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A potential TV Tropes page for some Brazilian animated series' Western Animation
As a fan of Brazilian and South American animation as a whole, I have suggested that we should create pages for shows from that country that don't have one, largely due to not being well known outside of their home countries (Ba Da Bean being the closest exception) and their wikis being either non-existent or small. From a list from most likely to least likely:
- Zuzubaland (also known as Zuzubalandia in Brazil): An animated Continuity Reboot of the 1998 Puppet Show of the same name and based on the 1997 book Jujubalandia; created by Mariana Caltabiano. The show centers around Zuzu and friends living in Zuzubaland, a kingdom made up of various types of food (namely cand) and is ruled by King Appetite. The show mostly centers around Random Event Plots caused by either Zuzu, her friends, or the series' antagonists, The Green Witch and Garfedia. The show has an Official website, its own YouTube in both Portugal and English, an English dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment and a huge Cash-Cow Franchise in Brazil right next to Monica's Gang.
- Ba Da Bean: An animated series by Michael Hack that centers around a bean sprout planted in a paper cup as he ventures into the world of art. It has its own English dub, also by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, that stars Stephanie Panisello as the title character, Suzie Yeung as Cosa, Amber May as Kami and Dino Andrade as York. Stephanie Panisello is known for her role as Claire Redfield in the Resident Evil series; Suzie Yeung and Amber May are known for their roles Genshin Impact as Eula and Dehya respectively, and Dino Andrade is known for his roles in World of Warcraft as well as playing the title character on the aforementioned Zuzubaland.
- Vivi (also known as Vivi Viravento in Brazil): An animated series created by Alê Abreu, who is a well-known Brazilian filmmaker, based on the 2009 short film of the same name. It stars Vivi, her backpack Mochilao and her flashlight Lanterninha as they travel all around the world to find the world of Viravento (or "Whirlyland" according to the Qubo dub). Speaking of Qubo, the show once aired there during the channel's life span note albeit at 5:30 am where most kids were still sleeping, and is available on Tubi with an English dub, though information on said dub is unknown. The show is very obscure even in its home country.
- Underdogs United (also known as Metegol: Underdogs United in Argentina): An animated series created by the award-winning Juan José Campanella and is based off of the 2013 Metegol film. It's a Flash-animated Denser and Wackier Edutainment Show that takes a few ques from anime (such as the Super-Deformed chibi sprites); Capi, Beto and Loco (now named Kiko) are the main characters in this series alongside Canon Foreigners Emma and Gigi. It having a world dedicated to all sports besides foosball note The Spanish equivalent to soccer, appropriately titled Sportsville, while our heroes try to stop the Big Bad Waldoberto Worst whose goal is to get ride of all of the sports so he can be all alone (basically the Argentina equivalent to Robbie Rotten). Unfortunately, information of the series is hard to come by in no small part of it being unavailable to watch legally outside of a VPN, a lack of an IMDb page and that most sources of the Metegol don't even mention it at all. Even the English dub is borderline lost media since no-one knows who the ENG VAs are, who directed the dub, and what studio recorded the dub. It's fanbase is also small due to its divisive reception by Metegol fans who dislike it for having nothing to do with it's source material beyond the name and having three of the Foosball players supporting characters as the main protagonists.
What do you guys think of these shows and do you want them to have their own pages on This Very Wiki. Comment down below to see your answers.
Update: Ok so apparently, someone has made an IMDb page for Underdogs United. I'm gonna assume this page was made recently since it looks like it was left as a first draft.
August 11, 2023 Update: I changed the Ba Da Bean English dub playlist to El Lazor (who uploaded all of the dub episodes) because the original playlist was taken down for unknown reasons (possibly to avoid getting Screwed by WBD)
Edited by ToonAbbyCan I recreate the episode recaps of Duncanville? Western Animation
Some pages like "The Dudliest Catch" were cut for several red and abandoned links.
I've watched the show and have time. Is it okay to recreate the pages?.
Edited by MysterionFanOneShotCharacter - Entry on a Character page or listed on the Recap page? Western Animation
I'm doing some work on a long-running series that recently came to an end and I'm not sure where to put character-specific tropes for a One-Shot Character who only appears in a single episode.
