![]() ![]() All Contractors in Darker Than Black are said to be like this part of their condition is that they always act rationally and with their own best interests in mind, dismissing emotional attachments.Hoshino Ruri from Martian Successor Nadesico is both The Spock and a Little Miss Snarker."D" from Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual.In a Red Oni, Blue Oni situation (with them being the Blue), compare with their eternal opposite, The McCoy. Named (obviously) for Spock from Star Trek. See also Spock Speak and Shoot the Dog (of which he is the personification). Well Intentioned Extremists often come across similarly when they believe they're working for the greater good. Probably sides with the Enlightenment in Romanticism Versus Enlightenment. Often becomes a Straw Vulcan, but occasionally ends up on the winning side of Emotions vs. Since Smart People Play Chess, if The Spock plays a game, it will invariably be a variant of chess.Ĭlosely related to The Stoic, Agent Scully, Emotionless Girl, and Little Miss Snarker. When he has emotion, he may sometimes express it with a Fascinating Eyebrow and nothing more. The Spock will at times become a Tin Man, though this varies with the writing, and will often have No Sense of Humor. When put in a Power Trio with The Kirk and The McCoy, he becomes the superego in Id Superego and Ego. Nor will he have an issue hearing out the McCoy. Even better, he is utterly unflappable in the face of serious problems or danger his friends know that no matter how terrifying or hopeless things get, he will never lose his cool and will not stop working on a solution to save everyone (the McCoy's real goal). The Spock maintains audience sympathy by being willing to Take a Third Option and also by being as ruthless about his own life as the lives of his crewmates, if not more so. For Him, everyone is expendable, especially himself, and he has no problem treating people as such. While his counterpart The McCoy is interested in doing the right thing regardless of cost to one's self, The Spock is only interested in the end result. The Spock's relationship with his crewmates/ comrades is often tense, because this character type is willing and able to ruthlessly consider ethically troubling situations without batting an eye - especially situations where people might be ordered to die. The main difference between the two archetypes is that while The McCoy will leap before looking, The Spock's solution to problems will have a balanced and well-thought out approach. ![]() This character can exist by themselves, but more often, they will have a more emotional and humanistic counterpart to contrast his/her decisions. The Spock is an archetype that can be loosely summed up as the tendency to apply rules, reason and the greater good to all of his/her decisions. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.Īnother component of the Freudian Trio is this character, who will always think before acting. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.
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