1 | -->"If I create the rules, how can there be loopholes?" |
2 | --->''Regiment'' |
3 | |
4 | -->"[Regiment]'s [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy just this guy, you know]]?" |
5 | |
6 | |
7 | Regiment is an ordinary mild-mannered high school physics teacher. |
8 | |
9 | His original mission was to add examples from D.Gray-Man to this wiki wherever appropriate. Annoyingly, he could never seem to spell AppliedPhlebotinum, which was a pity, since most of his references involved [[AppliedPhlebotinum Innocence]]. |
10 | |
11 | Much to his chagrin, he didn't start the DGrayMan page, but he's made up for it by [[EntryPimp more than tripling]] the list of tropes. To soothe his ego, he's staking his claim to have started the page through NewlyPopularUpdating. |
12 | |
13 | He comes and goes. |
14 | |
15 | ---- |
16 | |
17 | '''This troper provides examples of:''' |
18 | |
19 | * ActualPacifist |
20 | * [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Actually A Pretty Good Idea]] |
21 | * AfraidOfNeedles |
22 | * ApologizesALot: Sorry about that. |
23 | * ArthurDent |
24 | * AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Leading to a lot of OrphanedSeries. |
25 | * AuthorAppeal: [[MagnificentBastard Clever]], [[KickTheDog unambiguously]] [[ForTheEvulz evil]] [[EvillyAffable villains]]; female characters somewhere between CuteBruiser [[HotAmazon and]] ActionGirl; [[AwesomeButPractical neat]] [[AwesomeButImpractical gadgets]], [[EarnYourHappyEnding slightly ambiguous happy endings]]. |
26 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis |
27 | * BewareTheQuietOnes |
28 | * BotheringByTheBook: Pathologically. |
29 | * BritishStuffiness: Despite not being British. |
30 | * ByTheBookCop: Despite not being a cop. |
31 | * CaffeineBulletTime: Because... |
32 | * [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold His Caffeine]] |
33 | * TheChessmaster: Theoretically, at least. |
34 | * ClosetGeek: Tiered - he'll admit the video game and Star Trek things to pretty much anyone, but the Pokemon and LARP stuff he keeps closer to his vest. |
35 | * ClusterFBomb: Very, very rarely, and never in front of people. |
36 | * TheConfidant |
37 | * DeadpanSnarker |
38 | * DeterminedDefeatist: When it comes to certain topics. |
39 | * DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Intentionally. |
40 | * DisContinuity: Parts of ''his own life''. |
41 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Angry him scares him. |
42 | * FalseReassurance: A beloved tactic. |
43 | * TheFettered |
44 | * FiveManBand: TheSmartGuy. |
45 | * ForScience: A common justification. |
46 | * ForeignCussWord: Usually in [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. |
47 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic. |
48 | * {{Geek}}: Although his ideas about {{Geek}}s and {{Nerd}}s are the opposite of what TVTropes thinks. |
49 | * GentlemanAndAScholar |
50 | * GoodIsNotDumb |
51 | * GoodNameForARockBand: He has a list. |
52 | * GoodWithNumbers |
53 | * GoshDangItToHeck |
54 | -->"Do you ''ever'' swear?" |
55 | -->"Not in public." |
56 | * GrammarNazi |
57 | * HedgeTrimmer: And PurpleProse Trimmer |
58 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Can be really, ''really'' bad at accepting praise. |
59 | * IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat |
60 | * IndyPloy |
61 | * LawfulNeutral |
62 | * [[MinoredInAssKicking Minored In Sword Fighting]] |
63 | * MrImagination |
64 | * MST3KMantra: A favorite argument, because he doesn't take many things seriously. |
65 | * NaNoWriMo: Won in 2009, 2010, and 2011, in utter defiance of OrphanedSeries. |
66 | * NightmareFetishist: Fond of squid and jellyfish, partly ''because'' they're creepy. |
67 | * NiceGuy: He's happier when you're happy. |
68 | * [[NiceJewishBoy Nice]] AmbiguouslyJewish [[NiceJewishBoy Boy]] |
69 | * OldShame: Almost everything he's ever written, enjoyed, or done more than fifteen minutes ago. |
70 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted; many people he knows, including one of his best friends, share his name. |
71 | * OrphanedSeries: Most projects he starts, although he tends to go back to them off and on. |
72 | * PeripheryDemographic: Frequently a member of it. |
73 | * PrecisionFStrike: A rarely used tactic, but one wholeheartedly embraced. |
74 | * PrinciplesZealot: A bit. |
75 | * [[RealMenWearPink Real Men Love]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]] |
76 | * SadClown: Not to the extreme that the trope implies, but somewhat. |
77 | * SantaClausmas |
78 | * SelfDeprecation |
79 | * SeriousBusiness: Completely averted; he doesn't think that anything's that important. |