Some of these characters already have entries on the series' Character pages. However, that feels a little excessive when the character only appeared in a single episode. My thinking is that the tropes pertaining to that character specifically would be better suited going on that episode's Recap page (many of them are already listed there) since they didn't have an impact outside of that episode.
A quick search didn't turn up any guidance on this (cannot wait for the "Search" improvements as part of the upcoming upgrades), so I thought I'd reach out here. Any thoughts on the matter?
Content Leak troping - "Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too!" Western Animation
Bringing this over from the Unreleased Work Page Cleanup Thread, as that's gone quiet.
Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too! is scheduled for release on September 26th. A trailer's been released, but the entire film has also, reportedly, been leaked.
The works page currently tropes the whole film and is clearly written by someone who either knows exactly what happens (via leak or inside information), or is inventing examples. The former seems more likely.
Most of these examples seem to have been added by Court Dogs, who originally created the page. None of the examples cite pre-release sources, so they're not in line with Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work.
Ariel Lightning has already commented out a bunch of tropes that clearly aren't from the trailer (ending tropes, "halfway through the movie" x happens etc.), only for Readerbug 819 to delete the markup and reinstate them all.
Unreleased notifier sent to CourtDogs, Ignored Comment notifier sent to Readerbug819.
At this point I'm inclined to comment out every example without a source - so probably all of them (with the usual stub/cutlist consequences if sources aren't added) - but for things that are clearly written from leaks (ending tropes etc.), should we just cut them entirely?
We can always add new versions once it's released but (a bit like the ban evader rules) it feels wrong to me to 'reward' this sort of content leak troping by letting those examples remain on the site as currently written.
Views?
Edited by Mrph1Is there a name for this trope? Western Animation
when a character pretends to be innocent and a halo appears above their head, I've seen this is multiple cartoons and I'm wondering if their is a name for it
Grammar error made in Early-Installment Weirdness.The Loud House Western Animation
A few months ago, martinskof did a single edit on Early-Installment Weirdness.The Loud House that simply left a grammar error that went unnoticed. Below is a before and after with the change labelled in bold.
Before:
- The series started out as the adventures of a boy with ten sisters. Eventual episodes gave the sisters and the rest of the family more focus, with numerous stories in which they're the main characters. In some episodes, Lincoln doesn't even appear at all.
After (martinskof changed the bolded period into a comma while leaving "Eventual" capitalized):
- The series started out as the adventures of a boy with ten sisters, Eventual episodes gave the sisters and the rest of the family more focus, with numerous stories in which they're the main characters. In some episodes, Lincoln doesn't even appear at all.
Can I revert the edit?
LGBTQ-Phobic Agenda-Based Editing Western Animation
Ry Rodrigo deleted LGBT Fanbase from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse without an edit reason twice, including after someone restored it with a note telling them to provide an edit reason for it. This is an unambiguous edit war.
They have also gotten in trouble here for deleting LGBT-related entries without an edit reason so they are definitely troping with an agenda.
Do I have permission to restore the entry?
Too Much on The Millennium Age of Animation? Western Animation
On the UsefulNotes.The Millennium Age Of Animation page, TimonAndPumbaa623 has been adding numerous series/movies/specials to the page's list of "Series/Films associated with this era", since 2021 and especially recently, treating it like an index of anything that's come out since the Turn of the Millennium. While the folder itself admits the list is incomplete, it's added a lot of bloat to an already long page, approaching 400,000 . And while "associated with the era" is a somewhat nebulous and subjective term, I'm questioning if such works as CJ the DJ or Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas are notable enough for such a list if it intends to inform people.
All that said, I'm not comfortable with just making a unilateral page change all by myself, so are there any further opinions on this?
Does this "controversy" exist or is it artificial/one-sided fanwank? Western Animation
On the YMMV pages for the 1980s She-Ra: Princess of Power and reboot She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, it says that the fandoms for the show don't get along? Some time ago, Tropers/anthonyjr343 and Tropers/need2reed added these to the original She-Ra YMMV page:
- Fandom Rivalry: Many fans of original She-Ra and current She-Ra do not get along at all. This is likely due to controversial remarks made by Noelle Stevenson with further rivalry fueled by Melendy Britt's vocal criticisms of the new series.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The show's popularity with the LGBT fanbase, in regards to Melendy Britt's criticism of the Netflix series containing rants that could be taken as homophobic simply because the new series has lesbian characters, which she vocally disapproved of.
