There is a story arc called the Bloody Rain Arc, which is changed to the Mustache Arc after several characters notice how many characters with mustaches there are. It can best be described as sort of a Fist of the North Star parody stuffed with Post Modernism. In other words, only intentional Bathos belongs on this page. Please do not place examples that better belong on Narm here or on any main page. Bathos may cause Mood Whiplash when it does not appear in an otherwise comedic segment of the work.Ĭompare Gallows Humor, where the comedy is used by characters within the story as a tension breaker. The Last of These Is Not Like the Others.Unintentional bathos is described on this site as Narm. It most often appears intentionally in comedic works or those with a comedic undertone, although not always. In it, he notes that juxtaposing the serious and the trivial creates unintentional humor, which sinks serious poetry.īathos can be both intentionally invoked or unintentionally present. The trope name comes from Alexander Pope, who wrote Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry in 1772, in which he mocks the abuse of tropes and figures of speech by bad writers. It later evolved to cover any instance where the serious is mixed with the surreal or commonplace in order to provide humor. It has its origins in poetry, where lofty prose would be followed with an anticlimax of sorts. The juxtaposition of these ideas creates humor. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.īathos is a story-telling technique that follows serious ideas with the commonplace or ludicrous. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
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