November 4, 2022
Trope Talk: Doomed Heroes
A trope talk about those unfortunate souls we KNOW are screwed from the outset - and an exploration of why we care if we know they're already dead!
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Red · November 4, 2022
Love it, especially citing how the best of doomed heroes work to bring hope to everyone else. But I keep imagining Red as that elderly oracle smirkily saying "You're screwed." ;)
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Còiseam · November 4, 2022
Absurdist theatre has a fun version of this, where by dint of the genrea the audience knows the characters are boned somehow, but they don't, but they almost do because they're on the verge of realising they're in a fiction.