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Ami Angelwings
Ami Angelwings
@ami_angelwings@urusai.social  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

#QuestionOfTheDay What's something (a trope, plot point, character type, twist, technology, magic, decision, conceit of the genre/world, whatever) in fiction that you just can't buy.

i.e. you get that it's fiction, & that it's a thing that happens, or that in the fictional world it's accepted, justified, or explained, or fans love it, etc. It's not that you don't understand it, it's just that you don't buy it, it doesn't work for you, you just can't accept it or take it seriously, etc...

This is a judgement free zone (at least from my end) so if you're like "when space magic shows up I can't take it seriously" or "ppl being able to fly makes no sense to me" etc that's totally fine.

#fiction #Television #TV #manga #anime #film #movies #books #CCGs #ttrpg #videogames #comics #comicbooks

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Ami Angelwings
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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

For an example, I have a lot of trouble accepting heel face turns when there's a lot of direct history between the heel/villain and the heroes they're suddenly best buds with.

Like I can accept and even like a lot of face turns but when it's like "I tried to rape your girlfriend/sister but I'm good now, cool right?" and everybody just memory holes it because it happened an arc ago and there's no even grappling with it, I'm just like yeah no.

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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

This also happens in reverse for me with face heel turns, like in wrestling when Steve Austin turned heel and teamed up with Triple H who literally tried to run him over with a car a year ago! Water under the bridge now that the "evil" switch has been flipped.

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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

Oh yeah also just in general whenever a character turns evil in stories with a "dark side" mechanic and their entire motivations change. Like "I want to kill you to protect the animals" "haha but if you kill me you give into your hate and then I win!" *kills them anyway* "the bad guy is dead! However now I have this great desire to kill the animals"

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@yon@sakurajima.moe replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@ami_angelwings Closely related to making the evil characters be very much morally right, and then having to give them some ridiculous extreme extra thing so they can be villains.

We want to save the environment, bring peace to all the people, and bring equality and financial stability to all! We also want to kill all children for some odd reason…

(Yes, it always has a right wing stink when these things pop up.)

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