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Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Describe Terrible Writing Advice here.Oh, so you're writing a TV Tropes page, then? Well, don't worry, writing a TV Tropes page is the easiest thing in the world. Really, anyone can do it, all you have to do is to just write long, padded out, articles that compliment whatever you like and even longer ones complaining about whatever you don't like, or you can just write painfully small articles that remind you of how obscure and unloved the work in question is. Oh, and don't forget to add a lot of pothole links, after all, these in no way compromise the reading of the article, right? Now, some people like to write witty, unsubjective, and descriptive TV Tropes pages about their favourite works. These people are stupid. I mean, how are you even supposed to make it so all the other tropers go watch THE BEST YOUTUBE CHANNEL EVER if you write its TV Tropes page like this. Here, let me show you how you REALLY write on TV Tropes:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Terrible Writing Advice is a YouTube channel by J.P. Beaubien, writer of Aeon Legion: Labyrinth.His videos contain, as you might expect, AMAZING advice given in the most honest possible tone. Each episode will cover a writing topic (such as setting, character, taking criticism, publicity, love triangles, etc.) and will give bad-*ahem*-GOOD advice that only the soon-to-be-bestseller-authors employ, such as Mary Sue, Character Shilling, and, the most important of them all, THE LOVE TRIANGLE; often contrasted by what SUPPOSEDLY is considered actual thoughtful writing tips or good story fodder that he'll throw in before snapping you back to reality by reminding you of how bad/wrong/boring the "actual" advice was, and then proceeding to go right back to the REAL advice. | |
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The Millstone: He notes that the best way to make the Plucky Comic Relief likeable is for them to not only have no discernable talents or reason for being kept around, but also that they should frequently hinder the protagonists or even kickstart major conflicts with their stupidity. | |
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Strong as They Need to Be | |
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Strong as They Need to Be: He claims that when setting out the abilities of a character or creature, they should wildly vary depending on the needs of the plot. The audience being unable to figure out what any given entity is capable of will create tension. | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: invoked"Giving Criticism" acknowledges that if a critic spends so much time bashing a work they don't like, that going overboard with their hatred towards that work will make the public interested in said work, rather than convince people to not give it a shot. | |
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Goggles Do Nothing | |
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Goggles Do Nothing: Invoked in "Steampunk" while describing stock Steampunk protagonist's attire. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Reccommended in "Giant Monsters" to avoid getting "slapped with that dreaded, money-sapping R-rating". | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Lampshaded constantly. | |
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YouTuber Apology Parody | |
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YouTuber Apology Parody: "Apology Video Template" explores how to make an apology in the show's typical, sarcastic style. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: He says in his Dystopia one that the protagonist should learn everything instantly. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Touched on in "Giant Monsters", which says that the monster's appearance should be kept mysterious at first, no matter how much its design was already spoiled in the trailers. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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"Antiheroes" is basically an episode-long one towards the idea that being Darker and Edgier automatically makes a story or character better. invoked | |
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No Bikes in the Apocalypse | |
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No Bikes in the Apocalypse: His "Post Apocalyptic" video encourages every vehicle to be motorized, ignoring the fact that gasoline has a limited shelf life, humanity would eventually run out, and how something simple like a bicycle doesn't require fuel to operate. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: "Intrigue Plots" opens with Beaubien thanking the sound engineer for making his voice sound deep and foreboding. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil vs. Evil: End-of-video sketches often feature various bad guys in conflict over... various corporate sponsorships. | |
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More Predators Than Prey | |
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More Predators Than Prey: "Alien Ecosystems" suggests having an alien ecology consist almost entirely of large apex predators. | |
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All According to Plan | |
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All According to Plan: "Intrigue Plots" suggests having the members of the story's secret society say this all the time even when things are working against their favor, primarily to distract the reader from the author's lack of a plan. invoked | |
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Right-Hand Cat | |
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Right-Hand Cat: The Mega-Corp's CEO is depicted as having a white cat. | |
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No Biochemical Barriers | |
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No Biochemical Barriers: In "Alien Invasion", he suggests having aliens devour humanity in spite of potentially deadly biochemical barriers. On a similar note, in "Alien Ecosystems", he says that alien parasites should jump the species barrier to humans, even though human physiology is literally alien to them. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: More straightforward discussions of the genres and tropes he criticizes can be found on his official website. The "Cyberpunk" video is especially bad at this. While the video itself suggests mixing up the terms "sapience" and "sentience", it does not explain what they mean at all, and only the footnote of the corresponding blog post states that sapience is the ability to reason, while sentience is the ability to feel and have emotions. His "Beginning A Story" video ends with the advice to add a flowchart to your story so that readers don't get Lost in Medias Res.invoked | |
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Paranormal Romance | |
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Paranormal Romance: JP does acknowledge that half of the tropes discussed in the "Urban Fantasy" episode are more applicable to this, which he ignores as usual. | |
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Creator's Pet | |
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Creator's Pet: His "Antiheroes" video mentions how the antihero is subject to the author's bias.invoked "Myths, Legends, and Gods" also has the gods and goddesses of the Fantasy Pantheon ending up in this role, as the writer is so focused on their worldbuilding that they forget about the main plot. | |
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Our Orcs Are Different | |
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Our Orcs Are Different: Recommends using the "Tolkienesque" flavor without bothering to address any of the hard questions raised by the existence of an Always Chaotic Evil society, something he notes J. R. R. Tolkien struggled with as well. | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song: "Holiday Specials" recommends that even if you're not making your special a musical, there should be at least one musical number "awkwardly shoved in there". | |
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Stock Characters | |
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Stock Characters: His videos often suggest having this be the supporting cast, with each character only having one trait that gets beaten over the audience's head. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Strongly advised in "Alpha Heroes", to the point that it's reccommended that their bare, well-muscled torso should take up the entire book cover. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: The series criticizes how bullies are often depicted as one-dimensional caricatures (often of people the author knew) with no redeeming traits and is inferior to the protagonist in every way. | |
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Visual Pun: In "Ending a story", the part where Beaubien discusses Cliffhangers has the Antihero literally hanging from a cliff above a pit. | |
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TheRival | |
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The Rival: The Inner Critic, as brought up in "Rivals". | |
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Yaoi Fangirl | |
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Yaoi Fangirl: The "Slash Fic Writer" in "Antiheroes" is a woman who very clearly doesn't care about the plausibility of an M/M pairing, just how hot she thinks it is. | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything: Discourages anyone who isn't a main character, up to and including armies, from defeating the Big Bad, because who wants to read about a group of ordinary people fighting destiny and choosing their own fates? | |
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Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls | |
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Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: The Slash Fic writer in "Antiheroes" is very clearly female. | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: In the "Evil Empire" video, he recommends ending any story about toppling an evil empire on a high note, rather than the aftermath that would occur like the struggles of reforming the government into a more democratic system, or the civil wars that would ensue from imperial successors. In his "Post-Apocalyptic" video, he points how radiation doesn't turn people into mutated monsters. It just, you know, kills you! His "Environmentalism" video points out that a corporation would take a massive PR hit if they started destroying the environment. It also points out that even if the evil corporation were wiped out, the reason they rose to power in the first place is because of the hyper-consumerist economy, implying that a new corporation would just take its place. Beaubien points out in "Cyberpunk" that one Artificial Limb wouldn't stop its owner spine from breaking if they tried lifting a car, given that the rest of their body isn't enhanced. The "Intrigue Plots" episode brings up the fact that murdering people is counterproductive to The Conspiracy, because it won't help cover it up, but instead draw attention to it, especially if too many people are killed. In "Dark Lords" it's pointed out that the Evil Overlord would have no clue about the political situation of the world because they've been asleep for centuries. "Holiday Specials" ends with JP's heart growing three sizes... then JP dropping dead from cardiomegaly. "Antiheroes" inclues a short gag where the antihero protagonist is on trial for war crimes. | |
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White Man's Burden | |
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White Man's Burden: Gets referenced and defied during a background event in "Steampunk": | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: "Anti Heroes" instructs writers to make their Anti-Hero protagonist brooding and laconic, communicating in grunts, snark, and "whatevers". The solitude serves to imply internal conflict to make him appear deep, rather than thinking about what to have for lunch. | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting: Offered as a way to further distinguish The Chosen One. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Parodied in "Grimdark". While giving examples on how make your setting dark, one example is making it turn out that hyperspace is Cthulhu's backyard. | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React: "Intrigue Plots" suggests this dynamic, as it'll be entertaining watching the heroes endlessly react to everything no matter how dumb it makes them look. It's also suggested in "Plotting a Story" that only the villain should drive the plot, symbolized by the sample Evil Overlord driving a car with some of the sample heroes as passengers, refusing to listen to their demands to stop and ask for directions. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: "Villains" — or, more precisely, its sponsorship section — has some members of La Résistance get in a massive argument over how they should brand their organization. | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: "Taking Criticism" suggests both ignoring all criticism and trying to please everyone. invoked "Finishing a Story" suggests both talking about your story ideas (and how your story will become a bestseller, of course) to other people endlessly, taking them being annoyed as a good sign, and being highly protective of your ideas, as, if you casually talk about them, they might get stolen. The blog post for "The Nature of Clichés – Honest Thoughts" has one in a part of a sentence: In "Character Development": "Spies" brings up some questionable things protagonist does, but follows it up by saying he doesn't torture people. The very next sentence talks about him torturing one of the villain's minions for information. | |
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Misaimed Fandom | |
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Misaimed Fandom: Due to the Stylistic Suck nature of the series, this advice gets invoked a lot: Whenever JP suggests copying the work of a more successful author, it involves him missing the point of what made those authors successful: In "Fantasy Races" he states writers should copy and paste the fantasy races designed by J. R. R. Tolkien while completely ignoring the themes of his works. For George R. R. Martin, he thinks writers should put more emphasis on killing off major characters for shock value rather than focusing on characterization to make readers attached to said characters. With H. P. Lovecraft, he puts more emphasis on making cool monster designs rather than his themes of how the universe is a Crapsack World. "Taking Criticism" suggests using this argument to avoid dealing with criticism. JP suggests that if a reader has negative criticism of a work, then the blame rests solely on the reader for reading it wrong rather than the author's bad writing. For “Steampunk,” he points out that while many popular works have dipped their toes in the genre, there still isn’t a singular great work of the genre. He then spends the rest of the video pointing out that this is because it’s easy for authors to get caught up in the aesthetic of Steampunk without focusing on characters or using the setting in a meaningful way. "Alpha Heroes" goes into detail about where the concept of Alpha and Beta Wolves originates, and mentions how people still believe in this idea despite it being dated science. It's mentioned that the pack of wolves that expressed this dynamic were captive wolves, and that wild packs have very different dynamics, more akin to a family. He even mentions how L. David Mech, the scientist responsible for this idea, is frustrated that his research popularized the idea of the alpha male, especially as further research over the years have proven him wrong. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: Beaubien rips apart cliche genres, and singles out how nonsensical they are: In his segment on alien invasion, he establishes how an alien race would probably benefit with humans through trade rather than conquest, and even if they did conquest, they would prefer military targets and not just blowing up monuments. "Evil Empires" discusses how empires that commit evil for the sake of it usually don't last very long, and how the forces that grind down an empire (treasury-draining foreign wars, bloated bureaucracies, more potent empires on the rise) take forever and aren't very cinematic. Beaubien also points out that as bad as it is to live in a dystopian empire, you really don't want to live in one once the empire has been decapitated and there's no one to pay the army or enforce law and order. | |
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Alpha and Beta Wolves | |
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"Alpha Heroes" goes into detail about where the concept of Alpha and Beta Wolves originates, and mentions how people still believe in this idea despite it being dated science. It's mentioned that the pack of wolves that expressed this dynamic were captive wolves, and that wild packs have very different dynamics, more akin to a family. He even mentions how L. David Mech, the scientist responsible for this idea, is frustrated that his research popularized the idea of the alpha male, especially as further research over the years have proven him wrong. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: His "Beginning A Story" video suggests doing this if a story doesn't get exciting until the middle, despite the fact that an info dump would still occur later and drag down the pacing established from the earlier scenes, and the possibility of being Lost in Medias Res. invoked | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: A number of them show up, as part of the potshots at various popular series. Lampshaded in "Science Fiction Weapons", where a soldier facing a Humongous Mecha screams "IT'S legally distinct from A GUNDAM!" | |
