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In response to "hoping the board rolls soon... i have an ST question -- nm" by i'm not dead yet !

tada !! okay, so ... ST... the word "foil", used in a literary sense, as in character B is a foil to Character A ...

Posted by i'm not dead yet ! (aka pacrat) Mar 10 '11, 10:31

how would you define the roll of the foil ? Is the foil just a figure to play off of the main character? a nuisance? comic relief? etc?

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an excuse to provide a narritive or explaination of a proceedure -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 10, 10:59
Seems to me in comedy, the foil seems to be a stand-in for the audience -- nm - con_carne Mar 10, 10:40 1
- Bud Abbott to Costello, for example -- nm - con_carne Mar 10, 10:42
I'll be you hucklberry. Nemesis. - Spawn Mar 10, 10:32
usually the foil is the main antagonist, to me. -- nm - Reagen Mar 10, 10:32 4
- But it makes me think it has a comic element to it. One upmanship or something. -- nm - Amy Mar 10, 10:34 3
  - It can take that connotation but doesn't have to, IMO. -- nm - Reagen Mar 10, 10:36 2
    - Stop foiling me! -- nm - Amy Mar 10, 10:41 1
      - Oh dammit. I mean "Curses, foiled again." -- nm - Amy Mar 10, 10:41

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