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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I have grown to really fucking hate deus ex machina in any form. Luck is always a factor, but c'mon. It usually comes down to lazy writing and they just couldn't be assed to come up with an explanation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can tolerate it, if it was prefaced earlier.

People do tend to come to the aid of others when they're needed the most - it happens.

But if a truck comes barrelling towards Jason Vorhees and knocks him into a train, allowing our characters to run away, that's a hard no.