Are there any sort of tropes or generally common story choices that make perfect sense but you just don't like?

[VanVeleca]

For one reason or another, wheter it be your morals your own experience with a similar situation or even just you not being able to understand how tf the characters are able to just do or say a certain thing, what sort of story beat/trope do you frequently roll your eyes at whenever it happens? Even if it was objectively a good choice for the story overall and is such a common choice that authors have, maybe even you use yourself.

I cannot for the life of me get when a character is suddenly able to just forgive and forget. I don't get it, I just don't understand. Whenever someone wrongs me or hurts me it stays with me for literal years, sometimes I quite literally cannot bring myself to forgive at all because the memory still feels so fresh even if it happened years in the past. Hell even with people where I don't remember why I suddenly grew to fear/hate them, the feeling still remains and it takes FOREVER for it to leave. If it ever leaves at all that is.

Objectively however, it makes sense for characters to forgive because staying angry or being afraid of someone forever is highly irrational. Still, during first reads it always just irks me.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

A lot of times, I get mildly annoyed by the time factor - some stuff (like "moving on/forgiving") is often presented as far too fast to be realistic - but that is often done because it is needed for plot purposes, and a realistic timing would just add a dozen chapters of soul searching and the person being forgiven working to earn it. I have a character who will eventually confess to why he did everything he did, and it should neither be expected nor convince anyone that he deserves forgiveness, just that he wants to be understood. It will be very difficult to pull off, I suspect.
This time factor issue also crops up in other situations, like working with computers, dealing with medical issues, etc. Intellectually, I understand that things move at the speed of plot, but sometimes, emotionally, I want them to move in real-time and feel a little betrayed when they don't.

 

[worldismyne]

Someone falling into insta love with an unconscious person they never talked to before, especially if the person falling in love is in a healer/doctor/nurse role.

I get that attraction is something some people can't control, but so often the narrator/POV doesn't address the ethical implications and goes straight for the romantic short hand used in any other insta love plot. It just makes the problem worse, depicting their lead as a bad caretaker (and one that would get fired) or even worse, predatory. Especially since for these opening scenes we're following the inner thoughts of the caretaker meeting this unconscious person. (Movies this isn't as big of an issue for me, since you can decide what the lead is thinking, instead of reading how the lead is only thinking about how hot a vulnerable person is)