Metal Loaf posted:

We have missed an opportunity; we could all be posting in TV Tropes Goes Fourth: The Siege Of Dreyorball.

You know, I have to wonder about all the Gundam references in his work. How can somebody so obsessed with the honour and glory of war hold a programme with a strong anti-war message in such high esteem?

BitterCharisma posted:

The one thing I've always found hilarious about Dropout Tom is that he actually thinks that Gundams will be built in the near future.

Franco Potente posted:

I wasn't able to follow along with the rapid speed of the last thread, but could anybody fill me in on Major Tom's banning?

QuoProQuid posted:

Yes, Signed, there are no significant problems that arise from incest. Thank you for backing up your statements with scientific studies. Incest is EXACTLY like LGBT rights.

Wikipedia posted:

Charles II's genome was actually more homozygous than that of an average child whose parents are siblings. He was born physically and mentally disabled, and disfigured. Possibly through affliction with mandibular prognathism, he was unable to chew. His tongue was so large that his speech could barely be understood, and he frequently drooled...Not having learned to speak until the age of four nor to walk until eight, Charles was treated as virtually an infant until he was ten years old.

Linear Ouroboros posted:

I find it so hypocritcal that the same tropers who whine and hold grudges because someone was mean to them once in camp when they were nine are the same ones condoning pedophilia art. Even small levels of exposure to inappropriate sexuality before it's developmentally appropriate can cause kids to have trust, intimacy, and even developmental issues for the rest of their life.

So yeah, the jock who they envision coming up with the stunning comeback that knocked him senseless caused a fraction of the damage they do ogling second graders in the food court.

Lightning Knight posted:

We have a user called WeaponsGradeSadness who has an avatar (I think it's currently some woman with a crazy look about her; it used to be a character from The Big Lebowski), and now a new user called WeaponGradeSadness. But, as Allan said, I suppose it's probably just a coincidence. Oh well.

Dauntasa posted:

I have this thread and an LP thread for Final Fantasy x2 that's called "teenage girls changing clothes itt" in my bookmarks. I will have some explaining to do if somebody sees them.

RoeCocoa posted:

I'd much rather see arguments about literary theory than yet another page of Let's Fix TV Tropes.

Word to the wise: never, ever, ever look up the TVT page for a show you liked when you were six. At best, you'll find a huge list of tropes compiled by people who take the show way more seriously than you ever did or should.

Rugrats Radar Page posted:

- If you listen very carefully, you can hear that Dr. Lipschitz, who is revealed to be quite incompetent in one episode, despite supposedly being an expert in infant psychology, has a name which sounds very much like "lip shits."

-It's a real last name though..
-But during the reveal of his incompetency, despite it being a regular name it's given slightly more weight due to his character. A clever sneak.

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In "Barbecue Story," Angelica kicks Tommy's ball over the fence. Tommy delivers a Rousing Speech to the other babies and his diaper straps came undone and his diaper started sliding off. You can see the top half of Tommy's crotch, and he very quickly pulls up his diaper and his cheeks turned red.

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In the episode "Let Them Eat Cake" Tommy and Chuckie accidentally wander into a bar mitzvah/a Jewish ceremony and an obvious bottle of wine is seen on a table.

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More outrightly disturbing is the episode when the babies decide not to wear clothes anymore. After the twins strip naked, Tommy says, "Uh, Lil, can I ask you a question?"
-In the same episode, Didi is trying to tell Betty that the nakedness is a natural stage for babies to go through. Betty is not sold on this, saying, "The sixties are over, Deed, and we lost!"
-Interesting episode isn't it. Still funny.
-The creators actually drew Tommy and Chuckie naked but never put it in a serious episode.

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"The Blizzard" had the babies traveling to the North Pole to have Santa fix Chuckie's toy bus. When they reach what they think is the Pole, Angelica starts to complain about how they couldn't find "No toy factory, no funny elves, not even a lame old reindeer turd!" He still can't figure out that line made it past the censors.

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The chocolate pudding scene from "Angelica Breaks a Leg" includes Stu bringing Angelica the pudding when she's watching TV. The sounds in the background make it sound like she's enjoying a war movie.

Lightning Knight posted:

I'd replace one of the length squares, since there's two of them.

