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Tag Archives: tv tropes
Stay Out of the Deep End
I’m going to guess you want more fish-people, but I’ll admit I’m very bad at predicting what other people want. So let’s just say I want to write more about fish-people. I often go to TV Tropes to see examples … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Australian, Babylonian, Breath of Fire, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Health, Humor, Japanese, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Pacific, Relationships, Sexuality, Television, Video Games, Zelda
Tagged amabie, breath of fire ii, bubble bobble, deep ones, desert hags, dorrie, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy adventure, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy vii, final fantasy xv, fish, glaucus, gobi, goblins, gracos, h.p. lovecraft, king bowser koopa, lochladies, manillo, mermaids, mermen, mertropolis, oannes, ocarina of time, princess ruto, sahagin, sahuagin, sekolah, sharks, super friends, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, sword of mana, tv tropes, water hags, yokai, zoras
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Fearsome Furnishings
Living versions of inanimate objects are common in fiction. The Oz books have a lot of them, although most of them are friendly. There are, however, many animated objects that are deadly, especially in role-playing games. I was recently thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Authors, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Jack Snow, Kid Icarus, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games
Tagged angler whelk, anglerfish, bag of devouring, canniboxes, demon wall, doorbusters, doors, dragon quest iii, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, hidon, interesting times, kid icarus uprising, luggage, mad piano, manticores, mimics, mimicuties, piano, piranha plants, pit, rincewind, super mario 64, super mario rpg, the colour of magic, the light fantastic, the magical mimics in oz, trap doors, treasure chests, tv tropes, twoflower, urnexpected
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Aren’t You a Little Leonine for a Winkie Guard?
Okay, here’s a question about the MGM Wizard of Oz that I actually haven’t seen discussed before. When the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion are trying to infiltrate the Wicked Witch of the West’s castle to rescue Dorothy, the … Continue reading
Posted in Final Fantasy, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Star Wars, Video Games
Tagged a new hope, captain phasma, celes chere, cowardly lion, darth vader, dorothy gale, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, gwendoline christie, homer, iliad, locke cole, luke skywalker, princess leia, red xiii, scarecrow, shinra, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, toto, tv tropes, wicked witch of the west, winkies
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You Got Live Action in My Animation!
One thing I wanted to mention about the most recent Simpsons episode was the use of live action footage. Principal Skinner forces the students at Springfield Elementary School to sit through all 152 minutes of the 1967 Doctor Dolittle, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Television, The Simpsons
Tagged alice comedies, animaniacs, bedknobs and broomsticks, bonkers, daffy duck, disney, donald duck, fantasia, frank welker, mary poppins, mickey mouse, porky pig, raw toonage, roger rabbit, the three caballeros, tv tropes, warner bros, who framed roger rabbit
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The Patchwork Map of Oz
One of the tropes I came across on TV Tropes for the Land of Oz is that of the Patchwork Map, which definitely applies to Oz and the surrounding nations. A dry desert surrounds the entire nation, even though this … Continue reading
Posted in Dick Martin, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged ak, burzee, captain salt in oz, cookry land, david hulan, fairyland, great wilderness of braz, james haff, jelly bean island, king king double king, king kojo, laughing valley of hohaho, lost islands, merryland, mo, nonestic ocean, patchwork map, ray powell, rolantic ocean, royal baking powder company, santa claus, sissajig, tarara, the crescent moon over tarara, the curious cruise of captain santa, the flask with the golden stopper, the kingdom of boxtoes and hammerheels, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little prince and the faithful bluebird, the magical monarch of mo, the princess of plumpieland!, the princess of whereyouwill, the raggedys in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the seeress of saucerville, the singing tailor of nevermindwhere, the story of the first brown-haired princess, the toothache of the sultan, the wizard of way-up, the wizard of way-up and king ripitik the tenth, tik-tok of oz, trina robbins, tv tropes, way-up
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Marvels of the Modern Mushroom Age
I find the idea of Schizo Tech in fictional worlds to be pretty interesting. Of course, not all societies develop technology at the same rate. There could be a reason why a place has cars and not guns, or vice … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Dick Martin, Discworld, Dragon Quest, History, Japan, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games
Tagged airships, dragon quest vii, king bowser koopa, middle ages, ozma, princess peacth toadstool, robots, scalawagons, shaggy man, super mario bros. 3, super mario sunshine, the ozmapolitan of oz, the scalawagons of oz, tik-tok of oz, transportation, tv tropes, wizard of oz
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Day of the Locasta
I’ve been looking at TV Tropes a fair amount recently, and of course I read the stuff about Oz, as well as about some other properties of which I’m a fan. I looked before at some conspiracy theories, many of … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged dave hardenbrook, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hugh pendexter, j. l. bell, joe bongiorno, king cheeriobed, mombi, ojo in oz, oz and the three witches, ozma, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, the giant horse of oz, the good witch of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, tv tropes, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, wizard of oz
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Final Fakery
The TV Tropes page on Urban Legends of Zelda (good name, by the way) had a link to this post from the alt.games.final-fantasy newsgroup, which brought back some memories. I read that group pretty regularly back when I started college, … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Crossing, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Metroid, Urban Legends, Video Games
Tagged 7th saga, aerith gainsborough, alt.games.final-fantasy, bahamut, battletoads, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, general leo christophe, kain highwind, king bowser koopa, lavos, lufenia, lunarians, lutz, neko, noah, psaro, ricard highwind, ridley, rumors, samus aran, schala, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer, tv tropes, wart, zemus, zenith dragon, zenus
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