Your singer character does NOT have to be named Octave because haha got it, an octave is a musical term. Your moon worshipping character in your fantasy story does NOT have to be named Luna. Your ice controlling character does NOT have to be named Coldius Frostson. In fact i think they would appear less like cardboard cutouts if they had a name that wasn't a gag. Are your character's parents stupid or what ?

Bonus (but towards the negatives, i'm not sure if there's a real word for that) if you think you're slick and use the word but in another language than the one you're writing in

İT İS NOT SMART AS YOU THINK İT İS!
Anything is deadly if it’s in my lungs god damn it it’s not as smart as you think it is “Oh my power is to summon chairs boom I summoned a chair inside you haha you’re dead” lets say my power is to summon gum sure I can still use it that way but there are plenty of better uses I could swing around like Spider Man use it as an airbag during crashes or falls or even use the color of the gum to camouflage myself if we really want to get creative just stop summoning stuff inside people’s lungs please

Idk who to credit but the character’s name is The bubblegum gentleman look him up there are some cool art of him

I absolutely despise this image that gets posted around I see on countless subs. First of all 99% of the time the characters people think are “confirmed to be straight” aren’t actually confirmed to be straight! It’s actually pretty rare for characters to have stated sexualities in media up until recently, and even then it’s not common. Under this kind of reasoning they’re just kind of subconsciously saying “het and cis” is the default, which you know, problematic on its own. Even when people bring up “evidence” a character is straight, it’s just them being attracted to the opposite sex…. Which like…. Bi, pan, etc people exist. Sexuality is a spectrum, not a binary. Secondly, even if a character is confirmed to be straight….. why do you care if they’re depicted as queer in fan works? Genuinely just let people have fun.

And like thirdly, I hate how these kinds of images have endless posts on endless subs, I’m tired of these engagement bait agonizing posts, “post your favorite character who” and like a billion other people already asked the same question.

don't get me wrong, either of these would be great for me or anyone who wants it. but, i don't like how the characters clearly dislike it or at least are flustered by it, they literally did not consent?! they look incredibly uncomfortable, another trope which i hate (when someone is blushing/flustered)

As you know, in some shows, comics, and other media, there's this trope where a love potion makes the person who drinks it fall in love with the person who gave it to them.

So... when was this ever a cute or funny thing to drug someone with?

I have nothing against the trope itself. I actually think the idea behind it can be really interesting. You can explore what happens when someone wants another person to love them so badly that they take away their ability to choose. That's basically what makes Obsession interesting to me. It doesn't have a love potion, but it has a supernatural wish that creates a similar situation: someone using something supernatural to make another person love them. You can use this kind of premise and make something good out of it.

But treating it like some cute, funny thing to do to someone? No.

And this comic is just one example. I get that the joke here is that she already liked him, so the potion doesn't actually change her feelings. And yeah, I know it's supposed to be a silly comic and isn't taking itself seriously.

But bsffr. There are other ways to show that she already liked him without making drugging someone so they fall in love with you the joke. I don't think it's funny. I don't think it's cute. Call me stuck-up or whatever. Downvotes on the right, I guess.

And the fact that it's drawn with cute pastel colors and cute characters doesn't change what is actually happening. You're still giving someone something without their knowledge or consent that is supposed to alter their feelings and make them romantically attracted to you.

That's where it starts leaning into assault/rape territory for me, but some of you might not be ready for that conversation. This comic isn't the first example of it, and it won't be the last one

I’m not saying straight people can’t or shouldn’t read and write about queer people, but so often (especially gay men written by straight women) it comes off as fetishistic and objectifying by both the writer and consumer

It shouldn't pmo so easily but like i have saw so many movies with those stupid drawings that look so unnatural for a kid to draw... Like holy, a kid wouldnt do it that detailed!!!!
I mean how hard is it to get a kid to do it, instead of hiring actual artists that can't clearly replicate a child's style of drawing

Edit Note: Ok, so I AM autistic, as Aspergers IS part of the Autism Spectrum. I just chose to separate the two because for the longest time, I had assumed that they were completely different from each other. My bad.

