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...
Got another one, Person wakes up from coma after years & can just walk off like a normal person
You know how numb your leg gets or sometimes even hurts when you've been sitting for too long? Now imagine not using your limbs for months or years. I read that a lot of patients have to actually relearn how to walk
Yes. There would be muscle atrophy. Which reminds me... this is something they don't seem to address in sci-fi films about colonists on the moon or Mars. Years of living in a low-gravity environment would lead to muscle atrophy and also a loss of bone density.
shareThat's something that's at least addressed in the Sci-Fi series, "The Expanse". Whenever humans from Mars come to earth, they have to wear like heavy boots, take medications & stuff. They can barely even walk straight or handle earth's bright environment on their first visits
Same with people who are born in outer space & have never actually been to earth. The gravity on earth actually hurts them physically.
I had seen The Sea Hawk a hundred times before I realized that chained galley slaves probably couldn't run up the stairs and capture another ship. Also did galley slaves sit upon a pile of shit and piss?
shareThis has been kind of covered in this thread already but I'll hit it again.
Not making sure the bad guy is dead.
DOUBLE TAP
DOUBLE TAP
Say it with me, people.............
Double Tap
Double Tap
> cliches/tropes that you absolutely HATE!
Cop looks at a murder victim and says, "This was personal." I hate that one because it's so damned stupid -- unless the perpetrator was a hired killer just doing it for the money, premeditated murder always has some personal motive, doesn't it?
That's actually something that investigators and criminal profilers believe (if you believe that criminal profiling is anything more than bullshit pseudo-science and guesswork), that the amount of viciousness in an attack indicates whether the attack was motivated by personal hatred or is random.
If someone is stabbed 300 times, including wounds inflicted after death, it's likely that the killer had hated the victim and was releasing pent-up emotion in the murder. Two shots sure-kill shots with no muss or fuss make them think the killing was professional and with no personal feeling involved, etc.
> Two shots sure-kill shots with no muss or fuss make them think the killing was professional and with no personal feeling involved, etc.
The "double tap" is good if you're fighting multiple assailants and don't want to waste any more time and ammo on any particular person than necessary. Even then, it's pretty much guaranteed to stop an assailant, not necessarily kill him. But if I were going to commit a murder, whether a cold blooded one for money or a furious one for revenge, I'd shoot the victim a dozen times or more, for the simple purpose of making extra sure he was really dead. Bullets are cheap.
If you think you need a dozen shots to kill someone, well, perhaps you might be interested in an anatomy and physiology course?
There's a reason the real professionals go for the shot in the back of the head, that's where the reticular activating system a.k.a. the "seat of consciousness" is. Hit that, and you only need one bullet.
> If you think you need a dozen shots to kill someone, well, perhaps you might be interested in an anatomy and physiology course?
Been there, done that. Close call with med school. But hey, weird thing happen. Better gross overkill than accidental underkill.
Off topic -- There was a newspaper story during the Hatfield-McCoy feud. According to the reporter, one of the murders was perpetrated in a particularly gruesome way. The killer used gunshots to torture his victim, incapacitating but not killing him with the first shot, then carefully placing subsequent shots in non-lethal locations to inflict pain, until finally killing him with the twenty-fifth shot. The story was complete horseshit, of course. Hooray for the American press.
> There's a reason the real professionals go for the shot in the back of the head, that's where the reticular activating system a.k.a. the "seat of consciousness" is. Hit that, and you only need one bullet.
If you consider it a point of professional pride to use as few bullets as possible, OK, that's your style. Each man must kill in his own way. And I'm sure your clients would appreciate your efforts to keep expenses down. But to be sure of hitting a victim there, I'd have to use a handgun and hold it to his head, which would mean he'd be close enough to fight back. Even worse, when I did shoot him in the head I might get his brains all over my nice Ivy League suit. Too messy. So I'd probably use a rifle and scope. But while I'm a pretty good marksman I could use some improvement, so that's another reason for multiple shots -- target practice.
I like your thinking!
As for myself, if I ever had a gun and wanted to kill someone with it, the number of bullets I used would be entirely situational. How sure I am that I got in a fatal shot the first time, how many people might be listening to the noise being made, how much the victim in question pissed me off, how many other enemies need killing compared to the number of bullets, how many enemies are trying to kill me at that very moment, etc. Because if there are other enemies actively drawing a bead on me, there may be a moment or two when I settle for incapacitating the first guy.
It seems like in 9 out of 10 westerns the bartender does not ask for money, or there is never a guy under the age of 30 in most movie western bars. Same thing with Dr. No as Bond is gambling at 2 in the morning along side dozens of senior citizens.
share"Honey, I'm Home"
shareThe "nerdy" girl who can't get a date is suddenly hot and desirable just by removing her glasses.
The car won't start until the bad guy is right up on the good guy driver. Then suddenly, voila! The engine works and the good guy can get away.
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I've actually known a lot of nerdy females who know how to dress up and look really great when they have a reason to, and the next morning they all go back to their usual glasses, lack of makeup, and comfortable shoes. And often, the nerdy guy who likes a gal who isn't fussing with her hair and makeup all day.
Makeovers don't change lives, they just give a person more options.
I can't stand this one either, maybe because I have a thing for girls with glasses.
shareI recently rewatched Grease and The Breakfast Club...please don't judge me, I unashamedly love those movies!
Am I the only guy that thought Olivia Newton John and Ally Sheedy were both super hot way before their 'big makeover' scenes?!
Jeez, Ally Sheedy would have caused fights amongst the Lads in High School!
On TV police shows when the detectives are going to question/arrest suspects. Instead of quietly and stealthily approaching them they call out the suspect's name 50 feet away which leads to a long foot chase down streets, alleys and up fire escapes and through people's apartments. I guess writers figure that's more exciting than a quiet and uneventful arrest.
shareOP, for future reference, a cliche or trope MEANS “used. too often.”
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