What's happening?

Tropedia, The True Tropes Wiki, and Official Tropes are merging to make a single tropes wiki on Fandom.

What does that mean?

True Tropes Wiki and Official Tropes will be closed and redirected to Tropedia.

All unique pages on all wikis will be preserved (although some may be deleted after the merge), all pages found on two or more of the wikis will be kept or copied over, with the "kept" page being the most recently edited.

What about templates and images?

These will be copied over, with resolution of any naming conflicts.

What about Discussions?

Unfortunately we can't copy over Discussions, so history will be lost there. But Tropedia's Discussion space will still be available.

How will we know what came from where?

True Tropes and Official Tropes pages will be put in a category to reflect their source. Anything without those categories will be from Tropedia.

What about admins?

The two active admins from each merged wiki will join RRabbit42 and SelfCloak as admins or admin/bureaucrats here.

What about policies?

That's something that's down to you, the admins and users of the merged wiki. You will need to work out what will work best for the community as a whole (with Fandom's over-all policies being followed of course)

What if I'm banned on Tropedia?

Unbans will be up to the combined admin group, although I strongly encourage them to be lenient and give people a chance to show they can work with the expanded community.

I expect a few bumps on the way, there are three different communities involved, with their own style and norms. But the core is the same so I hope, with your help, it will work out.

The title 'Creator Killer', I feel, is misleading.

Currently, it's the title for describing when a work flops so horribly it ruins a creator's career, sometimes for good. It's that flop that they can't recover from.

However, a lot of people might believe it means a Rage Against the Author sort of situation where the creator might LITERALLY be killed by their own work. Such as a story where characters travel to a world where they're only fictional and confront their creator.

Or, some people might think it refers to a work where the creator dies in the process of making the work. For example, the effort done in writing, directing, or performing in the work causes them to suffer a stroke or a heart attack or something like that.

On The True Tropes, it was renamed to Creator-Derailing Project (similar to Star-Derailing Role, where actors' careers are derailed after a certain movie or show). But with The True Tropes being merged with Tropedia due to Fandom decreeing "There can be only one", I'm afraid any work in renaming the trope will be undone.

Personally, I feel the term 'Creator Killer' is WAY too misleading to stand as the title of the trope. In the past, similar renaming has been done. 'Going Down With the Ship' now refers to situations where a captain goes down with a literal sinking ship, but back in the 2000s, it was referring to 'shipping'. Too many people thought it meant the former rather than the latter, so the 'shipping' trope was renamed 'Dying Declaration of Love' and 'Going Down With the Ship' now refers to actual sinking ships and those who stay aboard when the ship sinks. And I feel that was the correct call.

So with that in mind, I think 'Creator Killer' should be renamed. Creator-Derailing Project is just one of several alternate titles that could be used.

Barry Allen was dead for 23 years. The DCAU had to add a new character that wasn’t Barry Allen anymore. It was his nephew sidekick Wally West who was kid flash and Jason Todd was killed off and was dead for 15 years and they created a composite character who would be a composite, Tim, Drake and Jason Todd.

On the page for the 1999 show, Roswell, it says it's a "Monster-of-the-Week" show in the description. but it's not in the list of tropes the show uses. I looked up what each episode is about, even saw the first three episodes, but I haven't found anything that makes it a "Monster-of-the-Week" type of show. Is this an error that needs to be fixed, or is there anything I'm missing?

There's an episode of Sailor Moon where she and Naru (and later Naru and Umino) are dancing to 'Moonlight Desetsu' (i.e the theme song). It's even worse in the 90s english dub when they're singing the English theme song (though they only sings the part before they get to the part where Sailor Moon's actual name is said). Is either one an example of 'Leaning on the Fourth Wall' or is it another trope?

I tried asking this on the Discord and got no answer, so I'm asking here.

DO YOU KNOW THIS? https://www.deviantart.com/violetskittle/art/She-got-dizzy-884622012

So my classmate and I have been assigned to make a short film for a theatre class.

His idea was to make a Doki Doki Literature Club inspired film in which the protagonist, played by him, finds himself trapped in an anime and has to escape. For some reason the protagonist takes the love interest with him when he goes back to the “real world”????? idk this guy is kind of an incel

Some things that I was worried about:

• This guy 100% wants to add fan service. I heard him call yanderes hot once and he simps for Nezuko from demon slayer.

• He says that it’s ok for me to act as the love interest because I’m his friend. I hate this guy. We are not friends. SOS.

If I want a new page for a trope that I feel like should be on here to be created on this wikia site, do I need to ask someone’s permission first?

Just curious bc it's a good game but it's 18+

Like, for help, or is it specifically "trope" stuff or whatever, also, what is a "trope"?

I KNOW he won't really care, but I'm a nervous person, and overthink EVERYTHING, I'm pretty open about it around good friends, but my family.. eh, not much, I feel like if I told him he would just say "Oh wow, didn't know you knew about furries and all that" because ik he used to be a furry, not gonna share his furry name thing, ANYWAY, I'm literally scared to tell him anything. If you can help, TYSMMMM

What do you think an H villain (or erotic works in general) needs to qualify as Complete Monsters or Pure Evil?

As we know in this type of work, rape is basically standard villainy, so one wonders what a villain would need to surpass standard villainy.?

One can think of things, that he plans to execute the heroine when he is done having fun with her, or that he plans to turn her into a slave for life, instead of just abusing her a few times.

I noticed a lack of some eldritch abomination tropes. Sure we have the standard Eldritch Abomination page, Humanoid Abomination and Adorable Abomination. But we seem to be missing some others. Now we'll need new names, because TV Tropes thinks they own some tropes. Here's what I have in mind.

Animalistic Abomination - Animabomination - An animal-shaped abomination.

Botanical Abomination - Florabomation or Eldritch Flora - Fantastic Flora that is eldritch in nature.

Mechanical Abomination - Mechabomination - When the "AI is a Crapshoot" is taken to Eldritch Abomination levels.

Digital Abomination - Digibomination - Same thing as the mechanical one, but lacking a physical shell.

Adaptational Abomination - Adaptation Abomination - A character who was mundane or had some magical powers in the original source material is an eldritch being in the adaptation.

Angelic Abomination - Eldritch Angel - You know Our Angels Are Different, though in the bible, they're otherworldly enough to drive you mad. Hence the "Be not afraid" quote is necessary.

Draconic Abomination - Dracabomination - Eldritch dragons. Which one could consider a sub-trope of "Animalistic Abomination".