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"Tropes and cliches are not inherently bad things."
"What's so great about this though, is the fact that it's doing all of this without using tropes of regular horror media."
"Enemies to lovers is a trope I'm obsessed with in any romance novel."
"Supernatural doesn't have an obligation to make a pairing happen simply because fans want it, but I do think they have a responsibility not to aggressively bait those fans and use harmful tropes in the process."
"What makes a good story subversive is not just surprising the audience but commenting on well-known tropes by subverting them."
"Listen, if you're a regular fanfic creator, I think there's a few things in that realm that are pretty universally well-liked. You've got your standard tropes of fluff, angst, hurt comfort, smut, found family, slice of life, canon divergent AUs."
"Confessions in the rain. It's cliché, but God damn it if it doesn't make me just sing internally."
"Would you rather read your no TP with all your favorite tropes and perfect characterization or your OTP with tropes you despise and inconsistent characterization?"
"It's just the main Trope that exists right now, and I just want a little bit more variety."
"This movie is the birth of the one-man army trope."
"I hope that I covered some of the tropes that you've been looking for, that you love."
"I know. Listen, that's my favorite trope when they like hate each other but they definitely want to sleep with each other."
"In her essay 'The Rise and Fall of the Disposable Black Girlfriend,' Yomi Adegoke describes the disposable black love interest as a race-bent gender-specific version of the disposable fiancée or romantic false lead tropes."
"The anti-hero is a subversion of the hero Trope."
"If you're a fan of giallo films and want to see one that takes almost every trope up to 11, check out The Editor."
"Transcends and moves beyond a lot of classic fantasy tropes."
"This trope has been done well. I'll even say there's several great stories that were told great because they knew how to utilize this trope."
"Great writers don't fall prey to such easy tropes."
"Using tropes in a way that has been done a thousand times before can make your story less unique."
"Alien is a master class in many different tropes and ideas."
"Last Dungeon Boonies consistently manages to subvert the cliches of both in clever ways."
"Even some of the usual Sandler tropes managed to be so absurd to the point where it becomes funny."
"Frankenstein's monster will always be a trope that is worth playing."
"The Queen's Gambit reveals the limitations of the loner genius trope."
"It’s a breath of fresh air for the isekai genre that all too often has come to lean on the same tried and true tropes."
"What do you think are the worst tropes in professional wrestling? Let me know in the comments section below."
"There's a reason why certain tropes become massively popular; it's because they just work."
"How did more than a decade old fandom Trope get rebirthed as an idea that is seen as new and exciting again?"
"It's only natural for the modern horror film, novel, and tv show to lean into the tropes of gothic horror, even when in a modern setting."
"You cannot write a book without having tropes in them."
"Is it possible for a modern horror movie to not have a google research scene in it? If it is, I don't want to know about it."
"What year are we in? It's 2024, when are we going to leave the mean girl Trope behind, the Playboy Trope, like it's really getting old."
"This one was a solid example of balancing a show's typical writing style with cheesy Christmas special tropes."
"Demon Slayer takes simple tropes and writes them in the most beautiful possible fashion."
"This trope has become so commonplace now that even very quick visual shorthand for characters being weird about milk will quickly let the audience know this character is going to have a concerning sexuality."
"Every genre movie, if you just keep showing the same tropes, people get bored of them."
"When you start doing it this way, that means you're stuck repeating the same tropes of Star Wars that we've seen."
"Rather than simply pointing at something typical, we should acknowledge how these stories transform a trope to synthesize with their own unique narratives."
"Tropes are neither good or bad. Tropes are really just tools and like any tool, they can be used for good or they can be used for bad."
"...basically covers every romance trope you adore and love."
"With horror movies comes a nearly ever-expanding Universe of tropes."
"It's tropes that shape the very foundation of the stories we love."
"Villain Dies at the End, those are the rules."
"Giant Robo subverts expectations and plays with tropes."
"Ellie Blake takes every single young adult fantasy trope that's been overdone to the point of being deceased dead flat on the ground and she somehow revives them and makes them cool."
"Classic horror movie tropes like running upstairs when chased are pretty boring cliche and worn out."
"Enemies to lovers is the trope here, and personally, I can enjoy an enemies to lover storyline."
"I feel like in order to celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary they decided to just take all of their past tropes and like put them in one movie."
"Isn't it interesting how the tropes of Love were the same back then as they are now?"
"Since the novels' publication, this has actually become so common in fantasy that it's a cliche."
"...this just has those familiar ya tropes and it just is a fun ride."
"The Love Witch breaks these tropes."
