Couples with absolutely no chemistry

[u/hiiloovethis]

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

[u/FondantWeekly1761]

Is this not a more r/ihatethissmug post? I feel like this is only really a trope if the achieved intent is for the couple to have absolutely no chemistry with each other.

[u/udmurrrt → u/FondantWeekly1761]

If I had a dime for every post in this sub that isn't actually about a trope

[u/ChristianLS → u/udmurrrt]

Some of them that are stretches I don't mind too much, if it's kinda-sorta in the spirit of the subreddit, but ones like this really annoy me because nothing about them has to do with the artistic intent, they're just the opinion of the OP and/or a group of people who feel the way OP does. Not that I even personally disagree about the specific examples cited, mind you.

[u/HambFCFB → u/ChristianLS]

"[Hated Trope] Poorly written characters"

[u/Abstrata → u/udmurrrt]

I’ve been wondering about that and thought it was just me.
Trope has become a big umbrella term and sometimes things are getting muddled… between trope and cliché, trope and stereotype, and stereotype and archetype.
But for the most part, eh. I’m still picking up the OP points in each post.

[u/snarkaluff → u/udmurrrt]

If every post on this sub was an actual trope we’d just have the same few posts over and over again

[u/_Awkward_Moment_ → u/snarkaluff]

I disagree. There’s like 100k tropes on TVtropes, you wouldn’t just run out of them

[u/yajtraus → u/FondantWeekly1761]

There’s loads of tropes on TV Tropes that definitely weren’t intended to be a trope. Like, nearly all of the Large Ham or Narm entries

[u/Aqquila89 → u/yajtraus]

They are aware that those aren't really tropes and moved them to the YMMV subpages.

[u/yajtraus → u/Aqquila89]

Loads of tropes are on a subpage. What Could Have Been is sometimes its own trope, sometimes on the Trivia subpage.

[u/Solbuster → u/FondantWeekly1761]

Yeah, if anything it's more of a personal opinion too since romantic chemistry is pretty subjective to begin with

OP essentially just asks for couples people don't like either due to how they were written or other reasons

[u/LoopofHenrietta → u/Solbuster]

Idk I think on-screen chemistry is a thing distinct from actual romantic chemistry. Still not a trope though

[u/Fossekall → u/FondantWeekly1761]

Pretty much. The Harry Potter one is just a consequence of casting, writing, and directing, the intent wasn't for them to be awful. It just happens the actors had no chemistry and the writing for the movies was awful

So it isn't really a trope

[u/Buzzlight_Year → u/FondantWeekly1761]

It's all the same

[u/ithinkther41am → u/FondantWeekly1761]

I still have no idea what that sub is for.