Tag: film tropes

This is a screenshot of a social media post from X (formerly Twitter) user @KylePlantEmoji. The post makes a sarcastic joke about a common, unrealistic writing trope found in racing movie sequences: when a racer who is falling behind in a competition simply chooses to drive faster to catch up, ignoring real-world limitations of vehicle performance and racing physics, a trope famously used in the racing film Days of Thunder referenced in the original post title.

Joke About Unrealistic Racing Trope In Movies

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This is a two-panel comparison meme joking about a common film trope. The left panel is labeled 'Movie villains rest of the time', featuring a shot of Daemon Targaryen from the HBO series House of the Dragon riding a large, menacing, highly detailed dragon, portraying movie villains as overwhelmingly powerful and unbeatable for most of the runtime. The right panel is labeled 'In the last 10 mins', showing the simple pixelated Google Chrome offline T-Rex dinosaur game character, with the word 'sarcasm' next to it, mocking how the same powerful villains suddenly become incompetent or easy to defeat in the final 10 minutes of a movie.

Movie Villains Go From Intimidating To Weak In The Final 10 Minutes

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This meme jokes about the modern trend in cinema where almost every film villain gets a tragic, sympathetic backstory (the referenced "sad incident") that explains why they became evil. The meme uses an edited image of Gru from *Despicable Me*, with his face photoshopped onto a real person's body grinning widely and giving a thumbs-up, to represent how villains were portrayed before this trend became common: unapologetically evil with no tragic backstory to justify their actions.

Villains Before the 'Sad Incident' Backstory Trend

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A three-panel meme using live-action movie screenshots. The first panel shows a man driving, asking, 'What unrealistic things in movies bug the hell out of you?' The second panel features a woman in the passenger seat responding, 'They remove headrests from cars so you can see the actors better.' The third panel shows the man looking shocked, emphasizing the humor in highlighting this common movie trope of unrealistic car headrest removal for better actor visibility.

Things that annoy you in movies!

A three-panel meme using live…