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'''Basic Trope''': A warrior who applies poetry, philosophy, and/or art to combat.

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'''Basic Trope''': A warrior who applies poetry, {{poetry}}, philosophy, and/or art {{art}} to combat.
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** Bob is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Every aspect of his culture involves warfare, including poetry.
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** Bob is a poet who is conscripted into war and draws artistic inspiration from his circumstances, but considers battle unworthy of memorization beyond [[WarIsHell unsparing anti-war screeds]].

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** Bob is a poet who is conscripted into war and draws artistic inspiration from his circumstances, but considers battle unworthy of memorization beyond unsparing [[WarIsHell unsparing anti-war screeds]].anti-war]] and [[ArmiesAreEvil anti-military]] screeds.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob hums a silly, amateurish jingle in battle, in an absent minded way.

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Bob hums is a silly, amateurish jingle in battle, in an absent minded way.CulturedWarrior, but doesn't actively pursue the arts.
** Bob is a poet who is conscripted into war and draws artistic inspiration from his circumstances, but considers battle unworthy of memorization beyond [[WarIsHell unsparing anti-war screeds]].
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** Bob is [[NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise.

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** Bob is [[NorseMythology [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise.
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** Bob enlists believes he cannot be a good poet without seeing the sufferings of life.

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** Bob enlists because he believes he cannot be a good poet without seeing the sufferings of life.
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** Bob enlists believes he cannot be a good poet without seeing the sufferings of life.
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** Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches its members to be [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]]

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** Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches its members to be [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]]{{Warrior Poet}}s.
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** Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches it's members to be [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]]

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** Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches it's its members to be [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]]
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** Bob is a battle-mage who casts spells with poetry.
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** Bob was an intellectual before the war and naturally good at poetry. Now that he is a soldier he writes poems about war.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???"The prisoner is ''never'' gonna talk this way. Lets tie him up and make him [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment listen to Bob]]. If that doesn't work, nothing will!"
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob hums a silly, amateurish jingle in battle, in an absent minded way.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is a DanceBattler who, in the midst of battle, sings a beautiful and mournful elegy to each enemy he kills.

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Bob is a DanceBattler who, in the midst of battle, sings a beautiful and mournful elegy to each enemy he kills.



* '''Justified''': Bob needs to cope with war somehow, so he uses expression to help himself along.

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* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
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Bob needs to cope with war somehow, so he uses expression to help himself along.



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* '''Deconstructed''': [[WarIsHell War]] turns Bob into a savage or [[ShellshockedVeteran traumatizes him]], which crushes any poetic tendencies he might have.
* '''Reconstructed''': War turns Bob into a ShellshockedVeteran but this only fuels his desire to express his views on combat through art and poetry.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?" battle?"



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* '''Defied''': Bob is a CulturedBadass, but as far as he's concerned, once battle starts the artistic aesthete side of him stays in the tent. When he picks up his sword he turns into a brutal CombatPragmatist and ScreamingWarrior.

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* '''Exploited''':
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* '''Defied''': Bob is a CulturedBadass, but as far as he's concerned, once battle starts the artistic aesthete side of him stays in the tent. When he picks up his sword he turns into a brutal CombatPragmatist and ScreamingWarrior.



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* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': [[WarIsHell War]] turns Bob into a savage or [[ShellshockedVeteran traumatizes him]], which crushes any poetic tendencies he might have.
* '''Reconstructed''': War turns Bob into a ShellshockedVeteran but this only fuels his desire to express his views on combat through art and poetry.



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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**Bob is a tribal bard. Being a WarriorPoet is his ''job''.
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* '''Zig Zagged''':

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob aspires to this trope, but as he witnesses horrific things he flip-flops over whether such behaviour is a [[WarIsGlorious glorification of war]], or whether it's a necessity to retain one's own humanity.



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* '''Enforced''':
'''Enforced''': The FramingDevice is of such a character [[BringNewsBack Bringing News Back]] to tell his comrades' heroic story.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?"



* '''Discussed''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?"

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* '''Discussed''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever "Those SpaceElves are probably composing sonnets on the beauty of springtime right now, [[HumansAreWarriors while we go into battle?"prepare for battle]]. Pussies."
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* '''Discussed''':

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* '''Discussed''': "Oh no, is Bob ''ever'' going to stop quoting Homer whenever we go into battle?"
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** Bob is [[NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise]].

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** Bob is [[NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise]].disguise.
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**Bob is [[NorseMythology Odin]] in disguise]].
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**Bob comes from a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets martial arts fraternity]] or [[WarriorMonk religious order]] that teaches it's members to be [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]]

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* '''Parodied''': Bob uses his experiences in war to write childish nursery rhymes.

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Bob uses his experiences in war to write childish nursery rhymes.rhymes.
** Bob is a literal Warrior Poet, defeating his foes by stupefying them with his Epic Rap-Battle skills.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob writes a line of poetry each time he strikes or gets struck.
* '''Justified''': Bob needs to cope with war someway, so he uses expression to help himself along.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is a warrior who is bad at applying anything other than brute strength to war.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob writes is a line DanceBattler who, in the midst of poetry battle, sings a beautiful and mournful elegy to each time enemy he strikes or gets struck.
kills.
* '''Justified''': Bob needs to cope with war someway, somehow, so he uses expression to help himself along.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is an artist by day and a warrior who brutal, psychopathic serial killer by night. The latter is bad at applying anything other than brute strength to war.inspiration for the former.



* '''Averted''': A movie takes place in a time and place where warrior poets are common (ancient China, ancient Japan, the Crusades, Sparta, etc.) but the main characters are unthinking soldiers who fight without wondering why they do.

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* '''Averted''': A movie takes place in a time and place where warrior poets are common a traditional trope (ancient China, ancient Japan, the Crusades, Sparta, etc.) but the main characters are unthinking soldiers who fight without wondering why they do.



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* '''Invoked''': Bob is a scholar of samurai literature, and when he's thrust into war he tries to apply this trope to his life to keep himself sane.



* '''Defied''':

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* '''Defied''': Bob is a CulturedBadass, but as far as he's concerned, once battle starts the artistic aesthete side of him stays in the tent. When he picks up his sword he turns into a brutal CombatPragmatist and ScreamingWarrior.
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* '''Exaggerated''':
'''Exaggerated''': Bob writes a line of poetry each time he strikes or gets struck.
* '''Justified''':
'''Justified''': Bob needs to cope with war someway, so he uses expression to help himself along.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is a warrior who is bad at applying anything other than brute strength to war.
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'''Basic Trope''': A warrior who applies poetry, philosophy, and/or art to combat.
* '''Straight''': Bob is a war veteran who writes an epic poem based on his experiences in war.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob writes an epic contemplative poem based on his experiences in war but it turns out he's a MilesGloriosus.
* '''Double Subverted''': But when the MilesGloriosus is thrust into a combat situation, he ends up doing well and writing an even better poem.
* '''Parodied''': Bob uses his experiences in war to write childish nursery rhymes.
* '''Deconstructed''': [[WarIsHell War]] turns Bob into a savage or [[ShellshockedVeteran traumatizes him]], which crushes any poetic tendencies he might have.
* '''Reconstructed''': War turns Bob into a ShellshockedVeteran but this only fuels his desire to express his views on combat through art and poetry.
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* '''Averted''': A movie takes place in a time and place where warrior poets are common (ancient China, ancient Japan, the Crusades, Sparta, etc.) but the main characters are unthinking soldiers who fight without wondering why they do.
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