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What I mean is, for a male MC in an urban fantasy setting whose role centers largely around action movie type fights and in going to war with supernatural and/or otherwise evil adversaries in a Hercules/Thor/The Hulk type setting, what would be examples of turnoffs and turnons about that type of MC? In other words, can you list, say, five tropes and/or forms of character development that would make you turn offed by said male MC enough to where you find yourself dropping the book in the garbage and five tropes and/or ways to develop such a male MC that would get you instantly interested and wanting to turn the pages to find out more?
Same goes for female action oriented MCs a la Xena or River Tam. What are five things an UFC book or tv show or movie could show about her that would make her character enough of a turnoff so that you don't want to read the book and what, conversely are five turnons that would make you instantly hooked and start reading intently?
Sidenote - I am aware that similar questions have been asked before, however a. Given that new writers come on all the time, this is one of those questions where if a similar is asked a couple years later all kinds of new perspectives come up and b. I am also interested in knowing turnons about such action oriented male and female MCs because let's face it, this is UF and there will always be violent battles that have to be fought, someone has to do it, I presume most of us would like people from both genders doing the fighting and so we may as well establish what we also want most to see in that end.
Same goes for female action oriented MCs a la Xena or River Tam. What are five things an UFC book or tv show or movie could show about her that would make her character enough of a turnoff so that you don't want to read the book and what, conversely are five turnons that would make you instantly hooked and start reading intently?
Sidenote - I am aware that similar questions have been asked before, however a. Given that new writers come on all the time, this is one of those questions where if a similar is asked a couple years later all kinds of new perspectives come up and b. I am also interested in knowing turnons about such action oriented male and female MCs because let's face it, this is UF and there will always be violent battles that have to be fought, someone has to do it, I presume most of us would like people from both genders doing the fighting and so we may as well establish what we also want most to see in that end.