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Author: SolipSchism

May 26th 2015 at 12:42:14 PM

The fact is that it's a recurring pattern in fiction which has a consistent narrative purpose. That makes it a trope. If you can't point to those modern-day examples and explain why you don't see a recurring pattern with a consistent narrative purpose, then I don't see the point in continuing this circular conversation and I would (respectfully) suggest that you have failed to make your point in any meaningful way.

A trope does not have to be realistic to be a trope. If that were a requirement, many, many tropes would not be tropes. For example, I have never in my life encountered an AllKnowingSingingNarrator.

A trope does not have to have a "real-world meaning or connotation" to be a trope. Some (probably most, maybe even all) tropes convey information that would not be conveyed by the same thing happening in the real world. For example, I don't look at someone drinking AGlassOfChianti and assume they are evil (or immoral, or rich, or cultured, or even mean, or anything other than "Oh, they probably like red wine").