History Tropers / BwayBoundLoser16

** {{{Camp Straight}} / {{Agent Peacock}}

I am BroadwayBoundLoser16. I am a student studying Media & Communications. I love literature, movies, and theatre. I write novels and plays and I sing and dance. I hope to become a novelist and playwright one day.

* Favorite Performers: {{Meryl Streep}}, {{Uma Thurman}}, {{Jude Law}}, {{Natalie Portman}}, {{Ewan McGregor}}, {{Zooey Deschanel}}, {{Robert Downey Jr}}, {{Anne Hathaway}}, {{Christian Bale}}, {{Amy Adams}}, {{Sandra Bullock}}, {{Helena Bonham Carter}}, {{Gene Kelly}}, {{Judy Garland}}, {{Rooney Mara}}, {{Edward Norton}}, {{Andrew Garfield}}, {{Carol Burnett}}, {{Betty White}}, {{Sarah Silverman}}, {{David Tennant}}, {{Matt Smith}}, {{Benedict Cumberbatch}}, {{Alan Rickman}}, {{Megan Mullally}}, {{Tina Fey}}, {{Emma Watson}}

* Favorite TV Shows: ''{{Glee}}, {{Friends}}, WillAndGrace, FamilyGuy, {{Futurama}}, BojackHorseman, UglyAmericans, {{Daria}}, {{Doctor Who}}, {{Invader Zim}}, {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}, {{Sherlock}}, {{Firefly}}, {{How I Met Your Mother}}, {{Code Lyoko}}, 30 Rock, {{Archer}}, {{The Big Bang Theory}}, {{The Golden Girls}}, {{Animaniacs}}, {{American Dad}}, {{Drawn Together}}, {{House MD}}, {{WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic}}, {{Samurai Jack}}, {{WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries}}''

* Favorite Books: ''{{Harry Potter}}'', ''{{Scott Pilgrim}}'', ''{{The Hunger Games}}'', ''{{Eragon}}'', ''{{Alice in Wonderland}}'', ''{{A Wrinkle in Time}}'', ''{{The Chronicles of Narnia}}'', ''{{Peter Pan}}'', ''{{The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}'', ''{{A Series of Unfortunate Events}}'', ''{{The Thief Lord}}'', ''{{The Hobbit}}'', ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'', ''{{Wicked}}'', ''{{Les Miserables}}'',''{{Inkheart}}''

** {{Snark Knight}} / {{Tall Dark and Snarky}} - I have a slight tendency to be a bit of a bitch when provoked.
** {{Creepy Awesome}} / {{Creepy Good}} / {{Dark Is Not Evil}} - I would like to live in a Tim Burton movie.

** {{Troubling Unchildlike Behavior}} / {{From the Mouths of Babes}} - My childhood in a nutshell.
** {{Its All About Me}} / {{Small Name Big Ego}} / {{Attention Whore}} - Probably one of my greatest faults.
** {{Large Ham}} / {{Camp Straight}} / {{Agent Peacock}} - What can I say? I'm a showman.
** {{The Nicknamer}} / {{Affectionate Nickname}} - I have a tendency to do this.
** {{Catchphrase}} - "Sounds about right."
** {{Absent Minded Professor}} / {{Mr Imagination}} - My imagination is a strange and beautiful place.

** {{Proud to Be a Geek}} - A casual geek, but a geek nonetheless.
** {{Literal Minded}}
** {{Ignored Expert}} / {{Only Sane Man}} / {{Cassandra Truth}} - I sure feel like this a lot.

** {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}} / {{But For Me It Was Tuesday}} - I can be a real prick when I want to be.
** {{Incredibly Long Note}} / {{The Cover Changes the Gender}} - I sing a lot of traditionally female power ballads.
** {{Black Comedy}} / {{Refuge in Audacity}} / {{The Gadfly}} / {{Dude Not Funny}} - My sense of humor goes here a lot.
** {{Fashionable Asymmetry}} - I like to find jackets and shirts with off-center cuts.
** {{Kindhearted Cat Lover}} / {{Friend to All Living Things}} - Unless they're on a plate, [[HypocriticalHumor of course]].

