User:SelfCloak/sandbox

(Avoid People Sit in Chairs and Stock Phrases.)


 * Old Senility: An old person has mental and intellectual deficiencies. Omnipresent Trope. Related to Alzheimer's.
 * The Green Mile
 * Virtue Corrosion: A good person becomes vile after age.
 * Up, fault (used as a In-Universe Take That), Princess Evangile (Discussed).
 * Authorship Question: Theories that an obscure, but related figure is the true author of a famous or notable work. Compare Conspiracy Theories. Related to Based on a Great Big Lie
 * Shakespeare (Add links to online and paper essays), Émile Nelligan (Proved in an award-winning non-fiction book)
 * Pseudo-Romance: Elements of romance used for plot convenience and Fan Service, without the care of establishing a relationship. Very common in Anime, especially in the Harem Genre. Contrast Romantic Plot Tumor. Compare to Token Romance.

Review Drafts


 * Tokyo School Life (Enjoyable, but creatively empty) (Frustrating endings raises unfortunate questions that are never even alluded to)
 * Draft script underway, 60% complete.
 * The Woman in White (3/4 of this book is a masterpiece of fiction) (Sharp and hilarious humor, gripping tension and mystery, real characters, twist to some aspects of society, last part turned into a monotonous "interview", "Revenge Whodunit", almost like a "Dateline" episode)
 * Blue Is the Warmest Color (Technical gem with ugly stains) (Unfortunate Implications, overly long and unrealistic sex scenes, questions arise (was there ever true love between Adèle and Emma?), dissect flaws in relationship (see IMDb discussion boards, arguments for and against Emma, analyzing Adèle's character), did the audience miss the point of the movie?)

From Drowninginhorseshoes
A YouTube channel (renamed Manchild Inc.) that hosts meta epic series of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic reviews, detailing the downward spiral of the Horseshoe King. Later spun off into many series, including Cerealized and Endless Jess.


 * Bait and Switch: In his review of "Maud Pie" (9:18), Horseshoe asks his autistic viewers to please not thumb down his video and send hate comments (with a dash of Artist Disillusionment and Hypocritical Humor) just because he's using the word "autistic" in the neutral, objective sense, which can be misinterpreted as negative by its constant misuse, and instead just listen to- "Oh, who am I kidding, you've already done that, haven't you?!"
 * He then makes the point that he could say anything at this point, since they're not listening and, in fact, no one (his words) watches his videos.
 * Deconstructor Fleet: In My Japanese Animes: Pokemon, Endless Jess, at 4:08, deconstructs the entire plot structure, Unfortunate Implications and overall relation to the anime for the target audience, as they grow up.
 * Series Finale: Horseshoe Finale.
 * Take That: He is very critical of other YouTube brony reviewers' "superficial" analysis and reviews.
 * (Among them, Digibrony, who has since moved on to anime analytical reviews and has cut the "-ny" in his name.)

Endless Jess' pet peeves in reviews
(From Pro Crastinators Episode 7 - Reviewer Rules) (47:58)
 * 1) Jumpcuts (lazy examples.)
 * 2) Stammering, stuttering bullshit during unscripted speeches
 * 3) Lack of self-awareness
 * 4) Dismissiveness [disregard] for other view points
 * 5) Recap reviews
 * 6) * Overly sappy shit (endings) (BestGuyEver)
 * 7) High-stakes continuity (Continuity Snarl).
 * 8) Intrusive politics.
 * 9) Intrusive skits.
 * 10) Derivativeness.
 * 11) * Opening catchphrase "Hey, guys, I've been busy..."
 * 12) * (Don't ramble about) your origin of discovering the show.
 * 13) ** Advice: Steal from multiple people, instead of one.
 * 14) **; Outdo your idols.
 * 15) Alcohol as a comedy crutch.
 * 16) * "I can't take this. I gotta drink."
 * 17) Obnoxious long intros
 * 18) * Heavy Metal intros.
 * 19) * If more than 5 seconds, it must be an original song made by a professional (Digibro)
 * 20) Shows based on negativity and cynicism.
 * 21) Adherence to formula.
 * 22) * Separate scores are a big no no (story, characters, animation, etc). (Digibro)
 * 23) * (19.) Overly complex scoring systems.
 * 24) ** If you must, only use one score for the whole "package."
 * 25) Acting as a poser (characterization of reviewer)
 * 26) * Don't always be the cool guy
 * 27) Over-reliance on memes/references
 * 28) Lack of editing
 * 29) Have editors who communicate the same ideas you have (Digibro)
 * 30) * (a plus) get editors who are better than you (joke)
 * 31) * Earn the editor (or pay them) (Digibro)
 * 32) Redundancy of the reviewed material (everyone already reviewed it)
 * 33) (See 13)
 * 34) (reviewer clichés)
 * 35) * "blank" is overrated
 * 36) * "Controversial opinion" videos.
 * 37) * Audience straw man.
 * 38) * Basing your review only on other people's opinions.
 * 39) ** That doesn't mean you shouldn't watch other people's reviews. On the contrary. (Digibro)
 * 40) * Not explaining terms in reviews ("The pacing is bad", offers no explanations)
 * 41) Blatantly missing the point of what you're talking about.
 * 42) * "I don't like this show because the characters are unlikable", even though that was the point of the show. (Evangelion)
 * 43) * When reviewers think they are smarter than the creators.
 * 44) Flash over substance.
 * 45) Reviewing people.
 * 46) Response videos (pause, then glib comment at every line)
 * 47) * Avoid dehumanizing opinions (Digibro)
 * 48) Listening to jerks on the Internet telling you how to make your videos.
 * 49) * OOOHHHH! (BestGuyEver)
 * 50) * Please take this list seriously and take in into concern. (Digibro)
 * 51) * You don't have to write it down to follow it. (Digibro)
 * 52) ** (Extra) Don't apply the same logic to everything (Digibro)
 * 53) ** The point of your review is not to state your opinions, but to justify them.
 * 54) ** The only audience that matters is you. (Golden Rule 1)
 * 55) *** Fuck'em. (Golden Rule 2)

