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Undead Bones
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just testing mixed tropes from my main blog @thelandswemadeofpaper its kinda of a draft, so a bit messy :/
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undead-bones · 11 months ago
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Rebel cuz didn’t get a Throne/Title
Foster Daddy Issues
Tai Lung
Loki
Xanxus
I-live-bitch
Kinda antagonist for an while
Jason Todd
Bucky Barnes
Obito Uchiha
Touya Todoroki
Mika from Owari no Seraph
And Helbram from Nanatsu no Taizai
Sara from Hunstman: Winter War
Valka
From the past
Dead all Along
Turned into a ‘creature’ of sorts.
Both with an older and not-actually-evil sibling who is a Death Seeker.
Their stories are so goddanmit similar
Natsu
Alice Baskerville
The Traveller from Genshin weirdly enought, have a lot of similarities
You-lack-hate-Cesar
Zeref
Itachi
Touya
Sesshomaru
Asura
Evil Daddy Issues
Zuko
Todoroki Shouto
Lotor
Lelouch
Atoner
Kinslayer
Itachi
Maglor
Wei Wuxian
Two guys have a rivality because of a Lost Lenore
Obito and Kakashi
Daemon Spade and Giotto di Vongola
Ban and King (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Rimuru and Leon
I fully belive Shigaraki and Touya are based on Itachi and Obito.
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undead-bones · 11 months ago
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Actually Good
Kinda trying to test you?
Yue and Eriol
Zeref
Hollow Ichigo
Clockwork (DP)
King En with Taiki (Twelve Kingdoms)
Shannon (Magus Bride)
Natural Enemies
Soul Society x Hollows
Enemy Families/Kingdom
Arc Villain
Shove Talk-no-Jutsu on their Asses
Kurama and Hiei (YYH)
Gaara
Mukuro (KHR)
Trope Chosen Wannabe
Draal (Trollhunters)
Syaoran (Card Captor)
Xanxus (KHR)
Conflict of Loyality After a Reveal
Leo Baskerville
Alone (Lost Canvas)
Allen Walker
Theon Greyjoy
Ishida Uryuu (fake)
Neutral and Independant / Wild Cards / Aloof Ally
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune
Sailor Saturn
Sesshomaru
Cartaphilus
Accelerator
Grey Conflict of Opinions/Goals
Golden Saints
Samon Kusaribe (Zetsuen no Tempest)
Wei Wuxian
Thranduil
Toneri Otsutsuki
Drakon (Sinbad)
Create Your Own Villain
Killmonger
Muramasa
Sojiro Kusaka
Scar (FAB)
We don’t talk about Bruno
Hela
Wei Wuxian
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undead-bones · 1 year ago
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Moral Tropes
Saved From Their Own Honor
Cold Equation
Cruel Mercy
Cruel to be Kind
Death Before Dishonor
Debate and Switch
To Be Lawful or Good
Honor Before Reason
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Both Side have a Point
Moral Event Horizont
Moral Dilema
Lesser of Two Evils
Not Quite the Right Thing
Why Can't I Hate You?
Morality Pet
You are not Ready
Just Shoot Him
Armor-Piercing Question
This is Between Us
I Did the Necessary
Sacred Cow
Sadistic Choice
All for Nothing
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Relationship Tropes
Lima Syndrome
Claiming a child you know its not yours
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Enemies to Lovers
Lovers to Enemies
Foe Romance Subtext
Villainesses Want Heroes
I Will Find You
Parent with New Paramour
Facade Marriage
Solomon Divorce
Rejected Marriage Proposal
Love Matyr
Settle for Sibling
Stolen Lover
Single Line of Descent
Taking the Kids
Mother Owl
New Child Left Behind
Half-Sibling Angst
Doormat
Mother of a Thousand Young
Morality Pet/Chain
Shoo the Dog
Forbidden Contact
And Now You Must Marry Me
Love Obssesion
'Luke, I am Your Father' Reveal (or similar)
Frenemies
Forbidden Friendship
Mixed Heritage
Paramour
Fire Forged Frenemies
Enemies in Law
Old Flame/Ex
Found Family
Fake Family
Nurture versus Nature
Parental Figure
Break Up
"Not So Different" Remark
Emotional Dependance
Fish out of the Water
Mentor's New Hope
Unbalanced By Rival's Kid
Paternity Fraud
Beauty and the Beast
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Some Death Tropes
Immortality
You Should Have Died Instead
Defeated and Trophified
Balancing Death Book
Kill the Ones You Love
Died Without (Giving?) Answers
Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
Widow
We Need Them Alive
Died in a Attempt to do Something (Failed or Sucessful)
Poison the Water Fountain
If I Can't Have You. No One Can
Killing the Caster Won't Stop The Curse
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Laws and Formulas
Formula with a Twist
Anthropic Principle
Redemption Earns Life
Departure means Death
The Laws of Magic
Your Magic's No Good Here
The Ending Changes Everything
Failure Is the Only Option
Finagle's Law
Sparse List of Rules
Sorting Algorithm
Set Swords to Stun
Sanderson's First Law
Code Silver
Equivalent Change
Exact Words
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Bothering by the Book
Due to the Dead
Evil Tower of Ominousness
Laser-Guided Karma
Liminal Time
Merciful Minion
Once Upon a Time
Please Shoot the Mensager
Intangible Theft
Red-Headed Stepchild
Rash Promise
The Promise
Secret Identity
Hitchhiker Heroes
Involuntary Shapeshifter
Threshold Guardians
When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Trail of Bread Crumbs
Changeling Tale
Forbidden Fruit
Don't Go in the Woods
The Hedge of Thorns
The Big Bad Wolf
Admiring the Abomination
Animal Eye Spy
Captive as an Resource
Pieces of God
Too Good To Be True
Too Broken to Break
Beware the Superman
Fallen Burden
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Two characters split for a time and, when reunited, they are on different sides. Make a twist of the ‘found out my dead friend is alive and working with the enemy’ to the villian’s friend instead of the hero’s
Someone who knows you but you don’t remember them (An villain? You were friends or enemies? Amnesic? A long lost relative? May be a case of Good all Along).
