Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by Merseyuser1 on Apr 14th 2018 at 9:40:58 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThe "Mistaken for Broad Strokes" category was something that I was thinking about regarding the trope, the idea that fans will link genuinely unrelated series together using Broad Strokes when they were not meant to be part of the same universe. Both examples are of fans using broad strokes when it was not meant to apply. This is different from a production using it intentionally to explain inconsistencies.
Hide / Show RepliesThe Incredible Hulk belongs in that section as well.
Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comYou seem awfully hung up on that and I'm wondering if you are understanding the trope at all. Broad Strokes has nothing to do with canonocity, but is about accepting elements of prior stories. If The Incredible Hulk was a complete reboot they would have retold the origin. It says right in the description (and has from the beginning) that the trope can happen in a Continuity Reboot. Probably like a third of the examples are already about elements from a story declared Canon Discontinuity bleeding into the new canon. Judi Dench in the new James Bond movies are a far more extreme version of what TIH did and it still counts.
Not sure about this:
Ethan's coming out is the only example of this I can think of. I'm sure there are others that I haven't thought of, but in general the exact opposite seems to be true; these are characters who had a ton of Character Development over the years largely being reset to the beginning (and then getting different character development). It wouldn't make sense to begin the strip with a Joyce who was just starting college, but had somehow been through a version of everything her Walkyverse counterpart had and ended up in roughly the same place, rather than being largely the same as she was at the start of Roomies!
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