Tropes You Hate

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>Female protagonist and male protagonist are hinted to have romantic feelings for each other, or at least one of them for another
To be fair, this is also fucking boring.

>>94719903
"Will they or won't they" trope.

>>94720072
Agreed

but I really fucking hate the "le every guy except the main guy (btw xd) who the girl likes is fucking retarded"

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>character A saves character B's life
>B devotes life to serving A
>A gets annoyed by it and sets up a fake danger for B to save him from
>the danger becomes real

I swear every fucking cartoon has done this episode at least once, and it's always the same exact shit every time

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>cookie cutter romantic interests that only exist so the writers can get away without writing females and it also doesn't seem gay
>romantic interest that actually seems like a good fit and isn't a shit character but it turns out they're evil or just exist to make another character jealous
>romance drama that overtakes actual plotlines
>authors self inserting or creating perfect waifus
>that one (ususally sidekick) character who selfishly fucks up everything all the time but never gets any comeuppance

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>character that is usually smart and competent is suddenly a dumbfuck for no visible reason other than to force the story to work

idiot ball / idiot plot episodes in general

>>94720327
I can think of this from the Donkey Kong show and Spongebob

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>>94720072
i dont think thats inherently bad
and its much better than "random person with no screen time"

>>94720600
Hey Arnold! also did this plot

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>>94720327
Oh yeah, that trope. Made for one of the worst episodes of My Little Pony.

>Character pretty unambiguously dies
>Is later revealed to be perfectly fine with little to no explanation.

>>94720327
Fucking hey arnold.

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>>94719903
I guess they only hire you to write for a cartoon if you're one of those "nice guys" who hated seeing beautiful girls in the arms of the high school bully.

>>94719903
Gravity Falls?

>>94719903
>Female protagonist

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>Dumbass character always fucking main character's shit up and being a cunt to them
>Main character gets rightfully pissed off and yells at them but is treated like they're some kind of monster
>Main character has to apologize to dumbass character in the end

>>94721220
Examples?

>>94721241
Stuck in the Wringer

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>>94719903
Sounds like my best friend and I.

We fuck when single though. Ironically is being so close causes friction with our dates and is why we become single.

>>94720327
American Dad did it right. Roger had a life debt owed to him by Stan and Stan saves him from something at the beginning of the episode. Eventually Roger throws Stan into a bear pit in the hopes of saving him so Stan can owe him a life debt again.

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>character does a minor incident
>everyone starts to hates him for the entire episode

>>94721283
Why not just become a couple? Completely unchanged in the dynamic between yourselves, just a couple of a couple of best friends.

Hell, you can both still fuck other people as well, open relationships are becoming popular.

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>Female character and male friend of main character argue a lot
>everybody else wants to see them together

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>>94721261
That fucking episode pissed me off.

>>94719903
>character that is a leader of a (usually evil) organization and specializes in manipulating never gets to have their own Let's Get Dangerous moment

Wasted potential, every time

>Main character has indirect status or non-lethal technique that could solve a whole tonne of problems
>Fuck it, let's just use the electric laser again

I mean, Gash Bell is still great, but come on. Just use the magnet ball spell again

>Villain is literally about to suffer a fate worse than death, and the hero offers to save them with no strings attached
>'Fuck you hero, I do what I want'

>Hero has to make some tough, but fair decisions
>This leads to complete catastrophe because the supporting cast lose their fucking heads, and someone keeps having to change the measures to stop idiots killing themselves
>Hero then proceeds to save everyone and... promptly gets betrayed in a situation that could've so very easily gone south in an instant for the betrayers

>Boys vs girls episodes in general

>'YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME HERO, BY SAVING ALL THOSE CIVILIANS'
>'DON'T YOU REALISE BY FAILING TO SAVE THAT ONE HOSTAGE, YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS MASS MURDERING ME?'

>Town's rich douchebag immediately tries to make a deal with the fucking devil, even after he straight up threatens to rape them sideways with the worst parallel parking they've ever seen in their life.

>'Oh yeah, you know that guy who's an expert at that thing? Turns out he isn't an expert, and neither his former master or anyone else warned us about this'

>MC beats down on the villain in an extremely one sided manner
>Big bad gets one shot in
>MC is out for the count

>Character is hyped up to be a great fighter
>Is one of the good guys as well!
>Jobs to a street level thug of no future importance

>'So you see hero, we must proceed with these sacrifices for the greater good in order to complete our plan'
>'What's that, the plan is fucked , and we should retreat and regroup?'
>'Fuck that, let's do it anyway'

>MC is losing a fight
>SUDDENLY THEY HAVE A MOMENT OF TRUTH
>They begin to get the upper hand, they might win-
>Wait no, nevermind, they let the enemy charge an attack, and got BTFO'd.

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>villain kills his own henchmen
>kills people for even looking at him funny
Nobody'd ever work with the guy.

>>94721241
Boon from Penn Zero. Loved the show but sometimes I just wanna slap some sense into him.

>>94721409
>MC beats down on the villain in an extremely one sided manner
>Big bad gets one shot in
>MC is out for the count

I've seen this happen in reverse more often

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>>94721453
>Gonna share the opposite, if ya don't mind.

>Female character's hair is shortened for any reason

>female characters are almost, if not entirely immune to slapstick

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>Something that happens in one form of popular media.
>Happens in another form of popular media.

>Play up how important a character is to saving the day and how critical it is we go get them
>They end up doing basically nothing while another character singlehandedly saves the day

>Two characters are fighting, fairly evenly with maybe one having the upper hand
>At one point, Character A says or does something to piss off Character B
>Character B proceeds to instantly win the fight without any difficulty.

>>94721732
Where is this from? I've seen it everywhere, but never got a source.

>Character was transformed before the start of the story
>Gets turned back to normal
>Their transformed state has a more appealing design than their normal form

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>Fight scene between two people involving ranged weapons (guns, bows and arrows, magic, etc.)
>Both characters are merely a couple of feet away from each other
>Both are shooting insane amounts of bullets/magic/etc. at each other; shot empathizes this with a close up of one then the other
>Not a single one so much as touch the other

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>>94719903
>Show does relatively fine and there's little to no romance
>Suddenly a new female character shows up and has no personality, development, and is only there to be the main characters love interest.
>said female character is a person with uncontrollable powers and also is a tsudere
>Suddenly main character becomes distracted by her and is socially awkward near her
>Both main character and female character later break up through the series due to a incident
What was her name again?

>>94719903
The only show that did this right was futurama.

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>>94721805

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>>94722061
This is more /tv/ than /co/, but that reminds me of a movie called "The Eliminators", with Scott Adkins and Wade Barrett. Adkins plays a former hitman who is being hunted by Barrett (a former MI6 agent turned hitman), and the two of them wind up in a small kitchen, shooting at each other from six feet away and missing every time. Adkins has a shotgun and Barrett has an assault rifle, and the two still cannot hit each other, even though they're supposed to be professional assassins. Drove me nuts.

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>>94721453
>Nobody'd ever work with the guy

>>94721927
Super Bestial Machine God Dancougar

>>94722291
Commies aren't people; they don't count.

Aside from "Liar Revealed: and "Third Act Misunderstanding" One I dislike is "Character sees/experiences something fantastic and immediately tries to explain it to people who have no reason to believe him" (Example: In the Terminator, Kyle is attempting to explain the Terminator to the police. Why would he think the police of 1984 would have any reason to believe a story about a killer cyborg?

>>94721361
I mean, we kinda default to it. It goes without saying between us.

We're thinking about getting a place together, so this might finally be the glue.

>>94722222

>>94721732

Hello Muge Zarbados of Dancouga.

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>Main villain is really fucking evil
>Suddenly, has a slightly sad backstory
>Fangirls flock to him instantly and write fanfics about him being redeemed

>>94722061
It was cool in rebellion.

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>>94720072
Yeah, it's much better when both of them know that they're in love with each-other to the point where they don't even have to say it and never really get jealous when a third party starts flirting with one or the other because they know they belong together.

>>94720600
The shitty Disney Marsupilami show also did it.

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>>94721369
>If they hate eachother it must mean they secretly love eachother!

>>94721220
>Arthur to D.W.
>Anybody to Sarah in EEnE
The baby sister fucking lives off this trope

>show references recent events
>because an episode takes months to produce it seems painfully dated by the time it airs

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>>94721409
This was almost a good thread, but no, no tropes thread is complete without muh boys vs girls episode

>>94720072
>boring
Such nuanced critique. Only from /co/

>>94722942
/co/ is full of idiots. What else is new?

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>>94719903
I hate it when a business is taken over and they change the name to sanitize it.

>>94722187
C.J.? Margaret?

