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Let's say that you just realized that sexy girls with parasols are common in fiction. Hooray, a new trope! You quickly go to YKTTW and suggest [[Sexy Parasol]] as a new trope... only to get turned down by someone who points out that [[Yes, We DO Have This One|we already have]] [[Parasol of Prettiness]].
But wait! There are some subtle differences between "sexiness" and "prettiness". Technically, you could still launch yours as a [[Sister Trope]]. Right?
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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 [[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 [[
Compare [[The Same but More Specific]].
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