Okay tropes that annoy you

[GamerPrincessXI]

You must really hate this trope.

[Alamino]

Back Alleys do exist in lots of cities, some metropolises don't have them downtown... but if you check the outskirts of downtown you can generally find them. That's where I found them in New York.
Example, here is one from google maps I was able to find quick haha I'd say that's a back alley

[Seaby]

I can't stand villains that go through unbelievable lengths just to get back at the protagonists for an insignificant reason. A whole convoluted plan to ruin their lives, killing their closest friends and family (which only provides motivation for the MC to destroy them later on), watching them at all hours of the day, etc... Do these villains not have better things to do other than obsess over this one person because they beat on some henchmen a few months back?

Not to mention the op protagonist who's still a teenager but happens to know twelve different fighting styles and can recover from just about any injury in half the recovery time (when exactly did they find the time to learn these things in the short period they've been alive?) And when they do something incredible there's always that manufactured moment of stunned awe, because the people around them with way more experience and are actual adults didn't have the foresight to show them respect, like they're at fault for not relying on someone who hadn't graduated high school yet. They were certainly proven wrong!
I can suspend my disbelief and consider teenagers capable depending on the circumstances and time period, but not in a modern setting where, "mere months ago they were only a regular kid!"
Not to say these tropes can never work, because I like cheap drama (occasionally), and I LOVE dramatic reveals, but it can't be so contrived that I'm reading and thinking, "There's no way this would ever happen!"

And what really irks me is when there is an easily solvable solution to a problem that is being faced, had someone called the police! No one, ever, will try and face a criminal on their own. Especially when it's a kidnapping victim or some sort of hostage situation. I would think that the first thing a person would do if they were being chased or threatened by someone/a group of people would be to contact the authorities.

[MReddragon]

Okay, here's one that I don't like.

The overbearing love struck childhood friend
Perfectly fine to have a crush on a friend. But somehow tome these girls come in, assume an almost spouse-like roll, while other girls are presenting their feelings.

The Naho
I call it that in honor of Naho from Orange. So focused on her love and mission she doesn't see she is coming across as a giant insensitive pest. Especially to someone with mental struggles. Tunnel vision is a bad thing.

Now this one... This one I HATE

The Evil Albino
I don't know who came up with this trope. But why are a majority of albino people represented in media as unhinged, murderous, creepy or evil? Kinda stupid. A white animal in media is magic, majestic and amazing. A person with the same characteristics is probably a murderer, or something. I'm trying it write my story with an Albino mc, if anything just to bring something different.

[apbarratt]

Oooo, interesting. My understanding of this must be specific to city centres, that would make sense. This particular knowledge of mine is specifically from an episode of 99% Invisible, this one to be particular:

Mini Stories: Volume 6 - 99% Invisible

[DiegoPalacios]

That reminds me........in general.....oscar baits annoy me a lot (stories deliberatedly made to win an oscar by using "deep" topics and trying to be "emotive".........nothing against deep and emotive stories....my annoyance comes from the deliberate use of a formula

That also includes movies about important issues.....there are good movies and bad movies that touch said issues, but a message by itself doesnt make a movie. It helps.....but, if you are using movies to convey your message......make sure you know what you are writing about and also work on.....you know....your plot and characters.

Also i dislike people guilt tripping others into liking a movie because of the message of said movie.
(of course, i would despise a movie that promotes something harmful, even if it is well written)

[azzy-m]

Okay here's one more: I've recently noticed this more and more now, but I really hate the "A has a crush on B, but B is too oblivious to notice anything. A bumbles and stutters around B. A and B bond together a lot and after a certain point, they are friends but a few episodes later, A is back to idolizing and being incredibly nervous around B to the point that they make themselves look embarrassing and/or terrible to the people around them".

Or as I like to call it, the "Marinette Dupain-Cheng Dilemma" Trope. I love Miraculous Ladybug but good lord I hate how they treat the romance in the story.

[azzy-m]

This... this kind of sounds like the plot to Blue is the Warmest Color, doesn't it? The one where they abused the actresses?

[liann]

CEO male leads at the age of 20. I don't hate this. But what annoys me is them being rich has nothing to do with the story except flexing $5000 dinner dates and escapades to Prague with the mc. The company they run is never mentioned again. They are the CEO but they're always banging the mc in like ten different countries each time and never going to work unless the plot requires some angst or something.

[darthmongoose]

Yeeeep, it's also pretty much the plot of Carol, Summertime and pretty close to a bunch of others. It's not even that far off "Imagine Me & You" Except that one is set in the 90s and the Lesbians get together at the end (Hooray! Cersei Lannister gets to be happy and gay instead of incestuous and evil! Good for her!). You get VERY tired of this plotline if you're a lesbian and have already watched DEBS approximately a million times so you're looking for like...any other decent F-F movies.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

A and B bond together a lot and after a certain point, they are friends but a few episodes later, A is back to idolizing and being incredibly nervous around B to the point that they make themselves look embarrassing and/or terrible to the people around them".

Yeah, to be honest, I don't really like that either...and I think both their characters would be better served if they actually became legit friends.

But then, if Marinette were to actually mature, how would they show off the drastic difference between her personality and Ladybug's...? 9_9

[liann]

it's basically resetting whatever character development they had. yikes. same with the dark, brooding character who undergoes a life changing experience with the protag and learns to care for people but season 2 comes and he's still the same brooding, cold, mysterious jerk.

[Alamino]

Ah neat, it isn't wrong about there being few to no alleys downtown in New York specifically... and I do get the idea of wanting to film downtown New York. How else are you going to get that authentic 16 story building pan out/up haha I guess filming somewhere other than downtown in a metropolis doesn't have the same feel... especially when you pan out/up and it's just a 4 - 6 story building surrounded by other smaller buildings.

[azzy-m]

But then, if Marinette were to actually mature, how would they show off the drastic difference between her personality and Ladybug's...? 9_9

I feel like they already kind of do that. Marinette is more confident and focus and less clumsy as Ladybug... and even then she is a little obssessed with Adrien and sometimes uses her status as Ladybug to get in between him and another girl (case in point: Volpina)

[abcde]

Lmao, do you read lots of cn novels? Because I do, and man CEO MLs are everywhere XDD

[liann]

yes i had that phase.

[doriantorres112]

I don't like sex in every chapter. It seems out of place especially if the characters came out of a horrific event and the best thing they can do is... sex. I know sex can be casual and some do it daily in real life. But skimming long ass paragraphs of cock, thrust and the "ah-ah... AH!" is tiring.

Not everyone can write a sex scene justice either. The atmosphere, the way how it is presented and the right words to use is like on the level of writing an action scene. Do it wrong, and no one will understand a thing so they just skim it and hope for the best.

Also, sex shouldn't be the decision maker of an argument either. I'd be more interested on how the characters can pursue a problem together but somehow, some stories just take the easy route and all ends with a moaning "I love you."

I'm sorry if I'm rambling too much but my horrible flashbacks of not steamy stories came back. It's also because I actually dedicated some of those with my time and even reading the entire series (one actually has three books on their belt with 90% sex and 10% plot) just for some awkward skin to skin contact between characters who might have mistaken love with lust.