What's a trope you want more of?

I want to see more oligarchs on the receiving end of assassination plots
in movies. I really liked Day of the Jackal. More of that, please.
- ~~in movies~~
- John Wick: NYC (IRL Edition)

I once was recommended a Japanese anime, "Gate". It's about a fantasy world trying to invade our modern realm. Earth strikes back with modern weapons, the fantasy world has no chance with their dragons, Orks and magic.
This I would love to see more of, asymmetrical warfare, it's just a power fantasy, but a fun one!
- You might like The Laundry Files books by Charles Stross. Exactly that plays out in one book where elves invade Earth.
  The premise is that magic is real, and can be summoned/controlled by the appropriate application of mathematics. If you discover this truth, you're irrevocably attached to The Laundry, basically MI6 for supernatural affairs, and you can never leave.
  The protagonist is an IT nerd in England. He almost flattened Wolverhampton with a new algorithm he discoved but they caught him in time. His wife is a protagonist in a few books, and she's a delight. One of my favorites is where a bunch of high-end accountants accidentally make themselves vampires.
- That sounds awesome. Was the anime good? Looks interesting.
  
  It’s one of my favorite. People call it a JSDF recruitment video, but it’s just a good old fashioned curb stomping.
- Reminds me of that cheat in Age of Empire that gets you missile cars and marines with laser rifles. I used to have so much fun just obliterating ancient armies with tanks and shit lol.
- Interesting. Any sufficiently powerful magic erases all conventional weapons, so the magic of the fantasy world can't be all that powerful in the first place.
  
  In Gate there is very little to no magic. It’s mainly a Roman-era army, with some wyverns and other creatures thrown in. The military even comments how hard the wyvern scales are and that it shrugged off .50-cal bullets. But it couldn’t survive a shit load of C4.

I’m not sure what it’s called, buy I love the trope of where a large party gets split off into two smaller parties who eventually reunite. This split could be forced through physical events or it could just be a relationship split between friends.
Lord the Rings is a great example of what I mean. Frodo is forced to leave after seeing what the Ring does and Sam goes with him, while Mary and Pippin get kidnapped and have their own adventure, and finally Aragorn and his merry trio go help the war effort in Rohan. They all end up reunited in the end though.
- Sounds like my family's last trip to Six Flags.

"Good Guy" just kills the "Bad Guy"
Like just fucking do it, stop being a loser.
- That plays out in the Discworld novels. The idea is, pray the man about to kill you is a bad guy, because he'll fuck around, gloat, maybe make a mistake. If he's a good guy, he'll kill you instantly.
- There's an episode of doctor who with a similar interaction (to the spoiler).
  BBEG: This is why good men always lose. They follow too many rules.
  Doctor: That's where you're wrong. Good men don't need rules.
  From memory, so exact phrasing is probably wrong but the idea is there
  
  Good men don't need any rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

Warrior princesses (or otherwise 'fighting refined ladies') -- Who aren't tomboys, and are in fact fully feminine coded, but can still kick ass with the best of 'em. (Princess Leia, some iterations of Zelda, Rarity from MLP in a way though she's not a princess, etc.)
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  ... I'm a he/they queer man, so I shan't say anything. But I might have a look at the place anyway.

I've always been a fan of space aliens interacting with ancient civilization on Earth, like in Stargate the movie
- Was playing through Bloodborne again recently and it got me thinking about this, too. I love the blending of high technology with medieval level knowledge. Having aliens conquer a planet of humanoids that are still in the bronze age would lead to some interesting juxtaposition and it's fun to try and conceive how a 12th century peasant might describe a laser weapon.
- Yeah, it is interesting to see how the Predator franchise did it.

I want more movies and shows where the bodyguard grows a conscience and murders the corrupt POS they're guarding.
- Related: I've imagined a story where the obedient grunts in the military realize they just the nameless henchmen in an evil organization.

I love good guys who look like they're bad guys.
- One niche I think is severely underserved is like. A good guy who serves straight up classic villain aesthetics. Like someone who's refined, and cunning, always plotting something, and if the setting has superpowers, they got an 'evil' coded power... But their goals are those of a good guy. I don't think I've ever seen a character like that, unless you count Col. Mustang from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime/manga, who ticks at least a few of the boxes.
  (If you know of OTHER characters who fit my description, PLEASE tell me)
  
  Batman
  
  You might enjoy the web novels Worm. The main protagonist is basically exactly the above, an antihero by necessity with an "evil" power. The book in general lends itself to grey morality, even for the heroes. The actual villains? Actual evil. The author likes to imagine unorthodox super powers and really makes the characters with them really sing.
  Be warned though, it's a web novel that is literally something like "normal" 20 books long. Besides a rare lurch or two, it's also a surprisingly very good 20 novels.
  
