- Legitimate question about something that didn't make sense.
- Explanation attempting to make sense of the moment in question.
- Rebuttal explaining why this explanation wouldn't work.
- Slightly snarky counter-rebuttal of the above.
- Counter-counter rebuttal filled with genuine hate for the people who believe any of these explanations would work.
- Massive Flame War.
- Explanation attempting to make sense of the moment in question.
- Other legitimate question.
- Explanation based on Wild Mass Guessing with no basis in canon.
- Explanation citing Rule of Funny or Rule of Cool, or otherwise claiming that the example wasn't meant to make sense.
- Thing that actually made sense, but the person who wrote this missed some details about the work that made it make sense.
- Response insulting that troper for misunderstanding the work.
- Long list of meta-examples complaining about the work and its fans. Probably an artifact from when this section was called "It Just Bugs Me" that nobody noticed or removed.
- Example asking how the writer could think writing an unpopular episode was a good idea.
- Example wondering why the fans are so annoying.
- Question full of first-person language and hesitation that I am not sure if it's really an issue, but I vaguely remember something about that work that didn't make sense. Maybe it was just me missing some details but it's still bothering me a bit.
- Response listing the details you missed and explains how the thing actually made sense.
- Nitpicking about every single unrealistic thing.
- Question about something that's really obvious.
- Question about something that didn't actually happen.
- Why does [character I personally dislike] get to continue living? They should die. This is definitely a legitimate question about the plot and not just complaining.
- Question that comes off as half-headscratcher, half-complaining.
- Genuine answer.
- Reply that the answer still makes no sense. Might come off as an unintentional attempt to start a Flame War.
- Answer that also comes off as half-complaining.
- Genuine answer.
- Question about a small moment in the work that doesn't really make sense, but is easy to ignore.
- Several large paragraphs worth of rebuttal.
- Even more paragraphs of counter-rebuttal that took more effort than it's worth.
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