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Are users allowed to add 'new' tropes? If so, how? (I only just joined a while ago, I'm not yet familiar with procedure and such)
I thought a good one would be 'I'm So Confused'. It's the literary gimmick where slash/gay fiction writers take a character who was solidly straight. Then some formidable gay character forces a gay kiss on the straight person. And after that one kiss alone, the straight character starts going gay and eventually does go gay. And the phrase 'I'm so confused...' often comes up in some form or other.
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nuckythompson91 is another one who's bad at grammar and capitalizes random words.
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problem with the TV-trope Merch. The stuff on the Zazzle with the trope names on it mentions the Wall Banger trope. Which we now no longer have. We need to get that Merch removed, or replace that trope on it. Its a douchebag thing to do, to use a trope to sell stuff and then yank the trope. It also mentions Beyond the Impossible as well which TRS is trying to get rid off too.
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I just added a listing for "a work's examples page" to What Page Types Mean. Can someone who has the power to do so update the "set page type" tool to match?
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Someone called Sully XY has been removing stuff from The Internet Just bugs Me page just because s/he disagreed with it. I've put back the removed block, but could someone take an impartial look at it all to see if it does need removed please.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=JustBugsMe.TheInternet
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Someone who calls him/herself "Callis" has been vandalizing the page for Spoonys Campaign. How exactly do we go about getting this person banned?
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What's the best way to handle season-episode references in examples?
Wakfu just started its second season, and inevitably examples are going to have to differentiate between the happenings in seasons 1 and 2. Currently, examples just refer to "episode x" because until today there was only one season that the episodes could have belonged to.
Replacing every instance of "episode x" with "episode x of season y" is a very long and redundant way to type it, and replacing them with the actual episode titles could cause confusion over title translations (the show is French). Some form of shorthand would be best, but there are a lot of ways to do that (syex? y-x?) and I haven't been able to find any examples of the preferred season-episode shorthand on this wiki.
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Somebody just posted a rather harshly worded criticism of Dwayne McDuffie on the Ben 10 JBM page. I think the criticism is valid, but I deleted it anyways because the man just died the other day, now is not a good time to be calling him a Jerkass. Did I do the right thing? Should it be added back? I do think there would be no problem had it been posted three days ago.
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Is there a trope for guys walking around—especially down the road—with both hands behind the head? (1) Naruto has been shown doing this. (2) Mugen in Samurai Champloo. (3) Ginta in Bleach (tho not dowm the road). Given the examples, it seems to be emblematic of a certain personality, maybe unconventional or casual or...?
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I'm looking for a movie that I can't remember the name of.
It was about fairies and elfs (or trolls... small magic people, anyway), who where at war, and then two of them fell in love romeo and juliet-style. The narrator was a human guy I think. Eventually they went under the sacred tree to pray to the gods to erase their troublesome love but it didn't work, so they ended up killing themselves in the middle of the battlefield (the antropomorphic spirit of death gave 'em back their life with a little scolding)
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I moved all the subjective tropes on Super Robot Wars Z to the YMMV tab, and then another editor by the name of King Lazerman moved them all back.
Is there an existing trope where two people are in a relationship and the one who seems like they would 'top' is actually the 'bottom' and vice versa?