Fiction that flaunts the tropes are a good example of “you have to know the rules before you can break them”. These tropes aren’t new inventions, they go back

Fiction that flaunts the tropes are a good example of “you have to know the rules before you can break them”. These tropes aren’t new inventions, they go back into thousand year old myths, so it does seem like they really do appeal to the human brain, ie the Campbell monomyth/hero’s journey.