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Re:TropeTwist: Trope-Based Narrative Structure Generation by babyshake on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:22PM (#36345252)
Rick and Morty, also from Dan Harmon, frequently comments on the tropes it is utilizing.
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Re:TropeTwist: Trope-Based Narrative Structure Generation by jhbadger on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:36PM (#36346168)
That's a clever way of having your cake and eating it too -- use tired old tropes but have the characters comment that they know they're tired old tropes.
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Re:TropeTwist: Trope-Based Narrative Structure Generation by groovy2shoes on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:30AM (#36356281)
Itself an instance of hanging the lampshade.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

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Re:TropeTwist: Trope-Based Narrative Structure Generation by wasimanitoba on Sunday June 18, 2023 @10:04AM (#36380395)
every concept will eventually have been expressed or referenced somewhere, so we have a system where every single possible scenario becomes a "trope" with a tidy label.

what - aside from gibberish or nonsense - isn't a trope at that point?

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