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My 5 most hated Cliches and/or Tropes
12 years ago
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Have you ever watch a show or a movie while getting pissed off due to some cliches. Well here are my Top 5 most hated Cliches.
5. Cliffhanger Endings
Does it ever piss you off when you're watching a movie and at the end of the film it ends in a cliffhanger? Well sometimes, it's there to foreshadow a sequel, but doesn't really piss you off when after they show a cliffhanger in a movie or a TV series, it doesn't follow up. Your show/movie would end without a proper conclusion and they leave plot holes and questions unanswered. Why bother watching a show if it doesn't end in a satisfying way.
4. Misunderstandings
Why is it that in movies and more so in daytime soap operas would often have man and a woman be hostile to one another at first then they get together at the end? If this is supposed to be character development, then i have this kind of development real annoying real fast. Why can't people just get to know one another before assuming the worst in people. I really hate it when characters get off on the wrong foot and would jump to conclusions about a person without giving them the benefit of the doubt.
3. Adults are Useless
Have you ever watched a kids movie where kids would tell their parents about something strange but they won't believe you? And when they do, they don't do anything that much. Now i get that it makes sense that adults won't believe a weird story, however, this trope is establishing that all adults are stupid especially in kids movies. And do you know another kind of adult that are unless in movies? Cops. Why is it that in most movies, cops are often vilified as unlikeable bullies. I get that the police in the real world are often slandered with news of police brutality and corruption, but must Hollywood continue to denigrate the police just to make a main character likeable and competent by comparison?
2. Unlikeable Characters aka Jerkass
What is a jerkass? A person who is an asshole to anyone and everyone. I guess having a character who is supposed to be unlikeable is the idea, but it really pisses me off when a character that isn't a jerk acts like a dick just because. In my "I think I dislike Marvel Comics" journal, I've pointed out that when people in the Marvel Universe act like assholes towards superheroes, it really rubs me the wrong way. And you know what pisses me off more than Unlikeable Characters, Unlikeable Characters who would get away with their behavior.
1. Kick the Dog
The Kick the dog trope is where a villain does something needlessly cruel just to cement the fact the he/she is a villain. This is why i don't like Walker Texas Ranger, every villain in that show has to do something despicable for no real reason other than to make the audience enjoy Chuck Norris beating them up. We get it the bad guys are bad guys, they don't have to make them out to be complete monsters just to get your point across.
5. Cliffhanger Endings
Does it ever piss you off when you're watching a movie and at the end of the film it ends in a cliffhanger? Well sometimes, it's there to foreshadow a sequel, but doesn't really piss you off when after they show a cliffhanger in a movie or a TV series, it doesn't follow up. Your show/movie would end without a proper conclusion and they leave plot holes and questions unanswered. Why bother watching a show if it doesn't end in a satisfying way.
4. Misunderstandings
Why is it that in movies and more so in daytime soap operas would often have man and a woman be hostile to one another at first then they get together at the end? If this is supposed to be character development, then i have this kind of development real annoying real fast. Why can't people just get to know one another before assuming the worst in people. I really hate it when characters get off on the wrong foot and would jump to conclusions about a person without giving them the benefit of the doubt.
3. Adults are Useless
Have you ever watched a kids movie where kids would tell their parents about something strange but they won't believe you? And when they do, they don't do anything that much. Now i get that it makes sense that adults won't believe a weird story, however, this trope is establishing that all adults are stupid especially in kids movies. And do you know another kind of adult that are unless in movies? Cops. Why is it that in most movies, cops are often vilified as unlikeable bullies. I get that the police in the real world are often slandered with news of police brutality and corruption, but must Hollywood continue to denigrate the police just to make a main character likeable and competent by comparison?
2. Unlikeable Characters aka Jerkass
What is a jerkass? A person who is an asshole to anyone and everyone. I guess having a character who is supposed to be unlikeable is the idea, but it really pisses me off when a character that isn't a jerk acts like a dick just because. In my "I think I dislike Marvel Comics" journal, I've pointed out that when people in the Marvel Universe act like assholes towards superheroes, it really rubs me the wrong way. And you know what pisses me off more than Unlikeable Characters, Unlikeable Characters who would get away with their behavior.
1. Kick the Dog
The Kick the dog trope is where a villain does something needlessly cruel just to cement the fact the he/she is a villain. This is why i don't like Walker Texas Ranger, every villain in that show has to do something despicable for no real reason other than to make the audience enjoy Chuck Norris beating them up. We get it the bad guys are bad guys, they don't have to make them out to be complete monsters just to get your point across.
Case in point, Saints Row: The Third with Johnny Gat's "death". Why? BECUZ DEM SYNDICATE IS FO SERIOUZ, YO!!