Least Favorite Trope

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(02-24-2012 04:49 AM)Rae Wrote:  For a female character to be sufficiently Serious, she needs either to be raped during the story, or to have rape shoehorned into her backstory.

I'd go further than that, though that specific type is a special kind of terrible, and say that using rape to make a story in and of itself Big, Serious, and Important is just something that needs to be done away with.
Also, the way Marv Wolfman writes teenagers should earn him some sort of public flogging.