![]() But if you keep driving off every Torch-swinging Muggle for a generation or so, you're just reinforcing the Fantastic Racism. On the other, it's not like All of the Other Reindeer will have an easy time burning you. The jury is out on the justification of the "curse" of Awesome being Fantastic Racism on one hand, superpowers aren't that much fun when the majority of the population believe suffocating you in your sleep is pest control. Vampire protagonists are very frequently Cursed With Awesome. The Curse That Cures can skirt this depending on the severity of the curse and the illness or injury it's curing as a side effect. The Emergency Transformation of a character often crosses into this, as the condition is considered literally de-humanizing. ![]() While eternal life does have some understandable drawbacks, excessive emphasis on the negative side can push it straight into Cursed With Awesome territory, where it becomes another trope. Immortality has been done to death under this heading, even garnering its own trope. The idea that the awesome is a curse may cause some forms of Internalized Categorism. Sometimes a subset of people try to tell them this. Other times it's the "reward" for Heroic Willpower. Often, such characters will bemoan their fate and go to great lengths to be rid of the "curse" instead of taking advantage of whatever cool side effects the curse may have. ![]() Sooner or later, that something you really wanted nothing to do with is going to be what saves you.Ī character has some "terrible" curse placed on them (if they weren't born with it) that is actually pretty awesome. ![]()
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