From Haroohee

 * Call Back:
 * "(mundane activity) IS CONSUMING MY WHOLE LIFE! (Subverted for laughs in ep. 7)
 * (Ep. 9, from Ep. 2) "The door's unlocked!"
 * Running Gag: In Ep. 1, Haruhi repeating "Fuck!" in her head.


 * WMG: According to the events in Ep 9 (background screams), the murder was neither a prank, nor the butler's doing, nor an accident by Kyon and Koizumi (as it didn't happen: they were eating when the murder happened).
 * The suspect couldn't have been the guy on the table no one knows anything about.

From CaptainSparklez
(From CaptainSparklez's playthrough of Minecraft Story Mode) "(mimes talking mouth with his hand, he then makes funny faces and mimics the mouth with his two hands in a shrugged position. He then stops and, with a Kermit strained voice:) Just do the thing! Stop! ...Shut up! Make the thing work! ..So whiny! (refers to "What are we supposed to do?") We're being awesome! (whispers) Oh my God, she's such a pessimist and it's annoying. (a little louder) Oh my God, shut up. (When she says to Jesse "I like that way of looking at it.") (Gravel voice) Yeah, now make that thing work and stop being annoying! [...]""
 * Running Gag: (Ep 4 Part 2) "Just look at it. Look at it!"
 * "Very astute observation."
 * "Rueben, mah man!"
 * Funny Moment: "Well I'm the king of Boom Town, I'll have you know, please bow before me."
 * CapSpark getting fed up with Olivia, when she is not repairing the slime contraption and just talking about losing hope with the whole situation:


 * He then ends it with Sarcastic Clapping.

"Olivia: We should be careful. This place could be booby-trapped. CaptainSparklez: Ayy, she said "booby.""
 * Heh Heh, You Said "X":

From Highschool Romance

 * Anvilicious: It doesn't matter if a boy identifies as a girl, they should be respected.
 * Artistic License Linguistics: Shoji sounds like a boy's name, and he is supposed to be a girl. Naming him "Shoka", as in the suffix "-ka", like in Japanese form for female names, would have solved the inaccuracy.
 * Although using false information in a school is probably very risky, both for the student and personnel. That would have caused more trouble than necessary.
 * Can't Hold Her Liquor: Hoshi, during her karaoke trip with Shoji. Lampshaded by him.
 * Gratuitous French: "C'est la Vie"
 * Mood Dissonance: If Shoji decides to have lunch with Selina, Hoshi will appear a while later, looking sad and hurt at the whole situation (Shoji thought so himself), even though her sprite shows a smile on her face.
 * The epilogue with Hoshi is pretty romantic, even though a sombre piano piece is playing.
 * Plot Twist: Selina, on the common route, puts Shoji in a compromising situation by asking him to take a shower. If he, Selina will say that
 * The Reveal Prompts Romance: When Shoji
 * Okay, but (Headscratcher) How did she know that? As far as I know, she didn't explain anything
 * Then again, figuring that out would have been the easiest thing ever.
 * But it doesn't explain Shoji's abnormally feminine hips, if the drawing are to be trusted.
 * Strangled by the Red String: Played With. Shoji and Hoshi have been best friends for the whole school year, but when he decides to spend his break with her a second time, he very suddenly wants to tell her his feelings.
 * Unknown Rival: Played With. Hoshi is really bad at being a rival to Selina, as the sporty girl says many times. It doesn't help that Hoshi is not really jealous of Selina, who wants Shoji's love and is trying her best to antagonize her "rival."

From fault
(milestone two side:above) (visual novel) "Selphine: Use your magick, like I did to kill that tribe!"
 * Noodle Incident: (Chapter 1)


 * She's not being herself this time...


 * "Previously On...": Complete with a deep man's voice.

Rune Zhevitz
Appearance: fault milestone one

A heir of the Zhevitz family. Infamous among the town, even after her death.


 * Chaotic Evil: Type 4
 * Child Prodigy: She came up with so many good concepts for Zhevitz Enterprise that they hired her as an intern consultant. Rudo thinks she helped the company to hurt his feelings, since he's not as imaginative as her, and since he saw what she was capable of doing.
 * Complete Monster:
 * (Draft) The original Rune Zhevitz, infamous among the town of Kadia, was a heir of the Zhevitz family, who owned the most successful company in the country. At a young age, she was bratty and insufferable... but then she violently disfigured a young member of the Gkrouwlies, blinding one of his eyes and inflicting on him chronic pain that will never go away. During the grisly act, she was laughing like crazy. After a massively justified call-out by her mother, Rune decided to stop acting wrong... and got sneakier. She studied the ways of death and perfected the deception of faking her emotions, as she had none. Years later, because of her seemingly perfect behavior, Rune was admitted into a prestigious academy... where she was free to torture and kill animals without anyone noticing, until Rudo did. She relished in his pain when he found out and played with his mind, making chilling comments to him, because she was jealous of his potential as a Zhevitz.
 * Rune Zhevitz was, in every sense of the word, a sociopath, with no empathy and no sense of caring about the consequences of her actions. When she decided that killing animals wasn't enough, she orchestrated her family's ruin, by poisoning her mother, who survived the attack, murdering business men of her company by poisoning their belongings (so as to sabotage a lucrative deal with another country) and killing herself on a dangerous Outer Pole ocean. That was to sap her family's hope. All this resulted in the death of her mother, the breakdown of her father and a change of heart inside her brother.
 * It took her father's sacrifice and her reincarnation inside an automaton built by him to be be able to feel anything and to want her brother's approval, whom at this point has hardened into a cold man. Sara, AKA "Rune", might be a genuinely good person to Ritona and Selphine, her two new friends, but the original Rune Zhevitz will live in infamy as a monster.


 * Creepy Child: At a young age, she said things no child should ever think of, like finding solace in the murder of animals and admiring death.
 * Cute and Psycho: Slasher Smile, Creepy Monotone, you name it.
 * Enfant Terrible
 * Emotionless Girl
 * Driven to Suicide: Rune's body was discovered in a cargo ship, with lots of coloured Mana in her body. Since she knew that going outside the Outer Pole was lethal, Rudo concluded that she took her own life...
 * Never My Fault: She blamed, saying he "started it" with a comment.
 * Posthumous Character:

VNs
Sakura Santa
 * Flash Step (Implied for Akina)
 * Sexy Santa Dress (add to Itsumi comment)

HuniePop
 * (Heartwarming): Moko's CG of her sleeping on a tree branch.
 * Artificial Stupidity: A love interest can ask you a question, the answer being the thing they just told you beforehand.

Other
All Asians Are Alike (Analysis)
 * "All o'Y'all Look Alike!!" (Blog post by Ask a Korean!)
 * "Why Do All Asians Look the Same?" (Blog post by Bruce Reyes-Chow on The Huffington Post)
 * Why do East Asian people look alike? (Question on Quora)
 * Do All Asians Really Look Alike? (Blog post by Koji Steven on 8Asians.com)
 * Asians Look Alike (And so do you) (Blog post by Wilkine Brutus on The Vanguard Effect)
 * DAVE INGLAND
 * No, Neither Asians nor Blacks All Look Alike JENÉE DESMOND-HARRIS, The Root

