r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Morr4Seiya • 4d ago
Hated Tropes (Hated)You know this cute couple we spend the last movie developing?Yeah,they broke up off-screen
John and Lori-Ted 2
Sam and Mikaela-Transformers 3
Wade and Vanessa-Deadpool and Wolverine(yeah,i know the ending implies they get back,but it just begs the question what was even the point,even Morena Baccarin Vanessa actress complained about how her character was sidelined)
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u/catchyerselfon 4d ago edited 3d ago
Fuck, I forgot Ellie is no longer a paleobotanist in Jurassic Park III! Why did they have her give that up just because she has a toddler, she can’t be a professor/writing instead of away on dig sites?! It’s like the film makers took away her science-based job and gave her one more nurturing and humanities-based so she’d be “acceptably feminine”… but she’s still not a love interest?!
Like you, I’m forever mad about splitting up Allie and Ellie, a couple I didn’t realize watching as a kid appealed to me because I’m demisexual: here I was seeing two adults (Laura Dern was 24 but Ellie definitely isn’t) who clearly started as friends and colleagues before getting romantic, but they’re not all over each other and she’s not sexualized, it’s very “brainy is the new sexy” for both of them.
Most of the romantic relationships in media aimed at kids in the ‘90s had a big sexual dimorphism element: huge guy and tiny girl, athlete/warrior and princess or geek and hot popular girl, and they fall for each other mostly based on looks, the chase/obstacles takes most of the movie with the happily ever after/the issues of being in an actual relationship is not shown because the story is “over”, etc… Starting in medias res with Alan and Ellie working alongside each other and goodnaturedly discussing their differing world views instead of a “slap slap kiss kiss dynamic” = chemistry, had a positive impact on me. I had to pretend I was interested in certain boys and celebrities so other girls would stop asking. It took until I was at least 30 before I realized “oh I need to get to know someone really well to feel attraction, that’s why love at first sight felt so alien to me”.