"Lore" has infested all of nerd media. You'd think it would make stories richer, but it has such a shaping effect on story that they all feel the same. Every ch

"Lore" has infested all of nerd media. You'd think it would make stories richer, but it has such a shaping effect on story that they all feel the same. Every character has a background, every history has a history, politics, different timelines, multiverse and alternate dimensions, hard magic, aliens, etc. etc. Somehow every story from comics books to video games fall into the lore trap and comes out looking like a kitchen sink of tropes.