This troper was having a speaking with a few of her friends about chihuahuas and other small dogs before class one day. Then this occurred... #QUOTE# '''Friend 1:''' Chihuahuas are so ugly. They're just rats with hair. #QUOTE# '''Friends 2 and 3:''' No! They're cute! #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Rats have hair...

Can also fit under ArsonMurderAndJayWalking, but just now this troper's cousin walked along the ledge of a patio, which we feared she would fall and hit her head. She actually got off because of a bumblebee in her path.

This troper does this all the time, usually followed by an "Oooooooooooh!" when she gets it.

This troper, while having a conversation with a friend at lunch, was asked why Muslims like me don't eat pork,so i responded "well, why do YOU eat pork?" to which she responds "i'm allowed to. i'm christian." i responded with "nope, in the same chapter of the bible that forbids homosexuality also forbids pork." .... "so wait, your saying i'm gay"?

I'd say you're the one missing the point. I'm not sure where this trend of saying "haha the Bible says you can't do this silly Christians" comes from lately. Leviticus says a bunch of things...for the Hebrews. Then in the New Testament one of the big declarations was "a lot of those laws don't apply anymore." Christianity has never forbid pork, that I'm aware of.

I understand the "completely missing the point" meaning, but it looks you neglected to read Paul's epistles in the New Testament.

It's the same argument used to say that Christians can't eat shrimp or wear mixed fabrics. Also, sorry to say, the answer actually missed the point of the original question. It sounds like the other person wasn't asking what passage in the Qur'an forbids eating pork, but ''why'' it does.

At the risk of spoiling your fun, the reason Muslims don't eat pork is that pigs are believed to be dirty because they are known to eat almost anything, even human remains.

While in a rousing discussion about nothing in particular, this Troper brought up the Education Connection commercial and stated how much he hated it. A friend agreed, saying that the cheesy song got stuck in his head once and complained it was horrible. Another friend (who is sometimes {{The Scrappy}} and sometimes {{The Ditz}}) said, "Yeah. I hate it too. First she's at her job, and THEN she's at home two seconds later! This troper scolded the latter for completely missing the point about why he and the former hated the commercial.

You just called your friend "scrappy".

The ''other'' Education Connection commercial completely misses the point of online school itself. It tries to sell you on the sex appeal of a cute girl who says she loves going to college in her pajamas. Too bad you'll never meet her or any of her sexy pajama-wearing friends because you're going to school online at home, which is not exactly the most social locale there is.

Supporters of DragonBall Evolution completely miss the point when they attempt to justify Goku's CharacterDerailment by saying "he was just a kid, when he grows up he'll be more like Goku from the anime." For those who don't know, its Goku's immaturity and naivete which is the cause of his optimism, determination and courage.

Also people who complain about his Goku and Bulma's hair being the only issue with the movie.

Dakari-King Mykan, a fanfic writer, completely missed the point of the Teen Titans finale "Things Change" and has written numerous fix-fics to get Beast Boy and Terra back together, and to "punish" Terra for forcing "changes" onto Beast Boy and making him miserable...even though the entire point of that episode was that, true to the title, things do change and it's how we handle them that's important.

Once a friend of mine asked a second friend why he had chosen to be agnostic. For some reason a girl flipped out and started ranting about how people should choose and added "Why would you choose to be Christian?" and then said a lot of stuff about why Christianity was bad. This troper replied, "Yeah! For instance why would someone ''choose'' to be Buddhist?" The girl (who was a Buddhist) kicked this troper's shin and said (in a perfectly serious and angry voice), "It's rude to mock other people's religions, asshole!" This troper suffered a HeroicBSOD upon hearing that and spent several minutes trying opening and shutting his mouth while pointing at her and making gurgling noises.

Sounds like she was CompletelyMissingThePoint on ''two'' counts: aren't Buddhists supposed to be pacifistic?

I wonder if it's rude for a Buddhist to call someone an "asshole," never mind "mocking" others' religions, and furthermore never mind kicking them in the shin.

Souhei. Japan has something to say about the aspect of non-violence in Buddhism.

Gurgling noises you say? Could you describe them in greater detail?

This is a CMOF and you know it!

Someone said that they TheTrumanShow was unrealistic because no one could ever make a reality show that big. The point was for the show to be so over the top to show how wrong it was to put an unknowing human through it!

In a similar vein, people say that a real Truman Show would never have such a wide following because people wouldn't be willing to watch such a despicable show. Completely missing the fact that millions tune into actual despicable reality shows a Shot at Love with Tila Tequila and Rock of Love. Compared to them, the Truman Show would be endearing and cute.

Flat out absurd. There's a huge difference between "Z-list celebrity dating show" and "watch this poor shmuck live a fake life that he thinks is real."

This troper was chatting with a friend who was watching ''SinCity'' for the first time, but didn't like it because it was "too over the top." Only after it was explained that this was the entire point did the friend start to enjoy the movie.

Similar to the above post, some people complain about ''BatmanBegins'' having too much screentime devoted to the origin. Really, no shit, a movie called ''Batman BEGINS'' has too much origin story.

The theatrical release of ''{{I AM LEGEND}}'' manages to completely miss the point of its own movie! Despite the random ending this trooper was still able to find the hints and build up that the baddies were sentient and was VERY confused when the movie took a random tangent.

For all y'all who actually want to know ''what in tarnation'' the above troper is even talking about: the original story ended with him finding out that ''he's'' the bad guy, as, originally, did the movie before test audiences decided they liked big explosions better than profound realization. The original ending is included in the collector's edition dvd set.

This Troper cried when she learnt how they crapped the ending from the book.

But... but... The end is the only reason the title makes any sense! In fighting the monsters, he's become the Daywalker, the night-people's version of a vampire... he became their legendary monster, that's why I Am Legend!

Are you telling me they actually made ''an entire movie'' in which the title ''makes no sense??'' But . . . but . . . HeroicBSOD

There's other survivors in this one, which makes accepting death much less right. Plus as the creator of the cure he's going to become pretty damn famous.

Dare I say... legendary?

''This'' Troper overheard a couple people at his school talking about how much the "alternate" ending sucks. *HEADDESK*

You poor troper. I had a similar reaction when I heard someone complain that glass doesn't crack in to a butterfly shape. OF COURSE IT DOESN'T IN REAL LIFE! IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SYMBOLIC!

This troper's brother and his friend once went to see ''{{Apollo 13}}''. After the film, the friend complained he didn't like the movie because "there's no way all that stuff could have gone wrong on a space mission."

Similarly, this troper read a review of ''Charlie Wilson's War'' that characterized it as 'political satire' and 'unrealistic'.

The controversy over ''TropicThunder'' mocking the mentally challenged - specifically the "full retard" dialogue - seems to be based around missing the point that the ''Simple Jack'' subplot is about how actors mine the plight of the mentally challenged for OscarBait, and how incredibly hammy and condescending the results can be the more severe the disability is.

This troper had a friend who completely missed the fucking point of it, and was talking about how it was saying people play retards all the time and blahblah, until this troper had to come in and explain it all over again.

Well, Kate Winslet said it best in {{Extras}}: #QUOTE# '''Winslet''': Seriously! You are guaranteed an Oscar if you're a mental.

Which is an impressive feat of point-missing indeed when you consider that this is actually a comparatively subtle expression of the film's theme, and that a less nuanced example - the ridiculously blackfaced Mr. Downey - can be found on the flamin' poster.

And was, in fact, ''expected'' to be controversial, before the movie even came out.

And yet it's the main Oscar nomination. Go figure.

This troper's brother's friend's sister once complained that she didn't like ''TheMatrix'' because they were always moving so slowly.

Which reminds this troper about an issue of ''DorkTower'': "The one part of the Matrix sequels I didn't like was when... what was it called, when the time slowed down and things that normally take seconds stretch over minutes and hours?"-"Bullet Time?"-"No... right: Morpheus' speeches."

This troper's friend once stated that ''TheMatrix'' sucks with an explanation "that Morpheus hits a toilet bowl or whatever with his head, and it breaks, and he isn't even harmed."

Fans of something will often tell haters that they are missing the point, whether they are or not. If the movie was critically unpopular, then you get threads about how everyone is missing the point, whether they are or not.

This troper would like a book to be written with largely the same plot as ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', except loaded with {{Gorn}}, disturbing sex scenes, and a DownerEnding that is both pointless and mentally disturbing. He would then like it to be sent to elementary schools. As soon as the faculty comes to the perfectly rational conclusion that this book is not suitable for young children, he wants the author to bash them for their decision, as banning a book about book-banning is obviously stupid and CompletelyMissingThePoint, thus supporting the mentality that making a work about a subject is a GetOutOfJailFreeCard against that subject, ''no matter how much it may deserve it''.

You can't ban a book ''ever''. That's the point.

That's odd. This troper has never heard anyone suggest that all copies of ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'' should be destroyed. He has only heard of it being removed from schools, followed by people mocking the people responsible for not understanding irony.

And, in actuality, the banning of Fahrenheit 451 is a DeadUnicornTrope of sorts. It's been requested to be banned once. Just once. Which, oddly enough, qualifies it for the 100 most banned book lists. I guess books aren't banned as much as we thought.

To which the only response possible is, "No, I get the irony, but it's ''still not appropriate for children''."

Actually Ray Bradbury himself says that Fahrenheit 451 being about the banning the books is CompletelyMissingThePoint. He claims that the moral of the book is that if you provide everyone TV, the people themselves will decide books are evil.

Everyone forgets the fact that he completely missed his own point by reversing his anti-censorship, pro-civil rights stance just because [=McCarthy=] told him to.

It's not just fans; proponents of anything often do this. This troper was once in an imgboard argument with some bestialists who were completely impervious to logic. At one point he compared them to pedophiles, with detailed, logical reasoning. The bestialists protested that they were different. He later saw someone's post stating that ''they'' had been arguing with pedophiles and compared the pedos to bestialists. Guess what allegedly happened?

You got peanut butter in my chocolate!

This troper believes the true incident of CompletelyMissingThePoint was the idea that the average random person on an imageboard is open to things like logic and reason.

That only counts as this trope if people typically go to imageboards to be morons. This is not as unlikely as it may sound.

In my defense, said imgboard was actually fairly reasonable and well moderated, and the pedos were on a proper forum. The bestialists had a habit of being completely reasonable right up until you made any point that would indicate a critical flaw in their argument, whereupon they immediately turned the denial and bad logic up to eleven.

Eleven is just the beginning of the bad logic stream.

After ''{{Finding Nemo}}'''s runaway success, there was a pretty huge demand for clownfish as pets. Yeah...

Same thing with ''101 Dalmatians'', which tend to have personality problems from years of inbreeding.

This is great. This is ''recursive'' CompletelyMissingThePoint. Note to the above editor: ''FindingNemo'' is about ''a clownfish attempting to escape captivity in an aquarium.'' ''101 Dalmatians'' is not about the inbred personality problems of Dalmatians. It's not at all the same situation. Audiences can't miss a point that wasn't made.

"Wow Nemo was so sad about being taken from his family and stuck in that aquarium, it's so good that he finally escaped. Hey, lets get a clownfish and stick it in our aquarium" No point missed there at all

''Recursive recursive'' CompletelyMissingThePoint?

It's worth noting, however, that there was an increase in demand for Dalmatian Fur Coats following 101 Dalmatians. Of course, considering the whims of the fashion world, there is the whole correlation and causality argument.

Ah, but Getting The Point doesn't necessarily mean you ''agree'' with it.

In fact, any form of a pet shown in a movie will usually have a surge of demand for that particular animal at every local pet store.

And this troper has a sushi restaurant in his neighborhood that has a "Finding Nemo roll" on its menu.

Now that one's just funny.

I'm almost scared to ask if it contained fish... (And if you think I'm missing the point because "sushi is uncooked fish, right?" well, check this out...

This troper is known to frequently claim this about fans of ''{{Tales of Symphonia}}'' who engage in flame wars, as the entire point of that game was that everyone has the same heart even if their beliefs are different. Of course, that's not even factoring in the people who think the BigBad had the right idea all along...

This troper has been accused of CompletelyMissingThePoint. He tried to watch Transformers four times but always fell asleep an hour in because the pure action wasn't enough on its own to hold his interest. Many people said that the action was supposed to be exciting and that he had missed the point by falling asleep.

In this troper's experience, ''{{Cloverfield}}'' has exactly two mutually-exclusive reactions: awe or hatred. The two biggest complaints? Shaky camera work and no explanation for the monster.

This Troper has heard both plaudits and haters exclaim "It's like being in 9/11!" The only difference was intonation.

...They compared viewing a moderate case of handheld-cam (well, severe for a movie with Cloverfield's on-paper production values) roaming the streets of New York with trying to evacuate from a collapsing skyscraper, the top third of which is on fire and/or falling through/around the rest of the building? That's disturbing.

In their defense, this troper has known some people to get motion sickness and have to leave because of the shaky camera. Understanding why something was done doesn't make you like it.

You know how kids often parrot things? When this troper was young, he'd love watching shows like "The Simpsons" due to their casual use of swear words and not their storylines. One unfortunate Sunday happened to air the first episode of "King of the Kill" with notorious woman hater, Cotton Hill. As soon as the episode was over, and the message of "Women aren't here to serve man" was delivered, this little troper went to his mother and said "Make me some dinner woman!". Needless to say he wound up with a very sore backside.

