When a main female character is boiled down to nothing but a love interest who orbits around the MMC (Male main character) simply because she is a woman.
"Dude, Atom Eve from Invincible is such a satelliting trope!"
"I know! All she does is orbit around Mark!"
When an important female character is boiled down to nothing but a love interest simply because she is dating the MMC (Male Main Character). She becomes a satellite orbiting around the MMC.
"Atom Eve from Invincible is such a classic use of satelliting.."
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.