" [ I detest ] the , ' We ’ve only been on three dates , and now you ’re move / allow / whatever , and how freaking dare you not prefer me over literally anything else in your aliveness ! ' storyline . It ’s such a boring way for author to produce human relationship drama . "
Here are 17 overused tropes and plot twists people are tired of seeing:
1.“I HATE the secret child trope. I’ve never seen it used anywhere it wasn’t cheap AF and doesn’t scream, ‘We ran out of ideas!’ or ‘We couldn’t figure out how else to resurrect this story.'”
— f4bul0u5
2.“When the main character finds out that they’re actually the murderer or stalker, but they were unaware because they have a mental illness.”
— palmtreeeeeeeee
3.“Amnesia storylines where characters lose their memory or forget who they are, usually after an accident.”
4.“And you just have to hit ‘em in the head again to make them remember everything.”
— domitojo
5.“The trope where a single cop goes after the bad guy in some dark, abandoned warehouse or something, only to be ambushed, is especially irritating.”
— conscientiousobservers
6.“Hitting someone on the head and they pass out. It actually takes a lot of force to hit someone hard enough to knock them out, and it is a serious injury!”
— emilypost
7.“In daytime dramas (soaps), the characters’ ages are so fluid to fit in any scenario. In one of my favorites, a character was born in 1995, so she’s not even 30, but she also has two kids who are in their early 20s!”
" There ’s also kids going off to boarding schoolhouse , then returning the next twelvemonth miraculously 10 years older ! "
8.“In buddy cop movies, they screw up and get kicked off the case, but then they pursue the criminals without badges and save the day.”
— shaunaa2
9.“What about when the anti-hero is about to get away at the end, and someone they met briefly and pissed off pops up out of nowhere and shoots them and kills them?”
" For instance , I Care a Lot , Carlito ’s Way … I know there ’s more . "
— cydneyanne
10.“When the main couple has been planning their perfect wedding for MONTHS, then suddenly the day of the wedding, everything goes wrong, and they have to get married in a last-minute ceremony that is much more intimate and somehow perfect. I HATE THAT.”
11.“The ‘stay in the car’ trope. They NEVER stay in the car.”
12.“Someone getting a whiff of a rag soaked in chloroform and instantly passing out — it takes a lot longer than a couple of seconds!”
13.“Walking away from an explosion without any injury, let alone just falling down.”
14.“Mine is the, ‘We’ve only been on three dates, and now you’re moving/leaving/whatever and how freaking dare you not choose me over literally anything else in your life!’ storyline. It’s such a boring way for writers to create relationship drama.”
— sforsgren1
15.“It bothers me that, every time a character coughs, they’re always sick. There are many reasons someone can cough that aren’t always illness-related.”
— annechananne
" If a character cough , you know they ’re gon na die . "
— cogentmutation
16.“When the bad guy’s buddy/henchman/accomplice turns on him just in time to save the hero.”
" you may either always see it coming from the first mo , or you did n’t even really compensate enough attention to the guy for it to have any wallop . "
— crojohnson14
17.And finally: “Knowing who the murderer is in a crime drama from the first second, because that actor has played a murderer on EVERY SINGLE crime drama.”
— nicolamorrow84
Some responses have been edited for duration / clarity .
