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What are your most hated fanfic tropes

MHA fics where the they make is so that attacking the zero pointer makes it so that you lose all your point for some bullshit reason because the author needs to find ways to introduce stakes because Izuku is actually competent in their fic. It just feels like such lazy writing.
 
GPickled said:
MHA fics where the they make is so that attacking the zero pointer makes it so that you lose all your point for some bullshit reason because the author needs to find ways to introduce stakes because Izuku is actually competent in their fic. It just feels like such lazy writing.
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I find more annoying if the mc is blatantly OP and butchered through the robots ezpz - but still somehow not be first in points.
 
If I had to pick one?

The whole "forgotten/betrayed Insert main character here" trend, that had these quite mentally strong characters be "super duper innocent and kind" then they'd see their friends talking shit or their girlfriend getting backshots from their best friend or something.

Then they'd immediately do a mental 180 and become a Super Stoic and Totally Badass Edglord™, throwing away all their friends and loved ones without a second thought (50/50 on whether they give them all a beat down or punch someone in the balls on their way out).

The newly debuted Edgelord then goes on a wacky adventure where he picks up and gathers his new harem of all of the authors favorite waifus and he is magically super soft of these specific girls despite him basically castrating every other person that dares even look at him wrong.

If the story gets this far, there will be a scene where the old main girl will beg for forgiveness and say some stuff about how she was "wrong and that she wants him back" our MC will promptly execute a bitchslap and refuse to ever look at her again probably saying something profound like "you will never see these eyes that loved you ever again" she will promptly become obsessed with him and her hijinks will become a running gag.

There's probably more but this is what I can remember of this off of the top of my head.
 
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Salemm said:
Super Stoic and Totally Badass Edglord™
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Stoicism requires the ability to self-regulate your responses to what's happening to and around you. The very premise already fails this. This could be a good thing, I'm one of the few people who actually likes the whole "Issei was traumatized by Raynare" fanfic plot angle, but for some reason the writers appear to actively disregard any emotional response that doesn't lead to more testosterone. Methinks they're confusing "stoic" for "one-dimensional".
 
Sounds like a teenage revenge fantasy to me. I can just imagine the MC standing there as his ex comes begging, and then suddenly he's wearing girly pyjamas and he starts singing: WE! Are NEVER! EVER! EVERRRR! Getting baaack together

But from her perspective, he sounds like Oscar the crackhead from Dave Chappelle's sesame street sketch.

~You don't un-der-stand~
~That I make love to my hand~
~I don't need you honey!
~I'm gon beat my dick like it owwwwes me money!
 
Lightbringer said:
More about harem fics.
Collecting girls like pokémons.
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"I thought the guy was cute, but he wanted to stick me into a little ball and I'm not into that."

Lightbringer said:
Come on. I am planning to write one where SI gets an harem, 4 girls.

Then what he does when other girls come in?
Plays matchmaker for his bros with them.
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3-4 is the size of most polygynous marriages historically, as I recall. The "harem with huge numbers of women" that most people tend to think of were I understand either essentially status symbols or breeding programs to produce the maximum number of heirs, with little in the way of an actual relationship between husband and wives. So if the character is looking for an actual relationship, it makes sense to stop around there and just provide introductions.

And from a narrative point of view the more people there are in a relationship, the harder it's going to be to give them proper characterization time. 4 women is easy enough for that - 1 man, 4 women is about the size range of a typical "hero's party" in fiction after all - but in a fic where the mc just keeps "collecting" more and more, most of them will end up with the characterization of "that girl he slept with 30 chapters ago and hasn't been seen since".
 
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And from a narrative point of view the more people there are in a relationship, the harder it's going to be to give them proper characterization time. 4 women is easy enough for that - 1 man, 4 women is about the size range of a typical "hero's party" in fiction after all - but in a fic where the mc just keeps "collecting" more and more, most of them will end up with the characterization of "that girl he slept with 30 chapters ago and hasn't been seen since".
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If you're going to go with a macroharem, you need to start grouping the girls up polycule-style. Adding a fifth girl is a lot easier when she's the first girl's girlfriend, or when the second, third, and fourth girls are all best friends who pass the MC between them like a blunt when they hang out together.
 
I just like the idea of MC becoming a shipper and suddenly he is plotting 'cute meetings' between one of his male followers and some of his girl followers and he is all 'Ah hahahahah! All my pairings are coming true' or some shit instead of 'I fucked this this let her disappear for 15362626 chapters.'
 
