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Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

What are some stock plots or scenes or character types, etc, that you know are stupid or cliched or evident of bad writing, but which you like anyway?

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

I'm almost ashamed to admit how much I like the "fucking everybody wants to matchmake my OTP" trope. Like, in no way is it really in character for anyone, nor is it how real life works outside of junior high or something, but I love it anyway. Bonus if it's "two people decide to matchmake, they matchmake, and then end up together as well."

I just find it amusing as all hell. :)

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I think you're okay. *shares this guilty pleasure* IMO, any cliche that Shakespeare popularized is a-okay in my book as long as it's done in an entertaining way. ;)

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[badass_tiger]

Urgh I just realised this applies to me, too. Yet it's funny and romantic at the same time which just hits all my buttons, I can't help it, I love this trope so much.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[tamabonotchi]

It's embarrassing how much I love the plot of a character gets kidnapped and rendered helpless and the rest of the group goes "FUCK WE GOTTA SAVE THEM AT NO COST".
Boy or girl, as long as it's a favorite character of mine.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, do you mean at any cost? XD Because "at no cost" sounds like they'll only save them if they have a coupon, or something.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[elaminator]

Haha, yes, this is such a common trope but I never get tired of it. It's fun as hell. (Plus, I tend to get really sentimental about it...)

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

When a character turns out to be the long-lost royalty or nobleman/woman who's been missing since childhood. I love it every time.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

And also the having to reclaim a kingdom through noble deeds...

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

I am a total sucker for mad scientists. Even though bad/insensitive/unrealistic depictions of mental illness normally piss me off, I just can't get enough of cackling, unbalanced scientists with highly questionable ethics.

idgi

+1000

[thinkatory]

I am completely unabashed about my love for the mad scientist and related tropes, though.

Personally I know that it can be a minefield for depiction of mental illness, but it's the actually mostly sane ones that I love the most, because the lengths to which they'll stretch their ethical limits, that's the fun part to watch. And then when they BSOD after seeing what they've done... that goes all the way back to Frankenstein, man.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[caecilia]

oh hell yes

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[forgottenjester]

I've seen this with doctor characters. Um, the trope is that everyone perceives them to be so nonviolent that they sometimes assume they Hippocratic Oath, "Do no harm" somehow applies to all harm and not just with their medical expertise. But then when the doctor's loved ones are on the line, or their life is, or they're out for revenge, or whatever, they prove that nope, that's not the case. Sure, they won't use their medical expertise to hurt you but that doesn't mean they have any qualms with pointing a gun in your face or something like that.

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Now that I think about it. I can expand that to characters who are thought to be one way, generally underestimated somehow, and then prove themselves not to be that way. Like, suck it! I'm actually badass!

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[dreemyweird]

All the stupid hurt/comfort cliches. I don't give a fuck when they're applied to the characters I don't like, but give me a story about my favourites - and I'm all warm and fuzzy.

...that's ridiculous.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno if this counts, but I LOVE long drawn-out death scenes where someone cradles the dying character in their arms and cries while the dying character always lives long enough to say something sweet and pithy and sad. I eat that up with a spoon.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

My absolute favorite is surprise!Psycho Lesbian characters like Shizuru (Mai Hime). It's awful and everyone hates that (bad visibility, etc, etc) but I'm a huge sucker for it.

Also I love traitor plotlines. I loooove a good, shocking betrayal. Though I am a little picky about how I like that sort of plot to be executed.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[grainne_mhaol]

Nobody realised they were more than just friends until one of them is in danger and the other falls apart.

Utterly melodramatic, but I love it.

(Especially with lesbian couples where both are straight-passing. You know how it sucks in Four Weddings and a Funeral that the gay couple is the 'funeral' couple? I can't even get as mad as I want to be because nobody knew and then he read the poem Oh God.)

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

I just realized how many of my characters are Broken Birds. And I'm not even doing it consciously. *facepalm* I also love Magical Girl/Dark Magical Girl pair, but they both have to be there.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

I actually like Manic Pixie Dream Girls (and boys). That being said, I think this trope can be done pretty poorly; but when it's done well I think it's great.

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[cassandraoftroy]

Two characters that don't get along are trapped in a confined space together and forced to work out their differences and/or realize they love each other. IDK, I just like it.

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[kaijinscendre]

Hurt/Comfort. Woobifying the villain. De-aging fics. I LOVE de-aging fics but can't find many of them.

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[al28894]

For me, it is the "kind guy reforms punk teen delinquent who falls in love with him. Hard." It's so wrong and weird and blatantly skeevy and unrealistic, but I just can't help it. There was a thread about crossover couples a few days back that I replied to and it was damn embarrassing.

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[maverickz3r0]

The Chosen One. Prophecies. It doesn't matter whether the characters are defying or fulfilling fate, I just love love that stuff. Trite, cliché, whatever. Bonus points if they're in the situation due to fate, but it's hopeless at the end, or the outcome is not preordained, and they triumph anyway.

Amnesia plots. Especially in the main character. Yes, it's lazy, especially in video games. I don't care. Again, bonus points for the character later finding out who they were before, especially if who they were is someone who would not have helped the heroes for whatever reasoning.

A person being a key...thing. Like, a sealed evil, or a plot trinket, or whatever. If that's a person--especially if they're completely unaware of what they are--I'll eat that right up. Especially if the villain is trying to use them somehow. Extra bonus points if they have some sort of relationship to the villain.

And I really like my heroes to be upright and moral, as in sticking to their own morals no matter what, regardless of whether people call them awful or gullible or stubborn or whatever for it. There can be nuances to it, but I like my heroes to be determined.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[(Anonymous)]

In addition to agreeing with a lot of what other people have said, I would like to add high school AU. They'e almost always awful, but I love the concept and I want more more more.

Re: Embarrassing tropes and cliches you like

[leikomgwtfbbq]

I love "Rashomon stories." The kind of stories where it's the same story told from several different points of view. I always love those! They're so much fun.