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Author: DragonQuestZ

Mar 13th 2012 at 8:13:31 PM

"if a trope has a purpose and isn't an Omnipresent Trope, then you should be able to segment it out into subtropes"

Tropes don't work on "should". They work on how they are actually done by the people making them. You can't argue some ideal to decide PSOC.

"To take King Zeal's example, characters walking on two legs is generally done to humanise the character, and walking on four legs usually suggests animal, rather than human. But I can think of many different sub-cases. For instance, in Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast, Beast only moves on four legs when he's being particularly bestial, and the only really four-legged living piece of furniture was the dog."

Zeal was using that broader form as something that actually is PSOC. It's ''NOT'' because it's common. It's because it has no point to have people and animals walking the way they always do. Walking unusually is a trope. Not a sub trope to waking normally, but a trope on its own.

So you are misusing it, as you are not getting the form.