An member of the Good Faction that is somehow related to the Enemy (or one of the ‘Evil’ Nation/Race) is killed an revenge by proxy (can also be an hostage). Or an defector still has family/friends in the Former Faction and they are punished for said defector’s actions.
Characters with similar origins but different fates. Like…the children of a usurped king, one managed to run away and the other remains captured by the Usurper. Or a more vast exemple, the characters don’t need to be that close or know each other: refugees from a fallen Kingdom, one escapes and starts a organization seeking revenge, the other finds haven in the Kingdom who destroyed theirs.
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Types of 'bashing' situations (please add more):
A character with a unique power/ability is wanted and perhaps hunted down. Orphans are easier to take under your control.
The character is a pawn of sorts. Fake friends, 'convenient' dead parents and hidden information are the most common ideas. If made any friends/mentors that the manipulator disaproves, they would try to get 'rid' of said people (False Accusations and Unjust Imprisioned? Mindfuckery? Sealing? Secret Murdered? Declared a Traitor? Breaking the Friendship? Control?). Or kill an lover (and even children, legitimate or bastard, and if you want to go even darker: a 'convenient miscarriage') to free them up to your own choice of spouse. Attempt to isolate and break them. Or kidnap his wife and children latter to use them if in a 'run away' case.
The 'previous pawn of the manipulator' can be a interesting character. Are they suppose to be death? Turned 'evil'? My mind goes to Xanxus, Touya and even Hella (because I hate Odin).
A wronged group, maybe a clan like the Uchiha or a ethnicy like Ishvalans, can include fantasy prejudice. The 'last survivor' can be used as a pawn to get something that only his/her people can (money, a bloodline, mcguffin, knowledge).
Sealing/Killing someone because they are too dangerous/power to be free, bonus if they try to use them as an weapon, power source or a battery of sorts. To power an city? Suply magic? Use their powers for something (I am still pissed at Hashirama for the Jinchuuriki bullshit, fuck him).
An friend being mindcontroled/possessed/infected, turned into an monster, having an cursed power or whatever and the 'good guys' want to simple kill them. Or nuke an city for similar reasons.
Capitalism. This one has a lot of opportunities to work with. Or anything similar to real life with an fantasy version, like an race having blood that can heal or cry jewels (like koorimes in YYH), fur or bones wanted in the market, or creature (sapient?) being keep an prized pet, an magical type of tree that is needed to make something. A bad product/drug (can be an 'good' product, like one that heals, but made of people resources), ingredients for potions or delicacy, entrainment (what type? songs? carriage?) . Maybe a nobleman wanting (or feeling entitled to it, duo begin descendants of a Hero or something like that?) to have a magical creature or artefact (Mononoke has something similar).
Tropes Names: Solid Gold Poop, Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product, Eye of Newt, Sapient Fur Trade, Supernatural Human Trafficking, Human Resources, Industrialized Evil, People Farm.
Light vs Dark with a Twist. A certain type of things are 'forbidden' or 'dark' without much of a good explanation. Or unnatural. Bonus if religion intolerance is included. I know people that think the weirdest things are of the devil.
Something similar to HP's wizard community with magical creatures in general and muggles. Fuck them. If is a crossover with a character belonging to a magical species (like in Trollhunters) you can bet they will try to use their 'laws' (created by wizards without consulting the people they are made for) to control the character.
Messing with people's soul, body or powers or something like that, 'breaking', sealing or changing it to suit your plans and benefit you.
Using people as a sacrifice of sorts for the 'Greater Good'. Anything to do with the 'Greater Good'. Or 'for the progress', 'for the science', 'for the motherfucking pRoFiT'...
'Superheroes' that think their position as the 'protectors' give them the right to do whatever they want (like stalk and harass people and take their DNA without consent for test just because they are 'suspicious'). Stealing objects for 'curiosity' and make tests or weapons with them are pretty common routes too in that type of story.
You cannot break in people's houses, search/examine their things and demand them to come with you, 'you have questions' my ass. They have rights and if you don't have a warrant, you need to get the hell out of my house.
Meddling and fucking up everything.
When a group is trying to defeat a villain or in a quest and another one far to 'curious' try to find information about them and end up fucking up a lot. This one is more crossover like. Avengers, Soul Society, Wizard World are some of the assholes in question, often occurs an kidnapping, ilegal imprisonment and attempt 'interrogation' to see if they are an 'threat' (nevermind who is kidnapping who here buddy), I get pissed when they are forgiven easily or if they just spill information like idiots.
Cultural Appropriation, Modification and Erasure. Fetishzation, acting condescending (even if you have good intentions), denial and attempt hidding of the advancement or great achievement of the prejudiced folk, segregation, stereotype. It can be clothes, techniques, festivals, languages, books, folklore, architeture, traditions, mythology, symbols, monuments, cities, songs, image, words, names (of places and people)...
Other types of appropriation too, like the rich elite/politians invade and take over a movement/form of art/ideology for themselves. Or like the swastikas, used by a evil ideology.
Make the Leader/Ruler join so the other will too. Take over/Absorve another faction within yours. Create a system that centralizes power and control.
Make someone and their friends/family an target of your enemy to force them to join/help you. Kind of 'our enemies think you are one of ours, they will attack you.'
Any type of attempt to make another people to fight for you in your wars, probally by forcing them to join an 'secret world' by drawing the villains's attention to them or revealing your location to them, making them believe 'oh, they will go after you anyway, its better if you join us', plenty of manipulation involved (to get the into trouble, to fight, to steal, stop them from leaving an place where you have more power). Can manipule the villains to kidnap or experiment on them, so you don't need to do it yourself.
Use of of your own as hostage/bait when your subordinade/child befriends an powerful person (or dunno, a defector? Someone you want to recruit?). This person in question (often an minor) is under your custody. Or to get/find something because of their relations (blood or not) with another faction/group family.
An Fight is an Trap (forced recruitment maybe, like...in an 'official' duel/tourment would announce they belong to an certain group). The Ring Battle in pretty much a trap for Xanxus to swear loyality to Vongola.
Mindfucked and forced into another identity.
I read an few interesting stories where an woman is seduced/mind controled to marry an man, because of her (unknow for her) bloodline/power. More often than not, she's the MC's mother. Ex: Kushina, Lily and Nana.
