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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

When the protagonist isn't actually doing anything or making any decisions, but mostly reacting to events that happen.

[-] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

So it goes.

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