[ SECRET POST #5931 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5931 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have sources on this being a female character specific thing? It's a pretty common trope in general and I think that's fine in stuff for kids. Real kids reading the book will never have powers, and it's nice to be reminded that it's not some imaginary powers that you'll never have that will make you live a happy life.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, off the top of my head I can think of several girls but zero boys whose happy ending involves losing their powers, but I'm open to hearing otherwise. NAYRT but I see their point.

[(Anonymous)]

The only male character that comes to mind is Edward Elric.

[(Anonymous)]

And in his case, it was very much an informed decision on his part, in line with the entire theme of Equivalent Exchange

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a pretty common trope in magical girl series that the girls ultimately lose their powers in the end. Which, okay, it sort of makes sense in that they don't need their powers anymore once the world is safe, but why can't they keep them? It always seemed decidedly unfair to me when most of the male characters in the shounen series I read got to keep theirs.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's really fair to expect Roald Dahl to have been familiar with gendered anime tropes and choose to subvert them.