Getting cracked over the head with a big rock, a lead pipe, or the butt of a pistol results in nothing but a 5-10 minute nap and a minor wound. I swear Joe Mannix musta been knocked out about 50 times… not to mention being shot in the shoulder every second or third episode.
They are just good enough that you know it was drawn by an adult in kid style.
Wether it is leaving guns lying around instead of keeping them on their body at all times, not reloading a guns magazine when they have a chance (it is more of a thing in the books but Reacher drives me nuts with this, he will pick up two guns and literally pick the one with the smaller mag that he already half emptied because he "knows that it works" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST LOAD THE BIGGER MAG INTO IT THEN), not making sure someone is dead, not just shooting the guy when given the chance, having conversations in places / moments where they shouldn’t, stubbornly refusing to listen to the more qualified person…
It’s basically the opposite of plot armor where heroes constantly take stupid or unnecessary risks or just turn into clumsy idiots because the plot needs them to be captured, hurt or killed.
I think this qualifies as a trope, and it drives me nuts every time I see it.
A character says something like, “Sir, I’d like to go on the next mission,” and the person in charge snaps back with, “You’re in no position to make demands!”
Since when is asking to do something a demand?
That specific example is from the first episode of Stargate SG-1, but there are endless variations of it. Someone asks for basic information, asks to help, asks for food, asks to come along, or says something perfectly reasonable like, “May I speak with them?” and the response is some angry version of, “You don’t get to make demands here.”
But they weren’t making demands. They were asking a question.
To me, it’s just lazy writing. It’s a shortcut to create artificial tension by making one character overreact to something the other character didn’t actually say.
If a scene needs conflict, fine, but let the conflict come from what was actually said, not from pretending a request is a demand.
Perhaps it's better characterized as “The Request Treated as a Demand” trope.
Anyway, if this bothers you too, please add an example of one you've seen.
It makes sense in an emergency when they're fleeing for their life or something but it also happens when people are just doing regular things.
Watching a show set in Russian winter (very cold) and the guy literally tells his driver to "keep the car warm" then gets out of the back seat and leaves his door wide open. He's only going a few feet from the car and you can actually see it in the background open the whole time.
not sure if it counts as a trope but why do they not put some kind of weigh or liquid in the cups in every movie or damn show ? you can tell its empty and no actor on earth can make it look not fucking empty.
Everyone always enjoys the scene in a movie or book where the detective reveals how the crime was cleverly carried out, but surely that doesn’t happen in real life (does it?) So where did the trope originate? A book? Is it just that audiences enjoy it so much and there has to be a resolution to a story?
Wrath Of Man
>!The opening scene shows an armoured truck robbery from the inside of the truck. Later in the film you see how the heist played out from the outside of the truck.!<
Okay, so I know the title sounds odd but if it wasn’t clear, I meant that very stereotypical thing where something crazy, often times supernatural e.g. Jennifer’s Body, happens in a show and only one character is actually aware of it. Then for some ridiculous reason that person loses all rational thought on how telling someone who doesn’t know about what happened might make them seem crazy.
Using the Jennifer’s Body example again, when Needy tells Chip about Jennifer and the failed sacrifice which is why the boys have been dying, in what world would any rational person actually think someone who hasn’t experienced it for themselves think what she’s saying is reasonable? I can’t think of any other examples other than specifically Nikki and Hiro from the show Heroes but Hiro actually has the capabilities to prove his case, less so Nikki but I’ve not finished it so that may change.
It’s just starting to feel exhausting and overdone now. In what world would anyone take you seriously if you said your childhood friend was victim to a failed satanic sacrifice which led her to be possessed by a man-eating succubus. Just come on.
I was just watching "Good Fortune" (2025) with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and was thinking that (magical angel aside) the most unlikely thing in the movie is that there would be a super wealthy business man, who had a vacancy for an executive assistant, with zero idea how to fill it and apparently no other people in his life beating at his door to do that work. (That would be a *dream* job for so many people!) I think this is part of the "executive who can't function alone" trope, which is very common. But I can think of more movies where the trope is "executive loses the only person who can look after him/her" or "executive goes through multiple people because no one else is willing or able to work with them" (Devil Wears Prada; The Proposal etc) than movies where the plot is the executive just doesn't seem to know anyone at all. Is that a common subtrope?
I see this all the time. It happens in series as well. I was just watching Hannibal, and Jack Crawford did it. I myself never do it. Do you?
Is it me or are drug induced freak outs in tv shows and movies increasing common?
I never enjoy seeing them. I feel they are just used to waste an episode or ten to twenty minutes in a movie. And they never add anything to the plot. Even the new Malcolm in the Middle series had a whole episode for one for Christ sake. I find it so lazy and just seems the be the trend to be cool or edgy. I mean who really cares these days if someone smokes or whatever these days. So cringe.