RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIV
09-23-2019, 07:14 AM (This post was last modified: 09-23-2019, 07:14 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
09-23-2019, 07:14 AM (This post was last modified: 09-23-2019, 07:14 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
Quote:None of these are qualifiers by the trope's criteria and rules.I wasn't aware that any of our tropes had rules. We are descriptive, not prescriptive.
That said, after rereading Complete Monster to be sure, I would think the deleted examples are a mixed bunch. The Locust are clearly CM in their initial appearances; by the very entry text they get a Freudian Excuse in GOW3, but the mantle of CM shifts to the queen, who certainly qualifies in my opinion. Maybe a bit of explicit text regarding the evolution of who is the Monster across the course of the franchise is needed, but there's no justification for the outright deletion.
Quote:I just made a change to the Main Page. ... The box at the bottom of the page, "We have more than just Trope And Works pages, below are the other major sections of the wiki:", now also contains "Mechanics of Writing | Actually using all this to write stories."Oh, good, I hadn't even noticed we were missing that.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....