Follow TV Tropes

Following

History PlayingWith / HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Zig-Zagged''': After TheHero helps establish TheRepublic, the new government denotes the year as Year 0. Then a [[RebelliousRebel splinter group]] opposed to this change [[TheCoup takes over and]] [[StatusQuoIsGod puts the calendar back to the former year]]. Then somebody else proposes restarting timekeeping at [[GoldenMeanFallacy the mathematical midpoint between "day one of year zero" and what it would be under this notation]].

to:

* '''Zig-Zagged''': After TheHero Hiro helps establish TheRepublic, the new government denotes the year as Year 0. Then a [[RebelliousRebel splinter group]] opposed to this change [[TheCoup takes over and]] [[StatusQuoIsGod puts the calendar back to the former year]]. Then somebody else proposes restarting timekeeping at [[GoldenMeanFallacy the mathematical midpoint between "day one of year zero" and what it would be under this notation]].



* '''Defied''': Tropeland's top BadassBureaucrat says, "You may have won a war, Hiro, but you're not going to change how we keep track of time."

to:

* '''Defied''': Tropeland's top BadassBureaucrat says, "You may have won a war, Hiro, but you're not going to change how we keep track of time."" And in case Hiro tries to be adamant about invoking this trope, said BadassBureaucrat proceeds to show off [[AppealToForce the entirety of Tropeland's elite special forces, with each soldier being able to easily wipe out Hiro and his gang without even breaking a sweat]].

Added: 251

Changed: 218

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Enforced''': It's set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution post-revolutionary France]].
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

to:

* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
**
It's set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution post-revolutionary France]].
** In a long-running franchise, the official timeline has become so complicated that the executives decide to declare the latest installment the new year zero.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???"So, after you defeated Evulz, you decided to defeat the calendar next?"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** TheEmpire has a [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Pontifex Maximus]] type of position that's supposed to keep the Imperial calendar in sync by manually adding extra days. After defeating Evulz, Hiro transforms the Imperial Calendar into the Hiroan Calendar through automating the intercalation.

to:

** TheEmpire has a [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Pontifex Maximus]] type of position that's supposed to keep the Imperial calendar in sync by manually adding extra days. After defeating Evulz, Hiro transforms the Imperial Calendar into the Hiroan Calendar through automating the intercalation.intercalation to limit the calendar-keeper's power.

Added: 604

Changed: 183

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Exaggerated''': Every single dawn resets the date to Day 0, 1st month of Year 0000, because every day of the year is someone's birthday.

to:

* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
**
Every single dawn resets the date to Day 0, 1st month of Year 0000, because every day of the year is someone's birthday.birthday.
** Hiro and the FiveManBand also have every month of the year renamed from after Evulz's inner circle to after themselves.



* '''Justified''': The new PowersThatBe want to make a clean break with the past.

to:

* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
**
The new PowersThatBe want to make a clean break with the past.past.
** TheEmpire has a [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Pontifex Maximus]] type of position that's supposed to keep the Imperial calendar in sync by manually adding extra days. After defeating Evulz, Hiro transforms the Imperial Calendar into the Hiroan Calendar through automating the intercalation.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
null edit
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

to:

* '''Played for Laughs''': ???Bob the programmer is distraught as many massive upheavals not because of the changes or instability but [[SkewedPriorities because it will be a pain in the ass to change all of the time libraries to deal with the new formats]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Straight''': TheHero and their FiveManBand have defeated [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and set the year they overthrow TheEmpire as Year 0.

to:

* '''Straight''': TheHero [[TheHero Hiro]] and their the FiveManBand have defeated [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and set the year they overthrow TheEmpire as Year 0.



* '''Downplayed''': ???

to:

* '''Downplayed''': ???Hiro and his FiveManBand defeat Evulz and [[UnPerson write him]] [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain and his regime]] out of their history by resetting the calendar to the day he took power.



* '''Implied''': ???

to:

* '''Implied''': ???Dates are given as BookEnds to the film, which is explicitly stated to be in chronological order, and the end date is earlier than the first.

Added: 38

Changed: 1400

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Straight''': TheHero have defeated [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and set the year they overthrow TheEmpire as Year 0.

to:

* '''Straight''': TheHero and their FiveManBand have defeated [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and set the year they overthrow TheEmpire as Year 0.



* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': The society learns about an ancient event before their calendar's year zero and used that year as year zero, pushing the date several hundreds if not thousands of years bigger.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

to:

* '''Justified''': ???
The new PowersThatBe want to make a clean break with the past.
* '''Inverted''': The society learns about an ancient event before their calendar's year zero and used that year as year zero, pushing the date several hundreds if not thousands of years bigger.
* '''Subverted''': ???
Everybody expects the new government to change the calendar to Year 0, but they announce that they will not do so.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Subverted''': ...Because they want to get a handle on the nuts and bolts of governing well first. Once they're secure in power, ''then'' they'll move towards changing the calendar.
* '''Parodied''': ???
Everybody in Tropeland is [[CrazyPrepared unexpectedly ready for this to happen]], with every household having at least one of the 14 types of calendars for year zero[[note]]There could be common or leap years beginning on each day of the week.[[/note]] available at a moment's notice, but it never happens.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
After TheHero helps establish TheRepublic, the new government denotes the year as Year 0. Then a [[RebelliousRebel splinter group]] opposed to this change [[TheCoup takes over and]] [[StatusQuoIsGod puts the calendar back to the former year]]. Then somebody else proposes restarting timekeeping at [[GoldenMeanFallacy the mathematical midpoint between "day one of year zero" and what it would be under this notation]].
* '''Averted''': ???
There are no momentous occasions.
* '''Enforced''': ???It's set in a FantasyCounterpartCulture of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution post-revolutionary France]].



* '''Defied''': ???

to:

* '''Defied''': ???Tropeland's top BadassBureaucrat says, "You may have won a war, Hiro, but you're not going to change how we keep track of time."



Inverted:

to:

Inverted:----
Back to HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Straight''': ???
* '''Exaggerated''': ???

to:

* '''Straight''': ???
TheHero have defeated [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] and set the year they overthrow TheEmpire as Year 0.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???Every single dawn resets the date to Day 0, 1st month of Year 0000, because every day of the year is someone's birthday.

Added: 688

Changed: 125

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Inverted: The Society learns about an ancient event before their calendar's year zero and changes that year to year zero

to:

Inverted: '''Basic Trope''': An event caused the calendar to reset to Year 0.
* '''Straight''': ???
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''':
The Society society learns about an ancient event before their calendar's year zero and changes used that year to as year zerozero, pushing the date several hundreds if not thousands of years bigger.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': ???
Inverted:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

Inverted: The Society learns about an ancient event before their calendar's year zero and changes that year to year zero

Top