Tropes I have taken to TRS:
- Genre-Killer
(10-year time limit added) - Bile Fascination (on-page examples allowed, not the intended outcome)
- Designated Hero (some changes applied, among others the "hero" does not need to be disliked to qualify, cleanup started)
- Deader than Disco (disambig'd between Condemned by History and Disco Sucks, the former being the original meaning whilst also being broadened)
- Best Is Average, Better Is Best (now Parity Product Paradox)
- Holding It For A Friend (merged into I Need to Go Iron My Dog)
- Unintentional Period Piece (slowly being reworked into a YMMV trope about intentional and unintentional period pieces that are beloved for being dated, new tropes being created to help with misuse)
- Franchise Original Sin (sin no longer has to be done better before to count, cleanup thread started)
- Seasonal Rot/Dork Age/Sequelitis (waiting periods added, tropes redefined, Dork Age renamed to Audience-Alienating Era)
- Everything's Better With Monkeys (disambiguated, original trope renamed to Silly Simian)
- Dummied Out (moved to Trivia)
- The AFI lists (cut)
- Role-Ending Misdemeanor (waiting period added, now covers on- and off-set role endings, actual loss of a role now required)
- Moral Dissonance (Disambiguated)
- What an Idiot! (Moved to Darth and made Flame Bait)
- Extreme Sport Excuse Plot (Renamed to Extreme Sports Plot and redefined)
- Date Crepe (Merged into Indirect Kiss)
- Loads and Loads of Characters (Disambiguated)
- Diary (disambiguated)
- Music Player Game (sent back to TLP)
- Political Correctness Gone Mad (split between two new tropes, Political Overcorrectness and Political Correctness Is Evil)
- Tastes Like Diabetes (split into two new tropes, Sweetness Aversion and Sickeningly Sweet)
- Eight Deadly Words (made Definition-Only)
- Abandonware (launched by MacronNotes) (moved to Trivia)
- Loony Fan (expanded to cover misuse)
- Unfortunate Implications (launched by GastonRabbit) (made Flame Bait)
- Sempai / Kohai (launched by MacronNotes) (renamed to Senpai/Kōhai)
- New York Is Only Manhattan (launched by GastonRabbit) (broader supertrope yarded, no other action taken)
- Old Shame (launched by MacronNotes) (merged with Creator Backlash and redefined)
- They Wasted A Perfectly Good Line Art (launched by GastonRabbit) (cut)
- Fauxba Fett (launched by MacronNotes) (disambiguated)
- Talent Show Version (launched by MacronNotes) (cut)
- Polygon Ceiling (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Video Game 3D Leap and cut)
- Atlantis is Boring (launched by MacronNotes) (cut and merged with Awesome Underwater World)
- Ambiguous Disorder (launched by MacronNotes) (moved to YMMV and renamed Diagnosed by the Audience)
- Everything's Better With Dinosaurs (launched by GastonRabbit) (disambiguated)
- Bilingual Animal (launched by GastonRabbit) (category dealing with animals speaking both human language and "natural" sounds for its species chopped off and moved to Furry Reminder)
- Credits-Brand Products (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Creative Closing Credits)
- Mary Suetopia (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Utopia and name cut)
- Prickly Porcupine (launched by GastonRabbit) (cut and yarded)
- Iconic Logo (redirected to Trademark)
- Idiot Plot (launched by GastonRabbit) (made Definition-Only and Flame Bait)
- Death by Sex (launched by GastonRabbit) (renamed Sex Signals Death, original name disambiguated)
- Caption Contest (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Audience Participation)
- Blog Tropes (originally Link Blog) {launched by GastonRabbit) (most cut or merged into Forum Speak)
- Hurting Hero (moved to Trope Talk)
- Classic Video Game "Screw You"s (launched by Berrenta) (merged with Scrappy Mechanic and cut)
- Genre Turning Point (launched by GastonRabbit) (no action taken)
- Rich Idiot With No Day Job (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Secret Identity)
- One Million B.C. (launched by GastonRabbit) (renamed to Hollywood Prehistory)
