What television trope are you tired of ?

As seen on "Broken Arrow", the scene where the good guy and the bad guy throw down their weapons and get into fisticuffs, in this case, with a nuclear warhead set to go off on a train bound for Denver. I don't think anyone appreciated it when I laughed out loud at the same thing going on with "Jack Reacher". I did like the Indiana Jones movie where the North African assassin brandishes a scimitar and Indiana just pulls out a gun and shoots him.
 
Ethan Reigns said:
I did like the Indiana Jones movie where the North African assassin brandishes a scimitar and Indiana just pulls out a gun and shoots him.
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Did you know that was done because Harrison Ford was really ill at the time and wanted to get out of filming the fight for 3 days, so he suggested to Spielberg that Indy just shoot the guy.
 
1 man/woman is fighting a horde of enemies... and yet they seem to attack one at a time, giving the hero/heroine ample opportunity to kick ass and win the day. Really?

Love triangle drama! God, no, please make it stop 😵
 
SunnydaleGlitz
SunnydaleGlitz
Omg yes about the fighting! I always wondered about that! Even on Buffy - it's like the baddies are so considerate as to wait their turn
EarthLogic
EarthLogic
Yes to the fight scenes! So contrived!! They're all just like 'gotta wait my turn...'
Puppet said:
1 man/woman is fighting a horde of enemies... and yet they seem to attack one at a time, giving the hero/heroine ample opportunity to kick ass and win the day. Really?

Love triangle drama! God, no, please make it stop 😵
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Even worse, when a fight is interrupted for passionate kissing and more.

I know there's this idea which may or may not be true (I honestly don't know other than it's not true of me--and though I'm sure it's true for a few, but that wouldn't necessarily make it the norm) in which adrenaline spikes sexual desire, but some shows get really silly. One novel in particular (I can't recall if this scene made it into the movie) featured a dramatic, tense battle with goblins, and the two best fighters--man and woman--end up kissing, he picks her up and carries her away as they continue to kiss, leaving the others to fight the battle. I later found out that the trilogy was written that way to attract more female readers, but I was actually mad at both of the characters. Not for their kissing, but for their kissing right then and there, leaving the rest (some of whom can barely fight at all) to fight for their lives.

And I've seen scenes that come really close to that in movies, such as Willow (and in that case it was doubly annoying because she hated him, but because he kissed her and spouted poetry while under the influence of magic love dust she decides she's his soul mate, essentially throwing her rank and power away then and there for a vagabond that could be reasonably assumed to be playing her).
 
Professor Walsh
Professor Walsh
Aaaargh. I would so not be attracted by that turn of events.
The bury your gays trope.

I decided I wasn't gonna watch shows with this trope in them, and now I don't watch TV at all! (yes this is a joke, but actually it's not far from reality).
 
DeepBlueJoy
DeepBlueJoy
I'm so tired of this trope. Buffy, unfortunately didn't seem to get that they were falling right into it.
Most meta/deconstruction/inverted tropes are worse than conventional tropes. They get old very quickly and I'm tired of them.
 
Ethan Reigns said:
As seen on "Broken Arrow", the scene where the good guy and the bad guy throw down their weapons and get into fisticuffs, in this case, with a nuclear warhead set to go off on a train bound for Denver. I don't think anyone appreciated it when I laughed out loud at the same thing going on with "Jack Reacher". I did like the Indiana Jones movie where the North African assassin brandishes a scimitar and Indiana just pulls out a gun and shoots him.
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As much as I enjoy the first Lethal Weapon film the final fight scene in that is brutal and seems to go on forever!😀

The one that bugs me is one you see in a lot of teen dramas where two good friends secretly have feelings for each other and won't admit that when their hanging out as 'friends' that its A DATE!😛

Also the Dawson's Creek trope of teens talking in really fancy metaphors to the extent that most adults would never talk like. That is where Buffy gets just the right balance.
 
