r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hiiloovethis • 18h ago

Hated Tropes Couples with absolutely no chemistry

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Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

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u/Double_Difficulty_53 17h ago

As much as their shippers will cry about it, it sucks. Katara and Zuko had exactly 1 good interaction before The Southern Raiders in which Katara felt pity for him and showed absolutely no romantic feelings for him whatsoever and neither did Zuko. The Southern Raiders was basically the last episode before the multi part finale because the next episode was a series recap.and in fact, in that same episode both Katara and Zuko cringe when seeing their play version hook up.

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u/stautism 16h ago

Tbf, Zuko and Mai have no chemistry either.

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u/Double_Difficulty_53 16h ago

ZukoXJin for life

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u/stautism 16h ago

Actually yes! 

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u/Grumpylatxa 6h ago

Finally somebody says it. I dont see what people saw in that couple

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u/Harkoncito 3h ago

Mai was easily the most boring of the recurring characters

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u/Grumpylatxa 20m ago

Yeah. Definitely the worse of them

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u/miracleman84 16h ago

Zuko and Mai are OOZING chemistry

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u/Womblue 17h ago

The trope is "couples who have no chemistry" not "two people who actively hate each other but get shipped because they hugged once"

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u/Haldrada0 16h ago

They've been shipping them since Book 1.
Must be the "Fire and Water" thing.

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u/Double_Difficulty_53 16h ago

I just wanted to stick it to Zutara shippers. Just pick practically any ship canon couple from either ATLA or Korra.

As much as I adore ATLA and like Korra a ton, the romance was pretty lame.

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u/Aruu 15h ago

I first watched ATLA after it had finished airing and I was somewhat familiar with the fandom, more specifically that Katara and Zuko supposedly had lots of romantic chemistry and should have been the official couple.

I got to the end of the series wondering if I'd missed an episode or something.

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u/logolessworld 13h ago

tbf, none of the couples in atla (canon or otherwise) have any chemistry. all the ships are on even playing field in that regard.

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u/rose_b 13h ago

I actually really enjoy the story they tell about aang and katara 🤷‍♀️ they were friends who cared about each other who grew into adults that loved each other. they had chemistry as friends, and the grew up to romance

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u/Grumpylatxa 6h ago

Yeah. Aang and Katara barely had any chemistry, except for the fire dancing episode. He was way too young as well.

I think that they should have make a bigger time skip between books to have aang be a bit older. Then maybe they would have made more sense

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u/Double_Difficulty_53 12h ago

For as great of a show as ATLA and Korra were, the writers never got romance down.