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That, and Arcade\\\'s \\\'grand master plan\\\' is extremely flawed, falling into mistakes and problems that the narrative source material for his game took explicit steps to avoid (\\\"8 day time skip\\\" followed by \\\"You kids are boring, I\\\'m changing things!\\\"). It wants us to believe that he\\\'s a grand threat, but the evidence presented is frankly a false facade and I don\\\'t think the writer even realizes it.

But that\\\'s just my take on it. What are your thoughts?

Edit to add:

I could be misreading the trope, since a lot of it is rather meta. The aggrandizement of Arcade is one of the stated goals and it only partly lines up with what\\\'s being shown. Does it fit? Honestly? It\\\'s a close call. Thought it was a slam dunk before, but now I question it. The constant praise is there, but would this just fall under the standard VillainSue problem? Dunno.

But, to the bigger problem: If I may make a suggestion: why not add rather than cut. Find a bunch of positive/neutral tropes to add to the main page/YMMV to counterbalance the problematic elements being focused on. Sometimes, cruising the site, I\\\'ll stumble on tropes I\\\'ve never heard of before and realize they apply elsewhere. That may help find some.

That, and Arcade\\\'s \\\'grand master plan\\\' is extremely flawed, falling into mistakes and problems that the narrative source material for his game took explicit steps to avoid (\\\"8 day time skip\\\" followed by \\\"You kids are boring, I\\\'m changing things!\\\"). It wants us to believe that he\\\'s a grand threat, but the evidence presented is frankly a false facade and I don\\\'t think the writer even realizes it.

But that\\\'s just my take on it. What are your thoughts?

Edit to add:

I could be misreading the trope, since a lot of it is rather meta.

If I may make a suggestion: why not add rather than cut. Find a bunch of positive/neutral tropes to add to the main page/YMMV to counterbalance the problematic elements being focused on. Sometimes, cruising the site, I\\\'ll stumble on tropes I\\\'ve never heard of before and realize they apply elsewhere. That may help find some.

Anyway, as to the reason I put that there: it was more than Juston\\\'s line. #7 and various other incidents related to Arcade (IE: how only Bloodstone has said anything bad about Arcade without narrative retribution, which is counterbalanced by his later fearful cowering) all lead me to that conclusion. I was tempted to post it after #7, but shilling the character was basically the point of the issue, so it didn\\\'t quite fit as it was done on a meta level. Juston\\\'s line and X-23\\\'s reinforcement of it at the end, for me, pushed it over the edge and confirmed the trope.