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Would Ultron's plan in Avengers Age Of Ultron go under this trope? He lifts up a huge chunk of a European country, intending to drop it back down, thus killing all life on Earth.
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Guys, the Trope Namer is NOT the first observed instance of the trope. It's the first time the trope was described by its TV Tropes name. Unless you can find a place where the specific phrase "Rocks fall, everyone dies" was used prior to the Something Positive strip, SP is the Trope Namer.
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It was used for decades among gamers before the strip came out. Talk to anyone who gamed before then and they'll say as much. The problem is, gamers don't write all their shit down. Most of our memes were verbal and spread at cons back then. It's not the trope namer. It just used an old phrase. I've been at cons since the 80's which is when I first hear it. This is not a new phrase.
We had a whole thread about it which was unfortunately deleted in the great forum purge, but there are fan zines from back then that used the phrase as well. I just don't feel like digging through my mum's basement again and reading through a bunch of thirty year old magazines. Just because it isn't on the internet doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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I was a gamer for decades before the strip came out, and attended many cons. I never heard the exact phrase "Rocks fall, everyone dies." Blue lightning, orbital cow launcher, all sorts of differing ways for the GM to kill pesky players, but never Rocks Fall.
The Trope Namer is the first *recorded* instance of a specific trope name being used in a work. "People were totally using that phrase!" does NOT count for a Trope Namer. Else we might as well discard the idea of Trope Namers altogether, since it's impossible to tell if someone uttered the phrase once centuries beforehand.
If you want to attribute the Trope Namer to another work, please list that work.
The following entry was deleted recently. It's an infamous example, and I don't understand why it was removed (unless it's considered a Kill'em All or belongs to an another trop page ?). I would like to know what you think:
- * In Neverwinter Nights 2, this happens when you win. Literally. A laughably bad narrator describes how the final dungeon collapses on the party's head, while playing a slideshow.** Later expansions reveal that most of the party survived. Of course, this doesn't change the impression left by the original game.
Imagine some group of people trying an Avatar The Last Airbender-themed tabletop RPG, and the game master's frustration accumulates to the point where he/she does a "Sozin's Comet Falls, Everyone Dies."
this was pretty much teh lord's motivation in the flood, right? he got fed up with everyone's douchebaggotry and flooded em all out.. I guess Sodom and Gomorrah is a more literal example, but not quite -everyone- died.
Does the Almighty-spam used by superbosses in most Shin Megami Tensei games count as an example of this?Disregard. Did not see that it was already added.
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