ITT: Tropes you're tired of in fiction that need to die
>Old knowledge is always more powerful or superior to modern knowledge
Every fucking fiction series I've ever read has had this. Even sci-fi. Somehow, characters always have to go searching after some forgotten knowledge or item that was more powerful than anything they have in the present day. That's not how technology works in real life at all. Fiction seems to love the idea that technology is declining rather than increasing, even though that's never happened since the Black Plague.
>anyone who sneers or is unpleasant when they are first introduced turns out to be evil
That one's not as universal, but I've still found it in almost all fiction I've read. Anyone who's described with scornful or mean-spirited body language when they're first introduced almost inevitably turns out to betray the protagonists or be on the evil side in some way in most fiction. That's not how human nature works at all.
>>7808872
I'm assuming you're talking about like popular fiction? "The Chosen One" has been a crutch for bad-writers who don't know how to explain why the fate of the universe is in the hands of some kids/teens for too long now.
>>7808872
Sounds like genre fiction problems to be honest.
you should read pride and prejudice and be amazed, op
>>7810724
this tbqh
I've never read a book that relied on either of these tropes
Simplistic and incoherent ethical choices. I know I've read books that have it but the best example is literally every episode of Stargate
>Amazing technology or something else
>No, that's bad!
>Back to the status quo
I mean obviously, but still, couldn't something interesting happen for once?
>>7808872
The first make sense if there was a big Apocalyse
>>7808872
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Every fucking fiction series I've ever read has had this. Even sci-fi. Somehow, characters always have to go searching after some forgotten knowledge or item that was more powerful than anything they have in the present day. That's not how technology works in real life at all. Fiction seems to love the idea that technology is declining rather than increasing, even though that's never happened since the Black Plague.
True, I find this to be a rather idiotic thing, a cop out to be used by luddites, or a quick macguffin. That being said, those negativities usually result when using some old knowledge or object is not applied properly. Fredrick Phol uses this old knowledge and dead technology trope rather effectively in his Heechee sequence books.
>>7811695
I fucked up the format of that.
Why aren't good guys in popular fiction ever consequentialists or utilitarians? baka
>>7808872
>Thats not how technology works at all
>Thats not how human behavior works at all
Sounds like you have everything all figured out
This obsession with identifying and cataloging "tropes" is detrimental to the creative process
