38 TV and Movie Tropes We’d Like to Retire
After decades of faithful service, these tropes need to collect a gold watch and a big ol’ pension!
![38 TV and Movie Tropes We’d Like to Retire](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/7/1085787_320x180.jpg)
Thank you, tropes. You’ve all had quite the career on the big and small screen. You’ve given us years of much needed entertainment, but sadly, it’s time to hang up the uniformity and make way for up-and-coming ones. Those that haven’t yet dipped into “Oh god, not this again” territory.
Let’s make this a smooth transition, shall we? Slipping on a banana peel took it like a champ, so hopefully each of you will go out with the same class and dignity.
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![НЕНЕ YOU SAID... PENAL MOBY-DICK WANG That '70s Show Scrubs Two and a Half Men JOKE IS OVERDUE FOR RETIREMENT. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/5/1082675.jpg)
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![The Vow About Time THAT MOVIE WHERE THE GIRL GETS IN A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH A GUY WHO USES KNOWLEDGE OF HER PERSONAL LIFE TO TRY RES AND ER MAKE HER FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM STARRING... RACHEL MCADAMS. The Time Traveller's Wife GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/1082664.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Ghost American World Beauty An older man that escapes his dreary life by forming an unlikely relationship/ friendship with a younger girl. Lost in Paper Translation Man](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/3/1082663.jpg)
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![Three female roles? ISLA JOE FISHER Make them CABETH TOBEY EDGES BICKI MAGUIRE - Blonde I 1 I T III I . CHARLIE'S ANGELS DEFINITELY, MAYBE Dark Hair THREE THREE RELATIONSHIPS. DISASTERS. & Redhead Kirsten Isla Lizzy Dunst Fisher Caplan bachelorette CRACKED.COM James Kyle Total Monden bomheimer Willion SOUP](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/1082659.jpg)
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![A male character who likes Rock or Heavy Metal music? Better make them either goofy or stupid. We can't suggest that people who listen to that stuff could be intellectually normal. WAYNES WOURLO Union CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/1082654.jpg)
![Draco Malfoy Jack Sparrow Cocky pricks love them apples! James т. Kirk Ryuk CRACKED.COM Sokka Indiana Jones](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/1/1082661.jpg)
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![It's a Wonderful Life Foul Play CRACKED.COM No matter how sexy the librarian, glasses are required The Mummy Personals NOVELS Rufus Wainwright-Out Of The Game The Big Sleep](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/1082651.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES THE MOMENT OF TRUTH Just as our hero is about to lose their shot, they manage to prove their genius in one single moment of truth. Examples appear in Coal Miner's Daughter and Walk the Line, but people going from mocking Ray Charles to jumping up to dance during his audition scene borders on self-parody. P.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/0/1082660.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES TRAUMA AS MOTIVATION Genius is explained by trauma, right? Because that seems to be a narrative staple of biopics. Every traumatic incident in your life and every mistake you make pushes you towards your destiny of greatness.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/7/1082657.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM AWFUL BIOPIC TROPES CHANGING THE ACTOR'S APPEARANCE AS OSCAR-BAIT We like Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman, so we'll let Monster and The Hours slide. But giving awards to Jared Leto for playing a trans woman in Dallas Buyers Club was just condoning narcissism (the Jared Leto kind of narcissism, which is even worse).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/8/1082658.jpg)
![Tired Tropes (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) LIQUID NITROGEN DEATH Demolition Man, Timecop, Goldeneye, Jason X- death by liquid nitrogen was all the rage for some time. But the movie that turned it into an iconic thing was this, the last Terminator ever made. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/5/1082645.jpg)
![Tired Tropes (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) BIG BLUE SKY BEAM Remember when every movie ended with one of these? The Avengers, Suicide Squad, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon... Independence Day did it so awesomely two decades earlier, we'll just assume all those movies were trying to replicate that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/1082652.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Enough of the new hair = character development shortcut. It's time to be a little more creative.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/7/1082647.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Best friends in high school (these are all specifically about males) try to lose Porky's their virginity before college or some other specific date. Hilarity rarely ensues. American Pie Superbad Girl Next Door Sex Drive](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/1082655.jpg)
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![I'm Pumped and covering a LOT of Distance unless I'm A FATSO! GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/2/1082642.jpg)
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