People always seem to act like you hate or love something, but sometimes there are things that bug you just enough for it to stick out, but not enough for it to turn you off. For example, I'm not a fan of when an antagonist grabs one person and throws him at another, knocking both of them over. Earth's Mightiest Heros is a good show, but it used that way too many times and it started to bug me. So what about you? What cliches are annoying enough to be irratating but not enough to be deal breakers for you?
Cliches that you don't hate, but do bug you
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Whenever I notice any friendship related stuff i have to be slightly melodramatic and go "using the power of friendship they saved the world and all was well."
It doesn't annoy me but I always notice it.
Also typos in text adventures and subtitles. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All: The Quest for More Colons had wayyyyy too many for something that was apparently proof-read.
Don't even get me started on the travesty that were the Crysis 2 subtitles... God they were so bad!
I always notice and get annoyed by the few sub-par movement/attack/taunt/joke quotes in LoL and wonder why one of the decent ones didn't play
"Time for the Dance Mecca... Mecaw... Oh forget it!"
It doesn't annoy me but I always notice it.
Also typos in text adventures and subtitles. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All: The Quest for More Colons had wayyyyy too many for something that was apparently proof-read.
Don't even get me started on the travesty that were the Crysis 2 subtitles... God they were so bad!
I always notice and get annoyed by the few sub-par movement/attack/taunt/joke quotes in LoL and wonder why one of the decent ones didn't play
"Time for the Dance Mecca... Mecaw... Oh forget it!"
This happens often in fantasy and science fiction, there is always some creature or power that can destroy everything and is uncontrollable, but the shady government thinks they can handle it without problem. Prime example is Alien.
I'm tired of fighting the ultimate evil whatever in games. They are usually some entity or creature without any back story and come right after the established villain has been taken down. Best example is Final Fantasy 9 with this random ultimate evil that comes. I think the best villains are characters that are conniving and actually not very imposing physically (such as Ben from Lost or Kefka from final fantasy 6) rather than 'oh no he has super power'.
There there is the one about pregnant women giving birth in every place but a hospital and someone inexperienced having to deliver it.... wait I hate hate hate that one. Recently born babies pretty much spell doom for a series.
I'm tired of fighting the ultimate evil whatever in games. They are usually some entity or creature without any back story and come right after the established villain has been taken down. Best example is Final Fantasy 9 with this random ultimate evil that comes. I think the best villains are characters that are conniving and actually not very imposing physically (such as Ben from Lost or Kefka from final fantasy 6) rather than 'oh no he has super power'.
There there is the one about pregnant women giving birth in every place but a hospital and someone inexperienced having to deliver it.... wait I hate hate hate that one. Recently born babies pretty much spell doom for a series.
The 'Belligerent Sexual Tension' trope ( follow the link here http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BelligerentSexualTension at your own risk). Please note that if you do follow the link I am not responsible for any time that you waste while on that particular site.
I've seen shows and read books where two characters seem like they'd go good together (similar interests, routinely get along, rarely fight or have similar upbringings/backgrounds) and 'BST' shows up. Take 'Harry Potter' for example (book, not movie). For most of the series it looks like Harry and Hermione would make a good, healthy couple based on shared interests and mutual respect and trust. But it ends up with Hermione marrying Ron, who through the majority of the series fought with her, demeaned her, insulted her and drove her to tears on several occasions (she did reciprocate quite often though).
I've seen shows and read books where two characters seem like they'd go good together (similar interests, routinely get along, rarely fight or have similar upbringings/backgrounds) and 'BST' shows up. Take 'Harry Potter' for example (book, not movie). For most of the series it looks like Harry and Hermione would make a good, healthy couple based on shared interests and mutual respect and trust. But it ends up with Hermione marrying Ron, who through the majority of the series fought with her, demeaned her, insulted her and drove her to tears on several occasions (she did reciprocate quite often though).
