>character is entirely devoted to accomplishing one task >they finally get to accomplish task >character doesn't follow through because of muh life will be meaningless bullshit
>antagonist gets an episode where he/she blends in to society for whatever reason >most of the episode revolves around the antagonist "befriending" another MC only to backstab them at the end
>character A fucks over character B >character B never gets revenge
>IN ENGLISH, PLEASE!!!!
>character that is hyped up to be incredibly powerful for most of the series never gets a proper, full-length fight
>two friends have their relationship strained near the end of the second act/at the start of the final act for stupid shit and inevitably get back together at the end
>punching bag of the show very rarely, if ever, succeeds
>character refers to themselves as a god
Jason Allen
>Character slaughters tons of minions >Defeats the bad guy >"It wouldn't be worth it to kill you"
Carson James
>most of the episode revolves around the antagonist "befriending" another MC only to backstab them at the end God dammit. Why did the kung fu panda show have to be such a slave to dtatus quo. I wanted the duck to get with the scorpion.
Matthew Lewis
>2 male best friends as main characters in school >they're both losers >the deuteragonist is always uglier and more annoying >only exists to make the MC look better by comparison
Charles Butler
Name ONE movie that does this
Juan Reyes
Spider-Man Homecoming
Isaac Evans
...
Brandon Moore
>most of the episode revolves around the antagonist "befriending" another MC only to backstab them at the end
To be fair one of the like two decent episodes in the TMNT 2003 shitty "Tast Forward" season had this exact premise and it was pretty rad.
>I ALREADY KNOW WHAT I AM, I AM A SCORPION!
Sebastian Young
>villain is about to fall to a certain death >main good character catches their hand at the last second >"After all i did to you... why are you saving me?"
Tyler Gonzalez
Monster House. ParaNorman is another one.
Just the ones that immediately came to mind because of the season. They're more common in cartoons as animated films usually stray from regular cartoon patterns.
Typically the male deuteragonist has these qualities -fatter -red hair -shorter -black skin -glasses
Or some kind of mixture.
Samuel Barnes
It's mostly tv series that do this.
Owen Williams
>bully gets a free pass to make everyone's life around him miserable just because he has a shitty personal life
Angel Butler
Yeah but I wanna watch how the antagonist acts on an average day on the town. Do they go to the bar and get buzzed while lamenting on the current happenings of the show? Do they pickpocket people? Do they cause a riot in the town square? The possibilities are endless, which makes it lame as hell when the plot of the episode then revolves around them being buddy-buddy with another character before inevitably turning against them.
Easton Allen
>Jocks are assholes but geeks are bros
Sup Forums thought me that geeks can be even bigger assholes
Julian Reyes
>you missed
>I wasn't aiming for you
Jackson Fisher
>character is entirely devoted to accomplishing one task >they finally get to accomplish task >character doesn't follow through because of muh life will be meaningless bullshit
Mason Sullivan
Fun fact: This happens in He-Man, but an old storyboard shows that it wasn't supposed to. Originally, the villain does fall to his death and both He-Man and Battle Cat couldn't care less. Presumably this was considered too dark and/or out of character.
Juan Taylor
>>character is entirely devoted to accomplishing one task >>they finally get to accomplish task >>character doesn't follow through because of muh life will be meaningless bullshit
This is more Sup Forums but in the latest Tales game, I really like how Velvet went through with her revenge even after the whole villain tragic backstory reveal
Hunter Gutierrez
>vegan bitch is the voice of reason
Asher Edwards
>Main heroes are young 2kewl freedom fighters >Villain is an evil businessman/politician
Motor City and Batman Beyond are the only ones I can think of that survive this trope's shiftiness.
Daniel Wright
>boys vs girls episode
Zachary Perry
Real life taught me that geeks were the biggest assholes.
Oliver Rivera
>a girl that is suppose to be ugly actually is the most attractive female in the show
creepy susie is the same thing
Justin Harris
They’re both faggots.
Jace Nelson
yeah but one is fat, what makes him less good-looking than the MC
Isaiah Anderson
>Male lead and female lead start out as just friends. >Later in the series they develop feelings for each other out of no where.
Nicholas Russell
Also... >It adds nothing of value to the series or either character.
Ethan Baker
Sometimes pairing the mains works for me Star and Marco and sometimes it really doesn't Coulson and May.
I want to say that it comes down to how valid the "out of nowhere" objection is, but that might be a little disingenuous.
Henry Phillips
It works for Star and Marco because Star Vs the Forces of Evil is practically a romance genre series. Star and Marco's relationship is very important to the show.
