If we're clarifiying Remove The Head Or Destroy The Brain to be undead-only, it'll almost certainly need a rename as well. Nothing in that name implies undead-only (except apparently to one particular fandom).
I'm pretty sure it's a quote, or close to being a quote, from Night Of The Living Dead. I'm not disagreeing with "only means something to one particular fandom" though.
edited 17th Feb '12 3:39:17 PM by abk0100
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Voting's been stable for a while. Can we call this? Does the 2:1 requirement apply here?
Do the rename. Skip the merge.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
So now I suppose it's time to brainstorm names. Immortal While Head Attached?
edited 23rd Feb '12 11:37:27 AM by tbarrie
edit: hm, that does make the zombie thing more of a problem. I withdraw the suggestion.
edited 23rd Feb '12 9:37:25 PM by pawsplay
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While I really like that one, it's dialogue. And debatably, that one.
Decapitation Dispatch or Dispatching Decapitation were two I suggested earlier.
The Internet misuses, abuses, and overuses everything.The real problem with Off with His Head! is that it's already taken.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Jupiterian Local
How about something like Decapitation Required? We need to make sure that the name is indicative of the fact that decapitation is the only way to kill it, or else it'll just be mistaken for Off with His Head!. The only other things I can think of are longer and clunkier (eg, Decapitation Required For Death, Death By Decapitation Only, etc).
edited 25th Feb '12 10:46:39 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Good.
Those all seem kind of dull IMHO.
How about Kill It With Decapitation or Kill It With A Beheading, as a play off Kill It with Fire? The two tropes have similar structure: on the one hand, there the fact that it is often the "answer" to the "quesiton" of "how do I kill this thing?!?"; while on the other hand, there's also the element that it can usually be expected to work on just about any foe, and thus serves as a go-to solution when you're out of other ideas (as illustrated by the page quote). There are exceptions to the latter, but it illustrates the relationship between this trope and the Rule of Perception as explained in the description; and for that matter, despite the description of Kill It with Fire there are things that can't be killed with fire.
The "works on anything" part is even for similar reasons; it counteracts a lot of the things that make something hard to kill in the first place, like a Healing Factor.
...Heh, someone's even added a link to Vorpal Weakness in Kill It with Fire. :)
So yeah, Kill It With Decapitation or Kill It With A Beheading? Like it / don't like it?
Two things. First, Kill It with Fire is a much more general trope about the destructive power of extreme fireness. Second, Kill It with Fire is a dialog name, which means it only gets to be the name if that is clearly better than other alternatives. In this case it will never clear the bar, since Kill It With A Beheading is already being potholed into a synoposis of Alice in Wonderland by a prescient troper, even as we speak.
Ravenous Sophovore
Crowners exchanged.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
I liked my suggestion of Prerequisite Decapitation, but it's much harder to spell than the equally to-the-point Decapitation Required.
Ravenous Sophovore
Bumping for votes.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Immortal While Head Attached would probably make a very good searchable redirect.
Hammer of the Pervs
Before I read through the thread, I'm guessing from the title and crowner that this trope is about a creature or being or whatever who won't die unless his head is removed from his body. The reference is either the vorpal blade in "Jabberwocky" from Through The Looking Glass, or something stupid about vorpal swords in Dungeons & Dragons.
Edit: Yup, that's what it is.
Decapitation Required wins for me. Immortal While Head Attached isn't bad, and I agree it's a good redirect. I kind of liked The Highlander Solution, though. Should I add it to the crowner or is it not iconic enough to keep the reference?
edited 10th Apr '12 1:58:35 PM by Martello
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Should this be indexed on the Immortality supertrope?
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Chop Off Its Head. (Forgive me, I'm thinking Axe Cop.)
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What would be the best way to fix the page?
Votes have been ticking since you bumped it, so let's see if it stabilises again.
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