There's also the fact that it's so granular it's functionally useless for actual analysis, and has a self-indulgent quality to to its writing. This is from an actual article on the superhero "trope" of "Fights Like a Normal":
That's in the summary, and all those capitalized phrases are links to other "tropes" someone on the site's written about. What the actual fuck is that. Talk like a normal person! An entire field of academia exists for this and somehow manages to be less insufferable even at its most inscrutable and dry.Then there's the rest of them. They have bona-fide powers that set them apart from Puny Earthlings, but for one reason or another, they either can't or won't just rely on them alone. They've taken Boxing Lessons For All Those Other Poor Schmucks, and fight very similarly to a Badass Normal most of the time. This can be for any of several reasons:
I don't know. There's this masturbatory, sheltered element to it that's always put me off, along with how heavily it's trafficked on the web and presented as if people should be familiar with its specific (superfluous) terminology.
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! It's the same way I feel when I'm watching the Ginyu Saga, and there are all these incessant cutaways to Guru, who literally says and does absolutely nothing but sit stoicly. It's kind of hilarious in how blatant it is.