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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.
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]] [[
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 [[Ridiculously Similar Trope|Ridiculously Similar]] to some other trope, it may be the time to take a step back and rework your suggestion to focus on the ''really'' essential parts so it becomes more distinct. If that still doesn't help, that's nothing to fret about- in fact, it's good news. It means that [[Yes We DO Have This One|Yes, We DO Have This One]].
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