Category:No Real Life Examples, Please
For some tropes, having Real Life examples can be fun and sometimes even informative. However, any trope with this message in its description should not have any examples from Real Life. Note that a work portraying real life is still a work - such examples are about how the work portray real life, not about real life itself. What happened in a certain conflict according to a certain movie or book is usually far less ambiguous than what really happened in that same conflict.
Real Life does not have an author in the same way as a film or other work does, and we see real life from the inside rather than from the outside. Thus, tropes that are objective in works are often highly subjective in Real Life. And since trope pages are not discussion forums, a debate about who is right and who is wrong is a distracting (and maybe even destructive) case of Natter or Edit War. Thus, you may notice that most of the pages on this list are the negative tropes, oftentimes pertaining to morality, violence, religion, and other controversial issues that people are likely to get heated about. Yes, there is No Such Thing As Notability, but when we discuss Real Life, the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment takes primacy here.
An objective trope turning YMMV is not enough to earn it this tag. In general, we trust people's common sense and ability to follow the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment. This trope comes up where real life examples are likely to derail the page into huge debates or come across as offensive or even harassing.
For example, let's say a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu walk into an internet café.[1] All three of them start editing All The Tropes, and they all start adding Real Life examples to Scam Religion. The Christian adds Islam and Hinduism, the Muslim adds Christianity and Hinduism, while the Hindu adds Christianity and Islam. Then they suddenly all feel outraged with All The Tropes, for having their own religion listed as being a scam. (Meanwhile, someone adds Church of Happyology and gets sued. And so on.) Even without considering the fact that we can't see the universe from the outside and that seeing the narrative of the story from the outside is necessary for that trope—let's just not go there.
And thus, some tropes don't allow Real Life examples outside the portrayal of Real Life elements in works. If you have any questions about this, or feel the trope doesn't need this tag, take it to the trope's discussion page. Or to its Trope Workshop discussion if it hasn't been launched yet.
Finally, when a page becomes too controversial to even have fictional examples, a lock and an Example Sectionectomy may follow—but frankly, such an occurrence should be incredibly rare on All The Tropes. Do note that, when a page is given an Example Sectionectomy, then it doesn't allow examples of any category or medium, so listing it there will suffice. Listing a completely exampleless page here is redundant, as well as misleading. Even if examples most likely happen in Real Life only, adding the No Real Life Examples category and/or listing it here will give the impression that fictional examples are allowed, when they're likely not either.
Other times, a page may simply be on this list for other reasons. Perhaps a list of Real Life examples would be too long and redundant to be worth adding. Or maybe it's one of those technical tropes that work in fiction but don't work in Real Life. It may also be an Audience Reaction that only admits In-Universe examples.
And sometimes, especially with the Rape Tropes, we say "Tell the police, not us". When we say that, we mean it – posting rumours here or anywhere else on the Internet could jeopardize any court case against an accused rapist. Don't let a guilty person go free because of a technicality.
In any case, it's to be pointed out that having real life examples is only tolerated, rather than encouraged. So if there's a page where it's asked to not have examples from real life, no matter the reasons (or lack thereof), tropers are expected to not add them at all.
Adding a page to this list
To add a page to this list, add the {{noreallife}} tag to the page, immediately before the {{examples}} tag. The noreallife tag accepts and displays a description as to why the trope should not have Real Life examples, like so: {{noreallife|because I don't like this trope and wish it would go away.}}
(Note that if you use that particular reason, it's likely that somebody else will remove the tag.) That example produces this line:
No real life examples, please; because I don't like this trope and wish it would go away.
If you don't provide a reason (in which case the tag is also likely to be removed by somebody else), you get:
No real life examples, please; insert reason here
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 897 total.
