Lame ass tropes

>main character can't understand the difference between weight and mass

>>87390585
Fact: steel is heavier than feathers.

>>87390630
but they're both 1 kilogram

>>87390639
A dinnae get it

>>87390639
This is /co/ we use miles and feet for that

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>Jester is a main character

>Characters switch bodies
>Retain their respective voices.
So much rage.

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>>87390555
>implying those episodes ain't the best

>Boys vs Girls episode
>Boys start to suddenly act sexist
>Episode always ends with the girls winning, or a tie, boys never get the gold.

>>87390639
You mean a "kilagremme"?

>mother turns the weans against us

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>>87390555
>Superheros don't kill.

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>>87390706
>Boys vs Girls episode
>they gender swap

>>87390649
What don't you get?
Look it up, they're both a kilogram.

>episode title is a cringe reference to a common phrase or joke

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>>87390555
'Nerdy' (but obvioisly hot) girl with glasses suddenly becomes prom queen without glasses and can see perfectly well without them

>>87390794
>girl with glasses
this is the most obnoxious thing, girls with glasses are always shit

>>87390794
If anything, this trope caused me to become a massive meganekko fetishist as an adult, so there's that

>>87390794
How is that book called?

>>87390660
But steel is heavier than feathers

>>87390794

DESU where does this appear in pop culture past 1995?

Every movie I've seen has the dumpy male/female going to great lengths to be perceived as attractive by their targeted mate and either

a) through situational wackiness and adventure the target mate realizes that the person is desireable even without all the bullshit and falls for them

or

b) they fail to impress the targeted mate but along the way fall for the best friend who's always seen the good in them the whole time.

>>87390555
Comics and cartoons seem like an odd interest if you are tired of tropes. Perhaps it's time to read some literature.

Any time there a transformation/body swap/genderbender episode without any suggestive content.

>>87390672
I don't know why people rage over this one. Never bothered me, so I'm curious to hear an explanation for this.

>pathetic loser character suddenly gets rich or powerful or something
>he immediately turns into a huge asshole
>protagonists defeat him and return him back to normal
>he's again the butt of all the others' jokes
>this is supposed to be a positive thing

>>87392400
Not quite the same
But Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs does this
Girl takes off glasses and is suddenly beautiful but has to abbandon her nerdy interests for some reason?
At some point she decides that being a nerd is a part of her, puts on her glasses again and is ugly again
Because you can't be a nerd and physically attractive at same time

>>87392612
if they're switching bodies they're also switching vocal chords
It's a very interesting acting excercise from the actors to see them try to get the inflections and language of a different character
Keeping original voice doesn't make sense and it's lazy

>>87392676

>he's again the butt of all the others' jokes
>this is supposed to be a positive thing

I can't really think of any cases where the loser wasn't already a shit to begin with, thus making the outcome warranted.

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>"minority" character gets added
>does nothing but bitch and moan about being oppressed
>this trait isn't portrayed as a bad thing
>whole setting suddenly changes to portray them as right

>>87390555
>character has crush on other character
>closeups on the character with music playing in the background

Even worse when the character isnt even hot. Only time I can think of that was well done was Steven Universe

>>87392836
I'd like an example of this to then watch/roast them later

>watching a show with subtitles on
>get to a part where they speak another language
>subtitles say [speaking (language)]

>>87393636
They should really put the part where it says they're speaking another language, but also say what they're saying.

>Villain is defeated by the power of friendship/love

I get this being common in shows aimed towards a younger audience but at times, this shit is really cringe-worthy.

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>>87394426
>every antagonist is defeated by brute force

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>Science is bad
>Nature is good

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>Characters are having a private conversation on another someone else.
>Said character walks past the door and overhears a part of their conversation which makes it seem like they are talking shit on him.
>He runs away before hearing the rest of the conversation which clears it up.

