Several of the examples on this page are not examples of I Call It Vera and should go under Named Weapons instead.
It seems that this has merged itself with Named Weapons and the examples are mostly indistinguishable. As far as I can understand, this trope is about a personal name for a weapon that isn't widely known, whereas named weapons are those that have names as part of their lineage. Is this right and should a lot of examples then be moved to Named Weapons?
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I can see no distinction between the two tropes.
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They do seem the same. But we need the picture of Jayne back!
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From the descriptions of the two tropes, it's definitely intended to be distinct (this a subtrope of the other). But it seems like moving the (ir)relevant examples to the other trope is going to be a losing battle.
There's no point having both if people can't tell the difference, so they either need merging, or the description of this one needs some work to make the distinction clear.
I'm in favour of the letter solution, since I think this subtrope has value.
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For example ASOIAF should be deleted from here and left in Named Weapons.
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Would anyone object to changing the quote to this one from the quotes page?
Jack: She's called Katie.
Xander: You gave it a girl's name. How very serial killer of you.
It better demonstrates the trope and also isn't the exact same phrasing as the trope name.
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I have no objections, but I'm not sure if Bossman will be cool with it...
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This ins't a typo redirect, the name of the trope is I Call Her "Vera".
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But if you type "I Callit Vera", with "Call" and "it" as single words, with a lowercase i, you get "I callit Vera", and "callit" is not a word. So instead of I Call It "Vera" or I Call Her "Vera", someone can type I Callit Vera for some reason.
Why is this a redirect? "I Callit Vera" seems like a typo of "I Call It "Vera"".
To add. In literature should be "The Dresden Files" and the three Swords of the Cross: Amoracchius (Love), Fidelacchius (Faith), and Esperacchius (Hope)
In regards to the section for Goats, which reads:
"Goats has three unrelated characters all owning guns named "Bessie". Coincidence? Plot point? Or lazy author (and overly attentive troper)?"
I will not deny that I can be a lazy author but it is not the case in this instance: the repeated naming is intentional. It's a quirk of the artificial multiverse the characters live in, cheap and easy programming shortcuts having been used throughout its creation.
Also, my parents named all of their cars "Bessie", so maybe that plays a small part too.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rework needed- a lot of the examples don't fit the trope.
, started by Fiwen9430 on Nov 5th 2010 at 10:42:02 PM
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