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Keep in mind that since this is behind the scenes, any In-Universe examples must be about a behind-the-scenes thing, such as Breaking the Fourth Wall or dealing with a Show Within a Show. Tropes that are there because the writer had to include them, due to outside factors (even if the writer would have preferred to leave them out). It happens for a number of reasons: Executive Meddling (The execs outright order the creator to include a particular trope.) Executive Veto (The execs forbid the use of a trope, which can lead to that trope's inversion or aversion being enforced.) Moral Guardians A Censorship Bureau or Media Watchdog Constraints of the medium (which can lead to a Pragmatic Adaptation). Budget and time limitations May lead to Writer Revolt in extreme cases, or an attempt at Getting Crap Past the Radar. Yet be careful about assuming these just from looking at the final work. Many things can happen behind the scenes, and only Word of God, or some other reliable source, can truly tell us if this happens or not. In many cases, the writers did want to include these elements. Compare Invoked Trope (a character in a story tries to make a trope happen), Justified Trope (when a work states a reason for a trope to happen). Contrast Subverted Trope (the trope is set up, but doesn't occur), Averted Trope (the trope never appears), Defied Trope (a character actively tries to stop a trope from happening). |
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Take the film adaptation of The Reader. David Kross legally couldn't shoot his sex scenes with Kate Winslet until he had turned 18. | |
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In Looney Tunes, Yosemite Sam was introduced as a Viler New Villain to Elmer Fudd when Friz Freleng considered the latter too Unintentionally Sympathetic to pose as a credible antagonist to Bugs Bunny. While Bugs makes Butt Monkeys out of both villains, Yosemite Sam is an Insufferable Imbecile that actually deserves Bugs' treatment; in contrast, Elmer Fudd became a Villainous Underdog who was so mild-mannered and dimwitted that it made Bugs look like a bully. | |
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Hamlet, though fictional, might have had to follow that convention had Claudius not been clearly a murderer, and thus not a rightful king. | |
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RWBY: In the Atlas Arc, Dramatic Irony between what the audience and characters know is deliberately enforced by the writers to set the groundwork for what happens in Volume 9. Both Blake and Yang's affection for each other and Ruby's deteriorating mental health are teased to the audience; at the same time, characters increasingly notice Blake and Yang's behaviour while becoming increasingly divorced from Ruby's. The characters therefore act as an Audience Surrogate for Blake and Yang while knowing less than the audience about Ruby. The audience is left unsurprised by both Blake and Yang's Big Damn Kiss and Ruby's mental breakdown in Volume 9, but the characters lampshade how long they've waited for Bumblebee and how caught off-guard they are by the scale of Ruby's mental health crisis. The writers confirmed using the characters as an Audience Surrogate for the long awaited Blake/Yang romance while deliberately distracting them from being allowed to investigate Ruby too closely; the audience being far more aware of Ruby's state of mind than her companions contributes to Ruby's breakdown. | |
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The Boys (2019): After superheroine Maeve is outed as having a girlfriend, the corporate highers-up play up her status as an LGBT+ member of the team and enforce Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple onto her and her girlfriend. Elena is forced to don menswear, because: | |
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In Cymbeline, the protagonist is Cymbeline's daughter Imogen. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are Enforced examples of Those Two Guys, as are Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. When the production staff at Touchstone Pictures (an alternate label for Disney) went to Warner Bros. for permission to use Looney Tunes characters in their film, Warner Brothers only agreed to let them use the A-listers Bugs and Daffy on the condition that they both receive exactly as much screentime as Mickey and Donald, respectively. The surefire way to honor that agreement was to have both characters share every scene with their Alternate Company Equivalents, with neither character appearing without the other. note Although Bugs does briefly appear by himself early on if you know exactly where to look. | |
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Vinesauce Tomodachi Life leaves many events and outcomes to the Random Number God, any number of plot twists and character traits are established with no real foreshadowing (for the most part). Since Vinny is livestreaming the game and can't save scum his way out of certain events, he ends up being just as surprised as the viewers are by them. Essentially, the series writes itself on the fly. | |
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During development of the original Super Mario Bros., the Trope Namer for The Goomba came about when play testers commented on the Koopas being too tricky to defeat. With what little space was left in the game at that point in development, the designers implemented the square-height enemy with a basic movement pattern and complete vulnerability, so that less-experienced players could have something to overcome before they face off against more difficult enemies. | |
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Patlabor: The Movie uses a lot of Biblical Motifs: the conflict revolves around a City on the Water called the Babylon Project, centered on a structure called the Ark, the main villain Ei'ichi Hoba has a God Complex and his name is a deliberate cipher of "Jehovah", and the script quotes several books of the Old Testament. All of this was inspired by writer Mamoru Oshii noticing that Noa Izumi's given name sounded like the biblical Noah from the Book of Genesis and building the script around it. | |
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The second edition of Dungeons & Dragons was written during and after the Satanic Panic attacks on the game. Accordingly, editorial policy at TSR ensured No Campaign for the Wicked. In all canon material, PCs were to be presented as heroes doing good things, and support for Anti-Hero and villain PCs was dropped as completely as possible, with the removal of such elements as the assassin class and half-orc race. They also had to rename demons and devils - demons being renamed tanar’ri and the devils being called baatezu. | |
