Line #64 Tropers/NhazUl


1	Whatever. I just hate empty pages.
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3	!This troper provides examples of:
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5	* AdjustingYourGlasses: Type 3. [[SubvertedTrope But I'm not planning world domination]] , it's just the easiest way.[[note]]-[[DoubleSubversion Well]], [[FromACertainPointOfView only because I'm too lazy to start planning it]].-[[/note]]
6	* TheBackwardsR: I really, really hate this. It's an old joke, it's trite, and it always sounds like you're trying to summon Cthulhu to an orgy with his own three parents who are also his siblings. And children.
7	* BeardOfEvil: And I like to [[StrokeTheBeard stroke it]]. Seriously, one guy told me I looked like "an evil Nhaz from an alternate universe". I wonder if he's a fellow troper.
8	* BedsheetLadder: Not me, but my great-great-great-grandfather who escaped a prison where he was sentenced for being a rebel.
9	* BerserkButton: A [[UpToEleven berserk keypad]], actually.
10	* BrilliantButLazy: Well, not brilliant, but I have my moments when I actually stop being lazy and get things done.
11	* DarkIsNotEvil: I do like to invoke the image. But I wouldn't hurt a fly. [[note]]-[[ILied Lies]]. [[LiteralMinded I do hurt flies on a regular basis]], it's part of being a [[EvilutionaryBiologist biology student]].-[[/note]]
12	* DeathGlare: They tell me this is my default expression. When I'm really pissed off, this and KubrickStare helps get my point across.
13	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Before I grew a beard, people tended to mistake me for a girl.
14	* EnragedByIdiocy: And twice as much at my own.
15	* FascinatingEyebrow
16	* HairTriggerTemper: I hulk out frequently, over the smallest things.
17	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Why else would I fill in my TV Tropes entry?
18	* KnightInSourArmor: I'm trying.
19	* KnowNothingKnowItAll
20	* MadScientist: Will become one if I'm fortunate.
21	* UsefulNotes/MisplacedNationalism: You are advised not to call the Cyrillic alphabet "Russian" (or claim Russians invented it) within earshot of me unless you have a death wish. Other than that, I'm not into CulturalPosturing.
22	* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: You're free to talk almost any trash about Bulgaria's politics and I won't mind (most of it would be true anyway and if so, I'd even happily join you).
23	* PercussiveMaintenance: Unfortunately, I've had quite a few occasions on which I apply this to some. DEVICE. ''THAT.'' '''''JUST. WON'T. WORK!!!'''''
24	* PercussiveTherapy: [[{{Angrish}} RAAAAAAARGH!]] After I break the device, I often need to vent my anger on something that won't be worse off if it breaks.
25	* RedOniBlueOni: Red to almost anyone.
26	* SelfDeprecation: A mechanism to keep my ego in check. As evident from this page, it doesn't always work.
27	* ShrinkingViolet: When not hulking out, I'm in this state, never taking the initiative and mumbling all to myself for fear of saying or doing something wrong.
28	* SlasherSmile: When the DeathGlare doesn't work, this does.
29	* StoicSpectacles: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. I have the glasses and the low ponytail, but I'm nowhere near stoic.
30	* TVTropesRuinedYourLife
31	* TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary: Has already.
32	* VillainousCheekbones: Combined with KubrickStare and DeathGlare.
33	* UnstoppableRage: When I hulk out.
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35	Not sure if this is a good idea, but here's a list of tropes for my fanfics (to be updated together with the fics themselves, mainly as a list for myself):
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37	!!Tropes in ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' fan fiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9696876/1/TRON-Revolution TRON: Revolution]]:
38	* AfterActionPatchUp: How Beck gains Paige's trust.
39	* AnArmAndALeg: During their battle, Tesler has his leg cut off by Paige. He transfers the "deletion" onto her disc, severing her leg instead.
40	* AndThisIsFor: Paige [[spoiler: before she kills Tesler]].
41	* AssholeVictim: Paige's unusual nonchalant reaction to getting four of Pavel's {{Mook}}s killed comes from her knowledge that all of them are handpicked for their ruthlessness.
42	* CallARabbitASmeerp[=/=]HoldYourHipogriffs: I use those rather heavily, replacing normal words with computer terms, especially for slurs (glitch = bitch, malware = lowlife, shareware = whore, etc.)
43	* ContinuationFic: Since Disney all but cancelled ''Uprising''.
44	* DefectorFromDecadence: Paige finally switches sides. Not really a spoiler.
45	* FlashbackEcho: [[spoiler: Beck has a glitch as an effect from the time he lost his identity when he stands at the exact place it happened. It gives Paige the final confirmation that it's him behind the mask.]]
46	* ReformedButRejected: Paige [[GenreSavvy is afraid this will happen to her]]. She's right.
47	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [=CLU=] allows Paige to see Tesler's memories so she can go on one and dispose of the general. [[spoiler: It works]].
48	* TheUnReveal: Paige has figured out Beck's identity before he takes off his mask.
