You ever notice there are things that seem to happen in *every* TV show and movie?
These are called tropes and there are about a million of them. But there are some that if I see one more time, I swear I am going to shut off the TV. Here are some that I truly cannot bear to see again:
1.First up...a protagonist reading a heartbreaking letter from a character who's died, usually in the last few minutes of the show/film (and usually with the actor of the dead character reading the words as a voiceover):
2.A falling-in-love montage:
3.Or worse, a trying-on-thrift-store-fashion montage:
4.Just everything about dance-offs:
5.When one character is mortally wounded and dies in their love interest's arms as they declare their love:
6.Whenever someone says, "They're alive, but barely," about a wounded character:
7.A character dramatically dyeing their hair to signal a character shift:
8.One character chasing after their love interest last minute to declare their love:
9....Especially if it's at an airport:
10.People ripping IVs out of their arms in the hospital:
11.Characters sliding down the wall and crying:
12.Female characters getting into bed or waking up with makeup and hair done:
13.Distressed characters cutting their long hair themselves to signify an emotional change:
14.Characters breaking a piggy bank to get the money out:
15.The characters stacking their heads over each other in a doorway:
16.People splashing water on their faces because of emotional distress:
17.Or, in a related trope, leaning down to use the sink or opening the medicine cabinet, only for a ghost to show up in the mirror:
18.Someone saying “knock knock” instead of actually knocking when entering a room:
19.Pregnancy tests being discarded faceup in the trash:
20.Teen characters grabbing one thing or refusing to even eat breakfast when there's an entire display out:
21.Characters interrupting weddings while the priest is saying, “Speak now or forever hold your peace”:
22.Or the bride running off or standing up the groom at the altar:
23.People not saying bye when they hang up the phone:
24.Characters hanging out at coffee shops before school:
25.A character CLEARLY crying over the phone while the other person somehow doesn't notice:
26.A character answering the phone at their former lover's house, causing the current lover to suspect that they're sleeping together:
27.And the final phone trope: a character leaving a message they didn't mean to and then trying to delete it, especially if that message is confessing their love:
28.A character kissing another to wake them up:
29.And finally, a shy character coming out of their shell and revealing a previously unknown singing ability:
