The Grand List of Disney comic clichés (to be expanded)
Aug 19, 2018 14:09:03 GMT
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Post by Orora on Aug 19, 2018 14:09:03 GMT
We all love our Disney comics, but they do come with a lot of recurring clichés that amuse/annoy us!
It can also be turned into a drinking game!
Here's my version of the list for the moment:
- Donald suggest a business idea for Scrooge. Scrooge is excited and puts the idea in motion. There are unpredicted problems that mess the whole thing up. Scrooge angrily pursues Donald with the intent of beating him up.
- A main character's uncle or aunt is mentioned and/or appears, even though that makes WAY too much uncles or aunts already.
- Scrooge is pictured with glasses, sideburns, spats and his coat as a kid.
- The writers forget Scrooge is supposed to be a very old man and will do things like... introduce his school teacher, still alive, well and looking younger than him.
- Magica de Spell is shown as having almost-omnipotent magic, which makes you wonder why she doesn't just teleport the Number One Dime to her place - or teleport herself next to it and go back. Or, heck... need the Number One Dime at all.
- Gyro Gearloose is shown as being an extremely competent inventor who can create a machine to do anything, which makes you wonder why he doesn't just use those inventions to help all of mankind's problems such as hunger, illness, pollution and other scientific needs.
- The main characters meet with the supernatural, don't believe what they see and act genuinely surprised as though they never saw something like that before. Even though they saw supernatural stuff dozens and dozens of times already.
- Everyone is being a violent bully towards Donald; and yet, when he retaliates, he is the one accused of having "anger issues".
- Donald flirts with an attractive lady, or is mistaken as flirting with her. Her boyfriend arrives and, without any consequences for him, violently beats Donald up.
- Donald somehow becomes ultra-competent at a job, until an accident happens where everything is messed up and his career is ruined. His talents at the job are never mentioned again.
- Donald suddenly has forced out-of-character stupidity just so that he can mess things up and get humiliated later.
- The Phantom Blot keeps his black cloak even in prison or under another disguise.
- Donald suddenly becomes clever, competent and cunning when in his Duck Avenger persona.
- A story ends with a character having messed up and having to hide away from someone else (often the town).
- The economy is shown as working in impossible ways. For example, charging huge taxes is enough to make citizens become exempt from taxes FOREVER, or spending money at businesses will give the owner of those businesses the SAME amount of money that was spent by the consumer.
- Donald will be revealed to have an ancestor who looks like him, and JUST happens to have triplet nephews who look like Huey, Dewey and Louie, and sometimes even has an uncle who JUST happens to look like Scrooge.
Same can be also be said with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete.
- The ending of the story will reveal that it was all just a DREAM... bonus if this reveal is completely pointless and deprives the story of what could have been an awesome ending!
- A character, location or object's name is inconsistent in your translation.
It can also be turned into a drinking game!
Here's my version of the list for the moment:
- Donald suggest a business idea for Scrooge. Scrooge is excited and puts the idea in motion. There are unpredicted problems that mess the whole thing up. Scrooge angrily pursues Donald with the intent of beating him up.
- A main character's uncle or aunt is mentioned and/or appears, even though that makes WAY too much uncles or aunts already.
- Scrooge is pictured with glasses, sideburns, spats and his coat as a kid.
- The writers forget Scrooge is supposed to be a very old man and will do things like... introduce his school teacher, still alive, well and looking younger than him.
- Magica de Spell is shown as having almost-omnipotent magic, which makes you wonder why she doesn't just teleport the Number One Dime to her place - or teleport herself next to it and go back. Or, heck... need the Number One Dime at all.
- Gyro Gearloose is shown as being an extremely competent inventor who can create a machine to do anything, which makes you wonder why he doesn't just use those inventions to help all of mankind's problems such as hunger, illness, pollution and other scientific needs.
- The main characters meet with the supernatural, don't believe what they see and act genuinely surprised as though they never saw something like that before. Even though they saw supernatural stuff dozens and dozens of times already.
- Everyone is being a violent bully towards Donald; and yet, when he retaliates, he is the one accused of having "anger issues".
- Donald flirts with an attractive lady, or is mistaken as flirting with her. Her boyfriend arrives and, without any consequences for him, violently beats Donald up.
- Donald somehow becomes ultra-competent at a job, until an accident happens where everything is messed up and his career is ruined. His talents at the job are never mentioned again.
- Donald suddenly has forced out-of-character stupidity just so that he can mess things up and get humiliated later.
- The Phantom Blot keeps his black cloak even in prison or under another disguise.
- Donald suddenly becomes clever, competent and cunning when in his Duck Avenger persona.
- A story ends with a character having messed up and having to hide away from someone else (often the town).
- The economy is shown as working in impossible ways. For example, charging huge taxes is enough to make citizens become exempt from taxes FOREVER, or spending money at businesses will give the owner of those businesses the SAME amount of money that was spent by the consumer.
- Donald will be revealed to have an ancestor who looks like him, and JUST happens to have triplet nephews who look like Huey, Dewey and Louie, and sometimes even has an uncle who JUST happens to look like Scrooge.
Same can be also be said with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete.
- The ending of the story will reveal that it was all just a DREAM... bonus if this reveal is completely pointless and deprives the story of what could have been an awesome ending!
- A character, location or object's name is inconsistent in your translation.
