Oxygen tanks are not bombs.
I think the worst example of this was a Robert Redford move I saw once where an oxygen tank was loaded in a tube, the stem was knocked off, and the tank flew into a guard tower and exploded like it was an RPG.
My pet peeve is that screenwriters, directors, and producers know and recognize even more tropes than we do. Somewhere along the line, things were rushed and/or lazy. Someone just said “aw, fuck it.”
If the filmmakers don’t give a shit about the final product, why should I?
When they provide exposition about something that lead to the current story, but the exposition is about something way more interesting than what is happening in the current movie because the current movie is just generic whatever.
Is that not how chloroform works?
According to Quora it takes 5 minutes, with a willing participant.
Anaesthesia that's injected right before an operation can knock you out in about 30 seconds (and until then you could still struggle, technically speaking), but that's a thick-ass tube of drugs they're pumping inside of you. Some vapours from a rag is going to do jack shit.
5 minutes of inhalation
The fat funny character.
The "I can fix them" love interest.
Any situation that could have been resolved with any modicum of healthy communication.
Superheroes that cause more damage to the place they're trying to "save".
Cutting or stabbing through full plate armor with a sword. Why would anyone wear an armor that is easily cut or stabbed through?!
A lot of that sort of armor is more designed to deflect hits off of it. If someone can get a solid hit in, it's possible to cut through it.
Which leads to another pet peeve of mine, which is armor that's clearly designed in a way that it wouldn't be good at deflecting hits. Particularly anything for women that has cups for the breasts.
In real life it's more like going after a man sized can of tuna, with the bastard child of an axe, a hammer, and a crowbar.
The bad guy that is omniscient and omnipresent. Everywhere you go, oops! There's the bad guy and he totally kicks your ass and ruins your plans.
We call it Neganing. He's the reason I eventually stopped watching the Walking Dead.
Or like Sylar (from Heroes), where the writers find a baddie they just love too much to kill so the whole show becomes about them.
Talking head montages, especially at the beginning of a movie or TV show. I think directors try to ground some fiction in reality by having a bunch of news reporters comment on some event but as someone who tries to avoid that garbage it just feels like the movie is made for someone else and it's been used so many times it's irritating.
Also product placement seeing a soda can or car perfectly framed to see the brand name or logo cheapens any sense of artistic integrity and feels like watching an advertisement.
And if I can indulge in a meta trope of streaming service monetization since it's become so common these days having a subscription + ad tier. Sub no ads or ads no sub, mixing them is the same greed as cable TV and shouldn't be supported by subscribing (Disney, HBO Max, prime, Netflix, etc).
Grenades. A hand grenade has a kill radius of 5 meters and an injury radius of 15 meters. You're not going to toss one around a corner and survive.
One shot and the bad guy drops dead. Ten shots and the good guy goes to the hospital and lives.
Also you don’t instantly die when you’re shot.
You've clearly never been affected by an instant knock-out drug!
When they are kissing right after waking up with that morning breath.
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