"No, I really can't look at her. She's glowing, for God's sake. It's like staring at the sun!"
An Abridged Series of The Rose of Versailles by Cassius614
. This series not only mocks the usual abridging targets, but the whole genre of period Anime, and period fiction in general. Also tends to center on tropes even more than a typical abridged series, and sometimes even makes Oscar more Genre Savvy than simply complaining about the tropes the writers make her go through.
Rose of Versailles Abridged provides examples of:
- Bishie Sparkle: Lampshaded by Oscar. "Dudes can sparkle".
- Brain Bleach: When a prostitute hired to impersonate Marie for a cardinal notes she could just sleep with him, Jeanne says the image is just too horrible to think about.
- Captain Obvious: The crowds at Versailles wondering why they are saying things they already know.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Spoofed In-Universe. In Episode 11, a villain becomes so full of hate and darkness that he is struck by lightning and takes the live-action form of the villain from Schindler's List, just to mock how over the top his villainy was in the actual series.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Marie and Oscar each claim to be the most sparkly character on the show.
- Mook Chivalry: Oscar mocks the mooks for being careful to attack prominent characters one at a time.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Oscar's sense that tells her Marie is doing something dumb.
- Personal Dictionary: The Duke of Orleans, aka Light Guitar Hero, insists that Oscar is a whore, no matter how much others point out she doesn't fit the definition of a prostitute.
