History Quotes / CerebusSyndrome

->"I know you aspire to write stories with some complexity, Rockstar, and that players trying to ''have fun'' in your games must be very frustrating, but you kind of brought this one yourself when you decided that '[=Tw@=]' would be a funny name for an internet cafe."

--> '''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''GamingWebcomics''

-> "''Let's say, for sake of example, that you're sick of making Companion Cube jokes, and suddenly do a serious storyline about [[WebComic/ControlAltDelete your female character having a miscarriage]]. [[TropesAreNotGood Obviously, you'd need to have several blood clots in your brain to think this is a good idea]]; you're established as a wacky humour comic, so this is going to be an awkward [[MoodWhiplash tonal shift at best]], and [[DudeNotFunny hugely disrespectful of the subject matter at worst]].''"

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--> "''Let's say, for sake of example, that you're sick of making Companion Cube jokes, and suddenly do a serious storyline about [[WebComic/ControlAltDelete your female character having a miscarriage]]. [[TropesAreNotGood Obviously, you'd need to have several blood clots in your brain to think this is a good idea]]; you're established as a wacky humour comic, so this is going to be an awkward [[MoodWhiplash tonal shift at best]], and [[DudeNotFunny hugely disrespectful of the subject matter at worst]].''"
---> '''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''GamingWebcomics''

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->''Toy Story'': A couple of toys get lost and then found. The only folks who cry are the animators who make 2D films as they watch their future crumble.
->''Toy Story 2'': We watch as a toy is abandoned by her beloved owner and we get to see her heart shattered during a Sarah [=McLaughlin=] ballad. Tears flow like rain.
->''Toy Story 3'': All our heroes learn that everything they love will eventually leave them behind. The demand for antidepressants for preschoolers skyrockets.

-->--'''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}''' of ''HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''

'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[LampshadeHanging I blame]] {{Cerebus}}.

-> '''Robin''': I pulled the drama tag, so we now get backstories, we get fleshed out personalities and become ''real people''.
-> '''Amber''': You're not making any sense. You're saying that pulling this thing you made up [[RetCon retroactively changed my past]]?
-> '''Amber''': You're saying that solely because you did some imaginary thing, my earlier life ''rewrote'' itself to force me through a history of [[DarkAndTroubledPast domestic abuse and violent relocation]].
-> '''Robin''': Maybe.
-> '''Amber''': ''[Punches Robin]''

-->--[[WordofGod The authors of]] ''ExterminatusNow''

-->-- '''TheIrateGamer''' summing up the trope when talking about ''{{Kinnikuman}}''.

->'''Helen''': Okay, the truth. I can't date because [[QuestionableContent when I was a girl I saw my father commit suicide]].

-> '''Helen''': Okay ... [[GeneralProtectionFault I was sexually assaulted by my college fiance]].

->'''Helen''': [[SomethingPositive ALZHEIMER'S! I HAVE ALZHEIMER"S!]]

-->-- ''{{Narbonic}}''

-->--'''{{Rifftrax}}''' of ''HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''

-->--'''{{Rifftrax}}''' of ''{{Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}''

'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[LampshadeHanging I blame]] [[{{Cerebus}} Cerebus]].

-> '''Robin''': I pulled the drama tag, so we now get backstories, we get fleshed out personalities and become ''real people''.
-> '''Amber''': You're not making any sense. You're saying that pulling this thing you made up [[RetCon retroactively changed my past]]?
-> '''Amber''': You're saying that solely because you did some imaginary thing, my earlier life ''rewrote'' itself to force me through a history of [[DarkAndTroubledPast domestic abuse and violent relocation]].
-> '''Robin''': Maybe.

-->--''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''

-->--Website/{{Cracked}} [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18621_the-sadness-toy-story-measured-in-tears-5Bchart5D.html chart]]: The Sadness of ''{{Toy Story}}'' Measured in [[TearJerker Tears]]

-> '''Helen''': Okay ... [[ControlAltDelete I was sexually assaulted by my college fiance]].

->'''Helen''': [[QuestionableContent ALZHEIMER'S! I HAVE ALZHEIMER"S!]]

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->''Toy Story 4'': Woody is stabbed by a gang of rogue toys only to discover that his voice box has cancer. His death is very painful, it lasts 90 minutes, and Pixar '''shows the whole thing'''. No one ever smiles again.

-->--{{Cracked}} [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18621_the-sadness-toy-story-measured-in-tears-5Bchart5D.html chart]]: The Sadness of ''{{Toy Story}}'' Measured in [[TearJerker Tears]]

-->--[[WordofGod The author]] [[https://twitter.com/#!/dantheshive/status/60474458619658240 of]] ''ElGoonishShive''

-->--''{{Shortpacked}}''

-->'''[[spoiler:Head Alien]]''', ''{{Shortpacked}}''

-->--''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick''

-->--''{{Order Of The Stick}}''

->Seriously, I'd make an effort to get out. The drama tag you pulled? We're looking at a limited lifespan here. Sure, it's manageable now, but soon you'll have ''[[{{backstory}} backstories]]'' and {{love triangle}}s and then love ''[[LoveDodecahedron pentagons]]'' and then super-horrible secrets are revealed that change things forever... this store will end up so miserably ''{{emo}}'' that no sane being will be able to stand it. Everyone will just ''leave''.
-->'''[[spoiler:Head Alien]]''', ''{{Shortpacked}}''

->Pretty much just a virtual orgy.
-->--The premise of the Forum Lust Game on ThisVeryWiki

->'''OOZE''':...to, to wherever I lived before. -I wonder if everyone else came from there too.- A place where there are streets, and buildings, and mountains, and plants, and family... A place that isn't just made of hallways connected to rooms connected to hallways, a place where you can't turn into a girl just by walking into the wrong room. A place where you don't run into clones of yourself that were killed by bizarre constructs, a place where Pedobear isn't a real creature that you're seriously trying to avoid, a place where not everyone is a troper... a place that's REAL.
-->--535 pages later

->''OOZE'':...to, to wherever I lived before. -I wonder if everyone else came from there too.- A place where there are streets, and buildings, and mountains, and plants, and family... A place that isn't just made of hallways connected to rooms connected to hallways, a place where you can't turn into a girl just by walking into the wrong room. A place where you don't run into clones of yourself that were killed by bizarre constructs, a place where Pedobear isn't a real creature that you're seriously trying to avoid, a place where not everyone is a troper... a place that's REAL.

[[quoteright:350:[[{{Fanboys}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cerebusS.jpg]]]]

->'''Haley''': Geez, we were a lot safer when we just made fairly obvious jokes about the rules!
->'''Vaarsuvius''': I blame Cerebus.
-->--''{{Order Of The Stick}}''

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-->--[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18621_the-sadness-toy-story-measured-in-tears-5Bchart5D.html Cracked.com chart]]: The Sadness of ''{{Toy Story}}'' Measured in [[TearJerker Tears]]

-->--[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18621_the-sadness-toy-story-measured-in-tears-5Bchart5D.html Cracked.com chart]], The Sadness of ''{{Toy Story}}'' Measured in [[TearJerker Tears]]

-->--[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18621_the-sadness-toy-story-measured-in-tears-5Bchart5D.html Cracked.com chart]], The [[TearJerker Sadness]] of ''{{Toy Story}}''