Your Most Hated Tropes

[xena]

I agree with everyone who says they can read any trope IF it's executed and written well....with the exception of the miscommunication trope. A small avoidable disagreement happens and now the next 20 chapters are pure pettiness and based on a misunderstanding. Next!

 

[CupofJoe]

I agree with everyone who says they can read any trope IF it's executed and written well....with the exception of the miscommunication trope. A small avoidable disagreement happens and now the next 20 chapters are pure pettiness and based on a misunderstanding. Next!

I find this happens too often in TV writing.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I agree with everyone who says they can read any trope IF it's executed and written well....with the exception of the miscommunication trope. A small avoidable disagreement happens and now the next 20 chapters are pure pettiness and based on a misunderstanding. Next!

I am a firm believer in that there's a time and place for any trope (Well , barring a few stereotypes that are products of their time, like the classic 'nerd' with pocket protectors etc you can easily portray a 'nerd' without those things.) but if you're gonna do it, do it well. Don't just throw it in there to meet a "quota" of character types, like so many netflix shows do.

I'm more than willing to enjoy a cartoon villain (For example doctor Eggman from sonic, or Hades from Kid Icarus uprising)
But they have to be done well. Either they're so comical that you wind up enjoying them anyway, or they're actually a threat to the protagonists despite their cartoony ness. (in the cartoon villains I mean)

I'm personally not fond of the 'The love interests act like complete 'dorks' around eachother and frequent misunderstandings ensue because of this' trope (whatever it's called) but when it's used well, I am amused by it. Which I believe is the intention of the trope to begin with.

 

[pmmg]

I find this happens too often in TV writing.

That was pretty much the plot of threes company every episode.