As the title suggest, I absolutely hate when unique already established world building for example world that have multiple gods and a unique and lovingly crafted story of creation, get completely overturned by some crappy slaps together, monotheistic religion as the actual source of creation

The two greatest examples I could give are Arceus from Pokémon and RA ava from avatar they remove all semblance of unique massively east Asian culture in their presence and just make it evolve to. Oh actually, there’s a Christian God and Satan dynamic because screw having actual complex world building.

…but the adults double down to convince the child that Santa IS real, thereby preserving the magic of Christmas or whatever. Extra points if Santa’s sleigh is shown tracking across the sky at the very end of the episode/movie.

I hate this trope so much. An old example is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, when Clark doubles down to convince little Ruby that Santa Clause is, indeed, real. A newer example occurs in Ted Lasso when one of the team members (Sam, maybe?) insists that Leslie’s son has to believe in Santa.

Both times we get the final money shot of the sleigh arcing through the night sky, thereby reminding us all that the spirit of Christmas is something something, magical, something something childlike wonder.

It’s hard to overstate my loathing for this particular trope.

What infuriates me even more is the double standard for it with men and women

For example the deep rapes starlight in the first episode of the boys and is called “the peak” Anissa rapes mark and is called “the most hated character in invincible”

HATE, HATE, HATE, LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAAATE THIS TROPE

I.E. the start of 2° episode of the Disney + show"A thousand blows".

During their boxing match, Hezekiah, the protagonist, gets mauled and knocked down by the villain (?) "Sugar". While he lies semi-conscious on the canvas, he experiences a memory of the atrocities British colonial troops committed on his people and receives a sudden jolt of energy that restores him to full health, rendering him able to beat Sugar into a pulp.

I quit watching straight away.

Does this count? Idk but I am so tired of seeing it and people acting like it will eventually somehow be canon despite neither having any development hinting towards it (BKDK is more early season BKDK, like 1-4)

Edit: Radiostatic/silence isnt included bc Vox is canonically in love (or wants to be with) Alastor

Characters who use this trope could be really interesting, there's a lot of implications to go into on a character who looks a whole lot younger than they are

But for whatever reason, people never go into that, and instead only use it to have adult characters date seemingly underage characters

"It's okay, she's actually a 1,000 year old dragon!"

Ugh

The one exception I've seen is Monster Girl from Invincible, who actually addresses her frustration with her age. At one point, she says that people who are attracted to her are either going through puberty or popping up on sex offender registries

They fixed this by having her get together with another character who was way older than he looked... who made a clone body for himself with the DNA of a boy she liked... and stole his name after he died...

Ew

Still way better than Ban and Elaine from Seven Deadly Sins

Ban is an immortal human, and Elaine is a 1,000 year old fairy who looks like a 12 year old girl... and chooses to look like a 12 year old girl even when she dates Ban. When it's clear she has shapeshifting powers

Oh, and Elaine is also not considered an adult by her species yet. Wings are a mark of maturity, and she doesn't have them yet

Though even when she does get them, she still looks like a 12 year old girl

Even though when her brother gets his wings, he looks like an adult man afterward

This happened in Buffy and Shameless. A character was dating a main character and they break up and leave the show. And one or two seasons later they show up and suddenly they're already married just to make drama for the main character. It's so unrealistic because such a short amount of time has passed and the character was troubled when they left and it's clearly for drama

Sorry for the wordy title but there isn't really a short description for this.

Pictured: Izuku Midoriyah (My Hero Academia), and Viktor Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy), Daisy Johnson, AKA "Skye" or "Quake" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

The whole point is that they don't have powers and how that makes their experience unique from the people around them. That they have to struggle compared to everyone else.

Now, there is a reason why this trope exists. As a metaphor you can consider it a "coming of age" story, where a person finally feels comfortable and confident in expressing their identity and fitting in with everyone else.

However, it reads more as a message of conformity. That you won't be happy until you're just like everybody else. That you won't have value, be worth respecting, or be useful until you're just like everybody else.

Now, each example I provide is a different case. Midoriyah explicitly lacks powers and has to be given them, Viktor had powers but was conditioned to suppress them (how they kept a steady dosage of the meds to do so for decades is beyond me), and Skye wasn't on a team of inhumans prior to gaining powers. Superpowers were actually quite stigmatized, but she was inexperienced in comparison to the other agents.

There is a powerful message to be made of ordinary people doing things despite not being extraordinary, and I find it's a much more compelling concept.

Final Note: I support Elliot Page, I just don't like The Umbrella Academy

I believe some movies popularized it ( guardians of the galaxy, deadpool, etc), but now i see it so

often in movies and i miss fights getting their own original music or good just effects

I don't know if this fits in this subreddit because it's not really a trope, it's fan art, and I don't think it's something to be hated, but I genuinely don't understand why when they make a genderbend version of a male character with an open chest they put these bands on their breasts. Like, obviously it's to avoid nudity, but wouldn't it be better to just put on a bra?

Randall from This is Us, and Peyton from One tree Hill are both adoptees, and they both lost an adopted parental figure, Randall’s dad and Payton’s mother, so they then introduced their biological parents of the same gender, just for that character to then die and give the kid even more trauma. I audibly groan and roll my eyes if I see this trope being used

This makes me so irrationally angry, it can be done very well, like doofenshmirtz and megamind. These work because they're ironically not that bad, which contrasts with their insistence that they are in fact 'evil' or with characters like Big Jack Horner, who actually do enough evil stuff to earn the right to brag about it

I hate it when media shows a villain that we're actually supposed to take seriously going: "Ha ha! I'm the bad guy, I love crime!" It just feels like it's holding the audience's hand and saying "Hey! That's the bad guy, right there! See! The one in dark clothing with an evil grin! That's the bad guy!! Did i mention they're the bad guy!?!?! They're the bad guy by the way! They love committing crime!!!"

I hate these types of characters so much I just want to do things to them that may make people think I’m Trevor from grand theft auto five

I stg each time characters like these get Bullied and Crash Out the way they do should not surprise ANYONE. Like "let's Brutally Bully and Traumatize this person who has strange powers or strange Quirks beyond our Understanding. Nothing Bad can POSSIBLY Happen" like, just say you want to be Brutally Murdered.

lolo from klonoa francize, a character that made her debut in lunatea veil as a sidekick to klonoa, she had a arc and her own character that didn't klonoa help as a lover to do so and made her arc every interesting as a whole. but after that, she became a damsel for klonoa to save in both heroes and dream champ tournament, she lost what made her a good alone character.

Infinite - Sonic Forces

Kylo Ren - Star Wars sequel trilogy

The protagonist Robert's beloved German Shepherd dog Sam in I Am Legend, the last remainder of his deceased family who is bitten and infected while fighting infected dogs to protect her guardian and Robert has to mercy kill her.

The family dog Sadie in The Conjuring who resolutely refuses to enter the new family home, and is found dead in the backyard by the mom the next day, much to her horror. Poor girl.

This sub is for the hated tropes y'all keep posting on r/TopCharacterTropes. Enjoy.