Franchise Zombie

A series that continues long after it should have ended, often losing quality and storyline over time.
"The story went from A Yorkshire man finding out he is the heir of the Multiverse in the first one to him losing his spaceship keys in Neptune, talk about a Franchise Zombie"
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Heel-Face Turn

When a character who was previously an antagonist becomes a protagonist.
The villain's heel-face turn was so sudden, one minute he was plotting world domination, the next he was baking cookies for orphans."
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Weaksauce Weakness

A trivial or ridiculous flaw/weakness that significantly impacts a powerful character.
"The villain was unstoppable until some 5 year old learning craft threw glitter at him. Turns out, glitter was his weaksauce weakness."
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Whump

1.Stories where characters go through (a) physical or (b) emotional pain or distress.
2. A muffled dull thud sound
3. Make a whump sound
4. Strike someone/Something with a whump
1. "(a) The hero went through so much whump, I felt bruises in my body reading it"
"(b) The hero went through so much whump, I emptied the whole tissue box, and I only 5 pages!"
2. "I was sleeping in class after eating until my stomach full, and I woke up to a heavy whump sound"
3. "Ron threw a snowball into the air which whumped into my window"
4. "The teacher whumped me in my spine for saying 9+10 was 21"
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Narrative Deadweight

A character, part or sub-plot in a book, or movie that adds nothing to the overall story.
Ron: "The part about the protagonist's goldfish was total narrative deadweight, but it did give us a great fish funeral scene."
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Space Whale Aesop

When a story has a moral or message that is either too simplistic for the complexity of the story or so strange that it doesn’t quite fit. The term is a writer slang and has nothing to do with Aesop becoming a space whale (boo!) other than it's derivation of name
Publisher: .. And what's the ending of the story?
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with

Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
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vsauce question

A Vsauce question is a question that questions reality, derived from popular and arguably the best YouTuber VSauce who commonly says it (Examples include: "Or is it?" "Or is he?" "Or was it?")
VSauce: The nuclear codes are with you, Mr President
President: Yes, yes
VSauce: OR IS IT?
President: OH NO ONE OF THE VSAUCE QUESTIONS!! WAIT WHERE IS IT!!!
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