I hate so-called "cool, calm, and collected" characters being presented as superior beings that are shown being correct so often that the consumer take-away message is that being emotionally cold and abrasive makes them smart too. :reddit-logo: worshiped characters like that pretty much since Digg collapsed and also LARPed as being the same way in their own self-descriptions. The "misanthropic genius asshole flattered by the script and by total screen time" cliche is related to this too.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    this is mostly in anime/japanese light novels
    when the main character is presented as an underdog because other people have magic powers/psychic abilities/whatever and the MC doesn't
    then they get a power or some shit that is just objectively better than the thing they are supposedly an underdog for not having, usually in the first couple of episodes/chapters