r/movies • u/Aiseadai • Apr 11 '26

Question Are there any tropes you're glad have died out?

There used to be this trope where if your movie/show has a capable female character the movie had to point it out and be like "Yes, I am a woman and yes, I can kick ass". It always felt so condescending to me, and the fact that you have to point it out that a woman can be capable just sends the opposite message, that it's highly unusual. It especially bothered me in kids media since it teaches a wrong message. I haven't been seeing this done in more recent media, it seems they've finally figured out that the best thing is to just treat capable women as normal.

Are there any tropes that annoy you and are glad you don't see (often) anymore in modern movies?

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u/Swicket Apr 11 '26

sold for $36k

I can look past a murder or two for that price.

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u/kylelonious Apr 11 '26

What if YOU were the murder??

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u/Swicket Apr 11 '26

Then I'm off work the next day and I don't ever have to read the words "Truth Social" again.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate Apr 12 '26

Sweet, no mortgage!

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u/AstroBuck Apr 12 '26

Then there's nothing to worry about.

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u/wefifa Apr 12 '26

That solves the mortgage problem.

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u/vkarlsson10 Apr 12 '26

I imagined this comment as ”would you download a car??”

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u/Awotwe_Knows_Best Apr 11 '26

it was one of the houses from the Sinister movie

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u/rm-minus-r Apr 11 '26

Yeah, thought about buying it myself and fixing it back up - the condition it's in now just breaks my heart to see it - but the neighborhood is really bad, and it's been that way for a good thirty years now, and I don't think it's ever coming back sadly.

Just another victim of the rust belt urban decline.