Foibles and Hated Tropes

[TheMonotonePuppet]

For the narcissistic, arrogant, and quote-unquote “objectively perfect”, this question is not for you!

For the subjectivist, adhering to the philosophy in truth or to troll, this question is equally not for you!

For the flawed readers not ruled out by the above, I ask: “What trope do you detest, but know at heart that it’s a ‘you’ problem?”

Cheers!

To give an example, I find myself completely unable to support reconciliation between a parent trying to get better after failing their child when reading (think Todoroki and Endeavor from MHA, and Taylor and Danny from “Worm”) and traumatizing them directly or by neglect. Every time they portray it, it just feels so unbelievable and fake. Like, you really think that’s enough to fix it? You really think that’s the end of it?
But in the end, I only find it unbelievable because of my mommy issues!?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[RedMuffin]

What trope do you detest, but know at heart that it’s a ‘you’ problem?

Characters having lots of adventures and exciting times in the entire academy arc of a story but still passing the exams with good grades.

 

[Extra16]

I was suddenly thinking back to that novel shadow slave, and I was thinking back to how his sister is living fine and well after getting adopted, even though the main character was living in the slums or whatever eking out his miserable existence and I had this sudden feeling of resentment against her, even though she obviously did nothing wrong and she’s not real, but yeah, clearly a me thing.

 

[PancakesWitch]

Characters having lots of adventures and exciting times in the entire academy arc of a story but still passing the exams with good grades.

what if the exam are the adventures

 

[RepresentingWrath]

The thing that comes to mind is GL, BL, and gender bender. It's not hate though, I simply don't understand them. Does it count?

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

Characters having lots of adventures and exciting times in the entire academy arc of a story but still passing the exams with good grades.

Yeah… not going to lie, I’ve felt this way too. Makes your soul hurt with jealousy, knowing you can’t balance it like they can.

The thing that comes to mind is GL, BL, and gender bender. It's not hate though, I simply don't understand them. Does it count?

Doesn’t count.

One, as you predicted, is that you have to hate it.

Two, you not liking them is not due to a foible of yours (a word which here means “a minor weakness of your character”). It’s ‘cause you’re heterosexual-straight/your fetishes don’t lean that way. Unless you perceive that as a fault for some reason?? I don’t think you do though… ?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[Biggest-Kusa-Out-There]

lack of futas

and when mc's are socially inept or cognitively disfunctional. my suspension of disbelief can't stretch enough to encompass outstanding shit happening to below average people back to back to back to back while remaining the same.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I hate lengthy character descriptions. I skip whole paragraphs in stories sometimes.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I think it is over stimulation, but if you give me too much gore and violence without downtime, I can only take so much and then had to stop.

Like eating a five person chocolate cake by myself. At best I can only shave off half to three-quarter.

Second, I like OP MC. Just not OP OP MC.

Preferbly weak to strong

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

lack of futas

??????? i hope you mean in real life cuz I can't escape futas lmao.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I feel excluded

 

[CharlesEBrown]

For the longest time I hated the "happily ever after" trope at the end of most fairy tales (years later found out this was a 20th century revision to the classics) - all these horrible things happen to these people, and yet they emerge unscarred, and often, aside from having a better position in life most of the time, unchanged ... but happy? That just never felt right.

 

[ElijahRyne]

For the narcissistic, arrogant, and quote-unquote “objectively perfect”, this question is not for you!

For the subjectivist, adhering to the philosophy in truth or to troll, this question is equally not for you!

For the flawed readers not ruled out by the above, I ask: “What trope do you detest, but know at heart that it’s a ‘you’ problem?”

Cheers!

To give an example, I find myself completely unable to support reconciliation between a parent trying to get better after failing their child when reading (think Todoroki and Endeavor from MHA, and Taylor and Danny from “Worm”) and traumatizing them directly or by neglect. Every time they portray it, it just feels so unbelievable and fake. Like, you really think that’s enough to fix it? You really think that’s the end of it?
But in the end, I only find it unbelievable because of my mommy issues!?

Face slapping and/or a character ironically peacocking. Such as person x saying that person y is a fraud because person x is the best.
Fight scenes are largely boring in books.
Also murderhobos.

 

[Rezcore]

Characters having lots of adventures and exciting times in the entire academy arc of a story but still passing the exams with good grades.

Then you'd hate me. I didn't study, was rarely at school, but had a good grade and passed every exam

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Then you'd hate me. I didn't study, was rarely at school, but had a good grade and passed every exam

So did my stepdaughter (her youngest brother tried, was in danger of flunking out due to a new attendance policy, dropped out and got his GED in time to graduate with his classmates... barely). For some strange reason, until my Junior year in high school, I managed to get by without any studying beyond doing homework myself and was a solid B+ student.

 

[Puji-Maki]

Yaoi and Harem. I don't need to explain myself.

 

[Amrasil207]

Bad people being so comically mustache-twirling evil and good people acting so moronically goody-two-shoes. I have little patience for characters so psychologically stilted. I absolutely loathe the Douchebag Young Master cliche too.

 

[Rezcore]

So did my stepdaughter (her youngest brother tried, was in danger of flunking out due to a new attendance policy, dropped out and got his GED in time to graduate with his classmates... barely). For some strange reason, until my Junior year in high school, I managed to get by without any studying beyond doing homework myself and was a solid B+ student.

To be fair I did drop out 6 months before graduation (not enough attendance credits, was supposed to be dealt with as I was working to support myself as I lived alone. New principal actually fucking hated me and decided to void the agreement and his wife the superintendent upheld it.)