Unknown Siblings are also very common. Either killed/rebeled/hidden/used by the manipulator, given away or bastard children being taken from their mothers. Maybe one parent lied to their partner about their baby being stillborn and kidnapped him/her to another place or your parent(s) is not your real parent(s). Maybe your Bad Father had a bastard child he hides. I read a good reincarnation crossover about Naruto's older sister being MIA during the Kyuubi attack because Sarutobi wanted Naruto be raised as a no-named orphan, so she was trained and hidden by Danzo. KHR often has Tsuna having a brother Iemitsu took (kidnapped) to Italy, or just dragging the Vongola heir (his kid or not) to the Iron Fort without nobody consent.
An magical society is slowy losing their powers due incest and the nobles choose to go through drastic ways to get their power back. Can lead to warm to pure magical criatures like fairies. Maybe thats how the first magicals got their powers?
I kike the concept of a evil person or group losing any type of power and their attempt to get it back.
The monopoly of magic (or similar). A commoner (or a character who is considered 'lesser' in some way) having a power/doing something only a noble family could have (or wants everyone to believe is a noble blood's power and belongs only to them). If its a 'Magic is coning back' even better, please don't make the commoner be a long lost noble heir.
Wanting to kill an person because he/she is an 'mistake' of sorts, either they are an threat for an 'balance', survived an purge or source/key. Or an dangerous power or nature or 'bad luck' (leave black cats and albinos in peace) in some way. It also can your own worldbuilding 'version' of Witch Trials.
Attempt to force a powerful person to marry, either because you want their throne/propriety (usurpation by marriage), children with an certain bloodline power, powerful heirs (when you want to marry them to you or your own children), the loyality of said person or to force them to join your faction by association with their 'spouse'.
The said spouse can be weak (so they won't have their support), a loyal spy, a black widow...they will probally get rid of you after a kid or two are born.
Or maybe its your parents that wants to use you to do this to another person.
On another character's perspective, if the bloodline/power/heritage/whatever comes from the good parent, the evil one is going to manipulate the hell out of the kid. If the kid raised away from them (hidden?), even better.
Did I mention how much I like bloodline plots? Todoroki Rei and Ursa from Avatar both fit this. Clara from the Other Side of Paradise kinda too.
One fantasy species wants/needs to use another for some reason (Resources? Source of power/energy? Food? Servants or Working Class? Labor? Reproduction? Parasyte? Army? Eggs? A Substance they naturally produce?), they could also have nature powers that serve to make the land fertil or maybe healing powers. If they had been using them for an long time, the entire society may turn dependant of it. More of an Grey situation.
Colonization, theft of resources, attempt to take over of local realms/tribes/kingdoms. Attempt to use someone army for your own benefit.
Pretty common in the Naruto/HP fandom, a character got adopted and the toxic birth family refuses to accept it, ignoring the existence of the foster family, calling him/her by birth name telling them its their 'real name', trying to bring you 'home' where they 'belong', dragging/shoving you back to their house or just try to stop you from leaving said house. Speaking of 'family' and 'filial duty' more often than not they want something of this so-called reconciliation, maybe they feel guilty of being bad parents and selfishly want their 'child' back or you are useful for them/they need you in some way. Attempt at toxic and clingly parenting after knowing you for less then week. They want you to abandon your loving foster family to stay with them forever and ignore the fact you explicit told them you want nothing to do with them. Can have they trying to take you from the school or hijacking your life and traps for forced surprise reunions, demands to have a part in your children's lives (and names too). Insistence that 'they are family' and you 'cannot leave them', 'I am your father, I have authority over you' demanding your time. Toxic attempts on bonding and 'getting to know you'. Maybe even a non-consensual blood test involved or stealing documents from the hospital. We need more KHR fic like this, Nana and Iemitsu are abusive as hell and delusional too.
Or just attempt to drag you back to your abusive family And if your birth parents are dead, bad distant relatives still can try to take you by force for some reason.
That works with former friends that fucked up and won't leave you in peace because they want you back.
I am trying to list 'bashing ideas. Having a bit of trouble here, but until now I am going well. Its less bashing and more 'evil' actually. This word has an bad reputation.
Or absent parent thinking he has a right to your life. Imposed and forced relationships is the goddanmit summary of KHR, so is fucking up and all but demanding forgiveness. Or just a person that don't understand you don't want anything to do with them, leave me the fuck alone.
Or just begin estranged from your family and they want something from you (or your S/O and kids) years later
I wish there were more about magical creatures. Wonderful source of plot.
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undead-bones · 2 years ago
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Evil/Grey/Annoying Actions for Characters
Unethical Actions and Crimes (especially some ‘spy’ ones)
Terrorism
Bombs/Nukes.
The Status Quo.
Sabotage
Extortion
Spying, Stalking and Harassment
Infiltration (and associated crimes, like poisoning and making the secretary sick to take her place)
The Motherfucking Greater Good.
Refusing to understand a fucking 'NO’.
Reading other people mails, cellphone and stuff. Or restraining them.
Unethical information gathering. Leaking the information for the wrong person.
Use other people as bait/decoy/scapegoat/cover/distraction.
Drugging (potions too). Also, don’t mess with people’s food. Never.
Doing anything to a person in vulnerable state, like unconcious, sleeping or injured.
Bugs, Trackers and Cameras. (Non-consensual pictures and videos)
Steal Information/Documents
Blackmail and Bribe
Unethical and Ilegal Interrogation
Take blood/DNA without consent. Stealing a blood/DNA sample or a blood test too.
Corporal Punishment, Violence, Multilation, Torture, Physical Abuse…
Professional Impersonificators (Like Doctors Theraphists, Drivers, Police, Babysitters). Infiltration (as a Maid? Secretary? Fake Friend? Teacher?) or just having those people in your pocket.
A bad solution to a real problem.
Propriety
Steal MacGuffin, Objects in General or 'Confiscation’ or Modification of said McGuffin (because of curiousity, greed, you want to taunt someone)
Steal inventions, discoveries or just take the credit. Etnopiratary.
Grave Robbing or any disrespect to an corpse.
Hoard of Knowledge, Resources, Lands…
Money is a great source of crazy ass conflicts (Heritage? Lottery? Marriage’s finances?)
