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The Doylist in me agrees that it's nightmarish, but the Watsonian says that the movie seems to present the moment in question as heartwarming. I don't know how much the relative joy in a Crapsack World and the presence of an Unreliable Narrator impact the entries on the Heartwarming pages, though.
Quadruple post? Yikes.
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Yikes Part Deux
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Yikes III: The Yikening
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Well, that's a straight-up Edit War so that merits a suspension.
Isn't Heartwarming supposed to be YMMV anyways? Considering the nature of the trope, if someone thinks it's an example, there has to be a reason to delete it (like if it's flat-out misinformation or something) beyond merely disagreeing with it.
Edited by N8han11
^ There's actually been a small cleanup going on with Moments. Nightmare Fuel is the biggest, but the other moments need some cleaning too, of moments that just don't fit any way you slice it. It should be subjective, but it should also be something that anyone anywhere has felt was heartwarming, not just anything that might be heartwarming if you squint and think real hard.
In other words, it's not the goal to delete things we don't agree with, but to delete things that just blatantly don't make sense on the page— or at least, aren't described well enough to fit.
Edited by WarJay77 Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I'm willing to talk it out; that's why I asked for opinions. The entry in question is the following:
Emphasis is mine. The part in italics, I can get behind. The bolded part, however, rubs me the wrong way. Even in the movie, painting the bloody smile and embracing the Joker persona isn't presented as heartwarming; quite the opposite, in fact. IIRC, there was a foreboding score meant to inspire a sense of dread during that moment.
In short, I believe that this entry is the squint-until-you-see-it sort that War Jay mentioned above.
Edited by RoundRobin - Fly, robin, fly! - ...I'm trying!
^^Makes sense. I'll leave it for others to decide.
Robotnik has re-added this entry
after I deleted it as too nightmarish to be a proper heartwarming moment.
On a side note, could someone else offer their opinion on the entry in question?