Let's add then "entire volumes made to add backstory to a secondary character just to sell more books", either if they die or they're abandoned short after.
I like that Reincarnated as a Sword actually had this be a skill with a specific name: "evil teleport"
I have felt more recently like it isn't necessarily that it's bad and more that the way it is presented is bad, like the moment writers began to feel like it was the norm to give every villain a backstory you ended up with people who didn't know how to write a backstory or really didn't need to give them one. Give villains a backstory, but make sure that regardless of their backstory they still are irredeemable; ideally they have both crossed a line and believe they were entirely in the right to cross the line. Writers are better off not broaching "grey area" morality if they can't go 100% in on it.
I have seen some good examples of the trope recently, but the trick is that it has to be explicitly stated; you as the reader need to know that they could pop out of nowhere and kill the entire cast at any time, but balance it with not having it happen too much to lull them into a sense of security. Makes it much less annoying and a lot more tense.
When it's like that at least it's recognized. There was that one comic where they memory-holed a monster eating a baby from a pregnant woman's womb, woman who was introduced as an occasional support a few chapters earlier, after the main characters discovered the mastermind and confronted him.
Which romance stories, i didn't see it very often nowadays ? No, i'm not saying i like this trope a lot and want recommendations.
The one that pops off the top of my head at the moment would be that brunette girl in Noa-Senpai, and that rapey girl from Komi-san. I have seen it many more times but I can't remember more now.
Please Marry Me With Divorce in Mind is another one. Any example I can think of feels relatively recent; prior to that maybe you had like, the friend of the female lead who is really touchy. Weirdly enough, it shows up more often in those sort of more like...I can draw similarities between those three manga in that they have a bit more of a...modern vibe to them? Like they have representation of these sorts of archetypes of person you would never see before, in particular representations of male characters that you wouldn't really see as a lead or maybe important character prior in the role that they're in. Yet they still have the crazy lesbian. I guess because they are supposed to be funny? Is this like the thing where a producer really wanted a giant robot spider and kept asking for it until they put it in Wild Wild West except the editors keep suggesting a crazy lesbian character? Because to note; they never are that important to the plot. You could remove them and it would barely if at all change the story.
I had to look up memory hole; ah so they just made the woman completely forget they were pregnant I guess? Yeah that's kinda wack and exemplifies what I have a problem with. Like the author could have just had the main characters prevent that from happening, but if they did, how could they not give us that scene of a monster giving a free non-consensual abortion? And of course they have to wipe the woman's memories, or the cast would have to grapple with you know, what happened and the trauma related to that.
Ok now you 2 have me curious as to what the hell that story is, that sounds crazy and vile and I need my nightly nightmare quota.
Ah...obviously I'm not the first one to bring it up but to kick it off a premise like that gives me like...pre-2010s vibes, possibly pre 2000s, like it has that feel of a gritty, gory 90s or 80s manga with grotesque monsters that would show up on an episode of Anime Abandon as an anime ova. I did try looking for it, but no dice.
on almost related note, i think boob armor is cool and all but i draw the line when the armor also jiggles
Pretty sure those are all pretty often complained about.
No, the woman is dead. Also in the author's defense he actually set up a reason why the main characters could not prevent the whole ordeal even though some furious handwaving was still required to make it make sense.
It was an isekai from a couple of years ago, I don't even know if it's still ongoing as I stopped reading around 10 chapters after the events I described.
