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* AMindIsATerribleThingToReadAMindIsATerribleThingToRead: The ability to read minds is better left unused since it leads you to lead some dark secrets.
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* NecessaryFailNecessaryFail: That embarrassing blunder you committed or that horrific tragedy that happened is needed for something good to happen.
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ComesGreatResponsibility: When you have super powers, using them for anything other than helping others never works out.
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* {{Deconstruction}}{{Deconstruction}}: The whole purpose of this story is to show how your desires coming true would play out in real life.
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* GoodNeedsEvilGoodNeedsEvil: If you remove evil then how can we know what good is?
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* TheAmericanDreamTheAmericanDream: Achieving prosperity won't make your life better, in fact it'll only destroy your life and family.
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* BestOfAllPossibleWorldsBestOfAllPossibleWorlds: Attempts to improve your reality creates more problems.
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* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionActHitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Trying to go back in time to prevent a tragedy from happening proves to make things worse.
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* DumbIsGood: Being smart will make you a {{Jerkass}}.
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* DumbIsGood: Being smart will make It's better to remain a simpleton since intelligence makes you a {{Jerkass}}.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Immortality has boring as well as heartbreaking consequences it.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Immortality has boring as well as heartbreaking consequences to it.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Obtaining money and power will cost you things the love of your old friends.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: Obtaining money and power will cost you things the love of your old friends.
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* LonelyAtTheTopLonelyAtTheTop: Obtaining money and power will cost you things the love of your old friends.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Immortality has heartbreaking consequences to it such as watching everyone you love age and die while you stay the same.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Immortality has boring as well as heartbreaking consequences to it such as watching everyone you love age and die while you stay the same. it.
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* IJustWantToBeNormalIJustWantToBeNormal: Special powers prove to be too overwhelming to deal with.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForeverWhoWantsToLiveForever: Immortality has heartbreaking consequences to it such as watching everyone you love age and die while you stay the same.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll gain immortality but you'll still grow older until you're too feeble to move anymore.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll You gain immortality but you'll you still grow older until you're too feeble decrepit to move anymore.function anymore, then you'll be praying for death.
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* GodForADay: Deity proves to be too much responsibility and absolute power corrupts.
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* GodForADay: Deity Status as a deity proves to be too much responsibility and absolute power corrupts.
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EvilLuddite: Trying to remove "evil technology" makes you the evil one.
*FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome
FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The improvements you obtain will eventually be reverted, sometimes for the best.
*GodForADayGodForADay: Deity proves to be too much responsibility and absolute power corrupts.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll gain immortality but you still grow older until you're too feeble to move anymore.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll gain immortality but you you'll still grow older until you're too feeble to move anymore.
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* AttractivenessDiscriminationAttractivenessDiscrimination: Your looks will get you discriminated against regardless if you're gorgeous or butt ugly.
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* BewareTheSupermanBewareTheSuperman: Superpowers bring about disaster rather than justice and order.
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* ButterflyOfDoomButterflyOfDoom: Changing anything in the past, no matter how small, will create a BadFuture.
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* DeathTakesAHolidayDeathTakesAHoliday: Turns out death is a necessary evil.
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* WeWantOurJerkBackWeWantOurJerkBack: The {{Jerkass}} character proves to be worse off when nice than when an asshole.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: If you're smarter than your peers, nobody will wantto want to be around you.
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* BrainlessBeautyBrainlessBeauty: If beauty doesn't make you [[BeautyIsBad bad]], it'll only make you stupid.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll gain immortality but you still grow older.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: You'll gain immortality but you still grow older. older until you're too feeble to move anymore.
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MiseryBuildsCharacter: It's better for you to obtain success through suffering rather having it easy.
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Stories that don't do this are WishFulfillment fantasies. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Fiction has been providing wish fulfillment for centuries. Contemporary fiction, though, often comes off as somehow ''obliged'' to show the downside of a desire. Not doing so might be seen as "juvenile." Ironically, SourGrapesTropes tend to [[NotSoDifferent indulge in their own backhanded brand of]] WishFulfillment; these tropes are often used to assuage [[TallPoppySyndrome an audience's discomfort]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] at seeing a more ambitious or intelligent or lucky character at succeeding in a way that the viewers can't by showing the 'bad' side of their success. See [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche's remarks on ''slave morality'']] for the intellectual impulse behind many of the usages of these tropes.
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Stories that don't do this are WishFulfillment fantasies. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Fiction has been providing wish fulfillment for centuries. Contemporary fiction, though, often comes off as somehow ''obliged'' to show the downside of a desire. Not doing so might be seen as "juvenile." Ironically, SourGrapesTropes tend to [[NotSoDifferent indulge in their own backhanded brand of]] WishFulfillment; these tropes are often used to assuage [[TallPoppySyndrome an audience's discomfort]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] envy]] at seeing a more ambitious or intelligent or lucky character at succeeding in a way that the viewers can't by showing the 'bad' side of their success. See [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche's remarks on ''slave morality'']] for the intellectual impulse behind many of the usages of these tropes.
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trope is that a muscular physique suggesting long hours at the gym or hard work is just for appearance and has no practical effect on feats of strength (in reality, visible muscle reliably indicates muscular strength)
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Stories that don't do this are WishFulfillment fantasies. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Fiction has been providing wish fulfillment for centuries. Contemporary fiction, though, often comes off as somehow ''obliged'' to show the downside of a desire. Not doing so might be seen as "juvenile." Ironically, SourGrapesTropes tend to [[NotSoDifferent indulge in their own backhanded brand of]] WishFulfillment; these tropes are often used to assuage [[TallPoppySyndrome an audience's discomfort]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] at seeing a more ambitious or intelligent or lucky character at succeeding in a way that the viewers can't by showing the 'bad' side of their success. See [[FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche's remarks on ''slave morality'']] for the intellectual impulse behind many of the usages of these tropes.
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Stories that don't do this are WishFulfillment fantasies. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. Fiction has been providing wish fulfillment for centuries. Contemporary fiction, though, often comes off as somehow ''obliged'' to show the downside of a desire. Not doing so might be seen as "juvenile." Ironically, SourGrapesTropes tend to [[NotSoDifferent indulge in their own backhanded brand of]] WishFulfillment; these tropes are often used to assuage [[TallPoppySyndrome an audience's discomfort]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] at seeing a more ambitious or intelligent or lucky character at succeeding in a way that the viewers can't by showing the 'bad' side of their success. See [[FriedrichNietzsche [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche's remarks on ''slave morality'']] for the intellectual impulse behind many of the usages of these tropes.
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Note that the original fable"The Fox and the Grapes" is not about disparaging a thing you can't get. The fox was disgusted with himself for wasting time and effort trying to reach a bunch of grapes that were sour, meaning unripe.
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Note that the original fable"The fable "The Fox and the Grapes" is not about disparaging a thing you can't get. The fox was disgusted with himself for wasting time and effort trying to reach a bunch of grapes that were sour, meaning unripe.
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Note that the original fable"The Fox and the Grapes" is not about disparaging a thing you can't get. The fox was disgusted with himself for wasting time and effort trying to reach a bunch of grapes that were sour, meaning unripe.
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