As someone in the reboot's fandom (though not a closely dedicated follower, though I'm friends with people who are and I know most of the discourse), the YMMV pages were the first I'd ever heard of Britt having a negative opinion on the reboot.
Even after doing research on itTL;DR She wrote a Facebook post saying the reboot crew aren't real fans because of the insults they made to the original in promotional articles and she wrote another hoping the Masters of the Universe: Revelation crew wouldn't act the same. The reboot crew is known for poking fun at the original in a similar way that later Transformers media pokes fun at Transformers: Generation 1 or later DC Comics pokes fun at something like Super Friends, also considering Britt doesn't seem to use social media much (her FB is mostly just the occasional "She-Ra loves you" type of post) and most of the fans she's ever interacted with are '80s-'90s kids, so it honestly seems like a generational misunderstanding to me., I still can't find any discourse about her views on the reboot outside of a few original-only fans weaponizing her word against it.
I also can't find anything about Melendy Britt saying anything remotely homophobic (the only thing I've found of her talking about the LGBT community is a post she made on Facebook saying she and She-Ra support Pride).
Keeping in mind that the reboot has been a huge target of rampant racism, sexism, and homophobia, I have suspicions that these entries about minimal and nonexistent incidents are just there to cause drama and frame a poor light on the people involved.
I've previously edited anything about these subjects on the reboot's YMMV and Trivia page to clarify them (they originally resembled what the original show's pages looked like), but now I'm bringing this here before I edit the OG show's in case I've been missing something the whole time.
Red, White, Blue, and Yellow (RWBY) And plus Miraculous too. Western Animation
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/RWBY
I was about to consider and reconsider this western animation in it too, 'cause they speak and their lips move perfectly (when they speak) English. Their mouths move similar to western animation similar to Sponge Bob, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, My Little Pony, Avatar: The Last Airbender, despite having anime animations like these eyes, the mouths, everything similar in animes just like in Teen Titans (Two Thousand and Three/Two-Thousand Three (2003)), The Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Codename: Kids Next Door, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and so on all western animations out there still. I'm saying I also just wanted to ask you guys on how do you add and put the western animation category in and on the page so if next time I see supposed western animation creations, productions, every idea they made out there. And plus, I also wanted to ask you guys on how do you add "Bang Zoom! Entertainment" as a category on the page on there too as well.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug
Question about Fic Recs Western Animation
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but am I allowed to recommend a fic I myself have written? I've always thought it was no and thought it said that somewhere on the fic page, but I can't find it.
Moments page got removed spoiler tag re-added. Want to avoid edit warring. Western Animation
On Fridge.My Adventures With Superman, I removed a spoiler tag (because Moments pages are Spoilers Off). The spoiler tag was re-added with no edit reason given. I want to re-remove it, but I'm worried that would count as edit warring. I already sent a message to the person who put the spoiler tag back in there.
Edited by Saturn500Trying to avoid an Edit War on the Velma Page before it starts. Western Animation
So someone recently edited the Velma page to take this example off from the Arc Fatigue entry
- Related to that, the fact that the whole season is supposedly building up to the formation of the Mystery Gang but by the time the season ends they are still not friends, much less the Mystery Incorporated we know from the rest of the franchise. It's enough to make some fans feel like the whole season's build up was pointless.
The reason they removed the entry was cited as "Um the finale does hint they are becoming friends so this is misleading"
But I don't think it is though since the final scene with the main characters is them fighting with each other and pretty clearly still hating each other's guts.
Normally I'd just add it back but said user has engaged in some minor apologism of the show in the past so I'm worried this is more of that same attitude and I don't wanna kick off an edit war with them.
Hence why I'm asking here if it should be safe to add this example back before doing anything.