Isaiah Cox
How many cartoons actually let the hero kill mooks though? When I think of a franchise where people ignore the deaths of extras and only care when a named character is in peril the first thing that comes to mind is Pirates of the Caribbean
Parker Jones
I haven't followed the show since around halfway through season 1 but Marco's school friends in Star Vs seem like a pretty extreme example
Bentley Cooper
It's funny how most shows that do it either pair up the MC with a dark skinned guy with glasses or a shorter fatter redhead, but this show did both at the same time.
Leo Johnson
>character is a "cool" animal like a lion, tiger, eagle, wolf, etc. >always turns out to be a wuss or asshole
Nathan Bell
>Villain made super powerful weapon, strong enough to destroy the hero >uses it >suspense arises since the villain can legitimately win >just joking, some overblown deus ex mahina happens, and villain loses >never uses this weapon again
Dominic Williams
>MC has a pretty looking chick that likes him and is ready to do everything for his acknowledgement >He still passes on her for arrogant school beauty.
Jose Hernandez
Aang sunk a lot of fire nation ships during the north water tribe invasion, even before he merged with the ocean spirit
Andrew Cook
>implying those animals aren't assholes in nature
Brody Davis
>misterious masked person is actually a chick
Caleb Morris
>villain crafts near-perfect plan that would absolutely wreck heroes >some completely unforseen even like a new guest character or an unlikely coincidence manages to foil the plan >villain doesn't just try the exact same thing again a week later even though the heroes have no consistent defense against it
Xavier Moore
Ducks are sex predators in nature, but that didn't stop Donald Duck.
Besides, I'm sick of dorky/whiny protagonists.
Josiah Miller
unfortunally, dorky/whiny protagonists will always be more proeminent in any kind of media because they're more relatable, even when they are forgettable or annoying
Jonathan Garcia
>final confrontation between villain and main cast >villain details their motivations and the logic behind their plan, now that it has been discovered >it's actually a reasonable argument and the villain has made a strong case for themselves >main cast does not address any of this and instead launches into a haughty lecture about friendship/love/justice However, I take it back if the villain actually succeeds because the main cast's hasty, intuitive "logic" demonstrated here is the same that has lead to them making a massive oversight which the villain has quietly exploited for this final plan. And the villain actually succeds because of it.
Ayden Adams
Why is this bad?
Carter Torres
Ever notice that Male Leads usually have Brown or Black Hair?
Very rarely do you actually see a Blonde Male Protagonist
Aiden Scott
To be fair, she's supposed to be ugly to 12 year old boys. Wait until they hit puberty.
Gavin Thompson
Not OP I think it's overused sometimes. Maybe it was intuitive when Samus was revealed to be a chick, but now there's no real reason for an audience to be surprised to find a girl on a suit of power armor. Now it seems like a cheap way of generating interest in the story.
Jaxson Morgan
she was hot to me when I was 12
Lincoln Davis
Even worse when they get an unnecessary make over and become "Beautiful All Along" even though there was never anything wrong with her appearance in the first place
Carson Nguyen
Nefcy was probably pissed at Disney for making her make those two so she made them as annoying as possible so that she could remove then without anyone making a fuss over it.
Every single episode of Phineas and Ferb minus the suspense part.
Adrian Campbell
yeah, the only kind of media where blonde MC's are proeminent are JRPG's thanks to FFVII
Benjamin Taylor
>the smartest kid is black
Dominic Stewart
Huh...
Never thought about this but it's actually true. Hey Arnold, Naruto (and his son Boruto) and Edward Alric are the only recent Male Protags with Blonde Hair that I can think of right now.
Also He-Man but he hasn't done anything since the 80's.
Asher Stewart
>The smartest kid is Asian
FTFY
Nicholas Myers
>the smartest kid is indian
Jeremiah Rogers
he had a reboot in 2003 that no one remembers
Carson Jackson
>the smartest kid is a GIRL
Thomas Howard
>best/worst. [thing]. ever.
Every fucking time, it's nearly the same dialogue. They can't even fucking mask it. They don't even do a reverse where the villain says "you should've let me fall" and the hero says why he didn't, they just jump to the direct "why? i was mean!" like nigger just fucking quit writing that, I'd sooner not write the episode than write such a fucking line
Aaron Sanchez
>guy treats a girl rudely >somehow the writers mix in how rude women are usually treated by a guy, or that a girl usually suffers by men's hand
Daniel Sanders
>villain's powers have psychological horror potential >amount to nothing but the most uncreative uses possible and cheap shock value Looking at you, Jessica Jones
Liam Watson
muh big twist, the masked deep voiced character can be a cute quirky glasses wearing nerd girl!
i fucking hate it more than anything, it's just "females can be X too!"
Easton Rivera
>granny can fight! truly a shitty humor path to take
Jonathan Gray
I thought this might be a Japanese media phenomenon, given their phenotype, but it's true for a lot of Western media, as well.
Wyatt Smith
That's sort of the point of Kilgrave, at least in the Netflix show. And also, I love that trope.
>A man gifted with extraordinary powers that scale exponentially based on the user's creativity and intelligence — too dumb to use it to its maximum potential. It's poetic.
Isaac Ramirez
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja does it (although it's not a movie)
Jace Myers
When does this ever happen?
I've seen it used to make them more sympathetic but I've never seen a movie, show or comic where they outright use the tragic backstory to excuse bullying.
Usually it builds up to a point where the main character utterly ruins the bully, they run off crying, and the MC feels bad while everyone else pats them on the bacm.
Jackson Evans
>Usually it builds up to a point where the main character utterly ruins the bully, they run off crying, and the MC feels bad while everyone else pats them on the bacm. More often is everyone fucks up the MC but he didn't know, and he never explains that he didn't know, and from the characters' views he just apologized rather than learned then apologized, forever never resolving the misunerstanding
Nolan Gomez
>Adults in charge with decades of experience are incredibly incompetent and need the ragtag group of kids to tell them what to do
Levi James
And also (from the same episode)...
>elite battle hardened adult soldiers get their asses horribly kicked by a teenage girl
Brayden Rivera
American Dad. Steve's friends.
Caleb Jenkins
>The smartest kid falls into any demographic
Nicholas Bailey
>character gets dogpiled >simply flexing his arms sends everyone on him 10 feet into the air
Kevin Thomas
And it's extremely boring,
Jaxson Edwards
Unironically Harry Potter.
Jaxon James
Daedalic always seem to try hard but almost all their games fall apart by the end.
Jason Adams
Marie is supposed to be the only Kanker sister who isn't ugly...and then she has the stained teeth as a double-reversal.
Asher Campbell
And every harem anime in existence .
Brody Torres
>>character is entirely devoted to accomplishing one task I am going to become the best hero. >>they finally get to accomplish task I became the best hero >>character doesn't follow through because of muh life will be meaningless bullshit Oh, life is suddenly so boring.
Brayden Lewis
>woman betrays guy >guy gets mad >I ONLY DID IT FOR A TRAGIC REASON >guy starts sucking her cunt feeling bad and says he's sorry he got mad made 10x worse when the girl stays mad at him even though he didn't know
Cameron Flores
>character befriends MC >they're still friends at the end of the episode
Leo Jackson
sc2 is this taken to it's absolute extreme.
Christopher Russell
>antagonist seems just as or even more reasonable than the hero >better make him do some edgy shit for no reason even if it doesn't make sense with the way he or she was written
Eli Foster
>character is an animal/has animal traits >never does anything that a human couldn't do
Noah Hill
>"i made a funny"
Joshua Turner
So, basically Sing for the majority of its running time. Got it.
John Morris
Basically any show with antrho animals does this, I don't see why you had to bring up Sing specifically.
Ryder Collins
First that came to mind, really.
Thomas Rivera
>Show wants to make an empowered female character >all the guys are made rude and incompetent so she looks good in comparison >bonus points if she's a snide cunt
Colton Bennett
>"What's the matter user? Can't handle a strong woman saving the day?"
Charles Miller
This shit burns me up to much to even talk about. Anyone who writes a female character bringing to the fact their gender is important in that way need to die, there's no way around it. It's dumbing the society down by extent.
Parker Bennett
>people are acting as a unit, aka, a hivemind. >those people hate something, praise something, and worshiping together, and there is no senses of taking criticisms or evaluating things objectively. which applies to fanbase in general, and that is why large and pretentious fanbases don't deserve anything good.
Matthew King
I guess they're good at middles but bad at endings
Dylan Foster
>character is a scientist >does nothing but talk about SCIENXZCE >is a Reddit-Tier atheist They're all carbon copies of themselves. You've read one, you've read them all. The only difference is that back then they were designed as nerds, but now they're designed as ultra-cool "sirs" to appease the Redditards.
Xavier Morris
>start as friends >get along for long time >they fall for each other HUUUURRR whY Is Thes Habbening????
Justin Turner
this reminds me of (pic related).
Connor Taylor
this boy looks cool tho
Carson Campbell
this is rare
Wyatt Gonzalez
>Theres a "smartest one in group" ignoring the diverse kind of intelligences
Camden Gonzalez
Transformers Prime. Autobots often maul dozens of Vehicons (and it was established that they are sentient Cybertronians like others, not just lifeless drones), but whenever they get a chance to kill one of the big shots ala Megatron or Starscream, they let them get away.
Optimus does state he intends to kill Megatron in season 1 finale, but abandons it come season 2.
Logan Nguyen
Which saddens me because it was actually quite good.
Easton Jones
The worst is when she goes back into bitch of the group/damsel in distress mode after the reveal. Zootopia and Rimba Racer did this in two opposite ways, one neglected stereotypes, other embraced them.