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Trope Talk: Fallen Heroes

Overly Sarcastic Productions
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Well! After that trope talk on redeemed villains went up, I got bombarded with requests to do this little number next, so here we are! Despite being something of a dark reflection of the redeemed villains trope, the fallen hero is significantly simpler and less varied than its counterpart. But despite its simplicity, there's a lot of interesting effects it can have on a story! Mostly, it subverts the notions of unassailable heroism and forces your audience to confront a more realistic framework of morality than a simple black-and-white good-people-bad-people dichotomy. Heroes aren't supposed to be able to fall, so what do we do when one DOES? Contains late-arrival spoilers for Berserk, Avatar and Avatar: Legend of Korra, and technically also Death Note, The Dark Knight, and the Bible. PATREON: www.patreon.com/user?u=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threa... All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcas... Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube! ...more
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Trope Talk: Fallen Heroes
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2017Aug 31
Well! After that trope talk on redeemed villains went up, I got bombarded with requests to do this little number next, so here we are! Despite being something of a dark reflection of the redeemed villains trope, the fallen hero is significantly simpler and less varied than its counterpart. But despite its simplicity, there's a lot of interesting effects it can have on a story! Mostly, it subverts the notions of unassailable heroism and forces your audience to confront a more realistic framework of morality than a simple black-and-white good-people-bad-people dichotomy. Heroes aren't supposed to be able to fall, so what do we do when one DOES? Contains late-arrival spoilers for Berserk, Avatar and Avatar: Legend of Korra, and technically also Death Note, The Dark Knight, and the Bible. PATREON: www.patreon.com/user?u=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threa... All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcas... Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube!

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Overly Sarcastic Productions

2.44M subscribers