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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#51: Feb 19th 2011 at 11:26:52 AM

Heh, all right then. And it looks like I have to "trope-ize" a specific Verse of mine to get specific tropes.

Deck4s

Deck! Set! Shuffle!

This is the tenth entry in the Wolf Verse and is the seventh Henshin Hero entry in the series. New Castle City has a legacy of mysterious defenders since the pioneering days. Four people decided to name themselves after playing cards as their identities while keeping the town safe, and soon passing down their duties and jobs to the next generation. In this age of modern times, crime has gotten dangerous than before, so the current (and previous) generation of the secret defenders use technology to stop evil and keep the town safe.

The team uses a wrist-mounted transforming device that requires a Slot Card (designed after their emblems) to activate, requiring them to say "Deck! Set! Shuffle!" to activate and wear their suit. They can then insert a Function Card to activate an ability for their suit. The suit, mostly black with the emblem on the chest, is a technological device with each having their own properties, but all feature protection from most damage, a wrist-mounted grappling hook, and sharp throwing cards. Later on, they gain a sixth fifth member, a Dual Slot Card, and Hi Function Cards.

The Deck4s are...

  • Ace Armstrong, a.k.a. Ace ♠ (Ace of Spades) - The Hero. A young wolf with a sense of duty. He is actually an orphan taken by the previous Ace of Spades... and this has some repercussions.
  • Kingston Long, a.k.a. King ♥ (King of Hearts) - The Boisterous Bruiser. This white tiger is Ace's best friend and is the one who remodeled the previous Deck4s suits to utilize additional programs to enhance the suits. In a way, he is also Foil to Ace due to him having a very well-knit (extended) family. His mom was the former King of Hearts.
    • His deck is called Defense, as his Function Cards are all about being the Stone Wall for the team to fit his stout stature. He starts with Metal, Forcefield, Shield, and Densify. He later gains the Hi Function Cards Zero Point and Tactile Density.
      • His deck combinations are Liquid Metal (Metal + Forcefield), Armor (Metal + Shield), Magnet (Metal + Densify), Hyper Barrier (Forcefield + Shield), Gravitation (Forcefield + Densify), and Discus (Shield + Densify).
  • Jack Jordan, a.k.a. Jack ♣ (Jack of Spades) - The Heart. He accepted the job the moment Ace and Kingston recruited him. An easy-go-lucky lounge lizard who has a side-job of teaching dance classes, his experience with his students lets him keep the team together, especially involving Ace. In a way, he also acts as The Lancer towards Ace. His mom was the original Queen of Diamonds.
  • Queena Brandon, a.k.a. Queen ♦ (Queen of Diamonds) - The Action Girl. A ferret who, unlike Jack, didn't take the revelation too lightly, and it didn't help that his father, the former Jack of Clubs, was always away. When her P.E. students were threatened by a villain attack however, she took up the mantle.
  • Jonah "Jo" Kendall, a.k.a. Wild Joker - The Fifth Ranger. She is Kingston's preppy apprentice and student under tutelage. A young coyote, she accidentally discovered Kingston's secret identity. This proved useful however, as she soon helps the team develop new programs for their suits.
    • As Wild Joker, she uses a unique device called the Wild Card. It has access to all of the starting Function Cards of all the four suits. However, she can only use one Function Card per suit at a time, though she can use two or more Function Cards as long as they belong to a different suit. When four cards (one for each suit) have been used, she can perform an energy kick attack called Joker Trump, which releases the held energy from the devices, resetting the card counter to allow the use of Function Cards again.

This show contains examples of:

I'll see what I can add!

edited 20th Feb '11 5:08:42 AM by Ookamikun

Aprilla Since: Aug, 2010
#52: Feb 19th 2011 at 10:59:54 PM

[up]Sounds interesting. Keep pursuing this.

cardboardtubeknight OMG its Bonnie Gruesen from Texas Since: Jan, 2011
OMG its Bonnie Gruesen
#53: Feb 20th 2011 at 1:07:16 AM

I guess this would be as good a time as any to ask how to make links like that?

Fractured, my Harry Potter Fic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6655978/1/Fractured
Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#54: Feb 20th 2011 at 5:07:16 AM

[up][up]I will.

[up]What do you mean? You can make links similarly as if you're editing a trope entry.

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#55: Feb 23rd 2011 at 12:47:29 PM

Gonna bump this thread because I wanna experiment and stuff, and I got addicted doing this lol

Chrome Titans Formation... COLOSSUS TITAN!

Ten years ago, a meteorite shower struck Earth, giving science a new metallic element called Chrome Titanium to work on. This had repercussions, with crises and other worldly changes. Among them were researching the new element for various purposes to solve the problems of the world, but of course this also catches the eye of nefarious criminals, various mutants formed from the incident, and other forms of villainy.

That is why the city of Astroville formed Chromerider Action Tactics Squad headed by Prof. Brown, a service that handles higher level threats by sending three Chromeriders in their Titan Gears. When worse comes to worse, they combine to form the Streak Titan, a large robot based from Chrome Titanium alloy. Later on, they are joined by the Wolfe twins and their Razor Titan, but then soon come across a couple of scientists from Japan...

This is the fourteenth series of the Wolf Verse, the sixth non-Henshin Hero entry. It focuses on the Combining Mecha aspect as well as being a homage to the Super Robot shows.

The main Chromeriders who pilot the Streak Titan are...

  • Lou Longstripe - pilot of the Tiger Chopper; resourceful and calm, albeit fumbling when it comes to other people.
  • Felicia Leonne - pilot of the Lion Prowl (a racecar); hot-headed and always on the move, and has a tendency not to wait around for orders.
  • Leo Black - pilot of the Panther Double (an all-terrain); geeky smart guy and mechanic who serves as the mediator between the two.

The rival team who pilot the Razor Titan that will join later on are...

  • Luna Wolfe - pilot of the Wolf Fighter; analytical and to-the-point, and has a rather ferocious side... but hides a kind heart.
  • Lowell Wolfe - pilot of the Wolf Bomber; quiet and cool, but actually is a pretty cool guy when he does show his side.

And later on...

  • Daichi Garyuki - pilot of the Green Liner (a magnetic train without rails); muscular, strong... and a scientist who is the mentor of Woo Shilong, a scrawny dragon who stands beside his master.

Together, they fight...

  • Dr. Syke Kole - a scientist who wants to obtain most of the Chrome Titanium research, preferably the ability to replicate the material perfectly.
  • Tabulus - a mutated platypus who lays eggs that turn into humongous monsters. Wants to get back at the world for turning into a freak.
  • Kendreaux - a succubus whose goal is to turn Astroville into her feeding ground. She summons machinations made of black magic.
  • Akuryu - a mysterious dragon who has enigmatic plans for Chrome Titanium. He made the three villains unite, secretly making them work for him.

