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I recently came across something I wrote in 4th or 5th grade, where the MCs, a girl and a boy, were superheroes. One wore a blue costume with knives, and the other wore a pink one with flowers... B...
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System
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2019-12-08T12:22:23Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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tryin
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2019-12-08T12:22:23Z (over 4 years ago)
I recently came across something I wrote in 4th or 5th grade, where the MCs, a girl and a boy, were superheroes. One wore a blue costume with knives, and the other wore a pink one with flowers... BUT PSYCH! The girl wore the blue one! And the boy wore the pink! Your stereotypes mean nothing to my unsharpened-pencil wielding mind! Now obviously, that was written by a child, and I guess it's more of an inversion than a subversion, I feel like there are a lot of trope 'subversions' that feel similarly... cheap, for lack of a better word. Badly thought out, perhaps. I just can't think of any examples right now. **So what makes a trope subversion fall flat/ boring/ "cheap"? Examples would be nice too.**
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System
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2019-07-03T12:22:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 21