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It is one of our largest causes of misuse and the one that's most likely to stay clean after the fact. This currently has a lot of that misuse. Maybe we should make Sandbox.Broodmother (Since it's not always monsters. Sometimes it's friendly sapient races.) and move the misuse there as a start to a YKTTW.
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
On the subject of alternative names: How about Monster Of A Myriad Monsters, to balance the magnitude with Added Alliterative Appeal? "Myriad" is ten thousand, BTW.
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Then where does this leave this trope?
edited 13th Feb '12 12:11:00 PM by MarqFJA
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A subtrope of that. Hopefully with less misuse.
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About what, though? Just "creature gives birth to different creatures/monsters that are (almost always) unique and not the same 'species' as their parent"?
BTW, where does Explosive Breeder fit in all of this?
edited 13th Feb '12 12:31:18 PM by MarqFJA
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If this is limited to when offspring are a different species, does that make it too narrow to really have many examples?
Anyway, Broodmother or Queen Bee (a female that is the mother of most of a species or population) should be a trope, but it's separate from this one.
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Explosive Breeder is any race that reproduces quickly. Not one individual being the only one giving birth to hordes.
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So, to be clear: Broodmother will be a creature that births legions of one kind of monster, while Mother of a Thousand Young (whatever we rename it to, obviously) is a creature that births many different types of monsters. They can occasionally overlap with Monster Progenitor or Monster Lord.
And in regards to , I would call them sister tropes more than super- and subtrope, myself. Maybe we need a supertrope for creatures who's primary purpose is for breeding. Or would that just confuse the hell out of everyone?
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We might be missing a trope for "a character, monster or not, that (nigh-continuously) gives birth to legions of offspring, much more than is normal for her species".
edited 14th Feb '12 1:41:21 AM by MarqFJA
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Ya know Shimaspawn have this thing called YKTTW, so that's an easy fix.
Just YKTTW a trope for "Monster Broodmother" or something
edited 8th Feb '12 6:06:02 PM by Ghilz