Even the trope description admits the trope name is esoteric: "Please note this has surprisingly little to do with Excuse Me While I Multitask,"
If anybody has any suggestions for better names, feel free to list the suggestions here...
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Alternately, we could move the examples of multiple arms that don't have anything to do with multitasking to Multi-Armed and Dangerous... which would create a difference between the two tropes.
That works for me. The description could be expanded a little, too, just to make things clearer.
I think the name for this is self-descriptive enough and that the confusion lies with Excuse Me While I Multitask, where the casualness/nonchalance involved in that trope could be better reflected with something like "Nonchalant Multitasking" or "Casual Danger Multitasking" to play off Nonchalant Dodge or Casual Danger Dialogue. Excuse Me... and Nonchalant Dodge already link to each other as it stands.
The issue I had isn't the casualness; it's the lack of multitasking.
Quoting from Merriam-Webster: multitasking (noun): ... (2) the performance of multiple tasks at one time "The job requires a person who is good at multitasking."
If the character isn't doing multiple things at the same time, "Multitasking" is the wrong word.
That seems more like non-examples need to be pruned or moved, and maybe a rework of the description, rather than anything wrong with the trope name, if put it that way.
Which is what Rob had said previously, as it happens - just curate the examples and the mass majority of the issue should be resolved.