Stupid characters that go “no no! This can’t be happening! This is real life!” Blah blah you know the deal
Bad drama, misunderstandings, tragedy, bad ending, too much angsts, dragged plot—pretty much anything that will make you feel down.
Yeah if you're gonna include something from another one of your works it should only be something like "Hey this character or famous event was something that happened in a different book." It's a way to nod at your previous works without making it necessary to read them to understand the plot
It doesn't help that in five years that dialogue will probably be confusing to people who didn't know how people were at the time because nobody uses that type of slang anymore
It's a bit specific but I hate when a character is supposed to be smart but because the author is dumb everyone else in the story has to have sub-brick intelligence to make the mc seem smart.
I agree. But to add to that, I hate the portrayal of (smart=good at everything) You don't have to avoid an intelligent character entirely, even if your own brain isn't as good as your characters'. You just have to make the intelligence specialized to allow your characters to be flawed in other areas. Most people who are considered intelligent are like this; really good at one thing, but they can be trash in other areas. Very few Universally intelligent people (people born with a wide variety of genius) have been born throughout history. If you are going to write about someone with a good brain, don't just use it as a cheap tool to easily write off everything in your story.
I genuinely Googled this and was stumped for 3 minutes trying to figure out what the fuck you're referencing until I said the name out loud
Some earlier works from Dizznee Piksar were still good though....