thetopher said:
Really dated tropes that used to annoy me;
Stuffy old people who listen to loud rap/rock music and then inexplicably start dancing to it because its so awesome/they're so hip.
Also little old ladies swearing purely for for 'shock value'; got tired of that one fast.
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I would add Old Stuffy people who burst into a rap...it's never good or funny!
 
thrasherpix said:
I laughed pretty hard when I saw the original Lost In Space. The men are going off to explore and leave the females behind, and so the father orders the little boy (I think even giving him a laser pistol, but I could be confusing that with another LIS scene) to "watch the women." This would include his mother. Yeah, maybe the father was humoring the boy and hoping it would make him more responsible, but I got the feeling the writers were serious.
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Oh yeah I hate this trope and the one similar which is a man leaving his family to save the world and telling his underage boy : your in charge of this family now. Like what the mother can't take care of her own kids? I mean obviously the man has a very demanding job and is rarely home so who do you think took care of the kids while he was out killing bad guys? For once, I would love to see a mother call the hero out about this trope and how she has been taking care of them the whole time!
 
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thrasherpix
The movie remake of it in the 1990s retold it with modern values with the mother as the most competent. But most scenes of just female characters were cut (and most hate the movie--but then even fans of LIS mock the show).
MarieVampSlayer said:
What is a fridged women?
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A Fridged Woman is a female character who dies specifically to motivate the male protanogist/for a male character's manpain. So, Mary Winchester on SPN, Fred on AtS, any movie which starts with some dude's wife dying so he can then start his journey etc.
 
MarieVampSlayer
MarieVampSlayer
Oh I hate that too!
Spanky said:
NOOO!! Spoilers! She died again?
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Sorry, no, I was referring to the Pilot episode. Mary is alive but I think she's currently trapped in some torture dimension or something.
 
Puppet
Puppet
Earth 2, cause they gotta call it something, I guess ;)
Nooo! Spoilers! She's alive? 😛

Another trope I'm sick of - not sure if this is more YA books though - is the girl who doesn't know she's pretty, yet literally everyone falls over/drops their jaws around her and you have one or more male characters going "you have no idea how pretty you are, do you?"
 
I'm sick of the "I'm a girl but I'm not like every other girl trope". When there's a heroine, a lot of author try to make a point that the girl isn't like other girls. I just find that insulting to women at large, as though there is something inherently wrong with being a woman, and only when you are "not like other girls" are you an interesting protagonist or viewed as desirable etc. It also implies that women are all the same, and not in a good way.
 
GraceK
GraceK
Omg yes
Professor Walsh
Professor Walsh
Yes! The whole "tomboy" thing.
The whole left at the altar business. I mean can't someone leave someone before or after the wedding?

I also dislike when someone dies and they come back to life.
 
First the main character has a good first boyfriend, seems like true love bla bla, then a bad boy comes along and wins her heart (after resistance at first).
So basically, Buffy starts with Angel, the 'good' vampire (before the Angelus stuff), then Spike comes along.
in Gilmore Girls it's Dean as the ultimate bland first boyfriend, then Jess comes along.
Gossip Girl you have Nate, who's also pretty boring but perfect first boyfriend material, then Chuck comes.
then I think in The Vampire Diaries it's with Stephan and then Damon.

not even sure if this is a real trope or what the name is, but it just happened to be a thing on the most recent shows I watched. I know it's a thing that works. The rugged bad guy without a care in the world. We all swoon. but it's becoming such a pattern.

Taake said:
Nooo! Spoilers! She's alive? 😛

Another trope I'm sick of - not sure if this is more YA books though - is the girl who doesn't know she's pretty, yet literally everyone falls over/drops their jaws around her and you have one or more male characters going "you have no idea how pretty you are, do you?"
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Yes! 1000 times this. I read the first Mortal Instruments book and it was so annoying how the main character Clary just had noooo idea how pretty she was and ugh
 
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