>>87394426
I feel different i always thought it was a magical experience

>>87390555
>Group of villains is introduced as the meanest, baddest, scariest
>Kick Ass Chick With No Muscle Tone manages to outsass/fight them every single time

>villian disguises himself as the new kid in town
>hero sees through his bullshit immediately
>all his friends suddenly stop believing anything he says and think he is just became a giant jealous asshole for no reason.

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>It's a Tragic Villain episode

Muh Dick

>>87390707
it's a kellagrum

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>>87394426
>he doesn't believe in the power of friendship

>>87390807
You mean, the shit.

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>something magical/alien happens
>all of a sudden one character gets frustratingly and annoyingly skeptical and doesn't even jokingly or out of cheer boredom humor the idea that it might actually be something otherwordly

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>>87394735
>NO I DON'T LIKE HER
>girl overhears and runs away crying
>I LOVE HER
Fine when it's played up for laughs, but it's painful when it's used as a serious point of the conflict.

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>Character's plan is foiled at the last moment by a complete 1 in a million fluke
>Doesn't attempt the same plan again

>>87395192
>Character lies to someone at the start of the film
>Their bond grows and they connect
>Lie is revealed
>Character is dropped like a sack of hammers even though they are proven to be good people who lied for an understandable reason
Every single Madagascar film

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>>87395264
>Character's plan is foiled at the last moment by a complete 1 in a million fluke
>DOES attempt the same plan again
>it fails again for an even more stupid reason

>>87395362
Example please.

>>87395381
there was a hole episode of the powerpuff girls that sort of did it, it was more about Mojojojo making a different mistake the second time though

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>villain's right hand woman realizes how bad the villain is and jumps ship to the good guy's side

>>87394426
Yeah, got forbid we defeat a common evil with the help of teamwork and community, you selfish hedonist faggot.

>>87395476
Loyal waifu>Traitorous slag

>>87395427
You're talking about when mojo tried turning everyone in the city into dogs twice. I don't remember how he failed the first time but I think the second was the powerpuff dogs just beat the shit out of him

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>>87390555
>it's a depowered episode

>>87390555
Fuck you buddy Rowdy Ruff Boyz were awesome.

>>87394644
>science is good
>it's also the only thing anyone is really cares about

>>87395769
First time they bit him in the ass so he dropped the Anubis relic so that the spell was broken.
Second time he took his precautions by wearing a metal plate on his ass, and not turning them into dogs, so that they couldn't bite him.
So they just beat him up instead.

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>>87390555
>It turns out that they're their great-grandaughters
Why does this keep happening?

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>>87390666
>main character leaves an important item behind
>main character can't jump across a chasm and falls to their death

>>87390706
you seem....triggered

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>Offspring of MC shows up from future
>Doesn't tell the protagonist who the other parent is

>it's a "new guy shows up, he's a douche, someone tries to point it out, everyone hates them for it" episode
I want every writer whoever made an episode like that to be beaten with a rubber hose.

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>21 minutes of heroes kicking villain's ass
>1 minute before credits, villain goes "LOLOLOLOLOL ALL ACORDING TO KEIKAKU"

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>Characters are blatantly homos
>Show just keeps on teasing them as "close friends"

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> Its a "Bait the Shippers" episode

>>87396165
Translators note:
Keikaku means plan

>it's a "maybe the villain isn't such a bad guy after all---oh wait, they're turning against us again" episode

>>87390660
Post feet.

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>Fem Char is asleep
>MC Starts getting all touch feely
>Never brought up

>>87396126
To be fair, they wouldn't want them to feel like they don't have control over it. They'd want their conception to happen naturally instead of making their own existence a self-fulfilling prophecy.

>>87390794
Ever done this in reverse where needing glasses causes her to be perceived as hot?

>>87392502
Why would you even want that? Half of the issue with a gender/body swap is getting used to having your sex's brain in the body of the opposite sex

>>87392762
At first I thought you were arguing the other way around (they keep the voices of the body they were in) and it puzzles me. Yeah it's pretty dumb if they keep their original voice if they're in the body of another person.