This troper was having an argument about plot holes with her group in her Creative Writing class and paraphrased TomClancy: "The difference between reality and fiction is fiction has to make sense." She was instantly met with "No, ''reality'' has to make sense". *headdesk*

I hope you pointed out that the only real reason to write a story that's meant to be published was to be a platform for an idea.

Um, how about writing a story to entertain people?

You could argue that the idea of a story to entertain people is that, "X is fun/interseting/exciting."

In this troper's criminal law class in law school, the professor was discussing how the courts interpret "force" in rape cases. He gave an example: "Let's say that you buy a laptop and you decide that you don't want it. The salesguy says that he won't take it back unless you have sex with him..." At that point, one student in the front piped up with this gem: "What if I have a receipt?"

This troper was taking a biology or anatomy class and we were studying the eye and its functions. Specifically, we had just covered how rods and cones work: certain frequencies of light activate certain regions of the eye, enabling us to see. The teacher asked one student, "OK, so why is this girl's shirt red?" The student replied, in all seriousness, "...Because it's her favourite color?"

'Because she's about to die in order to show the situation is dangerous!'

Two tropers, two comments, two examples of completely missing the point. Both comments - to the rape scenario and the colour scenario - are obviously snark, and not meant to be taken seriously.

Maybe, maybe not. There are really people who are that stupid. Sadly.

This troper's widely known for being incredibly sarcastic. Whenever he accidentally says something that is CompletelyMissingThePoint, everyone interprets it as sarcasm. So both might be a plausible answer.

The shirt thing actually had a proper answer, assuming the teacher asked why the shirt was red, and not why we see it as red.

Well, the shirt would have been red even if it wasn't her favorite color. It just might not have been bought by her, but it would still be red. The reason it's red is because it was colored red (that is to say, made to absorb one or several dyes which in combination reflect light which appears to the human eye as red) in the factory where it was produced. The biological cones explanation is an explanation of why the spectrum reflected by the shirt is called "red", not why it is red, so that one would be wrong as well.

First day of Computer Science 101. The lecturer is going over basic C syntax; to do this he creates the traditional "Hello World" program. Somebody raises their hand and asks: "Why do you need to say hello to the computer?" It's rare to see a lecturer openly laugh at a student.

On a forum this troper frequents there was a willfully ignorant racist asshole who happened to be a ''{{Lilo and Stitch}}'' fanboy, completely ignoring the fact that "acceptance" and "tolerance" were two major {{Aesop}}s for the series.

Racist, eh? What did he think of the fact that almost every human character is Hawaiian native?

Not all racists are white.

If that isn't HypocriticalHumor, explain what the hell happened to the Ainu of Japan. And what went down in Rwanda.

White people learned to paint their faces ''very'' convincingly.

So... you're saying that the characters in Lilo and Stitch are ''racists''?

There's a similar guy on [=IMDb=] (not the same one the OP mentioned; this guy is an absolute ''slave'' to the AnimationAgeGhetto), who claims to be Jewish and thinks that the entire Jewish nation is just one big put-upon group of redheaded stepchildren and the Holocaust was just the worst thing to ever happen to anyone in the world and it should never happen again, and that Elie Wiesel's ''Night'' trilogy are his all-time favorite books... And then devotes the rest of his posts to saying that all Muslims are animals who should be rounded up and gassed. {{Facepalm}}.

This troper hates it when some brainless twit hears/sees a joke and points out the punchline as what they like about it. Drives me nuts. THAT'S THE DAMN JOKE.

DontExplainTheJoke. It bothers us all.

This troper once had an argument with a girl in his ethics class about curing Parkinson's disease, which culminated in said girl claiming that maybe people with Parkinson's disease '''enjoyed having it'''. So... yeah....

It would be good for raving... if it wasn't for the fact that their whole nervous system is slowly being shut down!

Not sure how that qualifies as missing the point, although it does sound stupid. Honestly that argument might work for some illnesses, but not to my knowledge Parkinson's.

PLEASE tell me she was making a Monty Python inspired joke. Please?

This troper and his classmates had to discuss the ''Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory'' movie and say what they liked about it for some inane reason he can't remember. Anyways, one of his classmates said this; "I like that Veruca liked everything in the factory." ...WHAT.

If you think about it, Veruca kind of did like everything in the factory - for a certain value of "liked". For her personality, "Why don't ''I'' have one of those?!" seems to be her immediate reaction to thinking something's good, and she demanded her dad get her one of pretty much every damn thing she saw.

This Troper was on a forum where someone gave the following review in a movie thread: #QUOTE#"I hated the plot of ''{{Passion of the Christ}}'', I honestly thought it was stale and overdone (Oh wow, the main character dies for the greater good of humanity, how many times has THAT been done), but at least the characters sounded realistic and they got the languages right..."

That...needs a link. This Troper absolutely must see the reactions to that.

Here you are.

Thanks for that. The reactions were predictable, the guy ''coming back to defend his statement'' was...rather less expected.

That's obviously a troll. C'mon.

Not to mention he Did Not Do The Research, as Mel Gibson was criticized for having his Romans speak Latin instead of the Greek used at that time, and for the Aramaic dialogue sounding like non-speakers memorizing lines.

Once a girl in this troper's class asked: "If the media really is liberal then why do they always cover wars and stuff?" She was totally serious (she thought a liberal media wouldn't cover wars and would instead always be peaceful or something) and it took all my strength to keep from denting my desk. Fortunately someone else answered: "Maybe because wars are news and god forbid the news present itself. Or maybe they do it for the goddamn ratings since war is a good way to get viewers and the media is a business."

The first time this troper had an Economics tutorial, the teacher divided us into groups and made us play a game as different countries, with each countries having different amounts of resources. We were supposed to bargain with each other to obtain resources and attain the main goal of 'allocative efficiency'. Only one country held resources for clothes, which was one of the goals we were supposed to achieve. The other three countries promptly joined up to form a coalition of sorts with a Communist philosophy- share all the resources. When the teacher asked how we were supposed to bargain with the fourth, we replied, "We've got food, homes and education- we're nudist countries." The fourth country, who didn't want to give up its clothes, was underfed, undereducated and under-housed.

This troper played a similar game only the object was to get resources no matter what the cost. Someone found out that stealing was allowed and stole from one of the "countries." A guy from the country that was stolen from said "Hey, they can't steal from us! Real countries wouldn't steal from each other!" Luckily the teacher was a total snarker and she replied by naming that country Team Africa and renamed the team that had stolen from them Team Europe.

This troper once played a game called "World Bank", designed to illustrate the unfairness of the global economic system by showing how the poor countries got short-changed and had no chance of climbing to the top. This troper's team, playing Uganda, managed to end up the single wealthiest country ''in the world'' by applied Genre Savvy and diligence. Way to illustrate a point?

This troper, in the same game, managed to single-handedly crash America's economy by bribing every other country not to trade with them. She was playing Chile at the time.

These "world bank" examples to me sound more like counterarguments to the point the teacher was trying to make.

History lesson, same thing. While acting as Russia in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, enough coalitions were formed that Britain was shut out of the European economy and France was shared equally between Spain and Germany. For some reason our teacher told us we didn't quite understand the exercise...

This troper played a World Bank game of that variety. One of the "resources," which starts out nonexistent and is slowly introduced by bank requests, are unidentified objects which are revealed at the end to have been pollution. I'd played the game before, so when we started receiving "black things," we traded them away for real resources.

This troper did something similar in AP U.S. History. We were playing a game of Axis and Allies and were supposed to recreate the global climate throughout WWII. Me and my friend said "Screw this. We're invading Russia". We conquered Russia, the vast majority of Europe, and were about to obliterate Britain when the teacher came over. Rather than restart the game, he took control of Britain and promptly wiped us both out, and invaded Russia himself.

Man, that must have been the longest AP US class ever. I've never even managed to ''finish'' a game of Axis and Allies.

We didn't finish. We went for a week and that's as far as we got.

You think that's insane, in our history class we were playing America and Russia superpower relations during the cold war, I was on the Russian side, that ended with us sending them a gift over from Cuba, a nice huge wooden horse wheeled right to DC, a Trojan horse FILLED WITH NUKES, we didn't screw history, we murdered it, our teacher wasn't amused.

Wow. Y'all are lucky. All my AP European History class managed was to completely avert the French Revolution, mostly through the actions of some very persistent and extremely generous clergy. Then again, that may have been a subversion, since the teacher turned it into a lesson anyway...

This Troper did a similar thing in Military History Club, with World War 1. What pretty much happened was every country except the United States, Russia, and Serbia formed a massive coalition centered around Germany (which this Troper got to be the head of state of), pooling money and resources. And then we ganged up on Serbia, while Russia invaded the US on a quest to get Alaska back. All of us, even Serbia, thought our massive CompletelyMissingThePoint of how World War I started was hilarious, and even the teacher/club president had to agree.

This troper's sister did something like this in a U.S. History class. They were broken into groups, each representing a different president, and in the end - depending on how well they debated - the class would 'vote' for one of those presidents. My sister's group got Richard Nixon. Then they argued the rest of the class into submission; Nixon WON.

That's actually right on the point. Nixon was an asshole jerk but he was effective. Had he not been caught in Watergate, he would be one of the highest ranked presidents but now he's ranked very low for subverting justice.

Not as spectacular as the other examples of this sort of game GoneHorriblyWrong, but this troper once had to play a 'debate game' for History class. We were all split in teams of two, and assigned a party involved in the Israel-Palestina problem. And the USA. After some discussion, we were eventually able to come to a peaceful solution, involving concessions on both sides, and a fairly even split of territory and resources. Our teacher applauded us for such rational thinking, but were told that, in reality, such concessions would never be accepted by any of the parties, due to a pot filled with nationalism, religion, and general mutual hatred brewing for two generations. Indeed, we completely missed the point of the why there is a problem in the first place.

One of the main things This Troper didn't like about IndianaJones and the Crystal Skull was that it was a different genre than the ones in the trilogy. Only later did he find out that it was exactly the same genre: 50-year-old B-movies.

In its defense, Harrison Ford had aged sufficiently that they pretty much had to set it in the '50s. The '30s feel wouldn't work anymore. Although I agree that the aliens were a bit out of place, I didn't mind that movie.

Many people who say Indiana Jones 4 "raped" their childhood were overjoyed when the SouthPark episode "The China Problem" came out. Kyle, Stan, and others spend the whole episode traumatized after seeing Indy 4. At first it seems like they just really hated the movie, but it's eventually revealed it's because the SouthPark version of Indiana Jones 4 features Indy being ''literally'' raped by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and the boys start seeking civil justice against them. Many haters of Indy 4 saw this as Trey Parker and Matt Stone agreeing with them about the movie "nuking the fridge", but since no real complaint is made about the movie other than that Indy was raped by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, This troper thinks it's far more likely Trey Parker and Matt Stone were making fun of ''those exact people'' who used the word 'rape' to express their dislike of the movie, specifically in context of saying the movie "raped" their childhood.

To her great shame, this troper must admit to having completely missed the point the first time she saw The Colbert Report.

Not as bad as how this troper had to explain the fact that the show's Colbert is a character to someone at work. The explainee said she had been a "fan for years" but was never sure if it was a joke or not. The first question asked: "Is he a democrat or a republican?"

Wait...the fact that the show was on Comedy Central didn't tip you off?

*shrugs* I saw it in syndication on Global. After five years of television-and-internet-less-ness.

This Troper's best friends couldn't understand Terry Pratchett because the "humor was in the way".

In the way of what?

The plot.

There's a plot under the humor?

You mean the humor isn't the plot?

Someone said that he didn't like SlaugherhouseFive because it was too ridiculous to be believable. This troper had to explain that the point was that war is too ridiculous to be believable.

To this troper's shame, he once missed the point during social studies class in 7th grade. The class was divided up into groups of people representing the populations of each continent, and then everyone was given candy proportionate to how much resources those continents actually have. Rather than understand the allegory about how Africa and Asia have next to nothing, despite their populations, this troper got pissed off at the fact that he was put in the Asia group, and got roughly ''1/10th'' of a Red Vine. Apparently, my friend missed the point as well, because when I complained about it later, my friend mentioned he was just happy he got some candy.

This troper points out that as Red Vine Licorice is produced in Union City California it might be well to wonder if it was the Professor who missed the point.

...say what?

if the professor was trying to point out that North America gets "heapwads" compared to their population, he forgot to point out that a good deal of said heapwads was also produced there.

That isn't missing the point at at all... there wasn't a point to be made. The candy was an allegory and even if it was, since America produces it and got the most, it makes sense. So not only did you miss the point, but you also managed to be TooDumbToLive by missing the point of your own missed point.

Actually, it seems that ''you'' completely missed the point of his missed point. His point is probably that if America makes all or most of it's own wealth, then it's not necessarilly a bad thing. Whether any part of that is true, I'm not touching with a ten-foot pole.

''Oh dear, i've gone cross-eyed.''

This Troper's childhood friend was a huge fan of ''JurassicPark'' -- both the book and the movie -- and wanted to become a paleontologist or genetic engineer and eventually create such a dinosaur park... even though the story is about what a horrible idea that is.

Raise your hand if you'd still go to one.

My hand is up. I'm typing one-handedly.

A quick question. Aside from the rarity and relative size of the specimens, is there a problem with a dinosaur park that wouldn't be found in most zoos? Many people have no qualms against going to see the lions...

