What are your most hated fanfic tropes

[Theman]

I hate when the MC is glazed, but keeps telling the subordinates not to glaze him, but they find new and creative ways to glaze him even more.

Was reading a story the other day where it's nothing but 20k+ of experiments and this faux style of glazing. This phenomenon occurs so often, it is aggravating. I feel like these kinds of authors like getting glazed, but don't want to be proud and open with it, and I think there's a lot of people who share this mindset irl.

I hate when everyone just goes along with the MC without ever questioning his actions. Or when we the reader are pushed into thinking their actions are morally good/correct. Yes, not everything has to be dark or edgy or even have morally grey antags, but why is the MC the good guy, because we followed his POV and a hot woman is hanging off his arm calling some other guy a creep? Tch!

I hate when MC's don't get a reputation. People talk, and that ballsy ponzi scheme you pulled off in the other city? Yeah, everyone knows about it. How tf can some dude fight off a country ending invasion, but the generic stuck up nobles have never heard of him? There's ALWAYS only that one group that is aware, and rides the MC's coattails to victory. Yeah, there are some arrogant ignorant mofos irl, but is EVERY noble an idiot? Education, apparently no longer exists.

I hate MC's who are always correct, or are aware of every iota of information from the setting they isekai into. Like, it's cool to know a lot, we're all super nerds, but every last fucking detail?! Nonsense! It would be cool to see your assumptions or estimations turn out bunk at least once, Mr. MC.

I think I've said this before, but I hate an all female cast with one male. Has anyone ever been around a group of 4 or more women before? How these men MC's stay sane is anyone's guess.

As always, I've got more to hate, but I'll save it for later. Good to see more people hating in this forum as of late.

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Like I said before that last one would be interesting if the people writing it weren't incels who don't know how women can act and be very bitchy and actually did have the harem cause problems like the death of the isekais and a civil war.

You know like how the ottomans and Chinese used to have.

 

[CanYouMeme]

Cooking.

Some authors seem to take the term "food porn" far too literally. They shove it into chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter. They wax (not) eloquent for lines and lines, paragraphs and paragraphs about how impressive the character's cooking skills are, usually but not always accompanied by moaning and totally-not-orgasming from whoever's smelling/eating it, and cooking food is used as a mark of moral superiority (and thus, worthiness of bitches (any sex) and indulgence) even if the character is a shitbag.

Entire plot points revolve around cooking to manipulate other people in some fashion. And it's almost always poorly written because, again, they are far too literal about "food porn".

 

[Bear_Mint]

Shokugeki no Soma has done irreparable damage to fanfics.

 

[Blundo]

Cooking.

Some authors seem to take the term "food porn" far too literally. They shove it into chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter. They wax (not) eloquent for lines and lines, paragraphs and paragraphs about how impressive the character's cooking skills are, usually but not always accompanied by moaning and totally-not-orgasming from whoever's smelling/eating it, and cooking food is used as a mark of moral superiority (and thus, worthiness of bitches (any sex) and indulgence) even if the character is a shitbag.

Entire plot points revolve around cooking to manipulate other people in some fashion. And it's almost always poorly written because, again, they are far too literal about "food porn".

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I feel like I see this mainly in two places:
- Fate fics, where for better or for worse it's an established meme in official material since F/SN itself, just gradually flanderized.
- Waifu Catalog fics, where supernaturally good cooking is one of the cheapest brainwashing options, and a 'mild' enough one that even WC authors who try to write 'good guy' mind control harem protagonists feel comfortable using it. So basically all of them end up going for it.

Can't say I've encountered it to an extreme degree anywhere else. I agree it can get very tiresome though, especially when the author is writing about everyone cumming from a mac and cheese or some shit like that.

 

[Savinkov]

I feel like I see this mainly in two places:
- Fate fics, where for better or for worse it's an established meme in official material since F/SN itself, just gradually flanderized.
- Waifu Catalog fics, where supernaturally good cooking is one of the cheapest brainwashing options, and a 'mild' enough one that even WC authors who try to write 'good guy' mind control harem protagonists feel comfortable using it. So basically all of them end up going for it.

Can't say I've encountered it to an extreme degree anywhere else. I agree it can get very tiresome though, especially when the author is writing about everyone cumming from a mac and cheese or some shit like that.

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It is maddening how much Shirou fics overplay his cooking.

 

[Bear_Mint]

We need to balance the scales and create a boyfailure shirou emiya who can't cook to save his life.

 

[CanYouMeme]

We need to balance the scales and create a boyfailure shirou emiya who can't cook to save his life.

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Well, if we're going for a saturation bombardment of the fandom, might as well drop the nuke too;

A Shirou who is in a monogamous relationship with no harem because he doesn't have Author-Fiat levels of sexual brainwashing.