Trope Misuse Cleanup In General

I found Wrecked Weapon (Character breaks the weapon of the other character to show how powerful they are) page contains many misused examples about the characters just have broken weapons, they break weapons of some unimportant mooks, or items and weapons can break after some use in a video game.

I think the trope name, Wrecked Weapon is bit misleading, since people would assume it's just about broken weapons or breaking weapons in general, though.

Yeah, I was reading the page the other day, and that bit about drones just felt... vaguely off. I'd be happy with cutting it.

Haven't checked the page, but a lot of the misuse you describe sounds like, well, bad troping that can't be blamed on the name. Like, "hero breaks the weapon of an unimportant mook" isn't a trope. Breakable Weapons in video games is tropable, but a different trope entirely.

Edited by DoktorvonEurotrash on Mar 17th 2024 at 8:53:03 AM

Statuesque Stunner is NRLEP but inappropriately listed on many creator pages.

Just delete it when you see it, citing the rules on real life troping (Unless it's about how someone typically plays characters who are fit the trope. Then it's okay.).

In general, creator pages are supposed to be about the creator's works. Any time you see something on a creator page that's troping the person rather than their work, just delete it.

Unfortunately I don’t have the time to check all the wicks.

I feel like a lot of Trademark Favorite Food examples, at least on the Western Animation page, are less about a food integral to a character's identity and more just "a character says they like this food once." I'm not even sure if "character mentions a favorite food" is enough if it's not a recurring trait.

I agree. While I'm almost certainly guilty of it myself, that trope has a lot of the shoehorning you mentioned on many subpages.

TrademarkFavoriteFood.Video Games is another bad one. If you look at the Undertale section, it's massive and has several non-examples like:

• Papyrus makes a lot of fuss about his spaghetti, leading many to assume that it was his favorite. This was ultimately subverted in a one year anniversary Q&A special where it was revealed that his favorite food is actually the oatmeal with the candy dinosaur eggs in it. Apparently, he's never even tried spaghetti — he just makes it because everyone else likes it.

or

• Despite the only real evidence being that you can swipe some from her fridge, Alphys is often associated with Instant Noodles.

It would need a big clean-up effort due to the size of the pages.

That sounds like it could be its own YMMV item, Memetic Favorite Food or something. I do think the Papyrus one sounds like a valid subversion though (character obsesses over a particular food they turn out to not even actually eat).

Edited by mightymewtron on Apr 15th 2024 at 9:07:32 AM

Same, that one seemed fine to me.

You're right, the Papyrus one works as a subversion.

Found on some illogical trope addition and trope abuse on https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnintentionallySympathetic/VideoGames

On the other side of things, Mists of Pandaria attempts to have a You Bastard! moment in the Legendary questline for both the Horde player and the tauren race by having the Alliance Dwarf, High Marshall Twinbraid directly calls out the Horde player for their warlike ways, killing his son and destroying his home. The problem with this is Twinbraid was previously written as a General Ripper and Evil Colonialist with his son being a Sociopathic Soldier and his "Home" being a heavily armed fortress built on lands stolen from the natives, natives that both Twinbraid and his son murdered out of their sheer Fantastic Racism. As a result, the Horde player killing Twinbraid in the questline comes across as agents of karma delivering a purely deserved Karmic Death to a self pitying war criminal rather than the What the Hell, Hero?/Player Punch, the writer of the quest had intended it to be.

Nothing about Twinbraid makes him come off remotely sympathetic. There is nothing in Mists of Pandaria that indicates to You Bastard or Player Punch moment. The quest given by Wrathion to kill him just tells the players that he's a nuisance and an important Alliance figure. In both faction quests, Wrathion is manipulating players on both sides to ingratiate himself to them. Most of the information in the entry is headcanon and trope abuse.

This entry should be cut and kept off the page.

EDIT: I'll just assume silence means support and cut the entry if I don't hear back in a couple days.

Edited by DukePresley on May 4th 2024 at 5:24:16 AM

I believe an entry in Faux Action Girl should not be there:

Firstly, Sonja takes out two of the werewolves chasing her before Lucia comes to her rescue. Furthermore, she was out on patrol and it's later mentioned that this is actually the sixth time the werewolves have breached the castle walls. During the caravan attack later in the film, she kills five werewolves by herself before Lucia arrives and then kills another four after he shows up, including one which was attacking Lucian. By 25 minutes into the film, Sonja's onscreen body count consists of 11 werewolves.

In Sonja's next (and final) action scene, she kills two vampires and later defeats her father Victor, a vampire elder who can snap a werewolf's neck with his bare hands, in a one-on-one swordfight. The only reason she ends up captured is because Viktor takes advantage of her mercy and she refuses to further raise her hand against her father.

Edited by windleopard on May 10th 2024 at 7:04:05 PM

Sure. Cut the entry.

Mythology Gag is often misused in the place of Continuity Nod or Call-Back, usually to refer a previous installment which belongs to the same continuity in the same franchise but which plot hasn't a straight connexion with the work being troped. I specifically wrote this after finding MythologyGag.Bio Shock Infinite. NB: Major BioShock Infinite spoilers incoming.

While it seems during most of its story that BioShock Infinite is a Spiritual Sequel with no relation to the older BioShock series outside of its themes and atmosphere, the original ending and the two Burial at Sea DLCs which conclude the story reveal both BioShock Infinite and BioShock are part of the same continuity due to both setting coexisting in an in-universe multiverse, not to mention Burial at Sea second part is a direct prequel to the first BioShock plot. For this reason, the whole content of MythologyGag.Bio Shock Infinite is misuse.

NB: I would have added the page to the cut list myself but I can't access it now, apparently adding an e-mail address to my account (which I was forced to do a few days ago) resulted in my 13 years-old account to be considered as a "new" account.

PS: account fixed, I just added the page to the cut list.

Edited by Psychopompos007 on May 17th 2024 at 10:52:40 AM