>>94722396
That scene is one of many designed to show the audience that Kyle Reese's character is a PTSD-riddled neurotic mess as a result of being raised in a god damned nightmare world.

He has no idea what the people of 1984 would be like or what story they'd believe, and he's desperate.

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>>94719903
>Cute female character has crush on MC
>Generally a really likable girl
>Always hints her feelings to MC
>MC is into other chicks or too thickheaded/oblivious to notice
>Every time he interacts with her, he ruins her day/embarasses her
I get so fucking assblasted. And a bonus:

>Show ends before they can actually finally hook up
Fucking end me.

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>>94719903
>friends go in together for something
>a.one or both friends get greedy and betrays other friend for monetary means and/or fame
>b.friends win or earn something they have to share and fail at it due to greed

I take issue with (a.) because it's so boring you can see it coming at the start and my beef with (b.) is the absolute lack of foresight anyone has to earning/winning a single item when 2+ people are involved in it.

>>94721766
>long to shoulder or bob
fuck off
>long to pixie or something short and spiky
we're getting somewhere
>long to full buzzcut, then seen slowly growing back over the course of the conflict until it's a more normal length months after the resolution
pretty good

>the good guys disguise themselves as the chefs although employees should be well recognizable
>they literally look like themselves with moustaches

>>94721929
*cough*Beast*cough*Midna*.

>>94722291
Nobody liked him, many were glad he passed. The only problem they now had was what to do next.

>>94719903
Love triangles in general. Also
>Dystopian future where an evil corporation/government rules, and the villain is an evil businessman/politician
The only times it didn't suck were Batman Beyond, Spider-Man 2099, and Motorcity.

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>>94722587
Or better yet
>Villain is a rude mother fucker that has no problem with killing others
>Fangirls choose to ignore these actions in their stuff
I swear this is what tumblr is gonna do with Glomgold, they've already given the nephews specific sexualities.

>Boys versus girls episode
>The boys turn into sexist retards and reality bends to fuck them over so the show can have a big thing about girl power.

Anyone know a shore that made the girls the baddies in this scenerio.

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>Character is completely encased in an air bubble
>Can swim with the air bubble orbiting them
>Can float inside the air bubble instead of falling

>>94720072

It depends on the relationship dynamic.
It's boring if they're a carbon copy of eachother. But if they're conflicting personality types it can open up some interesting and even heartwarming stories.

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>Character is caught doing something
>"Let me explain!"
>The other character doesn't let them explain


>A character possesses another character's body
>Proceeds to fuck up the life of the character they possessed

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>>94725481
Reminder that JL's bodyswap episode was by far the best ever made.

>>94725516

I don't know what part of it I like more. The scene in your pic or Lex-Flash kicking the shit out of the entire Justice League because he has no reason to hold back like actual Flash.

>>94725481
>A character possesses another character's body
>Proceeds to fuck up the life of the character they possessed

What's wrong with that?

>>94725882
In situations like in comedy/slice of life cartoons like Fairly Odd Parents
I'm fine with it if it's done correctly like in Gumball

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>>94724818
>>94722587
>main character is 1 or 2 /cm/
>has significantly less r34 than even the one off female.

>>94725882
Because it's always annoying when side characters don't realise the hero is acting different. Anytime a red Kyrptonite episode came on I was always sacastically thinking "oho. How's he gonna get outta this one?"
It's especially annoying when you know that everything will be back to status qou by the next episode.

>>94725937

>>94725937
I believe I missed that episode. Please, elaborate.

>The bad team and the good team fight each other
>They segregate into the female heroes fighting the female villains and the male heroes fighting the male villains for no good tactical reason.

>>94726103
fag

>character is dying
>somehow....has....just.....enough.....time....to....give...a....vague....speech....to....person....holding....them.....but....not.....just....tell....them...what happ-UGH!

>>94726265
CHOSEN ONE!

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>>94724818
>>94722587
>Implying you wouldn't fap to a terrible female character if she's hot.
To be fair I get that the "excuse fic" or "fixfic" can be annoyed, but that's how they masturbate, just like some need cowtits versions, other need convoluted plots.

>>94726265
>I must warn you... about the..
>T-the what?
>the.. theee..
>their last words were useless ramblings before the vital information

>>94726265
Death has a time limit, it seems.

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>>94720813
I like this one when it's done well.

