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Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« on: January 26, 2013, 01:03:05 am »
An introduction to the term "Pet Peeve Trope"

(Yes, more wankery of TV Tropes, still a pretty cool site with a pretty horrible community. I'm saying this because most of you has had enough of this site. I can remember one person on a forum having a signature banner saying "Anti-YTMND," and the funny thing is nobody cares about YTMND anymore now.)

Anyway, I still want to share the many tropes in a work that is so done to death, so vile, or so stupid, that they can all die in a fire.

While these are all the ones I can think of, here's some of my picks, all whom I have a bone to pick with (according to their names on the site):
  • Everybody Laughs Ending (I've always HATED this trope, as it's extremely obnoxious)
  • Laugh Track (Closed captioning for the humor impaired)
  • Evil Foreigner (Often because it's used to vilify an entire ethnicity/religion instead of having a villain based on them)
  • Rape is Love (Rape is rape. The victim will never forget the sexual humiliation, even threats of death based on your extreme lust and lack of understanding of sex. If someone says no, let him/her be because they're not in the mood for sex or just don't want you)
  • It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It (Read response from the former)
  • Sex Slave (Just to let you know, yes, I am a Feminist and also a person who also defends the viewing of pornography between two consenting adults. I do, however, very, very much dislike the sexist tropes that are common in mainstream porn)
  • Rape as Comedy (Speaks for itself)
  • Good Girls Avoid Abortion (Celebrated most by the pro-natalist/anti-choice movement)
  • Have I Mentioned I'm Heterosexual Today? (Due to sexual insecurity and how much I hate those people. Anyone who obsesses about the sexual preferences, even sex lives of fictional characters need to get a life)
  • Cure Your Gays (Being gay is not a choice, but having your whole life be in misery, regret and agony is)
  • Bury Your Gays (Can you think of a trope more homophobic than the former?)
  • Tastes Like Diabetes (Remember, Tropes Are Not Bad)
  • Glurge (Again, Tropes Are Not Bad)
  • Black and White Morality (The only reason I dislike this trope most of the time is because it makes characters shallow and plastic douchebags, no matter what side they're on)
  • Real Is Brown (Not bothering with other colors)
  • Blue And Orange Contrast (The overuse of, and again, not bothering with other colors)
  • Rubber Hose Arms (Often an excuse to not draw proper limbs)
  • Raymanian Limbs (When no other characters have limbs)
  • Impossible Hourglass Figure (I like my women with internal organs, thank you)
  • Die For Our Ship (Even in the Sonic/Amy vs. Sonic/Sally days, the amount of artwork where Sally Acorn got killed so Sonic can be with Amy Rose and its following horrified me)
There. That's all the tropes I really don't like (again, all that I could think of), often some of them turning me off from a work completely.

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2013, 07:11:49 am »
Fauxlosophic Narration.

I loved Heroes & Desperate Housewives, but I couldn't stand those bullshit pretentious speeches they both had at the beginning.

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2013, 05:27:32 pm »
I think you got most of mine...

Oh, Technobabble is a big one of mine. Fuck that noise.

Future Fantasy trying to pretend to be science fiction by failing science forever doesn't help you create an engaging narrative.
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2013, 11:10:37 pm »
Every Car is a Pinto.

It may look cool, but it's also convinced tons of people that cars are at a risk of randomly exploding in any crash and inspiring them to run into traffic to try and escape. Or roughly pull injured people out of cars (and again, possibly into traffic) to "save" them.
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2013, 11:42:52 pm »
You don't like the everybody laughs ending? But...Harvey Birdman used it so well!

...And what do you have against noodle people? Rolo Lamperouge is quite cute thank you very much

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2013, 01:18:08 am »
The only thing I have against "noodle people" is that I just plain hate "Lazy Artist" tropes.

And one thing I remembered, which annoys the hell out of me: Hands In Pockets (Not bothering to draw hands, feet, ears, etc.).