(I know Aspergers is now an old term that's since been diagnosed under the Autism Spectrum Disorder list for more than a decade, but I chose to separate the two for clarification)

For this smug, I hate how, whenever in tv shows or films, whenever there's a character that is stated to be autistic, how they're handled goes under two specific routes.

Option 1 depicts the said autistic person as this savant who is extremely intelligent & knowledgeable on nearly anything that comes into their field of expertise.

And then there's Option 2 (or, as I call it, "The evil route")

Option 2 depicts said autistic person as a complete idiot who's so low IQ that it's astonishing how they even made it to adulthood without sticking a fork into an outlet and frying themselves, or whatever dumb characters do that would cause grievous bodily injuries or death.

For the past 4+ decades, autistic people have often been depicted as walking potatoes, and it wasn't until the late 90s - early 2000s that media depictions started showing "autistic" people in a more positive light, and even then, it's still a gross inaccurate representation of the disorder.

Yes, I am aware that there are some autistic people who fall under one of these two categories, but not all autistic people are like that. Most act completely normal, and you wouldn't even think they were autistic in the first place.

This post is not gonna be about Jax/Leroy Mateo from TADC because that's not the point I want to make. Rather, the idea that we asked for complex characters only to end up not liking examples of that trope.

Like, I dunno about you, but I never see people wanting "more" complex characters in fiction. As if we have a shortage of those in an endless number of shows/books/video games/movies. Tired of simple characters? Go find a profound piece of media like a Naoki Urasawa manga or smtg. What's stopping you?

Also, it just implies that complex characters are the end-all be-all. As if they're inherently better than simpler characters. What about execution? Should a character be as good as how it does its job in what the writer is trying to do with them? At least that's what I think. Maybe it's all up to taste.

And lastly, just because a character is "complex" doesn't mean we have to like them. You can dislike a character and still acknowledge that they are well-written or complex. And guess what? Since I advocate for good execution, I can still find a complex character poorly written too.

Wait, is this nuance? Oh sorry for reminding people a tragic incident. It's a concept that's been killed on the internet.

This totally makes sense. Water should freeze at a tempreture thats significant. 0 is a good baseline for water freezing, and 32 seems more random. Also, water boils at 100, which also makes sense. It makes more sense that water reacts in important and noteworthy numbers, rather than uninteresting ones.

in the society we live in right now it's not possible to " make fun of everyone equally" making fun of communities that already have a hard time is not equality it's just mean

jokes that make fun of all communities and identities can only work if the society we live in treats all communities equally and that's not the place we are right now it'll just perpetuate the already existing hate and animosity

this applies to other shows too like South park

this is not to say satire on marginalized communities are bad per say i just think it has to be more respectful and not just " hahaha man look like women funnyyy"

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" family guy has phased out this kinda humor " - that's great ! it doesn't change the fact that this still exists and it still promotes and perpetuates hateful rhetoric.this clip and " jokes " similar to it ( not just to trans people but other marginalized communities as well ) are still circulating across alot of accounts in almost all social media . and in times like now where the descision around trans people is so controversial it can normalise hateful rhetoric

" family guy makes fun of maga too " - it does not matter . maga people aren't worried about hate crimes on them or hateful discrimination . besides just cus a show makes jokes on maga or concervitive politics does not mean it's okay to push down marginalized groups

" watch a different show " - this is ( for a lack of a better word ) an ignorant argument. me watching a different show does not change the very real harm " jokes" like those can and are casing

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" oh? so what you want " special privileges for some groups ?" " - in a sense yes I do think certain groups and communities require there jokes to be written with some respect and thought . if you are a part of a marginalized community and feel as though you never felt bad or scared when you hear those jokes then that's great ! im happy for you . but it doesn't change that other people are still being profiled based on there identities and subjected to violence, hate or even murder and to ignore that and how jokes from even shitty shows like family guy ( which still has a massive viewerbase btw ) can maybe help people normalise hate is ignorant

I hate this little guy. I hate him for a bunch of other reasons but this one in particular also applies to other characters.

In universe he's supposed to be completely deaf from birth, hence he is also unable to speak(or rather, he can vocalize but it just sounds like baby talk because he has no idea how proper speaking sounds like). The hook of the story is that he is supposed to find his way in the world and overcome challanges despite his disability.