From Son of Saul

(trivia) With information taken from The Scrolls of Aushwitz
 * - Shown their work: behind the scenes
 * Nepotism (what could have been): The director chose the leading actor chose his friend and poet Géza Röhrig for a supporting role, but he eventually got the role of Saul.
 * (Approval of Dante (God)): Dario Gabbai (Sonderkommandos survivor), Georges Didi-Huberman (philosopher and art historian), Claude Lanzmann ;(director of Shoah), Imre Kertész (recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, holocaust survivor), Elie Wiesel (recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, Holocaust survivor) have all praised the film.
 * (Lens flare)

(The Rules)
 * During the preparation, director László Nemes, cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and production designer László Rajk made a pledge to stick to certain rules, or a "dogma", which included:

"The film cannot look beautiful. The film cannot look appealing. We cannot make a horror film. Staying with Saul means not going beyond his own field of vision, hearing, or presence. The camera is his companion, it stays with him throughout this hell."


 * Dr. Miklós Nyiszli was a real person.
 * The film is set over the course of a day and a half on 6 and 7 October 1944, when an uprising by Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau actually took place.
 * What could have been: In early versions of the screenplay it was clearer that the body Saul tries to give a proper burial was actually his son. That detail became more ambiguous through the course of rewrites. Among those who do not believe it was is Géza Röhrig, who played Saul.
 * - The film was originally intended to be a French production with a French protagonist.


 * Saved From Development Hell: The film started development in 2005.
 * Sure Why Not: Director László Nemes acknowledged the connection to Antigone, Sophocles' tragic play, even though he didn't think of the story during development.

Change image
 * Unreliable Narrator
 * Off-Model (with Dragon Ball Super ep 5)
 * Category:Light Novels
 * Extreme Doormat
 * School Days
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Word Salad Title
 * Category:Woolseyism (something that compares both translations)
 * Equivalent Exchange (No watermark)
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed
 * Artifact of Attraction (a white image is not clever)
 * Kill'Em All (change to hamlet-related)
 * Dirty Old Man (too awesome, change to master roshi from Dragon Ball Z)
 * Eureka Seven
 * Establishing Shot
 * Audience? What Audience?
 * Sakigake Cromartie Koukou (funny, but needs cover image)

Featured list
Featured articles, links to add (Waiting list of a waiting list):
 * To sort: (Tropes, Media, Creators)


 * Blood Knight
 * Led Zeppelin
 * Pirate Girl
 * Paint Drying
 * Charlie Chaplin
 * The Three Stooges
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
 * The Simpsons
 * Category:The Scrappy
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Theory of Narrative Causality
 * Alternate History Wank
 * The Republic (novel)
 * Josef Stalin
 * House of Leaves (quote final paragraph)
 * Not Simple
 * Stock Shout-Outs
 * Hattori Hanzo
 * Columbine
 * Sanjuro
 * Frank Welker
 * Mel Blanc
 * Disney
 * Johnny Bravo
 * Disney Theme Parks
 * Steamboat Willie
 * Frank Tashlin
 * Van Beuren Studios
 * Tales of the Gold Monkey
 * Cab Calloway
 * Arcadia
 * Known Space
 * Round Robin
 * Bob Clampett
 * The Ren and Stimpy Show
 * Chuck Jones
 * Patlabor
 * Generation Kill
 * Mahabharata
 * The Sound of Martial Music
 * Ruritania
 * Carl Sagan
 * No More Heroes
 * A Christmas Carol
 * Charles Dickens
 * Tom Hanks Syndrome
 * Band of Brothers
 * Latex Space Suit
 * Category:Science Fiction
 * Money Spider
 * Disney Acid Sequence
 * Ishtar
 * The Alcatraz
 * Skies of Arcadia
 * Arabian Nights
 * Grant Morrison's Batman
 * Doug
 * Koihime Musou
 * Norse Mythology
 * Drop the Hammer
 * Daredevil
 * Iron Man
 * Hawkeye
 * Civil War (Comic Book)
 * Kaze to Ki no Uta
 * Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
 * The Diary of a Young Girl
 * Caligula/Development History
 * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
 * Sapphire and Steel
 * Buried Alive
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Slashed Throat
 * Off with His Head
 * Death Trap
 * Evil Overlord
 * Animal Assassin
 * Incredibly Obvious Bomb
 * Covered in Mud
 * Humiliation Conga
 * Category:Eye Scream
 * Crossing the Desert
 * Shifting Sand Land
 * All Deserts Have Cacti
 * Scenery Gorn
 * Scary Scorpions
 * Sand Worm
 * Warhammer 40000
 * Judge Dredd (comics)
 * Ciaphas Cain
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Nature Adores a Virgin
 * Metroid
 * Animesque
 * Glorious Mother Russia
 * Uberwald
 * Asian Gal with White Guy
 * All Asians Are Alike
 * Spy Catsuit
 * Horny Devils
 * Maligned Mixed Marriage
 * Translation Convention
 * MacGyver
 * Florence Nightingale Effect
 * Quicksand Sucks
 * Cluster F-Bomb
 * Shinigami
 * The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)
 * Trigun
 * Blackadder
 * Tuxedo and Martini
 * Seppuku
 * Behind the Black
 * Shoot Everything That Moves
 * Kleptomaniac Hero
 * Blackmail
 * Humphrey Bogart
 * Box Office Bomb
 * Polybius
 * Combattler V
 * Hamlet
 * Meido
 * Negative Continuity
 * All Men Are Perverts
 * Teacher-Student Romance
 * Growing Up Sucks
 * His Name Is
 * Oblivious Mockery
 * Primal Scene
 * Radiata Stories
 * Soap Opera
 * Shana Clone
 * Char Clone
 * Catwoman (comics)
 * Nominal Hero
 * The Magic Flute
 * Touhou
 * Rhetoric
 * Your Cheating Heart
 * Tainted by the Preview
 * Telefang
 * Black Box
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future
 * Direct to Video
 * BDSM
 * The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples
 * Plot Tailored to the Party
 * Gibberish of Love

