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''Unmatched'' is a card-based FightingGame board game developed by Restoration Games. The game has players take control of various "heroes" from [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover all across fiction and mythology]], with the end goal being to defeat their opponents.

!!In Tropes, there are no equals!

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!!Misused: Evil Genius

EvilGenius, one of the old "Five Bad Band" roles, is a trope about intelligent villains. However, it sees a lot of misuse, and usages that can be attributed to more specific tropes:

* Five of the 90 checked examples (5.55%) seem to be good enough, characterising the character in question as evil and a genius without using other tropes.
* 18 of the checked examples (20%) fit other, more specific tropes a lot better. Of these, 12 (13.33%) fit under MadScientist, 3 under TheChessmaster, and 3 with other various tropes.
* 15 (16.66%) only explain half of the trope - 2 explain evil without genius, while 13 explain genius but not evil.
* This leaves beind '''52''' (57.77%) examples that have no context whatsoever. These include vague potholes, examples that make claims but don't back them up, and several FiveManBand sub-bullets.

My suggestion is that the page should be retooled into an index.

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!!Useful Notes: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859) was a British engineer who is widely regarded as the face of [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain the industrial revolution]]. He is best known for his three ships (the ''Great Britain'', ''Great Western'' and ''Great Eastern'' steam ships), the Great Western Railway that connected much of Britain to London, and the Clifton suspension bridge, one of the most prominent structures in Bristol.

Brunel's early life was a relatively happy one. Tutored from a young age by his father, Marc Isambard Brunel, Isambard then went on to learn at several schools in Paris. However, being English in birth, he was unable to attend the selective engineering school École Polytechnique. Instead, he was tutored under renowned clockmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet.

His first major project was as an assistant in digging out a tunnel under the River Thames. While a tunneling shield designed by his father prevented cave-ins, it wasn't able to stop flooding, which killed several workers and badly injured Brunel.

Before construction on that finished, however, Brunel was appointed as chief engineer of the Great Western Railway company, something that would result in great achievements - among them the two-mile long Box Tunnel, one of the longest of its day. This propelled him into becoming the foremost figure of his day.

!!Brunel in media

[[folder:Film - Animation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Great1975'' is a comedic biopic detailing Brunel's life and engineering achievements.

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[[folder:Literature]]

* ''Literature/BurtonAndSwinburneSeries'': Here, Brunel is presented as a GadgeteerGenius, making Victorian Britain into a Steampunk empire based on second-hand accounts of tchnology centuries ahead.

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

* ''Series/MarkWilliamsOnTheRails'': Episode 5, titled "Brunel", focuses on Brunel and the wide-guage rails he pioneered.
* ''Series/OneHundredGreatestBritons'': Brunel was voted as the second greatest Brit of all time in this series.
* ''Series/SevenWondersOfTheIndustrialWorld'': The first episode focuses on Brunel's first ship, the ''Great Eastern''.

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[[folder:Music]]

* Music/TheMenThatWillNotBeBlamedForNothing: The song "Brunel", from their album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons'', is all about the life and inventions of the engineer.

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[[folder:Video Games]]

* ''VideoGame/LoveOfMagic'': In this game, Brunel is the creator of the modern summoning portal used in Ceremonial Magic.

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[[folder:Webcomics]]

* ''Webcomic/TheThrillingAdventuresOfLovelaceAndBabbage'': Brunel is a major character appearing in a few chapters. At times, it's up to him to fix the mess made by the eponymous duo.

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* Music/TheMenThatWillNotBeBlamedForNothing'': The song "Brunel", from their album ''This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons'', is all about the life and inventions of the engineer.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Great1975}}'' is a comedic biopic detailing Brunel's life and engineering achievements.

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* ''Webcomic/TheThrillingAdventuresOfLovelaceAndBabbage'': Brunel is a major character appearing in a few chapters. At times, it's up to him to fix the mess made by the eponymous duo.

[[folder:Useful Notes: Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]

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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The game and its various expansions bring together all sorts of characters, from public domain characters like Dracula and Robin Hood, to [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]] and ComicBook/Deadpool.

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[[folder:Ambiguous Name: I Have the High Ground]]

IHaveTheHighGround is a rather specific trope, dealing with characters standing on tall, thin structures, primarily just for the RuleOfCool or intimidation. However, the trope is heavily misused across the site. According to [[Sandbox/HighGroundWickCheck this wick check]]:

* Around 19% of checked examples have enough context to tell that they're correct.
* An exact third (33%) of checked examples are definite misuse. This can be broken down as follows:
** 5% lack the "thin structure" part of the definition, with characters standing on balconies or floating instead.
** 16% referred to wrestlers using an agile, aerial wrestling style.
** 12% used it as the TropeNamer does; using elevated terrain and other high places for tactical advantages.
* Around 48% of checked examples didn't have enough context.

