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 Ga...