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.

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    As long as they pull a /r/VXJunkies:

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    Or this Technobabble, I’m OK with it.