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.

            Benny_Manatee I found the title of that second story I was talking about, the one where the protagonist avenges his childhood friend who was raped and murdered by hunting down and killing all fifteen of her rapist-murderers, which led to him being executed. But he gets reborn in another world where all men turned into crazed zombies whose addled minds are filled with nothing but rape. The title is Kyosei Tensei. Protagonist's name is Anezaki Satoru.

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                Morning shone and came the breeze
                Achoo! came the sound caused by freeze

                He wiped the snot, and stood he did
                Looked around confused, suprised, quickly hid

                A jade beauty was sleeping by the side
                Nude she was, skin clear, exhausted from the ride

                Memories began to appear, filling the young man dread
                Quickly dressed and escaped this cave to seek his bread

                .

                The beauty slept soundly, not feeling a loss
                She moved and twisted, her head resting on
                a moss

                She woke up groggy, she stretched and looked around
                Her expression made several changes, but did not make a sound

                She sighed finally, and resigned to her fate
                Weird, inside, did she feel a bit of longing that came late?

                .

                Our man had already escaped to the far east
                He met several beauties and made them a feast

                A carriage came across the travelling bunch
                A young man came outside and our man had a hunch

                His hunch came true as a sword battle ensued
                Our man was defeated, he ran, and was pursued

                But not before cursing and promising revenge
                "Beauties, wait for me, I will definitely avenge"

                The young man ran wildly, as fast as the wind
                Dead end, the warriors smiled, "you have sinned"

                They took a step forward, the young man ready to die
                Suddenly, the ground began to crack as they heard a cry

                A monster came out, a legendary qilin, it ate all but one
                It morphed into a loli, a voice came, "a job well done"

                Our man was rooted to his spot, his mouth ajar
                He looked behind and an ethereal beauty stood afar

                The beauty smiled at him, came to him and made him a slave
                He served her scheming, but man! What pleasure she gave!

                One day, or better say one night
                On bed, he was fully showing his might

                Her husband caught her cheating, enraged he was
                Startled, he fell from the bed, "why make a fuss?"

                Our man escaped while the duo quarrelled
                He went and was about to fulfil what he promised

                Alas, the first wife found him and chained him down
                "Don't think about escaping again" she made a frown

                The young man questioned the heaven, why was it so unfair?
                Could he not have a moment? Just a moment to breath the air?

                .

                Unbeknownst to him, somewhere far away
                In another dimension, isolated without a way

                A man was staring at a screen, not focusing on some game
                He was watching the view count, it kept increasing like his fame

                The man laughed with joy and obvious satisfaction
                "Good food? Fast food gives money and gratification!"

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                  Tomoyuki Well well, I wasn't expecting you to remember my rewuest after such a long time lol Thank you, I'll definitely check it out!

                      Tomoyuki Its a shit way for authors to provide active exposition (passive is when the author writes the exposition in 3rd person or narrational format).

                      But it can often get really out of hand, especially in romance novels when you have those "netizen" live commentary and "water-army" bullshit. I don't even read those anymore cuz I know what's happening in there.

                        5 days later

                        I am also tired of seeing tropes about the mc being magically good at everything , even things they're just seeing for the first time
                        Even their children are super kids with out of this world skills
                        And sometimes I also wonder about these CEO stories like if the ml is ruthless and cruel while always bankrupting people the why is he so carefree about life with only a handful of body guards because if it were really true then he should basically hire the miltary because with that amount of people having nothing to lose , they could do anything and not only a handful of assassinations
                        I am also tired of the basic one night stand stories like didn't they teach you about sex in school and contraceptives

                          I am bored of the chosen one trope. It is much better to have an average protagonist that succeeded because of their own talents rather than some prophecy. That being said there are still a lot of novels that do this well.
                          I can't get enough of rogues or amoral characters being the protagonist.

                          16 days later

                          Here’s another trope that is just aNoYiNg!

                          The unrealistic “Love at First Sight.”

                          I’m talking about leads who “met when they were young and fell in love right away.” Bah! That’s BS. And recently I saw an extreme and awful version of this in a nicer that just came out.

                          The ML is a baby. A newborn. He’s not even a week old. (This is a Transmigration/Reincarnation setting in a cultivation setting). Now insert the FL. She’s 16 (but they say she’s actually 10 because of cultivation?! Idk). She literally meet the ML. Again HE’S A FREAKING BABY. And she’s like, “He is cute, I want to marry him.” Fcking hell! WTF?! First of all, she’s a P*do. Second of all, this is so unrealistic and uncomfortable.

                          BTW, they allowed this weird child to get engage to the ML!? The F-!?

                          I literally want to scream… I hate this. Also, did I say that the ML is way too OP?! Like his first cry was heard all over the country of something and caused the weather to change alongside some other magical abnormalities idk cultivation novels are so weird and packed with the weirdest tropes.

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