SonicLover
Since: Sep, 2009
Mar 14th 2010 at 8:47:58 AM
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Hey, where did the trope name come from? It wasn't Homestar Runner, was it?
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trademark
Since: Jan, 2001
May 4th 2011 at 12:37:38 AM
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I first saw the phrase Load Bearing Boss in the Grand List of Console RPG cliches.
IidoTheFox
Since: Sep, 2010
Dec 18th 2014 at 4:28:17 PM
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I would assume it comes from "load bearing pillar", critical structures that keep buildings standing by, well...bearing the load of their weight. Support structures if you will.
If those pillars were knocked down the place wouldn't last long. Similarly, when "load bearing bosses" are defeated, in the straight version of the trope, the place will begin to fall apart or destruct as if they themselves were holding it up somehow.
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LordAaronus
Since: Dec, 2009
May 15th 2011 at 4:34:14 AM
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Does Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean count with the whole 'Dutchman must have a captain' thing?
What about the Collegehumour sketch in which video game baddies give a speech to their minions?