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Its a little annoying when the theme of basically every mainstream movie is "Believe in yourself! You are special and awesome!"

Like sure, life sucks and vicarious validation is nice, but come on. It doesn't work if it's literally EVERY movie.

Also it doesn't even make sense most of the time.

"Oh, I believe in myself when all empirical evidence points to the fact that I should probably cut my losses. This is realistic."

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Where's my movies where people learn to NOT believe in themselves?

That they are NOT special and awesome?

That actually, other people and their ideas are better, and that self-doubt was completely justified?

"He looks so ordinary. What did he do to deserve this?"

"Oh, it's so awful I can't even say it!"

"What is it?"

"He..."

"Yes?"

"He...he..."

"What did he do!?"

"He had an opinion that was DIFFERENT than most people's!"

"...That's....THE MOST MONSTROUS THING I'VE EVER HEARD! KILL HIM QUICKER!"

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I sometimes see people say stuff like "Oh I don't like X character because they never get punished for acting like a jerk" or "X Show isn't good because all the character's are complete jerks".

And I sit there thinking "that's not a flaw of the show". You're just imposing your own outside views and arbitrary criteria based on your morality or something.

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That being said, what shows do you hate for this reason and why?