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Hmmmm. That's not good. Real Life starts at line 256, and takes up 80 lines of 285 examples lines total. It's over a quarter of the examples. That's a lot.
edited 7th Sep '11 3:55:03 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I'm all for cutting Real Life on this trope. There is Totally Looks Like
for people who want to play games about comparing celebrities.
edited 7th Sep '11 3:57:37 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Loser
I agree with shimaspawn about cutting the real life section. I cannot think of much related to storytelling that examples about two people looking alike would cover. That seems like trivia to me more than anything.
edited 7th Sep '11 5:55:54 PM by LouieW
"irhgT nm0w tehre might b ea lotof th1nmgs i dont udarstannd, ubt oim ujst goinjg to keepfollowing this pazth i belieove iN !!!!!1 d
While on the topic, comedy is not the only use. Sometimes it is played for drama, such as the A Tale Of Two Cities example.
edited 7th Sep '11 6:05:32 PM by Auxdarastrix
I say cut it and move some of it over to Celebrity Resemblance if people really want to look at these bits of trivia.
edited 8th Sep '11 1:00:22 PM by khalini
Cure Candy
Yeah kill the real life examples, which would also mean killing the picture too.
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!
Yeah, this is a plot trope (sometimes it's You Look Familiar with a Lampshade Hanging) and thereby doesn't count unless the plot is actually in use. Only a handful of Real Life examples actually count, like Tina Fey / Sarah Palin and Natalie Portman / Keira Knightley (as their similarity was actually used in that way). I would say the page image is also inappropriate because of that, but honestly the resemblence is uncanny enough to illustrate the trope. Most of the Real Life examples are just vague similarities (such as a similar jaw line and that's all; nose, mouth and eyes are vastly different).
edited 8th Sep '11 1:38:34 PM by KJMackley
I support cutting the real life section. I think the page image is fine, though it might be more appropriate as the page image for Celebrity Resemblance.
Yeah, it's hard for me to think of a circumstance where this trope even would have a real life section.
First TRS thread. I noticed that many people seem to be ignoring this trope's definition and confusing it with Celebrity Resemblance. Although both of these are about physical resemblance between different people to some degree, Identical Stranger is explicitly about people who look so much alike that they're actually or near-impossible to tell apart.
The Real Life section has gotten especially bad about this. With some exceptions, almost all of them could be transported to the Celebrity Resemblance trivia.