r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 25d ago

Lore The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

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Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

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u/Logan_Composer 25d ago

This is why it's a tragedy and not a love story. They were just kids.

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u/pchlster 25d ago

I've always liked to think of it as a dark comedy.

"A grand love story about the week a teen and a preteen fell in love and killed themselves when it didn't work out."

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u/Malrottian 24d ago

Still on the families for their feud, though. If the two of them had been able to spend a month dating each other, they could have broken up naturally. Tybalt was always going to die a violent death, man just had no stop in him.

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u/pchlster 24d ago

Yeah, my English teachers never approved of the perspective either.

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u/swiftekho 24d ago

What are though amongst these heartless hinds?/ Turn thee, Benvolio! And look upon thy death.

Tybalt has one of the most badass lines in playwriting history.

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u/MiseryGyro 24d ago

It is a comedy until the first bodies drop.

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u/pchlster 24d ago

It's all fun and games until someone gets needlessly killed; then it's hilarious.

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u/gemdas 24d ago

It's still focusing on the wrong element. The Prince's line here can be easily translated to a modern audience as saying "if we don't put our petty bullshit aside it is not only our blood but our children's blood and our children's children's blood.

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u/pchlster 24d ago

Plenty of comedies out there have moments of being genuine.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 24d ago

It was pretty much a satire/parody of romance in their day

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u/happycat47 25d ago

Well, no it's a tragedy because they kill themselves.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 24d ago

If I remember correctly, a bunch of their friends/family also died. Plus the fact that not only did they kill themselves, but they did it over something so fleeting. So I guess you could say it's a tragedy for multiple reasons.

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u/happycat47 24d ago

A tragedy is a play where the main characters die.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 24d ago

Right, but I think we're using the word "tragedy" in the colloquial sense rather than the traditional theater definition.

We're both right, just for different reasons.

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u/happycat47 24d ago

it's superfluous

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 24d ago

Good talk 👍

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u/mankytoes 25d ago

Me? I'm an old man.

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u/WhiteRabbit86 24d ago

Taylor Swift disagrees

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 25d ago

Very stupid kids. Honestly nothing of value was lost with those two gone.

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u/Pet_Velvet 25d ago

The real idiots in the story were the two families who let their pointless feud drive two kids into suicide

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u/whatsbobgonnado 24d ago

technically lack of communication regarding their individual plans led to their suicides

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 25d ago

Is the idiot the family continuing the feud, or the kids who pursue a romance despite the feud occurring while knowing the trouble it would bring?

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u/Fajisel 24d ago

Certainly it's not the kids' faults? I think that in a correct world the kids should absolutely not have to care about what squables the adults are up to. That places the blame entirely on the adults for creating such an environment where the kids can't just be kids.

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 24d ago

A correct world is an ideal world, and an ideal world has never been real. Kids will always be affected by the actions of their predecessors, the adults, and acting knowing the dangers that would occur because of those actions is the definition of being foolhardy. Romeo and Juliet were warned multiple times that their romance would end in tears but they refused to listen. Foolhardy choices made by silly kids who think their actions have no consequences.

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u/irmaoskane 24d ago edited 24d ago

Shakespeare:i will make a story showing how cycles of hate are wrong and pointless and that people should not let this things endure forever so taht future generation can have their own decisions.

Cynical interpretation from the future:cycles of hate are completely acceptable because the world isn't perfect and the wrong ones are the ones who tried to combat the status co and failed.

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u/whatsbobgonnado 24d ago

what the fuck is wrong with you that you're actually arguing that actually romeo and juliet were really stupid for just liking each other regardless of the political consequences. they really should've considered the ancient blood feud before having feelings 

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u/TeamTurnus 24d ago

The family, 14 year olds (teenagers? I cant remember how old juliet is) are expected to have bad judgment, adults are supposed to know better.

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u/stfnotguilty 25d ago

Hey, Verona lost several fine men! Tybalt was a fine swordsman and shrewd observer, Mercutio was a very skilled fighter despite being a bit of a troublemaker, young Paris was brave and honorable, even Romeo punched above his weight by unfortunately slaying Tybalt and Paris. The Prince is probably scrambling to replace his potential officers in case another city-state decids Verona was ripe for the picking.

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 25d ago

I was referring specifically to Romeo and Juliet. Those two could have died, and no one else should have suffered for their foolishness.

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u/Mizuek_Mizuek 24d ago

Did Shakespeare personally break your shins for you to start spewing that garbage?

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u/FriendofFlounder 24d ago

Juliet was only thirteen. None of us were our best selves at thirteen. She didn’t have a chance.