Stealing Inheritance. Stealing things like work and art. Doing it 'legaly’ is even worse. Attempt/Demand to get an person to 'hand over’ an artefact. Refusal to give something back too.
Entitlement (some people think everything and everyone is God’s gift for them or that other people legally getting something you wanted is 'stealing’, may have fantasy prejudice involved).
Resources in general, from either animals or people or others ('magicals’ or not).
You 'don’t want it to fall in wrong hands’? Okay, pal, what are 'good hands’ then? Yours?
Using an object the wrong way or something like that, dunno, just remembered Kim Kardashian with Marilyn’s dress and MJ’s jacket, THAT was a evil greedy villain worthy action
Threats (Do it or Else)
Threatening someone loved ones (they can be under your power in some way?) or using them against said person in any way (taking them to a dangerous place or situation? Put a bomb or something similar on them?) Trying to get said loved one under your control (like taking them to 'safety’).
Threat of imprisonment. Taking a person to make their loved ones 'cooperate’. (Like a 'invitation’ for a meeting or interrogation). Put them in any danger.
Threat of withhold the cure or medication for a sick person/people, can be secretely making the patient’s condition worse. Offten have a relative of said patient working/helping you.
Any threat really, can be a sniper, a bomb, physical. Take advantage of a person’s dependency on another.
Doing something bad to a person under your custody because they are dependent of you or you think you 'own’ them, therefore have the 'right’ to do so.
Any threat to free will or control (over a person self and their abilities): mindcontrol, brainwashing, potions, drugs, magical contracts and oaths, binding and seals, devices, the Cage Bird Seal from Naruto…
A unfair deal/exchange/blackmail to get incentive someone to help you/give you/stop doing something in some way. Like 'I will give the thing I stole back if you do this for me’, 'I will break the deal if you steal this for me’ or even 'I will heal your friend if you give me this thing’, Maybe by making the person need you in first place?
Manipulation
Forced Recruitment, Servitude or Help.
Manipulation (to fight? To steal? Forcing you to do something? Fake information? Using people how? Sign you up for something without consent? Tricking you to agree to a unfair deal? Social or Emotional? Guilty Trip? Humiliation? Isolation?)
“Tests” are very manipulative, often forcing a person hand, like the Poison and Cure Gambit. Control Freaks. Attempts to exercise authority (and begin respected and obeyed as such) everywhere. Attempt to coerce, press and trap you on obeying them, giving people orders and deciding/dictating their life choices.
Use a person to/for: find another? find a place? get a object? get inside a place?
Use a Relationship as means of control and manipulation.
Forcing them to fight against their will: maybe locking they up with the opponent or left you with them? Bring the enemies to you? Put their loved one in danger? Create the problem for them to solve? Forced enlistment?
Mindfuckery, just reading (or attempting) people’s mind without consent, it does not matter if you are 'curious’ or how 'rightful’ you are. Also erasing things too (events? information? people? alter memories?), forcing someone into another identity or to obey you, getting information.
Unfair Deals or trying to make a 'generous offer’ to get something from a person (when you need or want her/him), forcing her to accept your terms, especially when the person owns you nothing. Sadistic Choices too.
Blackmail someone with arrest and prision to make them do something.
Any extreme thing to get what you want: want a person to move? Steal all their things and put in another house or burn down their house. Want a person to attend a college not other? Sabotage or sign off them. Or got them in trouble. Want them to wear some clothes not another? Burn the other clothes. Refuse to go? Send their men to 'fetch’ you. Refuse to give/borrow something? Steal it.
Science and Biology
Bloodpurism. I hate it but love its plots, from both Asoiaf and Harry Potter.
Non-Consensual Experiments in General (not just the 'mad scientist’ type, any non-consensual medical test, unaware ones, sterilization, fucking lobotomy and shock theraphy). Kidnapping is not really necessary, plenty of times the hospitals did more experiments than what was consented, or told the patients they were doing another thing, more vulnerable people like mentally disabled, soldiers and isolated tribes (or the non-educated poor) are easier to trick.
Using the Results of an Unethical Experiments (like the Nazis or Henrietta Lacks). Using an artefact or something similar that had unethical origins too (kinda like the philosophical stone with the Ishvalan souls)
Disrespect to Body Autonomy and personal choices. (Deny acess to things like contraceptives, pain killers and insulin, hysterectomy, tampering with it too. Information about your own body, about an medical process, breach of privacy, chastity belt, lack of medical consent, body modification or mutilation)
Anything related to hurting an animal (magical one included, any curious attempts to 'capture’ one to study is also included, or entertainment). Fuck zoos by the way. Be it a 'cursed’ or 'blessed’ creature leave them in fucking peace.
Any breeding programs, genetic aprimorament and asthetic alterations too. Eugenics. Also if they produce or have something you want as a product or another reason (pearls, skin, venon, medicine…)
Reproduction Control and Breeding Programs, especially in minories (the Church used to kidnap and fake the death of babies of single mothers and pagans to give them to 'proper Christian couples’, lesbian faced problems to their rights for insemination and adoption, mixed children were aborted without the mother’s consent or even knowledge, 'pure’ aryan women were 'encouraged’ to join brothels to breed in Nazi Germany.) Its a fucking mess, but normal in matters of prejudice.
Kidnapping/Restriction of Freedom
The 'Rebel = Evil’ mentality.
Unjust Imprisonment, Unlawfull Arrests. Double Standarts and Inequal Rights.
Kidnapping (can be complex ones like showing up at school/work or using an trap like summer camp, a vacation or a modeling job the most, forced meetings, forced to move which may involve stealing your things, arranged marriages…)
Just taking you to a place for different reasons (under false pretense) of those told to you is already bad. Making a person go with you because of threats or 'incentives’ too. Taking you to a place you won’t be able to leave without their help, like another country. With intent to permanently keep you (and never let you near your family and friends again)
Block the passage/door, invade personal space, surrounding places, ganging up, traps. Stop a person from leaving a place or taking her here against her will, 'retrivals’ and 'escorting’ also count. Imprisonment ultil you agree with their demands or is under their control.
Hostages (don’t have to kidnap, can be someone that was in your custody before the conflict started).
