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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Grenades. A hand grenade has a kill radius of 5 meters and an injury radius of 15 meters. You're not going to toss one around a corner and survive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's Always Sunny makes a joke about this. They throw a grenade in a car, expecting it to be a huge awesome fiery explosion.

Instead, "poomf" and the car alarm and airbags go off with a little bit of smoke.

"That's it? Well maybe the cops will think we just like, disintegrated or something I don't know"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You've clearly never been affected by an instant knock-out drug!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bullshit happy endings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have grown to really fucking hate deus ex machina in any form. Luck is always a factor, but c'mon. It usually comes down to lazy writing and they just couldn't be assed to come up with an explanation.