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Author: VioletOrange

Jun 17th 2012 at 6:42:10 AM

From the first comment:

This trope was created for two reasons: the first one is to correct a minor problem of Glass Cannon (the description isn't about speed, but the term cannon carries the idea of something slow). The second is to allow Fragile Speedster to be purely about speed, fragility and no remarkable firepower (which he was originally, but the lack of this trope make an extension of his definition necessary).

If you read the first [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=y7idlyaxo1bm00h3kk5fj25f&page=1 TRS]] on LightningBruiser, you will see that the lack of this trope created problem. When you see someone who is fast and can do a lot of damage, you don't think FragileSpeedster because the first thing you remark is his firepower. Unfortunately, the name GlassCannon doesn't carry the idea of speed. LightningBruiser, on the other hand, does (and doesn't carry the idea of something which has high defense), and thus people who want to put character that are fast and have great attack use LightningBruiser (watch this conversation for an example, and the Claymore character page will provide you with another one).

On another note, FragileSpeedster is supposed to contrast MightyGlacier, so of course it is balanced with it (it's in its definition). And StoneWall is balanced with MightyGlacier in the latter definition, and GlassCannon is supposed to contrast MightyGlacier in its definition. Apart from that and the fact that all of these trope are in the same list under CompetitiveBalance, they are indeed not supposed to be balanced with each other. Yet, they unsurprisingly are.

Since I already answered this comment before, I took the liberty of removing the tropeworthy tag.