GestaltEsper said:
Demons are good, Angels/God are evil. The Corrupt Church. Humans are the Real Monsters.
I'm sure it was fine at first, and there are still series that manage those tropes well, but at this point I can't help but feel like it's gotten old.
That's why I love Bayonetta and Guardian Heroes. In the former, both Heaven and Hell are assholes, and you end up fighting both in the sequel. Guardian Heroes has it either as Heaven as good, bad, or neutral, and Hell as the same thing depending on the choices the player(s) make. You can actually go through out the whole game without fighting either faction, if you know the story paths or get lucky.
I'll throw my hat in to Humans Are Bastards too. If done right it can work, but for the most part it's ham-fisted, pretentious, and hypocritical. Especially if the story, characters, and plot overall is just badly written.
Anything after Romero's Land of the Dead (or most zombie stories in general), Black Lagoon, that minor part with the spirits where they refused to help Korra in in Season 4 of LoK (doubles as Can't Argue With Elves The spirits refused help Korra because that makes her "like" Kuvira. Fuck that shit, if Korra and her friends died, there would have been nothing to stop the main villain from harvesting more spirit vines. Were the spirits just going to sit on their asses and be cowardly bitches on the sidelines? Fuck you, you're all pricks. I despise this trope when it comes to the Navi.), A Wind Named Amnesia, and Shaman King (manga version).
Also Nietzsche Wannabes as villains. They all start to sound alike, and are not fun to listen to nor entertaining. Usually it just sounds like a mouthpiece for the writers to throw their misanthropic views on the reader/viewers. Hey butt-fucks, I ain't paying for your product if you're just gonna go out of your way to insult the audience; especially if we're suppose to sympathize with your villain even though you wrote him/her as an unintentionally unsympathetic prick that never gets any punishment and supposed to be in the "right", because they lost their loved one. Well it doesn't work like that if they've been slaughtering innocent people with huge smiles on their faces.
Also tsunderes! 99% of them can go straight to hell; male or female. A majority of them are copies, of a copy, of a copy, of another copy. Helga Pataki, Lucy (Peanuts), Naru, Asuka Langely, Kagome, and Louise (Familiar of Zero); either be honest with them or don't bother with your "love interests" at all. Stop playing hard to get and straight up fucking tell them! And don't be assholes about it. To be fair, Helga is the nicest compared to all of them, and I still don't like her.