What are the most common tropes that you have noticed in the fanfictions that you have read/are reading?

[OP1000]

Hello!!!!

For those of you that read fanfictions, what are the common tropes that you have noticed in the fanfictions that you are currently reading?

Note: For those of you that do not read fanfictions and are rude about it for those of us that enjoy reading such works, please do not leave your rude comments on this thread. I can respect that you do not enjoy reading such works, but this is not the thread that is targeted towards you. So just let those of us that enjoy reading fanfictions talk about them in peace.

 

[SailusGebel]

Obligatory rude comment for those of you who read and enjoy such works.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Hello!!!!

For those of you that read fanfictions, what are the common tropes that you have noticed in the fanfictions that you are currently reading?

Note: For those of you that do not read fanfictions and are rude about it for those of us that enjoy reading such works, please do not leave your rude comments on this thread. I can respect that you do not enjoy reading such works, but this is not the thread that is targeted towards you. So just let those of us that enjoy reading fanfictions talk about them in peace.

What do you mean by common tropes?

Do you mean the ungodly amount of porn with the author's self insert in trying to bone the entire female cast?

Do you mean how Mary Sue/ Gary Stu the self inserts are?

Or do you mean how warped the OG characters are when the eager authors get their grubby hands on them?

 

[Indicterra]

Romance pairing of oddest duo (then again my experience with fanfiction are Harry Potter ones)

Especially draco/Hermione are ungodly popular for two characters that did not had any romantic intercation of any sort in OG work

Regretfully I once came across lily potter/hagrid, like how the fuck does that even work, it won't fit in the story and in her

 

[Nevafrost]

I don't read ff that much (i did once). It was just straight-up smut or shipping. Blegh
(Intentionally a rude comment if it doesn’t seem so)

 

[Corty]

What do you mean by common tropes?

Do you mean the ungodly amount of porn with the author's self insert in trying to bone the entire female cast?

Do you mean how Mary Sue/ Gary Stu the self inserts are?

Or do you mean how warped the OG characters are when the eager authors get their grubby hands on them?

If anyone wants to read fanfic that has none of these elements, read mine!

So yeah, a good fanfic, in my opinion, is one that respects the original work and is not made for the sole reason to self-insert into it but to approach the story and world from a different view.

 

[Nneeil]

Romance pairing of oddest duo (then again my experience with fanfiction are Harry Potter ones)

Especially draco/Hermione are ungodly popular for two characters that did not had any romantic intercation of any sort in OG work

Regretfully I once came across lily potter/hagrid, like how the fuck does that even work, it won't fit in the story and in her

You wanna talk about good ol' Harry/Snape?

"Potter, I see you've inherited your father's penchant for trouble and your mother's eyes. A shame you didn't inherit her talent for subtlety. Yet, despite your obvious deficiencies, I find myself inexplicably... intrigued. Perhaps you're a better potion than you are a potion-maker."

 

[Decadere]

I'm too lazy to check official trope names, but the "I don't have plot armor. I have the whole armory" trope. MCs basically are given ridiculous advantages to ensure they will never fail or even struggle in most cases. I mean in one fanfic I watched the author's OP Spider-Man nearly kill Thanos with what amounted to a squirting flower that used the strongest poison in the universe.

 

[Insomniologist]

You wanna talk about good ol' Harry/Snape?

"Potter, I see you've inherited your father's penchant for trouble and your mother's eyes. A shame you didn't inherit her talent for subtlety. Yet, despite your obvious deficiencies, I find myself inexplicably... intrigued. Perhaps you're a better potion than you are a potion-maker."

I’ve had an… interesting encounter with that particular dumpsterfire.
I have the BL tag blacklisted on SH, since I really don’t like the genre at all, yet for some reason, whoever was writing their fanfiction decided to not tag it as such. At the very least, the description made it very clear what it was about. Maybe even a bit too clear.

 

[Nneeil]

I’ve had an… interesting encounter with that particular dumpsterfire.
I have the BL tag blacklisted on SH, since I really don’t like the genre at all, yet for some reason, whoever was writing their fanfiction decided to not tag it as such. At the very least, the description made it very clear what it was about. Maybe even a bit too clear.

Also happened to me once, but with a Bleach ff. Thank God I like to read reviews/comments before I dive into any story, and it turns out that it was a BL Ichigo/Grimmjow pairing.

 

[OP1000]

What do you mean by common tropes?

Do you mean the ungodly amount of porn with the author's self insert in trying to bone the entire female cast?

Do you mean how Mary Sue/ Gary Stu the self inserts are?

Or do you mean how warped the OG characters are when the eager authors get their grubby hands on them?

This response counts.

