Anonymous
10/24/2025, 9:11:17 PM
No.150982661
>>150981867
>Repeating themes across various shows didn't used to be called tropes, they were called cliches
A cliché is a trope that's been overused to the point it's lazy and unimaginative to use it in writing. A "trope" is just anything that's appeared more than once in fiction. But you're right that people get them confused, often in the really stupid way of thinking every trope is a cliché and therefore all writing is bad because everything contains "tropes".
>Repeating themes across various shows didn't used to be called tropes, they were called cliches
A cliché is a trope that's been overused to the point it's lazy and unimaginative to use it in writing. A "trope" is just anything that's appeared more than once in fiction. But you're right that people get them confused, often in the really stupid way of thinking every trope is a cliché and therefore all writing is bad because everything contains "tropes".