#QuestionOfTheDay what's a common thing in media (mechanic in a game, plot point, stage design, character type, trope, filmmaking technique/shot, writing style, etc etc etc) that you don't necessarily dislike but you hate when it's used unnecessarily/inappropriately/too often/etc

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@ami_angelwings Here's something I like, until Jodie Picoult abused the shit out of it: using different fonts for each characters. I don't mind this by anyone else. She just doesn't know how to write any narratives that isn't a single Redditor's voice without it.
@BigShellEvent I have never read any of her actual prose, I only know her from when DC Comics was on their "getting real book authors to write for them to expand the audience and get clout" phase (which failed) and they put her on Wonder Woman and she turned Wonder Woman into a spy who was hot for her male spy partner and the entire thing was a terrible romance with occasional fighting thrown in, and also Circe took up the mantle of Wonder Woman and was killing sex traffickers and rapists and telling Diana that she sucks because she's not protecting women and instead she's given up being WW by being a spy and then Diana is like but killing sex traffickers is wrong, and then Hercules showed up or something
@ami_angelwings I'm not even a comic reader and I knew of that hot mess. Which... Is slightly better than her novels, believe it or not.