Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Story Laboratory: TVTropes


I can’t believe that I never tried to use TVTropes as a resource for my stories before! I found several tropes that I have thought of before, but I would really like to expand on in my stories. I like learning the “official” names of these ideas.

o   Generally involves a climactic battle between the hero/heroine and the final boss
o   The hero/heroine may be severely injured in the battle and may appear to be on the verge of death or defeat
o   Sometimes the hero/heroine’s family is there to witness their devastating defeat, which contributes to the hero/heroine’s despair
o   Something contributes to the hero/heroine’s power up and there is no doubt that he/she will defeat the bad guy despite severe injuries
o   Another way to do this trope:
§  Your cause is so important that you have no choice to refuse
·      An example of a cause is that a loved one is in danger
o   I would like to try to write a story involving a hero/heroine that is battling a formidable adversary that he/she knows she has no chance of defeating just to protect a loved one. There would probably be a plot twist that the hero/heroine has some hidden power that allows them to defeat the adversary, but such a power would come at a price, which leads to another trope
o   In this trope, the fight is not in favor of the hero/heroine
o   There is something that triggers the activation of a massive hidden power that allows him/her the strength/power to fight back again, except this time he/she is stronger
o   The power, however, changes the hero/heroine  
o   I would like to play around with this trope by having a hero/heroine tap into that power, which would ultimately cause him/her lose control and just go berserk and decimate the enemy
·      Unstoppable Rage
o   An alternative idea I have for the super-powered evil side is unstoppable rage that powers the hero/heroine and grants him/her the power to defeat the enemy
o   Once you make the hero/heroine furious, the rage will generally make them unstoppable

 Television. Source: Pixabay.

Those are just a couple of my favorite tropes!

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