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Our weekly Trope Report newsletter has come to bring you all the news! Unfortunately some of this news is already a week old. Oh, well. Better late then never. Lets get this part started then, onto the news!
Forumwatch:
One of the best things in life is to meet new people. So let us kick off today with a welcome to our newest members here on the forums. There were not a lot of people entering the light this week but we welcome them all just the same! To all you troping bretheren out there, come on over and say hi to: Kanedii, Kryptorok, Adannor, Enkufka, lyredragon, and Golden Lantern!
For once we actually have news to bring you from the forum! As many of us have found out over the past week, the normal method of potholing a Troper’s handle has left everybody with a redlink. From the General Announcements thread, we have Madrugada with this explanation:
"Where'd My Contributor's Page Go!?!?!???"
or " 'S okay, we just moved it..."
Since there have been more and more collisions between Contributor's Pages in the Main namespace and pages for tropes, works, or other pages that really should be Main-namespaced, Fast Eddie wrote a thingy that automagically moved all pages that were set as "page type > a Contributor" to the Tropers/ namespace.
There are two ways to get to your contributor's page now:
- you can use Tropers/name the same way you would use any other namespaced title: (Tropers/FastEddie goes to Fast Eddie)
- or you can use the shortcut @/ in front of the name:. @/FastEddie goes to the same place: Fast Eddie
If your handle is only one word, you'll still need to use double curly brackets around it: (Tropers/{{Madrugada}} or @/{{Madrugada}}) to get to Madrugada no matter which notation you use
So there you go.
Please note that if your name has been potholed anywhere on the wiki, such as on the Fan Fic Recommendations page, it is currently a redlink until you go back and adjust it to the proper format.
In other news, all elimination games have been removed from the Media subforums and moved to Forum Games. The cause of this move was an alarming proliferation of these games in what is supposed to be the section for the discussion of media.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes:\\ Back to regularly scheduled programming of renames, rewrites, merges, splits, and cuts. As usual there are some things here many of us did not know existed while others definitely will catch our attention. Remember, Tropers, if you want to be a part of the process that affects our wiki so much then head on over to Trope Repair Shop on the left hand side of the forum.
- Heroic Confidant has been cut. Being a very very specific trope, it has been sent back to YKTTW for now to see if it can be more open.
- Kill the Poor has been renamed to its redirect, Neutron Bomb since not everybody listens to the Dead Kennedys. In fact, if you have never listened to the Dead Kennedys, that last sentence makes no sense to you.
- Do Not Want has been cut. Again. We Do Not Want it.
- Psycosomatic Superpower Outage has been cut and everything on it has been moved to Psychosomatic Superpower Outage on account of the former missing an “h”. While Xtreme Kool Letterz are okay, regular bad spelling is a sin that is punishable by being burned at the stake.
- I Just Want To Be Accepted has been cut for just being a lousy article.
- The “What Measure Is” Family lost several of its members. Awkward titles have led to the decision to cut and rework What Measure Is A Me into Expendable Clone and What Measure Is A Non Cool into Only Cool People Matter. What Measure Is a Non-Super? has been renamed into Muggle Power. What Measure Is a Non-Unique? has been renamed into Uniqueness Value.
- Snake Or Naga Or Lamia Oh My has been renamed into simply, Snake People. Not the most imaginative name out there but is get the point across.
- Gauze Gauze Kiss has been merged with Florence Nightingale Effect. Any examples of a doctor, nurse, caretaker, or whatever falling in love with someone they are giving medical treatment to goes there.
- You Fail Economics Forever has undergone a massive clean-up. See the page itself for details.
- -4STR, an admittedly bad title supposed to indicate one gender being statistically stronger than the other has been renamed to Game Favoured Gender.
- A Great Corner, which seemed to be little more that a copy of Kicked Upstairs, has been cut.
- Would You Like Flaming Skulls With That has bee renamed to Flaming Skulls since the former makes you hungry.
- Just a reminder to everyone, TV Tropes does have a Recap/Recap section. Any episode summaries for an episode of a show should go there.
Spotlight Stealing Trope:
The Legion of Doom is here to destroy you all! Assuming they can work together at all that is. The Legion of Doom is the trope where the villains of a work who normally have little to do with each other gather together for the purpose of succeeding in their common goal. Said goal is normally the destruction of the Heroes of the work.