Any restriction to a person’s freedom. Guilded Cages (marriage? a puppet king?), forbidding to have a life (education, hobbies, fun, friends, to travel, isolation, certain jobs), forbidding to anything for a bad reason (contact with people, go to a place, being locked for your safety or usefulness)…
Servant Race (looking at everyone who mocks Hermione’s anti-slavery moviment).
Locking up people because they are 'different’, 'crazy’ or 'unnatural’ (most likely a prejudiced group) Ex: monasteries, asylums, reformatory camps…Not only that, but anything done to 'fix/cure’ them, like devices, surgeries and treatments.
Being in another territory, or services like Hospital, Towns and School, even if it is from an 'ally’ is dangerous, same thing with their people (doctors, drivers, professionals of any type).
Any Binding of sorts, by seals, contracts or magic or whatever. And breaking willing bonds against the person’s will too.
Incapable of Disobeying
Attempt on gain the custody of minor for bad reasons. Children of powerful people have the powers/bloodline/heirship/propriety/alliances but are easier to control and manipulate.
Any forceful adoption: taking children from parents to be adopted into families you have control of, taking a bastard child away from their mother, taking any child in your custody without their consent (even if you are related/has the 'legal’ right to). Maybe a reveal that your 'adoption’ is pretty much a kidnapping? (Loki and Xanxus both sound like this to me, Theon too).
The person is change of you is revealed to have bad intentions? Want to create a matyr hero, maybe?
Ownership or Claim over an person or people (Bloodline? Recruitment? Human Weapon? By Association? Nationality? McGuffin? Custody between parents?)
Forced Marriage or Mandatory Fatherhood/Motherhood. (To 'continue the bloodline’, a alliance or some shit like that)
Destruction and Invasion
Set a place in fire (house? comercial buildings? orphanages?)
House (or Room) Invasion and Trashing, messing on people’s things without consent, uninvited guests. Trespassing private propriety in general, invading a space you are forbidden to go into, appropriation of buildings or other places (public? religious?private?), wanting acess to said places, forced housing (like that law about soldiers, thankful its no longer valid).
Destroy propriety and places (especially important and 'simple’ ones, like libraries, burning books, clothes, hobby materials, documents, with sentimental value, or worse things like medicine). Not even when its 'accidental’ careless excuses, don’t touch people’s things alright?
Sell/Throw away other people’s things for any reason, like not respecting their choices (food, religious pratices, hobbies, books).
Another Things
Everyone loves bashing the 'Hero Faction’ and so do I.
Unhealthy Obsession
Toxic Relationships (neglecful? clingly? delusional? imbalanced? obssessed? smothering? controlative? pushy? attempt forced reconciliation? expectations? selfish? doormat? fangirl? clingly? manipulative? False but keeping appearences?). Friendship? Romantic? Parental? Leader?
And people in a bad relationship, even if they are the victim, can do bad things because of it and refuse to leave the relationship. Can even begin unaware used against you.
Both Lysa Arryn and Sawada Nana are exemples of this. Worse, they are mothers, and mental ill for sure.
Doing something without a person’s consent, awareness or knowledge. Honestly, 'needing’ to sacrifice a person in some way is and always will be fucked up.
Dragging a person back to the bad situation they ran away from in first place.
Put reputation above safety, people lives and feelings (like refusing to cancel a event, deny a divorce or attempt cover up, a cover up, refusal to let people leave when in danger, in situations like death, rescue and injury)
Force an person to use an dangerous power without thinking of the consequences. Force a Traumatic Power Awakening. Attempt to learn the Secret of an Power.
'Feed’ on an person’s lifeforce, use their energy to power up yours or something similar? Stole their power/magic to give to another?
Unethical Hunters/Collectors.
Indiana Jones, Museums and stuff.Tourists being assholes (like taking 'souvenirs’)
Wanting people to sacrifice or risk themselves for your own benefit. Or calling them selfish for thinking about themselves first or doing something for their own benefit (maybe something they used to do for another people’s benefit?)
Telling a secret that is not yours (about plans? Existence? Location? If you are a professional, than its ilegal)
Turn everything (people, mcguffins…) into weapons or source of money.
Make everything about yourself. Make yourself the victim when you aren’t.
All of the Other Reindeer Trope
Fostering a foster child for bad reasons (like free labour)
Be creative when creating your own fantasy world problems, here some ideas you can adapt:
Society and Culture
Bad Working Conditions.
Nationalistic Ignorance
Matyr Culture. (And all this duty to country bullshit)
Any danger a Secret Society presents to clueless innocent people.
A country’s superiority and their right to rule/choose/have authority/even 'save’ other ones.
Fantasy Capitalism and attack on everything that threats it in some way (libraries and free knowledge, community gardens, unions, lab-made diamonds…)
Insist that another character is 'lying’ or 'just confused’ about something and refuse to investigate/try to silence them. Happens often with children.
Religious/Cultural Appropriation and Modification. (That include monuments, objects, songs, rituals, words…)
Refusing/Closing researchs and pretty much anything because it goes against your 'beliefs’.
Insist that another character is 'lying’ or 'just confused’ about something and refuse to investigate/try to silence them. Happens often with children. Ignore or mock a person’s knowledge. (Scientists did it a lot with some natives about their own history, medicine and culture). Believe yourself to know more than people with experience on this. (maybe they have a problem you don’t?)
The denial of truth (Biology? Science? History? Origins? Problem?)
Calling people 'mad/hysterical’, 'inferior’ or 'unstable’, (mostly happens to women and disabled) to justify their 'incapability’ of making their own decisions.
Control the information taught in the schools/history. Keep information from people, therefore putting them in danger. (Its work related? About a product? Scientists?)
Many fake facts and rumors about prejudiced groups still taken a real today, even in professional medicine, it really bad. Mostly for the vilification or attempt control.
Put a person with special needs, or any person really, in danger/pain because of 'belief’ or ignorance.
The classification of what is 'Unnatural/Natural’ and 'Pure’ in a society.
Anything cruel, (like abuse, assault, murder, prejudice, cruel punishment, rituals, some ideologies, multilation) being done by the sake of 'tradition’ or because its 'natural’, the whole 'its was always done like this’ bullshit. Honor-Related abuse in general. Also religion as a justification for this.
