I nominate the Live A Live quote to be the trope header.
Reasoning: Connection to one of the most shocking plot twists (one that connects just about every plot point in the game) in its medium (video games), especially for its time.
For the sake of clarity, does "dragonborn" here refer to Dragonborn proper (unique race), or to half-dragons (dragon/other hybrid)?
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Re-rename
, started by SomeGuy on Sep 13th 2010 at 1:28:48 AM
"In City of Heroes, Leonard "Frostfire" Calhoun (Yes, that is his real name)"
"(Yes, that is his real name)" is potholed to Unfortunate Names. Why? I've Googled "Leonard Calhoun" and "Lenny Calhoun" and only come up with pages for people actually named that. There's also no entry for Leonard Calhoun on the Unfortunate Names page that would clarify it.
Can we either get a clarification of this joke, or remove it?
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Sinkhole. You can remove it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Is this trope too controversial for Real Life examples and why? What controversy would arise from it?
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Same as all the other Evil Tropes, I'd imagine; calling real people "evil" is just asking for trouble.
I just removed the MLP example with Luna, because it's certainly not a proper example of this trope (at no point does Luna go evil; I think I'd struggle to call her even mean); and the way it's phrased is misleading as to what happens in the episode.
- This happens in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode, "Luna Eclipsed." When Princess Luna comes back on the holiday Nightmare Night, she tries to earn back the affection of her subjects. Despite Twilight Sparkle trying to help, Princess Luna fails and declares Nightmare Night to be cancelled forever.
Maybe browsing too many tropes on evil today and it's just on my mind, but I can't help thinking of how hard Americans fought in and out of jail for the right not to get tied up in a European killfest, only to take this thinking to its logical extreme in the next European killfest- at one point even turning away some refugees and prosecuting partisans just to stay 'neutral'. We may have been *under*judged for that- people who don't understand the American system tend to think that discordant policies are simply out of the government's hands, or unwise to push, when the fuller truth was that the political machine had made a choice to actively tolerate activity like Ford's vehicle donations to fascists and the free distribution of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Make no mistake, if the government hated it as much as it does in the stories we tell about ourselves, they had power to take *some* action; instead they looked the other way for personal gain, just like in every other 20th century human rights disaster.