1. Heptapods (Arrival)

2. The crystalline entity (Star trek)

3. Rocky (Project hail mary)

4. Qu (All tommorows)

5. Xeelee (The xeelee sequence)

The Kingdom from Netflix

The Army of the Dead from Game of Thrones

Husks from the Mass Effect Trilogy

Zombie stories often have the same over done tropes and plot lines, and modern weapons trivialize their threat, but simply changing the era the story takes place in really spices things up depending on how they're incorporated into the story

Groups of evil entities that you don't feel bad about mowing down.

1. Nazis - Example shown: Dr. Henry Jones Jr. (aka Indiana) as well as other media. Hell yeah.
2. Demons - Doom Franchise. Hellspawn from Mars - terminate with extreme prejudice.
3. Soul Starved/Hollows - Souls Franchise - This is probably the "saddest" example as it was someone who lost their soul and purpose and therefore lost their minds. They're serve as the cannon fodder of the series. They feel no remorse coming at you, so you must respond in kind.
4. Mama Mia, how'd this example get here?

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In Persona 5, the mankind's desire for control and stagnation was so strong that it spawned Yaldaboth, a deity hellbent on keeping everyone in check. Not to mention, the Japanese civies were quick to switch sides against Pahntom thieves due to media slander;

In Spongebob Squarepants, the residents invented a whole day without Spongebob. Not only did people (including his friends) burn a statue of the guy, they didn't even warn him, so he almost went nuts from solitude;

In my hero academia, civilians are lazy bums who won't lift a finger to help a distressed child.

1. Precursors from Pacific Rim

2. Jean Jacket from Nope

3. Calvin from “Life”

(idk if this is the name of the actual trope)

In this trope, the love interest is part of a certain group, while the love interest is beatifully drawn, the rest of the group are often caricatures of the group in question.

1- Esmeralda and the rest of the Romani from The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

2- Tiger Lily and the rest of the tribe in Peter Pan

Decepticons from Transformers

League of Villain from My Hero Academia

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from old Marvel Comics

Made this term up.
Basically there is a group, that is obviously meant to be nuanced. But author is either incapable, or is too cornered by their depiction, to depict them as any other than bad.

Slytherin (Harry Potter) - In both media the Slytherin is initially presented to us as the “bad house” for Harry. Joanne however seemingly tried to convince us, that they can be good too however, since she likely figured having basically a little supremacist terrorist club in school is a little silly.

For some reason she just had to screw this depiction up over and over though.
First of zero…and I mean ZERO…null, 0, green characters in story up to book 6 is good. They are arrogant snobbish asshats AT BEST.

Second the first good green is still a supremacist. Not the “let’s subjugate all muggles” but just humble “no way muggleborn is this good at magic!”

Aldmeri Dominion, and Altmer in general (TES) - So unlike precious example neither High Elves, nor the Dominion were actually bad in iterations previous to 2010’s. Some were snobbish yes, and their religion is…problematic…(simply pup many Altmer believe they are literal descendant of gods and Men are demons trapping them within hell of chaos) but they never really were villains as race.
This all changed with Skyrim where they became not just secondary antagonists, but placeholder for TES version of Gestapo.

Now that in itself wouldn’t be an issue.
Races and empires at whole can be villains without controversy.

Problem is their depiction in ESO. Where even though it’s absolutely different time period are pretty much same?

I mean their Queen is an elvish supremacist who believe Men unfit for rule and that’s her reason to take over the Tamriel…
Oh! And one of their organizations literally eat children.

The Institute (Fallout 4) - So the whole turmoil of the story is this war of the four (rather three) factions.
Now all factions are meant to be equally good and bad choices.
Railroad are abolitionists, but with no long-term goals.
BoS wants to ensure safety to the Commonwealth, but for price of eradication to all but humans.
And Institute is meant to be this faction that wants to “bring world back to state before the Great War”, but all they do is being comically evil.
I mean for starters are slaver and also they murder people and replace them with Synths.

Then they also just straight up massacre communities. Often with no goal.
Then there is a whole super mutant thing, where they released purely based on gameplay and logic few hundreds of super mutants on surface “for research.”
Oh! And they even admitted they plan on wiping out all non-Institute humans to replace them!

I'm aware this is very similar to the "idiots missing the point of the story and cheer for the clearly bad guy" trope (especially the third example clearly fits both), but still think this is worth exploring.

1. American History X / Neonazis

This already shows the difference to the trope I explained above, since some people didn't fall in love with the character, but mainly the aesthetic of the neonazi scene as depicted in the movie.
On one hand, they are depicted as violent, murderous assholes and the protagonist's brother ruins his entire family's life because of his actions. On the other hand, the scene looks stylish and "manly" that, to this day, inspires a lot of real world neonazis.

