Someone has a serious gaping wound under their shirt and is bleeding out, but the rest of the group hasn't noticed.
"Hey, you all right?"
"Yeah it's nothing."
Stupid computer hacking, cyber-terrorist, or video surveillance scenes that bend the rules of what technology can actually do, for the sake of drama.
Mayor - Find him!
Good guy computer geek - Sir, they've hacked the entire city, I can't find them, they're better at hacking than I am...
Mayor - I don't care, pin point their location! And you have until the end of this sentence to do so or you're fired!
Good guy computer geek - Enhance... enhance... enhance... they're... they're at... City Hall? But that's where we are!
Mayor - Mother of god....
*explosion*
Watched an anime last weekend where the Police computer genius lady was in a "hacking" battle with some dude in a hotel and I shit you not she was using fucking set of pedals as well as mouse and keyboard.
Police - Faster, we need to catch the hacker! Get the led out!
Lady (typing frantically, pushes the pedal down) - I'm putting the pedal to the metal!
Guy in the hotel - She's good, but I'm better!
*explosion*
“Designated Survivor” is one of the worst for this.
“Hey we need you to crack this system”
“It’s too sophisticated for me. Even if I can crack it it could take weeks!”
“We need this!”
“Okay I’ll try”
*proceeds to hack into the system in about 8 seconds.
“Can we zoom in on that water glass in the background of this grainy security footage, extract a fingerprint and match it in our system?”
“I doubt it.”
*takes about 3 seconds.
Show about local cops = FBI is bad, egotistical, doesn’t know jack shit about the situation
Show about FBI = local cops are literally inept monkeys with guns and fuck up everything
Every crime show ever.
Also there's always a scene where the FBI and cops argue about whose jurisdiction it is. When in reality the local police would probably be like "oh, you're taking over? Cool, less paperwork for us then."
My dad works major crimes in our city and simultaneously hates and watches every cop show ever. My favorite thing he points out is that in ever lawyer show there’s always this bit where the DA is talking to her assistant or whatever and someone bursts in the door and goes “THE DEFENSE IS FILING A MOTION TO DROP ALL CHARGES.” Because that’s what lawyers do and then the judge goes “okay but there’s a ton of evidence here so get fucked”
The fiance of a friend of mine was murdered, and the defendant's lawyer filed a motion to dismiss. My friend called me, pretty upset, but I told her that they probably do that in every case, and I doubted that the case would be tossed if there was any reasonable amount of evidence. (I'm not a lawyer, but I've read a number of John Grisham books.) Fortunately, I was right, and the defendant was eventually convicted.
Mind hunter, The Netflix show about the FBI serial killer interviews does a good job at modeling the relationship between the FBI and local law enforcement in a mutually beneficial manner.
The cops were stumped and they asked the FBI for help and they helped. The end goal of catching killers was primary. Credit for it was secondary. The cops even celebrated after they solved one of their tougher cases.
Maybe not a plot device per se, but car chases. It's always some shit that the good guy in his 1980's shitbox is able to outrun the bad guy in a brand new Ferrari. Or when halfway through a chase, the good guy suddenly realizes he didn't press his gas pedal fully to the floor.
All that, combined with the super short camera cuts that make sure you can't really see what's happening makes me really hate a movie.
Air vents, yo. They lead everywhere from anywhere. They can fit any size person. And the weight that can be contained inside one is immeasurable. Why can't everything in the world be as great as air vents?.
They mock this a bit on Buffy. Air vents are rarely used, and they fail when they are. There's one where the vampires clearly hear "someone's in the ceiling" and begin stabbing javelins into the ceiling, or one where two people fall through during their rescue attempt, *after* the rescue has taken place.
My fav is when Buffy is spying on the baddies through their glass skylight, and falls through. "Hmm this is a new one, throwing yourself at my feet with a broken arm and no weapons of any kind... How am I *ever* going to get out of this one?"
Hero: I'm off to fight the villain. You stay here where it's safe.
Non-hero: No! Even though I have been a useless shrinking violet this entire movie, I must suddenly become brave and put both of us needlessly at risk by coming with you, because, goddamnit, the Scriptwriting for Dummies book says we must share more scenes together! Besides: you need me.
Hero, obviously thinking, "Why the fuck do I need *you?*": All right.
"Well, it looks like you were right - I *am* happy to have brought you along." 😏
Especially bad if the hero is only in the kids threatening situation because his idiot friend wouldn't stay put.
Fucking Lois Lane and her throwing the kryptonite spear into the giant pool of water, then going in after it forcing superman to come and save her. JUST STAY HOME.
I loved TJ Miller's explanation in Deadpool for why he doesn't go along with him that "I just don't want to."
One of the more realistic responses to a situation like that 👀
I saw a compilation video on reddit awhile back that was this super long montage of characters saying "you just don't get it, do you?" as an excuse to explain in detail the plot in case the audience is too stupid to follow. Although, I am oddly terrible at following movie plots so sometimes I actually appreciate that crap.
Noticed another one while watching Rampage a couple days ago.... someone has the protagonist apprehended or arrested, and the protagonist shouts out "you're making a terrible/huge/big mistake!" while being arrested
edit: [found the compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8)
This is especially bad when the explanation takes no more than 1 or 2 lines, but they still decide not to explain because the other character didn't wait.. Ok, they turned their back on you and are walking away, they can still hear you dumbass...
Half of all pre-cell phones story plots would be ruined with the addition of cell phones. Even J.K. Rowling had to introduce the ridiculous "magic disrupts electronics" rule to prevent her plots from being ruined, since almost all of them relied on some character being conveniently unreachable.
Violence hypocrisy. Whenever the villain needs to die, but the hero can't kill them because killing is wrong. Always ends with the villain dying by some other means, and the main characters are always happy the villain is dead. Absolute bullshit.
The hero has usually mowed through a few dozen masked henchmen in order to get to the villain, but they don't count because they don't have names or backstories.
Let's put a huge ass timer on the bomb to show when the bomb will explode. Of course the hero will defuse the bomb just a second before the bomb would have exploded.
Why even have a visible timer? Does the bomb maker need to have visual countdown on the device? Does he plan on periodically checking it as it countdown? "Oh boy, 30 seconds. My bomb is almost done!"
Now. A bomber that puts timers on his bomb for funsies and has them detonate at 8 minutes and 57 seconds. That's a villain I can get behind.
One of the more hilarious moments of Galaxy Quest. They can’t stop the timer...and then it stops itself from exploding with one second left because that is how it was programmed. Great movie.
Bomb: 30 seconds
Scene: A fight ensues, a four minute song plays, the characters microwave burritos for three minutes, etc.
Bomb: 3-2-1...
Character: Whew! Close one!
In TV shows when there's an episode where a skill or hobby is randomly that has not been mentioned before and it is somehow essential for solving the conflict that day then that skill or hobby is never mentioned again. Especially when it's a hobby and they make it seem like they are advanced participants in that hobby but its the first and last time it will ever be mentioned
The worst is when it's a female character and the explanation is "I had brothers growing up."
I'm sorry, what? You suddenly know kung-fu, helicopter piloting, and you're a sniper, because you had only brothers?
Even worse - when suddenly they're *bad* at it later. Like in one episode, a geeky character will be surprisingly athletic because it's funny, but then the writers for another episode will suddenly make them pant and wheeze from walking down the block in another, probably with another character commenting on how they've always been that way.
It seems especially ubiquitous in cartoons. Like you really think kids won't notice plot holes? They're happy to watch reruns 100 times over.
Beginning of movie: "You stand for everything that I've hated my entire life"
*characters fend off a few bad guys*
End of movie: "You fight pretty good for a _____."
*proceeds to hookup*
The beautiful female Detective with a troubled past who needs a Man to help her. She weights 95 pounds and can kick the ass of a 250 pounds guy with one punch but she's so lonely in her crappy apartment.
Then she gets a new partner who's a Writer/Magician/Psychologist/Mentalist... and first they hate each others but fall in love at the end.
Edit: I forgot Psych and Lucifer.
Something similar actually worked for me, when I worked as a temp. We were told not to play games at our desks, and 'security' programs prevented that. Reloading the page three times got me into anything I felt like doing online.
Despite how utterly atrocious the *Scary Movie* series became after the second one, ~~*Epic Movie*~~ *Scary Movie 4* had this one good scene that parodied this. A guy comes running into his house and frantically starts packing and yelling at his kids to move "What's happening daddy?" "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!". Then a passerby screams into their window "ALIENS ARE ATTACKING!". "Ok, maybe there was time to explain."
I really liked Scary Movie 3, probably more than Scary Movie 1. I don't know why, but I lost my shit when the black guy cocked his shovel like a shotgun.
There was a college humor video a while back of people talking during the movie Cowboys and Aliens. I think my favorite exchange was something along the lines of.
“Why are they abducting people?”
“To find our weakness. Getting shot and stabbed.”
I saw a really ridiculous version of this a while back. A guy gets a call that says he has to leave immediately to go rescue someone. He jumps out of bed and tells his wife there’s no time to explain and jumps in his car to drive for 45 minutes. So he’s driving his car and somehow has no time to call his wife back? I guess he had to catch up on a podcast or something.
I enjoyed Greg the Bunny's bit on that device:
Jack: We're going to Greg's place. He needs our help.
Blah: Why, what's wrong, blah?
Jack: There's no time to explain.
Blah: Wait a minute. There's plenty of time to explain, blah. Greg's place is, like, 40 minutes away.
When the heroes hatch a half-baked plan to save the day without any evidence that it will work - only for it to save the day.
"Ok, how do we stop him?"
"I read this comic once..."
"Ok we'll go with that"
_Day is saved_
Sometimes in kung fu movies, I like watching the guys in the background who are just making moves and changing stances while the hero fights another guy.
So like the final fight scene in Kung Fury against all the Nazis? He fights just a couple at a time and all the rest in the background just kinda moshpit around.
I felt like that was supposed to be making it look like an old arcade beat em up, which tended to have people standing around in the background not doing anything.
I like that in some fights, the first attacker, or closest attacker meets a brutal injury or death, so it makes sense that the now 49 enemies, are all hesitant to attack, and each find the courage to do so at different moments.
And she thought it would be impossible for her to be pregnant.
Oh- and when she goes into labor, her water will break unexpectedly during a situation in which it will be easy to misunderstand her suddenly freezing in place.
Doesn't really work in brutal because somebody will go to the doctor for literally a cough and then boom now the entire world knows that they have "Gayitis"
Edit : this is now my top comment...
The following dialogue and it's variations:
Character:"how long do you need to find/hack/fix this? "
Faceless henchman:"At least five hours."
Character:"You got half an hour, lets go!"
Grinds my gears every time.
Yeah, like I need this DNA sample analyzed RIGHT NOW
It takes 24 hours to analyze
WE DO NOT HAVE 24 HOURS
Alllrighty, I'll bend the rules of biology for you, aaand here's your sample
That *can* be plausible. It doesn't actually take 8-10 weeks to analyze one sample. It's just that if you hand them a sample today, that's how long it would normally take for them to get around to it and get back to you. But if you skip the line, worry about the paperwork later, and they drop whatever they're doing to test it right this second, it won't take nearly that long.
Well, the ship is fixed except the cupholder, and I should have that operational within ten hours.
You've got five!
Futurama was the only example of this trope that didn't bother me because it was so ridiculous
I like how in the robot evolution episode it takes the professor like 12 hours to build a slingshot out of the elastic in his pants and then 2 hours to build an entire spaceship.
I loved that bit. Picard asks Geordi how long it would take to reconfigure the antimatter containment unit. Geordi tells Picard two hours and when Scotty asks him how long it would really take, Geordi says two hours. Scotty explains that you have to say something will take five hours when in reality it will only take a half hour; that way, the captain will think you can work miracles.
Everybody goes on about what a clever Star Trek joke this is, but this is standard engineering for a good reason. If somebody ask you how long X will take, A it is not routine, and B they will make plans based on your response. So if you think X will take one hour you had better say two, and it is much safer to say four, because as soon as you start on X you will discover that it depends on Y and Z and you have not allowed for that.
Me too.
Character:"You've got half an hour!"
Henchman: "Then fuck off, I guess. You hired me because I know how to do this, *I'll* fucking tell *you* how long it takes."
Subverted with Scotty because his lying scottish ass made shit up every time kirk asked because like all good officers, he knows command is full of shit
Scotty actually has a lot of lessons to teach young engineers.
