Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Webcomic/SomethingHappens'' introduces various "minor bogeymen" in [[http://somethinghappens.keenspot.com/d/20080220.html a guest strip]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 63 (click to see context) from:
* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' has Owl and the others blame all manner of problems on a creature called the Backson, who supposedly vandalizes books and laundry, mess up your house, and causes all manner of minor issues.
to:
* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' has Owl and the others blame all manner of problems on a creature called the Backson, who supposedly vandalizes books and laundry, mess messes up your house, and causes all manner of minor issues.
Deleted line(s) 66,81 (click to see context) :
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Elves, described here as the strictly fairytale kind of tiny, mischievous beings, seemingly live just to cause people trouble. Among other things, they're the ones to blame when you get tangled hair and sudden painful stitches -- the first by tying it into knots, the second by shooting tiny arrows that vanish into the skin without a trace.
* ''Literature/TheBorrowers'' is about a [[{{Lilliputians}} group of small beings]] called Borrowers who borrow humans' belongings without asking. This trope is PlayedWith in that they always take objects and items which they're certain humans won't notice when they go missing, and avoid borrowing personal items which ''will'' be noticed by humans, thus risking [[TheMasquerade being discovered]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' story ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', the titular Santa Claus analogue vanishes, which leaves a surplus of unbound [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly Belief]] left over that manifests itself in a new crop of Peeve Goblins. Examples include the Verruca Gnome, who goes around handing people unsightly foot warts; the Hair Loss Fairy, who hides under your hat and yanks out your hair; the Eater of Socks, a tiny elephant-like creature with a habit of consuming only one sock from a given pair; the birdlike Stealer of Pencils with its pencil sharpener-like beak; and the ''[[InsistentTerminology Oh God]]'' of Hangovers.
* ''Literature/DisgustingMcGrossface'': Subverted; the boy blames messes on a creature named "Disgusting [=McGrossface=]", but then it turns out that Disgusting doesn't exist and the boy was just lying.
* ''Mr. Nobody'', a children's poem published anonymously in 1947, describes a mysterious character who lurks in houses with children and performs acts of mischief when there isn't anybody looking -- after all, if all the children deny having tracked mud on the carpet or left the toys lying around, then Nobody must have done it.
* Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' are described as "creatures of filth, vulgarity, and the basest, and the ugliest of human actions." They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. They also have enormous variation in size and power with the smaller ones being the equivalent of "rude jokes in the process of being told ad-nauseum" but more powerful Goblins are "mistaken for dark and twisted gods." They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
* In ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'', a gnome upsets a bag over Belinda's head, causing her even more distress over the theft of her hair and leading to a massive battle of the sexes.
* In the literature of Creator/RichardSharpeShaver, the "Deros" (short for Detrimental Robots, though they are in fact organic beings) are responsible for just about every misfortune that befalls humankind, up to and including disturbing or intrusive thoughts. Shaver, being a mentally disturbed man (possibly a paranoid schizophrenic), believed the Deros actually existed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', Gravelings are responsible for causing fatal mishaps, and thus their presence helps the Reapers figure out where and when to collect the next soul.
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', demons cause some, but not all, misfortune. Crowley, for instance, likes to crash telephone lines just to annoy people, and one of his big achievements is interfering with a certain motorway's construction so traffic jams are more likely. There are also the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] (War, Famine, Death, and [[OddNameOut Pollution]][[note]]Pestilence having quit the band when humans discovered Penicillin[[/note]]) who cause the problems they're named after.
[[/folder]]
* ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Elves, described here as the strictly fairytale kind of tiny, mischievous beings, seemingly live just to cause people trouble. Among other things, they're the ones to blame when you get tangled hair and sudden painful stitches -- the first by tying it into knots, the second by shooting tiny arrows that vanish into the skin without a trace.
* ''Literature/TheBorrowers'' is about a [[{{Lilliputians}} group of small beings]] called Borrowers who borrow humans' belongings without asking. This trope is PlayedWith in that they always take objects and items which they're certain humans won't notice when they go missing, and avoid borrowing personal items which ''will'' be noticed by humans, thus risking [[TheMasquerade being discovered]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' story ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', the titular Santa Claus analogue vanishes, which leaves a surplus of unbound [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly Belief]] left over that manifests itself in a new crop of Peeve Goblins. Examples include the Verruca Gnome, who goes around handing people unsightly foot warts; the Hair Loss Fairy, who hides under your hat and yanks out your hair; the Eater of Socks, a tiny elephant-like creature with a habit of consuming only one sock from a given pair; the birdlike Stealer of Pencils with its pencil sharpener-like beak; and the ''[[InsistentTerminology Oh God]]'' of Hangovers.
