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Competence Kink
| Tropes and genres | |
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| Synonym(s) | competency kink, competence porn, competency porn, competent! |
| Related tropes/genres | Mary Sue, Power Fantasy, Overpowered |
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Competence kink is a preference for competent main characters who consistently get difficult things done. Fanworks may be tagged with "competent!<character name>" when they have characters intentionally made competent. A similar term with (more) negative connotation is competence porn. When it's excessively done, the character can be a Mary Sue.
Alternatively, competence kink refers to kinky interest in competent people and seeing them being competent.
When a fanfic writer makes characters competent to save them (and/or other characters) from tragedies, it can also be a Fix-it fic.
The term "competence porn" is attributed to John Rogers.[1][2][3]
In science fiction, especially in its early era in the United States, the idea of "the competent man" was promoted by Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and John W. Campbell.[4]
Resources
- Competence Kink tag at AO3
- Competancy tag at AO3
- Recs tagged Competence at Fancake
References
- ^ Michaella A. Thornton, Competence Porn for the Rest of Us, 2018.
- ^ Corrina Lawson, Admit it: You Love Competence Porn Too!, 2009
- ^ Original blog post in 2009, posted by John Rogers
- ^ https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/across-the-universe-the-competent-man/