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Might be a case of Reality Is Unrealistic and Artistic License — pulling up on the stick with all your might is more dramatic. Could overlap into in-universe JustForFun.Television Is Trying To Kill Us in cases of Falling into the Cockpit if someone had to try and fly or land a plane with no experience other than what they'd seen in the movies and thus thought this would work.
Edited by Unsung
Button Mashing would be related, in that there's a hard-to-avoid tendency to think pushing a button or moving a control harder will have more effect, even when you know it won't on an intellectual level.
Aluminum Christmas Trees can set in here, too, if the aircraft is seriously damaged: many fly-by-wire systems have manual hydraulic or mechanical backup systems for at least some of their control surfaces, should the aircraft's electronic controls fail completely.
Edited by Scorpion451
This is something a co-worker brought up to me, and I found myself unable to find an extant trope. Control yokes in planes other than small prop planes tend to be fly-by-wire, and yet it seems like a fairly stock thing for the pilot to be pulling with all of their weight against the yoke to do something like pull up out of a dive (although, on the flip side of it, neither he nor I could think of a case where this happens in a modern film, so it could be this is already a Dead Horse trope) as if directly wrestling with the flaps.
First off, do we have this trope already?