* ''Literature/DisgustingMcGrossface'': Subverted; the boy blames messes on a creature named "Disgusting [=McGrossface=]", but then it turns out that Disgusting doesn't exist and the boy was just lying.
* ''Mr. Nobody'', a children's poem published anonymously in 1947, describes a mysterious character who lurks in houses with children and performs acts of mischief when there isn't anybody looking -- after all, if all the children deny having tracked mud on the carpet or left the toys lying around, then Nobody must have done it.
* Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' are described as "creatures of filth, vulgarity, and the basest, and the ugliest of human actions." They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. They also have enormous variation in size and power with the smaller ones being the equivalent of "rude jokes in the process of being told ad-nauseum" but more powerful Goblins are "mistaken for dark and twisted gods." They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
* In ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'', a gnome upsets a bag over Belinda's head, causing her even more distress over the theft of her hair and leading to a massive battle of the sexes.
* In the literature of Creator/RichardSharpeShaver, the "Deros" (short for Detrimental Robots, though they are in fact organic beings) are responsible for just about every misfortune that befalls humankind, up to and including disturbing or intrusive thoughts. Shaver, being a mentally disturbed man (possibly a paranoid schizophrenic), believed the Deros actually existed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', Gravelings are responsible for causing fatal mishaps, and thus their presence helps the Reapers figure out where and when to collect the next soul.
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', demons cause some, but not all, misfortune. Crowley, for instance, likes to crash telephone lines just to annoy people, and one of his big achievements is interfering with a certain motorway's construction so traffic jams are more likely. There are also the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] (War, Famine, Death, and [[OddNameOut Pollution]][[note]]Pestilence having quit the band when humans discovered Penicillin[[/note]]) who cause the problems they're named after.
[[/folder]]
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* ''Myth/BrazilianFolklore'': The Saci-Pererê is a mischievous fae-like being with the appearance of a single-legged black child wearing a red cap who loves to make pranks, such as souring the soup, entangling horses' manes, scaring travellers at night, making objects get lost etc.. The Caipora is a protector of the woods that also frequently makes pranks and assumes the role of TheTrickster, so do Comadre Fulozinha, Romãozinho and others.
to:
* ''Myth/BrazilianFolklore'': Myth/BrazilianFolklore: The Saci-Pererê is a mischievous fae-like being with the appearance of a single-legged black child wearing a red cap who loves to make pranks, such as souring the soup, entangling horses' manes, scaring travellers at night, making objects get lost etc.. The Caipora is a protector of the woods that also frequently makes pranks and assumes the role of TheTrickster, so do Comadre Fulozinha, Romãozinho and others.
Changed line(s) 86 (click to see context) from:
* Imps are often described as as small, mischievous, trouble making demons who usually prefer to torment you with small things rather than harm you in a major way. Usually.
to:
* Imps are often described as as small, mischievous, trouble making demons who usually prefer to torment you with small things rather than harm you in a major way. Usually.
* Medieval European scribes would blame errors in their work on a demon called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titivillus Titivillus]], saying he had been sent by the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdemon]] Belphegor to introduce them.
Changed line(s) 107,112 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause -- for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down.
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause -- for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down.
to:
*
* ''Literature/TheBorrowers'' is about a [[{{Lilliputians}} group of small beings]] called Borrowers who borrow humans' belongings without asking. This trope is PlayedWith in that they always take objects and items which they're certain humans won't notice when they go missing, and avoid borrowing personal items which ''will'' be noticed by humans, thus risking [[TheMasquerade being discovered]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' story ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', the titular Santa Claus analogue vanishes, which leaves a surplus of unbound [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly Belief]] left over that manifests itself in a new crop of Peeve Goblins. Examples include the Verruca Gnome, who goes around handing people unsightly foot warts; the Hair Loss Fairy, who hides under your hat and yanks out your hair; the Eater of Socks, a tiny elephant-like creature with a habit of consuming only one sock from a given pair; the birdlike Stealer of Pencils with its pencil sharpener-like beak; and the ''[[InsistentTerminology Oh God]]'' of Hangovers.
