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Edited by Twiddler on Aug 6th 2023 at 11:53:14 AM
Lost in Space
While we're doing that page, let's get a few more knocked out:
- Batman to Franchise/
- Lex Luthor is potholed to Superman. But Lex Luthor has his own page, so let's cut him a check, alright?
- Can the phrase "flaunts and outright ignores the rules when they don't suit him" be potholed to Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! ?
Lost in Space
Done, with a few additional potholes snuck in.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The Other Troper
D&D should be changed to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
edited 16th Jul '12 9:15:24 AM by DragonQuestZ
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Lost in Space
Okay. Anything else while I have the page loaded? 
" It's because characters are rarely so simplistic as to be easily assigned to a bucket on a 3x3 grid." is a fragment.
I would change "it's" to "Controversy arises"
That's the only thing that needs to be definitively changed.
The Other Troper
"upholds the morals of society" could be potholed to The Cape.
"when society itself fails them", potholed to either Humans Are Bastards or another appropriate trope.
"characters are rarely so simplistic as to be easily assigned to a bucket on a 3x3 grid", potholed to Character Depth.
In the last paragraph, "in-story" should be changed to "In-Universe".
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No to the second one - that trope is Humans Are the Real Monsters and only applies when humans are being compared to other sentient species.
On another note, perhaps that No real life examples, ever! at the end should be potholed to NRLEP?
edited 16th Jul '12 9:36:30 AM by DarkConfidant
The Other Troper
I specifically put "or another appropriate trope" at the end of the second point, which means it should be corrected, not vetoed. I of course figured that might not be the right trope. So which would be the proper trope to pothole?
edited 16th Jul '12 9:39:55 AM by DragonQuestZ
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Lost in Space
@3257: That is not a sentence fragment. "It's" = "It is", providing the subject and verb.
@3258: I used The Cowl specifically as a pot hole there because Batman is the classic example. The Cape is typically reserved for Superman and I didn't want to confuse them. Also, I'm not seeing any of the Humans Are X tropes good for that pothole, nor does Hobbes Was Right apply here. The last two items I did.
@3259: Pothole added.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The Other Troper
"it" still needs to be fleshed out - there's nothing that tells the viewer what "it" is referring to.
Alternately, if you take these two sentences: "There's a reason someone created an alignment chart with Batman in each position. It's because characters are rarely so simplistic as to be easily assigned to a bucket on a 3x3 grid. " and replaced "it's because" with a dash, that would clarify.
edited 16th Jul '12 9:48:37 AM by DarkConfidant
Lost in Space
@3262: Fair enough.
@3263: The "It" refers to "a reason" from the previous sentence. It's not a fragment but it does sound awkward, so I changed the period to an emdash.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Looking at it, it flows considerably better as such.
The Other Troper
Perhaps "society itself fails them" could be potholed with Wretched Hive?
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City Noir or Apathetic Citizens would also work.
For Let's Play:
- VideoGame/{{Fallout1}} to VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}
- Fallout3 to VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} and FalloutNewVegas to VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas
- fallout 3 to Fallout 3 (no wikiwording really necessary here)
edited 16th Jul '12 12:46:05 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Hi
Done; hopefully I got everything. What still needs to be done?
Hi
Main.Laconic Wiki has a hottip.
And thank you.
Hi
You're welcome. 
Someone already did , but I put the divider line at the bottom.
I'm requesting a bit of grammar cleanup on Accidental Nightmare Fuel:
- In the bullet point beginning with "Over the top slapstick violence", the following semicolon should be a comma.
- In the next bullet point, there should be a comma after claymation. It might be better to change from "or" to "and" in the same sentence.
- With regard to The A.V. Club, there should be periods after "A" and "V".
- In the sentence beginning with " If a villain that causes this...", perhaps the end of the sentence should state "it's a case of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show"
- Related Tropes should be singular. I'd just say: "A related trope is the Uncanny Valley", myself.
edited 16th Jul '12 7:47:03 PM by DarkConfidant
- BadRomance and LadyGaga -> Music/BadRomance and Music/LadyGaga
- {{Earthdawn}} -> TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}
- {{Warhammer 40000}} -> TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}
- {{Exalted}} -> TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}
- {{Talislanta}} -> VideoGame/{{Talislanta}}
- {{Fallout 3}} -> VideoGame/{Fallout 3}}
- FalloutNewVegas -> VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas
- KnightsOfTheOldRepublic -> VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic
- WorldOfWarcraft -> VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft
- DragonAgeII -> VideoGame/DragonAgeII
- {{Fans}} -> Webcomic/{{Fans}}
- Collar6 is gone... didn't see P5 records anywhere for this work, so I dunno...
- LastRes0rt -> Webcomic/LastRes0rt
- TeaHouse -> Webcomic/Teahouse
- {{Endstone}} -> Webcomic/{{Endstone}}
... among some other namespacings...
edited 16th Jul '12 8:08:11 PM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
On The Great Character Alignment Debate, one instance of The Little Mermaid should be amended to Disney/TheLittleMermaid.
Let's just say and leave it at that.