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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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idiot balling. If your plot hinges on everyone suddenly being incompetent af, having the emotional maturity of a hamster or leaving out key details without reason, you fucking suck at writing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honestly this is far more believable ever since Donald Trump became a viable politician. It sure does seem like there is no bottom to the well of human stupidity these days

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

I'm a lot more understanding of the dumb characters in zombie movies since covid

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Having idiotic characters is one thing. Having otherwise-competent characters suddenly become idiotic because the plot doesn't work otherwise is what's bad.