Line #19 Sandbox/Azorius24Sandbox


1	This page will cover a wick check for the trope ____.
2
3	Progress: /XX.
4
5	'''Why?''':
6
7	Comments in '''bold'''.
8	----
9	[[foldercontrol]]
10	----
11
12	* <=>
13
14	!!The Problem:
15
16	----
17	!!Potential solutions:
18
19	* <=>
20
21	Snazzy Nav Bar
22	[[WMG:[[center:[-'''''Work Name''''' '''Subpage'''\
23	'''Item One''' \| CurrentItem \| '''Item Three''']]-]]]
24
25	* <=>
26
27	MB Template
28
29	!!'''What's the setting?'''
30
31	!!'''Who is (character name), and what have they done?'''
32
33	!!'''Why are they magnificent?'''
34
35	!!'''Why are they a bastard?'''
36	----
37	'''''Conclusion'''''
38
39	* <=>
40
41	CM Template
42
43	!!'''What's the setting?'''
44	!!'''Who is (character name), and what have they done?'''
45	!!'''Do they have any redeeming features?'''
46	!!'''How do they compare to the work's other villains?'''
47	----
48	'''''Conclusion'''''
49	* <=>
50	[[folder:Potential "Artistic Licence: Sex" index]]
51	* AdamAndEvePlot: A man and a woman must rebuild the population of a world, taking no account of genetic stumbling blocks.
52	* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Gay men always have lots of sex.
53	* AllMenArePerverts: All men constantly have sex on the brain.
54	* AllWomenAreLustful: All ''women'' constantly have sex on the brain.
55	* AllWomenArePrudes: All women never think about sex.
56	* AManIsAlwaysEager: Males are perpetually horny and are always ready and willing to have sex.
57	* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Sex is depicted in a manner that isn't physically enjoyable or even possible.
58	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Men with larger "equipment" are depicted as more satisfying lovers.
59	* BondageIsBad: BDSM is portrayed as immoral and/or enjoyed by villains.
60	* ConvenientlyCommonKink: Characters share often-obscure fetishes or fantasies.
61	* CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: Mentally unstable people are wild and passionate lovers.
62	* EternalSexualFreedom: Applying present-day sexual mores to HistoricalFiction.
63	* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: People get laid in fiction more commonly than in RealLife.
64	* FetishesAreWeird: Having a sexual fetish makes a character creepy.
65	* FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: A character who is "bendy" is a freak in the sheets.
66	* GotOverRapeInstantly: Being raped or sexually assaulted doesn't affect a character's sexual appetite.
67	* IdealizedSex: Fictional depictions of sex tend to leave out the less erotic bits.
68	* IKEAErotica: Sex described and/or depicted in a dull, mechanical manner.
69	* ImAManICantHelpIt: Men are completely unable to control their sexual urges.
70	* InstantSeduction: A character is able to seduce others with minimal time and effort.
71	* LawOfInverseFertility: The more a couple want to conceive, the less likely it is to happen, and vice versa.
72	* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Women dislike having sex and only do so reluctantly and out of obligation.
73	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being bad at sex is a character flaw.
74	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Women are either honourable and chaste or promiscuous and depraved.
75	* MaleToFemaleUniversalAdaptor: Aliens' genitals always allow them to have sex with humans.
76	* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Only those who are sexually frustrated or repressed masturbate.
77	* MillsAndBoonProse: Sex is described with {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for the physical acts and [[PurpleProse flowery language]] for the emotional bits, common in {{Romance Novel}}s.
78	* NoPreggerSex: Pregnant women are never shown having or wanting sex.
79	* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Wild parties inevitably devolve into sexual debauchery.
80	* ThePornomancer: A character who ''always'' "gets lucky", often in spectacular ways, and whether they are trying or not.
81	* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Delivery workers, plumbers and the like are willing to spontaneously have sex with their customers.
82	* SexEqualsLove: Romantic feelings will inevitably arise from any sexual relationship.
