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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21176: Nov 20th 2022 at 7:54:00 AM

From page 847 @Bullman

As a general rule, I don't correct the English of attempted re-writes of existing text.

Lilith is The Heavy of the first season, <- comma working...Sabrina, <- comma and...lot of fangirls...as a a straight-up hero...good person and...way. However, multiple fanfics treat her as if...

...of fans dislike him. Rather, <- comma most...shippers, <- comma that...him, <- comma to see even...

Edited by Arivne on Nov 20th 2022 at 7:54:15 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21177: Nov 20th 2022 at 7:55:40 AM

From page 847 @PS 16

...knowledgeable a person is and how much they have grown in their skill set, <- comma or...

Edited by Arivne on Nov 20th 2022 at 7:55:49 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21178: Nov 20th 2022 at 7:57:17 AM

From page 847 @kawaiineko333

...you can find dead players and scavenge their bodies at the cost of Ether...

Edited by Arivne on Nov 20th 2022 at 7:57:31 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21179: Nov 20th 2022 at 8:04:59 AM

From page 847 @Melinda

...and doesn't make a sound even when she's cut during a ritual ceremony.

He has spent fourteen months training Eleanor to be a Slayer, <- comma but...

...Dead, <- comma an...the Watchers' Council London HQ, <- comma while...

...although he learns how to read Braille at the end of the book.

^ Braille is not in italics, as it isn't a work name.

...at the Watchers' Academy, <- comma but...the Watchers Council...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21180: Nov 20th 2022 at 8:06:32 AM

From page 847 @Reviewer 2016

Laura, on the other hand, is human, <- comma and her breasts are visibly showing.

^ You could also write this as "On the other hand, Laura is human and her breasts are visibly showing." This would save two commas.

Edited by Arivne on Nov 20th 2022 at 8:07:50 AM

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#21182: Nov 20th 2022 at 8:22:23 AM

Thanks.

Reviewer2016 Since: Dec, 2021
#21183: Nov 20th 2022 at 11:25:16 AM

Thanks Arivne

Edited by Reviewer2016 on Nov 20th 2022 at 12:10:29 PM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#21184: Nov 20th 2022 at 12:05:36 PM

Thanks Arivne. This post is kind of long and I'll work toward being shorter for at least the next day or two.

@ The King Nobody Wanted

  • Seemingly Profound Fool: Septon Balerion observes that his order has been led by countless "madmen, murderers, and worse" in addition to the better-remembered successful leaders. He believes that the High Septon only speaks with the voice of the Gods when he is speaking about the divine, as the alternative line of thought is troubling. Nonetheless, some people believe that everything any High Septon does is divine, even when the High Septon is mentally unstable and thinks he's a tree.
    Balerion: Well, let us just say that if there's something worse than a bad High Septon, it's men of faith looking for secret meaning in the acts of a bad High Septon.
@ Watchers and Slayers
  • Martial Pacifist: She beats up a crowd of thugs who are hurting a young girl, leaving them with scars and broken bones, but she holds back from killing any of them due to having been taught to revere all human life.
  • Daddy's Girl: Espernanza is close to her widowed father and likes to humor him.
  • Rules Lawyer: She knows the regulations of the Inquisition and tries on multiple occasions after being arrested to invoke what passes for due process at the time. Unfortunately, the Inquisitors are believers in Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Espernanza is a kind-hearted girl whose Watcher thinks she is too kind to survive the cruciamentum. However, she is a Defiant Captive when being questioned and tortured by Inquisitors (even biting one when they put her on the rack) and her temporary lack of powers doesn't keep her from escaping from the dungeon's guards and some vampiric and demonic prisoners.
  • Country Mouse: Eleanor comes from rural Louisiana, has difficulty moving around in fancy dresses and feels uncomfortable around sophisticated people, although she usually manages to hide this unease.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Her grandmother was the only person to ever call her Ellie and she dislikes the nickname.
  • Guile Hero: By the time of the short story "Voodoo Lounge," she has become good at quick deductions and judgment calls when people try to trap her or she is questioning prisoners. At the end of the story, she frames a seemingly untouchable celebrity Serial Killer for a murder that he is innocent of but did incite. His actual victims are demons and there is no way to convict him of those murders, but the ex-Watcher whose murder Eleanor frames him for is a human celebrity whose murder will be prosecuted.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Her parents died in a car accident long before she became the Slayer and had the Watchers enter her life. Her only relative is a cousin who plans to return to Ukraine.
  • I Call It "Vera": Zoe fights with a switchblade knife that she calls Mack the Knife.
  • Talk to the Fist: Zoe is the daughter of Russian Jews and knocked out the teeth of a high-ranking Watcher who made antisemitic comments in front of her.
  • Combat Pragmatist: During her cruciamentum, a powerless Peri tricks her stronger vampire opponent into calling a truce, offering to try to find a way to cure her, then stakes her once the other girl lowers her guard. However, she did want to help her opponent, but just knew there was no way to do so, and she is deeply traumatized about that kill.
  • It's All My Fault: Peri is deeply upset to learn that a vampiric former classmate she is fighting got turned right after they parted ways outside the movie theater, feeling that means she failed in her duty to protect people around her.

