My Favorite Tropes 

So true! I thought that too. I love tropes and the fact that we're able to categorize and name them nowadays. Only because we do that doesn't make the fact that tropes exist bad. They existed before we had names and values for them.

@@hendrikscheepers4144 True, but with the mere concept of tropes I also realized a weird behavior. I can't talk for everyone, but to me it was a life-changing experience to first learn about tropes. I'm a bit of a pattern seeking nerd who tried to understand tropes before even knowing there's a glossary for them, so I love reading about tropes. But I also realized that the understanding of them sorta disenchanted storytelling a little. I'm no longer a viewer in awe, but I observe the magician's tricks. Not everyone is as happy with that place though. Some people love stories for the entertainment, not so much for the mechanical parts, so they don't actually like seeing how a story is composed. And thus, when they realize tropes are there, they feel disappointed. There's truth in the saying "TVTropes will ruin your life". But your point is as valid and there. Seeing tropes as an independent concept soon leads to mixing it up with clichés that we try to call out and purge, instead of as tools that we try to understand and utilize. What this trope issue reminds me of is of music theory. Someone who studies it a little bit might not enjoy a lot of songs anymore if they think too hard about the composition.

Almost everything is a trope. What people actually dislike are clichés, and even then they’re popular for a reason: people like them. A cliché doesn’t even necessarily have to be a bad thing, especially if it’s presented in a new way or a way that subverts it.

It's basically impossible to write a book without tropes.

sometimes we need to feel that thing we like, again and again. It's like four chord songs, sometimes you hate them, other times you can't ever get enough of them.

I completely agree with that as well. As much as I want more platonic friendship I also love friends to lovers

As a person who married to the person who she was friends with for 3 years before getting together as a couple, this is my favorite thing to read. In the same vein I really struggle with enemies to lovers, I just don’t understand how that could ever work.

@@MarjoleinVeenendaal I do enjoy a good enemies to lovers but it is more difficult to pull that off

I hate this trop so much, the same goes with instant love, they both suck for me😂.

@Julia Lerner A really good execution for enemies to lovers is Pride and Prejudice

Life imitating art!

Found family is amazing

What exactly are found families? Just a group of Friends?

@@handhelder823 a group of people who aren't blood related but act just like a family

@@Emancy3 as in, with designated roles, or...?

And the sand, it's coarse, rough, it gets everywhere.

Haha right? I basically grew up in the desert and...nope!

@@pemryjanes5789 🤣🤣

@Mr Temporal that is true, but in my mind an adventure through a humid jungle seems epic. A quest via sandy planes... I will politely decline 😅

Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert? Lawrence: It's clean.

I swear.

EXACTLY

The master of mentors

I almost flipped my table...

Iroh from avatar and Reigen from Mob Psycho 100 are my all time favorite mentors

I feel like the Harry/Hermione/Weasley dynamic absolutely counts.

It definitely counts

@@kenna176 yeah I really like the dynamics of the main trio in Harry Potter!!

You should read six of crows

@@mykneehurts7436 no

Try best served cold instead

I wanna see that video, so much :)

I would read that book

Go the next step, and try to ruin her tropes? Do them *that* badly...?

​@@jayferguson9968 then get M. Night Shyamalan to do a movie with all this tropes and let the train wreck begin!!!

@@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244 :eyes:

Snape! He was the most morally-grey character in Harry Potter, spends so much time seeming antagonistic towards Harry until you realize the reason in Deathly Hallows. Merphy's right, black-and-white hero and villain characters are boring, Legend of the Seeker did well with Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, and Darken Rahl

I'm the same way though lol. The only books that I don't mind with a talking animal companion is His Dark Materials because the animal is supposed to be the person's soul or subconscious speaking to them.

@@ashleyelisabeth4 I'm the opposite. I mostly enjoy talking animals (unless they're only there for comic relief) but hate talking objects. The only exception so far being the talking sword Löwenzahn (Dandelion) in the book Rumo from Walter Moers :D

@@Eagle_Owl2 Yeah, with talking objects and animals it always depends with how they're used in the story otherwise I'm not going to like it.

