Are there any words or phrases that you hate seeing in media?

To clarify with an example, I fucking hate seeing the word Pandora. It's a box, and a radio, and jewelery, and the planet the smurfy cats lived on and everything else. The word I like, but everyone seems to use it for everything in my tiny mind. I might be blowing it out of proportion, but it FEELS like it's so common. Whenever I learn something is named Pandora I'm like, really? You couldn't come up with anything else?

Is this just me?

    I too hate the word Pandora-- when it's used... incorrectly, per se. Pandora is a mythical greek woman who opens a box/jar and bad things come out of it (except one good thing.) For a planet with a vault on it that we're gonna rob? Kinda cool. For an engagement ring? Eh.

    To share my own name hate, I don't like "Robin Hood."

    Any story, any hero, is infinitely more interesting when defined without oversimplification. The hero steals from the company for justice? Out of spite? Because he can?

    He provides to the poor because he grew up in the slums? To raise an army of his own? To impress a princess who's living as a refugee?

    "This hero is a Robin-Hood character," is a useless phrase. Even if you're trying to evoke a heroic sort of expectation for a story or character, the Robin Hood legend has so many variations and meanings, that the intent is worthless without supporting statements.

    Mamelunka

    Anything with King Arthur or Graal thing, i can't stand them anymore either.

    Even a great story, when the synopsis need these overused fantasy tales/stories to catch attention, in my mind it has already been classified in my "No creativity" drawer.

    You want to talk about a wanna-be king finding a legendary sword stuck in a stone, assisted by a mage named Merlin? Just create your own characters and twists it.

    Like all these stories with orcs. Orc's standard archetype isn't even a creature from historical folklore (just the name), but a Tolkien's invention. You want to create a scary humanoid monster army, invent one. It is much more rewarding like this.

      Did I also mention heavens? What's your vendetta against the heavens? I mean, technically speaking, it's just the sky. In cultivation books, the MC does something peerlessly sthoopid, and faces its consequences (his mother dies or his best friend Mr. Fatty dies or one of his harem dies or a recently introduced cannon fodder character dies) but he always blames it on the Heavens, like dayum dude.

      Sundering the heavens, against the heavens, slashing the heavens...such terms are used...ugh.

      There's also our prized contestant, Mr.Fatty who either is a degenerate pig or is the best useless friend of Mr. MC.

      Lord Skinny wants to file a petition.

      The situation is "incredulous." Author, I don't think you know what that word means and if you do and are still leaving out who is thinking this then I assume it must be me and if so you are wrong. Don't ever tell me what I think.

      Mine's older, as in at least 20 years older.

      In fantasy, fantastic names which incljude the concatenation-marker, '.
      You know, like Er'zawin.
      Did his parents blow a gasket?
      Lemme see, let's name our kid something so hard to pronounce you need to stuff in shit outside of the alphabet we use.

        StenDuring

        I like these names. It gives a kind of tribal, primitive,alien feeling. But i get what you mean.

            StenDuring I get what you mean but sometimes I like to name my characters pot'toltia or something. It feels strangely..... Strange which is what I need

                But I don’t watch TV and news, I only read local news and not every week. And the world only when something extraordinary. So, in general, I don't like it when journalists add fuel to the fire with different viruses. They create hysteria, and after them, all sorts of bastards raise prices for remedies by 10 or even 30 times!

                  Well, i know. However, you'll get this strangeness in everyday reality as well.

                  I'm Swedish, so I'm used to the last names used here. For those in the English speaking world they're just sounds, and we don't usually translate names. If we did they'd probably stand out as alien or even outright hilarious.

                  Peter Forsberg, a pretty well known hockey player. His last name is Rapidsmountain (the fast flowing part of a river followed by mountain).

                  Ahlgren, a fictious US officer in the movie The last Samurai. Alderbranch. So a species of tree followed by branch.

                  It's a standard construction over here. Jam together two things found in nature and, voila, you have yourself a last name in Sweden.

                  Normal English names would be as outlandish if translated into Swedish since we don't name families after professions. Smith, Cobbler and Carpenter are all big nonos.

                  The thing is, outlandish or not, a name would always be easy on the ear for the locals, and whatever writing system is used, there's no way people would need to go outside said system's normal behaviour for naming purposes.

                  And yeah, it's just a pet peve of mine. There are examples given earlier in this thread that made me go: Huh, what's so bad about that? :D This thread is, in the end, about our personal gripes.

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