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* CataclysmBackstory: "Dystopias" has JP recommend adding a vague past disaster to explain how everything got ruined, rather than wasting effort on diving into the socio-economic problems that spark real-world dictatorships.
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** The "Dystopia" video suggest [[StrawmanPolitical using such characters to demonize an ideology the author hates and blowing it out of proportion]].
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* {{Abandoned Catchphrase}}: “What this story needs is a {{love triangle}} used to be a {{once per episode}} {{running gag}} but now J.P. rarely ever says it.
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-->''"Don't focus on avoiding Mary Sues. Focus on writing good characters."''
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* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]]"Humor Writing" shows a list of hard targets and soft targets, with the soft targets being easier to mock. Given the sarcasm the series runs on, the hard targets include people like politicians and hypocrites, while the soft targets include minority groups, and people suffering from mental conditions.
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* CrapsackWorld: In "Deconstruction", he suggests pushing this trope to the absolute limit when writing deconstruction stories because it automatically means DarkerAndEdgier, no matter how much it breaks the audience's disbelief as to how [[DystopiaIsHard the setting didn't just implode on itself long before the story could even begin]].
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-->'''Beaubien:''' [CharacterDevelopment] not nearly as interesting as subjecting the reader [[Literature/{{Twilight}} to endless pages of a character's internal pining]] and complete inability '''''[[SuddenlyShouting to just freakin' spit it out and finally admit what they actually WANT!]]''''' ''(Beaubien boots MarySue [[LiteralAssKicking in the ass]].)'' [[invoked]]
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-->'''Beaubien:''' [CharacterDevelopment] [...character development is] not nearly as interesting as subjecting the reader [[Literature/{{Twilight}} to endless pages of a character's internal pining]] pining and complete inability '''''[[SuddenlyShouting to just freakin' spit ''spit it out out'' and finally admit what they actually WANT!]]''''' ''(Beaubien boots MarySue [[LiteralAssKicking in the ass]].)'' [[invoked]]''actually want''!
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Hyperspace? You have to travel through '''Cthulhu's back lawn!'''!\\
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* CerebusRetcon: Encouraged in the "Grimdark" video with particularly absurd examples:
-->”Don’t forget to darken the other parts of the setting Everything powered by Contrivium? '''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild It’s made from ground up widows!]]'''\\
Macguffin everyone’s fighting over? Turns out its powered by '''[[SealedEvilInACan pure evil!]]'''\\
Magic? thats energy harvested from '''the souls of the damned'''!\\
Hyperspace? You have to go through '''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Cthulhu's back lawn!]]'''\\
Crude oil? That’s made from '''ancient dead creatures!'''”[[note]][[ExpospeakGag Crude oil really is made from that]]. It's why they're called [[MeaningfulName fossil]] fuels.[[/note]]
-->”Don’t forget to darken the other parts of the setting Everything powered by Contrivium? '''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild It’s made from ground up widows!]]'''\\
Macguffin everyone’s fighting over? Turns out its powered by '''[[SealedEvilInACan pure evil!]]'''\\
Magic? thats energy harvested from '''the souls of the damned'''!\\
Hyperspace? You have to go through '''[[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Cthulhu's back lawn!]]'''\\
Crude oil? That’s made from '''ancient dead creatures!'''”[[note]][[ExpospeakGag Crude oil really is made from that]]. It's why they're called [[MeaningfulName fossil]] fuels.[[/note]]
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-->Everything powered by Contrivium? It’s made out of '''ground-up widows'''!\\
MacGuffin everyone’s fighting over? Turns out it is actually powered by '''pure evil'''!\\
Magic? That's energy harvested from '''the souls of the damned'''!\\
Hyperspace? You have to travel through '''Cthulhu's back lawn!'''!\\
Crude oil? That’s made from '''ancient dead creatures'''!
-->Everything powered by Contrivium? It’s made out of '''ground-up widows'''!\\
MacGuffin everyone’s fighting over? Turns out it is actually powered by '''pure evil'''!\\
Magic? That's energy harvested from '''the souls of the damned'''!\\
Hyperspace? You have to travel through '''Cthulhu's back lawn!'''!\\
Crude oil? That’s made from '''ancient dead creatures'''!
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** When considering actually doing research to provide thought-provoking nuanced stories, he inevitably refers to the resulting stories as taking too much effort and/or being "boring". This is usually coupled with the image of either the "bad writer" avatar giving a thumbs down next to a big red X, or, more rarely, a bunch of question marks in a trash can.
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** When considering actually doing research to provide thought-provoking nuanced stories, he inevitably refers to the resulting stories as taking too much effort and/or being "boring". "boring" while a green question mark is next to him. This is usually coupled followed with the image of either the "bad writer" avatar giving a thumbs down next to a big red X, or, more rarely, a bunch of question marks in a trash can.