    Master Wang 
A Shaolin monk and Xiaoqin's late first Watcher.
  • All Monks Know Kung-Fu: He was a Shaolin monk who instructed a wide range of people in martial arts and was fond of joking to his best pupils that they showed promise but needed another thirty years of training.
  • Badass Bookworm: He was a talented scholar and a skilled martial arts teacher.
  • Caring Gardener: He devoted much time and affection to a garden few people ever saw, but hoped that those few people would be inspired to make their own gardens and inspire more people in turn.
  • Cool Old Guy: He died at the age of ninety-eight, and right up until the end of his life, he was a fine storyteller, scholar, gardener, and martial arts trainer who got along well with both his peers and women who most people treated as Beneath Notice.
  • Posthumous Character: He died of natural causes nine months before the short story “Ch'ing Shih”, which Xiaoqin narrates.
  • Stealth Mentor: He instructed the Potential Slayer Xiaoqin about the Slayer and vampires while pretending to just be a storyteller of fables. He never mentioned the Watchers' Council, presumably due to suspecting it would ruin the romantic image of a lone magical warrior that would make Xioaqin listen to his stories.

    Sean Connelly 
A well-traveled Irish Watcher who becomes Xiaoqin's second Watcher.
  • Mr. Exposition: He tells Xiaoqin about the duties of the Watchers' Council, various pieces of supernatural lore, and the history of a village where an evil vampire dwells.
  • My Greatest Second Chance: He was previously a Watcher for a Slayer who died soon after being chosen, and he is determined not to have Xiaoqin suffer the same fate.
  • Nice Guy: He is a polite man who tries to protect a thirteen-year-old thief from a pedophile's retaliation and lust.
  • Walking Armory: Connelly carries a sword, a shotgun, two pistols he keeps in shoulder holsters, and a stake in his boot.

@ Fray

  • Fish out of Temporal Water: At the conclusion of her storyline, she is sent back in time to the 21st Century, meets Buffy and has to deal with a different time and culture. She ultimately changes the future, albeit for the better, and without erasing herself or her friends and family from existence.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She is a professional thief before she becomes the Slayer, and her sister is a dutiful cop.
  • Non Conformist Dyed Hair: She is a thief who dyes streaks of her dark hair pink.
  • Superhero Packing Heat: Unlike most Slayers, she uses a firearm (a futuristic ray gun) in combat.

@ The Batman

    Unnamed English Slayer 
  • Blessed with Suck: She views being made a Hunter of Monsters as a curse, and only comes to peace with it after deciding to view it as a way to repay Jesus Christ for letting himself be crucified.
  • Burn the Witch!: Near the end of her one appearance (in the graphic novel Tales of the Slayers), she is burned as a witch due to a Rabble Rouser priest. Her Slayer endurance means the the fire takes longer than normal to kill her.
  • Chaste Hero: She is a virginal girl who rejects various suitors, mainly due to her fixation on religion.

    Claudine 
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her hair is quite dark and her skin is fairly pale.
  • These Hands Have Killed: She is horrified and traumatized after her Watcher and lover tricks her into killing a human aristocrat during the French Revolution by claiming the man is a vampire.

    Elizabeth Weston 
  • Butch Lesbian: She makes herself look like a man (albeit at least partially to avoid being identified as the Slayer) and is implied to be a lesbian or bisexual, as she dances with a female vampire and muses that she shouldn't let herself be attracted to someone she plans to destroy.
  • Recurring Character: She appears in several comics (mostly in visions and flashbacks) and one short story in the Tales of the Slayer book series.
  • Sweet Polly Oliver: She cuts her hair and wears trousers to disguise herself as a man to keep her actions as the Slayer from drawing attention in the sexist society in which she operates.