Created a mess at someone event (like a proposal at a wedding)
Authorities
Imposed authority and orders.
Make an country go into civil war or war with another for benefit/profit.
Military, there so much problems. (I am pro-veteran and anti-millitary), the whole enlistment = free college is a fucking trap for poor people.
Deny acess to important things. (Like information about the problems/situation, medicine, education, some places, jobs). Hide information about something because it benefits you (about a product? A food? A experiment? A operation? Mission? Goal? About people’s own biology?).
Being forced to put up with an bad person’s bullshit because your Leader refuse to punish them/acknowledge them as evil or easily forgive them. If they try to make you 'befriend’ said person aka let them into your house, with acess to your things, begin easier to do shit.
Defending a bad person and refusing to acknowledge it, expecting you to forgive and let them hurt you without fighting back.
Like the Minister of Magic or Shield trying to 'confiscate’ the miraculous, or a zanpakutou. Or even Dumbledore with the Philosopher Stone. Or trying to have some 'control’ over a 'magical creature’.
The Guys in White from Danny Phantom are the worse villains cuz they are 'legaly’ doing crap. Interrogating, kidnapping and attacking people, invading the houses and stuff.
Ministry of Magic having Magical Nazis in their ranks but leaving them be because they are rich and noble, ignoring everyone’s warning, wrongly punishing people and silencing them, forcing students to put up with spies and clearly problematic people in power (like that fucking toad and the Death Eaters like Snape), therefore making laughable easy for them to kidnap/attack students, people being allowed to do as they please (hurting your friends, family and innocent people in the process) and you being forced to sit down and do/say nothing because the Authority says so, refusing to check the Dark Mark, punish pureblood Death Eaters or give Sirius an trial is the most realist shit in HP.
Your Leader/Ruler is either an inactive idiot or an asshole and the characters are forced to obey their orders and decisions.
Ignoring a crime because it benefits you (looking at you China government about bride kidnapping). Or keep a cure, a eco solution or something like that a secret for the same reason.
Destruction of Evidence that goes against you in some way (your beliefs? Your ideals?)
The Law Enforcers take the side of criminals against the victims. (Like giving back a kidnapped victim back to her kidnappers)
If you going to have a Evil Tyrant, you need to plan their actions (force the people to build them something? Steal their labor and lands? Maybe they want the lands to build their evil invention?)
An Cover Up (specially when involve the villanization of the victim, like I saw in a few HP stories where the wizards aka the 'good guys’ put drugs on dead muggleborns students, making their families lost their jobs and reputation. Or an Danny Phantom one where his family is murdered and he’s kidnapped by evil scientists, who put the blame of their deaths on him).
Unhelpfull Characters
Useless and stupid adults in general, who could led their children into dangerous situations without care. If a guy/gal showed up asking about my kid, to have a private conversation with them or a 'intership’/special school without signing up first. I will bury them into my garden, weirdo.
The Fentons and Sawada Nana are the best example.
The annoying character who just do crap and refuse to listen good advices, fucking up the entire plan.
Naive, dumb, petty, pushy or delusional characters.
Passive Character who don’t do nothing.
Disrespect the privacity of people and will, like letting another person mess with their things/room/house, telling secrets that are not theirs, forcing you to go to an place or with an person, worse if its an parent.
If any of those things is done to an minory group (or vulnerable ones like the poor, pregnant, disabled, refugees, orphans and children) because of prejudice, even worse.
Its depends a lot on what type of social problems you create, like squibs are disabled-coded (hidden from public from bringing 'shame’ to the family, most likely to be killed by their pureblood parents), so you could make, idk, a 'magical surgery’ of sorts in attempt to give them power? One that could be harmful to them but pureblood parents are more interested in having 'perfect magical children’? Or a secret pureblood mass kidnapping of innocent muggleborn babies to be switched with squibs?
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Before the Plot Tropes
A Greater Conqueror
Reincarnation of an Legendary Figure (An Celestial Guard? Hero? Keeper? Chosen One? Cursed One?)
First Meetings.
Failed Quest
'Just So' Story: Kinda...origins? (Of the moon? Winter? A creature? Why the sky is blue? You choose).
An ancestor that lives through his descendants.
A dispute between founders of a place/organization. A dispute between lines descendants of siblings.
A mysterious city of the past.
A character sealed for decades, even hundred of years. A sealed hero? Maybe self-sealed? Guarding something? Who sealed them?
Founders in general (also, what is their origins/backstory? What lead them to found whatever? A Hidden Kingdom founded by refugees or former slaves for exemple).
The Beginning of Something?
Origins in general (of a clan? a power? a kingdom? magic? a race? a person?).
Some fuck up the atual characters need to fix. Can be more personal, like its your Ancestor's fuck up.
A familiar foe, enemy to your ancestor/parents. Which one is the right or the wrong? Both? One cursed another? Sealed? Betrayed? For a good reason? Your antecestor fucked up. (Cursed someone or an group/family? Started an eternal winter? Released an creature? Stole an McGuffin?)
Someone did something considered impossible (survived something? Went to a Forbidden Place? Used a weapon? Touched a cursed thing? Exposed to a thing?)
A character is compared to a another (either so they wont take the same evil path, privilege, the former ruler is better...)
The hierarchy of the land changes a lot with time (like a Family that previously was the Ruling one is now a subordinade). So can the landscape.
The 'First' of whatever: wielder of power, ruler, dragon rider, bloodline, patient zero...
Take a good look at your world and start asking questions, How to begin with. If they have dragons, where they come from? O how they tamed them?
The Predecessors (of the current leaders? heroes?). If there is something like a competition, there will be the former winners.
Creators of something (Power? Kingdom? McGuffin?)
Backstory: A Mysterious Past that eventually catched up.
A Nation created by refugees? By exiled prisioners?
A tragic romance or friendship between the founder (or an hero) and a Villain.
A love triangle with Villain, Hero and an Priestess Archetype
A dynasty with Divine Heritage (good or bad)
A rivality between lines/folks/kingdoms (maybe the reason too?). Could it be an betrayal of their - at time - leaders? Thief? An Insult? An refusal of cavalary?
