Proposal for the "Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosion" tag (and probably other related stuff)

BUR #36413 is pending approval.

mass update favgroup:40311 -> cool_guys_don't_look_at_explosions
create alias unflinching_walk -> cool_guys_don't_look_at_explosions

I was a bit surprised that we don't have a tag for the Cool guys don't look at explosion trope, even tho it's quite a common occurence. So I purpose we should formalize that into a tag.

Also maybe we should create a tag for a related trope for when a character is barely escaping an explosion and perhaps for a tag for an explosion that occurred right behind their back?

The tag should be called cool_guys_don't_look_at_explosions_(meme), but as long as that gets fixed, then +1.

AngryZapdos said:

The tag should be called cool_guys_don't_look_at_explosions_(meme), but as long as that gets fixed, then +1.

Correcting the explosion to explosions is good, but keep it without the meme. It's not a meme.

Shibi said:

Correcting the explosion to explosions is good, but keep it without the meme. It's not a meme.

It is. It's an easily replicable scenario spawned from the simple template of "characters facing away from explosions" (or other comparable destruction).

Shibi said:

Correcting the explosion to explosions is good, but keep it without the meme. It's not a meme.

It absolutely is a meme, but only a handful of the posts in this favgroup actually fit the meme at all. This is less "cool guys don't look at explosions" and mostly just "character with an explosion (or something like one) somewhere in the background" with none of the spirit of the meme itself.

blindVigil said:

It absolutely is a meme, but only a handful of the posts in this favgroup actually fit the meme at all. This is less "cool guys don't look at explosions" and mostly just "character with an explosion (or something like one) somewhere in the background" with none of the spirit of the meme itself.

I agree that I wouldn't want meme on a lot of these posts, but that's not to say the concept of "cool guys don't look at explosions" isn't what inspired most of these. The concept of this meme is so extremely widespread that a lot of posts will be referencing it, but very much indirectly. Take post #8761919 as a random example of one of my posts. It's pretty clearly the same concept, but it isn't really the cool guys don't look at explosions meme, just a far derivative, and being pedantic and applying meme status to this post seems pretty bad.