    Naayéé'neizgháni 
  • Category Traitor: She wears a western hat and her last vampire enemy (another Native American) notes that she served a white Watcher despite the grief white men have brought to their land, although this is mitigated by the bigger fight against demonic forces.
  • Famed in Story: The story of her last fight, near the Hellmouth, is well known several years after her death.
  • Mutual Kill: She and the vampire who killed her Watcher kill each other in a duel.

    Anni 
  • Improbable Weapon User: She stakes a vampire with a rolling pin.
  • Innocent Bigot: Like many German children, she is indoctrinated to hate Jews, but she snaps out of it during the Night of Broken Glass and decides to help her Jewish neighbors and fight the Nazis.

@ Buffyverse: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Vampires In Blackout, Robin was born before Nikki became the Slayer, while Season Nine comics show that Nikki was pregnant with Robin during her cruciamentum test, well after she was chosen.

    Asano Naganori 
A Historical Domain Character and the master of the famed forty-seven rōnin, who killed the nobleman who forced their master to commit Seppuku. In the Buffyverse, specifically the novella The Code of the Samurai, Asano secretly survived his death after his lover arranged to have him turned into a vampire, which came with the accompanying Transhuman Treachery. He later turned his forty-seven retainers into vampires to seek revenge for his fate and then launched a reign of terror across Japan for the next three hundred years.
  • Familial Foe: He views his living descendants (known as the Asano Living Clan) as a stain on the honor of his vampiric clan and is obsessed with brutally killing them, regardless of whether they're actively seeking battle with his undead clan or are trying to flee the country and forget he exists. Ultimately, this is his undoing, as the Asano Living Clan summon the Slayer for help and their leader helps her kill Asano by distracting him at a key moment.
  • Historical Badass Upgrade: In history, he's remembered for little besides being forced to commit ritual suicide, causing his men to seek revenge in a spectacular fashion and storm their opponent's castle. In The Code of the Samurai, he planned and led the raid himself and then had his men pretend that he was still dead and they acted alone. Additionally, during his centuries long war against his living descendants, he has inflicted massive casualties on them while only losing four of his original forty-seven followers and a handful of newer vampires.
  • No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: He's very insistent about having Slayer India Cohen attend a tea ceremony before their Duel to the Death.

@ Men of Sherwood

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In Tales Of The Slayer: The Code of the Samurai, the Asano Living Clan is made up of the descendants of a vampire samurai and request the help of the current Slayer, India Cohen, in defeating their ancestor. The surviving dozen or so members provide a decent amount of help throughout the novella, and most of the unnamed members survive a couple of tough battles.

@ Wrong Turn

  • One-Scene Wonder:
    • Halley, the female rock climber from the opening scene, makes a good impression due to showing some decent resourcefulness and expressive acting while trying to escape from the hillkillers.
    • The Creepy Gas-Station Attendant played by Wayne Robson is only in two short scenes but is delightfully eerie in both of them.

@ The Ink Black Heart

  • Ascended Fanboy: A man dressed as Superman at a ComicCon ends up helping Robin save a suspect from being run over by a train.

Edited by Melinda on Nov 21st 2022 at 7:44:05 AM

Angrybirds123456 Since: Jun, 2021
#21185: Nov 20th 2022 at 6:59:52 PM

Still reposting.
For Wall-E.

  • Accidental Hero: A variation with the Buy N Large corporation. Their initial plan was to send humanity in a cruise away from Earth for 5 years. They would spend those 5 years cleaning up the planet. But since the Earth became too toxic, they were forced to abandon that idea and leave humanity in space for eternity. All things considered though, they definitely saved the human race, since they were evacuated before the Earth became inhospitable.

TPPR10 Craving for fish from up north Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Craving for fish
#21186: Nov 20th 2022 at 10:09:36 PM

Thanks Arivne.

Pokémon: Generation I - Venonat to Cloyster:
(Magnemite family)

  • Schizo Tech: X and Y shows Magnemite in the flashback to Kalos' ancient war, meaning that the robotic Magnet Pokemon has existed for over 3,000 years. The existence of Sandy Shocks shows that the line has existed ever since the prehistoric era.
Pokémon: Generation I - Magikarp to Dragonite (Magikarp family)
  • Future Loser: Magikarp's Violet Pokedex entry talks about how its ancestors were somewhat stronger than their current-day descendant.
Pokémon: Generation IX Families
(Tandemaus family)
  • Explosive Breeder: Referenced by their evolution method, as Tandemaus will randomly evolve into Maushold after reaching level 25, gaining two additional mice into the family. Their Secret Art Population Bomb (called "Proliferation" in Japanese) references the "multiplying like rats" saying by having it be able to attack up to ten times.
(Treasures of Ruin)
In Paldea's past, four mythical objects were brought into the region from faraway lands. However, the four objects were cursed by the grief of ancient people, so they were sealed away in four different shrines. The ruinous power each object contained eventually took physical form, creating four perilous creatures; the vessel became the Dark/Ground deer Ting-Lu, the sword became the Dark/Ice snow leopard Chien-Pao, the tablets became the Dark/Grass snail Wo-Chien, and the beads became the Dark/Fire fish Chi-Yu.
(Paradox Duo)
  • Single-Specimen Species: Averted. Not only are Koraidon and Miraidon the past/future forms of the common Cyclizar, but they were brought to the present day with another specimen of their species.
(Slither Wing)
  • Wings Do Nothing: As the Pokemon's name suggests, Slither Wing is earthbound, with its wings working more as a giant crest than as actual wings. It can still use some wing-based moves like Dual Wingbeat, but these are more limited in comparison to Volcarona and Iron Moth.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
  • Justice by Other Legal Means: At the end of Starfall Street, Clavell decides to forgive Team Star for their misdeeds due to why the organization was formed in the first place. They do, however, inform Team Star that they will be punished for breaking the dress code and truancy.

Edited by TPPR10 on Nov 22nd 2022 at 5:39:52 PM

Only sometimes posts
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21187: Nov 21st 2022 at 8:22:56 AM

[up] @Melinda

Nonetheless, some people believe that everything any High Septon does is divine...

...what passes for due process procedures...

...and her temporary lack of powers doesn't keep her...

By the time of the short story Voodoo Lounge, she has...

...who made antisemitic comments in front of her.

During her cruciamentum, <- comma a powerless...

...saw, <- comma but...sight inspiring enough...

He died at the age of ninety-eight, <- comma and...

...the romantic image of a lone magical warrior that...

She is a professional thief before becoming the Slayer, <- comma and...

She dyes streaks of her dark hair pink.

She views being made a Hunter of Monsters as a curse, <- comma and...

Near the end of her one appearance (in the graphic novel Tales of the Slayers), <- comma she...

She herself looks like...

...to keep her actions as the Slayer...

Like many German children, she is indoctrinated to hate Jews, <- comma but...

...Nikki became the Slayer, <- comma while...test, <- comma well...

...and is obsessed with brutally killing them, <- comma regardless...

...provide a decent...novella, <- comma and...

Halley, the female rock climber from the opening scene, makes a good impression...

^ You used "decent" twice" in the same sentence.

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#21188: Nov 21st 2022 at 8:22:57 AM

@ Melinda

The King Nobody Wanted

  • Seemingly Profound Fool: Septon Balerion observes that his order has been led by countless "madmen, murderers, and worse" in addition to the better-remembered successful leaders. He believes that the High Septon only speaks with the voice of the Gods when he is speaking about the divine, as the alternative line of thought is troubling. Nonetheless, some people believe that everything any High Septon does is divine, even when the High Septon is mentally unstable and thinks he's a tree.

Watchers and Slayers

  • Rules Lawyer: She knows the regulations of the Inquisition and tries on multiple occasions after being arrested to invoke what passes for Due Process (superfluous word - cut) at the time (move text). Unfortunately, the Inquisitors are believers in Screw the Rules, I Make Them! (remove period)

  • Silk Hiding Steel: Espernanza is a kind-hearted girl whose Watcher thinks she is too kind to survive the cruciamentum. However, she is a Defiant Captive when being questioned and tortured by Inquisitors (even biting one when they put her on the rack) and her temporary lack of powers doesn't keep her from escaping from the dungeon's guards and some vampiric and demonic prisoners.

