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There are not nearly enough tragic endings in media.

I want more movies and shows where the bodyguard grows a conscience and murders the corrupt POS they're guarding.

"Good Guy" just kills the "Bad Guy"

Like just fucking do it, stop being a loser.

Found family.

It's not lacking by any means I just eat that shit up like it's cocaine

I want to see more oligarchs on the receiving end of assassination plots

in movies. I really liked Day of the Jackal. More of that, please.

Warrior princesses (or otherwise 'fighting refined ladies') -- Who aren't tomboys, and are in fact fully feminine coded, but can still kick ass with the best of 'em. (Princess Leia, some iterations of Zelda, Rarity from MLP in a way though she's not a princess, etc.)

Romance stories where the story doesn't end the moment they kiss/confess/become a couple. There's more of those lately so I'm happy.

I once was recommended a Japanese anime, "Gate". It's about a fantasy world trying to invade our modern realm. Earth strikes back with modern weapons, the fantasy world has no chance with their dragons, Orks and magic.

This I would love to see more of, asymmetrical warfare, it's just a power fantasy, but a fun one!

Bad guys are actually the good guys.

I’m not sure what it’s called, buy I love the trope of where a large party gets split off into two smaller parties who eventually reunite. This split could be forced through physical events or it could just be a relationship split between friends.

Lord the Rings is a great example of what I mean. Frodo is forced to leave after seeing what the Ring does and Sam goes with him, while Mary and Pippin get kidnapped and have their own adventure, and finally Aragorn and his merry trio go help the war effort in Rohan. They all end up reunited in the end though.

Non-flamboyant gay relationships, just being treated as normal without any special attention in movies.

It always becomes a "quirky" "random" "so different ✨" personality trait for those characters that they are insufferable.

Directors have no clue how real people live.

I want another good space based sci fi TV show, preferably with lots of alien species.

Yeah, there is Star Trek and Star Wars, but I want more.

I've always been a fan of space aliens interacting with ancient civilization on Earth, like in Stargate the movie

Bad guys who aren't misunderstood but aren't bad. They occupy a niche mindspace in which they have a genuine and noble goal but their goal is mutually exclusive with the good guy's goals (the Shadowlord from Nier Gestalt)

Then, on the flip side, bad guys who know that they're bad and revel in it (Jack Horner from Puss in Boots)

Good guys who are good leaders. They have no superhuman abilities but their power is to bring out the best in others. They don't beat the bad guys through sheer strength or being inspired by the power of friendship (which IMO is just the same thing), but they do so by strategically playing to people's strengths (Senku from Dr. Stone)

I love good guys who look like they're bad guys.

Last year I watched anime Ragna Crimson, and I really liked "He is not an enemy that you use strategy to fight with. He is an enemy you use strategy to not fight with." along with the general strategic feeling of Crimson's actions. I'm open for recommendations, but I don't know when will I find time to watch them.

Sentient, autonomous, giant fighter mechas.

So far the most popular franchise with this is Transformers, but most of their media is mediocre at best. There are some exceptions like a few of the comics and some of the series which are really good, but overall as a franchise they are lacking unfortunately. I really love the trope though.

The other franchise with this would be Bionicle but I can't say I know much about it.

There are plenty of mechas out there, but they don't tick all the boxes for this trope. Most are either non sentient or require a human pilot to be active. And those which are sentient and autonomous are rarely fighters.

So if you know of any - please let me know. Thanks.

• sunny loves grumpy
• savage mama bear
• really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance

I've recently been going through Persona 4 Golden, and I love Kanji. He's a rough guy who people assume is a bully (for example, he beat up a biker gang), but he has a heart of gold - for example he crochets dolls for a kid to play with. He's very interested (and talented) in arts & crafts, but at the beginning he's ashamed of others looking down on him for that.

One of my favorite tropes, and quickly one of my favorite characters.

Bodyguard romance trope.