All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXIII

[robkelk]

Okay, now that some of my trope candidates have been or are getting launched, what should I propose next? Going through the directory where I do my offline wiki work, I note that the following candidates are ready for primetime, or can be with a little polish:

• Celebrity Name-Dropper
  
• Exotic Clientele
  
• He May Be an X, But He's OUR X
  
• Heinlein's Dictum ("Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.")
  
• Kabedon
  
• Limited Time of Operation
  
• One of These Days, Pow!
  
• Paint Path (video game trope - diagetic markings indicating the way to go)
  
• Posthumous Homage Character
  
• Pretty People Have Pretty Names
  
• Suspiciously High Security
  
• Syllepsis
  
• X, Thy Name Is Y
  
• You're weird - I'm X, but it's you that's weird
  

Less-complete possibilities:

• God as a Character (AKA "Playing God"). Needs an actual description.
  
• Gone Wonderfully Wrong. Needs one more example for minimum three.
  
• Meeting the Original (isekai trope). Needs one more example for minimum three.
  
• Nomenclature, Military, One Each. Needs one more example for minimum three.
  
• Superheroes Need to Breathe. Description needs to be finished/polished.
  
• World of Beauties. Needs one more example for minimum three.
  
• Worldbuilding Timeline. The description needs a little expansion.
  
• You Had Me at Hello. Needs an actual description.
  

I know Rob has seen all of these as they existed as recently as last week and I'm pretty sure I know a couple of the ones he would choose, but I'm welcoming suggestions from everyone -- including third examples for the ones noted as needing them. And I know some of the titles are a bit... opaque, so feel free to ask me what any of these are actually about.

I know Rob has seen all of these as they existed as recently as last week and I'm pretty sure I know a couple of the ones he would choose, ...

Just to share with everyone else, I'm using "Syllepsis" in a KanriKyara story that just might see the light of day some time this calendar year, and "X, Thy Name Is Y" in the currently-in-progress chapter of Isekai by Moonlight.

This doesn't mean that I need the tropes to actually be tropes in order to use them, of course.

Bumping this because we're down to seven trope candidates... and I've called for the vote on one of them. (I've also asked questions about the content of three others, so they might be ready for votes some time Real Soon Now.)

So, Bob, if you want to go with two trope candidates (or your possible maximum of three), there's plenty of room for them.