drama tropes we love and hate!

[Lmangla]

We have our 100 tropes!!!!

 

#1 - rescued from truck of doom

#2 - The childhood friends turn into lovers
#3 Cliche pull and push realtionship
#4 Noble idiocy separation
#5 Rich boy poor girl
#6 Angry Encounters  
#7 The shopping/makeover scene  
#8 the rooftop room
#9 Piggyback ride
#10 Half-way through the drama amnesia trope
#11 - gangster clothes
#12 The mean love interest trope
#13 Clinging ex
#14 - bad boys in saeguks always get the cool outfits including really nice earrings!
#15 Love triangle FTW... NOT.
#16 Time Jump

#17 the yin/yang of family dynamics.
#18 Sweet Second Male Lead turn into Evil OOC Parody trope
#19 - doors are never locked
#20 Broken and troubled main lead being healed by love
#21 - everyone relaxes in sauna
#22 Birth secrets
#23 The Wrist Grab
#24 fan service shower scenes !!!
#25 Kdramas seem to only have 2 endings - everyone gets a happy ending or a lead dies"
#26 Dramas - 2nd female lead evil usually
#27 poor but still brand stylish
#28 - everything fits into one suitcase when they leave
#29 - girl is strong in beginning and total mush later
#30 - girl, the forgiving saint
#31 - pair of glasses that don't work
#32 - Babe Falls .. Oppa catcha
#33 Cross Dressing!!!
#34 - opposing kdrama parents
#35 all male leads are genius
#36 okie Pretended SICKNESS!!!
#37 In kdramas, people have sex with clothes on.
#34 - when oppa is hot but his style is confusing.
#39 Let's kiss like a stone hits a tree trope
#40 Everyone eats at Subway
#41 kim nam gil dies in most of his dramas
#42 Cutting your own hair will give you a cool haircut
#43 Love contract
#44 co-habitation

#45 - noona - dongseng

#46 - han river is the place to be.
#47 - fauxcest
#48 start from enemies to lovers
#49 Cancer
#50 Funny BFF

#51 - bromance

#52  - first female lead destined to get less fashionable 

#53 - yellow umbrella

#54 - cute stuffed dolls given as gifts

#55 - ajumma perm

#56 - gang of 4 romances in weekend dramas

#57 - faulty CPR

#58 - water slap, also document slap!

#59 - Wind Blowing when Hottie/Babe ... 'Descends'

#60 - the drunk kiss or almost kiss

#61 - Slow motion and multiple angle shots to epic scene

#62 - Heroes or heroins with superpower ability

#63 Violent bosses

#64 Good girl falls in love with bad boy trope

#65 U-TURNS   Anytime, Anywhere! 

#66 SOJU, must be the cheapest booze on earth, or everyone gets paid like a king

#67 The Wet Washcloth is the Cure to (Nearly) All Illnesses!

#68 The hospital to treat minor ailments.

#69 The most memorable Epinephrine of medical drama

#70 Drama main lead is bulletproof and immortal

#71 accidental kisses

#72 We had cancer but there is also the brain tumor trope   

#73 Shady endings

#74 Cooking Ramen

#75 PD lets us know that male lead is going to do something important with a coat / jacket wearing scene . 

#76 male lead ties female lead’s shoe laces though her hands are perfectly fine

#77 -- "Gangsters/Loan sharks that show up at school or work to demand payment...or else..."

78)  I'm so bummed out that I/we need to go sing Karaoke

79)  The evil mother-in-law trope

80) The overworked "candy" character always gets a nosebleed

81)  Female lead gets smashed, falling down, passed out drunk and throws up trope and male lead takes her home...piggy back or taxi

82) Characters in drama's tend to have chronic constipation and or other issues with bowels

83) Best gift "Brand Name" purse

#84 The main character must do one random chore to show off PPL. like check phone for banking

#85 - the kimchi test for eligible grooms

#86 funny secretaries in Romcoms

#87: Romantic scenes under the snow / first snow

#88: switched babies

#89 Damaged male lead

#90 Random Foreigners and Mangled foreign languages

#91 The FIRST LOVE that can't be forgotten!  

#92 Using English words when Korean words exist:  First Love / Good Night / Wife-ah / Sign-ah (autograph) / Oh Yeah & BINGO!

#93 singing clementine

#94 Reincarnated lovers / Soulmates

#95 Alzheimer's

#96 Oppa ...getting so close to me erhm... to babe -> babe getting flustered

#97 Strong arms of male lead

#98 Pillow arm

#99 a shoulder to cry or a hug to pat the sorrow heart.

#100 Aegyo

 

contributors: @Jillia @stargazer187 @kokodus @kaitochi @yamiyugi @adriana902 @stroppyse @angelangie @supergal99 @onlysb1 @jeijei @SpiritGambler @triplem  @Lmangla @phikyl @aisling @oneandthree @Night Star @kismet22 @Cecentre  @watchumlots

 

thank you to all our contributors for playing. hope you had lots of fun. I certainly did! hahahaha... hope it brought a few laughs to those reading the lists as well. we can go on and on with the tropes but we will have another season for that! hahahha... so we say bye to our mini event - the first season of drama tropes we love and hate!