>>87395161
>This happens in a setting already full of magic or something

Actually blood boiling

>>87392676
Timmy's dad in FOP is a great inversion to this.

>gets rich
>doesn't spend it all immediately
>buys a bunch of stuff but not to a huge extent
>stays relatively the same except having money is now a solution to problems
>retains wealth through various episodes
I hope he doesn't stop being rich any time soon. He didn't even try to upgrade his house or anything if I recall correctly.

>>87396319
No fucking way.

I'd do anything I could to make sure I was still born

>science vs magic episodes

I've yet to see a show that does this well. Most of them don't get past the surface issues of science being dehumanizing or magic being a cipher for more traditional beliefs. The actual closest show was Avatar or even Korra, but Korra dropped the ball on this in S2. Avatar S2 and Korra S3 were pretty much the only time I've seen this done okay-ish.

>make a plot hole by accident
>every fan calls out your shit
>a season or so later it becomes a plot point
also, every other trope where a writer or creator tries to seem clever when they're complete shit

like making jokes about a bad aspect of your show, but don't fix it

>>87390555
https://youtu.be/ukE7qnsLuwA?t=66

>>87396654
In some cases, yeah, but just because Supernatural Thing A is real does not mean Supernatural Thing B is also real. We could live in a world where we lived next door with vampires, but that does not mean werewolves are real. The ability to use the Force does not mean you can Waterbend.

>>87392836
got any specific examples?

>>87396333
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. They also put her hair up into a ponytail to complete the transformation.

>>87390775
But steel's heavier 'an feathers.

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>>87394515
>every antagonist is outwitted, and /then/ beaten to shit by brute force

>>87395317
The great gatsby does this too, and it's painful

>>87395857
Meanwhile if he HAD turned them into dogs again AND worn the plate he would have been fine

>>87390744
Chaotic did that one perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LeclwMrhU
>Whole episode has the main characters arguing about whether guys or girls are better
>It swings into "Girls are soo much better!" midway through
>One of their friends is battling a bitch player during the whole thing.
>On the screen it's a guy monster fighting a girl monster.
>The girl monster wins and the only female main character looks smug about it.
>Turns out their male friend was using a female monster and the bitch player was using a male monster.
>Episode ends with nobody sure what the lesson was, because the guy friend won with a girl monster while the bitch player lost with the male one.

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>>87390555
>don't do the specific action
>cuts to side character doing the specific action
>uh-oh

>>87392741
>has to abbandon her nerdy interests for some reason?

The reason was she realized it was much easier for her to get a job as a sexy weather girl than to try to be taken seriously as an actual meteorologist, but the weather girl gig called for a ditzy personality to fit the role and nobody wanted to hear the sexy weather girl talk about actual meteorology, because it confused them to see a pretty girl talk about sciencey smart things and no one believed her. But once she dressed like a nerd everyone knew she was legit. Basically, it's a cartoon and everyone is an idiot that needs stereotyping just to understand what's going on.

>>87396587
Yeah, that's what makes it so hot.

>>87395476
Worse is when the female helper is more competent than the man. I mean geez, women already have the right to vote, what else do they want?

>>87395817
>the episode where Batman gains super powers on another planet in Brave and the Bold
>"yeah I just eliminated all crime :^) What did you do?"
>"wrote about what you did"

>>87396961
>Villain is defeated due to sheer bluffing and mind games

>>87390555
>The future is always a dystopian nightmare or full on shit.

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>characters go to japan
>godzilla attacks

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>>87390794
I was agreeing with the validity of that page until it jerked into feminist symbolic bullshit out of no where.

>>87397057
I usually don't mind this, since the situations vary, whereas the other tropes usually play out the same way.

>>87390585
>>87390630
>>87390639
How is this a trope? Did I miss something?