A group of legendary warriors.
A thing that ended (order? clan?) and the heroes will probally bring back.
A being/person (or more than one) who gets reincarnated a lot of times. Reincarnation Romance?
An ancient immortal manipulator who is behind A Lot Of Shit (capital letters needed)
Legendary Hero betrayed and turned into an Mysterious Villain/Cynical Anti-Hero with an secret identity.
Legendary Ancient Figures and their relation to the actual characters.
The kingdom/organization was founded on an lie.
An Revolution/Rebellion
Legendary Hero has his own redeemed Villain.
A clan starts/creates something
An Ancient Immortal Evil
A fallen legendary kingdom of the past. Maybe the remains split into the 'modern' kingdoms?
The fall of an hero/rise of the villain .
An massacre/purge
An Ancient Tragedy that is totally different than the one in the history books.
An character's backstory give him/her an bad/cruel reputation, but the story is far different than the real one. (An murder can turn into suicide or have an good reason, they could sacrificed their reputation to protect another person, to hide an secret, being an silent scapegoat, rebelled against the Kingdom's corruption or framed, he killed his friend because as asked to)
An Great Failure.
The Legendary Hero is an fraud or the actual villain.
The story of the parents/grandparents of one of the characters.
How the world (or an land) became chaotic. Like...there is a Eternal Winter? Then why and how.
An legend/tale of an fictional folklore/mythology that is associated to the main plot.
Two siblings became enemies (and their lines too)
Anything related to an line/family really (an curse? An ancestor? An system? An deal? An conflict?)
The story of an folk (past leaders, migration, part or inaction in an war, how they got their lands, refugees, stolen lands (places in general) and goods, extermination). An conflict with another folk (forced to share land, prejudice, envy, rulling class, suborninade folk)
The start of a Noble House, Clan, Family or whatever.
Maybe the return of those people after they were exiled from their lands? Or driven out? Or they went in search from something? They run away? Who is living on the land now?
If the race is more magical, explain their magical origins.
Why is a folk discriminated against? Why one is considered superior or inferior? Why two Kingdoms or Families hate each other?
The goverment tries to hide the origins of a important person or discovery because they belong to a marginalized group.
Two characters are revealed to have a past.
You have to fix an mistake the hero group did (well-intentioned maybe? Stole an magical artefact from an Ancient Being/Tomb/Cavern and its pissed now? Or false accusation that got someone punished - like losing an position - has to be corrected? Settle an argument between two Rulers/Kingdoms/Factions over a Very Old Conflict? A thing your Ancestor did? A wronged enemy has a good reason for waiting revenge?)
While the 'mystery' and fishy things about the society and world you live into is pretty cliche thanks to bad YA, it can be very good if done properly.
Ghost Story: How did a undead character died? Maybe they are trapped in the limbo?
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Characters that went Missing for a While
Taiki (Twelve Kingdoms)
King (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Arya Stark
Princess Anastasia
Lumine or Aether
Matt Holt
Thingol
Ford Pines
Aang (the Avatar)
Five (Umbrella Academy)
Odysseus
Vhagar
Shaina from Saint Seiya
Koko from Pokemon: Secret of the Jungle
Rapunzel (Tangled)
Alan Parrish (Jumanji)
Xanxus (nearly nobody was aware of what happened to him)
Pan (PJ)
Great Lord Rukkhadevata
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There is a name for when a special (in a supernatural way) title/position is passed down during the story, and this is important to the plot.
I saw it five times only. All of them have three individuals (relevant to the plot in Avatar's case).
Glen Baskerville from Pandora Hearts (Reim/Levi, Oswald, Leo)
Jinchuuriki of Kurama (Mito, Kushina, Naruto)
Indra and Ashura reincarnations (Madara and Hashirama/Sasuke and Naruto)
Sky Arcobaleno (Luce, Aria, Yuni)
Avatar (Roku, Aang, Korra)
The Dragons from Akatsuki no Yona kind too? We don't have much about the predecessors yet, onthe the First Dragons. And the Norrisville Ninja? We have Randy, his evil predecessor and the First Ninja.
Someone knows the name of the Trope?
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Characters and Groups
Trope for when there is a 'Chosen Group' and one of them is a leader (not like...one the characters end up taking a leader position, more like its the 'Chosen One and his/her Chosen Servants'.)
Akatsuki no Yona and Dragons
Akito Sohma and Zodiac
Luce di Giglio Nero and Arcobaleno
Athena and her Knights
Millenium Earl and Noahs (D. Gray-Man)
Fushiji Yuugi
LadyBug and Black Cat (for all the others miraculous)
Sailor Moon and the other scouts
And sometimes there is like...divisions/groups of an Power System (by elements, colors, patrons...), and on each one there one character that is either the keeper/guardian of that power type, an pillar, the main representant of that generation...
Some are born part of the group, or having consecutive generations of the said group (reincarnation or not). Chosen One or Chosen Many.
They could be a group of rulers, of captains, of creators/inventors, of warriors, of founders, of the 'Aces', an Elite Group like the Three Legendary Sannin , of keepers of the balance whatever.
There are also the 'Magical Divisions' groups: Factions from Divergent, Houses of Hogwarts or Flame Types in KHR.
How does a hierarchy work in your world? Create different organizations within a Nation/Kingdom, districts and social classes, divide your magical system in types and arts.
Also the Chooser of One, a character responsable for choosing a person (or people) for any position.
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Origins/Creation
Monsters/Creatures
Created by the Villian
Mythological or Supernatural
Science Experiment/Freak Lab Accident
Curse
Accidental
Familliars or Summons of sort. (like Pokemons)
From another world/dimension/realm. Often with a few references to mythological or eldrich.
From the Space.
Mutation
Was once a person (maybe cursed?)
Analogy to a popular being by Another Name (Kishin from Soul Eater or Ghouls from Tokyo Ghoul).
Robots/Machines
Half-Human Beast
Hybrid Monster
Dire Beast
Sea Monster
There is a few authors who try to create a totally different systems of creatures and their fighters. But usually end up weird and confusing.
{Literaly Anything} gained sentience.
Made of (wood? plant? ice? glass?)