This show contains the following tropes:

  • A Day in the Limelight: Everyone gets one.
  • Bad Ass: Garyuki
  • BFG: Colossus Titan's side cannons.
  • BFS: Streak Titan's Streak Sword and Imperial Titan's Galaxy Blade.
  • Bi The Way: Lowell hints that he is one, as he is interested in getting a date... soon feels rather fond towards Leo. Leo meanwhile...
  • Blade On A Stick: Colossus Titan's Colossal Spear... which fires lasers!
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Garyuki
  • Breath Weapon: Dragon Titan's Hellfire.
  • Calling Your Attacks: While they avoid shouting out basic weapon attacks or weapons, when it involves finishing moves, they won't hold it.
    • Streak Titan:Ready? Ray... SLIDER!
    • Razor Titan: TORNADO RIPPER!!!
    • Colossus Titan: Let's go! MILKY WAY!
      • HAAAAAAAAAAAAH! SPIRALING SPEAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!
      • Rocket... TORNADOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
    • Imperial Titan: Galaxy Rail... ATTACK!
      • Galaxy Railway... engage! Ready? Galaxy... Rail... Slider... BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURST!
    • Dragon Titan is surprisingly a subversion, as Garyuki just orders around without yelling, and simply taunts the enemy or berates them.
  • Combining Mecha / Humongous Mecha
    • Tiger Chopper, Lion Prowl, and Panther Double combine into Streak Titan
    • Wolf Fighter and Wolf Bomber combine into Razor Titan
    • Streak Titan and Razor Titan combine into Colossus Titan
    • Green Liner is a Titan Gear that can become a Titan itself called Dragon Titan
    • Colossus Titan and Dragon Titan combine into Imperial Titan
  • Cool Car: the Lion Prowl
  • Cool Plane: the Wolf Fighter and Wolf Bomber
  • Cool Train: the Green Liner, and it flies!
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Luna
  • Five-Man Band:
  • Girl's Night Out Episode: the episode "Race in Time" focuses on Felicia and Luna retrieving a volatile compound that requires speed transportation.
  • Fragile Speedster: the Razor Titan is smaller, faster, and has a dangerous arsenal. However, it doesn't take hits too much unlike Streak Titan.
  • Frickin' Laser Beams:
    • Streak Titan has Ray Slider!
    • Colossus Titan has its side guns and Milky Way!
    • Imperial Titan has Shield Flash!
  • Fun with Acronyms: CATS - Chromerider Action Tactics Squad
  • Gentle Giant: Lowell is a pretty cool guy.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Garyuki dies in a fight against Akuryu. At the cost of his life, he is able to destroy the generators for Akuryu's forcefield, teach Shilong to man up, and allow the Green Liner to be rebuilt to be able to combine with the two Titans.
  • Home Base: CATS Eye
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Felicia ends up accepting the fact that Lou likes Luna more and supports them, and blames herself for missing the opportunity.
  • Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons: Dragon Titan, Garyuki, Shilong, and Akuryu.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Imperial Titan.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Dragon Titan has a bunch of missiles from its back and its chest.
  • The Mario: the Streak Titan has a balanced repertoire of both ranged and closed combat with decent speed. With that said, its balanced-ness is exploited by enemies sometimes.
  • Monster of the Week: themed with the villain of the episode, in fact!
  • Orphanage of Love: the Wolfe twins grew up in the Humble Box. Lowell is particularly good with children there.
  • The Professor: Professor Robert Brown.
  • Recurring Extra:
    • Javis, one of the security guards of CATS Eye.
    • The unnamed assistant of Prof. Brown, who is some sort of blue bird.
    • The Astroville mayor.
    • Miss Eleanor, the caretaker of Humble Box.
  • The Rival: the Wolfe twins were the rival group until episode 12 where they joined CATS.
    • The rivalry was caused by Luna thinking that her (and Lowell's) father was kicked out of CATS after establishing it. After realizing her misunderstanding, she and Lowell joins the group.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Following the episode where they formed Colossus Titan for the first time, Leo accidentally drank a questionable liquid, causing him to imagine the whole team do the Voltes V opening. Doubles as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
    • Dragon Titan is Dragon Caesar... who is also Godzilla.
    • The primary Colossus Titan finisher Spiraling Spear is a homage to Daimos and its Reppu Seikenzuki. The Milky Way lasers push the enemy upward before returning to the Colossal Spear, to which the Colossus Titan pierces the enemy upward while it falls to its spear, yelling SPIRALING SPEAR!
  • Space Clothes: The main characters wear typical spandex uniform. Subverted by Garyuki and Shilong who don't wear spandex uniforms.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Shilong mourned for his master... then picks up his coat, wears it, and stops hiding from his master's shadow.
  • Tsundere: Felicia is Type A. This is why Lou became closer to Luna than to her.
  • Wrench Wench: while Felicia is not as knowledgeable as Leo in terms of Titan technology, she is quite well-versed in cars.

edited 24th Feb '11 7:02:00 AM by Ookamikun

CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit Since: May, 2009
#56: Feb 23rd 2011 at 1:04:00 PM

Here. I've been putting this thing together for the last year.

It's also way shorter than the character list, which is about 21,000 words long at my last count.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
dragonmaster from Behind you ... Since: Jun, 2009
#57: Apr 10th 2011 at 12:23:00 PM

Steam Girl

"Guts, Guns and Goggles!"

In the year 2115 the technological capital of the world is Tokyo. Sadly the city (like many "Techicenters" the world over) is run by the yakuza, the mafia and every other criminal there is. Weapons contractors find themselves selling their latest tech to the criminal underworld before the armed forces as they're the highest market. People of the high-tech society of the world live in constant fear, intimidated by the powered armour wearing thugs who have the police and government in their hands.

And then along comes Elisabeth Milby, a young girl from England with a steam powered arm. Armed with her clockwork companion Hedgecog and a variety of steam-powered equipment she sets out to take on the criminal underworld with guts, guns and goggles.

Tropes in Steam Girl include ...

