Tropers / The Woman With No Name

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I prefer others not know my real name, so my troper name plays on Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name character. (Though I'm actually more like Sanjūrō in Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo - which "inspired" AKA: was totally ripped off by A Fistful of Dollars.)

Some Tropes That Describe Me

• Knight in Sour Armor – me in a nutshell.
• The Smart Guy combined with One of the Boys is my main characterization, though.
  • I also chain-smoke & swear a lot.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism is the second most important internal battle in my life (the first being Good Vs. Evil). I strive to be The Stoic, like Spock, but lapse into The McCoy more often than I’d like (despite knowing better.) You’d think taking a third option and being The Kirk would be the solution, but that often leaves me feeling doubly vexed. I’m either all detached logic or all bleeding-heart emotion – no middle ground; only extremes. (And yes, I am a proud Trekkie.)
• I SO wish Right Makes Might were true.
• Honor Before Reason & Will Not Tell a Lie
  • These get me in trouble, but the guilt I suffer from going against them is even worse.
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Trauma Conga Line
• Broken Bird – but I’m healing more every day.
• Religious Russian Roulette – I’ve spun the barrel from Christian, to Nay-Theist, to Wiccan, to Buddhist, to Agnostic, to Atheist, & now back to Christian.
• Heaven Seeker
• Being Good Sucks & No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
• Nearly all my True Companions have betrayed me, leading to Et Tu, Brute? moments & We Used to Be Friends. The only one I still miss is my Heterosexual Life Partner. But I crossed the burnt bridge to try to mend our friendship & ended up getting broken even worse. Had my fill of False Friends, too. "With friends like these..." I got rid of all of them.
• Started the He Who Fights Monsters process, but realized I was becoming Not So Different from those I opposed & dragged myself away – eventually escaping my Epiphanic Prison. I’m A Lighter Shade of Grey, but I’d like to be better. I’m working on improving myself.
• I've discovered that people who try to remain neutral (in important matters) are really just enabling evil to continue. If you're not part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem. Therefore - you’re either with me or against me.
• Will Not Be a Victim. Don’t underestimate me. Those who mistake my kindness for weakness, don't like the results.
• If you're not an evil asshole, then you need not fear me. Good people will find out I’m not so bad, after all. I'm headed for the saloon, care to join me? Maybe I'll buy you a drink.

Favorite Films

• I LOVE B-Movies of the So Bad, It's Good variety. The Godzilla & Gamera movies are my favorites, but any MST3K-fodder is fair game. I’m fond of the 1950s radioactive monster movies. Special Effect Failure, Good Bad Translation, "Blind Idiot" Translation, It Runs on Nonsensoleum, Voodoo Shark, & not having a plot (or a really stupid plot) are my favorite types of Narm. These types of movies inspire multiple instances of the audience saying, “Wait, WHAT?!” & then laughing hysterically. Often becomes even funnier if you’re very tired or drunk while watching.
  • I consider Zardoz the winner of this category. Let us count the ways:
    1) Sean Connery in such a horrible role that he obviously owed someone a big favor, lost a bet, or was being blackmailed? Check.
    2) Ridiculous outfits & names? Double check.
    3) Their god is a giant, flying, spinning stone head that says things like, “The gun is good. The penis is evil.” It also pukes out loads of guns for population control. Oh, double check.
    4) Crazy dude with a ridiculously awesome swirly mustache drawn on with eye-liner? Damn, you get an asterisk for that one.
    5) Instantaneous aging with bad make-up? Check.
    6) Bunches of old people swarming Zed (Sean Connery), shouting, “KILL ME!” & being elated when he does? Double check.
    • Bonus Points given because I first saw it on late night TV & they cut so much out (almost half the movie), that the already bizarre plot made absolutely NO SENSE, whatsoever.