83	* RightThroughHisPants: Characters have sex with an impractical amount of clothes on.
84	* RollInTheHay: Sex in a pile of hay -- that somehow isn't scratchy or unhygienic.
85	[[/folder]]
86	----
87	!! Terror Weapon
88	----
89	[[folder:Robert John Linder, Jr. draft effortpostl]]
90	!!'''What's the setting?'''
91	''Fanfic/CyberpunkFatherhood'' is a crossover between ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' and ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' that builds off of the simple premise that V, specifically his CorporateSamurai incarnation, [[ItBeganWithATwistOfFate is David Martinez's father]]. As such, when Gloria is critically injured in the car crash that kicked off the events of ''Edgerunners'', David finds a number in her Agent for "Vinny" marked "emergencies only". This causes V to realise, for the first time, that he has a son, and the early chapters follow a FixFic plot line where V's corporate resources protect David, Gloria and the rest of Maine's Edgerunner crew from the tragedies that befell them in canon. But dipping a toe into the toxic morass that is the domain of the corpo-rats will always have its consequences: and beyond V having an entire graveyard's worth of skeletons in his closet, it would be an {{understatement}} to say that he has some family issues of his own. Enter our candidate.
92	!!'''Who is Robert John Linder, Jr., and what has he done?'''
93	* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Robert John Linder Junior]], otherwise known as [[ArchnemesisDad V's father]], is an incredibly powerful Arasaka executive and [[CorporateWarfare commander of the corporation's "private security" forces]], who serves as the fanfic's BigBad and KnightOfCerebus, with his introduction massively increasing the stakes for all characters. The bastard son of legendary Rockerboy-slash-terrorist Johnny Silverhand[[note]](real name Robert John Linder)[[/note]] and a member of his GroupieBrigade, Robert resented his absentee father and sought to become the polar opposite of him in every way -- developing [[ControlFreak a twisted obsession with order and control]] to equal if not exceed exceed Silverhand's [[BombThrowingAnarchists destructive commitment to freedom from corporate rule]].
94	* Fuelled by spite, Robert began to climb the quite literally cutthroat Arasaka corporate ladder, and along the way he seemingly developed a fixation with forming his own ''perfect'' family -- one that would ''never, ever'' do anything wrong. After marrying the interior designer Eleanor, he would forcibly implant her with a [[MindControlDevice Doll chip]] that overrides her personality with that of a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil simpering submissive]] at his command, [[AndIMustScream leaving her true personality conscious and aware of everything that's happening to her body]]. And when she [[DrivenToSuicide tries to escape her torment]], she discovers that he's registered her to a "Black Level" Trauma Team Plan, which has involved the implantation of cyberware that ''[[ICannotSelfTerminate won't let her die]]''.
95	* He would later father a son, Vincent, who he would submit to an [[AbusiveParent utterly torturous upbringing]] while grooming him to be his successor, which involved implanting a Doll chip in him, too. When V, already taking after his granddad and becoming a Rockerboy while trying to defy his father in any way possible, [[LoveRedeems meets and falls in love with Gloria]], Robert is ''furious'' as this denies him an opportunity to entrench his position in the Arasaka hierarchy via AltarDiplomacy. He attempts to bribe Gloria to stop dating his son -- when that fails, he gets her parents fired from their jobs as retribution, and when ''that'' fails and she falls pregnant with his grandson David, he hires a mercenary to force her into a back-alley abortion at gunpoint. She survived only due to luck, being able to push the goon off an overpass to his death, prompting her to go into hiding and a heartbroken V to join Arasaka.
96	* At some point after an adult V attempted to cut off as much contact with his parents as possible, Robert also fathered Valerie, with whom he took an extremely different direction -- no Doll chip, but she's been [[TykeBomb trained, brainwashed and controlled from birth to act as his personal assassin and spy]]: forged into a tool to the extent that he thinks nothing of [[PimpingTheOffspring ordering her to pose as a Joytoy]] in order to try and pry information out of Pilar.
