Quote Originally Posted by Grassy_Aggron View Post
Oh, and they were all ungodly powerful and switched sides on a dime for no reason.
That's another good one. Insert evil character who is super mega powerful, and have them turn good in no more than 5 chapters for the most one-dimensioned reason ever.

Evil character: "I am evil because I have no friends!"
Protagonist: "We'll be your friends :) <3"
Evil character: "Okay, I am now good."

On a less relevant note, stories like that are actually not allowed on FF.net. You even agree to the terms of service saying that your stories don't include detailed sexual content since it's considered M+, and the ratings on FF are capped at M. Fun fact.

I'll admit to being somewhat guilty to some pet peeves mentioned such as placing the legendaries as "gods" and while I am only a prologue and chapter into my story, I can see drawn out dialogue and filler being an issue for me. I am a very wordy person, and right now one of the things I'm trying to learn to do is not to repeat myself, and be concise with what I want the characters to say. I've been fixing this as I proof-read, but being someone who wants a good portion of the interest in the story coming from dialogue, this will probably be one of my biggest faults. It's good that I'm reading this now (It's part of the reason why I posted this thread anyway, to figure out what bothers people) though so I can be more conscious about it.

The whole legendary pokemon being viewed so highly thing I'd like to think I have a pretty good way of dealing with it without being cliché, but I guess that's up to how I end up handling it in the end. Actually, I kind of handle it in the same way I'm dealing with my over use of popular pokemon (Eeveelutions ._.). I'm trying to use it as a way to play devil's advocate. In my story, the legendaries pretty much screwed the whole world over by not doing their job properly, so instead of fixing it, they pretty much just ditch everyone to hide away in another plane of existence and let the other pokemon deal with it. On one hand, the pokemon who don't know the true reasoning behind the legendaries leaving have the "Yeah! Legendaries! Super strong! We love you!" mentality, while the pokemon who know about this have the "Thanks for leaving us you jerks! I hope your first born is drop kicked off a cliff" mentality.

It's true though that even if these things are overdone or overused, or handled poorly in general, it opens up a whole new world of plot ideas. What was once used as a serious idea, can be then instead taken and used in a more satirical way that adds to the story instead of taking away from it.

Regardless, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, and I'm interested to see what bothers other people.