... now that it's been specified as an Audience Reaction trope. Calling the vote.
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Just in time for me to add a few examples, ha ha. Yes to launching this page!
Disproportionate Retribution is, according to the playing with page, "A character who has been slighted by another plots revenge which is out of proportion to the original slight". Karma Overdose is "The time has come for the Big Bad (or Jerkass or just whoever's in the wrong in the moment) to get their karma. However, the punishment is so bad that the audience (and potentially the characters in-universe) feel sorry for them."
My understanding is that Karma Overdose is a YMMV trope, and relies on the audience feeling sorry for the character in question, while Disproportionate Retribution assesses only what happened in the story, without looking at the reactions of any audience member. If this is the case, we need to add something to the description to specify this, and explicitly compare contrast this with Disproportionate Retribution. We need more than "Can overlap with Disproportionate Retribution".
Tagging the two most prominent editors of this page: @GalaxySagi777 @Jlaw
Alright, I added a section to try and specify the difference between the two. Don't know if I did it well, but I did it.
It's a good start. I added a little more to compare it with Disproportionate Retribution.
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A lot of Miraculous Ladybug salt fics |
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"Salt fic" is a relatively new term in fanfiction circles. (In fact, I'm a rather well-known fic author who's been writing for 25 years, and this was the first time I'd ever seen it. I had to go look it up.) You might want to provide a gloss for those unfamiliar with the term, or maybe even create a trope page for it and link to it if you can justify it being more than just a variety of Hate Fic.
oh sorry, I forgot that term only existed in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom.