It doesn't matter where you are from, in which time period you live, everyone speaks English... even if the story is set in modern times and the character is too poor to afford education in a second language, he'll speak perfect English... Don't even mention alien beings who in their thousands of years of history have never even met a human before... Why do they think they would even use sound to communicate? Maybe their language is composed of color patterns on their skins... or chemical emissions... No.. silly me... of course they speak English!
No you're not. The two of you are just banging your swords together between you. Neither one of you has made anything like a real attack on the other since your little scene began. Not your fault, of course. The studio was just too cheap to hire a proper fight choreographer.
Romance movies that have a forced at crisis at the end for the sake of having a sad ending when said crisis could easily be solved IN UNIVERSE in about 5 minutes.
When there's a battle and army A has missile weapons and army B is well within range but A has to "waaaaiiiiit for it....!" for far too long before using those weapons. I know it makes sense sometimes, but then there's stuff like the battle of Helm's deep...
"The enemy is standing still, sir. They are closely packed, just a couple of meters away and are sitting ducks down there. Should we pelt them with everything we have while we have the chance?" "Yes. But not quite yet, mind you!"
It's actually how it would have been done irl. If you're fighting an army it's not very useful just picking off a few guys off the front, and wasting ammo with some shots falling short. For maximum impact you need to wait until hits are certain for even your weaker archers, and can penatrate into the second, third, forth rank.
It's actually how it would have been done irl. If you're fighting an army it's not very useful just picking off a few guys off the front, and wasting ammo with some shots falling short. For maximum impact you need to wait until hits are certain for even your weaker archers, and can penatrate into the second, third, forth rank.
That's why I said that it makes sense sometimes. But not in the case of Helm's deep and similar where they already are that close and soon will be scaling the walls.
It's actually how it would have been done irl. If you're fighting an army it's not very useful just picking off a few guys off the front, and wasting ammo with some shots falling short. For maximum impact you need to wait until hits are certain for even your weaker archers, and can penatrate into the second, third, forth rank.
That's why I said that it makes sense sometimes. But not in the case of Helm's deep and similar where they already are that close and soon will be scaling the walls.
They aren't that close at Helms deep. A lucky shot that hits a guy on the front row doen't have the shock and awe value of a full volley.
I mean, Helm's deep is kind of an anomaly for this in that they basically ran out of ammunition DESPITE waiting for the close range shots. Legolas makes some comment in the books during the Legolas/Gimli kill count that he's scrounging the area for arrows, since his quiver's empty. Makes much more sense to use those arrows on the orcs actually scaling the ladders than the masses below: relieve the pressure on your melee defenders.
The Antihero, on the other hand, is a trope I've always disliked and will continue to dislike. Movies that attempt to get you to like those characters just because they just so happen to be fighting a worse evil... Ugh. Doesn't change the fact that they're massive douches. Looking at you, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Time travel plots I very much dislike them since they can either mess up the story very easily, create a time paradox, can be used as a cheap plot device and so on. I feel like my intelligence was being discredited while watching the original Terminator movie just because of the obvious time paradox
regarding Reese being Connor's biological father, while it was clear that without this time travel, Connors wouldn't exist and therefore he won't be able to send Reese in the past.
. Another example with time travel plotline being used to bad effect is script for
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
When the movie/series/show/anime contraditcs its own earlier tropes I don't know if it could be considered trope itself, but it is something I hate. Let's take Naruto manga/anime as an example. Early, the show is about hard work works, but it eventually degrades into hard work HARDLY works.
Prophecy/destiny based plot Essentially, stories with plotlines like these are taking concepts of free will and things being consequences of actions out of the window. One old lady/guy once said that things must go that way and thus this trope has to be played. And if a character knows of prophecy and tries to avoid it? Nothing changes! Oedipus anyone?
Or good people are wearing white and blue, while evil ones wear black and red. At all times. Is it so hard for people to change their clothes every day? Just imagine the smell behind the screen! Yuck!
Now I'm in doubt... the spider-man ball I gave to the little Martian is mostly red and blue with some black spots... does it mean it's neutral?
Or good people are wearing white and blue, while evil ones wear black and red. At all times. Is it so hard for people to change their clothes every day? Just imagine the smell behind the screen! Yuck!
Now I'm in doubt... the spider-man ball I gave to the little Martian is mostly red and blue with some black spots... does it mean it's neutral?
Wasn't Spiderman evil to begin with? Buildering and roofing is considered a crime after all.
One personal pet peeve of mine is when fantasy characters carry large sacks of gold around effortlessly yet complain about the heaviness of iron or lead. In reality, by volume, gold is 71% heavier than lead and 145% heavier than iron.
