During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
Specific issues include:
- Overzealous hollers on tropers who come into the threads without being familiar with all the rules and traditions of the tropes. And when they are familiar with said rules and traditions, they get accused (with little evidence) of being ban evaders.
- A few tropers in the thread habitually engage in snotty, impolite mini-modding. There are also regular complaints about excessive, offtopic "socializing" posts.
- Many many thread regulars barely post/edit anywhere else, making the threads look like they are divorced from the rest of TV Tropes.
- Following that, there are often complaints about the threads and their regulars violating wiki rules, such as on indexing, crosswicking, example context and example categorization. Some folks are working on resolving the issues, but...
- Often moderator action against thread regulars leads to a lot of participants suddenly showing up in the moderation threads to protest and speak on their behalf, like a clique.
It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
Update: The new threads have been made and can be found here:
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Noah and the Mother
How about we return to Oz for a moment?
Who is he? Yuri Kosygin is a quiet and seemingly harmless Cossack who is gradually shown to be the most dangerous lifer in all of Oz despite his position as a minor antagonist in the grand scheme of things. A living example of From Nobody to Nightmare, Kosygin was once an honest teacher from Moscow who fled the recently-dissolved Soviet Union to find a better for him and his wife in the United States. Growing disillusioned with the American Dream, Kosygin began working as a simple painter for Leonid Roginsky, a mob boss belonging to a feared group known as the Organizatse... Until one day, Roginsky made the unwise to decision to kick Kosygin in front of his wife, the not-so-innocent Kosygin then lost control over himself and strangled his boss to death on the spot, apathetic to the fact that his wife was watching everything. Instead of punishing Kosygin for killing one of their high-ranking members, the Organizatse was impressed with his Blood Knight tendencies and recruited him. No longer the pathetic and unlucky man from before, Kosygin quickly gained a reputation for being "the most brutal hitman in Little Odessa", and he enjoyed every second of it.
Before arriving in Oz, Kosygin armed himself with an Uzi and shot up a restaurant to kill a single target, the drive-by that he was caught for not only killed his target but also seven other people. Transferred to Emerald City, Kosygin returned to his old habits and murdered one of the Christian inmates for the leader of the Irish gang, using his own sharp glasses as an improvised weapon to kill his target. Learning that his only acquaintance in Oz—another Russian inmate by the name of Nikolai Stanislofsky—snitched on him under the suspicion that Kosygin was sent to Oz to silence him, Kosygin proves him right by meticuously waiting for Stanislofsky in an empty room and trying to stab him with his glasses, all while sadistically recounting his life story, how he initially felt guilty for killing Roginsky but got a taste for murder with each hit and how Stanislofsky now has the honor of being his 50th victim. Stanislofsky barely manages to survive and Kosygin and is sent to solitary confinement, where he is disposed of by a visiting "state department employee" in a deleted scene.
Heinous? I initially believed he wouldn't count because of issues with Offscreen Villainy, but he has the highest confirmed bodycount in the show and the flashback to back it up—thanks for reminding me, ACW—so I guess we're okay in this department?
Mitigating Qualities? The elephant in the room: his wife. We never get to see her in person and Kosygin doesn't make any attempts to call her from prison when it's standard procedure for inmates to contact their loved ones. As a matter of fact, Kosygin only remembers her existence when he's frightening Stanislofsky into submission, and he wasn't afraid to commit his first murder in front of her because an Asshole Victim embarassed him, which comes off more as a twisted sense of masculinity rathan than genuine love for her. And then there is this:
- Freudian Excuse: He used to be a law-abiding professor, until he was fired and forced to work as a servant for a cruel and abusive member of the Mafiya. Eventually, he snapped and murdered the man, leaving him branded as a murderer, forcing him to become a hitman.
That is... Not true at all, Kosygin himself explictly states that he was hired by the Organizatse to commit a second murder after his killing of Roginsky, and he simply went along with it again and again for the sake of It Gets Easier.
Conclusion? Leaning
Edited by TheMadCr0w on Sep 11th 2021 at 1:02:17 PM
for Kosygin
Also, here's my write-up.
- Blue Reflection Ray: Shino Mizusaki's mother was the leader of the Saint Inés Religion and abusive to both her and her twin sister Kano. She used them as the figurehead of her movement to eliminate the weak people of society (i.e., the sick, poor, elderly, and uneducated). However, she forced Kano to be Shino, denying her a sense of self and beating her whenever she acknowledged herself as an individual. Whenever Shino made a mistake, she would beat Kano in her place, saying that her mistakes are why her sister is suffering. Eventually, this culminated in her performing a ritual to make Shino a true god by draining Kano's blood and force-feeding it to Shino. Her actions are in part what led to Shino's current misanthropy.
Getting Ivan out of the way:
- No Dead Heroes: General Ivan Dimanovitch is introduced as the Torture Technician of a VietCong base, taking pleasure in tormenting captured American and South Vietnamese captives, gleefully abusing prisoners, beating captives to death with his bare hands and ripping out an American POW's fingernails with pliers. After the botched POW rescue mission in the Action Prologue where Ivan captured William Sanders' best friend Harry Cotter, a Time Skip that follows a decade later reveals that Ivan had Harry converted into his personal killing machine via microchip in the brain, whose effectiveness Ivan executes firstly by sending Harry back to America to execute his entire family, and later on controlling Harry into firing an Uzi in a church full of people, slaughtering everyone. Using Harry as pawn for covert assassination assignments, Ivan intends to frame the CIA for the murders while overthrowing entire governments for him to reshape the world in his own image, and when William gets captured trying to stop Ivan, Ivan had William's Love Interest Barbara subjected to being raped while William is forced to listen.
The kid is covered in bandages after Sir Ram is done with him (in fact he is now made of bandages and can kinda shapeshift his body to easily escape or fit into tight spaces). There is a brief flashback of the kid screaming.
This is what he looked like after the experiments:
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Edited by Overlord on Sep 11th 2021 at 8:36:38 AM
to General Ivan Dimanovitch, Lewis “Lew” Orlander, Father Noah Morissette, Shino Mizusaki's mother, and Yuri Kosygin. A more tentative one to Nui Harime as well.
@TNBY: Couldn't find a discussion on it, but the film was mentioned here
.

I have to step out, but if Shino's mom gets approved while I'm gone, let me know and I'll put the write-up in when I can.