#2: Jan 6th 2017 at 4:01:38 AM
Opening, but clocking as I think that this can simply be solved by the TLP without a repair.
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#3: Jan 6th 2017 at 8:56:41 PM
Is "asking not to be a monster" REALLY an "anti-gay message"?
The relation doesn't look like subtrope-supertrope, but rather sister concepts of the same underlying thing: there's some (arbitrary) "normality" that every human must adhere to.
We don't need justice when we can forgive. We don't need tolerance when we can love.
#4: Jan 11th 2017 at 12:30:42 AM
Well, not much progress here so closing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Based on the description and Laconic, Have You Tried Not Being a Monster? is supposed to be about a particular way Muggles might react to a powered character: by asking them to "try acting normal", as a metaphor for a way LGBT people are sometimes treated. But an entry in Trope Launch Pad, Big Gay Metaphor
, uncovered some Missing Supertrope Syndrome on Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: it's being used for any allegory to LGBT issues, not just the one it's ostensibly about.
I'll work up some misuse stats and add it to the OP, but the proposal is to either: