[08/26/07 at 01:16 AM]
Fast Eddie: Sweet write-up, Meta4!
Meta4: Thanks. I think there's still more tropes that could go in the examples list.
Wiki Magic, don't fail me now!
fleb: Just a note: I restored most of the deleted listed tropes. I just didn't restore the aversions.
Meta Four: I hope my attempt to give a fair shake to both sides of the ongoing
Ho Yay debate isn't too
Weasel-ish.
Meta Four: Nuked the following. The reasons why are posted
here on the forum
.
- Moral Dissonance: This
strip has Tea the Exposition Girl state the view that swords are a physical representation of "humanity's eternal, savage thirst for destruction". If this is Tom speaking through her, it seems to clash a bit with all the "ZOMG kewl!" fight scenes he draws, most of them involving swords. If it's just Tea being a bit high-horsey, not so much.
Meta Four: Removed the following, because it's entirely unclear what was going on in the incident in question. It's currently impossible to know if this was purely mental or not.
T Beholder: what's unclear by now?
Zimmy herself told this
. Also, they were in and out with other people present and no one noticed anything, save that poor sod who was pulled there alone and without any warning ("
sucks to be you
").
Meta Four: Because
Zimmy has also stated
that when it gets bad enough, it becomes literally real. And they went in and out of Zimmy's dark city without anyone noticing because it was a
Year Inside Hour Outside situation, which could just as easily be evidence of Zim City being
Another Dimension rather than a
Journey To The Center Of The Mind.
T Beholder: She could mean the difference between what can be written off as hallucinations and what is arealistic deep immersion.
Year Inside Hour Outside also may be interpreted in an arbitrary way, up to almost normal fast dream (REM phase) combined with her telepathy. Or maybe there wasn't
Year Inside Hour Outside at all: just no one noticed anything wrong with them three who stood behind and stared just a little longer. It looks like Gamma helps Zimmy, who
apparently has a fit or something
— that's Zimmy, and she already told them to stay away, so who would be a hero enough to go and look closer?
Caswin: There seems to be some disagreement on how "bad" Zimmy is, between the listings of
Love Makes You Evil, being a clear-cut example of
Dark Is Not Evil, and simultaneously a case of
Black Eyes Of Evil (in reference to the black... stuff) and an outright aversion of
Red Eyes Take Warning. As understandable as her situation is, I would personally put her far enough out-there that, at the very least, she isn't an overt example of unexpected "goodness".
Meta Four: I forgot to mention this under edit reasons, but I cut out the sub-bullets under
Ho Yay, and I'll move it over to
HoYay.Webcomics as soon as I edit it down to something that flows better. It was overly conversational, and the kind of excruciatingly in-depth analysis that belongs on the trope page, not here.