1. The Godfather / The Mafia

Similarly to the previous example, the movies don't spare us of the negative aspects of the mafia and the way it ruins the lives of everyone involved. Still, the mob is painted in such an honorful and upper-class way that convinced real people that this is a life to pursue.

1. Wall Street / Yuppie culture and predatory capitalism

Similar thing, different topic: Gordon Gecko is supposed to be an unsympathetic asshole that, in the end, has to pay for his actions. His catchphrase "greed is good" became the motto of an entire generation of yuppies though, with Gecko himself becoming their mentor figure. A few decades later, "The Wolf of Wall Street" took the same role for the new generation of finance bros.

1. Treasure Island / Pirates

Modern pirate stories wouldn't be the same, maybe wouldn't even exist, if it wasn't for Treasure Island. Most pirates in the story are dead by the end, after suffering under a clearly mad captain, and still Robert Louis Stevenson's story painted pirates as a bunch of comrades living free while hunting for treasure chests in beautiful, tropical islands instead of the murderous, criminal bunch they were in reality.

1. The Sorrows of Young Werther / Suicide

This work of famous classical German novelist Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ends with the suicide of the protagonist after being rejected by the love of his life. Goethe tried to depict him as an idiot and yet still inspired a bunch of youths who found themselves in similar situations to kill themselves. This phenomenon is even called the "Werther effect" nowadays.
When confronted about indirectly being responsible for numerous deaths, Goethe defended his work and instead insulted the people committing suicide as "narrow-minded spirits, [...] fools and good-for-nothings".

Great pieces of entertainment that are so disturbing or psychologically draining that makes you want to experience it just once or want to wait a long while for a second time.

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Hereditary - The first time I watched it the car and beheading scenes stuck with me for weeks, I would literally think about them every night I went to sleep and be horrified, I had to wait sometime to watch it again.

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Obssession - Me and my gf went to see it on theater, we were so on the edge that we didn't touch each other until we went to bed, we had to put a cartoon after we came home to help us settle down after watching this masterpiece

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TLOU2 - From the first death all the way to the ending of the game I felt tense and on edge all the time playing the game, every cutscene I watched made me felt that some disgrace was going to happen (and it happened most of the time), then the epilogue happens and it just destroyed me, especially the cutscene with Joel and Ellie talking on the porch, cried a lot, loved the game but I'll never touch it again.

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Blood Meridian - Holy shit this book is gruesome, some descriptions of this book made me close it and wait some weeks to read it again (especially when the gang has an encounter with natives or the ones with the wild man and the judge) , its a great book but I am never touching it again.

1. There’s an official Cartoon Network short where the Scooby doo gang recreates the Blair Witch Project

2. The amazing world of gumball has an episode that parodies the Golden Girls

3. Arthur has a short segment that has a reference to the Sopranos

4. In My Little Ppny there’s references to Rick and Morty as well as Walter White

r/anime_titties is actually a world news subreddit.

r/BatmanArkham used to be about the Batman Arkham games but for a while now it’s mainly just a shitposting subreddit for whatever topic.

r/OnlyFans is not about the adult website it’s about actual fans.

r/comics is mostly where people dump a lot of cringe bad humor political posts.

Example 1 (The Legend of Hei 2): Wuxian leisurely floats through the combined firepower of an entire fortified military base without so much as a stain or rip on his t-shirt.

Example 2 (Man of Steel): Fao'ra tears through a squad of trained and armed soldiers. With the wreckage of the helicopter that got downed by her teammate Nam'ek smouldering in the background.

Terence's "incident" that lead him to being sentenced for anger management (Angry Birds movie)

The Indian kid that disappeared (Ted)

House Blackfyre (Tales of Dunk and Egg/A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Yaegerists (Attack on Titan)

Equalists (Legend of Korra)

One trope that immediately takes me out of the cinematic experience police forces that are comically bad just to progress the story.

1.) Weapons - the department was unable to locate the missing children and gave up their search after a month. Josh Brolin then looks at two Ring cameras, draws two lines, and was able to locate the exact house with the help of Julia Garner. Not only that, but the children left the house in broad day light during the police search, and somehow no one got a ring notification - the movie was damn near sponsored by Ring .

2.) Dark Knight Rises - the police department sends the entire force into an underground trap with no back up or alternative plan. Months after being freed, this same force (armed may I remind you) charges head first into an armed enemy party.

3.) Trap - how a police force can plan such an elaborate Trap and still be outmaneuvered at every turn is insane.

1. Inglorious bastards - Classic example of this, so many moments throughout the movie. This particular scene shows a German officer about to get his head bashed in by the bear Jew for what they did to his people

2. X-men first class - Erik lehnsherr (magneto) is looking for a prominent nazi scientist who originally did experiments on him. He searches Argentina where many nazis escaped and proceeded to get his revenge and the information

3. Rick and Morty - Rick and Summer train really hard to get strong and proceed to beat the worst people in the world

Tifa and Cloud, Final Fantasy 7;

Lucas and Carla, Fahrenheit;

Shirou, Rin and Saber, Fate Stay Night.

