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
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Lord Drakkon? Dude is just nuts and pure evil, but is clear that he could have being a hero, he even sort of want to be one...but he just to cruel and arrogant to try.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Feb 27th 2019 at 6:16:46 AM
Watch me destroying my countryI don't sympathize with him, but Hamdo's death scene was just so pathetic, with him screaming and whining like a little child, I couldn't help but feel a bit of bitter pity.
Why so serious?I guess I would feel sympathy for Koba and Drakkon if they didn't go to for with thier actions.
Edited by Bullman on Feb 27th 2019 at 5:27:23 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI've always been sympathetic of Light Yagami... the dude goes WAY too far, but he really thought what he was doing was right (and in the long run, it kind of was), and his death in both the manga and anime show him flashing back to what he was like when he first got the Death Note, which I always interpreted as him finally, in his last moments, realizing what he had become. Still, went WAY too far with his delusional quest and killed THOUSANDS, so that kind of outweighs it.
Read Slender Man vs Siren Head 2: The Foundation hereAgain going back to Planescape, but Rowan Darkwood lived a long life of goodness as ranger who hunted evil giants, had a family he loved, gave himself over to devils to be tortured in his son's place, was tortured for decades, and came back to find everyone had moved on and had thus effectively lost everything he ever cared for. It's easy to understand how he fell into becoming a power hungry mad man, if not justify all the evils he would ultimately commit.
Edited by LoreDeluxe on Feb 27th 2019 at 3:39:34 AM
Think you're tough because you made it through Lord of the Rings? Real men survive The Silmarillion.There are quite a few CM's I could pity for their excuse had it not been for how evil they became because of it. Closest I can get are those whose excuses are expanded upon by Word of God statments, and that's only because I take their contexts into account.
Take Monique Deveraux into for example; as far as the show is concenred she just became a deranged fanatic who Used to Be a Sweet Kid. Word of God expands on her excuse by stating she became this way by being all but brainwashed into Stockholm Syndrome by other fanatics in the afterlife during her first death.
"It's like...a cliff, and if I do it, I'm just gonna...fall." "I think we're already falling."Its probably irrelevant, but whist I agreed he qualified, I did feel pity for that evil lord that got devoured by a plague mice that was put up a month or so back.
Not cause he deserved any, but simply cause his fate was dragged out so long (I mean it sounded like half the story was just him running in utter terror) that it quickly went past any point I could draw any catharsis, even if he completely deserved it.
I did felt pity on two C Ms that I put (Bizon and Teeki). But that doesnt excuse their actions at the end of the day.
Also, yes to all of the candidates I missed.
speaking of feel pity... i still wonder if heel realization is an insta disqualifier for a cm?
And oh right... While this girl is a fragment of the approved CM, i still feel pity for Malty's final fate and thats not how you supposed to do with your Hate Sink despite her catharsis Karmic Death. While she had a fucked up fate, she ends up wins at the end because the protagonist did exactly on what she accuses him of albeit by proxy
Edited by ElfenLiedFan90 on Feb 27th 2019 at 7:27:44 PM
"Making screw-ups and mistakes was I ever really good at. Because everything I touch went to hell."
Armand, Kim, William.
As for me? Adam Taurus, honestly. Yeah, he's a soulless, abusive, racist bastard first and foremost, but between his implied backstory, Fallen Hero qualities, (Even if they insist he was never good) and what always came off to me as some serious mental issues, I find it easy to pity him.
I'll say Kid Doflamingo. Yes, he brought it on himself, but those noble-haters were faaaaaaaaaaaaaar out of line even so.
There are also a few characters that were given such utterly torturous deaths that I can't help but feel a bit bad for them. Like, I recall one guy who was buried alive in salt, meaning his death was a combination of suffocation and having his innards roasted from the inside out.
Edited by HamburgerTime on Feb 27th 2019 at 6:52:44 AM
Also, as an opponent of torture, Alan Wilson. His precise fate is never explicitly stated, but we're told it was both extremely painful and nonfatal, which might just make it worse. Word of God simply said he was "broken."
Edited by HamburgerTime on Feb 27th 2019 at 6:57:30 AM
Never really been the type to pity a CM myself. I mean, I can find some aspects of their past or death sad, but at the end of the day I remember all the horrible things they've done and think "Yyyyyyyeah, he/she kinda had it coming" (Koba being my favorite example of this).
Edited by FriedWarthog on Feb 27th 2019 at 5:43:32 AM
@HamburgerTime: Shit, that was Razim, wasn't it? I remember getting him up years ago.
As for CMs I pitied? Honestly? I can't name any. Thing with me is I usually can't invest pity in characters who are murdering and torturing everything in sight. Mothergod probably came closest; her final fate was really skeevy in what was otherwise a fantastic storyline.
@Scrags: Agreed. Maybe Light Yagami, but he only counts in the manga so I can't even say him. And even then, with the anime, part of me was going "You know, you did get Takada to kill Mello—who I actually liked. And then you made her burn herself alive. And you made Naomi kill herself after killing her husband soooooooo fuck you."
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No. Not really. I mean, I could see why someone would "pity" characters such as Lotso or Koba, but otherwise, I feel nothing for them.