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Tenuously Connected Flavor Text
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Most Flavor Text is clearly connected to the item it's describing, but sometimes it's not, usually because it's a quote, or a Shout-Out, but there are other varied reasons too numerous to list out. On the one hand, this can be annoying if you're depending on that flavor text for useful information, but on the other hand, the results are often humorous. Basically a type of Gameplay and Story Segregation, where the flavor text is "story" and is segregated from the mechanics / game world / name of the item, a.k.a the "gameplay". In any case, those disconnected descriptions is what this trope's for. A Deliberately Different Description, however, is when descriptions that follow a pattern suddenly break that pattern. |
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Dropped link to Drakengard: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Borderlands 2: Some of its skills: The Mechromancer has the "Robot Rampage" skill, whose flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that it creates a flurry of lasers: The Gunzerker has the "Come At Me, Bro" skill, where the flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that taunting is a way to heal to full health, and taunted enemies deal reduced damage: |
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EVE Online most ships' flavor text is a short in-universe history of the ship in question. But for most Strategic Cruiser and Titan class ships, the flavor text is tangentially-connected quotes from in-universe literature or interviews: Strategic Cruiser: Legion: Only clear at the end: Titans: Avatar: Referencing the name's original meaning as a god's manifestation on the mortal realm, this only makes sense if you knew that old meaning. This from the Amarr Scriptures: Komodo: From an interview of one the founders of its creating organization, Guristas: |
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Major Toms from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, which shoot a burst of 10 rounds every trigger pull when zoomed in, and the text is likely a reference to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: | |
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One Step From Eden: The flavor text that exists for certain artifacts or spells, are majority Shout-Out, meme, or One-Liner. The game has almost no lore. For example: Steven Universe Shout Outs, from artifacts only: Amethyst: A reference to the origins of the show's Amethyst, which could be the in-universe location of manufacture, but not really intended as such: Bismuth: A reference to the episode of the same name, where the show's Bismuth joins the main team, which could be a more literal description, being made of the concept of "honor", but not really intended as such: Ragnarok, a Pre-Mortem One-Liner, referencing Norse Mythology, where fallen warriors go to Warrior Heaven Valhalla, and the game VA-11 HALL-A: The spell, Wobble, referencing the technique of the same name, in Super Smash Bros. Melee and its controversial status amongst competitive players, has: The "Jam [x]" spells that quote Space Jam by the Quad City DJs, while most reference the "Jam" part of the name, it's not being used to mean a "dance": Jam: Jam Slam: This a play on this trope for being the most directly connected "Jam" spell, out of the themed descriptions, as it's basically a request to use said spell, which more a name being made to suit the reference / description than the other way around: Jam Cannon: Saigon Armor just straight-up namedrops the name and location of a restaurant in New Jersey. |
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The Borderlands series: Not just for Legendary Weapons, but some skills, too: Borderlands 2: Some of its skills: The Mechromancer has the "Robot Rampage" skill, whose flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that it creates a flurry of lasers: The Gunzerker has the "Come At Me, Bro" skill, where the flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that taunting is a way to heal to full health, and taunted enemies deal reduced damage: Due to the Shout-Out nature of most of its flavor text on Legendary Weapons, it's sometimes not all that connected to the item: Borderlands: Fremington's Edge sniper rifles have the text "I can see my house from here!", indirectly indicating its enhanced zoom. How enhanced? Most sniper rifles have a zoom of between 4x and 6x. The Fremington's Edge has 11x. Blasters: Firing a effectively continuous stream of energy: Major Toms from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, which shoot a burst of 10 rounds every trigger pull when zoomed in, and the text is likely a reference to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: |
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Steven Universe Shout Outs, from artifacts only: Amethyst: A reference to the origins of the show's Amethyst, which could be the in-universe location of manufacture, but not really intended as such: Bismuth: A reference to the episode of the same name, where the show's Bismuth joins the main team, which could be a more literal description, being made of the concept of "honor", but not really intended as such: |
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The spell, Wobble, referencing the technique of the same name, in Super Smash Bros. Melee and its controversial status amongst competitive players, has: | |
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Magic: The Gathering: A few, from multiple sets, all quotes: Mudhole: Apparently referencing a quicksand-like location, with its effect "Target player exiles all land cards from their graveyard.": Several cards from older Core Sets had flavor text from actual, real-life literature, completely free of both the context of the card and the original quote. For example, Dark Banishing (a card about obliterating one's life force) gets flavor text from Romeo and Juliet: Silver-bordered cards, a.k.a the "Un"-set cards, which are deliberately silly: Bosom Buddy, an Elephant Townsfolk, where the flavor text is a reference to Alcoholics Anonymous: Chaos Confetti: Noting how it's an Ascended Meme of a story usually by that name: a tourney player used the card Chaos Orb, which dictates that you toss the card into the air and anything it ends up touching when it lands gets destroyed. Instead, this guy tore it into pieces and sprinkled it onto the field, destroying pretty much everything his opponent had. Collector Protector: Referencing part of its effect cost, "Give an opponent a nonland card you own from outside the game" obliquely. Mudhole being a nonland card: Double Header: Self-referential, and not connected to the depicted monster: Flavor Judge: Hypothetical words of the controller, who has to explain something happening in the game to someone else. |
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PsyCard: From Friend's Quest, the "rose ring", talking about "world revolution" when the known world's just a maze, with no system of government or anything, until the Final Boss, and the only known ruler, King Ur, is finally seen. It's primarily a Revolutionary Girl Utena reference: | |
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Drakengard has a short story for each of its 65 weapons, unlocked as they level up: Apostate's Misery: Poleaxe: Butcher's Joy: Cleaver (Sword): |
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Hollow Knight: The Hunter's Journal ostensibly gives information on each of the game's enemies, but some of the entries are more along the lines of philosophical musings, or glimpses into the character of the Hunter himself, mainly because said entries are about a creature the Hunter couldn't have met. For example, the entry for Siblings talks more about the location they are found in, The Abyss: | |
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