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That'd be Show, Don't Tell.
I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
Eh, bad cases of Character Shilling suffer from a bad case of telling instead of showing, which include Informed Attribute. Other than The Chew Toy and Butt-Monkey (which is when the character suffers misfortunes), I wondered if there was a character of the characters talking about of it for no justifiable reason.
Edited by Tomodachi To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
Invoked And That's Terrible?
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There's Offscreen Villainy and Informed Flaw, which are somewhat related. I don't know if Character Loathing should be a separate trope, do you have any examples that stick to mind?
There's also Take Our Word for It, for when the characters talk about something particularly awful (or awesome) that's either already happened, or happening just offscreen. Either way, the viewer only gets to hear about it.
Edited by MiinU I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
Are you maybe looking for Creator's Pest and/or Take That, Scrappy!? (Creator considers a character The Scrappy, or at least acknowledges that the fandom does, and has the character suffer or be disliked in-universe)
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What would be the Inverted Trope of Character Shilling?