>>87397294
When did it talk about feminism? It means symbol in the literary sense, and I think it's true. Being a "smart nerd" is seen as a negative, and by removing the glasses and "letting loose" it shows that nerds need to get genocided and education is bad.

>>87397294
I was waiting for this post to happen
there's no feminist crap here, it could be applied to males too

>>87396770
>magic does everything science does if not more and without consequence

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>girl is a martial art, boxing kick-ass and is still a literal walking stick with n o muscles
((pic unrelated))

>weakest member of the group beats the big bad
I want this to stop.

>>87398828
>most medium member of the group beats the big bad

"NOBODY CARES ABOUT NUMBER 62 IN THE RANKINGS!!!"

This needs to happen.

>>87398877
I'd watch that.

>>87396857
That was one of my favorite jokes in one of my favorite films.

>>87397492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypaXNVPkSg

>>87397286
>Characters go to France
>Eiffel Tower in the background
>Characters go to England
>Big Ben in the background
>Characters go to Italy
>Leaning Tower of Pisa in the background

>>87399192
>Characters go to Egypt
>Sphinxes are everywhere or there's a local tour guide with a British accent wearing a Fez.

>Character switches genders
>Inexplicably becomes way better looking as the other gender

Dexter would look like Nora Wakeman and you know it, artists.

I get it, though, you're such pigs that something like people normally being heteros of the other gender wouldn't phase you.

>>87396770
>Science/logic vs feelings episodes
Anyone who has a brain is suddenly an asshole who fucks up constantly because you only need your heart to win and you can't be smart AND have feelings.

>>87396675

Well, considering Timmy's dad was already a complete fucking asshole, not much really changed there

>The female characters are allowed to abuse male characters without any lamp-shading or repercussions on their part.
>If a male character retaliates he is literally the worst person for that episode if not an entire arc.

>>87392762
Ah, ok. I still don't mind that they do this, though having the VAs impersonating one another would be hilariously entertaining. It would definitely add another layer of humor and awkwardness.

>>87399514
DINKLEBERG!

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>character is useless but is supposed to be a genius (or has "leadership ability")
>party is eating shit
>the "genius" concocts a plan that a 5 year old could easily come up or points out something blatantly obvious, saving everyone
>"wow character you're so smart! your incredible smartness is just like a superpower! you're a credit to team!"

>>87396872

true, but wouldn't you be a little more open to the idea that werewolves are real if you know vampires are?

>>87399685
This is due to the writer being dumb though. A character can't come up with a strategy that's more intelligent than something the writer could come up with, even if he should based on character traits.

This is why I'm of the opinion that people should ask for help when writing. If they want a clever plan, ask the smartest, most creative guy they know to make up a plan that the character would. If you need help with a science character, ask someone who knows about science, etc. I guess that's why friends are important. Oh well.

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>It's an Evil vs Evil episode

>>87390666
KILL JESTER

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>>87399897
>evil fights and stomps party
>evil 2.0 intervenes and says "fuck off they're mine"
>it becomes an evil vs. evil episode

>>87399740
no because vampires would be the norm and werewolves a cryptid. Like how there's giant squids but no mermaids

>Huge, muscular, ugly tough guy who no one fucks with
>Secretly loves flower arrangement and poetry

>>87400461
>Huge, muscular, dumb-looking brute character
>He's a highly intelligent manipulator, who's been playing the rest of the cast like a fiddle

>>87396675
>He didn't even try to upgrade his house or anything

haven't seen FOP in like 15 years but wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity to one-up Dinkleburg?

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>>87396961

>hero wins the philosophical argument at the same time that he gains the upperhand in the physical brawl

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>>87400461
>>87400537

>Huge, muscular, dumb-looking brute guy
>Has no feminine interests
>Isn't a lying manipulator
>Is still highly intelligent and emotionally sensitive
>My face

>>87399740

no

>>87399354
>there's a local tour guide with a British accent wearing a Fez

This is something I would actually expect to find in Egypt, or at least in the more touristy parts. Am I wrong?

