favorite tropes in general?

[tesseractcube]

there are a lot of tropes in media, so i'm wondering about people's favorites 

personally, i love the story trope of ~evil experiments~ going on and making some weird creatures. right now i can only think of The Isle as an example for that right now, even though that's not the best example... 

oh, Rain World also kind of falls into that trope because many of the creatures in that game were engineered. As well as Monster Hunter Wilds where a certain subset of Monsters were experimented on and went rogue.

what tropes do you like? 


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[Symberzite]

It's a bit of a niche one, but I adore Hollywood movie hacking. I love the idea that someone is just sitting on their butt typing away at a keyboard, but good cinematography and pumping music make it more exciting than most gunfights. Good examples are Hackers and the Social Network.

 

[AY38910]

Hackers totally use MS-DOS on greenscreen CRT even in the far future. They always use that kinda shit on TV whenever they appear with a computer. But key, DOS was a great system with many really fun games. Also, I like green.

[MrsMoe]

Ohhhh!!!! There's tons of tropes I'm nuts for! I'm gonna list them all out cause I have a solid handful:

- Duel personas, or the self breaking apart into doppelgangers. Extra points if it plays into the horrors of being perceived.

- Wonderland-esque settings. Alice in Wonderland is one my favorite works of fiction ever, so I love any stories that take a young protagonist and thrust them into a strange fantasyland (think OTGW, Pan's Labyrinth, or Coraline).

- Eldritch locations (I think I just like places that are weird and nonsensical lol). I love the thought of a location being actively hostile or built around tormenting whoever inhabits it. The best examples would probably be the house from House of Leaves of Silent Hill.

- Dreams or mental worlds as a thematic or plot device in any capacity.

- Characters who are timid and reserved, but either have a dry, sarcastic side or have an underlying darkness to them.

- Guilt, trauma or grief being represented by an ominous being that plagues the protagonist (think Pyramid Head or Something from Omori).

- Themes of existentialism, or escapism vs reality.

- Stories in which several faucets of society and isolated behaviors interweave into something horrible, like Twin Peaks or Paranoia Agent.

- The general message of "life can be hard, lonely, and painful, but living it and connecting with others will always be worth it".