I think FVP is for an intentional trip into someone's body, whereas SW is... obviously not. Also, though it's probably not required that the characters shrink for a FVP, the key here is to have the character have a plan to enter the body, as well as their objective once they're inside.
Those two tropes tend to portray biology in a realistic manner. A Womb Level portrays a body in a very stereotypical way, similar to how Shifting Sand Land breaks many rules about real-life deserts or how Level in the Clouds have all sorts of things floating around even though such thing would be impossible in real life. A Womb Level's layout and design tend to be very different from what you'd expect (even in comparison to something as basic as the digestive system). Heck, it doesn't even have to be a body proper. Any video game location with flesh in its walls fits the trope just fine.
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Trope Namer Probably Unfamiliar
, started by larynxist on Jul 8th 2011 at 12:16:42 AM
You know... that trope actually needs to be renamed to something like "The Journey To The Center Of The Brain" or similar, on this instance, I dunno. That's because not everyone will get the reference to a JTCOE episode, and will think of it as something *outside* the body and more referred to, let's say, sea voyages.
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I agree, I really didn't get any sense of this kind of plot from the name, at all. A "fantastic voyage" could be just about everything. At a guess, without having read the article, I would think that every episode of The Magic Schoolbus would count as a "fantastic voyage". But it doesn't.
The movie it's referencing seems kind of obscure, and the name is so generic that it's misleading to anyone who hasn't seen or heard of the movie.
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I don't think The Fantastic Voyage is obscure at all. Almost all the examples are direct parodies of it.
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"Journey to the Center of the Brain" would be a terrible name for this trope. A reference to Journey To The Center Of The Earth may be common for naming episodes that use this trope, but the examples themselves are almost always based on the non-obscure movie Fantastic Voyage.
Edited by RoninCatholic I must be cruel, but to be kind That bad may begin, and worse be left behind
Non-obscure? Personally, I've never heard of the Fantastic Voyage and had to look it up. Usually, a trope title allows the viewer to immediately take a guess on what the trope is, and have them land in the ball park. Like "Timey Wimey." It's a Doctor Who reference, and only Doctor Who fans will fully understand the quote, but non-Doctor Who fans can guess that a) it's related to time and b) it's probably related to some sort of bendy Buffy Speak/Technobabble. Fantastic Voyage sounds like the Hobbit, except on sea.
I think "Journey to the Center of the Brain" isn't TERRIBLE. There probably is a better title, but I think JTTCOFTB's literal definition is much more accurate than Fantastic Voyage. Non-obscure doesn't mean almost-universal.
About the Doraemon thing... I think I'm the "somebody" who made that 3DMM video and didn't want to parody this episode. Besides, she only spits Nobita out, not the rest of the cast...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8S_GXlLtdg
This is the first part of the video. The second got removed because of a copyright claim by Asahi and Shogakukan, but someone put it on Nico Nico Douga and put all those weird messages. I don't care if he/she's considered as the author, as I made it for the lulz and as a tribute to John K. and Fujio F. Fujiko: I will not claim any ownership. After all these years...
Edited by 88.11.134.246 There are two types or people with hobbies: geeks and those who hide under a hipster mask to deny they're nothing but geeks.
Does this page also include a similar plot, if there is no shrinking involved? The description seems to suggest that those would be more for Swallowed Whole, even if the trope is otherwise in play.
Also, what's the difference between this and a Womb Level? Other than the video game aspect, both seen to be pretty similar, or is "Fantastic Voyage" Plot for the more anatomical journeys, compared to a basic meat level?
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