why did Georgie die?

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

After all, he was a fable, and the only wound he got was from a knife, and between that knife wound and his death he had some time to heal up. And don't tell me that he's dying faster because he can't transform into something. We've seen the Woodsman getting beat to ♥♥♥♥, getting his jar broken, falling out of a window and taking a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ axe in his brain. We've also seen people shrugging off shotgun shots, Bigby even survived dozens of them. Compared to what fables are resistant to and how incredibly fast their wounds heal I don't want to believe that he died so easily. Now, prince Lawrence (depending on what you do) also dies from a knife wound, but that was a planned wound with a knife from what we know is a powerfull magic item, and he even survived several hours after that.

[Tehzim]

In the Fables universe, the more popular the Fable the more durable they are. Georgie isn't very well known so he dies much easier. Bigby and Snow are pretty hard to kill.

[soviergn]

Fables survive based on how well known they are. Bigby is basically invincible because he's the wolf in several different extremely well known fables. Snow white is the same way. She is extremely durable due to how widespread hers is. How many people can honestly say they ever heard of "Georgie peorgie" before this game. The less popular fables, the ones that aren't so well known are more or less mortal when it comes to violence. That said, if they never get intentionally killed, they will live just as long as the well known fables. Getting your gut ripped open like that would be fatal RL in most situations. That was a horrific wound.

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

That is never mentioned in the game. Is that a thing from the comics? Also I doubt that theory :I Pretty sure that lots of people never heard of arm-rip-off-monster or boss-of-pawn-shop-demon

[saint_michael]

georgie porgie is common in england

[Tehzim]

Yeah, it's from the comics. And "arm rip" is Grendel from Beowulf and Jersey Devil is a kind of local legend not a typical Fable. So they are still better known than Georgie. Also they were wounded but not gutted.

[Spicy Rock Monster]

That logic still doesnt work. Who the hell knows anything about prince Lawrence? It suggested he's survived DAYS when nearly bled out, stabbed AND Shot... I'd think more people know the Georgie Porgie rhyme than some Obscure Prince.

[Demoman?]

Originally posted by 0ddAcHe:

That logic still doesnt work. Who the hell knows anything about prince Lawrence? It suggested he's survived DAYS when nearly bled out, stabbed AND Shot... I'd think more people know the Georgie Porgie rhyme than some Obscure Prince.

It's also implied that any condition, mentality, etc that a Fable has in their source material carries over to their actual form, like the Crooked Man's crooked body, Tiny Tim's injured leg, Bigby's various powers, and so on. Georgie's little nursery rhyme implies Georgie is actually weak and cowardly, which may have been the why of why he died so easily.

[soviergn]

It's more like an hour or so. Not days.

[Infected Ronin]

Come on, Prince Lawrence is the husband of Donkey Skin.
He is as famous as any Prince Charming in any tales !
You just don't know well the story.

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

Originally posted by Infected Ronin:

Come on, Prince Lawrence is the husband of Donkey Skin.
He is as famous as any Prince Charming in any tales !
You just don't know well the story.

man the definition of being famous is that you've heard of something without knowing a lot about the general theme :I for instance everybody knows the name michael jackson, but not many people know all about pop music or have big interest in it

[Sindex]

Originally posted by Hasi:

Originally posted by Infected Ronin:

Come on, Prince Lawrence is the husband of Donkey Skin.
He is as famous as any Prince Charming in any tales !
You just don't know well the story.

man the definition of being famous is that you've heard of something without knowing a lot about the general theme :I for instance everybody knows the name michael jackson, but not many people know all about pop music or have big interest in it

Bad analogy there mate, I am pretty sure most of the world's population who is older than 20 know who Michael Jackson is (and heard a few of his songs), even if they don't care about pop music.

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

Originally posted by HappyZavulon:

Originally posted by Hasi:

man the definition of being famous is that you've heard of something without knowing a lot about the general theme :I for instance everybody knows the name michael jackson, but not many people know all about pop music or have big interest in it

Bad analogy there mate, I am pretty sure most of the world's population who is older than 20 know who Michael Jackson is (and heard a few of his songs), even if they don't care about pop music.

No, it's the right example for this: Infected ronin stated that Prince Lawrence is famous IF you know the story very well. But if he would be really famous you wouldn't need to know about the whole story that well.

[Mike]

Originally posted by Hasi:

That is never mentioned in the game.

That's because 99% of this game is an "advertisement" for a graphic novel series. It's not mentioned in the game like the billion other things that should have been inlcuded in MUCH longer episodes with MUCH more content.

[Ailes]

It is mentioned in the game. Kind of. If you read the Fable book entry of Tiny Tim it says something about that messed up leg of his and that he would or would not want to have much fame for something related to it and contrary to what most other fables strive for.

[BeastBox]

Originally posted by Icemelt:

Originally posted by Hasi:

That is never mentioned in the game.

That's because 99% of this game is an "advertisement" for a graphic novel series. It's not mentioned in the game like the billion other things that should have been inlcuded in MUCH longer episodes with MUCH more content.

Of all the content I wish they could have added to to game to make it longer, that doesn't even make the list.

I do feel like Georgie keeled over a little too easily, though. We established early on (from Faith) that Fables are hard to kill. They should have gashed his heart and lung between his ribs instead of just gut-stabbing him. That's a wound that would kill a man more or less immediately, but a Fable could have survived as long as Georgie did. I mean, if Woody and Jersey can take an axe to the head, and Prince Lawrence can essentially commit suicide 3 times and live ...