What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? - eviltoast

I’ll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter’s intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there’s the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Funnily enough I watched Avengers yesterday and was reminded of the sheer stupidity of Thanos’ plan.

      Kill half the living beings. Great. After a traumatic event, people typically nstart banging like bunnies and you’ll get a great amount of offspring and within 30 years things will be worse than before because of what you did.

      Instead, bring the miracle of contraception and improve living standards for everyone and watch a miracle unfold with so much less resources required than maintaining huge armies to cause suffering

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      Idiotic, yeah, but at least it’s more thought out than “because fuck you, that’s why” which is all we get a lot of the time.

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        16 hours ago

        I would prefer an honest fuck you then an idea that doesn’t actually make sense and is pretty obviously flawed.

        That’s not the taking into account hours much effort it took to pull off