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At Video Games And Visual Novels, please replace the GTA entry with the following:

• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: Donald Love somehow manages to reach a special level of evil despite living in a Crapsack World populated with gangsters, serial killers, and psychopaths. Introduced in Grand Theft Auto III, and having a cameo in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Love at first seems fairly standard for the series, arranging a gang war between The Yakuza and The Cartel just to lower property values. Though, at the time it was hinted he had more sinister appetites. This is eventually confirmed in this game, where he's shown feasting on corpses and sending Toni Cipriani to collect bodies for him to devour. Aligning himself with the Leone crime family, Love runs in the race for mayor, sending Toni Cipriani out to murder his rival's campaigners. Losing his fortune in his failed campaign, Love makes plans to regain his fortune, with his first step being to murder his mentor, real-estate tycoon Avery Carrington, in order to steal his city development plans. He then has Toni recover Carrington's body to cannibalize later. Love's worst crime, however, is masterminding the deaths of thousands of people through the bombing of the heavily-populated Fort Staunton city district, just so he can make money off of redeveloping the district. A thoroughly depraved man, Love would stoop to any low imaginable to fill his pockets or glorify his ego.

edited 17th Jan '15 11:07:42 AM by ACW

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Word Cruft could use an entry on the dreaded "worst offender" phrase and the rest of its ilk.

• Disparaging example phrasing: "[X] is guilty of this," "[X] is a particularly bad example," "[X] is one of the worst offenders," and other such phrases are totally useless for describing how a trope applies, and they come off as complaining whenever they show up. Since tropes are not inherently bad to begin with, there is no reason to use these phrases.

edited 17th Jan '15 7:46:26 PM by MyTimingIsOff

On Final Fantasy VII the The Three Facesof Eve entries say 'mother' when the role is 'wife' but all three of them are Zero Context Examples so they should probably be commented out or just deleted.

DTH. I rewrote the Word Cruft addition so that it fits the tone of the page. I deleted all The Three Faces of Eve entries on Characters.Final Fantasy VII for being Zero Context Examples.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

On DarthWiki.Fallen Creator, please correct the link "Film/{{Tintin}}" with "WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin".

Link changed.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

On "Brown Eyes" under Western Animation, they list five "official" Disney Princesses with brown eyes as being Snow White, Jasmine, Mulan, Tiana, and Pocahontas. Belle (Beauty and the Beast) belongs on the list as well.

Please lock Sonic the Hedgehog.

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I've locked Monster.Sonic The Hedgehog. Declining the Brown Eyes edit: "Brown eyes, period" is not the trope and discussions of Belle's eye colour attracts wonks that we don't want to have.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Thanks. Just an FYI, tomorrow morning (US EST) there's gonna be a whole slew of Monster stuff.

edited 19th Jan '15 4:13:32 AM by ACW

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For Osama bin Laden, can you please add the following work example to the "in documentary and fiction" section?

• The novel Osama by Lavie Tidhar is set in an Alternate Universe to ours, where Middle Eastern terrorism does not exist (by implication, because the state of Israel was never created, either because the Holocaust never happened or more unpleasantly because it was more successful), but there is a series of Villain-Based Franchise technothriller novels about "Osama bin Laden" which echo al-Qaeda's actions in our universe. It's also the Ironic Hell for the souls of al-Qaeda suicide terrorists, who find themselves ghosts in a universe where their motivations and actions are completely irrelevant and incomprehensible.

On Monster.Film F To O, please change the link for The Ghost In The Machine to Ghost in the Machine.

On Monster.Highlander, in Kronos' entry, please pothole "the Four Horsemen" to Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

Did the Osama bin Laden edit, plus some namespacing and alphabetizing. Did also the Monster.Film F To O edit; is the Monster.Highlander edit a correct application of the trope?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

From what I can gather, yes. The usage on Horsemen of the Apocalypse (which also lists that example) is applied both to the literal Four Horsemen and the Four Horsemen-as-motif. A group who inspired the Biblical foursome In-Universe would probably qualify for both usages.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

Please lock Whoniverse and add to Live-Action TV (the current Doctor Who can either be cutlisted or redirected to the Whoniverse).

edited 19th Jan '15 7:52:49 AM by ACW

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DTH. I've redirected both Doctor Who related subpages.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

At Video Games And Visual Novels, please replace the first sentence of Arkham!Joker's entry with this:

• Batman: Arkham Series: The Joker serves, in one form or another, as the Big Bad for the first three games, as well as trying to destroy Gotham with a dirty bomb.

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• Please add Krona (at Green Lantern) to DC And Vertigo (Post-Crisis, tree already there).
• Please add Mr. Jang to Film F To O.

edited 19th Jan '15 4:30:04 PM by ACW

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Did these edits.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

On the Literature section of America Saves the Day can the following be added:

• Very subtle in The Books of Ember, but think about it. Americans built Ember, Americans populated it, and Americans provided the revolutionary solar-power diamonds that pave the way to the future. Perhaps one of the few non-war examples. Also ironic in that America helped cause the Disaster.

On the Western Animation section of Brown Eyes can the following be added:

• Monolo Sanchez from The Book of Life, has brown eyes showing his down-to-earth attitude.

On the Literature section of Green Eyes can the following be added:

• In Vampire Academy, the Dashkov and Dragomir families share the genetic trait of jade green eyes. They are also both known for stronger connection to magic than any of the other royals.

From here:

• Ashiei and Wang go to Anime And Manga A To H.
• New Dredd tree replaces the current one at Comic Books.
• Darryl Kern goes to Law & Order (before Charlie Baker).
• John Blackwell rewrite is for The Secret Circle and goes to Live-Action TV.
• At Video Games And Visual Novels:
  • Call of Duty header can be deleted.
  • New Modern Warfare tree (from above link) replaces the current one.
  • Dragovich can be single-indented.
  • New Red Faction tree (from above link) replaces the current one.

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Monster.Literature M To Z: Please cut Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), who was deemed a cut in the clean-up thread after a negative vote.

Also, please lock Monster.Star Trek.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

Didn't do the America Saves the Day edit; seems a wee bit weak to me. Otherwise DTH.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Thanks. The Modern Warfare tree at Video Games And Visual Novels though should probably be with the C (alphabetized after Dragovich's entry). Also, please replace the Fairy Tail tree at Anime And Manga A To H with the one at Anime And Manga A To H.

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Please add the following to DC Animation (before The Dark Knight Returns)

• Batman: Assault on Arkham: The Joker, while he doesn't commit as many crimes as in the games, is no less heinous, as he intends to use a dirty bomb against Gotham City..

edited 24th Jan '15 4:29:34 AM by ACW

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I've rearranged the Modern Warfare entry; I have to ask why the pages for the Modern Warfare games don't have the full title.

For the Anime & Manga edits, I'll wait until the sandbox is ready; no point in doing it in two edits. The DC Animation edit seems like a separate example; is it?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Good point about Modern Warfare. I may work on that (is there anyway to change the links without having to do all 1500+ inbounds?).
That Sandbox won't be ready for awhile
As for Joker, yeah, it's a separate DC entry (since it's a film) but was subsumed by the VG entry since it's the same universe (hence the link to the franchise and the VG monsters).

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For Live-Action TV, for The Originals, please make it:

• The Originals, a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries:

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• For Fullmetal Alchemist, for Shou, please wrap a For Science! around "to see if he can" and for Goldtooth please correct the spelling for Slashed Throat.

edited 23rd Jan '15 12:48:57 PM by ACW

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