  • Added Alliterative Appeal - The gangs, Bayonet Blue, Yuck Yellow, Rider Red, and Blitzkrieg Black.
  • All Your Powers Combined - Blitzkrieg Black join all the gangs together so they have a better chance of carrying out their evil scheme.
  • Assimilation Plot - Blitzkrieg Black's ultimate plan is to unite all humans with an AI system.
  • Artificial Limbs - Elly's right arm is a steam driven Power Fist.
  • Badass Biker/ Cool Bike - Rider Red's shtick is that they drive heavily modified bikes.
  • Bio Punk - Yuck Yellow are more interested with biological technology than they are with cybernetics meaning their powers range from Fartillery to plain old Body Horror.
  • Clock Punk - Elly's robotic sidekick Hedgecog is more this than he is Steampunk.
  • Colour-Coded for Your Convenience - The villains all wear brightly coloured outfits depending on the gang they're a part of.
  • Five Bad Band - An odd version as the members don't actually become a group until Blitzkrieg Black show up on the streets.
  • Goggles Do Nothing - Averted, Elly pulls her goggles over her eyes if she's travelling at high speeds.
  • Knife Nut - Members of Bayonet Blue use knives, swords and other sharp pointy stabbing things as their weapons of choice.
  • MegaCorp - The Isoda corporation the main villains of the story.
  • Rocket Boots/ Tricked-Out Shoes - Elly's boots allow her to fly into the air, but there's no stabilization so she just flies wildly.
  • Steampunk - Elly's weapons and the way she dresses are all very steampunk, as a stark contrast to the bustling post modern technology around her.
  • Swiss-Army Gun - In addition to standard bullets, shotgun-like rounds and cables to ensnare foes or swing from roofs Elly's gun can fire blasts of lightning, freezing cold water and streams of flames

edited 10th Apr '11 12:23:18 PM by dragonmaster

I knew you would read this line, because I am just that awesome.
KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#58: Apr 10th 2011 at 6:45:09 PM

As it happens, my work has a page, but this is giving me some inspiration to update it.

edited 26th May '11 6:51:04 PM by KyleJacobs

RL_Nice Bigfoot Puncher from a computer. Since: Jul, 2009
Bigfoot Puncher
#59: Apr 10th 2011 at 7:01:05 PM

The story is about a bunch of kids who got together in a cabin in Tennessee and play a tape recorded recitation from a demonic book of the dead that leads to each of them getting possessed and attacking the others. In Evil Dead 2 the plot was seemingly rewritten a little, with only Bruce Campbell's character Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda going to the cabin with the ending leading straight to the beginning of Army of Darkness

Though it was later revealed in an interview with the director the plot was not retconned, but in fact some copyright nonsense made the director retcon the recap. It is still a direct sequel if you ignore the recap.

In Army of Darkness, the most quoted and watched of the trilogy, Ash is sucked back to Medieval Europe, goes on a quest to retrieve the medieval-era Book of the Dead, and, once he screws up, trains and helps the not-quite peaceful villagers to fight a massive skeleton army.

Ash got so popular that he's got four videogames on him, more comic book adaptions you could wave a chainsaw at including an Evil Dead/Marvel Zombies crossover comic and another with Xena, and a Role-Playing Game under the Unisystem umbrella. There's also a Broadway musical.

Tropes This Franchise Named:

Included:

  • Animate Dead: what happens when you remove the book. There's a spell to disable that, but Ash mispronounces it; Hilarity Ensues.
  • Apocalyptic Log: The source of the entire mess.
  • Arm Cannon
  • Arrow Cam
  • Artificial Limbs: When his hand is chopped off, Ash replaces it with a chainsaw. Later, he replaces that with a clockwork gauntlet.
    • And in the extended media beyond the films, he'll frequently swap out his gauntlet with the saw (for example, in A Fistful of Boomstick, he can switch the chainsaw out with a flamethrower and a Gatling gun).
  • Ax-Crazy: How Ash copes with the events of the first two movies. By the third, he's turned it into Crazy Awesome.
  • Badass Normal: Ash goes up against demons from hell, medieval knights, the undead and his own mutated friends with no training, preparation or backup, and still manages to kick ass and take names.
  • Banned in China Britain: It was one of the "Video Nasties" that got Mary Whitehouse's knickers in a twist. It was more to do with the title than the content; titles with stuff like "Evil" and "Dead" were banned in a knee-jerk reaction (although the tree rape scene didn't do it any favors).
  • Barrier-Busting Blow
  • BBC Quarry: It wasn't shot in England (though the story does take place there), but Ash's arrival in the Middle Ages at the end of Evil Dead 2 was filmed at a very similar-looking North Carolina rock quarry.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Mocked.
—> Deadite Sheila: "You found me beautiful once." —> Ash: "Honey, you got real ugly."
  • Beyond the Impossible: The series begins with a college student fighting demons in an isolated cabin in the woods, and gets cooler from there.
  • Big "NO!"
  • Bilingual Bonus: Trilingual? Necronomicon ex Mortis. The first bit means "Book of the Dead" in Greek, and the second is "from/by the Dead" in Latin.
  • Black-and-Gray Morality: Lampshaded in Army of Darkness.
—> Good Ash: [cocks shotgun, points it under Evil Ash's nose and fires] Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
—> Good Ash: [same as above] I ain't that good.
  • Black Blood: Along with all sorts of liquids the production staff used as blood, mostly to avoid an X-rating...
    • And the possessed Shelly bleeds white blood whilst faking her death throes.
  • Bland-Name Product: "Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart!"
    • "YA GOT THAT!?"
  • Blatant Lies: Jake's song in the musical. He claims to have won an Oscar for directing Platoon, written Jackie Chan's autobiography, and coined the phrase "fo shizzle, my nizzle!"
  • Bloody Hilarious
  • B-Movie: Definitely among the most famous B Movies ever.
  • Body Horror: Begins fairly early in the first movie and goes downhill from there.
  • Bond One-Liner: Many. But here's one anyway:
—>Good Ash: (fires shotgun up Evil Ash's nose) Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
  • Bottomless Magazines: At one point, Ash fires his double barreled shotgun at least three times in quick succession, far faster than someone with only one hand can reload. There's also the lever action rifle in Army of Darkness which he fires about 30 times without reloading. And then there's the bottomless gas tank for the chainsaw.
  • California Doubling: Army of Darkness takes place in medieval England, but it's pretty obviously filmed in Bronson Canyon and Vasquez Rocks. Bruce Campbell has a lot of fun ribbing Sam Raimi about it in their DVD commentary. Notably averted in the first two movies, which really were filmed in the Appalachian forest (much to the chagrin of the Michigan-based cast and crew, especially during the first movie).
  • The Cavalry: Henry the Red and his peoples.
  • Canon Discontinuity: Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 have a few differences, plotwise. The number of people headed to the cabin are different (five in the original, two in the sequel). However, this is a result of Sam Raimi not having the rights to show clips from the first movie. So he decided to recap the first film in abbreviated form instead, then continuing from the very end of the first where Ash gets run into by the Evil-cam.
    • Sam Raimi explains in the Evil Dead 2 commentary that you can attach the Evil Dead 2 scene with Ash being attacked at daybreak to the first movie's ending, then remove Ash's arrival in medieval times from Evil Dead 2, and then attach Ash's arrival from Army of Darkness onto it instead, and you'll have the single-continuity storyline he envisioned. He also said he feels sorry for anyone who'd sit through the resulting 6-hour movie (though many fans might disagree).
      • For god's sake Tropers! That was a challenge! Get to it!
  • Chainsaw And Shotgun
  • Chainsaw Good: Probably one of the most iconic examples in media.
  • The Chosen One: Technically, the "Promised One". Also mixed with a little It Sucks to Be the Chosen One.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: Ash's tying down of Bad Ash so he can properly chop him up with the chainsaw. There is, however, no gloating.
    • Really, it was more about preventing Bad Ash from hindering him down the road (and a reference to the first movie), but it's quite likely that Ash enjoyed having a Deadite at his mercy (or lack thereof).
  • Cool Car: Sam Raimi's 1973 Oldsmobile is Ash's in the series. Even the car Took a Level in Badass in Army of Darkness, when it is turned into a war machine.
  • Daylight Horror: The ending to the first movie. A few scares at the beginning too.
  • Dance Sensation: Dooo the Necronomicon. The Necronomicon.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Played straight in "Army of Darkness." Ash finds plenty of opportunities to snark about medieval culture and action-adventure tropes.
    • Ash gets some moments in the first two movies, too.
—->Linda: Hey Ash, I guessed the card right! —->Ash (distracted): Yeah, truly amazing.
  • Dem Bones: Most of the skeleton Army.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Early in the first movie, Scott seems to be the hero while Ash is next to useless. This quickly changes.
  • Demonic Possession: Pretty much the whole plot of the first two movies. Sheila in the third.
  • Description Porn: From Army of Darkness, Ash introducing his boomstick.
  • Dodge This!: "Swallow this." * BOOM! *
  • Earworm: Almost every song in the musical. "Cabin in the Woods," "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons," and "What the Fuck Was That?" come to mind...
  • Downer Ending: The original ending of Army of Darkness. The exact opposite of the theatrical version.
    • Not that the first two movies had very happy endings themselves.
  • Dung Ages: Army of Darkness.
  • Enemy Without
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave: Including your own hand.
    • AND they're comin' back to getcha!
  • Evil Hand
  • Evil Twin: The twin from Army of Darkness that Ash ends up fighting.
  • Eye Scream
  • Fate Worse than Death: Assuming you trust the source, the second movie alludes to possession and death being the least of victims' problems in this series:
—>"Even now we have your darling Linda's soul. She suffers in torment." —> Sam Raimi: How come your hand's still stuck in there even though it's chopped off? —> Bruce Campbell: It's 'cause the director told me to.
  • Gender-Blender Name: Who'd have thought that one of the most significant Bad Ass characters of the Eighties would be named Ashley?
    • Actually, Ashley was mainly a boys' name until the 1980s, when a popular female soap opera character had the name.
  • Genre Savvy: Ash knows that just because a Deadite is down, doesn't mean it's dead. However, he learns this through experience, not pre-thought wisdom.
—>Ash: "It's a trick. Get an axe."
  • Genre Shift: The first movie is a more-or-less straightforward horror film. Evil Dead 2 is a strange hybrid of gory, serious horror, and slapstick comedy. Army of Darkness drops almost all the horror and works instead as an action-comedy. This is surprisingly not an example of Executive Meddling, as creator Sam Raimi helmed all three films, and the progression from horror to comedy was his own idea.
    • The shift is also very effective in showing Ash's descent into madness.
  • Gorn
  • Guns Akimbo
  • Groin Attack
  • Haunted Headquarters: The cabin in the woods.
  • Helping Hands
  • High-Pressure Blood
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Deadite Cheryl speaks in nearly nothing but these in the musical.
—> Cheryl: I'm like a literal Hulk Hogan! I'll get you, brother!
—> Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts? —> Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me.
  • Ironic Nursery Tune: "We're going to get you, We're going to get you."
  • It Got Worse: Pretty much the entire point of the series. Every time it look like it might either be getting better, or he might hit rock bottom, or he has any kind of fortune or misfortune whatsoever, something happens to Ash. Case in point - after surviving most of the night, killing his zombie ex-girlfriend and presumably taking care of his own zombie hand by cutting it off, another group of people show up, think he murdered their family, and throw him in the cellar. Headfirst. Then, they listen to the Apocalyptic Log and find out the old man who lived there was actually attacked by his possessed ex-wife. And he buried her in the cellar...
  • Kensington Gore: Lots of it.
  • Lampshade Hanging: The musical does quite a bit of it. It even points out the inconsistency with Ash being brought back from the curse from seeing Linda's necklace... even though Linda is a Deadite now.
  • Lantern Jaw of Justice
  • Large Ham: Rumor has it that Bruce Campbell was hospitalized for two weeks after filming "Army of Darkness" on account of the damage done to his digestive tract after eating all of that scenery.
  • Late to the Party - Although Ash and his friends don't realize it at first
  • Leg Cling The poster for "Army of Darkness"
  • Licking the Blade
  • Lock-and-Load Montage
  • Locked into Strangeness - It's very easy to miss, but after his penultimate confrontation with the big freakin' demon at the end of Evil Dead 2, Ash gains a white/grey stripe of hair on the side of his head from fright. However, this seems to disappear in Army of Darkness.
  • Losing Your Head: Linda in "2" and Evil Ash in "Army of Darkness".
  • Madness Mantra: Evil Dead 2
—> "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?"
  • Madden Into Misanthropy: Ash evolves from a fairly sensitive guy into snarling comedic misanthropy over the course of the movies, though he's had one hell of a bad weekend to justify it. It probably didn't help that his allies in both the second and third movie introduced themselves by trying to kill him.
—>Ash: Now I swear... the next one of you primates... even touches me... —>Ash: Yo. She-bitch. Let's go. —>Ash: Come to Papa. —>Ash: Lady, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store.
  • Cranked Up To Eleven in Fistful of Boomstick videogame, where Ash would spout random one-liners with a press of a button.
—>Ash: First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow. —>Ash: We can take these guys, we can take them! With science!
  • The Musical: The franchise gained a musical adaptation, which has appeared on Broadway.
  • The Other Darrin: The Two Other Lindas
  • The Smart Guy: Annie Knowby in Evil Dead 2.The creators joke in their DVD commentary that, had she been in Ash's situation from the beginning, she would have solved the whole thing in about 30 minutes.
  • The Siege
  • Slept Through the Apocalypse: the original end of Army.
  • Star-Making Role: Bruce Campbell is most definitely annoyed by the amount of people who ask him about Evil Dead IV.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games - Sort of... Hail To The King for the Playstation and Dreamcast was a Resident Evil clone and generally not a very good one thanks to respawning enemies and low ammunition stocks. The two latter games, "A Fistful Of Boomstick" and "Regeneration" were far better but both games actually seem to follow a canon on which Army Of Darkness never happened. In fact, "Regeneration" opens with Ash in a mental institution after having been found at the cabin surrounded by the dismembered pieces of his friends. Things get worse when the head doctor of his institution begins experimenting with the Necronomicon.
    • Dialog from police officers in "A Fistful Of Boomstick" also lets slip that the police were investigating the cabin incident and preparing to formally press murder charges against Ash, right before the deadites attack the town.
    • All three of the recent games also seem to follow their own separate canon from each other. Regeneration was NOT a sequel to "A Fistful Of Boomstick".
  • This! Is! SPARTA!: "This... Is... My... BOOMSTICK!"
  • Tired of Running: By the last fifteen minutes of each movie in the trilogy, Ash has been driven mad by the things the Evil has forced him to see and do, to the point where he is no longer scared so much as just pissed off. It is at this point he raises hell with his chainsaw and/or shotgun.
  • Title: The Adaptation: Evil Dead: The Musical!
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: The "Morturom Demonto," though it becomes the "Necronomicron ex Mortis" in the sequels (after Sam Raimi learned about Lovecraft and renamed the book as a Shout-Out). Usually shortened by characters to either "the Necronomicon" or "the Book of the Dead".
  • Too Dumb to Live: Cheryl, to some degree. The musical hangs a huge lampshade on this:
—>Cheryl: Now, Mother always said when you hear a strange, frightening and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods, there's only one thing that you should do: not go wake the others and go investigate it alone!
  • Took a Level in Badass: Ash. He starts off as a nebbish, somewhat timid college student. A few days (and two sequels) later, he's redefined the word badass.
    • Bruce Campbell himself actually took a level in badass during the filming of Evil Dead 2, so he could be a better fit to the shotgun wielding, chainsaw handed king of badasses that Ash would eventually become.
  • Training the Peaceful Villagers: Sort of. They weren't exactly peaceful to begin with, but showing them how to make gunpowder certainly was useful. Oddly enough there's another scene where he teaches them how to use their own Blade On A Stick weapons.
  • The Undead: Naturally.
  • Unholy Matrimony: Bad Ash and Bad Sheila in AOD.
  • Unlikely Hero
  • Video Nasties: Probably the best known film bearing this trope.
  • The Walls Are Closing In: Army of Darkness sees Ash thrown into a pit containing a few demons that he has to fight, as well as this particular Death Trap just to make things more exciting. He escapes by hanging onto the chain powering the closing walls as it moves up.
  • Weaponized Car: See Cool Car above.
  • What Could Have Been: Annie from Evil Dead 2 was written as a role for Holly Hunter. Dino De Laurentis vetoed the choice as he didn't think she was beautiful enough.
  • What Happened to Mommy?: Ash has a hard time convincing himself to kill his friends and girlfriend after they're possessed. Annie briefly faces this situation literally with her possessed mother.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Ash fucks up reciting The Words and doesn't care he has doomed everyone.
—> Ash: Klaatu! Barada! Ni—*coughcoughcough*...OK then! That's it!
  • When Trees Attack: See the "Naughty Tentacles" example.
  • Who's Laughing Now?: After taking constant abuse from his Evil Hand, Ash invokes this trope (even the title word-for-word!) with the help of a nearby chainsaw.
  • Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: the English in 1300 are perfectly capable of understanding Ash's very slangy modern English, and themselves speak modern English peppered with "thee"s and "shalt"s.

A fistful of me.
RL_Nice Bigfoot Puncher from a computer. Since: Jul, 2009
Bigfoot Puncher
#60: Apr 10th 2011 at 7:01:23 PM

Okay, seriously now.

Loki America

A trilogy of adventure-comedy film scripts I’m working on. Well, I would be working on them if it weren’t for that damned writer’s block (Writer’s block here meaning “inability to come up with ridiculously awesome one-liners”).

Anyways, the trilogy revolves around an Occult Detective Intrepid Reporter named Loki America who’s based off of every Testosterone Poisoning, Memetic Badass and Crazy Awesome trope I can think of. He travels the world seeking sensational stories involving the paranormal and outrageous conspiracy theories for the London based newspaper The Mantis.

Joining him is his ex-girlfriend Zoë Pandora, who has a knack for (reluctantly) getting pulled into adventures which usually end up getting them back together, his Lovable Coward friend Abraham Southpaw, and Da Editor of The Mantis, the eccentric Saxon Loveblast.

The tone I’m going for can best be described as “Ash from Evil Dead goes on Indiana Jones-esque adventures to solve X-Files mysteries while fighting James Bond villains.”

The three parts of the trilogy:

Terror of the Fourth Reich

Zoë Pandora gets called to Nepal by Loki for help when he and his old flame Karen Ross uncover an army of genetically engineered Nazi Super Soldiers who have cloned Adolf Hitler and plan on activating a mind control device to conquer the world.

The Curse from the Stars

Zoë gets kidnapped by MIB’s after telling Loki about a potential story involving UFO’s. Loki follows her trail to the United States, where he meets Emily Rocksteel, an Action Girl with Psychic Powers, who joins him to rescue her boyfriend, who was kidnapped by the same people. Together, they uncover a Government Conspiracy led by Scientologist members of the Ku Klux Klan to take over the world using alien technology.

Revenge of the Orient

After using a haunted camera, Zoë gets possessed by the ghost of HP Lovecraft’s murdered granddaughter, Chloe Lovecraft. Loki agrees to help Chloe track down her murderers in Hong Kong, and discovers that they are a demon worshipping cult led by Fu Manchu.

Tropes

edited 10th Apr '11 8:39:11 PM by RL_Nice

A fistful of me.
LizardBite Shameless Self-Promoter from Two Galaxies Over Since: Jan, 2001
Shameless Self-Promoter
#61: Apr 10th 2011 at 7:29:55 PM

Oh, wow. This thread is still going?

OK, here's a new setting— the Wasteland.