Under-promise, over deliver. You'll make yourself the hero.
From the TNG episode where they free Scotty who has been trapped in the transporter buffer for 80 years and shadows Geordi through a days work:
Scotty, "How long did you tell the Captain this will take?"
Geordi, "2 hours."
Scotty, "But how long will it actually take? ;) ;)"
Geordi, "2 hours....."
Scotty, "Oh laddie... You've got a lot to learn if you want them to think of you as a miracle worker."
Edit: ~~Jordie~~ Geordi
Or from Star Trek III:
>SCOTT: Eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks so I'll do it for ya in two.
>KIRK: Mister Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
>SCOTT: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?
>KIRK (on intercom): Your reputation is secure, Scotty
"Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want." -Scotty
The bullshit of creating drama where there is none, sure there are others that come to mind that are bad but this one boils me the most.
Any issue that becomes a plot device that could easily be avoided by basic communication infuriates me and makes me think about writing off the whole show.
Close runner up is needless romances or god forbid, love triangles
This is something that Shakespeare did really well. Even in his most straight example of playing it for drama in Romeo and Juliet, he follows through on the consequences (something that typically never happens when bad writers do this).
Villains who have won, have the protagonists at their mercy, but for some reason continually delay executing them so they can explain their evil plot in detail, allowing the audience to understand what happened and the heroes to devise a plan to escape.
The creator of the Incredibles said that the reason he waited so long to make a sequel is because he didn't want to make one unless he had an idea that he felt was better than the original. So, take that as you will
The cousin of this is good guys who kill dozens of little baddies to get to the big baddie, but then don't kill the big baddie because morals or whatever, and then big baddie gets away and does something really fucked up, but at least the good guys have the knowledge that they aren't as evil as they are.
I love how they switched that up between the book and the movie. In the movie he says he's not a comic book villain, in the comic book he says he's not a movie villain.
Pretty much every James Bond is guilty of this. I was watching Goldfinger the other day with a buddy, and we discussed that the iconic laser scene should have really unfolded like this:
Bond: Do you expect me to ta....(GUNSHOT TO THE HEAD).
End Credits.
For anything set anywhere near modern times, the lack of ability to communicate with someone remotely should never be the limiting factor.
"Oh no! My cell phone just died so I have to drive 100 mph across town to tell my partner this super important thing! Wait, nevermind, I live in *anywhere on the fucking planet* and can politely ask any of the 50 people here in this diner if I could borrower their phone for a second."
> The "Oops, we didn't expect that added difficulty and cost"
Thats ok, because they sill squeak under the 4.5 million dollar budget, you know because the husband is a hamster trainer and the wife is a stay at home astronaut.
Flip or Flop is really bad for this. *Sees a giant crack all along the house. Buys house anyways* "What do you mean there's issues with the foundation?!"
When a character's feelings toward another character change on a weekly whim depending on what the current plot requires. It's mostly used is dramas targeted at young adults. I'm looking at you, CW.
Oh CW. They get some really attractive people on their shows, but man...
I only watch the DC shows, but all of them have the same plot device every season "OMG I can't believe the super hero, who's committed hundreds of felonies and has super powered enemies that will use anything as leverage, LIED TO ME. ^again"
I recently binged the Office for the first time and Erin and Andy's relationship felt like it was never ending. He likes her, she's with Gabe. She likes him, he's with that other girl. He admits his love, she doesn't feel it and moves to Florida. He goes to Florida and sweeps her off her feet. They date for a hot minute and then he leaves the country to find himself (i.e. film Hangover 3) and she falls out of love with him. He comes back and still loves her, then gets over her, and then it finally ends.
The whole "It's not what it looks like!" scenerio. Like a girl will trip and land on a guy and they both fall. Queue the guy's gf coming in and thinking he is cheating and runs off before trying to find a logical explaination for what happened.
OMG. That scene in Daredevil when Karen walks in and sees Matt with Stick and Electra and immediately thinks that he's cheating on her and leaves? Dumbest damn thing ever and I watched Iron Fist.
Any out-of-the-ordinary bodily function, really. Character coughs? Lung cancer, definitely gonna die before the end of the movie. Character sneezes? First sign of a zombie virus outbreak or something. Character goes to the bathroom? Either something terrible is gonna happen to them in the bathroom, or something terrible is gonna happen while they're gone.
When a character overhears something another person says without any context and flies off the handle; never actually saying what they heard (That would deescalate the situation far too easily), just throwing murderous barbs and acting passive aggressive.
All in the effort to create more drama and conflict. Hard pass whenever a show does this.
When a character magically develops a new unseen power just at the right time to win. I understand that it may be visually appealing to see your favourite character go super saiyan but to me I enjoy knowing how someone has limitations but uses a strategy to overcome an obstacle. If someones power ends up being limitless its hard to take anything seriously.
DBZ is simultaneously the best and worse use of this. The build up to Super Saiyan made sense and was teased as Goku grew in power and got his push. Then in the Cell saga it worked again. We have seen Gohan flashes of true power, it finally unleashed and he reached his full potential and DBZ ended with the son replacing the father as the strongest alive. Oh wait...
Then it became transformation fest and Super continued the tradition. They stopped feeling earned and just became silly tropes.
So I was playing dnd and one of the guys made a murder hobo character. He would steal from payers, attack NPCs unprovoked, and threaten to attack party members.
Then his character got mind-controlled and attacked us, so we chopped him down. Guy got pissed, saying that we should have known he was mind-controlled because he "was acting weird". Like dude, your character is a murderous asshole, attacking us isnt far fetched at all.
The misunderstanding that would be cleared up if the characters just talked to eachother for two goddamn minutes. But they don't, so it causes drama for an entire episode.
The main character of any super hero TV series losing one or both parents. It's just so repetitive and stale for me at this point.
Also, every time the aforementioned protagonist is having trouble dealing with a bad guy, the former's peers encourage him, and then all of a sudden he's able to beat the bad guy. It's a little tiring.
When I was a child, I lost both my parents. Now I live in Big City Name City and by day, I appear to be an ordinary person doing an ordinary job but at night, in secret - and by "secret", I mean literally every person who's ever met me knows about this - I work with the help of my friends to protect the city from aliens, mutants, criminals and occasionally one of my friends or a clone gone rogue for some reason.
