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Post by ldorado on Jul 10, 2011 22:01:54 GMT -5
Is there a consistent detail to even some of your favorite shows, books, movies, and animes that just gets on your nerves? Sure, it's ultimately how good something is that determines quality, but if you changed that one thing, you'd feel a bit more sane. With me, here are some recurring tropes that just annoy the hell out of me...
-A female character arbitrarily getting pregnant without any relevance at all to the plot and usually in a vain attempt to add some sort of drama. Hollywood does this ALL the time.
-A protagonist surrounded by people so annoying and so stupid and not lifting a finger for his or herself to the point where you just want to jump into the story and kick their asses
-Filler episodes--honestly, this is the only gripe I have about Inuyasha
-Anywhere where the plot revolves around a ridiculous backstory
-Timing a new show or "special" episode conveniently after some disaster or media frenzy that happens to be about the exact same subject
-Any "Nazisploitation" or Cold War stuff
-Very poorly disguised innuendos in kids shows, especially on Cartoon Network
-Excessive use of minced oaths in place of real obscenities
-Star Wars homages
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Post by chronotigger65 on Jul 11, 2011 18:27:47 GMT -5
-The whole good vs. evil thing--The bad guys know their evil and enjoy doing it and the good guys know their good and do the right thing. One of the reasons why I like anime over American cartoons. Most anime I've seen don't do this. Not that the good vs. evil thing is something I despise. It just gets old after awhile.
-A flashback episode when you want to see what's happening next in a continuing plot that's at a good point in the story.
-A series not being completed when there's a continuing story. Too many fanfic I've read and cartoons I've seen end up this way. Example: Samurai Jack. Jack never travels back to own time period and destroys Aku. This show was stopped in the fourth or fifth season. Wanted to see a proper ending to this show.
-Shows not exceeding three seasons. I've always felt a show that had four or more seasons to be considered by me successful anything lower then that is not. But some shows are below that are successful to me have been considered successful in rare cases however.
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Post by BulletMagnet on Jul 11, 2011 20:16:32 GMT -5
-A protagonist surrounded by people so annoying and so stupid and not lifting a finger for his or herself to the point where you just want to jump into the story and kick their asses This one annoys me a lot...I tend to label it the "why in heaven's name does The Brain/Mandy still keep Pinky/Billy around?" syndrome. The latter are only there to mess stuff up and keep the excuses to try something different (in the next episode) coming...always got on my nerves. I'd also put "unnecessary insertion of pop tunes (especially covers) into the soundtrack" high on my list. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2011 20:25:54 GMT -5
Referring to people by their names instead of pronouns, or better yet, no name at all. PEOPLE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT.
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Post by Ike on Jul 11, 2011 20:55:14 GMT -5
-A female character arbitrarily getting pregnant without any relevance at all to the plot and usually in a vain attempt to add some sort of drama. Hollywood does this ALL the time.  Pregnant AND amnesiac? Hollywood ain't got shit on dis. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2011 21:41:24 GMT -5
-A female character arbitrarily getting pregnant without any relevance at all to the plot and usually in a vain attempt to add some sort of drama. Hollywood does this ALL the time. Pregnant AND amnesiac? Hollywood ain't got shit on dis. Holy shit, that's the greatest title ever. |
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Post by TheGunheart on Jul 11, 2011 22:10:39 GMT -5
It's one I've seen a couple of times, like in Iron Man and the 2007 Transformers movie.
This would be having the entire final fight consist of the hero being used as a punching bad by an invincible villain, and then winning through a magical Save-The-Day Button.
It's a cheap and fake way to build suspense that robs me of a good fight scene and having the hero actually put some effort into their victory instead of dumb luck.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2011 6:24:29 GMT -5
It's one I've seen a couple of times, like in Iron Man and the 2007 Transformers movie. This would be having the entire final fight consist of the hero being used as a punching bad by an invincible villain, and then winning through a magical Save-The-Day Button. It's a cheap and fake way to build suspense that robs me of a good fight scene and having the hero actually put some effort into their victory instead of dumb luck. That really pisses me off, too. It makes the hero look like a total idiot, let alone the writers. |
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Post by Weasel on Jul 13, 2011 14:51:25 GMT -5
There's only one thing that truly pisses me off: when a character who previously was able to destroy entire buildings without batting an eye, slaughtering armies without a scratch, suddenly gets held up by the big bad guy because they've got a hostage. Sometimes it's not even someone the hero even cares about, just some random girl.
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Post by kitten on Jul 13, 2011 15:26:24 GMT -5
There's only one thing that truly pisses me off: when a character who previously was able to destroy entire buildings without batting an eye, slaughtering armies without a scratch, suddenly gets held up by the big bad guy because they've got a hostage. Sometimes it's not even someone the hero even cares about, just some random girl. |
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Post by Bobinator on Jul 13, 2011 21:35:40 GMT -5
This isn't really an action trope, but for some reason, it always bugs me if there's a character in anything who's constantly having bad stuff happening to them non-stop. Like, forgive the example, it's just one most people will be familiar with, Meg from Family Guy. Sure, it can be funny to have that kind of thing happen to a character as a joke, possibly even a running one, but it can overused to the point where watching them get shat on all the time just makes you feel kind of depressed.
Well, for me, anyway.
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Post by susanismyalias on Jul 13, 2011 22:12:09 GMT -5
THE WRITER PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE STORY FUUUUCK
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Post by ldorado on Jul 13, 2011 22:18:15 GMT -5
THE WRITER PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE STORY FUUUUCK So I take it you don't like Excel Saga |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2011 6:28:39 GMT -5
I can definitely agree with that. Spider-Man is another prominent example.
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Post by Ike on Jul 14, 2011 10:11:23 GMT -5
But Peter Parker's job is to take pictures of Spider-Man. Of course he's going to insert himself! hooonk
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