80 | * ShoutOut: In day-to-day life, to lots of things, with peculiar emphasis on ''{{Animaniacs}}'', ''TheSimpsons'', and [[BasicInstructions web]][[OrderOfTheStick com]][[IrregularWebcomic ics]]. |
81 | * ShrinkingViolet: A minor example, and the rare male example. |
82 | * TheSmartGuy: Has a degree in physics and a vast command of general knowledge. |
83 | * TheSnarkKnight |
84 | * SophisticatedAsHell |
85 | * TheSpock: Sometimes. |
86 | * TheStoic: Sometimes. |
87 | * StopHavingFunGuys: His arch-nemeses. |
88 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When you WillNotTellALie... |
89 | * ThinkNothingOfIt |
90 | * {{Troperiffic}}: Apparently. |
91 | * UnPaused: When interrupted. |
92 | * WickedCultured |
93 | * WillNotTellALie |
94 | * WrongGenreSavvy: As the real world is not a fictional genre. |
95 | * XanatosGambit: Theoretically. |
96 | * XanatosSpeedChess |
97 | * YiddishAsASecondLanguage |
98 | * YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry |
99 | |
100 | ---- |
101 | |
102 | [[folder:FavoriteTrope]] |
103 | * CuteBruiser |
104 | * EvillyAffable |
105 | * InTheMouthOfMadness |
106 | * SouthernFriedGenius |
107 | * TestosteronePoisoning |
108 | [[/folder]] |
109 | |
110 | ---- |
111 | |
112 | [[folder:LARP]] |
113 | |
114 | Regiment is a massive nerd, and as such he is also part of a {{LARP}}. Because it is very difficult for a character in this game to be KilledOffForReal, he has played the same character for years. |
115 | |
116 | '''Kaius Felgor provides examples of:''' |
117 | |
118 | * AntiMagic: Has several spells that are based on disrupting magic. |
119 | * BilingualBonus: His last name is a corruption of the Latin for "lightning". |
120 | * CrystalDragonJesus: Felgor is a disciple of the Order of Regiment, which is heavily inspired by medieval Christianity, [[DidNotDoTheResearch kind of]]. |
121 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Felgor's costumes include a lot of black and silver, but he's a good person. |
122 | * {{Familiar}}: The actual name of a spell, of the "source of the spellcaster's magic" sort. Felgor's only affects his ability to TurnUndead and regenerate. |
123 | * FromASingleCell: Sort of. His magic can heal limbs, even his own, and he will come back from the dead unless his body is completely obliterated... but only once a day. |
124 | * GlassCannon: About as much as is possible in the system. Felgor has some very powerful ranged attacks, but he can't wear armor and as such is about as [[SquishyWizard squishy]] as they come. |
125 | * JackOfAllTrades: More or less standard for the Sorcerer school, but Felgor also has several spells from other schools. |
126 | * LawfulGood |
127 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He sometimes goes off on adventures with nothing but an 18" buckler. |
128 | * MagicalIncantation: All of his spells. The incantation consists of a few lines from an oath to [[CrystalDragonJesus Regiment]]. |
129 | * NotSoStoic |
130 | * TheRedMage: Felgor can [[ShockAndAwe throw magic missiles and lightning bolts]], can [[TurnUndead ward off enchanted creatures]] and [[BarrierWarrior create impassable barriers]], can [[AntiMagic destroy enchanted objects]], [[TheRedMage cast every weak spell in existence]], and can [[BoringButPractical create magic lights]]. |
131 | * ShockAndAwe: As a two-path Sorcerer, he has the spell "Lightning Bolt". It's also in his name; see BilingualBonus above. |
132 | * SpellBook: Naturally. |
133 | * SquishyWizard: Felgor has as many spells as a character can possibly have, but he can't wear armor or carry a decent weapon because of it. |
134 | * VancianMagic: The LARP's magic system. |
135 | |
136 | [[/folder]] |
137 | |
138 | ---- |
139 | |
140 | Launched: |
141 | * LudicrousPrecision |
142 | |
143 | ---- |
144 | Wrote: |
145 | * ''DarthWiki/HouseOfCards'' |
146 | * ''Booth'' (working title) |
147 | * ''Lotan'' |
148 | |
149 | ---- |
150 | |
151 | [[folder:Booth]] |
152 | * BookEnds: Sort of. The book opens and ends with [[spoiler:comments about Booth's gun waiting in the theatre still]], and the (not its real name) (as far as we know)]] RunningGag [[spoiler:is the last dialogue.]] |
153 | * ClicheStorm: The ''[[StylisticSuck Black Wednesday]]'' movies, about a zombie hick with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] who keeps trying to kill the resident SchoolgirlLesbians. |
154 | * CloudCuckoolander: Ron, often. |
155 | * {{Expy}}: The city of Mason, Nevada is based on the author's recollections of Baker, California, home of the World's Tallest Thermometer, and Mercurial Enterprises bears a resemblance to the Sun-Maid factory. |
