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An index that has to deal with anyone who or anything that is remotely annoying in any form and any way.

Compare Scrappy Index and That One Index. Contrast Admiration Tropes.


Goddamned tropes:

  • Annoying Laugh: Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a laugh which has an annoying characteristic
  • Annoyingly Repetitive Child: A child annoys someone else by saying or doing something over and over.
  • Annoying Patient: An ill character makes life for their caregiver miserable
  • Annoying Pop-Up Ad: A pop-up advertisement irritates someone.
  • Annoying Video Game Helper: A video game has an NPC who is supposed to be helping the player, but they tend to bug the player by giving useless tips, giving hints the player has already figured out or repeatedly reminding them to do stuff they haven't taken care of immediately after being informed it needs to be done.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: A child who irritates their older sibling.
  • Anti-Frustration Features: A video game has features to prevent failure and inconveniences from angering the player too much.
  • Anti-Trolling Features: A video game has features to prevent having to deal with a Troll or an Internet Jerk.
  • Be as Unhelpful as Possible: typically providing little or no information, or misleading information
  • Bratty Half-Pint: A child who acts selfish and mean to everyone.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: A teenage girl who acts ungrateful and rude to her parents.
  • Character’s Most Hated Song: A character has one particular song they particularly can't stand to hear.
  • Copycat Mockery: Annoying someone by crudely imitating them.
  • Critical Annoyance: An annoying sound that plays in a video game when you're low on health or close to failing.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: An adorable character who's every bit as shrill.
  • Demonic Spiders: Video game enemies that are really frustratingly difficult to defeat.
  • Dripping Disturbance: The sound of a dripping faucet keeps you awake, or distracts from doing something else
  • Ear Worm: A character gets an annoying song stuck in their head.
  • The Echoer: Someone can only speak by copying another person's words, which may annoy them.
  • Embarrassed by a Child: A child blurts out information people knew, but didn't want to admit, or admit publicly
  • Endangered Pest: A pesky animal is endangered so the cast has to jump through a bunch of hoops to deal with it.
  • Escort Mission: A video game level where the objective is to guide an NPC to the end of the level while protecting them from enemies and obstacles that may harm them. Can especially be irritating if it's difficult to stop the NPC from getting into danger for one second.
  • Ethnic Scrappy: A character is disliked for being a politically incorrect portrayal of a minority.
  • Fake Difficulty: The game's difficulty comes from unfair conditions that the player can't control.
  • Flipping the Table: Someone throws the table over in response to getting annoyed.
  • Fly Crazy: Going to desperate lengths to get rid of the flying insect bothering you.
  • Frustrating Lie: A character shows frustration towards another character's lie because they won't admit the truth, it's really bad, or it makes their situation complicated.
  • The Gadfly: A character who often says things that make fun of or provoke other people
  • Garrulous Growth: A sentient talking boil (or pimple, zit, wart, tumor) appears on a character's body. They're usually extremely annoying and embarrassing.
  • Goddamned Bats: Video game enemies that aren't difficult to defeat, but are still annoying to deal with because of their tendency to not leave the player alone.
  • Goddamned Boss: A boss fight where the boss annoyingly keeps evading the player's attacks.
  • Gratuitous Mariachi Band: A Mariachi band pops ups repeatedly throughout the work and tend not to leave the protagonist(s) alone.
  • Guide Dang It!: A video game is frustrating to play when you can't figure out what to do without consulting a walkthrough.
  • Healing Loop: A battle that drags out because you or the opponent waste a lot of time healing to survive.
  • Incessant Music Madness: Dear God, why won't those musicians cease their infernal racket?!
  • Leave Me Alone!: Requests to stop receiving unwanted assistance, which may turn out badly for refusing.
  • Level of Tedious Enemies: A video game level intentionally filled with weak but very obstructive enemies.
  • Loud Sleeper Gag: A character is so noisy when they sleep that it disturbs other characters.
  • Luck-Based Mission: A video game level that can only be won by random chance, which will inevitably lead to frustration when the level decides to end with the player losing.
  • Misophonia Gag: Using a misophonic reaction for an instance of comedy or drama.
  • Most Annoying Sound: A constant sound from a video game or toy that gets on your nerves real fast.
  • Musical Number Annoyance: One or more characters get annoyed whenever a musical number happens.
  • Nintendo Hard: A video game is frustratingly difficult.
  • The Noisy Straw: A frequent source of annoyance in cinemas and elsewhere.
  • Offing the Annoyance: Killing someone for being annoying.
  • Other Me Annoys Me: A character encounters an "alternate" version of themselves that they greatly dislike.
  • Peeve Goblins: A creature responsible for mundane annoyances.
  • Platform Hell: Platformer games that are almost certainly made as difficult and frustrating as possible deliberately.
  • Premature Aggravation: Getting offended by an insult the other person hasn't even uttered due to overthinking.
  • Rage Quit: Someone gets so fed up by their inability to succeed that they angrily quit.
  • Replacement Scrappy: A character is seen as an irksome and therefore inferior substitute to a beloved character that they've taken the place of.
  • The Scrappy: A character who is at least nigh-universally hated because the audience finds them annoying.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: A gameplay mechanic that most players find irritating.
  • Sidekick Creature Nuisance: When the hero's critter companion rubs everyone the wrong way.
  • Static Electricity: Using friction to give someone a shock.
  • Stop Copying Me: You get annoyed by someone imitating you.
  • Take This Job and Shove It: A character gets so fed up with their job that they angrily quit.
  • That One Achievement: A video game achievement or trophy that frustrates the player because it's really tricky to unlock.
  • That One Attack: A boss fight has one difficult-to-dodge attack that instantly kills the player.
  • That One Boss: A boss that is frustratingly hard to defeat.
  • That One Component: A video game resource that's frustratingly hard to obtain.
  • That One Level: A video game level that causes frustration because it's insanely hard to beat.
  • That One Puzzle: A puzzle in a video game that is frustratingly difficult to solve and frequently utilizes arbitrary logic.
  • That One Sidequest: A sidequest in a video game that is frustratingly hard to complete.
  • The Thing That Would Not Leave: A guest who proves annoying because they overstay their welcome and refuse to go away.
  • Timed Mission: When a video game level has to be beaten within a time limit, frustration will surely be compounded the less time you have.
  • Torment by Annoyance: Purposefully annoying someone to peeve them off.
  • Trade Snark: The sometimes gratuitous use of copyright and trademark symbols, even when they're unecessary.
  • Treacherous Checkpoint: An enemy or trap masquerading as a checkpoint.
  • Trial-and-Error Gameplay: A video game where it's annoyingly easy to make the wrong choice.
  • Troll: A person who gets a kick out of annoying others.
  • Try Everything: Attempting every single possible solution to a problem out of frustration. When Trial-and-Error Gameplay goes on WAY too long.
  • Unwanted Assistance: A person is annoyed because other people's attempts at helping them are anything but helpful.
  • Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: Someone is annoyed by another character waking them up at night.


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