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Bowling For Tropes! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-07-19 14:00:34
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2024-07

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Hey gang! I'd like to start working on some more trope talk scripts and I'm casting a wide net with this one! Please drop ideas in the comments, and upvote other people's ideas if you think they sound interesting!

Also stay tuned for Blue's video✨

-R

Comments

Nerski90

I love the character centric tropes I'd love to see something like the 'be my bad boyfriend' trope really examined. I think there's a lot to look at from Rochester to Riven from the original Winx Club and how its evolved over time and what's changed and what's stayed the same and makes this trope so long lasting, and it would be interesting to compare it to the 'be my bad girlfriend' trope. It's such a prevalent character that's evolved to be different things over time I'd love to see Red's spin on it.

Eric Knapp

Load-Bearing Boss trope has always annoyed me on some level. The idea of a big thing falling to pieces when the one in charge is removed.

Lagggoat

OK I swear Im not mentioning this to be mean, but Mating Bonds/Fated Mates/Soul Mate AUs/rigidly structured "Packs", basically that weird grab bag that originally was werewolf(/ Omegaverse *cough*) tropes but moved to other fantasy from there (Acotar, broader Urban Fantasy). Dunno how to combine that into one trope and I am sorry for bringing it up, but its been a pet peeve of mine for A WHILE (as an aroace Shapeshifter fiction enjoyer)

Lefty Blanks

Bittersweet Endings -- specifically in genres where an unambiguous happy ending is expected (e.g. Rom Com), what makes an ending still satisfying to the audience when it doesn't give them everything they think they want? Maybe too much overlap with Subverting Expectations and Grimdark, but just something I've been thinking about after watching "The Half of It" on Netflix.

calvin praetorius

Here’s two suggestions for tropes you coined yourself, Red. Pocket Eldridge Abomination and Chekhov’s Seafood Dinner.

Gabbie

One trope that I think is REALLY common but has had some stuff done with it is the Red Shirt. Person who is very obviously created so that they could die to establish the threat of the villain. Red Shirt Army is when a full group is created by the author just to bite it a few scenes later. The Red Herring Shirt often has someone who looks like they came just to die be revealed to be the hero or villain in disguise, or just a random person who doesn't die, and then the Mauve Shirt seems created just to die but has far more screen time and development than any Red Shirt, potentially surviving because the audience starts liking them. Then that could lead into the Sacrificial Lamb or Sacrificial Lion...

café

maybe the villain version of the five man band? the five bad-band / the five man bad

criffininflight

The whole "heres the children of your old protagonist, arent they better in every way" thing. Where you get a sequel and it just follow's the protagonist of the original's child. I've found a lot of books and movie push this idea and its infuriating! You just get a watered down protagonist who is only special because their parent was and suddenly their parent acts ooc. The Chosen One Becomes a Parent trope. Think Star Wars Rey and Skywalker, Harry Potter and Albus (his son), etc.

JaneyBop

Timeloops - they're a pretty simple concept that's used in a massive variety of ways, whether it's for character development like Groundhog's Day/Russian Doll/Happy Death Day, or a plot device like Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children/Edge of Tomorrow, or it's just a one-off episode/comedy like in Supernatural or Star Trek Next Generation, it's usually quite interesting to see how/if the writers engage with the implications and how the individual characters choose to deal with them

Yukiarashi

Just came across Aesop’s Amnesia and why it can actually be a good thing.