  • Guile Hero: By the time of the short story "Voodoo Lounge", she has become good at quick deductions and judgment calls when people try to trap her or she is questioning prisoners. At the end of the (superfluous word - cut) story (superfluous words - cut), she frames a seemingly untouchable celebrity Serial Killer for a murder that he is innocent of but did incite. His actual victims are demons and there is no way to convict him of those murders, but the ex-Watcher whose murder Eleanor frames him for (superfluous word - cut) is a human celebrity whose murder will be prosecuted.
^ The titles of long works are italicised, but the titles of shorter works go in inverted commas.

  • Combat Pragmatist: During her cruciamentum, (comma) a powerless Peri tricks her stronger vampire opponent into calling a truce, offering to try to find a way to cure her, then stakes her once the other girl lowers her guard. However, she did want to help her opponent, (comma, remove parentheses) but knew there was no way to do so. (comma, remove parentheses) and is deeply traumatized about that kill.

Master Wang

  • Caring Gardener: He devoted much time and affection to a garden few people ever saw but hoped that those few people would be inspired to make their own gardens and inspire more people in turn.

Sean Connelly

Fray

  • Fish out of Temporal Water: At the conclusion of her storyline, she is sent back in time to the 21st Century, meets Buffy and has to deal with a different time and culture. She ultimately changes the future, (comma, remove parentheses) albeit for the better, and without erasing herself or her friends and family from existence (remove parentheses).

  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She is a professional thief before she becomes the Slayer and her sister is a dutiful cop.

Unnamed English Slayer

  • Burn the Witch!: Near the end of her one appearance (in the graphic novel Tales of the Slayers) she is burned as a witch due to a Rabble Rouser priest. Her Slayer endurance means the fire takes longer than normal to kill her.

  • Chaste Hero: She is a virginal girl who rejects various suitors, mainly due to her fixation on religion.

Elizabeth Weston

  • Butch Lesbian: She (superfluous word - cut) looks like a man (albeit at least partially to avoid being identified as the Slayer) and is implied to be a lesbian or bisexual, as she dances with a female vampire and muses that she shouldn't let herself be attracted to someone she plans to destroy.

  • Recurring Character: She appears in several comic strips (mostly in visions and flashbacks) and one (superfluous word - cut) short story in the Tales of the Slayer anthology series.

  • Sweet Polly Oliver: She cuts her hair and wears trousers to disguise herself as a man to keep her actions as the Slayer from drawing attention in the sexist society in which she operates.

Naayéé'neizgháni

  • Category Traitor: She wears a western hat and her last vampire enemy (another Native American) notes that she served a white Watcher despite the grief white men have brought to their land, (comma, remove parentheses) although this is (superfluous word - cut) necessitated by the bigger fight against demonic forces (remove parentheses).
^ Examples Are Not Arguable. This Native American character's working with a white Watcher was either "necessitated by the bigger fight against demonic forces" or it wasn't. There's no "arguably" about it.

Asano Naganori

A Historical Domain Character and the master of the famed forty-seven rōnin, who killed the nobleman who forced their master to commit Seppuku. In the Buffyverse, (comma, remove parentheses) specifically the novella The Code of the Samurai (remove parentheses), Asano secretly survived his death after his lover arranged to have him turned into a vampire, (comma, remove parentheses) which came with the accompanying Transhuman Treachery (remove parentheses). He later turned his forty-seven retainers into vampires to seek revenge for his fate and then launched a reign of terror across Japan for the next three hundred years.

Men of Sherwood

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In Tales of the Slayer: The Code of the Samurai, (comma) the Asano Living Clan is made up of the descendants of a vampire samurai and request the help of the current Slayer, India Cohen, in defeating their ancestor. The surviving dozen or so members provide a decent amount of help throughout the novella and most of the unnamed members survive a couple of tough battles.
^ Since you're talking about stuff from the show's Expanded Universe, you need to use the Franchise namespace.

Edited by Clare on Nov 21st 2022 at 4:26:15 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21189: Nov 21st 2022 at 8:26:59 AM

[up] @TPPR 10

Referenced by their evolution method, <- comma as...

...they were brought to the present day with another specimen of their species with them.

As the Pokemon's name suggests, Slither Wing is earthbound, <- comma with...

...they will be punished for breaking the dress code and truancy.

