Needs to be broadened: Crystal Dragon Jesus

I think that Crystal Dragon Jesus should apply to other Fantasy Counterpart Religions, and not just Christianity (so a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of India that worships an ersatz Hindu Pantheon should count as this, for example). Does anyone else agree with me?

I think that a supertrope would be better than expanding. All religions have their own shtick and are the ways that these things are parodies are better shown off on their own if there are enough examples of a specific religion.

So you're thinking we need Crystal Dragon Buddha and Crystal Dragon Muhammed also?

I'm thinking we need Fantastic Parody Religion (or something to that effect) as a supertrope with subtropes split off as they get enough examples and are distinct enough.

edited 14th Jan '12 10:16:27 AM by shimaspawn

I agree with that

Edit: Fixed Article tag

edited 14th Jan '12 10:30:17 AM by Ghilz

Not all of these are parodies.

Fantasy Counterpart Religion then.

That's a good title. Thank you.

Should we check the wicks to see if this trope is being used more broadly than fantasy Christianity?

Can't hurt, gives links that can be changed to the proper supertrope if/when it's made

I don't think I've ever seen this used as referring to anything but Christianity. I'm not saying we shouldn't make the supertrope—quite the opposite—I just doubt there's gonna be need for much cleanup.

Well let's do a wick check just to be sure.

Agree on the supertrope and the name Fantasy Counterpart Religion.

I think it would relevant to mention that this TRS thread on the same trope and with a similar topic was closed without any definitive resolution (and without any explicit note justifying the closure, even). And for the curious, yes, there is extensive misuse happenning.

edited 30th Jan '12 3:05:04 PM by MarqFJA

^ Marq, the fact that the old thread is in the morgue indicates that it was closed sometime since early November of 2011. The last post in it was made in late July of 2011. That means that it was a dead thread for at least 3 months before it was locked and moved. It was locked without action because it didn't go anywhere.

edited 30th Jan '12 4:30:03 PM by Madrugada

Alright, what would it take to reactivate such a thread, or start a new one to address the raised issue(s)?

That would be what this thread is about...

edited 30th Jan '12 5:32:18 PM by Madrugada

The older thread touched on a slightly different issue in addition to the one in this thread, though: The trope being used as a character type (e.g. WH 40 K's God-Emperor of Mankind) instead of "Fantasy countperpart religion with strong visual/thematic similarities to (Roman Catholic) Christianity". I think there was a suggestion for splitting the name from the description into a new trope about said character type, and giving the original description a more indicative name.

edited 30th Jan '12 5:39:37 PM by MarqFJA

Aaaaand I've just stumbled upon a major roadblock: Apparently, Crystal Dragon Jesus is not "Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Christianity". From the article description, near the bottom:

edited 31st Jan '12 4:55:18 AM by MarqFJA

It looks like that according to the wayback machine, that line was added in 2009 when someone made the other trope but they didn't clean up the examples. It sounds like someone just added a confused "not to be confused with" line and no one ever bothered to change it.