eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
#2: Jan 3rd 2020 at 12:46:20 PM
This needs a trip to TRS. The example list is mostly "character X destroys valuable object Y" which is not in line with the core idea.
Snicka
Since: Jun, 2011
#3: Jan 20th 2020 at 7:03:25 AM
The Stock Phrase title does not really help either.
Total posts: 3
Why We Can't Have Nice Things seems to be a weird mashup of two ideas: it's about valuable items getting destroyed, and it's also about someone's misbehavior resulting in unrelated innocent people losing privileges. Most of the trope description points to the latter interpretation but there's also a paragraph about the former, and the examples seem to go back and forth. Not sure what's going on here or if maybe it should be split.