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Author: Aielyn

May 25th 2011 at 7:43:49 PM

thewriter - PeopleSitOnChairs isn't about how often it happens, it's about how "normal" it is. If you read the PeopleSitOnChairs article, you'll see it emphasises that things that happen all the time without any significance aren't tropes, just as people sitting on chairs isn't a trope. To quote from the article: "Conversely, a trope suggestion can still be guilty of PeopleSitOnChairs even if it doesn't literally appear all the time. Even if it is relatively rare, it can still be used without a narrative purpose."

It needs a narrative purpose in order to be a trope. Just the fact that the names alliterate is PeopleSitOnChairs, but if they alliterate for a purpose, or by design, or with abnormal frequency relative to what might be expected, then it's a trope. Kind of like how you might consider AlwaysSeated to be a valid trope, where a recurring character is ''always'' seen sitting in a chair, despite no indication that they're handicapped in any way, but it takes more than just sitting in a chair to be a trope.