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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] Don_alForno 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Knights getting stabbed with swords through plate armor.

We're re-watching GoT and were at the Brienne/Jaime fight on the bridge, and I was just yelling at the screen. He's in rags and she's in plate, both wielding swords, he doesn't have a snowballs' chance in hell if she protects her head and just tackles him. That's what the fucking armor is for! Coincidentally that also would be way more likely to achieve her goal to subdue but not hurt him.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

In the opening sequence of Final Fantasy XII, two separate characters get stabbed through the "stylish" gaps in their armor... and somehow this doesn't prompt anyone else to reconsider their armor choices.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IIRC, neither was wearing armor in the book, but it's been a while so I may be wrong.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And the book at least talks about aiming for the gaps in the armor.