* ''Literature/DisgustingMcGrossface'': Subverted; the boy blames messes on a creature named "Disgusting [=McGrossface=]", but then it turns out that Disgusting doesn't exist and the boy was just lying.
* ''Mr. Nobody'', a children's poem published anonymously in 1947, describes a mysterious character who lurks in houses with children and performs acts of mischief when there isn't anybody looking -- after all, if all the children deny having tracked mud on the carpet or left the toys lying around, then Nobody must have done it.
* Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' are described as "creatures of filth, vulgarity, and the basest, and the ugliest of human actions." They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. They also have enormous variation in size and power with the smaller ones being the equivalent of "rude jokes in the process of being told ad-nauseum" but more powerful Goblins are "mistaken for dark and twisted gods." They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
* In ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'', a gnome upsets a bag over Belinda's head, causing her even more distress over the theft of her hair and leading to a massive battle of the sexes.
* In the literature of Creator/RichardSharpeShaver, the "Deros" (short for Detrimental Robots, though they are in fact organic beings) are responsible for just about every misfortune that befalls humankind, up to and including disturbing or intrusive thoughts. Shaver, being a mentally disturbed man (possibly a paranoid schizophrenic), believed the Deros actually
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause -- for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down.
Changed line(s) 115,116 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'': In the song ''Die Vampire! Die!'', the titular vampires are responsible for WritersBlock.
* ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'': In the song ''Die Vampire! Die!'', the titular vampires are responsible for WritersBlock.
to:
*
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', demons cause some, but not all, misfortune. Crowley, for instance, likes to crash telephone lines just to annoy people, and one of his big achievements is interfering with a certain motorway's construction so traffic jams are more likely. There are also the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] (War, Famine, Death, and [[OddNameOut Pollution]][[note]]Pestilence having quit the band when humans discovered Penicillin[[/note]]) who cause the problems they're named after.
Added DiffLines:
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause -- for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'': In the song ''Die Vampire! Die!'', the titular vampires are responsible for WritersBlock.
[[/folder]]
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause -- for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'': In the song ''Die Vampire! Die!'', the titular vampires are responsible for WritersBlock.
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 109,110 (click to see context) from:
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies took it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for...well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for...well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
to:
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendiestook stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't [[AveMachina disrespect the Machine Spirit]]? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
** Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
* Stitch from ''WesternAnimation/LilOandStitch'' is a tiny, genetically engineered creature designed and programmed to cause mass chaos both large scale as well as minor, like stealing everyone's left shoe.
to:
* Stitch from ''WesternAnimation/LilOandStitch'' ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' is a tiny, genetically engineered creature designed and programmed to cause mass chaos both large scale as well as minor, like stealing everyone's left shoe.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* Stitch from ''WesternAnimation/LilOandStitch'' is a tiny, genetically engineered creature designed and programmed to cause mass chaos both large scale as well as minor, like stealing everyone's left shoe.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "P.P." has a variation by being about the Titans' pet peeves, animalistic creatures that represent their respective person's BerserkButton and go wild with them whenever it gets pushed. They eventually learn to tame them like actual pets. The villain of the week happens to be the P.P. Goblin, a neurotic little imp-like creature who has an entire pack of pet peeves of his own that he trained into his personal army of attack dogs.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 71 (click to see context) from:
* This is fundamental to the Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}''. They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. Then they keep growing, They can annoy groups of people and nations and '''Gods''' gain evermore power from it. They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
to:
* This is fundamental to the Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}''. ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' are described as "creatures of filth, vulgarity, and the basest, and the ugliest of human actions." They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. Then they keep growing, They can annoy groups of people also have enormous variation in size and nations and '''Gods''' gain evermore power from it. with the smaller ones being the equivalent of "rude jokes in the process of being told ad-nauseum" but more powerful Goblins are "mistaken for dark and twisted gods." They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* In European folklore, {{Nocturnal Emission}}s were blamed on [[HornyDevils Succubi]] having their way with men while they were asleep, [[SleepParalysisCreature among other ills such as night terrors and sleep paralysis.]]
