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Topic: TV Troping my Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-12-2011 06:10 AM
"Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" provides examples of:
Berserk Button: Papa Smurf when Sassette calls him out on his relationship with Smurfette.
Calling The Old Man Out: Most of the village is VERY AGAINST Papa Smurf not only marrying Smurfette, but also having a child through her.
Framing Device: The whole story is framed in Traveler Smurf interrupting a peaceful discussion Empath has with Smurfette about a dinner she's having with Papa Smurf (with NO Incest Yay Shipping involved!) to investigate an alternate timeline where Smurfette does fall in love with Papa Smurf.
Incest Yay: Although not very explicit.
Moral Event Horizon: While Papa Smurf does not turn irredeemably evil, his slapping Sassette near the end of the story causes all his remaining little Smurfs to abandon him, leaving him with only Baby Smurf, who himself isn't too pleased.
Old Man Marrying A Child: Fulfilled at least in this alternate timeline story with Papa Smurf marrying Smurfette.
The Reason You Suck Speech: Polaris calmly gives Papa Smurf one after the slapping Sassette incident.
Would Hurt A Child: Papa Smurf proves this after Sassette calls him out on his relationship with Smurfette.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Squeaky Smurf
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posted 04-12-2011 01:33 PM
OMS (Oh my smurfness), I'd never imagine Papa Smurf slapping anybody, specially a Smurfling. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-12-2011 02:45 PM
That's just how far gone Papa Smurf ends up in that alternate timeline story -- from being the loving and caring parent/leader that he was to a selfish old Smurf only interested in satisfying his desires with Smurfette and not even caring that his "former little Smurfs" needed to be rescued. It's even interesting that in the included origin of Smurfette there's a switch between what Papa Smurf and Smurfette once were -- Papa Smurf still caring about his Smurfs and Smurfette only interested in destroying them -- to what they end up becoming -- Smurfette being eager to rescue her fellow Smurfs and Papa Smurf not wanting to do that.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-12-2011 02:53 PM
A few more tropes that come to my mind:
Brain Bleach: Apparently after watching Papa Smurf and Smurfette kissing each other at the wedding, most of the adult Smurfs end up hanging out at Tapper's tavern trying to drown themselves in sarsaparilla ale.
Heel Face Door Slam: Papa Smurf has a sort of awakening to what he has become after slapping Sassette, but it becomes the very thing that causes Smurfette and the remaining little Smurfs still with him to forever leave him behind, leaving only Baby Smurf behind.
Shotgun Wedding: A variation of this trope in that Papa Smurf forces his little Smurfs to marry him to Smurfette under the threat of being exiled from the Smurf Village.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-13-2011 04:47 PM
While not TV Tropes...
Protagonist: Empath Smurf
Deuteragonist: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, or Polaris Psyche, depending on the story and the situation within the story.
Supporting character: Most of the other Smurfs who may be written as a central part of the story.
Peripheral character: Most of the other Smurfs who do not occupy a central part of the story.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-28-2011 06:34 AM
Kiss Me, I'm Virtual: Polaris' relationship with Elatia, who starts off appearing as a simulated person within the Imaginarium but is really a disembodied spirit, in "Polaris' Fantasy".
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-29-2011 06:59 AM
Color-Coded Patrician: Deconstructed in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf novel in that Papa Smurf's red suit came about from simply living among a generation of Smurfs who wore different-colored suits due to being parents; it was only the children who wore white. When Papa Smurf became the only member of his generation still surviving, his red suit simply became a symbol of leader status (as noted in "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" when Empath replaces Papa Smurf's red hat with a white hat when he was deposed as a leader).
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 05-20-2011 02:02 PM
Break The Cutie: Empath is basically a prime example of this as, sometime right after his birth, Papa Smurf ends up leaving him in Psychelia crying for his father not to leave him, only to have his memory erased by the Psyche Master. The years-later revelation that Empath is the only begotten son of Papa Smurf, plus the perverted worship he gets from his fellow Smurfs as their Messianic Archetype, makes Empath want to commit suicide and even threaten to take Baby Smurf with him. He only delays this for Papa Smurf to prove that he truly cares for Empath and is truly sorry for leaving him in Psychelia all those years he spent apart from each other.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 05-29-2011 07:43 PM
Grass Is Greener: One would get the sense from the main stories as well as from the Reporter's Inside Stories that Empath was jealous of the kind of life his fellow Smurfs had lived in the Smurf Village, finding it favorable to what he had to go through in Psychelia.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Candy the blue rabbit
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posted 05-29-2011 09:49 PM
I can't wait to read your storys VicGeorge2010.