Hah! I see what you did there.

"When they opened Disneyland in 1955, nothing worked!"

The movie missed the point of the book. The book's point was that humans can't control everything by prediction. The movie's point was that humans shouldn't do anything they can't control by planning ahead. This Troper mayhave been missing the point, but when he first saw the movie, he thought, "That's why it was a test run! So they could see what might happen in a live run and prevent it! It was sabotaged anyway, it ''didn't'' fail under its own power!"

I have never read the book, but the movie missed its own point since real-life scientists wouldn't be so stupid to colonize the park exclusively with females instead of males. So, if anything, it is a cautionary tale against ''bad'' planning.

Usually, it's the males who are territorial. In the majority of existing species, if you put a bunch of males together in captivity (whether with or without females), they'll tear eachother apart. Granted, it'd be based on supposition but you'd assume that great big lizards would follow a similar pattern. So my question is how you consider this bad planning - I'd call it quite sensible, except the Frog-DNA spontaneous sex-change plot fuel.

uhm... dinosaurs weren't lizards, they were actually closer to birds. Sorry, but "terrible lizard" is not an accurate name for what dinosaurs actually were. Also holding dinosaurs in a theme park is nothing like having animals in a zoo. I may be missing a joke but I'll explain anyway; dinosaurs aren't like animals today who can have their usual environment simulated quite easily. Dinosaurs wouldn't be able to adapt in the islands environment since it was so different than what they are used to. So, yeah, the theme park probably couldn't exist in real life.

This troper will seriously kill the next person he meets who complains that in ''{{Casablanca}}'', Ingrid Bergman went off with the wrong man. Yes of course, it would still have exactly the same poignant effect if she went off with the love of her life rather than the decent man she was legally married to.

This troper almost broke his own nose from {{facepalm}}ing when a girl in his class said that same sentence you're complaining about.

Not to mention The Hays Code of the time required that Ilsa end up with Lazlo. Marriage was sacred and adultery was not allowed to be shown sympathetically on film.

This one isn't too wall banger-ey, but when this troper was a young kid reading ''{{Animorphs}}'', he thought about how awesome it would be to be able to turn into animals and kill aliens, despite the ''entire series'' being a deconstruction of said concept and how awful the main characters' lives were. I don't understand how I missed it; the series is widely regarded as one of the darkest and edgiest childrens' book series ever made. Boys will be boys, I guess.

Many people bash games like ''BioShock'', saying "It's just a clone of ''SystemShock 2''." Uh, a clone of the single most critically acclaimed action/RPG of all time? No kidding? ''Blue Wish Resurrection'' also falls victim to this, being a clone of ''DoDonPachi''.

Which just misses the point even more, since the scoring system of ''Blue Wish'' (which, arguably, is one of the largest differences between bullet hells) is lifted mainly from ''Ketsui''.

As well as the fact that ''BioShock'' is often considered a ''SpiritualSuccessor'' to the ''SystemShock'' series.

This troper saw an article about a review for the film ''{{Australia}}'', which bashed the depiction of the stolen generation as bordering on racist. Well, considering that the whole stolen generation thing WAS racist in the first place...

To be fair, it is possible they meant to say that the portrayal of a racist event was sympathetically portrayed, giving the bad guys in question too much credit. But even then they fail basic communication forever... and if that isn't what they meant, they truly did miss the point... completely.

This troper has seen reviews of ''GundamWing'' on IMDb that criticize it for making the villains too sympathetic and the heroes too evil. Umm... well...

What will really get on your nerves is when someone criticizes the female lead for not doing anything action packed. Repeat: the pacifist female should be involved in battle according to some critics!

Also on IMDb, ''PerfectBlue'' has been lambasted for 'being too sexy', 'not being sexy enough', 'repeating the AllJustADream ploy too many times', 'not explaining its "supernatural" elements' and perhaps most bizarrely of all, ''not having a properly ambiguous ending''. When you consider that the film is about the dark, frightening side of growing up and the resulting fear that has to be overcome, an 'ambiguous' ending would have been a major BrokenAesop.

Sadly, this troper missed the point of ''PerfectBlue'' the first time through. ''She'' thought it was about how marketing young women is expletive-deleted-up - turns out Kon-sensei was told while adapting the novel that among the three elements he absolutely had to keep was the 'idol', so he just wrote the story he wanted to tell around an idol character, and didn't notice the UnfortunateImplications until someone pointed it out to him.

This Troper's best friend went to a midnight showing of ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' and walked out of the theatre complaining that "everyone kept trying so hard to be funny" and that she "couldn't even hear the original lines".

Aha, this troper was warned about this first thing when she went to her first showing. It didn't come as much of a shock.

This troper is gonna bequeath a to the head Reppuken to the next person who plays a Shoot Em Up, abuses unlimited continues, and complains that the game is too easy or short, never mind that unlimited continues is more or less a free infinite lives cheat.

And save/restore isn't? There are infinite "lives" in essentially all modern games. Pointing to unlimited continues is no excuse.

In most "modern" games, if you die, you are booted back to a checkpoint or the last savepoint, so you still need to have some degree of skill to beat the game, and thus continues and saves are less frowned upon. But we're talking games that respawn you in place, where the only penalty for continuing is the ScoringPoints docking of some or all of your points. So by your definition, sleeping through a 2D shooter while pressing Start every time the continue screen pops up constitutes beating the game? Sure, why not.

This troper feels the same way whenever someone blows through a game using only the most overpowered shit imaginable, and then not only complains that it was too short and too easy, but ''too repetitive'' as well. Like it's the game's fault that all you did was slap on Drill Specialist, freeze everything, and attack it with bees. Even worse when someone adds glitches and exploits to their overpowered setup as well. Apparently, all games should be incredibly difficult even after you've gone to incredible lengths to make it as ''easy as possible''.

This troper, an avid {{Touhou}} fan, faces a constant battle against detractors. Not because of its supposedly {{Lolicon}} nature or even its Anime aesthetic but because the games are, and I quote, "only good by the standards of the 1980's. It looks like one of those old arcade games". Bonus points if they say dodging all those fancy bullet ''patterns'' is a mindless twitch reflex exercise.

This troper's family thinks ''HarryPotter'' is "Satanic" because they don't like the evil character of Lord Voldemort. Um... yeah, that's why he's the villain. =/

How about Harry Potter (the character) is an affront to Christianity. Cardinal Oblivious says: Remember kids that part where Harry sacrifices his life to save the world is a bunch of satanic hooey because no one could ever possibly do something like that.

The presence of demons or other such evil creatures automatically makes something satanic, despite the fact that the demons are the bad guys and the whole story is about the good guys beating them.

This troper had a very similar experience when he went to see one of the Lord of the Rings movies with a childhood friend whom I'd grown apart from. Because of the presence of Shelob (but oddly, not the orcs or magic), he deemed the movie "demonic" and unworthy of praise. Our friendship was not reignited.

This troper once read about a parent who complained about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone featuring a character drinking animal blood. Obviously, she was refering to Voldemort drinking unicorn blood to stay alive, and even more obviously, she failed to notice that drinking unicorn blood is treated as a crime against nature.

I once went to a screenwriting seminar at the public library, and when the guy teaching it brought up HarryPotter as an example of an overarching plot, a woman said, "Harry Potter can't have a plot! Evil books don't have plots!" ''Sigh.''

This troper was once talking to a friend about ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' when the friend said "I would have liked it, but death was pointless and mean and ruined it." My response was "Ummmmm...did you not catch the last three minutes of the program???"

That's a sad trend I've seen with a lot of the stupider viewers of musicals; they forget to pay attention to the lyrics.

ZOMG! There are lyrics now?!?!!??? Like, sense whens?

death ''was'' pointless and mean. The denouement and Joss's "feminist cred" don't justify it, especially since there were other ways to achieve the same goal that didn't involve Penny.

There were? Other things that would make everybody shed a tear or 60 at the ending, other things that would completely destroy the 'Billy' side of the main character? I don't think there are.

Which Joss Whedon have you been [[AnyoneCanDie watching?]]

This troper once got dragged into an argument about ''Beast Machines.'' The other guy was saying that, rather than a massive explosion of Main/CharacterDerailment, the series was actually a brilliant work which had, as one of its main points, the lesson that not everything was black and white. He then went on to make various declarations that could be summarized as: There are two kinds of ''Main/{{Transformers}}'' fans--the heroic BM fans, who think identically to himself, and the evil G1 fans, who think G1 is the pinnacle of all entertainment and nothing can possibly be better, and who are conspiring against the BM fans. He rejected the idea that the fandom could not be described in such black-and-white terms.

''Transformers'' fandom in general is pretty bad in this respect, often invoking Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks regarding a franchise that is all about change.

An interesting instance of this is found in the fandom of the webcomic Lil' Formers. One "arc" is a series of unflattering portrayals of "typical" Transformers fans. The first represents a "purist" who can't stand any changes from the original series. Naturally, the comic's fanbase has recently turned out to include a significant number of "those" sorts of fans.

The above said, Matt Moylan is an unabashed purist who also put up an arc comparing versions of some characters over the ages, and bashing the versions that did not come from G1, without anything said against the G1 incarnations. It's hard to tell if it's Moylan or the readers who completely misses the point more often.

I have two ''Transformers''-related examples to share, both concerning arguments I've gotten into on IMDb:

There was this guy who hated, ''deeply'' loathed ''TransformersAnimated''. You know, the show that had notoriously many callbacks and references to past Transformers stories, the show whose creators were TF geeks themselves, some of whom explicitly stated they loved G1? The reason this guy hated it: in his opinion, the writers obviously held a grudge against G1. It didn't matter that, for example, the original Witwicky family made an appearance, got named on-screen, and Spike even had his original voice actor. Since in the show, Ratchet acted mean towards them, that means the series' writers ''must'' have hated the original cartoon too! Never mind the fact that the scene in question happened in an episode which itself was a mostly comical G1 fanwank-fest.

Another poster claimed that not many G1 fans would like to see a live-action ''BeastWars'' movie, therefor no such movie would be made. My response was that, naturally, the G1 fans are only a mere fraction of the fandom, and the fandom as a whole doesn't have that much of a say when it comes to making movies. The discussion quickly turned into an argument over how the G1 fans overshadow the BW fans, and that you cannot possibly be a fan of both, just because he couldn't let that "mere fraction" part go, and believed the point I was trying to get across was "only the G1 fans are insignificant".

While flipping through the TV Guide one night, this troper came across the listing for the movie ''{{Cube}}'', about a group of strangers who wake up mysteriously trapped in a deadly cube-like maze and are forced to try and find their way out. Intrigued by it, this troper decided to watch it, and sat through the whole thing waiting to hear who had trapped these people in the cube, and more importantly why, and was extremely annoyed when this was never revealed. When he bitched about it online to his friends, they pointed out to him that the main theme of the movie was the tension and mental breakdowns of the characters, and that it didn't matter who trapped them in the cube in the first place.

This troper thinks that the ''FinalDestination'' series is a comedy series. Is he missing the point? Or do his friends miss it, who take it serious?

A little of both. It's meant to be a serious thriller, but we're obviously meant to snicker at how utterly bizarre the deaths are.

This troper has a friend who seems to be obsessed with hating socialism. In short, he's one of those AynRand fans. Anyway, this troper was openly supporting Obama and campaigning for him this last election season, earning her a lecture about the evils of government and socialism every day. So, her friend loves ''1984'', by George Orwell, and uses it as an example of why socialism is terrible. She recently learned that George Orwell was, well, a socialist. ''1984'' was never an attack on socialism in the first place. This troper WOULD tell her friend this to crush his spirits, but hearing him quote the book and sing high praises about George Orwell is just too delicious.

To be fair, ''1984'' ''was'' about the socialist reformers gradually acting exactly like the previous bad lot, and hence how people scew up utopian processes and ideals. Therefore, one could argue it was, in a very roundabout way, about socialists after all...

not really, as Orwell himself said in an essay entitled "Why I Write" "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." here's an online copy: [[http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw]]

You are mixing up his works: 1984 is the one about Big Brother controlling everythng. Animal Farm is the one with the pigs.

Of course, that kind of motif could be applied to any political philosophy, so it's technically not exclusively about socialism.

Please not that: 1. AynRand is not the only anti-statism person. I'm rather radical (I'm anarchocapitalist) however I have little if nothing in common with Objectivism. 2. Hating socialism/statism does not imply disliking socialists. Many people I admire happen to have socialistic viewpoints (however I tend to admire them for something else. 3. Wasn't 1984 and Animal Farm both targeted at Stalin's Soviet Union as the trend of at least some intellectuals of that time was admiration for the 'real socialism'. It is possible to believe that any attempt to create socialism will end up with such system and therefore to ilustrate it by that book.

Almost as awesome. This troper's parents are both vehemently antisocialist- even declaring it an ultimate evil- yet his father is the treasurer for a labour union. . . His mom even has the flimsiest argument for that: "When a guy s climbing a phone pole for only $16/hr, you bet he's thinking 'Thank God for Socialism.'" . . . huh?

Similarly, This Troper has a Republican friend who hates high taxes and and national healthcare. Said friend apparently dreams of one day living in Denmark. Cue "WTF" from This Troper.

