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Unused quotes should be put on a Quotes Wiki page (just replace the namespace in the URL of the wiki page you are making a quotes page for with Quotes/).

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Edited by wingedcatgirl on Jun 10th 2024 at 5:50:24 AM

FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
rasterax Since: Sep, 2023
#12877: Aug 22nd 2024 at 2:44:17 AM

[tdown] Suggested quote is essentially just a rephrasing of the trope title. Something like this from the quote page is actually illustrative:

Leonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organise and label the entire world around them?
Sheldon: No.
Leonard: Well, they don't. Hard as it may be for you to believe, most people don't sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fibre content.
Sheldon: Excuse me, but I think we've both found that useful at times.

DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12878: Aug 22nd 2024 at 5:20:22 AM

I'm not crazy about either of the suggested quotes. The Dishonored quote is bland, and the quote in [up] is basically the same joke as the current quote, only wordier.

Edited by DoktorvonEurotrash on Aug 22nd 2024 at 5:20:36 AM

rasterax Since: Sep, 2023
#12879: Aug 22nd 2024 at 5:29:41 AM

[up]I was going off the assumption that OP's problem was specifically with naming OCD by name. But I agree it's not exactly a great joke.

Bennings Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#12880: Aug 22nd 2024 at 8:34:12 AM

Honestly I'm a little bit confused as to what the trope *is*. It ranges from "people being fastidious about minor errors (ie what a lot of people think OCD is)" to "actual legitimate severe Howard Hawkes OCD cases" and the only thing they have in common is "referred to as OCD by the collective". Is it the former or the latter?

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#12881: Aug 22nd 2024 at 8:46:54 AM

[up] I don't think it has anything to do with OCD strictly. It's about characters being obsessed with order, which can be played for laughs or drama.

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#12882: Aug 22nd 2024 at 8:55:21 AM

Didn't it used to be called Super OCD? Maybe it wasn't cleaned properly after the rename?

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Bennings Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#12883: Aug 22nd 2024 at 9:16:15 AM

Yeah, the video example especially is going out of its way to establish OCD isn't the same as being obsessively organized. I feel like The Aviator and As Good As It Gets don't really belong for starters, they're just people with OCD. Hughes's hotel room is a complete mess when his condition's at its worst.

DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12884: Aug 22nd 2024 at 10:22:20 AM

[up][up]This wiki does seem to have a problem with tropes not being properly cleaned up after rename/retooling. This Wiki Talk page is about the issue.

EDIT: I guess the Big Bang Theory quote is okay, since it fits the trope without perpetuating stereotypes about OCD.

Edited by DoktorvonEurotrash on Aug 22nd 2024 at 10:25:06 AM

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#12885: Aug 22nd 2024 at 11:16:40 AM

Is the quote on This Index Is Emo illustrative enough? Like, it's probably something an emo would do, but does it really illustrate the index concept well?

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DoktorvonEurotrash Lex et Veritas from Not a place of honour (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12886: Aug 22nd 2024 at 11:43:16 AM

[up]I like it, but I've always found that song funny, so I may be biased. If a better quote is posted, I won't be opposed to changing.

Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#12887: Aug 22nd 2024 at 5:21:03 PM

UsefulNotes.Galileo Galilei has just been updated from:

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
— Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

To:
"Now if the Holy Spirit has purposely neglected to teach us propositions of this sort as irrelevant to the highest goal (that is, to our salvation), how can anyone affirm that it is obligatory to take sides on them, and that one belief is required by faith, while the other side is erroneous? Can an opinion be heretical and yet have no concern with the salvation of souls? Can the Holy spirit be asserted not to have intended teaching us something that does concern our salvation? I would have something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: 'That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'"
Galileo Galilei, quoting Cardinal Caesar Baronius in his letter to the Grand Duchess Christina


That feels a bit too long. If the previous quote was really Cardinal Baronius being quoted by Galileo, it might not be a good fit, but not sure this is either...

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#12888: Aug 22nd 2024 at 5:35:48 PM

I think the quote cant be changed without any previous discussion either.

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#12889: Aug 22nd 2024 at 8:57:17 PM

The quote on Foe Romance Subtext doesn't really indicate that the people involved are indeed foes and not actually lovers.

How's this for a replacement (with the potholes removed, of course):

Spike: You can't deny it. There's something between us.
Buffy: Loathing! Disgust!
Spike: Heat. Desire.

FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
Echidna from Ontario, Canada (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Two-timing
MrEdDude2000 Since: Nov, 2019 Relationship Status: Cast away
#12892: Aug 23rd 2024 at 7:58:25 AM

Have put a quote for the Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain trope page (though, someone else has modified it, as well):

"Megamind": YOU DARE CHALLENGE MEGAMIND?!
Tighten: This town ain't big enough for two supervillains!
"Megamind": Oh, you're a villain, alright, just not a super one!
Tighten: Yeah? What's the difference?
"Megamind": [emerges out of the Brainbots] PRESENTATION!

(Btw, that was Minion who was posing as Megamind there.)

What do you guys think? Stay or Pull?

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#12893: Aug 23rd 2024 at 7:59:09 AM

I don't think that indicates the "sympathetic" part. Based on that quote, Megamind could be just as evil, just more stylish

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MrEdDude2000 Since: Nov, 2019 Relationship Status: Cast away
#12894: Aug 23rd 2024 at 8:01:35 AM

[up] Yeah, you do have a point.

Might as well pull it off.

spyland2 Since: Jun, 2021
#12895: Aug 23rd 2024 at 11:34:54 AM

Would this quote work for The Irredeemable Exception?

"I think because we as a show have so much interest in humanizing our villains, I really wanted [Horde Prime] to be different. There is evil in this world. It's dishonest to say that everyone is capable or worthy of redemption. There are people who have stewed in their own hatred for so long that the only thing you can do is just… She-Ra banishes him. "There's no place for you in this world." If there was ever any good in [Horde Prime], if there ever was love or kindness, this is someone who has prolonged his life for so long by taking over the bodies of others, for centuries."

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
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#12896: Aug 23rd 2024 at 12:22:38 PM

[up]That works

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FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#12899: Aug 23rd 2024 at 5:28:33 PM

[up][up][up][up] Great quote!

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
number9robotic (Experienced Trainee)
#12900: Aug 23rd 2024 at 5:44:19 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] Ditto, can definitely go in.

While I'm here, wanna discuss Animal Lover just because its current quote is really lame, and the surrounding context doesn't really help (though part of it could probably make for a funny case of Bait-and-Switch Sentiment):

Fry: Leela, your scaredness is being transmitted straight to Bender. If you care about Nibbler, stop caring about him!
Leela: I can't! I love every living creature!
Fry: Even me?
Leela: As a friend.
Fry: Damn!

Animal Lover doesn't have a Quotes page to pick around for replacements, anyone got suggestions? I can't find anything right off the top of my head.

Edited by number9robotic on Aug 23rd 2024 at 5:44:57 AM

Thanks for playing King's Quest V!

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