"Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities."
There are many kinds of ways in which a character can be empowered. True ways and faux ways, ways that come from within and ways that come from the outside, ways that are mundane and ways that are supernatural.
Not to be confused with Super Empowering, which refers to increasing tangible/physical strength.
Empowerment, True (unless subverted)
- Ethical Slut
- From Nobody to Nightmare (Empowerment is not necessarily a good thing)
- Helping Would Be Killstealing
- Pride Parade
- Safe, Sane, and Consensual
- Took a Level in Badass
Empowerment, Faux (unless played with)
Empowerment, True or Faux
Often providers of true empowerment
Often distributors of faux empowerment
Often receives (or builds) true empowerment
Often receives (or delude themselves into) faux empowerment
- Armoured Closet Gay
- Boomerang Bigot
- Moral Guardian
- Egocentrically Religious
- Straw Feminist
- Straw Loser
- Windmill Crusader
Tropes about averting empowerment
- Internalized Categorism
- Only the Author Can Save Them Now
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
- Tall Poppy Syndrome
Individual examples, not fitting any of the above tropes
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