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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[โ€“] FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can get behind fast zombies that are infected, I'm with you there. But I can't suspend disbelief if a rotting corpse out of the ground can run like Usain bolt. Side note I would like to see monster stories that follow traditional folklore that isn't well known. Werewolves can revert to human through their true love and vampires can't be seen in mirrors only because silver was used to make mirrors but not anymore so we should be able to see vampire reflections in some mirrors. I think that would be cool if made plot relevant

[โ€“] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Van Helsing did the mirror thing which was cool. I think Dracula Dead and Loving It did too.

Side thought. I loved in From Dusk Til Dawn when they're trying to think of all the folklore that they could remember. Like whether silver was supposed to hurt vampires too or just werewolves.

Another side thought, I love when they know about the monsters like in Shaun of the Dead. It always bothers me when it's an alternate universe that's never heard of Zombies before.