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That page is proof that TVTropes tries too hard to find things that are non-existent.
 
BR55 said:
While we are on that subject throw shit like "Values Resonance" and "Harsher in Hindsight"/"Funny Aneurism Moment" on to the pile too. TV Tropes is at it's absolute worst when it tries to be "Serious".
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Throw Values Dissonance on there as well.
 
You can include 'Unintentional period piece' as well when it comes to stuff that goes overboard.They pretty much look at any element that was popular/talked about in a given time period and obsess over how its no longer relevant today.It gets to the point that if a character was singing a song that just happened to be popular in the year that show aired its automatically dated.In a way its funny how much they obsess over minute background details that don't have any relevance to whatever plot there is.
 
Xerxes IX said:
The Jihad To Destroy Barney image on the page is pretty funny though, because judging by Memri TV a jihad against Barney isn't out of the question.
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It's based on this autism:

http://www.jihad.net/

In fact, come to think of it, Barney hatred could be a community thread in and of itself.


In troping related news, more US political bullshit starts here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=9149#228701

The whole page is filled with autistic screeching, and I totally love the irony in the one poster with a William T. Sherman avatar, who was a dedicated Unionist yet was still sympathetic to slavery.
 
GethN7 said:
It's based on this autism:

http://www.jihad.net/

In fact, come to think of it, Barney hatred could be a community thread in and of itself.


In troping related news, more US political bullshit starts here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=9149#228701

The whole page is filled with autistic screeching, and I totally love the irony in the one poster with a William T. Sherman avatar, who was a dedicated Unionist yet was still sympathetic to slavery.
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Most of that shit was tongue-in-cheek to begin with, and largely died with the 90s, the only people who really hate it now (as opposed to just plain old hating it) being people who do so entirely seriously - and autistically - like Barneyfag.
 
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For over 10000 years the trope king has sat immobile on the golden throne of autism...
 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoNotDoThisCoolThing

I always hated this particular trope because most of the examples are tropers unable to distinguish between fiction advocating something like violence or just using to tell its story. Like this.

  • Max Payne does a pretty good job of getting its point across well, assuming that its point is that a Roaring Rampage of Revenge is lots and lots of fun. If it's trying to be anti-violence, not so much.
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Except it's not trying to be? Max Payne never claimed to be anti-violence and I'm pretty sure the games aren't telling people to get into shootouts with the mob while diving through the air.

  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a rather infamous example for many a 90's kid. An animated film that shoves its message of "save the rainforest" down your throat without a trace of subtlety has, as its main antagonist, a charismatic, smooth, and stylish incarnation of pollution. Voiced by Tim Curry. Who has the best musical number in the movie. And is, according to many viewers, the movie's only likable character. He makes pollution seem more than just "fun," and when he turns into a black skeleton wearing a cloak of tar, who cares about the dumb faeries and their dumb forest anymore?! His Villain Song alone, "Toxic Love", could make even the staunchest environmentalist want to chuck some chemicals in the ocean.
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How :autism: do you have to be to reinterpret the movie as making pollution "fun" just because it has a cool villain?

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Same as above except the troper doesn't understand the concept of a tragic villain and is also creepily attracted to an animated character.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
Except it's not trying to be? Max Payne never claimed to be anti-violence and I'm pretty sure the games aren't telling people to get into shootouts with the mob while diving through the air.


How :autism: do you have to be to reinterpret the movie as making pollution "fun" just because it has a cool villain?
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Max Payne is hardboiled cop drama with lots of guns and bullet time, it may as well be a John Woo movie. Most of us are well aware that if you dive through the air, time does not slow down. Also I think plenty of us have been behind a big school bus or public bus or some big vehicle that spews smog and smells absolutely awful, so we're not stupid enough to think "yeah, smog is cool!"

I am doubtful tropers are autistic. I am more likely to believe they're straight up retarded.
 
Wait wait wait, did I just see an Uncanny Valley-dwelling animated character's dance moves described by a TV Troper as 'rather seductive'?

What the badgery fuck?

Oh, also - from the Advertising section of that page...

  • The UK government attempted to steer kids off drugs in The '80s with a series of TV advertisements featuring emaciated youths in dingy surroundings. The kids in question are reputed to have thought they looked really cool. It doesn't help this was during the second wave of Goth pop music! If only they had known "heroin chic" was an existing underground fashion trend waiting to break into the mainstream.
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Yeah, those ads were really making heroin chic look so kewl.

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Oh, and the 80s was the first wave of Goth music being popular in the UK. You fail comprehensively at drug history, pop music history, and UK history. And I don't like your face, either.
 
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There was this guy called Lucky Revenant who was so exceptional that he got an episode of “This Troper” just for him:

This is all old, and I’m too lazy to check and see if he’s still around, but if so he’d probably be worthy of his own thread.
 
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