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Crysuko wrote:all you have to do is pull the trigger. push the button. touch the 2 wires together, and the bad guy(s) are defeated and destroyed. but nooooo i'm the lawful good hero and I must now have a crisis of conciense and blue ball our entire audience of a satisfying victory. if you don't want to kill off your antagonist too early, fine but find a better way of doing it than this.

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:

Nantoraka wrote:Love triangles.
Swear on God, every poorly written work of fiction will have one love triangle involving the protagonist...usually with the flawless/attractive/superior mary sue protagonist easily winning out every single time.

I hate love triangles.


EDIT:
Revealing metal bikini armor for women. Seriously at least have some class when you're blatantly sexualizing your female characters.
Would it kill to add some pizazz

Ever watched YouTube videos from the channel Terrible Writing Advice? Because that channel makes fun of every single trope in writing, like, EVER--it's what not to do when writing. Haven't watched it in a couple months, but it's hilarious.

Diarcesia wrote:Like a hate on the concept itself? Or hate because it's everywhere?

For me, I hate it because it's everywhere.
I'm also annoyed that, like, every romantic relationship leads to intercourse. WHYYYY??

AOKI OS wrote:I'd say my biggest pet peeve with Cliches in Writing is the Kiss after it all. Bleh. An opposite example, which is my favorite part of the movie (Rogue One) is the Send off of Cassian and Jyn. No kissing, just a hug as they watch the planet is obliterates.

Spoilers?

New Swaraelia wrote:The tension was unbearable as [main character] and [villain] stood face to face. Neither wished to shoot. Suddenly, [main character] does a hyper super sonic backflip shananabanana trick, knocking [villain] out and saving [country name] forever.

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:

New Swaraelia wrote:The tension was unbearable as [main character] and [villain] stood face to face. Neither wished to shoot. Suddenly, [main character] does a hyper super sonic backflip shananabanana trick, knocking [villain] out and saving [country name] forever.

I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT, ALASTAIR!!!

Or when the scrawny, uncoordinated character saves the day and wins the game because everything had to hinge on them to prove they are not so awkward after all.

Atheris wrote:

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT, ALASTAIR!!!

Or when the scrawny, uncoordinated character saves the day and wins the game because everything had to hinge on them to prove they are not so awkward after all.

...Huh. I never realized I hated that cliché so much. Probably one of the reasons I like Eva so much, because it does the exact opposite of that by going the way of

the scrawny, uncoordinated character ruining the day and killing everyone because he's a genuinely evil human being.

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:

Atheris wrote:...Huh. I never realized I hated that cliché so much. Probably one of the reasons I like Eva so much, because it does the exact opposite of that by going the way of

the scrawny, uncoordinated character ruining the day and killing everyone because he's a genuinely evil human being.

N I C E .

Be Eva an Ace Attorney Character?

New yugoslavaia wrote:

Crysuko wrote:all you have to do is pull the trigger. push the button. touch the 2 wires together, and the bad guy(s) are defeated and destroyed. but nooooo i'm the lawful good hero and I must now have a crisis of conciense and blue ball our entire audience of a satisfying victory. if you don't want to kill off your antagonist too early, fine but find a better way of doing it than this.

On the subject, it annoys me when one of good guys takes down an enemy, but even when they’re close they don’t shoot them in head to make sure they’re dead. It almost always ends with said enemy coming back later to mess things up.

Crysuko wrote:

New yugoslavaia wrote:
On the subject, it annoys me when one of good guys takes down an enemy, but even when they’re close they don’t shoot them in head to make sure they’re dead. It almost always ends with said enemy coming back later to mess things up.

yeah i've seen that come back to bite more than a few times. also related is the convention of the hero generally having a schizophrenic interpretation of morality

Atheris wrote:Villain kills a character with a wound that wouldn't even be fatal in real life.

Looking at you, Sephiroth.

Atheris wrote:Villain kills a character with a wound that wouldn't even be fatal in real life.

Looking at you, Sephiroth.

Chan Island wrote:

Atheris wrote:Villain kills a character with a wound that wouldn't even be fatal in real life.

Looking at you, Sephiroth.

And then of course there's fictional characters surviving gunshot wounds to the shoulder with no problem.

Shoulders are fragile pieces of machinery, bullets mess up a lot of stuff there and those wounds often cause permanent injuries and regularly death.

New yugoslavaia wrote:

Chan Island wrote:
And then of course there's fictional characters surviving gunshot wounds to the shoulder with no problem.

Shoulders are fragile pieces of machinery, bullets mess up a lot of stuff there and those wounds often cause permanent injuries and regularly death.

I guess same applies to the legs too.

New yugoslavaia wrote:

Chan Island wrote:
And then of course there's fictional characters surviving gunshot wounds to the shoulder with no problem.

Shoulders are fragile pieces of machinery, bullets mess up a lot of stuff there and those wounds often cause permanent injuries and regularly death.

I guess same applies to the legs too.

Xmara wrote:

New yugoslavaia wrote:
I guess same applies to the legs too.

Depends on where and with what. Take, for instance that time that my dad accidentally shot himself in the calf with a .22 a few years ago. He narrowly missed hitting a major artery, but he still bled quite a bit. He has some mild nerve damage in that leg now, but it otherwise works the same as before. Also, there was no exit wound and the bullet is still in his leg. He told me that initially he didn't feel anything, but then within about a minute the pain kicked in. That's when he had to lie down on the floor while I called 911 and tended to his wound until the paramedics arrived.

So yeah. On rare occasions you can get shot and not end up with any major damage. But more often than not, you're gonna have permanent injuries (assuming you survive).

Miku the Based wrote:When words turn into paragraphs and paragraphs turn into chapters and at the end you realize there is no point to it.