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Author: fulltimeD

Apr 24th 2012 at 8:13:36 PM

Doesn't the concept of liminality generally have a more spiritual/cosmological connotation* than this, which is basically an attempt to make some kind of supertrope for all the tropes listed above in the OP? If so, a lot of them seem shoehorned together. For example, I get what you're going for with HalfHumanHybrid, DivineParentage, etc... but other than being [[XMeetsY "half this and half that"]] there's really no underlying connection between a lot of them. We have XMeetsY (maybe that's the supertrope you're looking for?) and a SuperTrope requires a lot more than "all these things are examples of "half" one thing and "half" another.    * As in, transitional places and times, such as dusk or dawn, crossroads, anywhere that could be considered an intersection of the heavenly and the earthly, the heavens and the underworld, or between the sacred and the mundane; in other words, the title you have chosen refers to something more obscure and far less broad/generalized than you think it does.