97	* He is reintroduced to the narrative as having become aware of his grandson's existence (due to V's sudden burst of erratic behaviour) while working in Tokyo. He dispatches mercenaries to monitor David and Gloria, while also informing Eleanor, currently trapped in a GildedCage of an apartment back in Night City, that he plans to return. Her confinement is due to her cheating on Robert at some point, as punishment for which he killed her lover while she was ForcedToWatch.
98	* His second major appearance involves him upstaging [[StarterVillain Faraday]], the crooked fixer and BigBad of ''Edgerunners'', by subjecting him to an [[FateWorseThanDeath utterly horrifying fate]]: he is brutally tortured at Robert's instruction, and then his own hand, which he [[{{Sadist}} bluntly admits his enjoyment of]], then sent to the AxCrazy Maelstrom gang to be [[UnwillingRoboticisation loaded up with as much cyberware as possible]], all [[SkipTheAnaesthetic done while he was fully conscious]], leaving behind an utterly broken EmptyShell that's hardly even human. And ''then'' Robert puppeteers the body to viciously slaughter Royce, a Malestrom higher-up who's causing problems for the current leader Brick, and his minions, complete with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything creepy sexual overtones]]. To make things even worse, it's very strongly implied it's not the only time he's inflicted this exact fate on a horribly unlucky enemy.
99	* Robert finally makes his move by confronting V and inviting him to dinner, at the end of which he has Valerie Taser her brother and allow Robert to activate his Doll chip. The puppeteered V is then subjected to a full swap-out of his chrome while under sedation only, allowing the 'real' V trapped inside [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable to experience his body being torn apart and rebuilt]]. And just to play up the PsychologicalHorror even further, Robert directs that minor cosmetic changes should be made to V's face to make it resemble his, letting his son know [[LossOfIdentity he can completely destroy anything that makes him unique]] at his whim. V eventually manages to break his control due to a clever DeadMansSwitch, but the experience left him [[HeroicBSOD an utterly hopeless and despondent wreck]] both physically and literally.
100	!!'''Does he have any redeeming features?'''
101	He's got a FreudianExcuse of having [[DisappearedDad a father who never even acknowledged his existence]], but this can be very easily dispensed with -- many people are brought up by single parents, and surprisingly enough the vast majority of them do not become power-hungry, cold-blooded corporate despots. While he has ''incredibly'' twisted "family values", and there is perhaps ''some'' element of protectiveness he has for his descendants, given that he punishes Faraday for insulting his son, it's difficult to see his treatment of his family as anything other than comparable to literal "Dolls" -- mannequins to be exploited for his amusement, or pawns to strengthen his power and serve his interests. There is no genuine love displayed towards anyone by this man.
102	!!'''How bad are they, compared to the work's other villains?'''
103	Robert is the BigBad, so there isn't that much in the way of serious competition. Faraday the StarterVillain doesn't manage to kill anyone, so there's no contest there. He does later team up with Kurt Hansen from the ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077PhantomLiberty'' storyline . In fact, his closest completion is [[AntiVillain V himself]] who released a HatePlague on civilian populations during [[DarkAndTroubledPast his time in Neo-Oxacata]], but V does genuinely care for his family and has an awful lot of emotional baggage stemming from that incident.
104	!!'''Conclusion'''
105	He's a sicko who {{Mind Rape}}d his entire family, seems to have serious nonconsensual surgery and torture fetishes, and kills anyone who gets in his way horribly. I'd say he counts.
106	[[/folder]]
107	----
108	[[folder:Inspector Lowbeer draft effortpost]]
109	I have another possible candidate -- I've been going back and forth about her for a while due to certain characteristics that made me concerned she might not count, but I've come to the conclusion there might be enough here to give it a whirl. The plot gets a bit confusing at times, so I've had to gloss over some parts.
110	!!'''What's the setting?'''
