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* MundaneUtility
* CerebusSyndrome - Seriously, I love series where everything start out all cheerful and happy and then the cracks begin to show and people slowly figure out that they live in a CrapsaccharineWorld.
* CerebusSyndrome - Seriously, I love series where everything start out all cheerful and happy and then the cracks begin to show and people slowly figure out that they live in a CrapsaccharineWorld.
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3) Everybody "knows" that a certain task is impossible, so they don't try to do it. However, one person who doesn't know that it's supposed to be impossible tries to do it and succeeds. This version ''can'' have real-life examples, and in fact, the best illustrative example of this is the real-life incident that inspired the movie ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': A teacher wrote an unsolved - and presumably unsolvable - math problem on the blackboard. A student who came to class late mistook it for a homework assignment and solved it. [[note]]Technically, he didn't solve it ''completely'', but he got far enough into it that the remaining work was relatively trivial to any trained mathematician.[[/note]] - This one could be called "Didn't Know It Was Thought To Be Impossible", which is a mouthful, be we have some other tropes with really long names.
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3) Everybody "knows" that a certain task is impossible, so they don't try to do it. However, one person who doesn't know that it's supposed to be impossible tries to do it and succeeds. This version ''can'' have real-life examples, and in fact, the best illustrative example of this is the real-life incident that inspired the movie ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': A teacher wrote an unsolved - and presumably unsolvable - math problem on the blackboard. A student who came to class late mistook it for a homework assignment and solved it. [[note]]Technically, he didn't solve it ''completely'', but he got far enough into it that the remaining work was relatively trivial to any trained mathematician.[[/note]] - This one could be called "Didn't Know It Was Thought To Be Impossible", which is a mouthful, be we have some other tropes with really long names. This, by the way, is the definition that this trope was originally supposed to have.
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In my opinion, this tropes needs to be split up into 3 pieces:
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In my opinion, this tropes it needs to be split up into 3 pieces:
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* AchievementsInIgnorance, but see Pet Peeves, below.
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* PoorCommunicationKills.
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* PoorCommunicationKills.PoorCommunicationKills.
Pet Peeves:
I hate when a trope is described in a way that is clear, specific, and unambiguous, yet people still get it wrong ''all the time.'' I understand that sometimes you have a brain-skip, and think something is an example of a trope when it really isn't (I've done that occasionally), but there are some tropes that, for whatever reason, are perpetually misunderstood.
The one that's currently grating on my nerves is AchievementsInIgnorance. The trope, as it's described, is: A person does something thought to be impossible, because they didn't realize it was supposed to be impossible. Currently, most of the examples (and wicks) are for: A person is stupid, but accomplishes something amazing anyway.
This was brought to the trope repair shop, where it languished for a while and died. I'd like to bring it back, and I'd even be willing to fix it myself, but I just don't have the time.
In my opinion, this tropes needs to be split up into 3 pieces:
1) Someone accomplishes something even though they have no idea what they're doing. (For example, everything [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsPatrickStar Patrick Star]] has ever done.) - This one will keep the "Achievements In Ignorance" name, since this is the definition most people think it has.
2) Someone accomplishes something that is ''physically impossible,'' because they're too dumb to realize that it's impossible. (For example, [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E Coyote]] stepping off a cliff and not falling, or Roger creating upside-down fire in the page image currently on the AchievementsInIgnorance page.) - This one could be named "Ignorance Trumps The Laws of Physics". Note that since this involves breaking the laws of physics, it cannot, by definition, have any real-life examples.
3) Everybody "knows" that a certain task is impossible, so they don't try to do it. However, one person who doesn't know that it's supposed to be impossible tries to do it and succeeds. This version ''can'' have real-life examples, and in fact, the best illustrative example of this is the real-life incident that inspired the movie ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': A teacher wrote an unsolved - and presumably unsolvable - math problem on the blackboard. A student who came to class late mistook it for a homework assignment and solved it. [[note]]Technically, he didn't solve it ''completely'', but he got far enough into it that the remaining work was relatively trivial to any trained mathematician.[[/note]] - This one could be called "Didn't Know It Was Thought To Be Impossible", which is a mouthful, be we have some other tropes with really long names.
