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* StupidSacrifice: Unless they're a MartyrWithoutACause, characters sacrificing their lives loses the intended significants if they overlook better options.

* GratuitousRape: Deserves a second special mention here. If you are going to address the topic of rape in your lyrics, address it in some meaningful way and be ready for the consequences.

* UncannyValley: Either do realism or go Cartoony, NEVER go for the middle.

* StupidSacrifice: Characters shouldn't give up their lives for nothing (if the character is not a MartyrWithoutACause).

While not writing exactly, game design does require creativiy to do, and since games tend to have dozens and even hundreds of people working on them, mistakes can happen more often than other forms of media.

* PoorCommunicationKills: While this trope, when handled well, can provide much drama, do ''not'' do this by [[CharacterDerailment derailing characters]] to act in the way you desire while ignoring prior characterization.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Have an acceptable reason for making a truly evil character suddenly be nice. "He or she is hot!" will not do.

* RonTheDeathEater: Have an acceptable reason for making a truly good character suddenly be mean. "I hate him or her!" will not do.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Repeating statements is irritating. Repeating statements is asinine. Repeating statements is annoying.

* ThisTroper: Writing about oneself in a Main wiki article. The goal is to make Main articles sound like a single person is editing the article, [[WikiSchizophrenia not multiple people]]. Besides, personal comments just clog up the articles.

* Administrivia/EditWar: Having two tropers edit back and forth will reduce the quality of the page, easily snowballing into a WikiVandalism, even a FlameWar, which this wiki absolutely does not want to create. Any attempt at such things warrant a quick suspension, [[Administrivia/LockedPages the page in question being locked]], or, at worst, a spot at the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.

* TranslationTrainWreck: Bed telephones not particle via misunderstand through reverses all reeling meats inside dolphin non fluffy. [[labelnote:Translation:]]Bad translations that are impossible to understand and removes any real meaning from the dialogue are not favorable.[[/labelnote]]

* DullSurprise: Have your characters emote during events that would make a real person do so. Otherwise, it can make scenes that are intended to be dramatic [[{{Narm}} hard to take seriously]].

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: If you're writing a {{Prequel}} or {{Interquel}}, make sure you don't undercut major plot points in the original work by introducing a [[TakeAThirdOption Third Option]] that the characters should have known about.

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: If you're writing a prequel, make sure you don't undercut a major plot point by introducing a [[TakeAThirdOption Third Option]] that the character will mysterious forget exists.

Just because a trope invokes a "bad" feeling such as dislike ({{Jerkass}}), disappointment ({{Anticlimax}}, DownerEnding), or dissatisfaction (NoEnding) doesn't make it bad writing as [[IntendedAudienceReaction they are intended to produce those feelings]]. Tropes on this list produce bad feelings as unintentional byproducts thus detracting from the intended emotional outcome, hence being considered bad writing.

%% They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character has been deemed not bad writing since such character can get more focus in later works.

* NoEnding: While ending on a cliffhanger is fine, ending apropo of nothing will make the audience feel cheated with their investment into your story.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: The results of a character's bad decisions should be logical consequences of those decisions.

* AuthorFilibuster: The reader/viewer/player/etc is (theoretically) interested in the plot. Stopping it so that you can talk about something that's important to you will only make them less interested in what you're writing.

* ConceptsAreCheap: Using concepts and buzz words to pad out a thin script.

* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: See YoYoPlotPoint

* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: Don't add eloquent-sounding words unless you know whether they actually go there or not, and don't think they will make you sound profound if they actually make you confusing.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Failure to create antipathy to a character in the audience will cause them to like [[HateSink characters you want them to hate.]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Failure to create sympathy for a character in the audience will cause them to hate characters you want them to like.

* GameBreakingBug: Don't let a glitch cripple the playability of your game.

* ManualMisprint: Make sure your game manual is accurate, otherwise there is no point in it.

* CanonDefilement: People who are reading your FanFic probably enjoy the show for what it ''is''. Not for what you would like it to be. Seeing beloved characters mangled into whatever form you desire is probably going to cut down on your audience.

* FetishRetardant: If you write something intended to turn on your audience, make sure it doesn't suffer from {{Squick}}, UnfortunateImplications or {{Narm}}.

* ShippingBedDeath: When not handled properly, a pairing becoming canon can kill the audience's interest in the story and/or characters.