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What are your most hated sci-fi/fantasy tropes? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a few:

Chosen ones, fate, destiny, &c. When you get down to it, a story with these themes is one where a single person or handful of people is ontologically, cosmically better and more important than everyone else. It's eerily similar to that right-wing meme about how "most people are just NPCs" (though I disliked the trope before that meme ever took off).
Way too much importance being given to bloodlines by the narrative (note, this is different from them being given importance by characters or societies in the story).
All of the good characters are handsome and beautiful, while all of the evil characters are ugly and disfigured (with the possible exception of a femme fatale or two).
Races that are inherently, unchangeably evil down to the last individual regardless of upbringing, society, or material circumstances.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

when in reality it should be an acomрlishment to just cast and rifle the cannons

Lol this reminds me of some of my old European history coursework where I came across plenty of descriptions of the early cannons fucking exploding because they were still trying to figure out the ratios of metal mixes and mathematic measurements

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. And those gunsmiths knew what they were doing. A random isekaied рerson would not. Theyd have to make a huge investment and it would take a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

at least the concept of a hwatcha is easy enough, just figure out the details on attaching an iron sleeve around the explosive charge that's thick enough to cause fragmentation but thin enough to not severely affect range or effectiveness, and you got a primitive Katyusha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes this is more clever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm trademarking this for my book, back off all you vultures!

Unless you credit me by naming it in your book "The Alaskatysha"