hahahahaha
but I guess I'm being a hypocrite cause the main baddies of Time Gate for the chunk of the story is a government group called the society
/sigh cliche af
As for things I wouldn't do in my story? I'm not really sure, but here are some listed off the top of my head:
Unnecessary love triangles. I'm not gonna force some cheesy cliche romantic plot if it doesn't make sense (especially cause Uzuki, the main character, is not one to give that much of a shit for romance). If I do do a love triangle, I'll at least make sure it's a proper love triangle, which means that one of the characters would be gay lol (and out of the three likely characters that would get into a love triangle, the two guys involved are DEFINITELY NOT GAY at least not outside of my smut writings WHAT)
Unnecessary shipping scenes. Yeah I know people want to see Uzuki and Mitsuhiro ~get it on~ but even if it does happen I'm not gonna just let it happen out of the blue. The April Fool's pages I did this year were kind of a jab at that concept (and the people that do it). Let them fall in love gradually, don't have them suddenly doing loving shit out of nowhere if it makes zero sense for them to be doing so and you're only doing it to shut your fanbase up. Your fanbase can be patient and if they're only in it to see the main characters ~get it on~ despite the main plot of the story being about everything except that, then clearly it's not the story for them and they should stop torturing themselves lol
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I can't say I do this directly in the same sense of "The Sword of Truth", buuuut books 2 and 3 sort of fall into this trope, only a little though. It's definitely not as cliche as your examples :U
TIME GATE: THE SWORD OF DESTINYYYYY
(not actual title of any installment in the series, if i do make a title like this, please shoot me, because i must be braindead by that point and i would have no further desire to live).
I'm currently working on a fight scene and the most my pages get is lots of blood, but never like . . . anything squishy.
That's my rule. No squishy shit. No intestines or brains please. Cuts and gashes and blood, sweet, as long as it's not forced, but I don't want to be seeing anything squishy come out of there, that's bad news bears for me lol
I think it's mainly because of the fact that most comics these days that have any sex in them are just so forced. Especially when it comes to furry comics, but not just those either. Any time sex tends to be in comics it seems to be for a.) the creator's personal kinks, or b.) the READERS and THEIR kinks, or because they just want to see characters have sex and the creator goes "welp fuck it let's do it even though it makes no sense in context".
There are so few comics that do sex well these days. It's depressing. We're in the prime of the sex world right now, especially with the introduction of virtual reality porn via devices like the Oculus Rift, but for god's sakes it seems that sex is just getting cheesier and cheesier because of these things /shudders
Don't know if this counts but in one book I have a character who's pretty much immortal who repeatedly tries to commit suicide and can't seem to off themselves. And it's not even because they want to die, they just want to test the boundaries of their immortality and see if they actually can die (and the fact that they're bored).
I dunno if that falls into the same category of what you're describing but I mean, that's a thing and I'm actually looking forward to writing it because it's really a moral, personal dilemma in the context of the story and you can really feel the character's desperation to just find out the truth of their existence.
Yessss. KILL THEM ALLLL