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The Worst Trope Ever Showdown: FINAL POLL

Yours truly once again did a stupid and forgot to post this on Sunday when I said I would, but I just remembered, so here we are for THE FINAL ROUND. Without further ado:

Cringe Comedy

Comedy that evokes awkwardness for humor.

Propaganda:

self explanatory

Out-of-Context Eavesdropping

Someone overhears a conversation and, lacking the full context, misinterprets it as something more serious.

Propaganda:

I hate all miscommunication tropes but this is the one that makes me want to strangle people the most. "we need to fabricate a reason for A and B to hate each other, but not one based on their actual personalities or situation. Instead, Person A talks about something personal and important, but they decide to word it in the dumbest way possible. Person B decides to listen in on a private conversation and then gets so mad at this stuff they weren't supposed to hear that they don't even listen to the final sentence that completely recontextualises the whole conversation. also 90% of the time A would never express feelings this way AND B would never snoop this way. just poor writing to inspire the world's most insipid conflict between morons.

[grapecaseschoices]

so! i was playing around with the personality i wanted for my inky x jo x blackwall romance ....

and i TENTATIVELY leaned on kendis. as a possibility. and i really wanted a qunari warrior! however, there are no dimple mods for qunaris [there are barely one period!]

*this would work better with someone from Ozammar though ... so idk.

** here is the mod [if someone has a better one feel free to share! if someone has a dimple mod for qunari, this nulls and voids this entire poll. so, please share that too]

*** no touchee [i literally mean dont touch but now i miss mr. queen]

[freifraufischer]

grapecase I think we can now assume the writers are setting...

There was also his flirting in fantasy wte land. I think since he might be getting a LI and she is the only person he’s been making eyes at, the thought is she will be his TL

She didn’t flirt back in FTL2 and he looked at her ass.  Hook would flirt with a telephone poll if it was looking particularly cute that day in the sun.

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The Worst Trope Ever Showdown: Round 1, Side A

Found the Right Person

a character is single and content with it. they say they aren't interested in dating and haven't felt this way about anyone. others keep telling them stuff like "you just haven't found the right person yet" and they always respond saying that they don't want to. but then, mostly right at the end, they do find the right one and start a relationship with them that comes very sudden and is like weirdly intense. bonus points if the character is a strong and independent woman and then in the end decides to give up her job or hobbies for love or whatever.

Propaganda:

I hate it so much. I'm aroace and people constantly ask me when I will finally find a partner or that I just haven't fount the right one yet. I do not want to find the right one! leave me alone! and seeing these characters that I can relate to, that have a good life, maybe a cool hobby and friends who is also constantly asked this and says that they don't want a partner, and then having them stripped of this aspect because suddenly they find the love of their life and drop these things because their partner wants them to, is not fun. because this implies that everyone deep inside wants to find someone, and people who say that they don't are lying. because apparently only finding love and admitting that you were wrong and actually wanted this all along can make you happy. amatonormativity at its best. people will point to these characters and be like "look, even they could find love, there is still a chance for you", fuck off

The Power of Friendship

Companionship with others is a character's greatest strength.

Propaganda:

This trope seems to be everywhere, from books to tv shows to movies. It's always at the end of the fight when everyone is about to give up and then the hero launches into a speech about this and all of a sudden they have the strength to defeat the villian even though they were literally about to die

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Quarterfinals, Poll 4

Found Family Breakup

When you have the found family, but then at the end of the story they all just leave and go start nuclear families with random love interests and live in different places and rarely talk to each other, or otherwise seem to completely lose the found family closeness they had during the story

Propaganda:

It’s literally getting rid of the found family, taking away the best trope ever

Pair the Spares

Every or nearly every character who did not get together with someone during the story is paired off in the epilogue or very end. The characters are often shown having kids together as well

Propaganda:

This may just be my aromanticism talking, but it's annoying seeing everyone getting shoved into a relationship at the last minute. It doesn't even make sense most of the time. Let! People! Be! Happy! Single!

