I am getting a little annoyed to see all those villain and fodder tags only to find a very typical story. One of these "i transmigrated into a cannon fodder" stories didn't even make sense because at the very beginning it's already explained that the "fodder" is some kind hard working woman with a baby with the ML and is the original daughter of a rich family and that the "Female Lead" is horrible?? Like.. why transmigrate at all, her setting is already ideal and a female lead not a cannon-fodder, and the supposed "female lead" is a straight up villainness just name-swapped.
Do you mean that because the so called ‘Villainess’ has a good background and the ‘Female Lead’ has a bad background that the whole ‘I transmigrated into the Villainess who is actually rich and has a good family’ doesn’t make sense to you?
Yeah, they should go ahead and make the villain protag actually evil and/or give her a tragic ending for once... tho I wouldn't read it! P.S. It's basically about trying to show the underdog overcoming hardships and winning (tho it isn't really).
Because the reason the typical female leads have a bad and poor background is to gather sympathy from the readers. Like, ‘Oh, this girl comes from such a bad family and yet she still can make it to the top!?’ While the villainesses always have good backgrounds is used as an excuse for their bad attitudes. Like, ‘She grew up in a rich and noble family, spoilt rotten and thinks of herself as higher than high when she can’t actually do anything!’
And cannon fodder characters aren’t always evil. They might just be a misunderstanding and are just usually going on with their lives while the protagonists one-sidedly thinks that they are in a rivalry. Like, ‘The ML has been paying attention to this barista at the coffee shop and now I’m so jelly than I’m going to completely obliterate the barista’s réputation and career just so I can keep the ML all to myself!!!’
Although I do admit that some types of novels twist the usual MC to make them seem more evil, but maybe the whole story is just written in a different perspective.
It’s about MC stolen Scum and arrogant douchebag MP from FP. Author whitewashing scum MP and make him ML and She write FP as bad with jealousy character and make her antagonist.
tag means to refer to something, so however things that it come out of it, it's another matters. it's nonetheless not conclusion
No but cannon fodder is usually someone seeking death or inadvertently dies/gets ruined, but often the "villain/fodder" characters are super white-washed and were never actually villains. It seems like a wrong label to me.
In a lot of the Bl novels i've read the original protagonist usually just ends up falling in love with the villain/cannon fodder mc and then ends up either never meeting the female lead or hate her indiscriminately because they get jealous and think that the mc likes the original fl over him when usually the mc just wants to push the original protagonist and fl together lol, most times an og fl is mentioned, it's just as a way to improve the og protag and MCs' relationship. So usually the female leads actual character is never actually discussed lol
I've been a bit disappointed with the villain/villainess stories so far. They're usually bad guy with a heart of gold/misunderstood girl types. Just once I'd like to see them actually be evil and succeed in their goals.