>>94720813
For some reason, people seem to like this when villains do it, but not when heroes do it

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>>94720813
>Character heroically sacrifices his life to save everyone
>Lol nope joke on you I was saved off-screen XD

>>Lethally Stupid hate group attacks superpowered entity despite the fact that the latter would turn them into a Greektown Skidmark.

>>94720813
>Pell in One Piece
Let's be perfectly clear, the series has plenty more than this but it just cheapens the dramatic effect in hindsight.

>>94726265
ZELDA'S MY WHAT

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>there's an annoying character that only one other person sees or knows of
>the annoying one causes chaos and trouble without being spotted
>leaving the other character to get all the blame

>>94719903
>large cast of diverse, interesting, unique characters that constantly subvert expectations and perfect archetypes
>big bad is generic as shit, complete with retarded meaningless Christian symbolism and "muh world domination" motives

>mysterious character hyped up for several episodes if not the entire series to be incredibly important to the plot at hand
>jobs hard in every fucking fight

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>main character(s) gets into a massive accident or gets an attack that should have 100% hit them and killed them
>commercial break
>Deux Ex Machina/characters get teleported around so the attack or danger was actually far away
This batshit old bait and switch really fucking disgusts me.
But the absolute WORST is

>character dies with a really sad undertone to the people around losing said character
>character proceeds to come back to life or be revived by the end of the episode/arc

>>94728129
>character dies with a really sad undertone to the people around losing said character
>character proceeds to come back to life or be revived by the end of the episode/arc

I find it even cheaper if it turns out they were never dead or even injured to begin with.

>>94728129
>>94728153
>character takes extreme step forward into darker morality, either killing someone or helping the villains, for valid reasons that add interesting flaws to the character and shades of grey to the setting as a whole
>LOL IT WAS ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN NOBODY'S HURT IT WAS A RUSE ALL ALONG

>>94728153
A lot of the time it requires the character in question to deliberately fake their own death for no apparent reason

>>94722220
Rember whan Fry cucked himself?

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>>94728216
>I WAS JUST PRETENDING TO BE EVIL IT WAS JUST A PRANK BRO

>>94721409
To be fair, Gash was usually in team fights and had no reason to waste heart power on a mediocre support spell while his team mates had much better support, but little overall power

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>>94727860
>big bad is generic as shit, complete with retarded meaningless Christian symbolism and "muh world domination" motives
This one pisses me off too. Generic moustache-twirling villains aren't particularly interesting characters. I know a lot of people on /co/ get angry about anti-villains, and I agree; it's poor writing to try to make a mass-murderer sympathetic with a generic sob story. But all the boring moustache-twirlers are the reason WHY people are so interested in anti-villains and sympathetic baddies and so forth. They bring some complexity to the story.

>>94725755
My favorite part was the voice actors staying the same, but using different tones and inflections

>>94725755
Neither. Flash-Lex in the bathroom is the best scene.

>>94728449
Generic edgelords and "muh abusive childhood" backstories are shitty as fuck, but they wouldn't have to exist if the big bads weren't generic as fuck. I'm coming off my Fullmetal Alchemist high so I'll use a lot of /a/ examples here.

I actually love mustache-twirling baddies in less serious works (Freiza comes to mind), but when the work is trying to be serious and your villain is so obnoxiously paper thin, especially in comparison to, say, their lackies, or other antiheroes, or literally everyone else in the show, it's just absolutely retarded.

And I don't hate Christian symbolism either, but there's this almost stubborn refusal in a lot of authors (/a/ authors especially, but Luke Cage also comes to mind here) to link any of the symbolism to anything meaningful or use it as anything more than background dressing because making Jesus edgy is what's in these days.

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>>94728216
Gotta love how much Worm never falls for that not even a single time. When characters do shit, they get shit for it, it solely depends on who did it to see if they'll fall back and get shit for it or double down and proceed to ignore their part in the consequences of their actions that are procedurally fucking their lives over and over again.

Also, thanks /co/, for making me get my ass into reading again, its been great. Got it recommended to me in a random thread

>>94720406
Stop watching Super.

>>94720406
>Character had never ever been shown to remotely ever have [flaw]
>Suddenly shown to have [flaw] because it's "Episode Addressing [flaw]"

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>>94728542
>I'm coming off my Fullmetal Alchemist high so I'll use a lot of /a/ examples here.
Sounds good. I tend to use a lot of /tv/ examples.