  You may like Code: Geass then.
- Have you checked out the whole “Noir” genre? Burnt out old schlubby heros who look like bad guys is a whole thing there. Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon, Terriers for a more modern take.
  
  I haven't, but I will now!

Bad guys are actually the good guys.

I want another good space based sci fi TV show, preferably with lots of alien species.
Yeah, there is Star Trek and Star Wars, but I want more.
- Same. I’d love a Battlestar Galactica meets SG-1 type show. Something gritty, fun characters, they go everywhere and there’s both space and terrestrial mayhem.
  What I’d actually love is a series that gives a gritty take (Andor-like) on an elite Imperial squad that does missions and treats the Rebellion like the bad guys and the Empire like the good guys but maybe at series finale we do the switcheroo so we don’t completely humanize an empire that wants to kill everyone.
- Have you watched the Orville yet? Its fun!
- Same. Even if there’s not really a lot of aliens. Something like the Expanse pleaaaase.
  
  The Orville isn't new, but I rarely see it mentioned on internet forums. I didn't even know about it until recently.

There are not nearly enough tragic endings in media.

Bad guys who aren't misunderstood but aren't bad. They occupy a niche mindspace in which they have a genuine and noble goal but their goal is mutually exclusive with the good guy's goals (the Shadowlord from Nier Gestalt)
Then, on the flip side, bad guys who know that they're bad and revel in it (Jack Horner from Puss in Boots)
Good guys who are good leaders. They have no superhuman abilities but their power is to bring out the best in others. They don't beat the bad guys through sheer strength or being inspired by the power of friendship (which IMO is just the same thing), but they do so by strategically playing to people's strengths (Senku from Dr. Stone)

sunny loves grumpy
savage mama bear
really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance
- Like John Wick for the last one?

Found family.
It's not lacking by any means I just eat that shit up like it's cocaine

Sentient, autonomous, giant fighter mechas.
So far the most popular franchise with this is Transformers, but most of their media is mediocre at best. There are some exceptions like a few of the comics and some of the series which are really good, but overall as a franchise they are lacking unfortunately. I really love the trope though.
The other franchise with this would be Bionicle but I can't say I know much about it.
There are plenty of mechas out there, but they don't tick all the boxes for this trope. Most are either non sentient or require a human pilot to be active. And those which are sentient and autonomous are rarely fighters.
So if you know of any - please let me know. Thanks.
- EVAs (from evangelion) are sentient. And can be autonomous but -everyone would rather they didn't
  
  Evangelion has been on my list for too long, I just don't have time for anything in my life. So does each one have their own distinct personality, motivations etc? Are they actually characters or are they more like props?

Last year I watched anime Ragna Crimson, and I really liked "He is not an enemy that you use strategy to fight with. He is an enemy you use strategy to not fight with." along with the general strategic feeling of Crimson's actions. I'm open for recommendations, but I don't know when will I find time to watch them.

I've recently been going through Persona 4 Golden, and I love Kanji. He's a rough guy who people assume is a bully (for example, he beat up a biker gang), but he has a heart of gold - for example he crochets dolls for a kid to play with. He's very interested (and talented) in arts & crafts, but at the beginning he's ashamed of others looking down on him for that.
One of my favorite tropes, and quickly one of my favorite characters.

Bodyguard romance trope.

In movies? I wanna see people be more casual sexual with friends, without it being a big deal. Cause that's how my friendships are like. A little fun times is not something to write home about, most of the time
- It’s hard to write good sex into something and not have it detract from the plot. Most movies are plot driven and the casual sexual angle doesn’t normally contribute to advancing the plot (not saying it isn’t possible). It could be used in the worlds-building phase but then would also be a one and done thing.
- Not sure why people are downvoting you

Non-flamboyant gay relationships, just being treated as normal without any special attention in movies.
It always becomes a "quirky" "random" "so different ✨" personality trait for those characters that they are insufferable.
Directors have no clue how real people live.
- Yep it makes me wonder how many queer people consulted. If they'd seen me and my ex together they'd have seen how incredibly boring we are

Romance stories where the story doesn't end the moment they kiss/confess/become a couple. There's more of those lately so I'm happy.