r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MammothPenguin69 • 16d ago

Hated Tropes Stupid Contrived Survival Stories

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  1. 12 Feet Deep - Two idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST go swimming in a pool after it's closed. An incredibly contrived sequence of events happens so they get stuck in a pool. So the movie can happen.

  2. Frozen (not that one) - Three idiots decide they absolutely positively MUST get on a ski-lift after it's closed. To the point of bribing the operator who for some stupid reason doesn't say anything. Do the movie can happen. Also, Wolves are not that aggressive. They are typically shy and avoid humans.

  3. 47 Meters Down- Arguably the most believable scenario on this list. It's still really stupid.

  4. Fall- Two idiots decide to climb an abandoned radio tower without proper equipment that would make escaping their predicament trivially easy. Stop me if you've heard this one before

so the movie can happen.

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u/faldese 16d ago

I don't think there's really any reason to believe the aunt. She admits she was estranged from the family, but according to her she still spoke with Suleman, but has no real proof of it. We know her family was thrown out of the funeral/wake services (she was unable to travel iirc). The mother's version requires her having to move publically forward with the incredible personal guilt she must feel for giving up her seat for her son. There's plenty of signs of Suleman's enthusiasm and likelihood to be enthusiastic to go.

The fact that she ran to the media before we even knew what happened, the fact that she knew the mother would have been sitting there with the most awful news imaginable and decided to tell a salacious story about it speaks extremely poorly of her character.

All signs point to an opportunist cashing in on her 15 minutes.

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u/SmallJimSlade 16d ago

Ok sure, but I think more to the point, so?

My point was that Suleman is as responsible for getting on the craft as anyone else. The aunt being wrong actually makes that point MORE evident.

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u/faldese 16d ago edited 16d ago

Because I think it's important to clear up misinformation and/or understand the full picture.

EDIT: The user blocked me immediately after this, but to be clear, I was clarifying there's really no reason to believe the aunt. It wasn't a moral indictment, it was further information sharing to explain.

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u/SmallJimSlade 16d ago

Buddy nothing I said contravenes your clearing it up with your first reply. I just explained why I had gone with a generous reading of both sources in the first place