Moe TV TropesSomehow, when I look at her, I feel like I cant leave her alone. I feel like I have to protect herCoined in Japan in the late 9. Moe, pronounced as Mo Eh, derived from a Japanese word that means budding, to sproutbloomnote , also pronounced moe, is a different word meaning to burn or passion. This is a source of puns. While its sometimes used to describe a series or the phenomenon called Perverse Sexual Lust, its more about a specific ideal or kind of character, similar to Kawaisa. When used as an interjection, figuratively, its used to convey that something blooms inside your heart. A common definition is that Moe is the ability of a character to instill in the audience an irrational desire to adore them, hug them, protect them, comfort them, etc. To evoke a sort of Big Brother Instinct, in men and women. Moe characters are, generally speaking, cute. Moe characters are implicitly youthful, congregating to high school age and below. Adult female characters who qualify are almost always in their low twenties. Any characters older than that have this fact unmentioned, or the characters appearance is altered as little as possible regardless of the actual time that has passed. Moe characters often take many characteristics, tropes and forms of appearance from the Bishoujo genre. Their personality will reflect an innocent outlook on something vital, such as about romance. A related implication is that moe characters are virgins, though mostly in Japan, where virginity and purity still remains important to a girls appeal. The classical Moe character is highly associated with innocence, shyness, humility, submission, helplessness and woobie characteristics e. Fragile Flower, Shrinking Violet, Extreme Doormat, Cute Clumsy Girl, The Ingenue, the Healing type genre, etc., usually drawn with Tareme Eyes, although this does not need to be always the case. In many other, more modern variations, there is also a trend towards more upbeat and extroverted personalities that are far more unique, noticeable and recognizable such as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and the more benign variants of Tsundere although these variants do have a risk of getting kinda annoying or tasting like diabetes. Other contributions to uniqueness can also come in the form of quirks, reliance on Costume Exaggeration, odd language, strange hobbies and the like. Occasionally, these quirks are completely unrelated and seem a bit disjointed. If a character is plain, they are loudly plain in the way Hollywood Homely characters are ugly sometimes theyre just more moderate than the rest of the cast, and the writers implicitly suggest the audience is kind for liking the character for being plain. More on these traits can be found here, although trying to define the exact nature of what is Moe is still up to debate. Such characters are also prone to being used as mere Pandering to the Base. When a character has no visible personality traits aside from vaguely cute uselessness, heshe is termed the dreaded Moe Blob. An interesting result of this is some moe characters are quasi Animated Actors the series they star in need not be related at all, being only devices to enable the viewer to enjoy the character. Many of them feature in Gag Series, and only the merchandise for the series shows off its possibly intended roots, though quite a few merchandise producers use heavy amounts of artistic liberty when designing products. Also, do note that the Moe aesthetic in itself is generally not considered to be a sexual thing. Saying otherwise will hit the Fandom Berserk Button. That is not to say, of course, that Moe characters can never be sexually attractive, and indeed someaesthetics may deliberately blur the line. Male characters can also have moe traits, and they figure prominently in Shoujo and Josei. Like their female counterparts, moe boys are usually ridiculously cute. The Adorably Precocious Child is a good example. Bishnen characters particularly Troubled, but Cute characters also tend to evoke feelings of Moe in a female audience and are frequently called Moe by both fans and authors. Images/looneytunes-stranger.jpg' alt='Dvd Movie Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction ' title='Dvd Movie Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction ' />For the non anthropomorphic equivalent, see Ridiculously Cute Critter. See also Moe Anthropomorphism, Moe Couplet, Moe Stare compare The Woobie where the focus is about sympathy. Yamato Nadeshiko has a similar appeal but for older characters. Bugs Bunny, Taz, Tweety, Marvin the Martian theyre all here in WBShops official Looney Tunes boutique. Have funBugs Bunny Character on IMDb Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Also see When She Smiles for situations where applicable characters get massive Moe points for finally breaking out a smile. In darker series, very likely to suffer Break the Cutie. Weakness Turns Her On is a sort of Distaff Counterpart that concerns womens attraction to moe males. Contrast Rated M for Manly. What Do You Mean, Its Not for Little Girls No connection to a certain bowlcut wearing would be leader, surly bartender, six year old school bully, or clam. Or, for that matter, a town in Victoria, Australia. Also no connection to the Dutch word for sleepy despite what The Advertisement Server thinks. Example subpages    openclose all folders  Moe characters    Advertising     Art     Comics  One male example who gets away with it because of his age is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Remember when the baby raccoon died It was also a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Its when he wants to be, and it never works on his parents. Not even Bambi eyes work. Bambi Eyes tend to lose the intended effect when one is using them to ask for a flamethrower. It also doesnt work on Rosalyn the baby sitter, or Miss Wormwood the teacher, or. It just doesnt work in universe. The title character of Empowered is a rare example in an American Super Hero comic. Thug. Boy Shes got this whole adorable, aching vulnerability thing going on. I wanted to comfort her and tap that ass like its never been tapped before. Delirium in Death At Deaths Door Molly Hayes and Klara Prast from Runaways Ignacia from Wildguard Squee from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac could be an example of this. The original version of Marrina from Alpha Flight was absolutely made of this, at least as long as she was in control of herself. Unfortunately, outside forces kept pulling out her Super Powered Evil Side, making her good half seem just that much more tragic and, well, moe. Most of the kid characters from Le Petit Spirou easily qualify for this. Gastoon from the comic book of the same name is this. Just look at this album cover. Kamala Khan, aka the current Ms. Marvel. Shes so perky and happy all the time Fan Works And If That Dont Work has Shinju Ayanami, It Makes Sense in Context. Imagine the Moe qualities of Rei and Shinji and add a healthy dash of Elegant Gothic Lolita. Chi and. Chakra has Ryoko Saotome, a moe Blood Knight. Pretty much EVERY original character that Author Nearlover. And if you know her from Desu. Des. Brigade, shes pretty moe herself. In the Total Drama story, Keepers of the Elements, the author has stated that Aideen, the previous Fire Keeper is this, as well as Anacaona the very first Air Keeper. Brainbents AU version of Nepeta Leijon, like her canonical counterpart, is pretty darn adorable. Shes a short, quirky Cat Girl with a generally playful and friendly personality, although like the rest of the cast, she has her share of issues. Many of the younger cast members have moe moments. Being a cast full of Woobies doesnt hurt, and neither does the casts comparative lack of homicidal outbursts. Calliope gets moe points from her character design alone. Shes a burn victim instead of an alien skull monster in this universe, but still terribly cute in her own way. Even a Dark Fic like Hivefled has moe characters, especially Ganmed Lomust, an Adorkable writer of absolutley awful fanfiction, and Tsukey Morney, a painfully shy sufferist with Girlish Pigtails who usually speaks in third person. How Will the Game of Thrones TV Show Affect the Books Greetings from the future Welcome to Postal Apocalypse, io. Rob Bricken. This week Ive got a lot of Defenders questions from one curious reader, a lot more Game of Thrones questions from many curious readers, and I explain why you should only be slightly worried about the Captain Marvel more right now. Book Learning. Sean P. Stephenson Ive been following the HBO version of Go. T since the beginning, and have been toying with reading the books, but I had a multi part question I feel only you can answer. When Go. T concludes next year on HBO, do you think GRRM will incorporate any of the premises presented that have been shown on the small screen that he didnt originally come up with, and do you think he will change anything he had already come up with because of what was already shown, as in I thought that was a good idea, but having seen it played out, lets go a different route. Its impossible to say. Sorry to defer the question, but George R. R. Martin is still writing The Winds of Winter, and has A Dream of Spring left to go if not moreI still believe hes going to end up writing three more books all told before hes done. What he has planned today may change tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that. Or the year after that or the year after that. You see where Im going with this. At some point, GRRM, David Benioff, and D. B. Weiss sat down to discuss the end of the story, both A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. I sincerely doubt he told the showrunners everything he has planned, but there were definitely some story elements just too entrenched into the narrative for the show to skip, e. Hodors name. There may be a few others, but unless Weiss and Benioff fess up, we wont know for sure until the books are out. That said, the show will end up being vastly, vastly different from the books. Part of this is because the show has made its own changes to the narrative over its many years, which cant help but affect the ending part of it is because the series is ending in such a condensed timeframe only this Sundays season finale and six more episodes to go and part of it is likely Benioff and Weiss respect for GRRM, and their desire not to trample on what he has in mind for the books ending. But mostly because the books have so many more elements at play than the TV series the Fake Aegon, Lady Stoneheart, Victarion Greyjoy, Jeyne Poole whom Ramsay Bolton marries and claims is Arya, and more. Maybe