If I could just jump in on the AynRand missed points here, in the middle of the page, thanks: All throughout high school, I was found around the school reading The Fountainhead, Anthem, We the Living and that other one. No one brought up justified literary criticisms like overly perfect protagonists or anything of the sort. Instead, they all said I should play BioShock. Just for those not caught up with their Video Games and capitalist philosophy, BioShock has rather a ''lot'' of Objectivist content. Missed point? It's a DeconstructiveParody of a philosophy that even the author admits is too extreme for the real world. I'm betting a lot of people wondered why I didn't take them as seriously afterwards.

Of course, a second point I missed as an epilogue: BioShock is not an anti-Objectivist screed. I found out in university that the creators picked the philosophy that was freshest in the pop culture, that had already well-defined examples of its applications in fiction--basically, they threw a dart and hit Objectivism. It wasn't personal. Still haven't played BioShock...

While most reviews of the ''MortalKombat'' film cited the minimal and nonsensical plot, bad dialogue, poor special effects, and bad acting, the Nostalgia Critic's review included the repeated complaint that too much of the film was taken up by fight scenes. Which is kind of like reviewing a porn film and complaining that too much of it is taken up by sex scenes.

''Kind'' of? That's the perfect metaphor! This troper can't wait to see a fighting movie that doesn't even ''attempt'' to have a story, and instead just has two hours of fighting.

{{Spider Man}}'s mantra, "With great power, comes great responsibility." So what has One More Day done? Give him ''less'' responsibility.

It gets worse. The current editorial team has been quoted saying that Spider-Man is about youth, not responsibility.

If you see the IdiotBall entry on the ''ValkyriaChronicles'' page, some people who complain about Alicia opting not to use her Valkyria powers don't quite realize the fact that Alicia ''never wanted'' those powers and was scared to death of them. Not surprising, considering that Valkyria powers tend in specialize in wanton destruction, something pretty much every Gallian is staunchly ''against''. Also, the same detractors who complained about the CooldownHug moment tend to forget that the game's plot is first and foremost a ''love story''.

The IdiotBall entry seems to be gone, but having played it, this troper would basically agree that Alicia dropping her Valkyria powers ''just because Welkin said she didn't have to use them'' is what makes it an IdiotBall moment; before AND after that scene, Alicia's Valkyria potential can still activate. She doesn't put them aside ''completely'', she only puts aside the aspects of her power ''that would win the war for Gallia''. That being said, just because some people couldn't suspend their disbelief enough to take the romance seriously, and that doesn't make the trope inapplicable. Yes, ''everyone'' in that scene, Welkin, Alicia, and the rest of the Squad, all get to hold the IdiotBall while the two of them resolve the love scene, because while Welkin is proposing and promising to protect Alicia and Alicia is making googly-eyes at him, the Marmotah just moseys on along, unhindered, and the next time Squad 7 faces it, it's got the Valkof and is just that much more dangerous. Even if you're the type who's willing to let all that slide, not everyone was convinced enough by the romance to think it trumped the war-- and yeah, it's a love story, but it's also a ''strategy war game''. The writers could have done a better job balancing the two.

Scuse me. Alicia does not stop using her powers "Because Welkin told her not to." She puts aside the aspects of her power that A) Strip of her humanity and B) Cause her to ''want to kill herself''. Because someone convinces her that she doesn't ''have'' to win the war for Gallia by turning herself into a living atomic bomb.

It appears the main complainers are the ones who lie on the realism side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusRealism.

This Troper read "The Lady or the Tiger" as part of his English class in high school several years ago, and rather enjoyed it... at least, until the teacher assigned all the students to "write an ending" for it. This Troper decided to ''intentionally'' completely miss the point by writing an ending that was in and of itself exactly as ambiguous as the original story.

Props to you. The author of "The Lady or the Tiger" did the exact same thing. See "The Discourager of Hesitancy"

This troper received the same assignment... in the third grade. Hopefully the teacher learned her lesson when all of the stories she collected ended with neither ladies OR tigers after the door was chosen; third grader fiction pretty much derailed entirely off in its own unrelated direction involving tanks, kung-fu and/or kittens. Sometimes all at once. It goes without saying we missed the point of the story and the assignment.

This troper's mother once said that she was pro-gay marriage- but not for the reason this troper expected: #QUOTE#'''Troper's Mom''': You mean gay guys and lesbians can't get married? #QUOTE#'''This troper''': Nope. Isn't it sad that two people can't show their love? #QUOTE#'''Troper's Mom''': It is! It's really sad when a gay guy and a lesbian can't marry each other!!!

No the sad thing is that they *can* marry each other, just not the person they are in love with.

For the love of Zeus, please tell me she was kidding.

By the way, it happened in reality. Andrea Dworkin, a feminist activist married John Stoltenberg. She was lesbian, and he is gay.

It was actually pretty common in Hays Code-era Hollywood, where gay actors were pretty much forced to get married by the studios so that there would be no question about their sexuality.

This Troper is constantly annoyed when he hears people refer to "a real Romeo and Juliet romance", particularly with respect to newlyweds. I mean, wow. You know they both committed suicide right after their wedding, right?

"Yes, our relationship is a lot like that isn't it? Hopefully I won't kill her friend cousin and then fake my own death causing her to kill herself causing me to kill myself. Sorry, did I spoil the ending!?"

No, my friend. No you did not.

This is a disturbingly common thing in assessments of both real life and of fiction. Unfortunately, arguments concerning how their relationship is ''really'' not healthy rarely work as apparently shallow, obssessive stalkers and blind infatuation are sexy, so the best tactic is mentioning that in the original Juliet was ''thirteen'' and Romeo at the very least was in his twenties.

Ah so pedophilia is the way to true love.

Hey, Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity. Forty thousand people everyday become like they are and redefine happiness. Don't fear the Reaper, baby. Maybe suicidal IS the answer.

As someone related to a suicide victim, I have to say suicide is NEVER the answer. Putting your friends and family through all that pain isn't worth it and if the person had just talked to someone, they could get help.

I think this is a first time someone on CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missed the point.

Don't worry, more will follow.

And then there's the repeated use of the Police song 'Every Breath You Take' as a wedding song...

This Troper questioned this song when he was ten years old. His mother was quick to point up that the narrator was dead and looking after his beloved from heaven. Yeah, he didn't buy that then either.

U2's Bono expressed surprise that "One" is a frequent wedding reception song, given that it's basically about how hard it is to stay together when you sometimes hate the person/people you're stuck with.

This troper recalls an interview where Michael Stipe of REM where he expressed bafflement for the fact that a lot of people seem to consider the song "The One I Love" a love song, ignoring that the song immediatly describes "the one I love" as "A simple prop to occupy my time"

This Troper officiated at a wedding where the bride's sister sang "As Long as He Needs Me" as the bride walked down the aisle. The song is from ''Oliver!'', sung by a woman who is murdered by her abusive boyfriend.

And that, ladies and gentleman, has won my vote for "Most Oblivious Use of an Obviously Terrible Song for a Wedding"

Well, there're also the brain trusts who get married to Whitney Houston's "IiiIiIi will always love youuuuu". Which is about a painful breakup that'll fuck up the singer's life forever. Always good for a laugh, that one.

This troper suffers from similar annoyance when someone is said to have a 'Jekyll and Hyde' personality. For God's sake, it's not that one part of him's good and the other's bad, it's just a horrible man wanting an outlet!

True but it's understandable that they'd get confused. Jekyll seems nice and Hyde seems evil and your average joe can't see the fact that one is just a facet of another.

I expect there are a lot more poetic coincidences where that came from.

This troper is in a game where the characters are supposed to be playing heroes, serving the spirit of the world. One of the [=PCs=] is a doctor inspired by ''Sweeney Todd.'' When his past incarnation made an appearance and congratulated him on being just like him in life he decided to make sure he didn't end up like him. The GM shouted in another channel, where he couldn't see, "TOO LATE, DUMBASS."

WerewolfTheApocalypse ?

This troper once thought that Bud Light's recent "drinkability" ads on television were legit attempts to make the beer seem better than its competitors through vapid justifications like the above. Even now, he can't tell if it's parody or substance...thoughts?

This troper likes to think it's the logic of someone very, very drunk.

So they weren't drinking Bud Light?

This troper once had the following exchange over MSN: #QUOTE#'''Friend''': this mobothoegooeteolqojaopSsAOkgag5thethiaehat doesn't have uguru ;( #QUOTE#'''Friend''': * :( #QUOTE#'''This troper''': .... #QUOTE#'''This troper''': You correct THAT?

This troper knows several people who think that Christine and Erik should have ended up together at the end of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', despite the fact that he's a misanthopic, mentally unstable murderer who's about thrice her age. Their reasoning tends to be that he's actually good inside, but the ONLY evidence of this we get in the canon is ''that he lets her go at the end.'' The wall banger-iest instance of this, though, is someone I know from a ''Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' forum who adores Erik/Christine but ''hates'' Frollo/Esmeralda, despite my repeated attempts to show that the situations are almost exactly the same.

Probably has a lot to do with the AdaptationDecay brought on by the film. They sang such pretty musicals together they just had to wind up as a couple!

This troper is a fan of Asheryder's Roommates comics on Deviantart. Recently, Erik recieved a new love interest in the form of Blind Mag, which made Christine jealous. Cue a slew of comments about how Christine deserved it for leaving Erik in the first place. Because clearly Christine was the one at fault.

Some Indians protested against ''SlumdogMillionaire'' because the word "slumdog" is demeaning. Yes. It's the point.

Well, imagine if someone made a movie called "[N-word] freedman" (about the integration of former slaves after the abolishment of slavery). Half the US would be up in arms over it. Slumdog has similar connotations.

This troper has been attempting to come out to her family for months. Any attempt to explain to her family how she really, REALLY does not like boys is met with her mother's calm "Oh, honey, you'll find a nice boy someday."

Why bother? It's not like they have a right to know. I'm bi, and the only person who knows is my wife.

Let's be fair; you ''might''. Whether you take him up on the offer, that's a whole different story... ;)

This troper's response to "maybe she hasn't met the right guy yet" when confronted with a male homophobe is to give them a come-hither look and say "maybe you haven't." It usually works.

If your desired response was either of these, you've succeeded, congratulations.

Okay, original troper here. Her situation clearly requires clarification: this troper will be, in a few months, getting ''married to her girlfriend of three years.'' Can you now understand why she might be getting a bit annoyed with her family members?

Yes. Don't try and explain that sexuality isn't a choice. It will fly over their heads.

Indeed. That is not missing the point, that is turning your back to the point, put you fingers in your ears and stare on the grass at the ground.

In an almost epic show of disgusting misogyny, this troper had to listen a guy who had read ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' talk about how Blanche needed be raped. The fact that someone could go through that last scene, showing how broken she is following the rape, and think that she deserved it, is enough to make one give up on humanity.

Males usually argue the point that Blanche should have been raped because that's always the part that's played up. Blanche came in started to manipulate Stella and her boyfriend guy and ruin Stanley's life. What Stanley did to her was inexcusable but no one ever points out that Blanche was just as bad. It gets annoying to hear that she didn't deserve rape but that she should have gotten some kind of punishment. Most guys just aren't eloquent enough to express this.

My friend argued that for 10 minutes. Every girl in the class was giving him dirty looks and finally I fell off my chair laughing and said "You think he's serious!" My friend is a notorious class clown and troll.

This troper has seen people complaining about the English ''DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' dub having the girls stick with just Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup and dropping the verbal tic Mojo Jojo had in the Japanese version for the more familiar habit of repeating, reiterating, and restating himself. *HEADDESK*

Racha's mum had one of the dimmest men ever to walk the planet as a boyfriend. Not only did he mangle ''Memory'' as 'Midnight/Look at the sunlight', not seeing there was anything wrong with that statement- he accused the first LOTR film of not having a 'proper ending'.

This troper once heard protesters complaining about a proposed site for methadone clinic seriously saying "not in my back yard!" The whole point of the statement is that things have to go somewhere even though no one wants it.

NIMBY really, really should have a trope article devoted to itself, because there are really so, so many examples...

...NIMBY?

Not In My BackYard

This troper was once got into a discussion with someone on an internet forum who said that they didn't like the ''FireEmblem'' series because the fact that death is permanent is unrealistic.

Which it is... in a VIDEOGAME! Let's face it, most gamers use it as a form of escapism. In a setting where you can have Lucius, who has this troper all hot for h-er-him, resurrection is not exactly the most unrealistic thing, is it?

Not in a TBS, it's not.

People are dumb. Death is unrealistic should be a trope name if there is ever anything that fits that description.

Reality Is Unrealistic?

Proton Jon had one of these happen to him at 2:08

This troper's college had a midnight screening of Rocky Horror around Halloween, complete with scripts and rice and costumes. This troper's roommate went to see it. When I asked her how she liked it, she said, "I had no idea that it was such a cult thing." ROCKY HORROR, people.

The following quote is taken verbatim from the movie review column in Tropers/{{Dark}}'s college campus newspaper: #QUOTE# I couldn't stand "Casino Royale" [the new one]. It departed from so many of the Bond stereotypes. For instance, his first drink wasn't even correct. Really, a new drink? Bond geniunely falling in love? Bond having compassion?

My response in a letter to the editor was "Dear [columnist's name], this is the point of the new Bond movies, going right over your head."

The drink ''was'' correct, too. Casino Royale was the first Bond novel and, yes, the martini with the Gorton's and the Kina Lillet with the thin slice of lemon peel was, in fact, the first drink he orders.

