Opening.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Send this back to TLP.
How sweet it is
Seconding sending to TLP.
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I think the problem is the name.
I clicked on it thinking it would be about a Ridiculously Average Guy becoming a hero for a day. Maybe something similar to an Unlikely Hero plot, or possibly getting powers for one day.
Except the trope is actually about the Superhero who loses his powers so that some other character becomes the superpowered character, but the superhero still has to be the hero because the person that got his powers misuses them.
Basically the name focuses on a single part of the trope that isn't even the main focus.
How sweet it is
Clock is ticking.
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At best a rename, possibly a cut entirely. I don't know if this is nearly as common as it claims.
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The Bruce Almighty example doesn't qualify (God doesn't lose his powers), the Superman example is too general, and only two of the remaining examples even have proper context ("this happens" isn't proper context).
I imagine the hardest part of this idea is that it comes from the intersection of so many other tropes that it's just easier to track the individual components (like "brought down to normal" and "stolen prototype") than it is to claim the whole thing together is a trope.
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Oh wow, yes, the name is extremely misleading, and the definition seems bizarrely specific. I can't think of any proper examples at all, which is pretty unusual for me. Either cut or send back to TLP for a better name and description.
I think the silliest bit is that after insisting that the replacement's powers must be exactly the same as the original hero's, it then mentions at the end that the variation (which it, ridiculously enough, calls a "subversion") where the powers are not identical is far more common.
This is where I need a facepalm emoticon...
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At first I was going to vote to send it back to work out a better name and tighter description. But I'm not sure if the "Brought Down to Normal plot + someone else with the hero's powers" is common enough to trope?
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Locking per New Year Purge.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The trope has five examples and 20 wicks. The trope itself sounds like a popular plot progression, so I wonder why it's not thriving.