroyed his home, well,
resolved About Mickey Mouse's non-Disney works... Western Animation
Hey! It's me again with yet another Mickey question
!
So in the franchise page for Mickey Mouse, there's a section about non-Disney works, which are about derivative works made after (the 1928 versions of) the mouse became public domain. The page itself indexes the Disney-made works over the non-Disney ones (which I completely understand and I support for them to still being the only ones indexed there), but since there are now many non-Disney Mickey works that have pages (Mickey's Mouse Trap, The Vanishing of S.S. Willie, Captain Willie, Infestation: Origins, Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain, Mousetrapped and the many pre-2024 works that feature Mickey's 1928 designs, such as Suicide Mouse and Mickey Mouse in Vietnam), should we make a separate page for them to be indexed so it would be easier to search for and find them in other pages instead of going to the "Related" tab in each of the works' pages and then go to Mickey's franchise page to search for one work? Maybe something like Non-Disney Works/Mickey Mouse, or something?
Edited by UzarNaimBer15resolved TRS crowner
There is an open crowner for If You Call Before Midnight Tonight, It Works Itself, andForYourPeopleByYourPeople at the Trope Repair Shop. Click here
if you'd like to join the discussion.
resolved I'm not sure if Visions of Mana counts as an example of Screwed by the Network...
I saw someone added the trivia to the game
in light of the studio that developed it getting shut down upon release. From my understanding, SbtN is for works that have been negatively affected as a result of Executive Meddling and such. Thus, Visions can only work as an example if Studio Ouka's closing will have a direct negative impact on its sales, marketing, etc. which is too early to tell. Because as far as everyone knows at this point, the game itself has been completed and polished before the studio's closure. Is there a more appropriate trivia for this? I don't think Creator Killer works either, because from the information gathered, the reason NetEase closed Studio Ouka had no direct connection to the game, just another corporate cost cutting measure.
EDIT: Someone else deleted the entry shortly after I brought the subject here, citing no confirmation. That said, everything seems to point towards a forthcoming closure as noted by reports
.
resolved Edit war on MyRealDaddy.WesternAnimation
There seems to be an
edit
war
over
the inclusion of the following paragraph on MyRealDaddy.Western Animation:
- Ever want to get a bunch of Gargoyles fans riled up? Just bring up the idea that Greg Weisman isn't really the show's creator — Michael Reaves is. They'll go utterly off-the-deep-end bananas (as they have on this site) — even though the show in fact has no official "created by" credit, and the topic is hotly debated within the screenwriting community. Of course, Weisman is undoubtedly the show's post-series biggest booster, and pitched an early goofy comic version of Gargoyles that's unrecognizable compared to the finished show. However, Reaves actually wrote the series' first five episodes that set everything up, and most of the series' subsequent high points. (Weisman himself did not receive a writing credit on any episode until the dire spin-off/continuation Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles.) In fact, virtually everything that people remember and enjoy about Gargoyles was Reaves' work. Wiseman, meanwhile, who genuinely did love Gargoyles and was involved on the production end from the get-go (and did give notes on Reaves' work and participate in story meetings), hyped himself as the show's creator at every opportunity. Reaves also labelled himself as a co-creator of the show, but in a much more low-key way. The reality is much more complex — and Weisman's role is unquestionably a crucial one — but under Writers Guild practices, Reaves would be credited as the creator of Gargoyles, and Wiseman (with no writing credits whatsoever on the original 65-episode run) would have no claim to a creator credit. (Non-prime-time animation, however, is not covered by the Guild.).
Note that I haven't seen the show myself, so I don't have any insight over whether the example is valid.
The involved parties are Demona Fan X and breadalbane.
Edited by costanton11resolved Report Troper
Okay, I've kept this kinda on the backburner for a while now, but after finally having enough, I'd like to report Psyga 315 for his conduct in the RWBY Discussion Thread.