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In Henry IV, the protagonist is the young Prince Hal (who is later the protagonist in Henry V). | |
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In Henry VI, Part 1 is really about John Talbot's conflict with Joan of Arc, while the remaining two parts are really about the various nobles vying for power around King Henry VI. | |
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Though unconfirmed, there are rumors that this is in place for The Loud House, insofar as to why Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters rarely if ever seem to share interests and hobbies and haven't had much character development: it's to keep the characters as distinct from each other as possible and prevent any misconception of Lincoln having a "favorite" sister. | |
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is an Arthurian Legend story from the 1100s, and — given how information about a work's production gets lost over the centuries — it's as clear an example as you'll find of an enforced trope from that period. The Knight of the Cart is the earliest text to include an affair between Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot, and it gives them a Sympathetic Adulterer portrayal. Their relationship is sexy and romantic, no one finds out, and it does not cause the downfall of Camelot (as it would in later adaptations). The text is almost completely silent on the fact that this is adultery. Guinevere and Lancelot never talk or think about it, they're not guilty or conflicted about it. Discussion of adultery is bizarrely absent from a story that has adultery as its main plot. This was almost certainly enforced. The Knight of the Cart was written by Chrétien de Troyes under the patronage of Countess Marie de Champagne, and it begins with a forward where Chrétien credits Marie for the basic plot. | |
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In Julius Caesar, the protagonist is Brutus. | |
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In the Punch-Out!! series, Little Mac is significantly shorter than his opponents because the NES game - the first to feature this character - was unable to replicate the wireframe effects of its arcade predecessor, and the player still needed to clearly see the opponent. Therefore, Little Mac was made shorter in order to compensate for these technical limitations. | |
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Game of Thrones takes this even further. In the books, Daenerys Targaryen is 13 when she is married off to Khal Drogo, and eventually becomes pregnant with his child—just as she turns 14. She was aged up significantly to avoid the Moral Guardians, but as the time of her birth is tied to Robert's Rebellion, the rest of the cast had to be aged up as well. | |
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Jaws used Monster Delay - and by extension Nothing Is Scarier - to prevent the audience from noticing the Special Effect Failures associated with the shark animatronics. During production, they consistently suffered mechanical issues, making it difficult to film them for any extended duration of time, and Steven Spielberg expressed his lack of confidence in their convincibility. To work around these issues, early death scenes were shot and edited so that the audience would only see the impact of the shark attacks, rather than the shark itself. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The reason why Knuckles is Super Gullible is because the creators of Sonic 3 & Knuckles wanted him to be a credible rival to Sonic, yet convincingly pull a Heel–Face Turn by the end of Sonic's story, so that there would be justification for him being Promoted to Playable in his own story. This was achieved by having the well-meaning guardian of the Master Emerald tricked by Eggman into antagonizing Sonic, then siding with Sonic while vowing revenge on Eggman once he realizes the truth. Sonic himself was Demoted to Extra in Knuckles Chaotix, while the titular character received A Day in the Limelight, because Sega of Japan expected the Sega32x to be a flop (which it was), and wanted to minimize the damage the game would do to the franchise's brand image by reducing its namesake's role to a cameo in the good ending's credit sequence. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Good Princess, Evil Queen and Princesses Rule. Princess Celestia was a queen when the show was being planned, but Hasbro asked the creator to make her a princess because children viewed princesses as good and queens as evil. The massive number of villains who pulled Heel Face Turns and got off scot-free with instant forgiveness was reportedly mandated by higher according to animation director Ishi Rudell, presumably to push the show's theme of the magic of friendship. |
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The titular character of Shang-Chi is a Chinese Bruce Lee Clone and the son of Fu Manchu and an unnamed white woman. The original plan was to make him fully Chinese, but editorial mandate by Roy Thomas enforced But Not Too Foreign and made him half-white. The character's creator and original writer Steve Englehart assumed it was to not alienate white audiences ("there were parts of the south that would not carry Luke Cage), while artist Jim Starlin added that he wasn't great at drawing Asian faces. This was retconned in the 2020s, when Gene Luen Yang introduced the Chinese woman Jiang Li as his mother. | |
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Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun: Maeno, Miyako's manga editor, enforces Gratuitous Animal Sidekick. He loves tanuki and has Miyako insert them into nearly every scene. | |
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Hey Arnold! enforced The Tonsillitis Episode in the episode "Gerald's Tonsils." It was written around the time his voice actor hit puberty, and rather than replace him with another boy (or a woman), they used tonsillitis to explain the deeper voice. | |
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Bowdlerise: The enforcers could be Moral Guardians, government requirements, Values Dissonance for different countries, etc. | |
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