Most people think that a gary stu or mary sue characters are trashBefore I start let me clarify some things. This is not an attack on anyone but an actual question. Is it just failed attempts at drama? Is it something going over my head? Why is it so common in the adventure genera, that it feels like 70% of these stories have it? Also, I understand that some stories, like tragedies, are all about suffering, but I am not talking about those. I am talking about when said suffering is unneeded, unexpected, and, oftentimes, the story would barely change if the scene(s) was replaced with something more benign. I am also not talking about those edgy stories we wrote as kids when rebelling while saying things like ‘morality is nothing more than the chains that tie us down and keep us weak’. I am asking why add unneeded random suffering in something like a romcom?
Often times whenI am reading some action/adventure story, it randomly becomes some sort of suffering or torture porn. Justifying it by saying it is the proof that you can not be nice, but the amount of pain they create at that point is absurdly unrealistic in that situation. It is like killing someone because they stuttered in a typical romcom. It just feels unwanted, cheap, and edgy to me.
It also isn’t always physical pain, but also sometimes emotional pain. Too often a character will randomly betray someone because the protagonists life needs to start as a tragedy, or there will be a arbitrary 50 page disagreement over something so esoteric that the conflict feels as if it is just put there for conflicts sake. I understand that this is now often meme’d on in the young master/lady trope, but I am not talking about that. I am talking about your typical fantasy story where a party is randomly torn apart because LotR did it, or a romance where the partners misunderstand eachother, and now look for someone else while everyone is unhappy until the very end of the story, and yet the situation could be fixed with two or three sentences. Seriously, what is the point to that suffering?
EdgeBefore I start let me clarify some things. This is not an attack on anyone but an actual question. Is it just failed attempts at drama? Is it something going over my head? Why is it so common in the adventure genera, that it feels like 70% of these stories have it? Also, I understand that some stories, like tragedies, are all about suffering, but I am not talking about those. I am talking about when said suffering is unneeded, unexpected, and, oftentimes, the story would barely change if the scene(s) was replaced with something more benign. I am also not talking about those edgy stories we wrote as kids when rebelling while saying things like ‘morality is nothing more than the chains that tie us down and keep us weak’. I am asking why add unneeded random suffering in something like a romcom?
Often times whenI am reading some action/adventure story, it randomly becomes some sort of suffering or torture porn. Justifying it by saying it is the proof that you can not be nice, but the amount of pain they create at that point is absurdly unrealistic in that situation. It is like killing someone because they stuttered in a typical romcom. It just feels unwanted, cheap, and edgy to me.
It also isn’t always physical pain, but also sometimes emotional pain. Too often a character will randomly betray someone because the protagonists life needs to start as a tragedy, or there will be a arbitrary 50 page disagreement over something so esoteric that the conflict feels as if it is just put there for conflicts sake. I understand that this is now often meme’d on in the young master/lady trope, but I am not talking about that. I am talking about your typical fantasy story where a party is randomly torn apart because LotR did it, or a romance where the partners misunderstand eachother, and now look for someone else while everyone is unhappy until the very end of the story, and yet the situation could be fixed with two or three sentences. Seriously, what is the point to that suffering?
It's like filler chapter/episodes. Some author want to make their story longer.Seriously, what is the point to that suffering?