Complaining Index - TV Tropes
- ️Mon Apr 21 2014
Ugh! I hate this index! It's full of tropes involving characters complaining about certain things or people! Why does it even exist anyway?!
Ugh! These tropes really get on my nerves!:
- Accentuate the Negative: This index is terrible! It's just a list of pointless tropes about complaining! It sucks!
- All of the Other Reindeer: All of the unassimilated need to be identical to us or die!
- Appeal to Worse Problems: How dare you complain about your First-World Problems, you ungrateful spoiled brat! Don't you know there are other people who have it worse than you?!
- Balking Summoned Spirit: You summoned me for THIS?! What a waste of magic!
- Beat Without a "But": This index may suck, but... no, this index just sucks!
- Bemoaning the New Body: I've been transformed, and I don't like what I became!
- Blamed for Being Railroaded: I hate that stupid character for what they do in the plot!
- Blowout Fight: A vicious argument in a close relationship that involves invoking past baggage and personal attacks.
- Bratty Food Demand: It's been seven and a half minutes, I want my food NOW! HURRY UP!
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: I'm thirteen years old and I hate how my parents are always treating me like a child and scolding me for being a brat!
- Can't Take Criticism: Why does everyone criticize me?! My feelings are hurt!
- Choosy Beggar: I'm in no position to make demands or complain, but I'll do so anyway!
- City Mouse: Why am I out in the middle of this quiet and empty nowhere? Where's the nearest shop?
- Commander Contrarian: I'm sick of people who always contradict me, even if I'm right!
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: I hate it when nobody believes anything I tell them! They always say I'm wrong! I'm never right!
- Complaining About Complaining: Would you people quit complaining?! It's getting annoying!
- Complaining About People Not Liking the Show: You have absolutely no good taste in shows!
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: I didn't ask to be rescued!
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Like: I watched the show, it sucks!
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: I never watched that show, but I still hate it!
- Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For: I hate those shoes! They look ugly! I'm glad I didn't buy them!
- Country Mouse: What's with all that noise? I hate being crammed in with a bunch of people and buildings!
- Cowardice Callout: You're conducting yourself like a simpering coward!
- Cultural Posturing: Look at how superior my culture is, suck it up!
- Die for Our Ship: You interfered with the OTP? Die now!
- The Dissenter Is Always Right: Why the heck is it that my opinions are always wrong and Bob's are always right? He does nothing but say I'm wrong, always! Why the heck can't he be wrong for a change, or at least give his freaking opinion first?
- Does Not Like Magic: Ugh! Stupid magic, always taking the easy way out!
- Dreaded Kids' Table: I'm twelve, I should be allowed to sit with the adults during Thanksgiving!
- Enraged by Idiocy: Everyone around me is an idiot! I'm so pissed! Aaaauuuggh!
- Entitled Bastard: I'm tired of that hero! I still expect benefits from him, though!
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Grrr... (I should bite you for being screwed up!)
- Fake Beauty Accusation: They don't really look that hot, they just got work done!
- Familial Chiding: Characters who are close, like family, Family of Choice, and Love Interests, express disapproval with what someone is doing, usually mildly.
- Fandom Heresy: How dare you like something out of our beliefs?!
- Fan Hater: I hate those people who're fans of something I hate!
- The Farmer and the Viper: You saved my life? You must die!
- First-World Problems: They took my favorite sandwich off the menu! I hate my life!
- Fish out of Temporal Water: I hate that I've been sent too far in the future! I wanna go back to my timeline!
- Fish out of Water: Ugh! It's very irritating how I'm in a place I don't fit in, especially where it's dry! Arrrgh!
- Frivolous Lawsuit: You stepped on my foot! I'll sue you!
- George Jetson Job Security: You bumped me! YO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OU'RE FIRED!
- Grumpy Old Man: Grr! Stupid youngins!
- Hypocrisy Callout: You hypocrites contradict what you believe !
- "I Hate" Song: I hate this thing so much, I'm going to sing a song about it!
- Insurrectionist Inheritor: I hate the way you do things! Wait... you're going to promote me?!
- It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: I hate that work because they kept the same!
- Jewish Complaining: I'm Jewish! Why does everything have to go wrong for me?!
