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Author: KingZeal

Oct 7th 2011 at 7:36:23 PM

Neither of those examples actually fit.

It's really hard to describe this trope accurately.  I've written the description several times over in order to better explain, but I'm still not satisfied with it.

The basic premise is that you have someone whose defining factor is the amount of "sessions" or "tasks" they've completed to get where they are.  Like, let's take this scenario:

Person A is a heavyweight champ.  They train 10 hours a day, seven days a week by hitting the gym and sparring with elite training partners.  Despite being undefeated, the champ has only been in 12 professional bouts and sparred roughly 72 times.

Person B is an average joe.  He doesn't train, he doesn't spar, but he works a very rough job in lumber mill by day and just about every day since he was 20, he's had to fight off gangs and other punks trying to make a name fo themselves.  To this, he has fought roughly 450 times and gotten his ass kicked roughly 420 of those times.  He's mostly learned how to absorb punishment and survive.

Yet, for some reason, when the two wind up fighting (for one reason or another), the scrapper is roughly equal to the champ.  The skills he's acquired simply from doing the same thing over and over again has offset the champ's professional training.