Not Tropeworthy: Cleaningup Cheating Tropes

I've argued before that Your Cheating Heart isn't a trope, but a topic. It means nothing more than "cheating occurs". In the same way that "murder" isn't a single trope, but rather a whole bunch of different tropes united by topic, I think just "cheating" should be an index, not a trope.

That being said, even if not enough people agree with me on that point to change it, I think we need to clean up the cheating tropes in other ways as well. They're overlapping and not very specific right now:

• Cuckold is (as far as I understand it) just "guy gets cheated on"—basically the same as "cheating occurs" but framed from a different perspective. I think (a) the differences either need to be more clearly defined, or (b) it needs to be combined with Your Cheating Heart.
• Good Adultery, Bad Adultery has examples all across the board, and definitely isn't a single trope. I think could probably be turned into an analysis page for Sympathetic Adulterer.

edited 5th Aug '17 12:36:12 PM by Eievie