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BKelly95 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2021-09-08 20:11:03

Have you summoned them?

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2021-09-12 01:51:10

Suspended them, edits need cleanup.

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LordGro (Old as dirt)
2021-09-13 12:28:48

What I don't like in either version of Piggybacking on Hitler is that the majority of the names dropped are purely hypothetical. Going through the entire example list, there are plenty of examples involving Hitler and the Nazis, several involving Stalin and/or the Soviet Union, and one involving "Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, who all colluded with Hitler to arrange the war" (from Assassin's Creed). Although that last one seems misuse to me, so I wouldn't count it as a valid example. (It also does not mention colonialism.)

There's no mention of either Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, Kim Jong-Il or Pol Pot. But there's no point in saying that "this trope also works with [historical person X]" if we can't point to at least one example which actually involves [X]. Probably there are hundreds of popular "historical domain villains" this trope could hypothetically work with; what really matters is which historical figures it has been used with.

tl;dr: We should cut all names other than Hitler and Stalin from the description, because we don't actually have examples for others than these two. We can add other historical figures when we have examples that use them.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2021-09-13 12:37:29

I think that's an issue for the forums, mate.

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