Thanks. Also I would like to see a blind hero or heroine save the day for once.DrMegaNutz said:
Cliches that you hate with a passion.
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I think this video can sum up my answer:
Dear god, this too. So much this. Every time I hear or see this I just want to throw the nearest solid object to me at the screen. With great velocity.Hazy said:"We can't kill him, then we're no better than they are!"
The villain has the perfect opportunity to kill the hero and he goes on with a monologue of his life instead
Hmm... The worst cliche I can think of is usually brought about after the presentation of some sort of duality, after which some FUCKING PONCE OF A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT will always say, "Yes, exactly! It's just like how good cannot exist without evil, or how darkness cannot exist without light!"
IT PISSES ME OFF TO NO FUCKING AVAIL. I HATE THAT FUCKING SENTENCE SO GODDAMN MUCH BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME, AND IT ISN'T EVEN FUCKING TRUE!
Good and evil are both creations of society; they have no set value and, though generally opposite, exist independently. If a man kills another man in a forest, and there's no super-hero McGoodyTwoShoes hanging around, is he still "evil"? Of course! You don't need someone good there standing next to a killer to say that the killer is a bad man!
As for darkness not existing without light... I assume that most of you understand how light works, but for those of you who are fucking retarded and never spent a minute of your life in a high-school science classroom, DARKNESS AND LIGHT ARE INDEPENDENT. DARKNESS CAN EXIST WITHOUT LIGHT. IN FACT, AS DARKNESS IS THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, DARKNESS AND LIGHT CAN NEVER COEXIST IN THE SAME SPACE!
So, yeah, that one pisses me off the most.
Actually, it does serve a purpose. I've heard that it more or less increases the velocity at which the sword is swung... I guess the easiest comparison would be when a baseball player slides those weights onto his bat as he warms up. The sword drags against the sheathe, and then suddenly it's clear, and the blade accelerates.
I'm fairly certain that's how it is, anyway. My sources are an episode of Rurouni Kenshin and two confirmations from random people. lol
IT PISSES ME OFF TO NO FUCKING AVAIL. I HATE THAT FUCKING SENTENCE SO GODDAMN MUCH BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME, AND IT ISN'T EVEN FUCKING TRUE!
Good and evil are both creations of society; they have no set value and, though generally opposite, exist independently. If a man kills another man in a forest, and there's no super-hero McGoodyTwoShoes hanging around, is he still "evil"? Of course! You don't need someone good there standing next to a killer to say that the killer is a bad man!
As for darkness not existing without light... I assume that most of you understand how light works, but for those of you who are fucking retarded and never spent a minute of your life in a high-school science classroom, DARKNESS AND LIGHT ARE INDEPENDENT. DARKNESS CAN EXIST WITHOUT LIGHT. IN FACT, AS DARKNESS IS THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, DARKNESS AND LIGHT CAN NEVER COEXIST IN THE SAME SPACE!
So, yeah, that one pisses me off the most.
Patinator said:
Actually, it does serve a purpose. I've heard that it more or less increases the velocity at which the sword is swung... I guess the easiest comparison would be when a baseball player slides those weights onto his bat as he warms up. The sword drags against the sheathe, and then suddenly it's clear, and the blade accelerates.
I'm fairly certain that's how it is, anyway. My sources are an episode of Rurouni Kenshin and two confirmations from random people. lol
You can only deduce this based on your concept of "good" and "evil" that you already know. If you did not know of "good", then "evil" would be the only thing you knew, thus making it the general norm. You would sooner use the word "average" than "evil" if there were no such thing as good.Switchblade 327 said:
OT: "Here is this marvelous, wonderful, amazing piece of technology/ancient power. Oh, but you can't use it for three more sequels BUT HEADS UP, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO EVENTUALLY AND DON'T LET THE BAD GUY GET HIS HANDS ON IT..."
Protagonist loses big thing to baddie. Inevitably breaks it instead of reclaiming it. Ends up conquering baddie with ... love ... or something.
In my defense, my evil church was headed by a woman. She wasn't a pedophile, and she wasn't gay.S-Unleashed said:
Well, she might have been, but I had better things to extrapolate upon. Like how her church employed the use of giant robots.
Um, that's not a cliche, it's an actual martial art known as Iaido [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaido] which developed from Iaijutsu [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaijutsu], which is the act of drawing the sword from its sheath. So you can't really complain about it being cliche since it technically isn't.Patinator said:
I'm adding to the hate for for a required, obligatory love interest. I am sick and tired of seeing a romance shoved in when it really does not need to be there.
You need to stop working so hard, just kick back and relax and have some fun! That will bring your soul back! - Every 80's family movie.
Spend entire time building up a female character as a feminist don't need no man type, only to have her fall in love with a handsome white dude at the very end - Yeah... Fuck that.
Double-cocking shotguns - Lol, that's not how you do it.
Horror movies have a full orchestral crash when some intended to make you jump appears on screen - Every horror movie ever
Hollywood fucking shit up - 95% of films ever made there. Including the Akira remake.
Spend entire time building up a female character as a feminist don't need no man type, only to have her fall in love with a handsome white dude at the very end - Yeah... Fuck that.
Double-cocking shotguns - Lol, that's not how you do it.
Horror movies have a full orchestral crash when some intended to make you jump appears on screen - Every horror movie ever
Hollywood fucking shit up - 95% of films ever made there. Including the Akira remake.
for once i wanna see someone say " so what your saying is you wouldn't kill Hitler." as an argument to that.Hazy said:"We can't kill him, then we're no better than they are!"
"They say its a suicide mission". who are they? how do they know if they haven't gone on the mission? and if they did go on that mission it isn't a suicide mission because they came back and said it was a suicide mission.
yes, it can be a good plot point, but the only time I've ever seen that was at the end of Super Paper Mario, but that's at least partially because the ancient artifacts you're collecting are called the "Pure Hearts", so at least it's related to the plot.S-Unleashed said:
In stuff like Harry Potter, it's just a sign of bad writing. I mean, what's the point of making some grand backstory about how Harry was able to survive the Killing Curse (and be the first person to do it, no less) when "LOVE!!!" is right there when you need it. I seriously felt cheated when I was old enough to be critical of it.
