Line #37 Tropers/Regiment


1	-->"If I create the rules, how can there be loopholes?"
2	--->''Regiment''
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4	-->"[Regiment]'s [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy just this guy, you know]]?"
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7	Regiment is an ordinary mild-mannered high school physics teacher.
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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]].
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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.
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13	He comes and goes.
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17	'''This troper provides examples of:'''
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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
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102	[[folder:FavoriteTrope]]
103	* CuteBruiser
104	* EvillyAffable
105	* InTheMouthOfMadness
106	* SouthernFriedGenius
107	* TestosteronePoisoning
108	[[/folder]]
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112	[[folder:LARP]]
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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.
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116	'''Kaius Felgor provides examples of:'''
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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.
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136	[[/folder]]
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140	Launched:
141	* LudicrousPrecision
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144	Wrote:
145	* ''DarthWiki/HouseOfCards''
146	* ''Booth'' (working title)
147	* ''Lotan''
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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]]
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177	[[folder:Lotan]]
178	A retelling of ''{{Bluebeard}}'', told in the style of HPLovecraft. [[RunningGag The title will most definitely not be ''Bluebeard Cthulhu'']].
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180	Unmarked spoilers follow, or else most of the tropes would be whited out.
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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]]
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203	He is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiSloth WikiSloth]].
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205	<<\|TheContributors\|>>

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