History Tropers / TheDireFlamingohawkrobin

Favourite movie: ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''

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[[folder:The Royal Hotel draft]]
* AmbiguousSituation: everything about our protagonists' background. Are they actually Canadian or just pretending to be because, as Live says, “People love Canadians”? What are they running away from? Why is Liv behaving so self-destructively?
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: given how many venomous snakes live in the land down under, most Aussies would probably not call someone a bad person for killing one. But after Liv & Hanna ask Dolly to deal with a huge snake in their living quarters, Hanna is horrified when Dolly kills it and presents it to her in a jar, and decides he must be dangerous.
* BaitTheDog: even after Hanna's most trying shift yet, she's still charmed when Matty starts playing Mental As Anything's “The World Seems Difficult” and asks her to dance. She goes to let him in — only to slam the door shut again when she sees he brought creepy psychopath Dolly with him. [[spoiler:Cue the two men straight up smashing their way into the pub and the girls' room to drag a drunken Liv out to their car to “go see the sunrise”.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: {{Subverted}} in the climax. [[spoiler:Teeth rams Dolly's truck and starts beating the shit out of him as he tries to drag Liv away, but his dialogue reveals he's only doing it out of [[CockFight a competitive sense of entitlement to Liv herself]]]], not heroism.
* TheBogan: almost every male character in the film is a blue collar Aussie machine that converts alcohol into casual misogyny.
* CasanovaWannabe: Dolly fits the bill, though he pretty quickly descends into [[spoiler:screaming and throwing things when Hanna declines his advances]].
* CountryMatters: this being Australia, yeah it comes up a lot -- though only Hanna is offended by it, with Liv writing it off as [[CultureJustifiesAnything just a dialect thing]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: hinted at, in Liv & Hanna's case. Hanna makes an offhand remark about travelling to the middle of nowhere because “it was the furthest away,” and Liv's HardDrinkingPartyGirl tendencies appear to be driven by something similar. She mentions the purpose of their trip was to “get away from everything” and breaks down in tears when it's brought up.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Teeth has a crush on Liv and is the only major male character who's consistently nice to her & Hanna, even unintentionally helping them at one point; though his feelings are not reciprocated and in the end he acts just as entitled as the others.
* EntitledToHaveYou: most of the male characters suffer from this, but the cake taker is [[spoiler:Dolly]], who flips his shit and starts trashing the bar when [[spoiler:Hanna]] won't have a beer with him while she's supposed to be working. Even the otherwise harmless Teeth, who [[spoiler:comes to Liv & Hanna's rescue in the finale, is mad at Dolly not for his rapey behaviour but because he has decided Liv is “his”.]]
* GrinOfRage: After Hanna [[spoiler:bursts the rear tires of Dolly's truck]], he just stares at her with a mirthless grin plastered on his face. It's a disturbing departure from his angry drunken tirade in the bar the night before.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: the two young English women working at the pub when Liv and Hanna arrive. We see them pounding back liquor, dancing on the bar, flashing the crowd, and having sex with at least one of the miners (one of them implies she has done this before, for cash). Liv also seems bound and determined to become this, only snapping out of it when [[spoiler:Hanna acquires a black eye while trying to stop her from driving off with Dolly and Matty who were most likely going to try to rape her]].
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: it's subtle, but when [[spoiler:Dolly and his friends]] try to drive off with [[spoiler:a ''heavily'' intoxicated Liv]] in their truck, it's clear they have ill intentions.
* JustJokingJustification: crops up quite a bit, from the male customer making uncomfortably sexual “blonde jokes” at Hanna (who is blonde) and getting offended when she ignores him, to [[spoiler:Dolly]] trying to pass off a violent tirade against [[spoiler:Hanna and two other customers]] as “a joke”.
* MisplacedRetribution: During [[spoiler:Dolly]]'s meltdown over [[spoiler:Hanna's refusal to have a beer with him]], he also begins accosting an older married couple who happens to be present, throwing money at them and cursing them out for no other reason than that they happen to be there while he's pissed at [[spoiler:Hanna]].
* NoWomansLand: the titular pub is not the most overt example, but it certainly isn't safe for our protagonists. They haven't even been there ''a day'' when Billy barges in on them in the shower (they have towels on, but it isn't as if he bothers to check). From the outset, the demanding clientele bombard them with off-colour jokes and sexual harassment but escalate to [[spoiler:violent tantrums and attempted kidnappings when their advances are ignored]]. Just to hammer home how little anyone cares about their safety, when Hanna asks Billy to ban [[spoiler:Dolly for screaming at her and a pair of customers while pelting them with coins because she wouldn't have a drink with him]], Billy scoffs and refuses, saying he “would have to ban them all.” None of the miners so much as bat an eye at their colleagues shoving a woman to the ground or driving off with a severely intoxicated woman in their truck.
* RedOniBlueOni: Liv is the red oni, throwing herself into the party lifestyle and enjoying the men's attention much more than Hanna, the blue oni, who is more reserved and cautious (which ultimately keeps a bad situation from getting worse). It's set up in their very first scene, with Hanna being the one to learn they're out of money and immediately go tell Liv, who can barely stop making out with a guy she just met long enough to care. [[spoiler:In the third act they almost trade places, with Hanna demanding to leave while Liv wants to stay, and Hanna angrily swinging an axe at the men trying to abduct Liv while Liv tells her to leave it alone.]]
* UncertainDoom: the third act kicks off with [[spoiler:Billy]] being taken to the hospital -- a three hour drive away. He never reappears in the film, so it's uncertain if he survives or not.

