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Author: LordGro

Jul 16th 2014 at 1:15:23 PM

Sorry I have to play the part of the devil's advocate again, but I don't think it is ready to launch. Not because of the RL stuff, but because the style of the description needs polish. The entire line about the guy losing his lunch seems rather distracting. Since the trope has no inherent relation with VomitDiscretionShot, it shouldn't mention it. No hat from me at this point.

For a start, I have removed all the {{sinkhole}}s to {{YMMV}} tropes like CrazyAwesome, WhatAnIdiot and {{Understatement}}. Pretty sure that as a rule, YMMV items should not be potholed or linked from the main wiki. Also, the pothole to TooDumbToLive was just a sinkhole in my eyes, and mentioning the name of the trope in a trope description is not a TitleDrop.

I also want to bring up the trope name once more. While I consider "Mega Maelstrom" at "acceptable" level, I'd like to throw in two possible alternatives that occured to me, because strained alliterations have really begun to grate on me.
* IntoTheMaelstrom: Because this trope will usually play out as a dramatic scene of a ship or boat getting sucked, or nearly sucked, into the maelstrom.
* MaelstromsSuck: The obvious pun already used on VampireBitesSuck, GravitySucks and QuicksandSucks; but here it would certainly make sense, particularly as real maelstroms do not actually suck.