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- Calling Your Orgasms
- Can't Have Sex Ever
- Cargo Envy
- Casting Couch
- Casual Kink
- Category Traitor
- Catholic School Girls Rule
- Caught with Your Pants Down
- Censorware
- Chaotic Evil
- Chaotic Good
- Chaotic Neutral
- Chaotic Stupid
- Character Alignment
- Character Derailment
- Child by Rape
- Christmas Ghost Story
- Church of Happyology
- Church Police
- Co-Dragons
- Code Word Coitus
- Coitus Ensues
- Coitus Uninterruptus
- Cold-Blooded Torture
- Combat Sadomasochist
- Come Back to Bed, Honey
- Comforting the Widow
- Comic Sutra
- Comically Missing the Point
- Coming and Going
- Compensated Dating
- Compensating for Something
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong
- Complaining About People Not Liking the Show
- Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For
- Conservation of Ninjutsu
- Conspiracy Theorist
- Contrast Montage
- Conveniently-Common Kink
- Convicted by Public Opinion
- Corrupt Church
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- Corrupt Politician
- Costume Test Montage
- Cover-Blowing Superpower
- Covert Pervert
- Crack is Cheaper
- Crap Saccharine World
- Crapsack Only by Comparison
- Crapsack World
- Crazy Homeless People
- Creation Sequence
- Credits Montage
- Creepy Blue Eyes
- Creepy Souvenir
- Critical Research Failure
- Crushing the Populace
- Cult
- Culture Justifies Anything
- Cure Your Gays
D
- Dangerously-Short Skirt
- Dark Fic
- The Dark Side
- Darker and Edgier
- Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy
- Date Rape
- Date Rape Averted
- A Date with Rosie Palms
- Dead Hand Shot
- Dead Hat Shot
- Death by Sex
- Death Montage
- Deconstructed Trope
- Defiled Forever
- A Degree in Useless
- Delivery Stork
- Democracy Is Bad
- Department of Child Disservices
- Depraved Bisexual
- Depraved Homosexual
- Destructo-Nookie
- Dethroning Moment of Suck (Darth Wiki)
- Deus Sex Machina
- Did the Earth Move For You, Too?
- Did They or Didn't They?
- Did You Just Have Sex?
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?
- Did You Think I Can't Feel?
- Digital Piracy Is Evil
- Dirty Foreigner
- Dirty Mind Reading
- Disability as an Excuse For Jerkassery
- Disgusting Public Toilet
- Do You Want to Copulate?
- Dominatrix
- Don't Come a-Knockin'
- Doomed by Canon
- Double Entendre
- Double Standard
- Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)
- Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal)
- Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)
- Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)
- Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)
- Double Standard Rape (Sci Fi)
- Draco in Leather Pants
- Draft Dodging
- The Dragon
- Dragon-in-Chief
- Dramatically Missing the Point
- Dreadful Musician
- Dress Hits Floor
- Driven to Suicide
- Droit du seigneur
- Dropped a Bridge on Him
- Drugs Are Bad
- Drunken Montage
- Dude, She's Like, in a Coma
- Due to the Dead
- Dump Months
- Dystopia Justifies the Means
- Dystopian Edict
E
- Early Teen Hero
- Earth Is Young
- Egocentrically Religious
- Eldritch Abomination
- Elevator Going Down
- Emergency Presidential Address
- Emo Teen
- Entendre Failure
- Entitled to Have You
- Erotic Asphyxiation
- Erotic Dream
- Erotic Eating
- Eternal Sexual Freedom
- Ethical Slut
- Ethnic Scrappy
- Europeans Are Kinky
- Even Evil Has Standards
- Even Nerds Have Standards
- Everybody Has Lots of Sex
- Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite
- Everyone Is Gay
- Everyone Looks Sexier If French
- Evil Counterpart
- Evil Is Sexy
- Evil Jesuit
- Evil Overlord
- Evil Reactionary
- Evil Redhead
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Evil Versus Evil
- Evolutionary Levels
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Exclusively Evil
- Exotic Equipment
- Extreme Omnisexual
- The Extremist Was Right
- Eyes of Gold
F
- Face Heel Turn
- The Fair Folk
- Faith Heel Turn
- "Falling in Love" Montage
- False Rape Accusation
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop
- Fan Convention
- Fan Disillusionment
- Fan Hater
- Fan Service with a Smile
- Fantastic Arousal
- Fantastic Racism
- Fashion Shop Fashion Show
- Fate Worse Than Death
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
- Female Misogynist
- Feng Schwing
- Fetish
- Fetish Fuel Future
- Fetish Retardant
- Five-Bad Band
- Flat Earth Atheist
- Flirting Under Fire
- Focal Character
- Foe Cooties
- Foreign Queasine
- Four-Star Badass
- Free-Love Future
- Freeze Frame Ending
- French Jerk
- The Friend Nobody Likes
- Friends with Benefits
- The Fundamentalist
- Fur Bikini