Trope Misuse Cleanup In General

Is anyone reading this thread any more? I cleaned up the bad examples I mentioned on Bifauxnen but I'm sure there's more. The Yandere page has a lot of misuse. I've noticed many of the examples that ignore the "perfectly cute and harmless on the surface," part of how "the Yandere is sweet outside, crazy inside," instead making it out to be just romantic obsession. Misuse includes Cal from Titanic, Anakin in Star Wars. Davis Bloome aka Doomsday from Smallville, and all the Harry Potter examples.

I'd say it's because they're on more specific threads.

Accidental Innuendo seems to have a problem with people listed examples that were intentional and sometimes even lampshaded by the work.

Jumping Off the Slippery Slope still heavily misused.

I want to start cleaning up Genre Savvy but it looks like there's more misuse there then good examples and there's a lot of examples listed.

I took out the animated film examples because it looked like none of them were good. Sometimes the examples are actually Functional Genre Savvy or just savvy.

OK, is it just me, or are Pokémon pages really prone to shoehorning? I just cleaned up an assload of misuse for Weather-Control Machine that was plaguing numerous Pokémon-related pages. Tropers kept associating the trope with weather-altering moves (i.e. Sunny Day and Rain Dance) and abilities (i.e. Drought and Drizzle), often sinkholing it to display as "Weather Control Creature" or "Weather Control Pokémon," when the correct trope is Weather Manipulation.

edited 10th Feb '15 12:18:01 AM by MyTimingIsOff

While a couple of the Non-Video Game Examples on Player Punch are legit, most of them appear to be misuse. Are they examples of another trope (and if so, what?) or should they just be axed?

Most of those seem like shoehorned Tear Jerker and Moral Event Horizon examples.

edited 19th Feb '15 2:08:16 AM by MyTimingIsOff

About Anticlimax Boss: I have a notion to take a massive chainsaw to the non-game examples as they are almost all shoehorning. Non-games do not have bosses and cannot be disappointingly easy. Examples of anticlimaxes in general are misuse.

Thoughts?

I'd be careful about it. A tabletop game could quite reasonably have an anticlimax boss, and an RPG Mechanics 'Verse setting often follows the narrative conventions of gameplay, giving it similar potential.

I said "non-game," not "non-video game," so Tabletop Games will be spared. I do plan on keeping legit examples, but for the most part they are misuse.

I think you shouldn't: the word "boss" has escaped the confines of games. Regardless, there are non-game examples which really should stay, such as [1] (although it's arguably video-game-verse).

Most of the entries in Kangaroos Represent Australia reads just like "this work features kangaroos".

Rooting for the Empire is supposed to be about instances where much of the fandom roots for the villains, but it tends to get used a lot for "I personally prefer the villains over the heroes."

edited 25th Aug '15 7:51:37 AM by katethegr8

Broken Streak has a volume of wicks that use the trope for broken trends in general, as opposed to the trope' definition being about win/loss streaks. There was a TRS thread, but there was hardly any activity there, so it was purged along with other threads. As the thread's original owner, I feel it's best to bring it here instead of trying for round two, so I can get some help with the wicks.

The trope page itself was already cleaned up (only two major offenders).

"Funny Aneurysm" Moment is full of shoehorning and misuse. Many are simply "[Character] dies, [actor] later dies" which the description explicitly says is not the trope. Many aren't even that, just a mention of a real person who has since passed away. Others that don't involve a real person dying have a tenuous at best connection to the real event.

Then there are examples that forget something must be Played for Laughs first. If something wasn't meant to be funny in the first place, it can't stop being funny due to later events.

Some examples belong on Harsher in Hindsight, Unintentional Period Piece, Life Imitates Art or Too Soon.

Or should this be its own thread?

edited 24th Jan '16 5:41:53 PM by maxwellsilver

I've cleaned a lot of those up before, but the misuse keep coming.

In that case, it probably should have its own thread.

Everybody's Dead, Dave seems to have a lot of examples mistaking it for Kill Em All. However, Everybody's Dead, Dave does happen to be listed as an Ending Trope, which I believe is wrong (despite what the description says).

edited 27th Jan '16 1:21:24 PM by Prfnoff

There seem to be a growing number of examples on Darth Vader Clone that are simply Tin Tyrants without any of the other traits involved. I'm wondering if some kind of minimum of similarities limit needs to be imposed.

So Viewers Are Morons is supposed to be in-universe only, but has been misused on both the main page and it’s wicks, due to numerous tropers potholing it as Take Thats. I’ve spend several days going through the wicks and removing potholes, finding In-Universe examples and adding them to the main page whilst deleting the out-of-universe examples.

However on some of the wicks there’s not enough context written to show whether the examples are in-universe or not, and some pages rather than pothole the trope into sentences – have actually written out the words Viewers Are Morons making it difficult to re-write.

So if anyone else wants to takeover and clean-up the rest of those wicks; that would be great.

Oh dear, Broken Base. To say it gets a lot of misuse would be an understatement.

Not to mention people keep confusing it and Base Breaker (which even when they realise it's only supposed to apply to characters, ends up being confused with The Scrappy).

The Kaleidoscope Eyes entry may need some cleanup/discussion. The descriptions (both laconic and main) define it as eyes changing color in response to mental/emotional state. The examples have a ton of battle-only eyes-change-when-X-uses-superpower-or-transforms entries, which mostly look closer to Eye Color Change.