The examples have a lot of "X takes place inside another character" - isn't that just Fantastic Voyage?
BTW, I'm a chick.What makes it different from Living Ship compared to a level? I know we've got a shitton of "generic videogame level" tropes.
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As I understand, Living Ship isn't always fully organic. It could involve heavy cybernetics, and the degree of "organicness" can vary significantly. Womb Level, on the other, involves a fully organic appearance, and isn't limited to spaceships or other vessels; it could be a land-based lair, for example.
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Refer to this passage from Womb Level:
edited 19th Mar '11 7:00:43 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I honestley don't see why it's called Womb Level when there is no requirement for it to be in the womb specifically. But I think the trope distinct enough.
Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova ScotianThe distinctions seem pretty clear to me.
Fantastic Voyage is, as the description says "A plot that involves characters being shrunk to enter someone's body", usually to fight off some horrible virus or blast out the blockage in their spleen with teeny-tiny proton torpedoes or something like that.
Living Ship is a vehicle made of Organic Technology.
Womb Level is a Video Game level which is made of meat. It doesn't have to involve anyone being shrunk, much less doing so for the express purpose of entering someone's body. Nor is the level necessarily a ship or vehicle, though it can be. Often (but not always) it involves being eaten by a giant creature.
So, if a non-video game character uses their innate ability to create Pocket Dimensions (and manipulate the spacetime fabric thereof) and apply Alien Geometries to create a vastly Bigger on the Inside Womb Level-style environment (or a collection of such environments) within their body, which they can then take other characters into (usually via Swallowed Whole), then what tropes apply?
And to be clear, no Organic Technology is involved, just natural (though clearly superhuman/nonhuman) "evolved" biology.
edited 2nd May '11 1:02:46 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I'd say that qualifies as a Fantastic Voyage, though it should be noted in the example that it is enacted via Alien Geometries rather than Incredible Shrinking Man.
Each night, he abandons the trappings of civilization. Each morning, he repairs the front door.What if the aforemention case is sometimes implemented in a harmful way - as in, he throws them into a hostile environment? Or simply as a temporary inescapable prison?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

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Are we sure this trope is strictly video game-only? The Living Ships of the Tyranids qualify for this trope, but the WH 40 K franchise originated from a tabletop game, and includes several novels; I can also easily imagine the concept being implemented in other forms of media, though I can't name any examples off the top of my head.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.