@@ashleyelisabeth4 I really like Animal Farm. I think that book is perfect with the setting and love that you follow all these Animals.

yeah i'm there with her

oh my god stop!!!!!

Oh, I've read it too. It's the Napier Archives.

💀💀💀 Seriously though that sounds like an AMAZING book

Are you for real?? Is this a thing??

@@erinyes3943 It depends how you define "real." And "thing." And however you define them, the answer is no.

Sheldon Cooper

Dr. Reid 😁(Criminal Minds)

Death in Paradise & Doctor Who!!

The Mentalist

Won't be surprised that many bought it because of her. Muself included. It is very good

I hope you love it!

Kelsier,from what book??

@@o.k.e7337 mistborn

@@justebernotaite 😄

@@Sssssssssssssssssssssss817 Thanks

@@o.k.e7337 your welcome. If u like fantasy u should try it

Re zero is perfect for something simillar to edge of tomorrow only in epic fantasy setting.

Dark is soooooo good!

Gravity falls is great!!!!!

Dark is also time loop

Gravity Falls is such a fantastic show. I will keep re-watching it forever.

Yep the talking arrow from trials of Apollo too!

But the OG series is still the best

Apollo's Shakespearean arrow😌

Ah yes Jack😌

The only Rick Riordan I ever read was The 39 Clues I think. I always meant to check out his other work but never got to it.

I mean....you can't be in a relationship with EVERYONE. Why not both?!?

@@hotplotsandsynonyms agreed. Btw which one do you prefer between friends to lovers and enemies to lovers

@@a.morphous66 best example: One day

@@a.morphous66 explain how this works for me please since my brain can’t comprehend this right now 😂. How is it friends to lovers if they stay platonic?

@@a.morphous66 and adding a romantic bond would then make it romantic. They aren’t mutually exclusive. If you get into a romantic relationship, you are no longer in a platonic relationship. They’re two separate things. As soon as you bring romance, it changes the whole dynamic. You can still like each other and be best friends, but it’s no longer platonic then. You just happen to have a romantic relationship with your best friend.

Same

The bromance!! I love them so

Oh my gosh I 💕 that show!!

I love their bromance so much. If anyone has any recommendations for books or tv shows or movies that have relationships like this please do tell!!

Curious what series this was?

@@theoutsider8226 it's an Israeli series, so I doubt that you can see it ;') (unless you know Hebrew)

Yeah and she hasn't even seen him do much, except for wiskey peak and mr1. Can't wait to hear her reaction to nothing happening.

What Zoro is doing right now will blow her mind

@@inspiringer6418 no question about it.

Whole Cake is completely better when you read it as a whole instead of week by week.

Facts!! Can’t wait

Theres a lot of things that she lists that'd apply to OP lol

@@GD-oe5ws Agreed, I reread the whole arc recently and it was sooo much better. Same thing with dressrosa

I make a huge mistake by watching the arc as a anime instead reading it as manga.

So many good friendships in LOTR! Frodo and Sam are great, but I might love Legolas and Gimli even more - going from a background of prejudice to totally inseparable with a fun, sassy dynamic. They don't always get each other's interests (trees, underground rocks) but they support them, and Legolas even delays leaving Middle Earth with his people (for centuries, if I remember correctly) to keep hanging out with Gimli. (Hmm. That kind of sounds like I ship them. Not originally, and not necessarily. But Frodo x Sam is way too sad and has weird class dynamic, so if you were going to go there...).

@@emilymoran9152 I absolutely agree with you on Legolas and Gimli’s friendship!! I might be able to decide whether I like Sam-Frodo more than Legolas-Gimli, after reading The Return of the King though…Legolas and Gimli’s friendship developed so gradually, yet so wonderfully! ( I don’t ship them, but I can absolutely see why one might)

The Emma Approved series showcased that aspect of the novel so well!

Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone. You've got a heist, Elemental magic, found family and more

That's my all-time favourite book!!

I forgot that, all I could think of was Beauty and the beast Luminare and cogsworth and mrs.pot and chip

@@taylorhagen3916 beauty and the beast is always a worthy inclusion!

Yes yall people know your stuff

Oh my gosh totally, I was just thinking JACK when she said that

Murphy's Law is best law. And worst law.

This is the masterstroke of any good novel and the backbone of bestseller status...

@@jchinckley Truly! And yet I don't see it enough!

Had she read dark tower series? I am new to her channel.

I know she has read some Stephen King, but not sure on DT series?

The angst of it all makes everything 100% better

I also kind of love it when you don’t see it coming. Not like stupid like Hans but well done and not predictable.

The Luggage from the Discworld is also great.

I always enjoyed the Magic Carpet from Aladdin as a kid. Non verbal characterization is fun

And it even has something else she mentioned in the video, but that would be spoilery talk. Merphy doesn't watch much stuff, though this one really deserves her attention.

I've heard it compared to Stranger Things a lot, would you say it's kinda similar? Stranger Things is my favourite show so anything similar to it I would like to watch

@@AngstyRat Only the first episode feels a bit like Stranger Things but after that it’s way cooler than ST imo and I really like ST. This show is made with much more intent and planning, they planned 3 seasons and that’s what they did and you truly understand the whole story after that. With ST they only planned 1 season (I think, that’s what it feels like at least) and they did that one brilliantly, but other seasons are more like add-ons. That’s the big difference between the two for me. Dark asks much more involvement from the viewer and if you’re up for that, it’s one of the best shows!

@@lvincentee ok I'll check it out! Sounds pretty interesting :)

@@AngstyRat oh great! I’d love to hear what your thoughts are

I expected that too! :D

I love the amazing friendship between Gon and Killua!

Still sad about the ending tho...

@@xfairfaeriex and I just remembered that hxh is a perfect example for a boy leaving the small village troupe.

Another anime she would probably like is Black Clover..

@@islasullivan3463 the manga would be a much stronger recommendation in this case. though, some of the fight scenes are just godly, not gonna lie.

haymitch is literally my favorite ever

That's exactly what I was thinking 🤔

To be fair, I think they tend to end up with different personalities. Talking animals are (usually) more annoying, but talking objects have a lot more wiggle room (often more wise or even just funny).

omg fr please check out dark, merph its perfect for you!!

You should read a couple things if you haven't already, but they're webtoon/manga things. Gosu is on the Webtoons app and the other one actually has more of the tropes mentioned in other comments--that one is called Peerless Dad and both are well done. Both are Fantasy based martial arts stories by Korean authors/artists.

@@jchinckley Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll definitely have to check those out

Fool! XD Excalibur is amazingly obnoxious as are his mandatory story times

ohh net opgezocht, klinkt goed!

I wish there was a sequel to Warbreaker! Susebron could embody this very well.

Completely agree. Also, it's nice to see modern cartoons create male rolemodels that show compassion for their enemies and seek nonviolent solutions. That stuff's important to teach young boys. Though I think this trope needs to reeeally challenge those characters morals to make it interesting. I want to see a character like that being challenged with an enemy that they cannot sway or redeem and that can't be dealt with peacefully. Force them to kill, show me the aftermath and their resulting inner turmoil and I'll probably eat that shit up.

I love really strong black and white morality, too, and principles that are never compromised. I love a good person with their back to the wall, sure they are going to die/lose but never relenting; that's like one of my favorite things ever in anything. Syme's swordfight with the Marquis in The Man Who Was Thursday, the final battles in The Lord of the Rings, some fanmade Warhammer content surrounding the Guard, etc.

Heyy, mine is tomorrow 😟

If you like teen spies, I recommend The Gallagher Girls books ;)

Yep!

Halt is the coolest man. One of the only YA series I've ever enjoyed.