For the short story I'm working on right now, it was to tackle a cliche my boyfriend and I passionately hate in manga. To see if we could try and make it work in a more reasonable/ less cringey way. I don't know if TV tropes already has a name for it but it's the one where the main character encounters a very conveniently timed group of muggers/ bad guys who are trying their damnedest to be the most stereotypically unrealistic villains ever. The whole encounter is always rife with unnatural dialogue and it's nothing more than a plot device to show how cool and heroic and strong the MC is .... by beating up the lowest tier skill people imaginable.
They'll always either be young kids or middle aged, but always men and about to do something horrific either to a side character or approached the MC directly looking for a fight (normally in a bar.) And they're laughing about it like a cartoon villain. It makes me mad because it's incredibly rare for people to magically become violent when they're drunk. Usually they have to be high and drunk on a combination of things, but more realistically, violent and have anger issues regardless of inebriation. Even then, you'll see his buddies pull him back (and sometimes apologize!) People aren't stupid, even when they're stupid. That is to say, the writer completely dismisses any sense of self preservation characters should have. You don't even see gangs going out picking fights with every random dude they see on the streets, it's completely counter intuitive to their way of life. I just hate this style of writing because it completely misses the psychology of people who do have these behavioral tendencies.
