Is there a hard and fast rule written down somewhere that says a trope absolutely has to have examples? I'm not being rhetorical, I honestly want to know due to this wiki's editorial standards being somewhat nebulous.
Since we define tropes as "conventions and devices that the creator can reasonably assume the audience will be familiar with", it's a long uphill slog to justify making a trope page for something that you can't find or remember any examples of. Three examples is considered the absolute minimum, and even that won't necessarily protect a page from being cut as "is this really a trope?"
The only ones that don't generally have examples are pages for tropes that are either Omnipresent Tropes (they're literally everywhere — the examples list would be exhaustingly long) which may have a list of Aversions (examples where the trope isn't used at all); those which got an Example Sectionectomy because the examples list was acrimonious, bloated with bad or questionable examples; or those which define a fan term, like pettanko
Edited by Madrugada ...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I added a first example and cut the condescending advice to writers.
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