The trope's name may be a source of the misuse; a rename may be in order, or perhaps a disambiguation. Transplanting the TropeNamer usage may also be viable.

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* DeadSidekick: [[Literature/TheIliad Patroclus serves this role to Achilles]] as a mechanic; when Patroclus is defeated, often resulting in his death, Achilles gets a boost to all of his attacks.

* GlassCannon: Creator/BruceLee has the potential to do a lot of damage, thanks to many of his cards granting extra actions. He's also faster than average, having tgree movement points instead of the usual two. His starting health is a low 14, though, and he has no sidekick to take blows for him.

The trope's name may be a source of the misuse; a rename may be in order, or perhaps a disambiguation.

IHaveTheHighGround is a rather specific trope, dealing with characters standing on tall, thin structures, primarily just for the RuleOfCool or intimidation. However, the trope is heavily misused across the site. According to [[Sandbox/HighGroundWickCheck wick check]]:

** Literature/LittleRedRidingHood is another young girl who makes an appearance, and is introduced as ''Literature/Beowulf's'' competitor. Her card artwork likes to show her posing with a knife in her hand or [[CutlassBetweenTheTeeth in her jaw]].

** Alice, of ''Litearature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' fame, makes her debut in "Battle of Legends, Volume One". She's a very capable fighter, though, and has cards that deal damage on par with her sidekick, the fearsome Jabberwock.

->In battle, there are no equals!
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** Alice, of ''Litearature/AliceInWonderland'' fame, makes her debut in "Battle of Legends, Volume One". She's a very capable fighter, though, and has cards that deal damage on par with her sidekick, the fearsome Jabberwock.

->IN BATTLE, THERE ARE NO EQUALS!

[[folder:Duplicate Trope: Bishonen]]

PrettyBoy and {{Bishonen}} are very similar tropes. Both deal with male androgynous characters (skinny, cleanshaven, ect.) being treated as attractive. The main difference being, of course, that one is only found in Eastern media... right?

[[Sandbox/PrettyBoyBishonenWickChecks The wick check I did]] shows an estimate as follows:

* 4% of {{Bishonen}} examples and 7% of PrettyBoy examples are good examples with decent amounts of context showing that the character is androgynous, is considered attractive in-universe, and is an Eastern (in the case of {{Bishonen}}) or Western (in the case of PrettyBoy) work.

* 8% of {{Bishonen}} examples are on Western pages, while the same applies the other way.

* '''86%''' of {{Bishonen}} examples and '''64%''' of PrettyBoy examples are zero-context or vague potholes.

* The remaining 2% of {{Bishonen}} wicks and 21% of PrettyBoy wicks are various other forms of misuse (Fandom gushing and "A character gets ''called'' "Pretty Boy", respectively).

So, not only are Bishonen and Pretty Boy pretty much interchangable according to wiki editors, but it also seems that both tropes suffer from a lot of Zero-Context Example issues. If an obvious and functioning trope can be salvaged out of one of them, I can't see it. My only proposed option is to have them, and their redirects, redirect to APrettyBoyIndex, which houses all the relevant subtropes.

The comic is hosted on Website/SmackJeeves. You can start reading it [[http://closedgate.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027987/page-01/ here.]]

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[[folder:Five-Man Band TRS Post]]

FiveManBand, as a trope, is rather old and highly-wicked. However, as the [[Sandbox/FiveManBandWickCheck wick check]] has revealed, it has a couple of persistent issues; indentation violations and zero-context examples. Of all the examples on the wick check, only seven provide full context for the core members, and even those fail at example indentation.

The current system on the main page, which encourages supertrope-subtrope sorting, may be directly affecting both of these issues. A possible solution would be to enforce single-bullet examples on the main page.

Additionally, the trope sees heavy misuse; additional members and role-doubling, which make the band lack five members, are added, resulting in more than half of the examples being shoehorned. There is no way to change the page to prevent this; all that can be done is the removal of offending examples.

On a final note, also included in the wick check is an analysis of how the gender rules are being followed; due to admin fiat, examples are supposed to be exactly one or two female members. This is not stated on the main page, resulting in around half of all examples not having that number. Either the rule or the main page should be changed to reflect what is stated on the other.

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