This troper has heard many ''{{House}}'' fans complain that suicide was completely unexpected, and there was no explanation given for it at all. However, the seemed to have failed to realize that ''not even House'' could figure out why it happened, and many characters went so far as to [[{{Anvilicious}} openly point out that this was the first time House came across a mystery he couldn't answer.

This troper would thinks it should be made clear that there was no point to miss. committed suicide to explain [[spoiler:his dissapearence from the show, since Penn quit when he took a job at the White House.

This Troper always assumed that Kutner committed suicide ''just to create'' a mystery House couldn't solve. Sure, it was a really ''dumb'' and ''desperate'' way to make such a mystery... but since House has solved literally everything else...

This troper, on the other hand, reckoned it was one of TV's most direct and realistic portrayal of real suicides : sometimes, hell, in most cases I'd wager, people just kill themselves and they were so good at keeping the pain bottled up (or the boredom, or whatever reason they made that particular decision), nobody understands why or sees it coming. No note, no sob story, no explanation, and zero concern for those left behind. Just bam, gone.

This Catholic troper's friend commented in a {{Facebook}} status that he couldn't wait for Easter. Said troper replied saying that he couldn't wait because of what he gave up for Lent. His friend admonished him for missing the point of Easter, which Christians are supposed to observe as the day celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.

This Troper's mother had a similar experience; she called a friend to wish her happy Easter, mostly being caught up in the candies and Easter-baskets part of it, when the friend responded with the words, "He is Risen" - and sent Mom into a minor self-imposed B.S.O.D. for having forgotten the point of the holiday.

On a more general subject, this troper has a friend with a very strict definition of Sci Fi. When queried on said definition, he said that it had to be "believable". Moreover, he dismissed everything outside that definition as Fantasy and not worth watching. ...Yes.

Well, you could argue that there's a point in science-fiction where the advance in the technology depicted is so implausible that it crosses over into science fantasy. What's an example he's rejected as too unbelievable?

Since when has science fiction had realistic technology? All technology originally proposed in older Sci Fi was unheard of but after a while people got around to inventing some of it.

When the technology presented in a film set 50 years in the future is what I can believe will be possible 50 years in the future, I call it believable. If it doesn't (ie, the T-1000 from Terminator 2), it crosses into science fantasy. So what's your friend's reasoning?

There is a vast difference between 'realistic' and 'believable'. "The difference between Science Fiction and Science Fact is that Science Fiction needs to be believable" [citation requested]

This may be a tad unusual in it is about breakfast cereal. When they changed Trix cereal from the fruit shaped puffs to multicolored flavored Kix puffs, I asked out loud, literally "Then what's the freaking point now?"

This troper had roughly the same response when Apple Jacks added apple flavor to the cereal. The lack of apple flavor despite the name was the whole point of the commercials for years! What the heck?

Erm... it's had Apple puree as long as This Troper has been alive. Did they actually add any more apple flavor than that?

This troper's boyfriend repeatedly compares our "undying love" to that of Anatoly and Florence in the original version of ''Chess'' and then happily quotes a line from their final duet - "stories like ours have happy endings." I'm not sure which is worse about this comparison: that Anatoly is ''cheating on his wife'' Svetlana by being with Florence, or that the ending reveals he is too consumed by personal ambition to fully give a damn about the people who love him. The context of the quote: #QUOTE#"I'd give the world for that moment with you #QUOTE#When we thought we knew #QUOTE#That our love would last #QUOTE#But the moment passed #QUOTE#With no warning, far too fast #QUOTE#You and I #QUOTE#We've seen it all #QUOTE#Chasing our heart's desires #QUOTE#'''Yet we go on pretending''' #QUOTE#''Stories like ours have happy endings''..."

This Troper has heard of movements for better map representation. You know how maps tend to over represent the land masses of northern territories? These people want maps to be reprinted so that landmasses are more accurately represented. However, having taken a few courses, the reason the landmasses are so small near the center is because they are more ''accurate'' due to being higher value. The original mapmakers weren't shortchanging the southern territories in terms of landmass, they were shortchanging the northern territories with accuracy.

Incorrect. The most popular map projection, the Mercator, keeps compass bearings as straight lines, and the resultant distortion makes Greenland, at 2.16 million square kilometers, appear larger than South America, at 17.8 million square kilometers.

Now you're doing it. The Mercator maps exaggerate the size of ''places nobody lives'' so it's kind of stupid to claim it's some kind of racist conspiracy. Damn those Greenlanders and their map monopoly!

...Nobody said anything about racism.

The Earth is round... so the only way you could logically show a map of the world was if you were to map it to a spherical object... maybe one that could be set into a rotating/swiveling base so you could see every part of it... Somebody needs to invent something like that.

This troper got about halfway through ''Army of Darkness'' before realizing it was supposed to be a comedy, at one point even wondering aloud "Is this supposed to be scary?"

This troper. Frequently.

This troper managed to both play it straight and subvert this with the 2006 version of MarieAntoinette.

She complained to a friend about how immature Marie was when she was sent to France. The friend pointed out that Marie was only 14 at the time. Oobs!

She did however get the point of the Converse sneakers later in the movie. That doesn't stop her from finding them anarchronistic and ''annoying as hell.''

This troper read a newspaper columnist comment on a film version of {{Lolita}}: "Good film, but does she have to be so young?"

I think the appropriate response to that would be: "I'm amazed! You've learned to talk out of more than one orifice! Share with me the secrets of ass speak."

This troper has seen this happen way too often, mostly on GameFAQs; people whining to have Nintendo's Seal of Quality make a comeback so that shovelware on the Wii will stop. These people keep ignoring the fact that the seal never really assured that the game was actually worth playing and that MANY horrible games like Superman 64 got the seal.

It's ''also'' CommonKnowledge and DidNotDoTheResearch. Three! Three! Three tropes in one!

True story: #QUOTE#'''Coworker''': Americans like to stereotype people. #QUOTE#'''{{Tropers.Jonn}}:''' Yes, we know how all those Americans stereotype.

No, she didn't get it. There was also the time I said I liked NeonGenesisEvangelion, except for all the angst and stuff. The people I was talking to at the time went "Um, actually..." I also once saw someone calling any {{Noodle Incident}} a "copout" on the part of the writer.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who likes NeonGenesisEvangelion despite the angst and stuff, purely for the giant robot vs. extraterrestrial anamoly battles.

Back to the whole Americans thing - Wow! This happened to me too. There was a small contingent of British students at my school, and one day one of them said a prayer for the Queen during morning prayers, creating a lot of controversy. The Americans were yelling at all of the Brits, and the latter were having trouble communicating that they actually agreed with the Americans. I happened to wake up late that morning and didn't know anything about the incident. I stepped into the room in which the argument was taking place, and I'm immediately confronted with one of the British students, who shouts at me, "The problem with you Americans is that you're always generalizing other people!" I just stared into his face for a few moments and burst out laughing.

This troper was in a class discussing the implications of the Holocaust in Europe and the United States. One girl in class said something along the lines of "but Hitler didn't succeed - I mean, he didn't get all the Jews, so it turned out all right."

''Technically'', no, he didn't succeed. I'd hardly say it turned out "all right", though.

This troper first read The Telltale Heart when she was very young. Young enough that she thought the murdered man's heart was still ''actually beating'' and he was going to rise up like a zombie or something. Gave her nightmares for a week. Of course, this resulted in a LateToThePunchline moment when she reread it later...

Okay, for the record, the full name is actually JUST "International Space Station". "Freedom" is the scrapped American project that some of its components came from. So calling it "Freedom" makes about as much sense as calling it "Mir 2".

And this has to do with the topic because . . . ?

They completely missed the point of the page?

While they were consulted for it and even make cameos as extras, AndyKaufman's family, his dad especially, weren't too happy with ''Man on the Moon''. This is not uncommon with biopics, but according to the screenwriters, this was in part because the family didn't want the film to bring up his Tony Clifton alter ego and/or his wrestling, which they had been embarassed by. Never mind how much those things meant to ''Andy'', or how dropping them would have Bowdlerised his work and mentality.

I've heard complaints from detractors of BlackSabbath[=/=]OzzyOsbourne in general, saying that his songs are too violent/psycho. Just listen to some of his goddamn songs: many are certainly violent but many have peaceful messages: "War Pigs" and "Black Rain" are both anti-war, while "Crazy Train" literally calls on people to "learn how to love and forget how to hate".

In high school, I was shocked and appalled that my self-proclaimed film buff best friend had never heard of ''MST3K'' and decided to show him a couple of episodes. His response? "How can you watch the movie when they keep talking through it the whole time?" I was utterly speechless.

According to the Youtube comments on {{The Whitest Kids U Know}} sketch "Hitler Rap", many people think that it's pro-Hitler. For the love of God, actually listen to the lyrics, please. If you think that they're racists because of that sketch I will get an overwhelming desire to smash your face in.

Done intentionally by this troper on DA with another troper. I had pointed out her example of Metaphorgotten. She responed Thank you, Ted. That was the joke.. I returned with "Hey!... my name's not Ted."

This troper is currently working on a {{Warcraft}} 3 mod. When it came to the title, there were loads of suggestions such as "Tears of Enlightenment" and "Age of Death". Sarcastically, he replied with "Death of Doomy Damnation" - most of the guys at least stated that they hope I was joking. One, however, suggested that we call it "Tears of Damnation", just for good measure. He wasn't joking. And that was the guy who writes the plot. This troper can already see that he isn't going to like it.

This troper had one of these with one of his friends one day. Our teacher was talking about lame jokes tell each other and this one joke about superman came up. "Why does superman wear a size small underpants?". Everyone else but me and him laughed. When I asked why, everyone looked at me like a grew another head. Then my buddy backed me up on the query and their stares intensified. They dismissed it and I didn't realize it until later near the end of the class. I then asked if I got the answer right and my friend did a big "OH!". Everyone gave us that look again.

...this troper continues to miss the point. Why ''does'' Superman wear a size small underpants?

Since it took this one half a minute... because they're labeled with an 'S'. Does sound like a different kind of joke, though.

His cape and his blue suit has an 'S' logo, but as far as I can recall, there's none on his underpants, at least not visible from the outside. He wouldn't put his name inside either unless his mom does his laundry (and she'd write "Clark", not "Superman") so there's no reason there's an 'S' label anywhere on them. Consequently, the joke has no foundation. Congratulations, that teacher - he really went all out in making the joke lame.

This troper has seen several supposed ''StarWars'' fans complain whenever something in the films resembles a 1930s matinee serial. Despite the fact that George Lucas has spent thirty years telling everyone that the entire saga is intended as a love letter to said serials.

This Troper had a legitimate experience of this, where in a game of ''Dungeons and Dragons'', we watched a TV that advertised "Crazy Ackbar's Bags of Holding!", in one instance the proclaimed shopkeep jumping out of several bags of holding in other bags of holding. Our response simply was, "Wouldn't he die in all those bags of holding because of the lack of oxygen?", nothing about a television in a very blatantly medieval world.

The people who like Syndrome's plan in ''TheIncredibles'' are missing the point behind it. The point isn't to create equality -- it's to enforce conformity. The point is not to make things fair for those who don't have superpowers -- it's to take away what makes those who ''do'' special and unique. It's not about building people up, but about tearing people down. And odds are, if it weren't about making everyone the same in a way that's "cool", no-one would be on his side about it. If it were about turning everyone purple to match the "special" purple people, he'd be universally seen as a villain.

This troper was accused of missing the point when he pointed this fact out. He had to replay the scene where Syndrome reveals his plan, and specifically the line, "And when everybody's super... no one is." for his friend to get it.

Wow, that's... incredibly stupid and offensive. Let's say the majority of people were paraplegics. If someone developed a cure — bionic legs or what have you — would you say using it would take away what makes whose who can walk naturally special and unique?

There is a difference between not being able to walk and not being able to fly. Coming up with a way to help disabled people, sure, that's good. Finding someone with a special individual talent, and making giving that talent to everyone, just so that that individual talent isn't individual anymore, that's some fucked up shit. Especially when you remember that Syndrome doesn't plan to do this because he wants everyone to be special, he's doing it because he HATES supers.

In yet another case of MTP: If the majority of people were paraplegics, then they would *not* be disabled. If most humans could fly then any who couldn't would be considered disabled. "Disabled", "normal", and, yes, "super" are all relative terms. So giving a world of pareplegics the ability to walk is perfectly analogous to giving regular people the ability to fly. Furthermore, while making a special talent common may (relatively) suck for those few who were naturally gifted with it, so what? If it's a net gain for society, I say go ahead.

I disagree that no would be special if everyone suddenly had some sort of power. Let's pretend everyone suddenly developed the talent for drawing. That doesn't mean everyone is going to want to draw. It doesn't mean everyone is going to have the creativity and artistic instinct to create masterpieces. There will still be artists who create wonderful pieces, who will still be admired for their talent and dedication. There won't be a lot of people saying, 'So what? Since I and everyone else can draw, that automatically invalidates the beauty and uniqueness of this painting. The fact that the artist spent nights pacing and redoing the work until it was perfect and putting their heart, soul, and literal sweat into it is meaningless.' Giving everyone the ability to fly or turn invisible or whatever wouldn't mean that everyone would want to use that power, or that everyone would become a superhero/villain. Heck, it wouldn't even mean that everyone with a power would be good at controlling it. There would still be those who, whether they acquired their powers through natural or artificial means, would be more in sync with their powers than others.

Okay, let's go with the disabled-person-without-legs metaphor. So you're saying it's OK to kill people who have legs in order to give people without legs the ability to walk. That's what Syndrome was doing, killing supers to test out the killer robot. And he doesn't even have the WellIntentionedExtremist angle, he was doing it to get revenge and to make himself look cool.

What about the part where Syndrome lords it over all the non-supers? He's not trying to help people, he's playing in the sandbox and then burning it down. Or where his first act of "heroism" involves faking super-strength like Mr. Incredible's, instead of showing off his gadgets and his own abilities?

This troper found a promotion for ''{{G-Force}}'' that quoted the Roger Ebert review, specifically, the part about "nonstop, wall-to-wall, madcap action". Never mind that those words are more of an insult among critics, and usually imply a generic, plotless, kiddie-flick.

This implies Ebert was CompletelyMissingThePoint, as the, movie is *supposed* to be a generic, plotless kiddie-flick.

You have missed the point to why he hated it. Just because its for kids doesnt mean it cant be good or unique. That is like Kevin Smith's its not for you argument its a cop out.

At least one member on a certain few boards I frequent completely misses the point of trading in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games and claims it to be cheating; yes, I'm pointing to you, Jish.

Valve and quite a bit of their FanDumb have completely missed the point about Episodic Gameplay. NOw lemme explain this...Episodic Gameplay is supposed to sort of release an entire game overtime, but you only get a few cheap fragments at a time. Hence, episodes. You can beat them quickly but you do not have to wait that long for the next one. Now does that sound good? A $10 fraction of a game that totals up to a full price game? Yep. Here's the wall banger...Episode 2 came out over a year after Episode 1. Okay okay they at least gave us a potential sidestory and the rest of the Orange Box. Now 2008 rolls around...no episode 3. 2009...still nothing even beyond some concept art. Do you see the failure there? We might as well have just waited a couple years for a full game released at once instead of being left at a ''bloody cliffhanger'' since 2007.

Incidently, this years E3(2010) was rumored to have something about Episode 3 since there was going to be a "surprise" at E3. The surprise? Portal 2 and Steamworks are coming to PS3 in 2011. Thats it. Episode 3? What is... this Episode 3 you speak of? So dont expect mention of Episode 3 until 2011 GDC or E3.

This troper recently was in a production of ''Vinegar Tom'' in a local eisteddfod. We came second out of two people, only because the adjudicator didn't understand why our characters weren't interacting with each other more. No shit, an epic play, done in an episodic, fragmented style! The next night, she was talking about being in a production of ''Mother Courage'', a play written by the man who came up with the whole style of theatre, for fuck's sake!

This sentence was once said to me by a friend: "I like Giles, but can't they do away with his phony accent?"

If you're talking about BuffyTheVampireSlayer...that is a phony accent, both in-universe and out. Both Giles and Anthony Stewart Head grew up speaking more like Ripper or Spike.

Uh, it doesn't matter if his accent is real or phony, that's not a case of "completely missing the point"

There is a web game called "Third World Farmer." It's supposed to illustrate how miserable the lives of third world farmers are, and how rigged the system is, and how hey can never better themselves until things change in a big way. This troper managed not only to get above the poverty level, but reached the point where he could have earned multiple millions of dollars, except he got bored.

This troper has fast forwarded through sex scenes in various hentai films and games to get the plot quicker.

Most do it the other way around.

So glad I'm not the only one who does this.

One or two of @/{{Dark}}'s friends didn't like the new Watchmen movie because they were expecting it to be a normal comic book movie. Specifically, they didn't like how the "bad guy" won, why all the characters had such fatal personality flaws, and why only one person had superpowers.

Preferring more traditional comic book movies isn't necessarily missing the point of Watchmen, though. For example, it may be intentional that all the characters have massive personality flaws, but that doesn't mean you can't think it's unrealistic or that it makes it hard to care about what's happening.

This troper went to see Watchmen with his father. He thought all of the characters were mutants. Granted, that may be more due to the film's style than anything else, but still...

This troper saw a (rather rare) negative review for TheDarkKnight, that listed among its qualms with the movie that it was "nihilistic"...apparently missing the part where the nihilistic worldview of the villains was climactically ''discredited'' in the film, when even the most hardened criminals ended up displaying human decency during the Joker's "social experiment".

This troper's Sister boycott's the Winnie The Pooh ride at DisneyWorld because it took out Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Despite the fact that Disney World was always intended to update rides so that it is never static, she also thinks that by not riding it, and encouraging other's to do so, they will put it back. She normally forgets that you can ride the ride for free after you buy a $50 dollar ticket to get into the park that will go to all ride maintenance.

The turnstyles (or sometimes the attendants, using clickers) count riders at each ride. If few people rode it, then you can bet that Disney management would re-evaluate the ride. In fact, buying a ticket and showing up at the park and not riding it makes a much bigger statement than boycotting the whole park; if ridership is low for a ride while attendance at the park is high, it's obvious that that particular ride has little appeal.

When I was younger I often tried to do CompletelyMissingThePoint on purpose to point out flaws in the logic of what someone said, or acutally ridicule something or someone or just as a joke. Needless to say, no-one ever got it and thought I infact completely missed the point, in turn ridiculing me. Of course explaining it would only make it worse. I still do that sometimes, rarely, and it may actually work as I want, but sometimes I even now get that reaction. It's one of those things that drive me nuts, making me think everybody is stupid ;)

Care for an example? Well, the "cool kids" in my class were listening to a song that was very popular at the time, and at one point in it the singer's voice was overlayed with a CrazyFilter. Of course I knew that belongs to the song, in fact I knew that song for a while. But because I didn't really like the song and wanted to ridicule it, I said "I think the stereo is broken!" the response, of course? "Are you dumb? That's part of the song!" and everyone laughed.

This troper used to have quite the... peculiar friend, in that she thought bonding with me meant constantly talking shit about my best friends and expecting me to give her all the hugs I can and go tell them off for her. I would listen to her delusional rants at first trying to see why she felt that way about them, but it got old relatively fast. I went from listening, to not caring, to getting sick of her crap. One time, I called her out on it, basically telling her to shut the hell up. From the argument that ensued we get this gem: #QUOTE#'''This troper''': How would you feel if I came online every day to constantly talk shit about ''your'' best friend? #QUOTE#'''Troper's "friend"''': Difference being, you don't know her.

This Troper heard three different examples of this from the same person.

1. She won't watch Fantasy of Sci-Fi because "it could never happen".

2. After we showed her the beginning of MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail she said she would have walked out on in if she saw it in theaters because it was "wierd".

3. After finding out that everyone in out group was a YaoiFangirl except her she claimed that "You're all going to marry gay guys and make them have sex in front of you and then you're going to get AIDS." I saved the best for last, didn't I? When we made the logical comparison to GirlOnGirlIsHot she brushed it off with "Well guys are perverts".

As well as being disturbingly similar to the girl above, this troper's sister stopped dying her hair "so [she] can get smarter."

Anytime TheBechdelTest is brought up in a forum, its only a matter of time before someone dismisses the test on the grounds that 'some of the best films ever made don't pass'. Yes, and don't you think maybe that's ''something to think about''?

It's also been pointed out that many works widely considered feminist still don't pass it. From the page; #QUOTE#This is because '''the Bechdel Test is not meant to give a scorecard of a work's overall level of feminism.'''

A friend of mine dislikes Superman because he's a hero that always makes the right choice and is too powerful. Cue me reminding him of the Death of Superman arc, and the fact that he has made other bad decisions that he still regrets.

This troper recently had a days-long debate on Facebook with a friend who insisted that Pokemon is better than Digimon. His reasoning? "Digimon are just computer programs. That means they can never truly return the emotional connection made with the human characters" Even after I tried to explain him that the entire third season was made to address that very issue, he still insisted that capturing animals in capsules, some of which are technically God, and having them battle each other is more realistic.

When I put in that ThePrincessAndTheFrog was an aversion of the BigLippedAlligatorMoment, I said that because since Louis looks a lot like the TroperNamer, and I wasn't the only animation fan that thought that, I figured that people think a BLAM in the movie won't be far behind. Someone remove it, purely due to the fact that they think I took the trope a bit too literaly. Never mind the fact I acutally mentioned what the trope implies after stating that Louis was an aversion.

This troper saw the movie poster and thought ''"Hoo boy, they're advertising big lipped alligator moments now?"''

So our science class was watching {{The Twilight Zone}}. The episode was called "In the Eye of the Beholder", about a woman who is HORRIBLY UGLY except it turns out that she's actually rather pretty, and the aesthetically challenged ones are the "normal" people. When one person in the class asked what people would do if people who looked like that (the "normal" ones) really existed. The response of Archnemesis}} THAT guy was: "I'd kick them in the face!"

Watching ''SuperSizeMe'' + not eating that much the next day = "I want some Chicken [=McNuggets=] and a [=McGriddle=]."

Well, given that the point of the movie seems to be "Hey! Eating [=McDonald's=] food three times a day, Supersizing when offered, is actually ''unhealthy''! How about ''that''?" having it for a single meal might be missing the ''apparent'' point, but you're justified in not feeling it's particularly tantamount to the extreme diet ''he'' experimented with.

This troper's mom hates violent movies, but she ''really'' hated VForVendetta. Why? "V is just sick. It's like he's saying you have to do awful things and hurt each other if you're really in love."

This troper was once in a simulation of the french government pre-Revolution. He was in the middle group, the merchants and bankers and the like. The other groups were the lower class and the nobility. He made a bit of a Chessmaster move, involving taking land from the upper class and giving it to the lower, and then ''taxing'' the lower with a land tax. it was a brilliant move on his part, but then the lowerclass group got into an uproar because they had been duped. Suddenly, the uproar died down and class went on as normal. The point of the exercise was that that sort of politics was what had caused the revolution in the first place, but this troper naturally asked the question "So, who won that?"

The comments section in this article on Cracked, seem to think that the author is seriously advocating a nihilistic viewpoint instead of simply satirizing one.

That's the #2 problem (right below the armies of Ad Bots that roam the site unchecked) that plagues Cracked.

A Cracked article on "6 Famous Movie Wise Men Who Were Full of Shit completely missed the point of Gandalf's line about how Frodo should not be so quick to deal out death in judgement as "Bilbo's pity may rule the fate of many." The fact that the ring might never have been destroyed if Gollum had been killed was totally lost on them.

I'd say MOST of those blurbs missed the point. Burning the forest down to catch the Burmese Bandit doesn't make Alfred a lunatic - it makes him someone who knows just how far you might have to go to stop some people, even if it means being seen as just as much of a monster as they were, and destroying the very things you're trying to protect.

Which would be the ultimate example of CompletelyMissingThePoint.

This troper's ladyfriend told him a story once of her classmate who was raging about the 2008 Olympics being held in China. Granted, she had legitimate concerns considering China's, erm, track record, but just when you think she's getting somewhere, BAM: "We wouldn't let the Nazis host the Olympics, would we?" Uhhhhhhh...

You did tell her that she made a CriticalResearchFailure, right?

This troper normally pulls this with commercials. They're supposed to most of the time be funny, but it's kind of a dark humor and I have a deeper opinion about it.

This troper works in the toy department of a certain massively successful department store. Mattel produces "mystery" Hot Wheels cars with black plastic on the packaging instead of the normally clear plastic. Nearly every day, this troper has to pull almost every single one of these cars off the shelf and staple or tape the packaging shut because practically everyone who's interested in Hot Wheels, kids and collectors alike, rip the things open to see what car it is. To try and circumvent this, Mattel started punching "preview holes" on the backing card of the 2010 mystery cars so that buyers could get an idea of what car it is. This solved nothing as this troper still has to staple closed the 2010 cars just as often as the 2009 cars.

There was recently an ad on Australian television in which a lone Aussie cricket fan is stuck in a crowd with a bunch of West Indies cricket fans, proclaims that it's awkward, and pulls out a bucket of KFC chicken and it's no longer awkward. A bunch of Americans find it, decide that it's racist and make the Australian KFC guys take it off TV. Because, obviously, it's racist for a cricket fan to feel awkward when he's all by himself in a crowd full of fans of the opposing side.

Americans found this racist because most West Indians are black and most Aussies are white. And giving black people chicken is racist for some reason. I dunno. There's a cultural difference. Not to mention that the ad was never intended for Americans.

To clarify, there's a racial stereotype in America that black people are obsessed with fried chicken, so people probably interpreted the commercial that way. No idea why that's a stereotype, but most stereotypes are stupid anyway.

according to a History Channel show on American food it was an affordable, easily prepared and easily carried food for poor blacks after the Civil War.

This troper saw a discussion for Weezer's "Pork and Beans", with someone complaining that it was "too poppy, they even include Timbaland in the lyrics". The song is a catchy... TakeThat against the music industry, including the lyric he mentioned ("Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the charts, maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art").

I had written a post-apocalyptic SailorMoon/ {{Pokemon}} /PowerRangersRPM fic in which it's mentioned that 4 years prior to the story began, Sailor Moon was defeated, which led to the world being destroyed and the action taking place in a domed city. A reviewer who gave it a scathing review questioned just what that had to do with the situation. The reviewer did not think of the possibility that 1) the people who live in the city have ''no idea'' of what is going on and just see things as they're happening; 2) the connection is at first implied, and 3) That is ''exactly'' how they ended up in that situation.

