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I'm a bit puzzled. Are you looking at this situation as the story frames it (in which case it might be Nice Job Fixing It, Villain), or are you taking issue with that framing (which would be Designated Hero)?
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
What happens to Sandra afterward? Is she sort of OK about it?
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^@Reymma: I'm looking at it in terms of both plot progression and Eloise's character. Like I said, she's an antagonist to Sandra, but she kinda unintentionally did her cousin a favor.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain only counts when the bad guy's plan backfires and helps the hero(s). Except Eloise's plan didn't backfire, it worked. It just so happens that her cousin also benefited from it, but she was plotting against Sandra, not him.
^^@4tell0life4: Sandra gets over it and moves on with the one she was cheating on him with. Pierre is the one left heartbroken over it.
Edited by MiinU I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
^ There may be a trope about being "accidentally helpful" that is not tied to being a hero or a villain.
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^That one's close to what I'm thinking, so I might go with that if there isn't a better one. Thanks.
^^I'll do a quick search and see if there's a trope like that.
I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out
about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra
and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinU