Plots That Made You Say, "No, Just Stop!"

[Scarim Coral]

Xenoblade Chronicle come to my mind-

Spoiler

Ok originally it started of as a revenge sort of plot due to the mecho killed Shulk friend/ love interests, ok that is easy to follow.

Then later on it was reveal that Egil, the intial antagonist of the game reveal that they, the mechonis used to coexist with Bionis, where Shulk and co lived until "Bionis" attack fist, ok it getting abit complex.

Suddently Dickson a friend of Shulk, shot him in the back and it reveal that the Bionis god Zanza is revive via Shulk as an host, what?

Shulk somehow still alive and went on to fact Zanza, how?

So Zanza become a monster like god and his plan is the usual chaos and rebirth, can we stop please? It's getting cliche!

The last annoying twist that I can do without was that it turn out that Zanza and this other girl (the god of Mechonis) used to be human whose accidental experiment had resulted in destroying and rebirth the universe? WTF??!!!


Not only that but I felt they made the character, Alvis to be a troll like character-

Ok he is a Hon (human) who served the High Entia as a grand corier of sort. Ok.

He has the Monodo power) prdicting the future) because he touch the monodo, right...

Nope, it turn out he is one of the trinity that serve Zanza, what?

Nope again! It turn out Alvia true form to be a mere AI computer that was with Zanza and that girl pior to the experiment explosion!!!!

 

[Sarge034]

really? I thought it was pretty straight forward and it's hardly as dark as the Burton Film but there you go

I don't know why. The biggest problem is I can't sort out who all of the less important guy side characters are that magically become important. That combined with the time jumping just leaves me saying, "Wut?" And when I said "darker than most Batman stuff of the time" I was referring to the animated stuff because for all their merits...

Spoiler: (which pretty much boils down to this)

...they are not the best representation of that time period of Batman.

 

[Xannieros]

Diablo 3, Deckard Cain dying to a butterfly demon. After that point I really gave up on the D3 story. Then killing off the other new main story character at the end. That ensured me they did not care.

 

[Salokin]

Would have to say the plot of the .hack//G.U. games. Just because every 5 minutes I have to stop and shout "MMOs don't work that way!". Also, a bug or virus or whatever manifesting as some form in a game, complete with hit box, stats, graphics, etc., just irks me and gets on my nerves on a level I never thought possible. It also has the main reason I can't watch a lot of anime, that whole 'power of friendship' thing.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Any forced romantic sub-plot makes me cringe, especially since there is almost any believable chemistry (Disney movies do this a LOT).

I can forgive most silly plot devices, but gameplay nonsense really bothers me. For example, in Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 there is a mission where you have to use Ball (the most pathetically pathetic mech of all the pathetically pathetic mechs) in a plain space environment. This place Had 9 fields which you had to take over. Each one takes a very long time because Ball is a ball of ass. After you get 7 or 8, one of them gets take over. I did this in 2-player mode and by the gods it got ridiculous. About 30 minutes passed before we finished (most only take 5-10), and at one point we thought about giving up but were so deeply dug into it that we couldn't.

'Avatar' (the James Cameron one, not the Last Airbender) when they declare: "look! The planet is fighting back!".

I get that the whole thing is supposed to be a message movie about the environment and evil corporations and blah blah blah, but Christ could you whack us over the head with it any more? That and 'unobtainium' were probably the two biggest scenes where I just put my head in my hands and said "no, stop, please'.

Avatar, aka Pocahontas aka Dances with Wolves IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCEEE!

 

[VoidWanderer]

The Fast and the Furious series, which probably describes the screenwriters process.

'You have two days to come up with a movie about people racing cars.'
'Okay, and our budget for this multi-million dollar movie?'
'Fare for the bus ride home and free coffee.'

EDIT: Oh, and the Prince of Persia game. The one we try to forget about.

 

[Ryallen]

For a specific example, anything they've done with Metroid since the end of Prime 3. All of Other M's faults, putting the franchise on ice, not letting Retro work on it, putting Other M Samus in Smash 4, FREAKING FETISH SHINY LEATHER ZERO SUIT WITH BEAUTY MARK AND ROCKET HIGH-HEELS ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

I really think you need to take a look at Kirbopher's and Gaijin Goomba's videos on why they are okay with the choice to have Other M's design as Zero Suit Samus's look for Smash Bros. 4. Because yes, yes they are serious, and you need to get off of your high horse and accept that the game exists, sucks, and basically reduced Samus to a sniveling, weak-willed ex-soldier with daddy issues.

 

[Ryallen]

My immediate choice would have to be the plot lines for Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns. At least with Final Fantasy XIII, the plot made sense in the context of the world. They were made into what society considered monsters, and needed to find a way to fix it while avoiding being turned into literal monsters. But with FF XIII-2, it just got ridiculous. The story just took a turn for the nonsensical. Something about Lightning being put into a different world or time period or something and having to fight some immortal guy for the sole reason that he wants to kill the Goddess that brought her into the world and isn't really doing anything else. Then she sends that one guy or whatever to go back and help her sister find her or something, and it just gets more and more complicated, involving too much time travel and changing history to make any sense, then SPOILER Serah dies for some retarded reason that's never really given any context other than "she's a prophet now, like that other girl that kept dying". Then, Lightning Returns became a thing, and nothing made any sense anymore. There was almost no reference to why the hell anything is the way it is, why the other characters are still alive, or even where this new god came from. I get that they are still alive because "the world was ending" or something equally stupid, but how long did it take for shit to hit the fan, and why? The first FF XIII was decent enough, but the next two made little to no sense as they went on.

 

[Uhura]

In tv-shows I hate heavy milking of the romantic tension between two main characters. I'm specifically talking about shows like Castle and Bones where it's painfully obvious right from the start that the two leads will end up together but the romantic plot is 'postponed' because the showrunners want to milk the whole "will they, won't they" tension as much as possible. This leads into situations where the romantic tension is milked for years before anything concrete actually happens between the characters, which means you have to watch season after season of episodes where the leads shoot loving glances at each other and almost kiss but somebody always interrupts. After a while that type of stuff gets tiresome.

 

[Mau95]

The Toriko anime, especially the ending.

 

[cojo965]

The Toriko anime, especially the ending.

Um, okay why? That doesn't really tell us anything.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

The only specific instance I can think of at the moment is The Dark Knight Rises. "We've got this nuclear FUSION reactor beneath the city! Oh no! The villains came in and turned it into a nuclear FISSION bomb in a matter of minutes with no specialized equipment!"

Spoiler: Batman, and The Last of Us/zombies in general.

The thing that bugs me about that is that Bruce Wayne basically says "yeah, so I built this reactor in the hope that I could produce cheap power for the city, but I thought that it might be turned into a bomb...so I just left it here."

One of my many gripes is with The Last of Us and how I don't see how it could happen. You see, they are fungus zombies yet in the beginning they have the same vulnerabilities as human beings. As in you can shoot the running morons anywhere in the body and they will die. Are you telling me that the armed forces of the world, the CDC, people in America (where the this game is set) who have guns as well as any chump with a cricket bat, couldn't contain and control this outbreak within a couple of months? Sure it would be a bit of a pain in the arse, people would die, but I don't see how this would cause the downfall of society. Sure you could argue that there were a lot of outbreaks at the same time and the army was taken by surprise. I refuse to accept that a well organised group of people armed with explosive weapons against a bunch of sick people who main weapon is...running...could possibly lose.

You kill the infected and then use a flame thrower on the fungus that caused the outbreak.

Even if its gets so bad in areas that clickers turn up, they are even easier to beat, you sneak in a bunch of soldiers well trained in sniping and silent close quarter combat and let them loose.

If that game was realistic, it would suck that Joel's daughter died, but Ellie would grow up in a normal, slightly more cautious world.

1. Yeah, that was pretty dumb of Bruce.

2. You, and many other people are forgetting a MUCH bigger, (and even simpler), issue with non-magic/bulls**t science zombies.

