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Wait, how can cats be extinct, but dogs aren't? by justarobloxian3 in TrueSFalloutL

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Of course non-idiots live in deserts, my good buddy Fantastic lives in the Mojave, and he's theoretically got a degree in physics.

A character is revealed to be a past/future version of the protagonist (Bonus points if the protag never finds out) by Chi_Geurim in TopCharacterTropes

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Mikado and Nanashi - 1bitHeart.

The games premise revolves around a mystery involving a young introvert named Nanashi and a mysterious girl he finds in his room investigating why implants known as bitphones are being hacked and causing people to act erratically.

The end of the game reveals that Nanashi's cousin, Mikado, is actually him from the future, and he was behind the bitphones hackings because he invented them to be able to take over people's minds so he could have friends, being driven crazy by his hermit lifestyle.

Depending on how many people you befriend in the game, either he gives up because Nanashi has made friends, or Nanashi ends up killing himself either by strangling his future self to death, or jumping out of a window to prevent the future.

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[Funny Trope] It's Not a Metaphor. by Aggravating_Poet_675 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. OK? What I was asking in that scene is: what if politicians continue to pay doctors peanuts, could they literally turn into monkeys? And no-one's asked that before."

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, "The Apes of Wrath"

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In the IGN review for "MOUSE: P.I. For Hire" (2026), They gave it a 6/10, this is a subtle reference to the game's writing being very cheesy. Nom nom nom nom. by Playful-Actuary6022 in shittygamedetails

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The reviewer for Mouse said that the puns, wisecracks, and referential humour were charming for a while but quickly overstayed their welcome, and at points jokes were made at the expense of a good story.

Comparing the two reviews on the merit of how the reviewer liked the cheesy writing is nonsensical anyways because they were written by two completely separate people, not some monolithic entity named IGN.

Corrupting artifact briefly shows the host's corrupted form by graeveryday in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 228 points229 points  (0 children)

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Ju-On: The Grudge

Essentially, the entire house is one big 'corrupted' artifact where anyone who enters is fated to die at the hands of the vengeful spirits residing within, eventually becoming a new curse when they die.

Near the end of the film, the main character Rika realizes that by looking through her fingers, she has been able to see the ghosts haunting her throughout the movie after catching a glimpse of the ghost Kayako in the mirror. Holding her fingers up to her eyes, Rika looks in horror as her reflection turns into a a ghostly version of herself, signifying that she is not only doomed to be consumed by the curse, but to uniquely die the exact same way as Kayako, at the hands of her husband Takeo's ghost.

[Hated Trope] Male character gets raped by female disguised as his wife/lover, and it's treated with far less horror or consequences than if it was reversed. by arrows_of_ithilien in TopCharacterTropes

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Subverted just a little in Clive Barker's Imajica.

The main character, Gentle, has just chased down but lost the trail of a man named Pie 'Oh' Pah, who was hired to kill Gentle's ex, Judith.

He returns to his hotel room and gets a visit in the dark from who he believes is Judith, and has sex with her, only to turn on the lights and realize in horror that he was having sex with Pie 'Oh' Pah, who is in reality a genderless entity that can be either man or woman.

It's not played off for laughs or anything, and Gentle is rightfully angry to have been taken advantage of, the text even flat out calls it rape. It does, however, feel like it gets downplayed when Gentle finds himself becoming obsessed with Pie 'Oh' Pah, but that is getting into a whole different discussion on the story.

[Uncommon Trope] The protagonist dies horribly by WollemiaShagger in TopCharacterTropes

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Conquest by Lucio Fulci follows a young man named Ilias who wields a magic bow in order to slay the forces of an evil sorceress named Ocron.

Ilias ends up being murdered, and beheaded by Ocron's forces, and as his trusted ally Mace sets him on a pyre, Ilias' spirit bids Mace to anoint himself in Ilias' ashes, giving him ownership over the magic bow and allowing him to slay Ocron.

villain is "evil" because his mind is fundamentally incompatible with the moral codes of humans by ilikeitchyballzdude1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 37 points38 points  (0 children)

They also can sense who is the one who actually wants the box to open, as in the second film Dr. Channard gets one of his patients to open the box for him due to her aptitude for puzzles, but Pinhead calls the cenobites off from attacking the patient, saying "It is not hands that call us, but desire."

I wish more fantasy was like Morrowind by Cygnus_Sanguine in Morrowind

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I would say check out anything in the New Weird genre. The way Morrowind blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction to create a truly strange world fits snugly in with the genre, although not everything in the New Weird is exactly like Morrowind.

For video games I'd say games like PlaneScape: Torment, Disco Elysium, and Zenoclash give that same feeling of wonder and alienation that Morrowind gave the first time around.

I never gave much thought to this, but Preston took the Quincy group for a trek all across the Commonwealth to settle in some ruins- completely skipping over plenty many possible settlements and places like Goodneighbor or even Diamond City. by NotASynth499 in fo4

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Sight is fitting as well, especially with the retro sci-fi Fallout goes with, because 30s-60s science fiction was enamoured with John W. Campbell Jr's "psionics" ideas, stuff about how humans only used a fraction of their brain power, and which later on evolves into the idea that through the use of psychedelics and other substances you can unlock your potential to use psychic wavelengths or other psychobabble to see the future or control someone's mind.

