r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 3d ago

Hated Tropes ( Annoying af trope ) When the good guys possess perfect defensive position/advantages that was completely ruined by someone's sheer stupidity, pettiness, or selfishness

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I understand that these scenes must happen in order for the plot to continue but they still make me angry till today whenever I think about them because of how easy it could've been avoided. I doesn't mean these scenes are necessarily bad written, just hella hard to watch.

The Jerusalem Wall / The Singing Crowd (World War Z): Israel literally anticipated the zombie apocalypse and built a flawless, massive wall that kept everyone 100% safe. It was the ultimate safe haven. But then people inside started celebrating and singing on a microphone so loudly that it triggered a zombie pyramid, they didn't even stop until the first zombies started coming through. They have less survival instinct than an amoeba.

Ephialtes (300): The Spartans had the perfect phalanx formation at the Hot Gates. They were slaughtering the Persian army with minimal casualties and could have held them off for so much longer. Then this guy gets his feelings hurt because he can't lift a shield, throws a tantrum, and tells Xerxes about the secret goat path.

Grandma Jong-gil (Train to Busan): The survivors fought through hell and literal waves of infected to secure a safe train car. Sure, the crowd inside was selfish for locking them out at first, but everyone was finally safe inside. Then this grandma, fueled by grief and spite over her sister, decides to open the door and let the infected flood the entire car, killing everyone.

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u/StillReading28 3d ago edited 2d ago

Was that dog a zombie, cause that thing looked fucking demonic

Edit: Turns out there are zombie animals, Fortune City even had a zoo for them

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u/Dos_Ex_Machina 3d ago

I think it might've been? I could go back and rewatch the scene but I'm concerned that I would miss that detail in my blind seething rage for THAT BITCH

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u/StillReading28 2d ago

Most of my rage was reserved for the idiots that managed to get shoved away from her. She barely even touched them and they fucking flew away from her, get that lady into some kind of spiked ball or something, her sheer force while running away will kill all the zombies

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u/Sanquinity 2d ago

Yup...2 grown men in their prime were very easily bested by a 70 year old lady lightly pushing them off. Like...what?