Tag Archives: tropes
Assumptions Are Tools
So I spent the last several posts talking about how we shouldn’t assume and how we should break the mold. Mould? However, thereĀ is an advantage of using tropes and cliches. When you break the stereotype, you surprise your audience. That’s … Continue reading
Other Assumptions
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
The Face-Heel Turn
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
The Heel-Face Turn
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
The Female Villain Dress Code Sucks
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