>>87396899
aye but look, they'r both a kilagremme

>>87396688
>I'd do anything I could to make sure I was stillborn

whatever you say anon

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>Time travel episode
>They travel through time to fix a problem
>Turns out that they caused the problem because they time-traveled by trying to fix the problem by time-traveling

>>87396263

what show for research

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>>87397057
>This happens
>It actually works
>Everyone is dead silent and shocked

>>87396770
Can your science explain why it rains?

>>87396181

Close friends are basically homos but without the sexual part.

>>87396770
I like how that one adventure time episode handled it, where magic literally was science but everyone put PB was just too stupid to realize it.

>>87399562
Example?

>>87400753
>Character creates a script from a video made by a second character
>Second character uses the script to make the video the first character saw and wrote down in the first place

>>87400895
He doesn't have any, it's just typical 4chan "women, am I right?" whining.

>>87396181
>close friends
You mean Best Friends

>>87400922
I know.

>>87390555
>t-word
fuck off.

>>87392676
>Timid character with low self esteem get's a confidence boost
>Turns into a huge asshole
>Protagonists one ups them and they return to normal
>They're back to being timid and put upon.
>This is supposed to be a positive thing.

>>87400962
>>t-word
>fuck off.
what did he mean by this?

>>87399771
>This is why I'm of the opinion that people should ask for help when writing.
Or rip off smarter writers.

>>87400615
Dinkleburg's dead anon.

>>87397071
>But once she dressed like a nerd everyone knew she was legit.
Huh, I'd never really thought about it that way before.

>>87395264
Fucking So the Drama.

>>87400997

hi Amy Schumer

>>87400753
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>>87400916
Name at least ten cartoons and two Bendis comicbooks where this happens.

>>87397071
Really?
Can you actually show me some real world examples of this?
Because so far I've really only seen this happen in movies and the like.
I mean, if you're a "chad" and you say something that reveals that you have an iq higher then room temperature people will look at you like you've sprouted two heads.
But I've never once seen that happen with a good looking intelligent woman.

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>>87400753
This is actually the trope I hate the most in cartoons. It's always the same story every time, they may as well be doing re-tellings of Aesop fables if the writers are going to be that lazy.

>>87400983
To be fair, it's not that unrealistic. Pushovers with low self-esteem usually have a lot of repressed anger in them, as well as a very exaggerated idea of what being confident and assertive really means, since they've never really experienced it themselves.

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>>87395857
God I love classic PPG so much.

>>87400996
I'd guess he's sick of threads complaining about tropes

>>87401062
It doesn't need a real world example. The entire point of the bit in Cloudy was that they were caricatures looking for other familiar stereotypes from movies and stuff. That's why they did the joke where she puts her hair up and Flint suddenly finds her more attractive: it was a reverse of a popular movie trope. Nobody in real life does that. I don't think it really mattered what her gender was. People just didn't accept she was a nerd until she put on glasses and started looking dorky enough, because in cartoons smart people look like dorks. Or, at least, in the cartoons that the creators grew up with that they were riffing on. I think the hyper intelligent, super competent and also very attractive female character type is a newer thing. Attractive women weren't often also the geniuses in older fiction.

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Russian character appears.
>Never shuts the fuck up about Russia/Home land/Mother Land
>Constantly advertises that they are Russian
>Refers to main character as "American" or "Comrade"
>Bonus point if a bear is involved for any reason

Seriously what the fuck? Why is this a thing?


I've been seeing this growing in video games too.

>>87401309
>Russian character
>Is named "Vladimir" or "Petrov", has blue eyes and is /fit/ as fuck.

>>87401309
Russia's zenith was during the Soviet Era. Modern Russia is actually pretty boring and antagonizes itself and its own citizenry more than it does America anymore.