>Generic edgelords and "muh abusive childhood" backstories are shitty as fuck, but they wouldn't have to exist if the big bads weren't generic as fuck.
Exactly. I wish more writers knew that there's room in between "One-dimensional maniac" and "Poor, innocent sympathetic baddie who had a bad childhood and loves his momma". You can have a villain be somewhat sympathetic and complex without having him be redeemable.

Just look at Khan from Star Trek. He's lost his wife, been marooned in a shithole for 15 years, and has completely lost control of his anger. It's sad that he is that way, and that all those horrible things happened to him, but at the same time he's a mass-murdering warlord who gets himself and his entire crew killed on a crazed vendetta. Khan's not an poor innocent victim, but you can appreciate that he's a complex character who deserves a little pity.

Even if you want to have a villain who's completely evil and undeserving of pity, there are still ways of making that character complex. Look at Captain Vidal from "Pan's Labyrinth". You know he has father issues, and those lead to his inferiority complex, and those lead to his obsession with having a son to carry on his name and legacy. You know why he's the way he is, but he's still a brutal, murderous asshole who you're glad to see die.

>I actually love mustache-twirling baddies in less serious works (Freiza comes to mind),
Oh certainly, they can work well. The Joker (in his better appearances), Top Dollar from The Crow, Aku, etc. It's just that they're completely dependent on really good one-liners and charismatic performances. If the VAs/actors/animators can't make them menacing, funny, or magnetic; then they fall completely flat and become dull.

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>Villian could beat the protagonist at any given moment
>Waits until the Protagonist gets just as strong as the Villain before they decide to do anything themselves.

>>94725481
we have a winner for worst trope of all time

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>>94726103
Fuck

>>94728830
>villains discussing their evil plans
>playing the fucking pronoun game

Or worse
>heroes discussing future plans
>needlessly elaborate on every detail before, after, and during the execution of the plan

>Hero is clearly outmatched and can't beat villain
>He does a heroic speech and finds the strength to rival God himself while the villain just stands there and lets his ass get kicked.

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>>94722061

>character gets back in time
>accidentally rapes themselves as a child
>becomes traumatized for life

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>group's butt monkey makes a stand for themselves and stops taking shit
>goes a little too far
>"wow wtf stop being so mean or we'll never forgive you for that"
>goes back to being the group's bottom bitch

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>>94729166
when has this ever happened

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>>94719903
>main character's parents who are shown to be clueless retards are actually high ranking members of the organization the main character is part of and were just pretending to be retarded

>"the namek/boat/etc. arc" where the story's pacing slows itself to a crawl and takes forever to finish

>superhero deconstructions

>clip shows

>>94726103
what character you talking about?

>>94719903
Kim possible?

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>>94719903
>Villain does something especially violent or psychotic
>Immediately starts taking undefined pills right after

>"He's standing right behind me, isn't he?"

>"There's something different about you. Did you get a haircut?"

>"If you kill him, you're no better than he is!"

>>94729260
>>"There's something different about you. Did you get a haircut?"
That one is actually funny, though.

>>94729293
Thirty years ago, maybe.

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>Hero kills his way through countless mooks by gunning down their planes, throwing them off buildings, savagely breaking all their limbs and leaving them in a burning/exploding building, etc.
>Finally corners villain
>"I CAN'T KILL HIM BECAUSE I'D BE JUST LIKE HIM"

>>94729207
>group's butt monkey never gets revenge for all the shit he went through

>>94729219
>superhero deconstructions
what's wrong with them?

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>character helps some people out
>pretends to be someone he's not
>the problem is resolved
>character even warms up to them and looks past ulterior motives he might've initially had
>uh oh busted
>HOW COULD YOU LIE TO US WE TRUSTED YOU FORGET ALL THE GOOD THINGS YOU DID FOR US >>94725481

>>94729682
"Gee, this fantasy thing sure wouldn't work in real life!" is uncreative and generally uninteresting.

>>94729214
Not that Anon, but If I remember correctly:
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein on Adult Swim.

>>94729316
Not "I CAN'T KILL HIM BECAUSE I'D BE JUST LIKE HIM" but still just as stupid in my opinion.
@6:40
https://youtu.be/XuopDIyBvG8?t=401

>>94730031
I don't think you understand the point of deconstruction. It isn't so much taking apart the genre itself as it is using the genre to poke holes in society itself. Deconstruction doesn't say "this thing in fiction doesn't work in real life" so much as it asks "why is this thing that doesn't work in real life so common in fiction? why do we like it so much?".