111	The (ongoing) ''Literature/JackpotTrilogy'' consists of two science-fiction novels by Creator/WilliamGibson. By the 22nd century, a cavalcade of natural and man-made disasters known as "the jackpot" has [[DepopulationBomb wiped out 80% of the human population]], with nanotechnology and other super-science developed just in time to prevent a total apocalypse. What's left of society is ruled over by "the klept", an oligarchy of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who were rich enough to [[CosyCatastrophe weather the Jackpot]]. With [[Fiction500 nearly unlimited wealth]], lots of spare time, and access to super-advanced technology, members of the klept and their cronies often take up bizarre and elaborate hobbies to amuse themselves. One of which is TimeTravel, or specifically use of a mysterious server which allows digital signals to be sent to and from the past. When contact is made, a new timeline known as a "stub" is created, [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse which can be interfered with without affecting the present]]. People who engage in this practice call themselves "continua enthusiasts". The two books in the series, ''Literature/ThePeripheral'' and ''Literature/Agency2020'', both deal with what happens when the future takes an interest in someone from a "stub" and consequently their timeline, with our candidate playing an important role in both books.
112
113	!!'''Who is Ainsley Lowbeer, and what has she done?'''
114
115	* "Detective Inspector" Ainsley Lowbeer was a high-ranking and influential [[TheSpook spook]] in the British Government around the time that the devastation of the jackpot first started to take a toll on human civilisation, then identifying as a man known only as "Griff". Determined to do [[WellIntentionedExtremist whatever it takes]] to preserve some semblance of stability and order in London amidst the apocalypse, Lowbeer would prove instrumental in ensuring the rise to power of the nascent klept, comprised mostly of TheMafiya, who were more accustomed to operating [[RussianGuySuffersMost amidst the breakdown of law and order]]. But once the dust settled, Lowbeer, being a [[ManipulativeBastard Machiavellian schemer]] extraordinaire, was determined to carve out a significant role for herself in this new society. She managed to persuade the klept to accept her as their "[[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Adjudicator]]", the only law-enforcement authority with jurisdiction over the oligarchs, on the basis that a ruling class consisting entirely of {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s would inevitably rip itself apart without ''some'' form of regulation to keep its most destructive impulses in check. The klept, being savvy enough to begrudgingly accept this, allowed Lowbeer to amass an extraordinary array of powers using [[AppliedPhlebotinum the wonders of 22nd-century technology]], including [[BigBrotherIsWatching self-aware surveillance systems]] that make [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the Thought Police]] look like bratty kids with tin cans and twine, fleets of lethal microscopic {{Attack Drone}}s, [[TheAgeless immortality]], and control over [[{{Nanomachines}} assemblers]] that functionally turn her into a RealityWarper. Thus, Lowbeer granted herself VetinariJobSecurity: since plotting to usurp her is itself a crime worthy of [[CruelAndUnusualDeath having your hotel suite reformatted into a broom closet with you still inside]], she can only be deposed if the klept ''collectively'' decides they've had enough. And since plotting against her is incredibly dangerous, while leaving her alone allows one to continue basking in post-scarcity luxury, Lowbeer's position as the godlike shadow ruler of London was secure.
116
117	* Lowbeer first appears in ''The Peripheral'' when the main "future" cast of characters finally accept they'll have to contact the police given that Flynne Fisher, a woman living in a stub JustBeforeTheEnd, witnessed a murder while piloting a drone in the future. Lowbeer is introduced as a simple Metropolitan Police detective, and, in a stark inversion of PoliceAreUseless, proceeds to [[TheChessmaster assume total control while running rings round the other characters]] to get what she wants -- namely, securing access to the "stub" and setting up a elaborate BenevolentConspiracy in the past to protect Flynne from the powers wanting her silenced, then using her, controlling [[RemoteBody a "peripheral" in the future]] as bait to draw out the perpetrators and execute them. However, it also becomes apparent that Lowbeer [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets the role she played in establishing a kleptocracy]], and as some way to make amends, extends the BenevolentConspiracy massively to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong avert the jackpot]] in the alternate timeline using Flynne and her family as a proxy, after subjecting them to a SecretTestOfCharacter to ensure they are good people.
