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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

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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[-] chaosmarine92@reddthat.com 1 points 25 minutes ago

Nonsensical or thoroughly debunked technobabble. The most annoying for me is faster than light communication via quantum entangled particles. Yes entangled particles will change each other's state faster than light but this effect CANNOT be used to send information of any kind. At all. Ever. This has been known since engagement was first discovered but Hollywood is always like "I'm just going to ignore that second part." I don't even have anything against ftl comms or any other physics breaking things, just use an explanation that isn't literally impossible and well known why it's impossible for God's sake.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 46 minutes ago

"The mentor/parent has to die so that the hero can prove they're self-actualized" or whatever. It's okay for your hero to have living parents, even if their parents are also heroes. I promise your story won't be less interesting if your character's mentor figure survives.

[-] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 minutes ago

In my tabletop RPG campaigns I always make it a point for my characters to have at least one living parent, and usually two. These games are always so full of haunted orphans whose villages were burned to the ground or whatever.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

When there's a breakfast table full of food but the protagonist is running late so they only take a bite of toast and then leaves.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

I’m pretty tired of the sanctity of life trope. Especially when the hero kills a thousand henchmen to get to the villain, and then all of the sudden decides it would be wrong to kill a guy who is trying to destroy the world or whatever.

Also the hostage trope where they point a gun at someone and say “drop your gun” and the hero does so. How fucking stupid are you? Just shoot the guy in the face.

Also major injuries that take a year to recover from, but somehow Mr. Average guy is running around and fighting 2 minutes later.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

I despise it when a character has had a long arch proving their worthy of what they do, and then it turns out late in the game they're a chosen one or some shit. If you've been successfully fighting monsters for 15 books, going from a moderate combatant to a super mega awesome fucking wizard who wipes out an entire fucking species to save someone then you have proved your badass monster fighting chops, and you don't need to be the chosen one. What made you awesome is that you were a (mostly) normal dude who became amazing through hard work and sacrifice. Now you're just someone the gods chose or whatever and it completely ruins the entire concept of what the character was.

Two of my absolute favorite series of all time just recently did this, and I am devastated.

[-] Overspark@feddit.nl 4 points 1 hour ago

Picking a lock with just one pick. That's not how it works, you need one to apply a rotating force and another one to lift the individual pins. Sometimes shows even get it right in one season and then totally blow it in the next one.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

I despise the “flashback to a thing that literally happened five minutes ago to make sure you connect that with whatever just happened/is about to happen.”

Total fucking turnoff. I’m here watching the show and I’m not an idiot. Flashback to something last season or a number of episodes ago? Fine. Some people need a reminder. Within the same episode? GTFO of here with that shit.

[-] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 14 minutes ago

Most movies and TV shows are created these days with the assumption that people are on their phones at the same time. I mean actual studio notes to that effect when the plot becomes too difficult for the average person to follow when they have it on while they're also watching TikTok.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 1 points 44 minutes ago

"you biiig fuckin idiot. You're such a dummy, you need this flash back from 5 minutes ago because you're too stupid to connect the moment otherwise"

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Magic computers that can sharpen and enlarge a grainy CCTV frame enough that you can read what people are typing on their phone.

The American president that goes "gee-haw we really need to stop Voldemort so the people of Agrabad can enjoy democracy and human rights!"

The divorced single-parent cop who struggles to make family life work despite being good at solving big scary crime.

The "we just want to do senseless evil for no apparent reason" terrorists

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

How every injury requires blood to be spit up.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

But also "if someone slices you across the stomach with a big sword you don't bleed you just hold your stomach and fall over while going 'arrghh'"

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Personally I’m super disinterested in plotlines that suddenly shift and have the main female character desperate to reproduce, or happy about falling pregnant unexpectedly, even, perhaps especially, when it’s wildly out of character for her badass self as she’s written, or makes no sense at all given the circumstances.

So obnoxious and overdone. And so very very lazy, because it’s almost never well-written, it’s just pandering nonsense. I straight up stop watching shows that pull that shit.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

I'm sure it been said already but:

The villain who wanted to change society for the better but took it too far (which invariably involves just doing something randomly evil with the implication that their criticisms are now invalidated)

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 hours ago

Whenever the plot entirely revolves on avoidable misunderstandings from character that nothing in the story prevents from having a clarifying chat. It's weak storytelling.

Also whenever the characters don't react to enormous thing A because advancing the story requires them to immediately ask about thing B.

Lastly whenever you end up screaming at the tv "you have enough clues to call for backup" or "enough reason to worry to call 911" yet they proceed alone. Bad writing.

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

“We don’t have time (to explain why were doing this)”

Proceeds to have time to do dozens of other useless things

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

avoidable misunderstandings

You didn't watch a lot of Three's Company, did you? :-D

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 13 points 4 hours ago

Some romance tropes.

People doing creepy things and it being portrayed as romantic. Like stalking, or not taking no for an answer.

Love triangles. I spend a lot of time with polyamorous people, and would like to see more representation. and not like "a cishet monogamous person's idea". But even if you are monogamous, you can date different people for a bit before going all in on someone.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

or not taking no for an answer.

I get what you’re saying, but I had to ask my wife for a date around six times over a period of around 3 months before she said yes. We’ve been together almost 20 years now. Sometimes the timing just isn’t right, and it’s okay to ask again if you’re not crazy.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 19 minutes ago

There may be some small amount of nuance. Like if she says a hard no vs a not now, or if time has passed and circumstances changed significantly maybe.

But I'm confident that far more often than not, being repeatedly asked out after having said no is upsetting and may be a sign of danger. Is this person who isn't accepting no on a date going to not accept no on sex, on me having friends, on other things?

Also, big norm breach, the person who said no could change their mind and reach out on their own.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

Yeah, how you ask and how they answer has a lot to do with it. I wasn’t like “do you want to go on a date and be my girlfriend?”. It was more like “hey, want to grab some lunch today?”, or “hey, want to go for sushi Friday?”, or “want to meet for a drink tomorrow?”. They were all pretty open ended questions, asked in person. You definitely have more opportunities when you know someone IRL than when you’re just asking a stranger on the internet. It turns out that she always liked me, but was dealing with some personal tragedy when I started asking her, so the timing was just wrong. Once she was somewhat finished dealing with that, she said yes, plus we had gotten to know each other better during that time.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

Rightful heirs and similar shit. I hate this monarchist propaganda with a passion.

[-] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 19 minutes ago

For all the faults of the final seasons of Game of Thrones, I appreciated that this was the consistent message in the novels and show: beware powerful men and women, and those who aspire to be, because your interests are not their interests. The government formed at the end of the show was basically the least-worst option available in a feudal society.

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