User blog:AustinDR/Least Favorite Tropes

As many of you guys know, I had made a previous list of my favorite tropes pertaining to villains. Now I am going to give a list of my least favorite tropes. Be warned, some of these tropes may be one of your favorites.

1. Draco in Leather Pants: Do I really need to explain why I hate this trope? Well, here I go. You see the term "Draco in Leather Pants" refers to a villain that was universally seen as being evil by the work that they were from, but many fans of these villains tend to try to depict the antagonist in a sympathetic light. The term obviously derives from Draco Malfoy, the prejudiced bully from the Harry Potter series. Now, in some cases, this trope does fit with the villain in question. For example, if the villain was meant to be taken sympathetically, then it'd make sense that many people would see the antagonist as such. However in some cases, the villain is shown as being irredeemably evil. The creators of those villains clearly did not want the villain to be seen in a sympathetic light. If they did, then they wouldn't have made them monstrously evil. An example of this concept has to be with Disney's version of Frollo from the 1996 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Frollo was portrayed as being nothing but a monster. He was a xenophobic judge who tried to essentially tried to commit genocide on an entire race, and also lusted after a woman who clearly didn't want anything to do with him. And yet, many people try to depict Frollo as being a sympathetic figure to the point where they even state that Esmeralda should've died at the end. There was even a fanfic in which an African American woman went back in time and fell in love with Frollo. Yeah...

2. Moral Event Horizon: Now this is odd, since I have stated that I loved the complete monster trope. Heck, I even gave it the number 1 spot on my previous list, and yet, I despise the moral event horizon trope. Why is that? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that when a villain crosses this line, there's no turning back. The complete monster trope is defined as being above the MEH trope, so I guess I kind of expect it more out of that trope than with the MEH trope. Keep in mind, a villain crossing the MEH doesn't automatically become a CM in most cases. Also, a villain doesn't cross the MEH more than once, it is subjective as to when they had crossed the line.

I'll add more to this list later on.