Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Trope Talk/Cleaning up of questionable tropes/reply (10)

My take:


 * Affably Evil: I see it this way: Let's say you know a guy shows perfect manners to you whenever you meet them. They also happen to be a shady prick who tricks people into buying crappy cars at high prices, but outside of that, they are otherwise a pleasant person and they genuinely mean it. To me, this trope is for people who are unarguably villainous but can show genuine decency regardless of whatever makes them unlikeable otherwise.
 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Afraid I disagree. You can show ten people the same event, then take them off one by one and ask their opinion, and you can get ten different reactions. Basically, reactions on characters can vary from person to person, especially if the character in question has murky enough motives you can't really tell just what their actual motivation is.
 * Ambiguous Disorder: Granted, as someone with autism, I would find this insulting, but before autism was diagnosed, this trope would have been the best way to consider autism since it was so poorly defined people knew I had something mentally wrong upstairs (or at least different and socially limiting in a mental capacity), but they didn't know exactly what, and for all they knew, it could have been conscious character quirks.
 * Complete Monster: Agreed. This wiki has several tropers hoping to vet this trope and its examples more carefully, maybe you'd like to join their effort?
 * Dead Little Sister: Maybe something like "Fallen Family Member"? I do agree it could use a better name if it is so generally defined, so I'm open to ideas.
 * Hot-Blooded: Yeah, this sees a lot of hyperbolic nonsense, and I don't entirely disagree, as being Hot Blooded does not equal badass, just tends to be something badasses are quite a bit, but the correlation equals causation fallacy that results in the trope being conflated with Badass is rather bad, and any cleanup you want to do would be great.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: Having relatives who served, I can understand your feelings, but do keep in mind PTSD can affect anyone, good or bad, and a character who is evil who had wartime experience prior to becoming a villain or it made the villainy more profound would have this trope apply, just like it would to a good guy. It doesn't excuse any evil on their part of course, though it would explain it's origins.
 * Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes and Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains: YMMV. I find the type labels useful, some don't.
 * The Woobie and it's subtropes: Yeah, this one sees a far bit of abuse, almost certainly does need cleanup to some degree.