Okay tropes that annoy you

[ButterflyEmpress]

I think you were meant to grow with the characters since they start in 3rd grade and ends with then graduating to 7th

[liann]

100 year old vampires who are still in highschool

[DiegoPalacios]

Edward: "is not weird if i look like a teen, right?"

(vampire FBI kicks door)

[silacinnamon]

Why would a vampire even go to high school, at least go to an university. Idk get a master's degree. I want to see a vampire with like 10 PhDs, not still learning basic chemestry.

[apbarratt]

Teenagers in high school who have the maturity level of 100 year old vampires.

I just don't buy it. I mean, come on, just listen to the mortified podcast to know there's no such thing as a mature teenager! And I know because I thought I was one of them, but gods, if I had a time machine I'd just go back and shake teenage me, endlessly shouting "no" in my face.

[apbarratt]

That's actually a really fair point! I'd left school and was in college at 16, when I later made it to uni the youngest person in my class was 15! There's just no reason why they need to need to go to school!

[Iris-Grimoire]

There's a show out there where a supporting character just has every degree from the setting's college. They're not even immortal, but it's implied all that time he's not on screen they keep coming back there because he has nothing better to do and the episodes always end up requiring him with one of the many degrees to save on 3D assets; it was a pretty funny reveal.

[rajillustration]

I'm pretty sure that this also happened in Twilight, where Edward was like "and here's my wall of diplomas" and when it got to that part I was just rolling because wtf is he doing back in high school if he's already attended like billions of colleges. Get a freakin job, Edward.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Yeah, people staying for years and years in uni pilling up degrees for no reason whatsover makes no sense at all.

Oh wait...

Now I wonder, am I a vampire?

[FenneFox]

Never really been a fan of Mary Sues and Gary Stus honestly. Just seems to me like a lazy way to make a character. Sure, it might not have come about intentionally (like Rei from Star Wars is generally characterized as such, but I assume the intention at least wasn't to make such a bland character), but it does make things a lot more boring character-wise.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Hey being over a hundred and immortal is hard... Also, they could never really pay taxes. XD

[GamerPrincessXI]

I did that for a while. No student loans. Lol

[HGohwell]

Another one that I've seen coming up a lot recently (look hard at you again Precure and so many shuonen) is the sixth ranger, often a former bad guy or rival, who's now the MC's bestest best friend and takes priority over all the established friends and is suddenly the center of the plot.

[apbarratt]

Ah, fair point, I forget that in many countries you have to pay tuition to go to college/uni. Tuition is free here in Scotland. That would definitely explain why they choose school over uni. Although I think in Twilight it was implied that Edward's family was loaded.

[darthmongoose]

Okay here's a fun one: Creators not doing proper research and putting totally incorrect plants, animals and foods into stories that are supposed to be set in specific places.
Disney is actually hilariously bad at knowing what animals live in England, for example. I was always really confused as a kid by how when Mary Poppins sings a duet with a "robin" the bird in question looked nothing like a robin. It was like... this big, dark coloured, sleek thing with the red breast in the wrong place...

If you're european, as Mary Poppins is supposed to be, you'll know that a robin is about half that size, kinda round, a light brown colour with a red patch from his face to his upper chest and totally adorable, like this:

Turns out, the settlers who went to America back in the day were not very imaginative and named any new creatures they found that looked even vaguely like ones from back home in Europe after the things they knew... even if they're nothing alike. Then centuries later, it never occured to Disney's team to have Mary Poppins sing with something that looks like a robin you'd see in London (I can only imagine Julie Andrews patiently shrugging this one off).

They made a similar mistake in the live action 101 Dalmatians, in which you get to see.... Raccoons.... in the rolling hills and winding roads of the English countryside. This film is from the nineties! It's not even that old! I just... what!?

Like... it's harmless, but it's just.... really obvious they didn't care and had a very America-centric mindset.

[apbarratt]

So much this! I just thought that robin was a bad model of what they thought a robin should look like! Never occurred to me that it was based on a real bird they have in America. And raccoons too, such animals simply don't exist on the British Isles yet folk don't seem to know this.

The one that baffles me is cockroaches. People seem to think you get cockroaches everywhere. I'm told they can survive anywhere and we do get them in Britain, but I've never seen one in my life, they're just not as common as folk think they are.

[apbarratt]

The other trope that annoys me that's similar to this is alleys. Back alleys simply don't exist in many (most?) cities, yet they're always shown in films and comics as the place some dodgy thing is happening. How many movies have you seen with something happening down an alley in New York? Would it surprise you to learn that New York doesn't have any alleys? Never has. (Well that's a lie, apparently it has one single alley in all of the city, and it's in constant use for filming movies and TV shows).

[silacinnamon]

Oh yes, bad historical/geographical research sucksss too. I'm not very excited about the next Fantastic Beasts movie bc part of it is gonna take place here in Brazil and I'll be surprised if they don't get a bunch of stuff wrong. JK Rowling messed up already when she described the Brazilian school of magic in Pottermore: the building looks like a Mayan or Aztec pyramid, totally different from anything that any native Brazilian people ever made. And it's supposed to be as old as Hogwarts, which means it was made way before the European colonization, but the name is in Portuguese? (It's a really lame name too, "Castelobruxo" is literally just "Wizardcastle" lol) Did the native people somehow name it in Portuguese, or did they change it after, you know... the whole colonization genocide stuff?...

[GamerPrincessXI]

Yeah, being exceedingly rich has its ups but it always has downs too. Some people can't say no to anyone who has money. Also that's nice that you don't have to pay for uni in Scotland.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

How many movies have you seen with something happening down an alley in New York? Would it surprise you to learn that New York doesn't have any alleys? Never has.

I'm confused...isn't an alley just a space between buildings that's too narrow for anything but foot traffic (and maybe a garbage can)?

Although I'm very much a child of the suburbs, even I am pretty sure I've seen an alley before, and I find it hard to believe that an entire city has only one. =/