Tropes and Cliches

There exist many common tropes and cliches in this Fandom and it's fanfics.

This is not to say that it is bad or that they are inherently hurting the fics but they do deserve to be covered.

Rjjt456 (talk) 14:23, December 31, 2019 (UTC)

Characters
Many characters has their own unique tropes and mannerisms. Some stem from Canon and is exagerated, or is details that has become "Fanon".

Taylor Hebert
The main character of the Worm web-novel, and also the most popular character to use in fanfics as an result.

Most Taylor fanfics tend to keep her personality close to canon, where she has a hard time trusting people due to having been hurt so many times. They also tend to keep a lot of things canon-compliant, save for the parts where the fans think need fixing in Taylor's life. Such as giving Taylor's bullies their just desserts while at the same time giving Taylor some vindication for all the suffering she was put though, for instance.

When the fanfics have her stray away from her canon personality, they tend to handwave it away with a number of factors such as: She has an over-exgerated repuation in Fanon as "The Queen of Escalation", due to the fact that she had a tendecy to escalate during times of conflict and during fights.
 * 1) Triggered long before the locker/and or wasn't betrayed by her best friend Emma.
 * 2) Her alt-power shard influencing her mind.

Amy Dallon/Panacea
Often portayed as an snarky (and sometimes bitchy) girl, or as a emtionally worn-out girl who's dangerously close to having a breakdown. Many fanfics has a tendecy to view this character as somebody who needs to be saved from a horrible fate. Many Fix-it fanfics will pull her down a different path, most commonly by having her use bio-tinkering on plants instead of human beings as a way to safely let loose the full extent of her powers.

Many will see her as a victim of Victoria's Awe-inspiring aura, although that is mostly fanon more than it is true canon.

Such fanfics tend to be Worm-based, instead of focusing on her Red Queen persona in Ward.

Carol Dallon/Brandish
Carol Dallon is often portrayed as being a competent lawyer.

Her main character trade is har paranoia and Black/White morallity about heros and villains. This paranoia also applies to her relationship with Amy, whom she often despises.

Lisa/Tattletale
Lisa is often described as "Vulpine" in the way she smiles and her smugness is only matched and surpassed by The Simurgh.

Victoria Dallon/Glory Girl
Victoria Dallon is often portrayed as a socialite, beautifull and, phisically, well developed. Often she is also portrayed as having anger issues.

Organisations
Due to how they have been shown in canon, many organisations has a "spotted" reputation in the fandom.

Cauldron
Portrayed as incompetent or doomed, often causing more harm than help in preventing the end of the world.

The Protectorate
Portrayed as a hindrance to independent heroes, and as targeting villains that upset the status quo rather than day to day threats like the Empire.

The PRT
Portrayed as incompetent and ineffectual.

Winslow High
Winslow is shown as being an completely incompetent school. Sometimes the incompetence is explained, others it is not.

Timeline and Events
While it is not true for all fanfics, many has a tendency to keep themselves very close to canon while changing little. The most common tropes connected to the timelines are:

The Locker Scene
Many fics start before, under, or right after 'The Locker Scene', wich refers to Taylor Hebert's canonical trigger event. One of the reasons this is considered a 'Lazy trope' is due to how it is used as Taylor's trigger event to give her another power than the one she has in canon.

The Stations of Canon
Many fics ends up following the 'Stations of Canon' even if the fic is an AU or there has been other major changes (Alt!power, etc.)

Typically it can look like this:
 * Locker
 * Lung-Fight
 * Undersiders talk
 * Armsmaster shows up
 * Taylor joins Undersiders
 * Undersiders Bank-job
 * etc...