Tragic Villain? Y/N?
Possibly Designated Villain; someone who the story claims is a villain, but is actually perfectly justified in their actions?
See Treasure Seekers, fwiw.
The innocent but evil bad ass! Say an adorable genderfluid Assassin! The legendary en-femme-fatal the unicorn of spy fiction lol
Is that a trope… maybe not… but I’d like to make it one!
You can if you sign up for a membership and actually make a page for it. It has to be properly categorized and all first or else it will get taken down.
I love all the romance tropes, all the little cutesy things that most people get uncomfortable with in rl are great. xD I also like happy endings or bitter sweets.
I also love redemption stories, like a Sith who’s been killing and scheming their whole life coming to the realization that they’ve been doing terrible awful things and switches sides or something…Dont even get me started on romance redemption stories.
Well then you truly are lost!
Preaches balance to the force
There are two Sith to an a Jedi empire.
I really dislike the lack of moral ambiguity between the light and dark side in the movies.
So yeah, I like the grey and grey morality scale tropes.
Well, the Dark Side are organised and smart (occasional hubris notwithstanding); the Light Side are bureaucratic and dumb and are indirectly responsible for everything that happened to themselves.
I think it’s obvious that I love fantasy and apocalypse themes .-.
I also like dark things(kinda how like Dark_Stalker said). Don’t think about cruelty and all that, I’m a very peaceful person who’s against violence and cruelty towards any living creature. By dark, I mean things that can happen in real life, or what each feeling can bring out of a person. What would people do and how far would they go if their lives were on the line, what could greed, power bring out from a good person. A series that’s kinda similar to what I’m trying to explain is Black mirror .
I also like original ideas that make you go wow… and mystery themed stuff, for example Shutter Island .
I don’t know if it’s officially a trope, but I love those characters who used to be incredibly powerful, and evil. Now they’re goodish, and maybe not as powerful, but the old attitude pops out now and then. Like Seven of Nine, or Anya from Buffy, or um…Ilyria (sp?) the demon who possesses Fred on Angel.
No wonder Anakin was angry, his nose has been broken so far to the right that it looks like about to do a full right turn back to his forehead. Also it looks like his left eyebrow is blinding his left eye. I’d be upset too.
Sounds like Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho
And it doesn’t have to do with their morality spectrum but the whole used to be powerful sounds like the Brought Down to Baddass trope.
As bad as it sounds love triangles are great when I actually like both characters and the love interest.
Well this thread has been dead for a while, which is a shame because I really like talking about tropes. But since this is not a Wip I don’t think there’s nothing wrong if I revive it.
Anyway, I’ve thinking about this lately and I think that another trope that I really like is Amicable Exes. It is nice to see characters that can move forward their past relationships, and even find some value in them. It’s kind of refreshing.
However I don’t like this trope when it seems forced, there are a few cases where I think that exes would have legitimate reasons to hate each other.
Also, bitter exes can be really annoying but sometimes I think that, if done well, they can be really fun to watch. But, this is usually the exception not the norm.
Doubtlessly the “character psychology inversion” ones. Face-Heel Turn (good guy turns evil), Heel-Face Turn* (bad guy turns good) and Transhuman Treachery (human turned a monster chooses to live as a monster) are examples.
I also love those.
I didn’t know about Transhuman Treachery, well I guess this means I’m going to spend another night sleepless looking for it in TV tropes.
Corrected, thanks. But if I remember it well, the Transhuman Treachery trope doesn’t counts when the psychological change is forced (like a blotboc, por example).
I always imagine a TT scene where the heroes are fighting against some kind of final boss, and the boss turn one member of the heroes group to a beast.
Then the beast realizes how he just followed society, expected patterns as a human. How he was never so free to be the way he wanted…
And kills the remaining members of the party.
Would work better with a paladin-like character.