>>87396165
What is Season 1 of Young Justice?

>>87390706
I fucking despised those Zoey 101 episodes.

>>87397046
Holy shit, this show.
They tried to be a kind of Yu-Gi-Oh!, right? Was there even an actual Chaotic game?

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Twin characters appear.

They either constantly talk in sync or finish each others sentences.

Is this because of the shining?

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>>87401309
This made me think of one:
>family is from a certain country
>some of the family have an accent from their homecountry, but some family members have a completely different accent for no reason

Fieval and Tania arrive in the new world right off the boat without any accent while their parents have very heavy accents.

But that doesn't bother me as much as Dexter in Dexter's Lab, who's from an American family yet he inexplicably has a swedish accent for no reason.

>>87400895
I apologize I was eating dinner. It started in old fashion comics where it was still uncool for the protag to beat women even villains and now evolved into a common form of comedy. Im sure you can see it is so saturated its not even funny, remember the threads about lame and overdone tropes. For examples there is the above mentioned old comics of the villainess/heroine being unharmed or wailing on the often male opponent and in cartoons fairly commonplace in more adult media like The Simpsons and Family Guy. I admit its a lot more common in Eastern media but I find this trope much more interesting when deconstructed to some extent

>>87392489
You think anyone is on /co/ because they like reading?

Do you think any of us reads? Do you think we know HOW to read?

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>>87401452
The reminds me as well:
>All the adults have accents
>None of the children do

>>87401552
Additional note I have no problem with women or women characters but unironic double standards are just bad writing.

>>87396983
The thing you have to realize about The Great Gatsby is that, other than Gatsby, every single character is a complete asshole.

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>>87400461
Nah, I love this one.
Especially when it's shown consistently throughout the series.

>The Popular Rich Blonde is always a bitch.

>>87390794
In the Replacements, the nerdy guy's glasses weighed like 50 pounds, so whenever they were removed he'd suddenly get a tall posture and 1930s radio voice, then every girl in the area would suddenly start lusting after his dick.

>>87401102
Isn't that more of an inferiority complex? A projected assertiveness but without any actual self-esteem.

That in itself would be a more interesting look on confidence?
If they realised that said character's self-esteem was just as bad as before, and the protagonist convinced them to give up the obnoxious behaviour and got them to start on path to actual self-acceptance instead of switching to the doormat they where before.

>>87401298
Yeah, beautiful good and evil genius women is an old as fuck thing.

The newer thing is current utterly devoid of any reason stereotype that's being forced in modern media that no one can ever live up too.

>>87401452
Normalization of cultural appropriation and destruction.
Duh.
ONLY THE OLD PEOPLE HAVE THOSE OLD ACCENTS THE NEW HIP YOUNG PEOPLE TALK LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THE NEW COUNTRY!!

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>>87401309
>>87401336
>Russian character appears
>Doesn't wear track suit
>Does not cheeky breeky
>Doesn't squat
>Doesn't dance to hardbass

>>87398704
Man, screw the patron deity, my daughter becoming queen of hell was an awesome ending.

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>Protagonist of the film goes through some life-changing event where they build an unlikely but strong relationship with one or more characters.
>The film takes place over one to three days at most.
It's so prevalent I've learned to live with it but why do films do this?

I only know the plot's happened in such a short time span because the movie's told me. Even then I add a couple of days or weeks in my head, otherwise it kills my suspension of disbelief.

>>87401102
not usually though

>Kingdoms are good
>Empires are evil
>Republics are satan incarnate

>>87390706

name -1 cartoons

>>87401636
I'm from south Louisiana and this describes how my life as a child.

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>Princes and Princess are the good guys
>Kings and Queens are evil
For fucks sake learn basic medieval hierarchy

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>Someone fires a gun
>The entire fucking cartridge comes out of the barrel

>>87392762
That's why the bodyswap episode of Stargate was so cool.