*** {{Action Girl}} / {{Guile Hero}} / {{Badass Bookworm}} - Rachel's judo training makes her pretty capable of defending herself, but its her ability to maintain guises, manipulate, and use knowledge that really helps her out.
*** {{Belligerent Sexual Tension}} / {{Slap Slap Kiss}} - It starts as genuine dislike for quite some time, but eventually Rachel and Crow grow on each other.
*** {{Meaningful Name}} - Rachel's last name is an obvious reference to her love of books, but also her parents are divorced. She is the only member of her family with the hyphen, setting her apart.
*** {{Stepford Snarker}} / {{The Gadfly}} - Rachel sometimes enjoys casually referencing uncomfortable truths to force people to recognize them.
*** {{Tell Me About My Father}} - Rachel's dad disappeared when she was six and she remembers only superficial details.
*** {{This Is Reality}} / {{All Just a Dream}} / {{Sanity Slippage}} - Due to being drugged and the somewhat fantastic nature of her adventures, there is a time when Rachel has difficulty separating her imagination from things that actually happened.
*** {{Talking in Your Dreams}} / {{Your Mind Makes It Real}} / {{Adventures in Comaland}} / {{Vision Quest}} - Rachel's drug trips completely take her out of the real world with the exception that real world stimulus can illicit responses, including complete conversations. If Rachel experiences enough trauma in her dream world, she can feel physical aftershocks when she comes to her senses. Rachel has the ability to totally explore her subconscious and, at one time, has to do this to remember something extremely important.

*** {{Alice Allusion}} / {{Expy}} - Rachel was originally inspired by Raven from ''{{Teen Titans}}'', but she's undergone several changes since then. Also, Rachel bares some physical resemblance to Bella Swann, but this is coincidental. I created her character before ''{{Twilight}}'' and now have taken great pains to distance the characters. Now Rachel has the greatest similarity to [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]], [[AliceInWonderland Alice Pleasance]], [[PeterPan Wendy Darling]], [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia Lucy Pevensie]], and [[TheNeverendingStory Bastian Bux]].

*** {{Good Is Not Nice}} / {{Beneath the Mask}} / {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}} / {{Snark Knight}} / {{Knight in Sour Armor}} - Beyond Crow's initial mask as Leucodia's bodyguard, he also acts abrasive to people to mask a very wounded, vulnerable person.
*** {{Action Hero}} / {{Good Is Not Soft}} / {{Combat Pragmatist}} - Crow is more than willing to fight dirty if need be.
*** {{Grease Monkey}} / {{Badass Biker}} - Crow is a very proficient cyclist, both wheeled and flying.
*** {{Bad Dreams}} / {{Recurring Dreams}} / {{Talking in Your Sleep}} - Crow's memories haunt him when he sleeps sometimes. Actually going to sleep for him is a gamble whether or not it will happen. Rachel hears him talking in his sleep and that's the first step out of mutual animosity.

*** {{Not so Different}} - Just like Rachel's fascination with children's books, Crow has a secret love of comics.
*** {{Expy}}: He looks quite a bit like a cross between a white [[AssassinsCreed Ezio Auditore]] and an older Jim Hawkins from ''{{Treasure Planet}}''.

