Discussion Franchise / TheDarkTower

I wanted to put this here before taking any action: I'm not a huge fan of The Shill entry, as it implies that the conversation about King in these books is all riotously positive and complimentary. It's really not; King writes King as an addled alcoholic when he first appears, and there's a line at one point about King being a "talented writer who wastes his time" on projects of less importance. And Roland absolutely loathes King by the last book.

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Hi folks I need a bit of help with an example(s) from a Special Efforts thread. See InstantDeathBullet Sandbox for more details Links to threads are in the description.

Any help, suggestions, or other info can be posted to The Special Efforts thread

The aversion is likely a proper example but are there any other examples of instant death bullet in the Franchise?

• The final book of The Dark Tower by Stephen King averts this when Eddie gets shot in the head. After being shot, the person lingers for several hours before dying.

Who watches the watchmen?

A request to people who've read these books: can someone update the entry for The Dark Tower for Super Weight? It's a Just for Fun homegrown ranking at TV Tropes of measuring characters' relative power in a story, divided into nine broad categories. The entry according to the old criteria was this (and can be found on the medium subpage's discussion page):

• The Dark Tower
  • Type -1: Oy
  • Type 0: Jake, Eddie, Susannah (at first)
  • Type 1: Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah (after some time spent in Mid-World)
  • Type 2: The Breakers
  • Type 3: The Man In Black ( a.k.a. Randall Flagg), Mordred Deschain
  • Type 4: The Crimson King (Well, allegedly; sadly, by the time he actually appears in the books, he's been reduced to a gibbering lunatic, more comical than menacing.)
  • Type 5: Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Gan (Assuming the two aren't one and the same.)

Edited by Morgenthaler You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

Examples need details. Please see How To Write An Example before returning to the article. Who are friends as close as family? How is this trope fleshed out in this work? Remember, the reader is not expected to have read the books, but we still want to provide some interesting info about the trope.

• True Companions: Called "ka-tet", meaning "those bound by destiny".

This page needs some serious work done. I'll try to clean it up a bit, but it will take a while.

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I went through this trope page and did some serious clean-up/revisions.

Just a quick commit, I think the "Crapsack World" needs to fixed. From what I remember most the issues in all world with phyical laws of reality breaking down was/is because of the breakers attacking the beam, once it was stopped all world started to get better, compass directions begin to correct themselves, time begin to pass normally again etc.