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“Goblins get a pass. They gave us Daniel Greene”😂

I felt some chaotic green screen goblin energy in this one. I feel like booktubers get so random and funny when they discover the power of editing lol. It's perfect.

"Apart from goblins they gave us Daniel Greene" is my favorite line from every video he made

Now I REALLY want to see this nonagenarian curse-breaking nursing home-rebellion fantasy epic.

When I was younger I loved the idea of being a chosen one, destined for greatness from birth, so the chosen one trope was appealing to me. But now I much prefer the idea of some random person being in a certain place at a certain time, falling into the story or choosing to take part in it, and then becoming important to it. Maybe it’s because I see myself more as some random person now than someone who could be a chosen one.

Totally agree! I would love to see older people as the main cast of characters.

The the undeserved mercy to the villain is my second most hated trope. My most hated trope is the redemption arch were the villain only has to convince the protagonist that they are good and everyone is cool with the villain now. Never mind all the people hurt by the villain before. I call this trope a trail shmail we say the villain is cool now.

I love the farmboy to hero trope 😅 ... I love seeing an unsuspecting peasant be thrown into the world, given way more responsibility than they can handle, strain, suffer and change under it and finally realise they can never return home. It is ... a bit ... overdone, but if done well, I'll devour those stories like the Lopen his chouta.

Edgy Edgelord forever has a spot in my heart. He's trying so hard, the poor boy XD

I can deal with a lot of these tropes, but, ugh, the cliffhanger - the completionist in me cannot stand it! I binge series as much as possible for that reason alone. Loved how you captured that cliffhanger feeling!

Very creative titles! I personally love the Chosen One trope, but it would be a lot more interesting with a twist. Like how Rowling made Harry be only one option for the prophecy. And he’s also ironically chosen because of Voldemort’s own fatal flaw, which was interesting. Or Rand who’s chosen not only to save the world, but also destroy it. I don’t think I dislike any fantasy tropes. Usually my most hated tropes are in romance. If it’s fantasy, I love it, lol.

You know, I get why insta-love grates, but when I heard my grandma tell me that she saw her future husband for the first time on the street and KNEW they would get married, I realized this was a real thing that I just didn't get because I've never experienced it.

One modern author who chooses all these kinds of tropes ...and then turns them on their heads in the most delightful manner ...is Joe Abercrombie. His The First Law trilogy is a masterpiece ...beginning with a trope I usually can't stand ...a big 'fight' between entities we don't yet know anything about. It's one of the best story openers I've ever read.

Nearly all of these tropes are in the wheel of time😂

Even your sponsor sections are amazing and so well done!! WHY DONT YOU HAVE MORE SUBS! What’s wrong with you earth!

Brilliant video as always, sir. Despise damsel in distress, love triangles, and insta-love. The Daniel Green joke was A+ sir. We do love our disheveled goblin host. Seriously hate unpronounceable names. Whyyyyyyyy?

*The Prophecy* is my single favorite fantasy trope. *The misunderstanding* is the one I most loathe.

Jay: Hating on the edge lord trope Six of Crows Fans: .... 😬

I love Elves, Dwarves and even Orcs when they have a unique spin on them, or they are made the stories focus rather than humans. The Legend of Zelda, for example, with its Hylians and Gorons filling in for Elves and Dwarves.

I'm too much of a D&D nerd to be unhappy with races/concepts used by Tolkien in other works. Seeing new races is really great and I'll happily dive into learning about them, but I'll also be perfectly happy to see things I'm already familiar with pop up. 😂

About advancement in the Mistborn books, there is a stated reason in the original trilogy that nothing advanced, the Lord Ruler supressed all technology advancements so it couldn't become a threat to him.

I love the creativity in your videos! Makes them different from everyone else on booktube that I watch! I always look forward to seeing a new video from you in my subscription list.

Okay why was this video so funny 😂 Love the energy here

Love the video. I admire the editing work you put in every video. It makes it a pleasure to watch them every time 😃👍.

I love watching these videos a writer because I can pick at things in my plot and figure out if they really work for the story the way I think it does or if there's a way to make tropes more interesting. It's really helped me with creating interesting stories lines and not falling into the pitfall of using these tropes just to get through the story but instead come up with different more engaging ways to bring my world and characters to life, so thank you for this video

this was a great video, I really hate the miscommunication trope. I probably spelled that wrong. also you mentioned the goblin host himself which was fun. since I usually talk about what I'm reading in these comments I'll do the same here. right now I'm reading the shadow rising and LoTR and in 10 days words of radiance will arrive and I need to finish what I'm reading now before it comes.