To improve:
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature) (SPOILERS, REWRITE)
 * The Dark Knight Saga (OUTDATED)
 * Penny Arcade (Webcomic) (OUTDATED)
 * Alexander the Great (EXPAND UPON)
 * Full Metal Jacket (MAKE IT MORE EXCITING)
 * Osamu Tezuka (EXPAND UPON)
 * Adventure Time (OUTDATED)
 * Ultima (REWRITE, SHORTEN)
 * The Gift of the Magi (EXPAND)
 * FUNimation (OUTDATED, CLEAN UP)
 * Nintendo (OUTDATED, CLEAN UP)
 * Lyrical Nanoha (NEEDS BETTER DESCRIPTION)
 * Marvel Comics (OUTDATED)
 * DC Comics (OUTDATED)
 * Kirby (OUTDATED)
 * Electronic Arts (OUTDATED, CHANGE Image, add EA Games slogan)
 * Aztec Mythology (REWRITE Introduction)
 * IBM Personal Computer (REWRITE Introduction, compare to Apple II)
 * Ramona Quimby (REWRITE)
 * John Belushi (IMPROVE DESCRIPTION)
 * Montreal Screwjob (SUMMARIZE BETTER)
 * Love Hina (?)
 * Samurai Champloo (SUBJECTIVE)
 * Detective Conan (MORE DESCRIPTION)
 * Anpanman (MORE DESCRIPTION)
 * Hellsing
 * Astro Boy (manga)/Astro Boy (anime)
 * The Mysterious Cities of Gold (REMOVE RECAP SURPLUS)
 * Digimon (CLEANUP)
 * Laputa: Castle in the Sky
 * Geneon
 * Saint Seiya
 * The Prince of Tennis (MAKE IT BETTER)
 * Excel Saga (manga)
 * School Rumble
 * Spirited Young Lady
 * The Silence of the Lambs (REWRITE)
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film) (SHORTEN RECAP)
 * Shokojo Sera (RECAP, SPOILERS)
 * The Republic
 * Homer (REFOCUS on author)
 * Clerks (CLEANUP, CUT SUMMARY)
 * The Illuminati (EXPAND)
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (anime) (REMOVE subjective parts)
 * Go for the Eye
 * Eye Pop
 * Atari
 * Hopscotch (quote first and last paragraphs, distillate characters and story into second paragraph)
 * Theodore Roosevelt (CLEANUP)

Links
To analyse
 * Utawarerumono
 * Symphonic Rain
 * Gore Screaming Show
 * Kusari
 * Katahane
 * Haru no Ashioto
 * Himawari
 * Eien no Aselia: The Spirit of Eternity Sword
 * Clover Heart's
 * A Profile
 * Kazoku Keikaku
 * Sonic Before the Sequel
 * Undertale
 * Amnesia: Memories
 * Toy Story
 * Myst
 * Twinkle Star Sprites
 * Final Fantasy XI
 * Final Fantasy XIV
 * Ikigami


 * Asian and Nerdy, Black and Nerdy
 * Zeerust
 * The Chosen Many
 * Seasonal Rot
 * Network Decay
 * Strictly Formula
 * Cliché Storm
 * Christmas Rushed