When fighting a bruiser who cant fly and has no long-range weaponry/energy projection:
STOP STOP STOP FUCKING MELEEING HIM WITH YOUR GODDAMN FLYERS.
See Thanos*…Doomsday…Hulk (though Hulk can jump…and even that shouldn’t be near as useful as it is commonly portrayed)
*Movie Thanos. Pretty sure comic-book Thanos has used energy projection.
Every single comic book set-piece that involves people gathering on an open field and then running at each other to start the fight.
Basically any battle of any sort, not just comic book, in which both sides are running at each other. Just look at military history - in virtually every engagement, one side is attacking, the other side defending.
Heck, I’m annoyed by fights between wildly mismatched characters where the more powerful one has clearly been freebasing stupidity, hence uses a tiny fraction of his or her ability because otherwise they’d just kill the opponent outright.
Superman v. Batman
Iron Man v. Captain America and Winter Soldier
More of a mook peeve than a hero peeve, but : if you’ve shot the guy/girl and it hasn’t done anything, and they smile and keep advancing (or in the case of Deadpool, start babbling about Bea Arthur and chimmichanga)… how about stop shooting and try something else instead, like high explosives or running the fuck away ?
But nope. Surely the *next *bullet will work !
D-Day was primarily fought by the Germans immediately rushing to the beaches and engaging the Allies via hand-to-hand directly in the surf.
Really? I was of the impression that the Germans were mostly firing from entrenched positions.
I’m not talking about running to reinforce a defensive position, or running into an existing melee. I mean two forces running towards each other *before *fighting starts.
Resolving everything with a fight scene. They are the most boring part of a movie (especially CGI fight scenes)
Yeah, I love comic books and the movies, but I’ve been known to say “Annnd, fight scene. Yawn. Call me when it’s over.” And I roll my eyes and go get something to drink.
That’s a, I say that’s a joke, son.
My peeve is the fast cut fight scenes where you have absolutely no idea what’s going on. I first recall this in an early fight in the first Mr. Mom Batman movie (that was also dark, with handheld shaky cam) . I just had to assume Bats was hitting more than being hit, but it was a flurry of cape swishes and grunts.
The Bourne movies were prone to this as well (director was great with handheld camera, which was fine when following Matt Damon around European cities, but made for confusing fights).
Poe’s law, man.
The first bullet should hit the torso, the second bullet should hit the head. Of course I understand why they don’t, but still…
I am sick and tired of long protracted battle between Protags and Antags that always inevitably culminates in a one-on-one confrontation between Badass Protag and Badass Antag that lasts and lasts and lasts. I wanna see…
• Badadd Antag gets offed by Junior Lieutenant Protag. Big faceoff battle ends up being between Badass Protag and Evil Minion of the Antags; or
• Badass Protag faces off with Badass Antag; cue the big battle-scene music. Protag knocks Badass Antag out with one clean shot in the first seven seconds; or
• Badass Antag is fragged by Evil Minion just as faceoff with Badass Protag is about to begin.
Also, if you’re gonna hit someone with a shot that has previously wiped opponents out permanently, don’t have someone shrug it completely off later; don’t have fighters who are completely unaffected by whatever is done to them. Can we at least see some limping and favoring of injured parts and reduced effectiveness?
In Iron Man 2 they argue about who should take the high ground so they end up starting the fight from the kill box.
However, everyone in that fight could fly.
Lampshaded in Firefly, where Mal and Big Bad Guy face off. The rest of the crew show up ready to fight, but Zoe says “No, this is something the Captain has to do himself.”
Mal:“The heck with the Captain doing it himself! SHOOT HIM!”
While the sliding power levels is one pet peeve, an even bigger one that has been done to death is beat the big bad and all the little bads stop. Avengers, Avengers 2 (where it made sense at least), and I’ll avoid naming more for late watchers. Time to create a new trope.
[Pedant mode] [The rescue team comes upon Mal struggling with his torturer; Zoë stops the others from interfering]
Zoë: This is something the Captain has to do for himself.
Mal: No! No, it’s not!
Zoë: Oh.
[Zoë, Jayne and Wash shoot the torturer.]
[/pedant mode]
I totally agree with this. Fight scenes are my chance to use the restroom.
Those fight scenes could be amazingly interesting if the writers and director had three brain cells between them. But no, they have to nerf the power set of everybody and think in the most untactical manner possible.