General Page Quote Discussion:

Seconding the use of the Sonic Colors quote.

edited 7th Apr '17 11:23:04 AM by Karxrida

The source text on Asshole Victim says, no quote should be added to the main page. Why would that be? We could just decide on one here and add a comment for reference.

I wanted to suggest:

Fast Eddie diddit. (I can't be sure, but there was apparently some edit warring and vandalism on Asshole Victim at the time, so I suspect frustration was a factor, coupled with the prior quote not being deemed all that good.)

Obviously, this was prior to this thread.

Film.Harry Potter and Literature.Harry Potter, alongside the film and book pages for Sorcerer's Stone, all use the same quote. It works fine for the Stone pages, but despite how famous it is, "Yer a wizard, Harry" doesn't really give much insight into the series.

For the film page, I'd like to suggest this quote which accompanied a special award the AFI gave the series:

For the books, the quote Rowling used for the gravestones of the protagonist's parents match the books' main theme of accepting mortality pretty well, so I'd recommend the following.

^^ I see. So anybody not cool with me adding the suggestion quote?

I absolutely refuse to allow it, and you should be ashamed for even suggesting it.

(I already did it)

And I Must Scream is another case of "page quote is the same as the page image". I'm partial to replacing it with the Dragon Age: Origins quote from the Quotes page.

I think that does a really good job for the trope, as good a quote as the image on the page is a good image.

The page quote for Mad Libs Dialogue does not demonstrate the trope at all. No ideas for a replacement.

edited 12th Apr '17 7:46:39 PM by Berrenta

I think it works tbh.

The page quote on Doomed Hometown was changed without an edit reason on March 6th. I think it's mildly more negative, but I'm more bothered by the procedural issue - am I correct in recalling that it wasn't discussed at all here?

Well it was March 6th of last year, for whatever that's worth.

I don't think it's negative, but I do think that it's not really that trope, unless the POV child goes on the have an adventure. If it's a docu-fiction about the eruption and the destruction of the city it's not an example. Here's the relevant quote from the page:

"The key aspect of this trope is not that the town is destroyed, but that the destruction of (or banishment from) the hero's old home becomes an impetus to the later adventures. "

I feel like the current quote for The Bad Guy Wins is approaching the idea of evil's victory from a philosophical standpoint, saying that evil will always prevail over good no matter what good does or not, instead of the idea of a villain defeating the heroes.

I would like to suggest this quote from Beast Wars, the end of Season 2 when Megatron kills Optimus Prime, causing time to start to be rewritten.

"Say goodbye to the universe, Maximals. The future has changed, yes. The Autobots lose, evil triumphs! And you, you no longer exist!"

Which of the quotes on Creator.Samuel L Jackson should go to his quotes page?

The page quote on Obliviously Evil sounds much more like Well-Intentioned Extremist, as it goes on at length about "doing it for your own good". But Obliviously Evil doesn't even realize that they're doing any harm.

I would suggest this quote from Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead:

Styrka: "Xenocide is xenocide. Just because Ender didn't know they were ramen ^note  Raman were defined as strangers recognized as "human", but of another sentient species entirely doesn't make them any less dead."

edited 18th Apr '17 10:58:50 AM by Madrugada

Although it would be infinitely funnier to spell ramen with an "e" (yay, instant noodles ), I'm not sure that's the correct spelling.

edited 18th Apr '17 11:10:15 AM by TotemicHero

Never read the books so I don't know. That's a copy paste from a page of discussion questions, apparently for a lit-crit class of some sort. I'll defer to you that it's supposed to be "raman".

edited 18th Apr '17 11:16:28 AM by Madrugada

Actually, nope, I just looked at my copy of one of the books - it really is spelled with an e.

Orson Scott Card's ideal morality is for us to all emulate instant noodles.

@dsneybuf: I like the longer one better for the main page. For the line about him showing up on the nanny-cam to berate the babysitter.

edited 18th Apr '17 11:19:47 AM by Madrugada

Would this work for a page quote for Safety Gear Is Cowardly?

The quote for Paul McCartney Really Is Dead is way too long; should we cut it to the last line?

That sounds good.

The quote for After the End doesn't really make any sense, and it requires a bunch of potholes for even that much. The quotes tab has quite a few to choose from, but I think this is the most succinct:

EDIT: Dammit, now I can't decide. There are a million good quotes. Like:

Or:

edited 21st Apr '17 4:36:00 PM by Discar

Fallout 3 one seems like the best. You can't get much more direct for After the End than "the apocalypse was the prologue".

The Fallout quote.

to making the Paul Mc Carney quote the last line.

RE: Safety Gear Is Cowardly: Cut the last sentence, and I think it's good. The swearing is just gratuitous given the rest of the quote works just as well without it.

edited 21st Apr '17 8:59:54 PM by WaterBlap