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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

brb1006 Since: Aug, 2012
#3076: Nov 1st 2016 at 3:57:15 PM

More examples for the Sweet Seal page

(Western Animation)

  • Swedish stop-motion series Pingu gives use Robby The Seal. Who is Pingu's best friend. Robby first meet Pingu when he decided to go ice fishing when Robby decided to play tricks on him and steal some his fish. After Pingu gets annoyed with Robby's tricks he decides to chase him back into thin ice. Robby attempts to escape by trying to slip through the crack but when Pingu yells at him it causes him to lost his grip and sprain his flipper causing him to cry after he injured his hand. Pingu comforts him and gives him some food but returning home.

(Literature)

  • Robby The Seal from German children's book series The Little Polar Bear. The protagonist named Lars first befriends him after exploring the arctic by himself but later stumbles upon a young seal. Robby and Lars decide to play together and even head back to Lars home where he asks his father if he could go play with his new friends which Robby later chimes one. However after Lars learns that he can't become friends with Robby he decides to walk back to him and tell him that he can't be friends. Robby is already aware of the situation and can be seen crying quietly by himself. Eventually Lar's father and the other seals come to terms and agree that Lars and Robby are now best friends.

edited 1st Nov '16 3:58:16 PM by brb1006

"A Lady does not start fights but they can finish them"
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3077: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:36:45 AM

[up] [up] Tomodachi's post on page 123

However, I need to remember what was the forum for tropes i'm not sure about. This one is for engish, yeah, what is the one for tropes and the like?

English. :)

And now, for our feature presentation.

  • have a friend to hang out -> have a friend to hang out with
  • youtube -> YouTube
  • Jacob and Marnaeo becomes -> Jacob and Marnaeo become (How to Write an Example - Write in Present Tense).
  • except Hell want his son back. -> except Lucifer wants his son back.
  • Poor devil had it rough. -> Poor devil has it rough. (How to Write an Example - Write in Present Tense).
  • He was fully glad to know -> He was glad to know
  • kid with similar taste to him -> kid with similar tastes to him
  • So do other demons, bringing him trouble. -> So do other demons, causing him trouble.
  • Some of the demons designs -> Some of the demons' designs
  • Sea Snail Studios other work -> Sea Snail Studio's other work
  • similar to Tezuka famous star system -> similar to Tezuka's famous star system.
  • Lucifer then ask if -> Lucifer then asks if

edited 2nd Nov '16 3:38:24 AM by Arivne

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3078: Nov 2nd 2016 at 3:54:02 AM

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  • Swedish stop-motion series Pingu gives use -> The Swedish stop-motion series Pingu gives us
  • Robby The Seal. Who is Pingu's best friend. -> Robby The Seal, who is Pingu's best friend.
  • Robby first meet Pingu -> Robby first meets Pingu
  • ice fishing when Robby steal some his fish. -> ice fishing and Robby
  • when Robby decided -> when Robby decides
  • steal some his fish -> steal some of his fish.
  • chase him back into thin ice. -> chase him back onto thin ice.
  • After Pingu gets annoyed with Robby's tricks he -> After Pingu gets annoyed with Robby's tricks, he
  • through the crack but when Pingu -> through the crack. When Pingu
  • lost his grip -> lose his grip
  • sprain his flipper causing -> sprain his flipper, causing
  • he injured his hand -> he injures his hand (How to Write an Example - Write in Present Tense).
  • some food but returning home. -> some food before returning home.

  • from German children's book series -> from the German children's book series
  • exploring the arctic by himself -> exploring the Arctic by himself
  • head back to Lars home -> head back to Lars' home
  • asks his father if he could go -> asks his father if he can go (How to Write an Example - Write in Present Tense).
  • which Robby later chimes one. -> I have no idea what this means so I deleted it.
  • However after Lars -> However, after Lars
  • become friends with Robby he -> become friends with Robby, he
  • that he can't be friends -> that they can't be friends
  • Eventually Lar's father -> Eventually Lars' father

Added.

edited 2nd Nov '16 4:13:33 AM by Arivne

Tomodachi Now a lurker. See you at the forums. Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Now a lurker. See you at the forums.
#3079: Nov 2nd 2016 at 10:53:25 AM

[up][up] Thanks my dear, I was looking for those forums. I'll check them out later. smile

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
mkmlp Since: Oct, 2015
#3080: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:02:35 PM

Excuse me, but I received a message about an edit I made on Fan Fics, saying it had problems with proper English grammar, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. I looked over the entry I made, (Harmony Theory to be precise) but could not find any obvious problems with anything, except maybe a few too many commas. If it would not be so much trouble, can someone look over it for me and inform me of any corrections I have to make?

