For example, in any story about time travel or people developing magical powers, discovering a magical portal etc, there has to be a part where the MC and/or their friends/family refuse to believe it and have to be convinced it’s real. And we all kinda know how it goes but it still has to happen.
Are there other tropes or necessary plot bridges like that where you’re a bit like… okay let’s just get this over with.
Or alternatively are there any book you’ve read where they did something clever or different to get through a tropey part like this?
by OpenCantaloupe4790
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Lots of examples, technical tangents, miscommunication loops, the exhausting training arc, the dense philosophical filibuster, and the emotionally draining infinite ending that lingers long after the climax.
The big short did a great job with the “rules of the game” trope where a character has to explain how it all works.
They addressed it head on and said, we’ll just have Margot Robbie in a bathtub explain it to you.