*sees thumbnail* It begins.

I love your content so much I started with just the King Killer stuff but branched off and I even got into Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan Because of you, So thank you.

Watching the video and visibly flinching as Wheel of Time (the all time GOAT) hits (nearly) every single one of these and thinking surely the next trope won't apply to WOT and then it super does 😅

I agree on everything except (kinda) "The Chosen One" and "The Prophecy" - I think they can be done really really well (Berserk manga does both tropes extremely well) but most of the time they are not. But I really despise miscommunication, I think Wheel of Time is very guilty of this... some characters and their interractions just drive me nuts.

I hate the "Friends to Lovers" trope, mainly when two characters have been friends since childhood, and then 17 years later decide they love each other (or have apparently "always loved each other"). I think this just rubs me the wrong way, though, since I have multiple friends I used to think I liked and then discovered I knew them too well to actually see them as anything but friends. Obviously this isn't everyone's experience, but because it's mine, I hate that trope.

dude your editing is sooo good!

Calling Bilbo and Frodo a farm boy is a bit like calling Henry Ford III a car mechanic.

Been waiting for this video, entertaining as always. The chosen one and the prophecy tropes are a quick way to make me dislike a story. The only way they work is if you subvert it or mess with it a little.

Always gorgeously edited!

Great video! Although I gotta say that Voldemort isn’t just evil for evil’s sake. At the end of the day, most of what he does is because he’s trying to escape death.

Thank you so much! Your videos come out less frequently than Daniel’s, but I am far more excited when your’s do! Once again, thank you so much! Keep up the great work!

The hate for cliff-hanger trope well clarified lolll Love it. The Belgariad really has more than half of the tropes here but is still awesome. Ce'Nedra isn't the needy princess type though 😂

I never realized there were so many tropes, Dooh! Now I am gonna be looking for them Captured :-)

Loved the video! To be honest with you, I don't get too caught up in tropes. If the story is gripping, I'll read it regardless. :-)

Damn that was quality. One of your funniest videos yet.

That old people saving the world sounds great, lmao

I tip my hat to you and that intro, good sir 😂 Dont' know if you've read this, but Kings of the Wyld is pretty much what you mentioned about the old guys taking on another adventure. I freaking LOVED KotW and it's successor, Bloody Rose.

The farmboy trope is an extention of the amnesia or Isekai writing style. People complain about these tropes, but they tend to be the best way to teach the reader about the world, by having the reader learn about the world along with the protagonist. Or at least many writers find it easier to do that way without massive infodumps or the "as you know" trope that feel out of place in most stories. There is nothing wrong with any trope, but some can be more tricky than others to do well.

Hello man! Nice video as always!

7:10 That's kinda the plot of Kings of the Wyld. Daniel Greene did a video on that if you wanna check it out.

3:32 HELL YEAH!!! I love the Belgariad, it’s so good.

The dark lord trope can be done well, as in Lotr and WoT, where evil is a plain force of nature that drove Sauron, and the Dark One is a counterbalance to the creator

A wise witch once said that everyone wants to be chosen, but if we wait for someone else to choose us, we'll die waiting.

I can relate to this video TOO MUCH. Sometimes I even get unmotivated to read new fantasies because of these tropes.😅

In the end, of course, most of these tropes can be good if you know what to do with them, like taking them to newer direction, such as focusing on unique theme revolving around them that isn’t common in other storytelling.

The chosen one trope made the Faithful and the Fallen story so good! lol

Stranger Things has Chosen One threads. I really can't think of a lot of times these tropes were unwelcome when they're done well. Case in point: the "evil" villain without motivation isn't so much a trope as it is an example of bad or lazy writing. My point is only that I worry people will get the idea that the trope is the problem, that every idea must somehow be completely unexplored territory. Sometimes people write themselves out into left field just trying to get away from "over-done" ideas, but this is a rabbit hole that leads to madness. I do appreciate that you pointed out the fact that execution is key, because the truth is that any idea recycled simply because we've seen it before and not because it was born out of character is going to fall flat. As long as you develop gripping characters and your plot springs forth _from_ those characters, I really think you're good. Often its following those character motivated paths that will lead the writer away from recycled ideas in the first place, or even if not entirely, their situation will feel unique enough to them that nobody will care. I never once thought of Interstellar as a "farmboy gets off the farm and goes on an adventure story" because my attention was firmly on the twists and turns of he and his daughter's characters. I think it boils down to: write a great yarn and understand what MAKES a yarn great. Thanks for all you do on this channel!

