What Sterotypes do you hate?

[Templetroll]

I agree about Tenchi, but its a comedy so I can just ignore it.

Naruto starts out pretty stupid, but he gets smarter. Goku from DB is probably the ultimate example of that kind of thing. He was an idiot. I think the Japanese like idiot heroes for some reason.

My major pet peeve is "reverse the polarity." It's the solution to everything. *twitch*

I like Goku, though. He is the eternal innocent that allows the hypocrisy of the world to be revealed in all its sordid glory! I dislike the DBEndless Battles that accomplish nothing, however. DB was great, DBZ had some good parts and the rest I don't watch.

From Wikipedia:

The catchphrase most associated with the Third Doctor's era is probably "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow". The phrase was Pertwee's way of dealing with the technobabble that he was required to speak as the Doctor. He wanted something all purpose and easy to remember instead of myriad made-up dialogue, and Terrance Dicks provided him with the phrase.

All the other times you hear it it is an homage to Dr Who and that is a cool thing (tm).

 

[bodhi]

1) Characters coming back from the dead. It worked with Spock, and it almost worked with Buffy (sadly, season 6 as a whole didn't quite work), but in general it just sucks.

One thing I liked about Buffy post-resurrection is that they did touch on the trauma of being yanked back into mortality.

At the very least, the character should be forever changed by the experience.

On the other hand, it didn't seem to have much of a lasting impact. Or as much as it should have.

 

[Templetroll]

Plot reuse. If a series lasts more than two seasons, you will see the same episode repeated with a minor variation at least once.

The writer rewrote the script for different shows. How many times have you though a plot seemed familiar when watching some show and it turns out it was same story on different show. Start with the hit and run where the victim is stuck in the windshield, perp drives home expecting to sober up then go back out and call it in. Twist, from a true story, is that the victim is NOT dead and then the person has to leave them there to slowly die and then get rid of the body and the car yadda yadda.

 

[KenM]

the jock turns out total jerk and completely useless ....

Thats not streotyping, thats real life. Jocks are useless.

 

[Starman]

Thats not streotyping, thats real life. Jocks are useless.

KenM, we all know your hate of jocks know no limit, so you don't need to remind us in every thread.

 

[delericho]

One thing I liked about Buffy post-resurrection is that they did touch on the trauma of being yanked back into mortality.

Indeed. That's why I said it almost worked.

Sadly, the major consequence of the trauma seemed to be Buffy spending the year being incredibly depressed, and cutting herself off from all her friends.

Although that was entirely appropriate from a story point of view, it removed much of what I enjoyed about the show from the mix (that being the interplay between the major characters). Couple that with the lack of a compelling Big Bad (a la Angelus or the Mayor), and the season as a whole really fell flat (and I can even understand the reason for that - the "Life is the Big Bad" angle makes some sense).

It was a well told story. Sadly, it was not really a story I particularly enjoyed.

 

[mmu1]

1. The brilliant intellectual (college professor, researcher, writer, etc.) who never solves anything through physical action - no matter how appropriate it would be, or how much it would simplify things. When he's not outsmarting the bad guys, he's running for his life. His friends are almost always even more nerdy than he is, so that they don't show him up for a pansy. If he does happen to have a physically strong and tough friend, he's got to be dumb enough to be useless, or comic relief.

Those kind of characters remind me of why I like Indiana Jones so much.

2. The "fat people are stupid" convention. It's not ubiquitous anymore, but it still pops up often enough. Obese bullies, idiot security guards, idiot dads... The bigger their gut, the dumber they are.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Only "White Men" can be villians.

Anyone else being a villian gets calls of racism or sexism, but white men are fair game.

Geoff.

Really? Havent heard of this one. Examples of non-white / male villains and the out cry that ensued please.

And considering that most of the heroes of our time are white males, I dont really see what the problem is.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

Done badly, there are any number of stereotypes that I find annoying. They can, all of them, also be done well and in an entertaining manner. It all depends on the subject matter, the personalities and charisma involved, as well as a hundred other subtle little things.

QFT.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Law officers and military people made out of be cruel, evil, silly or all three. None that I've met are any of those.

Southerners. For pity's sake, the best southerner recently was Larry the Cable Guy in Healthy Inspector. Other Southerners (always a target for Hollywood's scorn and wrath) are made out to be violent, sadistic, degenerate, wicked, racist, religious fantatics or all of the above. Terrorists usually get a better deal in movies and TV shows than do Southerners.