33 Tropes From TV and Movies to Add to Your Cerebral Criterion Collection

It’s a dicey batch. Some of these tropes are fresh, and some are way overdone
33 Tropes From TV and Movies to Add to Your Cerebral Criterion Collection

Have you ever been watching a new show or movie and you give a beastly eye roll as if to say, “Not this again!” 

Well, you may have just witnessed one of these highly overused tropes. The poor things didn’t begin as cliches. It’s not their fault. It’s those lazy storytellers who are to blame! They reached back into the trope bag one too many times and elicited the eye roll in question. Now it’s up to you to keep watching, or to move on to some more original stories.

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Why do grown-ass people use 14 year olds as “cool barometers”?

TIRED COMEDY BITS PARENTS TRYING TO BE COOL Middle-aged parents who have no idea what a Tikitty Tokitty is get a massive eye-roll from their teen daughter, who either helps them understand, or just storms off in a huff. CRACKED

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A man?! In a dress?! No way!

TIRED COMEDY BITS MEN DRESSING LIKE WOMEN Once some serious shock value, it's basically men being applauded for having the courage to be seen like that. If a man legitimately performs a great female character with great jokes, game on. But the laugh simply for the sight of it should be done with. CRACKED

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Um, cool... thanks, man.

Tired MCU Tropes celebrity pandering Most celebrity cameos in the MCU are fun, like Sam Neill in Thor: Ragnarok - but others are just laaaame. The bottom of the barrel is Iron Man 3, with Bill Maher and especially Elon Musk. History is quickly judging that one with an ooh boy. CRACKED COM

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Haunting Paranormal Encounters

CRACKED.COM HAUNTED HOUSES WERE ALREADY A THING IN ANCIENT ROME. The house was suspiciously cheap-and sure enough, a chain-rattling ghost showed up at night. As it turned out, the house was built on his grave. This story full of haunted house tropes was recorded by Roman writers 2,000 years ago.

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When the decision affects her residual checks, you know she means business.

CRACKED TINA FEY pulled 30 Rock' S blackface episodes from circulation. About the four episodes, she said, I understand now that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for the pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness.

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Whitewashing History

CRACKED.COM AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES SANITIZING HISTORY Some dirt makes for good storytelling, like drugs and (straight) sex. Anything too risky for normie audiences, however, needs to be cleaned up. The Dirt ignored the misogynistic violence, Bohemian Rhapsody's treatment of Freddie Mercury's sexuality was just insulting, and we all know what they will ignore in the inevitable Michael Jackson biopic.

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