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Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-10-09 15:57:30

It's a setting trope, generally. An individual female character being forced into that position when most of them are fully valued for their own accomplishments would be highly atypical — at best an inversion of the trope.

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MarqFJA (Before Recorded History)
2014-10-09 18:55:22

Ah. Then it would probably be best to TRS Never a Self-Made Woman for possible Trope Decay, because more than just several examples on the article are of the "single character within a single setting" type without even a hint that this is the norm for the respective settings. To say nothing of how much such decay exists on its wicks (didn't check yet).

Edited by MarqFJA Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2014-10-09 19:09:39

Maybe I overstated the case. The trope must not be contradicted within the story. That is, if there are a lot of female characters who stand on their own merits, but only one who is not "self-made", then it wouldn't count.

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