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1 & 2) Pandering to the Base is a super trope. You'll probably find what you're looking for under that.
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Another question: Do we have tropes for the opposite of Good Is Dumb and Dumb Is Good?
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Fanservice means something meant to please the fanbase to this day - it's just usually used in the sexual connotation. There are lots of words that don't really mean what most people use them to mean - "abortion" literally means "stoppage", but is virtually if not literally never used to mean that anymore.
^^ Do you mean Wicked Cultured or Gentleman and a Scholar?
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Neither, really - I'm looking for tropes about good guys being predominantly intelligent and villains being dumb.
Wait, what? That doesn't even happen like ever ever. There's no conflict if the villains are inferior.
I meant those separately - a trope about "Smart Good" and a trope about "Dumb Evil" (not the same as Stupid Evil, though).
Multiple trope questions:
While browsing Tropes Of Legend, I saw a mention that Fanservice originally meant anything put in specifically to please the fans - not necessarily sexual in nature. Since our trope page now refers solely to Fanservice in the titillation/sexual sense, what's the trope for more general "stuff put in to please the fans"?
On a related note, is Author Appeal always sexual in nature? If so, what is the more general trope in this case?
Is there a trope for when the villain directly takes over his troops - as in possession or something similar?
Is there a trope for when a bad guy tells the hero they will be rewarded for killing/capturing the hero?
Finally, do we have an index for stupid characters in general? The only one I can find is Contrived Stupidity Tropes, which isn't quite the same thing.