What trope(s) do you wish were more common and why?

I wish Mooning, Urine Trouble, All-Natural Fire Extinguisher, Nature Tinkling, Putting the Pee in Pool, Toilet Teleportation, and Fun with Flushing were more common because as a kid at heart, I have a deep appreciation for Toilet Humor.

More Manly Gay characters would be fun.

Here are a couple of tropes I like and I would like to see more often. I think they might be a nice breath of fresh air after we’ve been seeing their opposites so often in fiction. ;)

• Happily Married couples
• I don’t know if there’s a specific trope for it, but I would like to see more good empires

Edited by Demetrios on Apr 18th 2024 at 10:09:06 AM

Two Girls and a Guy. Doesn't have to involve romance at all, just two girls and a boy having fun adventures.

Platonic Life-Partners, at least to give off the message that yes, straight/bi/pan men and women can be just friends and there's nothing wrong with that.

Good All Along — it's an interesting way to show a character wasn't as previously expected. Don't get me wrong, I love a good use of Evil All Along as well, but I typically like it better when the supposedly evil character ends up actually being on your side.

It's also an interesting way of having a character turn out to be on the good side without necessarily having the character do a Heel–Face Turn.

Yes. Character friendships give me life.

Darker and Edgier when applied to video game and movie sequels. I feel like a lot of successive video games and movie installments have been getting Lighter and Softer over the years and they're not as scary anymore. By that same token, Sequel Difficulty Spike for more intense video game sequels.

Also, I'd like to see more Freaky Electronic Music soundtracks and just a lot more movies and video games with completely Industrial soundtracks and often with a lot of Hell Is That Noise elements.

Also also, more Black-and-Gray Morality works, where the good guys aren't necessarily Ideal Hero type material but they're fighting against completely evil villains.

Edited by clemont107 on Apr 18th 2024 at 8:01:44 AM

I would like to see more Benevolent Boss villains, given Bad Boss villains are more dominant.

Not sure if it's a trope persay (Guile Hero maybe?), but I want to see more examples of heroes winning in creative and clever ways. I get easily bored of fight scenes and the like, and prefer to see unique uses of abilities or resources to win.