>>87403695
well that's just a disdain for the authority. but conniving power hungry princes/princesses/majordomos are always fun

>>87403695
To add to that

>King/Queen/Prince/Princesses are the only ranks of nobility mentioned, no Barons,Counts,Viceroys, etc.

>>87400657
>hero wins the philosophical argument as he's about to LOSE the battle
>opponent kills himself
Take that, Equinox!

>>87390666
When has this ever happened? Jester/clowns are always reduced to comic relief.

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>>87401793
>not gaining literal superpowers when you remove your glasses

I feel sorry for you, son.

>>87401309
Fucking Chekov.

>>87403796
>someone fires a six-shooter
>shell casings pop out

>>87400879
That's stupid as fuck though, because by definition they cannot be the same thing.

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>>87396819
>hates creators addressing plot holes
>but also hates them not trying to fix them

>>87407768
Go read "The Wizard of Oz", that might help you figure it out.

>>87407795
Easy: just don't make plot holes in the first place.

>>87407795
>"this thing sure is shit, except in our case because we're playing it annoying straight and claim to make fun of it"
More vidya than anything, but still annoying

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>>87402269
You ever hear of the Aristotelian unities? Greeks thought drama had to take place over no more than 24 hours. Could be more exaggerated.

Really, though, I guess extreme survival situations, where everyone is under extreme duress, would cause people to bond much faster than ordinary day-to-day living. If two people are fighting for their lives and saving each other, that's going to matter.

Plus, since the audience is watching, since it feels like a long time has passed, the movie acts like it did, whether or not that's true in-universe. Otherwise it'd be pretty monotonous to watch relationships develop in most movies/shows.

>>87407375
>Some racks a shotgun to be intimidating
>It's a fucking double barrel

>>87408775
>Someone racks a shotgun to be intimidating

You could have just stopped right there.

>>87400922
>>87401552
Lol. BTFO. Dumb reactionary tumblrtard

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>>87403171
where at anon? im in the Dhan/Kenner/Metairie area

>>87409575
some military shotguns like the ithaca 37 and the super benelli can be pretty threatening looking

>>87410292
The only time you should rack a shotgun is if you just fired it and are chambering the next shell.

>>87410311
on a related note
>pointed bullets inside a tube magazine

>>87400879
but it isn't though
in adventure time it's fucking obvious that both magic qand science are diffrent
what bothered me is how PB acts like magic isn't real when she LITERALLY KNOWS A NIGGA THAT SHOOTS ICE OUT OF HIS HANDS, LIKE COME THE FUCK ON

>>87397146
My penis.

>>87410311
perhaps you have a shotgun and you wish to emphasize that fact

>>87390672
That's done to help the audience remember who they "really" are.

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>>87401714

>>87395906
Sailor Moon poison. It has much to answer for.

>>87390555
>hating on unintentional rule 63

>>87401309
>Russian character
>their name is wrong or is just made up
Dear foreign devils. It's not that hard to get Russian names right, we even have the Internet for that nowadays. Something-ich is not a first name, it's either a Russian middle name or an Ukrainian surname.

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>>87411847
>Russian (or any slavic for that matter) characters name almost guaranteed to be Ivan or Sergei

>>87407768
Try telling marvel that.

>>87411968
try telling arthur c clarke that
>sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic

>>87409754
>reactionary
Stop using words you don't understand.

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>>87390555
>Episode where one character suddenly becomes a fedora tipping atheist asshole for no reason
>In a setting where magic is an everyday occurrence
I get that the magic in most these settings usually follows pretty strict guidelines and everything so... Wait a minute, no it fucking doesn't, it's always all over the place and only follows the barest fucking guideline the writers could come up with like "y-you need a wand otherwise no magic, that makes sense, right?"

