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* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child Jack is an imaginative, optimistic, cheerful kid. As an adult he's an unlikeable {{Jerkass}}.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child Jack is an imaginative, optimistic, cheerful kid.optimistic and cheerful. As an adult he's an unlikeable {{Jerkass}}.
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* FirstLove: Jack's female high school best friend Louise is his first love. [[spoiler:He tried to sacrifice her to the troll to save his own life, which make his realise he doesn't actually lover her, or at least not as much as himself]].
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's well aware that he's in the wrong.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's well aware that he's in the wrong.
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* FirstLove: Jack's female high school best friend Louise is his first love. [[spoiler:He tried tries to sacrifice her to the troll to save his own life, himself, which make his makes him realise he doesn't actually lover love her, or at least not as much as he loves himself]].
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's also well aware that he's in the wrong.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's also well aware that he's in the wrong.
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''Troll Bridge'' is a short graphic novel by Creator/NeilGaiman.
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''Troll Bridge'' is a short graphic novel by Creator/NeilGaiman.
When Jack is seven, he meets a troll under a bridge. The troll tells him that he will eat his life but Jack convinces the troll to let him go by promising to come back when he is older and will make more of a meal. Over the next several decades Jack and the world change beyond recognition. And the troll is still waiting for Jack under the bridge.
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!!''Troll Bridge'' provides examples of:
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The troll has a nose keen enough to "smell the dreams you dreamed before you were born". And it eats a person's life and takes their place, [[spoiler: leaving them, in exchange, to take the place of the troll]].
* ClassicalAntiHero: Jack isn't evil but he's definitely not a nice person and doesn't have any typically heroic traits.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: As the story goes on Jack's clothing and the world in general become darker and more washed out. As a child he's dressed in bright colours, and by the end he's in solid black.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The troll eating Jack's life]] looks a lot like a sexual assault.
* DrivenToSuicide: One interpretation of the ending. [[spoiler:Jack's wife and child leave him, his life seems empty and the art style becomes bleak and monochrome. He walks to the bridge and asks the troll to take him after spending most of his life running from it. It's not hard to see it as an allegory for depression and suicide.]]
* FirstLove: Jack's female high school best friend Louise is his first love. [[spoiler:He tried to sacrifice her to the troll to save his own life, which make his realise he doesn't actually lover her, or at least not as much as himself]].
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's well aware that he's in the wrong.
* SellOut: Jack goes from an aspiring punk artist to a corporate talent agent.
* TeensAreMonsters: As a teen, when Jack meets the troll for the second time, [[spoiler:he pushes Louise between them and yells "Take her instead!"]]
* TheCityVsTheCountry: In the background of the story. The idyllic rural areas of Jack's childhood are swallowed up by urban sprawl, mirroring his own personal decline.
* TrollBridge: The bridge itself is just a disused brick rail bridge like any other in rural Britain. By the end of the story it's accumulated the graffiti and trash common to any normal bridge, and people are walking through and across it with no idea of what it actually is. [[spoiler:Because Jack as the troll just sits there invisible and lets them.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child Jack is an imaginative, optimistic, cheerful kid. As an adult he's an unlikeable {{Jerkass}}.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he first meets the troll, Jack tried to bluff his way past it by using the "big brother" line from the ''Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff''. The troll knows he's lying.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Jack's hometown changes from a sleepy village to a commuter suburb that he doesn't recognise.
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->''Fol rol de ol rol''
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When Jack is seven, he meets a troll under a bridge. The troll tells him that he will eat his life but Jack convinces the troll to let him go by promising to come back when he is older and will make more of a meal. Over the next several decades Jack and the world change beyond recognition. And the troll is still waiting for Jack under the bridge.
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!!''Troll Bridge'' provides examples of:
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The troll has a nose keen enough to "smell the dreams you dreamed before you were born". And it eats a person's life and takes their place, [[spoiler: leaving them, in exchange, to take the place of the troll]].
* ClassicalAntiHero: Jack isn't evil but he's definitely not a nice person and doesn't have any typically heroic traits.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: As the story goes on Jack's clothing and the world in general become darker and more washed out. As a child he's dressed in bright colours, and by the end he's in solid black.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The troll eating Jack's life]] looks a lot like a sexual assault.
* DrivenToSuicide: One interpretation of the ending. [[spoiler:Jack's wife and child leave him, his life seems empty and the art style becomes bleak and monochrome. He walks to the bridge and asks the troll to take him after spending most of his life running from it. It's not hard to see it as an allegory for depression and suicide.]]
* FirstLove: Jack's female high school best friend Louise is his first love. [[spoiler:He tried to sacrifice her to the troll to save his own life, which make his realise he doesn't actually lover her, or at least not as much as himself]].
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Jack regularly cheats on his wife. He doesn't feel especially guilty about it but he's well aware that he's in the wrong.
* SellOut: Jack goes from an aspiring punk artist to a corporate talent agent.
* TeensAreMonsters: As a teen, when Jack meets the troll for the second time, [[spoiler:he pushes Louise between them and yells "Take her instead!"]]
* TheCityVsTheCountry: In the background of the story. The idyllic rural areas of Jack's childhood are swallowed up by urban sprawl, mirroring his own personal decline.
* TrollBridge: The bridge itself is just a disused brick rail bridge like any other in rural Britain. By the end of the story it's accumulated the graffiti and trash common to any normal bridge, and people are walking through and across it with no idea of what it actually is. [[spoiler:Because Jack as the troll just sits there invisible and lets them.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As a child Jack is an imaginative, optimistic, cheerful kid. As an adult he's an unlikeable {{Jerkass}}.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he first meets the troll, Jack tried to bluff his way past it by using the "big brother" line from the ''Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff''. The troll knows he's lying.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Jack's hometown changes from a sleepy village to a commuter suburb that he doesn't recognise.
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->''Fol rol de ol rol''
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