Dear filmmakers,
Here’s a couple tropes that I think we can dispense with forever and ever:
- The craziest of the bad guys kills all of the other bad guys, thus leaving the good guy with only one bad guy to defeat.
- The craziest of the bad guys kills off the only wise, forward-thinking bad guy of the bunch, thus leaving the bad guys without a reasonable plan going forward.
- The bad guy has jet black hair, the blondest possible hair, or is completely bald.
Let’s stop doing these things. Okay?
If your bad guy needs to kill off other bad guys, maybe you had too many bad guys from the start.
