The following example cannot decide whether it's an example for War Is Glorious or War Is Hell. For those that are not aware of it, here is what How to Write an Example has to say under the header "Do Not Place Multiple Tropes on the Same Bullet:"
Every trope on a page should have its own bullet. Putting multiple tropes on one bullet creates all kinds of messes with duplicate entries, organization errors, and confusion over which trope applies to which example.
The most common (and most insidious) version of this is called "tropeslashing," which looks like this:
In short, this example needs to be rewritten to be an example for War Is GloriousorWar Is Hell, or else it needs to be split into two examples.
War Is Glorious / War Is Hell: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" plays both tropes simultaneously - lauding the courageous charge while also lamenting how many were killed and injured in an suicidal attack that was the result of a miscommunicated order.note Of the six hundred and seventy members of the brigade, over a hundred were killed and over a hundred and fifty injured, a casualty rate of around 40% in a single action.
The following example cannot decide whether it's an example for War Is Glorious or War Is Hell. For those that are not aware of it, here is what How to Write an Example has to say under the header "Do Not Place Multiple Tropes on the Same Bullet:"
In short, this example needs to be rewritten to be an example for War Is Glorious or War Is Hell, or else it needs to be split into two examples.
- War Is Glorious / War Is Hell: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" plays both tropes simultaneously - lauding the courageous charge while also lamenting how many were killed and injured in an suicidal attack that was the result of a miscommunicated order.note
Let's just say and leave it at that.