49	* UngratefulBitch: As in the show, Paige is initially furious at the Renegade for taking on Tesler, despite needing the help.
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51	!!Tropes in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fan fiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10846548/1/Sever-not-the-Lily-flower-lest-you-bleed-in-the-mud Sever not the Lily flower, lest you bleed in the mud]]:
52	* FauxSymbolism: I may be dropping too much symbolism in this. Just look at the title.
53	* ForWantOfANail: WhatIf Snape didn't call Lily a Mudblood?
54	* GiveGeeksAChance: Lily does.
55	* LoveRedeems: The ultimate idea of the fic is to show how much better Snape's life would have been if he had done an effort to keep Lily in his life.
56	* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Did I Almost Do]]: Severus is terrified that he almost called Lily a Mudblood.
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58	!! Troping [[UsefulNotes/{{Bulgaria}} my country]]
59	Tropes about my country, Bulgaria, mostly historical trivia.
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61	I've found out that history is a lot more fun in trope form. However, apparently troping real life too much is against the wiki's rules, and I'm a terrible procrastinator who never finishes things, so I'll just make a list here on my user page and update it whenever I come up with something.
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63	* AHouseDivided: After the death of Tzar Ioan Asen II whose diplomatic, military and political skills had had elevated Bulgaria to a Balkan hegemon, his wives and descendants plunged into a SuccessionCrisis which destabilized the empire for the next two centuries until its eventual fall.
64	* AltarDiplomacy: As is natural for medieval monarchs. Ivan Assen II was particularly known for this, going through three marriages for diplomatic purposes (with Cuman princess Anna Anisia, Hungarian princess Anna Arpad and finally Epirus Byzantine princess Irene Komnene whose family he had defeated and captured and whom he fell in love with) and then attempted to get divorced again to marry a princess from Nicaea, but the patriarch forbade it, citing his many divorces as ungodly. RealityEnsues when after his death his (ex-)wives started poisoning each other's children to get their own on the throne. After that, claimants to the throne would seek marriage to Assen daughters and granddaughters for generations to attach the name of Assen to themselves and solidify their claims.
65	* BalkanizeMe: The Second Empire. The Northwestern province, centered around the city of Vidin, had several seceding rulers, some of them foreign princes. Even after its ruler Michael III Shishman took the throne of the main kingdom centered at Tarnovo, his brother Belaur still tried to secede. When Michael's nephew, Ioan Alexander, inherited the throne, he had to out Belaur, only to split the Vidin province again and give it to his son Ioan Sratsimir while his other heir, Ioan Shishman, got the main part. Around that time, a despot named Dobrotitsa also seceded the eastern part of the country.
66	* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: Literally. In 1014, Basil II, Emperor of Byzantium, captured 15,000 troops of Tzar Samuil's army, blinded them, chained them and sent them back to Samuil, leaving 1 in every 100 men with one eye to lead the way.
67	* BloodOath: The 1876 April Uprising, Bulgaria's most significant rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, was declared through the so-called "Blood Letter", which the RebelLeader Todor Kableshkov signed with the blood of his hometown's assassinated governor and sent to the town where [[LaResistance the revolutionary organisation]]'s HQ resided.
68	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Parodied in folk wisdom. Quoth a saying, "One Bulgarian is a [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority rebel]], two are [[LaResistance a rebel army]], three are a rebel army [[TheStarscream with a traitor]]".
69	* CivilWar:
70	** During the First Empire, the House of Vokil usurped the House of Dulo and was itself briefly displaced by a member of the House of Ugain, possibly via a civil war.
71	** After the deaths of Ioan Asen II and his sons, two of his sons-in-law - Mitzo and Constantine Tikh, waged one. Mitzo was a nobleman from the Black Sea coastal town of Mesembria (today's Nesebar) and had Byzantine support, while Constantine was from Skopje, Macedonia, and used help from Tatars as well as Vidin's seceding ruler. Constantine won and Mitzo was forced into exile in Byzantium.
72	** Ivaylo, a peasant or low-ranking nobleman, started a peasant revolt against Constantine in 1277 due to his inability to stop Tatar incursions. Ivaylo cut the crippled Tzar down in his chariot, married his wife and then went to war with the Tatars, defeating their armies several times before getting betrayed and assassinated.
73	** A three-way one between Mitzo's son Ioan Asen III, Ivaylo who had dethroned Constantine Tikh, and Georgi I Terter who was elected by the boyars. Terter won, establishing a new dynasty, while Ivaylo was killed by his Tatar enemies and Ioan Asen III got to the capital, stole the treasury and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled]].
74	** Georgi's son Theodore Svetoslav Terter took part in a four-way one: The wife Smiletz, his father's usurper, was refusing to give up the throne and was in league with Georgi's brother Aldimir; Smiletz's brothers Voysil and Radoslav were trying to wrest control from her; Theodore got to the city with Chaka, the son of the Tatar chieftain Nogai who was hoping to install his son on the Bulgarian throne; once in the capital, Theodore beheaded Chaka and sent his head to Nogai's enemy to secure peace with the Tatars.