And, loving Signed. God I hated that little fuckwit. He's been gone for a long time, though, so there's no new material from him.

You know who I miss, if only because it was hilariously awful to watch? Tongpu. I don't know if you guys know who that is, though.

ThatPazuzu posted:

Close, but I think you mean Civilian Lack of Empathy or Knowledge.

Count Chocula posted:

I was talking about the remake. The spanking was pretty creepy in that. Wasn't there also a John Wayne movie where he spanks a full grown woman? Creepy.

JosephWongKS posted:

Count Chocula posted:

Here's that list of Western characters. It's pretty long and well-classified, but I bet 90% of the examples are Firefly, Red Dead Redemption, and Deadwood:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p...sternCharacters

Urdnot Fire posted:

Speaking of Bronies, that guy reading A Game of Thrones just got to a part where a character is learned to have been gang-raped. First he loves the dick orchestrating it for being a Magnificent Bastard and then he says this:


See how the Media threads can be a lovely resource for horribleness?

JosephWongKS posted:

I wonder if Debot goes for robotic sex scenes too.

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Did Not Do the Research:
Marston uses a Gatling gun during the assault on Fort Mercer. Considering the time period, it would have been more accurate for him to use a Maxim machine gun. Probably intentional due to Rule Of Cool and Gatling Good. It's also justified - the gatling gun was an obsolete piece of army surplus gear that just happened to be lying around. Period-appropriate machine guns also appear and are used later in the game.

Volume posted:

Jesus chirst, the mods then do stalk out this thread for what's wrong with their site. Any one wondering what the old pic was just check the history. I like Shimaspawns reason for changing it too

TVTropes posted:

Aerith and Bob [WGS note: more or less what it sounds like, the trope for some in a work having weird fantasy names while others in the same work have normal ones]: Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Twill, Chaff... Bonnie, Annie and Johanna. Huh.

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Americanitis: Averted, though the series takes place in North America or to be more accurate, what's left of it, the United States has passed so far into the mists of time that it is barely even a memory and geography is only described in the vaguest of terms.

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Apocalypse How: In the backstory: it's continental societal disruption at the least, leading to the creation of Panem. No other countries are mentioned, possibly implying that there aren't other countries.

YMMV posted:

Crosses the Line Twice: From the first book:

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We were resting a moment by a stream when we saw him. A young buck, probably a yearling by his size. His antlers were just growing in, still small and coated in velvet. Poised to run but unsure of us, unfamiliar with humans. Beautiful.
Less beautiful perhaps when the two arrows caught him, one in the neck, the other in the chest. Gale and I had shot at the same time. The buck tried to run but stumbled, and Gale’s knife slit his throat before he knew what had happened. Momentarily, I’d felt a pang at killing something so fresh and innocent. And then my stomach rumbled at the thought of all that fresh and innocent meat.

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Mockingjay. Just... Just Mockingjay. Did Collins really feel the need to kill off Finnick and Prim??? Did she really need to make Gale and Katniss's mother effectively disappear? Did she HAVE to make it so goddamn depressing to the point where it was hardly enjoyable?!

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Family Unfriendly Aesop: Violence is the answer!

The Triumphant posted:

Man, if everything we do we do to get laid, who the hell are tropers trying to seduce?

Lance Streetman posted:

Oh look, another perfectly SFW page image.

Solomonic posted:

Further proof that he would be a troper.

High Octane Nightmare Fuel, Western Animation posted:

Dave the Barbarian had Twinkle the Marvel Horse, a deeply disturbed rainbow horse with the mannerisms of Christopher Walken. Most of his clips have been gathered here. His scenes are extremely jarring because they're literally the only source of dark humor in the series.

Roland Jones posted:

Now, you're forgetting one important distinction, one that separates Lovecraft from pretty much every troper: Lovecraft could write.


It's the only victory they can claim now. Every other defense they've used has been proven to be worthless or false, and every day they're shown to be worse and worse. The only thing they can claim is that there isn't any more terrible stuff than the literal thousands of posts worth of examples we've found, which of course isn't really true anyway since, as stated, we're still finding more and they're making more every day. But it's the closest thing to a victory they can claim.

Except, of course, we just tore that apart too. Whoops. Guess they can't win at all.