"Complete with the usual shounen tropes like hungry idiot hero, one of everything, please, and overly serious rival."
"Fantasy fiction doesn't get much more tropey than that, but William supplies those troops differently."
"There's plenty of the usual action movie tropes and cliches, but you're going into it for the fast-paced action."
"These tropes are proof that you can write a story about a girl being special without sprinkling misogyny all over it."
"...deliberately subverts a lot of bond tropes."
"Don't use their weight to establish their identities and reduce them to tropes."
"That's the feeling really that I have always brought to the cinema I have created. I love everything about the tropes of Bollywood that we know them: songs, the movie stars, the glamour, the glitter, the energy of those songs and dance sequences."
"Analog horror is pretty well established at this point and full of tropes that have become memes in and of themselves, though that doesn't make them any less unnerving."
"Why does everybody's parents gotta die for the hero?"
"You can't get enough of the hate to love trope? Well, it wouldn't be what it is today without Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' to try and convince you even further your favorite modern writers most likely read these pioneering classics and were naturally influenced by them."
"The breaking of the hero trope is my least favorite trope in the entire world."
"The characters were able to give a good twist to the school tropes we are familiar with to make the message stronger and for the heart to be more tender."
"Certain tropes, okay? There are certain tropes, certain story archetypes that whenever any kind of story has this, I will go feral over that movie or book or TV series or whatever. Certain tropes, I just... it just hits different, it's just, get it."
"...a lot of classic tropes are utilized but either updated or subverted in clever ways..."
"You reprise classic tropes without doing direct call-backs or just repeating old lines or beats."
"I love a good childhood best friend still lovers. I like enemies to lovers if it's done well and like I said, like if they have good banter, childhood best friends lovers will just always do it for me."
"Every [__] villain has the same exact line."
"Married to Magic like Series, enemies to lovers story, vampires, yes just yes."
"It's almost limitless and boundless in a scope for adventure and now we're at a point where it feels so painfully constrained into just a bunch of tropes."
"One of my least favorite tropes is like, successful women with losers who end up, like, cheating on them. Like, you're kidding, right?"
"Well, that's like a horror movie just kind of flipped around and mixed up a little bit, you know? I mean, like, it still kind of follows some of the, a lot of the tropes are there, right?"
"It loves spy films but leans so hard into all of the tropes and takes them to the most extreme and over-the-top versions."
"I found myself often very amused at these characters and at the ways in which the author would take some of these tropes and turn them upside down."
"If I mash up entrepreneurship with cars, kind of like Ted Talks meets Top Gear, I kind of have something to roll with."
"No one likes Chosen One plot except the chosen one."
"Enemies to lovers and fake dating tropes, which I absolutely love."
"the basic premise of the slasher movie I.E gather a group of attractive young people will add a homicidal maniac to the mix then watch The Killing Spree play out in gruesome and inventive ways"
"It's still got the tropes to make veterans of the genre uncomfortable."
"Enemies to lovers Force proximity is always appreciated, the one bed Trope never misses."
"It is such a historical relic. Like when I think about reality TV, the first thing that comes to my mind is Survivor Gabon because it just fulfills all of the tropes that you want out of a reality show."
"This book is so unashamedly embracing all the tropes that this author is into and I just love that I am aligned with that."
"I hate it when a trope I normally enjoy gets used terribly."
"It's very western european inspired, it's kind of that classic fantasy feel and it definitely plays on some classic fantasy tropes as well."
"Female characters who are written into dead end endings of being support, sacrifice, or erased."
"The idea of an academic Rivals to lovers and a reality TV setting and just wealthy family drama was incredibly enticing."
"Luckily we're actually starting to leave those tropes in the dust as the industry expands and the show's plots and characters get more varied."
"Jump scares remain one of the most vehemently scrutinized genre tropes."
"Randy’s acknowledgment of the patterns and tropes of horror movies are so spot on because the killers are ALSO aware of the rules and following them."
"Book of the Ancestor trilogy features these tropes incredibly well and it is interesting because Book of the Ancestor actually are so different than the previous series by Mark Lawrence."
"By the way, you can't be a movie in the scream era and have someone run up the stairs legitimately when Scream pointed out how dumb that was."
"It's just commentary on horror movie tropes."
"Retired badass is the best trope, it's never done poorly and it's always the best."
"Redemption is the best ever. It's S-tier. It's ahead of Fellowship because it's just far more fun of a Trope."
"A town called Mercy uses Western cliches and tropes in its favor."
"The damsel in distress doesn't always have to be accompanied by a heroic rescue."
"That is fascinating, those tropes that have only been made in the cinematic universe."
