Overused movie or tv show cliches/tropes that you absolutely HATE! A thread...

I discovered this site in 1996, visit it regularly when I need a laugh.
Cant believe someone is still paying on the name.
http://moviecliches.com/

My favorite cliches / tropes for the list will always be this:

MIDDLE AGES

*Medieval peasants always have filthy faces, tangled hair, ragged clothing - and perfect, gleaming white teeth. (cf. Braveheart, any Robin Hood movie).

*If you are a princess, you always have a favorite lady in waiting, and you always send her to warn the hero of the evil king's intention just in time.
Corollary: the lady in waiting is never quite as beautiful as the princess; however, she still always catches the eye of the hero's sidekick.

*In a swordfight, you can always parry behind your back, and you must always find a set of stairs to fight on so that the loser can roll down them and die at the bottom.

*Horses never get winded, throw a shoe, etc., until the pursuing sheriff is right behind the hero.
Corollary: the wagon that breaks an axle or gets stuck in the creek is always the one carrying the king's entire treasury, which he totes around with him every time he goes gallivanting through bandit-infested countryside.

- Overuse of "jump scares" in horror movies to string the viewers along.

- In bars or restaurants, patron eats/drinks very little, if at all, then just reaches in pocket, and plops down an undetermined amount of cash on the table/counter without even looking at the amount. Nobody ever asks for change or to break a large bill so they can tip the staff. Nobody ever uses a credit card to pay.

- Nobody ever says "goodbye" when ending a phone call.

- In sitcoms taking place in someone's home, after opening the front door to let people in ( or they burst in ), dialog/antics/action ensue and nobody ever closes the front door.

- When depicting a chasing vehicle ( car/truck/train/plane ) bearing down on a hapless character who is obviously going to be outrun, given the speed differences and rate of closure, multiple switching back-and-forth camera shots are shown of the speeding vehicle and terrified chase-ee. A closure time of 10 seconds is milked out to a minute and a half. Of course said chase-ee rarely, if ever attempts to divert their path, but just futilely run in a conveniently straight path in a wide open area.

After seeing Mythbusters busting several of these, I now know they are really, really fake.

- Being able to run across a falling bridge and make it to the other side before it finishes falling (doesn't work at all in real life, you fall immediately with the bridge

- lighting a trail of gunpowder that goes all the way to the leaking barrel, and blowing it up (again, doesn't work)

- car falling to the bottom of a cliff and always blowing up (not unless you detonate the car with explosives at the right moment)

- pointing guns in crazy directions and still hitting the target (only two of those work; pointing it the way you're taught at the gun range, or putting the barrel right up next to the intended target)

- nearly every chemical stunt in "Breaking Bad" (sorry, many of them were busted)

- over half of MacGyver's improvised "inventions" don't work in real life, most notably the ultralight aircraft he supposedly built in one episode

- epic car chase involving smashing your car through stands of fruit and still being able to keep on driving (not really, your car gets badly damaged, smells like a fruit smoothie, and eventually breaks down a minute later)

Oh, this is a creepy ass house where a lot of people have died & others have disappeared. So of course I'm gonna go in all by myself & investigate without any backup. Cause I don't believe in ghosts & stuff

must de-fuse this bomb
only 15 seconds til boom
but which wire do i cut?

I still have not learned to 'hot wire' a car and I feel like less than a man:/

The hero gets punched in the face how many times but never develops in the ugly swelling. Maybe just a drop of blood from the mouth or nose

The P.I. with a bottle of Scotch in the bottom drawer of his desk...That just seems unprofessional and he's very likely packing a pistol

Who hires this guy? Jeez, maybe I'll just go to the cops Bogart!