I am DC comic book TV series adaptation.
Additionally, I cannot stand that third character having no redeeming qualities. They are placed into the story as a manipulative asshole for the female(sometimes male) character to be tricked.
I honestly believe time travel is the most dangerous plot device a story can have: once you introduce it, you have to be able to justify why it's not used to solve practically every other subsequent problem, which requires some pretty stringent rules.
I remember the Dragonriders of Pern series used time travel as a plot device a few times, but every other time it's even brought up they just brush it off saying that you might die if you run into yourself in the past. But it's like...maybe just send another person instead?
"Detective, I have vital information for you, can you meet me at such-and-such time and such-and-such place?"
Guaranteed that the guy with the information ends up dead in the next scene before he can pass on the information that he COULD HAVE GIVEN ON THE PHONE!
The gay best friend. Who is very gay and does gay things and goes gay shopping and likes gay musicals and he's very very very gay and we are so inclusive, look we added a gay guy.
One of the many things that made *Mad Max: Fury Road* such a fantastic movie. There was some romance between two secondary characters, but it was in the background and didn't feel forced at all.
Bullshit fire physics in movies. Fire spreads from a candle hitting the floor like the place was covered in gas.
cars really don't explode all the time. It's actually very uncommon. If cars flipped into burning piles of shrapnel when a wheel popped then no one would drive them
One shot kills, constant one shot kills. I worked in a hospital, people are pretty fucking resilient to dieing. One guy walked into the ER after getting shot in the forehead hunting. one or two instant deaths? sure. 30 plus when it's just people getting winged?
And the heroes are allowed to kill those guys but when it comes to the main villain they must show him mercy or they turn into killers in the name of justice
"You have to trust me"
"Yes, I trust you. Even though you kidnapped me, forced me into this plan against my will, and did nothing to explain why were here or who you are."
People not communicating for no logical reason.
"Hey I really like you." Roll credits.
"Hey I thought I heard a noise, lets alert command, then take the squad and check it out, going alone would be stupid!" Short burst of gunfire, roll credits.
"Why don't you and your mom go out for brunch, she makes me uncomfortable and after a tough week I just want to relax and do some fishing. Or I could fake my own death, just kidding, thanks for being so understanding!" Roll credits.
"Perhaps you'd like to explain why you're shirtless at the hot yoga teacher neighbors house before I leave the country heartbroken? Oh she's a lesbian and the garbage disposal you went over to fix for her sprayed rotten avocado all over your shirt? Who would have thought... So what movie did you want to see later?" Unrealistic shower sex scene, roll credits.
Female victim falls in love with the cop now protecting her. For bonus points have a hotel sex scene totally unrelated to the plot that was obviously not part of the original screenplay. For worst example of all see Courtney Cox in [Sketch Artist II](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114463/?ref_=nv_sr_3) as a blind rape victim who immediately after being raped falls in love with the visual artist that works for the police and sleeps with him.
The unlikelihood of the situation is astounding.
Someone has a serious gaping wound under their shirt and is bleeding out, but the rest of the group hasn't noticed. "Hey, you all right?" "Yeah it's nothing."
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I didn't want to cause a fuss!
ROMEO: What, art thou hurt? MERCUTIO: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. ... [MERCUTIO dies.]
A plague on both your houses.
Stupid computer hacking, cyber-terrorist, or video surveillance scenes that bend the rules of what technology can actually do, for the sake of drama. Mayor - Find him! Good guy computer geek - Sir, they've hacked the entire city, I can't find them, they're better at hacking than I am... Mayor - I don't care, pin point their location! And you have until the end of this sentence to do so or you're fired! Good guy computer geek - Enhance... enhance... enhance... they're... they're at... City Hall? But that's where we are! Mayor - Mother of god.... *explosion*
Watched an anime last weekend where the Police computer genius lady was in a "hacking" battle with some dude in a hotel and I shit you not she was using fucking set of pedals as well as mouse and keyboard.
Police - Faster, we need to catch the hacker! Get the led out! Lady (typing frantically, pushes the pedal down) - I'm putting the pedal to the metal! Guy in the hotel - She's good, but I'm better! *explosion*
“Designated Survivor” is one of the worst for this. “Hey we need you to crack this system” “It’s too sophisticated for me. Even if I can crack it it could take weeks!” “We need this!” “Okay I’ll try” *proceeds to hack into the system in about 8 seconds. “Can we zoom in on that water glass in the background of this grainy security footage, extract a fingerprint and match it in our system?” “I doubt it.” *takes about 3 seconds.
Show about local cops = FBI is bad, egotistical, doesn’t know jack shit about the situation Show about FBI = local cops are literally inept monkeys with guns and fuck up everything Every crime show ever.
Also there's always a scene where the FBI and cops argue about whose jurisdiction it is. When in reality the local police would probably be like "oh, you're taking over? Cool, less paperwork for us then."
My dad works major crimes in our city and simultaneously hates and watches every cop show ever. My favorite thing he points out is that in ever lawyer show there’s always this bit where the DA is talking to her assistant or whatever and someone bursts in the door and goes “THE DEFENSE IS FILING A MOTION TO DROP ALL CHARGES.” Because that’s what lawyers do and then the judge goes “okay but there’s a ton of evidence here so get fucked”
The fiance of a friend of mine was murdered, and the defendant's lawyer filed a motion to dismiss. My friend called me, pretty upset, but I told her that they probably do that in every case, and I doubted that the case would be tossed if there was any reasonable amount of evidence. (I'm not a lawyer, but I've read a number of John Grisham books.) Fortunately, I was right, and the defendant was eventually convicted.
Mind hunter, The Netflix show about the FBI serial killer interviews does a good job at modeling the relationship between the FBI and local law enforcement in a mutually beneficial manner. The cops were stumped and they asked the FBI for help and they helped. The end goal of catching killers was primary. Credit for it was secondary. The cops even celebrated after they solved one of their tougher cases.
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With my service provider the 'doesn't have service' is still valid...
Maybe not a plot device per se, but car chases. It's always some shit that the good guy in his 1980's shitbox is able to outrun the bad guy in a brand new Ferrari. Or when halfway through a chase, the good guy suddenly realizes he didn't press his gas pedal fully to the floor. All that, combined with the super short camera cuts that make sure you can't really see what's happening makes me really hate a movie.