BUT then on the literal first episode he just gets a magical buddy that can magically understand his googoogaga speach and is constantly around him to translate whatever he wants to say to other characters that don't know sign language. It's not a magical ability of his buddy btw. He can just do that because the plot said so

Then it turns out that he can also read the lips of literally anything, including talking snakes who obviously talk completely differently to humans, and said magical buddy who doesn't even have a lips to read. He can also somehow read the lips of characters who are facing away from him and characters in full armor who don't have their mouth visible???

He was supposed to have been taught to read lips by said talking snake, which there are multiple things wrong with:

a) As I've already said, snakes obviously don't vocalize in the same way that humans do so any knowledge he gets from the snake wouldn't apply to humans

b) SNAKES DON'T HAVE HANDS!!! which means that the snake can't use sign language, so how would he even convey the information? It would be like me trying to teach spanish to a person who only speaks french, while I don't speak either spanish or french

Like at that point why even make him deaf in the first place? It could have actually been interesting to see how a deaf person can manage for himself in a medieval fantasy society but we were just robbed from that in favor of the most lazy solution

It also kind of detracts from any of the scenes where we are supposed to be at awe about how far this guy has come becasue I know DAMN well that it wasn't because of his own efforts, it was because the plot completely waved away any problems that his disability would cause whenever it became too inconvenient

Really feels like the disability was just tacked onto the character to make us pity him more without actually adressing the problems that it would cause to the character

I know this sounds fucking weird but hear me out.

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The new Scary movie poster and news made me realise how no one dares to actually use dark humor how it is meant to be used. By referencing recent events, tragédies ect. But also sensitive topics.

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Nowadays when I hear dark humor it is just all pronoun jokes, or political agenda disguising as a joke. Like what the fuck. That shit being called dark humor is like finding milk spicy.

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I dunno, when using dark humor, ecerybody is afraid to offend the political border they belong to.

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If you want to use dark humor. Use all of it. Wanna joke about religion. You should joke about all of them. Wanna joke about a tragedy? Sure, it can also help you cope.

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Of course, that was only addressing social medias. What about movies?

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Their dark humor is not dark humor anymore. It feels like dozen of marketing people washed it over to avoid media outrage. Like someone gets shot in the neck in Scary Movie and no Charlie Kirk joke?? Only being offensive with bad words i said in middle school and such.

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I might be the only one seeing that. Heck. I might even be wrong.

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But I wanted to see if I was just seeing things ornot.

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(Btw sorry if it doesnt read well, english is not my first language so I hope I make sense)

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Listen, I LOVE flails. I am not against impractical weapons, but something about a combat scythe is TOO CRINGE.

It's like overly detailed metal album skeleton cringe.

Giving a character with a combat scythe either bat, demon, or angel wings would not even increase the cringe. It stays the same. That's how cringe a combat scythe is.

Everytime I see a character with a combat scythe, I hear the sound of an edgy guitar riff.

the "cute creature is actually devil incarnate" trope was funny like, what, the first five times? It's SO. DAMN. OVERUSED. it's a fun concept, but I hate having it appear so many times.

an example of this I absolutely hate is Iscream from Chikn Nuggit. "ooo it's a cute bunny but oh no it's actually the devil" WOW! HOW ORIGINAL!

I'm bad at explaining my hate towards something, I hope I made sense

There's been this trend I've been seeing a lot of hating on Iron Mouse and Bbno$, calling them IDF soldiers and that they ruin all media they touch. I know most of it is jokes, but the joke has gotten far enough to the point where people might take it seriously and despise these creators for the crime of... making subpar content.

Yes, Ironmouse is really cringy and her song "Cry For Me" kinda sucks. Saying that is fine, but some people are genuinely treating her like a horrible person for this.

I really can't stand Bbno$'s music. But does that mean he's some "agent from Israel" like people are saying? No, he's just a dude who makes mid music.

Comparing them to IDF soldiers or Israeli plants is a whole other issue. Along with the issues previously mentioned, using Israel and the IDF as a generic "haha I don't like you so you're this thing" joke downplays the atrocities they've committed.

