Topic on Forum:Trope Talk

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I want to necro this thread because I'm a bit worried about The Apprentice. I'm not really happy with (trope) being part of the page name, because tropes are traditionally the main article. So we're going to need some kind of rename here.

I remember thinking about this a couple of years ago, and not coming to any conclusions. I mean, I must not have, because there's no reply in this thread from me. I do get the use of "the" to indicate a class. What I don't understand is when "the" is necessary to create a class. On The Starscream it's obviously necessary, but I don't get the first word of The Peeping Tom because that's already a class and not a person? And then I was thinking The Ingenue didn't need it, but wikipedia seems to refer to in the text as "the Ingénue" but the page is plain "Ingénue" (well actually wikipedia:Ingénue (stock_character))?

Are there any answers better than "TL;DR English is terrible, deal with it"?