Tiresome Tropes: The Devolution of Character Arcs

This kind of goes hand-in-hand with the previous Tiresome Trope that I ranted about (Tearing Down the Old to Make Way for the New). In this post, though, I'm going to talk about a possible reason for the character derailment that often occurs in that trope: the writers don't know where to go after the end of a character arc.

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