How do they know what's a zombie, and what's a normal human?

Think about it. In The Last of Us [sub](just for the record, I love the game)[/sub] the "zombies" are just people driven mad by the fungus in their brains, right? (And that's about as "realistic" as zombies get.)

So why would they, or more to the point, HOW would they distinguished friend from foe? Why don't the zombies attack each other?
Especially the clickers and bloaters who are blind.

Even if the fungus turned a whole city into runners all at once, most of them would destroy each other before they'd ever get a chance to attack wondering scavengers.

 

[shintakie10]

The only specific instance I can think of at the moment is The Dark Knight Rises. "We've got this nuclear FUSION reactor beneath the city! Oh no! The villains came in and turned it into a nuclear FISSION bomb in a matter of minutes with no specialized equipment!"

The thing that bugs me about that is that Bruce Wayne basically says "yeah, so I built this reactor in the hope that I could produce cheap power for the city, but I thought that it might be turned into a bomb...so I just left it here."

One of my many gripes is with The Last of Us and how I don't see how it could happen. You see, they are fungus zombies yet in the beginning they have the same vulnerabilities as human beings. As in you can shoot the running morons anywhere in the body and they will die. Are you telling me that the armed forces of the world, the CDC, people in America (where the this game is set) who have guns as well as any chump with a cricket bat, couldn't contain and control this outbreak within a couple of months? Sure it would be a bit of a pain in the arse, people would die, but I don't see how this would cause the downfall of society. Sure you could argue that there were a lot of outbreaks at the same time and the army was taken by surprise. I refuse to accept that a well organised group of people armed with explosive weapons against a bunch of sick people who main weapon is...running...could possibly lose.

You kill the infected and then use a flame thrower on the fungus that caused the outbreak.

Even if its gets so bad in areas that clickers turn up, they are even easier to beat, you sneak in a bunch of soldiers well trained in sniping and silent close quarter combat and let them loose.

If that game was realistic, it would suck that Joel's daughter died, but Ellie would grow up in a normal, slightly more cautious world.

Really, any zombie movie/game without fast superpowered zombies has that issue. There's enough guns and ammunition in just the United States alone to pretty much wipe out every human being on the planet yet somehow these slow zombies that at best can move at a slightly fast shuffle somehow overran and wiped out everyone and everythin? Thats just...no. Just no.

Heck, even with fast zombies I just have so much trouble believin that the entire military of every major country just became pathetically useless against them.

I still remember all those ridiculous scenes from The War Z (the movie, obviously). They're mowin down zombies by the thousands and they just kept comin. This had to have been the case all over, so how the bloody hell did the zombies not run out of bodies at some point?

 

[Suhi89]

Any time a bad guy says something along the lines of "You only got this far because I let you. Do you really think you could have done it on your own?"
No. Fuck off! I've spent hours getting this far, honing my skills, dying numerous times in the process. I will not have that achievement taken away from me. Games that did this that stick in my mind are OOT and MGS1. I find it makes me irrationally angry.

 

[DementedSheep]

Usually whenever you start getting time travel and closed time loops. Not always, sometimes it can be done well generally when this is the focus of the plot not a sub plot but most the time it's just stupid and needlessly convoluted. Especially a character dose something specifically because they know they did it because they must of for X to happen regardless of whether that action actually makes sense or directly caused the original problem.

The villain who hates the hero because of something that was clearly not their fault and the hero guilt tripping about it. Usually "leaving them to die" when they didn't. If you want to make the villain have shed of sympathy and give the hero something to guilt trip over...why not actually have the hero do something wrong, without thinking or cowardly? They don't need to perfect all the damn time. At the very least don't do the "you left me to die" thing when the villain could actually see the hero trying to save them.

Love triangles (or worse). Why is this in everything? It tends to make everyone into unlike-able twats. It's seems like the lazy writers replacement for having actual conflict of values and wants in a relationship. I remember one book where the guy 3 girls fighting over him in really inappropriate situations one of whom was a fucking god. Then he got amnesia and got whole new love triangle which seemed to only be there for the girls to get killed off and guilt trip while him still being able to return to his true and first love. Just.Fucking.Stop. If you are going to have a love triangle resolve it within one book at least. Don't drag it out. I also don't like girl/guy bounces between multiple people but the people they are bouncing between don't call them out on this crap at all. They just get pissed at the competition.