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Creator's Apathy | |
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Creator's Apathy: Invoked. The series could be summarized under the sole advice of "give in to Creator's Apathy as much as you can", as recurring advice include "only use clichés already seen for a million times", "never try to deepen your setting by exploring causes, consequences, and implications of the universe", "all characters should be flat, except for the protagonist and maybe the big bad", "focus on writing action scenes, Info Dump, or Description Porn at the expense of subtly fleshing out your setting", "tell don't show"... | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: Alluded to with House Backgroundextras in "Noble Houses," who are described as "very important in keeping the balance of power in the royal court, but not so important that the writer put any effort to fleshing them out." | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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The man who will betray House Goodguys, meanwhile, is bald, has a goatee, dresses in all black, and has a permanent Psychotic Smirk. Of course, nobody in House Goodguys can figure out he's a traitor before he makes his move. | |
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Sunk Cost Fallacy | |
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Sunk Cost Fallacy: "Avoiding Scams" gives the advice for writers to keep giving money to scammers and sinking further into debt because so much money has already been invested in the scam company, rather than accepting your losses and moving on. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: His "Taking Criticism" video encourages this behavior in writers. The video starts with him stating that negative criticism is more important than actual death and real life political issues. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: Both 2016 and 2017 saw discussion of specific genres whose installments might be released on Halloween, namely the Slasher Movie and the Survival Horror game. | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: From "Grimdark": Later in the same episode, the Dark Lord tells the Chosen One "I do not repeat myself, nor do I fall into repetition." From "Comic Relief Characters", when discussing what sort of comedy the comic relief should employ: | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Defied in his "Antiheroes" video because writing a cunning hero who outsmarts his enemies is really hard compared to giving an antihero Plot Armor. Also defied in "Intrigue Plots", as writing a conspiracy undone by its own greed as opposed to a smart protagonist subverting Villains Act, Heroes React would be far easier. | |
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Impossibly Tacky Clothes | |
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Impossibly Tacky Clothes: The Knights of Artistic Integrity are described as "look[ing] like a Renaissance Fair got raided by anarcho-communists". | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: Invoked with "Evil Empire", and laser beams curve around the Han Solo and Princess Leia expies. Also invoked in "Action Scenes". How else would the heroes survive diving headfirst into the line of fire without devising a strategy? Becomes a Literal Metaphor in "Military Science Fiction", with JP saying to not put constraints on the main character's power armor, that way it can create New Powers as the Plot Demands. | |
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The Scrappy | |
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The Scrappy: Invoked in the "Slasher Films" video. By making the main characters (excluding the protagonist) intentionally annoying, it will let the audience take pleasure in their deaths. Also notes in the "War Stories" video that the comic relief character is this, stating that he doesn't match the tone of the rest of the story and that he'll be the only character the audience actually wants dead. "Comic Relief Characters" is not subtle about how comic relief characters can end up in this position, with JP even mentioning Jar-Jar Binks and Scrappy Doo as examples of comic relief gone wrong. "Giant Monsters" emphasizes that the Tagalong Kid ends up in this role. | |
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Standard Royal Court | |
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Standard Royal Court: "Noble Houses" has Beaubien say he'll just use the most off-the-shelf stock version of this trope that he can. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: The Couch Gag for "Grimdark" paraphrases the Nietzschean quote: "Make sure he who writes about monsters does not become one." | |
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Rooting for the Empire | |
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Rooting for the Empire: Points it out as a consequence of making the empire more interesting than the protagonist. invoked Also points this out in his "Environmentalism" video, noting that it's a consequence of giving the villains so much cool technology despite trying to go for an Anvilicious "Technology is evil" aesop.invoked "Villains" has the three villains who took over the show discussing this trope, with them shocked that people root for the heroes. JP's notes on the episode point out that if this happens, then the writer needs to work on writing better heroes, rather than making the villain more heinous. | |
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Discredited Trope | |
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invoked"Villains" points out a lot of Discredited Tropes that haven't aged well, such as having the baron be a Creepy Crossdresser to make the audience feel uncomfortable, or having the emperor's troops wearing blue-face to mock an alien species. However, it also mocks cancel culture and the people on the internet who get so easily offended over such tropes, as they're shown in the flaming trash can of Internet culture wars. The villains also struggle to come up with tropes to apply to a villain that won't piss off the internet mobs. | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: The framing device of the "Holiday Special" episodes, including lampshading how overused this is. | |
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Giant Enemy Crab | |
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Giant Enemy Crab: One appears in "Giant Monsters" as an example of a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, and is actually called "Giant Enemy Crab". | |
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Worldbuilding | |
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World Building: Frequently discussed and has it's own video on the subject. Both that video and the one on "steampunk" note that it's easy to get caught up in world building while other aspects of the story are neglected. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Points out in the "Chosen Ones" video that the hero would've never started their journey to defeat the dark lord or ancient evil in the first place if the forces of evil hadn't attacked their home in an attempt to kill him and defy the prophecy. | |
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ElmuhFuddSyndwome | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: The representative of the Knights of Artistic Integrity talks like this. | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
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Dastardly Whiplash: One of the recurring "villain" characters is a man with a top hat and a curling mustache who's constantly rubbing his palms together. | |
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Obvious Judas | |
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Obvious Judas:invoked "Noble Houses" says that the traitor among the ranks of House Goodguys should be clearly shady in demeanor and stick out like a sore thumb in terms of appearance. | |
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KickTheDog | |
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Kick the Dog: In "Dark Lords," the sample dark lord literally kicks a dog, which results in the sample fantasy hero saying "I think he might be the bad guy" as he witnesses the dog getting kicked. | |
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Critical Research Failure | |
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Critical Research Failure: Invoked in many ways, such as not bothering to research the mythologies that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien, or basing an evil empire off of Nazi Germany since older empires would require the writer to open up a history book. | |
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I Can Change My Beloved | |
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I Can Change My Beloved: "Alpha Heroes" reccommends having the alpha male's Love Interest change him for the better through her love for him, up to and including curing any and all personality disorders he may have. | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs: "Myths, Legends, and Gods" does this by using the names of the gods whenever someone wants to swear in a fantasy setting, even though overuse of these swears would make the swearing lose a lot of its impact. | |
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PowerOfLove | |
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Power of Love: The Kryptonite Factor of all alien invasions: the Love Triangle! | |
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Deceased Parents Are the Best | |
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Deceased Parents Are the Best: The tombstones for the protagonist's parents in "Intrigue Plots" have "RIP Perfect Mom/Dad" engraved on them. | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: In "Post Apocalyptic" the two kinds of characters in this setting are scavengers and raiders. In "Grimdark" the two kinds of side characters are reprehensible and amoral scumbags who exist solely for the hero to kill, and people so innocent and pure who exist solely for the author to kill. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: At one point in "writer's block" he mentions going back and completely redoing segments of your story. It's not fun, but to any writer wanting to do serious work, you would do well to heed it. Very boring, but often work comes out much better if you do. During his Sincerity Mode moment in "Ending A Story", he says it's okay to make a simple and predictable ending to a story because convoluted endings often end poorly, and a badly done twist ending will attract far more backlash than a straightforward one ever will. | |
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Notzilla | |
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Notzilla: "Giant Monsters" has Beaubien recommend simply ripping off Godzilla if a writer is too lazy and uncreative to even use the "giant version of a regular animal" idea for a monster. | |
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Character Development | |
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"Transformation/Character Growth <- Fake this!" | |
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Boldly Coming | |
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Boldly Coming: "Alien Ecosystems" briefly talks about how, if there's a manly starship captain, a good amount of the story should focus on his romantic conquests. | |
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Something Completely Different | |
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Something Completely Different: In his "Nature of Cliche" video, instead of giving silly advice, he gives a frank, serious lesson about cliches. The video is dubbed "Honest Thoughts". "Cyberpunk" has a major stylistic departure. The fonts used are different, the "terrible author" now has sunglasses and a vaguely sci-fi pencil, "Best Story Ever!" is a hologram on a stick, and so on. Downplayed with his "Survival Horror" video. While it still has the sarcasm and silly advice of his other videos, it's advice for a video game genre unlike his other videos which focus on genres in literature. The "Holiday Special" video contains conversations with multiple characters rather than J.P. just monologuing to himself (albeit obviously all voiced by JP). The "Megacorporations" video takes the form of a long ad for "MegaCorp: the only villain you'll ever need!" "Apology Video Template" isn't animated, but instead has JP talking into a camera as a parody of Youtube apology videos. "Villains" has a Hostile Show Takeover that has the Dark Lord, the Evil Emperor, and the Baron from "Noble Houses" reading over JP's notes on villains. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: In "Holiday Specials", JP mentions that he is barred from singing musical numbers due to several unnamed international treaties. | |
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Flame War | |
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Some episodes feature a sentient, flaming trash bin representing the Flame Wars that ensue over controversial topics. It first showed up at the end of "Worldbuilding Cultures" when JP wondered how a writer should handle topics like religion and gender roles, and subsequently deciding Screw This, I'm Outta Here!. | |
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Conflict Ball | |
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Conflict Ball: In the "Antiheroes" video, he recommends that the antihero specializes in forced, contrived conflict, and that no one else should question why they tolerate such an abrasive individual when they get in the way of teamwork. | |
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High-Class Glass | |
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High-Class Glass: "Steampunk" mentions them as an alternative for goggles among outfit accessories, though Beaubien points they're usually not worn by the protagonist, only "snobby, rich dudes and evil military officers". | |
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Flat Character | |
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Flat Character: Beaubien says that adding depth to an antihero is entirely optional in his "Antiheroes" video. "Giant Monsters" recommends that the main character should be a person with no personality traits nor skills whatsoever, yet who is allowed input on discussions between actually important people for no apparent reason. | |
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Because Destiny Says So | |
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Because Destiny Says So: Offered as a reason why a Damsel in Distress princess's Arranged Marriage to The Evil Prince would be cancelled in favour of an Arranged Marriage to the protagonist. In his "Characterization" video, he says that the only reason on why the protagonist would leave a safe and calm life to find a MacGuffin should be just because the plot knows where they live and will burn down their house if they refuse. | |
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Offstage Villainy | |
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Offstage Villainy: In his Evil Empire video, he suggests using it for the villains, instead of actually showing them doing evil things. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: Mentions in his "Environmentalism" video that it's okay for the nature loving heroes to use the same technology the villains use to stop them despite the story going on about how evil technology is. His "Cyberpunk" video recommends similar advice. He suggests that the aesop should be about how Technology Is Evil, yet says that giving the protagonists cool weapons and technology won't undermine the intended aesop. From "Grimdark": "Megacorporations" suggests that the entire purpose of the mega-corporation should be to show the audience that money is bad and you should give the author as much of it as possible. "Giant Monsters" suggests the day be saved by the smart scientist's plan, which emphasizes that Science Is Good, even though the rest of the story is about how Science Is Bad because it created the giant monster in the first place. This comes up a few times in "Military Science Fiction". If you're going for a War Is Hell aesop and preaching about pacifism, then it's okay to indulge in power fantasy and show off a bunch of cool technology, even when said technology is used to murder people. It's also advised to have an aesop about going against the Hive Mind mentality and thinking for yourself, by making sure everyone's beliefs align with the author's political views. | |
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FauxActionGirl | |
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Faux Action Girl: The "Power Fantasy" flavor of protagonist in "Spies" has a female "highly competent" sidekick who always needs to be rescued. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Due to the nature of the series, these tend to pop up a lot. In "Grimdark", for example, he claims because Terrible Writing Advice is grimdark forever, he'll never be sarcastic again! A caption above brags, "This is the biggest lie I have ever told." | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Most of the examples he gives are very poorly written, mocking clichés found in amateur fiction. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Beaubien has the hero's Love Interest get captured by the villain in order to save himself the trouble of having to actually write a romantic subplot. | |
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Torture Always Works | |
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Torture Always Works: Said word-for-word in "Spies". Cue an intertitle that says "no it doesn't". | |
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Zerg Rush | |
