Dr. Zeppo
How would this be a way of Playing with a Trope?
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It only works with tropes that are (in most cases) inherently subjective or unintended audience reactions. Try and think of a reason a writer might try and deliberately create that reaction. For example: yes, that person is acting totally Out of Character. Is it bad writing? No, it's a deliberate attempt to signal that he's Not Himself.
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Can anyone explain why there shouldn't be any examples for this?
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I would love to know as well. I came here looking for actual examples, only to be turned away. It's not like this trope falls under Flame Bait or something.
What are we supposed to do, browse every single page of the wiki ctrl+F'ing for them?
I'd still like an answer to this, especially since there is at least one example present in the page quote. Why "No examples please except this one"?
Past wiki discussion, I think. Or administrative action.
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I am guessing in nominate Intended Audience Reaction in the crowner in the "Pages that need the YMMV banner" thread in "Long Time/Perpetual" in the forums . This starts with "The reaction from the audience we suspect the author intended. We can't really know whether it was intended. It may have been, or it may have been that the author was aiming for something completely different and just missed." Beyond this, if i am remembering well, Fast Eddie himself put this in ymmv one time.
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Given the description says "we only put this on the main page if it's backed by Word of God" this needs a YMMV tag.
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I'm curious... how did this topic come from "They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste"? Obviously it's the opposite of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot; that is to say, an idea that sounds awful or stupid but through execution actually turns out to be really good. I don't at all see how that translated to "Intended Audience Reaction".
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It's AN opposite of They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot, but it isn't THAT opposite. (You're describing something like Better Than It Sounds.) TWAPGP is "this could've been good, but instead the audience hates it"; TPAPGW is "the audience hates this, and that's good, because the author wants them to."
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: definition needs clarifying:
, started by TripleElation on Feb 10th 2011 at 9:08:11 AM
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