75	** When Ioan Alexander disinherited his last son from his first marriage, Ioan Sratzimir, and gave the throne to his half-brother Ioan Shishman, the two brothers supposedly had a civil war after their father's death over Sofia (today's capital of Bulgaria, then a major fortress);
76	* DividedWeFall: This was the general political situation on the Balkans in the context of the rise of the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria was no exception.
77	** Tzar Ioan Alexander is a prime example. First, when the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos had to pass through Hungary to form an alliance with the House of Savoy for a crusade against the Ottomans to prevent them from gaining foothold in Europe, Ioan Alexander captured him on the way back out of fear that the alliance would attack Bulgaria. This ended up a self-fulfilling prophecy when Amadeo of Savoy attacked Bulgaria to free John, diverting the crusade. Amadeo also bribed the boyar ruling the Bulgarian sea coast, Dobrotitza, with titles, and the latter seceded. Meanwhile, Ioan Alexander also remarried and gave the right of succession to the son from his second marriage (Ioan Shishman), disinheriting the remaining son (Ioan Sratzimir) from his old one and giving him the Western part of the country as a consolation prize. Bulgaria was torn in three between Shishman, Sratzimir and Dobrotitza and fell quickly to the Ottomans, especially when the two half-brothers waged a civil war.
78	* DressingAsTheEnemy: An infamous example. When escaping Byzantine captivity, Tzar Boris II and his brother Roman had [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised themselves as]] [[BorderPatrol Byzantine guards]]. The BorderCrossing ended badly when ''Bulgarian'' guards took the bait and [[FriendOrFoe really mistook them for Byzantines]], killing Boris before [[HesAFriend Roman could clarify anything]]. Roman himself survived, but he had been castrated, so the entire male line of the dynasty died with him. Some historians claim this was a XanathosGambit on Tzimiskes' part: either the brothers die, or are too weak to lead. He didn't count on the energetic and capable general Samuil taking the reins and becoming a major thorn in Byzantium's side for the next 40 years.
79	* EyeScream:
80	** Khan Omurtag had his firstborn son Enravota blinded for converting to Christianity and thus allowing for the spread of Byzantine influence.
81	** Ironically, Knyaz Boris I, Omurtag's great-grandson, blinded his firstborn son Vladimir Rasate for ''opposing'' Christianity and attempting to restore paganism, in an age when Boris had taken great pains to convert the country to Christianity to secure political allies and international prestige.
82	** Samuil's army was defeated in 1014, causing some 15,000 men to be blinded by Basil II of Byzantium. He left one in every hundred with one eye to lead the way back to Samuil's capital.
83	** Samuil's grandson, Peter Delyan, tried to restore the empire with a rebellion after it was conquered. The Byzantines bribed his cousin, Alusian, who challenged an inebriated Delyan to a knife game and stabbed him in the eyes.
84	* ForeignRulingClass:
85	** The First Empire started out as a confederation of Bulgars, Slavs and Vlachs, with Bulgar nobility ruling supreme.
86	** Most, if not all, ruling houses of the Second Empire are speculated to be of Cuman descent, nativized and ruling over an already homogenous population of Bulgarians.
87	** Nogai, a Mongol chieftain distantly related to Genghis Khan, tried to install his son Chaka as Tzar of Bulgaria. Chaka's Bulgarian ally, Theodor Svetoslav, used the opportunity to seize the capital, then betrayed Chaka and sent his head to Nogai's enemy to secure peace with the Golden Horde.
88	** The Third State, while it was a monarchy, was ruled by Princes and Tzars hailing from the Western European houses of Battenberg and then Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, appointed by the Great Powers.
89	* TheGoodKing: Peter I (927-971) is remembered as this, having secured a 40-year peace with all neighbors. His excessive donations to the church, however, resulted in the spreading of a new heresy, Bogomilism, and he failed to fix the economy that was exhausted by the wars his father Simeon waged. It's worth noting that three rebel leaders and would-be kings renamed themselves after him and not the more famous warlike kings such as Krum, Simeon or Samuil.
90	* HeroicBSOD[=/=]HeroicRROD: Records of Tzars dying from heart attacks upon receiving ill news aren't uncommon:
91	** Simeon I after he was informed of his defeat by the Croatians. According to legend, Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos beheaded a statue of Simeon at the exact time of the latter's death.
92	** Peter I when the Kievan Rus army took several tens of his fortresses in a swift invasion.
93	** Samuil when he saw his blinded army arrive in the capital.
94	* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The 1762 ''History of Slavic Bulgarians'' by Paisius of Hilandar, written to invoke PatrioticFervor at a time when Bulgarians were just beginning their national revival and struggle for independence, emphasizes the feats of warrior kings such as Krum, Simeon and Kaloyan while downplaying their darker deeds or the negative consequences of their acts (Simeon left a country with an exhausted economy, Kaloyan was brutal and sacked cities for no reason, etc.), while downplaying the achievements of less warlike rulers like Boris I or Peter I. It is worth noting that the latter kind (especially Peter) had enough of a reputation as TheGoodKing for later kings to name themselves after them.
