Whoever added the Rule of Three trope, it's inverted, not averted. An Averted Trope is when a fitted trope does not appear in the work at all. If the first pod was the evil one, then that makes it an Inverted Trope, not an Averted Trope, because the trope is reversed, not absent.
Whoever added the Rule of Three trope, it's inverted, not averted. An Averted Trope is when a fitted trope does not appear in the work at all. If the first pod was the evil one, then that makes it an Inverted Trope, not an Averted Trope, because the trope is reversed, not absent.