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'''Concepts Are Cheap''' is the natural result of writers stuffing their narratives with lots of glossy one-size-fits-all words, rather than inventing motivations which emerge organically from the character's experiences. Like a cheap meal, it leaves you empty two hours after you've finished the work. Sure, the hero might have just told the villain that 'freedom' is better than 'tyranny' and then struck him with his laser sword, thus (violently) winning 'peace' for all 'mankind'. But why? Why did he care? Why should ''we'' care?
And would anyone but a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] ''say'' that tyranny is better than freedom?<ref>[[Rhetorical Question Blunder|If "freedom" means "freedom to starve" and "tyranny" guarantees food is provided, plenty of people would.]]</ref>
[[Values Dissonance]] can hit with some of these concepts. [[For Science!]] was a cheap concept in [[The Fifties]] (positive or negative, depending on [[Mad Scientist|the sanity of the scientist]]).
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* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' skillfully uses this trope as a plot point. It turns out that the point of Celestial Being sending hundreds of people home in bodybags in the name of "peace" was to {{spoiler|create a peace by making themselves the entire world's common enemy.}}
* One problem with ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''. On one hand, one ([[Decoy Protagonist|possible]]) protagonist has the Destiny Gundam. And his opponents are piloting machines with the names Freedom and Justice.
* For somebody who claims to fight for "Love and Justice", Sailor Moon gets awfully jealous, with no real evidence, of any girl her boyfriend spends any time with during ''[[Sailor Moon]] R''.
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