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#3081: Nov 2nd 2016 at 1:48:20 PM

I want to add, to Reaper's folder in Overwatch - Junkenstein's Revenge:

  • Evil Former Friend: As in canon, this incarnation of Reaper was a friend of The Alchemist and The Soldier, with the Narrator saying the Alchemist felt "a moment of sadness for the man she had once known" if she's the one to kill him.

edited 2nd Nov '16 2:00:53 PM by cricri3007

brb1006 Since: Aug, 2012
#3082: Nov 2nd 2016 at 7:29:02 PM

For the Sweet Seal Page

(Film - Animated)

  • The Direct To Video Animated Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet story brings use "Romeo And Juliet: "A Seal Of A Kiss" which is basically a retelling of the story but most of the main cast (Except for a sea otter, a guppy and various sea creatures) are seals (specially sea lions and elephant seals). And Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as adorable young sea lions.

  • The sequel to Happy Feet has the adorable elephant seal pup brothers Shane and Darren the sons of The Beachmaster.

(Film - Live Action)

  • The 1994 film "Andre" focuses on a girl who befriends a marine sea lion named Andre. The film is based on a true story of a similar encounter from 1962.

  • "Nims Island" has a sea lion who serves as a pet and companion to a young girl who lives on a island with her father. When her father leaves the island for a while it's up to the girl and the sea lion to protect the island from any trespassers.

For the Monstrous Seal Page

(Film - Animated)

  • The Direct To Video Animated Adaptation and retelling of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet called "Romeo and Juliet: A Seal Of A Kiss" has a male elephant seal that wants to marry Juliet a young female sea lion. While he is mostly goofy when it comes to flirting with Juliet. He does get pretty dangerous and scary when any other seal attempts to upset or anger him.

edited 2nd Nov '16 7:29:19 PM by brb1006

"A Lady does not start fights but they can finish them"
lexicon Since: May, 2012
#3083: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:05:12 PM

mkmlp, Big Bad Ensemble is a Zero Context Example. Fill out the context and your English can be corrected. You probably do have too many commas in Out Of Charater Is Serious Business. Debate should be debates. "while they have him dead to rights" doesn't make any sense. "you know this is serious" sounds like the beginning of a sentence even though the last sentence didn't end. What happens while the group debates? "he with" looks like it should be "he is with."

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3084: Nov 3rd 2016 at 3:58:16 AM

[up][up][up][up]

  • In the MLP story Harmony Theory, Some readers are starting to fill this way, do to very little being revealed about the central mystery, despite being on chapter thirty-four and over five hundred thousand words in with no end in sight and the villains-especially Max Cash-managing to turn around any victory the heroes do have, and coming out on top, anyway. No matter how hard the heroes have fought, it can occasionally feel like they have very little progress, while the villains seem to continuously gain progress with their mysterious plans, only slightly inconvenienced. The fact that it takes place in a Bad Future where a pony can get cutie mark/talent glyph in killing, Celestia and Luna are both trapped in their respected celestial bodies, their is rouge War Godess running around, planning to turn the world to ash, and the two countries that used to be Equestria are on the brink of war and even with the world at stake, many of them stubbornly refuse to work together, just might have something to do with that.

And away we go:

  • Harmony Theory -> Harmony Theory
  • Some readers are starting to fill this way -> some readers are starting to feel this way
  • do to very little -> due to very little
  • villains-especially Max Cash-managing -> villains - especially Max Cash - managing
  • they have very little progress -> they have made very little progress
  • only slightly inconvenienced. -> being only slightly inconvenienced.
  • where a pony can get cutie mark/talent glyph -> where a pony can get a cutie mark/talent glyph
  • their is rouge War Godess -> there is a rogue War Goddess
  • running around, planning to turn -> running around planning to turn
  • and the two countries that used to be Equestria -> the two countries that used to be Equestria
  • many of them -> many other countries

edited 3rd Nov '16 4:05:01 AM by Arivne

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3085: Nov 3rd 2016 at 4:09:57 AM

[up][up][up][up]

Reaper's folder in Overwatch Junkensteins Revenge:

  • Evil Former Friend: As in canon, this incarnation of Reaper was a friend of The Alchemist and The Soldier, with the Narrator saying the Alchemist felt "a moment of sadness for the man she had once known" if she's the one to kill him.

