Examples of popular fiction that break convention?

And that is what happens when people like you "discuss".

Go back to /r/iamverysmart and come back when you graduate middle school, or at least have picked up a book on narrative structures and can discuss Vogler vs Campbell and what the hero's journey actually is before asking about it.

This subreddit is a useless wasteland in large part because of people like you, who have nothing to add to the discussion of writing or narrative plot, who spend all day posting pictures of naked women online, feel they can start an intelligent discussion because of a deep thought they had while smoking weed in their mom's basement. Then get pissed off when they don't have the vocabulary to express themselves clearly.

The hero's journey and subverting it, deconstructing it, are an interesting topic. But you need to know what it is before you try to address it.

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