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Q&A What are some bad ways to subvert tropes?

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...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by tryin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:22:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar tryin‭ · 2019-12-08T12:22:23Z (almost 5 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.**

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-07-03T12:22:49Z (over 5 years ago)
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