>character is extremely sensitive and cries at a consistent rate
>show still has scenes wherein the crybaby cries and we are expected to care
>character performs an irredeemable deed
>there are no consequences to said action
>character gets the opportunity to get their dream job/earn ungodly amounts of power/etc.
>they forego this to preserve their friends' emotions
First two are SU but what's the third?
I was actually thinking Gravity Falls for the last two, although (god forgive me, this isn't Sup Forums related) Percy Jackson and the Olympians had a textbook example of the third, where the MC decides not to become a god because of some faggotry about being with his friends.
>protagonist doesn't win contest
>"at least you had fun"
Guardians 2 did that too.
>mc has choice of all sorts of interesting girls
>he chooses the boring girl that's the safest choice
>jock gets gf taken away by nerd
Lol yeah. Ok.
Has there even been a time where the jock is immediately arrested for harassment and attempted kidnapping?
>unstoppable cosmic force
>excellent moment for the hero to show acceptance in the face of "there are always bigger fish out there"
>LOL NOPE hero just wins against a cosmic force by asspull
I mean, it did, but the reason for Quill denying his awesome powers was less "my friends'll be sad" and more "the entire galaxy as we know it will get completely fucked". So it wasn't that bad in the end.
Percy didn't become a god because of selfish reasons. He wanted to grow old with the ones he loved.
Pretty sure it was because Ego was trying to end the universe.
>"Be nice to your little siblings" ep
>Siblings are little merdes and continue to be little merdes for the rest of the shows run
>Life lessons hamfisted in a show
Animated Mouse House kidcoms are extremely guilty of these two
>love interest clearly has trash tier taste in people and doesn't see a problem with it
>we're supposed to want love interest to be ""won""
>OP makes a thread about tropes you hate
>Uses it as a platform to bitch about what's popular right now without actually naming any tropes
OP is a faggot.
For the 2nd one, I don't know. It shows that sometimes justice can't get everyone. But if you mean, literally no one acknowledges and holds that action against that character, maybe I can see what you mean.
"It's a wonderful life" trope.
>yandere as a main villain
>yandere in general
The worst and most pathetic villain archetype out there.
I usually hate it whenever a villain decides to stop their villainous acts and atone themselves, and then they're easily forgiven. Don't get me wrong I like it when some villains turn a new leaf, but the scorn and punishments should still be there.
I never saw or heard of "it's a wonderful life" so i never noticed
>its a 'character needs to be at two places at once' episode
>character has power/ability they gained in an earlier episode
>is in danger
>doesn't use the power/ability for plot convenience
Also he killed Quill's mom. Not gonna lie, i'd probably want to fuck up the life goals of someone who murdered my mom for the most petty of reasons.
>Tomboy character.
>Becomes a feminazi on later episodes.
I wouldn't be so disgusted if this didn't happened everytime nowadays, it's always "I can play video games with you, I'm really good" "I don't use make up because who gives a fuck" "Can I play sports with you?" But then they get flanderized to "I don't get love, men are just disgusting pigs who are just making space in the world" "A girl is better than you, how does that feel?" "I'm against this beauty contest, so I will protest against it, so none of you girls can enjoy it until they fulfill my request to cancel it"
What if they do something to redeem themselves, like saving the planet or stopping an even bigger threat?
>villain tries to turn over a new leaf
>falls in love with a girl and she reciprocates
>she never liked you IT WAS JUST A PRANK BRUH!
Not exactly a trope, but God that episode of BTAS pisses me off. What kind of an idiot would toy with a crime lord's feelings anyway?
Don't forget he broke Quill's Walkman.
>loser becomes successful
>immediately becomes a jerk
>others conspire to make him lose his money/fame
>he thanks them for it after
>characters are spying on enemy from afar devising a plan
>ditsy character goes "HELLOOOO" and gets everyone spotted
>battle of the sexes episode
>the guys become uncharacteristically misogynistic and gross idiot frat boys
>the girls' personalities alternate between slumber party goer and Rosie the Riveter
>these two characters don't have sex
>I'm against this beauty contest, so I will protest against it, so none of you girls can enjoy it until they fulfill my request to cancel it
I vaguely remember something like this happening but I don't remember what show
>it's a "have to return to the status quo at all costs" episode
I'm surprised it hasn't been parodied.