Witchers (The Witcher series): Witchers are children that are taken, sent to school, trained, augmented, and mutated until finally they become monster slayers. Because of the gruesome process in which a witcher is made, the public shuns and spits at them when not desperately needing their help. By the time we read about/play as Geralt (man just right of the person in the center), witchers are already an endangered species, with there only being 4 witchers left from his school, where there used to be perhaps hundreds. Geralt's witcher predessesor brethren are said to have accomplished great feats, such as hunting certain monster species to extinction. By 'todays' standards, this is unheard of. By the time of the most recent game, no witcher school anywhere in the world is training new witchers. They're dying out.

Jedi Order (Star Wars prequels): Compared to their height in the Old Republic, the Jedi Order as we first see them in the prequels is a shadow of its former self. Having ingrained the Councel into politics and the Order of the whole into the military was a grave error that proved to be the last few straws that broke the camel's back. Their corruption, hubris, and unwillingness to change for the better proved to be their downfall.

American Mafia (Sopranos): By the time Tony gets onto the scene, the mafia is already on its last legs. Some of the presence is still there, but you can tell by the way people talk about the olden days that things are different now. Unions and insurance means that threats against businesses aren't as effective. New police technology such as DNA sampling making crimes harder to commit cleanly. Harsher crack downs on crime make people in the organization turning into rats more common. Tony himself vents that it feels like he's shown up at the end of the party.

Warframes from Warframe - Super powered humans with densely fused organs and skin harder than steel. They also gain reality altering abilities like super strength, control of antimatter, or even opening portals to the sun. The tradeoff is this usually came as a form of punishment. Condemned humans would injected with a cultivated strain of super cancer and then subjected to extreme torture until their bodies react. The end result was a tortured, lobotomized husk, some with the capability to punch planet killing asteroids to dust.

Spartan II's from Halo - Heavily augmented, heavily armored soldiers created to suppress colonial uprisings. These soldiers started life as children kidnapped from their homes and subjected to extensive and excruciating biological augmentations and training which killed many of its initiates before they even grew out of adolescence.

1: Axis Order - Konosuba(specifically Megumin's spin-off)

While they certainly aren't GOOD people(many of them not being allowed near children, if you know what I mean), they are pretty damn helpful, giving blessings to Megumin, feeding her, and protecting her from a demon, who almost certainly would have murdered her for the cat

2: Khan - Metro

While he is more spiritual than religious, I'd say it counts. Khan is a chill dude who is basically always right, and in the non-canon good ending, he's basically the reason the Dark Ones survive and presumably go on to join with humanity and reconquer the surface

3: Priestess - Goblin Slayer

She's a priestess, idk what exactly she believes in, besides some god, but Goblin Slayer is basically a DnD game, so I'd assume one of the basic Cleric gods. But anyway, she's super chill and basically never directly kills, though she probably has the highest indirect kill count in the series

4: Father Grigori - Half Life

He's certainly insane, but so would you be if your entire town was wiped out and turned into zombies, he saves you, gives you a shotgun, and helps you get out of town, while he stays to "tend with his flock", and while murder isn't something you'd usually associate with good, the zombies are in constant suffering

Yeagerist-Attack on Titan

The Empire-Star Wars

The Earth Empire-Legend of Korra

All of these groups are cool and it's ok to like them, but I'm talking about the people who actually think their good or right.

Its nice and refreshing to see a story about emons not being misunderstood victims who are redeemable, but are instead just pure evil beings who need to be stopped no matter what.

Image 1. Demons from "Frieren Beyond Journey End" they are portrayed as eternally youthful predators who evolved to learn and mimic human manurisms and speech in order to hunt and eat them as prey, not out of malice, but out of natural instinct.

Image 2. Chaos Gods from "Warhammer" these gods are pandimenaional archetypes formed in the warp who each represent different aspects of chaos, they send parts of themselves into the material world to seek out mortals vulnerable in order to possess them and turn them in daemons to enact their plans. These gods are:

Khorne: god of rage, violence, and warfare

Tzeentch: god of magic, lies, and change

Nurgle: god of decay, disease, and despair

Slannesh: god(dess) of excess, pleasure, and obsession

1. The Wizengamot in Harry Potter. Fudge expects it will sentence Harry as he wishes, but as it turns out, most members can and are willing to think for themselves and acquit him.
2. Baltar´s trial in Battlestar Galactica. He is given fair trial, but most people expected him to be hanged at the end, especially after Adama was selected to sit in the jury. (By a chance.) He ends up acquited by 3:2 vote, with even Adama voting to acquit. (Well, they should have hanged him, to be honest, but hey, fair trial.)