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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
Useful Note
That sounds like something that would be handled by the too-long page repair thread. But they probably wouldn't want to split off a live-action film page since Cool Car is only about 150K characters.
the Retromancer
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- Text-Formatting Rules
- "abundance of examples" is not a sufficient reason to split a page, it needs to have the automated warning about being too long.
Edited by Amonimus on May 12th 2024 at 9:11:25 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
the Retromancer
Apparently having multiple accounts is now allowed, on conditions.
I really should read any time an Administrivia page is edited, because some changes return as a surprise.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
under construction
It's a bit frustrating trying to contribute group images to Image Pickin' because there are a lot of images that seem okay at first, but then, after being resized to fit the standards of the website, become too small and/or make the group too hard to see for some.
Edited by AnotherOnlinePersona on May 19th 2024 at 8:39:38 AM
Very Spooky
Only just now did I realize that Laser-Guided Karma always gets used in the context of "bad character has bad things appropriately happen to them" and very rarely vice-versa, even though it can go both ways. I suppose it's just easier to identify when it happens to bad characters?
back lol
RJ Savoy
I never got what separate laser-guided from normal karmic endings.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
uwu
Karmic Jackpot seems to the trope that involves good things happening to characters who do good deeds, hence why Laser-Guided Karma only focuses on punishments.
THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
I think the idea is that Laser-Guided Karma is a kind of Chekhov's Gun mixed with Hoist by Their Own Petard - not only do evildoers have bad things happen to them, but the specific bad things are directly related to what they did in unexpected ways.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on May 19th 2024 at 6:43:10 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Buzz
If that's the case, the current image on Laser-Guided Karma isn't illustrative of the trope (the lightning has nothing to do with the cat)
Image Pickin' Backlog
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
I think it's meant to show Karma That Returns Immediately, and I don't know if I'd consider that another form of the same trope or not.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on May 19th 2024 at 7:48:10 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
the Retromancer
Was there a period where Umineko: When They Cry was believed to be a direct continuation of Higurashi: When They Cry and didn't have own page? I keep seeing examples like
- Higurashi: When They Cry: ...
- Also occurs in Umineko: When They Cry...
Despite them being loosly-related but independant works that share the author.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
(she/her)
People just group them together when they share tropes because they are part of When They Cry. People like to group together even if continuity is just vaguely shared.
Edited by MacronNotes on May 20th 2024 at 10:23:57 AM
Macron's notes
RJ Savoy
They are very similar, even though the only story link is the implied backstory of two characters. They get grouped together because editors don't want them separated by half a folder (which is what alphabetic ordering results in). Besides When They Cry is considered franchise at least by the author, though I don't know if that has any legal meaning.
Edited by Reymma on May 20th 2024 at 4:11:15 PM
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
the Retromancer
The point is that those two have a chronic case of bad indentation, and the history shows these examples are very old and also were added during times where as YMMV page says the adaptations were more popular than the novels.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Animu
And another problem I've found about these: Higurashi has Index Bloat, as in being in more than 30 indexes. I've excluded it from Ecchi and HaremGenre.Anime And Manga, which others should I remove?
the Retromancer
The rest make sense to me. If indexes for adaptations and creators are a problem, would feel like it'd be more of a wikitalk question.
lmao
It's almost been 11 months since I made this wishlist query but I still hope it does happen. Once tropers' edit histories indicate which edits create pages, I intend to rearrange my troper page's list of work pages I've made by category rather than chronologically.
the Retromancer
I list it both ways. Though within namespace categories, I still have them listed chronologically.
the Retromancer
Mr. Fanservice and Ms. Fanservice are probably a Chastity Couple becuase there can't be Fanservice Jr.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Wouldn't that be a Fille Fatale / Kidanova?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
(she/her)
^ Those tropes aren't about fanservice. They are attraction tropes that operate in universe.
Macron's notes
RJ Savoy
It is quite odd how many of the most sexualised characters give no hint of being sexual in-story. It's partly to avoid making the audience jealous.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
I just thought of this one. Didn’t the page image for Heroic Sacrifice used to be Yusuke saving the kid from the oncoming car? I like the caption for the new one, though. XD
Edited by Demetrios on May 23rd 2024 at 12:10:30 PM
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
I really can't navigate the site to find stuff like formatting policy, and in my current predicament, where to propose a trope page to be split into a sub page for an abundance of examples (Cool Car in my opinion needs to have its own page for Live Action Film at the very least)