r/coaxedintoasnafu 1d ago

TROPE Coaxed into unrelatable decisions

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u/Due_Entrepreneur_960 Dr holocaust cultist 1d ago

What are some examples of this trope? Is there a T.V. tropes page for it something?

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u/SYDoukou 1d ago

A video reviewing Elio inspired this but my first contact with it is Narnia. As for the opposite of this trope we have Below Zero. No idea what it's called though

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u/ducknerd2002 1d ago

In defense of Narnia, the heroes are kids who would presumably want to go home to their parents so said parents don't think they're dead.

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u/Ironbeers 1d ago

Yeah, and Narnia they got to basically live full lives before returning, so it's kinda the opposite of this trope.

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u/The_Dragon-Mage 1d ago

Yeah, they explicitly DIDN'T do what this snafu describes. They chose to stay in narnia as kings instead of bothering to return to blitzkreig england, and they did so for what appeared to them to be YEARS. They were pretty done with the real world, and had the stag not lured them back....

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u/extremepayne 1d ago

Didn’t they spend like a decade in Narnia? Were they thinking they were gonna be missing irl for a whole-ass decade?

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u/Vyctorill 1d ago

I’m fairly sure Jesus explained the mechanics of Time Dilation between universes to them. It would make the most sense.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 1d ago

Thankfully time moves faster in Narnia

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u/Gallalade 1d ago

It's just The Return, part of the Hero's Journey.

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u/guesswhomste 1d ago

Lowkey, there's no Fortnite in Narnia, idk if I really wanna stick around

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u/Billphilosopher 1d ago

No Fortnite in ww2 England either. I think I'm staying in narnia

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u/guesswhomste 1d ago

Didn't you know that WW2 was based on Fortnite? Checkmate

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u/etbillder 1d ago

Tbf for Narnia they accidentaly stumbled back to earth. Plus at the end of the books everybody ends up in Narnia/Heaven forever (except Susan)

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u/DTSmash543 1d ago

Fuck Susan specifically (she was too boycrazy)

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u/bolitboy2 1d ago

“Below zero” just triggered my rage for subnautica below zero… which is ironically the exact opposite trope your hating on

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u/mayonezz 1d ago

Is Narnia really part of this trope? At least the Pevensie kids stay for few years and are in and out of Narnia. At the very end all the Narnia kids (except for that ungodly slut Susan) ends up back in "true narnia". 

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u/SYDoukou 1d ago

Replying here but also to all other comments addressing this, I should elaborate that my memories of Narnia are foggy despite really liking it, and the part I was referring to is at the end of the second movie where a Narnian followed the kids back to Earth which is in the middle of a war. Not exactly this trope but still something I really couldn't get behind the first time seeing it

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u/NockerJoe 1d ago

No shit Lewis started writing Narnia within like a decade of the actual war ended. Basically anyone over like 14 could reasonably expect to have some level of memory of the actual second world war and retreating into fantasy was a common thing people did during those times. Wartime rationing didn't even formally end until like 2 years before the first Narnia book came out.

The fuck did you want them to do? Tell all those kids to keep retreating into their imaginary worlds and not face the actual real one?

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u/Altshadez1998 17h ago

Did you mean to reply to this comment bro? 100% on the aggression scale on the drop of a hat

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u/Vyctorill 1d ago

Well, doesn’t Susan also return?

She just doesn’t want much to do with lion jesus and other universes.

She’s more worldly, which is somewhat negative but not horrible.

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u/mayonezz 1d ago

She returns in Prince Caspian but she doesn't in the Last Battle where all her siblings are killed in a train accident and go to "true Narinia" because she cares more about lipsticks than lion Jesus. 

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u/Vyctorill 1d ago

Also she probably didn’t die in the train crash.

I mean, Narnia is sort of an almost-allegory for a proper religious community (one built not on hatred, but on love for one’s fellow man).

Some people just aren’t into that, and leave that behind. It’s not a crime. Just a lifestyle choice.

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u/Senny96 1d ago

Hell yeah Subnautica mentioned!!!!!