Dunno. Might want to bring it up in Trope Talk, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Overeating and obesity are very common in heroes, definitely Good Flaws.
It's been a while since this article was last edited and times have changed a little bit. Is it really okay to leave the n*gger and f*ggot slurs uncensored?
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Clumsiness is on the list twice, as clumsiness implicit for Mary Sues and as a general klutz. Obviously a character being clumsy doesn't make them a Mary Sue, as associated as the two tropes tend to be. Which line should be deleted? Klutz or clumsy-but-perfect?
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Huh. I think both would fit.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Deleted a line from the discussion of slavery. Personally, I deleted it because I'm pretty sure it's extremely misleading about real history and whitewashes and sanitizes racial politics, but I felt safe in deleting it because it is badly written and has nothing to do with the actual trope itself. If anyone objects, here's the deleted entry, which was a line in nested under the Real Life discussion of slavery: "Ironically some of those that in the North demanding slaves be freed were racist. They demanded that the slave be sent back to Africa. Also as one picture this troper has found argues those that were slaves were given a place to stay and were in a way part of the family but in the North a free black man is stuck out in the cold while a group of white men drink around the fire. Uncle Tom's Cabin was right in some cases but masters extremely rarely whipped slaves to death because they were fairly valuable. Slaves were also given less risky jobs than many immigrants were in both the North and the South."
- The fact that that has nothing to do with the trope itself is obvious, I think. As for bad writing, it uses "this troper", misuses "ironically" and is full of Insane Troll Logic. Pictures are proof? The existence of other dangerous jobs makes slavery not all that bad? Racism throughout society means that abolitionists were Not So Different from slaveowners? Um, no, it's just Black-and-Grey Morality seen through Values Dissonance. And while it's completely obvious that slaves rarely were whipped to death, they still died that way, and got whipped without dying, far more often than non-slaves did.
Which list does obesity belong to?
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