* BaitTheDog: even after Hanna's most trying shift yet, she's still charmed when Matty starts playing Mental As Anything's “The World Seems Difficult” and asking her to dance. She goes to let him in — only to slam the door shut again when she sees creepy psychopath Dolly is with him. [[spoiler:Cue the two men straight up smashing their way into the pub and the girls' room to drag a drunken Liv out to their car to “go see the sunrise”.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: everything about our protagonists' background is left vague. They claim to be Canadian, but a throwaway line from Liv hints they might not be. When asked why she came to such a remote place, Hanna cryptically remarks “It was the furthest away.” Liv also breaks down in tears at one point, saying this vacation was to “get away from everything”.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: hinted at, in Liv & Hanna's case. Hanna makes an offhand remark about travelling to the middle of nowhere to be “far away” from something, and Liv's HardDrinkingPartyGirl tendencies appear to be driven by something similar.

* RedOniBlueOni: Liv is the red oni, throwing herself into the party lifestyle and enjoying the men's attention much more than Hanna, the blue oni, who is more reserved and cautious (which ultimately keeps a bad situation from getting worse). [[spoiler:In the third act they almost trade place, with Hanna demanding to leave while Liv wants to stay, and Hanna angrily swinging an axe at the men trying to abduct Liv while Liv tells her to leave it alone.]]

* NoWomansLand: the titular pub is not the most overt example, but it certainly isn't safe for our protagonists. They haven't even been there ''a day'' when Billy barges in on them in the shower (they have towels on, but it isn't as if he bothers to check) the clientele bombard them with inappropriate jokes and aggressive flirtation but escalate to [[spoiler:violent tantrums and attempted kidnappings when their advances are ignored]]. Just to hammer home how little anyone cares about their safety, when Hanna asks Billy to ban [[spoiler:Dolly for screaming at her and a pair of customers while pelting them with coins because she wouldn't have a drink with him]], Billy scoffs and refuses, saying he “would have to ban them all.” None of the miners so much as bat an eye at their colleagues shoving a woman to the ground or driving off with a severely intoxicated woman in their truck.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: given how many venomous snakes live in the land down under, most Aussies would probably not call someone a bad person for killing one. But when Liv & Hanna are forced to rely on Dolly to deal with a huge snake in their living quarters, Hanna is horrified after Dolly kills it and presents it to her in a jar. To her this is exhibit A that he is mentally unwell.

* CountryMatters: this being Australia, yeah it comes up a lot -- though only Hanna is offended by it, with Liv writing it off as [[just a dialect thing CultureJustifiesAnything]].

* DoggedNiceGuy: Teeth has a crush on Liv ajnd is the only major male character who's consistently nice to her & Hanna, even unintentionally helping them at one point; though his feelings are not reciprocated and in the end he's just as entitled as the others.

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Teeth]] turns out to be this after seeming like the DoggedNiceGuy at first.

* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''[[labelnote:especially]] ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}, Discworld/MenAtArms, Discworld/{{Thud}}, Discworld/GoingPostal'' and ''Discworld/MakingMoney''[[/labelnote]]

'''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Sam Vimes]]:''' If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat. They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.\\

'''[[Discworld/WyrdSisters Granny Weatherwax]]:''' Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact.\\

'''[[Discworld/WyrdSisters Nanny Ogg]]:''' I’ve nothing against ghosts. …But my cottage’s no place for them. There’s some woman in a chariot yelling her head off in the washhouse! I ask you! And there’s a couple of little kiddies in the pantry, and men without heads all over the place, and someone screaming under the sink, and there’s this little hairy man wandering around looking lost and everything. It’s not right.\\

'''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Sam Vimes]]:''' The Ramkins were as highly bred as a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.\\