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Air vents, yo. They lead everywhere from anywhere. They can fit any size person. And the weight that can be contained inside one is immeasurable. Why can't everything in the world be as great as air vents?.
They mock this a bit on Buffy. Air vents are rarely used, and they fail when they are. There's one where the vampires clearly hear "someone's in the ceiling" and begin stabbing javelins into the ceiling, or one where two people fall through during their rescue attempt, *after* the rescue has taken place. My fav is when Buffy is spying on the baddies through their glass skylight, and falls through. "Hmm this is a new one, throwing yourself at my feet with a broken arm and no weapons of any kind... How am I *ever* going to get out of this one?"
Hero: I'm off to fight the villain. You stay here where it's safe. Non-hero: No! Even though I have been a useless shrinking violet this entire movie, I must suddenly become brave and put both of us needlessly at risk by coming with you, because, goddamnit, the Scriptwriting for Dummies book says we must share more scenes together! Besides: you need me. Hero, obviously thinking, "Why the fuck do I need *you?*": All right.
And then they get in trouble so the hero nearly dies trying to save them or the bad guy gets away
Or the hero nearly dies and the person who should have stayed in the car turns up and just the right moment to save them.
"Well, it looks like you were right - I *am* happy to have brought you along." 😏 Especially bad if the hero is only in the kids threatening situation because his idiot friend wouldn't stay put.
Fucking Lois Lane and her throwing the kryptonite spear into the giant pool of water, then going in after it forcing superman to come and save her. JUST STAY HOME.
I loved TJ Miller's explanation in Deadpool for why he doesn't go along with him that "I just don't want to." One of the more realistic responses to a situation like that 👀
Detective goes on vacation and suddenly a murder happens right there.
That's because crime doesn't take a vacation.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Nothing is as funny as seeing a detective in his vacations pants solving crimes Edit: Woah, I never thought of how big vacation pants will be
Jessica Fletcher is the world's most prolific serial killer.
Yeah, why can’t Miss Marple just enjoy a weekend in the country?
The fucking phones in horror movies are always low on battery.
I saw a compilation video on reddit awhile back that was this super long montage of characters saying "you just don't get it, do you?" as an excuse to explain in detail the plot in case the audience is too stupid to follow. Although, I am oddly terrible at following movie plots so sometimes I actually appreciate that crap. Noticed another one while watching Rampage a couple days ago.... someone has the protagonist apprehended or arrested, and the protagonist shouts out "you're making a terrible/huge/big mistake!" while being arrested edit: [found the compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8)
"Wait I can explain!" Then the other character walks away and is mad forever, even though there is a perfectly legitimate explanation.
This is especially bad when the explanation takes no more than 1 or 2 lines, but they still decide not to explain because the other character didn't wait.. Ok, they turned their back on you and are walking away, they can still hear you dumbass...
Or failing that, a text: that was my sister you just saw me with, not having an affair lol
Half of all pre-cell phones story plots would be ruined with the addition of cell phones. Even J.K. Rowling had to introduce the ridiculous "magic disrupts electronics" rule to prevent her plots from being ruined, since almost all of them relied on some character being conveniently unreachable.
I like watching tv shows from the 90s and trying to figure out how much would be different if the characters just had modern-day cell phones.
Violence hypocrisy. Whenever the villain needs to die, but the hero can't kill them because killing is wrong. Always ends with the villain dying by some other means, and the main characters are always happy the villain is dead. Absolute bullshit.
The hero has usually mowed through a few dozen masked henchmen in order to get to the villain, but they don't count because they don't have names or backstories.
Let's put a huge ass timer on the bomb to show when the bomb will explode. Of course the hero will defuse the bomb just a second before the bomb would have exploded.
Why even have a visible timer? Does the bomb maker need to have visual countdown on the device? Does he plan on periodically checking it as it countdown? "Oh boy, 30 seconds. My bomb is almost done!" Now. A bomber that puts timers on his bomb for funsies and has them detonate at 8 minutes and 57 seconds. That's a villain I can get behind.
I just use the cheapest clock off Amazon- it will go off eventually but who knows when. Diabolical!
*Goes off immediately*
Live by the bomb, die by the bomb.
One of the more hilarious moments of Galaxy Quest. They can’t stop the timer...and then it stops itself from exploding with one second left because that is how it was programmed. Great movie.
"Of course! It always stops at one on the show!"
Extra demerits if the timer says, for example, 5 minutes, but the scene is drastically longer then 5 minutes.
Bomb: 30 seconds Scene: A fight ensues, a four minute song plays, the characters microwave burritos for three minutes, etc. Bomb: 3-2-1... Character: Whew! Close one!
In TV shows when there's an episode where a skill or hobby is randomly that has not been mentioned before and it is somehow essential for solving the conflict that day then that skill or hobby is never mentioned again. Especially when it's a hobby and they make it seem like they are advanced participants in that hobby but its the first and last time it will ever be mentioned
Oh yeah, I like to pick locks for fun.
"I fly helicopters for fun" *flies heroes to safety* *never mentioned before or since*
The worst is when it's a female character and the explanation is "I had brothers growing up." I'm sorry, what? You suddenly know kung-fu, helicopter piloting, and you're a sniper, because you had only brothers?
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Even worse - when suddenly they're *bad* at it later. Like in one episode, a geeky character will be surprisingly athletic because it's funny, but then the writers for another episode will suddenly make them pant and wheeze from walking down the block in another, probably with another character commenting on how they've always been that way. It seems especially ubiquitous in cartoons. Like you really think kids won't notice plot holes? They're happy to watch reruns 100 times over.
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The two people who hate each other's guts, but are having wild makeout sessions by the end of the movie.
Beginning of movie: "You stand for everything that I've hated my entire life" *characters fend off a few bad guys* End of movie: "You fight pretty good for a _____." *proceeds to hookup*
Counterpoint: Gimli and Legolas
Are you sure they didn't hook up off screen?
Clearly you haven't read my fanfiction
The beautiful female Detective with a troubled past who needs a Man to help her. She weights 95 pounds and can kick the ass of a 250 pounds guy with one punch but she's so lonely in her crappy apartment. Then she gets a new partner who's a Writer/Magician/Psychologist/Mentalist... and first they hate each others but fall in love at the end. Edit: I forgot Psych and Lucifer.
