What are your most hated fanfic tropes

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It's like "No jimmy, your drinking buddy James you met at the bar last month does not want to wake up as Rias Gremory in the World of Naruto, why would you even think that?"

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At least the fact that it's a friend and you're subjecting them to it adds a bit of irony to the whole idea
Imagine your example with Rias in Naruto but it's some SI who's just cosplaying Rias badly without adding anything interesting.
I once tried to read SI with Gojo Satoru's looks and powers into Worm. Who proceded to call himself Gojo and act like (edgier) Gojo. Then why the f*ck he's even SI?
In friend insert, at least in theory, said friend can be oblivious to the world and powers, they act in new surprising ways more often. SIs with powers/into characters are much worse, because they always basically cosplay said characters, invalidating the only interesting part of the idea.

I hate popular stories.

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I get you, and I have my own brand of hating something popular - I hate MCs
Not all of them, not everytime - but more often than not, especially if it's a male MC of a big, popular franchise. Like, well, your Narutos and Dekus. For some reason, reading about them getting their new powerups and their shitty harems just... rubs me all the wrong ways squared. I can forgive much more stupid wish-fulfillment wank to fics with rare and surprising MCs.

I hate corrupted text.

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Same. Coming from Worm... yeah.
Digging a bit deeper, with Worm and certain other stories with background forces (for a quick and shitty example something like GATE with it's gods), I hate "cryptic" ""interludes"" where such corrupted text along with various ??? and other quirky designs are prevalent.
No, I don't want to read vague 'corrupted' riddles and ooh and ahh in the comments like it's some cool creative design. I don't care about "Queenie" or "Shaper" ""halping"" and ""getting angy"" at ""stoopid/bestest host". It's childish and cheap. In better stories such background processes stay in the background in the mind of the author, adding them to the story improves nothing, it's just indulgent.

 

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At least the fact that it's a friend and you're subjecting them to it adds a bit of irony to the whole idea
Imagine your example with Rias in Naruto but it's some SI who's just cosplaying Rias badly without adding anything interesting.
I once tried to read SI with Gojo Satoru's looks and powers into Worm. Who proceded to call himself Gojo and act like (edgier) Gojo. Then why the f*ck he's even SI?
In friend insert, at least in theory, said friend can be oblivious to the world and powers, they act in new surprising ways more often. SIs with powers/into characters are much worse, because they always basically cosplay said characters, invalidating the only interesting part of the idea.


I get you, and I have my own brand of hating something popular - I hate MCs
Not all of them, not everytime - but more often than not, especially if it's a male MC of a big, popular franchise. Like, well, your Narutos and Dekus. For some reason, reading about them getting their new powerups and their shitty harems just... rubs me all the wrong ways squared. I can forgive much more stupid wish-fulfillment wank to fics with rare and surprising MCs.


Same. Coming from Worm... yeah.

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Sure, there is some irony I guess. As for that Gojo thing, yeah, it's always some weird uncanny facsimile of fannon and cannon. The whole point of SI personalities is that you're not the cannon character, no? As for popular MCs, yeah. I'm so sick of Goku, Batman, Superman, Issei, Deku, Naruto and the like to the point I won't even read a story with those characters if it's not really high quality writing.

Give me The Androids as MXCs. Android 17 or 18 as a crossover mc is much more interesting than Goku or even Vegeta to me at this point. Give me Raven, Starfire, or Zatanna or even John Constantine instead of Bruce, Clark, or Hal Jordan.