*** {{The Charmer}} - He even fools Rachel.
*** {{Meaningful Name}} - Felix draws some inspiration from the Cheshire Cat and Puss in Boots. His name draws from {{Felix the Cat}}. Rachel makes a snide comment about his "bag of tricks".
*** {{Classy Cat Burglar}} / {{Gentleman Thief}} / {{Phantom Thief}} - He could be the trope codifier if not for Carmen Sandiego, Catwoman, and Sly Cooper.
*** {{Animal Motifs}} / {{Cat Boy}} / [[CatEaredHeadband Cat-Eared Hoodie]] - One of his hoodies has cat ears on it, but that's really his only visual animal motif. He doesn't wear it consistently.
*** {{Dirty Coward}} / {{Combat Pragmatist}} - Felix is a dirty fighter, due to his own lack of combat prowess and his cowardly nature. As soon as someone is down, Felix runs away.
*** {{Cheshire Cat Grin}} - Felix has a really nice smile, but he also has a really big mouth.
*** {{Expy}} - Felix is quite a bit like a male {{Catwoman}} with some [[HowlsMovingCastle Howl]] and {{Danny Phantom}} thrown into the mix.

*** {{Intelligence Equals Isolation}} / {{Reluctant Psycho}} / {{Cute but Psycho}} / {{Ambiguous Disorder}} - Bianca is aware that her mental health is not at its best, but she'd rather be a little nuts than have to take the Empire's medications. She manages to keep herself in check most of the time. Bianca's not insane, just not quite healthy.
*** {{Composite Character}} - Bianca has elements of [[TheWizardOfOz the Patchwork Girl]] and the Blue Fairy from ''{{Pinocchio}}''.
*** {{Animal Motifs}} - Mice.
*** {{Expy}} - A blond and bespectacled River Tam from {{Firefly}}.

*** {{The Wonka}} / {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}} - Bianca's computer room is a complete mess, but she swears she knows everything's location and purpose. Touch nothing. In spite of her neurosis, poor sleep patterns, and obsessiveness, Bianca is an extremely competent computer technician and communications specialist.
*** {{Meganekko}} / {{Nerd Glasses}} / {{Blind Without Em}} / {{Smart People Wear Glasses}} (Deconstructed) - Bianca has such poor eyesight because she spends so much time in a dark room surrounded by screens.

*** {{Meaningful Name}} - Victoria's last name is an homage to film legend Ginger Rogers and composer Richard Rodgers.
*** {{Composite Character}} - Victoria shares qualities with {{Rapunzel}} and Nimmie Aimme from ''{{The Wizard of Oz}}''.
** Forrest Nickleby
*** {{Composite Character}} / {{Shout Out}} - Forrest contains elements of the [[TheWizardOfOz Tin Man]] and the [[TheSteadfastTinSoldier Steadfast Tin Soldier]].
** Michael Wolfgang "Big Bad" Rhodes
*** {{Big Eater}} - He is shown eating the most at Kaleidoscope's banquet.
*** {{Big Bad Ass Wolf}} / {{Animal Motifs}} - Wolves.
*** {{Composite Character}} - Michael combines elements of the Big Bad Wolf and Maugrim from ''{{The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe}}''.
*** {{Sour Supporter}}
*** {{Expy}} - He's admittedly a lot like Fenrir Greyback from ''{{Harry Potter}}'', but not quite as much of a monster.
** Dr. Benjamin O. Warren
*** {{Animal Motifs}} / {{Follow the White Rabbit}} - Rabbits.
*** {{Punch Clock Villain}} - Other than being an amoral scientist, he's not that bad of a guy.
*** {{All Psychology Is Freudian}} - Averted. Granted, he does use drugs on Rachel to get her to lucid dream so he can probe her mind, but that's not exactly Freud's idea of dream analysis.
*** {{Meaningful Name}} / {{Expy}} - Benjamin draws some inspiration from the White Rabbit. His name draws from Benjamin Bunny, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and warrens.
*** {{Know Nothing Know It All}} - One thing that makes Rachel suspicious is his lack of pop culture knowledge. He's a psychologist who has never heard of ''{{One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest}}''. However, it only makes her skeptical of his skills as a therapist. Little does she know.

*** {{With Great Power Comes Great Insanity}} / {{Above Good and Evil}} - Tapping into the fabric of reality corrupted her perception of it.

