I hate that one trope where there’s an alien or a guy from an isolated tribe that’s never been to America, and they come to America and their new American friends show them shopping malls and fast food and the outsider is all “This is amazing! I love America!”
Just once I’d like this trope to be subverted with the alien or whatever spitting out the fast food and saying something like, “Oh god, what is this shit? It’s giving me a heart attack!” or they go to a mall and are mortified by the advertising and that they have to slave away to afford any of it.
Are there any tropes you’re tired of? They can be as dumb and petty as you want. It’s fun to rip on pointless things sometimes.
The First Purge is the only movie I’ve seen that does the opposite. All government services are shut down and laws are suspended on Staten Island for 12 hours as an experiment. Most people just have a big block party and only commit petty crimes like looting and vandalism. It only gets violent when the experiment’s organizers send in mercenaries to start shooting everyone to tilt the experiment’s results.