>>94721291
now I gotta watch that episode again.

>>94719903
romance in cartoons usually always sucks. very rarely though there is a show with enjoyable romance. ATLA for instance had good romantic arcs.

>>94722942
boring is code for not progressive enough you know

>>94720327
Goof Troop's is pretty good.

>>94722187
Come on now, Ashi's not that bad

>>94724968
>Anyone know a show that made the girls the baddies in this scenario?

Kids Next Door did this twice.
First time portrayed Numbah 86/Fanny as showing Misandry

Second time with a crazy bitch who turned all the boys into girls

>>94719903
>>94720072
>>94720119
I have a fun subversion. Writing a story that does this, but it ends in their parents dating, and then causing them to become uncomfortable around one another.

>>94727645
noone dies in onepiece except in flashbacks and in marineford

>>94728313
I was going to bring Kiriya up as an example of >>94728153
Not /co/ related but damn it pissed me off. Especially because nothing of value is done with him afterwards besides this retarded pretending to be evil plot.

Though in this case he was supposed to stay dead but the execs decided he was too popular to leave the series, or at least that's what I heard.

>>94721241
Korra but it was more about korra screaming at everybody who dared to call of her shit.

> Main character instantly falls in love with a secondary character for no valid reason

>>94722587
>>94724818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8xp8BQxftE

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>>94726354
>wanting to redeem
>not embracing it
>not wanting to be corrupted by a monster

>>94719903
>Wedding
>Bride her wears her normal clothes
Muh dick is disappointed.

>>94722893
>it took the Simpsons a fucking YEAR to shit out a Pokémon Go parody, long after most people had stopped playing or caring about it

>>94720072
fpbp

>>94729682
because they're all the same and most of them feel like they're written by some philosophy major who's only exposure to superheroes was watchmen so they end being as edgy & cynical as possible

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>Male and female character hate each other
>Both are having a loud argument in public
>Some fucking rando walks up to them/has been watching the whole thing
>"You two seem pretty close, are you dating perhaps? :D"

Alternatively
>Girl talks some mad shit
>Guy retaliates with a very basic insult
>Girl cries and runs off
>Guy gets shit for it

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>>94731865
>>94731865
>playing steam´s version of Danganropa 1 and 2 nonstop for the last week
>stop to search for fap material in /h/
>opens /co/
>see Junko on the first page
Puhpuhpuhpuh.

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The It's A Wonderful Life trope.

>>94721732
>villain does this
>henchmen see him as weak and betray him
That's not how it would work, they'd be thankful and probably work harder!

>1st girl wins AGAIN
What's the point?

>villain takes over MC life
>starts fucking everything
I don't know why I fucking hate this one so much. It basically made me stop reading Ultimate Spiderman.

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>>94720072
Bad post, faggot.

>>94724723
>Nobody liked him
I'm Russian and to this day there are Stalin supporters around.

>>94732649
>reading comics instead of watching cartoons
Get off my /co/.

>>94732667
you get off my /co/

>>94732677
Who fucking reads comics anymore? Fatass neckbeard nerds like you.

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>>94732667
>>94732693

>>94730821
Who?

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>>94727645
One Piece is retarded.
>have so many arcs about "putting your life on the line" and "sacrificing yourself to save others"
>nobody really dies, not even side characters or villains

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>an ancient magical artifact made by a past civilization
>it's still intact and in the same place it was thousands of years ago
>only comes up in one episode/chapter

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>>94733768

>>94729243
Ben 10 2016, Steven Universe and Peedee Fryman, The Lost Boys of Neverland, Iron Giant, Kid vs Kat, Johnny Test, Aang (with hair), Spike Dragon, Button Mash, and Pip. Those are the ones I really want. But it happens all the time.

>>94733931
>>94729243
Kubo, Paranorman, Tim Tembleton, The Book of Life boys, and Box Trolls.

>>94729219
>clip shows
Seeing a show doing a clip show by making up scenes from episodes that don't exist is one of the best things ever.

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>>94730906
>Numbah 86 gets chewed out by her boss for screwing up the mission
>That crazy girl's fuck up of a future gets ruined, boys and girls are seen happily playing together years down the road.
Feels good man.

>>94733788
that was so satisfying to see, cathartic as hell. Neverminde Max going full autismo during the episode.

>>94732602
I'd rather have a villainous good boss that might yell at me for messing up than a villainous bad boss that would kill me for one fuck up.

