...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
When Is Purple
- 111 statements
- 18 feature instances
- 3 referencing feature instances
When Is Purple | type |
FeatureClass | |
When Is Purple | label |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple | page |
WhenIsPurple | |
When Is Purple | comment |
In some works, the lines separating time and space and color and various other abstract concepts sometimes get blurred. This can be done for many reasons, ranging from Faux Symbolism to actual symbolism and from portraying a character as deep and wise to portraying him as weird or outright psychotic. See also Ice-Cream Koan. Not to be confused with Tastes Like Purple, where it's about the senses getting mixed up rather than metaphors or reality itself twisting beyond comprehension. Examples |
|
When Is Purple | fetched |
2024-04-25T10:02:37Z | |
When Is Purple | parsed |
2024-04-25T10:02:37Z | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to AntiHumor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to Blutengel: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to CaptainBeefheart: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to FloggingMolly: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to JoyElectric: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to MathematiciansAnswer: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to MetaphoricallyTrue: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to NeilYoung: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to NeutralMilkHotel: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to SubvertedTrope: Not an Item - CAT | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheKLF: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheyMightBeGiants: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to Yes: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
When Is Purple | processingComment |
Dropped link to pc: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
When Is Purple | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Simpsons naturally has an example. | |
When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f | |
When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e | comment |
In Freefall, Florence once tested a couple of robots for sapience by asking them "What does my name smell like?" One of them declared the question to be nonsense and ignored it. The other reasoned that since he didn't have olfactory senses and Florence did, names might actually have a scent to her, proving that he could consider alternate opinions and perspectives. | |
When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Freefall (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e | |
When Is Purple / int_468bebb0 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_468bebb0 | comment |
There's a minor recurring joke in the Discworld books about this. The Disc rests on the back of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant sea turtle. This sometimes leads to people wondering, "What does the turtle stand on?" which the narration explains is a question that makes about as much sense as asking what sound the colour yellow makes.*For those unfamiliar with the series, this is the narration's rather flippant way of saying "Nothing; it's a sea turtle and it swims through outer space". As that was information you may not have known, it seems asking the question made perfect sense, when you think about it. | |
When Is Purple / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Discworld | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_468bebb0 | |
When Is Purple / int_498b77e9 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_498b77e9 | comment |
In Skin Horse, when the Black Helicopter piloted by a Brain in a Jar is asked whether is dead he answers 'mu' (see Buddhism below). | |
When Is Purple / int_498b77e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_498b77e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Skin Horse (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_498b77e9 | |
When Is Purple / int_5307b01d | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_5307b01d | comment |
One Penny Arcade strip presents a conundrum: Gabe cannot remember his password for some thing or other, and he's left himself the nigh-incomprehensible "what is delicious" as a hint. Tycho is stumped; what, in fact, is delicious? The concept of delicious? But Gabe left off the question mark. Perhaps it's a statement. Perhaps what, itself, is delicio - | |
When Is Purple / int_5307b01d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_5307b01d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Penny Arcade (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_5307b01d | |
When Is Purple / int_5908ee91 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_5908ee91 | comment |
Referenced in Skyrim; if you ask the Arcane University's librarian who wrote the Elder Scrolls, he replies that it would take him some time to explain why that question doesn't make sense. | |
When Is Purple / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_5908ee91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_5908ee91 | |
When Is Purple / int_61a39969 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_61a39969 | comment |
Avengers: Infinity War has Literal-Minded Drax with this gem: Which, ironically, is actually a very reasonable question: Understanding why Thanos has gone to the trouble of specifically kidnapping Gamora would have told them what the next step of his plan was. |
|
When Is Purple / int_61a39969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_61a39969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avengers: Infinity War | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_61a39969 | |
When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d | comment |
4chan gave us the infamous Translation Train Wreck "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?" So far, still no conclusion on what it was supposed to say, though one likely candidate in context (they were discussing The Conduit) would be "Has anyone else really decided to go that far in wanting to be more like?"—that is, "Has any other company gone this far to make a game look realistic?" | |
When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
4chan (Website) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d | |
When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7 | comment |
Dungeons & Dragons: Module WG7 Castle Greyhawk: In one level of the dungeon, the PCs can meet a philosopher who asks questions like, "Why is up?" and "Sideways: fact or fiction?" Spelljammer introduced astrosphinxes, insane and murderous creatures with heads resembling goat skulls. They go around asking "riddles" such as "What's the speed of down?" or "How loud is blue?" and blasting anything that can't answer with Chain Lightning. On the other hand, there's a 1% chance that an astrosphinx will perceive a similarly-insane response as a valid answer, causing the creature to explode in a burst of electricity. |
|
When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7 | |
When Is Purple / int_7c48915b | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_7c48915b | comment |
Gunnerkrigg Court: In the first City Face interlude, we find that fairies perceive time and space differently from how we do: | |
When Is Purple / int_7c48915b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_7c48915b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_7c48915b | |
When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8 | comment |
The rachni in Mass Effect talk about their hive-mind-speak by mixing taste, color, and song, such as describing the mind-rape of one of their queens as causing her to sing with a "sour yellow note". | |
When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
MassEffect | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8 | |
When Is Purple / int_8ba4613a | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_8ba4613a | comment |
Death Note: One of the rules of the Death Note states "When humans die, the place they go to is Mu (nothing)". "Mu" is a peculiar term in Japanese that doesn't exactly mean "nothing", but rather it means that the question or statement doesn't make logical sense. In other words, the very idea of a "place" humans go to after death is nonsense: there is no afterlife, just oblivion. | |
When Is Purple / int_8ba4613a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_8ba4613a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Death Note (Manga) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_8ba4613a | |
When Is Purple / int_a4420d22 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_a4420d22 | comment |
The Venture Bros.: It turns out erasing someone's memory too often can cause them to think like this. | |
When Is Purple / int_a4420d22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_a4420d22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Venture Bros. | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_a4420d22 | |
When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a | comment |
One particularly famous example appears in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when the computer "Deep Thought" concludes that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is... the number 42. It was at this point that Deep Thought's creators realised they didn't know what the Ultimate Question was. | |
When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a | |
When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a | comment |
In the Sandman spin-off Death: The Time of Your Life, Death uses this in her attempts to explain that certain "deep" questions, such as why the universe isn't fair, rest on an underlying misconception. (Fair for whom? Fair by what metric?) | |
When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Sandman (1989) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a | |
When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7 | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7 | comment |
Spelljammer introduced astrosphinxes, insane and murderous creatures with heads resembling goat skulls. They go around asking "riddles" such as "What's the speed of down?" or "How loud is blue?" and blasting anything that can't answer with Chain Lightning. On the other hand, there's a 1% chance that an astrosphinx will perceive a similarly-insane response as a valid answer, causing the creature to explode in a burst of electricity. | |
When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Spelljammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7 | |
When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f | comment |
The sap produced by the Sinister Sprout in Fallen London is described as tasting somewhat like pineapple, and somewhat like your mind being consumed by the endless depths of the earth. | |
When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fallen London (Video Game) | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f | |
When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d | type |
When Is Purple | |
When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d | comment |
In one short from The Three Stooges, Curly asks, "Is it as warm in the country as it is in the summer?" | |
When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Three Stooges | hasFeature |
When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
When Is Purple | processingCategory2 |
Language Tropes | |
When Is Purple | processingCategory2 |
Philosophy Tropes | |
Death: The Time of Your Life (Comic Book) / int_8c755145 | type |
When Is Purple |
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.