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On 1/31/2018 at 10:01 AM, stroppyse said:

 

Epinephrine is a natural hormone produced in your body, usually called adrenaline, e.g, the stuff that is produced when one is excited or one is having a fight/flight response. And, it has a lot of uses in your body, causing smooth muscles to relax and striated muscles to contract, and having an effect of stimulation of some systems and restriction of other systems.

 

So, epinephrine in drug form is used pretty commonly, for instance, in anaphylaxis, e.g. severe, acute allergy symptoms, epinephrine is used to counter the symptoms (e.g. EpiPen). And, when the heart is failing, epinephrine is one of the medication that is used to try to help the heart, usually by injection directly into the blood stream. In times of cardiac arrest, under certain circumstances, it can be injected directly into the heart to try to help restart it and stabilize the heartbeat.

 

Also, since the body produces it naturally as well, there aren't issues of the body rejecting epinephrine, though there are some side effects of an epi application, including fast heart beat and elevation of blood pressure, and adding epi to a stable system may actually cause the heart to become temporarily irregular.

 

So, it's not just a medical drama thing. It's not a miracle drug, but it's close.

 

The wet cloth fever wipe, however, may help someone feel better since they're heating up, but it doesn't actually treat the fever itself. In order to break the fever faster, one may acetaminophen, ibuprofen or another NSAID. However, those just treat the fever as well. Usually, the fever is a symptom of something else going on in the body, and so one doesn't become better until the underlying issues have worked itself out. And, the wet cloth doesn't have that much efficacy.

 

lol thanks for tagging me stroppyse.  I'll get back to drama tropes in a while.  Glanced at @Lmangla's list, not sure if you got to 100 yet but I have a few in mind.

 

- To answer your questions about wet nap, Kdrama gets it 1/2 right.  Fever can be from several sources:

 

1) if the fever is caused by infections, disease, etc.. any organism or substance that caused our hypothalamus to increase our body temp set point, a wet nap won't be able to cure the fever.  The hypothalamus in the brain is like the thermostat of your AC/heating unit in your house.  It keeps your core body temperature constant by heat up (closing blood vessels, increasing body metabolism) or cooling down (sweating/ dilating the surface blood vessels).  An infection triggers immune system cytokines releases and tells the brain to increase the temperature.  It's our own body's smart way to notify us that something is wrong.  In this case, to bring down the fever, we have to use drugs that block or reduces the immune cytokines and chemicals levels to dial back the hypothalamus's overdrive.  We then treat the infections separately to remove offending substances.

 

2) if the fever is caused by hot weather, overexertion or heat stroke, drugs wouldn't work but cool compress or wet nap would.  The person needs to be cooled immediately with cold water/ice or a fan.  Most of time, we apply it to the forehead thinking that it's directly over the brain but anything that opens up the pores to let heat out or dilate the blood vessels would do.  A wet nap would be able reduce body heat because it is not pyrogen-mediated.

 

- About epinephrine, it's a blood vessel constrictor.  During an emergency or code, we do all that we can to keep the heart and brain alive.  We give epinephrine to squeeze shut and compress all blood vessels and direct the blood back to the heart and brain.   It also binds to the heart muscle receptors to increase heart muscle contraction, heart rate and electrical conductivity.  The funny thing is that while it contracts the smooth muscles in your blood vessels to bring up blood pressure, it relaxes the smooth muscles of your lungs, bladder and uterine.  How I remember what it does is to remember the fight/flight response... Like when you are hiking and see a bear, what happens to your body and reactions.  You releases epinephrine.  Your heart rate goes up, your eyes dilate, blood pumping to your brain and heart.  You hyperventilate and breathe hard.  BUT, while you are running away from the bear, some people would also experience lost of control of their bladder.

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@Lmangla  ohhhh you got all 100?   LOL at your list, great list.

 

I would have added bus scenes and cell phones.  Specifically, Samsung cell phones GPS and apps.

 

[ForgottenSoulx]

On 28.1.2018 at 4:27 PM, Jillia said:

#15 Love triangle FTW... NOT.

Enough said!

 

No, seriously. I personally think love triangles are there to create conflict among the people who watch the same drama. Love triangles are there to create conflict. Period. Because you always have the people who side with the OTP and you have the people who side with the second lead.

 

And apparently fans love to see two guys fight over one girl like two Neanderthal men fighting over who is worthy carrying the girl to their cave. And then they call it cute. ROFL

 

@stargazer187 Sometimes two minds think alike.

 

who is that guy

 

On 2.2.2018 at 4:51 AM, supergal99 said:

Woweee... reaching 100 soon??

 

#96 Oppa ...getting so close to me erhm... to babe -> babe getting flustered

 

 

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Oh this one ... so close:

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That u can ... *cough* stick out your tongue and and...

(Ok ok ok... *slap myself*)

 

 Oppa... come come closer closer...

ok chill... Fun Friday!!

 

where is this from. 

 

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7 hours ago, Wotad said:

where is this from. 

 

KBS kdrama : Go Back Couple