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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sure it been said already but:

The villain who wanted to change society for the better but took it too far (which invariably involves just doing something randomly evil with the implication that their criticisms are now invalidated)

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

The Swerve

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Oh boy, another excuse to link this article!

Wait, the goodies tell us. Wait for Albion. It’ll arrive. Just be patient. Well, Albion is a very old promise… and, whatever the panglossian liberal morality plays we call family entertainment may say, we’re still bloody waiting. At least the villains, unlike Merlin, are trying to kick up a stink about the delay.