I am aroace and I hate this. just let them be happy on their own, don't just pair up characters for the sake of pairing them up, even if they have zero chemistry. this happens so often in all kinds of media, and fandom is also guilty of this. not everyone needs a partner! leave them alone!

I love romantic subplots but this is just amatonormative bullshit. It has all of the "romantic partner=happy ending" bullshit that fucks people up in real life, with none of the fluttery crush feelings or the angsty decisions. It doesn't add anything to the character arcs and is only detrimental to the themes of a work as a whole. It can cast a shadow over other romantic subplots in the series I might have enjoyed up until this point, because I start to wonder if those romances were really about the character/themes/plot, or if the writers simply think "leading lady goes with leading man, sidekick with sidekick, etc. etc."

It's fucking stupid. A lot of the characters that end up together either barely interact, make no sense or both. It also implies the only happy ending requires love and marriage. It makes no sense for some of the characters to want to settle down and have kids even if they are with someone they love.

[azlovesem]

See. This was pure fun silly. And it us and was fun. Americans aint yoygnat all i proved that. Ha ha ga ahh losers the entire workd saw too. Theyll never be looked at the same. I wouldnt hold anykne to thos wte you kidding? Not yhat i font live you ha hs ga bug we never met. We could just be fsns of each others work. Whattya mean whaf work. Your fashion modeling youre very good and iike yoyr stye and postive attitude. And your accent ive alwsys loved to listen to Enish ladies talk. You have a particularly nice accent. Yeah i did kill those people im Azrieli warned take those sivk pics down. Not just if you. I called thrm they said thry cant. So i said ok om hinna kill some of you then. And if they font figure it out im gonna koll more of rm. we re gonna try n hig trump agsinntok we hstevthat giy. We hste smerica thaf a mondter like that can even run. Ive hoy smerica surfounded anywsy thise punks are terrigied of me Emma. Theh fuckn better stay that way. You dont hs e sny teadon to be eorried you ste eonderful and only try to help. Nobody knpws hpw to help Emma. But good people like you alwsys try to help and you helped me. So i tried to help you whether you like it or not. This worlds living on borrowed time though it really is. And no movie is that great period. Just laughmitd true. Vhilfren like. Movies and thats fine but i aint no fuckn kid. Teadings better and snyknd eho ever says otherwise is my defeated bitch asz enemy. Probsbly sn ametican ssud that. They get scared when they leave their ien stupid rst country because theyre not that bright and deep down they know it. Youre not the only one who loves me more. Used ro be. Used to ge all rught butbthey csnt admit tbeir system is an utter failure. It just is. Evidence is everyehere. Dont tust any american man i dont. I can tell you whats wrong with them. We re s very friendly entrepreneuriel country mot like the ststes. The fact anyones cheering gor trump makes that country fucked. Hes not getting elected dont listen to polls. They swing up down and are never right. On the good front i control the american military through nato anyway. Natos bigger than one nation amd we re not oetn trump in Harris wins by a fraction. Good luck with the recpunt losers. Go riot again. Good americans ate with me Emma. And im happy because the Ukrainians have pretty much ended any hope russia had of ever winning that war. Proving stay purnif other peopke countries. Hppefully america and rusdia have finslly learned that. And the middle east those ate all fucked!!! We hemm them in and its all you can do. Good people can only watch. Let them fight it out tnats not a nato problem its an ancient religio based one. Meaning its fucked forever. Gey trump fuvk uou monkey. Yoyr wife looks good thesexdayd id like to slsp hef right in yhr ass. Comenon baby taje a break from tjst fat iy fuck. Whp eveeryone wsnts to shoot dead. They want kill sll his supporters too. I say even if he wins domehow we dontmlet him on. Be ready for civil war always. The military mostly foes not support trump remrmber yhst. We ll get i bolved and dmoke his supporters. This usnt a joke we dont support him the military. Meaning no ok ne else haz to even if he wins. Look ehst he dod block him arrest hom fuckn kill him. You rlect himmyoure dead to the reet of earth and well go eith someone else. Elect Harris or dwatn reigns. Im mot joming tjos eill ge bviolr t ir uou elect harris.

