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We don't launch tropes from the Trope Workshop with only three examples any more. Changed "even if three examples of it could be found" to "even if five examples of it could be found"
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This happens when a [[Trope]] is so ridiculously specific that it would only really have an example from that one show, where it didn't have any real meaning anyway. So it's [[Not a Trope]], but because it's too rare to have [[Three Rules of Three|enough examples]] (at least at the moment).
A very rare trope is still a trope, but, by definition, a trope still needs to represent some sort of meaningful pattern as opposed to a coincidence. For an example, if a pattern is only visible in Ugandan literature in the 1970s,<ref>Presumably something specific to the Second Republic of Uganda, Idi Amin, or both.</ref> it's still a trope. However, narrowly
"Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco", for example, would not be a trope even if
Sometimes, it can be combined with [[The Same but More Specific]], when an existing trope has a specification so rare, that it can't be tropable beyond a few existing examples. "[[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] written by [[Rumiko Takahashi]]" is an example (that we used to have on this very wiki, under the name "[[Takahashi Couple]]" - that's now a redirect to Belligerent Sexual Tension).
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[[Category:Index of Exact Trope Titles]]
[[Category:Not a Trope]]
[[Category:Predefined Messages]]
▲[[Category:Too Rare to Trope]]
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