Agreed. It's shoehorned in.
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I also agree. I think as a WMG, the idea that Tyrion draws from some traditional fantasy dwarf tropes is not immediately unconvincing, but it really seems a stretch- not to mention the huge Unfortunate Implications in equating a human with dwarfism with a mythical humanoid race.
There are not fantasy dwarves in the setting (unless that's what the probably fictional in-universe snarks and grumkins are), but if there were, only then could one consider whether or not those tropes are being deconstructed.
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The deconstructed trope page needs a lot of work in general... There is obviously a misunderstanding of what deconstruction means for some people.
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Should I cover all the spoilers, or add a warning at the top of the page?
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Depends. How much would have to be spoilered out?
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A ton. The page is overflowing with spoilers.
EDIT: You know what, I'll just do both.
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I thought breaking the marriage pact would be part of why Robb is bad with diplomacy, so that's why I added the thing about One Thing Led to Another.
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I suppose so, but the way it was written kind of swamped the main point of the entry. I've re-added it as a brief sidenote.
Is there really any reason to suspect that Tyrion was meant as a deconstruction of this trope? On the one hand, he's The Alcoholic and, er, he uses an axe once. On the other, he's human, he seems to prefer wine to beer, he's clean-shaven, he's human, he doesn't live underground or work in a mine, he's not remotely Scandinavian/Germanic, he's human, and there's no overt reference to fantasy dwarfs anywhere. So there doesn't seem to be a reason to expect him to be a typical fantasy dwarf besides the fact that he's a person with dwarfism in a fantasy book, and there's a hint of Unfortunate Implications to that (You don't often get dwarf characters who aren't meant to represent a fantasy race, so explaining away a well-written and realistic one as merely a response to that trope seems rather dismissive).
The examples given also aren't deconstructions of the trope ("why would this trope not work as usual in the real world?"), they are respectively: an aversion; a justification; a subversion; an aversion; and not related to fantasy dwarfs at all.
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