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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think this trope deserves a massive cleanup. People just keep adding examples, even in realistic, grounded works that have no intention of subverting the preconceived notions of viewers.
Hide / Show RepliesAre those examples more realistic than what has happened before on "realistic, grounded works"? Even something like "Game Of Thrones" has the dragons and the White Walkers and the giant wolves and the like... and so many backstabbers that it's hard to believe that they wouldn't have applauded something like the Red Wedding or having one of them get a scene where they go "sheesh, I sure wish I had been the one to do it first" (even in someplace very, very private)... but the reaction to the Wedding is everybody, and that is everybody being appalled.
This is, of course, an example. But the thing is, I don't think the cleanup is needed.
What up with the massive cleanup. The Live Flim it nearly half was gone?
I did it because most of those examples were deconstructions. As the trope page says, Reality Ensues is temporary and mainly used for comedy. If it doesn't fit any of those, then it's a deconstruction. Most of the examples in that page were just movies doing something that would just happen in real life, with no previous attempt to play by the fictional world's rules. Then again, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
Edited by MasterHeroI send it back, fixed. I've sent Master Hero a note about it, so no need to report.
Edited by plcthecdFYI, I agree that Reality Ensues is getting overused. but this should get a TRS before anything else.
Nothing about Reality Ensues suggest it's limited to comedy or one off moment's even thought I agree it would be better that way. But if that is the case, the trope is so widely misused that such a large scale cleanup is needed that it needs some kind of approval.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtWhy are there no Real Life examples allowed but there are real life examples of tropes like Every Car Is a Pinto? That makes absolutely no sense.
Hide / Show RepliesBecause nobody mentioned that in the RL cleanup thread.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI was about to present a question of this sort, from the opposite direction: No real life examples. Of a trope about reality well, ensuing in fiction. On the one hand, it's kinda absurd that such a meta concept would even NEED to be designated as a NRLEP trope.
On the other hand, "no real life instances of reality ensuring" is an equally amusing concept to see occur.
Would Some wrestler finally had it with the association he works with ditches them be considered a real life example? Or would this fit as a Pro Wrestling one?
I find the picture from Dr. McNinja to be amusingly ironic. The page is Reality Ensues, and it shows a panel with a bunch of bullets missing someone, followed by a panel of him falling to the ground dead as though they had hit.
I don't know about the No Real Life Examples. I'd think it would be appropriate if someone went to do something, expecting a special result, and failed.
I was the one who added the first example under Web Original (I spork those sorts of stories for an LJ community.) Do I really need to add a link?
Tumblr|deviantArt|How to Be a furry Hide / Show RepliesA link is always beneficial with web-works. At the very least we'll need a name of the work (and screen-name of author) otherwise how do we know it is an actual work instead of something that would be better on the Darth Wiki and Unpublished Works? It may not have to be notable, but it does have to be verifiable.
Edited by CrypticMirrorHere you go. Very MATURE CONTENT warning, but probably not NSFW, unless one habitually browses the Internet from work in large-text mode, or on the office projector.
I certainly don't hope this comes back to bite me when I'm looking for a job. Of course, anyone who happens across my TV Tropes history is either going to avoid it because they're familiar with the site, or more likely get sucked in and forget why they came, long before they see this post. :)
Edited by Jonn Tumblr|deviantArt|How to Be a furryFrom the lead: "No Real Life examples, please. Well, obviously..." Why wouldn't the winners and at-risk survivors of Darwin Awards be an example?
Hide / Show RepliesCut this:
- * A Game of Thrones transitions into this suddenly with the successful execution of Ned Stark. That is, if it hadn't done that with Littlefinger paying off the guards for Cersei prior.
What's the Alt Text for that Dr. McNinja image? I go to the site, but I get nothing.
On the Subject of Batman Vs. Wonder Woman
"she has a Kryptonite Factor: bullets. but it's the one thing that batman can't use."
Can't Wonder Woman parry bullets with her bracelets? Is this a good example?
Since this was never posted, Reality Ensues has been renamed to Surprisingly Realistic Outcome per this TRS thread.
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