95	** HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Enemy countries (the Eastern Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Serbia etc.) are described in history class as evil, genocidal powers and their rulers as cruel and oppressive (when victorious over Bulgaria) or cowardly and foolish (when defeated) with any other traits or achievements left unmentioned. Byzantine emperors Nikephoros I (who sacked the Bulgarian capital in an attempt to conquer Bulgaria once and for all but got defeated and killed) and Basil II (who succeeded in the same and blinded 15000 captured Bulgarian soldiers) are especially vilified, as are Sultans Bayezid I (who conquered the second empire) and the last Sultans (Abdul Aziz, Abdul Mejid and Abdul Hamid II), during whise reign Bulgaria struggled for independence and raised several uprisings which were brutally quelled.
96	* {{Irony}}: In 864, Khan Boris saw his country facing a crisis and to elevate Bulgaria's international prestige, converted the populace to Christianity and enforced it as a state religion, slaughtering 52 noble families for opposing the baptism. Some 30 years prior in 831, Khan Malamir, one of his granduncles, had another, Enravota, executed ''for'' converting to Christianity, which he feared would be used as a tool by the Byzantines to destabilise the country.
97	* KingBobTheNth: In Bulgaria, the only ordinals universally agreed upon are those of Boris III, Simeon II, Coloman II and Georgi[=/=]George II. The rest are inconsistent:
98	** With Tzars named Ioan[=/=]Ivan, historians argue whether every instance of the name counts (resulting in Ioan XII), or Tzars also bearing the Asen dynastic name should be numbered separately (Ioan Asen V). Ioans from the last ruling dynasty are better known by their second names, possibly similar to how the [[TangledFamilyTree related house of Basarab of Wallachia]] used the name Ιoan[=/=]Ion as a title before every ruler's actual name, relying on its original Hebrew meaning of "[by] God's will".
99	** Those named Peter number up to II or IV, depending whether royal descendants who unsuccessfully rebelled against Byzantine occupation count.
100	** Theodore was the name borne by Peter II[=/=]IV before he renamed himself for the sake of continuity, so some consider the later Theodore Svetoslav as Theodore II.
101	** The numeral of Tzars named Mikhail[=/=]Michael is also disputed because it's not clear if Boris I also counts as Mikhail I after his baptism and renaming.
102	** Constantine II was the son of the last independent Tzar before the country fell to the Ottomans, but it's still disputed whether he claimed the title when he rebelled against his sovereigns.
103	** Shishman I was an independent ruler of the Vidin area; after one of his grandsons ascended to the Bulgarian throne, another by the name of Shishman II claimed the title; centuries later, a rebellion against Ottoman occupation had a "Shishman III" claiming descent from the same line.
104	* TheMagnificent: Some rulers had such epithets given to them.
105	** Krum was remembered as "The Fearsome" for routing Nikephoros I's invading army and turning his skull into a goblet. He also didn't leave the Byzantines in peace during the rule of Nikephoros' successor, Michael Rangabe, and mounted several campaigns into Thrace, one time managing to besiege Constantinople.
106	** Simeon I is remembered as "The Great" for causing the country to reach its cultural and political golden age and become a major power in Europe.
107	** Kaloyan attached the name "Roman Slayer" to himself after he raided Thrace in retaliation for Byzantine incursions. It was also an ideological response to the name "The Bulgar Slayer" that Basil II gave himself after conquering the First Bulgarian Empire.
108	** LargeHamTitle: Simeon and all Tzars after him of the First and Second empires titled themselves "Tzar of (all) Bulgarians and Greeks". Tzars of the Greeks they were not.
109	* TheMaidenNameDebate: The Second Empire was infamous for this. Once all male lines of the ruling dynasty of Asen died out, various other rulers started seeking marriage to Asen women (daughters and granddaughters of the last Asen Tzar to have any progeny) so they could attach the Asen name to themselves and legitimize their claim on the throne.
110	* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Rebellious activity against the Ottoman Empire over some 500 years is a prominent part of Bulgarian history, starting with nobles mounting local resistance, bands of ''haiduti'', mostly peasants-turned-rebels, numerous uprisings on various scales and, since the mid-19th century, an organized, nation-wide revolutionary movement which planned its operations in exile, regularly scheduled rebel offensives into Bulgaria and assisted anyone else's war effort against the Ottoman Empire.
111	* RedBaron: Khan Krum is known in historiography as "The Terrible" for making a [[SkullCups a goblet]] out of the Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I's head.
112	** TheMagnificent: Tzar Simeon I is known as "The Great" for ushering in Bulgaria's GoldenAge, even if historians recognize the damage that later resulted from his excessive imperial ambitions and bellicose policies.