What's a good trope to describe a dated joke that the writers should have known was dated. Western Animation
I'm specifically talking about a joke in Western Animation/Velma. At one point someone is holding up a sign saying "Lock her up but by her we mean him".
It's a Hillary Clinton reference but the problem is the joke is horribly dated because 2016 was years ago.
I'm trying to find a good trope this would fall under. Unintentional Period Piece wouldn't count because this would have been in production long after the 2016 election.
Can someone help me figure this out?
Troper removing content they don't like from a show. Western Animation
(Deleted query after examining the issue I wanted to talk about and seeing it was already solved, please ignore.)
Edited by Inky100Edit War prevention, FakeMixedRace Entry Deleted Twice. Western Animation
Despite it being confirmed that the brothers on The Dragon Prince, Callum and Ezran are both biracial, (but not their voice actors) there seems to be some disbelief going on when it comes to Callum.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Trivia.TheDragonPrince#edit37668055
Should the entry be restored? (maybe include Ezran this time) I did so once before and don't wish for this to erupt into an edit war.
Edited by Avenger09New Tropes Western Animation
Can you guys add these new Tropes that I invented?
- 1: "Unnamed Short Tempered Trope" It's Like "Hair-Trigger Temper" but downplayed and "Fiery Redhead" but for all types of characters with different types of hair colors.
- 2: "Question Not Answered" I know, Pretty cool name, It's self-explanatory and Nickelodeon is notorious for using this cliché in their sitcoms.
- 3: "Doesn't Say Sorry" It's basically when a character doesn't say sorry for their Jerkass behaviour say: "Bob scolds Alice for focusing more on school than her job after a fight Alice apologizes but Bob Doesn't apologizes for not leting her do her school duty." Double Subverted In The "We Baby Bears" Episode "Triple T Tigers" Where Near The Ending TK Apologizes for his bossy nature toward his brothers but is interrupted by the bears.
- 4: "Oblivious Twist" (You can change the name, don't worry about it.) It's basically a plot twist where... let's say "Alice is jealous of Bob doing killer skateboard tricks that he learned from a book only to do one more and the skateboard snaps in half which causes Alice to laugh in his face and revales that it was all a plan to get revenge at Bob for making lasagna instead of meatloaf with him knowing that if she eats lasagna it gives her acid reflux. Example: "ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks" Episode "Simon the Superb" Simon wants Alvin to give him his book but turns out the book was part of a plan to trick Alvin.
- 5: "Big "HEY!"" And "Big "DO IT!"" Come on, Why not?
- 6: And Finally "Common Sense Isn't Allowed" It's "Forgot About His Powers" But it's not power related let me put a scenario for you: "Bob and Alice can drink water safely but Bridgette (A Fire Girl) can't so Bob and Alice accuse Bridgette of being an evil creature that is poisonous to water but they forgot and Bridgette doesn't say that she can't drink water. (because of plot reasons.)
And that's all the tropes i want you to add so please mods add them thank you and ciao for now.
Edited by BlimperBraveCaption changed without permission Western Animation
A week ago, the image and caption for Awesome.The Super Mario Bros Movie had been selected thanks to the appropriate Image Pickin' thread. However, ASJ's first edit after Synchronicity added the caption is to change the caption despite the commented-out warning not to. Twice, even.
Edited by AnoBakaDesu
Troper removing content from WMG.Pibby Western Animation
This morning, P360360P removed the entire "Crossovers" folder on WMG.Pibby with the edit reason "Don't get any ideas, guys! It is already traumatizing having our favorite Cartoon Network and Hanna Barbera characters suffering from a fate worse than death with no hope of escape, and it'd be far too much having all sorts of non-Cartoon Network characters suffering from this sort of thing!"
I think this reasoning is VERY unjustified, as if I'm not wrong from my experience with the Pibby fandom, getting traumatized by seeing your favorite childhood cartoon characters being infected by a meta-based Eldritch Abomination is one of the hypothetical show's main appeals. Plus, it completely undermines the point Wild Mass Guessing allowing people to do whatever guesses they want, even if they clearly sound unlikely to happen or make no sense at all.
I solicit a mod reversion of P360360P's edit.
Edited by Inky100