No, the other one.
Heart Symbol seems like a supertrope to both Cardiovascular Love and Hearts Are Health, as well as to Say It with Hearts. The description is a bit vague as to if it actually includes anything more than just the heart being drawn in that particular symbol, but all three of the subtropes relies on that symbology.
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The various Castlevania games use hearts as ammunition, mana pickups, and/or money.
There's also the Wicked Heart Symbol.
We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
Okay, I cleaned up Heart Symbol, mainly by moving all of its Cardiovascular Love examples to that. Now I just gotta wick check, so anyone making entries by that, isn't misguided.
Nevermind... No time...
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Actually... Is Heart Symbol actually a trope?
... Mods, can I get a rename to "On Heart Symbol" or something, to generalize this thread?
I just turned Heart Symbol into an index of tropes that involve the symbol, and I'm not seeing any connection between the examples on the page.
It's effectively the TLP, Heart Motifs
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- AKB0048: Every member of the AKB0048 has a heart shaped shine in their hair and in their eyes as well. This feature in particular seems to be a manifestation of the potential of a girl to be a future Successor, as it shows up the young Lancastar girls after they witness their first concert. It happens again to another set of young girls after they see their first 00 performance as well.
- Former members have diamonds instead. Justified by the fact that there are Loads And Loadsof Characters, makes it easier for people to just identify who is in and who isn't.
- In Conor Kostic's novel Saga: Ghost's symbol is a ♥, and is always represented that way. Why is it that symbol? We don't know. As she says in Saga when painting aircars:
I settled for a pale blue sky with fluffy white clouds as my background, and then filled it with floating red ♥s. Not much of a statement, I know, unless you think about how there are millions of aircars out there, and they are all a standard simple monochrome. To introduce playfulness and individuality is in itself a kind of subversion. Well, that’s if my choice needed any justification.
- Naturally, the ♥ became the band logo of Seattle-based rock group Heart, at least in their original Seventies incarnation as soft-rock country/folk band fronted by hippie chicks. The ♥ became synonymous with sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, who fronted the group and wrote most of its material. The symbol was downgraded a little after their make-over as 1980's big-haired rock chicks performing stadium rock.
- Hello! Project loves to use these in song titles... Koisuru♡Angel♡Heart, ♡Momoiro Kataomoi♡, Icha♡Icha Summer, Honki Mekimeki♡Toki Mekimeki, Hare Ame Nochi Suki♡, Zettai Tokeru Mondai X = ♡, Renai♥Rider, Ona no Ko no Torishirabe Time♥...
- Then there's the group Odoru♡11.
- The Harts, such as Bret or Owen, typically have a heart symbol with a winged skull in the middle of it.
- Luchador ATM has two heart symbol eye holes cut into his mask.
- Just to emphasize how much of a Girly Girl she had become in Fighting Opera HUSTLE, Erica had these symbols painted on her cheeks.
- Sassy Stephie has gear with the letter S twice on her chest. One is backwards so it forms a heart.
- Shazza McKenzie has a one piece with heart symbols cut into it, bearing the sides of her midriff.
- "La Chica de la Actitud" Roxxy has her name sewn into her ring gear with the "O" being in this shape.
- Kingdom Hearts. Hearts are everywhere. They pop up in symbolism, menu icons, and whenever you kill most enemies. Hell, the freaking MOON is heart-shaped!
- Panel de Pon: Heart-shaped panels are a staple.
But, there are examples that are just mentions of the symbol, and don't have any narrative significance?
- Kingdom of Loathing: It has a "Less-than-three-shaped box", which is aptly named. It is shaped like a heart, and can hold up to 2 items.
- In Ava's Demon, once Ava agrees to the pact, we get a heart split in half, with two colors, one side shattered.
- Whateley Universe: There's "an adorable little blonde kid in curls" whose codename is Less Than Three, but if it's intended to be this symbol or not, is unknown, and we don't know why she picked that codename either, presuming that she didn't have it assigned involuntarily.
Then there's the Castlevania thing, which is like Hearts Are Health, but isn't that trope.
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So aside from Heart Motifs, Say It with Hearts, Hearts Are Health and Cardiovascular Love (and Wicked Heart Symbol), what other uses does Heart Symbol have?
We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
No, the other one.
Heart Symbol is a trope, since it's a simple symbol that represents something more complex, and which has a meaning that depends on context but follows a general theme, including everything that the actual organ represents.
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Are there any uses for Heart Symbols that aren't Life or Love?
I'm thinking that all of its examples could be folded into Cardiovascular Love or Hearts Are Health, but I want to check my assumptions first.
Self-Note: The Mermaid Melody thing seems Love-ish, because the Heart Symbols are shown from an attack called '''Love''' Shower Pitch
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