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Often overlaps with [[Your Vampires Suck]]. |
Often overlaps with [[Your Vampires Suck]]. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* Eragon from ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]''. Sometimes everything just "stops" completely to explain some other minute detail about elven culture that the reader really did not need to know, with Eragon asking a continuous string of questions to hammer in a moral. |
* Eragon from ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]''. Sometimes everything just "stops" completely to explain some other minute detail about elven culture that the reader really did not need to know, with Eragon asking a continuous string of questions to hammer in a moral. |
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* [[Twilight (novel)|Edward Cullen]] takes a whole chapter (the infamous meadow scene) to explain vampire lore to Bella. |
* [[Twilight (novel)|Edward Cullen]] takes a whole chapter (the infamous meadow scene) to explain vampire lore to Bella. |
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* In a clunky bit of writing in ''[[Harry Potter and |
* In a clunky bit of writing in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Harry is running down a list of things at Voldemort's command and despite the fact that ''no one asked for any clarification on the word'', he says: |
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{{quote|'''Harry:''' ...and Inferi - that is, dead bodies animated by a dark wizard...}} |
{{quote|'''Harry:''' ...and Inferi - that is, dead bodies animated by a dark wizard...}} |
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** Although that may have been helpful considering he was trying to impress on the Dursleys exactly how scary Voldemort really is. What would scare you more, a nonsense word you don't know the meaning of (which sounds a little like "fairy") or an ''animated corpse controlled by dark magic?'' |
** Although that may have been helpful considering he was trying to impress on the Dursleys exactly how scary Voldemort really is. What would scare you more, a nonsense word you don't know the meaning of (which sounds a little like "fairy") or an ''animated corpse controlled by dark magic?'' |
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* Bill from ''[[True Blood]]''. You can't go through one episode without him explaining yet another aspect of vampire culture to his confused human character (Sookie). |
* Bill from ''[[True Blood]]''. You can't go through one episode without him explaining yet another aspect of vampire culture to his confused human character (Sookie). |
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** After the first season, though, this is averted. |
** After the first season, though, this is averted. |