From Philosophical Research
- knight of justice / archetypical high-fantasy knight / 勇者 (ゆうしゃ) -> it's arguable there is not a big separation between the high-fantasy knight and the unironic mountain sage. in a series like Dragon Ball or Street Fighter those two just turn into the same thing. sure, a sword character in Street Fighter would be surprising and funny, but look at Tekken where there's a bear or Pokkén [1] where there's a metal bug, and you'd see that there aren't any hard rules on what appears in a fighting game. knight of justice + crisis = hero's journey. knight of justice + postmodernism = conflicted knight of justice.
- king of injustice / prince of darkness / lord of darkness / 魔王 (まおう) -> king of injustice + Goku = Vegeta
- conflicted knight of justice -> when a knight of justice or hero's journey type character is stuck in the middle of an unclear narrative which isn't easily solved by "fighting for good". very common and intuitive, almost the second most obvious place to go after knight of justice itself. Live a Live and its twist gives one of the most basic examples
- justice knight versus evil king / knight of justice versus maō -> the word "maō" isn't important, "king of injustice" will do fine... until I get the idea to make very stupid puns on it, and then it's better you know it
justice knight versus evil king + anticommunist fable = knight of justice versus Mao. justice knight versus evil king + Fantasy would be more historically accurate with Leninisms = evil king versus Mao
- knight of justice versus Mao -> the concept of archetypical heroes fighting to prevent Communism, with the connotation of the heroes maybe being fantastical or medieval. this has gotta be a trope somewhere. the only thing I can think of is like, MLP's Starlight Glimmer episode where Twilight is totally just defending a feudal order and being the Russian Empire to Starlight's Peter Kropotkin.
- evil king versus Mao -> the concept of archetypical tyrants fighting to prevent Communism.
