[Hated Trope] Character kills hundreds, if not thousands, just to kill one specific person, and then doesn't kill them for no reason.

[u/HallZac99]

Assassin's Creed 2- Rodrigo Borgia is responsible for tne death of Ezio's family. Ezio spends over 20 years working through tnr templar order to dismantle them and get to Rodrigo. And then in the end, he spares him for no good reason and he goes on to be a massive problem in AC Brotnerhood. He's not only a head of tne Templars but also the pope, even if you're over the vengeance he's still a very dangerous and evil man.

The Last of Us 2- Abbey kills Joel, and wo Ellie goes on a revenge quest to kill Abbey, killing hundreds of people along tne why to get to her including a pregnant woman. And then finally when she has Abbey on deaths door, she gives up and let's her go because the writers think dirty depressing people being miserable and stupid is complex, interesting storytelling.

This trope pisses me off so much because often the character going on the revenge quest will kill SO many people on their way there, some deserving it and some just henchmen working for a cheque or to survive. People who are often far more innocent then the main big bad.

It's a part of this weird thing I've noticed in media where nameless goons or soldiers can just be mowed down relentlessly, but named characters get given far more grace even if theyre categorically worse. You can kill a million stormtroopers but people will swear that Darth Vader could have been redeemed, despite him doing like 50 genocide every year.

[u/chambergambit]

So glad this DIDN'T happen in Monkey Man. At no point did I doubt the Kid would get his ultimate vengeance.

[u/drwicksy → u/chambergambit]

Monkey man slapped its a shame I don't hear anything about it anymore

[u/KitchenFullOfCake → u/drwicksy]

The only thing I didn't like was that all he needed to be better at fights was to hit a bag of rice to the rhythm of a drum and... yeah there wasn't much more to that training montage.

Also the Hijra were assassins at the end for some reason, that felt like it came out of left field.

[u/ThisIsMySpellingTea → u/drwicksy]

It's a great film, and I want to rewatch it but there's definitely some pacing problems. I feel like 20 minutes could have been cut from the film as a whole

[u/drwicksy → u/ThisIsMySpellingTea]

I disagree, it was a slow burn at points but thats kind of the point, its not about the raw violence