Weekend Entertainment: the TV Tropes edition

[ashen_key]

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Does your character fit a particular or several TV Tropes? How about their canon and/or plot and/or character arc? Any subversions you think are interesting? How many tabs do you end up with while answering?

Comments

[yakalskovich]

Teja is a rare instance of a good Nietzsche Wannabe. Usually, these are the bad guys. And of course he's the axe wielder among the original Gothic conspiracy, and he keeps that axe until his last stand, where he throws it to kill his archenemy and, as it turns out, saves his people. There's something of a 'You Shall Not Pass' in his last stand, too, because by defending the gorge as long as he can, he buys his people the time they need for the Vikings to arrive. I could keep going like that; Teja's canon, from the second half of the 19th century, is full of tropes played straight that are so tired and old by now you can't even subvert them any more, these days.

Urquhart gets Assassin Outclassed by a young thief and an old priest. In fact, his entire canon is about them finding out how to outclass this cool, strong, intelligent and mysterious professional killer between the first and second kill of his commission. Especially Jacob the Fox (the thief) has nothing going for him except his local knowledge and great pluckiness.