Date: 2019-07-26 02:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] naye
What a fascinating question! I'm with [personal profile] xparrot and [personal profile] doctorskuld and we're having a great discussion about it now. None of us had a list ready, but I'm working one out now. Here's two:

- Love triangles. The traditional one where one person "has to" choose (or leads them both on) and the odd one out is cut out of the story forever/goes evil.

- When a character crushes on someone, is rejected, and the narrative has them continue to carry a torch and hit on the object of their affection every now and again. Really, anything with not taking no for an answer. Ugh.

- "Men and women can't just be friends"

- "Dark and gritty" in the Game of Thrones sense where there is lots and lots and lots of completely gratuitous violence (esp sexual).

But I don't think I have anything that will make me stop reading/watching, because some tropes can be subverted or written well enough to be worth it?
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