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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] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I despise it when a character has had a long arch proving their worthy of what they do, and then it turns out late in the game they're a chosen one or some shit. If you've been successfully fighting monsters for 15 books, going from a moderate combatant to a super mega awesome fucking wizard who wipes out an entire fucking species to save someone then you have proved your badass monster fighting chops, and you don't need to be the chosen one. What made you awesome is that you were a (mostly) normal dude who became amazing through hard work and sacrifice. Now you're just someone the gods chose or whatever and it completely ruins the entire concept of what the character was.

Two of my absolute favorite series of all time just recently did this, and I am devastated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is one of those the Dresden files?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on if what I said would be a spoiler for you or not...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would not. I've read everything that's come one. Did you?

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I think one of us misunderstood. Iirc, the whole "one every 600 years" thing only explains why certain things happened to him and gives him a fighting chance against the outsiders, doesn't make him a chosen one. Especially since there's multiple ones alive at the same time and most are not even good guys.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, unless there's a new short story or something. Caught up on all the mainline stuff. Like I said, my least favorite trope. How did you feel about it? Still my number one ongoing series, but that just bugs me really badly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm an idiot that can't get spoiler tags to work for some reason so sent pm

For all the others, read the Dresden files! Or get the audiobooks read by James Marsters aka Spike from Buffy. He's doing a phenomenal job, imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love Marster's reading of them. He's freaking incredible