When it comes to tropes like these, I sometimes wonder if there might be a majority still enjoying them / laughing about them, even though others like us are tired about them
I really wonder that, as well; while, admittedly, there's a lot of brain-dead idiots in my country, I think that anybody who has been exposed to mass media for more than a year is likely to find these tropes to be, at best, purile; and, at worst, intellectually offensive.
I can't imagine being over the age of 10 and finding any of this to be clever or funny, honestly; one could easily believe that the Venn diagram of "ignorant enough to find this funny" overlapping with "smart enough to read" has got to be vanishingly small, right?
I mean, to be ignorant of the world in a way that allows a suspension of disbelief powerful enough to
honestly enjoy these tropes
does not make a person dumb! Im not meaning to be insulting, or anything!
But it
does mean that they aren't likely to be part of any target audience that could possibly read any of these titles!
It's quite a mystery.