- Retro Gaming (now a Definition-Only Page)
- Tuft of Head Fur (closed, there wasn't a problem)
- Asian Store-Owner (launched by GastonRabbit) (redefined)
- Camera Screw (launched by GastonRabbit) (being split)
- Mr. Starship (launched by Synchronicity) (cut)
- Exposed Eyeballs as Eyes (launched by GastonRabbit) (merged with Cartoony Eyes)
- Accidental Truth (launched by GastonRabbit) (expanded to fit misuse)
- I Knew It! (launched by GastonRabbit) (moved to YMMV)
- Trope Tropes (launched by GastonRabbit) (reorganized — plus Trope Decay was moved to Administrivia)
- Protective Pressure (cut)
- Samurai Stories (launched by MacronNotes) (cut)
- Disabled Love Interest (launched by MacronNotes) (being reworked into Tragically Disabled Love Interest, tentatively)
- Panda-ing to the Audience (launched by Berrenta) (cut and yarded)
- King Koopa Copy (launched by Orbiting) (cut)
- The Rez (launched by Berrenta) (reworked into Neglected Rez)
- Creator's Oddball (launched by GastonRabbit) (Genre Adultery merged into it)
- Canada, Eh? (launched by Berrenta) (renamed to Moose and Maple Syrup)
- Toy Commercial (launched by Berrenta) (cut)
- Obligatory Corporate Initialism (launched by GastonRabbit) (cut)
Ongoing wick checks:
- Wick Checks Are Worse Than Villains — misuse, complaining
- The Problem with Licensed Games: Clearly a Darth Wiki article in Main. Its counterpart is already in the Sugar Wiki and once the wick check is done I will bring this in. Complaining. Finish checking 50 wicks.
- Audience-Alienating Premise: Trope has issues with misuse—supposed to be for works which failed due to a bizarre premise, used instead for any work with a bizarre premise, which might be complaining and overly common. Word of God requirement may be necessary. Misused. Finish checking 50 wicks.
TRS to-do list
Completed wick checks/OPs
- Feelies: Actually Trivia. Queued up.
- LGBT Fanbase: Misuse and vague name. Queued up.
- Midflight Water Touching: Not tropeworthy. Queued up.
- Bury Your Art: Misuse, unclear scope. Queued up.
- Cartoon Whale: Tropeworthiness and noteworthiness issues. Queued up.
- Sapient Cetaceans: Misuse for alien cetacean races. Queued up.
- Teaching Through Accident: Not thriving. Queued up.
No wick check or OP yet
- Nintendo Hard: Repeatedly brought up as a YMMV move candidate. Will eventually wick check this to see if it should be brought in. TNTRS says there are other problems too. Needs Help. Check 75 wicks—maybe collaboratively.
- Badass Adorable: A bigger project than others. Suspected of being "badass + adorable" along with being a subjective non-YMMV trope. Needs Help. Will do this one later due to a larger wick count—may need to be collaborative as it's 85 wicks.
- Worldbuilding: May be an Omnipresent Trope as discovered by a Trope Talk thread. Needs Help. Check 50 wicks.
- 12-Episode Anime: Written like a Useful Notes page as a Trope Talk thread discovered, possibly too common, may also need an index or D-O conversion. Needs Help. Check 50 wicks.
- Hunk: ZCE magnet, suffers shoehorning for any character tropers find attracting. Courtesy of the Appearance Tropes Cleanup. (Currently unsure of what category this goes in). 50 wick check ongoing.
- Good Bad Bugs: According to Tropes Needing TRS, it combines "funny bugs" and "exploitable bugs" and conflates the existence of the bugs with the opinion of the player base about them. May be a tough wick check but will be done eventually. Unclear Description. Check 59 wicks.
- Accidental Aesop: Per TNTRS, intended for a positive aesop not intended by the creator interpreted by the audience, but misused instead for unintended bad aesops along with overlap examples with Warp That Aesop and Alternate Aesop Interpretation. TNTRS entry suggested a Word of God requirement and Trivia move, like Creator's Apathy (formerly They Just Didn't Care). Misused. Check 50 wicks.
- Virtual YouTuber: Formatted with a trope list and list of VTubers, yet in Main. TNTRS suggested a UN move. Really a Useful Note. If checked, 50 wicks need checking.
