Trope Talk: Trickster Heroes
For when you're absolutely dedicated to the side of good and righteousness, but what you're mostly good at is lying
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Does the Doctor from Doctor Who count as a trickster hero? I mean, apparently the 7th Doctor talks an entire fleet of Daleks into killing themselves by antagonizing them into firing a weapon that he sabotaged.
Mildly annoyed by the blanket dismissal of "nobility" as just being inherited aristocratic status early on. That seems a very US-centric view, part of the American exceptionalism "we're free and equal, not like those Europeans." Nobility in Greece was how you behaved, not who you were born to. Yes aristocrats in medieval Europe redefined noble behaviour as something only to be expected from noble born, but that was centuries ago and we English speakers have moved on, or rather back, to being a quality of what you do. The "noble savage" trope is already at least 300 years old, it's fine to attribute nobility to somebody who isn't born with a coat of arms on the crib.
I’m more surprised that villain was apparently a byword for commoner!
Fun fact: Gandalf is also a trickster hero.