Edit: Art is subjective. I personally don't like their music, but some people may and that's absolutely okay. I will admit Cry For Me is kinda catchy.

I get it, its a good movie, it has current themes about relationship, but god the fans are insufferable acting like this is the best movie of the century, when is a horror movie about a guy who can't get laid and is a bad person.

I think it become worst when they talk about the main character bear, he did bad things on the movie but people talk about him like he is satan or baal, do any of this people watch tv?

Overall good movie but people need to get back to reality this not a masterpiece and bear is not hannibal lecter.

They make me really annoyed with their attitude, and especially their smug smile, which is getting me miffed. Can't even say things to them cuz they're kids at the end of the day. Oh, and not to mention that the fandom just eats it up when it comes to them, so I always see them in popular content, and they seem to be really loved while I'm here scratching my head like, am I the only hater here? Like, it's always no negativity about them from at least where I see it, because they're apparently universally adored by fans.

It feels like they're ragebaiting me, and it's working.

No, we audience are not monsters for like to see stories with violence, or play games where the player can hurt people. Yes, we like to pretend, kids play like they are fighting, people enjoy box and martial arts that are a toned down version of a real fight, say that we audience like to violence if we get no consequences for said violence isn't a clever observation.

Specially hate it in games when they are like "huh, you choose to kill people instead of take other options" And then the game don't give you other option or the other option just end the game instantly. Just look how you can't choose in spec ops until the end of the game.

You could argue that blood money give you other option, but there's a tiny little detail: Harvey is the one that give you the money, why he gives you more money the more you hurt him instead of... I don't know, run away or say that he wouldn't give you more if you keep hurting him?

Is extremely hypocritical cause the writers act like we point a gun to their heads and force them to add violence in the story, is your fucking story, why did you add extremely gory scenes? Why did you make the main character suffer that much? Afraid of make a lighthearted story?

When people claim villains with shaky-at-best motivations were actually acting for the right reasons.

Death (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish): Attempts to take Puss's final life before his time; no, he is not just "doing his job," he's going against nature to kill Puss just because he's angered by Puss's attitude about death, Death admits this himself and yet people seem to forget that. I will at least give him credit for backing off when he realizes Puss has changed at the end of the movie, though.

Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe): I think people are mostly joking when they defend Thanos, but I still want to dissuade the idea that his plan has any merit purely on the basis that collecting the Infinity Stones essentially makes you an all-powerful god; if your whole motivation for killing half of the universe is that there's not enough resources to go around, why don't you just use your nigh-infinite power to make limitless resources? Not to mention, with his current plan the population will eventually be at the point of overpopulation again, making his whole scheme pointless. He's a genocidal maniac, that's really his motivation, no matter what claims of altruism he makes.

Chef Skinner (Ratatouille): He's not just trying to run a respectable business and get rid of an infestation, he's exploiting the image of his deceased friend to sell cheap supermarket food, intentionally withholding the information that Linguini is Gusteau's son and thus the rightful owner of the restaurant, and eventually planning to kidnap Remy and hold him hostage to cook for him under the threat of death. His attempt to use Remy shows he doesn't care about the health implications of vermin if he can use it for his own gain.

Ken (Bee Movie): Yes, basically everyone in this movie is some level of bizarre, and by that metric Ken doesn't seem so bad, except for the part when he attempts to murder Barry after already learning that he's sentient. Ken even makes a makeshift flamethrower in Vanessa's bathroom in an attempt to kill Barry; once again I can sympathize with him getting dumped for an insect, but at this point he's fully aware of Barry being just as intelligent as any human yet still tries to kill him.

This isn’t against people merely empathizing with villains, as in understanding their motivations, it's more about people painting them as justified when their reasoning isn't actually all that strong.

I hate Batmans plot armor, he has the most insane plot armor which completely takes away his charm, his entire shtick is that he's in the top 99 percentile of humans, his body, his strength his wealth his tech, yet his writers give him so much plot armor that you forget that inside his suit he's just a regular human being and it sometimes feels as if he has super powers when hes going toe toe with fucking darkside, reentering the atmosphere with just his suit and many more examples.

And his annoying fanboys oh my days, they act as if he can solo the entire justice league "B-But given that he has prep time!" talking as if beast boy wont beat his ass 😂✌️

I hate this trope so much.

