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
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Pages in category "No Real Life Examples, Please"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 897 total.
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- Sad Times Montage
- Safe Word
- Sassy Black Woman
- Scam Religion
- Scapegoat Creator
- Scarpia Ultimatum
- Scary Amoral Religion
- Scary Black Man
- The Scrappy
- Scream Discretion Shot
- Screaming Plane Baby
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
- Screw Yourself
- Seemingly-Profound Fool
- "Seen It All" Suicide
- Selective Obliviousness
- Self-Abuse
- Sensual Slavs
- Sex as Rite-of-Passage
- Sex Bot
- Sex by Proxy
- Sex Equals Love
- Sex Face Turn
- Sex for Product
- Sex for Services
- Sex for Solace
- Sex God
- Sex Is Evil
- Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny
- Sex Is Good
- Sex Is Interesting
- Sex Is Liberation
- Sex Is Violence
- Sex Montage
- Sex Slave
- Sex Tourism
- Sex with the Ex
- Sexiled
- Sexless Marriage
- Sexual Extortion
- Sexual Karma
- Sexy Backless Outfit
- Sexy Coat Flashing
- Sexy Discretion Shot
- Shadow Discretion Shot
- She Is Not My Girlfriend
- Shinigami
- Ship Tease
- Ship-to-Ship Combat
- Shopping Montage
- Shower of Love
- Sickbed Slaying
- Signs of the End Times
- Single Mom Stripper
- Sinister Minister
- Sissy Villain
- Sleazy Politician
- Sleeps with Everyone but You
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
- Slipping a Mickey
- Slut Shaming
- Small Name, Big Ego
- Smells Sexy
- Smug Snake
- So Bad It's Good
- So Unfunny It's Funny
- Sociopathic Hero
- Soldiers at the Rear
- Somebody Else's Problem
- Something Else Also Rises
- Son of a Whore
- Soulsaving Crusader
- Sound-Only Death
- Sour Prudes
- Space Cossacks
- Spank the Cutie
- Speak Ill of the Dead
- Speed Sex
- Spicy Latina
- Stacy's Mom
- Starfish Language
- STD Immunity
- Step Three: Profit
- Stern Teacher
- Stop Worshipping Me!
- Straw Character
- Straw Civilian
- Straw Critic
- Straw Fan
- Straw Feminist
- Straw Hypocrite
- Straw Loser
- Straw Misogynist
- Straw Vegetarian
- Straw Vulcan
- Strawman Emotional
- Strawman Has a Point
- Strong Family Resemblance
- Stupid Crooks
- Stupid Evil
- Stupid Neutral
- Stupid Sexy Friend
- Sued for Superheroics
- Suffers Newbies Poorly
- Suicide as Comedy
- Suicide Dare
- Super Weight
- Surveillance as the Plot Demands
- Suspiciously Vague Age
T
- Taking Advantage of Generosity
- The Talk
- Talking Poo
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
- Tanks for Nothing
- Teacher-Student Romance
- The Tease
- Technical Virgin
- Teeny Weenie
- Terrible Interviewees Montage
- That Poor Cat
- Their First Time
- Theory Tunnelvision
- They Walk Among Us
- Think Unsexy Thoughts
- This and That
- Three-Way Sex
- A Threesome Is Hot
- A Threesome Is Manly
- Time Compression Montage
- Time Passes Montage
- Token Evil Teammate
- Token Lesbian
- Token Yuri Girls
- Too Dumb to Live
- Too Kinky to Torture
- Too Much Information
- Took a Level in Jerkass
- Totalitarian Utilitarian
- Training Montage
- Trampoline Tummy
- Transplanted Humans
- Travelling Salesman Montage
- Trigger
- Trojan Gauntlet
- Troll
- Trouble From the Past
- Truck-kun
- True Neutral
- Tsundere
- Twin Threesome Fantasy
- Twincest
- Two-Person Pool Party
U
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
- Un Entendre
- The Unchosen One
- Unconvincing Instant Ecstasy
- The Unfair Sex
- Unfortunate Character Design
- Unfortunate Implications
- Unfortunate Implications/Other Media
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic
- Unproblematic Prostitution
- Unprovoked Pervert Payback
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating
- Unwanted False Faith
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid
V
W
- WAFF
- Wall Banger
- Wall-Bang Her
- War Is Hell
- We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?
- "What Now?" Ending
- Who Shot JFK?
- Who Wears Short Shorts?
- Wicked Cultured
- Windmill Crusader
- Windmill Political
- Witch Protagonist
- The Women Are Safe with Us
- The Woobie
- Word of Gay
- Word of God