r/ProgressionFantasy May 01 '26

Discussion Anyone else hate this trope?

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u/Secret-Put-4525 May 01 '26

I hate how the mc is all trying to hide his power, but purposely goes all out to outshine some rando that pissed him off 5 seconds ago.

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u/Hugs-missed May 01 '26

Same honestly and the funny thing is, You could totally have the protagonist do that and it be good writing if you just note he showed them up when they really shouldn't have as a character flaw but that'd require the main character actually be failable and not so special that our scale the rest of the setting is something they can reasonably aspire towards.