What's your favorite character trope?

I've seen some threads on multiple sites about "What's your least favorite character trope?" or "What type of character do you hate whenever you read about them?" I wanna hear the opposite side of the spectrum. What's the type of character that always seems to end up being your favorite? I always seem to favor cheerful mcs with Chronic Hero Syndrome and the Genki Girl, mostly because they're fun to project onto (and traumatize in my writing, hehe)

I think you should move this to Yack Fest

I have a soft spot for well written examples of Jerk with a Heart of Gold.

Me too! It's why the Near Future chapter of Live A Live is my absolute favourite: its protagonist, Akira, is a very good example of a well written Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Although this could just be me being incredibly biased towards him because I love him so much

Does Sophisticated as Hell count as a character trope?

If so, it's one of my favorites.

When done well, almost nothing beats a Tragic Villain. It's really neat to see the circumstances, systems and social forces that would cause someone to believe they have no real choice but to be evil, and usually leads to a lot of self reflection (for both the audience and the characters).

I really like the Evil All Along trope. To me, those characters are far more interesting than Obviously Evil characters in Black-and-White Morality works.

I also like the Jerk with a Heart of Gold trope, the Villain Protagonist trope (along with Hero Antagonist).

Also, I like a lot of More than Meets the Eye tropes.

Edited by BeautifulEevee on Feb 2nd 2024 at 1:12:03 PM