Dancing Bear: Difference between revisions

Note that this doesn't include works in which outside events make us more interested in it - ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' certainly got a considerable amount of attention as a result of [[Heath Ledger]]'s death, but it wasn't a Dancing Bear. For that, see [[Reality Subtext]].

 

 

[[I Thought It Meant|And no, it's not meant to be followed with]] [[Anastasia|"painted wings"]].

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

** Also, [[Rainbow Factory]], partially because it's sometimes described as "Cupcakes, except it's Rainbow Dash torturing/killing Scootaloo" and partially because of WoodenToaster's [[Creepy Awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx_iXgLAyw song] of the same title (Fun fact: The fanfic was inspired by the song!).

* Many of the most well-known fanfictions, like [[My Immortal]], are notable for being ''[[So Bad It's Good|so unbelievably horrible]]'' that they circle around and approach masterpiecehood from the other side. That is to say, the draw is not so much the content, so much as the legendary badness of the work itself.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The [[Nintendo]] [[Wii]] was the console version of this when it first came out: the platform was sold not on the quality of its games, which varies between Nintendo-grade all time classic (the titles made by, well, [[Captain Obvious|Nintendo]]) and crimes against humanity (the infamous third-party minigame shitfests)--but on the fact that it has a different control mechanism. The Wii is moving away from this, though it does play up the motion controls as part of its current campaign: the aim towards "casual gamers." Hardcore gamers still deride it as a dancing bear, [[Fan Myopia|not that it hurts its popularity]].

* ''[[Video Game/Fracture|Fracture]]'', made even more egregious with the fact that it's sole selling point - terrain deformation - feels underutilized.

** Same can be said for ''[[Dark Void]]''. To elaborate: [[A Taste of Power|not counting the playable prologue,]] you get to the jetpack about halfway through the game, and yet it is hardly utilized from then.