Emma Watson

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 25

Of Corset Hurts

Corsets are depicted as always painful and uncomfortable.

Propaganda:

CORSETS ARE /FINE/ IF THEY FIT PROPERLY AND AREN'T TIGHT-LACED!!! DOWN WITH THOSE MISOGYNISTIC MYTHS OF THEM REARRANGING YOUR ORGANS!!!!

Found Family Breakup

When you have the found family, but then at the end of the story they all just leave and go start nuclear families with random love interests and live in different places and rarely talk to each other, or otherwise seem to completely lose the found family closeness they had during the story

Propaganda:

It’s literally getting rid of the found family, taking away the best trope ever

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 12

Yandere

A character who is highly affectionate and dangerously obsessive concerning their Love Interest.

Propaganda:

I’m fine with it but it’s pretty bad

Hollywood Healing

Hero never becomes visibly injured and can recover completely from anything.

Propaganda:

Just... let serious injuries have long lasting consequences, okay? Okay.

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 27

Joker Immunity

A recurring villain does not die even in situations where they should because they're too popular or too good.

Propaganda:

If the villain won’t die, they should redeem themselves otherwise they should be dead. You don’t have faith in the audience to like a new/other villain? Stop that line of thought. Explore the ramifications of what the vacuum of the death of big, bad villain does.

Humans Are Special

Speculative fiction treats humans as exceptional and different from other species.

Propaganda:

I'm not a fan of any humans-are-so-totally-different-from-aliens trope, whether it portrays humans positively or negatively. And I'm generally an optimistic person, so you might think I'd hate the negative version more. But "Humans are Special" is just so unrelentingly stupid in any of it's manifestations. How exactly does an alien intelligence create a galaxy spanning empire without creativity? Or adaptability? Or curiosity? Or a sense of community? Or whatever you pick. There is a lot of world building heavy lifting needed to explain how the aliens would either survive long enough to build their great works or be motivated to do so without what usually appear to be drives that are seen in all world cultures, modern or historical, not to mention seeming to be in evidence on this planet in other species. And the writers never do this.

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 8

Forgotten First Meeting

Two characters meet each other and think they've never met before. They have, a long time ago, but either one or both of them has forgotten.

Propaganda:

They met each other when they were children and forgot about it until they reunited as adults, that's how you know it was a fated meeting and destined to be together and they'll always come back to each other. JUST AS BARFY AS SOULMATES. I ALSO HATE SOULMATES.

Tsundere

A character is outwardly harsh or violent, but has a sweet and vulnerable side that comes out around those they love.

Propaganda:

Abusive behavior isn't very kawaii

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 21

"Not So Different" Remark

Two characters or groups at odds realize they are more alike than they want to admit.

Propaganda:

I have rarely seen this used effectively. The villain is always like “Ah. You’re just like me because you want to fight me!” while they are literally filling the orphanage with cement.

Found Family

Characters who are not related consider each other to be like family.

Propaganda:

Not everything has to be a structural family. There are other tropes like True Companions and Band of Brothers to explain deep bonds, but instead any woman gets forced into the mother role and friends with complicated feelings toward each other that they should be able to explore gets brushed off as "their siblings. siblings fight sometimes" without addressing any underlying issues.

Idk how to put it exactly, but I think that found family has done irreparable damage to the way people view character relationships. How if two characters aren’t dating, then they MUST view each other as siblings or one views the other as a parent or something similar and thus, make even the idea of them being in a relationship morally unjust and reason for complaints and harassment. How some people seem to just actively ignore existing dynamics just to slot them into a label that’s easier to digest. Sometimes characters are just friends! Sometimes they are just co-workers! Sometimes they are just enemies! Sometimes they are just an infinitely possible amount of relationships that aren’t either ‘dating’ or ‘family’! All in all, I’m just kinda tired of characters being shoved into being family without consideration on whether or not it actually Fits.

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 4

What Measure Is a Mook

The hero shows mercy to the characterized villain, but not to their nameless henchmen.

Propaganda:

Extreme hypocrisy that immediately makes the hero who pulls it unlikable

Growing Up Sucks

Becoming an adult is portrayed as a bad thing.

