March 2012
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YMMV - Tumblr
Crack Ship:
Tumblr/Missing e. To the point that more than just a few fanfics were written after the tumblr staff sent emails encouraging users to uninstall missing e… which didn’t work in the slightest.
One meme suggested that since Tumblr was full of virgin females and 4chan full of virgin males, they should get together and pair up. Tumblr/Anonymous promptly...
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Tumblr →
Tumblr is a “short-form” multimedia blogging platform. A favored stomping ground of college-age hipsters, amateur photographers, graphic artists, and people who just felt like making one, it’s far less text-rich than other blogging sites. Users tend to collate pretty images and memes from around the internet on their tumblogs, with most memes also being popular on 4chan at...
February 2012
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boss-arma asked: Do you know any other Tv Tropes Tumblrs?
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“There’s nothing more offensive and disturbing to me than G-rated filth....”
– Patton Oswalt
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Bowdlerization - The Usual Suspects
In the TV edit, the phrase they have to say in the police line up is changed from “hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker” to “hand me the keys, you fairy godmother.”
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Bowdlerization - Sleeping Beauty
In the original version, the prince had to do a lot more than just give her a kiss.
And even then she kept on sleeping, either because the curse was that powerful, or because the prince was, well, unimpressive.
It took something like GIVING BIRTH TO TWINS to wake her up.
Her twins were placed on her breast to suckle right after birth. One of them latched...
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Bowdlerization - Myth and Legend
Pretty much every piece of media that features the ancient Greek pantheon of gods will gloss over the fact that they’re all siblings as not to Squick viewers out. Even the extremely gory God of War games glossed it over.
Of course, the fact that most of the gods were bi is always glossed over. Well, at least when it’s the men, cuz, ya know…. ...
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Bowdlerization - Sailor Moon
While Sailor Moon’s rather infamous Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were changed from being Schoolgirl Lesbians to being “cousins,” most of the edits didn’t extend to any of the original visual innuendo — making them incestuous lesbians, which is hardly new to anime but probably wasn’t their intention.
Meanwhile, in season one, Zoisite...
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Bowdlerise
To alter existing programs, plays, etc. so they are less rude and/or offensive. Used in a very negative sense, by those who think the alterations are often done with a ridiculously high fear of lawsuits and/or need for political correctness.
North American releases of anime are frequently targeted with this accusation. Differing cultural norms create separate notions of what is okay to show on...
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Shipping Goggles - Little Women
Jo starts viewing Beth and Laurie with Shipping Goggles. Even taken in context, the narrator is obviously mocking the practice. Yes, in 1869 rabid shippers were already frustrating authors enough to earn a Fandom Nod, no Internet required.
It’s better than that. This was in Book II, which was demanded by the publishers after a plethora of fan letters...
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Shipping Goggles - Avatar: the Last Airbender fandom
Avatar: The Last Airbender is known for its devoted shippers, Zutarians (Zuko x Katara) being at the forefront. In many communities, Zutarians are infamous (or, in pro-Zutara communities, encouraged) for their use of Shipping Goggles. The strongest example that comes to mind is a pro-Zutara documentary series on Youtube whose videos were...
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Shipping Goggles - Harry Potter fandom
Harry Potter probably has enough goggles to fill an entire page, but probably the best example is from what has been dubbed “The Symbolic Flight” from Prisoner Of Azkaban. This theory states that because Harry and Hermione flew on Buckbeak together and without Ron, that they are destined to be together - ignoring the fact that Ron was only not...
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Shipping Goggles - CLAMP fandom
Dear God, CLAMP fandom. You’re practically handed a pair of Shipping Goggles when you join.
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So you’re watching a show, and you want to see what it would be like if two of your favorite characters end up in a relationship. As you become more invested in your “ship,” you may start writing fan fiction, drawing fan art, and defending your ship against those imagined by other fans.
Shipping Goggles is when a viewer interprets the smallest, most ambiguous canonical evidence...
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Girl Show Ghetto - Authors
J. K. Rowling was told to use initials by her publisher, who worried about this trope. In reality, Joane Rowling doesn’t have a middle initial or name (the K is for “Kathleen”, after her grandmother), and now her gender is common knowledge.
The same goes for S.E. Hinton. In one interview, she said that she went by her initials because she...
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Girl Show Ghetto - Disney
The Princess and the Frog did okay at the box office for Disney, but not nearly as good as their previous animated films. Disney determined that this trope was the reason and was rumored to completely shut down adapting fairy tales into movies. For the marketing of their upcoming “Rapunzel” adaptation, they completely downplayed the fairy tale-ness of the...
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Girl Show Ghetto →
Mainly, the Double Standard most people have regarding media: that women’s entertainment should only be enjoyed by women with no crossover allowed — despite it being okay for women to watch shows primarily marketed towards men — keeping in mind most media is male-focused. Not to mention the stigma that media specifically tailored for women is of inferior quality.
This line of thinking is...
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Joker Immunity - Magneto
If not for the Joker, this trope would be named Magneto Immunity, for the X-Men’s premiere villain, who may hold the record for the highest number of sincere and permanent deaths, lobotomies, and depowerings of any villain in comic book history, but could no sooner be removed from X-Continuity than the Joker could from Batman.
Lampshaded in a story of West...
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Joker Immunity - Real Life
Fidel Castro has outlived a dozen U.S. administrations, several of which had actively been trying to kill him with a series of increasingly Wile E. Coyote-esque plots. Ultimately it looks like Old Man Time is what’s going to do him in. His bodyguard claims there have been 638 assassination attempts.
Adolf Hitler. The man survived 42 assassination attempts,...
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Joker Immunity - Bowser
Bowser from the Mario series seriously has almost complete immunity to actually being killed in this same way. Otherwise it’s very hard to explain how he comes back from literally being melted to a skeleton in lava, or falling into a star or just about every single thing thrown here without actually ever being killed off for real.
The “thrown into a...
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Joker Immunity - Shredder
Let us not forget Shredder. Since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally meant to be a one-shot, the Big Bad was killed by having Donatello bat a grenade in his face, knocking him off the building as it exploded. As the issue got unbelievably popular, Shredder was brought back to life with no explanation.
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“You… you just couldn’t let me go, could you? This is what happens...”
– The Joker, The Dark Knight
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Face it, some Big Bads stay popular enough it might be a bad idea to kill them for real. So they may stick around or keep coming back, but too much of this can start to undermine a (super)hero’s ability. Especially if the show universe starts to get larger and more interconnected, and the villain keeps pissing off more and more people. This leads to the question of why some of those other...
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“You suddenly decide ‘Hey! The people who made this show must have been out...”
– Charlie Brooker, Screenwipe
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What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? →
Any work whose creation seems to have involved large amounts of hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, or any other illicit substance that makes people think really weird ideas are also really good ones. The plot hinges on bizarre transformations, freakish-looking creatures, and nonsensical actions that only seem to make sense in realms of logic far removed from your own. That it was the product of a...
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The Power of Love - Music
Alive with the Glory of...
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The Power of Love →
“Love is a very powerful force. Even more so when it is focused into a coherent beam of destruction.” — Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater
The Power Of Love is a curious thing. It makes one man weep, and another man sing. It can change a hawk to a little white dove. Bring inanimate objects to life. It might just save your life. It makes people want to give up personal freedom to belong to each...
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“Can the internet make us better human beings? Judging from Youtube comments, no....”
– Stephen Colbert
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“In my time online I’ve been called “fag” approximately 104,165...”
– 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable, David Wong