Flare_knight posted:

Just as a general question, wouldn't most people who post in and read this thread be happy if this thread had no reason for existing? Like, if TVTropes goes through with this realization and actually removes our ability to talk about the horrible poo poo they have on the site because the horrible poo poo is no longer on the site, and this topic has to close, would anyone here actually consider that a loss of anything more then maybe a little entertainment?

Flare_knight posted:

Not if I remember right. Someone posted some stats and TVTropes is something like, 300? I think, spots above SA in Hits per Day. They're both in the top 1500, if I remember correctly but TVTropes is higher.

The Triumphant posted:

It's like we're doctors and we're trying to tell him he has cancer. He refuses to believe us but he's heard it so many times that he figures he ought to take some action. And so he just saws off his fingers, one at a time, sure that if he keeps cutting he'll eventually make us shut up.

Celery Face posted:

He said that he was supposed to go at around September but his physical exam expired so he had to wait a few extra months or something like that.

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Well the idea behind the "averted" tropes is that it's supposed to be notable if a movie DOESN'T use a trope that you'd expect (like say a hardboiled detective who doesn't drink at all), but yeah, sometimes they get out of hand.

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

Again, no context. I could just keep going, as apparently only half the people read the rule. "Character's physical traits reflect their personality" is a valid storytelling device, but the way this page is right now, it might as well be "characters who have brown eyes", which is entirely pointless.

Mors Rattus posted:

I think it's just a gag about Twilight being terrible and a Guitar Hero song being hard.

Washout Tom posted:

One who gets stuff done even if he/she doesn't win in the end. There's nothing more pathetic from a writing angle than the Harmless Villain.

Jygallax posted:

Wow, poo poo is really going down, these are some big ideas they are talking about. Are they finally realizing that there is such a thing as notability?

Anyways the misogynist I was talking about was in this thread
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.ph...92500100&page=0
Sober-Irishman, about five posts down.

InShaneee posted:

Just to be clear.

MagicalDuck posted:

The Anime That Must Not Be Named has been wiped. So has the infamous Boku no Pico.

Lance Streetman posted:

But but but library teen section ghost in the shell justifies my pedo manga!

LightningKimba posted:

I gotta question Katie's tastes in guys if she's into the whole "Oh I sound Shakespearian just to impress you because I'm a total tool otherwise". That, and I kinda doubt most people would need to switch over to a mode just to talk to pe- Wait this is tropers. 'Course they'd do that, nevermind.

Hoover Dam posted:

What nobody's mentioned yet is that the makeup and outfit, as described, would make Scarlet look like a clown.

Namtab posted:

That's almost as dumb as that fanfic

Glitterbomber posted:

DEEP STORYLINE.

Also to be clear this is 100% accurate, they tried to eat everyone because


and now they're sorry. Finding them basically goes 'woah poo poo it's those not-zerg that tried to eat the universe!' 'Yea, our bad, crazy times am I right?' 'Ok, I forgive you' and then you leave and it means nothing.

Bad Bromance posted:

Haha I feel the need to mention this every time a quote from Barkey ends up here, he gets really mad when black men date white women. Direct quote, he is against such relationships "on principle."

Lance Streetman posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...8#post402351053

Also, timg that fucker. You're breaking my heart tables.

Mr. Pumroy posted:

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Hahahahahahahahaha

Honestly. How do you even begin to get your brain to twist itself into the kind of contortions necessary to think this. "Sure he quoted Stormfront, preached racial segregation, believed in inherent racial differences, was an actual racist, but a white supremacist? Pffft. Not even! (Also he was identified with a British nationalist party that is basically Nazis but that's not mentioned here. Too bad.)" But then I guess he's had a lot of practice equivocating on how his pedo funnybooks aren't actual pedo funnybooks.

I don't pity Fast Eddie a bit. He ran a lovely website and now he's dealing with the lovely people it's attracted. This has been a fun ride and shows every sign of getting better.

edit: VVV yes, how could I forget. If he says he's not then he's not. Whether it's analyzing fiction or people, tropers just can't get past the superficial facade in any way.

Build Your Own Boat posted:

I read that as "raped by shotguns" and it didn't strike me as odd. Does this say something about me? Or about them? Perhaps what they've done to me.

Scorched Spitz posted:

Not only do I hate this guy, I hate everyone who ever said anything nice about him.