Doesn't show the trope: Big Fancy Castle

Someone just threw up an image on Big Fancy Castle that doesn't show the trope at all. It's just some loading screen and a big does of Fan Myopia.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Oh holy crap that is bad.... Pull asap...

Now replacement it has to be Cinderella's Castle at Disneyland or world.

edited 24th Oct '11 3:44:00 PM by Raso

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!

Seconding pull.

That said, I love the Disney castle - almost everybody recognizes it; what more can we ask for?

Yeah, unwritten rule number one: follow all the unwritten procedures. - Camacan

Wha... huh...?

I don't understand how the current page image even slightly fits the trope. The Disney castle looks good.

Pulled.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Unfortunately for Cinderella's Castle, the trope is "This isn't just a large castle. This thing is absolutely ENORMOUS".

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

I've been to Cinderella's castle. It's really pretty small as far as castles go.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Then the name invites misuse. Should we take it up on TRS?

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

The name doesn't invite misuse. There is none on the page. Big means big. The fact that people are suggesting small things for a trope with big in the name is just weird.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

1. Misuse is also for wicks, not just the page. 2. 37 wicks and 6 inbounds is just plain bad.

I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.

This one seems to go off into the background◊.

Fight smart, not fair.

That one's good.

Considering it started with 11, it's actually been growing at a good pace. It's not a very old page.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Drawing of Versailles◊?

Aerial photo of just the palace at Versailles◊, (not the whole grounds)?

Aerial photo of the whole thing?

photo, showing the castle and a tiny part of the formal gardens◊?

edited 24th Oct '11 8:45:35 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

I thougt of Versailles myself yesterday, but... Would that count as a castle?

"We are not a stuffy encyclopedic wiki. We're a buttload more informal".

It's certainly a palace. I don't know that we need or want to limit this to the stereotypical towers-and-turrets European "castle".

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Versailles is a palace, not a castle.

I like Deboss's suggestion.

So you are suggesting that this trope be strictly limited to stereotypical, turrets-and-towers fairytale style "castles"? Then there are a lot of bad examples to clear out.

edited 25th Oct '11 7:04:09 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Yes, because that's what the word "castle" means. A big mansion with gardens around, a la James Bond Villain, is not a castle. A secret volcanic lair (The Incredibles) is not a castle. The palace of Versailles is not a castle either.

That's a bit of a rash decision. It necessitates creating Big Fancy Palaces and Big Fancy Lairs.

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Here's what Webster has to say on the matter

Even if we limit it to definition 1a, that's still far broader than turret-and-tower style.

Yeah, unwritten rule number one: follow all the unwritten procedures. - Camacan

^^ This. If we strictly limit it to one style of architecture, we need other tropes for all the other styles.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

And almost all the time they serve exactly the same function, plot-wise. There's no need to differentiate unless you're a particularly zealous architecture major.

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Wait... Should big fancy castle be different from lair and palace?

I mean those are some pretty big differences.

Please.

Castle and Palace, I say no because fiction tends to use the two terms interchangeably even when they aren't.

Lair I can see being it's own thing if it's not actually a castle or a palace. A moon base or a volcano lair doesn't really fit this trope.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

I agree with this. Castle and Palace are technically different, but most works of fiction use them interchangeably to refer to any sort of "elaborate place where royalty lives" setup.

But yeah, stuff like evil lairs should be split off; this trope is more targeted towards medieval fairy tail type castles and palaces.

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