What is your least favourite trope in comics?

[gempompadour]

I hate it when there's a team/group and it only has one female character. It's even worse if she's useless (other than maybe healing the guys when they get injured) and pines after the male protagonist.

She has no real personality and no character arc. Men get to develop and have epic battles where they lose, overcome and eventually win. Their relationships are fleshed out and full of drama, emotion and depth. They're the ones who are at odds with the story's antagonist and whose actions matter/ have consequences. The girl just tags along and acts as the team's cheerleader.

[Random_Guy]

Monster tropes.
Just once, can I see something unique?
We've always got orks that are big humanoid pigs, goblins that are creepy little knife-ears, and slimes that are just little blobs.

Evolution is a thing, they should adapt to their natural environments. Show me a sea goblin, or a cave ork!

[liamhernandezlucas]

Perhaps the opposite of what many feel:
I'm tired of authors permakilling characters just for the sake of stakes. Oh, we have a new villain to hype up? Let me just take this very likable character and kill them off. Is it the final battle? Let's just murder half the cast, because that's necessary...

Even worse if the character is forgotten about after that, or if the survivors celebrate their victory after they lost half their group.

Nah, done with that. If you write a death, you better make it feel significant. I'd rather read a story where the characters have abundant plot armour, but when push comes to shove the losses feel real, than a story that just makes me want to distance myself emotionally.

[frgmnt]

I mostly agree with what's been said about bringing characters back from the dead or faking deaths. Though I think there's one kind of story than can get away with it, to an extent: time-travel story. Even so, it shouldn't come too easily... and it's easy to overuse it, just to show characters dying brutal deaths that don't actually have any consequences. (I mean, I do like several stories that do that. And I can see why writers would do that. But still. Overusing it makes it look like cheap torture porn.)

Unrelated to that, I don't think this was mentioned yet - I can't stand out extremely drawn-out romance. I'm all for a good slow burn, but if the story continuously relies on a number of contrivances (oh god, contrived misunderstandings are the worst thing) to keep the characters from getting together, to keep the "will they or won't they" for far longer than it can be fresh or engaging... then my patience may give out.

[brilliiant]

"Hey sis!" "Hey baby bro!" or any other clunky way of showing the audience two characters are related. There are so many possible workarounds it just sounds like the author has never asked someone with siblings how they talk to them.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Side characters that were once useful to the main plot(for a long period of time) and then become deadweight, or their personalities are forgotten, or they just become a joke.
pouring one out for you, Yamcha.

[frgmnt]

This might be a thing that some writers thoughtlessly copy from anime&manga, since in Japan, referring to your (particularly older) sibling with sister/brother is more common than using their name and it makes sense in a Japanese setting, I suppose, but otherwise, yeah it's kind of a lazy exposition thing.

[kurakart]

All of my pet peeves come from writers adding overly powerful Things to solve one problem which then have to be "toned down" when later problems arise because they would too easily solve it

• Forgetting about The Thing - "oopsie haha"
• Putting arbitrary limits on The Thing which then need to be remedied when an even bigger, unsolvable problem - "nah, we can only use The Thing once" then later "I've discovered a way to use The Thing again"
• Adjusting the plot so that the arbitrary limits put on The Thing in earlier stories can be outmanouvered - "we can only use it once, for every person!"
• Adding a new Thing late in the story but which is common knowledge enough that characters would have known about it earlier when shit hit the proverbial fan countless times
• The Thing is actually a side/main character who could solve the situation but "oh uh I have to go do this other thing, why don't you guys take it this time?" and the entire world almost blows up but they come back just in the nick of time

Substitute The Thing for Dragon Balls and Goku and you've got every gripe I have with one of my favorite series.

[kurakart]

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I'll never forget. #never ( ಥ‿ಥ)

[indagold]

New characters shoved in just for reader fanservice (not just sexual stuff but just fanservice in general)

I'm looking at you homestuck

[Freemints30]

Sad fact is that those works with that trope tends to aimed at teenagers and are in a lot of novels, oteme games ect with said girl some how being the main character at times. Code name Kids next door, which aims at a younger audience and came out years ago manages to avoid this garbage. That's just lazy and shitty writing. Like her personality is just "girl" and occasionally "tom boy" who still usually does nothing. I sometimes I suspect that its to just shove in love interest to make the main character to not appear in an all male group ....."gay", Gasp, I know the horror

[sheap]

Actually, it was a dream all along

yeah... no.

Related: character learns a lessonm inmediately after amnesia time! worst if the series/movie end after that.

[rmdooley]

I've been taking martial arts for over a decade. If you've been doing ANY discipline for six months you have MAYBE started on your first form and second stance. MAYBE

[PapaDom]

coughs in the general direction of RWBY

(Yes I know it's not a comic but shh let me have my moment)

Actually, there are some mangas now (and even some comics published by DC) about RWBY now. Sooo it´s.... a comic now ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

pouring one out for you, Yamcha

For being the third strongest human on earth, he doesn´t deserve this treatment at all. I hope he gets his time to shine (I mean even krillin and tien got better treatment than him. COME ON).

[YangKoete]

Dragons are a big deal in way too many comics.

Where's the imagination? People constantly going "Oh, these are the end-all goal of any adventurer!" or "These are our main characters, they're mostly stupid flying rats!"

It's just way too saturated and I hate it. I have my other biases, but people really need to stop using so many rats as the big powerful omnipotent beings.

[YangKoete]

I REALLY wish we got to see some other tournaments and stuff where Yamcha and the other Z Warriors had more input and actually mattered more than the standard ones.

There had to be SOME between the original and Z.

[Cavechan]

Plot conveniences, such as "I'm not going to tell you this important thing about the plot because when I do it will actually make a huge difference in the plot and we need to keep it going as long as possible."

Love triangles as someone else stated. They make me think the writer couldn't think of any way to make tension in the relationship so the only way it can be done is by some third wheel coming in. You can also say extreme jealousy where one of the people acts friendly with someone else and now the other is super jealous and takes everything the completely wrong way.

Killing game genre. What's the easiest way to create drama? People have to kill each other for some stupid reason. meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. Though I am reading Platinum End which is kind of a killing game, but done MUCH better since it isn't even the focus most of the time and there are very few characters involved.

Two guy characters who are obviously really close with each other and have strong feelings but NEVER ACTUALLY GAY and then a girl HAS to be shoved in the middle. SERAPH OF THE END.

Manga spoiler

Literally other characters having to TELL Shinoa that she MUST BE IN LOVE WITH YUU, even though she's there like "No" and there has literally been ZERO romantic happenings between the two. Literally zero. Meanwhile Yuu and Mika keep holding each other, basically confessing their love for each other, comforting each other, being close to each other 90% of the time they're together. I love Shinoa's character, but I really just hate that part of the manga.