113	* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: RebelLeader Georgi Benkovski is said to have said something similar before he died of his wounds in the aftermath of the 1876 April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. "... In the heart of the tyrant I opened such a grievous wound that will never heal". In a way, he was right, since the uprising and its violent suppression was part of the Great Eastern Crisis which became the reason for the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war, which saw Bulgaria restored as a nation-state and heralded the weakening and eventual collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
114	* PleaseSelectNewCityName: A number of ancient towns and cities changed names over the centuries. Most of these are various transcriptions of the same original name depending on who held the city at the time. Some were renamed after ambitious rulers or geographical features and others (most later reverted) for ideological purposes when the country became CommieLand:
115	** Sofia was named Serdica after the Thracian (or Celtic - there's some evidence of that, plus "Serdi" does sound like "Celt") tribe which found it, which evolved into the Slavic Sredetz (also "center"). Later it came to be called Sofia after its patron saint. At times, it was called Triaditza by travellers, from the Greek ''triade'' - that is, St. Sophia's three daughters Faith, Hope and Love.
116	** Plovdiv was founded by Thracians as Kendrisos, renamed by Greek colonists to Eumolpias (after a mythical king and alleged son of Poseidon), Poneropolis (city of villains) Dulonpolis (city of slaves) and Moichopolis (city of adulterers), then by Philip II of Macedon as [[{{Egopolis}} Philipopolis]], then by Romans to [[{{Descriptiveville}} Trimontium]] (Three Hills), and had variations of those names (Pulpudeva, Puldin, Pluvdiv, Philipi, Filibe) during the centuries.
117	** Varna was originally named Odessos, also briefly [[{{Egopolis}} Tiberopolis]] during the reign of Roman emperor Tiberius, then to Varna in the middle ages, presumably under Slavic influence. When the country was CommieLand, the authorities wanted to rename it to Stalingrad, but [[OneSteveLimit didn't want it to rival]] ''the'' [[UsefulNotes/OtherRussianTownsAndCities Stalingrad]], so they went with "Grad Stalin" ("the city of Stalin" instead of "Stalin city").
118	** Blagoevgrad was renamed so after Dimitar Blagoev, an early socialist activist, from its old name of Gorna Djumaya, which was partly Turkish and thus politically unsuitable.
119	** Shumen was renamed to Kolarovgrad after the death of communist head of state Vasil Kolarov, who was born there.
120	** Montana started out as Montanesium, got renamed Kutlovitsa ("Gorge town", from "kotel", meaning cauldron and hence "kotlovina", a cauldron-shaped valley) by Slavs, then [[{{Egopolis}} Ferdinand]] after the new prince in 1888, then Mihailovgrad in memory of communist revolutionary Hristo Mihailov.
121	** Revival age (read: flourished during the Bulgarian national revival in the 18-19th century) towns were briefly renamed in the 50s-60s after famous persons who were born there (Karlovo became Levskigrad after the revolutionary Vasil Levski, and Sopot became Vazovgrad after the writer Ivan Vazov), but it didn't take.
122	** Numerous towns and villages were renamed after the country's liberation to negate Turkish influence, and after the communist coup to remove any association with the royalist regime, orthodox christianity or islam.
123	** Old seaside towns that were founded by Greek colonists have acquired new Bulgarian names in modern times.
124	* RightfulKingReturns: Tsar Simeon II was [[AChildShallLeadThem only six when he took the throne]] in 1943, and was exiled three years later after the [[DirtyCommunists Soviet-backed]] transitional government held a plebiscite to end the monarchy. He spent his childhood hopping around the Mediterranean, became a successful businessman in Spain, and generally just lived his life...until [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the communist government of Bulgaria collapsed with all the others]]. Simeon--now styling himself Simeon Sakskoburggotski ("Saxe-Coburg-Gotha", using the name of his royal house[[note]]Yes, the same as UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI[[/note]] as his surname)--founded a political party and led it to victory in the 2001 elections, with Sakskoburggotski himself becoming Prime Minister. Incidentally, this is the only time a hereditary monarch has ever gone on to become a democratically elected head of government in ''any'' nation. It even fits the "situation in the country improves" bit of the trope--he appointed a cabinet of technical experts (though their actual competence is disputed) and Bulgaria grew and ran smoothly during his tenure. However the Bulgarian voters grew tired of the massive corruption which his government was widely accused of and also how most of the growth seemed to flow to the rich, and left his party in second place in the 2005 elections (although the party ended up participating in a grand coalition led by the Socialists), and then wiped them out entirely in 2009 and Simeon retired from politics.''[[labelnote:*]]He was also revealed to have been working with the communist secret services since the 70s, i. e. the group of people who dethroned him also orchestrated his return, as well as getting their party into the government, all while playing on the people's sympathies.[[/labelnote]]''
125	** Simeon II always advocated the restoration of the monarchy when living in exile, but after his return has remained silent on the issue. No matter how many times people ask him if he still wants to return to being Tsar (either as a figurehead constitutional monarch or with some degree of actual power), he gives no answer.