Martin has something planned that the show is doing that, after seeing it, hell change his mind about. Romantic Horror Movies Garfield Gets Real more. But we cant possibly know until he writes it. The Defense Rests. Jess D. Dear Postman, I have some Defenders questions. A lot of Defenders questions. Why is there the remains of a giant dragon underneath New York City How did the monks of Kun lun get over to North America to build a door that only the Iron Fist could openIf the Substance was so dangerous, why not leave the door locked permanently Or better yet why not destroy it Why didnt the Hand just dig around the door There was a huge cavern down there. Couldnt they have dug to any other area and gotten in Why would removing the Substance destroy NYC If the Hand wanted to get back to Kun lun, like they said all the time, why did they only seem interested in getting to that underground place that we know wasnt Kun lun from Iron FistI can give you answers to all of these, as long as you dont mind that The Defenders TV series in no way supports or confirms any of them. In ancient times giant dragons roamed the earth, and died like any other creature. The monks tasked themselves with protecting the Substance left behind by these dragons to prevent evil people from getting ahold of it. They traveled by boats to North America, and then used their mystical powers both to push the bones deep, deep underground and to create a magic shield all the way around the cavern that now housed them, leaving a door as the only access point. The monks did this instead of destroying the Substance, because they could foresee a time when they were so desperate they might need the Substance themselves, and thus made the key the Iron Fist, who would always be a protector of Kun Lun until Danny Rand fucked it up. Oh, and then the mystical energies of these dragons subconsciously led humans to build cities on top of them. Although, the Hand clearly got to the Substance under Pompeii and Chernobyl, because they said they destroyed them hmm the dragon under New York City was the biggest dragon and had the most substance, which made it the one that most needed to be denied to the Hand, and is why New York City is a much, much more major city than Chernobyl or Pompeii. More dragon, more mystical energy, more Substance, more city. And after so many millennia, the Substance became part of the essence of the Earth itselfmysticallyand thus removing would effectively cause a cataclysm in the location it was housed. As for your last question, its because uh by sealing the area off, the Monks effectively made it part of Kun Lun, even though it was thousands of miles from the actual mystical city. So Sigourney Weaver and the rest were speaking metaphorically. Yeah. The Jon Con. W I feel there hasnt been enough discussion about the legitimate reveal that Jon is in fact the legitimate son of Rhaegar and the entire dynamic this imposes on Jon Dany hook up believers. He is in the direct succession to the iron throne. I honestly cannot see how these two would work if this gets exposed to the whole world. Even if it is after she may or may not get pregnant with a mini incest royalty baby, I cannot visualize a way for the plot to just make this situation okay with Jon. I can realistically see Dany dying after all this simply because Jon will in fact always know nothing. Dany cannot possible just stop her quest for total dominance of Westeros just because Jon gets revealed to be the true heir at least lets hope the show writers dont take the easy way out. Its not going to get exposed to the whole world. When Jon finds outif Jon finds out, he could probably fulfill whatever prophecy Rhaegar heard that made him seek out Lyanna Stark and marry her and throw all of Westeros into civil war without ever knowinghes not going to broadcast it. Hell likely tell Dany, who also wont tell anybody, for obvious reasons. And Jon will be fine with that, because there is no one who wants to sit on the Iron Throne less than Jon Snow. Also Jon is absolutely not going to live through the series finale. The Lord of Light brought him back for a purpose when that purpose is fulfilled, he isnt going to be rewarded with a vacation. Thats not how the world of Westeros works. The End Is Not Nigh. James M. Game of Thrones has already surpassed its source material and will possibly finish the entire saga before we even get the penultimate volume in book form. Kingkiller Chronicles is already spinning off televison, movies and video games while we await the concluding volume with bated breath. Stormlight Archive has been greenlit for movie adaptions and realistically the series will not conclude for another 2. We have so many wonderful finished works that remain unadapted. Why are we rushing so much to make film and television of works in progress Because TV and movie studios need to make money constantly, and to do that they need to make content. They look for whats hot right now, not whats finished. Thats a problem for later, and its for the creators and directors and screenwriters and so forthnot the studios. This is true just about anywhere, to be clear. Anime does this a fair amount. Fullmetal Alchemist is the biggest example I can think ofit had a TV show long before the manga was finished, and then just made up its own ending, just like Game of Thrones.