You can go ahead and do so yourself. :)
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Quick note: Crucifix glitch from Peter Watts Blindsight and Echopraxia affects vampires, blah blah blah writing this so I dont forget.
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Here we go: "a cross-wiring of normally-distinct receptor arrays in the visual cortex, resulting in grand mal-like feedback seizures whenever the arrays processing vertical and horizontal stimuli fired simultaneously across a sufficiently large arc of the visual field. Since intersecting right angles are virtually nonexistent in nature, natural selection did not weed out the Glitch until H. sapiens sapiens developed Euclidean architecture; by then, the trait had become fixed across H. sapiens vampiris via genetic drift, and – suddenly denied access to its prey – the entire subspecies went extinct shortly after the dawn of recorded history."
Forofgold power!
I don't get what's the deal with Anna Karkowska's violin playing or the words "The Game".
Seriously, my avatar comes from the embodiment of the So Bad, It's Good trope.
removed the following:
- Rhapsody Of Fire has seven of these in the tales their music tells. There are seven black books, written with the blood of slain angels, which contain methods with which to summon the evil god Kron back from the hell the good gods banished him to. Finding the last one, the greatest of them all which could end the world, was the subject of two of their CDs, The Dark Secret and Triumph or Agony. It is said that the first six were found and now are kept locked away in magic towers, protected by heaven itself (although that wouldn't necessarily be a hindrance for the dark powers that be).
I'm not an expert on the Enchanted Symphony but I don't recall anything about the books having any form of brown note quality to them, and I can't find any information otherwise. Also, even if there is, the example listed doesn't explain anything.
Ramblin' Mushroom
Is there anything in the main entry explaining where the trope name came from? For the curious, it's named for a type of frequency that has been known to cause loss of control of the bowels, hence the name.
Take it to Lost And Found, please.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Very Manly Muppet
- Merely learning the premise of The Human Centipede can leave you feeling unsettled for the rest of the day.
^ I have no idea what this is, but I'm betting it doesn't count as an example, does it?
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While it is quite disturbing, it comes more under the tropes of BodyHorror and NauseaFuel than BrownNote, since it doesn't induce any particular reaction aside from terror and/or sickness, which are already covered by the previously mentioned tropes.
"The SCP Foundation website uses a "Langford-Berryman Memetic Kill Agent" to trigger a fatal neurally-induced heart attack into any "un-innoculated" personnel trying to view the SCP-001 entry. Try your luck here
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This achieves its BrownNote effect primarily as a CatScare, because of the way you have to scroll through the page before being suddenly confronted with it. And possibly because the red color is interpreted by our subconscious mind as "blood/violence/death", and the circular area in the top center could be interpreted as a face, in that split-second of surprise before we see it with full consciousness. Just looking at it on its own, it's rather pretty and not at all heart attack inducing, at least in this Troper's opinion.
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Dvandemon
What is this trope about? It seems to be half stimuli that can drive you insane/kill you and half stimuli so strong it destroys things. Which is it?
Can someone explain the equation? I don't get it...
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its the anti life equation, Darkshield used it to destroy all individuality,
I removed the following bullet which had appeared after the Chamber of Secrets stuff:
- Half-Blood Prince mentions a vampire author who writes door-stopper-sized novels of dubious quality in order to hypnotize its victims.
I feel that The Funniest Joke in the World from Monty Python's Flying Circus must be added.
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