Role added by user_53973 on August 17, 2022
But in fiction, manipulation is usually just the result of the victim carrying an Idiot Ball. Everyone else, especially the audience, can and will immediately identify the manipulator as evil, but the manipulated is simply a Horrible Judge of Character. When the plot requires for these Horrible Judges Of Character to regularly make Card Carrying Villains their most intimate confidants, they're Ingenues — or Too Dumb to Live. Innocence and helplessness may attract guardians and friends, but will also make them vulnerable targets to get romantically involved with Troubled, but Cute or The Vamp.
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Horrible Judge of Character
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