grimreaper906 I just realized how identical this is to the son-in-law stories. They are always hiding their identities even though they are supposedly some underworld boss, CEO, young master of a super-family, general, or whatever, but they decide to pretend to be trash...just because.

Then when people insults him or his wife (funnily enough his wife and his in-laws do most of the insulting), then he's lke f it! I'll show you plebians I'm the greatest in the world! And starts flexing his power.

And I doubt the misunderstanding is only for idiot female main characters. A lot of the male main characters in cultivator stories do precisely that. "They are just insects, why should I bother?" Because they cause you and your family a lot of trouble later, you moron? Ugh...

      grimreaper906 Exactly this. A lot of the problems wouldn't occur if they 1) don't go around pissing people off with their arrogant/condescending attitude in the first place and 2) if they didn't let misunderstandings occur for no reason other than because they were too lazy and dismissive to explain themselves and 3) they don't ignore "insects" and leave them to do their nonsense, only to pull a surprised Pikachu face when these "insects" take revenge by targeting their friends and families.

        and i hate the trope where there will be some drawn out drama between ml and fl because of some stupid miscommunication that could be easily rectified by talking for a minute
        and i hate that no matter how strong ML's beloved FL is described in ML-novels, specifically cultivation stuff, she is always at least a little weaker than ML and spends most of her time being somewhere away as a plot device for ML to do stuff for
        oftentimes, that somewhere away is ducking dead

        This is still going strong? Then I’ll add another:

        Hyper unrealistic combat scenes.

        I get it’s a fantasy story, but sometimes it just goes too far. For example, the dude with a sword that blocks 1,000s of arrows at once fried by an entire army. Even better, the guy who is getting shot at by a machine gun but blocks all of the bullets with a sword or ball point pen or something.

        Once there was a story that had a fight scene between a guy with dual pistols and a swordsman. The swordsman had never seen a gun before because the MC was reincarnated into a different world (this was explicitly stated when they started fighting). Yet, the swords man blocked all of the bullets with one sword as the MC jumped over him and fired both guns mid air.

        Note that this was a counter attack, so the swordsman had to stop attacking, look up, see the bullets coming, recognize that they were lethal projectiles, reposition the sword, and perfectly defect all of the bullets. even if that were possible, the ricochet and muzzle flash would have killed the swordsman.

        Edit: The above story was otherwise well written from what I remember, and it was a story on WebNovel. One of those lesser known stories from another user. I believe I said everything above in my review of the book for a review swap. I’m not slighting the novel, just the trope in general.

        AND MY BIGGEST TROPE OF ALL

        Anyone under the age of 18 writing a smut, rape, matured, sexual, harem, shrimp, abusive relationship and calling it "rOmAnCe".

          Misguided_Rooster I've read over 640 hours, written around 80k words, and this is the first time i've seen the forum. This is the first thread I read. I've been laughing for a solid two minutes. Thank you for giving me more entertainment than half of the novels I've read.

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            1. Portraying China as a capitalistic nation with a plethora of overbearing CEOs around every corner. Lol the Chinese government will 100% take away these idol-like CEOs and run them through an internment camp or put them under house arrest cuz they're more famous/powerful than Papa Xi himself.

            2. Bashing on Buddhist and Non-secular sects in Cultivation novels (bald donkeys, etc.). The Communist party has a hard-on against any and all religious content. If you look at Chinese history, they've done some brutal shit with the Buddhist monastaries, and even now with the Uyghurs.

            3. "Traditional Chinese martial arts OP!" Yea... no...

            4. Bashing on the system because it's "stupid"/"useless". As if having an OP AF cheat for simply existing in a world wasn't enough... The protagonists are never satisfied with their lives. Even before death, they were probably those ass hats that complain about unfair workplace practices when they actually never did an ounce of work, to begin with. "The last thing I remember was working overtime for a job my boss told me to do" Yeah right! Get the fuck outta here!

            5. DiNg ObNoXiOuS sYsTeM sOuNd!

            6. Systems that basically move the plot forward by providing extremely leading quests. Man, I even read this novel where the MC literally does nothing, dude's just a slave to the system (and not the fun kind where the system actually takes over the man's body, which was an aight story IMO).

            7. Virgin boys that blow a girl's mind away with their superior "sword work"...

            8. "You girl! I have never been rejected before... Now you have my attention! I am going to now proceed to act like a total misogynist and gaslight you into becoming my woman. Of course, it's alright because I'm hot."

            9. Jade beauties.... just... no...

            1. A mentally challenged or handicapped character becoming alright because they were simply hiding their strength for the perfect moment. The worst offenders are when the FMC's system or OP skill from past life straight up "cures" a character's autism. Like WTF?!

              My problem again is still in those romance novels. Like!!! Must there always be a party scene, then the female lead goes there purely to slap faces, the blue bloods will be like, "actresses are lowly" and other shit. The birthday party or company anniversary scene is way too overdone.

              It's either the grandpa that treats her well birthday or it's the grandma that bullies her birthday, like I said Overdone!!! And why must her sister have a problem with her? In the romance genre nowadays theres no longer any originality

              Then the See God! Kill God! See Buddha! Kill Buddha! The Lord cultivators 😂😂😂

              I just found another trope that I'm sick of reading. The peanut gallery. My God, the random characters spouting all sorts of bullshit and trash-talking the main character, as well the stupid info dump of the opponent's entire dossier. "Oh, Super Genius A is the core disciple of B Sect who mastered ultimate technique C, he's a prodigy who has never been defeated. Main character is stupid to go up against him! He's seeking death!"

              Most of the times, I'm rolling my eyes as they waste entire chapters talking nonsense, wondering when they will actually start fighting. The authors really love dragging things out - is there a need to spend entire chapters on trash-talking the main character? And they literally do it a few hundred times throughout the damned story. Over and f-ing over again. Ugh.

                Sigh.... talent is just potential, and potential without time to ripen is a waste. 🙄

                  grimreaper906 Exactly! This reminds me of...a well written review of a Chinese webnovel (Eternal Reverence). I think the reviewer, alenotbeer, put it like this:

                  "Once MC reached a certain level of power, then it's tournament time. First, there are tournaments in sects. Followed by tournaments for the main tournament. Then there is finally the main tournament, supplemented with a detailed dossier of each opponent that MC will face, which includes information of their sects, their power level, their skills, their specialty, their weapons, their rivals, their friends, their mother, their father, their dog, their shoe size, their last meal, and a five page essay about the day they took their first baby steps.

                  All that matters is that MC wins. And all these poor bastards cease to matter anymore."

                  It's hilariously true, though in many cases, they don't simply cease to matter - after losing to the MC, they try to take revenge by dragging their sect/clan/family into it, and then get everybody in their sect/clan/family killed. Then they cease to matter anymore.

                    DemonizedDemon Brothers are also cute! Brothers are also justice! Well, unless they have no comedic effect, personality, or anything of the sort in the story except for pushing the plot forward.

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