SomeSortOfTroper
Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Jan 16th 2011 at 12:43:00 PM
Should have taken this to trope talk....
derivative of "placing someone on a pedestal".
INUH
Since: Jul, 2009
#3: Jan 16th 2011 at 12:43:46 PM
Extreme admiration for someone can be called "putting them on a pedestal." A broken pedestal, then, would be the trope.
^That.
edited 16th Jan '11 12:43:57 PM by INUH
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EternalSeptember
Since: Sep, 2010
#4: Jan 16th 2011 at 1:06:38 PM
I just wanted to say that as a non-native speaker, I didn't hear that saying before, but I still figured the intention out from the concepts associated with a pedestal. A pedestal is something that holds great things. I the pedestal is broken, the supposedly great thing is no longer supported, it will fall.
Elle
Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Jan 16th 2011 at 4:58:55 PM
I made a note of the etymology in the trope description. I think we can close this now.
Total posts: 5
First off, this is a fairly decent article with both its wicks and inbounds in the mid hundreds.
But ... exactly how is the name indicative of the trope? Is this a pre-existing term? Where is the Trope Namer? I'm not locating anything on Google to tell me where this name comes from or what it means.
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