39,327
edits
Fisher King: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.FisherKing 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.FisherKing, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 16:
Subtrope of [[Royalty Super Power]]. See also [[No Ontological Inertia]], [[Terminally Dependent Society]] and [[Genius Loci]]. If the place has this effect on its inhabitants, it's a [[Fisher Kingdom]]. If you are looking for the film of the same name, hop on over to ''[[The Fisher King]]''. Oh, and this has nothing to do with ''that'' [[Bleach (Manga)|Fisher]], or the [[Star Wars|Fisher Princess]].
{{examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
Line 50:
** The Plateau of Gorgoroth is not evil-looking because Sauron set up his home there; it was the volcano that causes the region to be so barren and foreboding that brought Sauron there in the first place.
** In the movie Aragorn made the Tree of the Kings bloom with his sheer presence, while in the book he had to find a new tree to replace the dead old one.
* ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' is a black comedy adaptation of ''[[Macbeth]]''. The Fisher King trope of the original is inverted: When Joe McBeth kills Norm Duncan and takes over Duncan's Cafe (renaming it "McBeth's") business starts booming. After McBeth's death, Lt. McDuff turns it into a vegetarian restaurant and business completely dries up.
* ''[[Shrek (Animation)|Shrek]] Forever After''. Seen in Far Far Away after Rumplestiltskin takes over, though the sheer luxury of his palace implies it's simply because he's so greedy he doesn't spend any money on maintaining his kingdom.
** When [[Prince Charmless|Prince Charming]] takes over Far Far Away in ''Shrek the Third'', he turns it from a beautiful kingdom to a barren ghost town, and even renames it "Go Go Away."
Line 67:
* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Chalion|The Curse of Chalion]]'', the royal family's curse causes every decision they make, be it directing a war or political maneuverings, to have the worst possible outcome.
** More that the curse twists against their actions, increasing the likelihood of failure by mischance or enemy action. Were the worst possible outcome the only option, {{spoiler|they would never have broken the thing at all.}}
* The fairy kingdom of Lost-hope in ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]'' by Susanna Clarke. Under the dominion of the ''Gentleman with the thistle-down hair'', an amorally cruel and capricious and extremely [[
* ''[[Merry Gentry]]'' - by [[Laurell K Hamilton]]. The Courts of Faerie are only as alive and fertile as their rulers. Both Taranis (Seelie Court) and Andais (Unseelie Court) learn of their infertility, and handle it differently. Taranis, King of Illusion, pretends everything is fine, and murders, banishes or beats anyone who says otherwise, terrified of losing his throne (and life). Andais, after centuries of a dying sithen and a bloodthirsty tyrannical rule, finally gives in and goes to a human doctor, who confirms her infertility. She grudgingly agrees to give up the throne to whichever of her two descendants can make a baby first.
* [[Michael Ende (Creator)|Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (Literature)|The Neverending Story]]'': Phantasién (or Fantasia/Fantastica) is linked to the Childlike Empress: She is the source of all life, and without her, the world could no longer live, like a human body that had lost its heart. As an extension of this, Phantasién is subjected to The Nothing whenever the Childlike Empress needs a new name.
Line 140:
* ''Exit the King'' takes this trope absolutely literally; the king's mental and physical decline shrinks and collapses his kingdom on a scale reminiscent of The Nothing in ''The Never-Ending Story''. It even extends into ''time.''
{{quote| "All the wars you'd won, you lost. And all the ones you lost, well, you lost them over again."}}
* In ''[[A Midsummer
Line 158:
** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', {{spoiler|the future world of Ultimecia under her domination, and most especially her castle.}}
* In ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 2]]'', {{spoiler|the Encroaching Parallel Universe, Kuiper Belt, is gradually eating the entire universe, and strikes Filgaia with a phenomenon called the Stain Paradigm, which rots away the sky, the land, the water, the forces of nature, everything, as Kuiper Belt grows more powerful. Named after but very different from the real Kuiper Belt, a ring of countless Plutoid planetoids surrounding the main Solar System, some of which occasionally stray into the main Solar System like Pluto does every few centuries.}}
* In ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'', a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] known as a "Reality Marble" shows the inner workings of a Mage's soul by making a world that represents that Mage overlap the real world. These worlds, being shaped by the Magi's inner nature, are of the Fisher King nature. One inner world shown during the course of the game and the anime is [[Field of Blades|Unlimited Blade Works]], which belongs to Archer ( {{spoiler|and by extension, Emiya Shirou}}).<br /><br />Other Reality Marbles mentioned include that of ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronounced Nero Chaos), which is always active and allows him to join his being to other creatures, giving him a body that is incapable of dying so long as at least one part of it remains alive and he can maintain magic energy to feed it. Unless you're [[One
** In its sister series ''[[Tsukihime]]'' there is introduced in its back story a group of beings called the Ultimate Ones, the final singular lifeform that embody the hereditary of the now-dead planet of which it originates. Their very presence is enough to cast a permanent denial of reality sphere called Alien Order, overwriting Earth's laws of physics with those of their original planet as it was when it still bore life. In the main series, this is the effect Type-Mercury is having on a region in South America. In the far-flung future of ''Notes'', the body of Ultimate One Type-Venus is blown out of the sky and, crashing onto the dead Earth of the future, its "corpse" is the only place that can still sustain life, albeit Venusian life.
** The prequel of ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'', ''[[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate Zero]]'', also has Servant Rider's shared Reality Marble, "Ionioi Hetaroi", which summons the [[Badass Army]] which conquered half of the world in his lifetime.
Line 189:
* Chanticleer's farm from ''[[Rock a Doodle]]'' is always sunny and bright, but when the evil owl tricks Chanticleer into oversleeping and making the Sun rise without him, all of Chanticleer's friends make fun of him and as a result Chanticleer gives up and moves to the city, causing the Sun to set and stop rising altogether, and therefore allowing the evil owl to terrorize all of the farm animals in constant darkness. But then some kid gets turned into a <s> furry</s> cat by said evil owl...
* Done in a [[The Da Vinci Code|Da-Vinci code]] spoof episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Maggie, who was revealed to be a special child who would usher in true peace, is put on a chair that would fulfill her fate, people stop fighting, flowers bloom, all and all good stuff happens...unfortunately, Marge would rather have her daughter than world peace, and Homer leaves the nuns with Bart, who causes the rapture when he sits on the throne.
* Played twice on ''[[The
* Whenever [[Mad God|Discord]] rules [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Equestria]], he transforms the land into a [[World Gone Mad|nonsensical chaotic hellhole]]. By contrast, when [[Big Good|Celestia]] is on the throne, Equestria is a nice and peaceful place to live ([[Ron the Death Eater|despite some]] [[Epileptic Trees|claims by the]] [[Misaimed Fandom]]). It's not a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|perfect utopia]], but it's arguably fairly close.
** Nightmare Moon qualifies as well. Under her power, Equestria would never again see the light of day.
| |||