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>>87410487

>>87402942
Well that is a remnant of the fact that most of Western culture's literary tropes come from the medieval era, where most of the countries that the authors were writing in were kingdoms, the big scary exotic nations looking to take them over were empires, and the few republics that existed were all corrupt, chaotic messes.

>>87411947
Sergei isn't that common. Vladimir became incredibly popular thanks to Putin. Since Ivan was a meme since day 1. Less often but also on the rise you see Dimitri, probably thanks to Medvedev.

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>character's parents are very controlling and overall shitty
>suddenly something happens that forces the parents to trust their own child and they suddenly become good people

I fucking wish that's how it worked

>>87411947
Is Boris a super stereotypical name?

>>87412034
If a certain form of magic exists, it doesn't necessarily follow that god/gods or other supernatural occurences exist. Or that the comic relief character can break reality and predict the future, that's what you are referencing right? Like said earlier in the thread, if vampires exist, it doesn't mean that werewolves exist, and it's fine to be skeptical about their existence. It's not stupid, you just want to complain about fedoras.

>friend characters are yelling at the main to "look out" or saying something like "uh.... yes?" and they say it at the same time

>>87414141
those digits hurt my fucking eyes

but also danny phantom

>show has episode titles
>they don't show up in credits or anything, it's just for guides
pisses me off way more then it should, must be autism

>>87401309
>Why is this a thing?
Have you ever meet a russian?
They're like that

They refer to you as american even if you're not american and just speak english better than them.
You can even have a fairly obvious ESL accent and russians will get angry at you for being american.

>>87403695
Principality.

>>87402269
Imagine three days of very intense dating.

>>87390630
>>87390639
>>87390649
>>87390775
>>87396899
>>87400731
A kilogram of feather weights more

Because your soul weighs more from what you did to all those birds to get those feathers

>>87390555
subverted tropes

any. worse than than the tropes writer is subverting. anyone who does this needs to die painfully.

>>87396165
So, most KND arcs.

>>87414315
but they're both just one kilogram

>>87392489
are you implying literature is devoid of tropes?
I hope not.

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>A thing from one form of popular fiction
>Happens in another form of popular fiction

Thank goodness Dudes and Ladies from the Internet are here to point out and deconstruct things for us!

>>87395544
>teamwork and community
There's a difference between " teamwork and community" and the heroes defeating the bad guy with a literal explosion of love and sunshine

>>87414575
>some shitty thing from one form of popular fiction
>Happens in another form of popular fiction

ftfy

>>87401043
adventure call
adventure call 2: the callening
adventure call 3: jesters quest
adventure call (2016)
adventure call reboot
adventure calls
adventure call: quest for winged sandles
adevnture call return of the jester
advenure calling
adventure call feathery delight

then

Adventure Call (by bendis)
The dark jester returns (by bendis)

>>87414730
Well worth it mate, well worth it

>>87403796
This one always bothers me.

Don't write or draw guns if you A: know nothing about them, and B: don't want to bother doing some research. The whole case coming out of the barrel is like cars moving around by spinning like tops, upside down.

>>87414730
>Feathery Delight

>>87390706
This is why cartoons will never be taken seriously as an artform, because adults complain when children's cartoons are made for children.

>>87415060
real men know that cowboy guns fired round balls instead of "bullet-shaped" bullets

unless you had a peacemaker

>>87415265
>cowboy guns
Don't take this post seriously.

>>87415282
do you want me to say colt navy?

>>87392836
Fresh out of the doag thread I see.

>>87414730
throw in the game for good measure
Call of Adventure: Infinite Quests
aka skyrim

>>87415314
Cowboys have existed for hundreds of years, if you meant to say old west guns (which is still far too broad a term) you might have had a point.

>>87401432
Yep. I played it. The gimmick was that even if you have two cards of X monster, they wouldn't have the same stats, and they all had a unique code on the bottom so you could add them to your online collection.

>>87411989
You are what you hate.

>>87412124
I thought Vlad was popular because of vampires.