Sometimes tropes are
tropes for a reason. They work. Who doesn’t love an ugly duckling story? A
damsel in distressed saved by prince charming? They’re some of the most classic
stories out there (and haven’t we heard that there’s “nothing new under the
sun”?)
But sometimes they’re
just stale. Done before.
Sometimes the way to come
up with a cool new story is just twisting around a trope and making it new. How
about switching he for she? (or the other way around.)
Why does the prince
always have to save the princess? Why is it always a girl getting the makeover
to win over the cute boy? Why is it always the boy who’s from the “wrong side
of the tracks”. What would happen to these classic stories if we switched them
around?
Normal girl who loves a
“monster”