Most hated TV/movie trope

[Brasel]

When I saw this, I thought you were talking about the television show about magical martial arts. Then I realized you were talking about the movie with the giant blue people.

Yeah, the cartoon is way better. I love that show. I own all three books of the original series on DVD.

[CJC]

The Last Airbender cartoon is fantastic!


...But I'm risking derail, so I suppose I should post another hated trope. I don't think there's a name for this, but... when every lead character has to make a reaction to EVERY situation. Though not technically a TV show, the Disgaea games are particularly guilty of this. Oh no, the villain has said something! Now wait ten minutes while each of the two dozen main characters input their two cents.

[GrantGreif]

If we're also talking about games, I'd like say that dramatic irony (when the viewer knows something the protagonist doesn't) does not work well in them. A major example of this I can think of would be the Bubble Lake segment in Bowser's Inside Story. Basically, Mario and Bowser are both trying to find a sage before the other. Bowser thinks it's in a forest, however the player knows that it isn't, but you still have to try to get Bowser to the forest to advance the plot anyway.

[Liliith]

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[Aliem]

I just saw a trailer for this film coming out called Lucy. And it reminded me of the absolute most irritating trope of all time.

"We only use 10% of our brains!"

The only people who only use ten percent of their fucking brains are the morons that think that's a good premise for a story.

[GrantGreif]

I just saw a trailer for this film coming out called Lucy. And it reminded me of the absolute most irritating trope of all time.

"We only use 10% of our brains!"

The only people who only use ten percent of their fucking brains are the morons that think that's a good premise for a story.

I don't know if it's 10%, but there is a portion of our brain that cannot be used for one reason; it's the adhesive holding it together. Billions of years of evolution would not result in a brain that could not be used to its full potential

[rock_nog]

The closest reality comes to that "10% of your brain" crap is the fact that not all areas of your brain are firing all the time. But obviously they're not, or otherwise the brain wouldn't be able to generate meaningful signals. If every neuron were firing constantly, it'd be the equivalent of static. Like, if you were looking at a computer at the binary level, and could see all the 1's and 0's, would you say, "This computer is inefficient, it's only using about half of the available 1's. All these 0's could be 1's, too!"