Favourite Tropes

Well I was a little surprised to not find this on the first or second page of Yack Fest, but this is a place to discuss your favourite tropes and why they are your favourites at length.

Ah, the Sugar Apocalypse... is there anything more twistedly fun than taking a peaceful, harmonious universe and dropping a hellgate into it and watching as The Smurfs becomes a scene out of Warhammer?

Part of the fun comes from how this can frequently emerge from the standard mechanics of many a Sugar Bowl; many of these universes carry the seeds of their own destruction.

Y'see, despite being a Lighter and Softer version of Real Life, most of these fluffy worlds still have some semblance of real life in them, including human vulnerabilities and flaws, and in order to preserve the harmony, many of these Sugar Bowl environments are only able to defend themselves from trouble because lets face it; the opposition is as cute and cuddly as the heroes are. You sometimes get the impression the only reason nobody has taken over and installed a horrible dictatorship is the fact that Mr Meanies attempts to waylay the local inhabitants may be more than a little half-hearted. This makes Pulling the Thread on some of these worlds somewhat easier to do than it would be to plunge a real world location into horrible chaos; at least in real life we know the world is a horrible place, we recognise this, and we have long, convoluted and frankly ingenious defences around our society to stave off potential catastrophies.

Drop these forces into the blissful environs of certain Sugar Bowl worlds, and you get an effect similar to what would have happened in if aliens had landed in Medieval Europe and gone to town. The results can be either tragic, or darkly hilarious.

Especially when the inhabitants get their own back, and despite all odds the medieval nutbags beat the aliens.

edited 2nd Apr '12 6:51:05 AM by GameChainsaw

Obviously Evil. There is something so funny about it.

Cool Versus Awesome. Self explanatory, really.

Those that apply to my wonderful person. I am still trying to sort them all though.

Only Sane Man

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edited 3rd Apr '12 10:46:18 PM by eternalNoob

Magical Girl Warrior is one of them.

Deadpan Snarker, which I have been since childhood.

Tsundere, which I find irresistible. I haven't felt more than two or three romantic attachments in my life, but all the rare recipients were tsunderes to some extent. Goes hand in hand with Slap-Slap-Kiss, still my favorite romance storyline.

Cast Calculus is awesome too.

Diabolus ex Machina.

When done poorly, I hate it. But when done well, it's an awesome deconstruction of the concept of fiction itself.

Dangerously Genre-Savvy for me. It tends to make character(s) who possess this trope to be more awesome or threatening (or maybe a bit of both) at least to me anway.