(I apologize if I'm starting to sound like John Kricfalusi. I love that guy's works and all, but Jesus Christ, is he a snooty cartoonist.)
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2013, 04:22:45 am »
I have to say I'm not to thrilled with the portrayal of mid-westerners/farmers/southerners in a fair amount of films.  Then again, I just got done watching "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything."  To be fair, you could argue that the characters redeem themselves in the end, but just the fucking stereotypical behavior of a decent segment of the town they're in...bothers me.

Then again, the film is set in Nebraska, so I guess I'm just kinda pissed by the idea of people in my state being portrayed as fucking backwater hicks - even in the smaller towns!

Yeah.  I'm not sure if there's a trope name for it or what the fuck that trope name would be, but I just realized how much if pisses me off.
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2013, 05:11:54 am »
Every Car is a Pinto.

It may look cool, but it's also convinced tons of people that cars are at a risk of randomly exploding in any crash and inspiring them to run into traffic to try and escape. Or roughly pull injured people out of cars (and again, possibly into traffic) to "save" them.

Actually, any of the tropes in "Television is Trying to Kill You" apply to this. More than one person has suffered injury or even death (or allowed someone to suffer it/caused it themselves) through following logic that they saw in fiction.

Take Grievous Bottley Harm, for example. No, you can't just casually smash a beer bottle over someone's head and knock them out. You can't "harmlessly" knock someone out anyway, but a glass bottle will probably just cave their skull in and now you're facing a murder charge. Zombie Go Boom tested a champagne bottle a few weeks ago, and the FIRST strike caused a bloody skull fracture.
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2013, 05:27:07 am »
"Rape is OK when it's Female on Male" and "Rape is OK when it's Female on Female" annoy me to no end, since they're still so common in comedies.

Most of the tropes on this page suck: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleStandard
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2013, 05:41:18 am »
The obligatory romance sub-plot in everything shits me to no end.

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2013, 08:13:52 pm »
"Rape is OK when it's Female on Male" and "Rape is OK when it's Female on Female" annoy me to no end, since they're still so common in comedies.

Most of the tropes on this page suck: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleStandard

In a similar vein, "Abuse is funny when it's female on male"

It's also ridiculously popular in anime and is one of the biggest complaints I have about the genre as a whole.

Higurashi is an exception, but that's a horror genre anime.
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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2013, 10:44:50 am »
They are getting better with it although that bugged me with p4 (the camp sequeence had Chie and Yukikko kick Yosuke Yu and Kanji into a rock face) then in Golden therere are electric sparks

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2013, 01:54:05 pm »
They are getting better with it although that bugged me with p4 (the camp sequeence had Chie and Yukikko kick Yosuke Yu and Kanji into a rock face) then in Golden therere are electric sparks

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2013, 05:03:45 pm »
They are getting better with it although that bugged me with p4 (the camp sequeence had Chie and Yukikko kick Yosuke Yu and Kanji into a rock face) then in Golden therere are electric sparks

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Re: Tropes You Hate (aka The Pet Peeve Tropes Thread)
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2013, 09:54:49 am »
I hate comedy movies where fat, sloppy men are praised for being "true men", and then there are a ton of fat girl jokes and objectification of skinny women in the movie. Often in the same movie there will also be the "dumb fake girl" jokes. Seriously, no matter what a girl does she can't win in these movies. If she's fat or doesn't dress up, she's a "whale" or "ugly dyke". If she's thin she's joked about being anorexic, or a typical woman. If she wears a lot of makeup she's a dumb whore, and will get crude jokes about her body(Like loose vagina jokes, anal sex jokes, blow job jokes, etc).
Even the "good girls" get jokes. Either they're quiet, young, have no point in the movie other than being the main character's love, or they're joked about as being "prude" or a "typical woman".

I also hear a lot of jokes about how "stupid" or "silly' mental disorders and victims reactions to violence are. Like when people hear stories about someone hearing voices(schizophrenia) a lot of times you will hear someone say "Wow what an idiot, I think they just confused their thoughts with real voices", or "I don't understand why women freeze up while getting raped. I'd just [insert stupid act here]! Then no one would rape me."

Also the "boys will be boys" stuff. That kinda goes with the first one.
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