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I have a few:

  • Chosen ones, fate, destiny, &c. When you get down to it, a story with these themes is one where a single person or handful of people is ontologically, cosmically better and more important than everyone else. It's eerily similar to that right-wing meme about how "most people are just NPCs" (though I disliked the trope before that meme ever took off).
  • Way too much importance being given to bloodlines by the narrative (note, this is different from them being given importance by characters or societies in the story).
  • All of the good characters are handsome and beautiful, while all of the evil characters are ugly and disfigured (with the possible exception of a femme fatale or two).
  • Races that are inherently, unchangeably evil down to the last individual regardless of upbringing, society, or material circumstances.
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Legend of Korra. Killmonger. Idk, doz2ns of others.

Sleeping Beauty is the only good Disney Movie because Maleficent's entire motivation is that she has the power to hurt people and she has fun doing it. There's no tragic history or grievance or any shit like that,s he's n

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I take it you didn't see the Maleficent origin story movie that does in fact give her a tragic history and grievance

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I like that one too, but for different reasons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I don't even regard that shit as canon lmfao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Oh my god!! The ML, Kuvira, being right about everything but then attacking a sacred tree and attacking the main city because it happens to be, to her strategic benefit, within the Earth Kingdom.