Line #13 Sandbox/AudienceSurrogate

Context Sandbox / AudienceSurrogate

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1	->'''Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale):''' So, Kristen, there must be something really special about you for Creator/{{Robert\|Pattinson}} to take such a liking to you and risk the lives of his entire family. Tell us about yourself.\
2	'''Creator/KristenStewart (Bella Swan):''' Me? Oh, no. I'm just a hollow placeholder for all of the teenage girls in the audience to project their personalities onto. I have none of my own whatsoever.
3	-->-- ''Film/{{Twilight}}: [[http://www.the-editing-room.com/twilight.html The Abridged Script]]''
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5	The audience surrogate is often present to help the audience identify with a character within the work. The immersion supports the SuspensionOfDisbelief, and the audience feels a strong sympathy to those characters, often facilitating a ProtagonistCenteredMorality. To create an audience surrogate, several techniques are available:
6	# The character is responsible for [[PointOfView providing the audience with the story]].
7	# The character [[TheWatson asks questions of the other characters to clarify their thoughts]].
8	# The character [[MetaGuy says things the audience would say]].
9	# A character who the audience (or the children in the audience) doesn't just sympathize with, but are supposed to actively see themselves as -- by desire, by default, or by author inference.
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11	'''This trope is about the last one, as the other three have tropes of their own.'''
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13	See also CreatorViewerReactionsIndex, which covers opinions the creator can have about the audience, as well as adjacent concepts.
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15	This trope is broad enough, several subtropes have evolved from more specific usage:
16	* AscendedFanboy:
17	* TheEveryman:
18	* GreekChorus:
19	* HeroicMime: videogames pretend you get to write your dialogue.
20	* LeadYouCanRelateTo: The PointOfView character is supposed to share many traits with the audience.
21	* ThisLoserIsYou: A negative view of the assumed audience.
22	* UnfazedEveryman:
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24	This trope is also related to EscapistCharacter and OtakuSurrogate.

Context Sandbox / AudienceSurrogate