The Trope’s name comes from the organization of villains in the DC Universe. Back then, one could flaunt one’s evilness without worry and the Doom name stuck. Nowadays self-declared evil team-ups rarely call themselves such except in comedy. Also seen most often in Superhero Comic Books in general, as the hero can often have any one of a dozen villains to face on a given day.
While a Legion of Doom can have temporary success against the hero or heroes, the inherent flaw of such a team-up becomes quickly apparent. Namely, the villains have a tendency to be too self-absorbed to cooperate effectively. Sooner or later, Badman 1 will have it with Badman 2’s jerkish behavior, and Badman 3 will be too busy robbing a bank to help Badman 4 with the hero. Or maybe they all intended to double-cross each other from the very beginning and the whole foundation is based on lies and mistrust.
The Legion of Doom is a powerful adversary, for a time. While focused on a single goal they can be unstoppable but a house full of opinionated and individualistic bad guys isn’t going to last long before pizza toppings become an issue and that whole house goes down like a stack of cards.
Needs More Wiki Love:
Have you ever watched an animated show with a Time Skip? One of the characters is suddenly older. But, hold on now! They animators didn't really draw them older—they just made the kids taller and skinnier, and put gray streaks in the adult characters' hair! You've just seen Animation Anatomy Aging. But did you know that was our name for the trope? Probably not, because it has barely any examples! Almost any animated work with a Time Skip is bound to use this, so help this trope grow!
-Written by Freezair For A Limited Time
Edits From The Editor: When confronted with a problem that would have had many others trembling in fear, Fast Eddie quickly diagnosed the problem as an infectious disease that could engulf the whole wiki! His words of wisdom?
"Have chainsaw. Will remedy."
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Work Of The Week:
On Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time We all know that video game movies have had a rocky history... by which I mean that they generally [haven't been very good, at all. Ranging from the ludicrous Mario Bros. movie, to the Street Fighter movies (one of which will be remembered for Raul Julia's fantastic performance, while the other will be remembered for pretty much nothing at all) to a host of other lackluster entries like Doom and Max Payne from recent years; With the sort of reputation that video game movies have had in general, just the fact that an upcoming movie happens to be based on a video game is already guaranteed to load audiences with expectations: casual moviegoers won't expect it to be that entertaining, and fans of the game will generally wind up hating the film for not getting every teensy, tiny aspect of the game right.
The latter complaint in particular is why film producers in general aim to adapt video games in Broad Strokes, as is the case with the Prince of Persia film: It takes the basic starting point of Sands of Time (Prince finds a dagger that turns back time while invading a city, shit goes down in a bad way and he and a princess set out to set right what once went wrong), and in fact has almost the exact same ending too, so you can't exactly fault it for accuracy. Just about everything in the middle, though, is a whole new ballgame, where the movie turns into a standard sword-and-sandals sandventure story. And you know what? It actually works surprisingly well.
Some of the new ideas introduced work quite nicely for the Prince of Persia aesthetic, such as the introduction of the assassins with killer snakes, while others seem like tacked-on comic relief, like the secret underground ostrich racing league. It expands a basic premise into a full feature-length film quite nicely though, much better than if you just took two hours of gameplay footage and sandwitched it between the intro and ending cinematics. There's also plenty of swordfighting and parkour acrobatics to be found, so fans of the series will still be happy with it (although, at times, some of the action may be more likely to remind you of Assassin's Creed instead).
In the end, Prince of Persia will not be doing much to reinvent the way people will look at video game movies (like what The Dark Knight Saga did to comic book films), but it's a step in the right direction - fans of the game won't hate it, and everyone else will at least get a decent adventure story to watch - even though it's a story that has so much to squeeze in, it feels like it's skipping from one scene to the next so fast it's as if the film has ADD. In the end, just go into the theatre expecting cool stunts, some interesting twists, and an enjoyable story, and you'll be entertained.
-Written by goodtimesfreegrog
And Cut! That’s a wrap folks. Lets take a break and be back here next Thursday and somewhere in the afternoon, sharp! We here at Trope Report hope you enjoyed this weeks newsletter, and we hope you think our latest writer, goodtimesfreegrog did a good job on his first article. If you want to help or have a suggestion please feel free to leave your words here or PM Scholastica Parable See you next week then!
