Talk:Warp spasm

Old discussion from wp:vfd
Discussion concluded and article kept on May 13, 2004

Comic-book-hero power. Already merged into Sláine. Catherine - talk 04:14, 7 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Warp spasm is actually something from ancient Irish myth. I've revised the article to focus on this aspect. Keep. Snowspinner 04:33, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, then. Ooo-oooh!  Slaine and his Warp spasms are something I'm very familiar with having been an avid 2000AD reader, but I didn't know that they were based in fact - or, rather, myth.  But knowing the writer's (pat Mills) other work that doesn't surprise me. --bodnotbod 15:53, May 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Found it from a non-VG source here: http://www.celticleague.org/celtic-myth.html Alcarillo 18:30, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Huh -- you learn something new every day (especially around here). Keep, looks good now.  Catherine - talk 15:39, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. And that is one of the coolest superpowers ever.  Screw X-ray vision. Meelar 04:08, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, nice rewrite Burgundavia 07:05, May 13, 2004 (UTC)

Rename?
I propose renaming this article Ríastrad. "Warp spasm" is found as a descriptive term to convey the Irish word in Thomas Kinsella's magnificent translation of the Táin, but was coined by him and a number of other terms could be used to describe the same phenomenon. I'd also like to know if the comic book reference refers to the use of the actual phrase "warp spasm" or not. Enaidmawr (talk) 01:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The comic does use the phrase "warp spasm", which it presumably lifted from Kinsella. My own feeling is that, as ríastrad is simply the verbal noun of the verb ríastraid "contorts, distorts" (DIL) and in the sense of a battle-frenzy is only associated with Cúchulainn (there are no other Irish heroes who undergo it to my knowledge), it's not significant enough to have its own article. It would be enough for Cúchulainn's distortion to be dealt with in his article, with a note about Sláine's warp-spasm in the "cultural references" section; and Sláine's warp-spasm and its origins in Cúchulainn's ríastrad to be dealt with in his article. Nobody will be looking up "ríastrad" or "warp-spasm" independently of either of those two articles. --Nicknack009 (talk) 17:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Since nobody has objected to the above, I have ensured that both Cúchulainn and Sláine (comics) mention the origin of the term, and redirected to Cúchulainn as the original source of the term. --Nicknack009 (talk) 11:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually some people DO look up both ríastrad AND warp-spasm independently. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.73.36.103 (talk) 19:29, 10 January 2010 (UTC)