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Zerg Rush: "Fantasy Battles" has the recurring antihero character recommend this tactic. | |
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Mysterious Past | |
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Mysterious Past: His "Antiheroes" video suggests doing this to your antihero character since it will make him look brooding and complex, and not because the writer is too lazy to come up with a history for the character. His "Dystopias" video also suggests this for the Big Bad of the story. Like with "Antiheroes," painting him as vague and mysterious is an easy way out for the writer to avoid fleshing out the Big Bad. | |
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The Good Kingdom | |
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The Good Kingdom: "Fantasy Battles" has a parody fantasy map and has a country called "Noble Kingdom." Under its name is a caption that says "All of the best parts of monarchy with none of the historical drawbacks!" | |
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Catching Some Z's | |
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Catching Some Z's: This trope is questioned in the Rivals video. | |
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Appeal to Worse Problems | |
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Appeal to Worse Problems: "Apology Video Template" suggests pointing to other celeberties and pointing out their transgressions so that you look good by comparison. | |
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Compressed Vice | |
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Compressed Vice: In his "Character Development" video he explains that a character should only have one flaw fixed per book, and one of his bullet points says "Have the protagonist suddenly become a racist for no reason before fixing it." | |
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Actionized Sequel | |
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Actionized Sequel: In "Survival Horror", Beaubien is definitely not talking about the Dead Space franchise going from survivor horror to action game with some horror elements. | |
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Killed to Uphold the Masquerade | |
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Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: In "Intrigue Plots," he suggests that any character who is zeroing in on a conspiracy should be straight up killed by the conspirators, instead of simpler alternatives, like recruitment, bribery, or reassignment. | |
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War Is Glorious | |
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"Military Science Fiction" takes potshots at common war aesops that authors use as political soapboxes. The War Is Glorious side sees everyone else as too weak-willed to get things done, but at that time, there's an image of JP with wings getting close to the sun saying "Let's see how close we can get to accidentally advocating fascism!" Meanwhile, the War Is Hell side is shown as hypocritical, preaching about pacifism even when the story is a high-octane power fantasy that portrays all the fights and weapons as cool. | |
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Tagalong Kid | |
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"Giant Monsters" emphasizes that the Tagalong Kid ends up in this role. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: "Myths, Legends, and Gods" advises adding the standard Love Triangle to the mythology of your Constructed World, but ends up adding so many it becomes this. The Freeze-Frame Bonus even has JP saying that no author has ever been able to make a Love Dodecahedron as complicated as what's seen in several mythologies. | |
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Constructed World | |
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Also played with in "Steampunk", in that while the world is a Constructed World, it should be influenced by the Victorian era, though without mentioning the darker aspects of that time period, or as JP calls them, "Unpleasant Realities", including but not limited to racism, classism, and the slave trade. | |
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Character Derailment | |
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Character Derailment: invokedThis is advised in "Grimdark" when characterizing the villain. JP starts off by saying the villain should have a reasonable motive for their actions and be characterized as an Anti-Villain. However, once fans start seeing the villain as Unintentionally Sympathetic and the hero as a Designated Hero, JP then recommends derailing the villain into a Hate Sink by having him cross the Moral Event Horizon so that the hero looks better by comparison. | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me: In "Love Interests", Beaubien comments it's the worst thing that can happen to the hero's Love Interest when they have been kidnapped by a villain. He also [[Invoked comments]] (out-of-character) that it's Discredited Trope. | |
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One Nation Under Copyright | |
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One Nation Under Copyright: "Megacorporations" points out that running a country includes spending money on things that don't generate revenue — like defense and social programs — which means it's counterproductive for a private company to also be The Government. | |
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The Hero's Journey | |
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"Plotting A Story" has a doozy with the Poor Heroes Journey wheel, with such winners as: "Mentor who slaps you in the face with exposition. (Don't worry. He'll get his comeuppance by act three when he dies!) "Bunch of crap the Protagonist has to go through." "Transformation/Character Growth <- Fake this!" "Atonement <- Fake this too!" "Return to the boring world with the Gift of the Goddess that is fully redeemable for one free sequel!" | |
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Sock Puppet | |
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Sock Puppet: Gives the advice to use them to respond to negative comments. | |
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Advertised Extra | |
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Advertised Extra: One of the stock characters in "Giant Monsters" is the "Bait and Switch" character, who is played by an A-rank actor who needed a paycheck, gets killed off in the first third of the film, yet has a very prominent role in the trailers to trick fans of the actor into watching the film. | |
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Unfortunate Implications | |
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Unfortunate Implications:invoked Conversed in the "Fantasy Races" video regarding how races have inherent traits and how some races are better than others. "Giving Criticism" plays this trope for laughs at the suggestion of the good guys using a burning cross as their symbol, with Beaubien saying "Um, I guess it could work?", with the screen showing the caption "Translation: Try Again." "Cosmic Horror' also discusses how for as critically acclaimed the writings of H. P. Lovecraft are, he was also extremely racist and xenophobic and it's shown in some of his writing, and even in-character JP says that this is the one Lovecraftian trope you should avoid at all costs. "Apology Video Template" invokes this by advising anyone doing an apology video to claim they have depression, which is the reason they ended up doing whatever got them in trouble in the first place. The person should ignore any backlash that comes from this, including people with real depression who will call them out on using depression as an easy scapegoat for their actions. | |
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Mirror Universe | |
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Mirror Universe: For April Fools' Day, Beaubien did a live action video called "Amazing Writing Advice", prefaced by "Meanwhile, in the Mirror Universe..." (Beaubien actually gives useful advice, too.) | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: "Spies" emphasizes how masculine the "Power Fantasy" protagonist should be. "Alpha Heroes" also puts emphasis on this with the leading male. | |
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The All-Solving Hammer | |
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The All-Solving Hammer: No matter what story genre or character archetype he's talking about, JP's advice almost always includes "add a love triangle". The Evil Emperor's first solution to literally every problem is to "DESTROY THE ENTIRE PLANET". | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: "Megacorporations" suggests the writer to do this and take a Black-and-White Morality stance on corporations and constantly remind the audience that corporations are bad. "Military Science Fiction" gives this advice for whatever political views the author has. The story should also be one-sided and only validate the author's viewpoint, rather than acknowledge that Both Sides Have a Point. | |
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The Atoner | |
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"Atonement <- Fake this too!" | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
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Good Scars, Evil Scars: "Megacorporations" describes the Mega-Corp's Private Military Contractors as having "savage bad guy scars". | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: The earlier episodes have a generic villain character, whereas later ones have more specific villains. | |
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Nature Is Not Nice | |
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Nature Is Not Nice: Recommends to avert this in the "Environmentalism" video, and only portray animals as kind and fluffy, since portraying nature in this way would actually let the bad guys have a point, which would just undermine the protagonists' stance on environmentalism. | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing: invoked "Military Sci-Fi" recommends having an anti-war message... and also portraying war and the technologies used to wage it as incredibly badass. | |
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Faux Horrific | |
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Faux Horrific: In "Comic Relief Characters" the antihero manages to get an empire soldier to talk by threatening to make the soldier listen to the comic relief's jokes. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Encourages writers to have their Mary Sue dish out a hundred times the violence inflicted upon her when her enemy actually manages to hurt her, and do so ruthlessly. invoked | |
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Spy Fiction | |
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Spy Fiction: This is the main topic of the "Spies" episode. JP splits the video into two sub-genres: the action thriller Tuxedo and Martini variant, and the gritty, realistic Stale Beer variant. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: "Love Interests" recommends using this trope to milk a romantic subplot for all it's worth. | |
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Single-Biome Planet | |
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Single-Biome Planet: Suggested in the "Alien Ecosystems" video, because it saves the writer effort. The "Star Wars" video also proposes using one such planet that is similar to the others that have been shown so far. To show the point, Tatooine's name is crossed out and replaced with Jakku. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: "Action Scenes" suggests having your hero spout off one of these as he kills the Big Bad. The more groans and eyerolls it garners from the audience, the better. | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Recommends that the writer should copy Tolkien's dwarves, and just add a Scottish accent | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
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I Resemble That Remark!: During the sponsorship bit at the end of "Grimdark", the Dark Lord complains about JP saying his character skits take too long. He responds to JP's criticism by saying he's "the epitome of conciseness"... in a long-winded rant where he loses his train of thought partway through. | |
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Space-Filling Empire | |
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Space-Filling Empire: Gags involving maps will include this, often even named blatantly, such as the Noble Kingdom of Map Filleria in "Evil Empires" and the Space Filling Empire of South America in "Cyberpunk". | |
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Zombie Gait | |
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Zombie Gait: He notes that the most important question to ask yourself when thinking about writing a zombie story is whether or not your zombies are capable of running, because for some reason this issue is Serious Business. (He eventually resolves that you should have your zombies move and act however quickly is convenient and change the rules constantly.) | |
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Lovecraft Lite | |
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Lovecraft Lite: Beaubien notes that it's easy to adapt Lovecraft to any genre, which is useful in not having to deal with his racism (Cue soda can "Lovecraft Light" — "Now with 30% less racism!") invoked. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: The Environmentalism video mocks this concept, saying it's an easy message that doesn't require any research on the writer's part. He also criticizes how Anvilicious some works can get with this and how out of place a Green Aesop can be with certain stories. invoked The nature god in "Myths, Legends, and Gods" should only represent the good side of nature, and the character profile has their story role listed as "Soapbox the author can stand on." | |
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Sincerity Mode | |
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Zig-zagged in his "Amazing Writing Advice" video, which he released on April Fools' Day. On the surface, it seems like he's giving sincere advice, and some of the advice at the start of the video, such as making sure to read a lot, is genuine. However, while his tone lacks sarcasm, he gives advice like avoiding clichés, which contradicts his other Sincerity Mode video "The Nature of Clichés". He also tries to pass off his sample story (A brooding Youtube artist meets a quirky girl) as original, even though this is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. | |
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The Emperor | |
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"Noble Houses": There's a quick gag where the Captain of the Royal Guard suggests auctioning off the position of emperor. A footnote confirms that the historical Praetorian Guard actually did that once. | |
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Shameless Self-Promoter | |
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Shameless Self-Promoter: While a link to buy Aeon Legion: Labyrinth has appeared in all Terrible Writing Advice videos without fail, it is also a mocked trope, with Beaubien's Author Avatar (holding Labyrinth, no less) being one of the outcasts in "Cyberpunk". And, of course, being the focus of "Marketing and Promotion". | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: "Alpha Heroes" suggests having the alpha male protagonist or love interest act like a controlling creep towards the woman he's into. | |
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Hulk Speak | |
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"Spies" recommends that the writer visualize their audience as bloodthirsty cavemen who talk in Hulk Speak. | |
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The Conspiracy | |
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The "Intrigue Plots" episode brings up the fact that murdering people is counterproductive to The Conspiracy, because it won't help cover it up, but instead draw attention to it, especially if too many people are killed. | |
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Jitter Cam | |
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Jitter Cam: "Giant Monsters" says that low-budget kaiju movies can always do 90 minutes of shaky cam. | |
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Conveniently an Orphan | |
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Conveniently an Orphan: "Spies" advises this for the Power Fantasy variant, saying the spy shouldn't have any family or loved ones to come back to. JP is then confused why such a depressing detail is in the Power Fantasy spy. | |
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ShockingSwerve | |
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Shocking Swerve: invokedEncouraged in the "Plotting" episode, the more out of nowhere the better. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Beaubien says one of these is pretty much a must for Kaiju movies in "Giant Monsters". | |
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TVTropesWillRuinYourLife | |
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TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: In "The Nature of Clichés - Honest Thoughts", he points out how spending too much time on TV Tropes can make someone more attuned to storytelling conventions, and thus more critical when judging a story. | |
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Long List | |