Another STELLAR video, as per usual. 😃HaHa "but why though?" Same (with the unmotivated villain thing).

I don't know how you feel about the Sword of Truth series but one of my favorite things about Wizard's First Rule was how they subverted the prophecy trope. It warned against the dangers of taking prophecies at face value, many of which were fulfilled in unexpected ways, and placing an inordinate amount of faith in those prophecies. It also wrestles with the issue of prophecy/fate vs. free will, which I enjoyed. However the way Goodkind explains prophecy in his books is complicated, perhaps overly so. I was bummed that some of the later books begin to fall into the kind of prophecy tropes that I praise the earlier books for not having.

You are the chosen one. Oh yea. I can relate to that. I've been randomly selected even though I have absolutely no experience.

I was laughing so hard while noting down the information you gave

Oh nooo everyone hates insta love and I honestly kinda love it xD it has to fit the feel of the story though... If everything else is super realistic then it would just be out of place and too whimsical. But when to characters see each other for the first time and know instantly that they never want to be apart... I live for that stuff, I don't know why ahah

This had me rolling in my bed chuckling, so I'll click like. PS. Maybe just a teaser for the underwear part? 😳🔥🦵🏻 *dark twist Hahaha, just kidding man! 🤣

The trope that I think is being overused is the mentor character's death. The person knows everything. Has so much information that could have saved lives earlier but let's himself get killed before telling the hero something important that could have saved lives earlier.

I haven't watched in a while. Nice intro

8:40 Nice, I have both. I took the Pterolycus from German mythology and I made a type of troll like ogre-giant with white fur and wings, that lives in the snowfields, called a Drungull.

I've heard that when characters kill lots of goons in a big battle but don't want to plan to go murder the big bad, it's not always a result of moral contradictions; sometimes it's just rules of engagement. A big battle is a big battle and murder is murder, sort of. But the reasons for and situations surrounding killing the big bad can vary a lot.

I tried to do a variation of “farmboy to hero” when I was teaching my kids to play d&d and my daughter was gonna start as a poor smelly animal caretaker but she wasn’t having it and got furious when I suggested that her character smelled bad. 😅😅😅😅

9:01 Yeah, I invented a lot of my own speicies, and borrowed some legendary creatures from around the world, lesser ones and popular ones.. Of course, brought back old favourites too, vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches....and thanks to the complicated Trellish language word structure, everything is hard to pronounce.

I read a fantasy book and one of the plots was a instalove with a tragic end. God I cheered when he died

I can never get enough Chosen One or Farmboy to Hero books. If its well done i dont mind it at all. Same with fantasy races. I love it when Authors create their own races but i also dont mind it if they use the standard elves, dwarfs and orcs :D

You’ve said on your video about the tropes that maybe you’ve forgotten about, I hope you’ll make more videos about these tropes

Did I see rage of dragons👀👀

The "I won't kill the bad guy cuz I'm better than that" trope is indeed the very worst.

Your work is fantastic👍👍👍

Propacy can also spoil the plot of the movie when done poorly (Pokemon 2000 original Japanese) nut when done well the twist can be quite memorable (Pokemon 2000 English dub)

The "no advancement" trope is pretty true to history in a certain light. Technology (and society) has changed more in the last 150 years than in the previous 10k.

It is blurry, _but_ , do I spy with my little eye Realm of the Elderlings books in the background? 😁 Also, I somehow have a feeling that reading Prince of Thorns might be a good read for when one is super angry? 😂 To, kinda, vent through an ultra angry character? 😅 I haven't read it yet, but that's the feeling I get

Hellboy had a good twist on the Chosen One: The Prophecy says the hero is actually destined to destroy the world, even as he fights for goodness. This puts his love interest into a real quandary.

4:33 farmboy to hero- the black cauldron ❤ lol

Hating elves, dwarves and orcs might be the most controversial take I've ever heard from a book video That's just weird, man

Teenagers saving the world: makes me think of this one historical fiction where the main characters are in a very bad situation and thinks seem hopeless only to be saved by the MMC's grandma and grandpa.