Propaganda:

We get it. Childlike whimsy gets scattered by the impounding weight of responsibility. But there’s a lot to like about being an adult.

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 32

Only Six Faces

When there is a very limited set of character designs within a work, and it is impossible to tell even the main characters apart.

Propaganda:

Like, just put some effort in, would ya? I know I have face blindness, but if that is what is keeping me from recognizing your characters, that means that you made every other part of their design the exact same! Get bold! Get creative! Try not making all your characters some version of Generic Hot Guy #32! Your characters need diversity in order to stand out, so don't be scared of it!

Friends Rent Control

A character's home is larger or more expensive-looking than they should logically be able to afford.

Propaganda:

Characters who live in places that are too expensive. Or even expensively and expertly decorated, no one's apartment looks shabby unless it's a plot point. Everyone has dish sets and the furniture always matches.

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 19

The Power of Friendship

Companionship with others is a character's greatest strength.

Propaganda:

This trope seems to be everywhere, from books to tv shows to movies. It's always at the end of the fight when everyone is about to give up and then the hero launches into a speech about this and all of a sudden they have the strength to defeat the villian even though they were literally about to die

No Endor Holocaust

An event that should have caused major collateral damage does not.

Propaganda:

The endpoint of writers trying to make every story have the biggest possible scale and stakes - endings with massive consequences that aren't addressed at all. We did it Patrick! We saved the city!

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 22

Academic Alpha Bitch

A bitchy and mean character who excels in academics.

Propaganda:

look just cause you have straight a's doesn't mean you're a bitch. half the people i know with straight a's aren't bitches, and those who are have problems and just need to be talked to. kindly. idk just gets on my nerves lol sorry

Kudzu Plot

Many plot threads are started at once, and are not resolved for a long time, if at all.

Propaganda:

FNAF lore. (no, I'm serious, "a story [that] leaves so many tangled Plot Threads that [makes] it extremely difficult to follow and ridiculously complicated" is literally the definition of why FNAF lore is bad)

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The Most Annoying Trope Showdown: Semifinals, Poll 2

Out-of-Context Eavesdropping

Someone overhears a conversation and, lacking the full context, misinterprets it as something more serious.

Propaganda:

I hate all miscommunication tropes but this is the one that makes me want to strangle people the most. "we need to fabricate a reason for A and B to hate each other, but not one based on their actual personalities or situation. Instead, Person A talks about something personal and important, but they decide to word it in the dumbest way possible. Person B decides to listen in on a private conversation and then gets so mad at this stuff they weren't supposed to hear that they don't even listen to the final sentence that completely recontextualises the whole conversation. also 90% of the time A would never express feelings this way AND B would never snoop this way. just poor writing to inspire the world's most insipid conflict between morons.

Pair the Spares

Every or nearly every character who did not get together with someone during the story is paired off in the epilogue or very end. The characters are often shown having kids together as well

Propaganda:

This may just be my aromanticism talking, but it's annoying seeing everyone getting shoved into a relationship at the last minute. It doesn't even make sense most of the time. Let! People! Be! Happy! Single!

I am aroace and I hate this. just let them be happy on their own, don't just pair up characters for the sake of pairing them up, even if they have zero chemistry. this happens so often in all kinds of media, and fandom is also guilty of this. not everyone needs a partner! leave them alone!

I love romantic subplots but this is just amatonormative bullshit. It has all of the "romantic partner=happy ending" bullshit that fucks people up in real life, with none of the fluttery crush feelings or the angsty decisions. It doesn't add anything to the character arcs and is only detrimental to the themes of a work as a whole. It can cast a shadow over other romantic subplots in the series I might have enjoyed up until this point, because I start to wonder if those romances were really about the character/themes/plot, or if the writers simply think "leading lady goes with leading man, sidekick with sidekick, etc. etc."

It's fucking stupid. A lot of the characters that end up together either barely interact, make no sense or both. It also implies the only happy ending requires love and marriage. It makes no sense for some of the characters to want to settle down and have kids even if they are with someone they love.