Working for the government.

I have a seething loathing for anyone who, upon obtaining super powers, glazes the heck out of the government, and joins up with them. You could be a Batman type, and do your own thing, maybe sort of work with 1 guy in the govt, but to become their bitch beholden to all their rules/laws/regulations? Nah. Like seriously, half of a governments purpose is to provide protection. When you're a walking nuke, you can start your own country. Or, at the very least, aspire to become the leader/a leading figure of said government. All these hero types say they want to "save the world" but are too afraid to do anything meaningful about it, and just go through the motions. I'm a go with the flow kind of guy, but I really despise these spineless wimps that infest fiction. They're just as bad as the idiots who kill everyone at the slightest disagreement.

I've been trying to get back into wuxia recently, and half the stories have guys joining the "Night Patrol" slaying monsters. That's just becoming glorified police!

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Chaos Gacha. It was fun or novel the 2nd or 3rd time, but how is this any different from an MC falling in a cave and getting his lucky encounter? Except the MC is falling into the cave every day, and getting something good or comedic. Personally, I can't stand how much system text these stories abuse you with. 1k words of potential draws every other chapter is a crime against humanity. I hope to God everyone wakes up in a year or two from now, and realizes it's just as lame as WC or outdated slang.

Anyway, there isn't enough hate in this thread, you guys gotta level up~
 
I don't really like the trope of "The SI reveals knowledge of the future via saying he knew this world as a [X Fiction Piece] to the natives" or "Author does some mental gymnastics for the people in the story so they can accept the flimsy ass reason the SI instead gave for their knowledge".

Like, I get it. I understand the reasons behind it, because why wouldn't you share critical information that may save lives™ but the sheer amount of stories that had to drop the ball because of it has become annoyingly large. Its execution is rarely done well and those who did are always the exception to the trope.

I remember reading "This Bites!" when it was first posting. I could physically feel my body recoil in visceral second hand embarrassment when the SI apparently revealed the whole story to the straw hats because of a fever. A fever of all things!

The appearance of the trope did lessen through the years but its still present enough that my irritation got slightly reawakaned enough to talk about it.
 
Karp said:
Working for the government.

I have a seething loathing for anyone who, upon obtaining super powers, glazes the heck out of the government, and joins up with them. You could be a Batman type, and do your own thing, maybe sort of work with 1 guy in the govt, but to become their bitch beholden to all their rules/laws/regulations? Nah. Like seriously, half of a governments purpose is to provide protection. When you're a walking nuke, you can start your own country. Or, at the very least, aspire to become the leader/a leading figure of said government. All these hero types say they want to "save the world" but are too afraid to do anything meaningful about it, and just go through the motions. I'm a go with the flow kind of guy, but I really despise these spineless wimps that infest fiction. They're just as bad as the idiots who kill everyone at the slightest disagreement.

I've been trying to get back into wuxia recently, and half the stories have guys joining the "Night Patrol" slaying monsters. That's just becoming glorified police!

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Chaos Gacha. It was fun or novel the 2nd or 3rd time, but how is this any different from an MC falling in a cave and getting his lucky encounter? Except the MC is falling into the cave every day, and getting something good or comedic. Personally, I can't stand how much system text these stories abuse you with. 1k words of potential draws every other chapter is a crime against humanity. I hope to God everyone wakes up in a year or two from now, and realizes it's just as lame as WC or outdated slang.

Anyway, there isn't enough hate in this thread, you guys gotta level up~
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To be fair knowing that just because you can punch very hard doesn't mean you know how to lead a nation into being prosperous. At most you would be a feudal warlord. But you are right that it would be cool to see people who do decide to build their own nations with their own ideals.

Like in worm fanfics we never see people who are OP just destroy army formations and carve territory and make a new country.
 
Theman said:
To be fair knowing that just because you can punch very hard doesn't mean you know how to lead a nation into being prosperous. At most you would be a feudal warlord. But you are right that it would be cool to see people who do decide to build their own nations with their own ideals.

Like in worm fanfics we never see people who are OP just destroy army formations and carve territory and make a new country.
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Any powerful person should be treated like Yujiro Hanma. A walking mass weapon of destruction that entire countries make pacts with.

Taking over a country and ruling it is actually hard work that's not for everyone.
 
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