118
119	* ''Agency'' goes on to feature much more explicitly as the ''de facto'' BigGood in ''Agency'': following the events of ''The Peripheral'', she's become a continua enthusiast herself, with an interest in "repairing" other timelines, which unsurprisingly unnerves some within the klept, fearing she may seek to topple them next.
120
121	!!'''Why is she magnificent?'''
122
123	!!'''Why is she a bitch?'''
124	[[/folder]]
125	----
126	[[folder:Emperor Goddrick III draft effortpost]]
127	!!'''What's the setting?'''
128	* ''Fool's Gold'' is an animated adaptation of a D&D campaign which is the primary output of the animation Website/YouTube channel ''WebAnimation/DingoDoodles''. The series focuses primarily on Sips, Dingo's player character, an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted monkey]] who struggles to control a particularly nasty curse he's been afflicted with since his awakening, as he and the other party members, [[OnlySaneWoman Gothi]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Erina]], explore the [[AdventureFriendlyWorld Bellowing Wilds]] on a quest to uncover the relics of a long-lost ancient civilisation, the [[{{Precursors}} Foreclaimers]]. The series starts off as a comedic retelling of Sips' antics, but steadily becomes [[CerebusSyndrome much darker and more emotional]] as Sips battles his literal and figurative inner demons, and the [[AbusivePrecursors sinister truth]] of the Foreclaimers comes to light.
129	* Said truth is revealed through Gothi, whose real name is Gothica Dia Sol, the [[RightfulKingReturns long-lost princess of the Foreclaimers]]. It is revealed that they were a [[LackOfEmpathy cold, arrogant and emotionless]] race of technologically advanced elves who relied heavily on [[PowerCrystal magitek power crystals]] to power their machines and [[{{Cyborg}} themselves]]. Desiring [[ForScience the pursuit of knowledge at any cost]], they [[StarKilling drained the energy of one of the word's two suns and focused it into [[DeityOfMortalCreation a single being they named Xanu]], who they would then [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on torturously for years on end]]. Inevitably, Xanu eventually breaks loose and lays waste to Foreclaimer civilisation, with the survivors using a portal to escape to a jungle far, far away from their original homeland. Said survivors would split into two factions: "Stella's Children", who completely rejected all technology and live in tribal villages, and the "Old Society" who [[IgnoredEpiphany learned absolutely nothing from the catastrophe]]. Our candidate is the leader of the latter faction by the time the Fool's Gold party eventually finds them.
130	!!'''Who is Goddrick III, and what has he done?'''
131	* [[EvilOverlord Emperor Goddrick III]] is the draconian ruler of the Old Society, who has [[VillainousLineage followed comfortably in the footsteps]] of [[TheUsurper the original Goddrick]] -- a friend of the royal family who betrayed Gothi and ''[[FacialHorror carved off her face]]'' in order to seize the throne for himself during Xanu's rampage. Goddrick and his ancestors have embodied the [[TheUnfettered very worst aspects]] of the Foreclaimers and entrenched them within the Old Society, adopting a harsh [[{{Ubermensch}} Nietzschean]] philosophy whereby empathy is seen as foolish weakness, and [[TheSocialDarwinist eugenicist sensibilities]] which view something as simple as needing glasses a "defect" worthy of total rejection and exile.
132	* All this is bad enough, but what makes him potentially ''monstrous'' is his [[EvilPlan ultimate goal]] -- to tear down the world's ''other'' sun, and utilise its energy to [[GodhoodSeeker turn all of the Old Society into supremely powerful beings]], uncaring that all other life would be extinguished in the process.
