TvTropes posted:

Darth Wiki: Obsidian Rhapsody
Obsidian Rhapsody, a project started by Lordnecronus, is a Deconstruction of JRPGs that is both Darker and Edgier and Bloodier and Gorier. Currently, the author is in search of collaborators from TV Tropes; if you're interested in collaborating, then go to this forum thread and post something. If you become one of the collaborators, then bear this list in mind. Use it for ideas.
The plot (at least what has been made up so far) mainly concerns a group of screwed-up "heroes" who are trying to save the world from a deadly disease known only as the "White Death". To save the world from the White Death, they need to protect a girl named Reiko Hanover, who can use an amulet at a special, out-of-dimension fortress named Obsidian to cure the White Death. There is also a race of large, bull-like demons called the Minions who are hunting Reiko. And then there's the Amanian Empire, who are also seemingly after Reiko.

TvTropes posted:

Calvin and Hobbes: The Series is a Fan Fic series co-authored by Swing 123 and garfieldodie. It is perhaps the main installment in what is unofficially known as the Calvinverse.
As you can imagine, the idea came about when the authors couldn't help but wonder what the original comic strip would be like if it had been animated. Of course, with Watterson's very strict policy on marketing his work, that likely will never happen in real life. But making fanfiction on the other hand...
The series is best described as a fake Calvin and Hobbes television show, and though it doesn't use traditional Script Fic styling, it has all the hallmarks of one otherwise - in fact, it's incredibly thorough in this regard, with everything from animation notes, a Lemony Narrator, plenty of Medium Awareness, and bonus chapters that collect fake trailers and other such promos.
Its writing style starts out shaky in the first season, but by the second season it crystallizes into its current form - a snarky, troperiffic little series. It also introduces a buttload of Adaptation Expansion.
After a lengthy absence on Swing's page, garfieldodie took over story-posting in Season 5 Part 2, announcing the return of a regular schedule (every Thursday, as of present) and that Season 5 will be the last season. As such, the final story, "Black Rain", concluded on December 3rd, 2013, about eight years after the series began.

TvTropes posted:

Darth Wiki: TV Tropes Wiki Villain Song
Obviously, we of TV Tropes Wiki need our own Villain Song for this page! Let's get to writing one!
More than the Database hates you,
We're sometimes rather cruel,
Not that we want to berate you,
But it's our job to try and rule!
We're worse than the Vampires Datorum,
No spilling our plans while we dine,
We'll smash you into dust and then atoms,
We don't even need to finish this rhyme.
We've all read the Evil Overlord List,
Even made our own additions.
But we're not telling all our best plans,
'till we've beat all into submission!
EVERYBODY!
Simply put, we're the best of the worst of the worst!
Our beauty's sublime and with talents unnumbered we're cursed,
and just so you know, we're doing this number unrehearsed...
we're the best of the best of the worst of the worst!
We'll hug small fuzzy animals
And you will sing our praise
But then we'll do a turnabout
And bring the end of days!
We'll sulk, but we'll turn monsterous
And while we may be oddly kind
But then we will go on a rage
And then we'll crush your mind!
We're manipulative, cunning, and endlessly clever
We're never the person we seem
You're doing exactly what we want right now
Our defeat's only part of our scheme!
Huzzah!

* um can anyone tell me what tune this goes to?
* no. we're evil like that.
* Or are we?
* It's complicated.
* I suggest UN Owen Was Her.

Arcsquad12 posted:

If there's one thing Tropers love more than sperging on Tropes, it's "subverting" them.

TvTropes posted:

I mean... UGH.
Someone's face gets smashed in by a bottle early-on, and only goes downhill from there.
Imagine if someone mixed up Schindler's List and Alice in Wonderland together into one film. That would be rather foolish and perverted maddening-of-the-senses wouldn't it? Yet that's Pan's Labyrinth for you!
Seriously, who is the target audience for this? WHO?
It alienates people who want a fantasy/adventure story because it keeps jumping back to a reality where the human heart is at its very darkest with confrontations with fascists and torture scenes. Then it manages to alienate those who want a gritty and serious depiction of a war film, because it keeps jumping back into a children's fairy-tale with magical creatures.
WHO green-lighted this? Its not suitable for children or adults. Who am I supposed to recommend this film to!?

Venusian Weasel posted:

But why would Troopers add Naked Lunch to a list of Good Things? It's literature, so most wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It wouldn't make it on the list, and it's why entries for noted pieces of literature are snotty (where its required reading in school) or non-existent.

said page posted:

Tropers/Aldo930: "Nature Pants" is not a bad episode, but the characters are very OOC. When did SpongeBob want to leave his job to go live among the jellyfish? When did Patrick take the loss of his best friend so badly he decided to make him a trophy? Again, not bad, but the episode suffers because of it.

Testekill posted:

I have to just ask. What is the point? I mean, what would be the point of this ever?

quote:

Dinosaur Comics: Not actually a furry comic in any sense, as it contains no anthropomorphized animals at all! Notable for being the probably only comic in existence to only ever use the same six panels (containing exactly three dinosaurs), despite having literally thousands of strips at this point.

