Needs a Better Description

You've just launched a trope, it may or may not have a good title, you may or may not know what categories it belongs to, but you can't think of a good description. The one you had in the Trope Workshop was too short, too dry, not clear, etc.

Alternatively, maybe you have simply come upon a page with a truly bad trope description—one that you feel unable or unwilling to fix up on your own.

To get help: (1) add a link to the offending trope to one of the categories at the bottom of this page (try to be specific), (2) put a link to "Needs a Better Description" on the offending trope's main page, (1+2) add the  template to the top of the page, somewhere between the "trope", "work", or "creator" tag and the first list of tropes or examples, and (3) put a note on the offending trope's discussion page explaining what the problem with the description is. When you've done all of these things, others will bless you with their Wiki Magic.

Note that there are three two action items in the previous paragraph. For best results, please complete all both of them.

Please do not mark tropes whose description is merely less-than-perfect. We're looking here for tropes whose descriptions are defective enough that they cannot just be left alone. See the categories below for some of the reasons you might list a page.

If, instead, you are one of those people who wants to help clean up the stuff on this list, here are a few pointers:
 * You don't have to be cute, just understandable. When in doubt, be Boring but Practical.
 * We have Indexes for related tropes, you don't need to reference every similar trope within the article.
 * Page quotes are optional, but should be helpful to the description, not merely cool or funny.
 * Unless the trope is an index and has dozens of different connotations, there is no need to make the description a thesis paper. Simpler and shorter descriptions help keep the examples clear.
 * Examples go in the example list, the description should be free of them. The only exception may be the Trope Namer or an Older Than They Think example.

For the convenience of those working on this list, it is divided into a number of subcategories. Please try to keep these up to date by correcting categorizations as needed. Obviously, some of the categorization is subjective, so feel free to move something that seems to be in the wrong place. If you put a page on the list of defective pages, please also put a note in the discussion for that page as to what seems to be the problem.

Please both remove a trope from this list and remove the link from that trope's page to here once a better description has been given. In general, please remember to delete items from these lists as you move or complete them. The list tends to pile up, so please try to help keep it clean.

Description needs tweaking

 * Could This Happen to You? - Needs clarification and flow
 * Disney - needs a better history
 * Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
 * Killer Gorilla
 * The Legend of Zelda CDI Games - Brief description of Zelda's Adventure's plot.
 * Living Statue - Not all of these are monsters.
 * Muppets from Space
 * Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
 * Pawn Stars - Sorted out the description for the most part, but it could still use a little love.
 * Psychic Detective Yakumo
 * Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood - the Example as a Thesis is too cute for its own good
 * Star Trek - Look at the paragraph describing TOS, and tell me what it actually says ABOUT the show, other than it being cancelled before its time and being a Trope Maker.
 * Sundome (basically just a recap of chapter one, fails to describe actual premise)
 * The Room
 * Super Paper Mario
 * Super Troopers - Needs better wording.
 * Wildstorm
 * Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot
 * Zeke and Luther

Works needing a rewrite

 * 100 Girls (comics)
 * Amya
 * And Here He Comes Now
 * Angels in the Outfield
 * ARAGO
 * Arch Angel
 * Assassin's Creed - Franchise-page; needs a better summary, description etc.
 * Big Store
 * The Bluest Eye - one short sentence and no description of the plot
 * Bowled Over
 * Bram Stoker
 * Caligula - Currently reads as an analysis page about the production with very little about the film's content.
 * Casanova - needs an actual film description
 * Cedar Rapids
 * Channel Ate
 * Chaos Marauders
 * Children in Tow
 * Color Guardians
 * Come Back, My Pet
 * The Con
 * Counting Sheep
 * Danielle Steel
 * Death Angel
 * Dinner for Schmucks
 * Enola Holmes
 * Evony
 * Extendable Arms
 * Fantasy Flight Games
 * Femmegasm
 * Fictional Political Party - specifically the boring Captain Obvious intro, which one troper is trying to preserve in its entirety
 * French and Saunders - The description talks about the careers of the stars and says nothing about the content of the show.
 * Games Workshop
 * The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
 * Hands Go Down
 * The Hating Girl
 * Heartbeats
 * Henry VIII
 * Hero
 * Hokenshitsu no Shinigami
 * Holy Bibble
 * In Her Shoes
 * Iraq
 * Iron Man (anime)
 * It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular!
 * Jennifer Connelly
 * Joel Schumacher
 * John Coltrane
 * Kaori Yuki
 * Keeping You a Secret
 * The Last Rune
 * Legend of Kage
 * Legend of Princess
 * The Legend of Zelda - Currently, eight games (including three console games) don't feature Ganon as a threat and a further two only have him as an empty shell of a final boss. Also, his last non-remake appearance was in 2006. And is the basic story really that similar for each game?
 * Little Otik
 * Lloyd Alexander
 * Love Story
 * The Mark
 * The Man Who Came to Dinner
 * Marked to Die
 * Men of Honor
 * My Anime List
 * Nausea Fuel - Painfully short, needs to be differentiated from Squick.
 * Ozzy Osbourne
 * Pee-wee's Playhouse
 * Planet of the Apes - needs a better lead paragraph, and tweaks to the headers of every subsection.
 * Pooch Cafe
 * Rabid Cop
 * Revolver
 * Risen
 * Robot Dog
 * Rock Raiders
 * Sanctum - Needs description of the film's content.
 * Second Face Smoke
 * Seth Green - His description currently reads as a filmography without any details about the man himself.
 * Shark Attack 3: Megalodon - needs expansion by someone who has actually watched the film.
 * Soapbox Square
 * Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy
 * Super Smash Flash
 * Surviving the World
 * Tales of the City
 * Tipping the Velvet
 * Trampoline Tummy
 * Until Death Do Us Part
 * The Westing Game
 * The Witches of Eastwick
 * Yogscast - It's not just Lewis and Simon (in fact, it's never been that, but it's only been since late 2011 that they've had YouTube channels outside of BlueXephos and Yogscast2). May need splitting into subpages.
 * Yngwie Malmsteen

