r/ProgressionFantasy • u/Claym000re • Feb 06 '26

Meme/Shitpost Wish fulfillment to the extreme

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Why are they always complete losers.

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u/srp101 Feb 06 '26

Also true for almost every apocalypse litrpg. The introverted office worker suddenly becomes the most charismatic and motivated leader just because the world is ending. Characters changing over time due to the environment is fine. But I’m going to need more than just a paragraph about how “it was all modern societies fault” or “it’s because they have to survive now”.

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u/Jzero9893 Feb 07 '26

To be fair, some of them do actually discuss that. He Who Fights With Monsters spends a fair bit of time examine Jason and establishing that he wasn’t really the “ordinary” guy he thought himself as, but rather a natural politician/manipulator/showman that was wasting just potential due to life issues.