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That's a fair argument, @Umbire the Phantom. Upon further review, the trope does seem to have as much a narrative as a personal element, but ultimately the goal is, from the writer perspective, to incite drama regarding those emotions of the reader/viewer. The other aspects of the trope seem incidental to that raison d'etre.