Oddly enough, they are still there ThoseTwoGuys.Theatre, but I guess it was not brought over because, like so much else on that page, it is a ZCE.
You may be interested in reading the Trope Repair Shop thread linked by Septimus, which asked just that question, "Did this trope exist in the first place?"
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
Update: I'm told that under the current definition, Rosenkranz and Guildenstern do not qualify. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=117994&type=att
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Unclear Description, started by Snicka on Feb 26th 2020 at 12:06:59 PM
We should make a page for what happens if they get rid of one of the guy's but keep the other (i.e Henchmen #21 and 24, Troy and Abed, Lenard Snart/Captain Cold and Mick Rory/Heatwave, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, that one Power Rangers series were Bulk and Skull were separated,Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega) that's always interesting.
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The Milkman
This trope is quite problematic. The description paints the trope as being about a more modern, ironically in-universe version of the Greek Chorus, while the laconic entry simply claims it's any two people who are often seen together with little plot significance. While the former definition is quite solid, the latter is what most examples seem to be running on, and it's quite frankly reaching People Sit On Chairs levels. It doesn't help that the name is painfully vague.
This happened because Tim had made a mistake.
Diversion
Why not a publicity shot of C-3P0 and R2-D2? They're the most prominent Two Guys in media history, so much so that I didn't even have to name the franchise they appear in in my first sentence.
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The Five-Man Band component page images have explicit admin support, so if you wished to change the image to that I doubt there'd be any complaints.
See you in the discussion pages.
need to go through Image Pickin' if you want to change the page image.
Yes.
dotchan: Would Pollo and Vorenus from Rome count, or are they disqualified on account of being main characters?
It depends. If the main plot is aristo machinations and the sub-plot is Bad Ass peasants survivng in a World Gone Mad, then they count as a Greek Chorus.
Ifn Vorenus and Pollio are the main plot and Aristo machinations are background detail, then obviously not.
IMPO both Noble and Peasant POV are equally essential to the Story. Therefore Vorenus and Pollio qualify HALF the time.
Queen of Filks
Removed this section:
- Alice in Wonderland: I find it odd that nobody mentioned Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum yet. They never appear outside each others company and they contradict everything that the other one says. Of course, you could argue their normalcy (though in their native setting they are by no means as unusual as some of their contemporaries) and their relevance or irrelevance to the story at large. They seem as random as everything else she encounters, but that isn't to say they aren't important... somehow.
They are as random as everything else Alice encounters. She spends no more time with them than with any other character; they don't act as a Greek Chorus, and they have a whole mini story all to themselves. Just because they're two guys doesn't mean that they're Those Two Guys.
If one of the characters in the article picture is clearly more prominent than the other, to the point that the viewer can't even remember the other guy's name, then it's not really this trope, is it? This page is more for the pairs the viewer knows immediately as X'n'Y, Y'n'X, or, you know, Those Two Guys, not X and whatsisface.
What the hell happened to this trope? Lenny and Squigy, Bulk and Skull, Rosenkranz and Guildenstern are all gone from the page, they were the core definition of this trope when I first heard of it, if it's been later decided they don't count then the trope never really existed in the first place, this is nonsense.
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