If you could erase one trope and multiply another

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

Hahaha, your age is showing.

[DualDragons]

The trope where the demon and angel army had a large war in the prologue and the mc is a hybrid demon-angel thing. On top of that their parents were killed and the mc is banished to the normal human world to live a regular life hiding their real form. Bonus points if they also have cat ears.
It's just kind of messy and doesn't make sense.

I'd like to see more action stories where the mc does not rely on magic or powers. Just their regular weapons and a witty mind they use to outsmart stronger opponents. No Deus ex Machina, so the mc knows when they are outmatched and does not use a bs power of friendship to win the match.

[RyzaCobalion]

You think if the mc is half demon half angel (nephilim essentially) the angels or even demons would kill it at first sight. But no, banishment is all they get and they act like "oh this will definitely not come to bite us later in the future"
Few years later
"oh crap" and they get screwed in the end

[DualDragons]

Exactly
It does not really make sense to me

[RyzaCobalion]

Especially if the story builds up the mc to go on a search for revenge to hunt down everyone who sold out their parents and the cause of their death. Or tries to be the balance of both worlds.

[unknown_user]

Why there is no option to eradicate all bad-written or too cliched tropes at once?

[DualDragons]

You'd need two infinity gauntlets to do that (sorry went off topic lol)

[ar-ninetysix]

@tired_programmer
Because there's no fun in asking lol of course people wanna get rid of all the bad ones

@DualDragons
I'm not interested in how you do it, just..
✧･ﾟ: ✧･ﾟ: do it :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ✧

[IdiotWithPencil]

nah forget the infinity gauntlet you would just need the continuity gem and you could fix everything

[Iris-Grimoire]

Yeet the creator's pet. If I can tell which extra will get a disproportionate amount of attention because the episode/work has a certain writer, that just drags everything down and rarely ends well. You can like the character and give them more screentime, but not shift the moral focus or even romantic focus while you're in the helm while other creators scramble to work with your poor choices by the next instance.

Multiply mundane fantasy applications or replacements for modern technology. I want to see more than fireball being used for cooking - have musician spirit containers that work as CDs, electric magic used to charge batteries, programmers being required telekinetic powers as a hand injury preventing measure. Give me weird applications, especially.

[DualDragons]

I'm gonna add another one, don't mind me hehe.

If the entire female cast of a party is super busty or the entire male cast has a six or more pack. I get that there are always characters that are busty or ripped and i don't think having a number of characters representing that is weird. Especially muscled characters if they are physical fighters and wield large weaponry or heavy armor.

But when the underaged girl has large boobs or a large ass, or the fifteen year old boy has a twelve pack i'm starting to question your design choices. It would also be weird to see a mage sporting arms thicker than a car tire, unless they have a very concrete reason as to why.

I want more silent comics. Ones where there is no text at all and the entire story is told through actions, pictures and interactions.

[33rdCenturyCaveman]

Muscle Wizard am perfectly legitimate build in 5e.

[indagold]

I would delete forever is friendship solves everything. I absolutely loathe stories where a hug or telling the villain "lub will save the day" solves everything. If this was a cutesy story with no risks I could understand that but this is done in super serious stories with high risks. It feels like the writers just gave up.

Trope i'd like to see more is Face–Heel Turn: character that goes from good to evil but not cause of some stupid magic or curse, but they generally had a change of heart.

[IdiotWithPencil]

But when the underaged girl has large boobs or a large ass, or the fifteen year old boy has a twelve pack i'm starting to question your design choices.

Don't question just enjoy

Also I would like to add that please somebody kill the mary/gary/larry fucking stues, my god are the the bane of all writing. And please more rivalries like asta and yuno where the rivals are actually friends and don't just want to kill eachother

[IdiotWithPencil]

Because we the audience would sometimes ask "wait, when did they get this power?" and the lazy answer would be "they had it within the whole time" and why only now does said power only activates during a critical moment in the story like during the final battle or save someone important to the mc or one of the side characters.

I'm guessing it's a parallel of what happens in real life, humans usually can only use 50 to 70% of our muscles cause if we used any more than that we would tear our muscles right off the bone (even if you don't train your muscles to have this power at all times, your brain just limits it cause you would die). But in rare circumstances (like when your baby, father, mother, lover, etc is under a bus or car rare) we can use 100% of our muscle strength and we can do amazing things (bending metal or lifting a truck are some examples that have happened in real life)

I think the problem with the troupe is that there are no consequences for the use of the new power or an actual justification for the absence of said power. So instead of eliminating it I would say change it a bit so it's more interesting

[Chroma]

I want to forever completely and totally erase the trope of when a character did a bad thing and then someone they care about says something along the line of "I'm glad you would never do that". It just makes everyone feel bad watching or reading it and it's just not something I enjoy anymore. It's okay to want moments in the story where a character has to fess up to making a mistake, but this just really pours salt into a wound that already sucks.

If I could multiply a trope, though, I'd like there to be more amicable break-ups between characters in a relationship. Sometimes breakups suck, and the two people end up going their separate ways, but I think its important to acknowledge that sometimes relationships just don't...work out, not because anyone did anything wrong. They just weren't a right fit. And it would be cool to see more characters have a peaceful break-up without completely exiting each others lives.

[elyss]

No more love triangles based around turning route B into a rebound/into a tool to pave the way for A. I want them to all date, poly that sh*t.

[RyzaCobalion]

Change yes. Otherwise i'd see that trope again and again

[Kura]

Erase: video game based isekai.
Multiply: reverse isekai.

Edit: Also

Erase: Animal side kicks that act like dogs instead of the actual animal they are. Also Animal side kicks that talk, and I'm not talking parrots I mean perfect spoken human dialect.
Multiply: Animal side kicks that don't speak perfect human language and act like and have the body language and communication skills of the animals they should be

[C_o]

I'm not a fan of stories where you gradually learn that a character has a history/past of excellence at a particular skill/sport/art that they abandoned for "reasons", only for them to have to whip out said skill in a crucial time of need, thereby reconnecting with a part of themselves that they had tried to run away from.

Basically the girl in Jurassic Park 2 who uses her gymnastics to kill a raptor.

I also dislike "Chosen One" stories. More Neville Longbottoms, less Harry Potters. I also feel like indulgent overblown "world-building" is becoming a lame tropey thing.

A trope that I like is characters purposefully bringing themselves or someone else, to a state of near death in an attempt to see/describe what the afterlife is like. Flatliners, Martyrs, The OA, etc. have gone there. I also wish there was more media about reincarnation and people finding each other across life spans, like in Cloud Atlas and David Mitchell's other books. (Though I hate protagonists who are secretly reincarnations of gods or something silly like that).