What is your most hated trope in manga right now?

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Coming from reading a lot of RomComs, and recently,
Hanazono-sanchi no Futago-chan
I remember one now: the dreaded last-minute time-skip. Nothing good ever comes from that being employed. Instead of a satisfying wrap up, we suddenly jump 2 years into the future, where somehow nothing changed, and then we get the conclusion. But the air is let out with a weak whimper, and all that emotional buildup was for nothing.
Omg i hate that stuff so much.
After suffering through reading whatever tsundere filled crap for way too many chapters it finally looks like some good stuff is going to happen but then you get bamboozled with "and they all lived happily ever after".

I hate this stuff so much with sports/hobby/art focused manga were they end the story after the first somewhat success the mc has...
 
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Dunno about other countries but at least in the Netherlands and Northern France land holding nobles were often named by their highest holding and it would change when their holding changed.
Like "first name" of "name of holding".
Sometimes in old manuscripts lord with different holdings would be mentioned with differing "surnames" depending on the writer.
Sometimes when their family was famous enough they would be called by that instead in varying cases.
But i haven't seen a "John of Holland, king of Holland" but i haven't seen any late medieval text spelling out complete names and titles as they perhaps would have done when announcing some nobles arrival at an official event.
Most of the surviving sources seem to be ledgers and stuff like that were they keep stuff concise.
The thing is, those title are "reversed" in that the "holding" takes precedence.
Let's say I'm John Doe and through marriage and buying land I've become a baron in the region of Champagne. Per European customs I'd be called "Baron John of Champagne" or "John of Champagne".
In these comics it would be "John Doe of the Doe barony", instead and that's my issue.
 
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Characters being completely in love with someone because they did something nice (tbh it's usually just basic politeness) to them once 15 years ago
 
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Yuri stories make all men psychopathic domestic abusers

BL stories make all women parasitic gold diggers

Harem stories always assume other side characters are not worthy of harems or reverse harems

Rom-coms, romance (euphemism for rom-dramas), and sol involving romance never give enough pre/post plot to why side characters “deserve” or move on from their bad ending
 
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Multiverse/Time travel out of nowhere, especially if the setting in question never hint about it, used them in a very barebones and one-sided way, and especially in fantasy setting where they discuss it with modern terms.

One thing I still hate since reading my first stories are character charging at the bad guy/opposition base alone, which 99 out of 100 times resulted in them wrecked and captured (especialy since this archetype often have trouble fighting one of the baddies, let alone their leader/the entire group)

Characters being completely in love with someone because they did something nice (tbh it's usually just basic politeness) to them once 15 years ago
Also said interaction are often the only time they've interacted.
 

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