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** Invoked. The MarySueClassic was a common target of mockery in earlier videos, and was even the focus of the very first one. But she very rarely appears anymore. J.P. even takes a moment in "Fanfiction Original Characters" to point out how "MarySue" has become [[TropeDecay a diluted, wildly inconsistent, and overall utterly meaningless accusation that tends to be shorthand for "character I don't like"]].
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** Invoked. The MarySueClassic was a common target of mockery in earlier videos, and was even the focus of the very first one. But she very rarely appears anymore. J.P. even takes a moment in "Fanfiction Original Characters" to point out how "MarySue" has become [[TropeDecay [[Administrivia/TropeDecay a diluted, wildly inconsistent, and overall utterly meaningless accusation that tends to be shorthand for "character I don't like"]].
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** "Deconstruction" mentions how the term deconstruction has [[TropeDecay [[Administrivia/TropeDecay become a meaningless buzzword used to describe any work that's even slightly subversive of its genre]].
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* ToiletHumor: In "Comic Relief Characters", JP suggests this to be one of the types of comedy a comic relief character can do.
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**At the end of "Humor writing", he suggests to make a bunch of fart noises.
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** In "Franchise Reboots", JP suggests to use fanservice in reboots as this makes fans unable to complain. After all, that's what fans wanted.
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* TheArtifact: Inner Critic's name. In his early appearances, Inner Critic was supposed to be the manifestation of JP's internal doubts about his own writing abilities. This was later changed to make him a separate bad writer who had a rivalry with JP, making the "inner" part of his name a misnomer. [note]Somewhat. He is clearly still J.P.'s inner critic but went from doubts and suppression of effort to embodying the traits idiot J.P. supresses on both an effort and preferential level becoming more an opposite than inner.[/note]
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* TheArtifact: Inner Critic's name. In his early appearances, Inner Critic was supposed to be the manifestation of JP's internal doubts about his own writing abilities. This was later changed to make him a separate bad writer who had a rivalry with JP, making the "inner" part of his name a misnomer. [note]Somewhat.[[note]] Somewhat. He is clearly still J.P.'s inner critic but went from doubts and suppression of effort to embodying the traits idiot J.P. supresses on both an effort and preferential level becoming more an opposite than inner.[/note][[/note]]
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* TheArtifact: Inner Critic's name. In his early appearances, Inner Critic was supposed to be the manifestation of JP's internal doubts about his own writing abilities. This was later changed to make him a separate bad writer who had a rivalry with JP, making the "inner" part of his name a misnomer. [note] Somewhat. He is clearly still J.P.'s inner critic but went from doubts and suppression of effort to embodying the traits idiot J.P. supresses on both an effort and preferential level becoming more an opposite than inner.[/note]
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* TheArtifact: Inner Critic's name. In his early appearances, Inner Critic was supposed to be the manifestation of JP's internal doubts about his own writing abilities. This was later changed to make him a separate bad writer who had a rivalry with JP, making the "inner" part of his name a misnomer. [note] Somewhat.[note]Somewhat. He is clearly still J.P.'s inner critic but went from doubts and suppression of effort to embodying the traits idiot J.P. supresses on both an effort and preferential level becoming more an opposite than inner.[/note]
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* TheArtifact: Inner Critic's name. In his early appearances, Inner Critic was supposed to be the manifestation of JP's internal doubts about his own writing abilities. This was later changed to make him a separate bad writer who had a rivalry with JP, making the "inner" part of his name a misnomer. [note] Somewhat. He is clearly still J.P.'s inner critic but went from doubts and suppression of effort to embodying the traits idiot J.P. supresses on both an effort and preferential level becoming more an opposite than inner.[/note]
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* PlotTumor: In "Plotting a story", Beaubien suggests that instead of using side plots to complement and weave into main story, the side plots can be used for the authors when they get tired of the main plot. He suggests for the side plots to completely take over the main story, and only then abandon them.
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** At the end of "Isekai", JP tries to [[LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone use his cell phone to get ahead in another world]]. However, he gets no signal because there's no infrastructure to support cell phones in this world.
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** A possible method of starting a story InMediasRes, as discussed in "Beginning a Story". Also suggested is to use a flashback within a flashback.
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* BalkanizeMe: The Federation senate’s response to Greed proclaiming that his sponsorships will make everyone in the Federation rich is to break it up and found their own successor states where they can still lord over the commoners.
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* "Dungeon Master's Guide" is all about how to be one, while section of "Player's Handbook" teaches how to defeat one. **"Dungeon Crawl" also indirectly functions the same.