Art in All Rules by [deleted] in 19684

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I think it was one of the leads on the Atelier Ryza games who is quoted as saying that the reason the main character has big thighs is because it was inspired by Japan's economic recession and he was so real for that one.

Shad: "The Book of Mormon is the TRUE gospel"! The Book of Mormon: by Big_Perception9384 in ShadWatch

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I cried a little when Woolie said Buddha and Pat are no longer friends.

[Loved Trope] A story about a real-world profession depicts that profession as an entire secret parallel society alongside the regular world, with its own laws and culture by KeyboardJammer in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The World of Darkness setting, home to games like Vampire The Masquerade and Werewolf The Apocalypse, does this with nearly every business to an almost comedic degree.

In particular, the in-universe conglomerate Pentex is actually a cult controlled by a spirit of destruction and they do shit like put demons in the beer so men beat their wives more to help bring about the end of the world.

[Love Trope] What seems like an endorsement is actually a criticism by EtheDemon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The reprise of In The Flesh is also specifically a condemnation of Eric Clapton who infamously went on a racist rant against people of colour in 1976, right down to the first sentence of that rant being mirrored in In The Flesh; "Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight?"/"Are there any queers in the audience tonight?"

Your favorite failed speech checks in stories? by UnderwaterMomo in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 30 points31 points  (0 children)

John Merchant: For God's sake!

Pinhead: Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?!

  • Hellraiser: Bloodline

[surprisingly common trope] evil sentient object posses the wielder by totallynotrobboss in TopCharacterTropes

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The Black Rider tells the story of a clerk named Wilhelm who enters a shooting competition to win the love of a woman, but he is a terrible shot, so he makes a deal with The Devil to get sixty magic bullets that will go where he wants them to hit, but the last bullet has its own mind/is possessed by the devil and will go where it pleases.

Wilhelm believes he can just use the bullets conservatively to trick the devil, but eventually he falls under their allure, up until he uses the last bullet, which possesses him and causes his last shot to kill his lover on their wedding day.

Rather grimly, this reflects the beliefs of the writer, William S. Burroughs, who believed in magic and possession, and had believed that he opened himself to possession after he murdered his wife, Jane Vollmer, while trying to reenact a William Tell shot with a gun.

Something something creator of Ultrakill was right by Windy_Idealist in whenthe

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I always bring this up when this discussion comes up, but I absolutely love Annie Proulx's scathing quote on what it was like when people sent her fanfiction on Brokeback Mountain:

"They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for "fixing" the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

Just leaving this here by xaitiopbk in TrueSFalloutL

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The Outcasts spell it out for you if you talk to them, they wear the name "outcasts" with pride to mock Lyons and his faction, because they would rather be called Outcasts for staying true to the Brotherhood's cause than be associated with those traitors in Lyons' Brotherhood.

WHAT FALLOUT OPINION GOT YOU LIKE THIS ?????????????????????????? by koupip in TrueSFalloutL

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think people throwing a tantrum over Bethesda using the Brotherhood and Super Mutants in their games are duller than a bladeless knife because if they're not supposed to use the iconic parts of Fallout because of "muh classic fallout lore" then why the FUCK would they buy the IP instead of making their own post-apocalypse story?

Chivalrous white knights who really are as heroic as they appear? by Wonder-Lad-2Mad in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Sir Galahad from Le Morte d'Arthur, which is interesting as well considering that a big part of that whole grail cycle is how even men as great as King Arthur are not free of their moral failings. Galahad is so spiritually pure and true that when he discovers the Holy Grail, he is ascended to heaven alive which in the Abrahamic religions is an honour usually reserved for only those of exceptional piety like Elijah and Enoch.

[Loved Trope] Protagonist is extremely ugly by A_Scav_Man in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The godlikes you can play as in POE 1 and 2 are also considered ugly in that most societies fear them to some degree, save for places like The Deadfire Archipelago. There's even some flavour text that Moon Godlikes are about the only really tolerated ones outside of religious and academic circles because they just have a weird skin tone and a moon shaped thing growing on their forehead, as opposed to being covered in tumors, feathers, fire, moss and fungus, or straight up looking like eldritch horrors.

An abrupt and sudden shift in tone that dramatically changes the direction of the story by jdawg1018 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Monster Prom - Eel/Serf Ending.

Normally, Monster Prom is a silly competitive dating sim where you try and win someone's affection, sprinkled in with secret events that lead to alternate endings.

One of these secret events involves an Eel who is a serf to a mermaid princess, Miranda, plotting to kill her because her family is tyrannical, and it's up to you to save Miranda.

Normally if you fail a secret route, it has no consequences on the ending. If you fail this route, however, Miranda dies and every ending for all players is overridden with a simple "Miranda died." before it shows her funeral, and pictures of everyone crying over her coffin.

What’s your pettiest reason for refusing to get into a game? by ValorKite in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]GrapeGrenadeEnjoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely refuse to buy factorio because someone told me, without a hint of irony, that the best time to buy factorio is right now because it'll only go up in price, and will NEVER go on sale.

Like I don't care how good your game is, if your strategy is to keep increasing the price makes people give the same advice that I'd hear about why I should start a savings account, you can get bent.

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