Fanfiction tropes you hate

[neighborhood_coon]

If there's a thread like this already, feel free to let me know.

Anyways, It's pretty self explanatory.

Personally, I really dislike mpreg/omegaverse AU. Something about them just seems kinda strange or off-putting to me, and I've never really been able to explain why. Like, if you wanted one member of your ship to get knocked up, why not just do a genderbend? But I guess that doing so would probably get in the way of the 'yaoi feels'.

Edit: Not sure how this is a powerlevel. Does someone care to explain?

 

[PsychoNerd054]

I always hated those yoai fanfictions where some character has to hide the fact that they're gay from their lover and then afterwards they have smelly butt sex. Trust me, this kind of story has been done way more times than you think.

I also hate when the naive fucks that write fanfics treat rape like it's some sort of introductory sexual intercourse, which somehow suddenly gets them to enjoy sex even more.

 

[Hen in a tie]

Whenever the writer makes a character bitchy just because they ruin their OTP. Like keep them in character.

 

[The V]

Highschool/coffeshop AUs.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Trans!Canon Character fanfic inevitably turns into "uwu lil snowflake is accepted by my fav character and has disgusting sex"

 

[PsychoNerd054]

Highschool/coffeshop AUs.

Oh god don't get me started on those!

 

[AnOminous]

Butthurt fanfics attempting to "fix" the show because autists got angry the show went in a direction they didn't like. Although sometimes these are hilarious if they're staggeringly bad.

 

[neighborhood_coon]

Trans!Canon Character fanfic inevitably turns into "uwu lil snowflake is accepted by my fav character and has disgusting sex"

These annoy me to no end.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

Butthurt fanfics attempting to "fix" the show because autists got angry the show went in a direction they didn't like. Although sometimes these are hilarious if they're staggeringly bad.

Honestly, it's a bad enough people obsess over cartoons, but to change the canon of a show just because they can't accept the fact that life sucks and that not everyone is treated fairly is 20 times more pathetic.

 

[neighborhood_coon]

Butthurt fanfics attempting to "fix" the show because autists got angry the show went in a direction they didn't like. Although sometimes these are hilarious if they're staggeringly bad.

The first thing that comes to mind are salty Johnlockers.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

How could I forget about this one?

Self-Inserts! If you have no business being in the canon to change it up the way you want it to be, then for the love of god, please leave the fucking canon alone.

 

[ES 148]

I'm not one for fanfic, but of the little I've seen, I'd have to say I don't really like smut fanfiction (or smut in fanfiction) in general. It tends to be bad and if you fuck it up it reduces the characters to sex objects rather than, well, characters.

 

[Asa_Spades60]

Honestly, it's a bad enough people obsess over cartoons, but to change the canon of a show just because they can't accept the fact that life sucks and that not everyone is treated fairly is 20 times more pathetic.

I'm pretty sure there are some live-action shows that get this treatment as well.

 

[ISO'os]

I always hate the ones where they make the universe super homophobic and main yaoi characters are gonna get killed and have to make it a secret uwu.
Or smut written by people who don't know what sex is and are just horny teens. Smut fics in general are trash.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

The fact that fanfic writers suck at writing.

Maybe that's not a trope, plus Sturgeon's Law and all that jazz, but still. There's so much cool stuff that COULD be done with fanfiction, but it never is. I guess because people who can actually write don't do it for free.

Okay, for a real one? Random AUs that have nothing to do with anything. Like taking all the characters from Star Trek and putting them in the modern mafia, or something like that. Especially if they're also grossly out of character, at which point it's just a crappy original story stealing names and nothing else from something much better.

 

[DatBepisTho]

All of them.

Fanfiction is a mistake.

 

[Robot Gentleman]

Weird/unnecessary crossovers. No, I don't want to read your Cinderella/Avengers crossover, just go away.

 

[NailsOnAChalkboard]

When people basically rewrite the original work with their (usually self-insert) OC replacing the main character. Might as well just grab the original book and cross out the names and pronouns.

 

[swingbatta]

My beef is with fanfics that tell the ENTIRE story from another character's POV or with one minor element of the story changed. Rewriting one scene can be fun, but if I want to revisit the whole plot, I'll just go back to the source.

 

[More Spicey Than Coolwhip]

Fanfics that essentially rewrite most if not all of the characters personalities (generally for the worse) while simultaneously following (exceedingly boring) plots unrelated to the actual show.

Like...at that point why even make it a fanfic? Just write your own stupid characters and story!