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Should TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillainized / TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized be a cyclic trope?

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molokai198 Since: Oct, 2012
#1: Dec 21st 2023 at 1:08:14 PM

I looked in cyclic trope and did not see this listed, but from my experience it really should. At least in the USA, decades ago there was a tendency to depict rebels and revolutions as the unambiguous good guys due to how we romanticized our own revolution, but over time people started to lean towards The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized, seeing it as too black and white and pointing out that a lot of other historical revolutions ended in a lot of violence rather than neatly tying up in making a new country with a stable government, so it wasn't realistic to always romanticize revolutions. But that in turn I've seen backlash to recently, criticizing it for Grey-and-Gray Insanity in making those who fight injustice equally bad or worse than the oppressor and instigator of the problem, and for being a Sour Grapes way to discourage fighting the status quo in our own society by painting those who try it in fiction as evil for it. So would anyone be opposed to me putting these tropes in the cyclic tropes list?

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