What cliches and tropes annoy you when it comes to content creation?

[Strontium]

"The whole plot is boy + girl" shows up even in the genre YA books I read. Seriously, if there are two MCs and one is a girl and one is a boy, they will ABSOLUTELY get together in the book. There is no mystery! Just for once I want to see a book with a male and a female MC when they don't get together.

[Mocha]

Love triangles that's aren't actually love triangles! In other words, person A can't choose between person B or C. This happens especially in YA novels and harem anime.
How a REAL love triangle should be imo is the following:
Person A likes person B
Person B likes person C
Person C likes person A
Nobody is happy! Everything is tragic!

(coughcoughortheycouldjusthaveathreesome*coughcoughhackcough*)

[Croik]

"I lied to you to keep you safe" is I think the trope I hate the most, followed closely by "I overheard part of a conversation out of context and got upset, and if only'd I'd stuck around a little longer I'd realize everything is actually okay."

[joe_galindez]

I liked the movie, but it was far from the MCU's strongest offering. It was a bit of a jumble, really.

[KimaAndJeorge]

The only movie where I ever truly respected "Fat Kid" was Monster Squad

[joe_galindez]

Cartoonish villains. Like, would it kill Hollywood to make nuanced characters who happen to be bad guys? Would it kill them to show the real faces behind everything that's wrong with the world?

. . . maybe it would hit too close to home.

[KimaAndJeorge]

One trope I think sucks when not used right and can just be downright lame is the relate able villain. The villain who's backstory that keeps you, "Oh no that's tragic." I like it at times, but sometimes I just want a straight up crazy bad guy, who's just a dick.

[375]

Oh my god the number of cliches that annoy me! Most of you got it but one of the major things that are on my list but I absolutely hate is when movies don't match their culture they originated from. That one cracks my knuckles really takes the cake.

That and the whole boy + girl romance which irritates me because its not the only romance thats out there and no they dont have to instantly fall MAGICALLY IN LOVE. Love hurts- and sometimes you dont get the person you want. Show that in movies please ;w;

[joannekwan]

Many of my irks have already been listed, but I'll point out a new one that I've noticed and is starting to nag me a little.

In a w|w relationship the darker/poc one is portrayed as more masculine while her counterpart (usually lighter/white) is more feminine with traditional "girly" traits.

Been seeing this a lot in webcomics and general illustrations. Particularly the Knight and Princess trope and the darker woman is always the knight from what I've seen.

[dawgofdawgness]

Yes oh my god. We need to have some better wlw stories out there, I've seen like maybe 3 good ones so far on Tapastic, and then there's a swarm of BL.

[Rhombik]

I reckon it's got to be when a male character basically stalks his female love interest until she gives in. It's lazy and it's eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverywhere.

Speaking of which, there's actually an ad running on Tapas that makes my hackles rise every time I see it... It's the college one where the girl goes to a party and keeps hesitating over a one night stand.

This stuff is why I really like the TV series Community. It turns every trope on it's head. I'm sure some of you must've watched it.

[Mari]

Tropes I hate in generic media;

-The stupid cop who goes to a serial killers home alone, doesn't tell anyone where he's at, etc
- The girl who unexplainedly pukes at the start of the film is pregnant. ALWAYS.
- The white middle aged brown haired man who is the protag of every action movie / horror game
- When the bible is quoted, witchcraft is upon us (Mostly only in horror, though)
- Lady who only exists to fuel the protag's revenge campaign
- Girl gets a makeover of straight hair and no glasses. Instantly SAH PRETTY until she realizes that beauty was always inside her :'cccc
- "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD" "I Love you...Real dad :("
- 'Murica and general propaganda & jesus

A few from BL.

-"Is it too strange to be with another man"(THE CRINGE IS SO REAL)
-"Should never date straight people" (This is the weirdest freaking trope)

[cleo_san]

Whew, there actually are a few... @_@

• evil parents (like in "Do your homework or else!", totally astray from reality or "evil" in a sense that they don't allow their brat everything. That's not evil, that's parenting.)
• shallow characters
• also: shallow villains, villains who are just evil because of reasons! (I like villain with a solid backstory!)
• typical BL relationship, preferrably shy little bottom (student) falls in love with hot smexy top (teacher or school rep)
• the blonde girlie who can't use something more complex than a hair dryer if her life depended on it
• "You know, you love me!" - "No, I don't!" - "Yes, you do!" - "Okay! I love you!"

...more? XD

[TACOBERTO]

Ooooh boy

What I call the "Bigger Fish" dilemma where conflicts are solved by being stronger than the villain by an arbitrary score/percentage only to have to face ANOTHER villain who's more powerful by an arbitrary percentage so the hero has to become more powerful by an arbitrary percentage only to have to fight a more powerful villain (Continue ad infenatum).

This is opposed to the villain, environment, and circumstances changing forcing the hero not to become more "powerful" but change up their strategy to adapt to this new threat

[indagold]

Weird fetish fuel suddenly out of no where, no provocation and no explanation just for the creators gratification. I'm looking at you anime.

People having a really dumb fight about trivial things that basically overshadows their main objective such as saving the world from destruction or preventing their inevitable death.

Those stories with a loathsome character where at some point they cry a lot, bitch about how they're a troubled, tortured soul and that they need to change for the good god damn it! Then have everyone go "poor baby" and now this character is somehow likable now. People legitimately think this is how redemption arcs work.

[Rhombik]

Oh and another one I thought of is when a series makes a villain so unstoppable or raises the stakes so high that they can't write themselves out of it and end up having the hero give a speech.

puke

[DiegoPalacios]

Characters doing stupid things just to stretch the plot, sometimes, even being inconsistent with their characterization. Like Barry Allen fucking the timelines because they needed a conflict.

[franzvanderlinde]

"IT'S OVER 9000" or anything too similar to DBZ

[Kura]

That reminds me, overuse of memes is absolutely horrible cliche.

[joannekwan]

Just thought of another one found in BL's: the uke is a dancer of some sort and it's like feminine belly dancing, with the silks and beads and exposed midriff. And the other guy is always entranced by it.

Give me a guy fawning over some other dude doing a haka dance!