156 | * CreepyDoll: When Jerry and Ron were college roommates, Jerry got revenge for something by borrowing from a friend dozens of {{Aquaman}} action figures and placing them all around the room, staring at Ron. |
157 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: In the ''[[StylisticSuck Black Wednesday]]'' movies. Ron agrees. Jerry thinks it's a little [[FanDisservice out]] [[{{Gorn}} of]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel context]]. |
158 | * GoodNameForARockBand: Several. |
159 | * HiddenDepths: Ron is flighty and prone to spontaneous fandom, but he's actually very handy and a good businessman. |
160 | * InsistentTerminology: The name of the book is ''Booth (working title)'', not ''Booth''. |
161 | * LemonyNarrator: The narrator censors profanity and editorializes a bit. |
162 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: Tangentially; it turns out that [[spoiler:Ron's one-night-stand]] is [[spoiler:the daughter]] of [[spoiler:the judge to whom they pay a parking ticket]]. Also, [[spoiler:Jerry ends up marrying Ron's sister]]. |
163 | * OpeningMonologue: The narrator gives a brief summary of the Henry Ford Museum and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
164 | * PresentDay: Well, late 2007. |
165 | * RousingSpeech: Ron attempts two. Neither really works. |
166 | * RunningGag: (not its real name) (as far as we know). |
167 | * SeinfeldianConversation: Pretty much everything. |
168 | * ShaggyDogStory: Explicitly [[ConversationalTroping described]] by Jerry. Also most of what happens, [[spoiler:including the ending]]. |
169 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: After struggling to find a cell phone charger for much of the book, [[spoiler:it turns out that the phone is ruined after all]]. |
170 | * StylisticSuck: The ''[[SlasherMovie Black Wednesday]]'' film series. |
171 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Larry and Wendy, who the protagonists meet and befriend, and who never appear again |
172 | * WhereAreTheyNow: The epilogue, which reveals, among other things, that [[spoiler:Jerry marries Ron's sister, making the protagonists brothers-in-law]]. |
173 | [[/folder]] |
174 | |
175 | ---- |
176 | |
177 | [[folder:Lotan]] |
178 | A retelling of ''{{Bluebeard}}'', told in the style of HPLovecraft. [[RunningGag The title will most definitely not be ''Bluebeard Cthulhu'']]. |
179 | |
180 | Unmarked spoilers follow, or else most of the tropes would be whited out. |
181 | |
182 | * ClosedCircle: More of a short-term example, as the trains come to Peurich very rarely. |
183 | * CosmicHorrorStory: Very much in the style of HPLovecraft. |
184 | * DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: The entire plot, more or less. Richard turns out to be not Lotan, but its servant. |
185 | * DownerEnding: Sort of. Katie avoids a FateWorseThanDeath by killing herself. |
186 | * EldritchAbomination: Richard turns out to be the servant of one. |
187 | * EvilIsSexy: Richard, although it might be Lotan's doing. |
188 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Katherine is 5'6" and Richard is probably 6'6", but he's so thin that he looks even taller. |
189 | * IHaveManyNames: Lotan. |
190 | * LovecraftCountry: Peurich, an old New Hampshire town on a cape. |
191 | * TheChessmaster: Richard appears to be Katherine's ideal man to lure her closer for Lotan. |
192 | * MythologyUpgrade: Lotan was a minor monster from the same mythology as Dagon. Here he becomes an ageless CosmicHorror. |
193 | * NoHuggingNoKissing: Averted, and the logical next step in Regiment's writing. ''[[DarthWiki/HouseOfCards House of Cards]]'' has no female characters to speak of. ''Booth'' is about two borderline HeterosexualLifePartners (although one does have a one-night stand with a bank teller). ''Bluebeard Cthulhu'' is a love story. |
194 | * NotSoStoic: Richard starts emoting a lot when he's talking about Lotan. |
195 | * PurpleProse: Intentionally, in the Lovecraftian style. |
196 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Richard doesn't actually have any ancestors. He's just very, very old, thanks to Lotan. |
197 | * RecycledInSpace: It's {{Bluebeard}} in [[HPLovecraft Innsmouth]]. |
198 | * TheRenfield: Richard, to Lotan. |
199 | * TermsOfEndangerment: Richard is the only person who calls Katherine "Katie", which becomes much less endearing when he's snapped. |
200 | * TimeAbyss: Lotan, who is "ancient beyond reckoning". |
201 | [[/folder]] |
202 | ---- |
203 | He is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiSloth WikiSloth]]. |
204 | ---- |
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