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I think maybe we need to take a good look at the Real Life section and cull out a few entries. Maybe its just me but several seem to be more about "this person I don't like praised something I happen to like" rather than a correct use of the "this person is approving of something done by someone otherwise seen as their opposition, much to the opposition's dismay", and some are just straight-up not even applying to this trope.
One example that stood out was Trump's approval of the Brexit decision. Who was shamed by it? Not that no one was, but the example doesn't provide any context. If there was a specific entity or person who was ashamed of Trump's approval, it would be more understandable, but as it is, its got no context to connect it to the trope.
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Change the picture back. That one was literally the Trope Namer.
If you're going to put up a review of something, MAKE SURE IT HAS A PAGE FIRST!
What happened to the picture from order of the stick web comic it made a better example picture than what's up there now
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I don't know but I want the Order of the Stick panel, which was literally the Trope Namer, back as well.
If you're going to put up a review of something, MAKE SURE IT HAS A PAGE FIRST!
I'd like to add a particular quote from The Red Green Show to the quotes page, but it's Harold approving a decision Red made, and Red is ashamed of Harold's approval.
The problem is that the trope descriptions speaks of villainous characters approving of heroic ones' dirty deeds, but Harold isn't villainous and Red's decision wasn't dirty, so I'm not sure it fits.
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I kind of know how you feel. There's a scene in a BATB fanfic I like, where Belle thanks Gaston for saving her other suitor from wolves, when in reality Gaston had seen the guy go the wrong way, and had just barely chickened out of taking advantage of the situation. Gaston had already been going through quite a bit of a heel-face turn in this story, and her calling him a hero instead makes him tell her point blank what had really happened.
To me, at least, it sounds like YAFMWS, but with the usual roles almost completely reversed.
I'm starting to feel that Phil Coulson had this feeling in Paradise Lost when Fitz tried to assure him that Grant Ward deserved to get his chest caved in by him (Coulson). The trope is because Coulson killed Ward in cold-blood out of payback for killing Rosalind and he's not proud of what he did as killing people in cold-blood out of payback is not what S.H.I.E.L.D. does. It's to the point that not only does Coulson's decision haunt him, he feels that Ward actually won and by killing Ward, Coulson inadvertently brought Hive to Earth with Ward as his vessel.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Just for approval from villains?
, started by neoYTPism on May 15th 2011 at 5:02:59 AM
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