Having a love intrest in a story, just because.
it annoys me greatly. more so when the love interest appears in only a few sceens and even then they just act like a bland cliched character.
it annoys me greatly. more so when the love interest appears in only a few sceens and even then they just act like a bland cliched character.
Its supposed to be part of Ron's character development, over the books he matures greatly.twistedmic said:
Announced attacks.
This is something that's been carried over from the 60s, from Space Ghost, Birdman, and so on. They explain what they're doing before they do it, sometimes screwing up because it was really incredibly obvious what was happening.
Flash forward to anime. Okay, how many shows can you name that have called attacks? Actually, you could probably look up the trope real easy. NOW, how often in those shows would you say it would be more prutend to SHUT UP when you attack? Did you say "Nearly all of them!"? Did some of you even say "Especially in Naruto, which is supposedly about being a stealthy NINJA!"?
I rest my case.
This is something that's been carried over from the 60s, from Space Ghost, Birdman, and so on. They explain what they're doing before they do it, sometimes screwing up because it was really incredibly obvious what was happening.
Flash forward to anime. Okay, how many shows can you name that have called attacks? Actually, you could probably look up the trope real easy. NOW, how often in those shows would you say it would be more prutend to SHUT UP when you attack? Did you say "Nearly all of them!"? Did some of you even say "Especially in Naruto, which is supposedly about being a stealthy NINJA!"?
I rest my case.
I hate you so much for posting this. (I mean that in the most loving way.) I can never unsee that, and now it too will bother the hell out of me every time I see it.rhizhim said:
OT:One thing I don't particularly enjoy is when romances are solved by like, Protagonist does something horrible to Girl/Guy. Girl/Guy gets angry and leaves. Then the protagonist gives chase and then they give some speech and everything is instantly resolved as if nothing even happened.
The token love interest. If my protagonist is going to have a spouse, can they please have a clearly defined personality of their own, and can they please stick around long enough for me to figure this out and become attached to them before they are killed/kidnapped to serve as the main characters motivation. I find it very hard to motivate myself to avenge/rescue someone who I only knew for about 5 minutes and had absolutely fuck all idea about, just because the game is so insistent that I'm supposed to be in love with them.
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I am with you on that. However I go one step further and get annoyed with just 'general love interest' stuff, mainly because I have noticed now there really aren't any stories that lack this, particularly in media produced in America. Falling in love with someone is indeed an interesting and good part of life, but how many times can you see the same damn thing shoehorned into EVERY single story you're exposed to before it just gets irritating. I was disappointed when the original Avatar series went that route towards the end, and even more disappointed when the Legend of Korra started the series off with that nonsense.NinjaDeathSlap said:
It's like Plinket says, writers have to make sure the audience knows the main protagonists have a case of the 'not-gays', otherwise we will suspect they are and grow distant from them.
That's not true at all, but it is so something someone in Hollywood would think.
The old "Yup, I'm retiring in two weeks, but until then, I'm still your sergeant." Yeah... you're dead for sure.
Anything can bug me if I see it coming from a mile away.
Anything can bug me if I see it coming from a mile away.
Quite a few actually, the first being main charcter super human powers, you know when the main character just doesn't die because they're the main character, or even better, there's this horrible predator/monster after us, but you know what would be a really good idea? Why don't we all split up and make it easier?
Or even better let's put a kid in a dangerous situation for suspence and then save them at the last minute, it gets boring because you know they wont kill them off, although it would make a nice change if they did, nothing against kids just annoys me that directors don't have the guts to pull it off.
Or even better let's put a kid in a dangerous situation for suspence and then save them at the last minute, it gets boring because you know they wont kill them off, although it would make a nice change if they did, nothing against kids just annoys me that directors don't have the guts to pull it off.
The idea of a chosen one who was chosen just because he was. He doesn't have any traits that would make him useful (until he learns them later, of course), he doesn't have any skills (his mentor usually has to teach him), but one day he (Or she, I suppose) is walking home from school and BAM! They get a magic sword and mystical powers. Good books can come of it, but its been done since the beginning of time and it irritates me ever-so-slightly.