'''[[Franchise/Transformers Optimus Prime]]:''' My friend's name was Megatron and he had three questions! Three things he said you should ''demand'' to know of any powerful institution. Question one: in whose interests do you exercise your powers? Question Two: to whom are you accountable? And ''three!'' '''''How can we get rid of you?'''''\\

'''[[WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory Stay]] [[Film/GhostBusters Puft]]:''' I live so large, you can’t harsh my mellow! Just one step took me out the ghetto! You best be afraid of my marshmallow flows ‘cause Big Puft just turned all you bitches to toast!!\\

'''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-12-most-deeply-unsexy-halloween-costumes_p2/ Seanbaby]]:''' Publicly strapping an inflatable woman to your crotch is what’s known in the penis community as a “retirement ceremony”. This is a costume for a man who knows exactly how long to microwave a melon to make it feel like a human vagina. Buddhists believe that whenever a plastic bag suffocates a baby, its punishment is to come back as the lower half of a [[http://i.imgur.com/9hYUcuS.jpg Down for the Count costume]].\\

'''[[StarTrekEnterprise Jonathan Archer]]:''' I can't save humanity without holding onto what makes me human.\\

-->'''Wallace Shawn:''' The life of an actor can be very enviable. If the phone rings and somebody says, “I see you as [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the leader of a group of aliens with enormous heads]]”, I think that’s fantastic.\\

'''[[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Spock]]:''' If I were human, I believe my response would be… “Go to Hell.” ''If'' I were human.\\

'''[[StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome McCoy]]:''' You mean I’ve got to ''die'' to discuss your thoughts on death?\\

'''[[TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dan McNinja]]:''' Here. I’ll pour you a Molson. It’s got a higher alcohol content than most American beers. And maybe that will help sterilize all those cuts on your face.\\

'''[[TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dan McNinja]]:''' This is pretty easy, kids. Are you really on the ninja drug? You sure you’re not on PCP? [hits punk with barstool] Hmm… no. If you were on PCP, you’d probably try to eat the barstool that hit you. Because you’d think it was Lucifer, and if you could eat it, you’d have all the strength he just hit you with, and then you could beat me. You would ''not'' be vomiting now. Come on, it wasn’t that hard. That’s gross. [{{Beat}}] And don’t ''cry''.\\

'''[[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Colin Mochrie]]:''' I believe it was DrSeuss who said, “With my hands should I clap? No no no, you’re [[BigStupidDoodooHead crap crap crap]]!”\\

'''[[RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]:''' But still, a lot of you will claim that I'm one of those people that says "George Lucas ruined my childhood. Now that's just crazy talk. George Lucas didn’t ruin my childhood; fucking polio did!\\

'''LouisCK:''' “My phone sucks.” No it doesn't! The shittiest cellphone is a miracle! Your ''life'' sucks ''around'' the phone.\\
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* ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI: Ewok This Way]]'' — [[IndianaJones Han]] and [[ActionGirl Leia]] go ''[[MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Metal Gear Solid]]'' on a bunker with some teddy bears, while Luke finally confronts the asshole responsible for every bad thing in this entire franchise, while getting in some quality father/son time.

* ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Wary Pooter and the Picnicker of Asskaboom]]'' — The Ministry of Magic can’t figure out why inmates of their impregnable maximum-security wizard prison, Asskaboom (which is guarded by the absent-minded Dummentals), keep wandering off. Wary meets his sketchy “uncle” Serious Plaque, Wrong regrets changing clothes in front of his pet rat, and Yerwhiny gets [[DoctorWho timey-wimey]].

** ''[[Seires/StarWarsTheCloneWars Star Wars: The Cash Grab]]'' — The forces of the Republic and the Confederacy try to create as many new action figures as possible, while Anakin tries to get his new apprentice to stop dressing like a [[{{Stripperiffic}} stripper]] as they face an insidious new menace: '''PUBERTY.'''