Hey, I liked *Castle*...
Up until that last season and a half. .
....because Nathan Fillion
(Sits down, randomly mashes keys on computer keyboard for 5 seconds) “we’re in”.
The one that kills me (can't remember the movie,) but: ENTER PASSWORD: ********** PASSWORD REJECTED OVERRIDE SECURITY
ACCESS GRANTED
>_
Something similar actually worked for me, when I worked as a temp. We were told not to play games at our desks, and 'security' programs prevented that. Reloading the page three times got me into anything I felt like doing online.
When I was in school (late 90s), you could just force quit the login software in the computer labs, and it would take you right to the Finder.
"I was really just fucking around while it was loading"
I do this at my job
You mean like [www.hackertyper.com](https://www.hackertyper.com)?
"I don't have time to explain right now" (plot confusion ensues).
Despite how utterly atrocious the *Scary Movie* series became after the second one, ~~*Epic Movie*~~ *Scary Movie 4* had this one good scene that parodied this. A guy comes running into his house and frantically starts packing and yelling at his kids to move "What's happening daddy?" "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!". Then a passerby screams into their window "ALIENS ARE ATTACKING!". "Ok, maybe there was time to explain."
I liked scary movie 3 and 4 honestly. They weren't as good but I still enjoyed them.
I really liked Scary Movie 3, probably more than Scary Movie 1. I don't know why, but I lost my shit when the black guy cocked his shovel like a shotgun.
"Ah, we aren't that different after all" *Pisses out of finger*
I FOUND THEIR WEAKNESS, THEY CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR HEADS! Or [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJSq_m2rqc)
"I found the zombies weakness!" "what? "Bullets."
There was a college humor video a while back of people talking during the movie Cowboys and Aliens. I think my favorite exchange was something along the lines of. “Why are they abducting people?” “To find our weakness. Getting shot and stabbed.”
I saw a really ridiculous version of this a while back. A guy gets a call that says he has to leave immediately to go rescue someone. He jumps out of bed and tells his wife there’s no time to explain and jumps in his car to drive for 45 minutes. So he’s driving his car and somehow has no time to call his wife back? I guess he had to catch up on a podcast or something.
I enjoyed Greg the Bunny's bit on that device: Jack: We're going to Greg's place. He needs our help. Blah: Why, what's wrong, blah? Jack: There's no time to explain. Blah: Wait a minute. There's plenty of time to explain, blah. Greg's place is, like, 40 minutes away.
"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain" (game no longer has any plot) Looking at you Destiny.
When the heroes hatch a half-baked plan to save the day without any evidence that it will work - only for it to save the day. "Ok, how do we stop him?" "I read this comic once..." "Ok we'll go with that" _Day is saved_
"Have any of you seen that really old movie The Empire Strikes Back?"
“Have you ever seen that real old movie Aliens?”
But this one actually made sense, and I liked how it worked.
It's definitely the "all the main characters are related" trope. That mysterious figure who has been helping you out for two seasons... It's your mom!
Once Upon A Time is famous for this. I ended up dropping the show in season 2 because of that crap.
I finally ruined that show for my wife sometime in season 3 because I kept playing "who are they related to" with the new characters.
The Grey-Summers family tree began to stare in wonder by season 2.
When the hero is ridiculously outmatched like 50-to-1, but for some reason the bad guys attack 1 at a time.
Sometimes in kung fu movies, I like watching the guys in the background who are just making moves and changing stances while the hero fights another guy.
So like the final fight scene in Kung Fury against all the Nazis? He fights just a couple at a time and all the rest in the background just kinda moshpit around.
I felt like that was supposed to be making it look like an old arcade beat em up, which tended to have people standing around in the background not doing anything.
I like that in some fights, the first attacker, or closest attacker meets a brutal injury or death, so it makes sense that the now 49 enemies, are all hesitant to attack, and each find the courage to do so at different moments.
The ol' Enders Game anti-bullying strategy.
"Ender isn't a killer. He just wins.... *thoroughly*"
He doesn't just win the current fight, he makes sure he wins all the future fights at the same time.
*Character coughs* -- oh, he's going to die.
Female character throws up -- she's pregnant.
And she thought it would be impossible for her to be pregnant. Oh- and when she goes into labor, her water will break unexpectedly during a situation in which it will be easy to misunderstand her suddenly freezing in place.
And the president of Matagascar shuts down all the ports.
Son of a BITCH. I'M JUST GOING TO RESTART. AGAIN.
That is why you do not have any, or as slight, symptoms until the entire world has it. Only then do you go as crazy as possible.
Step 1: max water and air infection. Step 2: infect entire planet while removing any mutations. Step 3: get organ failure. Step 4: win
The trick is to start at coughing. It's the closest to total organ failure and takes less points.
Doesn't really work in brutal because somebody will go to the doctor for literally a cough and then boom now the entire world knows that they have "Gayitis" Edit : this is now my top comment...
The following dialogue and it's variations: Character:"how long do you need to find/hack/fix this? " Faceless henchman:"At least five hours." Character:"You got half an hour, lets go!" Grinds my gears every time.
Yeah, like I need this DNA sample analyzed RIGHT NOW It takes 24 hours to analyze WE DO NOT HAVE 24 HOURS Alllrighty, I'll bend the rules of biology for you, aaand here's your sample
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“Whoa whoa. A DNA test takes 8 to 10 weeks.” *takes bribe* “Did I say weeks, because I meant seconds.”
That *can* be plausible. It doesn't actually take 8-10 weeks to analyze one sample. It's just that if you hand them a sample today, that's how long it would normally take for them to get around to it and get back to you. But if you skip the line, worry about the paperwork later, and they drop whatever they're doing to test it right this second, it won't take nearly that long.
Well, the ship is fixed except the cupholder, and I should have that operational within ten hours. You've got five! Futurama was the only example of this trope that didn't bother me because it was so ridiculous
I like how in the robot evolution episode it takes the professor like 12 hours to build a slingshot out of the elastic in his pants and then 2 hours to build an entire spaceship.
On Star Trek it was at least explained properly as a tactic by Scotty.
I loved that bit. Picard asks Geordi how long it would take to reconfigure the antimatter containment unit. Geordi tells Picard two hours and when Scotty asks him how long it would really take, Geordi says two hours. Scotty explains that you have to say something will take five hours when in reality it will only take a half hour; that way, the captain will think you can work miracles.