  • After the End - Five years ago, the Cataclysm occurred, killing the forests and creating huge chasms and volcanoes all around the land. No one knows what caused it.
  • The Chessmaster - Quite a few. Stalros, a high-ranking member of the Tauth Clergy is pretty much responsible for every advantage his faction gains in the Wasteland. Rivoll Talkath is a Paladin of the Inquisition, and routinely shows people how, exactly, he achieved that rank (hint: it wasn't by being nice and passive). Shepherd Dontus has repurposed Mal'Shekuth's entire Clergy into serving his agenda— without any underlings even being aware of it. Then there's the mysterious New Pantheon, a group claiming to be responsible for the Cataclysm.
  • Corrupt Church - The Clergy isn't really "corrupt" so much as "terrified beyond all reason", after all, the gods did vanish at the same time as an apocalyptic event. Shepherd Dontus, however, plays this trope straight.
  • The Empath - Anyone in possession of a mind gem can feel other people's emotions.
  • Eye Scream - The reason the sun and moon exist! To elaborate, Shan-Toras and Tan-Shoras were beautiful twin goddesses, and their brother Valkath, god of art, music, and beauty, decided to paint the sky in one of his sisters' image. The sisters ended up tearing each other's eyes out during their ensuing fight, and Valkath compromised by making it so the sky sometimes displays Shan-Toras' face, and sometimes displays Tan-Shoras' face.
  • Have You Seen My God? - The gods all vanished when he Cataclysm occurred.
  • The Heartless - The Mirrored, a group of beings were cast out of the world long ago by Monterok, the god of war
  • The Heretic - Fansooth, a slave-turned-prophet who claims to be the avatar of the god Kal'Shuth— a claim that doesn't sit well with the Clergy. By extension, everyone in the Tauth Clergy qualifies, and the mainstream Clergy even refers to them all as the "Tauth Heretics."
  • Magic A Is Magic A - Instead of traditional magic, there are instead various gems with unique properties. For example, light gems glow, bond gems can be used as a very limited form of communication, and time gems change their crystal patterns depending on the time of day.
    • Elemental gems (water, fire, and wind gems) require the user to shave dust off the gem first, and then scatter the dust somewhere where the element will be found. Upon using the gem, the user is able to control the element surrounding each speck of dust.
  • Magitek - Light gems are used as lanterns and street lights. Time gems are used as clocks.
  • Mythopoeia - Pretty much the entire point of the setting
  • Our Zombies Are Different - They're called Reborn, and they're perfectly normal except for the pale skin, visible veins, and the whole not-breathing-or-eating thing. A number of people simply transformed into Reborn two years after the Cataclysm, with no one truing knowing why, although the heretic prophet Fansooth claims that they have been chosen by Kal'Shuth, the god of death...
  • Religion of Evil - The Order of Blood, a cult of Reborn who believe they can become human again by consuming human flesh. They're led by a mysterious figure called "the Blood God."
  • Standard Fantasy Setting - Or at least it was before the Cataclysm.
  • Trickster God - Shan-Toras, the night goddess

All the tropes I can think of right now. Too tired for more.

edited 10th Apr '11 7:30:35 PM by LizardBite

Sylizar Destroyer of Worlds from Canada Since: Aug, 2010
Destroyer of Worlds
#62: Apr 10th 2011 at 8:55:14 PM

A highly incomplete list but:

  • And I Must Scream: The Infected are completely aware in the first stages of mutation, and are in constant agonizing pain. They are often seen apoligizing as they tear people apart.
  • Apocalypse How: Class X
  • Apocalypse Wow
  • Area 51: A subsidary, but essentially the same thing.
  • Beyond the Impossible: How gory can the series get? How much ridiculous punishment can the Krhashatha take? How awesome will the next sequence of destruction be? How big will the Krhashatha get? How many cigars will General Rathus smoke?
  • Body Horror: If one of the parasites gets in you, this is going to happen. Results vary wildly, but all are disturbing.
  • Combat Tentacles: The Krhashatha and a few of its spawn, namely Omega.
  • Cosmic Horror Story
  • Downer Ending: Almost all of humanity dies, and the Krhashatha is free to travel the universe.
  • Eldritch Abomination: The Krhashatha and its species.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: Literally. Ninety-nine percent of the population is killed and the planet is destroyed.
  • From a Single Cell: The Krhashatha
  • Gorn: A lot. There is eviscerations, mutilations, heads exploding and oh so much more.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh, so very much. It includes Body Horror, Gorn, Surreal Sequences, Extreme Squick, Mind Rape, Paranoia Fuel and The End of the World as We Know It.
  • Mind Rape: The Krhashatha can make people see things, like say...You're fighting it, and you think you've won, the Krhashatha will make you "see" your victory, when in reality, it's freeing itself and coming for you. Its touch breaks you free, and brings you back to reality. And don't stare at its eyes for too long, lest your mind destroys itself.
  • Multiversal Conqueror: It is implied that the Krhashatha can rip open holes to other dimensions and realities. It is further implied it does this after the annihilation of one reality to move onto the next.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: The Krhashatha. Able to survive an internally detonated nuke, being sawed in half by an orbital laser, impalement, thousands of rounds of gunfire, a blast from an alien mothership, and having one of its hearts destroyed. Among other things.
  • Planet Eater: The Krhashatha
  • Precursors: The Krhashatha's species as well as the Gorgonoth. Although the latter came a few million years later.
  • Psychological Horror: The Krhashatha can, and will, inflict this.
  • Pulling Themselves Together: Take a guess at who has this ability.
  • Squick: Once again, there's a lot, the most prominent being the first victim of the Krhashatha. It crawls into a call girl's nether regions, and grows inside her. This culminates in it pushing its way up through her throat, and bursting forth from her skull.
  • Starfish Aliens: Once again, the Krhashatha's species.
  • The Stinger: After the credits, the Krhashatha is seen crashing into a planet. One nearly 50 times the size of Earth.
  • These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The Krhashatha can mind rape like few others, as a Gorgonoth captain put so eloquently, "The Krhashatha is the progenitor, of its species, and all species. We are unaware how, but it, along with a few other members of its species, seemingly have all the history and knowledge of the universe stored in their minds. We...tried to harness some of this knowledge for ourselves, but it was futile. Our greatest scientists were driven insane, screaming aloud about how indecipherable images were speeding through their minds. One managed to tell me that the entire history of the universe sped through his mind within seconds...moments before his brain imploded. One of the scientists survived long enough to write a message in his blood. It was gibberish, describing how the images he saw were impossible, indecipherable, completely alien. Their minds tore themselves apart, piece-by-piece, trying to comprehend these creatures. I dread what this one can do to you. It is far more powerful than the ones we encountered."

edited 10th Apr '11 8:56:44 PM by Sylizar

YonTroper Since: Aug, 2009
#63: Apr 11th 2011 at 4:53:14 PM

CarnivorousMoogle Carnie M. from In Your Fridge Since: Sep, 2009
Carnie M.
#64: Apr 15th 2011 at 1:51:05 PM

Oooooh! Oh, where do I start? I have so many different story-worlds to choose from... -bliss-

For war refugee Claire Ritzell, life has been boring and depressing for the last two years; her family is scattered abroad, and she's stuck in a boarding school in a foul-weathered area of the country until further notice. One morning, however, said life is turned on its head when she wakes up in a stone room, alone, in a cold, grey castle. Upon exploration, she finds that it's not just any castle she's been taken to; the land surrounding it extends from a few inches to a hundred yards out, and then simply drops away into the sky. She is, in fact, trapped on a floating castle.

As if this wasn't enough, there are other people on the castle. And none of them come from the world she knows...

