DoktorvonEurotrash
Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk
Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Jan 6th 2024 at 6:41:27 AM
I agree, we need an "actually pretty good" supertrope. (Unless there is one already that neither of us know about.)
It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird
Unicorndance
Logic Girl
from Thames, N.Z.
Since: Jul, 2015
Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#3: Jan 6th 2024 at 1:28:37 PM
I also agree.
For every low there is a high.
Total posts: 3
So, it's not enough to put on Trope Repair I don't think. But when I was looking through the quotes page, I noticed at least some which weren't "funny", but "impressive" or "clever". I've noticed this a few times, and when I was trying to put a similar example of the Doctor Who page (with characters dancing along to a song insulting them), I had the problem that this seemed to be Actually Pretty Funny without the funny.
I think there's some missing supertrope of "Actually Pretty Good", wherein a character respects the skill behind an action taken against them, of which "Actually Pretty Funny" is a subtrope where that action is an insult. This seems a real trope, but I can't find this trope. The One Thing I Don't Hate About You seems closest, but that's more about being only able to find petty things about your enemies, while Villain Respect and Combat Compliment seem other subtropes.
What do people think? Have missed a trope?