Pet Peeves:
I hate when a trope is described in a way that is clear, specific, and unambiguous, yet people still get it wrong ''all the time.'' I understand that sometimes you have a brain-skip, and think something is an example of a trope when it really isn't (I've done that occasionally), but there are some tropes that, for whatever reason, are perpetually misunderstood.
The one that's currently grating on my nerves is AchievementsInIgnorance. The trope, as it's described, is: A person does something thought to be impossible, because they didn't realize it was supposed to be impossible. Currently, most of the examples (and wicks) are for: A person is stupid, but accomplishes something amazing anyway.
This was brought to the trope repair shop, where it languished for a while and died. I'd like to bring it back, and I'd even be willing to fix it myself, but I just don't have the time.
In my opinion, this tropes needs to be split up into 3 pieces:
1) Someone accomplishes something even though they have no idea what they're doing. (For example, everything [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsPatrickStar Patrick Star]] has ever done.) - This one will keep the "Achievements In Ignorance" name, since this is the definition most people think it has.
2) Someone accomplishes something that is ''physically impossible,'' because they're too dumb to realize that it's impossible. (For example, [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E Coyote]] stepping off a cliff and not falling, or Roger creating upside-down fire in the page image currently on the AchievementsInIgnorance page.) - This one could be named "Ignorance Trumps The Laws of Physics". Note that since this involves breaking the laws of physics, it cannot, by definition, have any real-life examples.
3) Everybody "knows" that a certain task is impossible, so they don't try to do it. However, one person who doesn't know that it's supposed to be impossible tries to do it and succeeds. This version ''can'' have real-life examples, and in fact, the best illustrative example of this is the real-life incident that inspired the movie ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': A teacher wrote an unsolved - and presumably unsolvable - math problem on the blackboard. A student who came to class late mistook it for a homework assignment and solved it. [[note]]Technically, he didn't solve it ''completely'', but he got far enough into it that the remaining work was relatively trivial to any trained mathematician.[[/note]] - This one could be called "Didn't Know It Was Thought To Be Impossible", which is a mouthful, be we have some other tropes with really long names.
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* FantasticTimeManagement (really, anything involving TimeTravel).
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Tropes that I normally enjoy, but if they crop up as a result of bad writing, I ''despise:''
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Tropes that I normally enjoy, but if they crop up as a result of bad writing, I ''despise:''
can go either way, depending on the writing:
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Favorite trope: GoneHorriblyRight.
Least favorite trope: PoorCommunicationKills. Not so much the trope itself, but when it appears as a result of bad writing. If it's done well, I actually like seeing it.
Least favorite trope: PoorCommunicationKills. Not so much the trope itself, but when it appears as a result of bad writing. If it's done well, I actually like seeing it.
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Favorite trope: tropes:
* GoneHorriblyRight.
Least favoritetrope: PoorCommunicationKills. Not so much the trope itself, tropes:
* HollywoodHistory.
Tropes that I normally enjoy, butwhen it appears if they crop up as a result of bad writing. If it's done well, writing, I actually like seeing it.''despise:''
* PoorCommunicationKills.
* GoneHorriblyRight.
Least favorite
* HollywoodHistory.
Tropes that I normally enjoy, but
* PoorCommunicationKills.
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This page is under construction. But so am I, so we have that at least.
Favorite trope: GoneHorriblyRight.
Least favorite trope: PoorCommunicationKills. Not so much the trope itself, but when it appears as a result of bad writing. If it's done well, I actually like seeing it.
Favorite trope: GoneHorriblyRight.
Least favorite trope: PoorCommunicationKills. Not so much the trope itself, but when it appears as a result of bad writing. If it's done well, I actually like seeing it.
