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'''Sten:''' Get used to disappointment. [[Defied Trope|People are not simple.]] They cannot be defined for easy reference in the manner of: 'the elves are a lithe, pointy-eared people who excel at poverty.' |''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''}}

{{quote|The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform which turns out to be a familiar old lifeform wearing a funny hat.|''[http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/twyford/480/wesleygetslaid.htm 47 Things You'll Never See on Star Trek]''}}

{{quote|Most of Israel’s critics, especially abroad, see the country as a one-dimensional monolith. As they see it, all its (Jewish) citizens are marching in lockstep behind their rightist government, consumed by a dark ideology, supporting occupation and settlements and committing war crimes. This, by the way, is a mirror image of the admirers of Israel in the world, who also see Israel as a one-dimensional monolith, with all citizens marching proudly behind their brave and determined leaders – Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Avigdor Lieberman. The truth is far removed from both these caricatures.|Uri Avnery}}

'''Alien:''' It's that we'll try to eat you after a bit.|''[[Mitchell and Webb]]'', "Space Trek And Wars"}}

'''Leader''': Hey, everybody's got their "thing". We love shipping and handling, all right?|''[[Futurama Comics]]'' #2}}

That, I think, is, from the author's point of view, part of the appeal of what I call Chinese menu fantasy, where the Tolkienesque band of protagonists has [[Five Races|one archetypal elf, one archetypal dwarf, etc.]] It's much easier to make the characterization work. And I'm not denigrating this approach. I wouldn't dare, now that I've done the diverse band of heroes myself in my dragon thingie.<br />

Of course, there's at least one other advantage to this approach, also. Frequently, much of the point of a fantasy is to give the reader the chance to explore an exotic imaginary world, and by giving him extended commerce with characters who represent many of its races and cultures, the writer facilitates this process.|'''Richard Lee Byers''', the author of [[Forgotten Realms]] trilogy ''The Year of Rogue Dragons'' <ref>in which two of the protagonists left their tribes to see the wider world and two others had crippling problems due to who they are</ref> and ''Dissolution'' <ref>the first book of ''War of the Spider Queen'', introducing a bunch of Drow characters, rather lively and individual yet recognizably Drow</ref>, [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6440&whichpage=8#128467 on Candlekeep forums].}}

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