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2015-08-20 16:06:32
- Darker and Edgier only applies in-series. A season in a series that is darker than previous seasons, a game or book or movie in a series that is darker than its predecessors, and so on. Works that happen to be darker than others done by the same creator or company do not count. When it happens at a later point within the same season, game, book or movie, it's Cerebus Syndrome.
- Preferably all aspects should be mentioned within the same paragraph.
I hope that helps. =)
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How much of Darker and Edgier is example-worthy?
I've been working on the Gravity Falls page and I'm a bit stumped as to what to do on this part, if anything, so I wanted to ask how a Darker and Edgier example should be formatted and whether this even qualifies.
First question: does Darker and Edgier have to be referring to previous incarnations of the work itself? Like, a gritty reboot of Ninja Turtles is obviously Darker and Edgier, but does "Darker and Edgier than Disney's usual fare" count?
Second question: Do examples of each individual thing that's Darker and Edgier merit their own bullet points? Right now, the example has a long list of bulleted individual elements, like separating each account of actual blood into its own example.
Darker and Edgier is a reference to the work as a whole and not a given part of it, so how should it be presented on a Work page?
Edited by TobiasDrake