>one of the va's of a character leaves the show, so a new va is hired.
>for whatever fucking reason, the personality of that character is completely changed.
Maybe Danny Phantom
I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH IT
>characters who are genuinely nice and selfless
>people around them take advantage of them and use them as punch bags
>public does not acknowledge this treatment in any shape of form, and chooses not to do anything about it
>its an episode where everyone loses control of their bowels and lays on the ground shitting and crying for the entire time
>characters are dealing with a bunch of problems that could have easily been avoided if it weren't for some dumb miscommunication earlier
Imagine Marco choosing Janna
The salt mines would be plentiful
similar trope also drives me crazy
>Why didn't you do it?
>Because you didn't tell me to do it!
>Episode ends giving major changes to character or big experience
>next episode starts and the characters are back to their old selves
>tfw they stole the ending to Disney's Hercules
>It's a "ditch the supernatural and go back to your life of complete mundanity" episode
I will never not hate this.
I just hate the fact that so many people use "tropes" in general
not the actual thing, the word. when did we stop calling them "story elements" or "cliches"?
Ever heard of synonyms?
>Slapstick-heavy cartoon
>Female characters are mostly, if not entirely immune to slapstick, except maybe if they're ugly.
Because a trope and a cliche is not the same thing. Cliche has a negative attribute to it which implies tired, overused. And story element is just a longer way of saying trope, why would you choose the longer and clunkier way of defining something?
>Flowers For Algernon syndrome
> originally heartbreaking now overused to the point that we're beating the bones.
Status quo sucks sometimes.
because shorter things are always better, manlet
>Overuse of the "smart female characters and dumb male characters" cliche, to the point where the dumbest girl is considerably smarter than the smartest guy.
>character A is looking for character B
>character A finds character B facing away from them
>character A turns them around
>it's just some random that looks like them from behind.
Futurama, faggot.
What season what episode?
I haven't watched television in years
The season one episode that introduced the Omnicronians.
Every. Damn. Time.
this as well as
>"i just want to live a normal life without extraordinary or magical stuff happening"
>Female villain has a tragic or sad backstory
>98% of the time it's because an EVIL MAN made her that way
>MFW
somebody doesnt like steven universe
>give the protagonist a girlfriend and make her center stage in the show.
>make the girl kick more ass than the main character and steal his spotlight
>make the protagonist fall so in love with her that he gives up everything once the bad guy gets her
>He saves her with the power of love
>they dont get together by the end
You know it was bullshit
> Character's ultimate attack is his only attack
> MC loses all his power or a battle against a villain and needs to do a training montage to beat them, repeat for next villain
> Male character denies all forms of affection from obviously interested gal, friendly or otherwise
> Character loses cooler lookin weapon or armor for nothing or a shitier looking version
That happens more often than you think, especially if you're a twin like me.
At least the love interest wasn't a self insert
>Why didn't you say anything?!
>You didn't ask!
>first book
>Percy's mom has a shitty boyfriend
>at the end she fate worse than deaths him
>sells his paralysed body to an artist
>uses the money to pay for Percy going to his summer camp
>this is treated as a good thing
>Set up an amazing backstory for the shows best character
>cancel the show before it gets told
im still mad
DAMN IT WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME
It's odd that you didn't choose Gravity Falls for the textbook third. I mean, Dipper not siding with Stanford is exactly what you mentioned.
Fuck this one
wait?? Is that lord hater?
Most likely. This cameo of the character called "Monkeyboy", who was supposed to appear in season 3, and the fact that the credits of the final episode show some sort of space shuttle with green lightning around it while monkey noises & Hater's laughter were audible in the background, strongly imply that Lord Hater = Monkeyboy and that he was some sort of NASA space monkey who eventually ended up in this galaxy.
Its either lord hater or his monkey companion. The season 2 finale strongly implies lord hater is a NASA monkey.
>It's a "someone has to give up a kidney or some other donate-able body part" episode
Only King of the Hill has done this right
>It's an episode about going vegan or vegetarianism
>It's a clip show episode
thank god these have gone out of style. Live action shows used to do them too, but they skip them on reruns because they suck.
>It's an episode about going to court on a show that doesn't normally take place in a courthouse. Bonus if the judge has one of those godawful powdered wigs, fuck those things
>It's a parody of any movie with Tom Cruise in it
Don't know why they always end up so shitty and unfunny
>It's an episode about current politics, especially abortions or gay marriage
Rarely funny, always preachy and ham-fisted
Six String Samurai would have been great without that fucking kid.
While this is a hate tropes thread, one trope I actually like is the jock falling for a nerd girl. That's pretty cute.
Jock getting the girl over the nerd can be cool if done tastefully.
I remember liking the ending for Disney's Sleepyhollow where the jock who looks like Gaston marries the girl in the end instead of Ichabod.
>Fantastic Voyage episode
>Villain turns good
>Dies immediately
>characters hate each other then become friends then hate each other for a few minutes then help each other in the 3rd act
>"Friends" are never shown being friendly, only bickering at each other
I like this in It's Always Sunny, but even they changed to permanent character development
Character does something really shitty to another character. Any grudges are forgotten by the next episode.
MLATR episode where Sheldon gets stranded in space for a lifetime comes back as an old man and is constantly abused. Episode would have been interesting if he had stayed mad at Jenny after everything he went through, instead of going back to status quo.
>considerably interesting character shows up and is more fun to watch than any of the MCs
>they're killed off shortly after introduction
OP is a sociopath episode
>it's a "two characters switch bodies" episode
It is only entertaining if the characters are a hero and villain. Otherwise, who gives a shit? The lesson is always "Man, your life is pretty hard!"
>it's a sudden musical episode
This applies to Sup Forums too. Auditory sensations were a mistake if it has to come to this. Characters breaking into song/dance numbers is idiotic.
>Badass character that was a force of nature
>Killed off by some stupid gimmick of friendship and teamwork
Likeable character treated like shit by writers for no real understandable reason.
Courtney Gripling did nothing wrong
Musical episodes are fine when the tonal shift isn't jarring, like My Fair Hatey
Gunstar Heroes's ending when Green kills himself.
Basically a villain turned good at the last second because he sacrifices himself for the hero.
Darth Vader saving Luke from Palpatine for example.
>Green kills himself
Wasn't he brainwashed or something?
...and over here we can see a typical Sup Forums user, a socipath favoring crude forces of nature over socialization and human interaction.
>boo hoo, user doesn't like the vapid, anemically bare, uninteresting and blatantly false message of "teamwork/friendship conquers all", what a sociopath
Not him but the only good "Power of friendship" endings i saw where in the Persona games, where socialising actually gives the main characters power and it makes sense for it to do so, but they still had to beat the shit out of something, there was some kind of work involved, all others i saw were basically
>"If you hold hands and wish it hard enough all problems will just go away!"
Its fucking gay.
>Its fucking gay.
Where do you think you are?
So the hero is supposed to lose and get a bad ending?
It doesn't necesaraly has to be an ending, just a defeat
>trope gets inverted
>shows that the world really is better off without the character
I love Beavis and Butt-Head
Never seen this. What show?
Let's call it "depth failure:" something is introduced with the implication of immense potential: a character with a wide variety of powers; a setting with a huge degree of weirdness; an organization with vast reach and potential.
This implication is delivered by showing the something displaying a few wildly disparate examples of this potential: the character teleports entire islands and also cuts guns in half with his mind; in the setting, every mirror must be covered to avoid demonic invasions at night and also most of the animals hover; the organization not only controls the Prime Minister but also the janitor inside the room! The viewer's mind boggles with thoughts of what ELSE must be possible and how much of a game-changer that could be.
But then time goes on and nothing else interesting shows up and it's eventually made official that nope, those oddities the something was introduced with are the only things extraordinary about it, no matter how odd it makes both the something seem for having a few highly disconnected traits AND the introduction seem for somehow being the perfect scenario to show off every last novelty this new element possessed.
Bionicle did the powerful-character variant a few times in its later years, and while I can't offhand come up with other examples, I do know it's the resulting feeling of dreams being crushed that I just hate.
>a comedic duo
>both are retards
>no unique personality traits whatsoever