I tried to read Rhapsody: child of the blood. Tried, didn't finish it. The main character is simultaneously a massive sue and really stupid while the other main is just sueish. Although the part of the book that made me go just no, just stop! was 4th or 5th time we got internal monologue of guys aroused by her presence and wanting to rape her. For gods sake, I got terrible point the first time...also no I'm buying she is naive and oblivious to this when she worked as prostitute and this was the problem she had with a guy at the start even before the stupid reforged to be perfect in fire thing. Other parts of the story seem like they could be interesting but no.

 

[jademunky]

The entire British military is apparently absent with no explanation, so a bunch of Nazis with Kar98s and MP40s, supported by some zeppelins with V2 rockets, manage to level the city completely unopposed. Seriously, they don't even bother trying to explain it, so 1000ish Nazis apparently managed to simultaneously hit every military installation in the region at the same time. That is, until of course the Catholic Church arrives with knights dressed in full plate armor and KKK hats carrying swords, shields, and .50 caliber sniper rifles. Also, I think they might have had some old Huey gunships.

Oh, and why does the Nazi commander want to do it? No particular reason; he just likes seeing shit blow up (and takes a half episode making a tl;dr speech about it).

I'm not going to lie to you. That sounds like it might be the greatest thing ever.

 

[dyre]

The entire British military is apparently absent with no explanation, so a bunch of Nazis with Kar98s and MP40s, supported by some zeppelins with V2 rockets, manage to level the city completely unopposed. Seriously, they don't even bother trying to explain it, so 1000ish Nazis apparently managed to simultaneously hit every military installation in the region at the same time. That is, until of course the Catholic Church arrives with knights dressed in full plate armor and KKK hats carrying swords, shields, and .50 caliber sniper rifles. Also, I think they might have had some old Huey gunships.

Oh, and why does the Nazi commander want to do it? No particular reason; he just likes seeing shit blow up (and takes a half episode making a tl;dr speech about it).

I'm not going to lie to you. That sounds like it might be the greatest thing ever.

Either the greatest thing or the worst thing, your mileage may vary!

 

[RedBackDragon]

truth be told , i dident like the plot of metro last light OR the secret plot of metro 2033 , i want those dark ones dead gosh dammit

 

[moggett88]

I remember watching Elysium in the cinema, and literally scratching my head in confusion at the ending. The whole film was about the surface dwellers trying to get up there to access their magic medic robots. When they do get up there, they find out that Elysium has entire spaceships filled with the things that are just sitting unused in a hangar or something...why are the people on Elysium spending so much effort trying to stop people getting up there when they could just send the ships down? Confused.

 

[Braden Bailes]

I've got this, because this ALWAYS HAPPENS. Something bad is happening in the city AND THERES NOT A COP TO BE FOUND. Where are the cops? Not just that, a kid is getting bullied or thrown in a trash can, WHERE ARE THE TEACHERS? What about Lawyers, sue the kid! Seriously, any story that starts with kid getting shoved in a locker is just delusional.

Separate from that, Star Ocean: Till the end of time.

In this SPACE AGE story, You come from a Space Age Vacation home, and Aliens invade. You're sent to and spend 10% of the game stuck on a planet with the tech of 13th century Earth, fine. Aliens happen, Then, 70% of the game stuck trying to settle a petty land war in ONE Country on ONE planet with the tech of about 16th century Earth. Then, TONE SHIFT you Learn its all a simulation; not just the old planets, but all reality, the whole of our universe, is a video game for another dimension and you have to free yourself from the bonds of your creators because they want to shut down the game. So you burst out of the game/reality though a TV set (I'm not kidding) and the final boss is a virus sent to destroy your video game reality, because you deserve to live your simulated life because you feel. All that in the last 20% of the game. WHAT.