Somtimes you get actual trivia like "This character exploded, this is a reference to a law in Madeupistan that forbade spontaneous combustion" Most of the time though...yeah.
I figure this is because the Japanese seem to acknowledge a lot of things as fetishes, whereas for Liberal Tropers it's pure religious reverence
That, and "This character is evil. This hits harder after the election of Donald Trump, who is just as evil."
Placing my bet that Rings of Power and Disney Wars get included.
As much as I want to say that the autists of the site would appreciate the concept of being repeatedly force-fed the same thing you've already seen...
TVT used to have a sub-trope called “Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped,” which was where they put heavy-handed morality lessons they thought were important enough to warrant the lack of subtlety. It was purged for being redundant and too subjective, but users decided to instead start putting those examples in the main “Anvilicious” entries.
Because everyone wants to see a troper get a religious epiphany from a random Rick and Morty episode
Well that would explain why so many lukewarm takes have continually filtered in. It was a pointless category but nobody misses a chance to try to moralize on the internet.
They also have “Don't Shoot the Message” where TVT admits certain works stank and their preachiness probably didn't help, but they then assert that The Message
is still super-cereal and shouldn't be discounted because it's promoted by hacks. It seems a lot of the older uses of the previous trope may have gone there.
Oh they just changed the name then, that's literally the same shit. I've already seen half-baked attempts to crowbar that into nearly anything but that's just outright admitting it. With the single caveat that they admit it's garbage.They also have “Don't Shoot the Message” where TVT admits certain works stank and their preachiness probably didn't help, but they then assert that The Message
Okay, "treat your workers nicely" is not a communist message.
Sure, but commies have a frankly fetishistic obsession with unions that asserts that workers would be forced to work 23 hours a day every single day and be shot for stopping for even a second if not for unions (or more accurately, openly revolutionary unions). These are people that think there should be unions for coffee shop baristas, and that said unions should go on strike the minute they are asked to do their jobs, so I feel that their idea of “being nice to workers” is a bit more than ensuring they have safe workspaces and dental coverage.
Sounds just like that one antiwork subreddit.
"Let's just makes things up" - the problem with so much on Tvtropes.