10 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, You Will Never See The Karate Kid The Same Way Again edition.”

  1. I’ve never seen The Karate Kid (except for bits and pieces), but to find out that it’s a not-that-well-written piece of revenge porn? Yeah, not surprised.

  3. The problem with this, is the same problem as declaring the Empire in Star Wars to be the good guys.
    There is a moment when the designated bad side crosses the moral event horizon.
    Had the Empire not blown up Alderan, or the opposing coach not deliberately had one of his competitors break Danny’s leg in a cheap shot, the logic would be pretty unassailable.
    But they did. Because even hack writers know how to deconstruct tropes.

    1. 😉 But it’s great gaming when a PC who has been enjoying his status as a protagonist a bit too enthusiastically has a Falling Down moment and realizes “Wait. I’m the bad guy? How did that happen?”
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      I’d love to run a set of two campaigns where the first leads into the second in this fashion, and every player’s new character has his old character as a nemesis. But it would take a really special group to do. Not because power corrupting is a difficult theme to invoke, but because lots of players react poorly to subverting their fantasy of power.

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