What is evil about "this incarnation of Reaper"? That's a required part of the trope.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3086: Nov 3rd 2016 at 4:38:01 AM

[up][up][up][up]

See above for all of the "Romeo and Juliet" changes.

  • wants to marry Juliet a young female sea lion -> wants to marry Juliet, a young female sea lion
  • when it comes to flirting with Juliet. He -> when it comes to flirting with Juliet, he

Added.

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#3087: Nov 3rd 2016 at 10:07:47 AM

@Arvine

  • Evil Former Friend: As in canon, this incarnation of Reaper was a friend of The Alchemist and The Soldier who became evil (although this one's Fallen Hero status is due to the Wtch binding him to her services), with the Narrator saying the Alchemist felt "a moment of sadness for the man she had once known" if she's the one to kill him.

edited 3rd Nov '16 10:35:37 AM by cricri3007

igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#3088: Nov 3rd 2016 at 12:36:07 PM

Given they still don't respond to me in the "Edit banned/Suspended" topic and I thought of this watching Doctor Strange (2016) (the last link might not be the right trope, but I just wanted :

Related to that trope, a correction to {{And I Must Scream / Film }}:

  • Aladdin shows that a genie's existence until his lamp is rubbed is depressingly restrictive and empty. They are near omnipotent, but until summoned are confined in that small object with nothing to do - as Genie summed up: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS - ittybittylivingspace". And before Aladdin released him, Genie had to wait for ten thousand years! No wonder he awakened with a cricked neck. Jafar was bound to the same tragic fate when he requested to become a genie himself, becoming sealed in his own lamp, which Genie then tossed away. However, Jafar dragged Iago along while being sucked by the lamp, and sequel Aladdin The Return Of Jafar shows the lamp only resurfaced because the parrot managed to get through its nozzle and then dig through tons of sand. Iago even notes "If it weren't for me you'd be stuck down there forever!"

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#3089: Nov 4th 2016 at 1:39:56 AM

Also, on YMMV/Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:, adding to Broken Base:

  • The episode about School Segregation: Is John taking it too far? Should he have mentioned some black/minorities group that perpetuate crab mentality? Also, while many agreed that the kid cosplaying as Martin Luther King pulling a Blackface was wrong, many argue that since he didn't have any malicious intent and wanted to portray a black man, he is in the right to disguise like that and not darkening his face is what would have been racist.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3091: Nov 4th 2016 at 2:39:12 AM

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  • accepts to withdraw from Earth. -> agrees to withdraw from Earth.

  • a genie's existence until his lamp is rubbed is depressingly restrictive and empty. -> until his lamp is rubbed, a genie's existence is depressingly restrictive and empty.
  • and sequel -> and the sequel

With these changes, added.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3092: Nov 4th 2016 at 2:57:23 AM

[up][up][up]

  • The episode about School Segregation: Is John taking it too far? Should he have mentioned some black/minorities group that perpetuate crab mentality? Also, while many agreed that the kid cosplaying as Martin Luther King pulling a Blackface was wrong, many argue that since he didn't have any malicious intent and wanted to portray a black man, he is in the right to disguise like that and not darkening his face is what would have been racist.

  • School Segregation -> school segregation
  • black/minorities -> black/minority
  • group that perpetuate -> group that perpetuates
  • pulling a Blackface -> while wearing blackface
  • disguise like that -> disguise himself like that

With the above changes, added.

edited 4th Nov '16 2:59:21 AM by Arivne

cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#3093: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:21:27 AM

  • The episode about school segregation: Is John taking it too far? Should he have mentioned some black/minority group that perpetuates crab mentality? Also, while many agreed that the kid cosplaying as Martin Luther King while wearing blackface was wrong, many argue that since he didn't have any malicious intent and wanted to portray a black man, he is in the right to disguise himself like that and not darkening his face is what would have been racist.

edited 4th Nov '16 3:50:29 AM by cricri3007

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Lost in Space
#3094: Nov 4th 2016 at 6:14:24 AM

