Break The Cutie
Maybe we didn't go through the same stuff the people who had 'pasts' did but still he/she does not need to adopt a cynical world view in order to be realistic.
Heading for tomorrow
- All Girls Want Bad Boys
- All Gays are Promiscuous / All Gays Are Pedophiles: GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
- Anti-Intellectualism: There's nothing wrong with respecting the opinions of people who know what they're talking about.
- But Not Too Gay
- Children Are Innocent
- Civillain: Civilian control of the military is one of the cornerstones of modern democratic government for a reason.
- Dumb Is Good
- Ludd Was Right
- Never Say "Die"
- No Guy Wants an Amazon
- Not Allowed to Grow Up
- Rape as Redemption
- Rape Is Love
- Science Is Bad
- Sci Fi Ghetto
- Socialists as Acceptable Political Targets. We are not Dirty Communists who have come to destroy all your freedoms.
- Uke and Ukefication
- Viewers Are Morons
edited 21st Jan '11 10:01:25 PM by WoolieWool
Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"
heroic coward
The one that usually comes to mind for me is the Rule of Cool. Since I've started writing, I've tried finding various ways to deconstruct and get around this, but these days, I'm of the Tropes Are Tools mentality now, so I'm finding even this strongest of pet peeve to die down a bit for me.
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Think you might want to read what Civillain is actually about there.
Heading for tomorrow
I could have sworn it was used to refer to an evil meddling civilian in a military show a few months ago. This wouldn't be the first time a trope has been completely redefined.
Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"
I have always wanted to deconstruct Sad Girls In Snow by way of including a massive serving of ROMAN COURAGE!
Now, the only issue is how to do so without sounding too heavy-handed...
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- All Gays are Promiscuous / All Gays Are Pedophiles - NO.
- Depraved Bisexual / Depraved Homosexual - Do I have to explain this one?
- Rape Is Love / Its Not Rape If You Enjoyed It / Abusively Sexy / Bastard Boyfriend - Ugh...
- Double Standard - In general.
- Seme/Uke - Unrealistic.
- Strawman - Did you even try to see their side?
Genre Savvy
It is possible to be too meta.
Banned
Seme/Uke- Unrealstic line.
I've seen it IRL a lot, at least among the gay otaku I know.
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?
Here are some others I thought of
Most of the Rape tropes-if it's not Rape Is Horrible then I don't like it
Abuse Is Okay When It’s Female on Male-please don't get me started
Double Standard in general
All Men Are Perverts- No..no they are not.
Humans Are Bastards-I prefer Some Humans Can Be Bastards. Let's not generalize an entire race, people
Humans Are Special-Yeah-no. How about just Humans Are Humans
Strawman, Author Tract and Take That!-I'm not reading a story to have the author preach at me. A little of the author's views sprinkled in is okay but the entire thing dripping with Anvilicious, no thank you, sir.
edited 1st Feb '11 1:36:42 PM by JewelyJ
X months later:
@ Alkthash
Yes, I do have an issue with the Lawful alignments , Lawful doesn't just mean obeying laws, it means obeying traditions and culture norms, not because you believe in them or even support them but just because it's the law and they're to afraid to be different, they'd rather be just another sheep- Rolls eyes back-
Obeying laws that make logical sense I have nothing wrong with, living with laws and rules and traditions, just because it's what your told to do, instead of thing for yourself. that I have issue with.
Logical smart Lawful's are hard to find, or even harder to find those lawfuls' trying to change the system from within.
edited 20th Jan '11 7:51:01 PM by americanbadass
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?