So everyone is going nuts over TLOU2, with a lot of people now worrying over the potential of it being a revenge story after Ellie loses her girlfriend.
The trope that people are worried about is "bury your gays, which tv tropes defines as a gay character dying as the "logical" conclusion to a gay characters story, or that character being gay and then dying being basically their only character traits.
I think this of many tropes but I feel it's so reductive to break this down into just "oh it's this again". We finally have a big budget game with a prominent gay character (which many men, straight and gay, are trying to tear down just because she's a woman as well sadly) and revenge stories have been around since man could write down words thousands of years ago. Why is Ellie not allowed to have this story too, especially in a post apocalyptic setting?
I get it would be lazy if they outed Ellie as gay only to say kill her two seconds after but this is an established character that they are (presumably) trying to show the themes of the first game through a new lens, of how someone deals with loss, like Joel did. Is Ellie going to be different? Or just the same?
its Ironic that on a forum that celebrates comics, anime and video games, all mediums that reuse old stories/ tropes and themes all of the time that suddenly this one trope is the one to break through But I sincerely hope they when the game comes out it's judged on its own merits and not just because of some tv tropes article referencing shitty shows that kill of characters with poor writing that have nothing to do with this game.
The trope that people are worried about is "bury your gays, which tv tropes defines as a gay character dying as the "logical" conclusion to a gay characters story, or that character being gay and then dying being basically their only character traits.
I think this of many tropes but I feel it's so reductive to break this down into just "oh it's this again". We finally have a big budget game with a prominent gay character (which many men, straight and gay, are trying to tear down just because she's a woman as well sadly) and revenge stories have been around since man could write down words thousands of years ago. Why is Ellie not allowed to have this story too, especially in a post apocalyptic setting?
I get it would be lazy if they outed Ellie as gay only to say kill her two seconds after but this is an established character that they are (presumably) trying to show the themes of the first game through a new lens, of how someone deals with loss, like Joel did. Is Ellie going to be different? Or just the same?
its Ironic that on a forum that celebrates comics, anime and video games, all mediums that reuse old stories/ tropes and themes all of the time that suddenly this one trope is the one to break through But I sincerely hope they when the game comes out it's judged on its own merits and not just because of some tv tropes article referencing shitty shows that kill of characters with poor writing that have nothing to do with this game.