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Long List: In the video on zombies, he rattles off eleven flaws to the zombie. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: The recurring "anti-hero" character is constantly giving one. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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"Return to the boring world with the Gift of the Goddess that is fully redeemable for one free sequel!" | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Some of the Freeze Frame Bonuses in JP's videos do contain genuine advice, or further elaborate on advice that gets ignored. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: "Plotting A Story" finds Beaubien building one so large it's twice as tall as he is ("Eh, it's fine.") | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: Beaubien suggests giving your Anti-Hero no superpowers (other than Plot Armor) yet having him win all his fights. It's much easier than creating a hero who relies on tactics, subterfuge and pragmatism. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Beaubien particuarly hates this trope. | |
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The Obi-Wan | |
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"Mentor who slaps you in the face with exposition. (Don't worry. He'll get his comeuppance by act three when he dies!) | |
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Unintentionally Unsympathetic | |
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Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Invoked in "Dark Lords," with one of the symptoms of evil concentrate being using a tragic backstory to justify heinous crimes. | |
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Herbivores Are Friendly | |
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Herbivores Are Friendly: In "Alien Ecosystems", it's recommended that any and all herbivores get portrayed as passive and harmless. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Has an entire video, recommending basing them on the author, and removing all flaws, and putting them in a Love Triangle; Marty makes a cameo at the end.invoked | |
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Militaries Are Useless | |
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Militaries Are Useless: "Giant Monsters" says that the military should just take potshots at the monster using tanks and aircraft, then quickly give up when that doesn't work and spend the rest of the movie sitting on the sidelines and gawking at the destruction. "Zombie Apocalypses" notes that the military will obviously be helpless to defeat the zombies, because zombies are completely invincible except when they aren't. (Cue tanks blasting futilely at a horde of zombies shielded by a layer of Plot Armor). Conversely, he notes that explaining why the military was inexplicably so unable to handle what should have been a legion of moving targets might actually be an intriguing story delving into topics like political corruption, weak top-level command, poor disaster response, or the dysfunctions in real-life doctrine, and therefore should be ignored to focus more on gunning zombies down. | |
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ComicRelief | |
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His video on the Comic Relief character ultimately reveals Beaubien and the Comic Relief Character are virtually identical. | |
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Purple Prose | |
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Purple Prose: "Alpha Heroes" goes into excessive detail about the protagonist's appearance. | |
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Wine Is Classy | |
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Wine Is Classy: In "Noble Houses", a note reads: "Wine glass. Oh, yes, all nobles must sip wine for some reason!" | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: invoked Conversed in many videos. Beaubien mentions just sticking to cliches rather than trying new, imaginative stories with complex themes. | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard: In "Chosen Ones", a wizard-like character appears beside an array of potential chosen ones with a sign beside him stating "Tragic Mentor Deaths 1/2 Off." | |
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Ending Fatigue | |
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Ending Fatigue: Invoked in "Plotting A Story", in which "discovery" writers often fall into a habit of being unable to finish their story. The story on screen initially says "And then they fought the evil emperor and won. The end", but suddenly has addendums about how the dog was the evil mastermind after all, and devolves into a story about horse racing that is sponsored by the emperor's evil cat and somehow get sucked into facing off against an evil sapient disco ball in a competitive cooking show. | |
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Ending Aversion | |
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Ending Aversion: invoked Referenced in "Ending A Story" where J.P. points out that if the ending is bad, people will only remember the botched ending, no matter how well the rest of the story is written. | |
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DarknessInducedAudienceApathy | |
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In "Grimdark", of course there will be a love triangle, but since everyone is unlikable, no one cares about the results of said triangle. invoked | |
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Killer Game Master | |
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Killer Game Master: "Dungeon Master's Guide" is all about how to be one. | |
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Masquerade | |
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Masquerade: He says that vampires and other creatures should do that, even if there is no reason for them to be weak. | |
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Wish-Fulfillment | |
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Wish Fulfillment: Encourages this a lot, and very prominent in the "Magic Schools" video which he suggests using to indulge in your darkest revenge fantasies. | |
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Overt Operative | |
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Overt Operative: "Spies" has the "Power Fantasy" protagonist be caught because he chose to drive a red Lamborghini on a mission in Pyongyang. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: Invoked in "Love Interests". JP suggests that every side character besides the Official Couple should be paired with another side character, regardless of whether the two had any chemistry or even interacted at all beforehand. | |
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Butter Face | |
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Butterface: At the end of "Alien Ecosystems", a starship captain hits on what looks from behind to be an attractive female alien. When she turns around, however, she turns out to have five alien eyes in the middle of her face and tentacles where her mouth should be. | |
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot | |
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: "Intrigue Plots" focuses heavily on this kind of story. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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In "Zombie Apocalypse" J.P. complains about airvents always being full of zombies, aliens, spies and zombie alien spies. | |
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Straw Character | |
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Straw Character: This advice comes up a lot: The "Magic Schools" video claims writers should reduce bullies who harass the protagonist to this. The "Dystopia" video suggest using such characters to demonize an ideology the author hates and blowing it out of proportion. "Giant Monsters" suggests adding a politician who is a thinly-veiled caricature of a politician the author doesn't like. "Military Science Fiction" suggests making every character who disagrees with the author's political views one of these. | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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Villain Has a Point: Defied in his "Environmentalism" video, since giving the villains a reasonable argument would undermine the protagonist's own arguments. Instead, he suggests making sure no one in the evil corporation is smart enough to realize that they need resources to make products, which allows them to employ people and grow the economy. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: Discourages agency from anyone who isn't a main character, as the universe will only allow The Chosen One to bring about changes to their world. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Sometimes, as a form of Sincerity Mode, JP will show a caption on the screen to emphasize that what he's talking about has actually happened, even if it sounds ridiculous. Some examples include: invokedIn "Taking Criticism" he shows such a disclaimer when he says that entire wikis are created to document the drama surrounding writers as they get involved in Flame Wars with critics. "Survival Horror" has him explaining how a Survival Horror series doses its "horror" and "survival" proportion, while the screen shows the covers of the Dead Space games. He then adds that, by the time a series reaches its third game, the only way to keep it fresh is to add a Love Triangle. Cue text on the bottom of the screen telling that Dead Space 3 really includes a love triangle. "Noble Houses": There's a quick gag where the Captain of the Royal Guard suggests auctioning off the position of emperor. A footnote confirms that the historical Praetorian Guard actually did that once. "Holiday Specials" does this when he suggests adding the standard Love Triangle. He shows a poster of the Jim Carrey version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, with a caption stating that the movie really did put the Grinch in a Love Triangle. "Alpha Heroes" has him listing off a series of toxic, obsessive, and negative romantic behaviors an alpha male can do but still be portrayed as being in the right because he's attractive. There's a caption saying everything he lists and more actually happens in romance novels. In "Zombie Apocalypse" he advises potenial writers to decide early on if they have fast or slow zombies, no really, it's a wierdly contentious issue amoung fans. | |
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Easy Logistics | |
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Easy Logistics: His video on "Fantasy Battles" enjoys pointing out that you should ignore the problems of commanding, training, equipping, and feeding a massive army, especially if they're pulling their troops from a wasteland where nothing seems to grow. | |
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Side Effects Include... | |
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Side-Effects Include...: From the end of "Megacorporations": | |
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X Days Since | |
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X Days Since: When Beaubien is listing the stock horror games settings in "Survival Horror", the secret gouvernment research facility is illustrated by the drawing of a blood-splatted wall bearing a sign reading "Congratulations — It's been 0 days since our own experiments have escaped and slaughtered all of the staff!" | |
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Character Shilling | |
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Character Shilling: In "Character Development", if you're too lazy to Info Dump the Back Story on the protagonist's intro, just do what you did with the "Dark Lord" antagonist and give him a Mysterious Past and let other characters fill the reader in on the protagnonist. | |
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Shooting Superman | |
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Shooting Superman: "Action Scenes" recommends that combatants continue shooting at the superhero or monster, even though they should know doing so is pointless. | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
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Rock Beats Laser: "Science Fiction Weapons" says that the only ones who can defeat the hyper-advanced military are stone age primitives armed with rocks and sticks. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Defied in "Megacorporations" with regards to the soldiers who work for the corporation's Private Military Contractor. JP does bring up how the soldiers are likely war veterans who joined the PMC because of a bad economy, and how some might suffer from PTSD. He then says that because they work for the corporation, the protagonists should show no remorse killing them. | |
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YouTubers | |
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Averted in "Addressing the Controversy," where JP appears in live-action to mock the manipulative tactics used by some, especially YouTubers, to fake Sincerity Mode to sell their insincere apologies. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
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"Megacorporations" suggests the writer to do this and take a Black-and-White Morality stance on corporations and constantly remind the audience that corporations are bad. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
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Obviously Evil: Frequently used for villains. This is justified: given the nature of the show, the viewer frequently needs to be able to tell who the bad guys are at a glance. The recurring "Dark Lord" character clearly takes a few influences from Sauron, being a red-eyed Tin Tyrant whose armor has spikes on it. Two examples in "Noble Houses": House Badguys have red and black as their colors, constantly wear sinister facial expressions, and are very cruel to their subjects. The man who will betray House Goodguys, meanwhile, is bald, has a goatee, dresses in all black, and has a permanent Psychotic Smirk. Of course, nobody in House Goodguys can figure out he's a traitor before he makes his move. | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: "Noble Houses" must engage in this 24/7. | |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Parodied in "Giant Monsters" with a giant prehistoric pug. | |
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Politically Correct History | |
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Politically Correct History: Inverted in "Worldbuilding Cultures", with a sci-fi setting that counts as a politically correct future, as everyone still maintains the same values as the modern day despite their improved technology. Also played with in "Steampunk", in that while the world is a Constructed World, it should be influenced by the Victorian era, though without mentioning the darker aspects of that time period, or as JP calls them, "Unpleasant Realities", including but not limited to racism, classism, and the slave trade. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: "Spies" recommends that the "Gritty" flavor of Spy Fiction protagonist have a serious drinking problem. | |
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Lame Comeback | |
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Lame Comeback: One brief scene in "Noble Houses" has a member of House Goodguys respond to an Implied Death Threat from a member of House Badguys with "Oh yeah? Well, um... you're a poopy head!" | |
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Mistaken for Undead | |
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In the end-of-video story segments, the Ancient Conspirator appears to the characters using his hologram technology, only for everyone to call him a ghost (including characters from Science Fiction settings)note at the end of "Giant Monsters", he's even mistaken for a ghost by a group of robots despite being present in the flesh instead of using his usual hologram much to his annoyance. | |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: In the "Evil Empires", he notes that the heroes are responsible for the Reality Ensuing after destroying the evil empire. "Comic Relief Characters" suggests having the comic relief be responsible for everything bad that has happened. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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"Comic Relief Characters" is not subtle about how comic relief characters can end up in this position, with JP even mentioning Jar-Jar Binks and Scrappy Doo as examples of comic relief gone wrong. | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: There are constant mentions that you should put something in your writing, simply because the reverse has never happened before. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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Hive Queen | |
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Hive Queen: In "Alien Ecosystems", he says that every Hive Mind should have one, and should be easily defeated by killing her. | |
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Percussive Pickpocket | |
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Percussive Pickpocket: Beaubien uses this trope as an example in "The Nature of Clichés - Honest Thoughts" to point out that Tropes Are Tools. He mentions that while this scene is pretty typical, it can be useful because it establishes a lot of information in one scene. He also offers ways to subvert the trope, such as an aristocrat purposefully getting robbed in hopes of finding a resourceful thief to help him on his journey. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: J.P. himself, as lampshaded in "Characterization":# | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
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Satellite Love Interest: "Love Interests" has Beaubien claim that stuff like personality and motivation are optional for a love interest. | |
