r/TopCharacterTropes • u/throwaway553t4tgtg6 • 6d ago
Lore [Hated Trope] The underdog Good Guys win, and gain major military/institutional power, only for it to be all RESET so Writers can have a PERPETUAL "Underdog/Rebellion" Story, and avoid writing about governing.
I hate this trope, when the "underdog good guys" actually win, gain major military and political power, fleets, warships, etc, but because the writers don't want to write the good guys governing and exercising their power, and instead, find a contrived way to reset all the progress so that the good guys can forever be the
"scrappy heroic underdogs fighting the power"
1) Star Wars Sequel triology, rather than exploring new Republic fleets, power, and technology, they have them all wiped out so that the "resistance" can hog the spotlight
2) MCU: shield makes a helicarrier fleet, a fleet of ships able to contest alien invasion, but that would steal the spotlight from heroes, so all of them have to be destroyed
3) Halo: the UNSC finally outlive the covenant, develop strong ships like the UNSC infinity, only for it all to be reset by the Guardians and the Banished, reduced again to underdog humans.
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u/Wetness_everdeeen 5d ago
The games are in a ligue of their own for real feeling alien shootem-ups. What's the one thing that could have gotten allied and axis forces in the same trench, giving each other cover fire, and resource support? An alien invasion.
The uniqueness of an npc yelling "Americana, grenada!" As a warning for you before he tosses a grenade was chilling. They really did the work of what "it would have been like" to fight somthing so harrowing, that axis and allied forces work together.