to:
* In European folklore, {{Nocturnal Emission}}s were blamed on [[HornyDevils [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubi]] having their way with men while they were asleep, [[SleepParalysisCreature among other ills such as night terrors and sleep paralysis.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 90 (click to see context) from:
* Icelandic Christmas folklore gives us the 13 Yule lads, a group of mischieveous spirits that are the sons of the man-eating giants Grýla and Leppalúði. While their parents are much more dangerous, [[HarmlessVillain these 13 pranksters are much less so]], arriving one by one over the final 13 nights leading up to Christmas/Yule to [[PokeThePoodle cause minor inconveniences]]. [[MeaningfulName Their English-translated names]] are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin very apt on describing each of their gimmicks]].
to:
* Icelandic Christmas folklore gives us the 13 Yule lads, a group of mischieveous spirits that are the sons of the man-eating giants Grýla and Leppalúði. While their parents (and their giant man-eating cat) are much more dangerous, [[HarmlessVillain these 13 pranksters are much less so]], arriving one by one over the final 13 nights leading up to Christmas/Yule to [[PokeThePoodle cause minor inconveniences]]. [[MeaningfulName Their English-translated names]] are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin very apt on describing each of their gimmicks]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* Icelandic Christmas folklore gives us the 13 Yule lads, a group of mischieveous spirits that are the sons of the man-eating giants Grýla and Leppalúði. While their parents are much more dangerous, [[HarmlessVillain these 13 pranksters are much less so]], arriving one by one over the final 13 nights leading up to Christmas/Yule to [[PokeThePoodle cause minor inconveniences]]. [[MeaningfulName Their English-translated names]] are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin very apt on describing each of their gimmicks]].
** Sheep-Cote Clod: Harasses sheep, but is impaired by his stiff peg-legs.
** Gully Gawk: Hides in gullies, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into the cowshed and steal milk.
** Stubby: Is abnormally short, steals pans to eat the crust left on them.
** Spoon-Licker: Steals and licks wooden spoons, is extremely thin due to malnutrition.
** Pot-Scraper: Steals leftovers from pots.
** Bowl-Licker: Like Spoon-Licker, [[CaptainObvious but with bowls]].
** Door-Slammer: Likes to slam doors in the middle of the night.
** Skyr-Gobbler: Has a great affinity for skyr (similar to yogurt).
** Sausage-Swiper: Hides in the rafters and snatches sausages that are being smoked.
** Window-Peeper: A snoop who looks through windows in search of things to steal.
** Sniffer: Has an abnormally large nose and an acute sense of smell which he uses to locate leaf bread.
** Meat-Hook: Uses a hook to steal meat.
** Candle-Stealer: Follows children in order to steal their candles (which were once made of tallow and thus edible)
** Sheep-Cote Clod: Harasses sheep, but is impaired by his stiff peg-legs.
** Gully Gawk: Hides in gullies, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into the cowshed and steal milk.
** Stubby: Is abnormally short, steals pans to eat the crust left on them.
** Spoon-Licker: Steals and licks wooden spoons, is extremely thin due to malnutrition.
** Pot-Scraper: Steals leftovers from pots.
** Bowl-Licker: Like Spoon-Licker, [[CaptainObvious but with bowls]].
** Door-Slammer: Likes to slam doors in the middle of the night.
** Skyr-Gobbler: Has a great affinity for skyr (similar to yogurt).
** Sausage-Swiper: Hides in the rafters and snatches sausages that are being smoked.
** Window-Peeper: A snoop who looks through windows in search of things to steal.
** Sniffer: Has an abnormally large nose and an acute sense of smell which he uses to locate leaf bread.
** Meat-Hook: Uses a hook to steal meat.
** Candle-Stealer: Follows children in order to steal their candles (which were once made of tallow and thus edible)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 78 (click to see context) from:
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', demons cause some, but not all, misfortune. Crowley, for instance, likes to crash telephone lines just to annoy people, and one of his big achievements is interfering with a certain motorway's construction so traffic jams are more likely. There are also the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] (War, Famine, Death, and [[OddNameOut Pollution]]) who cause the problems they're named after.
to:
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', demons cause some, but not all, misfortune. Crowley, for instance, likes to crash telephone lines just to annoy people, and one of his big achievements is interfering with a certain motorway's construction so traffic jams are more likely. There are also the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen]] (War, Famine, Death, and [[OddNameOut Pollution]]) Pollution]][[note]]Pestilence having quit the band when humans discovered Penicillin[[/note]]) who cause the problems they're named after.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* In European folklore, {{Nocturnal Emission}}s were blamed on [[HornyDevils Succubi]] having their way with men while they were asleep, among other ills such as night terrors and sleep paralysis.
to:
* In European folklore, {{Nocturnal Emission}}s were blamed on [[HornyDevils Succubi]] having their way with men while they were asleep, [[SleepParalysisCreature among other ills such as night terrors and sleep paralysis.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
%%
%%Image selected per crowner in the Image Suggestion thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=heequ34b
%%https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1452266899092104700
%%Please don't change or remove without starting a new thread.