The Original Man Trope
Baby Born Weird: It seens to be a common tropes when a child is born with 'different' features for one reason or another, especially in mythology
Others
Magical Creatures
Artificial Person
Flawed/Poor Imitation
Rebeled
Purpose (To guard an McGuffin, vessel, guard/serve/guide an person, guard knowledge)
Prototype
Super Prototype
Replacement
To be someone’s child or student.
For a position.
More options: in Slumber, Unstable...
Made by an sentinent McGuffin
The creator identity is very important. How you were created? Material?
Artificial Race/Species
Artificial Hybrid
Uneven Hybrid
Clone (one or more donors?)
Experiment (a soldier? Hero?)
Raised in a Lab
Guinea Pig Family
Made with DNA (or the ‘magical’ equivalent) of another character/creature/being. (Or your mother is the experiment?)
'Part’ of another person/being. Can be split in two/three or an minor part that gained sentience.
Servant Race
Created by the Villains
Born/Made from/with the help of a McGuffin.
Hybrid
Born from an Plant
Born from Magic
Mook Maker
'Mook' Race
Changelings
Our Phlebotinum Child
Wonder Child
Star-People
Rare or 'Abomination’ in some way, a deformation, strange color, ability.
Evilutionary Biologist
Artificial Animal People
Self-Constructed Being
Carbuncle Creature
Made of Indestructium
Subspecies
Transhumanism
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Deal/Gratitude/Reward
Trade
Buy/Sell
The Bet
Auction
Life Debt
Mystical Deal
Baby as Payment
Intangible Price
Bargain with Heaven
Standard Hero Reward
Contract Clause
Binding Ancient Treaty
Releasing from the Promise
Give an Inch and They'll Take a Mile
Contractual Immortality
And Your Reward Is Parenthood
Doom as Test Prize
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Leonine Contract
Make a Wish
Quest for a Wish
Offer (of apology? of gratitude? for pardon? for freedom?) or Exchange.
Request/Conditions/Demands
Take Care of the Kids
Blessed with Suck/Cursed with Awesome
Dark Horse Victory
Upsetting the Balance
Irrevocable Order/Message
Entitled Bastard/Ungrateful Bastard
Give Someone the Choice (that was supposed to be yours)
Magic Stuff
The Rule of Three
Offerings to the Gods
Appease the Volcano God
Targeted Human Sacrifice
Summoning Ritual
Banishing Ritual
Imperfect Ritual
Take Up My Sword/Passing the Torch
Eternal Winter
Eternal Burden
Prophecy Twist
Hereditary Curse
Curse Escape Clause
Family Curse
The Dragons Come Back
Patient Zero
Sacred Hospitality
Muggle in Mage Custody
Muggle Born out of Mages
Mage Born of Muggles
Trapped in Another World
Magical Wound
Magical Guardian
Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Magical Gift (an ability? an gift turned curse?)
Magic Feather
Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot
Ruled by the Moon
Disability-Negating Superpower
The Seventh Son
Order vs Chaos
Glamour
Involuntary Dance
Truths and Lies (either be object or rules, anything magical related)
Time
Ultil Midnight
The Hidden Hour
When the Planets Align
Cosmic Deadline
Celestial Deadline
Fantastic Fragility
Total Eclipse of the Plot
Race Against the Clock
Liminal Time
Time Limit (you can't This Thing for more than 30 seconds or else)
Eclipse Day
Spell with a Time Limit
Plans
Ambush
Cheating/Sabotage
Distraction
Exact Words
Honey Trap
Baby Trap
Assimilation Plot
Decoys and Baits
Disguise
Trojan Horse
Meal Ticket
Blackmail
Gambit Tropes
Social Engineering
The Plan
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Authority
Alliance
Evil Power Vacuum
In Its Hour of Need
Playing/Running Both Sides
The Man Behind the Man
Voluntary Vassal
The Missing Faction
Lonely at the Top
Civil War
Enemy Civil War
Brain Drain
Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot
Ambitious Lesser Noble
War and Battle Trophy
Isolationism
A City Sacked
Peace Treaty
Ban on Magic
Royal Decree
Envoy
Trade
Garrison
Siege/Besiege
Restoration
Servitude
Slavery (Race? Mooks?)
Submission
Tame
Dowry
Honor and Reputation
Rumors
Good Princess, Evil Queen
Demilitarising
Monopoly of Resource (can be a more abstract thing, like the Sun?)
Devasted Land After War
Inheritance
Fallen Princess
Finders Rulers
Rightful King Returns
Orphan Heir
Inadequate Inheritor
Superior Successor
Disinherited Child
Lost Orphaned Royalty
Denied/Stolen Heritage
Denied Position/Candidate
Passed-Over Inheritance
Mother Makes you King
Hidden Backup Heir
Spare to the Throne
Rejecting the Inheritance
Only Surviving Candidate
Royalty Superpower
Former Rulling Dynasty
Nepotism
Royal Blood
Long Lost Heir
Second Son
Position
Conqueror
Tyrant
Rulling Couple
Puppet King
Alleged Boss
Fake King
New Master
Shared Position
Unaware Position
Questioned Position
Unwanted Position
Klingon Promotion
Demoted to Dragon
Stripped of Titles
Dragon Ascendant
Offered the Crown
Abdicate the Throne
Abdication in Shame
Regent for a Life
Weak Leader
Naive New Ruler
Reluctant Ruler
We Can Rule Together
Rash Grey Ruler/Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
Throne Battle (cousins? siblings? uncle?)
Heir-in-Law
Usurper/Usurped (what happened to the usurped? Run Away? Locked Up? Killed?)
Successor/Predecessor (how the they got the position? Their relationship?)
Disgraced
Stolen Lands
Second Place
Vacant Position
Rebellious Rebel
Society and Nobility
Social Hierarchy
Colony
Capital
Split Folk
Foreign
Fantastic Caste System
Ethnicity Monarch
Foreign Ruling Class
Interclass Friendship or Romance
Class Segregation
Nobility Marries Money
Nouveau Riche
Rags to Riches/Royalty
Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Crapsaccharine World
Adopted into Royality
Royal Bastard
Minor House
Branch House
The Outsider Befriends the Best
Impoverished Patrician
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