Especially Transformers. It may be possible to come up with one personality that seems suitably inhuman, but still well fleshed-out. But hundreds of characters? Yet still relatable enough to serve as protagonists of any given story? Yeah, fuck that. No TF writer's getting paid enough for that noise.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, where characters just disappear and never get mentioned again. All it takes is one line of dialog to avoid this, and it still happens.
Honestly the biggest one for me is the fish out of water scenario, where the one person gives a hot dog to the other to relate and the misplaced character is frightened or confused hearing the name; thinking they are eating dog. Cause they just learned what dogs are and like those.
To be fair, if you have absolutely ZERO context for the name of the food in relation to the animal, it’s a mistake I can see being pretty common. Come to think of it, why the fuck are the called hotdogs anyway?
According to Wikipedia, because people actually did used to assume there was dog meat in the sausages, and in the early 20th century, dog meat was used in German sausages. Then it just became one of those slang terms that stuck.
Understandable, but I should elaborate. I just find the usage of it to be done to death and becomes a staple for movies with poor writing to fill in space instead of trying something else.
I think in your instance, you're complaining about the stock joke that's simply been overdone to death, and I'll agree there. But that goes for pretty much any overplayed joke. Although similarly, there was the gag used in both the Justice League: War animated film and the Wonder Woman live action film of the fish-out-of-water Diana squeeing over her first ice cream experience. And despite how played-out it was, especially using the same gag for two iterations of the same character, I still didn't really mind it in the end because it was goddamned adorable in both instances.
Both instances were also approached differently be the two versions of Diana in their respective movies so that helps the joke too.
Here's one I just tweeted about: Nobody gets how evolution works. I want to say this is Pokemon's fault, but Sci-Fi writers, or any writer in general throwing that word to describe an organism or a creature that changes to something different or bigger bugs me. What Pokemon made popular is simply "growth". The Pokemon are not "evolving", they're simply growing up from children to adults. Evolution is the slow and steady change that goes through generations of the same lineage of creatures. That's how dinosaurs and other ancient animals changed through time. They didn't just transform to new species by accident.
This on all counts And one thing I detest in anime is why is it that 95% of the time the male protag sucks ass and gets his bottom kicked by the female characters (I'm looking at you, Infinite Stratos and Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere)
The star wars/ trek trope of single occupation aliens. "The ferengi are the corrupt merchants", "the Bothans are spies". That sort of thing.
“I Knew It” is quickly becoming a major pet peeve of mine. It’s to the point that literally everything that happens in a work will be listed as “fans correctly guessed that x”. You know, not everybody saw everything coming, I seriously doubt every single little plot point about whatever was known beforehand. Yes, of course, there’s a chance, but it’s stupid how there are miles and miles of people listing everything that happens in a work just to, I dunno, critique the work for being unoriginal or something? Jeez.
That first one I find can work, but it’s heavily dependant on the philosophy and outcome of the media in question.