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Mary Sue | |
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Mary Sue: Has an entire video, recommending basing them on the author, and removing all flaws, and putting them in a Love Triangle; Marty makes a cameo at the end.invoked In "Character Development", the "Mary Sue" character sheet shows the "flaws" as "too beautiful", as "kind of clumsy" is being erased. Her Back Story is "The Chosen One" as a "half-dragon, half-human, half-elf, third angel, fourth Cherokee." "Powers and abilities" include Super Strength, Super Beauty, Master of Love Triangles, Ultra Magic, and Super Tech, Super Speed, Laser Vision, Elemental Control... In "Plotting A Story", the Inner Critic returns, holding a shotgun on Mary. | |
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Anvilicious | |
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Also points this out in his "Environmentalism" video, noting that it's a consequence of giving the villains so much cool technology despite trying to go for an Anvilicious "Technology is evil" aesop.invoked | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin: From "Marketing And Promotion": | |
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Disposable Woman | |
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Disposable Woman: "Spies" defies the Running Gag of adding a Love Triangle in the Power Fantasy variant of Spy Fiction. Instead, it recommends a Love Black Hole, which kills off every Love Interest to make way for a new one in each sequel. | |
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Rail Enthusiast | |
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Rail Enthusiast: "Holiday Specials" reveals that the recurring "sci-fi evil emperor" character likes working on model trains. | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: Even the characters that aren't voiced snark. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Delivers a weirdly powerful one in the last line of the Cosmic Horror video, when talking about Lovecraft Lite: | |
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ShowDontTell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: In "Telling A Story": | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Despite being noted as clichéd and unrealistic, commenters have noted various writing tropes that not only do exist in Real Life, but also in greater quantity and/or scale. "Megacorporations" are filled with comments that state real-life examples like the East India Trading Company. Not only that, corporations doing things for short-term profit that'll hurt them in the long run is actually extremely realistic despite being seen as a sign of bad writing in fiction. See: The AAA video game industry. "War Stories" have a good chunk of the comments note many of the supposed writing flaws actually have basis in reality. Officers being ill-suited for their rank is very common throughout history and even in present day thanks to commission buying. Even the scenario where the officer in question is fresh out of college is a real thing in the US army due to the existence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Veterans have even complained that practically every trope listed in the video is true. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: In "Mary Sues", he recommends making your antagonist outlandishly evil to make the Mary Sue protagonist look heroic, despite the protagonist's excessive violence. invoked | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: It's easier just to describe your Lovecraftian monster having a bunch of tentacles, mouths and Googly Eyes. | |
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Necronomicon | |
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Necronomicon: In "Cosmic Horror", always use the Ultimate Book of Doom — otherwise known as the "not-Necronomicon." | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: His "Mary Sue" video suggests having people be good or evil based on their opinions of the protagonist. "War Stories" says that none of the main character soldiers should ever be punished for any lapses in duty, even if it would get any other soldier court-martialed. "Spies" suggests doing this with the protagonist's more questionable actions. Anything they do should be justified because they're the ones doing it, while the villain should be the villain even though they haven't killed anyone. "Power Fantasy" suggests the hero should focus on petty vendettas against obvious Straw Characters instead of using their powers for good. Despite this, the tone should be written in a way that sides with the protagonist, rather than being neutral or portraying them in the wrong for their actions. | |
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The Chosen One | |
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The Chosen One: Dedicates a whole video to this trope. | |
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Audience Surrogate | |
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Audience Surrogate: "Giant Monsters" recommends using a "POV drone" to serve as one, with no explanation as to why they get to hang out with high-level politicians, scientists and military officers. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
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Cerebus Retcon: Encouraged in the "Grimdark" video with particularly absurd examples such as Contrivium made from ground up widows or hyperdrive requiring to take a detour to Cthulu's backyard. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: The protagonist from "Alpha Heroes" is this, but the heroine accepts his behavior rather than file a restraining order because he's attractive and has a tragic past. | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Becomes a Literal Metaphor in "Military Science Fiction", with JP saying to not put constraints on the main character's power armor, that way it can create New Powers as the Plot Demands. | |
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Designated Hero | |
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Designated Hero: Invoked in "Grimdark", with the protagonist's actions being so heinous, that it makes the villain look better by comparison. The author should justify this by claiming the protagonist is morally ambiguous even when he's doing something like slaughtering orphans. This also gets advised in "Alpha Heroes", by having the main hero be abusive and controlling of the main heroine's actions. The author should use a Freudian Excuse to justify his behavior. | |
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Invincible Villain | |
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Invincible Villain: In "Dark Lords": | |
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Ignored Epiphany | |
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Ignored Epiphany: A Running Gag is for Beaubien to lapse into Sincerity Mode about actual good writing tips before dismissing it out of hand. In particular, he devotes some time near the end of "Criticism" to realizing some of the criticism was politely constructive...then recommends getting even more defensive when critics bring up a valid point. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: The "Cyberpunk" video, uniquely, replaces the normal sketchy hand-written font and grimy grey background with a sci-fi looking font and a background of constantly shifting hexagons, as well as giving Beaubien and his props a thematically fitting makeover. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: This is the only motivation suggested for the Anti-Hero that'll totally be described in later events, though one shouldn't bother giving a reason for the Anti-Hero to be obsessed with vengeance. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
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Leeroy Jenkins: Invoked in "Noble Houses", as House Badguys' military strategy: | |
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Big Bad | |
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His "Dystopias" video also suggests this for the Big Bad of the story. Like with "Antiheroes," painting him as vague and mysterious is an easy way out for the writer to avoid fleshing out the Big Bad. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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"Apology Video Template," from start to finish. Not only does it takes shots at the common patterns of youtube apologies such as jarringly different format, having ads, and long sighs, and never actually apologizing, but it also takes shots at highly specific things that have actually happened. These include abusing a homeless man, luring young fans to gambling sites, and manipulative corporate apologies. It also takes a shot at excessive online anger, stating that no one is too obscure to one day wake up to find "an internet hate mob" at their door. | |
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Cliché | |
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He completely drops the ironic pretense to talk about clichés in "The Nature of Clichés" | |
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Not So Different | |
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Not So Different: Subverted in his "Mary Sue" video. He contemplates that as the villain starts to seem more similar to the main character, it can be used to emphasize to razor-thin difference between good and evil. He then decides it would be better to have the villain act even more evil just for the fun of it so that the protagonist can look good by comparison. One of the Freeze Frame Bonuses in "Fantasy Battles" is a speech, stating that if the empire wins, they'll control regional politics for a few centuries before it inevitably declines. The speech then says the same thing will happen if the kingdom wins. Beaubien's Inner Critic, while a more insightful and skilled writer than his deliberately incompetent persona, is just as self-absorbed and incapable of acknowledging his own faults as TWA Beaubien is, and adds a bit of Never My Fault to the whole mess. His video on the Comic Relief character ultimately reveals Beaubien and the Comic Relief Character are virtually identical. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: "Alpha Heroes" suggests having the alpha male stop his rakish, promiscuous behavior to commit to a monogamous relationship with the heroine for no reason other than authorial favoritism. | |
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Crocodile Tears | |
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Crocodile Tears: "Apology Video Template" advises people to fake tears to win sympathy points from the audience. However, J.P. also points out a Double Standard, in that only a cute girl could get away with this, while a grown man crying excessively would make him look childish, and would look even more immature. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Doing Character Development is too hard, and instead just have the character get more and more powerful to show how he's growing as a person. | |
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Chainmail Bikini | |
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Chainmail Bikini: Mentioned in "Alpha Heroes", where J.P. points out that when hot chicks wearing these show up on a cover, at least their faces are generally visible, while alpha male protagonists sometimes have their heads cut off due to the focus being on their abs. | |
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Values Dissonance | |
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Values Dissonance: invoked "Cosmic Horror" sees Beaubien the fact that Lovecraft was a racist, classist xenophobe, and even in-character, he recommends that one avoid emulating this aspect of his bibliography in their own fiction. "Spy Fiction" brings up the fact that older Bond movies can be pretty sexist by modern standards. "Villains" also brings up that some tropes haven't aged well, and in the modern day will face backlash from the public. | |
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Made of Evil | |
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Made of Evil: Dark Lords. They're evil because... they're evil! | |
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Never Live It Down | |
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Never Live It Down: "Ending A Story" has JP mention this in-universe when he goes into Sincerity Mode. Even if you write a good story, if the ending ends up being a total trainwreck, then people will remember the ending and it will overshadow everything else about the story. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Episode 26 talked about action scenes, and how to use an overabundance of explosions to compensate for lack of depth. Episode 27 starts with the intro completely destroyed and even the music distoted due to all the explosions from the previous episode. | |
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Ambition Is Evil | |
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Ambition Is Evil: Lampshaded by Beaubien in "Noble Houses". | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: Instructs writers to have their Anti-Hero protagonist effortlessly slaughter enough people to form an army. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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The protagonist archetype described in "Cyberpunk" is totally not an Adam Jensen Expy. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: "Megacorporations" says that a Mega-Corp should do things that cut into their bottom line despite being an entity whose primary function is to generate profit. | |
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High-Tech Hexagons | |
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High-Tech Hexagons: Serve as the background for the "Cyberpunk" video. | |
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Overshadowed by Controversy | |
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Overshadowed by Controversy: invokedIn "Cosmic Horror" the unchecked parts of the checklist of things to rip off from HP Lovecraft include adding racism to the story, and the subsequent backlash that would ensue. | |
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Meat Moss | |
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Meat Moss: "Survivor Horror" — every level must feature them. | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Invoked in "Cyberpunk" when Beaubien points out that humanity is enslaving androids with super strength. | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!" | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!": Inner Critic gives one when J.P. starts building up to talking about adding a Love Triangle in "Rivals". | |
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Gratuitous Latin | |
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In "Noble Houses", the Love Triangle is one of the Noble House crests, "Amor Triangulo". | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: In "Comic Relief Characters" the main purpose of adding a comic relief character is so the author can change the story's tone if things are getting too serious. Then when the final act starts up, the writer should Shoo Out the Clowns, which is still Mood Whiplash, just in the opposite direction (Silly to serious instead of serious to silly). | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: In "Comic Relief Characters" the sample audience is shown to be happy over the death of the comic relief character. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: In his Alien Invasion, he says that instead of attacking major population centers and making alliances with Earth Governments, the aliens should concentrate on attacking monuments. His "War Stories" video suggests having the competent commander fight alongside his soldiers, even though it wouldn't make sense in modern warfare to do so. In "Fantasy Battles", he says that the forces of evil should respond to an enemy army's charge with one of their own, rather than bracing in a defensive formation or deploying skirmishers. "Giant Monsters" recommends that the military just shoot the monster a few times using tanks and fighter jets, then give up when that doesn't work. | |
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Unlucky Everydude | |
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Suggesting an Unlucky Everydude as a protagonist, to prove that even average people can rise up and face overwhelming odds, only to toss it aside for someone destined for greatness like The Chosen One. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Suggests in "Antiheroes" that the antihero should never suffer any consequences for his actions. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Recommends that the mooks in the Evil Empire should have terrible aim, at least as long they're shooting at main characters. | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: "Giant Monsters" says that a scene with countless innocents dying of radiation poisoning is a perfect time for the comic relief character to start spouting snappy one-liners. | |
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Black-and-White Insanity | |
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Black and White Insanity:invoked "Giving Criticism" suggests only two options for reviewing someone else's work. One can either be a complete sadist who only cares about bashing a work, or a fan who refuses to admit the work has any flaws. One Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Myths, Legends, and Gods" brings up how many stories commenting on religion tend to be one-sided Author Tracts that bash either religion or atheism depending on the author's stance on the issue. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Says this is one of the only options for portraying adults in his "Dystopias" video. The other two options are to make them villains or dead. This also comes up in the "Magic Schools" video in regards to how to portray the teachers. | |
