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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
Is there a tvtrope for when 2 people have seemingly unbreakable conflict but then a bigger villain or issue emerges and they resolve the conflict by uniting to beat the new threat?
4:16 AM · Oct 15, 2020
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Oct 15, 2020
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@vgr
Ah I think this is closest to what I had in mind
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Always a Bigger Fish - TV Tropes
The Always a Bigger Fish trope as used in popular culture. Pursued by a Big Bad Wolf? Wait till' the Bigger Badder Wolf comes in. Our heroes are cornered or …
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Oct 15, 2020
I’m going to call this “ontic expansion”
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mtraven
@mtraven
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Oct 15, 2020
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@vgr
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenghisGambit… (via Watchmen, where this is a key plot point)
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Genghis Gambit - TV Tropes
The Genghis Gambit trope as used in popular culture. OK, so you have a bunch of different factions who fight against each other all the time. Wouldn't it be …
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Oct 15, 2020
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@mtraven
That led to this which is close to what I’m think of
tvtropes.org
Always a Bigger Fish - TV Tropes
The Always a Bigger Fish trope as used in popular culture. Pursued by a Big Bad Wolf? Wait till' the Bigger Badder Wolf comes in. Our heroes are cornered or …
Scott Allen
@ScottAllen
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Oct 15, 2020
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@vgr
I'm thinking it's a variation of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", aka the "Enemy Mine" trope. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyMine…
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