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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not the trope. +1 to pull.
Horrible. Pull
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Agreed on pulling.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Agreed, I got nothing as a suggestion for a replacement.
No, the other one.
Pluck.
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Quality-wise it's horrible, but I'm not entirely convinced it's not the trope. He's forgotten his motive. That's the trope - not just in name, but in description as well.
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The description makes it sound to me more like it's about writers forgetting about their characters' original, deep motivations and falling back on lazy, shallow excuses instead.
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Same here. The tropes is less "character forgets their motivation" and more "A complex multifaceted motivation is reduced to something more one-dimensional over the course of the story".
I don't know about multidimensional to one dimensional but it definitely is different, most often less grand and more petty with very little or no explanation as to why.
It should be pulled either way, but I can't think of a replacement. Lex Luthor stealing 40 cakes used to be on this page.
If it weren't on another page, I think it would be funny enough to work. So, we should try to find something similar.
It's been purged:
I'd argue that the dialog in question is the writers lampshading that they've long since forgotten the character's motivations, absent of any context contradicting this claim, honestly.
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However the dialog without context makes it seem like something completely different.
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Even if that were the case, the image quality is awful enough to look for a replacement anyway.
No contention with this statement.
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Agreed that the quality is bad enough to warrant pulling it.
Clock is set.
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Clock is up with no progress; closing.
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Yeah, so the current image is:
1. Pretty much purely text based.
2. A questionable demonstration of the trope anyway
3. The image quality itself is somewhat lacking.
I'm not exactly sure how we'd picture this outside of a comic; the only webcomic example with a link is similarly text based.
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