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Top 5 Worst Common Tropes In Literature

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Throughout the literature that I have read over my little life, I can't help but notice the common cliches and tropes that always love to appear in many books. Here are what I think are the top 5 worst common tropes in literature: The trope : The chosen one. The replacement:  Normal people.  This trope is the one that gives me some serious stress. Not that I haven't enjoyed novels with this trope but at this point it's just so overdone. Books like Harry Potter sold well on the chosen one idea because it was original at the time, but even then it felt slightly worn. To have multiple dystopian novels take this idea after the fact and overdo it to the point where everything is predictable... I'm not here for it. How about have relatable characters that make sense in a dystopian setting? Ordinary people forced into the unusual? The trope:   Flawless characters. The replacement:  Characters with dimension. Characters that are typically flawless in pers...