Markup View

Author: TheHandle

Dec 14th 2012 at 6:52:18 AM

We put the examples with a central trope and a brief explanation of ''why'' it is the entral trope. It's clean, it's simple, it's pure. [[strike:It's the XXIst century]]

[[strike:cure.]]

*GurrenLagann: ScrewDestiny... er I don't see it. For me, it's clearly BeyondTheImpossible: the characters are confronted by successive challenges that are each more difficult than the last, and seemingly impossible to overcome for them, and yet they manage to do it anyway.

Then again, we could have different suggestions for what the central trope for a series should be.

*Watchmen: SuperHero. Watchmen isn't so much about the characters in it as it is about the implications of being a superhero, both to the heroes themselves and the world at large.

*{{Hellsing}}: BloodKnight. The series is mostly about badasses really enjoying being violent and murderous at each other; it's the main motivation of the villains, and a prominent trait of the heroes, one way or another.

*TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression: ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder (the characters are all mad scientists). MagicPoweredPseudoScience (the characters explicitly are ''not'' using real science, and the consequences of that are explored in detail).

*CodeGeass: YoungConqueror (a young man tries to take over the world and change it, but, despite his high intelligence, his very youth; his philosophical and moral immaturity, his emotional instability, his ignorance of psychology fail him), {{Melodrama}} (everything is extremely over-the-top, has consequences that affect millions, has a dire emotional impact on the characters, who are all very emotional and work as reverberating amplifiers of drama and theatricality).

*{{Naruto}}: SinsOfOurFathers (the Ninja world is weighted by the horrors of past wars, and the story is largely about this one guy who helps everyone overcome this horrible past, for the sake of opening a brighter future).

*RepoTheGeneticOpera: BodyHorror (an entire society is built upon surgery and organ transplants, which are financed, and if you don't pay they'll send a reposession man to get them back; corruption and filth, both moral and physical, are pervasive, and hope is non-existent).

And so on.