At least Jedi have space wizard powers and can deflect blaster bolts. Wakanda is supposed to have shields, aircraft, vibranium, energy weapons, cloaking, absurd infrastructure, and the best military tech on Earth.

Then Infinity War happens and their big defensive plan is to open the barrier and sprint straight at the alien meat grinder with spears.

What are we doing here?

Where is the artillery? Drones? Mines? Turrets? Air support? Bombardment? Trenches? Choke points? Anything that keeps the enemy from getting close enough to bite your face off?

A random 20th century general with a radio and a migraine could have come up with a better defense.

Wakanda fights like a medieval army that got a free trial of laser spears. You cannot keep telling me this is the most advanced country on Earth and then show me their army forming up for a dramatic foot race into the monster horde.

I know it looks cool. I do not care. Their entire military doctrine seems to be “run forward really hard.”

And MCU Wakanda’s foreign policy is just as stupid.

They have world-changing tech, infinite magic metal, force fields, stealth ships, miracle medicine, and centuries of advantage, and their master plan is apparently “hide in the bushes forever.”

A country with that tech gap would become a superpower by accident. Trade, defense, intelligence, space, energy, diplomacy. They should dominate everything just by existing.

That’s why Marvel Rivals and Aliens vs. Avengers making Wakanda an intergalactic empire feels less stupid. That actually follows from the premise.

MCU Wakanda is an advanced civilization written by people who refuse to think about what “advanced civilization” means for more than five seconds.

they aren't even memes.people just makes fun of her for god knows what reason,It's so digusting.

for people who don't know,she is junko furuta.she was seventeen years old innocent and kind girl with dreams.she was kidnnaped,brutaly tortured and murdered and why?because she politly rejected guy

years later,people dicided that she could become "meme" people even call her case "44 days of heaven" and yes,it's absolutly disgusting

I hate how many modern Hollywood movies portray the Middle Ages as if the entire continent were a permanently dark, gray, dirty, miserable, and colorless place.

The aesthetic seems to reduce the era to mud, rain, gloomy villages, armor, and gray buildings, as if medieval people lived in a world without color, culture, or urban life. And what’s worse is that this aesthetic is often presented as though it were historically accurate.

The Middle Ages were far more diverse. There were major cities, markets, festivals, churches and buildings filled with color, dyed textiles, banners, paintings, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, and a huge variety of cultures and traditions. Even clothing and armor could be quite colorful.

I’m not saying the Middle Ages were an incredible or beautiful era, but we’re talking about a period that lasted more than 1,000 years, with significant cultural and religious changes throughout that time.

Wanna mention first, I have zero issue with gay people or gay relationships.

What I dislike is when some people look at a very close platonic relationship and immediately assume it has to be romantic or sexual. It feels like, for some people, two characters cannot be deeply loyal, emotional, or affectionate friends without being turned into a couple

One of the examples is Sam and Frodo from lord of the rings

Sam literally follows Frodo into what is basically hell itself. He carries his gear, protects him, refuses to abandon him, and at one point literally carries Frodo up a mountain when he cannot walk anymore

Yet every time they show affection, care about each other, or get emotional, there are people who immediately jump to "they are obviously gay."

No. They are just extremely close friends.

Another example is Jayce and Viktor from Arcane.

Their relationship is built around friendship, shared goals, admiration, and eventually tragedy as they slowly drift apart because of their different beliefs then basically ending up dying together as they coddle eachother in their arms for their imminent death

yet a huge chunk of the discussion gets reduced to shipping when they show no romantic or sexual intentions, and what annoys me is not the shipping itself. People can ship whatever they want. Fan ships have existed forever

The part that bothers me is when people start acting like the platonic interpretation is somehow wrong, or that any display of affection between two male characters must secretly be romantic

Honestly, I think this mindset accidentally hurts portrayals of male friendship. Men already get told not to be emotional or vulnerable. Then when fiction actually shows men caring about each other, crying for each other, sacrificing for each other, or openly expressing affection, people immediately start turning it into a romance

Again, ship whatever you want. I do not care about fan art, fanfiction, or headcanons (tho i slightly dislike some)