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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idiotic, yeah, but at least it’s more thought out than “because fuck you, that’s why” which is all we get a lot of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I would prefer an honest fuck you then an idea that doesn't actually make sense and is pretty obviously flawed.

That's not the taking into account hours much effort it took to pull off