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* ChekhovsGun: The episode "LOVEMAKING SCENES" appears as an out-of-place video that plays no role in the Terrible Writing Advice Cinematic Universe since it is age-restricted, preventing sponsorship ads from being placed. However, the video turns out to have been necessary to protect the heroes and villains that desire to stand against [[spoiler: Inner Greed and his Adageddon.]]
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* KillerGameMaster: "Dungeon Master's Guide" is all about how to be one. "Dungeon Crawl" also indirectly functions the same.
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* FarmBoy: Mentioned as one of the possible stock backstories. The notes even struggle to come up why it's great. JP tells that this is a great character to be a subject of DoomedHometown.
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* RapeAsBackstory: JP recommends for male writers to try this backstory for woman characters, no matter how overdone it is. "Honest thoughts" section says that this should be treaded very carefully.
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* SympatheticSue: One way to add sympathy, according to JP in "Character backstories", is to add one tragic events after another as more of those events makea a character more sympathetic and in no way make people laugh on how over the top things get.[[invoked]]
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** In "Beginning a Story", JP highly recommends Infodump to begin a story, even if the information is not relevant after the intro.
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** In "Character Backstories", he suggests that the backstory exposition can be used whenever the author feels like it, regardless of whether it's appropriate for the current situation or if the backstory dump gives relevant information.
** In "Character Backstories", he suggests that the backstory exposition can be used whenever the author feels like it, regardless of whether it's appropriate for the current situation or if the backstory dump gives relevant information.
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** "Character Backstories" touches on packing a backstory with more and more plot hooks that never truly get resolved, often leading to needing a separate wiki to track everything.
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* DeconReconSwitch: In "Deconstruction", JP shows how this trope applies on a large scale to a genre. With a successful work, numerous others would [[FollowTheLeader attempt to replicate its success]] (often poorly) and establish the cliches of the genre. Then, a deconstruction happens that takes apart all these cliches, becomes greatly successful, and many other imitators will follow suit until the deconstructive elements are the new norm until a reconstruction happens, perpetuating the cycle.
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** One of the potential backstories discussed in "Character Backstories". Not only does it keep the writer from needing to flesh out the character's family, it can serve as an easy source of angst, especially if the character watched their parents die.
* DeconReconSwitch: In "Deconstruction", JP shows how this trope applies on a large scale to a genre. With a successful work, numerous others would[[FollowTheLeader [[invoked]][[FollowTheLeader attempt to replicate its success]] (often poorly) [[SturgeonsLaw poorly]]) and establish the cliches of the genre. Then, a deconstruction happens that takes apart all these cliches, becomes greatly successful, and many other imitators will follow suit until the deconstructive elements are the new norm until a reconstruction happens, perpetuating the cycle.
* DeconReconSwitch: In "Deconstruction", JP shows how this trope applies on a large scale to a genre. With a successful work, numerous others would
** "Character Backstories" suggests using flashbacks to exposit a backstory. This also causes JP to flashback to the whole flashback chain from the earlier episodes.
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* FreudianExcuse: "Alpha Heroes" suggests giving the protagonist a tragic backstory to justify their obsessive behavior towards the heroine. "Why explain behavior when we can excuse behavior?"
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** "Alpha Heroes" suggests giving the protagonist a tragic backstory to justify their obsessive behavior towards the heroine. "Why explain behavior when we can excusebehavior?"behavior?"
** Encouraged in "Character Backstories" for quick sympathy without properly linking the backstory to their current motives. "Trauma should be used to excuse behavior, not explain it!"
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: In "Mid Series Shakeups" episode, JP suggests that the best reason to shake up a status quo is to make you feel like you've pulled one over on the audience.
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* LoveDodecahedron: "Myths, Legends, and Gods" advises adding the standard LoveTriangle to the mythology of your ConstructedWorld, but ends up adding so many it becomes this. The FreezeFrameBonus even has JP saying that no author has ever been able to make a LoveDodecahedron as complicated as what's seen in several mythologies.
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**"Myths, Legends, and Gods" advises adding the standard LoveTriangle to the mythology of your ConstructedWorld, but ends up adding so many it becomes this. The FreezeFrameBonus even has JP saying that no author has ever been able to make a LoveDodecahedron as complicated as what's seen in severalmythologies.mythologies.
**"Urban Fantasy Reloaded" episode says that a Love Triangle is not enough for the genre. Everyone needs to be connected so much that even the author can't keep up.
**"Myths, Legends, and Gods" advises adding the standard LoveTriangle to the mythology of your ConstructedWorld, but ends up adding so many it becomes this. The FreezeFrameBonus even has JP saying that no author has ever been able to make a LoveDodecahedron as complicated as what's seen in several
**"Urban Fantasy Reloaded" episode says that a Love Triangle is not enough for the genre. Everyone needs to be connected so much that even the author can't keep up.