*** {{Composite Character}} - Evelyn is a composite of many characters, including the [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia White Witch]], the [[TheSnowQueen Snow Queen]], and the [[AliceInWonderland White Queen]].
*** {{An Ice Person}} / {{Evil Is Deathly Cold}} / {{Winter Royal Lady}} - Snow and freezing is a frequent motif. Evelyn's tactics bring about a nuclear winter and leave the world frozen in place.
*** {{Grim Up North}} - Especially jarring when you consider that she's somewhat inspired by the ''Good'' Witch of the North.
*** [[CompositeCharacter Composite Artifact]] - Evelyn's looking glass is combination of the Looking Glass, the Evil Queen's magic mirror, and the magic mirror in ''The Snow Queen''. It was also the prison of Prime Minister Schwartz, the equivalent to the Wizard of Oz.
*** {{Villain with Good Publicity}} - Everyone thinks she is the best hope for Dystoria for a very long time.

*** {{Room Full of Crazy}} / {{The Wonka}} / {{Berserk Button}} / {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}} - Bianca's computer room is a complete mess, but she swears she knows everything's location and purpose. Touch nothing. In spite of her neurosis, poor sleep patterns, and obsessiveness, Bianca is an extremely competent computer technician and communications specialist.

** Rowland Morse
*** {{Animal Motifs}} - Bugs.
*** {{Heterosexual Life Partners}} - With Forrest after their time in the war.
*** [[SorryImGay Sorry I'm Asexual]] - Bianca develops a crush on Rowland, but he just isn't interested. In anyone.
*** {{Composite Character}} - Rowland borrows qualities from Jiminy Cricket and [[TheWizardOfOz H.M. Wogglebug]].

*** {{Rich Bitch}} / {{White Dwarf Starlet}} / {{Defrosting Ice Queen}} / {{Big Ego Hidden Depths}}

*** {{Meaningful Name}} - Victoria's last name is in reference to film legend Ginger Rogers and composer Richard Rodgers.

*** {{Composite Character}} / {{Shout Out}} - Forrest contains elements of the [[TheWizardOfOz Tin Man]], the [[TheSteadfastTinSoldier Steadfast Tin Soldier]], and the prince from ''{{Rapunzel}}''.
** Michael "Big Bad" Wolfe
*** {{Big Eater}} - He is shown eating the most at the mafia banquet.
*** {{Big Bad Ass Wolf}} / {{Animal Motifs}} - Wolves, obviously.
*** {{Composite Character}} - Michael combines elements of the Big Bad Wolf, the [[TheWizardOfOz Hungry Tiger]], and Maugrim from ''{{The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe}}''.

*** {{Expy}} - He's a lot like Fenrir Greyback from ''{{Harry Potter}}'', but not quite as much of a monster.

*** {{Big Bad}} / {{Above Good and Evil}}

*** {{Composite Character}} - Evelyn is a composite of many characters, including the [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia White Witch]], the [[TheSnowQueen Snow Queen]], and the [[AliceInWonderland White Queen]]. The Whore of Babylon is also thrown in there. Mix in the apple imagery and she's basically the {{Devil in Plain Sight}}.
*** {{An Ice Person}} / {{Evil Is Deathly Cold}} / {{Winter Royal Lady}} - Snow and freezing is a frequent motif. Evelyn's tactics bring about a nuclear winter.
*** {{Grim Up North}} - Especially jarring when you consider that she's inspired by the ''Good'' Witch of the North.
*** [[CompositeCharacter Composite Artifact]] - Evelyn's looking glass is combination of the Looking Glass, the Evil Queen's magic mirror, and the magic mirror in ''The Snow Queen''.
*** {{Villain with Good Publicity}} - Everyone thinks she is a good guy for a very long time.

** {{Alternate Character Interpretation}} - Dorothy initially doesn't want to go home. Her character development is her learning that Kansas is the place she ought to be. Her journey to the Wizard is to register as the new sorceress after the demise of the Wicked Witch of the East.

