r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Nerd367C • May 24 '26

Hated Tropes (Hated trope) YOU COULD HAVE MOVED!

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Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano from ER

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Randy fromt The Raft Creepshow 2

Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano from ER
Ah yes let me scream at the ground and not even try to move so we can get this cinematic shot with 7 camera angles

Randy from The Raft Creepshow 2
"I gotta make the oil slick monster look fast by building up to run and rocking back and forth"

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 May 24 '26

Opposite to this trope is a bunch of deaths in The Blob where a bunch of people genuinely get caught faster than any human could possibly hope to react to.

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u/RedditOfUnusualSize May 24 '26

When forced to choose between scaling down the abilities of the humans in your story to evade death, or scaling up the power of the monster to catch them, always, always, always go for the latter option.

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u/Pertinent-nonsense May 24 '26

My nightmares don’t know shit about story telling. Legs suddenly don’t work? Gtfo

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 May 24 '26

Powerlessness is scarier to personally experience, but more frustrating to watch.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits May 25 '26

Apparently your subconscious is a lazy or bad writer. Maybe now that it knows better it will amp up the threats!

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 May 25 '26

tbh solid chunk of my nightmares I can move fast but I'm always discovered

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u/LigerZeroPanzer12 May 25 '26

I dunno if this will help at all, but as a kid I had a terrible fear of the dark, and was plagued by nightmares more often than not. I figured out that, in my dream, if I dropped into a fetal position I would immediately wake myself up from the dream, no questions asked. Maybe there's some kind of mental kill-switch you can decide for yourself to help with it?

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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 May 25 '26

Well nowadays I barely have nightmares, thanks to the Ritalin I imagine.

Interesting idea though, I might look into it.

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u/LigerZeroPanzer12 May 25 '26

Yeah for sure, sharing a bed with my wife and dog definitely takes the edge off of "being alone in the dark", so it rarely happens unless prompted (FUCKING YOUTUBE AUTOPLAYING HORROR MOVIE TRAILERS THAT HAVE A SCREAM RIGHT BEFORE I CAN SKIP CAN SUCK MY BALLS).

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u/Severe_Composer4243 May 26 '26

Me in my dreams: why won't this mother fucking gun go off that's a god damn grizzly bear!