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the description of the Karma Houdini trope is basically \
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the description of the Karma Houdini trope is basically \\\"Laser Guided Karma misses\\\". The description for laser guided karma is that it is an unrealistic and anvilicious space whale aesop.
There are 3 issues with it:
1. If it is merely a subversion of another trope, why does it merit its own name?
2. Since it subverts the unrealistic space whale aesop by having a realistic \\\"nothing happens\\\" why is it even mentioned? might as well make a trope called \\\"gravity\\\". And naturally, because it is something so mundane there are a ridiculous amount of examples, enough that each medium gets their own page.
3. A good number of the examples actually are not subversions of laser guided karma, but an actual opposite; the opposite is where villains don\\\'t just get away with doing bad things, but they get away with doing things that there is absolutely no logical explanation how they could have gotten away with it...
I think the best approach is to amend the definition to fit #3, where its not that villain gets away, but that they get away with no punishment where there is no logical explanation on how they could escape retribution.
There are 3 issues with it:
1. If it is merely a subversion of another trope, why does it merit its own name?
2. Since it subverts the unrealistic space whale aesop by having a realistic \\\"nothing happens\\\" why is it even mentioned? might as well make a trope called \\\"gravity\\\". And naturally, because it is something so mundane there are a ridiculous amount of examples, enough that each medium gets their own page.
3. A good number of the examples actually are not subversions of laser guided karma, but an actual opposite; the opposite is where villains don\\\'t just get away with doing bad things, but they get away with doing things that there is absolutely no logical explanation how they could have gotten away with it...
I think the best approach is to amend the definition to fit #3, where its not that villain gets away, but that they get away with no punishment where there is no logical explanation on how they could escape retribution.
