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• Postmodern "deconstruction" of a genre that thinks it's more clever than it really is.
• Everything is ironic because they're afraid attempts at sincerity will be seen as cheesy.
• Bathos (when something serious happens but the drama is immediately undercut by a joke).
• Fucked up moral lessons such as portraying selfishness as good.
• Aversion to heteronormative romance.
• Unlikable "strong female character" who talks down to everyone.
• Fetishism masquerading as progressivism.
• Villain is a thinly veiled stand-in for the writer's dad.
• If it's a sequel, prequel, adaptation, or remake, then it's written less like a story set in that universe, and more like a metacommentary about the franchise where creative decisions are based not on what's natural or logical, but on audience expectations or the subversion thereof.
• Protagonist was always perfect the way they are and they just had to learn to unleash themselves instead of improving or overcoming weaknesses.
• "This is a good character because they're really powerful."
• Conflating high stakes with high drama.
• Soapboxing.
• "It's sci-fi/fantasy, so it doesn't have to be consistent with its own internal logic or established rules!" ("space wizards" argument.)
• "Who cares whether or not it makes sense! What matters is how it makes you feel!" Because these things are mutually exclusive somehow.
• Female villain is only evil because of something a man did to her.
• "The man-eating, soul-stealing, vampire rapist spider people are just misunderstood. Humans are the real monsters."
• "Capitalism bad. Now here's a thing we included just so we could sell toys of it."
• Pop cultural references.
• "LOL drugs."
• "Isn't it funny that we're drawing attention to this trope we're doing? We're so much smarter than those other shows and movies that do the same thing because at least we're self-aware!"
• Ugly on purpose for no real purpose.
• Snarky and irreverent protagonist who quips and has a witty retort for anything said to them.
• Sexualizing women bad, sexualizing men good.
• Safe-edginess that's just casual bigotry toward acceptable targets such as straight men, French people, American southerners, etc.
• Old IP "reimagined" for the "modern audience".
• Protagonist is a shameless self-insert.
• "Humor" is "person I don't like dies."
• "Muh realistic anxiety attack!"
• Someone told them "write what you know" and what they know is coffee shops and porn.
• Cute, child-like thing is evil.
• "Traditionally heroic virtues are bad, actually."
• "I may be a cannibal who burns down orphanages, but at least I'm not a racist!"
• "Morality is subjective! Unless you disagree with my politics, in which case you're objectively evil!"
• Thinks they can make a scene "emotional" by simply showing a character crying when they haven't done anything to earn that emotional moment.
• Dialogue has a lot of "ums" and "yeeeahs".
• Memes in the place of jokes.
• "Creative" insults that are just swear words combined with other words, like "fuckstick", "shitballs", or "bitchmuffin".
• Adult characters talk like teenagers.
• Characters use internet slang in real life.
• All male characters are stupid, evil, or both.
• Baby talk combined with excessive profanity.
• Male protagonist gets pushed aside for a female character.
• All characters who oppose the protagonist (and therefore the writer's ideals since the protagonist is the writer) are strawmen because the writer cannot model other people's minds.
• "Why tell a timeless story that will resonate with future generations when I can make it about my pet political gripe of the week?"
• "How can I show that this character is unique and rebellious? I know! I'll give her blue hair and a side-shave!"
• Sexual preferences/gender identity is a character's entire personality.
• Stupid gotcha argument presented like it's profound wisdom and always goes unchallenged.
• "It's a made-up story, so we can do whatever we want with our adaptation! Who cares about the author's intent or the reasons they wrote it how they did?"
• Performative support for whatever happens to be the current political issue of the moment that no one will care about in five years.
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