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#21190: Nov 21st 2022 at 8:52:15 AM

Thanks, both of you.

@ No Blade of Grass

  • Properly Paranoid: As the crop-killing virus finishes ravishing Asia and people worry that it will reach Europe, David Custance kills all of the grass-eating animals on his farm and converts his land to potato farming (as potatoes are immune to the virus). In the book, he also builds a guardhouse at the entrance to his valley around that time and says that he'd rather have his neighbors call it "Custance's Folly" if he's wrong than be defenseless if he's right. David's precautions are warranted when the virus reaches England.

@ Distance Wakes The Heart Up

  • Alma tries to "inconspicuously pass" Augustin due to wanting to avoid an awkward conversation and mentally insists to herself that she's not sneaking, because that would be beneath her. Later, she thinks of her actions as "non-sneaking."

@ Shoot the Builder

  • 24: In Declassified: Cat's Claw, this trope is zigzagged when several Eco Terrorists invent a bio-weapon. The eco-terrorists don't plan to harm any of the people who made the virus (or anyone, if they can help it) and its vaccine. However, a rogue member of the group sells the virus to a Middle-Eastern terrorist who sets out to kill everyone who knows how to make the vaccine before the CTU can find those people and make them cure the infected politicians and civilians. One of them survives, foiling the villain's plan.

@ Wrong Turn

  • Halley, the rock climber in the opening scene, does a good job of keeping the hillkillers from dragging her to her death by her climbing rope. She pushes against the cliff face. When that doesn't work, she cuts through her rope, and tries to climb to safety without any gear.
  • After defeating the killers, Chris and Jessie drive up to the gas station where they got told to take the dangerous shortcut and dramatically tear down the map with that route.

@ Watchers and Slayers

    Shannon 

Shannon

Played by:' Mary Wilcher
One of the last Potential Slayers to reach Sunnydale.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She begs for her life when she ends up Alone with the Psycho. It works, but only because he needs to Spare a Messenger.
  • Mauve Shirt: She almost gets killed right after appearing, like the Frankfurt and Istanbul Potential Slayers, but survives her first (and only important) scene and appears several times in the remaining episodes, albeit with little dialogue or characterization.
  • Pursued Protagonist: She's introduced running through the woods from the Bringers.
  • Spare a Messenger: Caleb lures her into a trap and stabs her multiple times, but lets her live so she can give a warning to Buffy.

    Caridad 

Caridad

Played by: Dania Ramirez
One of the less seen Potentials.
  • Action Girl: She is an effective combatant who, under Faith's leadership, helps fight the Bringers.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Bomb fragments hit her head, but she only gets a scar and swelling on the very edge of her face.
  • Mauve Shirt: She has little focus, characterization or plot relevance across the three episodes she appears in (her most notable scenes are nervously retreating in the aftermath of a bomb blast and showing up in an erotic dream Xander has) but survives some tough fighting.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: She is never shown onscreen after the third-to-last episode, although Word of God says she participated in the final battle and survived the fighting.

Edited by Melinda on Nov 22nd 2022 at 1:50:05 AM

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#21191: Nov 21st 2022 at 10:32:15 AM

For FanPreferredCouple.Live Action TV (Teen Wolf tree):

  • A lot of people — including the majority of the fandom, the actors, and apparently even the wardrobe crew — would have liked to see Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa McCall end up together, mainly because their sons are best friends and both are the honorary parent to the others child. Most fans greatly preferred it to the canon Melissa/Chris.
  • Season 6 gave Liam a canon love interest in the form of Hayden, but next to no fans ship him with her. Instead, most fans greatly prefer to pair him with enemy turned frenemy Theo, due to most fans feeling that Liam has better chemistry with Theo than he does with Hayden, the Ho Yay they share, and them becoming a Bash Brothers in the Grand Finale. Almost any fan work centered on Liam will pair him with Theo.

Foe Yay Shipping:

  • Teen Wolf : Stiles and Peter hate each other, due to Peter repeatedly trying to kill Stiles and his friends, while Peter simply finds Stiles annoying. However, there is a large group of fans who ship the two, mainly due to the fact that Stiles has chemistry with everyone and is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships. Infact, on AO3, it has the second most fan works of any ship from the show with over 9000 and it is only being topped by the Fan-Preferred Couple Stiles/Derek.

Any corrections?