** {{Acting for Two}} / {{And You Were There}} - Many real world characters have Wonderland counterparts.
** {{Alternate Character Interpretation}} - The Cheshire Cat is meant to look very much like Dinah.

** {{Fridge Horror}} - Alice reminds the audience that Wonderland flowers are sentient. The flowers being painted by the Queen's gardeners are most likely going to die.

** {{Adaptation Expansion}} - Cinderella's shoes were actually presents from her father that she hid from the Stepmother. That's why they don't disappear at midnight.

* ''{{Snow White}}''
** {{Adaptation Expansion}} - The Evil Queen and the Witch are separate characters. The Queen uses the Witch's magic to keep herself young.
** {{Took a Level in Badass}} - Despite being humans, the dwarves are definitely on ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' side of dwarfness. They defend Snow White very valiantly.
** {{Villain with Good Publicity}} - How the Queen manages to manipulate the population for as long as she does.

*** {{Alice Allusion}} / {{Expy}} - Rachel was originally inspired by Raven from ''{{Teen Titans}}'', but she's undergone several changes since then. Also, Rachel bares some physical resemblance to Bella Swann, but this is coincidental. I created her character before ''{{Twilight}}'' and now have taken great pains to distance the characters. Now Rachel has the greatest similarity to [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]], [[AliceInWonderland Alice]], [[PeterPan Wendy Darling]], [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia Lucy Pevensie]], and [[TheNeverendingStory Bastian Bux]].

** Aaron Page
*** {{Big Brother Bully}}

*** {{The Charmer}} / {{Mr. Fanservice}}

*** {{Composite Character}} - Bianca has elements of Scraps [[TheWizardOfOz the Patchwork Girl]] and the Blue Fairy from ''{{Pinocchio}}''.

*** {{Expy}} - A blond and bespectacled [[Firefly River Tam]].

** Richard
*** {{Composite Character}} - Richard combines elements of the [[SnowWhite Huntsman]], the [[BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]], [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]], and the [[TheWizardOfOz Cowardly Lion]].
*** {{Animal Motifs}} / {{Meaningful Name}} - Lions. His name comes from Richard the Lionheart.

*** {{Composite Character}} - Michael combines elements of the Big Bad Wolf, the [[TheWizardOfOz Hungry Tiger]], and the wolf captain in ''{{The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe}}''.

*** {{Animal Motifs}} / {{Follow the White Rabbit}} - Bunnies.

*** {{Armchair Psychology}} - Played with. Dr. Warren does a bit of this because that's his impression of how real world psychotherapists tend to act.

*** {{Composite Character}} - Evelyn is a composite of many characters, including the [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia White Witch]], the [[TheSnowQueen Snow Queen]], the [[AliceInWonderland White Queen]], and the Evil Queen from ''{{Snow White}}''. The Whore of Babylon is also thrown in there. Mix in the apple imagery and she's basically a manifestation of Satan.

** Other Tropes
*** {{Aerith and Bob}} - Names in the series include Rachel, Daniel, Phyllis, Felix, Cromwell, Belladonna, Lilith, Euryale, and Jarvis.
*** {{The Revolution Will Be Not Be Civilized}} - They tried a civil revolution. It failed.
*** {{Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters}} - To the point where Rachel is never quite sure she should trust them.
*** {{Drugs Are Bad}} - Well, more like running away from your problems is bad, but drugs are an extreme form of escapism.

** {{All There in the Manual}} - The mushroom that makes Alice grow is a primary ingredient in the cakes that do the same. The cake mostly just makes it taste better.

** {{Beauty Is Not Good}} - The Stepsisters are both very beautiful, but the Prince picks Cinderella because they actually have things in common and understand each other.

** {{Zero Percent Approval Rating}} - The kingdom doesn't take it well when they learn that the Queen tried to kill Snow White.