Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/The great big examples suggestion topic!/reply (25)

It was totally Played for Laughs. He wasn't even a major factor in the episode's plot: the main characters were just hanging for their lives, Raj's hand could've slipped at any moment causing them to fall to their deaths, so Edward (who's among many onlookers in the scene) pulls a bullhorn out of hammer space and shouts "GO FOR IT, RAJ!" It was such a brief moment too, yet somehow someone managed to abuse both Complete Monster AND Moral Event Horizon out of it!

I remember that, the whole "Mr Krabs is TOTALLY played seriously enough to count!" argument. Similar case to people arguing that Peter Griffin or anyone from Family Guy counted. Honestly, looking back at the History on this wiki shows how misused and abused the trope used to be on TV Tropes, it's downright embarrassing. While I don't agree with the overtly anal, heavy-handed, and restricting approach TV Tropes has taken to "repairing" it, I have the idiots who could not seem to grasp what the trope was meant to entail to blame for making it needing of repairs in the first place.