There are A LOT & You don't have to name name all of them. Just a couple & let's keep it going till, I don't know, the end of time maybe. lol
I'm gonna start us off...
When a character has a gun & clearly has the upper hand over the other person but takes out the bullets & throws away the gun so they can fight hand to hand. It's so stupid & happens WAY too often
Keep it going...
I love tropes. Tropie trope tropes, there they go, down into my belly!!
share100 pound chick kicks 200 pound male martial arts experts asses - even multiple opponents- who attack 1 at a time
and when knocked down, they stay down for th right amount of time
Oh yeah, the hand-to-hand combats where the hero is surrounded by 100 combatants, all of whom wait politely for their turn to fight him one-on-one. Not one of those combatants ever spears the hero in the back, or hits him in the on the head while he's fighting the guy who's taking his turn, and they certainly never tackle him en masse and kill him when he's pinned down and helpless!
And speaking of hand-to-hand combat and battles, it still bugs the shit out of me that in bladed-weapon battles the bad guys always wear helmets, and the heroes never do! Of course going into ancient or medieval combat with swords, spears, and arrows flying everywhere is suicide, but still, the good guys never wear helmets. That's so we can see the hero's face and facial expressions but not those of the villains, it's a quick and easy of making the official good guys more sympathetic than the bad guys, who are dehumanized by armor covering their bodies and faces. It's a quick and easy way to get the desired response from an audience, but it's also inauthentic and just plain stupid.
no bad guy ever just shoots them
cuz bad guys always miss the hero with bullets
That was one reason I adored the first Indiana Jones movie when it came out - the scene where he's hopelessly overmatched in a one-to-one fight and he just shoots the guy.
I may have been like 14, but I'd already devoted years to asking why the hell Batman's supervillain enemies and their henchmen never dropped the elaborate murder schemes and popped him with a handgun.
My favorite martial arts scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35tyICwMFw4
shareWomen can do anything a man can do, only better, 000. They've done studies.
shareAll Christian ministers on tv are attention whores, hypocrites, sleep with little boys, and are mean to anyone who doesn't follow their twisted idea of Christianity to the letter. They also like to stand out in the street and make themselves sound like idiots.
Boy do I get tired of that.
That is not my experience.
I've seen a lot of good priests and ministers on TV.
Usually they're on the better shows ;)
shareThis guy is classic
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+tilton
Getting a celebrity to come on a tv series to play themselves. Rarely funny, and usually just cringe worthy.
shareAgreed. Unless the celeb is an actor playing himself/herself -- in which case the celeb, being an actor, knows how to act -- it usually falls flat. I think the worst one I've ever seen was Vanna White's appearance on LA Law. I'm tempted to say she was wooden as a tree, but that would be an insult to trees.
share1. Head gets cut off. Victim freezes, staring. Head slowly slides off instead of an immediate gout of blood and toppling head. Doesn't matter how wide or jagged the weapon is, the cut is laser thin and doesn't make the person collapse. This one makes me fly around the room.
2. Playing Europe's song "The Final Countdown" in any bomb situation
Or Person is fatally shot but is totally ok until someone points it out or notices. Then it's suddenly fatal. Usually ending in death
shareAny character that picks up a firearm immediately is a highly skilled shooter.
You see this a lot in the zombie sub genre especially. People will be pulling off one perfect headshot after another, sometimes on a moving target, shooting rapidly.
Amnesia.
I don't think I need to say anything else.
'Nuff said.
shareAnd both the cause and the cure are a simple bump to the head.
shareWhat I think is funny is --
You can still tie your shoes,
You can still eat your food without assistance,
You can talk and walk around like Everyone Else ...
but you've had enough of a traumatic brain injury that You Can't Remember Your Own Name or Who Your Family Is !
And you committed some crime you can't remember, blah blah blah.
But in the last couple minutes -- Problem Resolved !
And of course, if you were a horrible sociopathic killer or something before a knock on the head caused amnesia... you're a thoroughly decent person afterwards, and use your murderous powers for good from then on.
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