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Main Purple Prose Discussion
I think Tv Tropes would collapse if we listed all the examples from anime. Whenever I watch an adult anime it feels like it was written (or at least translated) by Burt Shlubb and Douglas Klump.
I'll just leave this quote here, couldn't find a place for it on the main page... (Source: a discussion thread from SCP Foundation wiki)
[NAME REDACTED] wrote:
This is the shittiest shit ever shat. You've gone beyond purple prose and managed to shart out ultraviolet.
No wonder the SCP in question got deleted...
Afterthought: No wait, it was a Foundation Tale written from SCP-682's POV.
[NAME REDACTED] wrote: This is the shittiest shit ever shat. You've gone beyond purple prose and managed to shart out ultraviolet.
Drolyt decided to pull this one and I agree — it's not that Harry Potter has no Purple Prose, it is the fact that this passage is not accurately recalled. The natter is also probably correct with respect to the purpose of the prose style at that point. If someone is replacing Harry Potter on the main page I would suggest scraping this non-example and choosing a valid passage to cite.
- Harry Potter isn't immune to this. Probably the worst offender comes after Sirius' death, when Harry is sitting in Dumbledore's office, and the narrator mentions that, " the hole in Harry's chest had been filled with a weighty, writhing parasite" to paraphrase. Yeah, he just lost his godfather ... but that makes it sound like he's being attacked by some kind of alien too.
- Except for how, well, it doesn't say anything remotely similar to that at all. (In fact, most of the descriptions are purposely raw, rambling and unsatisfying, since Harry can't put into words the horror he feels at Sirius's death.) On the other hand, a chunk of the ''Deathly Hallows" chapter "The Flaw In The Plan", between the beginning of Harry and Voldemort's final duel and the very end, where Harry wanders to bed longing for a sandwich, is cringe-inducingly purple.