Romance pairing of oddest duo (then again my experience with fanfiction are Harry Potter ones)

Especially draco/Hermione are ungodly popular for two characters that did not had any romantic intercation of any sort in OG work

Regretfully I once came across lily potter/hagrid, like how the fuck does that even work, it won't fit in the story and in her

Oh yeah, I can relate to this myself. The pairings of some of the fanfictions that I have read were either super weird or just do not make any sense in the story. I have read a bunch of fanfictions from My Hero Academia after all. The fanfictions of this fandom sure do get into weird territory.

So yeah, a good fanfic, in my opinion, is one that respects the original work and is not made for the sole reason to self-insert into it but to approach the story and world from a different view.

You good Sir are spitting facts!

I'm too lazy to check official trope names, but the "I don't have plot armor. I have the whole armory" trope. MCs basically are given ridiculous advantages to ensure they will never fail or even struggle in most cases. I mean in one fanfic I watched the author's OP Spider-Man nearly kill Thanos with what amounted to a squirting flower that used the strongest poison in the universe.

Oh, I think you are referring to the Mary Sue/Gary Sue main characters, the trope that have ridiculously overpowered main characters easily coming out on top of after every battle/crisis they may be put into. I use to read a few of them during the early days of my fanfiction reading journey but I no longer search for new works that feature this trope.

 

[K5Rakitan]

Other fangirls acting trashy

 

[Plantorsomething]

Hello!!!!

For those of you that read fanfictions, what are the common tropes that you have noticed in the fanfictions that you are currently reading?

Note: For those of you that do not read fanfictions and are rude about it for those of us that enjoy reading such works, please do not leave your rude comments on this thread. I can respect that you do not enjoy reading such works, but this is not the thread that is targeted towards you. So just let those of us that enjoy reading fanfictions talk about them in peace.

Extremification of whatever character trait the author sees in that character the most

 

[NotaNuffian]

This response counts.

I did understood my comment being rude. I just want to point that out to you why a fanfic should always be a training wheel, not an actual breathing work on its own.

Too many times was I burned by fanfics either from the author self insert too much, like that Young Justice thingy where MC has a plethora of anime powers and the work got castrated when his objective of fucking Zatanna comes into fruition.

Or worse, making a viable crossworld fanfic and then wrote it into a corner. There was the RWBY x The Gamer, the first arc was nicely wrapped and the second arc got axed and now in perpetual hiatus. All because the author overextended the villain's power, making her more broken than Jaune without a fix. Still, credits' due where credits' due. The story might be masturbatory, but at least the author is still trying to expand the roster, not motorboating in the current one with how cool Jaune finally becomes.

 

[Sabruness]

Do you mean the ungodly amount of porn with the author's self insert in trying to bone the entire female cast?

ah, yeah. i have no problems with OCs (given they're written well) but OH MY GOD do i hate self-inserts and fanfics that are basically just carbon copies of the base plot with the author's wanking fantasy self-insert boning every single female char ever mentioned and that's like 90% of the plot.

So yeah, a good fanfic, in my opinion, is one that respects the original work and is not made for the sole reason to self-insert into it but to approach the story and world from a different view.

This. very much this. i have read a fair few fanfics of different source works where... wow, the writer takes the existing canon world and knowledge and does something new with it but still manages to respect canon fairly well (and a few that take the inherent hammy-ness hidden in the canon and run with it.)

OP: One of the big frustrations that i've found in a lot of fanfics for one of my fav animes (Girls und Panzer) is that a lot of fanfics jam boys in where they dont really belong just so they can have a self-insert "romance" or harem with the female cast. like, bruh, those sorts of fanfics are what help gives fanfics in general a bad name. i've only read one GuP fanfic that actually handled the premise well and didnt turn into a self-fellating self-insert dumpster fire.

 

[AYM]

Typically the most common tropes I see in fanfictions are the problems.

 

[OP1000]

I did understood my comment being rude. I just want to point that out to you why a fanfic should always be a training wheel, not an actual breathing work on its own.

Too many times was I burned by fanfics either from the author self insert too much, like that Young Justice thingy where MC has a plethora of anime powers and the work got castrated when his objective of fucking Zatanna comes into fruition.

Or worse, making a viable crossworld fanfic and then wrote it into a corner. There was the RWBY x The Gamer, the first arc was nicely wrapped and the second arc got axed and now in perpetual hiatus. All because the author overextended the villain's power, making her more broken than Jaune without a fix. Still, credits' due where credits' due. The story might be masturbatory, but at least the author is still trying to expand the roster, not motorboating in the current one with how cool Jaune finally becomes.

You raise some valid points on why fanfics have such a bad reputation.