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{{quote|''"Once there was a beautiful girl named [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]], who lived with seven dwarfs, and they lived [[Happily Ever After]]." Pretty dull, isn't it?''|'''A Disney special on the importance of villains'''}}
This is the basic problem to overcome in a story, the driving force. If you don't have
More than any other trope, save for the [[Characters]] who are in a conflict, this is vital to fiction. You can likely find loads of theories and [[Books
Of course not every work in media needs conflict, but those tend to be non-fiction
Conflict can also come in many forms. According to Arthur Quiller-Couch, there are seven kinds of conflict, creating seven basic plots (Not to be confused with ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' by Christopher Booker, which articulates a theory closer to that of [[
# '''[[Violence Tropes|Man vs. Man]],''' as in Character(s) vs Character(s).
# '''[[Internal Conflict Tropes|Man vs. Self.]]'''
# '''Man vs. Nature''' or other [[You Would Not Want to Live In Dex|Host]][[Hostile Weather|ile]] [[River of Insanity|Enviro]][[
# '''Man vs. Society.'''
# '''Man vs. God/Fate,''' or anything cosmic like those.
# '''Man caught in the Middle,''' of other characters/conflicts.
# '''[[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast|Male and Female.]]''' <small>Quiller-Couch was [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|persuaded]] to remove the
Going beyond Quiller-Couch's list, there is also
* '''Man vs. Machine,''' <small>as in [[Exactly What It Says
Traditionalists boil it down to the first [[Rule of Three|three]], redefining "Man" as a defeatable entity and "Nature" as anything that has to be survived or changed rather than defeated. According to the three basic conflicts, [[Zombie Apocalypse]] would thus be Man Vs. Nature.
Now it seems that some fiction doesn't have conflict, but even then it's presented as a challenge, which is the third type of conflict. See [[No Antagonist]].
It could be said that [[Mary Sue]] stories are weak because there is no conflict in how the Sue achieves things, or that the conflict is so weak and ineffectual that it still comes across that way (as with [[Anti
A [[Super
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* [[Contrived Stupidity Tropes]] (when the conflict comes from contrivances)
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