Forum:Trope Talk

Esoteric but in actual use in Real Life, so not changed.

According to Wikipedia, widget has at least eight different real-world meanings - none of which are remotely connected to the trope currently named Widget Series.

Does anyone have a suggestion to rename the trope?

Apparently it's just a short hand of Weird Japanese Thing just like Teal Deer can be considered short hand for TL;DR.

Either rename it to that, or find something that you find less dismissive of Japan.

If we rename the page to "Weird Japanese Thing", then we'll need another page for all the non-Japanese examples that are currently there.

Wierd Cultural Differences?

Search gives some usage of the phrase. So it's a part of fan lingo, if not wildly popular.

Trope candidate was accepted and can be found at True Art Is Realistic

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:True_Art_Is_Realistic

Hey, ya guys, don't forget to add some really good examples for this trope. I'm dreading that it's being forgotten.

IIRC, that's on our "Restore" list -- I'll bet you we can safely harvest everything off a copy of the original page from the Wayback Machine. I'll have to look tonight when I get back from work.

And done. By the way, if I had realized you were in the process of recreating a page deleted before the fork, I would have told you that you had no need to rephrase things or put it in the workshop. Those pages are fair game for complete word-for-word recreation directly into the wiki, as they are still covered by the old license. As such, I'm going to launch this page after I'm done here.

Okay. I'll try to be better.

Oh, you didn't do anything wrong -- you just made more work for yourself than you needed to.

We don't. Page was deleted as TVTropes tomfoolery.

A self-demonstrating page for Word Salad, and a nearly-identically-named page for an imaginary work that makes almost as little sense?

Unless there's some secret meaning to "Jungian Telomere Teleport Plunk Spot Number Nine" that I'm unaware of...

Fnord.

But seriously, my vote's to toss the self-demonstrating word-salad pages as we find them.

Concur with Rob on this.

Will do, then.

Found the only reference to this "work": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=aaz27la7wplbqf441u101e1w&page=1

So, yeah, this is confirmed as TVTropes tomfoolery. And we already have a policy regarding that.

> page for an imaginary work

The guidelines are "userspace or nowhere", IIRC?

Yes, except for things like that bogus animated Anne Frank movie and its million subpages, which I got jumped on for deleting a few years back. (Odd -- even though it got restored, I can't find it now.)

Trope candidate was was deleted as a duplicate.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:Complicated_Possibly-Requited_Love

Hey, guys, I don't forget to add more examples here as well.

One trope candidate was accepted, the other was deleted as a duplicate.

Need help on these, since I'm not sure if I'm doing these tropes right.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:Cool_Scars

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:Complicated_Possibly-Requited_Love

From a technical point of view, they look good to me (although a quick pass for fixing typos wouldn't hurt).

From a troping point of view... I'm not sure, but I'm only one troper.

Trope candidate has been accepted and can now be found at Forgettable Character

Hey, I was trying to clean this up, so it won't sound like Tv Tropes. So, what do you think? I'm trying to type the article in my own words and try to carry over the idea. Link: Trope Workshop:Forgettable Character

Trope candidate has been tweaked and accepted, and can now be found at Forgettable Character

Hey, I just came back to working on this trope page to clean up my messes. I am adding to it, does it read a little bit better? Trope Workshop:Forgettable Character

Trope candidate has been accepted and is now found at Corner Cover

Need help with this one, since it needs more examples: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:Corner_Cover

Anyone know why Corner Cover isn't listed in Category:Trope Workshop? Makes me wonder what other Trope Workshop type stuff isn't listed.

Trope has been renamed to Non Sequitur Scene.

I had bumped into this trope several times and eventually started to remember it by how I could never remember what it was.

So go ahead and try to guess what Big Lipped Alligator Moment could be.

• It's not Off-Model.
• It's not about voice actors mumbling their lines.
• It's not about animated animals looking awkward because of lip sync.
• It's not about cartoon animals that look like racial stereotypes.
• It's not about male cartoon characters changing their apparent facial anatomy by putting on lipstick.

I suggest for the trope name to be changed to BLAM Moment

You have a good point, but naming it BLAM Moment would be redundant (Big Lipped Alligator Moment Moment)

I don't have good names at the moment.

This post was posted by SelfCloak, but signed as Olicool10.

It was an acronym? I was thinking (because even though I had read the trope description, my brain has shown incredible resistance to the name of that one trope) that BLAM Episode was named after a sound effect like Wham! Episode. (Was the punctuation and capitalization of the latter changed recently? I seem to remember it having been patterned exactly like the former, but I may be wrong.)

I think the sound effect works decently enough. I don't have any idea what else to call the trope. If it gets named something else, that sister trope should be renamed too for consistency. So I think we could have Blam! Moment and Blam! Episode if no one thinks of a better option.

Hmm... Naming it Blam! Moment or Episode makes it sound like someone gets shot in the moment. Such a shocking moment would bring it back to Wham! Episode.

The rename has to convey "Appears out of Nowhere" (Ass Pull), "Strange in Context" (Makes Just as Much Sense in Context) and "Never Mentioned Again" (What Happened to the Mouse?) without being vague.

What about Wild Event Tangent?

This post was posted by SelfCloak, but signed as Olicool10.

We've renamed the trope to Non Sequitur Scene.

Trope passed muster and launched.

Hey, guys, I'm trying to undo some of the red links in some of the work pages that I'm doing. But please use a fine comb to this new trope: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Trope_Workshop:Adapted_Out

Since I know that there's probably something grammatically wrong, but please note, I'm trying to re-word it so we won't get in trouble with copyright. Here's the Tv Trope version: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptedOut

Well, I see you went out of your way to make a "from scratch" version that passes copyright muster, my gratitude for doing so.

I cleaned up some grammar and fixed a few trope links for you, just add some examples and you'll be good.

You can even use the same examples they did, just written in your own words, as the basic information about the examples is public access (i.e. - you can view the same media they did and see the examples like they did), but so long as you avoid copy-paste of someone else's work from there and write your own version of an example they used, that should pass legal muster.

Okay, I tried fixing some parts of the description and adding examples. Does it read well or must I fix it up some more?