The Vosgian Beast posted:

Okay why not, working on it as we speak.

Fast Eddie posted:

Regarding the dispute over extreme versus less extreme. Just merge the two lists alphabetically. Leave off the judgments, as those are not real tropes. The list should be about which tropes are used in the genre to tell stories, not audience-reaction, YMMV entries.

I'll help by clearing out the non-storytelling items.

Meeble posted:

Greatly condensed the following entry as Red Linked items with Wiki Words tend to break the indexing, causing the first correct Wiki Word to get indexed instead of the title. If the information needs to be added back in, please rewrite it in a way that does not include wiki words (or add an article for the work first.)

• Living Sex Toy Delivery: this anime is interesting because of the Rape Tropes it both inverts and subverts, and when they are played straight the guy is surprised. It starts out with a man being gang raped by six women, however far from being a case of Rape Is OK When It Is Female on Male, the show makes it clear that Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil, and they attempt to kill him afterwards. However he survives and sets out on a tale of Rape and Revenge against the women who did this to him. Originally he planed on killing them like they tried to do to him but he could not go through with it and just gave each of them a Humiliation Conga that ended with the girl being sent to her workplace naked inside a cardboard box. First he targets the girl that invited him but she turned out to have not know what they were planning on doing with him and did not participate in the rape. Combination of guilt and that she was a virgin turned it into a Rape Is Love situation. She then agrees to help him get revenge against the rest by finding out their secret sexual fetishes. The guy originally intended to use them to up the embarrassment of the ladies, but it turned out to be more of a case of Its Not Rape If You Enjoyed It, much to his frustration.

Can't Be Perverted Around Your Love Interest posted:

This troper is in a group of close friends who, when interested in a girl, all re-frame from any perversion in her close proximity. this was soon found out by a few girls who caught us changing the subject very quickly when certen girl were around and we explained it to them, minus which guy like which girl. good thing one of these girl did not notice sooner because all of use had enacted this on her at one time.

I also re-frame from fantasizing about the girl I'm into at the time, which is hard right now as that she is the hottest specimen of female I have ever seen, including Celebs.

Did Not Do The Bloody Research posted:

I grew up on a small island in the northwest Pacific. We spoke English. And this island wasn't that stuffy or conservative either--it had a thriving gay community and public beach, etc. But my experienced vocabulary was very different from what I later encountered in the United States and on the Internet. Words I had known to be taboo at least to some degree: "rear end", "bastard", "bitch", "dick", "fag", "human being", "gently caress", "jackass", "jap", N-word, "piss", "pussy", "poo poo", lord's name in vain. And words I was never sure were taboo or not: "homo", "hump", "jerkoff", "lesbo". And words I'd never heard until I was an adult: "arse", "batty", "bugger", "chink", "oval office", "douchebag", K-word, "shite", "spastic", "tranny", "twat", "wank", "wetback", "whang", "yiff". And known words I'd heard/used but never in a taboo manner, and only learned as an adult they could be taboo: "bang", "bloody", "cock", "come", "cracker", "dyke", "fanny", "frog", "gay", "prick", "queen", "queer", "roger", "shag", "snatch", "sod", "spaz". As for "spaz" and "spastic", I only learned today that they were taboo anywhere at all.

Crowning Moment of Awesome posted:

This troper spent THE WHOLE of school being bullied IN BOTH WAYS from kindergarten to year thirteen, all day every day. after 14 years of this on my last day in year 13, 12th grade for Americans, the last year of school, on the last day, I was about to leave when one of the bullies ripped up the picture of a companion cube I keep inside my locker blu-tacked on the door, that was the LAST STRAW, the entire gang of bullies was there, all 5 of them. I was so angry I did a flying somersault kick and punch AT THE SAME TIME into one of their heads, then I unleashed a cranial upper cut and triple nut kick to the next one, then I grabbed one and shut my locker door on his head repeatedly, then I jumped off a table to a height that I have never jumped before onto the penultimate one's head, then I unleashed the last of my fury on the last guy (the one who euthanised my faithful companion cube more quickly that any other bully on record) and beat him senseless. they were reduced to crying heaps, drat that felt good.

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It was the first day of 1st grade and the teacher had decided that she wanted assistant volunteers to come and help her for whatever reason. So I walked into the classroom with a dorky little 5 year old grin on my face and bout 3 years worth of television plus another 1 year of gaming under my belt

Ninjasaurus posted:

What's hilarious is that you can still find evidence of just how blatantly out of control TVTropes used to be with practically no effort at all. Plenty of pages may have been deleted but these people can't help themselves and must preserve all the pointless they've written for posterity.

Djeser posted:

This troper spent THE WHOLE of school being bullied IN BOTH WAYS from kindergarten to year thirteen, all day every day.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Both ways, huh?

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This troper spent THE WHOLE of school being bullied IN BOTH WAYS from kindergarten to year thirteen, all day every day.

graybook posted:

I wonder if I should be worried that a close friend of mine has submitted a piece of fan-work to MoR. I think hearing of his "accomplishment" was the first time I had encountered MoR entirely, and after reading what y'all have had to say about it, his liking that work seems... problematic.

Fedora of Asskicking posted:

"For the heroes, even the fedora, jacket, and khakis were common attire".
— James Rolfe in the intro to the top 10 dumbest Indiana Jones moments

For some Action Heroes, a fedora is just the kind of hat to wear while in a Fight Scene, Chase Scene, or just doing anything Badass.

In some of the adventure Film Serials, the fedora would be worn by the hero. When Indiana Jones came along, it solidified the hat as a sign of the adventurer (at least to modern audiences). It can also become an Iconic Item. Another function the fedora serves is that it gives the hero a distinctive silhouette.

Just be careful not to confuse a trilby (a hat with a similar arc, but a short, curled brim around the perimeter and made from sewn fabric rather than shaped felt) for a fedora.

A Sub-Trope of Nice Hat.

A Sister Trope to Adventurer Outfit, Scarf of Asskicking. Often combined with a Coat and a Mask.

Hammurabi posted:

There's no rape or overt pedophilia on the page that I've noticed, but I just thought you guys might like to know that there is a trope called "Fedora of Asskicking" about badass fedora baddasses and their badass fedoras. Also Linkara is listed as an example, but I'm sure you could've guessed that. It's just a shame that it wasn't around when Troper Tales was, because that Troper Tales page would've been hilarious.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

To be fair, this is actually a thing in movies and such, which is why people in real life keep doing it; they're just aping all those cool people in their favorite movies/shows/whatever. Completely missing the fact that all those movies/shows/whatever tend to be set in the 1940's when the fedora was fashionably appropriate.

Ninjasaurus posted:

From the spelling errors and overall lovely writing, I'm willing to believe this was written by an actual high school freshman who is still in his "ew cooties" phase. I'm not sure I'd call his singling out of black girls who are just being nice to him as vaguely racist but it's certainly bizarre. And what does not wearing blue jeans have to do with refusing a hug from an attractive girl?

A-teens posted:

If you look pause at just the moments in the video A Perfect Match, you can actually clearly see the bras both female members were wearing under their tops. Keep in mind, they were popular among children, and they got away with any undergarments that was seen.
If you carefully look at their Super Trouper video and carefully pause it in the beginning, you can clearly see part of Sara's bra. Not only that, in the DVD Collection, there's one part where the girls were checking out each other. Remember they were teenagers at the time and for some reason, it keeps getting removed but not in the DVD version.
In Dancing Queen, the band enters two separate restrooms… the boys in the GIRLS restroom and the girls in the BOYS restroom. They’re right… one of the males in the one Mare and Sara went to was checking them out.

Sonic Adventure 2 posted:

Sonic Adventure 2 was rated 3+, perhaps surprising when you consider that the lyrics of the Wild Canyon stage are basically Intercourse with You. It contains blatant references to Rouge being "sexy" and how Knuckles wants to "get her with his tools" and is "feeling her in mysterious ways". As well as that, Rouge got away with Jiggle Physics -- to the point of Gainaxing at certain points -- throughout the game.

Ninjasaurus posted:

Do these dorks not realize that fedoras have become the laughing stock of the Internet?

Ninjasaurus posted:

Do these dorks not realize that fedoras have become the laughing stock of the Internet?

Lunatics key posted:

Keep in mind, they were popular among children,

Djeser posted:

Did Not Do The Bloody Research posted:

I grew up on a small island in the northwest Pacific. We spoke English. And this island wasn't that stuffy or conservative either--it had a thriving gay community and public beach, etc. But my experienced vocabulary was very different from what I later encountered in the United States and on the Internet. Words I had known to be taboo at least to some degree: "rear end", "bastard", "bitch", "dick", "fag", "human being", "gently caress", "jackass", "jap", N-word, "piss", "pussy", "poo poo", lord's name in vain. And words I was never sure were taboo or not: "homo", "hump", "jerkoff", "lesbo". And words I'd never heard until I was an adult: "arse", "batty", "bugger", "chink", "oval office", "douchebag", K-word, "shite", "spastic", "tranny", "twat", "wank", "wetback", "whang", "yiff". And known words I'd heard/used but never in a taboo manner, and only learned as an adult they could be taboo: "bang", "bloody", "cock", "come", "cracker", "dyke", "fanny", "frog", "gay", "prick", "queen", "queer", "roger", "shag", "snatch", "sod", "spaz". As for "spaz" and "spastic", I only learned today that they were taboo anywhere at all.

beep bop lists list the words

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Well, not exactly. Some of them know that the general opinion of this kind of person is rather negative but many think it's out of jealousy. It's why "boys have swag, men have style" images keep cropping up. It's funny but the belief seems to be that a person's choice in hats ultimately determines what they are but in this case it's having the polar opposite effect than the one that they want.