* ''[[ThePhantomMenace Episode I: The Random Premise]]'' — [[CloudCuckoolander Qui-Gon Jinn]] and [[OnlySaneMan Obi-Wan Kenobi]] rescue a spoiled, underage [[RoyalBrat queen]] against her will, dragging a [[TheyKilledKennyAgain remarkably resilient frogman]] and an [[TheChosenOne annoying child]] into their convoluted search for a narrative. Read the first chapter [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1666841/chapters/3537560 here]].
* ''[[AttackOfTheClones Episode II: Game of Clones]]'' — Anakin hits puberty in a big way, and generally ruins everything with his [[DoubleEntendre lightsaber]], ''and'' his [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lightsaber]]. Padmé has trouble [[StayInTheKitchen getting anyone to take her seriously]], and [[TheAlcoholic Obi-Wan]] gets horribly lost trying to find a coherent narrative that remains elusive. Eventually they are drawn into a confrontation with [[strike:Lord Saruman]] [[CaptainErsatz Count Dooku]].
** ''[[StarWarsTheCloneWars Star Wars: The Cash Grab]]'' — The forces of the Republic and the Confederacy try to create as many new action figures as possible, while Anakin tries to get his new apprentice to stop dressing like a [[{{Stripperiffic}} stripper]] as they face an insidious new menace: '''PUBERTY.'''
* ''[[RevengeOfTheSith Episode III: Everybody Dies]]'' — Anakin's concerns with Coruscant's healthcare system lead him to [[DisproportionateRetribution murder everyone]]. Palpatine becomes Emperor on a platform of Jedi murder and [[LargeHam chewing the scenery]]. Also there's some guy named [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Grievous]], but who cares?
* ''[[ANewHope Episode IV: A New Whiner]]'' — Poor Obi-Wan's peaceful retirement is put on hold so he can babysit another whiny ChosenOne, only this time [[PlotArmor he can finally die]].
* ''[[TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V: The Sith Hits the Fan]]'' — Vader fucks everybody's shit up. Luke chills in a swamp with the last living Jedi, who has gone hopelessly senile. Han and Leia search for the only black guy in the galaxy.
* ''[[ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI: Ewok This Way]]'' — [[IndianaJones Han]] and [[ActionGirl Leia]] go ''[[MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Metal Gear Solid]]'' on a bunker with some teddy bears, while Luke finally confronts the asshole responsible for every bad thing in this entire franchise, while getting in some quality father/son time.

** ''[[DarkEmpire Dork Empire]]'' — Palpatine's back, he has a really big space gun, nobody gives a shit, and Luke and Leia finally realize [[BrotherSisterIncest they were meant]] [[{{Twincest}} for each other]].

!Other Things I Like
[[folder: …to Read]]

[[folder: …to Watch]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''

* ''Film/X2XMenUnited''

[[folder: …to Listen To]]

[[folder: …to Play]]
I'm not much of a gamer but I love ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (3.5 generally) and some classics like ''VideoGame/KirbySuperstar'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal2}}'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''

'''[[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness Khan]]:''' Because I am better.\\
'''Kirk:''' At what?\\
'''Khan:''' ''Everything.''\\
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'''[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]]:''' Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but blinding! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me.\\

'''[[Franchise/TheDCU Batman]]:''' It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] is the most human of us all. Then…he shoots fire from the skies, and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to ''him''.\\

'''[[Film/IronMan3 The Mandarin]]:''' True story about fortune cookies: They look Chinese. They sound Chinese. But they're actually an American invention, which is why they're hollow, full of lies, and leave a bad taste in the mouth.\\

[[folder: Quotes to LOL by]]

* Creator/LouisCK
* the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', especially
** ''Film/TheAvengers''
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''
** ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''

* DontHugMeImScared

Favourite book series: ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' (especially ''Literature/DeadBeat'' and ''Literature/SkinGame'') ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' is the greatest comic ever created.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''
** ''Discworld/MenAtArms''
** ''Discworld/{{Thud}}''
** ''Discworld/GoingPostal''
** ''Discworld/MakingMoney''

** ''Literature/ThisBookIsFullOfSpidersSeriouslyDudeDontTouchIt''

* ''[[Creator/ThisIsIt Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]]''

* ''WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic''

— The TheDireFlamingohawkrobin

I'm not a major contributor to TVTropes, although I chime in from time to time. I created the pages for ''Film/UncleBuck'' and ''Webcomic/ScenesFromAMultiverse'' because it was simply criminal that such things did not exist. My absolute favourite movie of all time is ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and my most beloved TV shows are ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' [[labelnote:favourite episodes:]]“Duet”, “Civil Defense”, “In the Pale Moonlight”, “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang”[[/labelnote]] and ''Series/{{Community}}'' [[labelnote:favourite episodes:]]“Basic Genealogy”, “Physical Education”, “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”, “Basic RV Repair and Palmistry”[[/labelnote]]. My all-time favourite book series is ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' (especially ''Literature/DeadBeat'' and ''Literature/SkinGame''), and ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' is the greatest comic ever created.

I love movies, but I guess I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t. Still getting around to some of the classics like ''Film/TheGodfather'', thanks to my strict religious upbringing. I also spend a lot of time talking about superheroes for a guy who doesn’t really read comic books. In my spare time I like to play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth'', usually as a GameMaster. (Being an aspiring writer helps.) I mainly write original fantasy/sci-fi, but I have an insatiable taste for {{parody}} as well.

Colin Mochrie is my spirit animal.