Simple, Oni
I'm in support of a rewrite. Maybe include something about a form of 'evil' being overshadowed rather than eaten by something eviler and the eviler creature being overshadowed by something even eviler than that and etc.
Maybe an example along the lines of: Bob doing something slightly 'evil' like robbing and gets robbed and killed by Cathy, who in turn gets robbed, killed and stuffed into her parent's fridge by Dean.
Until death do we part
Smooth as a Skunk
That seems like it's edging into Always a Bigger Fish and/or Asshole Victim rather than the trope at hand, though.
The comics equivalent of PTSD.
Smooth as a Skunk
Okay, well, since I don't like to make big changes without doublechecking three times, let me go ahead and post what I've come up with for a rewrite. Instead of that first paragraph that implies it's about vampires...
But when you think about it, eating people is kind of old-hat. After a while, you begin to lose track of all the different types of monsters that eat humans. It just becomes a fact of life, so by the time you run into that guy who wants to devour your flesh to add to his own power, you just sort of yawn because it's exactly the same as everything you've seen anywhere ever.
So how do you make something distinctive, then? Well, if monsters that eat humans are no longer a threat... what about monsters that eat other monsters? To establish a Food Chain of Evil, all you have to do is make the last threat the preferred prey of the next one.
(Keep the rest of the article with only maybe a slight rewording of the next paragraph.)
If that's good, I'll go ahead and make the edit. Just waiting for confirmation or denial.
edited 13th May '11 5:06:48 PM by Ezekiel
The comics equivalent of PTSD.
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I like it.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Trope description could probably use a note on how this trope can be good news for us or very, very bad news, depending on whether the predator's predator eats the good guys as well.
Jupiterian Local
I got really confused by reading the article, thinking it was great, then reading this thread and realizing that it was great because it'd already been fixed. Given that action has already been taken, this thread needs a lock.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
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Indeed. Nice clean-up. Locking.
edited 23rd May '11 10:21:20 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
The trope description reads like it was written specifically about vampires, and then halfheartedly altered to include other monsters. Am I the only one who gets this impression? I'm also looking at the examples and not sure how to call it... the examples as a whole seem to be relatively balanced, but not all sections appear to be. The biggest thing that makes me question it, though, is that even though it says anything that eats monsters that eat humans should count, it's indexed as a vampire trope. Is this a thing that needs correcting?
The comics equivalent of PTSD.