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Hero Insurance | |
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Hero Insurance: "Grimdark" assures that it won't matter if the hero does more damage than the villain — because they're the hero, invoked and "the writer will still make the story demand you root for him even as he slaughters orphans along with all the couples who were going to adopt them." | |
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Warrior Poet | |
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Warrior Poet: The "War Stories" video recommends having the characters pontificate on the nature of conflict and human existence in the middle of a firefight. | |
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MegaCorp | |
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"Megacorporations" has the Mega-Corp's CEO ask the Dark Lord "is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow"? | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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The "Grimdark" video (along with pretty much everything else) has a bit of a specific jab at writers (and commentators whenever they see the contrary) that use "historical accuracy" as a blanket excuse for rampant sexism and racism, and while the series doesn't necessarily advocate for Politically Correct History either, it makes it very clear that half of these people spouting this also tend to suffer from Artistic License – History so at best to take it with a grain of salt. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: "Fantasy Battles" suggests filling a speech with so many cheesy expressions, that the soldiers would rather charge to their deaths than continue listening. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender: invoked"Villains" points out a lot of Discredited Tropes that haven't aged well, such as having the baron be a Creepy Crossdresser to make the audience feel uncomfortable, or having the emperor's troops wearing blue-face to mock an alien species. However, it also mocks cancel culture and the people on the internet who get so easily offended over such tropes, as they're shown in the flaming trash can of Internet culture wars. The villains also struggle to come up with tropes to apply to a villain that won't piss off the internet mobs. "Military Science Fiction" takes potshots at common war aesops that authors use as political soapboxes. The War Is Glorious side sees everyone else as too weak-willed to get things done, but at that time, there's an image of JP with wings getting close to the sun saying "Let's see how close we can get to accidentally advocating fascism!" Meanwhile, the War Is Hell side is shown as hypocritical, preaching about pacifism even when the story is a high-octane power fantasy that portrays all the fights and weapons as cool. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
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Fatal Flaw: In "Zombie Apocalypse" J.P. mentions not one, not two, but eleven flaws that stop zombies from actually being threatening creatures. All which are the product of their frail bodies and limited intelligence. | |
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Blue Blood | |
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Blue Blood: "Alpha Heroes" reccommends giving the alpha male some kind of noble title which would help substitute for an actual personality. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
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Nuke 'em: One of the characters recommended in "Giant Monsters" is a high-ranking military officer who wants to skip straight to nukes after an initial attempt to stop the monster fails. | |
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Destroy the Product Placement | |
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Destroy the Product Placement: "Giant Monsters" mentions that big companies will pay money to have their products be destroyed onscreen. | |
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The Unapologetic | |
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The Unapologetic: "Apology Video Template" recommends not apologizing, and instead using excuses and emotional manipulation to try to get people to drop the matter. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: In Dark Lords, he realizes they've just made their Dark Lord invincible, causing this reaction. | |
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Super-Persistent Predator | |
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Super-Persistent Predator: "Alien Ecosystems": | |
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Orcus on His Throne | |
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Orcus on His Throne: In "Dark Lords" he asserts that a villain who challenges the hero is less interesting that one who spends ten books hanging around his doom fortress sending out progressively-stronger mooks to power-level the heroes. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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Subverted in his "Mary Sue" video. He contemplates that as the villain starts to seem more similar to the main character, it can be used to emphasize to razor-thin difference between good and evil. He then decides it would be better to have the villain act even more evil just for the fun of it so that the protagonist can look good by comparison. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: This comes up in a lot of videos, as he discourages the writer from delving into deep themes or trying to be nuanced and to focus primarily on action scenes. "Dark Lords" in particular has Beaubien shooting down the idea of a story exploring the concept of evil, saying philosophy is the mortal enemy of power fantasy and Wish Fulfillment. He also says that if the story gets the audience to start thinking, they'll begin to have actual expectations for that story. "Spies" recommends that the writer visualize their audience as bloodthirsty cavemen who talk in Hulk Speak. | |
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ShakyCam | |
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Shaky Cam: Encouraged in the "War Stories" video, claiming it won't get on the audience's nerves. | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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In "Character Development", the "Mary Sue" character sheet shows the "flaws" as "too beautiful", as "kind of clumsy" is being erased. Her Back Story is "The Chosen One" as a "half-dragon, half-human, half-elf, third angel, fourth Cherokee." "Powers and abilities" include Super Strength, Super Beauty, Master of Love Triangles, Ultra Magic, and Super Tech, Super Speed, Laser Vision, Elemental Control... | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: "Alpha Heroes" has J.P. suggest making the alpha male a "billionaire highlander werewolf sheikh". In "Zombie Apocalypse" J.P. complains about airvents always being full of zombies, aliens, spies and zombie alien spies. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: "Characterization" opens with Beaubien quoting the aphorism verbatim, and follows it up with "but money is what you will have in the bank if you can fake characterization". | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: He tends to tell you to reference only the most obvious and surface-level archetypes in history and fiction: for instance, if you have an evil empire, you have to base it on the Nazis, the Romans, or both. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: "Megacorporations" advises that the evil corporation should take actions that would kill people, ignoring the fact that said people are customers who buy their products and are partially responsible for the success of the corporation. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Comic Relief Characters" suggests letting the comic relief character have one, with the sample comic relief having the catch phrase "Zappers." | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex | |
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Madonna–Whore Complex: In "Myths, Legends, and Gods", JP lists the Goddess of Corruption (a cross between God of Chaos and Love Goddess) as one of the Gods to include in the pantheon. He has this to say about her role in the love triangle: | |
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Medium-Shift Gag | |
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Medium-Shift Gag: "Addressing the Controversy" is rendered in live action with JP talking directly to the camera, because the "apology" videos the episode parodies are often set up like this to make them appear more sincere. | |
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419 Scam | |
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419 Scam: "Avoiding Scams" heavily implies that Beaubien was the victim of one, since he claims to have let a Nigerian prince borrow his bank account. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: His "Chosen One" video ends with the message that people should just wait for a special person to solve all their problems. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: Points out that a school for children, in "Magic School" should not have so many dangerous monsters and artifacts. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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"Cosmic Horror" sees Beaubien the fact that Lovecraft was a racist, classist xenophobe, and even in-character, he recommends that one avoid emulating this aspect of his bibliography in their own fiction. | |
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Take That! | |
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"Worldbuilding Cultures" is almost entirely a Take That! towards Star Trek, especially the Klingon Empire. | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration: Encourages in "War Stories" for writers to have soldiers to suddenly break into philosophical rambling in the middle of combat to create the illusion of depth. | |
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Scary Dogmatic Aliens | |
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Scary Dogmatic Aliens: In "Alien Ecosystems", he suggests ignoring the many unique possibilities of aliens with a Hive Mind and just making them space communists. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: "Survival Horror": | |
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And Then What? | |
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And Then What?: He recommends stopping a story right after the Evil Empire has been done in... otherwise the author might have to consider the civil strife, decapitated armies, war crimes tribunals, bloody reprisals, factional infighting, endless cycle of violence, and the backslide into utter chaos that usually happens when a major empire goes belly-up. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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The Love Triangle completely overtaking the plot in every genre imaginable. | |
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Throne Made of X | |
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Throne Made of X: The "Taking Criticism" video features the Author Avatar sitting on a throne made of pencils as everybody praises his work. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
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It's also suggested in "Plotting a Story" that only the villain should drive the plot, symbolized by the sample Evil Overlord driving a car with some of the sample heroes as passengers, refusing to listen to their demands to stop and ask for directions. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: In "Myths, Legends, and Gods" the writer becomes so focused on the gods of their fantasy world and its history that the mortal main characters end up getting ignored in favor of them. | |
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Ignored Expert | |
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Ignored Expert: "Giant Monsters" has the "smart scientist" character, who nobody listens to until the halfway point. | |
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Circular Reasoning | |
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Circular Reasoning: His reason for why the rival character should oppose the hero. Similarly, the Dark Lord's primary character trait should be that "he loves power because he... loves power". | |
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Rebel Relaxation | |
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Rebel Relaxation: In "AntiHeroes", this pose is suggested as your Anti-Hero protagonist's default resting pose, complete with the Badass Arm-Fold. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: "Giving Criticism" makes fun of this idea with critics who deride a story because it doesn't suit their personal tastes. | |
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Pandering to the Base | |
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Pandering to the Base: Invoked in his "Taking Criticism" video, saying that it's totally possible to meet the interests of every single person who reads any given work even when some interests contradict each other. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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The end of his video on Plucky Comic Relief has him note the traits of stereotypical bad comic relief: things like an irritating voice, using the same lame gags over and over ("Sarcasm!"), having a catchphrase that they wore out long ago ("Love triangle!"), making references to decades-old jokes (arrow pointing out that JB's avatar is the Awesome Face), and then having the gall to end on a self-deprecating punchline. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: In "Spies", JP says he can't write a charismatic character because he doesn't have any social skills, which is why he became a writer. | |
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Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad | |
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Bad is Good and Good is Bad: The series format discusses how you should use tropes badly and any deep and meaningful discussions should be avoided at all costs, especially if it gets in the way of the Love Triangle. | |
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Our Elves Are Better | |
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Our Elves Are Better: He sarcastically states that the elves should be perfect and condescending, using only the movie versions of The Lord of the Rings as reference. | |
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The Neidermeyer | |
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The Neidermeyer: "War Stories" recommends the inclusion of an incompetent, authoritarian officer. How he reached his position despite his complete lack of leadership abilities should never be addressed. | |
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Malignant Plot Tumor | |
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Malignant Plot Tumor: Expounded on in "Plotting a Story": | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Subverted in "Antiheroes". Despite the Anti-Hero character bearing a strong resemblance to Guts, Beaubien mentioned in the comments section that it was intended as a homage and not as a potshot. | |
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Rugged Scar | |
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Rugged Scar: In "Antiheroes", a scar is suggested as a visual cue for badassery, complete with Perma-Stubble. Of course, it shouldn't detract from your Anti-Hero's appearance. | |
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No Romantic Resolution | |
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No Romantic Resolution: "Love Interests" recommends leaving characters in "relationship limbo" if a writer wants to avoid shippers getting angry at them. | |
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Both Sides Have a Point | |
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"Military Science Fiction" gives this advice for whatever political views the author has. The story should also be one-sided and only validate the author's viewpoint, rather than acknowledge that Both Sides Have a Point. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: This trope gets mocked in a lot of his videos. His "Evil Empire" video in particular lampshades how writers would actually have to put effort into research if they wanted to base their evil empire on any other historical empire such as the Ancient Romans. In "Grimdark", he also encourages basing the bad guys off of Nazi Germany, but then shows a list of empires and how long they lasted, showing how short-lived the Nazi Empire was compared to other empires like the Ottoman and Roman empires. | |
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Generic Doomsday Villain | |
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Generic Doomsday Villain: Recommended in the Urban Fantasy video, because fleshing out the antagonists might detract from the Love Triangle. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: In the "Urban Fantasy" video, he asks whether the story needs a Love Triangle, and says no... not when they can have a Love Dodecahedron. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": At the end of the "Star Wars" video, he's told that he forgot one major Star Wars cliché, then lets out a Big "NO!". | |
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Rent-a-Zilla | |
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Rent-a-Zilla: Brought up in "Giant Monsters", as an antagonist that shows up in the final act out of nowhere. | |
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Aesop Amnesia | |