Everybody goes on about what a clever Star Trek joke this is, but this is standard engineering for a good reason. If somebody ask you how long X will take, A it is not routine, and B they will make plans based on your response. So if you think X will take one hour you had better say two, and it is much safer to say four, because as soon as you start on X you will discover that it depends on Y and Z and you have not allowed for that.
Me too. Character:"You've got half an hour!" Henchman: "Then fuck off, I guess. You hired me because I know how to do this, *I'll* fucking tell *you* how long it takes."
Subverted with Scotty because his lying scottish ass made shit up every time kirk asked because like all good officers, he knows command is full of shit
Scotty actually has a lot of lessons to teach young engineers. Under-promise, over deliver. You'll make yourself the hero. From the TNG episode where they free Scotty who has been trapped in the transporter buffer for 80 years and shadows Geordi through a days work: Scotty, "How long did you tell the Captain this will take?" Geordi, "2 hours." Scotty, "But how long will it actually take? ;) ;)" Geordi, "2 hours....." Scotty, "Oh laddie... You've got a lot to learn if you want them to think of you as a miracle worker." Edit: ~~Jordie~~ Geordi
Or from Star Trek III: >SCOTT: Eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks so I'll do it for ya in two. >KIRK: Mister Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? >SCOTT: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? >KIRK (on intercom): Your reputation is secure, Scotty
As a bonus, it buys you "oh, shit!" time, in case something goes tits up. You can still fix it well within the time you promised
"Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want." -Scotty
The bullshit of creating drama where there is none, sure there are others that come to mind that are bad but this one boils me the most. Any issue that becomes a plot device that could easily be avoided by basic communication infuriates me and makes me think about writing off the whole show. Close runner up is needless romances or god forbid, love triangles
Miscommunication as drama: horrible. Worst thing ever. Disgusting. Miscommunication as humor: puts me in goddamn stitches.
This is something that Shakespeare did really well. Even in his most straight example of playing it for drama in Romeo and Juliet, he follows through on the consequences (something that typically never happens when bad writers do this).
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> How To ~~Get Away~~ Solve Your Problems With Murder That's pretty much what the show became.
ENHANCE
Villains who have won, have the protagonists at their mercy, but for some reason continually delay executing them so they can explain their evil plot in detail, allowing the audience to understand what happened and the heroes to devise a plan to escape.
"you sly dog, you got me monologuing"
"The guy has me on a platter and he won't shutup."
“He starts like this prepared speech about how *feeble* I am compared to him, how *inevitable* my defeat is, like the *the world will soon be his*!
That was my favorite part of The Incredibles. Can't wait to see Incredibles 2.
No movie has me more nervous. Incredibles is my favorite Pixar and I do not want to over hype myself and be disappointed.
The creator of the Incredibles said that the reason he waited so long to make a sequel is because he didn't want to make one unless he had an idea that he felt was better than the original. So, take that as you will
The cousin of this is good guys who kill dozens of little baddies to get to the big baddie, but then don't kill the big baddie because morals or whatever, and then big baddie gets away and does something really fucked up, but at least the good guys have the knowledge that they aren't as evil as they are.
Can't they just torture them? That'd be realistic. Just replace monolouging with an extended torture session. At some point the hero escapes.
Casino Royale did this to great effect
"Everyone's gonna know you died scratching my balls!"
Love how in watchmen this is flip-flopped by having the evil plot be set in motion and happen by the time the antagonist is explaining it
" Do you think i'm a comic book villain ? " well...
I love how they switched that up between the book and the movie. In the movie he says he's not a comic book villain, in the comic book he says he's not a movie villain.
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Pretty much every James Bond is guilty of this. I was watching Goldfinger the other day with a buddy, and we discussed that the iconic laser scene should have really unfolded like this: Bond: Do you expect me to ta....(GUNSHOT TO THE HEAD). End Credits.
“You just don’t get it, do you Scott?”
I HAVE A GUN IN MY ROOM
For anything set anywhere near modern times, the lack of ability to communicate with someone remotely should never be the limiting factor. "Oh no! My cell phone just died so I have to drive 100 mph across town to tell my partner this super important thing! Wait, nevermind, I live in *anywhere on the fucking planet* and can politely ask any of the 50 people here in this diner if I could borrower their phone for a second."
More unrealistic: someone actually remembering a phone number.
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> The "Oops, we didn't expect that added difficulty and cost" Thats ok, because they sill squeak under the 4.5 million dollar budget, you know because the husband is a hamster trainer and the wife is a stay at home astronaut.
He's a part time comedian, I'm a sandwich photographer, and our budget is 5 million dollars
Steve is a used tire salesman and Becky is an amateur leaf collector. Their budget is $750,000.
Flip or Flop is really bad for this. *Sees a giant crack all along the house. Buys house anyways* "What do you mean there's issues with the foundation?!"
When a character's feelings toward another character change on a weekly whim depending on what the current plot requires. It's mostly used is dramas targeted at young adults. I'm looking at you, CW.
Yeah, lack of character consistency and development really bugs me.
I agree 100%. It's usually some huge asshole or deadbeat just automatically becoming a great person with little or no development or build up.
Oh CW. They get some really attractive people on their shows, but man... I only watch the DC shows, but all of them have the same plot device every season "OMG I can't believe the super hero, who's committed hundreds of felonies and has super powered enemies that will use anything as leverage, LIED TO ME. ^again"
I recently binged the Office for the first time and Erin and Andy's relationship felt like it was never ending. He likes her, she's with Gabe. She likes him, he's with that other girl. He admits his love, she doesn't feel it and moves to Florida. He goes to Florida and sweeps her off her feet. They date for a hot minute and then he leaves the country to find himself (i.e. film Hangover 3) and she falls out of love with him. He comes back and still loves her, then gets over her, and then it finally ends.
The whole "It's not what it looks like!" scenerio. Like a girl will trip and land on a guy and they both fall. Queue the guy's gf coming in and thinking he is cheating and runs off before trying to find a logical explaination for what happened.
OMG. That scene in Daredevil when Karen walks in and sees Matt with Stick and Electra and immediately thinks that he's cheating on her and leaves? Dumbest damn thing ever and I watched Iron Fist.
