Markup View

Author: crazysamaritan

Sep 4th 2013 at 8:22:28 AM

FCC deals with cultures that are take-offs (homage, parody, satire, shout out) of real cultures. This applies to ''any'' culture, even Goths, Gamers, Hippies, or Pop Culture. It can apply to the entire setting, but it is specifically ''for'' a cultural reference.

Zany fantasy is ''defined'' as "A world other than ours, with Power politics, wars, the death of nations, gods walking the earth, and the real threat of The End of the World as We Know It by an enemy which is near enough to Evil incarnate or fundamentally abhorrent that victory through force of arms is impossible, and they must be defeat by a sacrifice.  Excepted that it has ShoutOut to aspects of RealLife PopCulture."

What the examples tend to contain, ''instead'' of the definition, is any fiction with ReferenceOverdose to PopCulture.

FCC has no requirements for being played seriously, and an elf tribe made up entirely of Link expies is taking from the RealLife cultural icon and transforming them into a race of people.

None of the examples lack FCC as a trope.