>>4010762>have you written up essays about any other stock trope being a ~hollow void of personhood~Yes, but with friends IRL.
Yes, I have friends, hard to believe.
In my country, the stock soap opera villain is a mother-daughter pair of rich haughty bitches conniving against an opposing mother-daughter pair of impoverished virtuous cardboard women with no personality.
Some amateur culture commentators have read this Marxistly, ascribing this antagonism to class consciousness, but that's a hacky take.
It's actually quite a traditionalist narrative applying no real moral valence to wealth: nothing's wrong with the fact that the evil mother-daughter are rich, it's that they're rich but of poor character. Very fairytale.
These narratives tend to end with the virtuous bitches rewarded with wealth and status, while the wicked girls are humbled or have to learn their lesson.
Sometimes, the daughter is redeemable while the mother (or a news recreation CGI double) ignores her daughter's last minute pleas to repent in the middle of her scheme, and she is hoist by her own petard, which sets her on fire, then she falls off a 40-story building
These charas are similarly a hollow fantasy, except instead of serving as a male coomer fleshlight, they are a ramy al-jamar?t for straight women wanting mindless cheese and feeling victimized by various social circumstances: being poor, neighborhood mean girl, etc.
My issue is that, instead of making for gross fapping, they make for bad drama: there is no actual charge in these characters' relationships to make for compelling narratives because they are mindless puppets of the melodrama, having no real wants and desires. They are not worth watching, and yet take up 98% of the airtime on primetime TV. They are my true nemesis.
I also dislike tsundere when it's done badly, especially because I actually like that trope.
When done badly, most of my complaints about traps also apply to tsundere, often including the squelching prurience.
