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Author: RawPower

Dec 14th 2010 at 4:13:44 PM

Lemme see... Teenager with extreme intelligence, good looks, charisma, charm, and a talent for planning and manipulation, decides for whatever reason to use that power to gain influence and change the world, and, in the mean time, achieve glory or infamy or both. They often die young, and often their death is part of the plan all along.

I am really having trouble making a description, perhaps it is better if you think of it as "noticed a ''lot'' of similarities and paralel themes between Leto Atreides, Reinhard von Lohengramm, Light Yagami, Johan Liebert and Lelouch Vi Britannia, seeing a pattern there, a trope, and trying to see how many characters approximate this idea without corrupting the trope by overgeneralization with SquarePegRoundTrope, and also finding that a clear archetype for all those was Alexander The Great.

I have two cases I am really not sure of: Monkey D Luffy, who has all the elements except he behaves like a complete moron a lot of the time and it's not clear how much is genuine [[TooDumbToLive stupdity]], how much is RuleOfFunny, and how much is ObfuscatingStupidity.

Captain Kirk in the {{STAR TREK}} 2009 movie, while already in his early twenties, fits the trope rather well.