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Challenge #14
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) What makes it particularly appealing for you? What do you like in fanworks featuring that trope? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So even though I bundled most of the challenges that I needed to catch up on, I thought that this one could use it's own post so I can do it justice.
One of my favorite tropes (I am so weak to it) is the old standby, Groundhog Day AU. If you are not familiar with it, it is based on a 1993 movie called Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Murray plays a tv weatherman who is basically a crap human being, but he and a small crew are assigned to cover the Groundhog Day ceremonies in Punxsutawney, PA. They go through the day and he shows his jerk colors. But instead of waking up the next morning and having it be tomorrow, he finds that he must repeat the day over. He does this dozens, maybe hundreds, of times before he really starts to learn and improve as a person. Only once he shows genuine care for his love interest and behaves with a modicum of selflessness does he finally get to move on to tomorrow.
One of the chief reasons that I love this trope is that it gives characters, often with pretty severe issues, time to grow and change for the better in a space and time that they otherwise would not be able to which is one of the handy dandy things about time loops. Two of my favorite stories along this line both feature Eriks.
Try, Try Again by and_backagain - X-Men: First Class - which features Erik Lehnsherr who really could use a little extra time to come around to Charles' way of thinking during the whole "beach divorce".
The Definition of Insanity by MildSpinning - Black Panther - features Erik Killmonger who needs time to work out his (justifiable) anger and come to realize that there is a better way with the help of T'Challa.
The Definition of Insanity by MildSpinning - Black Panther - features Erik Killmonger who needs time to work out his (justifiable) anger and come to realize that there is a better way with the help of T'Challa.
Other variations have more to do with trying to achieve a certain outcome in a set of circumstances with character development being more of a secondary concern.
The Difference Between What Is Never to Be and What Never Was by catwrites - The Magnificent Seven - Faraday just keeps doing it over until he gets it just right.
Let It Be Yesterday, or Tomorrow by walkydeads - Until Dawn - I thought this one was hysterical as the whole doing it over and over again until you achieve the desired outcome is basically what one is doing if they are playing the game.
Let It Be Yesterday, or Tomorrow by walkydeads - Until Dawn - I thought this one was hysterical as the whole doing it over and over again until you achieve the desired outcome is basically what one is doing if they are playing the game.
Sometimes it's not major issues that need to be worked out, sometimes there smaller more interpersonal issues that just need a little extra time. And sometimes the timeloop-ee is just a little thick.
When the Day Met the Night by goldstandard - Daredevil - Foggy re-lives finding Matt as Daredevil over and over again.
‘Twas the Groundhog Day Before Christmas by poisonivory - DC Universe - Ted just needs to get over himself.
‘Twas the Groundhog Day Before Christmas by poisonivory - DC Universe - Ted just needs to get over himself.
One last variation is characters not just looping through one day over and over, but instead looping through literal years of time.
Time and Time Again by Katbelle - Les Misérables - Javert needs SO MUCH time to work through his issues, for my money I think he probably takes the longest of them all.
Well, that is it. :D