Fedoras were associated with style and class so people with neither glommed onto them because they wanted the style and class but didn't want to put forth the effort. Now they're associated with fat, unwashed, lazy neckbeards with egos as bloated and gargantuan as their daily calorie intake.

CommanderCoffee posted:

The only real-life person I know who wears a fedora with any regularity and is justified in doing so is my Maya-centric archaeology teacher, who only wears it on field digs. He has the leather jacket too, but that doesn't work well in Guatemala and so his gear there is fedora, t-shirt, shorts, hiking shoes.

But fuckin' tropers...

Stottie Kyek posted:

I quite like fedoras. When I was a little girl, my mother taught me how to trip a guy up and escape a grab and run away, and gave me advice like "when you're on a date, watch how he treats the waitress because that's how he'll treat you one day, watch how he treats animals, always meet in a public place, don't tell him your address until you're sure he's okay, get your friends to meet him and see what they think, listen to how he talks about other women, particularly his exes and his mother" etc. etc.

Now if I ever have a daughter I'll be able to say, "Is he wearing a fedora? No? He's probably okay."

Lunatics key posted:

allthetropes.org

DeusExMachinima posted:

Mmm, the smell of years old memespeak. Is it so, so hard to throw in a preposition and put an "of" in there?

Swan Oat posted:

This kind of aside is distressingly common in any sort of "look what they slipped into my cartons!!!!" discussion and it's horrible. It's bad enough they have to list all the times Hannah Montana was actually about that fetish about having to hold your piss for a long time or whatever, buy why do they also then have to remind the reader that this media is also aimed at kids. Ugh.

I guess I answered my own question!

Morkyz posted:

If you're an archaeologist you pretty much have license to wear a fedora imo.

Tunicate posted:

Imagine all the people, living without your prescriptivist bullshit.

sweeperbravo posted:

To me the best/worst part is the insistence on how "clearly visible" or "obvious" the weird thing was. Always about something that isn't clearly visible unless you're a weirdo and deliberately setting out to look for it, or something people might notice and then disregard entirely because who the gently caress would even give a poo poo. The best example I can think of is there's a scene in The Rescuers where for the blink of a hen's eye there's a nude chick in a window. It's SO OBVIOUSLY VISIBLE, the rest of us unenlightened sheeple just somehow missed it, only the KooL grown-up mature tropers were grown-up enough to mature notice it

sweeperbravo posted:

To me the best/worst part is the insistence on how "clearly visible" or "obvious" the weird thing was. Always about something that isn't clearly visible unless you're a weirdo and deliberately setting out to look for it, or something people might notice and then disregard entirely because who the gently caress would even give a poo poo. The best example I can think of is there's a scene in The Rescuers where for the blink of a hen's eye there's a nude chick in a window. It's SO OBVIOUSLY VISIBLE, the rest of us unenlightened sheeple just somehow missed it, only the KooL grown-up mature tropers were grown-up enough to mature notice it

Penny Paper posted:

Is that because the Indiana Jones movies made it okay or has it always been the style before those came along?

atop the 4th wall/nightmare fuel posted:

Mechakara.
Let's look at what he's done. He originates from a universe that suffered a robot apocalypse, and apparently, the majority of organic life has been killed off. He killed his Linkara and ripped off his skin, then wore it ala The Terminator (judging from his dialogue, he may have done both at the same time), because he was tired of listening to Linkara being a comic book fanboy. The fact that he wants to harness the magic gun and kill every single living thing in all reality is bad enough, but the fact that he is actively out to torture and Mind Rape Linkara just because he wants to see a version of Linkara suffer a slow death? Yeah, Mechakara is one of the most psychotic, depraved and demented A.I's this side of AM.
A later Fridge Horror: His rebuilding by Vyce. Where did the new Linkara disguise come from? Is it synthetic or vat-grown? Or did Vyce kill another Linkara to get it?
From Sultry Teenage Super Foxes #2, "All that he sees, he conquers." drat it, Mechakara, stop being creepy!

atop the 4th wall/nightmare fuel posted:

In "Batman: A Word to the Wise" Linkara's in the middle of his latest Badass Boast...and suddenly the Magic Gun doesn't work anymore. He may be more screwed than ever before.

Lunatics key posted:

what does any of this have to do with reviewing comic books ?

Lunatics key posted:

what does any of this have to do with reviewing comic books ?

Lottery of Babylon posted:

That fat internet nerd in a fedora sure is scary.

They really don't understand what horror is. If a character says "I plan to kill five hundred people", that doesn't automatically make them ten times as scary as a character who says "I plan to kill fifty people". Including a note that a character did something bad in their backstory doesn't instantly make them as terrifying as seeing them do something bad onscreen. Real people don't get scared just because the show tells them "This person is scary and you should be scared"; scaring the audience is more complicated than that.



According to TvTropes, I am now the world's most terrifying horror novelist.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Lottery of Babylon posted:

According to TvTropes, I am now the world's most terrifying horror novelist.