I've no clue. I honestly think that it was totally unnecessary to merge "Anvilicious" & "Some anvils need to be dropped." It's just too confusing and having them go back to the way were on this site would be easier for everyone.
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I think the name is way too vague and undescriptive. I've seen plenty of people confusing this with Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped, which has the exact opposite effect. I think it's time for a name change, the "delicious" part of the name is very misleading.
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I was looking through tv tropes a few days ago to try and find something like a "forced aesop" trope where a writer would ham-fistedly try to add an aesop into a story without any real build-up or logic or narrative progression behind including it (for example: one character out of the blue calls another character out for being a coward, with both the story and the character being accused end up agreeing that that's the case, but there was no indication beforehand that this was ever the case.) I couldn't find anything like that after searching for a good hour or two. The closest I came to finding it was Clueless Aesop. Turns out Avilicious fits what I was looking for perfectly, it just had a really esoteric name. I've been wasting my life on this purgatory of a website for the good part of a decade, so if someone mentioned "Anvilicious" I would instantly know what they meant, but in the moment of looking for a "Forced Aesop" trope my mind was fixated on the "aesop" part and wasn't thinking about non-aesop related tropes that would fit. If not a name change, it should definitely get another alternative title to make it easier to find.
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Here's an anvilicious topic: There is a new discussion system.
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Religilous, Michael Moore and George W. Bushisms are Anvilicious Take Thats against their chosen targets. I say they remain.
Some of these entries seem to veer into editorializing.
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Why is TNG episode "Drumhead" considered Anvilicious trope and not Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped trope?
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Because YMMV.
This whole article/trope page is inherently biased in favor of the smirking, eye-rolling cynics, which is not true of most other tropes which can go either way.
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I miss the "Because Subtlety is for the Weak" caption.
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Yeah, the Warhammer 40K quote was funny.
Don't make me destroy you. @ Castle Series
aayero
This article is hardly more than an excuse to complain about an outcome of the story some people don't like. This article is like 1 step above Broken Aesop. This should be moved to the Darth Wiki.
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I agree with this. A majority of the examples seems to be people complaining about various pieces of media they don't like. This has become another iteration of the 'Just Bugs Me' issue.
Anyone else notice the relatively high proportion of examples that are just faux-victimization from opponents of gay marriage? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
aayero
Is there some sort of "No Specific Examples Only" rule in effect on this trope?
So has anyone read the Family Guy section lately? It's full of serious butthurt. The South Park section by comparison has a much more approving tone.
The Metro 2033 entry is unfair, considering the complexity of the game's story. Yes, it takes place after a nuclear war devastated the surface, but that's the *setting* to the game, not an anvilicious message.
Anyway, I'm removing it.
Why does the Avatar example keep on getting removed. The message of the movie is as sublte as a ton of bricks
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Fan Dumb, perhaps? The DVD was released on Earth Day in case the film was too subtle for you.
I know this is late, but just to make it clear to anyone who thinks that example was removed just because "hurf durf, the fans can't take their movie being slammed":
Important Note: Please, do not use the examples just to whine about messages you don't like. It gets really old and annoying. Any examples which elicit nothing but whining and/or rabid defense of the validity of its message will be removed as Flame Bait.
If only people were restrained enough that bringing up that film didn't turn into long, heated Conversation In The Main Page every single TIME, it would probably not have been removed do much.
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"* The Mercedes Lackey School of Heavy-Handed Social Commentary. Of particular note: Every single one of her villains is oversexed, perverted, and/or a rapist. Every. Single. One."
Of the villains I can recall:
- Ma'ar: Yes, at least in his later incarnations
- Ancar: Yes
- Hulda: Yes
- Lord Orthallan: No
- Emperor Charliss: No
- Thanel: No
- Guildmaster Vatean: No (profiting from it, sure, but not engaging in it)
Do we really need that whole Bible rant in the Literature section? Ironically enough, it just seems to be a particularly angry Author Filibuster.
aayero
There are 2 references to Avatar. I'm removing the shorter one, because of it's obvious lack of clarification.
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What's this talk about rock music being evil in Discworld? The gun was evil, sure (it is, after all, a killing machine), but the Music in Soul Music never came across as evil, only completely alien to this world and unaware of the consequences of its effect on creatures. If anything, it was an Eldritch Abomination without anything particularly abominable about it.
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird
"1000 Ways to Die." Anvilicious to the point of Urban Legend status. Do something bad, then you die.
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** Not to mention the not at all subtle pro-life messages in the fourth book. Meyer actually describes pregnancy as "not a choice- a necessity"
That's just a refection of stephenie meyer's warped worldview. If bella compared Roe vs Wade to the rule of king herod than you be on to something.
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How is Warhammer 40K anvillicious? Reading the entry I'm rather confused, apart from the 1st objection being rather specific (their example of a fascist deity figure would be a jab at more religions than christianity), doesn't 40K in it's presentation of the ultimate crap-sack world ignore trying to give morals entirely? I would think that 40K doesn't really try to give any message except "buy more merch" and "flamers and chainsaw swords are awesome".
Can someone explain to me why the Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped page was deleted?
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