>>94732578
Funny how the only one to pull this off right was the one that started it all.

>>94732663
Really? I've never been to Russia (heard the food was good) and most Russians I've spoken to didn't like him at all.

>>94726240
thats because they can't show men beating up women in a children's cartoon

>>94726265
https://youtu.be/-SnQ0nSpNac

>>94734997
I thought women wanted to be equal

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>>94733931
I know that feel.

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>>94719903
>"Pair the Spares"

Nothing wrong with wanting pairing up characters but I do find it to be kinda obnoxious when EVERY single character gets paired up with somebody

>It's a show with a Harem
>The absolute WORST of the Girl's Win

This one's pretty self explanatory

>It's an Anime Parody
>They reference Anime from over 100 years ago

Wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't do this so often

>Male and Female Argue a lot
>"Lol they must secretly like each other"

I just really fucking hate this Trope

>Male and Female Lead have been Just Friends for the most of the series with no signs of Attraction to each other
>Last Episode/Season Asspulls Romance between them

Can't we just have ONE show where the Main Male/Female Relationship stays strictly Platonic?

>>94719903
undisciplined but abundant talent character beats hardworking character.

or at least makes the hardworking character look like a fool by comparison.

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>>94732578
>he doesn't like Algae's Always Greener

>>94722246
>>94722061
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2GeWiDrdY

>>94736025
>Male and Female Lead have been Just Friends for the most of the series with no signs of Attraction to each other
>Last Episode/Season Asspulls Romance between them

Can't we just have ONE show where the Main Male/Female Relationship stays strictly Platonic?
pls go away tumblr

>>94720327
happened on gumball too

>>94736083
This. It reminds me of pro wrestling during the 2000's tough, lol. You'd have the big hulking beast of a guy who obviously put time and effort into his body being absolutely manhandled by some tiny, avarage looking fuck who looks like he's never been in the same state as a gym, and performs like he skips practice regularly. Because he's a heel and they want the andience to be pissed off endlessly for some reason...

Though in the context of cartoons and comics it's equally annoying. Having a character who's been trained to be a killer his entire life taken out by some "natural talent" schmuck is just retarded except when superman does it...

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>Russian Character appears
>His/Her Entire personality is centered around being Russian
>Refers to main character as "Comrade" Or American.
>Character is always going on about the mother land
Bonus points if a bear is involved for any reason.

Why the fuck is this always a thing? I've being seeing this for years.

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>>94721369
>>94722662
>>94736025
>>If they hate each other it must mean they secretly love each other!

I hate people who think this. There's a reason my parents fought all the time, it's because they fucking hated each other.

>>94736538
hold over from Cold War.

And I don't know if this is a trope in cartoons, but in real life I've noticed that Mexicans, Indians and middle-easterners always use "My friend"

>>94722587
>main villain is evil
>But has a sad backstory and a reasonable goal
>Gets reedemed
>IN COMES FANATIC RIGHT HAND MAN TO STAB HIM AND LEAD ON THE PLAN

Nothing makes me more angry then this

>>94723947
fuck you i love that one

>>94723947
>>94736813
wait never mind i thought you said BAD guys

>>94736239
Not that guy, but he's right.

That shit is fucking annoying and ruins otherwise good shows (see; Samurai Jack)

>boy has crush on grill
>becomes boy's motivation to do everything
>never gets resolved because he wouldn't have a reason to do anything anymore

>Character that usually is into wacky antics has something serious to tell everyone
>they keep telling that character to fuck off

I think Bojack might be the only show to sort of subvert this trope. and even then they really didn't.

>>94721766
Togame a cute

>>94737186
Just cook some fucking meat in it.

>>94722187
Jackie Lynn Thomas

>>94720072
>Female protagonist and male protagonist are hinted to have romantic feelings for each other, or at least one of them for another
>the network execs or the creator themselves make the love interests brother/sister or cousins without changing the romantic nuances
>Sailor Moon dub
>Ben 10
>Martin Mysteries

>>94722662
>If they hate eachother it must mean they secretly love eachother!
/pol/ confirmed for secretly loving every race stirred into the cultural kettle pot known as America.

>>94737514
>Tsundere /pol/
>It's not like I want to date you, n-nigger! <3
I'd watch that

>>94719903
>Female protagonist and male protagonist are hinted to have romantic feelings for each other, or at least one of them for another
>Only get together at the end
People have for ages hated and talked against the "and they lived happily ever after", Why doesn't anyone write about actual fucking relationships instead of some pointless unfunny pussyfooting around having crushes?