This troper enjoys using the trope in order to excavate the more interesting parts of a sentence, and magnify them to blow the whole thing in a different direction. Take this example from Facebook: #QUOTE# '''Hanna:''' ''(new status)'' I get so sad when I see status updates like "going to my darling" and "eating and snuggling with sweetie"... when do I get to snuggle? And where is my darling? #QUOTE# '''Alexander (this troper):''' Hanna's right! It is depressing to read those status updates. We have to eradicate all love so we won't have to see such junk in our Facebook! #QUOTE# '''Camilla:''' Now you've lost me. I can absolutely not support this. I believe in love between persons, in trust and tenderness [...] #QUOTE# '''Hanna:''' I think you misunderstood me... The reason these updates get me sad is because I can't see my own darling, and I get jealous with the ones that can. I'm not complaining about love or anything [...] #QUOTE# '''Camilla:''' Well, you should just say that! I thought you meant nobody could love because you couldn't. #QUOTE# '''Hanna:''' Actually, I think it was Alexander who managed to twist this in the wrong direction. [...] Of course everyone can be with the one they love. #QUOTE# '''Camilla:''' I encourage all who wants to hug to do so. If you don't have your love nearby, grab a teddy bear or something. #QUOTE# '''Alexander:''' Camilla's right! We don't need love: hugging teddy bears is enough! We'll just make sure everyone gets one so they can wean from love! #QUOTE# '''Camilla:''' Alex... enough... go have an ice cream or something...

That second time was mostly so they wouldn't think I actually ''had'' missed the point!

This troper was in a debate in his Psychology class. The debate, as a class assignment, was to either to prove that Parapsychology should be considered a legit field or the opposite. Our side was anti-precognition. So, one of my teammates was doing the talking-I wrote the speech-and later, during the debate part, he starts saying things kinda counter-productive to our side. I step in and say, "We're not trying to prove that it should be legit." He stares at me for a sec and goes, Yes we are. I stared for a couple seconds before whapping myself on the head with a book. The class was in stitches.

I don't get. Who was missing the point how?

My European History teacher considered nuclear devices to be Completely Missing The Point of war--when it comes down to it, war is about land and resources. Nuclear bombs ''destroy both of those beyond repair.''

What part of the land? Are we just destroying the capitol so we can convince the enemy to let us use their land, or are we wiping out all of their land to keep them away from our land?

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My friend managed to watch RedFaction:Guerilla for 20 minutes, before his comment was, "there's too much emphasis on stuff falling over".

I, on the other hand, think it's a justified complaint...

My guidance counselor was talking about bullying. The conversation occured. #QUOTE# Teacher: How many in here have never bullied somebody? #QUOTE# Silence. #QUOTE# Teacher: Then you don't know what you're missing! It makes you feel so powerful! #QUOTE# Me: What. Wait, is our guidance counselor ''encouraging'' us to bully others? In that case, ''HEY BRENT!''

Aye yi yi, one prominent dude where I live sees just about every movie and seems to ask the ''same damn question'' about how to end all the problems... #QUOTE# "Why don't they just take out a gun and shoot the pro/antagonist in this scene?"

Yes, he even says this when it's ''a fucking fantasy movie'' where they probably couldn't even ''have'' guns if they were ''real''.

I think he was being sarcastic.

The DeviantArt comic Some Doctor Who Fans... by FireFiriel tells fans of the older Series/DoctorWho series they shouldn't be arrogant and snobby to fans of the newer series. A deviant called Juoo mistakes it as making fun of new series fans.

He also seems to have unintentionally discovered LifeSketch author Kitty-the-Waterbaby's BerserkButton, making her quote {{Friends}} in the process of cutting him down.

This troper likes to do this on purpose as a means of InsultBackfire. Once I was out with my boyfriend (I am also a male) and some guy came up to us saying we were going to burn in Hell. To which I responded, "Michigan?"

This troper had a hilarious example happen to him once. Sitting at the table, they were discussing the new Series/DoctorWho with his mates. Towards the end one of his friends goes "I don't know who he is, but I've got him in my boot". Another friend turns around, and ignoring everything that is wrong with that sentence, comes up with "You have a car?".

This Troper once spoke to a friend and we began discussing the Bible. Said friend said it was "one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read"... Wha?

Maybe it was a stealth insult?

He was saying that, according to him, the Bible (and, by extension, God) were made up by man. And, ironically enough, ''you'' CompletelyMissedThePoint ;).

This troper once read someone's Facebook status saying that they were intending to buy a house -- this girl is 17, and decided this on a whim because it would be close to the university she'd end up going to. When she was challenged about this, she responded by explaining that the decision made financial sense, since she'd gain money by buying a house instead of losing it by renting one. To emphasise, she was, and still is, *completely unaware* that the idea of buying a house at that age, without taking a mortgage out of any kind, is not the normal thing to do.

This troper has recently been making a lot of edits on the Disney Wiki lately, because they've been in serious need of help from people like me. But almost every piece of information I've put down for the character pages (like those for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, the Dalmatian Puppies, and Timon Berkowitz) has gotten itself reverted by the users calling themselves [=Hey1234=], Disneylover, and [=DTierny30=]. Evidently, they do not seem to realize that a Wiki is supposed to cover ALL information on its topic and not leave out anything. Even worse, they have accused me of making sloppy-looking edits, despite that their own grammar and punctuation looks a lot worse than mine.

This troper doesn't see this here yet, so here goes: he's heard numerous complaints about ED that completely miss the point of the site; said complaints run the gamut from the fact that they concentrate on e-drama to accusations that they're all genuinely hate-mongering bigots to trolls who happily link to and include shock sites and images. The whole point of the site is to focus on all things related to the internet, even things with purely consequential relations like creationists and blacks, in a satirical way that jabs at ''everyone'', while upholding a belief in freedom of expression. They even clearly state that they're devoted to satire and free expression and that they shouldn't be taken seriously -- because many of the editors who work on pages satirizing groups of people are in fact the very people they're making said jabs at. For example, their page on Asperger's Syndrome.

But they ''are'' Hate-mongering bigots.

This troper agrees with the one above me. Have you SEEN their page on furries?

I didn't clarify: They're generally not actual hate-mongering bigots when a general group of people are involved. But when a specific person or persons is involved, they ''do'' pour generous amounts of real hate into the mix. In regards to furries, they even put a page up fairly recently dedicated entirely to setting the record straight on their main furry page -- that being they don't mean anything by it on any personal level, that people should stop complaining about how they covered the interest (my wording, not theirs) shared by hundreds of thousands of people spanning several smaller communities, and that numerous EDiots are indeed known furries, some of whom even contributed to the page in displays of TakeThatMe.

NausicaaOfTheValleyofTheWind: I saw that movie and loved it, also finding the GreenAesop to not be the forced-down-your-throat kind. Unfortunately, I still think of how awesome it would be to have an Ohmu as a warmount, raining destruction as it plows through enemy lines.

I'm not sure who missed the point in this story, but someone did: My daycare was on a trip. We stopped at some restaurant that had a playscape. I found a nice spot and curled up. A tough girl came over and wanted my spot. She told me to move. I refused. She asked if she was going to have to make me. I answered, 'no,' meaning that she could just go away, she didn't have to make anyone do anything. She got all excited and went around telling everyone that I said she didn't have to make me, the implication being that I was scared of her. While she was doing that, I enjoyed the spot, and then, it was time to leave.

This Troper's Oral Communications teacher told my class of a girl who really missed the point. I forget what her subject was, but for her process speech she just showed how to do it, ''without talking''. Seriously, she went through the whole thing without saying a word. My teacher has cited her as the only person to get an F in her class.

Similarly, I have been enrolled in a choir class in which half of the other students were failed because they refused to sing.

This troper is a Vocal Music student at a performing arts high school who has classmates that refuse to sing.

While reading the Miracle Worker in the closest thing my school has to an Advanced English class (we're a small thereputic school), we went on a field trip to The Perkin's Insitute For The Blind. The tour guide tried to make it very clear that the blind are no different from anyone else and repeatedly spoke of the blind-deaf population of the school in a similar fashion. At the very end of the tour, we had a Q&A session with a blind-deaf woman and her interpreter. She tried to make it clear that she lived a normal life. Nearing the end of the session, one of my classmates asked her, "How does it feel to be special?" * facepalm*

At what point in time the director of X-Men Origins thought it would be a good idea to saw Deadpool's mouth shut? I mean... that's the most typical thing about him. Like Batman wearing black, Superman flying and Xavier thinking.

This troper was reading yaoi recently when one of the guys' sisters showed up. I stopped reading for a moment and thought, "whoa, she's kind of hot." Then I hit my head against the wall and kept reading.

This troper showed the viral video ''Saturday Morning {{Watchmen}}'' to a friend of his, about two months after we had watched the movie together. When it was over, he asked me if I'd seen any of the full episodes. It took everything I had to restrain myself from Facepalming.

After reading the Flag Code, this troper can safely say that anyone who says "burning an American flag is against every moral code and they should be MURDERDEATHKILLED!!!" and then buys paper plates printed with the flag are... You know. (It should be noted that the Flag Code doesn't say that the flag ''can't'' be burned in protest, and it should be ''very carefully noted'' that there are no laws against burning the flag in protest. Actually, just read the code before you respond to this; it outlines pretty well what you can and can't do to the Stars and Stripes.)

This troper once witnessed this conversation between two people she knows: #QUOTE#'''Person 1:''' I feel like swallowing cyanide or something. #QUOTE#'''Person 2:''' Oh, you have pica?

'''Classmate:''' I can't believe some people eat dogs and horses. That's horrible. #QUOTE#'''Vegetarian Troper:''' Why? As a vegetarian for ethical reasons, I'm going to be very careful with how I respond, but don't you eat meat? #QUOTE#'''Classmate:''' Not dogs and horses! That's just cruel. #QUOTE#'''VT:''' I'm sorry, but I don't see how eating a cow, pig, so on is different from eating any other type of animal. #QUOTE#'''Classmate:''' Well, would you eat a dog or a horse? #QUOTE#'''VT:''' Uh, I'm a vegetarian. I wouldn't eat *any* sort of meat. #QUOTE#'''Teacher:''' VT, I see your point, even if I'm not sure how exactly your moral code works. Classmate, different cultures place different values on certain animals. Now, back to the math problem...

Certain Britney fans completely miss the point of her picking super mega hits and not writing everything she records. I mean she can write a good song and it's a skill of hers, but it does NOT mean she has to use it all the damn time. Completely missing the point of why Britney does music and picks songs and makes them hits. It's just...mind blowing *Head-desk*

This Troper had head-desked many times over the countless people who said Simon should have died instead of Kamina in TengenToppaGurrenLagann.

This Troper once was the judge on a moot court about whether or not ''TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' was racist because it says "nigger". Of course, it's actually an abolitionist work, but hey, whatever. This does ''not'' excuse Dr. Laura, who said "nigger" in the context of a whole bunch of other racist shit, though.

This troper has a friend who is ''completely'' lacking a WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. So not only does he wind up having to bog down literally ''everything'' (Even random chatroom fun) to explain how it makes a lick of sense, makes us play a watered down "Ultra realistic" DungeonsAndDragons (No magic, no healers...''ROLLING DICE TO UNSHEATHE A FUCKING SWORD'', rolling dice to ''walk up the stairs'', making gold weigh when most people don't play that rule for obvious reasons), starts to point out how unreliastic ''StarTrek'' and ''StarWars'' is by saying how they shouldn't be going faster than light...It honestly makes me wonder how he enjoys anything fictional...even ''{{Fallout}}''.

This troper has some friends who are under the FridgeLogic that if we remove all the patent laws, we'd have an industrial revolution. This is ignoring, of course, that all removal of them means that you can subtly steal a design from someone else, improve it, then claim it as their own and leave you to be glossed over. You know the inverse can happen just as much as, "Copyright Trolling" and "Legal extortion", right? What incentive would I have to invent a new greenhouse model if I wouldn't have received any money for my troubles?

This review is rather negative of the episode of "Jet" of AvatarTheLastAirbender. One of the complaints? I quote: "It was a bad message being sent out to a bunch of impressionable young viewers that, hey if you need something done, go ahead and kill a bunch of people to get it done, it's all justifiable." Err, did that reviewer missed the part where pretty much the whole Gaang ''calls him out on it and even called him a monster?!'' Considering that he also said that Aang should be able to whip some ass by going into the Avatar State, though it had been established that Aang has yet to learn to control the Avatar State and only goes into it at times of emotional upheaval, it's obvious that the reviewer doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

This troper was in on a joke involving a fictional secret episode of Sam and Max The Devils Playhouse about it being the only way you can post fanart in the fanart thread. My post contained a "Link" to it (really the sample link which led to a Telltale Texas Holdem thing) and HEAVILY explained the joke. The response was (sic) "that link was just the character of telltale texas hold'em and guybrush dancing". Congraturations, you have successfully managed to miss a joke that was in your face.

This troper has a habit of getting on his soapbox, having some speech/rant on some topic going for like 5-10 minutes, oftentimes disproving my own point, eventually to end the same way. "Now what was my point again?"

I recently read an argument on Livejournal about objectification. Someone pointed out that there were plenty of lesbians who liked to look sexy. The person who kicked off the whole debate responded; #QUOTE#Have you ever possible thought that maybe who you're talking to IS bisexual? And has several LESBIAN friends? And whose best friend IS a LESBIAN.

