Pretty much that, yeah. As long as the existing name is decent, renaming the merged trope means twice the work when fixing links for rather small gain.
God Of Cake
D'oh, sorry, thats what I get for skimming towards the bottom of the thread.
Emperor Wu liked cake, but not exploding cake!
I never said the trope shouldn't be renamed. I'm only shocked someone doesn't get the reference.To be fair, you can play only the Pokemon games and not get the reference, since attention is not really drawn to it there - it's only as well known as it because the anime lampshades the hell out of it.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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.*Beats Bobby with a handful of spaghetti.*
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Vampire Hunter
Bobby G WINS this thread.
Wizard Needs Food Badly
there's a box here
The Nurses Jenny would explain the trope without requiring too much adjustment.
and a box here
For the Troperium!
To me it seems fine. Amazingly influential anime / video game is alright in terms of naming, especially since it's perfectly relevant to the subject.
Same Face Each Place would work just as well, however.
Same Face Each Place. I'm familiar enough with the anime, but agree that the conflated name is terrible for this.
Teutonic Tomboy T-Girl
I'm usually quick to go against tropes named after anime characters I've never heard of, but I actually like this one! With the combination of name and trope image, I could figure out what the trope's about quickly.
Jet-a-Reeno!
If the trope gets renamed, do you mind just adding it as a redirect? I don't want to have to change the entries for Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny on the Pokemon Anime character pages... -_-
As much as I do get the reference, I guess I gotta say that people who don't know what Pokemon is may not get that the trope is referencing You ALL Look Familiar in non-video game form.
I still don't know what "The Paolo" is referencing to this day...
It's standard practice to add the previous name as a redirect to the new one in these cases.
A quick search of Romantic False Lead (which used to be The Paolo) reveals that it was a Friends reference, which I'm sure the people adding it at the time figured everyone had seen, much as I'm sure many people assumed everyone knew enough about Pokemon that this name would pass.
I don't think You All Look Familiar and Nurse Jenny have much in common beyond involving sprites being reused. You All Look Familiar is for when NPC sprites are constantly reused, so that nearly everyone looks alike. The individual characters don't matter.
Nurse Jenny is for when two are more characters are intended to look inexplicably identical, and does not apply beyond the characters themselves.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Looking, acting, even sounding identical even. Hell, it was a plot point in one episode of the first Pokemon series that Brock was the only person who could tell the different Nurse Joy's apart.
^ One episode? That was a plot point for the first movie!
In any case, as someone who did watch the Pokemon anime and enjoys playing the game, this name kinda ticks me off. There is no Nurse Jenny, at least as far as I watched.
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.
...It's a portmanteau of Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, the two sets of identical characters.
^ I know, and that's why it ticks me off.
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.
Yeah, it's kind of silly. Naming it Nurse Joy or Officer Jenny would have made it more clear to actual pokemon fans that it was referencing them.
As per How to Fix a Trope, item #2
, added a TRS tag on the page.
As a variation on one of the above suggestions, I toss out Nurse Joys And Officer Jennys. The portmanteau aspect of the current name bugs me because as someone only passingly familiar with the Trope Namer, I keep forgetting it is a portmanteau.
I'm thinking that You All Look Familiar should be merged into Only Six Faces, while Nurse Jenny (renamed appropriately) should be a Sub-Trope regarding how each character with that design archtype has the same occupation.
Heck, the subtrope could even apply to the King of each castle you visit. (Even the fake ones.)
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Heck, I was originally going to against the rename, but only when I came to the second page of the thread did I notice the Nurse≠Jenny issue. So yeah, in particular given Donald The Potholer's comment, I guess it can be renamed to Nurse Joys And Officer Jennys without loss of meaning, clarity or whatsoever.
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This may be kind of weird, but this has to do with the kind of character in a work where they all look the same, exist in different places but all do the same thing?
May I be so bold as to suggest "Adam Smith Has Clones", running with the trope name where he "Hates Your Guts"? Nonspecific trope name (because honestly, I'll be damned if Adam Smith is a "real" person) and it plainly states the point of the trope.
Adam Smith is a very real person and has nothing to do with this trope unless you're dealing with identical shopkeepers.
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I don't see why we would need to rename You ALL Look Familiar. I think it's fairly suggestive of the trope as it is.