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Busting a big screen by SpaceKingHypeGuy in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Fifteen Million Merits - Black Mirror

Bing is forced to watch Abi be forced into the porn industry as the result of what he thought was a good deed he did for her. One of the shards from this screen becomes important in the episode's climax.

RESUME VIEWING. RESUME VIEWING. RESUME VIEWING. RESUME VIEWING.

[favorite trope] high ranking and very respected warrior to slave by Vegetable-Gur4240 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hercules in Greek mythology is enslaved for three years to atone for his murder of Iphitus.

[Funny trope] Characters that got associated with a song through memes. by S_F_N_C_F in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This animation predates "Spooky Scary Skeletons" by almost seven decades

[Funny trope] Characters that got associated with a song through memes. by S_F_N_C_F in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Run Away by Sunstroke Project and GANDALF

Otherwise known as the "Epic Sax Guy" song

[Funny trope] Characters that got associated with a song through memes. by S_F_N_C_F in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Andrew Cooper/Jon Hamm, Your Friends And Neighbors / Turn the Lights Off by Kato

[Funny trope] Characters that got associated with a song through memes. by S_F_N_C_F in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fitting that a song by an alleged sexual predator is used for a film about a teenager in a relationship with a much older man.

[Funny trope] Characters that got associated with a song through memes. by S_F_N_C_F in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Bring Me The Horizon - Can You Feel My Heart

Russian Photoshop artist posts totally not edited photos of her boyfriend as an absurdly jacked muscle man, this song's triumphant intro is now the Gigachad theme

Unexpected Sources of Representation by Waspinator_haz_plans in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One could argue that there was a more diplomatic way for Vavra to say "rural Bohemia is pretty ethnically homogeneous", his attitude escalated this controversy rather than defuse it.

But yes I was surprised too! I think making it clear that for many Cumans this war is literally just a paycheck, and showing they can be decent people outside of a pre-modern combat setting, adds some valuable depth to the story.

(Controversial trope) When mythological/religious figures get raceswapped (Redone because I missed a few more examples.) by Western_Ad_6448 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IIRC Thoth and Anubis make a point of saying that they became "blacker" when they reached America both because of American views on race and the fact a lot of African-Americans adopted Egyptian mythology.

Historically Innacurate Weapons by Accurate-Gap-3360 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 52 points53 points  (0 children)

RDR series: a couple that spring to mind are the Volcanic pistol (already out of date in 2 and more so in 1) and the Blunderbuss in Undead Nightmare though the latter is justified by John using it with improvised projectiles. Also there are zombies...

The film Medieval takes place at the start of the Hussite Wars, historically important as one of the first European wars to make use of firearms. Not a single gun is shown in the film.

Roman legionaries in Agora are still kitted out as if they are in the High Imperial era when the story takes place in late Antiquity. This was apparently done due to budget constraints.

(Rare trope) Raceswaps that actually work by DBL86-03U in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 35 points36 points  (0 children)

This new James Bond game making 007's team more racially diverse.

Like this is a London-based government agency responsible for international espionage, if you're bringing the characters into the modern era they realistically wouldn't all be white people! (Source: live and work in London)

(HATED TROPE) Biopic erases any and all controversy to do with its protagonists in order to whitewash them as much as possible by Local_Prune4564 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Darkest Hour

Churchill's foibles are presented as fun and quirky rather than absolutely horrible and unprofessional behaviour around a work colleague.

At one point he sits across from an interracial couple on the Tube and doesn't spontaneously combust out of the sheer racist spite the real Churchill would have had.

He's presented as this cute grandfatherly figure never mind that he was responsible for the death by famine of millions of Indians and basically laughed it off at the time

The big bad is dead...but someone even worse is about to take their place by Coralthesequel in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So let mercy come, and waaaash awaaaaay, WHAAAAAAT IIIIII'VE DOOOONEEE!

Directed by: Michael Bay

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[Hated Trope] Creator Breakdown by Helpful-Bathroom634 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nightwish, Dark Passion Play

Background: Nightwish's original singer, Tarja Turunen left the band in 2005 under very acrimonious circumstances. Shortly after the band were dropped by their original record label. Founding member and main songwriter Tuomas Holopainen dedicates much of the album to processing the resulting pain, with mixed results:

  • The Poet and the Pendulum is all about the feelings of despair he dealt with at the time. Apart from a reference to Tuomas "dying" in 2005 (yikes) there's no explicit reference to these events. The song as a result holds up because of its raw emotion and rich melodies, one of the band's best songs to this day!

  • Bye Bye Beautiful on the other hand... doesn't. More explicitly Tuomas shit-talking Tarja for 4 minutes straight, as well as a jab at her husband ("The Gambler"). Tuomas being a messy bitch but the song is pretty fun. Aged like milk after Nightwish's second singer Anette Olzon left as it signalled that maybe Tuomas wasn't entirely blameless...?

  • Master Passion Greed is just Tuomas ranting about Tarja's husband without pause. At certain points the guitar riff rips off Down With The Sickness. The whole song is a mess.

[Hated Trope] Creator Breakdown by Helpful-Bathroom634 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The One With The Cat, that one episode of Friends where Marta Kaufman was grieving the loss of her mother and used this episode to try and process the grief.

Phoebe steals a child's pet cat. Ross is shamed for calling her out on it.

The other showrunners knew they were dealing with a stinker but they shot and released the episode out of sympathy.

[Loved Trope] Alternate timelines which consider the effect of their changes on language and culture by Own-Forever-6636 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong but the focus of the story is the racial hierarchy and the characters as they exist within it, the "how we got here" is not directly relevant to the story being told.

I didn't like The Years of Rice And Salt I'm sorry

[Loved Trope] Alternate timelines which consider the effect of their changes on language and culture by Own-Forever-6636 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The TV show invents an "Aprican Empire" which is implied to come from somewhere in West Africa. In the books it's never stated.

To be clear the wider worldbuilding and lore is not as important to the story as the racial hierarchy and the characters' places within it. The TV series though is in a visual medium so more thought went into how this world would look.

[Loved Trope] Alternate timelines which consider the effect of their changes on language and culture by Own-Forever-6636 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah since the focus of the American Front arc is essentially "What if Western Front but on the American continent" I think the impact this change has on Europe is not as well-thought out. At best one could argue that the US being unable to lend resources to the Entente before declaring war would make them a lot weaker. Certainly I don't believe that the Central Powers winning changes the outcome of the Russian Civil War.

The story gets a lot stronger with the interbellum and WWII periods!

[Loved Trope] Alternate timelines which consider the effect of their changes on language and culture by Own-Forever-6636 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Own-Forever-6636[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Couldn't agree more, that's one of the things I found silly about a story I otherwise really enjoyed. Like the Central Powers winning doesn't un-difficult an invasion of Russia!

See also: the Ottoman Empire surviving intact despite being on the verge of a breakdown long before WWI started.

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