And another person mocked them for using the "BlackBestFriend" argument, and ironically accused them of missing the point. (I'm not getting into the subject at hand, just that one bit.) Incidentally, does anyone know how to indent paragraphs without using arrows?

One of this troper's teachers had this problem. During the pledge of allegiance, a student used a Nazi salute towards the flag. The teacher responds, "Haha oh you liberals, always the same no matter what the era!" What.

A doctor from this troper's mum's work is a big fan of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. She thinks they're fascinating deconstructions of drug addictions and whatnot. While it's easy to see where she got that idea from, pretty much anyone will tell you that it was unintentional on Meyer's part.

Sounds more like MisaimedFandom to me.

My mama's daddy was a volunteer firefighter. One night, he and the others responded to a house fire at three a.m. They saved the woman and most of her possessions. The bitch had the nerve to file a report for them not being appropriately dressed. Never mind that he and many of the others left their families at three in the freakin' morning. Never mind that they risked their lives to save hers. Never mind that they went beyond the call-of-duty to minimize the damage to her possessions. The fact that they were dressed in either their nightclothes or whatever the closest thing they could reach and throw on was simply intolerable. And I don't know it for sure, but I'd be willing to bet she was standing outside in her nightclothes, which woulda put her in the same boat as them.

There's that one level of {{Oblivion}} where you play the role of the serial killer in a "murder-mystery-in-a-manor" plot. The intention is to secretly kill everyone without alerting anyone else, and be the last man standing. It's the reason why so many call it the 'Best Level Ever'. This troper, however, just cast 2 custom-made Mass Death spells that drain 100hp from everyone that isn't you within a 50ft radius. First spell got everyone on the lower floor. Second one got the remainders on the next floor up. Job done.

What really bugs this troper is how half the examples are along the lines of "this person didn't like x because of y but x meant to do y." Just because what someone dislikes is intentional doesn't change the fact that they don't like it.

This troper and her mum: #QUOTE#'''Troper's mum''': Didn't she kill herself by sticking her head in an oven? #QUOTE#'''This troper''': Uh-huh. #QUOTE#'''Troper's mum''': You're... not gonna do something like that, are you? #QUOTE#'''This troper''': Of course not. They don't make ovens like that anymore.

This troper was taking a course in Continental Rationalism, and the prof was explaining why Spinoza's pantheism was considered heretical at the time - it requires that the universe always, always behave according to certain constraints and cannot violate them. "So why do traditional theists dislike this idea?" Blank stares from the class. "Okay, imagine a lake, and now imagine that I'm walking across it. What's that?" This troper simply blurted out, without thinking - "Winter?"

This troper and her geeky friends spent a few days moaning over a complaint on the manga ''OnePiece'' - the person in question was disappointed on the comic since the protagonists don't act like "real" pirates. As in pillage, murder, and such. Read more than a few chapters and you will realize that this is the only thing separating them from ''all the other pirates'', and what makes them sane, decent people.

Well, decent anyway. Sane, not so much.

This troper was recently accused of doing this in an online discussion about sigpics. I stated in no unclear terms that he hadn't properly elaborated on his issue with sigpics, and that his argument was indeed barely coherent, proceeding to tell him off for insulting my perceptiveness.

Okay, about the bottom of this page. (read it first to get the joke, then back up here) If they replied to the joke, doesn't that mean that they ''did not'' get the point of that joke and they are indeed, CompletelyMissingThePoint? they could have done it ''intentionally'' to give the impression that they are missing the point, to add more to the joke at the bottom of the page by people missing the point of not replying. Or am I missing the point that, even though that this is the CompletelyMissingThePoint page, you do not reply to the bottom of the joke at all, no matter what?

My head hurts.

This troper recently observed someone make the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It should also be noted that this person also spams quotes on their tumblr. #QUOTE#'''I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

This happened at work for this troper: we have some software which uses a concurrent-user licensing model (e.g. you can have up to a certain amount of users accessing it at a given moment).

This is not usually a problem (we have 10 users and 8 licenses - numbers are dummy but you get the point), unless someone leaves his application logged in and leaves. Which people do, and cause all sort of headaches. Also, logging in twice from different computers counts as 2 users, and this happens all the time with people logging in from both a laptop and a desktop.

I eventually gave up on explaining this to the users, and resorted to an analogy: "assume a parking lot with 8 parking spaces; when 8 cars are in, the parking lot will not accept new cars until any car leaves". The rebuttal from an user? "Yes, but if I can fit 5 people in a car, why can't I login 5 times with my login?".

This Tropette's best friend's little brother is the undisputed master of this trope.

Two of this troper's classmates were debating over whether cloning was morally right... It led to a discussion of when the sun would burn out.

Wouldn't that be a SeinfeldianConversation?

The 2010 adaptation of M. R. James' "Whistle And I'll Come To You" managed to completely miss the point of its title by having the main character find a ring insteady of the extremely plot-relevant whistle!

Pick a "misheard lyrics" video on Youtube. Any of them. 99% of the time, it will have at least one comment about a) how this isn't the right translation, and b) how they find it offensive. While the latter might be somewhat justified, although it's not intended, the first type of comments are CompletelyMissingThePoint - they DO say "MISHEARD" lyrics in the title and/or description.

"Blame Canada" from South Park The Movie. The song is not supposed to be an attack on Canada, it's more about MoralGuardians parents refusing to blame themselves for what their kids do and say, and instead just blame the things they watch. As seen in the last line: "We must blame them and cause a fuss, before somebody thinks of blaming us!"

I saw a rant on handheld games and why someone didn't understand the appeal of them - evidently because his PC and his Xbox had so much more processing power than the Game Boy Advance (A previous-gen system that was more or less stopped in 2006, btw!) and that evidently, that made the games weak and unplayable - Wait a sec, you mean you're comparing the processing power a system that's small enough to it ''in your pocket'' to ''something meant to stay hooked up to your TV or stay in your office'' instead of being carried around?! Then in response to that he said "I can carry my laptop around - why not just use Laptops for portable games?" Uhm, maybe because most laptops aren't really ''made'' for gaming? Unless you got something like an Alienware or custom-made it, a lot of games will chew through the batteries in no time. Not to mention laptops are far bigger than something like a Game Boy, DS, or even a cell phone.

Just yesterday, This Troper was in a "tutorial" (in this case, basically a discussion group with a TA asking questions) for a political science course, and discussion turned to high school civics classes and if they might be inadequate. I told them about a mock election that was held in my high school which had to be redone only letting you vote for the four major parties after someone managed to convince most of the people to vote for the Communist Party because it would be funny (This was a small private school with at most 50 people). One of the other people at the tutorial agreed that it was absurd- that they hadn't let the origional results stand.

A few weeks ago, This Troper was in class and we got into groups and we formed countries and what-not. After spending most of our class period setting our countries up and such. So, the next class period, we got back into the groups and this time, we had to do things like trade and forge diplomatic relations with countries. Two of the groups got a card revealing that they were on the verge of war and had to try and prevent war. All went well and they avoided war, until another country came in, declared war and conquered them both, referring to both of them as "communist Nazi-scum" and then declared that their government was going to redistribute the wealth of the people. My group? We were like Switzerland during all this, neutral.

A friend of this troper said he had a problem with his motorcycle. He told me the following story: "I think my wife is cheating me. She always has new clothes, a new watch and she is acting strange latelly. She says she goes out with her friends, whose names she never tells, and comes home by taxi. I never saw this taxi. I think she arrives with her lover just by the corner, so I decided to check it out. I went to the corner and hid behind my motorcycle. Then I noticed some oil was leaking from the clutch, so, here is my question: can I just tighten the screw or it's better to change the clutch?"

"A friend", eh? Nice try, that story is OlderThanDirt.

Go to any ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' forum or blog and read the comments for episode 17. Fans always write things like ''this is disgusting, that girl had sex with Sebastian, she's a bitch''. Nobody seems to realise that he's evil, he actually raped her and she's suffering from some kind of StockholmSyndrome.]]

Okay, time to come clean here. Recently, I was shown a news report from September 11 with an interview of Rudy Gullianni in class to show us how an interview would go. The footage included clips of the World Trade Centre going up in flames. I couldn't help myself - my first thought was "Cool! Explosions!"

After being a longtime fan of the series AvatarTheLastAirbender, this troper has decided to rename that excrement of a film adapation CompletelyMissingThePoint: The Movie.

I can't help but think about the debate between Roger Ebert and Clive Barker on whether video games can be art. Barker argued that anything which causes a strong emotional response can be defined as art. Ebert refuted by giving an example of his then-recent illness which caused him to lose his ability to speak: it certainly caused strong emotions within him, but it's definitely not art. To me it seems like Ebert was CompletelyMissingThePoint with his rebuttal in that he forgot the tiny bit about art being ''man-made''. The sight of a mountain range or a sunset over the sea can be very beautiful and provoke strong emotions in those who witness them, but most people would not call it art on account of being natural occurrences with no human influence.

This troper and his brother liked watching the old campy sixties Batman series growing up. Recently, he and I were discussing the series again, and my brother said 'Oh, I loved that show, but I can't figure out why they didn't realize that what they were doing was so stupid and funny.' I felt bad about having to tell him that they knew exactly what they were doing, and that, in fact, was the whole point of the show.

This may not count. I tend to do it to mess with people for example we were shown a video about women with poor body image and how they were getting anorexia and bulimia. My response "clearly we need for chubby chasers"-Doomboy911 (Screw the point)

And maybe this doesn't count too. In my former school, I've heard a guy saying that he have been playing CrisisCore and finished it recently. So I aproached and said that it was such a great story and that I cried in the final... And guess what? The guy said that it sucked because "he" died in the end, no matter how much he fought; then I told him that it was a ForegoneConclusion as it was a precuel, and asked how he could finish the game without paying attention (even more without knowing English, as this happened in my homeland Colombia), his answers? first, asking what's a secuel; second, he just fought his way to the end; and the third and possibly the most infuriating one: what's FinalFantasyVII. I contained myself, because asphixiating someone is illegal, no matter how stupid they are, and how missed the point (and possible life lessons). -themadfujoshi

Pretty much anyone who doesn't understand this troper's love of sarcasm.

A friend of this troper was once attending an anime con, and mentioned another cosplayer who got offended at being called "cute." Obviously she wasn't aware that dressing as the particular character was basically asking for guys to want pictures with her, etc.

This troper once had to take a public speaking class. At the end of the semester, we had to partner up and write a Special Occasion speech. I got stuck with a girl who pretty much had no idea what I was really talking about half the time. Basically, I have ambitions of being a puppeteer and putting together a production company to make shows and this speech was supposed to be her reflecting my my successful life (i.e. if all this went according to plan)... she thought they were all real shows and that "I hope to produce shows like this someday" within the speech. I tried explaining it to her so many times and she just would not get it that these were goals I would want to reflect on, not goals in-progress.

This troper saw a criticism of ''FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' where they said they beat teh first two episodes "too easily" and that it "looks like a fan-made game". Never mind that this is an adaptation of a game originally made ''for cell phones'', and that of course the episodes aren't going to be "Full-length games", it's an ''episode game''.

Arguing with Moon Landing denier. I use the Razzle-Dazzle video from ''{{Chicago}}'', to mock how he's trying to change the subject. The post was deleted by his pet mod, but I later mention how he managed to change the subject by "successfully razzle-dazzling" everyone. He removes context, as usual, and puts it in his sig as a sign of triumph. Now I just want to see how long it takes him before he realizes that the song I was referencing is about a lawyer's horse puckey.

This troper came here after getting disgusted by the multitude of negative reviews of {{Cube}} on IMDB, most of which complained about the movie not explaining how the maze came to be or how the characters got there. Read the tagline ("Don't look for a reason...look for a way out.")!!

This troper was browsing the HighOctaneNightmareFuel Minecraft section of this site, when he came across the bit that said something along the lines of "Soul Sand looks like it has faces on it. Creeper faces. Think about why it's called 'Soul' Sand for a minute." He later relayed this to his friend (it was earlier in the game, so Gunpowder was still called Sulphur - I only say this because it helps you understand the joke): #QUOTE# Me: ''So, Friend's Name, you know Soul Sand?'' #QUOTE# Friend: ''Yeah.'' #QUOTE# Me: ''Notice it looks like it has faces on it. Creeper faces.'' #QUOTE# Friend: ''Okay...?'' #QUOTE# Me: ''Now think about why it's called Soul Sand.'' #QUOTE# (Beat) #QUOTE# Friend: ''SOUL-phur!'' #QUOTE# Me: ''*literal facepalm, complete with having to explain the whole thing to him*''

Upon seeing the "Illiterate? Write for free help" image on the trope's page, this troper scoured the image for typos for a good 20 seconds. *Sigh...*

This Troper has two examples...

1: When I saw BatmanTheMovie for the first time I failed to get the point of a specific piece of BatDeduction, namely Batman realising the Joker was involved in the villainous plot because of the exploding shark pulling Batman's leg. I just assumed that setting exploding sharks on people was the sort of thing that the Joker would do on a regular basis (that and I don't think I'd heard the phrase 'pulling my/your leg' at this point).

2: When I was very young I didn't realise that stuff like LooneyTunes or TomAndJerry were supposed to be funny (yes, I enjoyed them but I didn't think of them as funny). I suspect at this point I didn't know something was meant to be funny unless it had a laugh track.