By the way, here's a table of the densities of a few elements: Element Density in kilograms per cubic meter Sodium 968 Aluminum 2700 Iron 7870 Copper 8960 Silver 10500 Lead 11300 Mercury 13534 Gold 19300 Platinum 21500 Osmium 22587 Hassium 40700
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@OlvynChuru You actually reminded me of another one of mine.
Lock the tritanium doors! Eject the dilithium chamber!
I understand that a story set in the future has to invent materials that will provide tremendous energy or be incredibly resistant... Just do not make them something you can mine. All you have to say is that it's an alloy, don't even bother to tell me what it's made of. Isaac Asimov did this right with durasteel, an alloy he never bothered to say what was composed of. Star Trek is tremendously guilty of this with some rare exceptions, such as neutronium, that actually exists but I don't believe is stable outside the tremendous gravity of a neutron star.
We humans here in the far future do not have wisdom teeth or an appendix, for we have evolved!
No, evolution doesn't work that way. Don't feel bad though, even Asimov fell for this one. If being born without an appendix or the potential to grow wisdom teeth somehow increased the number of your offspring in a consistent way, then it would work, but just because a body part is useless, doesn't mean evolution is going to make it go away. All evolution cares about is how many kids you have. So in the future everyone will be musicians or sports stars.
"Unobtanium" is based on rl science. There is a hypothetical "island of stability" predicted, alowing for stable elements much heavier than uranium. Given the difficulty in creating such an element in the first place, scientists joking called it unobtanium. Cameron picked this up and used it in his movie.
Just by being a virgin the protagonist and/or the love interest can talk with animals, ride on unicorns, use magic as a matter of fact and be the first one to get kidnapped. Needless to say getting laid makes them lose all of their powers. For reasons. Of course, females who are together with another woman doesn't count.
Yeeeaah.... never managed to understand this seemingly, ever popular trope.
I'm tired of sad violins when a major character dies, another Wagner copypasta when there's a fight and not-so-popular rock songs from the 20th century whenever sb gets on their car. Same goes for games trying to have a medieval sound and everything, besides being basically Wagner copiers as well. They all end up being the same, and well, that kills it. I think I could go on and on for a long while, but, please...
Stop it.
Don't make me play my own music when I play a game anymore, or facepalm every time I watch a movie.
This isn't specifically a fiction trope, so much an industry one.
When animated films get a lowered rating simply because they are animated. As a big fan of animation, this one irks me to no end.
Oooh, I can't stand this one. And the related "animated is for kids". The most disturbing and messed up movies I have seen are often animated.
Another one that I find a bit confusing is when people say that they can't relate to animated movies because it's obviously fake. I once read a review of the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir. The reviewer said he felt nothing throughout the whole film since it was just a bunch of lines and colors. Not real people. And that's a really disturbing and horrifying movie, believe me. I don't quite get it.
Another one that I find a bit confusing is when people say that they can't relate to animated movies because it's obviously fake. I once read a review of the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir. The reviewer said he felt nothing throughout the whole film since it was just a bunch of lines and colors. Not real people. And that's a really disturbing and horrifying movie, believe me. I don't quite get it.
I get the same feeling about "space" TV shows, all I can see is actors in weird make-up reciting silly script. Watched the 1st season of Farscape in high school, and when later tried to watch the rest I instead got completely blown off by unsuspendable disbelief
The problem is that for each right one we get a dozen of trash ones. And the worst part is that even somewhat interestingly themed shows half the time get ruined by tropes towards the ending (Kabaneri was good until it hit midway; Izetta had disastrous directing and script right from the start, but at least it *tried*, only to fail just as miserably in the end... to give just a couple recent examples). Waiting a whole year to get a single decent show is just not cool
Almost every single Modern Anime Cliche & Trope has overtaken every single plot in anime to hide the fact their stories suck.
Anime of today is basically ruined,
You can't ruin something that has always sucked.
There's usually something for everyone, at least with manga. I haven't watched that much anime for years now, but that's mostly because I think a lot of adapted storylines get stunted/rushed with a 26 episode format. Some good mangas don't get an anime at all either.
Anime is just like most things. 95% is crap, but there's some real gems in there. Talking about unrealistic spaceships in sci-fi, the anime Planetes is probably the most realistic space show I've ever seen.
Here's one that thankfully is not used much anymore.
When we are shown a "strong" female character, but she still ends up just being rescue bait for the "real hero".
There's also the "strong" female character = psychotic harpy beating the shit out of every dude. Particularly prevalent in fanfics though it still pops up in professional works from time to time.
How male and female childhood friends are almost never kept just as that. A romantic subplot between them almost always is going to be introduced between them.
