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If you could completely destroy one trope that shows up in fiction, so that no one would ever use it again, which trope would you pick?

Me, I'd kill the "people who dislike each other and argue a lot do it because they secretly like each other and have sexual tension!" trope. Because holy Jesus Fuckchrist, am I sick of seeing two characters being introduced as disliking each other and just knowing, with a sinking feeling in my heart, that they're going to be together by the end of the story.

The teen (and child and pre-teen) genuis trope. It is just a mess of Mary Sues and/or Jerk Sues. I'd be happy for it to die in a fire.

Oh god, fucking THIS. I'm so tired of people using this as an excuse to ship shitty couples together.

Honestly, I think this is a 'you' problem.

The asshole with a sad past/heart of gold. Having a sad past does not excuse you being a self centered jerkface to everyone. It is not charming. Stop it.

Weirdly enough, I just read this was true of Ryan Gosling and ... cannot remember the actress. They hated each other on set then fell madly in love and dated for three years.

I think that was Ryan Gosling and Rachael McAdams in The Notebook. Off-topic, but I hated that movie.

That one would be top of my list. In highschool there was this asshole I hated and he hated me and occasionally stupid teachers would declare we'd probably get married after highschool. Sorry, morons, real life is not your slap slap kiss romcom.

Probably second would be Cats Are Jerks. Seriously, all the cat-negative tropes can just fuckoff entirely. They're just less common than the hating someone = sexual attraction trope.

you can blame Walt Disney for Cats Are Jerks. he HATED cats.

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Ugh, god, tell me about it. In elementary and middle school, there was a boy who bullied me relentlessly and I hated his guts. The number of grown-ass adults who would say "oh, he probably has a crush on you!" Which, if you think about it, is a really, really fucked up thing to say to a girl who isn't even a teenager yet? It's teaching girls at a young age to accept abusive behavior. Maybe he did have a crush on me, but that didn't make the way he treated me okay!

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Nope, I'll keep rivalmance ships 5eva, don't care. I'm all about the hate!fucking.

I would kill childhood friends that are like siblings but suddenly realize they love each other sexually ships, though.

yeah, I hate that one too.

To be fair, I'd kill a whole bunch of romance tropes, mostly because I'm not overly enamoured with idealised romance to start with. The one I'd really like to kill is the miscommunication trope, though. I spend enough of my life thinking 'will you just fucking talk to each other like adults you fuckwits' without having to watch it constantly in fiction too. Not just in terms of romance either.

Yes! I want to write romance, but it seems like the only way to make it 'interesting' is for the couple to have 'problems' that would be solved/never would've happened to begin with if they'd only communicated like adults. People seem to think couples being happy and drama-free is 'boring'.

Female character becomes antagonist and suddenly her clothing is way more sexy and revealing.

In fanfiction I hate "Ron the Death Eater" kind of thing

What I hate is when fans take antagonistic characters and try to read that trope into their relationship.

I keep thinking, "No, this isn't SlapSlapKiss, they just hate each other."

All plot lines premised on people being totally and completely incompetent

Bury your Gays :(

Ugh, yes to this one. I remember as a teenager who was fairly new to and somewhat obsessed with slash fanfic coming across an m/m book that was described on Amazon as a "great beach read" and bought it for vacation. I don't remember many details but it ended with one of the two gay main characters killing himself because he felt so guilty about being gay and leaving his bf (who'd already had a bunch of tragedy in his life, I think his mother was murdered or something?) behind contemplating suicide himself. I remember saying to a friend afterward something along the lines of "Who the hell called this a great beach read?! Yeah, I guess, if their idea of "great beach read" is having other beachgoers give you weird looks as you sit on your towel and cry your eyes out". It was the first time I really remember coming across this trope and unfortunately there have been many, many times since.

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I hate that one, too, and I also hate rival ships. I'm so tired of people thinking that fighting is more exciting/interesting than getting along. Soooo many times it goes like this:

A and B are good friends, treat each other with mutual admiration and respect, and just generally get along well. B and C clearly dislike each other, fight constantly and don't seem to have any sort of respect whatsoever for the other's point of view. I end up shipping A/B, while most of the rest of the fandom ships B/C because it's just so exciting and "romantic" and to them A/B are boring and lame. It's ALWAYS B/C that ends up becoming canon because it has way more potential drama, and I'm disappointed. The end. :(

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Not quite sure what these are called, but these always bug me whenever I see them.

"A Female and a Male HAVE to be in a romantic relationship, no matter what."

"Female in relationship gets crazy jealous of male partner if he so much as looks at another female"

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"Jealousy is romantic," or someone showing their love for someone else by being jealous of anyone else who might come between them.

Most of the romance-related ones. It's always so damn obvious right from the very beginning which characters are going to end up dating, and it's usually the ones who have no chemistry and it happens in such a ridiculous cliche way.

As a minor one, in a show where Status Quo is God something really amazing happens to the main characters, but you know by the end of the episode they'll be back to Status Quo. I just really hate that plot, I hate seeing them happy and knowing they're going to lose it. It's supposed to be funny but it's just so depressing.

Also the comedy trope of Sociopath Fat Best Friend. Patrick Star, Heifer, Milo, when they start crossing the line from wacky hijinks to flat out ruining everything about the other characters' lives.