Basically, he's become infamous there for his flagrantly bad faith conduct. Just about all of his posts do one of a few things:
- Complain about the show's fans with vague accusations of things they "claim"
- Complain about the writing
- Complain about the decisions behind the writing
- Generally take the most cynical interpretation possible (to the point of disregarding the actual show's writing and taking "vindictation" - his terms - when some of his headcanons were suggested to be on the right track)
- Blatantly lying about things to make the characters and writing look worse
- Defending James Ironwood at all costs and making everyone who opposes him into the true villains of the show (again, often to the point of just straight up lying)
- Demanding evidence from other people whenever he gets into debates but then shifting the goalposts when it's provided
- Getting defensive about works that are generally unanimously considered to be Hate Fics
- Deflecting the blame onto other users when called out on his bad faith conduct
Multiple users have either called them out or downright begged him to just stop over the past year or so and he simply never has. Don't believe me? Here's proof:
- 1
- claims that fans like that we were "robbed" of certain moments between characters.
- 2
- complains that the show has too many characters and "fetishizes" the number 4 somehow
- 3
- lies that something was retconned as being magic when the first two paragraphs here
make it clear this isn't true
- 4
- reposts one of the show's creators talking about something in the show not landing and just leaves it at that
- 5
- complains about the way the show introduced other characters besides the four leads
- 6
- somehow thinks it's disturbing that the heroes want to kill the Big Bad (who is effectively the emodiment of destruction who wants to destroy the planet)
- 7
- has an entire rant about one of the fight scenes where he literally posts a video of someone screaming
- 8
- implies that a creator called Volume 9 of the show "filler" when that's not what the creator was saying at all. After several people have to explain what filler is
and all the ways it's not filler
, he moves the goalposts
to keep complaining about it.
- 9
- makes another lie about the writing (specifically how the concept of "Ascension" works) and gets corrected
.
- 10
- lies about the way that discussions on certain characters began, gets corrected
, then doubles down
.
- 11
- goes out of his way to complain about fans supposedly "misattributing" a Kingdom's destruction to a guy who was pretty damn responsible for it.
- 12
- Posts three "unbiased" videos that are just complaining about the way a character was handled.
- 13
- when someone posts a critique about said character, he reflects that critique onto a different character in a completely different situation and again complains about how it was handled
- 14
- he again deflects a point in a sarcastic manner rather than actually address it (as the post below it points out)
- 15
- he complains about a Deus ex Machina which isn't a Deus ex Machina (it was a plot device that had been set up years prior). I finally had enough and asked him to not post in such bad faith
and another user
also called out his bad faith conduct.
- 16
- again complaining about the thought process behind a writing decision
- 17
- taking the most negative possible interpretation of the ending of an arc to turn it completely negative when that's just not true (as the two posts underneath it point out)
- 18
- implying that things will get worse when a certain secret in the show gets out, even though everyone who knows the truth of the situation has no reason to reveal it
.
- 19
- continues to complain about a choice the main characters make when the alternative is letting a continent full of people die
.
- 20
- apparently he even wrote a fanfic that's particularly cynical about the show's circumstances.
- 21
- downplays a major reveal in the show to complain about it
- 22
- again blames the protagonists for opposing a character he likes and accuses them of self-righteousness
- 23
- again misframes a situation to make the protagonists look bad (as detailed two posts below)
- 24
- straight up lies about a character he doesn't like to make her look bad even when it makes no sense
- 25
- refers to a situation as said character trying to "murder" two people when that's simply not what happens
- 26
- when confronted on the lies, he just pivots to something he thinks someone else made up
- 27
- again completely misrepresentating a situation, to the point that he was outright called a troll below
- 28
- he doubles down when called out, leading to several callout posts below
- 29
- cynically stating a simple solution that transparently wouldn't work
- 30
- diminishes an entire volume of a show as "pointless exposition" and complains about a character disappearing from the show after that volume
. At this point people were outright begging him to just stop already
.
- 31
- again shilling a character he likes and complaining about the writing of him
- 32
- calls all of the season finales of the show "rushed"
- 33
- implicitly calls the entire show badly written. Even someone who agrees with him
thinks he "bends over backwards" to hate it all.
- 34
- was extremely vindicated when it was later revealed that the world is indeed worse off than we expected. He's again accused of purely bad takes
and only responds with another jab towards the show
that disregards the hopeful aspects of the revelations. A later post
from someone who tends to agree with Psyga also agreed that he was interpreting it incorrectly.
