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Author: OmarKarindu

Mar 24th 2014 at 5:46:41 AM

I suggest The Descriptive Epithet as a trope name: it keeps the "the," adds the word "descriptive" which might aid searches, and employs the technical term "epithet" which might aid other searches. It's a bit redundant in meaning, but it also mirrors the structure of the trope's signal phrasing in the wild.

It's also worth noting that TropesAreNotBad. This can be used as it is in Homer, but I've also seen it used as a sort of fancy title for characters, e.g. "the (Vampire) Slayer" in the Buffyverse; or to depict how, say, an ancient prophecy or a semi-mystical tradition refers to a character, e.g. the phrase TheChosenOne or the use of "the Amyrlin Seat" in the ''Literature/WheelOfTime'' series and "the vampire with a soul" in ''Series/{{Angel}}''; and it has a history of use in comic books, especially DCComics works of the GoldenAgeOfComicBooks and the SilverAge, where almost every hero or group of hero had a heroic epithet, e.g. Superman as the Man of Steel, the Flash being nicknamed the Scarlet Speedster, Batman being called the Darknight Detective and later the Dark Knight, and so on. Creator/AlanMoore rather famously used a variant of the technique to describe the Comicbook/JusticeLeague when they showed up in his ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' run, and Creator/FrankMiller did as well when Comicbook/TheAvengers turned up in the famous "[[DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]" storyline in ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}''.