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TRS discussion on Woobie isn't finished yet, is it?
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You have got to be kidding me. The Woobie is enough of a gargantuan mess as it is without making something like this.
I honestly want to say 'cut this'.
edited 28th Jul '12 11:51:17 AM by nrjxll
I'm not really sure it's all that different from Crapsack World "but I feel sorry for everyone"! Hm.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Yeah, this seems quite redundant.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
No, the other one.
A Crapsack World filled with sympathetic characters. This would be a separate trope if Crapsack World directly implied crapsack characters.
However, I could also see it as a subtrope of Crapsack World, but then we'd need to move all examples of World Of Woobie from Crapsack World to World Of Woobie, as duplicate examples would be extraneous. Considering the size of Crapsack World, it may be an idea to split off subtropes from it. It should probably also fall under White-and-Grey Morality or White And Black Morality. If there's no significant white side, it's not the right trope.
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I agree with all. Crapsack World needs to be splited.
As for this one, I have to ask: is it really an arguable trope ? I highly doubt about this one.
I disagree - as things stand, Crapsack World is not limited solely to cases where all the characters are unlikeable, and since there's already tropes for that I see no reason to split this.
As for this, I say cut it. We do not need more Woobie tropes, especially ones that are as dubious as this.
Crowner's hooked.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerCrowner's called.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
I assume that we now delete the wicks (or move them to more appropriate tropes ad hoc) and cutlist this?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanSure. We'll redirect it to Crapsack World.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
Hacked away the wicks, except for the subjective indexes and the locked YMMV.Wreck It Ralph.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanDid the locked one and the redirect. Locking up.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
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Problems with this article:
- High ratio of Zero Context Examples (I pulled the worst to discussion).
- Wicks (102) and inbounds (48) are really meh for an article that's been around for two years.
- Nebulous definition. It appears to be Dysfunction Junction + Crapsack World + Woobies. The difference with Crapsack World seems slim at best.
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