133	* Naturally, he is also [[{{Hypocrite}} a rank hypocrite]] -- despite his professed love of "efficiency", he goes out of his way to engage in smug CulturalPosturing when the party arrives, and
134	!!'''Does he have any redeeming features?'''
135	!!'''How do they compare to the work's other villains?'''
136	[[/folder]]
137	----
138	!!Imperium Ascendant description:
139	It is the 29th millennium. Dawn is finally breaking on the savagery and strife of Old Night, as the feuding techno-barbarian states of Terra are brought to heel by the nascent Imperium of Man.
140
141
142	The being known as Revelation, The Emperor, or any one of a dozen other names prepares to put his grand schemes into motion, setting the stage for a galactic conquest that will, hopefully, return to mankind its long-lost glory.
143
144
145	And in a secret gene-lab beneath the surface of Luna, twenty infant Primarchs -- impossible beings far, far beyond human -- sleep peacefully, unaware that the foul forces of Chaos are to scatter them across the galaxy, sowing the seeds for a saga of resentment, betrayal and heresy that will tear the galaxy asunder.
146	----
147	!! HostageVideo rewrite
148	A more modern version of the classic ransom note, gaining popularity in recent years with the increasing use of the internet and real life use by groups like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
149
150	Basically, our particular hostage is tied to a chair with a flag backdrop, while one or more bad guys in balaclavas look menacing with firearms. Then the hostage is forced to a) denounce his country b) read out his captors' demands c) beg his nation's leaders to help or d) a combination thereof.
151
152	Other variations include placing the hostage in mortal peril with a ticking clock.
153
154	If the bad guys don't get what they want, things might turn into a SnuffFilm.
155
156
157	--*--
158
159
160	The screen flickers into life, showing a grainy close-up of a body bound to a chair in what looks like an AbandonedWarehouse. A bag covers their head, and masked figures toting assault rifles stand to either side. Suddenly, one of them pulls away the bag to reveal the gaunt and frightened face of a hostage, who begins, haltingly, to read out a message: "These are our demands..."
161
162
163	So begins the Hostage Video, filmed by the hostage-takers to provide evidence that the unfortunate victim(s) shown are truly at their mercy, while doubling as a psychological intimidation tactic, especially if the hostage is forced to denounce themselves, their country or organisation. The trope has largely supplanted the classic ransom note in the modern day, due to the increasing prominence of the internet and its infamous utilisation in RealLife by terror groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
164
165
166	It can arise in a [[HostageSituation variety of contexts]], from a villain's demonstration to the hero that IHaveYourWife, to a group of hijackers [[DieHardOnAnX threatening a massacre if they don't get what they want]], to a [[PoliticalHostage captured leader]] being forced at gunpoint to encourage LaResistance to lay down their arms and submit to [[TheEmpire their new overlords]]. If the hostage-takers want to horrify the recipients ([[KickTheDog and the audience]]), the hostage will bear visible marks of beatings and torture -- the message may even become a SnuffFilm if there are multiple hostages and the hostage-takers want to prove, in an especially grisly way, that they're ''not'' bluffing, or if their demands are not met. To add extra jeopardy, the hostage takers will usually [[RaceAgainstTheClock include an ultimatum]], or even go so far as to add a countdown to the video or live feed of the hostage.
167
168	If the hostages' location is unknown, their would-be rescuers will usually try and trace the source of the video through deduction and HollywoodHacking wizardry. [[YouCantThwartStageOne This is almost guaranteed to fail]], with the baddies [[BatmanGambit having expected this]], planting false leads that drive the rescuers into a trap and/or allow them to escalate their already-unreasonable demands.
169
170	However, a [[BadassInDistress particularly]] [[BruceWayneHeldHostage canny]] hostage will be able to use the video as a means to get their own message out, whether that's through code words, sign language, or Morse Code communicated through finger-taps or blinks.
171
172	Very likely to appear in a Post911TerrorismMovie. Compare MurderDotCom for another trope where torture and death is broadcast over the internet.

Context Sandbox / Azorius24Sandbox