%%
[[quoteright:300:[[Webcomic/{{Swords}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fucking_pomgoblins.png]]]]
%%
%%Image selected per crowner in the Image Suggestion thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=heequ34b
%%https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1452266899092104700
%%Please don't change or remove without starting a new thread.
%%
[[quoteright:300:[[Webcomic/{{Swords}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fucking_pomgoblins.png]]]]
%%
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 74 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
to:
Added DiffLines:
* The "Great Galactic Ghoul" is a space monster often facetiously invoked to explain the abnormally high failure rate of probes to Mars. Supposed victims of the "Ghoul" include the Soviet ''Phobos'' probes, NASA's ''Mars Polar Lander'' and ''Mars Climate Orbiter'', and Japan's ''Nozomi''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
expanded the Peter Pain example
Changed line(s) 13,14 (click to see context) from:
Related to the JustSoStory. {{Supertrope}} to GripingAboutGremlins, which is about similar creatures that mess up machinery or other equipment. See also NightmareWeaver, an entity who only seems to live for giving you bad dreams. Compare PaintingTheFrostOnWindows, for those who run nature.
to:
Related to the JustSoStory. {{Supertrope}} to GripingAboutGremlins, which is about similar creatures that mess up machinery or other equipment. See also NightmareWeaver, an entity who only seems to live for giving you bad dreams. Compare PaintingTheFrostOnWindows, for those who run nature.
nature. Contrast with ProductAsSuperhero.
Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* [[http://lileks.com/comics/comicsins/comics/sunday/peterpain/1.html Old newspaper advertisements]] for the analgesic Ben-Gay featured comics about "Peter Pain", depicted as a small, ugly, unshaven gnome in a hat, jabbing people with spikes to bring them pain.
to:
* 1940's newspaper advertisements for the analgesic Ben-Gay featured [[http://lileks.com/comics/comicsins/comics/sunday/peterpain/1.html Old newspaper advertisements]] for the analgesic Ben-Gay featured comics about "Peter Pain", depicted as a small, Pain"]], an ugly, green-skinned, unshaven gnome in a bowler hat, jabbing people with who used various implements (such as spikes or clubs) to bring them pain.inflict pain upon people. He appeared first in the 1940's and was finally retired in the 1960's ([[http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/22/0822/32.html see James Lileks's blog for some example ads]]).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Wiki/ namespace cleaning.
Changed line(s) 111 (click to see context) from:
* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki also has its own Peeve Goblins in the form of Administrivia/DataVampires, entities responsible for sucking away your work if you go over an edit's time limit.
to:
* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki Website/ThisVeryWiki also has its own Peeve Goblins in the form of Administrivia/DataVampires, entities responsible for sucking away your work if you go over an edit's time limit.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
The Fair Folk refers to fairies and related beings being depicted as dangerous, evil, vicious or alien, which isn't what Borges is doing here.
Changed line(s) 59 (click to see context) from:
* ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Elves, described here as the [[TheFairFolk strictly fairytale kind of tiny, mischievous beings]], seemingly live just to cause people trouble. Among other things, they're the ones to blame when you get tangled hair and sudden painful stitches -- the first by tying it into knots, the second by shooting tiny arrows that vanish into the skin without a trace.
to:
* ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Elves, described here as the [[TheFairFolk strictly fairytale kind of tiny, mischievous beings]], beings, seemingly live just to cause people trouble. Among other things, they're the ones to blame when you get tangled hair and sudden painful stitches -- the first by tying it into knots, the second by shooting tiny arrows that vanish into the skin without a trace.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* [[http://lileks.com/comics/comicsins/comics/sunday/peterpain/1.html Old newspaper advertisements]] for the analgesic Ben-Gay featured comics about "Peter Pain", depicted as a small, ugly, unshaven gnome in a hat, jabbing people with spikes to bring them pain.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
just found this trope needed to add it
Added DiffLines:
* This is fundamental to the Goblins that appear in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' and ''Literature/{{Pale}}''. They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. Then they keep growing, They can annoy groups of people and nations and '''Gods''' gain evermore power from it. They're so varied that OurGoblinsAreDifferent still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 77 (click to see context) from:
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "[[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]]," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
to:
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "[[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]]," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" "[[TheAllegedCar Hangar Queens]]" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.disrepair. This has also extended to other forms of transportation, especially on ground vehicles, where "gremlins" are often the case of many a driver's and mechanic's woes.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 77 (click to see context) from:
* [[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]] were often attributed to causing malfunctions in airplanes and other machinery.
