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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
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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And that problem just arises from considering the issue in theory; it becomes a whole lot messier in practice. Suppose we were to launch [[Sexy Parasol]]. We would have to note the subtle differences on both pages, people would still mix them up, it would end up at the [[Trope Repair Shop]], our repairmen would argue about the difference between "sexiness" and "prettiness" for twenty pages, [[Your Mom|someone's mother]] [[Godwin's Law|would get compared to Hitler]]. And all this just to split a trope that doesn't have that many examples to begin with.
We don't have a hard rule about the minimum difference two tropes must have; as long as there is ''some'' difference, technically you are allowed to launch it. But if consensus has it that your trope is
Compare [[The Same but More Specific]].
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