Most common tropes and cliches you've seen

I'm a big fan of the melodrama villain trope. You know the type: top hat, opera cape, twirlable mustache. Often found tying women to railroad tracks and sawmills, or elsewise foreclosing mortgages? Yeah, that guy.

Oh, and allow me to add another trope: shock value deaths. You know the ones. The kind where a character is randomly killed off for no other reason than to be shocking, or edgy. 

The character in my pfp (Chazwick Thurman, Helluva Boss S2 EP3; Exes and Oohs) is a prime example of this. They had the opportunity to develop him beyond just being a sleazy, sexual shark demon into something more. 

And yet, be the end of his debut episode, his jaws are hung up on Crimson’s walls, and all the character potential he had was tossed out the window. 

And that, is why I have a personal grudge against this episode. It’s just a mediocre episode with that dreadful ending tacked on. It’s worse since he was genuinely one of my favorite characters in the entire show, because I loved his voice, design, potential, and I just liked the innuendo’s he made (my sense of humor is very sexual in nature, so in a way, I also related to him a bit, which only worsened the blow.) 

-69 out of 100, just 3 scenes and a piss-poor (and frankly, hypocritical) editorial decision was all enough to take the episode from decent or even good down to bad.



R.I.P

Chazwick Thurman

September 11, 1991-April 23, 2022.

It’s Chaz Time.