40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?"

Love triangles, 95% of them are all the same and usually go like this.

“Hello my name is generic rom com protagonist, I am an average person just like you and I have a problem, I’m in love with 2 boys/girls.”

“Hello I am generic love interest number 1, I am likely the childhood friend who wishes the best for my best friend, I have been yearning for their love and have been patient for their affection, alternatively I may be the rich person as well who promises a life of luxury and stability who will do anything for my one true love.”

“Hey, The name’s generic love interest number 2, unlike the bore that is generic love interest 1, I have a more wild and Exotic personality, I may be the bad boy, the manic pixie dream girl or whatever my role is, I may be poor but I will give generic rom com protagonist excitement as routine is so lame and I will probably win anyways and if I don’t, I’m sure the fanbase will make fanfictions where I am the winner anyways.”

“Oh no whatever shall I do, I’m only at the mercy of the writers who has to pad this conflict out for 90 minutes and I am sure that there will be no needless dramas or misunderstandings.”

TL:DR love triangles are always the same plot line over and over again

No movies having any concept of how guns actually work. Eg. Unlimited ammo, bullets not penetrating things the would go straight through like car doors, No recoil silencers making the gun too quiet etc.

All men are perverts/evil.

Seeing it a lot more lately because lazy/bad writers can't write strong women as strong women so they default to making all dudes awful instead.

When going through a database of criminals, the screen flips through mug shot by mug shot. No software works that way.

Fight scene where the giant and more powerful bad character picks up the hero and throws them a few times, normally over a table or through whatever. It's a tool to show the audience how much stronger they are and thereby raise tension/ humour even, but it's SO unrealistic it just irritates me.

If you were physically capable of literally tossing someone across a room so they go fully airbourne, surely the most efficient way of winning the fight would be to just grip their windpipe and destroy it or just straightforward pulverise their face and head into oblivion with forearms and knees in 3 seconds. But no. Pick them up and throw them a few times, because LoOk, StRoNk!

All bartenders are capable of remembering every customer they have had in last six months in full detail if you give them enough 100 dollar bills.

•People never, NEVER saying goodbye on phones.

•The weird clapping thing (I know it is to not make sound to have raw sound from the actors, but come on..)

•Drivers not paying attention to the road when talking to their passengers

If a person ever tells you, "Trust no one," just go ahead and shoot that person.

This is a minor one, but in movies if anyone went to the store for groceries, they came back with one paper grocery bag, which ALWAYS has a baguette sticking out the top. On some occasions they may be carrying two at the same time but this usually results in them either comically unable to use their hands, or they end up dropping them everywhere.

No one ever has plastic grocery bags that they bring in multiple trips or, as is more realistic, grab all of them at once for one trip.

people just park anywhere.

running into city hall or the courthouse or the police station or an airport or whatever the f**k? no worries...just park here literally right in front of the front door.

not only is that illegal, it's not even physically possible in most cities/towns.

they never show our heroes schlepping it from a parking garage 2 blocks away.

When main characters kiss first when they are literally near death or out of time to save themselves. They have 12 seconds left to live but they talk their feelings first and kiss or do something dramatic like isn’t that already more than 12 seconds? How are you still alive? Lol I hate watching these scenes they take too much time in the middle of a near death scene.

Another is a female character who is mean or bitchy for literally no reason at all, they are just mean. You know those female teenagers who hates school and practically everyone and everything. And at the end of the movie or series they get kind to the main character and everyone she was mean to. I know it’s character development but characters like this are overused. Applies for mean boys too (although I mostly know mean female characters).

See-through monitors in futuristic movies. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I want to see what's displayed on the monitor, not what's behind it, and I think future humans will feel the same. That sort of defeats the purpose.

Yet every single damned one of them does this.

The sassy black girlfriend. I may be snarky at times, but I don't adhere to what they think it means or look like on a black woman. She often is so cliched/stereotyped that she doesn't have any character development of her own. Also, it's a sad ploy to make the vanilla protagonist look cooler than she is.

When two people wake up and don't remember that they got married the night before because it's Vegas and they were drunk. It doesn't work like that, dammit!

The guy that bullies the gay kid ends up being gay. Even worse when they end up with the kid they bullied.

Short guys ALWAYS being dorky pathetic losers who get bullied or otherwise picked on.

No one can be short in a movie without an issue being made of their height. They can’t just exist as a short person.

*I guess how controversial this comment is speaks to why this is such a popular trope. It's apparently very important to some people that short guys are portrayed this way. What does that say about them?

Dorky female lead gets a makeover and saves the day. Eye roll.

Just as the villain is about to deliver the death blow, they take a moment to threaten the hero’s SO. This gives the hero the resolve to keep going and defeat the villain. Dude, don’t gloat. Just keep your mouth shut and pull the trigger.

This one often appears in anime. Where the (main) character stumbles and falls head/hands first between the chest of a girl/woman

How do we know the main male character is a tortured genius? Because he writes on the windows/walls and stares at his work pensively, and is a jerk to everyone around him while he processes this (or any) information. Genius does not necessarily equal jerkitude.