Topic on Forum:Trope Talk

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 I'm not convinced that the solution is to get rid of the tropes, though.  This is ultimately a misuse problem, not a "because this trope is racist we shouldn't mention it" problem.
+: It would take an entire wiki listing down hot-headed characters
+This is true.  But some tropes are just used a lot.  It would take an entire wiki to list every [[Action Hero]].  And if I wanted to expand [[Ho Yay]] I could easily go to fanfiction.net and name a couple of thousand Gundam Wing fanfics.  We rely on the fact that people don't do that--they add works they are concerned with; nobody actually tries to list every example of a trope.
+For that matter, if you're really worried that we don't have room for every example of something, tropes are the least of your worries.  We don't have room for a page on every work of fiction that exists, let alone room for every hotheaded character.  But we shouldn't stop listing works of fiction just because of that.