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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Evangelion Tropes and Idioms [ P ]

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NOTE : Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole,tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite". In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

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Panty Shot (Played straight in episode 8: Asuka + sun dress + breeze = "viewing fee". Implied in the Alternate Universe sequence in episode 26, when Rei thinks Shinji looked up her skirt. Played semi-straight twice in the manga, first when Touji tries to teach Shinji how to turn cleaning the stairs into a peeping opportunity and gets caught by Hikari, and then when Shinji, Touji, and Kensuke first meet Asuka in the arcade.)
Parental Abandonment (Evangelion deals with its consequences.)
Peeka Boo (The toothpick holder scene.)
Perma Stubble (Kaji.)
Pettanko (Asuka in most of the original artworks by Sadamoto and in much of the manga. In episodes 9 and 10 of the anime, by contrast, she displays the Most Common Super Power. Her chest seems to grow and shrink on demand... It's the same in adaptations such as Shinji Ikari Raising Project, in which the resident Pettanko is actually Rei. Maya is also like that in some versions.)
Pillar Of Light (Lots of 'em, and cross-shaped, at that.)
Poirot Speak (Asuka in the Mexican dub.)
Possession Implies Mastery (Significantly averted: Unit 01 keeps going out of control and doing things that Ritsuko and her staff can hardly believe. This is presumably because NERV didn't so much "invent" the Evas as copy them from the Angels that they possess.)
Posthumous Character ( Naoko for sure; Kyouko and Yui...kind of.)
Precursors left Adam and Lilith on Earth, according to one video game that pretty much just exists to deliver supplemental material.
Product Placement (Asuka plays a Sega Saturn in episode 22. Evangelion: 1.0 contains a shot of a can of UCC coffee. Also, Yebisu/Yebichu beer. The manga has UCC Coffee and Coca-Cola vending machines, and also an iPod in recent chapters.)

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