Tag Archives: tropes

Assumptions Are Tools

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Rii the Wordsmith

So I spent the last several posts talking about how we shouldn’t assume and how we should break the mold. Mould? However, there is an advantage of using tropes and cliches. When you break the stereotype, you surprise your audience. That’s … Continue reading →

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Other Assumptions

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Rii the Wordsmith

There are just some things that are always evil. Always. Bringing back the dead, for example, is always evil. Except when a god does it, or when they were only mostly dead, or when it’s Joss Whedon/Marvel, or- Okay, okay, … Continue reading →

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The Face-Heel Turn

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Rii the Wordsmith

Because we can’t very well have one without the other, right? A heel-face turn is where a villain becomes a good guy; a face-heel turn is therefore where a good guy goes bad. A complete 180 bad. One of the … Continue reading →

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The Heel-Face Turn

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Rii the Wordsmith

The Heel-Face Turn is a trope in which the villain becomes a good guy. Forewarning, there are about fifty million links on the Tv Tropes Heel-Face Turn page so if you go there the chances of getting sucked into a … Continue reading →

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The Female Villain Dress Code Sucks

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Rii the Wordsmith

Today I’d like to address the way our wicked women dress – namely, I want to talk about the ridiculousness of the Evil is Sexy trope. There’s two things that I really despise about the way female villains tend to … Continue reading →

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