- Ouija Board: As TNTRS says, "Ouija boards exist" isn't a trope but there are tropable concepts in Ouija Board. Not Tropeworthy. Check 50 wicks.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: A Trope Talk thread indicated that the concept behind this may not be worth documenting, as works can change and "later installment weirdness" can stop being weird. Other tropes also already cover this concept. Needs Help. Check 50 wicks.
- Spectacular Spinning: A TRS meta thread comment a while back brought up that this trope may have example overlap with Spin Attack along with attracting ZCEs. Not Tropeworthy. Check 50 wicks. May need an index conversion as was suggested.
- Just Eat Gilligan: A Trope Talk thread indicated that the trope suffers from a poor name, unclear definition, and possible duplication with The Millstone. Unclear Description. Check 50 wicks.
- Villain Killer: Trope Talk discussion, may have misuse for any character who kills a lot of enemies, even if that isn't a character trait per se. Noted that the trope is confusing. Rename suggested. Misused. Check 50 wicks.
- Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Per this, suffers from poor title and image, possible misuse. Ambiguous Name. Check 50 wicks.
- Polish the Turd: Per TNTRS, filled with complaining, overly subjective yet classified as objective, general examples amongst other problematic examples, etc. Previous TRS thread suggested IUEO, but it didn't pan out as there weren't enough of those examples. May need a cut, disambiguation, or something like that. Complaining. Check 50 wicks.
- Creator Killer: Must be a work that caused the "killing", but non-works are sometimes listed. Noticed in the X Killer cleanup thread. May need an expansion. Misused. Check 50 wicks.
- Porting Disaster: Complaining magnet, probably better as Darth. Discovered in a Trope Talk thread about possible future Flame Bait items. Complaining. Check 50 wicks.
- Obvious Crossover Method: Identified as a possibly YMMV concept listed as a Main trope. Needs Help. Check all 48 wicks.
- Balance Buff: Might be Trivia, as mentioned here. Needs Help. Check 50 wicks.
- Mandela Effect: Suspected of being poorly-defined, and attracting nitpicking misuse similar to the misuse that Critical Research Failure suffered prior to its disambiguation. Misused. Check 50 wicks, or all 96.
- Common Knowledge: Brought up in an attempted cleanup thread as a possible TRS candidate. Possibly not tropeworthy—check for misuse as well for niche "common knowledge" along with entries that overlap with Fandom-Enraging Misconception. Needs Help. Check 50 wicks.
- Troubled Production: Per this, attracts misuse for productions that weren't troubled and just had, as laserviking42 put it in the comment, things "tangential to the work at hand". A cut or conversion into a Trivia item were suggested. Misused. Check 62 wicks for misuse.
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche: Found in the wild. Not a trope, but listed and used as one. Not Tropeworthy. Check 50 wicks.
- J'accuse!: Noted as being a stock phrase with all examples merely being uses of the term in fiction. Not Tropeworthy. Check all 38 wicks.
- Damage-Sponge Boss: Noted as having undergone Trope Decay—it is being misused for any boss with a lot of health, rather than, as My Timing Is Off put it, "a very basic boss fight that is little more than a war of attrition, with little strategy beyond "hit it until it dies"". Misused. Check 50 wicks.
There may not be a problem, but do a wick check anyway to see
- Wreaking Havok: Unclear name, slightly unclear definition, noticed complaining in some wicks. Check 50 wicks.
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: Supposed to be about a conflict between the two, but apparently gets misused for which one the tone or message of a work leans towards. Description issues too. Discovered in this TLP draft, will be a really tough project but I'll see what I can do. Check 50 wicks.
- Big Fun: Specifically for good characters who are fat and likable. Misuse for non-good characters? This ATT involving a low-context example piqued my interest—maybe the name is too vague. Check 50 wicks.
- Eskimos Aren't Real: Well, the problem is mainly that I don't know what to check, but there's been long-standing concern about this trope name being offensive, and the Isolated Pages tool flagged its quotes page recently. Check 50 wicks (once I know what to check).
- Bad Export for You: Name is more negative than the concept. Don't really know how bad the use is, but check anyway to see. Check 50 wicks.
- Underused Game Mechanic: Found in the wild, may have similar problems to They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot. Check 50 wicks.
- Popularity Polynomial: I don't know what to check, but there are tropeworthiness concerns here. Possibly misuse? Check 50 wicks.
TRS write-ups
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