Works with too short a description

 * Ax Men
 * Alliterative Title
 * Answering Echo
 * Asura's Wrath
 * At Play in the Fields of the Lord
 * Black Tide
 * Boy on a Stick and Slither
 * Cornelia Funke
 * The Dragon Journals
 * The Dreadful
 * Fate Unlimited Codes
 * Friends of a Solar Empire
 * Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
 * Galidor - Technical info is present, but no plot description.
 * Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
 * Lani Minella
 * Mind of Mencia - Did basic editing for clarity and style. Needs expansion describing the content of the show.
 * Nerds - it says its name and its author. That's it. If it weren't for the complications with autolocking, it'd probably be cutlisted. MOD: Looks like it was cutlisted before the ATT fork - "Nerds" currently redirects to "Nerd".
 * Pummel Duel
 * Rusty Hearts
 * Shadows of the Damned
 * Superslackers
 * You Are the New Trend
 * Joe the Barbarian

Works best described by their fans

 * Bad Machinery
 * The Blademourner Trilogy
 * Bowling for Soup
 * The Boys from Brazil
 * Brain Scratch Commentaries
 * Buck Tick
 * Butt Ugly Martians
 * Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (video game)
 * The Comic Adventures of Left and Right
 * Crash Team Racing - Specifically, its campaign mode
 * The Crush
 * Crystal Towers 2
 * Death and The Maiden
 * Digimon Savers
 * Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
 * Dog Day Afternoon
 * Dorothy of Oz
 * Ethan Frome
 * Furry Vengeance
 * Gantz Abridged
 * Good Night and Good Luck
 * Groznyj Grad Living Novel
 * Guin Saga
 * Gundam Abridged
 * Hard Rain
 * Hibiki no Mahou
 * Hipster Hitler
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Needs expanding on its differences between the franchise and literature series page, and specifying that this is exclusively the 1979 book.
 * Huey Lewis and The News
 * Hunchback: The Lurching
 * Hurt - I love their music, but I don't know enough about the band to write a good description. - Insanity Prelude
 * Id
 * Incognito Cinema Warriors XP
 * Inherit the Earth
 * Initial D Arcade Stage
 * Innocent Venus - Could use some love from someone less biased.
 * Jazz (manga): specifically, I created the page because I thought we should have it, but don't really like the manga myself. Revision by fan would really help it out. -whereismytea
 * It Takes a Thief
 * Kiss
 * Kurogane - copied directly from Wikipedia.
 * The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
 * Mike Lu and Og
 * Miko - specifically, could someone explain what exactly shrine maidens are supposed to do?
 * Necroscope
 * Outsourced
 * Pepper Ann
 * Pretty in Pink
 * Quantum Gravity
 * Romeo Is Bleeding
 * Sabre Wulf — needs better intro, a picture (or two, one from each version), and descriptions of the similarities and differences between the 1984 Speccy version and the 2004 GBA version. Also plenty of tropes.
 * SD Snatcher
 * The Smoking Room
 * Stardoc
 * The Supernaturalist
 * Taking Lives
 * Tommy Tallarico
 * The Trenches - has four sentences, one of which is actually descriptive at all
 * Truth Series - I didn't read it in English, I simply don't know the correct terms.
 * Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives
 * Warhawk (1995 video game) - needs information on the PS 1 game especially.
 * Warrior Cats RPG
 * The Warriors
 * The Way
 * What the Bleep Do We Know
 * World of Tiers