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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Who is the Candidate and What have they Done?
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
Pickman.
Here's a nifty quote if it does get its own page:
I'm wondering: aside from the Crossroads and MCU!Ego, do we have any other Genius Loci CMs?
~ACW, did you get my entry correction?
Edit: Never mind. It'll be dealt with later.
Edited by SkyCat32 on Nov 18th 2019 at 5:46:42 AM
Image may work.
Shall I create a page?
I'm trusting those who know the work to order the entries.
FYI, In Death page won't be locked for some time. Mir and myself each have several more possibilities. Among them are Human Traffickers (baby sellers) from me and an Enfant Terrible from Mir.
Yup. Doctor Who villain. Main villain of the episode The Doctor's Wife.
Edited by Awesomekid42 on Nov 18th 2019 at 6:07:36 AM
to the Crossroads, Ryo, and Pinkman.
Now then here's Mateo's write-up
- Jack Ryan: Mateo Bastos is President Nicolas Reyes' head of security, but manages to surpass Reyes in sheer cruelty. Participating in the bombing that led to the deaths of Senator Jim Moreno and countless others, Bastos would murder the family of a body guard whom his associates bribed, children included, and later kills the body guard himself; He would also capture a group of rebels and torture them into making false confessions. Bastos would also murder US soldier Matice before having his men degrade Matice's corpse. Bastos would also kidnapped James Greer and torture him at his prison camp where its he kidnapped numerous people throughout Venezuela to be brought here to torture and kill; one such victim includes the husband Reyes' political rival, whom Bastos had kept in his prison camp for years. Bastos would later take Greer to Reyes' mansion for further interrogation while ordering his men to execute his remain 41 prisoners. When Greer frees himself, Bastos uses one of his own men as a Human Shield when Greer tires to shoot him, before trying to escape.
Edited by G-Editor on Nov 18th 2019 at 1:15:33 AM
My sandbox of EPs and other stuffStar King Bazeu is another Genius Loci.
Also gonna
Pickman. I don't usually vote on candidates I'm not familiar with, but that EP was particularly compelling to me for some reason.
Edited by finalsurvivor1 on Nov 18th 2019 at 7:35:33 AM
Eldritch Abomination and Genius Loci coincide at times it seems (Bazeu, Mnggal squared).
And another new post today!
What's the setting?
The Marvel Super Heroes, way back in 1966, was one of the earliest Marvel animated cartoons there was. I use the term "animated" loosely; it's not quite Synchro-Vox, but the cartoon had barely any movement, stiff use of it when there was, and every super hero present looked like a warped mutant. Everyone from Thor to Iron Man had their own segment, and in Captain America's, his old nemesis springs up surprisingly as nasty as ever. Red Skull, everyone!
Who is Red Skull? What has he done?
Once a street rat who was apprenticed by the evil not-Hitler leader of the not-Nazi in not-World War II (censorship and all), Red Skull's power and viciousness grew to such an extreme even his leader fears Red Skull intends to kill him. Red Skull, as flashbacks show us (in surprising detail for a cartoon working with budget that made Hanna-Barbara look like Warner Bros.) made a habit of targeting the "weak and innocent," annihilating entire armies and razing entire populated cities to the ground as a matter of course. In WWII, Red Skull attempts to murder a general friend of Cap's hampering his progress, attempts to kill Captain America, first by downing a submarine filled with a bunch of soldiers, and later brainwashing him to make him assassinate America's own military leader.
Eventually, Red Skull is presumed dead during his and Cap's last tango, but you can never keep a good Nazi supervillain down. Near the end of the series, Red Skull's minions enact his doomsday scheme by awakening the indestructible machine known as the Sleepers, which combined together start laying waste to the countryside and endangering swathes of fleeing civilians. It's revealed this is the ultimate precedent to Red Skull's final posthumous spit; having always promised to destroy the world if he couldn't rule it, Red Skull's coup de grâce takes the form of a gigantic bomb in the shape of his head his Sleepers will detonate in the Earth's core, annihilating the surface of the entire planet and killing off the entire human race.
Thankfully, Cap stops this, but lo and behold, Red Skull was never so dead after all! In the finale, Red Skull is brought into the services of A.I.M., using their Hypno-Helmet to sew further discord. Red Skull attempts to have an innocent man murdered and brainwash the public into believing Captain America did it, and eventually betrays A.I.M. to take their secret weapon: the Cosmic Cube. Red Skull brainwashes the keeper of the Cosmic Cube through a neurochip (one he uses to wipe out the memory of one of his own goons for no reason whatsoever, except "Red Skull shares his triumphs with no one!"), and once he obtains the Cosmic Cube, uses its power to erase the now-useless keeper of the cube from existence.
With the Cube's power, Red Skull intends to make all mankind his hopeless, brainwashed slaves, forcing "every able-bodied man" to become a fighting soldier, building weapons of mass destruction to wage war on the rest of the cosmos to conquer the universe entire. Red Skull and Cap duel one final time, and Cap eventually gets the best of him by throwing him and the Cube off a cliff into the sea, whereupon Red Skull is weighed down by the golden armor he's made for himself and then buried by falling rocks just to make sure he's dead.
Any mitigating factors?
Aside from the litany
of
gut-bustingly
funny
faces
he makes, nothing. The dude's amazingly vile for a 60s cartoon who does absolutely everything he can under strict censorship, but then again, he's the Red Skull. He can make it anywhere.
Conclusion?
Keeper. Not the worst Red Skull there ever was, but I think he stands out all the more considering the medium (and his goofy faces!).
Edited by Scraggle on Nov 18th 2019 at 5:40:13 AM
Yes to Skull. Reminds me of how the 90s novel Strucker was only a "German war criminal".
Edited by ACW on Nov 18th 2019 at 7:50:24 AM