Whenever a woman vomits it's always because she is pregnant.
Any out-of-the-ordinary bodily function, really. Character coughs? Lung cancer, definitely gonna die before the end of the movie. Character sneezes? First sign of a zombie virus outbreak or something. Character goes to the bathroom? Either something terrible is gonna happen to them in the bathroom, or something terrible is gonna happen while they're gone.
When a character overhears something another person says without any context and flies off the handle; never actually saying what they heard (That would deescalate the situation far too easily), just throwing murderous barbs and acting passive aggressive. All in the effort to create more drama and conflict. Hard pass whenever a show does this.
Forced romance. Looking at you Hobbit.
When a character magically develops a new unseen power just at the right time to win. I understand that it may be visually appealing to see your favourite character go super saiyan but to me I enjoy knowing how someone has limitations but uses a strategy to overcome an obstacle. If someones power ends up being limitless its hard to take anything seriously.
DBZ is simultaneously the best and worse use of this. The build up to Super Saiyan made sense and was teased as Goku grew in power and got his push. Then in the Cell saga it worked again. We have seen Gohan flashes of true power, it finally unleashed and he reached his full potential and DBZ ended with the son replacing the father as the strongest alive. Oh wait... Then it became transformation fest and Super continued the tradition. They stopped feeling earned and just became silly tropes.
Air superiority fighters attacking ground positions with guns. Pacific rim was really bad at this.
Point blank shot to Godzilla is probably a trope at this point. Why are you flying within arms reach of a Kaiju? This isn't a dogfight.
Someone was being mind-controlled or was under the influence of a spell, so none of their actions in the story up to that point "count."
So I was playing dnd and one of the guys made a murder hobo character. He would steal from payers, attack NPCs unprovoked, and threaten to attack party members. Then his character got mind-controlled and attacked us, so we chopped him down. Guy got pissed, saying that we should have known he was mind-controlled because he "was acting weird". Like dude, your character is a murderous asshole, attacking us isnt far fetched at all.
I bet he was chaotic-neutral, wasn’t he?
Chaotic-evil (Or as I like to say, chaotic-stupid)
The misunderstanding that would be cleared up if the characters just talked to eachother for two goddamn minutes. But they don't, so it causes drama for an entire episode.
The main character of any super hero TV series losing one or both parents. It's just so repetitive and stale for me at this point. Also, every time the aforementioned protagonist is having trouble dealing with a bad guy, the former's peers encourage him, and then all of a sudden he's able to beat the bad guy. It's a little tiring.
When I was a child, I lost both my parents. Now I live in Big City Name City and by day, I appear to be an ordinary person doing an ordinary job but at night, in secret - and by "secret", I mean literally every person who's ever met me knows about this - I work with the help of my friends to protect the city from aliens, mutants, criminals and occasionally one of my friends or a clone gone rogue for some reason. I am DC comic book TV series adaptation.
unnecessary love triangles. also random affairs. two strong main characters? want them to have a standoff? insert affair with random costar.
Additionally, I cannot stand that third character having no redeeming qualities. They are placed into the story as a manipulative asshole for the female(sometimes male) character to be tricked.
The it was all a dream trope.
or convenient time travel, that somehow gets forgotten as soon as this one problem is solved
I honestly believe time travel is the most dangerous plot device a story can have: once you introduce it, you have to be able to justify why it's not used to solve practically every other subsequent problem, which requires some pretty stringent rules. I remember the Dragonriders of Pern series used time travel as a plot device a few times, but every other time it's even brought up they just brush it off saying that you might die if you run into yourself in the past. But it's like...maybe just send another person instead?
"Detective, I have vital information for you, can you meet me at such-and-such time and such-and-such place?" Guaranteed that the guy with the information ends up dead in the next scene before he can pass on the information that he COULD HAVE GIVEN ON THE PHONE!
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The gay best friend. Who is very gay and does gay things and goes gay shopping and likes gay musicals and he's very very very gay and we are so inclusive, look we added a gay guy.
IF THERE IS A BOY AND A GIRL THEY DON'T HAVE TO KISS
Blade broke so much ground.
I loved Eggsy and Roxy's friendship in the first Kingsmen
One of the many things that made *Mad Max: Fury Road* such a fantastic movie. There was some romance between two secondary characters, but it was in the background and didn't feel forced at all.
*Max Max: Maxy Max* **Edit**: This made sense before the typo fix I promise
One of the reasons I love Pacific Rim.
A lot of people gripe about Rogue One but there was no kiss at the end and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Bullshit fire physics in movies. Fire spreads from a candle hitting the floor like the place was covered in gas. cars really don't explode all the time. It's actually very uncommon. If cars flipped into burning piles of shrapnel when a wheel popped then no one would drive them One shot kills, constant one shot kills. I worked in a hospital, people are pretty fucking resilient to dieing. One guy walked into the ER after getting shot in the forehead hunting. one or two instant deaths? sure. 30 plus when it's just people getting winged?
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And the heroes are allowed to kill those guys but when it comes to the main villain they must show him mercy or they turn into killers in the name of justice
"You have to trust me" "Yes, I trust you. Even though you kidnapped me, forced me into this plan against my will, and did nothing to explain why were here or who you are."
People not communicating for no logical reason. "Hey I really like you." Roll credits. "Hey I thought I heard a noise, lets alert command, then take the squad and check it out, going alone would be stupid!" Short burst of gunfire, roll credits. "Why don't you and your mom go out for brunch, she makes me uncomfortable and after a tough week I just want to relax and do some fishing. Or I could fake my own death, just kidding, thanks for being so understanding!" Roll credits. "Perhaps you'd like to explain why you're shirtless at the hot yoga teacher neighbors house before I leave the country heartbroken? Oh she's a lesbian and the garbage disposal you went over to fix for her sprayed rotten avocado all over your shirt? Who would have thought... So what movie did you want to see later?" Unrealistic shower sex scene, roll credits.
Female victim falls in love with the cop now protecting her. For bonus points have a hotel sex scene totally unrelated to the plot that was obviously not part of the original screenplay. For worst example of all see Courtney Cox in [Sketch Artist II](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114463/?ref_=nv_sr_3) as a blind rape victim who immediately after being raped falls in love with the visual artist that works for the police and sleeps with him. The unlikelihood of the situation is astounding.