126	** Another example from the country's medieval history. In 1207, Tzar Kaloyan was usurped by his cousin Boril who banished the rightful heir, Ivan Assen II (along with his brother), sons of Kaloyan's older brother (Kaloyan himself has no sons). In 1217, an 18-year-old Ivan Assen II returned with his allies, besieged the capital and seized the throne. This is portrayed in historiography as a rare example of this trope where an EvilUncle had usurped a [[CoolUncle Good Uncle]] instead of the rightful heir's father.
127	* SiblingTeam: Asen, Peter IV and Ioannitza (Kaloyan) who acted together to re-establish the Bulgarian empire and keep its independence in the face of both pressure from Byzantium and the Crusades. Their cousins and nephews, however, were the exact opposite: three of them (Ivanko, Alexius Slav and Strez) seceded and one of them (Boril) usurped Kaloyan.
128	* SkewedPriorities:
129	** The late Second Bulgarian Empire was torn by infighting instead of banding together to resist the very expansionistic Ottomans.
130	** The First Balkan War. Bulgaria's long-term political aim after its restoration was national unity, which would happen by liberating the Bulgarian-populated major part of Macedonia from Ottoman control. In 1912, when Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro all declared war on the Ottoman Empire, Ferdinand desired to see himself as Emperor of Constantinople and directed most of his forces there. This left Macedonia free to occupy by Serbia, which was the cause for the Second Balkan War and Bulgaria's problems with Serbia and Greece until well after WWII.
131	* SkullCups: Khan Krum made one out of the skull of the Byzantine emperor, Nikephoros I, after ambushing his army on its return from sacking the Bulgarian capital.
132	* UsefulNotes/StandardEuropeanPoliticalLandscape:
133	** Right-Wing Populist: Various nationalist and ultra-conservatives. Now united in a coalition called Патриотичен Фронт ("Patriotic Front"):
134	*** Атака[[note]]''[Ataka]'' ("Attack")[[/note]] - ethno-nationalists, drawing on old Bulgar symbolic by appropriating the symbol of the sky god Tangra (IYI) venerated by ancient Bulgars. Friendly to Putin's Russia, ostensibly due to Russia's role in Bulgaria's liberation and shared Slavic Orthodox values, in reality mostly because of funding. Eurosceptics.
135	*** НФСБ[[note]]''[[=NeSeFeBe=]]'' Национален Фронт за Спасение на България ("National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria")[[/note]] - Mostly focusing on social policies. Leader Valeri Simeonov is infamous for ableism, ironic Nazi veneration and enforcing strict regulations on things like late-night noise levels and dog muzzles.
136	*** ВМРО-БНД[[note]](''[[=VeMeReO-BeNeDe=]]'' "Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian National Movement")[[/note]] - InNameOnly self-proclaimed descendant of the eponymous organization. Nationalists, economic libertarians.
137	** Conservatives:
138	*** ГЕРБ[[note]]''[GERB]'', Граждани за Европейско Развитие на България ("Citizens for an European Development of Bulgaria")[[/note]] - Moderate conservatives. Not very concerned with social policies, they focus on economic patronage of large-scale business enterprises, often causing the ire of small business owners. Externally pro-European but also tries to appease other powerful neighbors such as Russia or Turkey. Americans should think of the traditional Republicans with a leader employing Trump-style [[JustForFun/OneOfUs "tough-guy man of the people"]] populism. Infamous for corruption, police brutality and embezzling. Have a very publicised rivalry with the Socialist party (their only real contender for votes, so it's sort of like US Republicans vs. Democrats), although [[HatesEveryoneEqually neither enjoys wide support from the people]]. [[note]][[FunWithAcronyms Their acronym means "coat of arms"]].[[/note]]
139	*** ББЦ[[note]]България Без Цензура ("Bulgaria Without Censorship")[[/note]] - social conservative party founded by an ex-journalist.
140	** Classical Liberals[=/=]Moderate right:
141	*** СДС[[note]]''[[=SeDeSe=]]'' Съюз на Демократичните Сили ("Union of Democratic Forces")[[/note]] Widely known as "democrats", they were the major driving force behind the liberalisation after the fall of communism and pro-European[=/=]pro-American policy. [[labelnote:History]]Despite getting the country out of a huge finaicial crisis in 1997, they didn't manage to ensure a smooth and corruption-less transition to market economy and lost the trust of the people, after which they [[AHouseDivided fragmented]] and later mostly allied with ГЕРБ to the disapproval their former co-members.[[/labelnote]]
142	*** ДСБ [[note]]''[[=DeSeBe=]]'' Демократи за Силна България ("Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria") [[/note]]- the splinter of СДС which held onto the party's ideology. They oppose ГЕРБ and claim to be the "true" conservatives ([[UnknownRival although no one really cares]]), seeing them as authoritarians and derivatives of the communist party [[note]](ГЕРБ's leader Boyko Borissov used to be a personal bodyguard for the former communist dictator, Todor Zhivkov)[[/note]]. [[labelnote:History]]Mostly struggling to get into the parliament at all, since their voter base has largely become disillusioned with them. They were the fraction of СДС blamed for dropping the ball on fair business privatisation and swapping the policy of appeasement toward Russia with the same toward the USA instead of being more versatile. They've attempted multiple coalitions, including a [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether reunion]] with СДС and then a "Reformist Bloc" with former НДСВ members, which they left because they refused to ally with ГЕРБ.[[/labelnote]] They're now in an alliance with the progressive liberals (see below) with an anti-corruption agenda.
143	** Progressive Liberals:
144	*** ДПС [[note]]''[[=DePeSe=]]'' Движение за права и свободи ("Movement for Rights and Freedoms")[[/note]] - according to the public opinion, InNameOnly. [[labelnote:History]]Formed as a Turkish minority party to get their vote. They have abandoned all pretense and are openly a cronyist party resting on a web of former StateSec agents (their most prominent leaders), local oligarchs brutalizing the populace, business moguls, crime lords and Russian- or Turkish-backed businesses (although the Turkish backing went to ДОСТ after their split). They enjoy their role as a political balancer, providing the necessary numbers for a coalition to other players in exchange for ministerial seats. As the ultimate CorruptPolitician example, they have become a HateSink.[[/labelnote]] [[note]][[FunWithAcronyms Millennials among their opposition have noticed that their abbreviation means "damage per second"]].[[/note]]
145	*** НДСВ [[note]]''[[=EnDeSeVe=]]''Национално Движение Симеон Втори ("National Movement Simeon the Second"), later Национално Движение за Стабилност и Възход ("National Movement for Stability and Progress")[[/note]] - Garnered power when headed by [[RightfulKingReturns Bulgaria's former Tzar]], but since its very conception has been lured in by БСП and ДПС. [[labelnote:History]]After the economic privatisation started by СДС, helped continue it in favor of ДПС- and БСП-backed business oligarchs looking to regain their capital. After the early 2000s, they dwindled, melting into ГЕРБ and the centrist "Reformist Bloc".[[/labelnote]]
146	*** ДА, България [[note]]("YES, Bulgaria")[[/note]] - the closest to an American-like liberal formation. Receives [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad similar criticism to Western liberal leftist parties]]. Together with the Democrats declare elimination of state corruption as their goal.
147	** Left-Wing Populists:
148	*** БСП [[note]]''[[=BeSePe=]]'' Българска Социалистическа Партия ("Bulgarian Socialist Party")[[/note]] - direct successor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. They draw on NostalgiaFilter to secure the senior vote. [[labelnote:History]]While social policies are somewhat more benevolent than those of their counterparts to the right, БСП is responsible for driving the country into a major crisis in 1997 as well as cooperation with, if not [[FormerRegimePersonnel creation of]], TheMafiya. Its governments are often boycotted. They also insist that they will not be apologising for the crimes of the communist regime. In the recent years they've declared a change of course toward a more European-like left, but not many are convinced.[[/labelnote]]
149	*** АБВ [[note]]''[[=ABeVe=]]'' Алтернатива за Българско Възраждане ("Alternative for a Bulgarian Revival")[[/note]] - The old hardliners of БСП, split in protest of its liberalisation. [[labelnote:History]][[NotSoDifferent They were in coalition with the nationalists because of their shared socially conservative values and also maintain close ties with Russia dating back to Soviet times.]] [[/labelnote]][[note]][[FunWithAcronyms Its acronym is composed of the first three letters of the Cyrillic alphabet.]][[/note]]
150	** Far Left: БКП [[note]]''[[=BeKaPe=]]'' (Българска Комунистическа Партия)[[/note]] Since its fall in 1989-1991 rebranded as БСП. Various new communist parties have been formed with little affiliation to the old one.
151	** Agrarians: БЗНС [[note]]''[[=BeZeNeSe=]]''("Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union")[[/note]] with multiple wings spread all across the moderate political spectrum. [[labelnote:History]]Notably, one of those wings served as an "only alternative" in the (sham) elections during the communist regime [[note]](and somehow always got 0.01% of the votes to the БКП's 99.9%)[[/note]]. Thus it's the only party, aside from БСП, which has existed since before the communist takeover.[[/labelnote]]
152	** Greens: Three parties with limited influence. While there's plenty reasons for joining their cause (Bulgaria has a problem with semi-legal overconstruction in tourist industry and destruction of ecological habitats), their reputation is tarnished by controversies.
153	** Regionalists:
154	*** ДОСТ [[note]]''[[=DOST=]]'' Демократи за Отговорност, Свбода и Толерансност ("Democrats for Responsibility, Freedom and Tolerance")[[/note]] A splinter of ДПС, cooperates with Turkey allegedly on behalf of the Turkish minority. [[note]][[FunWithAcronyms Its acronym means "friend" in Turkish.]][[/note]]
155	*** ОМО-Илинден Пирин [[note]]''[[=OMO Ilinden Pirin=]]''("United Macedonian Organization Ilinden-Pirin")[[/note]] - separatist party insisting that the South-West Pirin region is ethnically Macedonian.
