This trope seems to me to have some problems (and I notice that it was launched without having achieved a proper consensus).
In particular, the examples are an indiscriminate mix of "the character is meant to be kind really, but the writer Tells instead of Shows" and "the character is mean and the other characters know it but are too afraid to say so", which are two completely different things.
This trope seems to me to have some problems (and I notice that it was launched without having achieved a proper consensus).
In particular, the examples are an indiscriminate mix of "the character is meant to be kind really, but the writer Tells instead of Shows" and "the character is mean and the other characters know it but are too afraid to say so", which are two completely different things.