"Every story has tropes, now the question is, is it reliant on these tropes? Are the tropes executed well?"
"Okay, kill me, that's adorable, childhood friends to lovers, one of my all-time favorite tropes."
"There's a difference between cliche and common."
"It's all about movie tropes, which we all love."
"Anime has become very much known for its tropes, repeating concepts, and stable ideas."
"I feel like this book is going to move me, make me cry, and the tropes that are present are also some of my favorite."
"Original does not equal better. A good solid tropey story beats an original concept done poorly every day."
"What I seem to remember the most is that was the era of horror film that brought us all of our standard tropes."
"I love that trope. Name a trope I don't love. Well, there are some, but not a lot."
"These are the tropes that cure my depression, water my crops, and clear my skin, because they're so, so amazing!"
"It's hard to find a show as over the top that incorporates so many tropes and ideas from anime and general otaku culture."
"Eventually, for any genre, once it goes on for long enough, common tropes develop and are recognized by the audience."
"Tending to the wounds trope, I'm gonna put that in banger, only if it's done well though."
"I'm a sucker for found family tropes, for really strong friend groups, for just really tight best friends in books."
"It's all very incidental, but it still fulfills several cliche tropes but subverts them in a way that turns it into its own thing."
"We don't need authors trying to hit certain tropes; we need authors to write the stories that they want to write."
"Blade Runner 2049 is so cool and so good because it took the standard tropes and turned them on its head."
"Brother's best friend and I hate everyone in the world but you are two of my favorite tropes in a romance novel."
"It's those tropes that we were brought up on, so it's got a nostalgia factor."
"The cabin in the woods is so acutely aware of its trappings."
"What makes this movie so great is that they took the typical teen movie tropes and they had fun with them."
"There's no such thing as like an original idea; stories are all made out of tropes."
"The Infinity Between Us by N.S. Perkins, this is a second chance romance, childhood friends to lovers, some of my favorite tropes, it's so, so, so good."
"I mean if you like fan fiction and you like tropes and stuff, I think you'll enjoy this."
"I'm saving childhood friends to lovers and I'm dropping the heck out of manic pixie dream girl."
"I'm saving found family and I'm gonna drop deadly games."
"It's like attending to the wounds, the first time that they can be alone. Why does that trope hit so good?"
"It reads as classic fantasy and it has this wonderful tropes of the chosen one, friendship."
"Listen, we all know enemies to lovers, right? It's great, it's cute."
"It's full of all the tropes we know and love, and that's why it's so much fun."
"Tropes are frameworks, not formulas; they can help you lay out the structure of your story in the best possible way."
"Tropes are like chords in music... that's how music is made up."
"Exploring kindness and understanding, presenting conventional tropes not reliant on unnecessary miscommunication for drama or intrigue."
"It's the tropes, but it's executed perfectly."
"It's a celebration of these Disney princess tropes while turning them on their head and celebrating them also."
"She sorta flips a lot of the fantasy tropes on their head."
"It comes so close to transcending the tropes of the genre."
"I'm at page 39. I have to say, I'm a big fan of the one bed trope."
"I think George did a just a great job of defining the characters without making them be one trope."
"A stereotype is an oversimplified generalization of a person or a thing. A trope is a commonly occurring theme, device, situation, or image in media."
"I don't know why too that I didn't realize that this book was gonna involve fake dating, which is like one of my favorite romance tropes."
"At the very least, it was trying to do something new with tired old clichés of vampires."
"I loved the way the author played around with expectations, the way they used familiar tropes and did something fresh and unique with it."
"It's very wholesome, there's not any of the problematic tropes that come with these series."
"I hate when women are just used as a love triangle device in stories."
"We love the bad boy like a good girl trope."
"I love the roommates to lovers trope, it's one of my favorite romance tropes."
"The Discworld is a universe that is canonically kind of fictional and the rules of reality sort of adhere to the rules of tropes and fiction."
"I really loved the dissection of tropes."
"I don't really care who's grumpy and who's sunshine at all, or if they're both a mix. It's just the opposites attract, I just eat it up."
"Neon Genesis Evangelion, you know, this is one of the pillars for anime tropes."
"This arc has introduced so many interesting points and is delving into certain tropes and philosophies."
"Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore... has many of my favorite tropes."
"It's a classic trope in storytelling which I always loved."
"If you're gonna do a trope, you need to do a trope in an interesting way."
"It hits every trope imaginable but managed to do it in the most absolute perfect way."
"This concept is just such a strong one, it's just one of those tropes or settings or plot lines that always in general piques my curiosity."