Tag: tropes

bendingsignpost:

oliverqueenlance:

mynameisarrakis:

trash-bot:

reystars:

I really want a movie where there’s this Dark Brooding Male Hero who’s like, a total badass, and during all the fight scenes he keeps getting flashbacks to happy images of his wife, and like his whole narrative is framed around his wife, and all the other heroes on his team know that he’s got this passion and vengeance and think it all has to do with his dead wife… but then near the end of the movie his wife shows up and he’s like “hey babe” they’re all shocked and they’re like, “Wait I thought all your power and passion came from avenging your dead wife?” and he’s like “no bro, I just really love my wife, she’s really cool, she’s what keeps me going” like… a reverse fridge

Unfridge your wives 2017

Unfridge your wives 2018

“This whole saving the world thing has kept me from seeing my wife for like, three days and I was really starting to miss her!”

It turns out he’s normally a ray of sunshine and is only Dark Brooding Male Hero mode when he misses her. 

The Big List of Cliches

fencer-x:

So, this list used to be freely available on cliche_bingo’s LJ comm, but the comm is many years dead and the moderator has deleted, and the list is no longer accessible. I found a cached version, and since I often like to use cliches from this list to spice up a fic or write with a twist, I’m adding it here for anyone’s perusal!

I absolutely did not create this list; just reproducing it for posterity!

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hushthenoise:

Enemies to “ugh I can’t believe I’m saving your life” to “ugh we have to work together or the world ends but it’s not like I like you or anything” to “oh we actually connect pretty well but that doesn’t mean anything” to “I would die for you but don’t read too much into it” to “I’ll kill anyone who lays a finger on you” to Lovers.

ace-and-ranty:

The thing with telling “cliche” stories, but with representation, is… these stories aren’t cliche for us.

Picture this. The people at the table next to you have been getting chocolate cake as a dessert for YEARS. After every meal, they get a chocolate cake. Now, it’s been years, and the people at that table can barely stand chocolate anymore. They want maybe a cheesecake. Or lemon mousse.

But your table? Has NEVER had chocolate cake. Mousse is also good, but you are SO hungry for that chocolate cake, cause you never had it before, and it’s brand new for you, and you’ve been watching the other table eat it for YEARS.

That’s what’s like getting a “cliche” story that’s representative. Has it been done a million times before? Yes. Has it ever been done for US? Well… no. Maybe it’s the 500th chocolate cake in existence, but all the other chocolate cakes weren’t meant for us (girls/PoC/queer folk/disabled folk/etc)

So it being cliche is not a bad thing. You may not want chocolate cake anymore. But we want our slice too.

bronweathanharthad:

tropes that will always f*ck me up

  • composed characters losing their composure
  • kind characters snapping
  • characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through hell
  • character cradling their significant other’s face while they kiss
  • character says something hurtful. later on in the movie they are in a similar situation and say something kind instead.
  • self sacrifice
  • griefstricken women (who under normal circumstances wouldn’t hurt a fly) lashing out and striking the person responsible for the loss of their loved one
  • ugly crying
  • characters struggling to talk because they’re about to cry
  • characters reuniting with someone whom they thought were dead
  • FOREHEAD KISSES
  • F O R E H E A D     T O U C H E S