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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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[–] someguy3 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The super badass guy. Just seems so lame.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 1 week ago

Those guys definitely exist irl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

Grenades. A hand grenade has a kill radius of 5 meters and an injury radius of 15 meters. You're not going to toss one around a corner and survive.

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[–] Reddfugee42 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For that matter, when someone gets shot center mass and they collapse like Cypher just pulled them from the matrix

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