About: Scaled Up   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

There's probably something symbolic about the tendencies of a villain to turn into a snake. In the West there is a strong established symbolism for snakes from The Bible (most famously the serpent in the Garden of Eden, although some translators believe that the original text may have indicated that the creature was closer to a dragon than a snake), Norse Mythology, and there's Orochi in Japanese mythology. Adding onto this, there is the fact that when walking in the wild, it's generally not a good idea to stop and pet a snake. Examples of Scaled Up include:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Scaled Up
rdfs:comment
  • There's probably something symbolic about the tendencies of a villain to turn into a snake. In the West there is a strong established symbolism for snakes from The Bible (most famously the serpent in the Garden of Eden, although some translators believe that the original text may have indicated that the creature was closer to a dragon than a snake), Norse Mythology, and there's Orochi in Japanese mythology. Adding onto this, there is the fact that when walking in the wild, it's generally not a good idea to stop and pet a snake. Examples of Scaled Up include:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:all-the-tro...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:allthetrope...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • There's probably something symbolic about the tendencies of a villain to turn into a snake. In the West there is a strong established symbolism for snakes from The Bible (most famously the serpent in the Garden of Eden, although some translators believe that the original text may have indicated that the creature was closer to a dragon than a snake), Norse Mythology, and there's Orochi in Japanese mythology. Adding onto this, there is the fact that when walking in the wild, it's generally not a good idea to stop and pet a snake. Of course, the result of all that symbolism is that when a villain turns into a snake there can be no doubt about the evil nature of a foe, and it gives The Hero a comfortably scary and suddenly less human foe to kill. Villains do love their symbolism and cliches, however, so despite how often this trope tends to end with the villain chopped up on the hero's sword, (usually rather easily too) villains everywhere still love the order Squamata because, of course, Reptiles Are Abhorrent. Think about it for a second: how often have you ever seen a villain turn into, say, a bear, a rhino, a lion, a koala, or something else that would actually be useful? In short, a specific and much overused variant of One-Winged Angel. Examples of Scaled Up include:
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software