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: I don't care how good you think that guy is doing, why can't he be just like us?
- Knight in Sour Armor: I hate being the good guy! It sucks! But I'm still gonna do my job anyways. Ugh!
- Laziness Callout: I wish you would stop loafing around all the time!
- Minor Insult Meltdown: Someone threw a petty insult my way? How dare they?!
- The Misophonic: Would someone stop making these irritating sounds?! I hate them!
- Misplaced Nationalism: Your country sucks big time, they don't have all of those developments of mine!
- Misery Poker: Your life sucks? Please! Mine's worse than yours!
- Moral Guardians: We work together to ban all dirtiness in this media!
- Nobody Ever Complained Before: How dare you object to our perfectly-reputed quirk!
- Obeying Under Protest: I hate the thing you asked me to do; I'll still do it, but don't expect me to shut up!
- Political Correctness Is Evil: How dare you offend them! Take that down now!
- Quit Your Whining: Good lord, your whining's getting on my nerves!
- Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Stop portraying women as Girly Girls!
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: You want to know why I hate you? It's because you're a fat, lazy, jobless, weak, stupid, naive, immature, ugly, whiny, cowardly, pathetic loser who wastes their life on the internet and video games! And you never flush the toilet!
- Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: I don't like saving anyone I hate!
- The Resenter: Why does that guy always have to be better than me?!
- Royal Brat: Even when I'm royalty, I still don't get what I want! No fair! I'm a royal child! I deserve everything!
- Scrub: Your tactics are cheap and unfair! You're cheating!
- Ship-to-Ship Combat: Our ship is the One True Pairing, and yours isn't!
- Single-Issue Wonk: Even if others intersect, this one subject is still too important to stop ranting about!
- Skewed Priorities: I don't care about my life being threatened by a hurricane! My breakfast is ruined!
- Smug Straight Edge: Drugs Are Bad, and anyone who takes them is automatically bad!
- Sore Loser: Agh! This isn't supposed to happen! I was supposed to win! You're a cheater! A freakin' cheater!
- Sour Prudes: I hate people who express their sexual desires instead of being pure like us! It's insulting!
- Spoiled Brat: No fair! I never get what I want!
- Stop Being Stereotypical: Quit making our group look bad!
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Playing is for winning and the competition, not fun!
- "Success Through Cheating" Accusation: I bet you only won because you cheated!
- "Success Through Sex" Accusation: I bet you only won because you seduced the judge!
- Surrounded by Idiots: I live in a city full of morons!
- There Should Be a Law: It should be illegal and disgraceful because it makes me and certain people uncomfortable and hurt our feelings! Waah!
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: I hate that work because it's not the same anymore!
- They Copied It, Now It Sucks: I hate that work because they Followed the Leader!
- Torches and Pitchforks: THEY TOOK OUR FOOD!!!!
- Trauma Button: I had a terrible upbringing. Now stop laughing about it!
- Ungrateful Bastard: I had my life saved. But I have nothing to say in return! So just get away from me already!
- Ungrateful Townsfolk: We don't care about how much good you've done to us! We're still going to chase you out of town!
- Unpleasable Fanbase: This new game sucks! I hate it! The makers of this awful series don't know how to please us fans!
- Very False Advertising: What the heck did I just walk into? I don't even recognize this place from the brochure!
- Wangst: Everyone keeps ruining my life! I never get anything I want! I deserve better! You people don't understand me! Nobody understands me! WHAT??!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M TOO MELODRAMATIC AND ANNOYING YOU???!!!!! WAAAAHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH???!!!
- What Have You Done for Me Lately?: Absolutely nothing! Why don't you return the favor for what I've done for you already?
- What the Hell, Hero?: Aren't you supposed to be the hero?! Why would you do something like that?!
- When I Was Your Age...:...we never got to have those nice things as you! You youngins got it so easy!
- While You Were in Diapers:...we were making lives of ourselves! So don't resent our generation!
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: I expected my newborn to be a girl! Why is it a boy?!
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Ugh! I finally have something good happen to me for once, and it's ruined again!
Ugh! Why did someone waste their time making this index? It is freakin' pointless!