I challenge that example on the grounds that people disagreeing over a segment doesn't make it a Broken Base.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
cricri3007 Since: Jul, 2014
#3095: Nov 4th 2016 at 8:01:35 AM

[up] But the orthograph and grammar are okay, right?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#3096: Nov 4th 2016 at 12:02:53 PM

"Orthography". It's reasonable, but your word choice and/or spelling needs work.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#3097: Nov 4th 2016 at 5:24:58 PM

Continuing with Doctor Strange, two cases that include both the movie and the Funny page (where I would also correct the redlink on the former's leadnote , and in latter that "a pamphlet on other dimensions" is The Doors of Perception - the worst part of being suspended is not being able to do these small edits):

  • Not What It Looks Like: Strange has problems explaining to Christine that he didn't join a cult - even if he went to the Far East, and followed the instructions of someone named "Ancient One" to "tap into powers I never even knew existed".
Funny
  • When Strange reunites with Christine, he has problems with making her understand what the Masters are:
    Strange: "I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I talked to someone called the Ancient One and..."
    Christine: "Oh, so you joined a cult?"
    Strange: "No I didn't, no, well not exactly. They did teach me to tap into powers I never even knew existed."
    Christine: "Yeah that sounds like a cult"
    Strange: "It's not a cult"
    Christine: "Well, that's what a cultist would say."

  • Bond One-Liner: “You should really read the warnings because the warnings come after the spells.” (Wong manages to laugh at this)
  • Don't Try This at Home: Strange notes that the Book of Cogliostro needs one of those warnings before the Dangerous Forbidden Technique. And invokes it in his Bond One-Liner.
Funny
  • Once Wong and Mordo stop Strange's experimenting with time magic and explain all the risks it offers: "...They really should put the warnings before this stuff."

And Funny entries without related main page entries:

  • Christine says she has a rule against dating co-workers, the "Strange Rule". Stephen is flattered to see him name something, even if it's not a surgical technique he developed. Christine reminds him of her contributions to that, so he tries to concede.
    Strange: OK, "Stranger-Palmer Technique!"
    Christine: "Palmer-Strange Technique"!
  • After Strange's first out-of-body experience:
    Strange: What was in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?
    Ancient One: Just tea. With honey.
  • "How is your Sanskrit?" “I’m fluent in Google Translate.”
  • Upon meeting Wong, Strange reacts with “Just Wong? Like Adele? Or…Aristotle? Bono? Eminem?”. By the next time they meet, he calls him Beyoncé. ("You don't know who that is? Come on, she's pretty famous.") And the payoff to the latter? Wong listening to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"!

igordebraga from Brazil Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#3098: Nov 5th 2016 at 7:06:01 AM

Another, for Precision F-Strike/Music:

  • Ella Eyre's "Comeback", an acerbic Break-Up Song with 2 F-bombs in the chorus (the original version leads to 7 F-bombs overall; live it can border on Cluster F-Bomb given "let the motherfucker burn" is a great Audience Participation request):
    We've all been played, we all get hurt
    Just take that pain and let that motherfucker burn
    And you know that in time you will find
    That they always come back, yeah they always come back
    They're all the same, they never learn
    So dig their grave, and let that motherfucker burn
    And you know that in time you will find
    That they always come back, yeah they always come back

And in that same page, the Metallica example could add this before the final sub-item:

  • "Hardwired" has one in the chorus, right before the Album Title Drop: "We're so fucked! Shit out of luck! Hardwired to self destruct!"

edited 5th Nov '16 7:06:11 AM by igordebraga

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3099: Nov 6th 2016 at 8:24:40 AM

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  • he has problems with making her understand -> he has problems making her understand

  • (Wong manages to laugh at this) -> (Wong manages to laugh at this). <- period at the end of a sentence

  • Wong manages to laugh at this -> This is a Chained Sinkhole (Sinkhole - Chained Sinkhole). Deleted the Not So Stoic Pot Hole.
  • Cogliostro -> Cagliostro

  • Stephen is flattered to see him name something -> Stephen is flattered to have something named after him

With the above changes, added.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#3100: Nov 6th 2016 at 8:44:09 AM

[up][up]

With the exception of the two You Tube links, added.

edited 6th Nov '16 8:45:43 AM by Arivne


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