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The Siege Perilous is a seat at the Round Table, reserved by Merlin for the knight destined to retrieve the Holy Grail. It was said to be fatal to any unworthy person who sat in it. | The Siege Perilous is a seat at the Round Table, reserved by Merlin for the knight destined to retrieve the Holy Grail. It was said to be fatal to any unworthy person who sat in it. | ||
| − | Chekhov's Gun is a principle of story-telling that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. For instance, if there's a loaded gun on the stage of a play, someone should eventually shoot it and this must be relevant to the plot. This term references a letter Anton Chekhov sent to a fellow playwright, whom Chekhov advised to drop superfluous elements from his script. Experienced writers learn when this principle can be violated. | + | Chekhov's Gun is a principle of story-telling that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. For instance, if there's a loaded gun on the stage of a play, someone should eventually shoot it and this must be relevant to the plot. This term references a letter Anton Chekhov sent to a fellow playwright, whom Chekhov advised to drop superfluous elements from his script. Experienced writers learn when this principle can be violated, much as experienced audiences/readers have grasped this trope and may enter into a friendly game of trying to predict what will be considered significant, later on, or being (hopefully) enjoyably misled and misdirected ahead of a different plot twist with perhaps a different and overlooked justification in the original setting. |
Pandora's Box is a legendary box (originally a jar) that Pandora was told never to open. Eventually she did, and unleashed all the miseries into the world. It has come to represent any situation where a simple ill-considered action results in numerous problems. | Pandora's Box is a legendary box (originally a jar) that Pandora was told never to open. Eventually she did, and unleashed all the miseries into the world. It has come to represent any situation where a simple ill-considered action results in numerous problems. | ||
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The sword of Damocles, Siege Perilous, Chekhov's gun, and Pandora's box are legendary/fictional physical objects associated with impending threats. These names are now used metaphorically for complex concepts related to danger. Cueball seems to take these names literally, and decorates his house with objects like those named, apparently claiming that his objects are the originals. Physical objects are not, of course, hypothetical/abstract concepts [1].[citation needed]
The Sword of Damocles is a sword that hangs over the king's throne, held in place by a single hair. It represents the constant danger that people in power are in because their actions inevitably make enemies. As an idiom, it refers to a threat "hanging over your head".
The Siege Perilous is a seat at the Round Table, reserved by Merlin for the knight destined to retrieve the Holy Grail. It was said to be fatal to any unworthy person who sat in it.
Chekhov's Gun is a principle of story-telling that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. For instance, if there's a loaded gun on the stage of a play, someone should eventually shoot it and this must be relevant to the plot. This term references a letter Anton Chekhov sent to a fellow playwright, whom Chekhov advised to drop superfluous elements from his script. Experienced writers learn when this principle can be violated, much as experienced audiences/readers have grasped this trope and may enter into a friendly game of trying to predict what will be considered significant, later on, or being (hopefully) enjoyably misled and misdirected ahead of a different plot twist with perhaps a different and overlooked justification in the original setting.
Pandora's Box is a legendary box (originally a jar) that Pandora was told never to open. Eventually she did, and unleashed all the miseries into the world. It has come to represent any situation where a simple ill-considered action results in numerous problems.
Thus each of the four objects represents the likelihood of future harm. Being in a room with them should make Cueball's guests very nervous.
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- [Cueball and Megan stand in a room. At one wall a sword hangs by a thread above a chair. On another wall a rifle is fastened to a board. Meghan has one arm stretched towards the rifle.]
- Cueball: Yeah, I think the sword of Damocles looks nice hanging over the Siege Perilous.
- Cueball: Hey, don’t touch Chekhov’s gun!
- [Caption below panel:]
- My home decorating theme is "ominous metaphorical objects."
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what about occam’s razor?Anonymouscript (talk) 22:11, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- Isn’t ominous, not in itself. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights) 22:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- It sounds like it would be dangerous, since a razor is a sharp blade. Unless it's Occam's safety razor. Barmar (talk) 22:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- It could be very hazardous to use, if you tried whilst sailing upon the Ship Of Theseus... 172.70.91.54 01:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- So long as I'm not in control of the trolley anymore, I'm good. Cwallenpoole (talk) 13:49, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- It could be very hazardous to use, if you tried whilst sailing upon the Ship Of Theseus... 172.70.91.54 01:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
Siege Perilous is ominous and mythical, but what is it a metaphor for? Barmar (talk) 22:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
I don't think the Pelosi attack is relevant to this comic. At best, it could be trivia fodder, but I find it highly unlikely that it influenced the comic in any way. 108.162.216.39 22:50, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Isn't Chekhov's gun supposed to be on a mantelpiece? I don't know why I remember that. It's not in Wikipedia but is on plenty of other sites about it. Anyone know the origin of the mantelpiece angle? 172.70.210.243 02:12, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- not necessarily, it's just the most common example of a superfluous detail in 'Why draw attention to an otherwise superfluous detail if it's not of importance?' that's at heart of Chekhov's Gun.198.41.242.217 07:45, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- Wikipedia has several quotes of Chekhov talking about it. One of them mentions a rifle hanging on a wall so it could be from that. Arcorann (talk) 23:19, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I was introduced to Chekov's gun when I was sad to my son that fiction has 1)Plot Premise, 2) Plot Plants 3) Plot Fixes. The Chekhov's gun would be 2), but a pistol drawn from a handbag sold be 3) unless mentioned in Act 1. Of course weapons on the wall could be 1) depending on the house.RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
"Chekov's Gun" would probably be a phaser set to 'stun'... 172.70.86.62 23:34, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
This would go great with a dying ivy with only a single leaf, and a blue curtain. 172.71.215.4 04:21, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
This has one too many metaphors. That last one is the straw that broke the camel's back. 172.70.175.116 05:48, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- It was perfectly ok until it tried to jump that shark! 172.70.162.147 10:41, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- No need to jump Chekhov's gun here, sharks are fine, just watch out for those red herrings.172.70.246.209 13:05, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
img looks slightly blurry. is this because the 2x version is of an odd width (397 pixels) for some reason? --172.70.111.76 19:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
Good it's only the Damocles sword and not the Tyrfing. (Or the pointy thingie of Elric, THAT name I'd had to look up.) 172.70.46.15 08:36, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- According to the wiki page on the Tyrfing, Stormbringer (Elric's sword) was actually based on Tyrfing.172.71.102.151 08:10, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
Ok so it says that Pandora was told never to open the box but actually she was created by the gods specifically to open the box so maybe we should rewrite that section 172.70.114.33 13:39, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone have any ideas for other things along this theme? I'm thinking of doing this. SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 23:29, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