A web-based story in the works, spread out over many, many smaller components, the Floating Castle Project started out as an exercise for how large of a world the author could build, and went from there. It focuses on four different sections of the castle, long ago abandoned and split into many pieces, and the adventures of the inhabitants that have been summoned there from many different dimensions as they explore the Great Sky and attempt to solve the mystery of the Floating Castle.

The Floating Castle contains examples of:

  • Loads And Loads Of Characters: And how! There are four different parts of the castle that are focused on, each with between twenty and thirty people summoned onto them. That's not even counting the myriad of characters that inhabit the floating islands scattered around the Great Sky, many of which end up joining one of the four ensembles.
  • Ominous Floating Castle: Go on, guess.
    • Played straight and subverted; when the characters first wake up on their respective sections of the castle, it's pretty creepy, some nasty things have taken up residence during the long, long period in which it has been mysteriously abandoned, and some of the doors and hallways near the ripped-apart sides open onto empty space. Later, after the characters start settling down, enacting pest-control and making the castle(s?) home, it becomes a great deal less ominous.
  • Petting-Zoo People: Quite a few of the different worlds the characters come from are populated by these, of several different types. Many of the species that inhabit the floating islands are this, mainly because most of them were brought to the Great Sky from the aforementioned worlds by their island's resident Angel/Spirit.
  • World in the Sky: The Great Sky.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: Becomes a source of drama with just about any character who decides to travel with the Floating Castle group, since even winged humanoids can only fly so far and the only other method of getting around is the Castle, which isn't exactly controllable. Thankfully, it's implied that this is remedied later on, as in the epilogue we see the resident Gadgeteer Geniuses working on designs for airships.

edited 17th Apr '11 9:16:42 PM by CarnivorousMoogle

Still working on Good Style, so bear with me.
Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#65: Apr 16th 2011 at 11:45:43 AM

Metal Avian Cosmos

Earth has already reached new levels of technological advancement. The birds, after flying throughout the skies and local space, finally devised ways on manned space travel beyond the Solar System through lightspeed travel. However, their first manned lightspeed space travel was cut short when exploration vessel gets attacked by a race of cats called the Caracal. Jay, one of the top pilots and astronauts in Aeronautics and Astronautics Airbase (A3), gets furious upon hearing this, not helped when his beloved Gale, is one of the people in it. When news of the Caracal appearing in their space quarters, A3 prepares him the MAC, or the Metal Avian Cosmos, called MAC-Icarus, a specially-designed machine that is one-of-a-kind, as it can shift from craft mode for fast travel and evasion, to a more combat-oriented fighter-mode, turning it into a humanoid robot. Things get a little more complicated when Gale is alive but inside the feline starship, and that this isn't the first MAC, the first encounter with the Caracal, and the first lightspeed travel.

The main cast are:

  • Jay Whites - The Hero and pilot of MAC-Icarus. Is a bit hot-headed especially whenever his girlfriend is mentioned, but otherwise keeps his cool whenever he is inside the vehicle. Respects authority, something he seems so strongly tied to.
  • Gale Miriam - The Chick and Jay's Love Interest. Is supposedly killed, but ends up alive inside the Caracal starship. Manages to escape along with another Caracal.
  • Iziar Erving - Erving is a black panther Caracal who helped Gale escape. Not a pilot, but very well-versed in mechanics.
  • Commander Freud George - head officer of A3. Stern and direct on giving orders. Was once a pilot too, but broke his right leg some time in the past. Knows more than what he lets others see.
  • Ace One / Jude Hooks - a huge eagle who piloted a prototype MAC. Originally abandoned Earth after realizing how horrible the planet was, becoming a mercenary-for-hire for the Caracal, allowing his MAC to be customized into MAC-Garuda. Rejoins after some encounters with Jay, doubling as a teacher and partner.
  • Kirian Albedo - Albedo is the main commanding officer leading the Caracal army. A cougar. Son of the Kirian family who is assigned on the Solar System. Responsible on preventing the birds from polluting other planets.
  • Kirian Reema - Albedo's sister. Actually against the idea of coercing the birds to remain in Earth, but it is her duty as a Kirian. Responsible for sending Erving. Later on joins the Caracal Rebel Force.
  • Zabaya - one of the first Caracal Jay meets who pilots an MAC (his is called MAC-Starchaser). A tiger who looks calm, but the heat of the battle can turn him... insane.
  • Haide - another Caracal who pilots an MAC (hers is called MAC-Catseye). A white leopard, she is actually more concerned about her well-being than her mission, despite following orders.
  • Arkah - the third Caracal MAC pilot (his is called MAC-Pride). A lion, he is an analytical pilot whose MAC is customized to have separating sensors and hi-sensory devices. Very dangerous and quite intelligent.

This show contains the following tropes:

  • Attack Drone: MAC-Garuda and MAC-Phoenix has detachable "feathers" that shoot lasers or bullets.
    • MAC-Pride has detachable sensors and cameras
  • The Ace: Jude
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Erving may not be a pilot, but he can tell and predict how something works by just observing.
    • Arkah's gimmick works on this.
  • Bad Ass
    • Big Badass Bird of Prey: Jude is a bald eagle wearing a red bandanna, who is quite muscular (compared to the lanky Jay), and has a no-nonsense attitude. He beats up both birds and cats. He also gets the best MAC.
  • Bash Brothers: Once Jude warms up towards Jay, they end up acting more like this outside their mentor-student shenanigans.
  • Beam Spam: Whenever the MAC-Icarus needs to use its Razor Light, it needs to fire a barrage of lasers to hold the enemy in place
  • Bitter Sweet Ending: Albedo and Jay manage to stop the war from going further, and Jay and Gale are reunited, while Jude and Erving became ambassadors. Reema dies after taking a shot for her brother though, and Commander George was executed for his secrets (despite meaning well).
  • The Captain: Kirian Albedo
  • The Chick: Gale, though has hints of Action Girl
  • Da Chief: Commander George
  • Dark Secret: Commander George knows some old secrets. After all, he was one of the few officers who made the Caracal angry.
  • Decoy Rival: Zabaya seems like that... but then he gets eliminated (not to mention that he's crazy). Jude fits the mold so well... yet he ends up becoming a mentor instead.
  • Fallen Hero: Jude was once an ace pilot who engaged in MAC training. He soon realized how vile Earth was compared to other planets, so he left Earth (while being branded as a traitor). It was Jay who made him re-establish his faith on the birds in Earth once more.
  • Frickin' Laser Beams: the general armaments of an MAC.
  • Good-Looking Privates: Kirian Albedo
  • The Hero: Jay
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Reema
  • Humongous Mecha: the MAC
    • Transforming Mecha: Fighter Mode and Ship Mode
      • Mo Cap Mecha: whenever the MAC goes into Fighter Mode, the pilot stands up in the cockpit to mimic its movements. that's why the pilots wear specific gear - to detect their movements.
  • Meaningful Name: seems like people assumed Jude was short for "Judas", but not really.
    • Jay for blue jay (even though he isn't - he's more like a crested falcon) and Gale for nightingale.
  • The Mentor: Jude
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: Jay inherits Jude's MAC-Garuda when his MAC gets destroyed. Jude later on gets his new one called MAC-Phoenix.
  • La Résistance: The Caracal Resistance Force, who wanted to remove the council for freedom.
    • As it turns out however, they are actually remaining soldiers of the "abandoned" Caracals that tried to stop the birds from stealing Caracal technology. They wanted to get revenge on the council for "abandoning" them and soon taking over Caracal to form a "better" government. Reema saw this and soon saved her brother from a shot.
  • Laser Blade: MAC-Icarus has Razor Light, a single blade of energy.
    • MAC-Garuda has Talon Lasers, which are two blades of energy.
    • MAC-Phoenix uses its "wings" that create a field of energy that acts like blades.
  • Last-Name Basis: it may seem like it, but the Caracals all follow an Eastern-style of naming.
  • Miss Fanservice: Haide
  • Owl Be Damned: Commander George
  • Psycho for Hire: Zabaya
  • Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Caracal wants the "birds to remain on Earth".
  • Shining Planet: subverted - Earth is actually polluted. Nature has died down, so the only thing visible are futuristic buildings, the sky, and the sea. No grasses, trees, etc. exist.
  • The Smart Guy: Erving
  • Token Enemy Minority: Erving. While there have been Caracals that ally with A3 midway through the series (and even Albedo), Erving is the most focused example.
  • The Voice: Ace One. The MAC he pilots is actually MAC-Garuda covered with some materials to keep his identity from Jay. He actually appeared right after Jay and Jude fought.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Caracal are made up of families serving a council that divides them to which galaxy sectors they will manage. The Kirian was assigned to lead the one covering Earth. They originally had a peaceful negotiations with birds, but somehow the old superpower in Earth made the birds drive away the Caracal and steal some of their technology, which in turn polluting the planet. They are determined not to let birds leave the planet to prevent spreading pollution.

