#tvtropes also has eda clawthorne as an example which i kind of disagree with?

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It has been years and yet it still tickles me that Glimmer from SPOP counts as an Unscrupulous Hero. I mean I agree, she definitely does count as one, but it's just funny considering the usual characters that get to be this trope.

For minor context, Unscrupulous Heroes are on the Edgier(TM) side of the Anti-Hero scale. It's not the Absolute Edgiest(TM) end of the scale (that honor goes to Nominal Heroes, which... kinda self-explanatory IMO) but it's only one notch less Edgy(TM) than that.

The typical go-to example of an Unscrupulous Hero is your "ends justify the (very violent and morally dubious) means" types of guys, like the Punisher. The Punisher imo is kind of the best example of this, though some depictions can make him swerve into Nominal Hero territory. Huntress and Jason Todd are pretty good examples too, though I don't read a lot of DC so I could be off-base there.

So the concept of the examples of Unscrupulous Heroes being angsty, violent vigilantes in grimdark comic books, cynical characters who do What Has To Be Done in gritty crime dramas, troubled hardboiled detectives in the film noir genre... and a pastel pink glittery princess from a reboot of a 80s toyetic cartoon? It's fucking incredible.

#glimmer #spop #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #tv tropes #s says some words #tvtropes also has eda clawthorne as an example which i kind of disagree with? #i feel like she's more of a pragmatic hero. possibly even a knight in sour armor/'disney anti hero' #i just don't think she's morally grey enough lol #but even if she were it wouldn't feel Surprising or w/e even though she's from a kids' cartoon #just because of the type of character archetype she is #shadow the hedgehog being an unscrupulous hero is also unsurprising to me. like. of course he is #but glimmer being an unscrupulous hero is consistently so wild to me #i love it. i love her #this pink princess with sparkle powers can fit so many war crimes in her!