Edited by Bullman on Nov 21st 2022 at 3:35:51 AM

Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread
Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#21192: Nov 22nd 2022 at 3:51:41 AM

@ Bullman

Live-Action TV

  • Teen Wolf:

    • A lot of people — including the majority of the fandom, the actors, and apparently even the wardrobe crew — would have liked to see Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa McCall end up together, mainly because their sons are best friends and both Stilinski and Melissa are the honorary parent to the other's child. Most fans greatly preferred it to the canon Melissa/Chris.
^ The way you wrote it makes it sound like it's the sons who "are the honorary parent to the other's child."

  • Season 6 gave Liam a canon love interest in the form of Hayden, but next to no fans ship him with her. Instead, most fans greatly prefer to pair him with enemy turned frenemy Theo, due to most of them feeling that Liam has better chemistry with Theo than he does with Hayden, the Ho Yay Liam and Theo share, and Liam and Theo becoming (superfluous word - cut) Bash Brothers in the Grand Finale. Almost any fan work centered on Liam will pair him with Theo.

Foe Yay Shipping:

  • Teen Wolf: (remove space before colon) Stiles and Peter hate each other, due to Peter repeatedly trying to kill Stiles and his friends, while Peter simply finds Stiles annoying. However, there is a large group of fans who ship the two, mainly because Stiles has chemistry with everyone and is a Launcher of a Thousand Ships. (superfluous word - cut, remove comma) On AO3, it has the second most fan works of any ship from the show with over 9000, (comma, superfluous words - cut, move text) topped only by the Fan-Preferred Couple Stiles/Derek.
^ The phrase "due to the fact that" is Word Cruft, as is "in fact". (Also, the latter should be written as two words.) I changed "due to the fact that" to "because" and deleted "in fact".

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#21194: Nov 22nd 2022 at 7:48:33 AM

[up] @Melinda

In Declassified: Cat's Claw, <- comma this...However, <- comma a...

...dragging her to to her death by her climbing rope. <- period She...

Chris and Jessie drive up to the gas station...

Caleb lures her into a trap and stabs her multiple times, <- comma but...

One of the less seen Potentials.

She is an effective combatant who helps fight Bringers under Faith's leadership.

^ Who is under Faith's leadership, Caridad or the Bringers? The way you wrote this, it could be either of them.

Caridad

  • She is an effective combatant who, under Faith's leadership, helps fight the Bringers.

The Bringers

  • She is an effective combatant who helps fight the Bringers, <- comma who are under Faith's leadership.

Edited by Arivne on Nov 22nd 2022 at 7:49:14 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#21195: Nov 22nd 2022 at 8:48:18 AM

Thanks

@ Ciaphas Cain

    Goran Barloe 
The watch commander at the void station of Kappa Septum, which appears in the short story "Rotten to the Core."
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He comes across as a polite official (albeit one convinced he doesn't need any help) who leads his troops into combat. He turns out to be an Ax-Crazy Khorne worshipper who rants about wanting to kill "lackeys of the corpse god."
  • Stout Strength: He is a tough combatant, whose physique mixes fat and muscle.
  • Up Through the Ranks: There is little soft about his appearance, and Cain pegs him as a man who started out in a low-ranking position and rose to a higher one.

    Gonzaliz 
The driver of the Kappa Septum Watch's troop carrier.
  • An Arm and a Leg: She loses one of her arms while fighting Chaos cultists.
  • Drives Like Crazy: She compliments Jurgen on his driving skills and keeps pace with his erratic driving and fast stops in a way that she clearly enjoys and her passengers hate.
  • Nice Girl: She is one of the only people in the series to compliment Jurgen and she thanks Cain for saving her life.
  • Spiteful Spit: After the end of the battle where her superior officer reveals himself to be a Chaos cultist and then gets killed, Gonzaliz spits at his corpse. Cain is impressed by her accuracy, given how she just lost an arm and is being injected with painkillers.

@ Cheating Death: Those That Lived

@ Murdoch Mysteries the quote is copied and pasted from an online version of the script.

  • Fatal Flaw: Pride. Newsome's obsession with appearing to be successful at his hobbies constantly makes him cheat in ways that get him involved in police investigations, and his reluctance to admit the truth about his cheating makes him a murder suspect in two episodes, in his final appearance, keeps him from volunteering evidence which might have kept a murderer from targeting him. In his last appearance, he also sneaks away from his police bodyguards to get a haircut so he'll look nice while testifying in court, which gets him shot.

