Critical Discussion of Popular Storytelling Tropes

1. (Hated) Dr. doesn’t know trans people exist (The Good Doctor): Dr. Shaun, a modern day grown adult doctor, is seemingly has no concept of what being a trans person. Even if he never heard the term ...

1. Jumanji — Alan tell Peter to get an axe from the shed to save him from a bunch of spiders. Peter ran to the shed, found it locked, grabbed a NEARBY AXE to try to break it before realizing he has th...

1. Don (Mr. Birchum): friend with the main character who agrees essentially with every single opinion held by Birchum. 2. (Loved when Parodied) Floppy Rabbit (American Dad): an allegorical character...

Billy Thunderman - Thundermans: In the show, he can run at superhuman speeds, and once ran from USA to France, then ran back in one second (It was even said that he was slower than usual). Well, in on...

**The batman (04)**: Batman has to stop the cluemaster from killing off his old show stars. He has to ask a question for cluemaster to solve; lest they fall into acid. Cluemaster knows supposedly ever...

**Examples:** * **\[Hated\] Severus Snape (Harry Potter) -** As far as I know, Paapa is one of the few nonwhite actors cast in the series, and he plays Snape. In the books, Harry assumes Snape is evi...

“People aren’t cargo, mate” — Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End In an iconic deleted scene from the third POTC movie, Jack Sparrow recalls a job he once took from the ruthless Cutler Beckett ...

\-Sombra (Overwatch) \-Miles Morales (Marvel) \-Mirabel Madrigal (Encanto/Disney) \-Dani Rojas (Far Cry 6) \-El Sueño (Ghost Recon Wildlands)

1. Futurama - Everyone at the club wears rings because they’re… stupid? And if you say they’re cool, something bad happens? Okay, sure, whatever 2. Phineas and Ferb - Neither of Doofenshmirtz’s parent...

When a creature/person takes over/copies another character's body, and gets caught. Bonus points if the person who catches them reacts in a calm manner. The Summer Hikaru Died. Dead Mount Death Play...

1: Menos Grande - Bleach 2: >!Demon!< \- Dungeon Meshi

Snape in the Harry Potter reboot makes pretty much all the protagonists look racist Shaggy is a do nothing slacker who lives in a van with his giant dog, eats nothing but junk food, smokes weed and r...

Saiki K. Disastrous life: Saiki's brother decided to give him a complex puzzle as a birthday gift, since Saiki can use psychometry to touch something and instantly know what happened, he make people l...

McKenzie - Danger 5: A guy with the head of a lion who speaks only Japanese. Hitler, the main antagonist of Danger 5, similarly only speaks German. Lady Rainicorn - Adventure Time: Speaks only Korean...

This trope is when a character in the movie or tv show is known as flamboyant or different from most masculine guys, and the story focuses on this storyline leading to a lot of audiences believing tha...

1: Shay Cormac (Assassin Creed Rouge) Killing Adwale (The protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry and a main character of Assassin's Creed 4) 2: Trevor Phillips (Grand Theft Auto 5) Killing John...

Pi Patel - his journey after being shipwrecked is one of grit and introspection. If anything, the world around him is mystical. Connie Maheswaran - she starts off as a nerdy-type, but quickly develop...

Phineas and Ferb - When Phineas and Ferb are making a movie about a princess, the big scene consists of Candace being put through a bunch of extreme movie effects that lead to the movie footage lookin...

1) Abraham Lincoln from real life 2) Abraham Lincoln (Immortal) from Invincible 3) Abraham Lincoln (King of Mars) from Adventure Time

Mugatu's "Derek it's just a model-" from Zoolander, when his voice drops to a normal tone for a second reacting to Zoolander's "What is this! A center for ANTS?" line. Josh Myers, toilet paperer mast...

I don't know what it is about it, but seeing the heroes actually threatened, and I don't mean just 'oh. This guy is tough' no, I mean, 'Oh. This is the worst possible case' sense just feels... Satisfy...

Charro Negro (Las Leyendas/Legend Quest) Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

A good example of this is from the Teen Wolf fandom where for ages we didn’t have a first name for Sheriff Stilinski’s character so everyone just decided that it was John. It got to the point that the...

1. Remus Lupin (Harry Potter): JK Rowling likes these kinds of word association-based names, but this might be one of the most silly ones. Lupin means related to wolves. Remus is one of the twins that...

Snafu Characters in the post: Ekans Dilos Smuggie Killer Ha Yin Beanie Girl Mint Chan Sixteenth Note Chan Dr. Holocaust Poopenfarten Silly Little Goofus Murderous Murderbeast

I was 4 episodes into this season when I realized that Joanna is the same woman who played the porn stand-in love interest of Agent Ross in “Love, Actually”. This is probably a well-known fact, but it...

Jack was a fan of astronomy and enjoyed watching the stars with the telescope on his roof. He even knew what the "accretion disk" of a black hole is. The more the series went on and the less this asp...

I’m an anthropologist so I love when stories do this for there villains. It gets across the fact that they have been involved in the world of the story for a really long time and that they are powerfu...

Potentially the most powerful character in the marvel universe, once, a tiny bean, she fell from a tree and was lost to the wind. Saved by a Guardian, given to a leader of man that walked with wolve...