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Aesop Amnesia: He suggests in "Character Development" that a character who moved past their flaws should regain them for a sequel, rather than getting a new character arc that's a natural outgrowth of the lessons they learned. | |
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Pet-Peeve Trope | |
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Pet-Peeve Trope: invokedJP's tone in "Comic Relief Characters" makes it very clear that he despises disruptive comic relief characters. His Honest Advice article makes it clear that a comic relief character who fits isn't a quarter as annoying; one idea is to create a World of Snark, where everyone has a turn being the comic relief. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: The videos have a Brick Joke comment at the end credits. For example: "The Dark Lord could also consider making his immortal MacGuffin out of titanium." | |
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Nice Hat | |
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Nice Hat: In "Noble Houses", Beaubien snarks that it's easier just to put a fancy hat on a noble rather than establishing World Building and Back Story. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: "Noble Houses" has The Emperor keep putting House Badguys in charge of important Imperial assets even though they keep on ruining them for the sake of being jerks, and later ally with them against House Goodguys only to be shocked when they start plotting against him. | |
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Writing by the Seat of Your Pants | |
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Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: invokedAccording to the "Intrigue Plots" episode, this is the best way to write an intrigue plot, rather than a writer detailing a plan in their personal notes. | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah | |
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Blah Blah Blah: Fills the screen at one point in "Plotting a Story" as the characters all Info Dump exposition at once. | |
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Nap-Inducing Speak | |
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Nap-Inducing Speak: A running gag in the Rivals video has TWA Beaubien often falling asleep during Inner Critic's bouts of criticism. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Gordon Freeman appears in the "Writer's block", "Alien Invasion" and "Survival Horror" videos. Indiana Jones makes a background cameo in "Evil Empires", when actual Nazis show up. "Taking Criticism" has a throne made out of pencils that resembles the Iron Throne. "War Stories" begins with a parody of the speech that Patton opens on. "Post Apocalyptic" opens with "Writing. Writing never changes." At one point in "Post Apocalyptic", the main character has a speech bubble reading "You are already dead." The model antihero in "Antiheroes" looks an awful lot like Guts. "Science Fiction Weapons" has a Humongous Mecha quote lyrics from the theme song of Megas XLR. The opening lines to "Noble Houses" parody those of Romeo and Juliet. The protagonist archetype described in "Cyberpunk" is totally not an Adam Jensen Expy. "Spies" opens with the words "Your mission, should you choose to accept it...". "Megacorporations" has the Mega-Corp's CEO ask the Dark Lord "is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow"? In "Power Fantasy", an overpowered invicible protagonist instantly obliterates the Dark Lord while Beaubien comments "IDDQD and IDKFA!" (two cheat codes from Doom). Also in "Power Fantasy": | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: "Alpha Heroes" suggests giving the protagonist a tragic backstory to justify their obsessive behavior towards the heroine. | |
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Smash to Black | |
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The Smash to Black "conclusion" of "Ending a Story" is a pretty obvious shot at the infamous finale of The Sopranos. Subverted in "Antiheroes". Despite the Anti-Hero character bearing a strong resemblance to Guts, Beaubien mentioned in the comments section that it was intended as a homage and not as a potshot. | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
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Cigar Chomper: The recurring "anti-hero" character frequently has a cigar in his mouth. The Mega-Corp's CEO also has a cigar, fitting for an evil businessman. The "gritty" protagonist in "Spies" is never seen without a cigar in his mouth. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: The "Marketing and Promotion" video, about the ways desperate writers try to sell their books, ends with him musing "I do so enjoy throwing stones from my glass house." In "Science Fiction Weapons", he brings up the idea of the hero using a Sci-Fi sword in a setting with primarily ranged weapons, then snickers and says "What author is dumb enough to do that?" Cue Aeon Legion: Labyrinth cover. In "Megacorporations" the list of "Off the Shelf Villains" includes Dark Lord, Vampire, and Internet Comedian, with the latter being represented by JP's avatar. In "Giving Criticism", this is a Running Gag: From "Alien Invasion": The end of his video on Plucky Comic Relief has him note the traits of stereotypical bad comic relief: things like an irritating voice, using the same lame gags over and over ("Sarcasm!"), having a catchphrase that they wore out long ago ("Love triangle!"), making references to decades-old jokes (arrow pointing out that JB's avatar is the Awesome Face), and then having the gall to end on a self-deprecating punchline. | |
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Too Many Halves | |
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Too Many Halves: In "Character Development", Mary Sue's character sheet says that she's "half-dragon, half-human, half-elf, third angel, fourth Cherokee." | |
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Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery | |
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Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: "Apology Video Template" has J.P. attempt to deflect criticism by claiming to suffer from depression and eosinophilic esophagitis. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: In the "Rivals" episode, Beaubien recommends that the rival be treated seriously even though the hero always defeats him. In "Spies", JP says that since he can't write charismatic characters due to his lack of social skills, he'll just have other characters talk about how charismatic the "Power Fantasy" protagonist is. He also advises you to talk about how your spy is a master of subterfuge and stealth, but also never have him actually act inconspicuous and make every character already know who he is. In "Character Development", JP advises avoiding putting in the effort of actually developing your protagonist when you can just have other characters constantly assert that the protagonist has changed. | |
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Draco in Leather Pants | |
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Draco in Leather Pants: Invoked in the "Slasher Films" video. Once the film ends up becoming a franchise, he advises to shift the focus from the targets of the slasher to the slasher himself, and to glamorize him while overlooking the fact that he is a serial killer. | |
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Cosmic Horror Reveal | |
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Cosmic Horror Reveal: It's encouraged in the video to do so with as little build up as possible to make the tone shift even more jarring. | |
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Vigilante Man | |
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Vigilante Man: "Antiheroes" suggests this as a possibility for the antihero, but that the "justice" aspect of vigilantism should be downplayed. He should kill enough minions to fill an entire army and be okay with torturing people. | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: "Giving Criticism" recommends that a "nice" critic try to avoid saying anything negative about someone's story, and find anything to compliment it on. The example brought up is somebody saying they like the font used to write a terrible story, saying it's better than comic sans. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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In "Cosmic Horror", the Love Triangle takes out Cthulhu. | |
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Obliviously Beautiful | |
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Obliviously Beautiful: "Mary Sue" recommends that the perfect protagonist should be this, because having her be aware of her own beauty might make her look vain, which is a flaw. | |
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BeyondTheImpossible | |
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Beyond the Impossible: In his (Spot-on) parody of youtube apology videos, not only does his hypothetical apology video accrue tens of thousands of dislikes, but he somehow also gets a negative amount of likes. | |
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Sacred Cow | |
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"Giving Criticism" suggests only two options for reviewing someone else's work. One can either be a complete sadist who only cares about bashing a work, or a fan who refuses to admit the work has any flaws. | |
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Sociopathic Soldier | |
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Sociopathic Soldier: "War Stories" recommends that the story include a stock psychopath character in the unit that the story focuses on, so that he can commit war crimes which will allow the story to pretend it's morally complex. It also recommends avoiding the question of why he's still serving on the front lines despite his obvious mental instability. | |
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Nightmare Fuel | |
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Nightmare Fuel: Invoked in "Cosmic Horror", as Beaubien advises that if viewers want to find out how a government can collaborate with a cult, they could look up Colonia Dignidad. "Or don't and sleep better". | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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"Villains" has a Hostile Show Takeover that has the Dark Lord, the Evil Emperor, and the Baron from "Noble Houses" reading over JP's notes on villains. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Noting that adding too much of a particular element turns steampunk into something else (Diesel Punk, Clock Punk, Gaslamp Fantasy, Cattle Punk…) | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: "Giant Monsters" does this to the smart scientist character, with everyone ignoring him until the halfway point when every other plan to stop the giant monster has failed. | |
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Loads and Loads of Characters | |
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Loads and Loads of Characters: Defied in "Myths, Legends, and Gods" when going over the gods of elements. JP suggests using spiritual elements like fire, water, and wind. He advises against making a god for each element of the periodic table (Hydrogen, Carbon, Sodium, etc.) because the pantheon would become too big. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: "Cosmic Horror" includes the following (non-ironic) advice: "Giving Criticism" advises labeling whatever you're criticizing the worst book ever even when compared to the likes of The 120 Days of Sodom, which he says makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Sesame Street. He also shows the book on screen with a caption saying "If you value your sanity do not look up this book!" | |
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Power Fantasy | |
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Power Fantasy: "Spies" suggests turning the action thriller spy story into this. Does an episode on this, and comments on how you should put yourself into them to the point of using them to get petty revenge against everyone who's slighted you in life. | |
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Improbable Age | |
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"War Stories" have a good chunk of the comments note many of the supposed writing flaws actually have basis in reality. Officers being ill-suited for their rank is very common throughout history and even in present day thanks to commission buying. Even the scenario where the officer in question is fresh out of college is a real thing in the US army due to the existence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Veterans have even complained that practically every trope listed in the video is true. | |
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Square-Cube Law | |
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Square-Cube Law: "Alien Ecosystems" recommends flat-out ignoring it. | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
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Dreadful Musician: J.P. claims to be prohibited from singing by "several international treaties" in "Holiday Specials". | |
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DeadlyDecadentCourt | |
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Deadly Decadent Court: The focus of "Noble Houses". | |
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Vanilla Protagonist | |
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Vanilla Protagonist: invokedThis is a recurring archetype character that shows up in the videos: He first appears in "Characterization", with the biography of "Generic Protagonist Person" even stating his favorite flavor is vanilla. They shouldn't have any character trait except that they are the protagonist. He shows up in "Giant Monsters" and is titled "POV Drone", and despite not being a specialist of any kind, is allowed input on how to defeat the giant monster. He's added into the story so for the sake of having a character the audience can relate to. His only trait on his character profile is "Likes Vanilla as much as he lacks insight." | |
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It's Popular, Now It Sucks! | |
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It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: From "Giving Criticism". invoked | |
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Skeletons in the Coat Closet | |
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Skeletons in the Coat Closet: In "Grimdark", the protagonist and antagonist both wear armor with skulls on it. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: At the end of "Worldbuilding Cultures", JP wonders how a fictional culture should handle controversial topics like religion and gender roles. He then tells the audience they're on their own because he's not starting a Flame War on Youtube. | |
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Science Is Good | |
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"Giant Monsters" suggests the day be saved by the smart scientist's plan, which emphasizes that Science Is Good, even though the rest of the story is about how Science Is Bad because it created the giant monster in the first place. | |
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'90s Anti-Hero | |
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'90s Anti-Hero: His "Antiheroes" video mentions how the definition of an antihero is open-ended, but primarily focuses on this kind, which he calls the "cool" kind. He even suggests reading any comic book from the nineties for reference. | |
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Can't Take Criticism | |
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"Taking Criticism" suggests both ignoring all criticism and trying to please everyone. invoked | |
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Romantic Plot Tumor | |
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Romantic Plot Tumor: In-Universe. Beaubien points out many promising story ideas devolve into romance, especially the dreaded Love Triangle. | |
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Famed In-Story | |
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Famed in Story: "Spies" recommends that the "power fantasy" protagonist be well-known in-universe, even though that would be a detriment to somebody in a profession relying on stealth and discretion. | |
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Voice of the Legion | |
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Voice of the Legion: Employed in "Cosmic Horror". | |
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A Million Is a Statistic | |
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A Million Is a Statistic: In "Fantasy Battles", he says that neither the heroes nor the narrative should dwell on the sacrifice of the many nameless soldiers who don't survive the fighting. | |
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Monumental Damage | |
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Monumental Damage: In "Alien Invasion", he recommends that the aliens focus their efforts on destroying famous landmarks, even though it would make more sense for them to attack military targets or logistical infrastructure. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pileup: "Intrigue Plots" focuses on these Tropes. In "Noble Houses", The Emperor and the head of House Badguys both find themselves in need of a "betrayal flowchart". "Villains" brings back the baron from the "Noble Houses" episode in a Hostile Show Takeover. He has a new flowchart detailing a convoluted plan which includes cake ninjas sent to assassinate a duke. | |
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Fantasy Pantheon | |
