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Author: bulmabriefs144

Jul 9th 2012 at 11:13:30 PM

It wasn't so much a snowclone, except for the naming system. Think of a better one guys. I find it insulting too, since I didn't even propose the title except as an abstract, lacking a better one, and it's a heck of a lot different from others in comparison to some TheSameButDifferent garbage that floods YKTTW. Under-Age Casting is PlayingGertrude for instance.

The distinction is in your head. The very first example used was burning parking tickets, which was incidental and not directly involved with saving the world. By the same token, one could very well have some reason (or excuse) for doing just about anything that conceivably would directly help, or it could be an incidental. If we split this into two tropes, we wind up running into TheSameButDifferent which is way overdone already, not to mention most people suggesting examples would be hard pressed to figure out which it was in what.

Let's say your rampage and rape example was the case. What if you said it was to remove unwanted elements (big buildings blocking routes of escape, therefore burn them down) and then rape was do an AdamAndEvePlot, hoping some people would survive the comet. It's InsaneTrollLogic, but the idea still holds that anyone can come up with any reason for ''anything''.

If we really wanna fix this by splitting, I propose doing one of those Type A/Type B partitions within a single trope making the distinction between something that is directly involved in the world's salvation, and incidental lawbreaking during a crisis.  It's another trope entirely if someone besides the main cast does it, however.