whats your least favorite trope in modern tv shows and movies
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shareI really hate.
Kick ass female.
That is, I believe, a male invention that is promoted as feminist but is really a form of prejudice. I say that because it doesn't capture what it takes to be tough and cunning as a female.
Black Widow from Avengers is one of the most heinous examples. The males have superpowers, super armor with an AI helping, god status, a super energy monster, high tech weapons, but she is totally without anything except fighting skill and the strength of a women, yet she is totally fine. She's not smart, she didn't invent anything, she has no armor, weapons, etc she is just a "force of nature" like a woman.
It reminds me of the other horrible trope:
The Magical Negro. That's where a black person will have magical knowledge, insight, etc that helps white people.
That kind of character needs nothing like a normal person because day have dat wisdom, ya'll.
The kick ass female could also be called The Magical Woman.
On the flipside, the "helpless" female. Someone or something is attacking them or someone else and they just cower helplessly and let themselves or other be killed.
I think "the magical negro" can also be extended to the magical indigenous person. You know the sage "tribal" person full of otherworldly wisdom, etc.
Another one is when someone is hiding from some eminent threat and they put THEIR OWN HAND over their mouth to keep from making noise!! Seriously? Just stay quiet, dumbass!!
I hate the magical indigenous person!!
It was popular in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, to have characters encounter a magical "Native American" who is wise and knows everything. I have even seen this crap in Japanese anime.
Meanwhile, Indians are pathetically poor alcoholics that live in poverty.
BUT---if white rich people think they are magical, they don't have to fix all that because the Indians like it because they are "in touch" with nature, or whatever the hell.
In real life I have seen women cower and put their hand over their mouths in dangerous situations. But, it's an annoying cliche. In the 70s women would bite their curled up index finger when stressed!
I do that comically in real life, lol.
"On the flipside, the "helpless" female. Someone or something is attacking them or someone else and they just cower helplessly and let themselves or other be killed."
I thought you liked realism in movies, or do I have you mixed up with someone else?
I think just mixed up, in general. ;)
shareSo it wasn't you who was defending unlikable characters in movies because unlikable people exist in reality?
shareOf course it was me but you clearly didn't understand what I was talking about, whatsoever.
share"Of course it was me"
So you're in a state of self-contradiction. On the one hand you defend unlikable characters because it's realistic, and on the other hand, you deride helpless female characters, despite it being realistic.
"but you clearly didn't understand what I was talking about, whatsoever."
Your non sequitur is dismissed.
Go you. Your lack of basic cognitive process is similarly dismissed.
Cheers.
Your non sequitur is dismissed, and since you have no arguments, your tacit concession is noted.
Also:
Comical Irony Alert (you know, coming from the simpleton who thinks there's such a thing as food ingredients that inherently "healthy" or "unhealthy," and who is in a state of self-contradiction, and who produces non sequiturs)
Enjoy a nice healthy bowl of dick, troll.
shareYour non sequitur (which includes a laughable attempt to redefine the word "troll") is dismissed, and your tacit concession (due to lack of arguments of any kind) remains noted.
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shareYour non sequitur is dismissed, and your tacit concession remains noted.
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shareYour non sequitur is dismissed, and your tacit concession remains noted.
shareIf it's dismissed, why do you keep responding?
shareYour non sequitur is dismissed, and your tacit concession remains noted.
shareSo you respond to a question with your idiotic phrase that you use constantly on MC? Do you think anyone is impressed with it? I'll save you from trying to think: No. You sound like a tool of the highest order. Now please, have the last word so you can tell yourself you won an internet fight!
share"So you respond to a question with your idiotic phrase"
Any reply that's irrelevant to the argument (i.e., doesn't follow) is a non sequitur, simpleton, and that includes questions. Every one of your replies to me in this thread has consisted of nothing but non sequiturs (with the exception of "Of course it was me"), including the one I'm replying to right now.
"that you use constantly on MC"
That's because people constantly post non sequiturs in arguments, obviously, and not just on this site. It's characteristic of idiots, and most people are idiots.
"Do you think anyone is impressed with it?"
Your non sequitur is dismissed, Slow Doug.
"I'll save you from trying to think"
Comical Irony Alert: Part II
"Now please, have the last word so you can tell yourself you won an internet fight!"
Your tacit concession remains noted and your resignation is accepted.
"On the flipside, the "helpless" female. Someone or something is attacking them or someone else and they just cower helplessly and let themselves or other be killed."
Yes! This one used to drive me nuts in old movies. A woman would be standing nearby watching the good guy fighting with the bad guy, choosing the worst time ever to have a case of the vapours. I'd be yelling at the screen "Come ON! Pick up a rock, anything, this is life a death!"
Some movies have gone too far in the opposite direction more recently, I'll agree with that.
I haven’t really seen the magical negro trope in a while, it was more of a 90’s thing. But yes, it was stupid and annoying that the wise ol’ timey black guy could see into the future or whatever.
shareI hate it and noticed it before I knew that term.
I had to search around for it.
Steven King loved it.
I had to stop reading the Dark Tower series because he had a "crazy black lady" with wisdom who was also fucking in a wheelchair! Later, a friend of mine suggested the Green Mile because I worked in a prison and it featured the most magical negro ever.
People will like black people more if they are magic angels!
No.
Homosexuals get the same treatment. They are born knowing they're gay, when heteros know nothing. They aren't weird, nothing they do is bizarre or gross, they are just being who are "that way".
It's a thing liars do that I guess actually cannot accept these people.
King (among others) is also fond of the Magical kid in touch with the supernatural forces or with unexplained mystical powers that save the day.
shareI hate those! Do not watch Midnight Special (2016)...
shareOH GOD!!
I hate that very much!
I hate kids in any show where they "know stuff" and are on some adventure. I even hated it as a kid because I wanted to be a man as a kid, not a kid.