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It doesn't matter where you are from, in which time period you live, everyone speaks English... even if the story is set in modern times and the character is too poor to afford education in a second language, he'll speak perfect English... Don't even mention alien beings who in their thousands of years of history have never even met a human before... Why do they think they would even use sound to communicate? Maybe their language is composed of color patterns on their skins... or chemical emissions... No.. silly me... of course they speak English!I am fighting this guy with my sword!
No you're not. The two of you are just banging your swords together between you. Neither one of you has made anything like a real attack on the other since your little scene began. Not your fault, of course. The studio was just too cheap to hire a proper fight choreographer.The Antihero, on the other hand, is a trope I've always disliked and will continue to dislike. Movies that attempt to get you to like those characters just because they just so happen to be fighting a worse evil... Ugh. Doesn't change the fact that they're massive douches. Looking at you, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Time travel plots
I very much dislike them since they can either mess up the story very easily, create a time paradox, can be used as a cheap plot device and so on. I feel like my intelligence was being discredited while watching the original Terminator movie just because of the obvious time paradox
When the movie/series/show/anime contraditcs its own earlier tropes
I don't know if it could be considered trope itself, but it is something I hate. Let's take Naruto manga/anime as an example. Early, the show is about hard work works, but it eventually degrades into hard work HARDLY works.
Prophecy/destiny based plot
Essentially, stories with plotlines like these are taking concepts of free will and things being consequences of actions out of the window. One old lady/guy once said that things must go that way and thus this trope has to be played. And if a character knows of prophecy and tries to avoid it? Nothing changes! Oedipus anyone?
By the way, here's a table of the densities of a few elements:
Element Density in kilograms per cubic meter
Sodium 968
Aluminum 2700
Iron 7870
Copper 8960
Silver 10500
Lead 11300
Mercury 13534
Gold 19300
Platinum 21500
Osmium 22587
Hassium 40700
(Sorry about how it looks. For some reason, when I save the comment it deletes the spaces in between.)
Lock the tritanium doors! Eject the dilithium chamber!
I understand that a story set in the future has to invent materials that will provide tremendous energy or be incredibly resistant... Just do not make them something you can mine. All you have to say is that it's an alloy, don't even bother to tell me what it's made of. Isaac Asimov did this right with durasteel, an alloy he never bothered to say what was composed of. Star Trek is tremendously guilty of this with some rare exceptions, such as neutronium, that actually exists but I don't believe is stable outside the tremendous gravity of a neutron star.We humans here in the far future do not have wisdom teeth or an appendix, for we have evolved!
No, evolution doesn't work that way. Don't feel bad though, even Asimov fell for this one. If being born without an appendix or the potential to grow wisdom teeth somehow increased the number of your offspring in a consistent way, then it would work, but just because a body part is useless, doesn't mean evolution is going to make it go away. All evolution cares about is how many kids you have. So in the future everyone will be musicians or sports stars.When animated films get a lowered rating simply because they are animated.
As a big fan of animation, this one irks me to no end.
@mlnevese Remember "Unobtanium"? I still laugh over that one to this day.
Virgin Powers
Just by being a virgin the protagonist and/or the love interest can talk with animals, ride on unicorns, use magic as a matter of fact and be the first one to get kidnapped. Needless to say getting laid makes them lose all of their powers. For reasons. Of course, females who are together with another woman doesn't count.Yeeeaah.... never managed to understand this seemingly, ever popular trope.
Every similar scene has the same style of music
I'm tired of sad violins when a major character dies, another Wagner copypasta when there's a fight and not-so-popular rock songs from the 20th century whenever sb gets on their car. Same goes for games trying to have a medieval sound and everything, besides being basically Wagner copiers as well. They all end up being the same, and well, that kills it. I think I could go on and on for a long while, but, please...Stop it.
Don't make me play my own music when I play a game anymore, or facepalm every time I watch a movie.
Please.
/rant
Another one that I find a bit confusing is when people say that they can't relate to animated movies because it's obviously fake. I once read a review of the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir. The reviewer said he felt nothing throughout the whole film since it was just a bunch of lines and colors. Not real people. And that's a really disturbing and horrifying movie, believe me. I don't quite get it.
Anime of today is basically ruined,
And the worst part is that even somewhat interestingly themed shows half the time get ruined by tropes towards the ending (Kabaneri was good until it hit midway; Izetta had disastrous directing and script right from the start, but at least it *tried*, only to fail just as miserably in the end... to give just a couple recent examples).
Waiting a whole year to get a single decent show is just not cool
When we are shown a "strong" female character, but she still ends up just being rescue bait for the "real hero".