- 35
- I don't remember what was said here but I do remember that I got thumped for getting sick and tired of it and finally asking why he bothers to post there.
- 36
- claims that a video example of someone complaining about the show contains tropes that can have a video example attached when someone details
why that's not accurate
- 37
- out of complete nowhere, assuming that the ending's going to be bad
- 38
- this one's from me in response to several times that he engaged in bad faith discussion in a row, disregarding opposing opinions because they disagreed with his yet demanding that people supply more evidence for their point of view anyway.
- 39
- claims that a character acts like a "Saturday morning cartoon villain", which is complete nonsense
- 40
- generally accusing "people" (presumably fans) of throwing out accusations of misoginy for disagreeing with them.
- 41
- again makes vague accusations about people calling him a "fascist" for supporting a character and begins the post with an outright lie about what certain people have said in the past (as I point out here
)
- 42
- again accuses a protagonist of being an idiot by misreading the situation. He then proceeds to only focus on one part of the argument
when supposedly refuting it.
- 43
- again accuses "fans" of something vague like lumping in some random Fan Animation with the infamous Hate Fic Fixing RWBY.
- 44
- again accuses the protagonists of messing up the situation even more than the Big Bad
- 45
- again complaining about the writing and the "fans" who supposedly defend it
- 46
- again complaining about the writing
- 47
- again just accusing the show of character bloat.
Like, the people in the thread who like the show are open to criticism, but that's not what Psyga's doing. Even if you only believe half of the things i've linked are valid examples of what I'm trying to say, that's still around 23 times he's complained about damn near everything in the show over the past year. I genuinely don't know why he bothers to keep going back to a thread meant to be about discussing a show people like when he has a well-documented history of hating the show, the writers, the writing process, the protagonists, the setting, and the fans of it. It's all he posts and I and several other users are so beyond tired of it.
I'm damn near begging for mods to do something at this point, please.
resolved Mebrouk is writing ROCEJ violations... again
I found this
on Scenery Gorn's Real Life page, calling the Gaza strip scenery gorn and calling Nehtanyahu a genocidal monster. I recognized that this was Mebrouk, the same guy from the Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters image debacle in May that ended with that trope getting NRLEP'd. Looks like he's back to his old tricks - he added Aaron Bushnell's suicide note
to the Self-Immolation quotes page, and, while not Hamas related, an iffy example
on No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Real Life.
resolved Dramatic Irony requiring knowledge from supplemental materials?
I found a Dramatic Irony entry on one of the Cyberpunk 2077 characters' subpages, related to Adam Smasher, the final boss. Explaining the entry would be complex and full of spoilers, but in summary the entry explains the character says a line which implies he doesn't know something about himself which is explained in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit is an add-on for the Cyberpunk RED tabletop RPG which serves to connect Cyberpunk RED, the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime (itself a Cyberpunk 2077 prequel), and Cyberpunk 2077.
Dramatic Irony is about situations where the audience knows something an in-univers character doesn't. My issue is: since this is technically another work, does it qualify? Not to mention the players of the videogame need to also have played a prequel tabletop RPG, which itself is another prequel's sequel, and I'm not sure most 2077 players would also have played the RPG (videogames and tabletop RPGs don't exactly have the same player base). And last, said RPG add-on was released months after the last major Cyberpunk 2077 patch. For all those reasons, a non-negligible part of Cyberpunk 2077 audience probably didn't get the information needed to notice the Dramatic Irony.
In general, does it count as Dramatic Irony if the audience must know other parts of the extended universe (especially since they are another medium) to notice it? Is it really Dramatic Irony if you must know about the whole extended universe to get it is supposed to be Dramatic Irony?
Edited by Psychopompos007

As has been established, the use of Zalgo text is not allowed on the wiki. However, over on YMMV.Si Iva Gunner, I noticed it being used in an entry concerning a video by Siiva. Thing is, AFAIK Zalgo text was what was originally used in the video title, prior to it being renamed — the text is just quoting the video.
With that in mind, is Zalgo OK to use if it's in the original title of a work, or no? And if so, should I retitle the link to match the current title of the video?
Edited by themayorofsimpleton