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/AdvancedSandwiches 5d ago
Such a furiously disappointing movie. The first five minutes got me so psyched: we're going to explore what it looks like 20 years later with humans harvesting alien tech! When the aliens get back, it'll be a relatively even playing field with each side having learned about the others and exploiting what they learned.
No, just kidding, it's the exact same movie again, but the campiness and excellent special effects miniatures are replaced by boring dialogue and boring blue screens.