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Rename Sliding Scale Of Vampire Friendliness?

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Earnest (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1: Jul 14th 2010 at 8:57:38 PM

I'm beginning to think the name is giving a wrong impression. The Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness isn't about chummy individual vampires, but to what degree they, as a species, are capable of coexisting with humanity without causing harm.

Vampire species on the Unfriendly end of the scale can't exist without entailing unavoidable suffering, potentially human genocide. Friendly ones are in no way compelled to evil and can live peaceful lives in human communities... unless they willingly turn to evil. Those in the middle can be good, albeit with effort.

So far these six of the thirty four inbound links were bad. (I've fixed them to reflect what the trope is). I know it's not a lot, but I worry.

Maybe Sliding Scale Of Vampire Playability or Sliding Scale Of Vampire Antagonism?

GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#2: Jul 14th 2010 at 9:05:25 PM

Sliding Scale Of Vampire Playablity amuses me to no end but I don't think it would translate well across all media.

SSoV Antagonism might work It just kind of jams the gears a little when the protagonists are faced with it.

would SSoV Jingoism work?

edited 14th Jul '10 9:05:50 PM by GiantSpaceChinchilla

Earnest (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4: Jul 15th 2010 at 7:18:54 AM

Jingoism could work, though slanted self aggrandizing opinion is only a part of the trope.

Sliding Scale Of Vampire-Human Compatibility sounds about right. Hopefully it wouldn't be confused for dating compatibility though. wink On that note maybe Sliding Scale Of Vampire-Human Coexistence?

edited 15th Jul '10 7:20:01 AM by Earnest

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Jul 15th 2010 at 7:23:00 AM

That one kind of sounds to me like it's the ratio of one population to the other.

Twilightdusk Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Jul 15th 2010 at 9:31:08 AM

Does this trope really need to be a sliding scale?

Semiapies Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Jul 15th 2010 at 9:42:55 AM

Spectrum Of Vampire Evilness?

edited 15th Jul '10 9:43:16 AM by Semiapies

Earnest (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#9: Jul 15th 2010 at 5:21:38 PM

@Twilightdusk: While it's not indispensable in the name, the trope does describe a spectrum of good to bad that the vampire species inhabits. So even if the rename takes out Sliding Scale, it should probably stay on that index.

GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#10: Jul 15th 2010 at 5:57:39 PM

SSoV Domestication? Is this vampire paper-trained? Rabid Vampire vrs Blood Bunny Scale? Bad Vampire No Bite! ? Blood Angst? Sliding Scale of Monster Percent?

any hitting the mark?

tnu1138 Dracula Since: Apr, 2009
Dracula
#11: Nov 19th 2010 at 3:04:22 AM

i know there is some Necromancy here but i feal it to be important.

how about either Sliding Scale Of Vampire Morality or Sliding Scale Of Vampire Civility?

We must survive, all of us. The blood of a human for me, a cooked bird for you. Where is the difference?
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