Working Title: The Kimberly - A Rewrite:
From YKTTW
Zeke: Gotta say, if the goal of this rename was to stop referring to a specific character, somebody
didn't think it all the way through.
Hey, can someone SOURCE the bella swan quote?
Rebochan: This trope just appears to be
Distressed Damsel But More So. And with an open invitation for character bashing.
Red Viking: Then it is a subjective trope. There is a difference between a
Distressed Damsel and a
Damsel Scrappy, same as how there's a difference between
And Now For Someone Completely Different and a
Replacement Scrappy. Besides, cutting this trope is going to create
a lot of red links.
Madrugada This a a
Combo Platter trope, but a trope in its own right. Take
The Scrappy and give her the role of
Distressed Damsel, and you have a
Damsel Scrappy. Analogy: Take a hot dog. That's one food. Take chili-and-cheese, that's another food. Put them together and you have a chili-cheese dog. It's a third thing that isn't purely either one of the component parts. This is a chili-cheese dog. It's not just a hot dog, and it's not just chili-and-cheese.
Rebochan: I don't see why you have to make a separate type of Scrappy for something
this narrow. A
Replacement Scrappy makes sense - a replacement character that didn't go over well. You know, Cousin Oliver Syndrome with a TV Tropes friendly name. This one is just "They get kidnapped. AND I HATE HER."
Wyvernil: Originally, this page didn't seem to have much of a difference from
Too Dumb To Live - it seemed like a case of "Complaining About Characters You Don't Like". The rewritten version attempted to distill the concept into a sort of crossroads of
Distressed Damsel and
The Load - a character which is disliked for being both unlikeable and useless, seeming to have the sole purpose of getting into trouble to facilitate a
Distressed Damsel plot.