edited 16th Apr '11 11:52:18 AM by Ookamikun

gentlemanorcus from Virginia Since: Feb, 2010
#66: Apr 22nd 2011 at 5:20:07 PM

The City of Ghavomar

  • Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The city actually has a large tunnel complex running under it, but only a small area (Dankshadow) is used for housing; the rest is a sewer.
  • Capital City: It's the capital of Ostratia, though it's more of a city-state since it has a completely different ruler and government than Ostratia.
  • City Guards: The Dragoons, one half of the Justicarum.
  • The City Narrows: Most of Dankshadow is not actually above ground, and is housed below in a section of the city's large tunnel complex (the rest is used for sewage). The only entrance is a converted outhouse with a ladder.
  • City of Adventure: Most of the story takes place in Ghavomar.
  • Deadly Decadent Court: It appears to be a republic, but often the representatives in the People's Court are ignored, and their votes don't count nearly as much as people in the High Court. Some suspect the government is run by a secret group called The Trinity. It is.
  • Doomsday Device: The Kaltan-Ath. A large jewel in the center of the city, it is used by mages to draw power. It can also be used to break the bonds holding demons into the underworld; the bonds can be broken anytime by The Trinity.
  • Empire With A Secret: Not an empire, but Ghavomar is pretty much a giant area created for summoning demons long ago. It is secretly ruled by The Trinity, a group of demigods who will use the city's true purpose to summon demons if they think humanity has grown corrupt.
  • The Government: The city is run by three ruling bodies: The Justicarum, The Magicarum, and The Twin Courts. The Justicarum consists of the Dragoons and the Inquisition; the Inquisition investigate crimes, the Dragoons deal with them. The Magicarum is a secretive organization that deals with mages. The Twin Courts, consisting of the People's Court and the High Court, votes on issues.
  • Government Conspiracy: Long ago, a prophet was hanged when he said Ghavomar was not a republic and that it was run by a secret group called The Trinity. He was killed before he could present proof. Many still believe in his theories. He was right.
  • Inherent in the System: Most people who end up in Dankshadow didn't do anything wrong; but when you move into the city, you're relegated into an area in The People's Promenade with incredibly high taxes for a relatively low quality area. Not being able to pay your taxes results in getting thrown into Dankshadow.
  • Knight Templar: The Magicarum. Whenever they even slightly suspect an illegal mage is in the area they call a Cabalias, where they force a mage prisoner to expend all his/her magical energies into a large area, overloading magical pressure in the area and killing mages without The Stamp. Sometimes, even mages with The Stamp die in Cabaliases. The process usually kills the mage who did it.
  • Land of One City: Closest thing I could find that applies to Ghavomar. Though it's never been officially declared as such, it's a city-state, with a ruler different from the country it's housed in (Ostratia) and a different form of government.
  • Not-So-Safe Harbor: The Docks, a hive of Gangbangers and rowdy sailors. Still better than Dankshadow.
  • Power Tattoo: Babies who are born as mages receive The Stamp, a tattoo on their forehead which redirects magical energy from a Cabalias into the tattoo. Sometimes, The Stamp is not enough to protect them, and they die in a Cabalias.
  • Red Light District: Blossomlight, in Dankshadow.
  • La Résistance: The main character leads one by the middle of the story, but it only starts as this. Deconstructed. See The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized for more.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: La Résistance soon turns into this, as the main character loses sight of his ideals, and the revolution becomes just as bad, if not worse, than the country they're fighting against. A clash of ideals lead to the rebellion splintering into many large, ineffectual groups.
  • Path of Inspiration: Though even the higher-ups don't realize it, they are constantly being judged by a group of demigods, and if they feel humanity has become corrupt, they summon demons to destroy the world so Teradtas can make it anew. Ghavomar was built for this purpose.
  • Soiled City on a Hill: Ghavomar was built as a summoning ground for demons; if The Trinity, the secret group that rules Ghavomar, deems humanity has become corrupt, they'll summon the demons and purge the world so Teradtas can make it anew.
  • Urban Segregation: The city is divided into Northcity (consisting of Highwater, Tradersmeet, and The People's Promenade), and Southcity (Oblivion's Gathering, The Docks, Dankshadow, The Arcanum).
  • Vestigial Empire: Just like all of Ostratia, the once great city of Ghavomar has declined in recent years. Just as background, Ostratia suffered two rebellions, almost one after another, and was invaded by one of the most powerful nations in the world (Zelmonia).
  • Vice City
  • Wrong Side of the Tracks: Dankshadow, where they put you if you can't pay your taxes or if you committed a crime not worth execution. The Docks also, though to a lesser extent.

edited 22nd Apr '11 7:09:40 PM by gentlemanorcus

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