Bolt The Pikachu posted:

What would happen if Sonichu was... good?
This is not that answer, but it's the closest one we've got. At least that's what the author thinks. Our story starts out upon the little village of Yellow forest, inhabited by little adorable creatures called Pikachu. All of them named Pikachu for some reason. Most of there hobbies involve running with sharp objects, doing back flips into the local shallow pond, and having staring contests with Bob. That last one doesn't seem to bad until you realize that they named the sun Bob.
Anyway, This story focuses on one Pikachu in particular. You see today is his wedding day. He's getting married to a beautiful female Pikachu. Today is going to be the best day of his life, right?
Wrong.
The alien race known as the Kragdor abduct him and inject him with DNA of several different races, Although, it's mainly Mobian. He reacts unwell to the sudden DNA interjection, and almost kills all of the aliens on the ship and himself. Until of course, a man named T saves him by taking him to the interverse and allow him to stabilize there. After the Pikachu is stabilized he is brought back to his home village. But he is not welcomed back with a smile. In fact, He is outright rejected by his little home village. Everyone hates him. Even his fiance Pikachu. No one wants a freak like that around, right?
Not exactly. The man who rescued him, T, offers him something. A sort of job. T works for God Himself as a Guardian of sorts. His latest job is trying to take down the Kragdor and their leader, the Dictator, from taking over the Multiverse. Anyways, T offers the Pokémobian, to come with him to help take down the Dictator. The Pikachu, having nowhere else to go, takes T up on his offer and renames himself Bolt.

Fuego Fish posted:

Clicking the "open/close all folders" button repeatedly and watching the scroll bar go from chunky to ant-sized is so loving funny.

corn in the bible posted:

He is also not good.

NachtSieger posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3569947&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post419449456

Improbable Lobster posted:

sounds like a bad attempt at sounding like a Gurren Lagann character.

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

They claim to be an academic resource. What's the last encyclopedia or dictionary you saw with a "just for fun" page?

rjryan3 posted:

But why him? Of all the people who do these internet shows about childhood memories why is tvtropes mostly focus on him? Why doesn't tvtropes have this same fixation on James Rolfe? And more importantly why the hell are they acting like the Nostalgia Critic is all about this emotional character study of the title role and not about a guy making jokes about lovely children films?

Lottery of Babylon posted:

It's a song about affecting emotional detachment, not about- god drat stop projecting your bullshit onto everything.

Byde posted:

Has anybody who talks about these animes ever mentioned any specific examples of why these things are god's gift to storytelling and not just say "I dunno, it's deep, metaphor against fascism, it's dark and people die which is real-lifey even though real-life is secretly filled with the guys from V/Terminators/Thought Police/Illuminati/Bydo/Animorphs/etc while we basement dwellers are the real champions of human life and anyone sane is the real subhuman trash."

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Mark Twain said it best. "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies in the process." The same can be applied to stories.

Englishman alone posted:

Unless I'm missing something The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is also second person as the whole story is directed to the reader and the only one I can think of at the moment. Also is second person the same as a dramatic monologue in poetry.
Here's its depressingly short page
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheReluctantFundamentalist
I wonder if it has any analysis Nope

Punting posted:

I think the worst thing about that stupid loving story is the absolutely laughable 'scientific rationality' that the author tries to portray.

Harry's response to magic: "BLARGH BLARGH HOW DARE YOU VIOLATE THE SACRED AND IMMUTABLE COMMANDMENTS OF SCIENCE WITH YOUR MAGIC LET ME EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE WRONG."

Actual rational scientist's response to magic: "This is some extremely interesting phenomena, let's run some tests and see if we can't come up with some new physics models that allow for these events."

Joshlemagne posted:

Wait a pinball section? A pinball section!? Web comics and fan fiction were bad enough but I think something just broke in my brain. I think I'm going to find an appropriate trope and add a "stuff scribbled on the back of a bar napkin" section. No such thing as notability.

Wales Grey posted:

Only insofar as some neo-reactionaries want society to be ruled by an immortal and perfect philosopher-king AI. IIRC, the neo-reactionaries who showed up on LessWrong got booted out and made their own warren of inane sophistry called "MoreRight".

Soulcleaver posted:

corn in the bible posted:

but the bible is long and also a book

Austrian mook posted:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllLoveIsUnrequited
Very often happens amongst taken best friends."

Byde posted:

Speaking of which, is Xenogears supposed to be a homage to Evangelion? They both have all the same qualities of each other: giant robots, emo, bible references, Adam and Eve, crazy girls, pretentiousness, problems during production, etc. etc.

Swan Oat posted:

I don't know why I'm surprised at least one black metal fan reads TVT, but I guess I am.

HorseRenoir posted:

What is it about metal that attracts sperglords? I've never seen punk or hip-hop fans as anal and dorky as metalheads.

Tunicate posted:

The complaint is that it isn't meaningful, it was contrived and lovely.

Like most of the rest of the book, actually.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Any time Christianity is depicted on television, its representative is almost invariably a Straw Character, from the nutty religious fanatic to someone with only nominal convictions. It is exceptionally rare to see an openly Christian character who is smart, likable, and a competent defender of his faith.

Swan Oat posted:

There is a link to a scribd document of all the troper tales in the OP.

Didn't a goon try reading the Methods of Rationality in one of the last threads?

Also, what constitutes a well-filled set of panties? On second thought, maybe it's best if that goes unanswered...