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Fantasy Pantheon: This is the main focus of "Myths, Legends, and Gods". | |
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Write Who You Know | |
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Write Who You Know: Invoked in "Magic Schools" where he suggests making The Bully a caricature of someone the author knows in real life. | |
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Name McAdjective | |
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Name McAdjective: The traitor among House Goodguys in "Noble Houses" is referred to as "Evil McSchemingson". | |
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All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles | |
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All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: In "Dungeon Master's Guide", reading any edgy manga will cause an Edgelord to become "The Hentai Guy", who constantly makes the other players uncomfortable by injecting their fetishes at arkward places. | |
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Lost in Medias Res | |
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His "Beginning A Story" video ends with the advice to add a flowchart to your story so that readers don't get Lost in Medias Res.invoked | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: "Spies" recommends that the protagonist resort to torturing one of the bad guy's minions for information rather than using more humane and effective means of interrogation that could help establish his humanity and explore how evil organizations ensure the loyalty of their mooks. | |
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Standard Female Grab Area | |
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Standard Female Grab Area: "Love Interests" claims that a simple arm grab can disable even the fiercest and most competent Action Girl. | |
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You're Just Jealous | |
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You're Just Jealous: "Taking Criticism" recommends rebutting critics this way. | |
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Musical Episode | |
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Musical Episode: In "Holiday Specials", it's recommended that the special be a musical, even if it's part of an established series that's "never had a single musical number ever". | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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The "Dystopia" video suggest using such characters to demonize an ideology the author hates and blowing it out of proportion. | |
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Red and Black and Evil All Over | |
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House Badguys have red and black as their colors, constantly wear sinister facial expressions, and are very cruel to their subjects. | |
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Stock Gods | |
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Stock Gods: "Myths, Legends, and Gods" suggests copying the gods of a mythology like Greek or Norse mythology, and then changing their names to avoid copyright lawsuits. | |
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Classic Cheat Code | |
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In "Power Fantasy", an overpowered invicible protagonist instantly obliterates the Dark Lord while Beaubien comments "IDDQD and IDKFA!" (two cheat codes from Doom). | |
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Godwin's Law | |
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Godwin's Law: Says in "Giving Criticism" that it is okay for a critic to compare a writer to any number of authoritarian leaders throughout history (with Hitler implied), and that the writer will totally take the critic seriously because of it. | |
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Expy | |
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Invoked with "Evil Empire", and laser beams curve around the Han Solo and Princess Leia expies. | |
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While You Were in Diapers | |
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While You Were in Diapers: "Holiday Specials" sees the representative of The Conspiracy diss the sci-fi evil emperor by saying "I was manipulating world governments back when your empire was still a city-state on planet backwater". | |
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Unexplained Recovery | |
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Unexplained Recovery: In "Science-Fiction Weapons", the Ancient Conspirators come back to life despite the Dark Lord killing off the last of them in the previous episode. Their leader being mistaken for a ghost (even by people who never met him before) became a Running Gag. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Recommended in "Cosmic Horror", since it saves the author from having to actually describe the Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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In "Grimdark" the two kinds of side characters are reprehensible and amoral scumbags who exist solely for the hero to kill, and people so innocent and pure who exist solely for the author to kill. | |
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InfoDump | |
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Info Dump: In "Character Development", the easiest way to start Character Development is to infodump their Back Story during their introduction. | |
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TheLoad | |
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The Load: "Giant Monsters" recommends adding a Tagalong Kid who will constantly have to be rescued from one danger or another. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
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"Science Fiction Weapons" has a Humongous Mecha quote lyrics from the theme song of Megas XLR. | |
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens: "Alien Invasions" says that one assumption about alien life is safe to make: that alien races will look like humans "but with forehead ridges or something". | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Mildly Military: "War Stories" advises having the competent officer be able to keep the troops under control, despite never punishing anyone for any derelictions of duty. "Military Science Fiction" has JP point out that in real life, the chain of command is everything in a military. However, he advises ignoring that and any commands a commanding officer gives should just be considered advice, rather than an order. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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This happens a few times in his videos when he breaks character. | |
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Not That There's Anything Wrong with That | |
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Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Inner Critic more or less says this when he points out the homoerotic subtext in the "Rivals" video. Even saying that if done well rivals becoming romantic partners (gay or otherwise) could become an interesting dynamic. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Space Whale Aesop: In "Giant Monsters", the POV Drone explains that the reason giant monsters attack humanity is because we abandoned the Gold Standard and failed to keep kids off drugs. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: Frequently. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: In "Alpha Heroes", it's reccommended that the alpha male's more... questionable actions be treated as right and he never get punished for them because of how hot he is. | |
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Cool Airship | |
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Cool Airship: In "Steampunk", it's strongly encouraged to use them as much as you can, even if they aren't the most practical mean of transportation available, or the safest. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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"Ending A Story" does this in a sequence that ends up being All Just a Dream. In the sequence, he says not to worry about making some amazing ending, saying it's the journey that matters, not the conclusion. He compares writing a story to running a race, and points out that even if you run the whole marathon perfectly, if you try to do something like cartwheels as you cross the finish line and mess up, people will only remember you for that even if you ran the rest of the race perfectly. | |
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Guns Are Worthless | |
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Guns Are Worthless: In "Science Fiction Weapons" he mentions that writers get bonus points for using a science fiction-themed sword against enemies who primarily use ranged weapons— especially if they have no protection against said weapons. | |
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Running Gagged | |
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"Grimdark" has JP regularly kill off a small animal for shock value and telling the audience they should feel bad. It ends up Running Gagged as eventually, the bag of animals is empty, with JP noting that the audience is starting to catch on to that trick. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: "Love Interests" recommends using one of these to keep the Unresolved Sexual Tension going. | |
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Decapitated Army | |
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Decapitated Army: He states that once the leader of the Evil Empire is gone, then the conflict is over, even though a new successor could take their place. In "Fantasy Battles", he states that the bad guys should rout or die after the hero defeats their leader in single combat. | |
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Self-Made Man | |
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Self-Made Man: Parodied in "Megacorporations", where the Mega-Corp's CEO says he made his way to the top by murdering baby seals with an oil tanker. Though he admits he's not sure how that made him rich. | |
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Oh, My Gods! | |
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Oh My Gods!: Liberal use of this trope is encouraged in "Myths, Legends, and Gods". | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Said verbatim in his "Mary Sue" video, though he does mention resurrection is an option for the protagonist. According to "Grimdark", every good character should be killed off, and good characters should still exist in the setting despite how out-of-place they would be in a Grimdark setting. | |
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AntiClimax | |
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Anti-Climax: Beaubien advises that the rival's story arc should be concluded in such a manner. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: From the ad at the end of "Science Fiction Weapons": | |
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Ridiculous Procrastinator | |
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Ridiculous Procrastinator: "Writer's Block" recommends that instead of working through getting stuck, one should get inspiration to strike them. Of course, this quickly devolves into blatantly wasting time with increasingly flimsy justifications. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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This comes up a few times in "Military Science Fiction". If you're going for a War Is Hell aesop and preaching about pacifism, then it's okay to indulge in power fantasy and show off a bunch of cool technology, even when said technology is used to murder people. It's also advised to have an aesop about going against the Hive Mind mentality and thinking for yourself, by making sure everyone's beliefs align with the author's political views. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: "Rivals" has J.P. write "no one has time to read all this crap!" over one of Inner Critic's pages of notes. Considering the fact that having so much text in a video defeats the purpose of, well, a video, he's not wrong. | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum: He suggests in "Fantasy Battles" that one should completely ignore how the presence of magic and monsters would require a complete overhaul of traditional medieval tactics and doctrine: nobody should question the presence of fortified walls when dragons or airships render them useless, and nobody should consider abandoning traditional tight marching formations when mages with explosive spells could wipe them out instantly. | |
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Onrushing Army | |
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Onrushing Army: "Fantasy Battles" says that the big final battle should amount to the two armies charging each other in a disorganized mass. | |
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Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards | |
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Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: In an instance of Sincerity Mode, JP does mention in "Noble Houses" that historically speaking, royalty would often hire foreigners into the royal guard because they wouldn't have any ties to the local nobility. He also mentions how this didn't always work out, as royal guards had a tendency of becoming their own political factions. | |
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Science Is Bad | |
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Science Is Bad: Recommended in the "Environmentalism" video, even though the vast majority of solutions to environmental problems would require serious technological advances. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: "Intrigue Plots" says that the conspiracy should always use murder as its first resort, "no matter how messy or expensive it is." Similarly, "Megacorporations" says that the mega corporation should resort to lawsuits only after attempting to use extralegal death squads "because I... ummm... it was in the memo somewhere". | |
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True Art Is Angsty | |
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True Art Is Angsty: Mocked in "Power Fantasy", when he brings up a false dilemma of how a work should be completely thoughtless indulgence in Rated M for Manly cheese, or pseudointellectual pretentious garbage that looks down on the very idea of imagination. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: "Comic Relief Characters" suggests getting rid of the comic relief for the final act, even if it results in Mood Whiplash and the story taking itself too seriously. | |
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RunningGag | |
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In "Giving Criticism", this is a Running Gag: | |
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TheDogBitesBack | |
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The Dog Bites Back: "Giving Criticism" points out that if a critic only focuses on bashing someone's work, when that critic releases something of their own, those writers they bashed will be in the position of critic. | |
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Dear Negative Reader | |
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Dear Negative Reader: The theme of the "Taking Criticism" video.invoked | |
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Follow the Leader | |
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Whenever JP suggests copying the work of a more successful author, it involves him missing the point of what made those authors successful: In "Fantasy Races" he states writers should copy and paste the fantasy races designed by J. R. R. Tolkien while completely ignoring the themes of his works. For George R. R. Martin, he thinks writers should put more emphasis on killing off major characters for shock value rather than focusing on characterization to make readers attached to said characters. With H. P. Lovecraft, he puts more emphasis on making cool monster designs rather than his themes of how the universe is a Crapsack World. | |
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Foe Romance Subtext | |
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Foe Romance Subtext: Encourages writing this between the hero and the rival instead of fleshing out the Love Triangle between them and the designated love interest. | |
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Non-Ironic Clown | |
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Non-Ironic Clown: One of these is used to represent poorly-written comic relief characters in the "Romantic Subplots" video. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In "Noble Houses", Beaubien tells the viewer to avoid a growing merchant class marrying into the nobility, because inevitably, the static worldbuilding will be ruined by said merchants trying to convert the aristocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited noble powers. In the ending of the video it's revealed the merchants used the feuding between House Goodguys and House Badguys to draft a constitution and limit the Emperor's powers. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Encouraged to give The Chosen One or the Anti-Hero this in lieu of actual challenges to face. In the Anti-Hero's case, it's to be merely implied so the Love Interest will want to provide Intimate Healing, rather than actually described in sufficient detail. | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You: In a "Grimdark" setting, everything is trying to kill you, including and especially space where Cosmic Horror awaits. | |
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