156	* SuccessionCrisis:
157	** The First Empire had one lasting almost half a century, with a new Khan every other year.
158	** The Second Empire had many of those after the main Asen dynasty died out.
159	* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: When Theodore Komnenos violated the peace treaty he had with Ioan Assen II in 1230, the latter reportedly marched into battle with the treaty impaled on a spear.
160	* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign:
161	** A peculiar case in which names in one language (Old or Middle Bulgarian, i. e. versions of Church Slavonic) get translated into a newer form of Bulgarian after a significant period during which old history records were forgotten. Names of kings in Old Bulgarian tended to sound more Greek (the equivalent of "John" was "Iѡанъ" which read something like a nasal "Ioan"), but after the fall of the Bulgarian Empire in the 14th century, knowledge only resurged in the wake of a national revival ca. 18th century, and since Russia was seen as a shining example for all Slavic nations, the Russian "Ivan" entered usage. Of course, foreign historians also translate names, resulting in Bulgarian kings named "John" in English historiography and "Jean" in French.
162	** Non-Slavic names of old Bulgar rulers are used in their modern form (for example Krum, whose original name is noted as "Korym" or "Kroum").
163	* WonTheWarLostThePeace: This is a popular stereotype of how Bulgaria's wars end.
164	** The rule of Simeon the Great of the First Bulgarian empire (the one who actually made it into an empire) is hailed in historiography as Bulgaria's golden age. Simeon waged many wars of expansion and beat enemies such as Croatia and the Byzantine Empire into submission, turning Bulgaria into the sole major power in the region. This, however, only lasted until his death. Between a populace exhausted by wars, huge expenditures on culture and prestige, a greedy clergy causing heresy and dissent among the peasants, vengeful neighbors and HordesFromTheEast taking lands too far away to guard, his son Peter I, even if he had 40 years of nominal peace (absence of open war but not rebellions and incursions), ushered in the empire's downfall.
165	** From modern history: the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 (when Russia assembled a vast alliance of Balkan states to fight against Turkish control of the Balkans and independence for Bulgaria and managed to do the nearly unthinkable by pushing into the very suburbs of Constantinople... [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle right before the Congress of Berlin forced the allies to yield most of their gains back to Turkey]]) and the First Balkan war, in which Bulgaria shouldered some of the heaviest burdens, but its allies got most of the territory, causing them to fall out over the spoils. Then things went FromBadToWorse.
166	** Between the two wars, Bulgarians staged the bloodless reunion of the country with its southern half, which had been left as an autonomous region within the Ottoman empire. This went without the approval of the Great Powers and Russia prompted Serbia to attack Bulgaria as punishment. Bulgaria won the war but lost Russia's geopolitical support, which resulted in three of its surrounding countries (Greece, Serbia and Romania) forming a long-term alliance against it with Russian blessing. The larger plan for the Unification to include Macedonia (which was at that point mostly populated by Bulgarians) also fell through, resulting in irredentist foreign policies for the next 60 years, which got Bulgaria to wage 4 wars in an attempt to achieve a national unity with Macedonia, lose 3 of those wars and get hit by a major crisis after each loss.
167	** The other half of the stereotype, of course, is the inversion. Bulgaria was the only Axis power to come out with territorial gains[[note]]regaining land previously annexed in a surprise invasion[[/note]] from the Second World War, regaining the ethnically Bulgarian [=Quadrilater/South Dobruja=][[note]]It was ceded peacefully while both countries were Axis members, then the change was approved after they both had switched sides to USSR[[/note]] and winning the peace despite losing the war. Bulgaria still [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant declared token war on the US and UK]] and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu got bombed for it]], and also got invaded by the USSR and [[DayOfTheJackboot underwent a coup assisted by the Soviet army]], turning into a [[CommieLand dictatorship]]. It also didn't keep Macedonia, which was why it joined the Nazis in the first place.
168	* YouShallNotPass: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_shipka_pass#Second_Battle_of_Shipka_Pass Second Battle of Shipka Pass]]. The pass was defended by poorly armed Bulgarian volunteers and Russians troops, who managed to hold the pass against well-armed Ottoman forces (who outnumbered them seven times) for five days until reinforcements arrived. When the defenders ran out of ammunition, they switched to throwing rocks. When they ran out of rocks, they used the [[ImprovisedWeapon bodies of their fallen comrades as projectiles]]. In literature, the battle was explicitly compared to the Thermopylae.
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170	!! Translated tropes
171	While translating TV Tropes to Bulgarian would be too ambitious and largely unnecessary (I think I've only seen 2 other Bulgarians on here), I might as well make a list of translations I come up with. Preferably something witty.
172	** [[GentleGiant Много Голям Добряк]] - Не просто голям добряк, а наистина '''голям'''.

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