SeanMurrayI
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#2: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:04:55 AM
At best, maybe this could be something to mention on The Joy of X, but this is a pretty broad title convention to trope—even limiting it to a single genre doesn't really help much.
Also, when I first read the title, I thought this was about a certain Stock Shout Out to Apocalypse Now.
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#3: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:37:58 AM
Sounds almost like a case of Search Generated Index.
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#4: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:56:18 AM
Definitely a case of people sitting on chairs.
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#5: Apr 5th 2011 at 5:31:01 PM
Since nobody seems to be defending this as a trope, I put it on the Cut List.
silver2195
Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Apr 5th 2011 at 5:37:41 PM
Also, when I first read the title, I thought this was about a certain Stock Shout Out to Apocalypse Now.
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#7: Apr 5th 2011 at 8:57:19 PM
Sounds almost like a case of Search Generated Index.
Good luck using google to search for two-word titles of the form "The <noun>".
I didn't write any of that.
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Since: Jan, 2011
#8: Apr 6th 2011 at 9:22:57 AM
It may be worth keeping, but the article does a horrible job of justifying itself.
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Prfnoff
Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Apr 9th 2011 at 10:49:59 PM
The trope has been cut and locked. This thread can be locked now.
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Title tropes tend to be loosely defined grab-bags, but The Horror seems to have less reason than most. The first sentence says that it's a trope about horror film titles of the form "The [Noun]," but a few confusing Alice and Bob paragraphs later, it says it could also be "sometimes adjectives, or a verb ending in -ing" instead of a noun. And some of the examples listed aren't actually horror films.