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* [[Older Than Steam]]: ''[[Hamlet]]'': "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" Apparently, [[Shakespeare]] was [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|notorious for this.]] Then again, Hamlet was probably Schizophrenic. |
* [[Older Than Steam]]: ''[[Hamlet]]'': "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" Apparently, [[Shakespeare]] was [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|notorious for this.]] Then again, Hamlet was probably Schizophrenic. |
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== All The Tropes == |
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* All-Devouring Black Hole [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks]], the trope title. Sharks and black holes both have a well-deserved reputation for devouring and destruction--but surely they don't have anything else in common. Perhaps this status as a mixed metaphor is one reason why the "all-devouring black hole" part is now a mere alternate title for the trope, but it could be argued that this makes the trope more fun since comparing anything to a black hole is a very [[Hypocritical Humor|colorful metaphor.]] |
* All-Devouring Black Hole [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks]], the trope title. Sharks and black holes both have a well-deserved reputation for devouring and destruction--but surely they don't have anything else in common. Perhaps this status as a mixed metaphor is one reason why the "all-devouring black hole" part is now a mere alternate title for the trope, but it could be argued that this makes the trope more fun since comparing anything to a black hole is a very [[Hypocritical Humor|colorful metaphor.]] |
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== Web Comics == |
== Web Comics == |
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