I hate that one trope where there's an alien or a guy from an isolated tribe that's never been to America, and they come to America and their new American friends show them shopping malls and fast food and the outsider is all "This is amazing! I love America!"
Just once I'd like this trope to be subverted with the alien or whatever spitting out the fast food and saying something like, "Oh god, what is this shit? It's giving me a heart attack!" or they go to a mall and are mortified by the advertising and that they have to slave away to afford any of it.
Are there any tropes you're tired of? They can be as dumb and petty as you want. It's fun to rip on pointless things sometimes.
Y'all tell me if there's a name for this.
This is usually something that happens in scifi or horror movies. There will be some kind of impending danger, like aliens attacking or zombies or something, but the scientist characters will be utterly unconvinced anything bad will happen. The only person who knows what's going to happen will either be some kind of clearly deranged conspiracy theorist or a cop. No one listens to them until it's too late, then cop and/or conspiracy theorist get to be super heroic and save everyone. Sometimes this person is a scientist too, but they'll be on the fringe and mocked by their colleagues. Bonus points if the cop gets into an argument with a scientist and says something to the effect of "I don't care about your egghead lingo. People's lives are at stake here, goddammit."
In fact, most of the time when a conspiracy theorist is shown on TV or movies, only two things happen: they're correct or they're comic relief.
I haven't seen a specific name for that, but I remember reading an article ranting about that exact trope years ago, though I have no clue where or even when. Maybe it's an old Cracked article, or going even further back maybe something in The Buffalo Beast? I think it may have also gone into how Ghostbusters is an Objectivist anti-regulation screed, unless I'm conflating it with another article.