The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne also subverts both the prophecy and chosen one trope.

Insta-love was my only issue with the Mistborn trilogy. But Brando Sando did really well with Era 2 when it comes to romance. Great video tho!

A trope i here is when the main character is just super powerful. I prefer it when the protagonist is constantly overpowered or outmatched and they have to be smarter than their opponent.

God talking to people in 14th century BC: voice from burning bush God talking to people in 21th century AD video about hated tropes: bird carrying letters Ironic.

I know this is a few years old at this point but the "Old Folks leaving the nursing home" idea.... Kings of the Wyld kinda tried it? Sort of? And it was awesome!

You hit all of my high points. Thank you!

Undeserved mercy makes me absolutely incandescent with rage. "uwu killing is wwong" they say as they step over the dead bodies of hundreds of footsoldiers. "I won't be like you" 😑

"a group of 90 year Olds saving the world" oh you mean kings of the wyld? 😂😂😂

I think one of the reasons technological stagnation is frustrating is that so many fantasy authors have no grasp of economics and that ignorance informs their worldbuilding in hopelessly unrealistic ways.

7:18 teenagers save the world is cool though. Lol I remember being annoyed with the movie Armageddon cuz it was “loser guys save the world.” But of course everyone loves a good underdog tale.

One aspect of the 'farmboy' trope and others like them that I dislike is the complete fish out of water aspect where they go out into the world with absolutely no skills whatsoever so you need a warrior (Aragorn, Lan etc. . .) to protect them otherwise they would get killed by the first creature of darkness they meet and story is over bt oage 20 or 30.

9:32 I mean, in the First Age (some surviving into the Second) you have magical lamps that never go out or need to be recharged (lamps of Feanor), video-calling gems (the Palantiri), magical security systems that also hide the protected location (Doriath and Gondolin), water moving and plumbing systems that allowed massive cities to exist underground (Doriath, Nargothrond, the dwarvish cities) and above, certainly equal to Ancient Rome and Harappa/Mojendaro, etc. Even in the Second Age you have the Doors of Durin, a magical and technological marvel, as well as the Rings of Power. The Middle Earth of Lord of the Rings has regressed technologically and magically, imo.

I like prophesy in October Daye books. It's sort of in the background, third tier plot point, and we still have not heard actual prophesy text in like 12 books :D I think that is to avoid self fulfilling prophecy.

My favorite Damsel in Distress trope is Asuna from Sword Art Online Abridged. If she's gonna be trapped in that proverbial tower, she's going to make Oberon's life as much hell as humanly fucking possible. It was so bad that her escape attempts were like goddamn SCP containment breaches and it's gotten to the point where Oberon had to develop advanced security measures to protect the World Tree _from_ her. Yeah, it didn't work. At all.

Yes! Thank you for putting into words why I disliked the Darker Shade of Magic books! Also fits into the trope of “Evil for no reason” with the twins in white London.

9:50 also worth mentioning how the magic system evolves along with the civilization. How individuals are weaker with each generation but get more creative to compensate.

For the old people kicking arse and saving the day, try Bubba Ho-Tep ;)

The undeserved mercy one I can get behind one hundred percent lol. I hate that with a passion. The MC kills hundreds of unnamed soldiers or warriors like you mentioned, many only fighting either because they are forced to or to feed their families, yet hesitates when its the Big Bad and even spares them after they spent the entire book or series slaughtering countless innocent people? Nope. Just nope. Your take on fantasy species hit me hard man lol. As someone who can't get enough of Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and all the other classic Fantasy races, it broke my heart a bit to hear you say that😂 All joking aside, I can certainly understand where you're coming from in that regard, and I think that's one of the best things about Fantasy. The diversity within it. There's something for everyone, from classic Fantasy like LOTR and Shannara (my personal favorite series) to The First Law series and Malazan: Book of the Fallen.

I made a story where a 40 year old man has to beat murderous children to save the world. They all have super powers. His power is to cancel other superpowers so he gets to physically beat the crap out of them - but he never kills them. I also made an isekai story about a 40 year old man who mistakenly gets summoned in a fantasy world instead of his son of the same name, and then he gets shunned because he has no super powers. He later gets demonic powers and kills everyone. I watched a lot of anime and it is frustrating when the heroes are literally kids beating old men with tons of experience.

"Should I be hungry?" Hahaha

10:55 Last of Us part 2 felt that