Administrivia / TLP Workstation List

A list of things brought up in the workstation thread, the Trope Launch Pad Discard Project, and general TLP clean-up. Might also want to check the salvage list.

Formating is:

• [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/link TLP title: TLP laconic]]: Reason it has not been launched/discarded yet.

Looking for help with

• Unable to Whistle: A character cannot whistle: In its current state, it merely lists characters who can't whistle, which reads like trivia and People Sit on Chairs, because it's divorced from what happens to the plot as a consequence. There is so much potential for analyzing how being unable to whistle can affect the plot, but the sponsor put only a token effort into mentioning that.
• Awed Whistle: A character sees something awesome and lets out a whistle of appreciation: Originally started to keep non-sexual whistles off of Wolf Whistle, discussion of scope expansion to any awed reactions is needed.
• No Spaceship, No Problem: Creatures and things that can travel Faster Than Light through space without a ship.: (formerly titled Spaceships are for the Weak!) the concept of a character using their own powers when others need spacecraft is workable.

Needs a sponsor

• Abandoned Room: A room that is commonly used early in a series mysteriously stops being used or mentioned: A location version of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome would actually be pretty interesting, but the draft falls flat with only four examples. Could definitely use a better name.
• Arrival Amnesia: Someone forgets what they were going to do when they get somewhere.: Could certainly be a trope, with only a few examples in the draft but a lot more in the comments.
• Ask a Busy Mother: Is The Product good? Let's ask a busy mother.: It could be an okay advertising trope, but the discussion didn't go anywhere and very little effort was put into the draft.
• Billboard Graffiti: Defacing billboards for fun
  • Tabs: Vandalism of public, very visible advertisements? It's not just Mustache Vandalism. And doesn't require a portrait.
• Calculator Spelling: LCD digits look like letters when turned upside-down. Don't we have this one? Only a few examples, and three are zero-context. Definitely feasible, but needs serious work. Hasn't been touched in a year and somehow has 14 hats.
• Chain Of Evidence: Investigating by finding and examining evidence one piece at a time. - Unique concept, not sure what to do with this.
• Crit Or Miss Attack: An attack that either does critical damage or nothing at all: Not covered elsewhere. Death or Glory Attack requires that the failed hit hurts the attacker instead of the intended target, whereas this just covers the attack hitting nothing.
• Destruction Is Cool: Destruction and violence are awesome.
• Deus Ex Aquam: A hero rises up out of the water to save the day: Likely a thing in Bollywood.
• Doesn't Understand Sex: A character who does not understand the concept of sexual attraction: Lots of confusion and bickering in the comments over what the scope of the draft is and what it should be. Description could use a trim. Each folder only has one example barring literature, though there are a lot examples in the comments. The troper who grabbed it hasn't edited it since June of last year.
• Downgrade By Prequel: Character from game becomes less capable as time progresses.: Something akin to an inverted Bag of Spilling + Retcon. There could be a trope in this idea, but now that it's been nuked, it needs a fresh draft if anyone wants to start over.
• Evil Union: Unions acting like Mobsters (nuked): Possible concept, but needs tweaking and no real life examples.
• Finishing with a flourish: Ending an ordinary activity with a dramatic gesture: Ridiculously Similar Trope to Mundane Made Awesome
• The First Supers: The story is told In A World where abnormal beings have never existed...until now: Needs format cleanup
• Fog of Apocalypse: What's going on? Nobody knows. - A potential trope about the characters suffering an isolating communication breakdown, but needs a lot of help.
• Forbidden Trope: A trope that authority figures will not allow to be written into a work of fiction: Sounds like Executive Veto, but it was decided that this idea could work as an inversion of Enforced Trope.
• The Generic White-Collar Office Job: That office job that lots of fictional dads have, but it\'s never specified what their actual role in the company is: Could work as a lampshaded/played with/etc. White Collar Worker-type trope.
• Heterogeneity Is Evil: Keeping things pure is good; combining things is evil or dangerous: Really long description (needs a Hedge Trimmer), no examples in the drafts, a few in the comments.
• How You Play the Game: A character is obsessed with winning, but ends up learning a lesson in sportsmanship: Related to Team Spirit but a good concept on its own.
• Immortal Ruler: When your country hadn't got a change of leadership for seven hundred years
• Internal Conflict Embodied: Another character seems from their role to represent the unexpressed thoughts of another character.
• Interview Exposition: An interview is used as a setup for exposition to the audience: (Nuked) Might be valid, but never got any examples or edits other than the initial one. See also Framing Device and Recap by Audit.
• Light-Dimming Attack: Special attacks are made extra-epic when the lights go out
• Like The Source Culture Unless Noted: Authors temporarily forget that their setting is supposed to be foreign: (Nuked) May be Inexplicable Cultural Ties if it's allowed expansion into real-world cultures. The draft can either be a trope or Inexplicable Cultural Ties sees a trip to the Trope Repair Shop.
• Magical Girl Genre: Works which feature one or more MagicalGirl(s) as the main protagonist
• Music Mash-up: Two songs, merged into one: Mashups are a thing, but we already have Medley, which is about blending three songs or more. Discussion is needed on whether to expand the definition of Medley to include Music Mash-up.
• Pain in the Legs: Horrible injury to the legs, especially by breaking the shins: injury and pain in the leg(s).
• Point of View Character: The character from whose Point Of View the story is told.
• Science is Imperfect: Science isn\'t good or bad, its just a tool.
• seethrough hat: a character wears a hat with eyeholes. (nuked): Possibly chairs, possibly workable. This needs a ton of work to mean something.
• Speed Demon
• Spinning Backfist: Swinging your arm around to clock someone with the back of your fist: The Trope Launch Pad Discard Project thought this was workable, needs expansion from being a stub
• Stock Fellow Inmates: The set of people likely to be in the same jail as a protagonist.: (Nuked) Might be valid but never got examples. Could also be subject to the same problems as Five-Man Band and such.
• Story Convention Origin: We now know where it came from
• Strangely Small Staff: There is only one or two employees, and one of them is the owner.
• Stream Of Consciousness: A stream of unfiltered thoughts.: This works as an idea. We'll see what the new sponsor does with it.
• Survival Dismay
• Text Scrolling Voices
• Time Travellers Meet Punk Rockers: Time-travellers meet punks; punks sneer. Punks represent radical youth culture; listen to loud punk music, wear metal chains, leather clothes, have brightly coloured hair & are implied to be the weirdest humans possible: (formerly Punks in Time)
• Unexpected Fanservice Person - Comments can't decide if it's just one of the other Fanservice tropes.
• Unskippable Logos
• Useful Notes / Summer Yakuta
• Useful Notes / Translation: OP declared it up for grabs, nobody grabbed it
• Vengeance Villain - May be covered, may not be.

Considering discarding