Week 15 StoryLab: TVtropes

This week I delved into the TV tropes website again – this time I focused on Topical Tropes, with even more focus on Death Tropes. Some tropes that I found to be highly interesting were: “Agonizing Stomach Wound”, “The Plot Reaper”, and “Pop! Goes the Human”. The last of this is definitely the most grotesque out of the three, with again this website being so much more specific with their tropes that I thought was possible. The only time I can think of a death like this happening is during the movie, “Big Trouble in Little China” where one of the warriors in the movie, after being defeated, becomes so angry that he causes himself to swell up and explode. This almost ends the lives of the main characters, but naturally, they manage to survive the impact. I really like the “Plot Reaper” trope, which is where a character is killed off because the writers didn’t know how to deal with them. This hits home for me because, like so many others, I was extremely disappointed by the ending of Game of Thrones. I felt like the writers of the show did this with the Night King. He was hyped up as being this big bag scary villain that was supposed to pose a danger to all of Westeros. Instead, they just killed him off with relative ease in the ending of the show, because they didn’t understand how to resolve the conflict dramatically. One final trope that I looked into was the, “Lunatic Loophole” where the most insane character of the group miraculously survives whatever is occurring during the plot of the movie. I like the idea of someone who has no control over themselves is able to survive such daring odds. Overall, I have fallen in love with this website because of the class and will absolutely continue to look at it even past this semester.