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A popular type of [[The Same but More Specific]].
Essentially, this is when a trope can be summed up as "the same as Article X, but pumped [[Up to Eleven]]". While the temptation to start these sort of articles is evidently
A common variant is when someone wants to write "Article X, but done well" or "Article X, but done poorly". Remember that Tropes are [[Tropes Are Tools|Neither Good Nor Bad]]
Remember, [[Tropes Are Flexible]]. There's enough untapped content to go around
Now if the difference actually ''is clear'', the result may be a [[Sub-Trope]], [[Super-Trope]], or [[Sister Trope]] of another. For example, [[Critical Research Failure]] looks like [[Did Not Do the Research]] taken [[Up to Eleven]] (and, in some ways, it ''is''), but the difference is quite clear in practice: ''Any'' lay person can immediately spot a [[Critical Research Failure]], whereas by contrast it generally takes an expert (or at least somebody who's [[Shown Their Work|done their own research]]) to prove when a writer simply [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Thus, the examples in each trope are almost mutually exclusive, despite their definitions on paper being
If you think your extreme trope has the distinction worthy of a [[Sub-Trope]], please [[YKTTW|check with the other Tropers first]] and to get opinions; if ''other people'' agree that the [[Sub-Trope]] label applies, it probably does; likewise, if they're all calling it
See also [[Exaggerated Trope]], which covers tropes being played [[Up to Eleven]] ''in-universe'', and [[Downplayed Trope]], which covers the opposite.
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