Yeah, I still don’t buy it. You’re describing a bad plot structure, not a bad character type, and so’s the article you linked to.
I did my time on TV Tropes and don’t particularly want to get back into the game, but that read to me like someone extending a family of tropes with poor associations in an attempt to tar a story or stories they happened not to like—which is officially against policy over there, but happens all the time anyway. Long story short, the existence of a trope page doesn’t mean it’s reliable as analysis, nor as regards jargon that isn’t its own.
Yeah, I still don’t buy it. You’re describing a bad plot structure, not a bad character type, and so’s the article you linked to.
I did my time on TV Tropes and don’t particularly want to get back into the game, but that read to me like someone extending a family of tropes with poor associations in an attempt to tar a story or stories they happened not to like—which is officially against policy over there, but happens all the time anyway. Long story short, the existence of a trope page doesn’t mean it’s reliable as analysis, nor as regards jargon that isn’t its own.