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* Basic Trope: Two characters who were lovers in a previous life meet again and fall in love.
* Played Straight: AliceAndBob are StarCrossedLovers who can’t be together due to the war between their countries. They commit double suicide to be TogetherInDeath, but instead they are reborn and reunited in a future lifetime.
* Exaggerated: AliceAndBob are in a group marriage with Lucy, Jack and Ichigo. They fall in love in every one of their reincarnations.
* Justified:
** The Gods decide that AliceAndBob deserve a second chance. They send their souls back to Earth and arrange for them to be reborn close to one another, so they can meet again and fall in love.
** Bob and Susan are reborn with all of their old memories, so they are still in love, actively seeking each other out.
* Inverted: ???
* Subverted: Alice only thinks she was Bob’s lover in her previous life. They were actually siblings.
* Double Subverted:
** Alice and Bob were NotBloodSiblings but they bond over time spent together and end up HappilyMarried.
** Alternately, Alice and Bob actually were brother and sister, but they didn’t care and started a relationship anyway.
* Parodied: A fortune teller tells Bob about his tragic love story in a previous life, but promises him an epic romance in this one with the same person. He is excited to meet his destined lover only to become terribly embarrassed, when it turns out Alice is now an old friend, or now male.
* Deconstructed:
** Alice comes back many years after Bob is reborn. When they finally meet there is a big age difference between them and society is not going to accept the relationship. They end up as StarCrossedLovers again as a result.
** Bob is already married to Stacy when he meets Alice again. Through he does love her back, feelings he had for his wife are still there. It leads to a situation in which Bob is torn between two women he loves. Stacy is angry and confused over her husband suddenly leaving her for an unknown woman and Alice desperately tries to keep Bob at her side. It all ends up in another tragedy.
** Alice and Bob wait for each other but they never meet, as they were born on opposite sides of the world.
* Reconstructed:
** Alice and Bob decide to reject social norms and get married anyway. In the next life they somehow make sure to be reborn at the same time and live HappilyEverAfter.
** After some Character Development and bonding moments Alice and Stacy work out their problems. They agree to share Bob between themselves. For some reason Stacy is reincarnated to continue their triangular relationship through future lives.
** Alice and Bob, guided by the PowerOfLove, finally find each other.
* Played with: ???
* Averted: Alice and Bob were never lovers, in this life or any other.
* Enforced: “We need to add some tragedy to our romance and show how much these two are destined for each other. Let's reincarnate them and have them be StarCrossedLovers in the next life too.
* Lampshaded: “So we are reincarnated lovers? No wonder we jumped at each other so fast. A few hundred years of separation tends to do this to people."
* Invoked: Alice and Bob want to be reunited in their future life so they go through a special soul-bonding ritual.
* Defined: ???
* Discussed: “Isn’t it surprising how well these two seem to know each other, even though they've been talking for just ten minutes? Maybe they had meet in the previous life.”
* Conversed: “I can bet they are going to make Alice and Bob reincarnated lovers. It’s an only explanation for these strange dreams and flashbacks. “
* Played For Laugh: ???
* Played For Drama: ???

You should be able to just copy/paste this straight in.

edited 7th Jun '12 8:44:21 AM by DarkConfidant

Grammatical question: do I capitalise the first letter after a colon?

As a general rule, no, unless the word would be capitalized otherwise:

I have a few things to get at the grocery store: milk, eggs, bread, and squick.

edited 25th Jun '12 1:32:41 PM by DarkConfidant

Thanks. So my last post was grammatically correct, right?

I'm not sure, but I think that you do capitalize the word "do" since it's the first word of a sentence.

Someone with more expertise in the field want to chime in?

If the colon is followed by a complete sentence, yes.

However, as with many so-called rules of punctuation, the most important thing is consistency.

So, if I have a fragment after a colon, I don't capitalise (eg 'As he said: flawless') but if it's a complete sentence, I do (eg 'he said: You must not disobey your superiors')?

Pretty much, but as was said, consistency is the most important thing.

Thanks.

Need a bit added to TMMV on Men In Black

Complete Monster: Boris the animal, from the third movie. He commits several murders; when his girlfriend helped him escape from prison, he left her to her death; also, upon escape he deliberately uses time travel to go back before his arrest, not to commit fewer murders but to be more careful to get away with them, and also to get rid of those who would stop him from summoning an alien invasion, which in one "potential future" he actually went through with.

• and he goes back on his deals.

edited 27th Jun '12 1:02:41 PM by RandomChaos

Has this gone through the Monster Cleanup thread first?

Sorry what?

The Special Efforts thread about Complete Monster. All examples should go through that thread.

There is a thread in Special Efforts here for discussion pertaining to cleanup of the CM trope due to massive Trope Decay.

It's already there I'm adding the bet on the end do I still need two?

That's a bad edit for a number of reasons. First, it's improper Example Indentation. Second, we generally try to keep the Complete Monster writeups as concise as possible (because they tend to be long enough anyhow), and the fact that he goes back on his deals is rather irrelevant to his being a Complete Monster. So it shouldn't be added to the page.

And regarding the actual purpose of this thread, the first word in a sentence should always be capitalized.

Can someone help me with my English? (was linked here)

You'll need to post something for us correct. We can't just tell you how to write anythign.

Ok

• Crowning Momment Of Funny
  • Episode 3 was just filled with these
    • Funny event here
    • Lampshade Hanging Here
  • Episode 9 was about Bob trying to get Alice to go out on a date with him, Hilarity Ensues

hows that?

edited 4th Jul '12 3:00:27 AM by serialkillerwhale

Crowning Moment Of Funny. And posting actual examples is better. It's How's that not Hows that.

The bullet point usage is better than most.

• Crowning Moment Of Funny
  • Episode 3 was just filled with these
    • John trips over a poodle trying to get to the hot dog stand
    • Alice remarks this usually only happens to Bob
  • Episode 9 was about Bob trying to get Alice to go out on a date with him, Hilarity Ensues

How's that?

edited 4th Jul '12 3:11:30 AM by serialkillerwhale

"just filled with these:" is Word Cruft. Alice remarks that this...

him. Hilarity Ensues.

Also needs some more punctuation.

• Crowning Moment Of Funny
  • Episode 3 was just one of these after another
    • John trips over a poodle trying to get to the hot dog stand.
    • Alice remarks that this usually only happens to Bob.
  • Episode 9 was about Bob trying to get Alice to go out on a date with him. Hilarity Ensues.

How's that?

Note, I'm just copy-pasting my old one and editing it.

edited 4th Jul '12 3:26:08 AM by serialkillerwhale

That's quite good. You need a colon after "Funny" on the first line, and another at the end of the second line. The second line should probably be "Episode 3 had two of these:", again to reduce words.

• Crowning Moment Of Funny:
  • Episode 3 had 2:
    • John trips over a poodle trying to get to the hot dog stand.
    • Alice remarks that this usually only happens to Bob:
  • Episode 9 was about Bob trying to get Alice to go out on a date with him. Hilarity Ensues.

How's that?

edited 4th Jul '12 7:54:56 AM by serialkillerwhale