Thread:Forum:Trope Talk/The The Tropes/reply (6)


 * The other definitions apply to some of the examples. For instance, the one about abstract ideas applies to The Worf Effect.

The definition talks about "substantivized adjectives". Neither "Worf" nor "effect" is an adjective, substantivized or not. Also, anything is unique within a certain context as long as the context is small enough. That doesn't mean that we need to bring that into trope names. And even if the context is arbitrarily tiny, the definite article can vanish when it's preceded by a word in the genitive case.

(By the way, I noticed that The Immune had sneaked accidentally and wrongly into my long list of tropes (which, by the way isn't and isn't intended to be exhaustive) in the original post. "Immune" is an adjective.)

My suggestion is that we go with WWWD? (What Would Wikipedia Do?) when considering whether trope names should have definite articles.