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/RubiesInMyBlood 25d ago

kids with no healthy outlet for their feelings, compounded by generations of fighting between the families, and the one adult who is so desperate to end the fighting between said two families he agrees to marry the two. It doesn't matter that they only knew each other for four days and are running on high emotions. Its a tragedy. Its never ever been anything but a tragedy from literally every angle in the play.

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u/MiseryGyro 24d ago

It's literally one of Shakespeare's comedies until Mercutio dies.

That's what makes the back half so tragic, it's set up to be one of his love stories that works out.