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Our Better Is Different
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Creative subversion of the omnipresent trope that "higher is better" (e.g., "higher quality", "higher rank", "higher calling"). When this trope is in effect, lower is generally considered better. For example, instead of His Royal Highness talking to a lowly peasant, you might have His Royal Lowliness talking to a higher peasant. Most common in constructed worlds and languages, and especially among nonhumans. Compare Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad. |
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Also seen among the demons in Eric, who do bad deeds in the hopes of being demoted through the lowerarchy. | |
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The Addams Family all the freakin' time. A major theme and source of humour is the clash between the family and outsiders and the way the family always reacts pleasantly to horrified reactions because to them their words are compliments. | |
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In Beneath a Steel Sky, in the "city corporation" the game takes place, living on or near ground level is a sign of high social and economic status, while the poor and people with blue-collar jobs are forced to live thousands of feet above ground, not even allowed to visit lower levels. | |
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Discworld: Among the traditionally subterranean dwarfs, lower is better, to the extent that the leading monarch of their civilization is the Low King. Also, "enlightened" is seen as a negative term, as light makes your pupils contract and can therefore blind you. Also seen among the demons in Eric, who do bad deeds in the hopes of being demoted through the lowerarchy. Trolls believe history is lived backwards, because you can only see what's in front of you, which is the past, so the dawn of time is actually the end, and the sunset is the beginning. |
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Ringworld by Larry Niven: the Puppeteers value cowardice above all things, so their leader is called "The Hindmost". It's also often noted that the rear is the most dangerous position while running away... | |
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin: In the Conlang Pravic, the term "more central" is used instead of "higher". | |
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Screwtape works in the Lowerarchy of Hell, but at a level far above the "great masters" responsible for global aesthetic trends. | |
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In a variant of this trope, the song "Ain't Your Fairytale by Sonata Arctica, which is sung from the perspective of a wolf, uses the phrase "the dawn of our way of life" to refer to an end (and the rise of Humankind), inverting the standard (human) symbolism of sunrise as a hopeful beginning and sunset as an end. | |
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Used occasionally in Invader Zim, as Zim's alien species has a hierarchy based off of height. | |
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For Tales of MU's dark elves, lower is better. | |
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