to:
* [[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]] were often attributed to causing malfunctions in airplanes Among aircraft maintainence personnel and other machinery.pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "[[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]]," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
Deleted line(s) 124,126 (click to see context) :
[[folder:Other]]
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "Gremlins," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
[[/folder]]
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "Gremlins," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 85 (click to see context) from:
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for...well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM.
to:
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for...well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zag]] it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually ''real''; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just ''how'' real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are ''very'' quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is ''literally thousands of years old.''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 85 (click to see context) from:
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the Emperor's name.
to:
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the Emperor's name.God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for...well, [[CriticalFailure bad dice rolls]] with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. [[TankGoodness Land Raider]] refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood...or it's just ''that'' dedicated to killing in the Emperor's name.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 123 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Others]]
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[folder:Others]]
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "Gremlins," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
[[/folder]]
* Among aircraft maintainence personnel and pilots, whenever something on an aircraft inexplicably breaks down, it is said to be a result of "Gremlins," diminutive creatures which take delight in sabotaging perfectly working aircraft and turning them into "Hangar Queens" - that is to say, planes that never leave the hangar due to constantly being in disrepair.
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Myth/BrazilianFolklore'': The Saci-Pererê is a mischievous fae-like being with the appearance of a single-legged black child wearing a red cap who loves to make pranks, such as souring the soup, entangling horses' manes, scaring travellers at night, making objects get lost etc.. The Caipora is a protector of the woods that also frequently makes pranks and assumes the role of TheTrickster, so do Comadre Fulozinha, Romãozinho and others.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 7,8 (click to see context) from:
If you ever lost your pen cap at some point and have no idea where it is, it's because there's some small creature following you around who steals everything you drop, and loves nothing more than watching you pull your hair out in frustration as you search everywhere for the cap. Your car is breaking down in the middle of the highway? Some [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlins]] just replaced your oil with mouthwash. Did you just lose two hours of work put into writing an email or article on your computer? We at TV Tropes are all too familiar with ''[[DataVampires these]]'' little bastards.
to:
If you ever lost your pen cap at some point and have no idea where it is, it's because there's some small creature following you around who steals everything you drop, and loves nothing more than watching you pull your hair out in frustration as you search everywhere for the cap. Your car is breaking down in the middle of the highway? Some [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlins]] just replaced your oil with mouthwash. Did you just lose two hours of work put into writing an email or article on your computer? We at TV Tropes are all too familiar with ''[[DataVampires ''[[Administrivia/DataVampires these]]'' little bastards.
Changed line(s) 107 (click to see context) from:
* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki also has its own Peeve Goblins in the form of DataVampires, entities responsible for sucking away your work if you go over an edit's time limit.
to:
* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki also has its own Peeve Goblins in the form of DataVampires, Administrivia/DataVampires, entities responsible for sucking away your work if you go over an edit's time limit.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 82 (click to see context) from:
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Imps are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
to:
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Imps [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* In TheEighties, [[https://youtu.be/uxpRAOgZVzc The Noid]] -- a wacky claymation humanoid with rabbit ears wearing a red jumpsuit -- starred in many Domino's Pizza commercials. He is portrayed as a {{troll}}ish [[ThePrankster prankster]] who loves to ruin people's pizza, but bears intense hatred for Domino's own quality pizzas, which he constantly tries to destroy only to be thwarted at every turn.
to:
* In TheEighties, [[https://youtu.be/uxpRAOgZVzc The Noid]] Advertising/TheNoid -- a wacky claymation humanoid with rabbit ears wearing a red jumpsuit -- starred in many Domino's Pizza commercials. He is portrayed as a {{troll}}ish [[ThePrankster prankster]] who loves to ruin people's pizza, but bears intense hatred for Domino's own quality pizzas, which he constantly tries to destroy only to be thwarted at every turn.
