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Mine are love triangles.

Main characters who are generally terrible and only rooted for because the villains are so much worse.

Generally media where everything is hopeless and everyone is terrible and it is impossible to really root for anyone.

For love triangles, what I'm sick of is ones where one of the characters turns out to be terrible so it isn't really a legit triangle where both characters have an equal shot with the third.

Edited 2024-09-27 23:54 (UTC)

Love triangles that are choose A or B bore me. I'm ok with love triangles that end up in both ships happening in a poly way though.

MISCOMMUNICATION! Least favorite thing of all time. Especially when it could be cleared up in two seconds.

Uggh it is the worst!

Miscommunication that could be cleared up in two seconds is often unrealistic in real life. People are afraid to tell each other things because they're afraid of the reaction. That's usually the point of it in fiction, when it's written well.

I'll only accept miscommunication in comedy.

+1, especially if the comedy is on a level of saying all the correct words for the situation but the listener is hearing something different. that goes back to Shakespeare, and when well-done it's just a pleasure seeing how it works out in the end even if you saw the miscommunication coming a mile away.

I don't mind some miscommunication/misunderstanding if, and only if, it isn't dragged out too long and basically is the only basis for a plot to develop the way it does. Doubly so if the miscommunications pile up - like, you get one resolved, cue the next, rinse, repeat. Happens A LOT in CN BL novels and is often the only thing driving the plot and it's so frustrating.

man and woman smacking the fuck out of eachother and then suddenly kissing.
I'll be happy if I never see this one again.

Keeping toxic family close by, forced forgiveness, abortions that psychologically and/or physically destroy the one who was pregnant, shoehorned het romances.

"You have to forgive them, they are A Person Who Shares DNA With You by Random Chance of the Universe" is pretty stupid ngl

This

I'd like to see a well-written love triangle. Where there's not the obvious Good Choice and Bad Choice but rather all involved are Good Choices and it's a matter of timing never really making sense or events going on or... I don't know.

I'm tired of anti-heroes. Give me a real goddamn hero. A good person, someone nice, someone kind.

One True Love.

This plus One True Love being the One True Purpose of Life.

Subverting a trope for the sake of subverting it to show that they're savvy enough to be aware of tropes, when it makes no sense for the story.

When I was a teen I remember reading a Yuu Watase manga - they often used love triangles. In the notes of one of the volumes, they mentioned that they found the female character in a love triangle unlikable unless she for the most part is pretty much decided. The second guy comes in as a temptation for when things get really hard and it's like, yeah this would actually be nice if I could just feel enough for this other person to rule out the first.

I maintain to this day that this is one of the saving graces of Bella Swan. She may have been in a triangle but she was really fucking firm about which one she actually wanted, and she stuck to her boundaries. I don't like Edward but Jacob was such a massive piece of shit about "romancing" her.

Mom loves the kids more than she loves Dad, Dad loves Mom more than he loves the kids. I actually made a secret about this a while back; it was about how I loved that on Bob's Burgers, when the family was about to die and they were all professing love for each other, Bob says he loves Linda "almost as much as the kids" and that was perfectly okay.

Toxic sarcastic relationships (insulting/pranking is "bonding") are squad goals/normal

Red herring villains

Breaking the 4th wall

Poverty porn

When a certain plot twist/reveal is visible to the audience from a mile away but it takes ages for it to be revealed in canon. Especially annoying When it's still treated (aimed at the audience, not the canon xharacters) like this big shock twist that clearly NOBODY expected.

At the same time, a plot twist/reveal getting pulled out of thin air with zero foreshadowing just for the sake of being shocking is ALSO annoying.

Most of them, that's why I'm in fandom. To name a few, I'd say, older guy, younger woman and other usual sexist, racist, you name it awfulness, way too much stuff revolving around sex and romantic relationships and little else, LEOs or related characters being horrible law-breaking criminals because the ends justify the means or similar BS, nobody having or dealing with all the horrible trauma they went through.

The team movie with banter formula. We've had like 30 years of this.

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