Would anyone be alright with me adding toads to the "Other" section? I've noticed they tend to look oddly stern in just about every situation - being eaten, mating, being picked up by small children.
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Seems like it'd fit, although it ought to be spun off into a Real Life section - and I am not sure if we want to have that.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I'm worried if this trope is impossible in Real Life, because I love this trope and I want it to be possible.
Similar to the Tuvok example, is Agent K really this trope? In both examples of his humor, he's clearly making a joke, just one that's less overt than most. I didn't want to just delete it.
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Agreed. The Charlie Chaplin quote and the picture both point to what this trope was originally about while the new article write up reads a lot like Deadpan Snarker which is definitely not this trope. The Comically Serious is supposed to be a serious person who is either unaware of the humor of a situation or trying willfully to ignore it, generally someone who the audience also takes seriously (hence Batman) which makes it funnier.
A deadpan snarker is just someone who uses sarcasm and wit with a deadpan delivery, and they're a participant in the humor.
Anyone want to make the Wookieepedia thing intelligible? In response to a glaring mistake on Star Wars.com's Encylopedia, Wookieepedia, priding itself on being a source for anything and everything in Star Wars canon, created this article. As of now, "Kamino" being a unit describing the constant height of clone troopers is technically canonical. An administrator archived this and altered the template for denoting that something was mentioned in the Encylcopedia (allowing the archival link) to facilitate the article. Brief, jocular consideration was given to creating an article on 1.87 meters the planet, but it was decided that that would have been ridiculous. Even after this is inevitably (Read:eventually) rectified, a snippet on the error shall appear in the clone trooper's article.
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I should add: i just don't understand what the editor wanted to express, so i can't do it.
How strict is this trope anyway? I don't see Brian from Family Guy as being a good example. He's a little more serious than some of the other characters but he has a sense of humor. I can see Lois from the early seasons but she is shown more and more to have a sense of humor (presumably to help explain why she married Peter.)
This new name is stupid. Even by renaming standards, it's stupid. Not even slightly creative and doesn't roll off the tongue at all. Why not something that at least flows a bit like Amusingly Unamusing or something?
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I Agree. The new name is bad, and whoever changed it should feel bad.
Dropping this Star Trek Voyager natter. On the face of it it is possible for a character to both have a very dry sense of humour and take on the Comically Serious role. If this is not true in this case, Repair Dont Respond. Here would remove the Tuvok example completely, while giving an edit reason.
- Tuvok actually does have a rather pronounced sense of humour — it's just very dry, even by Vulcan standards, and he doesn't share it with strangers as readily as Spock (who was forever mocking everyone with that eyebrow and almost-smirk of his). Tuvok tended to favour dry quips (and even the occasional epic pun - see Night
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- Tuvok actually does have a rather pronounced sense of humour — it's just very dry, even by Vulcan standards, and he doesn't share it with strangers as readily as Spock (who was forever mocking everyone with that eyebrow and almost-smirk of his). Tuvok tended to favour dry quips (and even the occasional epic pun - see Night
Is this Truth in Television?
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