>It's a "Bad Guy joins the Good Guys" episode
>Character A doesn't trust the Bad Guy and acts like a total dick
>Character B becomes infuriatingly protective of Bad Guy and reveals all their secret plans immediately
>Bad Guy was still evil all along!
>"I'm sorry Character A, I shouldn't have trusted him!"

This mainly annoys me because both characters end up looking stupid or just annoying

>>94737720
Because inevitably a sizable fraction of the audience is invested in the will they won't they more than the obvious answer of yes they will.

>>94737720
Because it is very easy to tease romance, but it's hard for hacks to actually write healthy romantic relationships that are also actually interesting. You either wind up with abusive relationships that become romantic plot tumors because MUH DRAMA, or bland boring fucks who fade out into obscurity.

>>94737857
>bad guy is a better hero than the hero
>the hero pushes him back into being evil out of spite

>>94720406
>character is supposed to be a genius
>writers can't handle that so it's just something we're told

>>94737720
>Female protagonist and male protagonist are hinted to have romantic feelings for each other
>they never get together and the series doesn't give any of its main characters relationships

>>94738693
>male protagonist and female protagonist are never hinted to have romantic feelings for each other
>suddenly get together at the end of the last episode

>>94728481
>body swap
>voices swap with them

Is there anything more infuriatingly lazy and stupid than this inane bullshit?

>>94722061
Avatar: The Last Airbender

>>94721220
My life.

>>94737514
We love them we just wish they'd fuck off a little bit.

>MC has crush on girl
>gets her phone number by deus ex machina
>calls her and finds out she has feelings for him too
>turns out that he has been calling the girl from an alternate universe
>the two strike up a deal and tell each other their darkest secrets so they can win the heart of the other in their respective universe
>they begin to fall in love with each other, and question the very NATURE OF LOVE

This trope is just so overdone

>>94740780
>>turns out that he has been calling the girl from an alternate universe
i don't remember this happening

>>94740780
This is the worst short-hand pasta I've ever seen

>>94722906

I should clarify, I'm not against the concept, I just don't recall them being done particularly well, expecially with the amount of times they've been done.

Apart from Sonic Boom I guess

I mean, is it so hard for them to have a meta episode where some of the characters point out 'no, that's stupid, Dr McEvil could attack at any moment'?

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>plot driven show hosts a large array of different characters but refuses to devote time in developing their relationships through meaningful interactions

>>94739629
>bodies swap
>voices swap
>the voice change is treated as an in-universe effect and characters notice the voice change

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>>94724818
Gotta love Tumblr

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>>94726265
You WHAT

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>character catches a conversation about them out of context, thinks the characters talking about them hate them, and runs off
>all of it could've been resolved if they stayed a second longer

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>>94741396
Pls no

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>>94741396
This is bigger bait than those genderfluid character of the day blogs

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>>94737514
>implying

>>94725481
>Character is doing something bad
>" It's not what it looks like!"
>It's what it looks like

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>male protag and female protag hinted to have feelings for each other
>they finally get together
>relationship doesn't work because it's "complicated" or it causes too many problems
>they go back to being friends
>relationship keeps going on and off throughout series

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>character does/says something
>other characters look at him with a resting b*tch face
>"that.. was..."
>face lights up and gets happy
>"AWESOME"

>>94726709
Blame 80's slasher movies.

>>94742420
>"Do you like it?"
>"No, I don't like it..."
>"...I love it!"

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>it's a "two classmates have to take care of an egg" episode

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>characters hair is red
>fire powers

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>>94733606

>>nobody really dies, not even side characters or villains

don't know how to break this to you anon

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>>94742586
>character has fire powers
>angery

>>94741396
That's the post I was talking about, I hope it's just a bait post but since it came from tumblr, it's probably not..

>>94721220
>not /co
Home alone.
Kevin's family is a bunch of pricks.

>>94742197
Ulrich and Yumi from Code Lyoko.

>>94722291
The fucker made an art out of hiring the complete grey bureaucrat rats that owed him everything in their miserable life.

>>94733606
>have so many arcs about "putting your life on the line" and "sacrificing yourself to save others"

Seriously, that's what you get from one piece

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>>94732663
I wouldn't exactly call everybody with "Cтaлинa нa них, пидopoв, нeт!" mindset a Stalin supporter, anon.