Concerning "Back to the Future": Is what Bob Gale is saying really word of St Paul? He and Bob Zemeckis developed the story together, so it should be word of God in this case, right?
I'm wondering how this applies when St Paul is a troper. I'm serialising a story online, and a RL friend has created a page for it on here :) Really happy about that, it feels like I have a fan at last. But hearing me chat about the story while I was writing it, she obviously knows a lot more than what's currently released. The work's page currently has spoiler tags around one twist that's probably more than a year in the future from a casual reader's POV.
Is that a case of this trope? And should it be tagged? I can't see anywhere interesting to mention it without being awfully self-referential.
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It sounds more like your friend is using Speculative Troping.
Trope what’s in the work. Not what will be. For all we know, you might change your mind. See also Never Trust a Trailer.
Do anthology comics count as this? If you don't know what they are, they're collections of comics, mostly comedy-focused, based on popular anime and games, written/drawn by professional and semi-professional artists, and released by the official publishers of the original. (notably, Black Butler creator Yana Toboso has drawn comics and covers for several, including Valvrave the Liberator and Touken Ranbu; Kodansha got American comics artists and writers to do one for Attack on Titan; and the ones for Code Geass, Haruhi Suzumiya, and Ace Attorney got English releases, and maybe others as well.) My concern is that these tend to be somewhat Flanderized portrayals - e.g. in the Code Geass ones, they make Suzaku extremely stupid and Lelouch extremely neurotic. The Touken Ranbu YMMV page potholed anthology-comic character analysis to this trope, and I'm wondering how well it fits. I think these aren't meant to be taken that seriously, but I don't know for sure.
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Late post, but I would say that these would fall under Adaptations, as in the prior thread.
Now, having said that, "released by the official publishers of the original" does grant those comics some Pauline credit, insofar as they received a de facto Imprimatur, though not necessarily a Nihil Obstat.note . If it's released by a distributor (e.g. The Official Guide to Mega Man being endorsed by Capcom U.S.A.) then it probably falls back to Word of Dante.
Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.
In the "Word Of..." Hierarchy, what are adaptions?
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Word of Dante is what I am thinking.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Well, nice to see this launched, but I would've called it "Word Of Gabriel".
I'm thinking about adding this to the Christianity Main point:
- And then there's the Archangel Gabriel who, according to the New Testament (and Qur'an), was the agent of God that dealt with Zechariah and Mary, and taught Muhammad the Qur'an according to the same.
Although this may be the respective holy works' authors invoking Appeal to Authority.
Edited by DonaldthePotholer Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.
Could "Word of Judas Iscariot' be a possible sub-trope of this? Basically, it's something stated by someone who had a major involvement on the work - but has since been disgraced in the public eye for some reason (usually due to be being Overshadowed by Controversy).