Rotwang
Sr Member
1) There is no longer such thing as a fine, upstanding person of good moral fibre and character who thinks nothing of doing the right thing, IE a hero; The protagonist passed off as a hero is a deeply scarred person, haunted by demons and almost unbearable personal tragedy. They have a chip on their shoulder the size of Nebraska. They don’t talk, they growl in a low, threatening voice to express their tragic past and show how tough they actually are. Only by the end of the film are they healed or redeemed by their heroic actions and usually find new love.
2) Low tech always beats high tech. Ninjas with swords and shurikens will always take out men with guns, advanced body armour and night vision. By this logic a caveman with a rock should be able to take out a tank regiment.
3) Space/diving/NBC-suits’ helmets have a bunch of lights in them with the only purpose of illuminating the face of the person wearing it.
4) Cursed villains who have so many cool powers (Super-strength, immortality, great looks, chick magnet, cool castle, etc) it’s hard to call them “cursed”.
5) Convoluted plotlines that are never really explained or left ambiguous on purpose so that people think it has a “deeper, hidden meaning”.
6) No matter what time period, the hero always has exotic custom-designed signature weapons and equipment, often anachronistic or almost impossible to find in that time period. (Samurai sword in Roman times, some advanced automatic weapon in Renaissance times.) (Yes I know this goes against everything RPF stands for …)
7) There is never more than one superhero active in the world at any time
8) Highly trained female combatants wear corsets to look fabulous and restrict their breathing when fighting. Wouldn’t be sporty otherwise ?
9) No hero stoops so low as to wear even the most basic body armour, except when the villain guns them down, do they reveal they were wearing something all along.
10) In every fight there is always a human colossus who is immune to every single punch you can throw at him. If there is a female sidekick she’ll be the one to take him out, while he’s wiping the floor with the hero, though she will hit the hero at least once by accident.
11) Some women are identical clones of a distant ancestor despite generations of genetic drift. In other cases they are a prefect duplicate of a completely unrelated person. They never have a simple passing resemblance.
2) Low tech always beats high tech. Ninjas with swords and shurikens will always take out men with guns, advanced body armour and night vision. By this logic a caveman with a rock should be able to take out a tank regiment.
3) Space/diving/NBC-suits’ helmets have a bunch of lights in them with the only purpose of illuminating the face of the person wearing it.
4) Cursed villains who have so many cool powers (Super-strength, immortality, great looks, chick magnet, cool castle, etc) it’s hard to call them “cursed”.
5) Convoluted plotlines that are never really explained or left ambiguous on purpose so that people think it has a “deeper, hidden meaning”.
6) No matter what time period, the hero always has exotic custom-designed signature weapons and equipment, often anachronistic or almost impossible to find in that time period. (Samurai sword in Roman times, some advanced automatic weapon in Renaissance times.) (Yes I know this goes against everything RPF stands for …)
7) There is never more than one superhero active in the world at any time
8) Highly trained female combatants wear corsets to look fabulous and restrict their breathing when fighting. Wouldn’t be sporty otherwise ?
9) No hero stoops so low as to wear even the most basic body armour, except when the villain guns them down, do they reveal they were wearing something all along.
10) In every fight there is always a human colossus who is immune to every single punch you can throw at him. If there is a female sidekick she’ll be the one to take him out, while he’s wiping the floor with the hero, though she will hit the hero at least once by accident.
11) Some women are identical clones of a distant ancestor despite generations of genetic drift. In other cases they are a prefect duplicate of a completely unrelated person. They never have a simple passing resemblance.
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