Line #19 NarmCharm/Literature


1	* In ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}''; Ilke's adoration of mothers falls into this by being a huge LesYay and implying that she LikesOlderWomen. It is understandable that she's desperate for a mother, growing up without any females to look up to for 10 years, but her line of 'Do all mothers smell this good?' is still pretty narmy, yet strangely adorable.
2	* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': Certainly the newbie Tatooine pilot Gavin Darklighter's response to seeing Coruscant for the first time was [[Narm/StarWars narmy]], but it helps illustrate just how young the kid is.
3	--> "It's just a city, the whole thing, one big, huge, really big city. It's ''[[SingleBiomePlanet all]]'' city."
4	* ''Literature/TheHanSoloAdventures'': Han accidentally starts a CargoCult while running a movie theater showing ocean worlds on a desert planet in the prologue of ''Han Solo's Revenge''. It may be a lighthearted, comical interlude, but it still manages to provide a genuinely tense action scene when the locals riot when Han stops playing the movie, as well as perhaps a bit of pathos with the realization of how unhappy they are with their planet's environment.
5	* ''Literature/NewJediOrder'': [[FourStarBadass Gilad Pellaeon]]'s BadassBoast to Yuuzhan Vong Brrith Vorrik, after he defeats him at the Battle of Efsandia:
6	-->You may win the occasional battle against us, Vorrik, but ''the Empire will always strike back.''
7	%%* To many, it's what makes the charm of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
8	* Creator/FrankPeretti, a Christian horror writer, is very adept at the use of Narm Charm. Apparently, he realizes that his plots are extremely outlandish, and in order to avoid Narm he cranks up the absurdity of his situations up to eleven and lets you know it's okay to laugh through witty prose, thereby leading to situations -- such as a town erupting into terrifying/hilarious chaos around a false Messiah -- that are bizarre, hilarious, and somehow, really, really terrifying. [[AdaptationDecay Unfortunately, this does not translate well into]] [[Narm/{{Film}} the film versions of his work]].
9	* ''Literature/LittleWomen'' plots a course through saccharine characters, [[PurpleProse wildly extravagant and sentimental prose]], [[AnAesop Aesops]] (some of them rather questionable) in [[OnceAnEpisode nearly every chapter]]... and comes out as a gripping romantic drama with a deserved place in the highest pantheon of American literature.
10	* Discussed with an internal example in ''Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire''. The old animated show "[[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Battlecruiser Vengeance]]" is this for many Klingons (and it's a nice wink to actual fans of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]] ''Franchise/StarTrek'' too). One particular episode presents the Klingon hero repelling a Federation boarding party. The episode was produced during the height of tensions between the empire and the Federation, and the party consists of ridiculous, inaccurate computer-generated images of Federation member races. Specifically, the Andorian is more green than blue and has overlong antennae, the Vulcan's ears are too pointed, the Tellarite looks more like an actual boar, the Betazoid has fully blacked-out eyes instead of simple dark irises, the Human has eyes too large and a mouth too small, the Trill has spots covering her entire body, and the Denobulan has misplaced ridges. In the minds of many "modern" fans, the inaccuracy just adds to the joy of it.
11	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': This trope can definitely apply to the ending of the 7th book; after [[EarnYourHappyEnding all the crap]] that The Trio has been through, you can't help but feel happy that everything turned out okay (for the most part) in the end... unless you're a fanatic [[{{Shipping}} Shipper]] and the ending defied your {{OTP}}; in that case, the ending of the series was your worst nightmare come true.
12	** [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows "I'll join you when hell freezes over!"]] is one of the cheesiest cliches out there. But considering that this is [[spoiler: [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Neville Longbottom]]]] saying it to [[spoiler: [[BigBad Voldemort]]'s]] face, and suddenly [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome you don't feel like laughing anymore.]]
13	** And the ever-famous, ever-badass, "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" courtesy of Molly Weasley.
14	* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. This conversation was used in the climax of the story. At first it seems to be a trivial discussion about counting fingers, but it's actually about a man being [[MindRape tortured]] into changing his perspective in order to ''[[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive see things that aren't there]]''. Some might say it's worse than {{Room 101}} itself.
15	-->'''O'Brien:''' How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'\
16	'''Winston:''' Four! Five! Four! Anything you like.
17	** {{Room 101}} itself works as an example. We've seen how lesser works have made the "your worst nightmare come to life" less scary than it should. Indeed, at first glance, the idea that, after months of the most devious psychological and physical torture known to man, the thing that breaks Winston is "give up your love, or get your face eaten by rats", still kinda sounds like something out of a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' movie. But when you read it... it works, dammit.
18	* ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow]] manages to make the line [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!"]] bad-ass.
19	* From ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', the line [[spoiler:"Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"]] should, by all rights, be laughable (what, is he going to [[spoiler:trip and fall on it]] or something?) In context, however, it's the sign of the boys' complete degeneration into unbridled savagery.
20	* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' practically ran on this. It's a modern reimagination of Myth/ClassicalMythology where scenarios like Zeus wearing a suit, Poseidon preferring khaki shorts or Apollo driving a sun bus while making haikus are all real. And fans love it.
21	* [[spoiler:Bluestar]]'s encroaching mental illness in ''Literature/WarriorCats''. On the one hand, she's a fictional feral cat, so it's hard to cry for her. But on the other, she's an incredible leader and beloved friend ''who didn't deserve to live like that, dammit!''
22	* ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' - Creator/AldousHuxley's writing style can come across as pretty hackey and/or lazy, but it's kind of endearing. It works well to bring the reader into a world that is (especially for the time of writing) quite difficult to buy into.
23	* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': When on paper, "The Dead Man's Brain" is a list of instructions for a simple game. But in the audiobook version, George S. Irving really hams it up by chuckling while listing what's needed for the game. Special mention goes to him flat-out giggling when listing spaghetti noodles for the worms in the game.

Context NarmCharm / Literature