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But wait! There are some subtle differences between "sexiness" and "prettiness". Technically, you could still launch yours as a [[Sister Trope]]. Right?

If you got this [[Predefined Message]], someone wants to remind you that [[Tropes Are Flexible]]. We are discovering more tropes because we want to cover every storytelling device in the media. Cover, not categorize. Splitting and organizing them as [[Sub Trope|Subtropes]], [[Super Trope|Supertropes]] and [[Sister Trope|Sister Tropes]] are just the means to make the browsing more comfortable and practical; but this doesn't mean that ''every single thing'' that can be identified as a distinct trope should get its own page. What about [[Parasol Of Allure]]? What about [[Parasol Of Immaculate Fashion Sense]]? A separate trope for when the parasol actually ''gets used'' to block out the sun, and for when it's purely employed for the aesthetic effect? Where does it stop?

If you got this [[Predefined Message]], someone wants to remind you that [[Tropes Are Flexible]]. We are discovering more tropes because we want to cover every storytelling device in the media. Cover, not categorize. Splitting and organizing them as [[Sub-Trope|Subtropes]], [[Super-Trope|Supertropes]] and [[Sister Trope|Sister Tropes]] are just the means to make the browsing more comfortable and practical; but this doesn't mean that ''every single thing'' that can be identified as a distinct trope should get its own page. What about [[Parasol Of Allure]]? What about [[Parasol Of Immaculate Fashion Sense]]? A separate trope for when the parasol actually ''gets used'' to block out the sun, and for when it's purely employed for the aesthetic effect? Where does it stop?

You might say that it doesn't, and yes, we should have every single conceivable trope. That's missing the forest for the trees. There's something to be gained from [[Lumper vs. Splitter|Lumping]] all the examples of a parasol connected with sexiness, or beauty, or what-have-you, in the same place and have them add up to something. This is the whole idea of what a "trope" is; otherwise, every single thing that ever happened in fiction might as well be its own trope.

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