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I love good guys who look like they're bad guys.

Last year I watched anime Ragna Crimson, and I really liked "He is not an enemy that you use strategy to fight with. He is an enemy you use strategy to not fight with." along with the general strategic feeling of Crimson's actions. I'm open for recommendations, but I don't know when will I find time to watch them.

Sentient, autonomous, giant fighter mechas.

So far the most popular franchise with this is Transformers, but most of their media is mediocre at best. There are some exceptions like a few of the comics and some of the series which are really good, but overall as a franchise they are lacking unfortunately. I really love the trope though.

The other franchise with this would be Bionicle but I can't say I know much about it.

There are plenty of mechas out there, but they don't tick all the boxes for this trope. Most are either non sentient or require a human pilot to be active. And those which are sentient and autonomous are rarely fighters.

So if you know of any - please let me know. Thanks.

I've always been a fan of space aliens interacting with ancient civilization on Earth, like in Stargate the movie

I’m not sure what it’s called, buy I love the trope of where a large party gets split off into two smaller parties who eventually reunite. This split could be forced through physical events or it could just be a relationship split between friends.

Lord the Rings is a great example of what I mean. Frodo is forced to leave after seeing what the Ring does and Sam goes with him, while Mary and Pippin get kidnapped and have their own adventure, and finally Aragorn and his merry trio go help the war effort in Rohan. They all end up reunited in the end though.

I've recently been going through Persona 4 Golden, and I love Kanji. He's a rough guy who people assume is a bully (for example, he beat up a biker gang), but he has a heart of gold - for example he crochets dolls for a kid to play with. He's very interested (and talented) in arts & crafts, but at the beginning he's ashamed of others looking down on him for that.

One of my favorite tropes, and quickly one of my favorite characters.

I once was recommended a Japanese anime, "Gate". It's about a fantasy world trying to invade our modern realm. Earth strikes back with modern weapons, the fantasy world has no chance with their dragons, Orks and magic.

This I would love to see more of, asymmetrical warfare, it's just a power fantasy, but a fun one!

Bodyguard romance trope.

• sunny loves grumpy
• savage mama bear
• really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance

I want to see more oligarchs on the receiving end of assassination plots

in movies. I really liked Day of the Jackal. More of that, please.

In movies? I wanna see people be more casual sexual with friends, without it being a big deal. Cause that's how my friendships are like. A little fun times is not something to write home about, most of the time