They sound very smurfy.could you make a story that has The new character gutsy smurf? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 05-30-2011 03:52 AM
The Empath stories are mostly birthed in the cartoon show universe with some modifications that include elements from the comic books, plus some of my own ideas (Smurflings NOT being de-aged adult Smurfs being one of them). It's not likely that I'll be including Gutsy unless it's an alternate timeline or universe crossover story.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-17-2011 05:25 AM
I Did What I Had To Do: Empath explaining his actions in breaking his promise to Papa Smurf about not taking a life in "The Innocence Of A Smurf", that in his training duel with a Psyche, Empath either had to die or kill his opponent. Making the situation even more complicated is that a vision of Papa Smurf, who normally would have Empath uphold his promise at all costs (at least in Empath's thinking), had encouraged Empath to do what he must to survive.
My God, What Have I Done: Papa Smurf's reaction to having to leave Empath in Psychelia as an infant, only to hear him "die" and be unable to save him.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-17-2011 05:59 AM
Everybody Calls Him Barkeep: Papa Smurf isn't his real name in the series, but that's what he ends up being called when there's no other Smurf his age around to call him anything. In "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf", though, Papa Smurf has his little Smurfs (with the exception of Empath) go back to calling him "Uncle Cully", at least until they learn that the "resurrected" parent Smurfs were just illusions given physicality.
Asexuality: The relationship Papa Smurf's "resurrected" fellow Smurfs have with each other in "Days Of Auld Lang Smurf". Of course, Papa Smurf is still able to "spend the night alone" with his wife Lillithina.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 08-19-2011 07:02 AM
Bonding Over Missing Parents: The explanation for why Papa Smurf is the sole parent of a hundred Smurfs in the fanfiction series.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 09-28-2011 04:35 AM
Blue And Orange Morality: Arguably the Psyches, since their actions don't necessarily fit into the Black And White Morality of the Smurfs. Probably the reason that only a vision of Papa Smurf appears unto Empath during his fight with Polluxis as told in "The Innocence Of A Smurf" instead of Angel Smurf and Devil Smurf to help Empath decide on what to do. Of course, the Psyches do see expression of emotions and any form of physical nudity (which includes how the male Smurfs normally dress) as taboo.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 10-08-2011 05:03 AM
Fully-Clothed Nudity: It's hard to call it this since male Smurfs are only partially clothed (which TV Tropes calls a Walking Shirtless Scene), but Empath does react this way at first when he first tries on Smurf clothes.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Tabby Smurf
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posted 10-11-2011 12:33 PM
vicGeorge are u getting a tv show for ur Empath series!!!if u need more female characters i have 2 in mind.... But i think u have it all figured out
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Swag is for Boys, Class is for Ninja!!!
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Tabby Smurf
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posted 10-11-2011 12:37 PM
i cant wait!!!! where can i get ur books?? i REALLY want to read it!!
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Swag is for Boys, Class is for Ninja!!!
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 10-11-2011 01:12 PM
They're not books, they're a fanfiction series that's on my website: www.vicgeorge419.net
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 10-17-2011 01:30 PM
Verbal Tic: Empath constantly referring to himself as "this smurf".
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 01-25-2012 12:34 PM
Did Not Get The Girl: Poor Hefty.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Jokie Smurf
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posted 01-25-2012 01:15 PM
Wow, that sounds smurfy Vic. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Amy Sue Smurfette
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posted 01-25-2012 01:48 PM
that's very interesting. i never thought of all that.
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we're all someone's little fangirl.
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 01-25-2012 02:02 PM
The Big Guy: Hefty and Duncan McSmurf.
Brave Scot: Duncan McSmurf.
Hot-Blooded Sideburns: Duncan McSmurf.
I Am Not Shazam: Duncan McSmurf DOES NOT LIKE being called Gutsy.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
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Sportette
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posted 01-25-2012 03:02 PM
cool
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