    George: Yes.
    Murdoch: That would be mad.
    George: Yes.
    Brackenreid: He could be right, Murdoch. That twit values his pride over everything. I was once ready to hang him over a bloody maths puzzle.

@ Murdoch Mysteries S 8 E 9 Keystone Constables

  • Actually Pretty Funny: Brackenreid brings a tomato to throw at Crabtree and Higgins' comedy act of acting like exaggerated versions of him and Murdoch. He does throw the tomato, but only because "I didn't want it to go to waste", and he concedes that the sketch was good.
  • Bile Fascination: Invoked after George and Henry's audition at the music hall goes badly. The assistant manager convinces his boss to hire them anyway, saying that even bad comedy duos attract people curious about how bad they are.
  • Blackmail Backfire: Invoked to trick the killer into murdering a supposed blackmailer. One of the victim's enemies (who knows that the killer committed a previous murder but has no intention of blackmailing him over it) tricks the killer into thinking that the victim knew about the previous murder and wanted to blackmail him. The panicked killer then kills his supposed blackmailer, just as the third person planned.
  • Not So Above It All: The straitlaced Murdoch has enough of a sense of humor to prank Julia with a whoopee cushion.

@ The Punisher MAX - Other Criminals and Psychopaths

@ The King Nobody Wanted Connected All Along

  • Davos recalls how he smuggled supplies to Lord Darklyn early in the Defiance of Duskendale, although he quit this after Darklyn took King Aerys prisoner.

@ Minimalist Cast

  • The Coming of Age Story December focuses almost entirely on five students as they debate about whether to enlist in the military. Several extras are briefly seen in the first scene (where a character leaves choir rehearsal) and ending (as several characters get on a bus heading for a recruitment center) but there are only three other credited characters. The Dean Bitterman headmaster appears in a short flashback, and at the end of the film, another staff member is shown arguing with the headmaster in the flashback and a main character's roommates appears to open a door and answer a few questions in one scene.

Edited by Melinda on Nov 23rd 2022 at 1:57:16 AM

kawaiineko333 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21196: Nov 22nd 2022 at 10:18:59 AM

Money Slap

Folder->Video Games

  • PAYDAY 2 allows players to use the Money Bundle as a melee weapon after hitting level 7. It's a $10,000 stack of $100 bills that does more damage with rapid attacks rather than charged attacks.

dArtagnanMusic Since: Oct, 2022
#21197: Nov 22nd 2022 at 10:23:50 AM

Total War: Warhammer - The Dark Elves -> Folder Malus Darkblade

  • Mascot's Name Goes Unchanged: Unlike all the others characters (who had their names and/or titles translated when appropriate) Malus's last name was kept in its english form even in non-English versions of the game, presumably because he has a book series named after him and his name wasn't translated in it either.note 

brb1006 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21198: Nov 22nd 2022 at 10:31:37 AM

Sweet Sheep

  • One of the main characters from the 2003 Christian direct-to-video series Kids' Ten Commandments is Martha the Lamb. Martha (voiced by Jodi Benson) is a young female lamb who's quiet, soft-spoken, and sweet with everybody she encounters. She serves as the animal's voice of reason and quick to call out her animal friends for disobeying The Ten Commandments. Such as scolding Jacob the Cow for wishing "To be worshiped like a God." by telling him "There is only one God!", and reminding her animal companions that it's not good to lie around God's presence.

Edited by brb1006 on Nov 22nd 2022 at 4:55:35 AM

bf2234 Since: Feb, 2021
#21199: Nov 22nd 2022 at 12:38:12 PM

Heroes of the New World

    Spytand Malice 

Edited by bf2234 on Nov 30th 2022 at 12:01:09 PM

Reviewer2016 Since: Dec, 2021
#21200: Nov 22nd 2022 at 2:11:58 PM

For the Little Demon episode recap Wet Bodies, I want to add the following trope. Again being safe, the character is currently called The Sea Hag

Modesty Bedsheet: Downplayed. Laura and The Sea Hag are seen lying in bed together, but only their bottom halves are covered. The Sea Hag has Barbie Doll Anatomy breasts. Laura, on the other hand, is human, and her breasts are visibly showing.


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