As I've just added Galavant and Teen beach movie examples, I've took a moment to think about it...And in my opinion, there are actually two tropes described there.
I mean, I've noticed a pattern: the characters that fall for the trope as it is described are the most often either naive (Anna, Giselle and Edward, Lela and Tanner) or at least Wrong Genre Savvy or Wide-Eyed Idealist (Tristan, Galavant ). They're proven wrong usually quickly (one hour or so in Enchanted , Frozen, Teen Beach Movie, five minutes in Galavant ). The trope seems especially tied to one hour and a half movies for that reason. And either way, the actual soulmate is the one who spend the most screen time with the character; helping to put the spectators on the railways of truth. The reason? Obviously, the scenarist intended to make false soulmates out of the first two characters, from day one.
On the other end, you cannot possibly qualify as naive or idealist some others characters listed in examples, here. Plus they are "proven wrong" after two or even 20 years, can you still call that a mistake after that long?
I'm under the impression those examples fell under either Audience Reactions ("Buffy" example) or Intended Audience Reaction ("Spider-man" example). But, the couples were certainly not intended, from the very beginning, to be false soulmates in the original creator's mind. In "Buffy" case, Word of Saint Paul confirm is was not intentional, so the "lot of fans" opinion sound rather like Complaining About Shows You Dont Like (or more exactly, Complaining About Ships You Don't Like ?) or at least should be in YMMV.
The "false soulmates" impression that comes to a fanboy's mind, or "fixing" from new creators shall maybe be another trope...What do you think?
As I've just added Galavant and Teen beach movie examples, I've took a moment to think about it...And in my opinion, there are actually two tropes described there.
I mean, I've noticed a pattern: the characters that fall for the trope as it is described are the most often either naive (Anna, Giselle and Edward, Lela and Tanner) or at least Wrong Genre Savvy or Wide-Eyed Idealist (Tristan, Galavant ). They're proven wrong usually quickly (one hour or so in Enchanted , Frozen, Teen Beach Movie, five minutes in Galavant ). The trope seems especially tied to one hour and a half movies for that reason. And either way, the actual soulmate is the one who spend the most screen time with the character; helping to put the spectators on the railways of truth. The reason? Obviously, the scenarist intended to make false soulmates out of the first two characters, from day one.
On the other end, you cannot possibly qualify as naive or idealist some others characters listed in examples, here. Plus they are "proven wrong" after two or even 20 years, can you still call that a mistake after that long?
I'm under the impression those examples fell under either Audience Reactions ("Buffy" example) or Intended Audience Reaction ("Spider-man" example). But, the couples were certainly not intended, from the very beginning, to be false soulmates in the original creator's mind. In "Buffy" case, Word of Saint Paul confirm is was not intentional, so the "lot of fans" opinion sound rather like Complaining About Shows You Dont Like (or more exactly, Complaining About Ships You Don't Like ?) or at least should be in YMMV.
The "false soulmates" impression that comes to a fanboy's mind, or "fixing" from new creators shall maybe be another trope...What do you think?
Edited by Thelancasterhouse02