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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-11 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2109 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

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Re: How do you guys feel about the butt-monkey trope?

(Anonymous) 2012-10-11 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it actually sometimes can really work to a character's advantage, to be honest. Like, in the Avengers, Tony makes a fool of himself in front of Pepper with the 12% thing, makes a fool of himself in front of Steve with the full-tilt diva thing, gets the snot beaten out of him by Thor, gets casually bitchslapped out of the frame mid-sentence while Thor is arguing with Steve, gets mashed in the Helicarrier blades and tumbled around like a ball in a pinball, gets kicked around and thrown out a window by Loki, etc etc, which serves to really put a big dent in his arrogance and obnoxiousness and makes him seem a lot less smug or irritating than he would if things had gone swimmingly for him the whole movie, especially because those things are either a) stuff he totally brought on himself or b) due to him doing something heroic and brave.